The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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The Thistle ship of war which sai!ca on the Ist instant from
Halifax, has arrived. Ten thousand mote troops bad
reached the St. Lawrence flout France ; 5000 of which were
at Quebec on the 40th of .luly, and an equal number were at

he mouth of the river on the :nth of that month.

It has been affix wed on the alleged authority of arcounts
ly the Thistle, that the Macedonian and Uniteil States

gates in the pert of New 1,,,nd0n, with 60 or 70 more ves-

sels in other harbours of Connecticut, have been destroyed
by a naval expedition under Sir riomas hardy. We
cannot find, however, that there i, any confirmation of this
intelligence.
The Commissioners at Antwerp have divided the fleet at
that pert, according to the stipulations of the T► eat v of Peace ;
seven ships of the line were given up as tkeir share to the

Dutch.
The Duke of Berri had an aiAience of the Prince Regent
Sunday, which lasted two hours; and on Monday he left
town in a havelling coach and six, followed by his attend-
ants, for Calais. The object of his journey hither, was for
the purpose of con gratu %al ag the Pri nceleisesc would.gntcn
birth day, and to solicit that his Royal Iliglin visit
Paris. 'This invitation, which was politely declined in the
first instance, was renewed, and again declined.
The Duke of Wellington a'ri'l ed at AntwerrWednesday
last, and the next day set off fu- Brussels.
On Thursday last the Stock Exchange was thrown into a
state of dismay by the declaraticn, that a person of some
consideration iii the city had confessed himself unable or
unwilling to pay his difference, to the amount of 45,0001.
There is something so chshonour.ilde in a man going beyond
his means in a gambling transaction, that a defauher in this
%ray is branded wish opprobrium, and excluded from all
honourable society. This makes a failure on the Stock Ex-
change of such consequence, that whenever a man Of an v
connectious is caught in speculations beyond his ability to
make go6d, he is generally supported by his friends, ifthey
have the power to i escuc him from disgrace, or that he has
a character worth preserving. In this instance the indivi-
dual is a Member of Pat liatnent, has long been au India
Director, thou ;h he is now out in rotation, anti was some
time ago appointed by Ministers to a place of high financial.
responsibility, and of great emolument. Of this situation,
we suppose, be will now be deprived; and the moment that
he was declared a defaulter a canvas commenced against his
re-election to the !tuna Board. Ile has left four or fire
brokers in the larch.
From a Correspondent.—" We are sorry to announce
1 that the St. Alban's Bank stopped payment last week; the
amount of the debts has not yet been ascertained, but it has
involved a numbe,r of industrious tradesmen and poor la-
bourers in the greatest distress who have received its notes
in the neighbourhood of St. Alban's, IVatford, Rickmans-
woith, and the adjacent places.—The frequency of the fai-
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I lures of the count' y banks renders it a point of conscientious
duty with all the landholders, farmers, bailiffs, and trades.
men absolutely to refuse to receive any country bank notes
whatever, which would effectually put an end to this evil.
The injury sustained by the nation from the issue of these
notes is incalculable, and in spite of ahy partial interest which
may attempt to support them, they ought to be put down,
that thousands of industrious families may not he wined.
Ili' Majesty's Nlioisters, who are the guardians of the pro-
perty of the people, night not to suffer this iniquitous spe-
culation in paper any longer to exist."
The prize-money to be immediately dish ibuted at Calcutta,
for the capture of Serampore, in 1803, amounts to 541,413
sicca rupees, or 67,7141.