The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-28 00:00:00

SHIPWRECKS.

ABERDEEN, OCT. 20.—We regret to state, that the
brig Aurora, of this place, late Capt. W. Stewart, was,
when on her passage from Newcastle for New York,
lat. 41. long. 6(i. W. sit-tick by a tremendous sea, the
effects of which were most- disastrous and melancholy.
The vessel was fore reaching under the reefed courses,
and close reefed main-top sail, it blowing a violent gale
from S. E. by E. to S. W, when at midnight of the
31st of August, this fatal and destructive sea broke on
board on the starboard beam, by which Capt. Stewart,
J. Reid, mate, J. Allan, carpenter, and W. *Cumbie,
seaman, were washed overboard and drowned. The
rem lining part of the crew were only saved by being in
bed, and the others aloft, as every thing upon deck was
completely swept away; the longboat, cookhouse, and
cambouse, the bulwarks, and all the stancheons, fore
and aft, companion door, tiller of the rudder, fore-hatch,
taflerail. &c. pert of the deck tore up also From the
vast quantity of water which, in consequence, immedi-
ately poured into the vessel, it was found there were lour
feet and a hall water at the weather pump, while cables,
ropes, and cordage, in the steerage, %sere so warped, that
it was found necessary to throw them overboard, as well
as part of her cargo of coals, ke. Providentially the
weather soon moderated, so th.o the vessel was at last
freed by the pumps; and next day, having fallen in
with a fishing vessel, the remaining crew took on board
two of the inert as pilots, by whose assistance the vessel
arrived at Eugwaretown the Bth ult., hut would require
a temporary repair, before being fit to proceed to her des-
tination.

About nine o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, the 2d
inst. during a very thick fog, the Spanish brig Providencia,
of about lon tons, from St. Andero for Bristol, with
wool, ran on a ruck called Hellweathers, at Scilly, and
began to fill fast. About twelve the crew saw St. Agnes
light, and fired a gun, when a great number of boats
put off, and saved all who were on board; and at day-
break next morning, almost every boat and man that
could be spared from the different islands attended for
the purpose of getting out the cargo, which was happily
effected on the same day, and the whole conveyed to Sr.
Mars's, but in so damaged a state (through exposure
to the wind and rain), that though originally worth
10,0001. its present value is not above one third of that
suns. On the Wednesday night the boats still remain-
ing round the wreck were assailed by a violent gale,
when the Hero, a fine large boat belonging to Bryber
Island, and worth about 3001. was dashed to pieces.

A case of suicide, committed under very singular cir-
cumstances, occurred at Glasgow on Tuesday last (the
I(ith inst.) An elderly wan, whose name we forbear
mentioning, who had occupied a respectable situation
in Kirk inulloch for nearly 40 years, left his home that
morning, and accompanied by a neignbour, canto into
the city. On the way the unhappy man informed his
comrade that lie designed committing self-murder, for
which purpose he had provided himself with a pistol.—
The cause he assigned for meditating this act we have not
heard with sufficient accuracy to jticify our stating it.—
llis eompsnion, instead of being alarmed, or of dissuading
him from his purpose, coolly remarked that what " he
meant to do he must do quietly 1" and in furtherance of
this humane advice, when they arrived in town, he ac-
companied his friend to a public•house in the Gorhals,
and after ordering a bottle of ale, the fellow went out to
the door, in order to guard his insane companion against
interruption, while committing the dreadful act which
was to precipitate him in a moment into the presence of
his olleittled Maker! Immediately thereafter the report
of a pistol was heard, and the landlord, hastening into
the room, found the unfortunate man extended on the
floor; his hand had been lifted with too steady an aim
to his head, and he had literally blown off the upper
part of his scull. The brute to whom it may be said he
owed his dismal end, was taken into custody, carried
befo.e the Fiscal, and exallillit:d ; but, the law contem-
plating no such case, he was ()Wig i! to he discharged,
and left to the " compunctious visitings" of his owl' con-
science, which, judging front the present obtusity of his
faculties, aro likely to be bolt " few and fat between."
We believe the unfortunate suicide was a man of good
education, and some literary 1111 l ents.—Grecoock
ildecrtiser.

