The National Register.
London, England, 1811-01-27 00:00:00

REGISTER.

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time arrondissement of franc*, OT4d9r the name of
the Maritime Prefecture of Holland. Amsterdam,
formerly the capital of the kingdom. is to, maintainits pre-eminence, and to become the chief place -of
that Prefecture, which is to be composed of two
divisions—the first . comprising Amsterdam iinti
all the ports hitherto known as belonging to the
Department of the North—the second consisting er
Rotterdam and all the ports, of the former Depart-
ment of the South, and forming a Sub-arrondisse-
ment, the chief town of which is Rotterdam. At
the head of each division a Military Chief is placed;
residing, in the one, at Amsterdam,and in the other
at Rotterdam. These two Officers are not only to
direct all the military operations and labours which
may be required in their respective divisions; their
jurisdiction extends over the signals,light-houses and
buoys along the coasts. They are each to have under
their orders two Naval Lieutenants and an Officer
of the park of artillery. A Director of equipments ;
a Builder-general, with a sufficient number •of
builders and assistants are attached to each divi-
sion ; as well as a Commisiioner for reviews,
hospitals and provisions ; a Corthtlissioner for arma-
ments, prizes, and maritime inscriptions ; a Com-
missioner of responsibility ; and a Treasurer for
invalids, prizes and funds belonging to sea-faring
men.

An Inspector of Marine is placed over the'whole
Arrondissement, and sub•inspectors are stationed
at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, each of which is
supplied with a Council of Administration ; con-
sisting of—The Maritime Prefect, Pre:,ident ; the
Military Chief ; the Director of Equipraems .;lie
principal Builder, and the Commissioner of Respon-
sibility. The other provisions of this Decree are of
a more general nature. The Dutch nation will
probably deem the support of such an establishment,
divided into two powerful branches, fully as expen-
sive as that of a Monarch and his Court.
The Courant of the 15th contains a decree relative
to the manufacture and sale of tobacco, by which
it is asserted, that without adding to the burthens
of the people, an increase a eighty millions of francs
may be obtained to the revenue.
The Courant of the 17th also contains a long
decree, regulating the imposts on meal, bread, and
biscuit, and several other articles.
By a decree of the 10th of January, the Empe-
ror has appointed the Baron de Com DICK DI OUTHIC
now Prefect of the Department of the Mouths of
the Scheldt, to be Prefect of the Department of the
Mouths of the Elbe.

The Baron PYLKE MAInE, of Guit, to be Prefect
of the Department of the Mouths of the Scheldt,
to-the Governor-General of the Dutch-depastinents,
and M. DASSEVAIM to be Archivist. z; .;

WIV

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East•lndia House, when Captain T. JONES was
sworn into the command of the ship Wakharnstpw,
destined to Ceylon and Benda).
The Duke of 13.riussuitet Is perfectly recovered
from his late indispoSitiOrn ; his Highness's illhess
proceeded from the measles ; fortunately his chil-
dren have not caught the malady, they being sepa-
rated from his Highness during his illness.

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MISCiiLLANIES.

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'Thursday morning, at half past eight o'clock, the Lord Chan-
cellor and Mr. Perceval left town for Windsor, for the puropse
of ieciug the. King, where they arrived about eleven o'clock.—
The Lord Chancellor and Mr. Perceval remained in the Castle
tell afloat half past one o'clock, and then set off on their return to
London.

Thursday the sew furniture for the King's private apartments
at the Queen's Palace was taken in, to be in readiness in case
ids Majesty should remove from Windsor there. The Queen's
apartments have been ready for sometime pair.

