The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-02 00:00:00

OCT. 2.

" An erroneous opinion having lately prevailed. on the
the Stock Exchav that the Chancellor of the FAO-lever
would have occasi .n for a further Loan at the ensuing meet-
ing of Parliament, Mr. Vansittart has communicated to the
Governor and 11?puty-Governor of the Batik of England,
that there is no foundation foi such a report, and that he has
no intention to propose any further funding before the spring."
This paragraph, given exclusively in The Morning Post. last
Thursday, occasioned a considerable rise in the funds, which
have since maintained their elevation. Cotemporaries who
envied the orinrity of intelligence, thus displayed on this im-
portant subject, vainly endeavoured to dispute, not its ac-
curacy, but the manner in which it bad been communicated
by Mr. Vansittart. The correctness of the information has,
however, since been established, and every endeavour to de-
press the funds has failed.

By a circular from the French Royal Customs, dated the
29th of August, French ship-owners are informed that the
Slave Trade is restored, with and under the old arrange-
ments and regulations.

In the statistical work •f Dr. Colquh•nn the conquest.
made by Great Britain since 1792, are estimated at
106.000,0001. whereof 87,000,0001. are restored by the
Treaty of Paris.
Since the commencement of the war, there have been
trken ships and other floating property worth 50,000,0001. or
60,000,0001. more.

The Peace, it is calculated, will throw out of employment
25,000 Naval and Miliitary Officers, eOOO Government
Clerks, and 280.000 non-commissioned Officers and privates.

The same author computes the population of the British
Empire, after being reduced 1,500,000 by Cessions, at
.59,655,000 souls. The Company's possessions in the East
indics he reckons at 40,058,000: of whom 20,000, or the
one sixteenth hundredth part are Britons.
The number of negroes employed as slaves in the British
West India Colonies is stated at 750,000, about one half of
which is in Jamaica alone

Tuesday, a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall,
when .loseph Leigh, Esq. citizen and glover, and John
Rea , Esq. citizen and vintner, Sheriffs elect, attended, and
gate ltc,nd to take upon themselves the office of Sheriffs of
London, and Sheriff of Middlesex, for the year ensuing.
The Court proceeded to the toection of a Chaplain of the
two ("miters, vacant l►v the resignstion of the Rev. Methu-
salem Davies, when the Rev Manly Wood was unanimously
elected.

Sir John Earner was unanimously appointed Justice of
the Bridge-yard, in the room of the late Robt. Peckham, Esq.
The new Sheriffs, Messrs. Leigh and Way, were sworn
into office at Guildhall on NVeduesday. 'lr. Sheriff Reay
afterwards entet tamed the Lord Mayor, the late Sheriffs, the
Aldermen, and the Glovers' Company, of which he is a
member, to a most sumptuous dinner, at the Albion Tavern,
Alder-bate-stye. t.
Thursday being Michaelmas Day, a Common Hall was
held at Guildhall, for the lwrpose of electing a Lord Mayor
for the year ensuing. The names of the Aldermen eligible
to serve being read over and put in nomination, Aldermen
Btrelt and Wood were returnesl to the Court of. Aldermen,
who declared Alderman Birch duly elected Lord Mayor for
the year ensuing
The thanks of the Livety were also voted to the late She-
riffs, Messrs. Macivay and :Marsh, fur their good conduct
while in office.