Un Fridzy morning last, at five o'clock, the I)over
mail-coach, m passing throu'i Dartford, on its way to
London, !broke down. Fortunately neither the guard,
coachman, nor passengers receited any injury. l'he
mail was taken oto, 311(1 conveyed town iii a postchaise
and finir, accompanied by the gti.ipl aunt Iwo paseenger-,
and arrived at the General Pwt•ollice in the short space
of one hour and twenty-live 'Mutates, a distance of h 6
miles.

A trensi oiler of the 71st regiment has been appreh end-
eti null c ))))) untied to Glasgow, leells.eli of tietriteitn4 tire
VV'aterloo Fund ul 101. he assumed the MAIM. lif another
persots, by which lie obtained the necessity ci•rtifica Les
to etiable Mtn to receree -the money. 'flits is hut the
list trine he has beciu !nifty of %imam itattfh.

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THE KING.
(rantsA PRIVI.TIE LtTTEII.)
HA NOVER,WEDNESDAV, OCT. will have
learned, that the slight indisposition of his Majesty
has occasioned some interruptions of that series of
celebrations that were prepared by a joyous people
to honour his reception ; but I have great pleasure
in informing you, that the statement of this morning
is, that our Sovereign is considerably better, and
that he will not be much longer coufined to the
Palace. The indisposition is a very slight attack of
the gout,affecting the knee. His Majesty is zealously
attended by Sir William Knighton, his physician,
and Mr. Walker, the royal apothecary; and the
general good health of the King is such, as to leave
no doubt that, in a day or two, he will be enabled
to take his accustomed exercise in public.
This trifling interruption of health has not occa-
sioned any interruption of public business. His Ma-
jesty has daily given audience to the Marquis of
Londonderry, and to the Foreign Ministers here.
With respect to the Palace of Herrenhausen, at
whirl► hit Majesty resides, it may not be uninterest-
ing to inform you, that it is about a mile and a half
from Hanover. Fur upwards of sixty years it has
not had a royal visitor; indeed it had no inhabitants
but persons connected with the household. What
changes have taken place were made expressly for
his Majesty. At this pleasing residence, his Majesty
remained somewhat closely confined during Monday,
the slight attack of the gout having commenced on
Sunday. He admitted but few visitors
Yesterday the King gave long and particular
audiences to the Marquis of Londonderry, and to
some foreign personages of distinction ; and on the
evening of that day despatches fur England were
made up.
Between the palace of Herrenhausen and Hanover
is the fine mansion which was tbrmerly the residence
of Count Walmoden. It was afterwards purchased
by the Hanoverian Government. That mansion is
the present residence of the Marquis of London-
derry, who has with him Lord Clanwilliam, his pri-

vate secretary.
The dinner parties at the palace of Herrenhausen
are daily of an extensive and most splendid character.
The various foreigners who are here from different
Courts give increased eclat to the list of visitors, as
well as to the dinner and evening parties. Such,
indeed, has been the consequence of the influx of
visitors, that a bed for one night, at the onlinary
inns, costs a Louis d'Or, and this price receives the
sanction of the authorities here.
To morrow (Thursday) is expected to be a gay day
with us. In the course of the afternoon his Majesty,
it is expected, will be able to attend a further, al-
though it can only be a partial, review of the troops
at present stationed about the palace, and in the
neighbourhood of Hanover, amounting to upwards
of 20,000 in number, cavalry and infantry included.
lhe appearance of these troops is most imposing.
fter this review there will be a splendid exhibition
of fire-works in the gardens and grounds surround-
ing the palace of Herrenhausen, at which the public
will be indiscriminately admitted.
It is at present positively calculated that his Ma.
jcsty will not extend his visit to us beyond the mid-
dle of next week—not after the 24th inst. Sir B.
Bloomfield has orders to that effect. The Director
of the Prussian posts is already here, waiting to re-
ceive his instructions respecting the route that his
Majesty may take; and he has commands from his
own Government to secure all possible facilities.
I ought to mention a curious rubbery that has
taken place here, and which has occasioned a good
deal of conversation, as well as much activity on the
part of the police. Sir B. Bloomfield left his watch
in a chamber adjoining to his room; he was absent
for a short time, a person with a message from the
Ling having detained him, when on his way back to
his chamber; but on returning he discovered that
the watch was gone. This loss is the more vexatious
• to Sir 8., as the watch was the gift of the King,
and contains within it a fine likeness of his Majesty.
All the endeavours of the police to get any traces of
it have as yet been fruitless.