There have been several decrees revised within the last few
mullahs by Buonaparte, which slits.' on his part the greatest pos.
sible al prehension and alat.A., The decree w;:ereby every ser-
vant is obliged to be registered at the Office ot Police in purls,
stewed his fear, And Is a system Of espdatiage we believe 'unpre-
cedented in the annals of tyranny. It places every housekeeper
at the mercy of sezvants, bind renders hint a very slave in his
own mansion. But this is not enough • even convivial meetings
or clubs, which certainly stleloni troAle thethielves with dis-
cussing dry subjects of politics are restricted to tztraty ; but
this is only the prolude to put them down altogether. Yet, not-
withstandiw,p such measures, which must be abhorrent to the
feelings of Englishmen, still there are those who defend his con-
duci and approve his measures, who ninitecily pronounce them-
selves the advocates of iiith,pciidcuce anti the lovers of llbeitg.

Wednesday accounts were received from France, which state'
that all the American property sei-zcd in that country prior to
the Ist of Novembkr, has been formally demanded ; hut that
all which has since that period been detained will mercly re-
main utyler sequestration until the differences with the United
tetra shall be finally adjusted.
I et •-r3 were tut Tuesday received from Dantzic to the 11th
merchants in that, and the Prit,;sian towns in the
having failed to pay the duty of 40 per cent. imposed on
colnnial produce, the French dont/niers have adopted an extra-
ordinary mode of liquidating this impost. 'i hey seize such a
proportion of property of this kind in their estimate, will
cover the duty, and send it oil to Paris. Every week immense
quantities of good,: are taken out of the merchants' warehouses,
forwarded to the French capital, amidst the hisses, groans,
aild execrations of the populace.

An earthquake occurred at Cuba in October last, the effects
of which were dreadful. The waves rose to the height of forty
feet, and swept away the pier, the church, and sixty buildings.
At St. ii.go de Cuba, the hurricane and earthquake were simul-
tanei•us i;i their operations. On the morning of the 28th, the
griater part of the town, which had. escaped the fury of preced-
i:ig sho,:ks, was swallowed up, and a ciwsm eighty feet broad,
remained the only vestige of this frightful ruin. The river
..AqUadore,near which St. Sago was situated, was for some time
ai,itated like the waves of the sea; but though raised. in the
ckntre many feet. above its ordinary level did nut overflow its
banks.

Letters received at Kingston, in Jamaica, on the Ist of Dee.
are said to announce that a Revolution haft been commenced at
Cubs, ane that the Governor of the HJand and all the Itidges.had
bea;:n arrested and thrown into prison, al.d their lives threat-
ened..

There exists in the town of Arquenes, in the arrondisement
of St. Gaudan's department of the I Lau to Garonne, a man named
Sean Boe, born the Sth of April, 169 a, arid who consequently
will compleat his 112th year in the month of April. next. This
of man enjoys excellent health.
Among the gallant exploits recorded in the last Spanish Tont-
mils, the most conspicuous is tile report of an incursion by Co-
lonel Roviro into the French territory. This Officer, at the head
of liit'Kr men, under favour of a diversion nude by the narquis
de Campoverde, at Pnigerda, ascendtqi the IT Pyrenees,
and penvtrated into Rousillott. The ...irrison of.Villafranche
and Perpignan, enfeehleciand irresolute, wereutn.ble to impede
his march. 1-1 i:; little force cros4ed the river disperre4n.
body of troops iippkortt.d•by the peasa:•try. c:!tered the towns of
Candies, St. Patff; Zonchart, and' Vertries, and, after laying their
inhabitants, as well as ten villages, under contribution, and, col- •
lecting in money and v.altrables near 18 OM dollars, evaded, by
a skilful and rapid mart::, t its three collected to intercept him,
r e-a4:ere.d,Cat aloe) triunThh.
The anniversary of the rtft of the lamented statesman and
ya.i riot, Mr. Fox, was cerebrated on •1 hiirstla7 last, at the Bri-
tish Cofee-frouse, by' a select party of his friends, the Right
lIOn. Lord St. John in the Chair.

Government is under6toutt in !rive come to the reso!utinn of
stonping all the vessels iitithe Pritir,h ports.which cnturt ,Ltheia
under the flags of Hatnburer, F.uheck, anti. Brexuli, in conße-
coettee-of these places tliiN ir,g CUIIA: an .:.;..it:zrAL•iakt QL
the Frcnclf EnTire.