A gentleman of scientific research has, we are
informed, constructed a machine of a perfectly novel
description, which he terms an Hydraulic Orrery.
The object of this invention is to produce a more
complete imitation of the silent, gliding motions of
the Heavenly Bodies than has yet been effected.
Every circulation or oblique movement is performed
by means of water, applied in such a manner as to
produce the apparent effect of spontaneous motion.
The apparatus has been seen in action by several
distinguished characters, and the motive principle is
said to be applicable to a great variety of experi.
mental and philosophical purposes.
The return of the woollen manuflieture of the
West Riding of Yorkshire, for the quarter ending
the 30th of Septemb,r last, has just been made up,
and we are happy to bear that the quantity of goods
manufactured within that period exceeds the most
flourishing quarter in the memory of ALUM

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FOREIG.V INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, OCT. 20.—Count Monthulon, on landing
at Calais, on the night rt' the 17th inst. Willi his
family, announced that General Bertrand would ar-
rive on the following day.
His Majesty, by an ordinance of the sth of Sep-
tember, has ordered payment of such share of the
compensation as had been made by the Royal Trea-
sury to the department of the Somme, fur their
losses during the military occupation of 1815.
By a letter from FranklOrt of the 15th inst. we
learn that the negotiations of the Court of Vienna
whit the house of Rothschild, for a new loan aeon-
siderable amount, is still carrying on. We arc
assured that it will soon be concluded, and that the
terms will be highly favourable to Messrs Rothschild.
Advices horn Marseilles of the 13th state, that on
the Wednesday preceding a man was sent to the
Lazaretto, from one of the ships first infected, at
Pomegue , but the state of this man has nothing
alarming in it ; and when it is considLred that, of
the last three patients received from these ship, into
the Lazaretto, two were only slightly attacked, and
and are now cured, there is reason to believe that
the pernicious character of the contagion has reached
its height, and that it is now approaching the term
of its extinction. There is only one sick in the
Lazaretto ; all the rest are convalescent or recovered,
There are no ships in quarantine, and the town con-
tinues healthy.
Private letters from Marseilles announce that all

vessels coining from Italy arc compelled to perform
quarantine, which seems to confirm the news of the
existence of the yellow fever at Leghorn, or some
other Italian port. The report is repeated that it
is not the yellow fever, but the cholera morills,
. .

which has been introduced into that country by a

ship from Batavia.
The accounts foom Bayonne come down to the
13th, and state that the importation of merchandise
from Spain is strictly prohibited, and no Spaniard
can pass the frontiers without being subject to qua-
rantine in the Lazarettos of Tenhou and Behobia.—
On the 19th, nine individuals, French and Spaniards,
were discharged from the Lazaretto of Behobia, per-
fectly cured, and entered the towns last Light there
were only 28 persons remaining in that establish.
ment, who were in good health.
The result of the elections is not known. Every
one calculates the probabilities, and compares the
relative force of the party to which he attaches him-
self. It has been justly said, that every name
which comes forth from the electoral urn is a decla-
ration of principle; and here it is seen beyond a
doubt, that France rejects the revolutionists.
The Chamber will then present, according to
every probability, a majority decidedly resolved to
to ensure the triumph of legitimate ItGyalty. The