An order has been. issued from Whitehall, that no French
women shall he permitted to land in this country, who might
have left France to see their husbands. The reason to be assigned
to then for such refusal is, that the French Government would
not permit Lady Lavie and family to land in France, to join Sir
Thomas, who is a prisoner at Verdun.
A Dover letter relates the following atrocious deed :—A
Gentleman passenger who was washed on-shore near Dun-
kirk out of the Elizabeth Indiamau, lashed to a. piece of tho
wreck, was conveyed to a little hovel by a Frenchman who
had found him along shore, to whom he save 50 guineas, having
saved .500 ; the Frenchman promised to come at night and take
him to a place of safety; at night, he went with two others,
each having ,a shovel, when they beat his brains out with their
shovels, plueered thehody, then dug a hole and buried it in the
'sand; three or four days after width, the principal being trou-
bled in his conscience, went and confesSed what he had done
to a Magistrate, when his two abcC4nplices were taken up,
and the dead body dug up greatly mangled ; the three melt
have been committed to Dunkirk gaol, to take their trial for
murder.
Mr. Peter Finnerty', and Mr. John Xing' have received
notice to atteed the Court of King's Bench To-morrow, to
receive jedgment.
It appears from the Investigation ofthe affairs of the late Mr,
William Lewis, the Comedian, that be died woith upwards of
sixty thousand pounds. He has left behind hied at the'rate of
about 10001. for every year %illicit- hilhred. '• 7i -.‘ : ••.: ,

of tiff :iirr.dit, fa

The utmost activity prevails at present At ,4;111.
forcing Lord WELLINGTON. Sir JOIIN 41V,4%.1AT
has been ordered to Fend a still larger part .of his
force to Portugal, and orders have been sent to
Cork, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, to the Admirals
and Generals in command at those ports, to expc.
dite the embarking and sailing of the troops by all
the means in their power. At Plymouth, that {ir'e
and complete regiment, the 11th Dragoons, com-
rrianded by Lieutenant-Colonel CuArrso ; detach-
ments for most of the other cavalry regiments in
Portugal, and sortie artillery and waggon train. At
Portsmouth, some more artillery and waggon train ;
a detachment of the Foat Guard ; the 2d or
Queen's -Regiment ; `-6th Regiment ; 51st Regi-
ment ; 52d, or Sir T. Moor:'s Regiment, 2d. Bat-
talion ; 68th Light Infantry Regiment ;,85th' ditto t,
Ist Light Battalion of the King's German Legioni
SI ditto ; detachtnents of the
.99th, 92d (or Got.
don Highlanders), and several other regiments, to.
the amount of 6000 men. The first detachment of
•the reinforcements was expected 'to sail from 'Ply-
mouth yesterday.- From the anny. in Sicily, Ireland,.
and this country, Lord WELLIrb EON will receive
reinforcement of not Tess than 13,000. The only
General 011icers that we hear of as going out,
are Brigadier-General BArtigus, Wand Colonel Fur,-
t.u.a, of the Guards, who will act as a Colonel
on the Staff. Several. Captains, Commissaries,
'Paymasters,: and Doctors, are going out with this
reinforcement.. Among the Medical Gentlemen are
Drs: HUME, STRACHAIrt BRUFrp'.MAINYIVER, ScC7_

Mit...'Ettrerow. ,Pwe.understan;:i, is to be •at the
head of the Harmarket Theatre this season.
is tiv be principal performer and.. stage manager. •
Mrs.. Gt.tivta, tliat excellent and general actress,.
has beeri engaged since last .reasom Mr. MA.t.utt.-
soy, from Bath, -is-engaged to' fill Mr. MATHEW''
parts? •• • • - •
The DragOn, 6f74:trirtrs, tirrived'at Barbadoes on-
the Ist of December.- A)* the: :lst of November.•
she picked up a vessel, Vvatti-logged, with- seireal
men. on the point of-death,. TherlAti betirr4fieielc
without victuals, and could:not. ha4r,strvilred.aao-
- day. . • • . • •
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