only thing which remains to be desired is, that this
majority should be agreed as to the means. If it
should be divided into two or three sections, would
not the majority be more powerful than each sepa-
rate division ?
This is the question which at present engages
attention, and will, we trust, be solved to the great
advantage of the country and the monarchy.
The Magistracy of Turin promulgated a manifesto
an the I Ith inst., which states, that although no
circumstance had transpired which could justity any
fears of the introduction of the contagion into the
states of Piedmont, yet precautionary measures were
deemed necessary; and in this view it had been
enacted, that no person from France should be
allowed to enter Piedmont without first introducing
a health-certificate from the French authorities.
On Friday last, M. Rouault, who attempted to
assassinate Major Gen. the Baron I)ujeon, was tried
before the Paris Assize Court. The features of this
arse were of peculiar and revolting atrocity. The
Baron was allied to his meditated assassin by mar-
riage: he found him in obscurity, and advanced him
to rank in the corps which he commanded. He was
always lavish of his regard and sincere in his all6c-
tian towards him, and zealously promoted his inte-
rests on every occasion. But 'Unitas perfidy and
cowardice, at length, compelled, the Baron to
renounce him. Engaged in a duel, Ituault watched
an opportunity, seized the sword of his antagonist
with the left hand, and rim hint through with
the right. The proofs of this were upon record.—
Another duel ensued; ant! again Ituault triumphed
through treachery. It was then only that the Ge-
neral dismissed him from the service, as a dishonour
to his distinguished regiment, and this imperative
punishment it was which excited his deadly revenge.
On his trial the murderer avowed his intention,
and on being asked what lie had to say in his de- .1
fence, demanded that he might be condemned to
death, and not to hard labour 16r life. His counsel,
M. Cf►oaix d'Estanges, add►esseti the court in his

behalf. The Judge announced that three days were
allovied him to appeal. He left the bar wi.hout the
slightest symptom of remorse or fear.
The General was nut able to attend in Court

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certificates of the still grievous state of his wounds
were read.

A letter from Jassy of the 23d of September states,
that on the I fith of that month 5,000 Turks, under
the orders of Seliha Bey, had attacked the convent
of Seek. The Turks set the convent on fire ; but
the Greeks, who had posted themselves in a small
vaulted bastion, kept up a brisk fire with such effect,
that the Turks were obliged to retreat with a loss
of 2,000 men, in killed and wounded. The richest
Boyars had deposited their most valuable effects in
this convent, which had been entirely destroyed by
the flames, to the value of several millions of piasters.
Notwithstanding the firman of the Grand Sei4-
nor, the Turks still commit every species of depre.
dation.

It is asserted that a bloody battle has taken prace
at Yuacaca, about three leagues from Pasco, between
the division of Valdez and Ricafort,' in which the
rebel Arenalas, has been killed, and Bermudez grie-
vously wounded and taken prisoner. It is thought
that the number of wounded is upwards of 4,000.
This happy event, which has reanimated public
spirit, and which may put an end to the war in
Chili, ought not, however, to tranquillize the go-
vernment so far as to induce it to relax, but rather
stimulate it to send maratime forces in sufficient
strength to guarantee Peru, and complete the sub-
mission of Chili. The Sieur Pezuela is about to
embark in an English frigate for Rio Janeiro.
PARIS, OCT. 23.—Yesterday the King transacted
business with the Marquis of Lauriston and the
Duke of Richelieu.

The early arrival of the King of England in this
capital is again spoken of.
The Marquis of Londonderry is expected in the
course of a few days in Paris.
According to a private letter from Vienna, Prince
Metternich was on the point of setting out for Wite-
psk to meet the Emperor of Russia.
Extract of a private letter dated Augsburg., Oct. 17.
" The mercantile community of this town have
received, by an extraordinary channel, the impor-
tant news that war has re-commenced in Moldavia

between the Turks and the Insurgents. Conflicts
have taken place during the first fortnight in Sep-
tember, in several 'sorters. It is seen with astonish-
ment that the Greeks have in Moldavia forces much
more considerable than were at first believed. This,
however, is explained by the circumstance that the
Insurgents, who were dispersed after the various
defeats which they experienced last summer, have
rallied, and have been joined by a great number of
the countymen who had taken refuge in Bessarabia,
the Bukowina and Transylvannia. The Arnauts,
who' as is known, have been so cruelly treated by
the Turks, have made common cause with the
Greeks, and thus they have on foot an imposing
force ; they have already gained some advantages
at the entrance of the plains, which have rendered
them masters of a portion of Upper Moldavia. They
have even sent skirmishing parties as far as Foskan."
FRAIVILFORT, 17.—We have received the
following intelligence from the frontiers of Moldavia,
dated the 26th ult :
" It is asserted that the Kiaja Bey has been de-
capitated and his head sent to Constantinople.
" The new Seraskier has caused the Bishop of
Roman to be put in irons."