The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

PRINCESS :OF WALES.
COMO, SEPT. 14.—We have now had for some days
the happiness of having again in our neighbourhood her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, who is returned,
to her villa at Esle, after having spent four months in
Sicily, after visiting the ruins of Carthage and Utica,
near Tunis, and having made a journey to the Bospho-
rus, Greece, and Palestine. In all places which this
august traveller honoured with her presence she was
received by the governments with the most distinguish-
ed respect, and every where she enjoyed the tribute of
general esteem. Every where the Princess viewed and
collected valuable articles of the fine arts and antiquity,
which, added to what she already possessed, will form
an extremely rich museum, and add new splendour to
her already celebrated villa. She was particularly
generous to the learned Academy at Athens, and as-
signed a large sum for the Monks of the Holy Sepul-
chre, in order to relieve their extraordinary indigence.
She has also resolved to mark her happy return by new
acts of beneficence, giving titles of honour to the persons
who accompanied her on hea dangerous pilgrimage.
L.,.stly, she charged the neighbouring priest of Cenobio
with the distribution of large sums 14 the relief of his
poor parishioners, and instituted popular games, with
prizes for conquerors.

THE K uso.—Tho following anecdote, says the Exe-
ter Gazette, may be relied on as authentic:—ln the
summer of 1814 the King had lucid intervals; the
Queen desired to be informed when that was the case
—she was so; and on entering the room, she found him
singing a hymn,and accompanying it on the harpsichord.
When he had finished it, he knelt down and prayed
aloud for her Majesty, then for his family and the na-
tion, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it
might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him;
but if not, to give him resignation to submit to it.
He then burst into tears and his reason again fled. One
morning, when the passing bell was tolling at Windsor,
his Majesty enquired who was dead' His attendants
at first did not answer him ; but on Lis repeating the
question, they said, " Please your Majesty, Mrs. S—."
—" Mrs. S—," rejoined the King, " she was a linen-
draper, and lived at the corner of street (naming
the street) ; aye, she was a good woman, and brought
up her family in the fear of God—she is gone to Hea-
, ven—l hope I shall soon follow her."
Parisian Anecdoic.—The Rocher de Cancale is one of
the most celebrated, and the dearest, coffee-houses in
Paris ; it is particularly noted for its oysters. Of its
charges some idea may be formed from the following
fact:—Three lovers of oysters, wishing to regale them-
selves, debated whether it would be more economical to
to make their repast at the Rocher de Cancale, or to take
a post-chaise and go to the coast : they made a calcula-
tion, and found that the expenses of travelling to and
from Paris to the sea-side, and the tavern-bills there,
would not amount to so much, by three guineas, as a
regale would cost them at the Rocher de Cancale. A
few weeks ago, three Englishmen, who had made a
trip to Paris to spend their hoarded cash, tired of dining
at Very's, in the Palais Royale, and their funds being
low, resolved to dine economically, and give a cheap
farewell dinner to those they left behind ; accordingly,
they sought out a decent-looking house in a poor neigh-
bourhood, and, by chance, stumbled on one in a shabby
street, near the Grand Market of the Innocents. It
was no other than the Rocher de Cancale. Thither
all the guests, amounting to a dozen, repaired. The
dinner and wine were delicious, and each resolved to
dine daily there during his stay in Paris. At length
the fatal moment approached—the bill was called for—
k arrived. They had crlculated it half-a-guinea per
head ; but, alas ! they had reckoned without their host
—it amounted to 1600 francs-661. 13s. 4d. They
could not all muster the sum—they called the landlord
—an explanation was entered into.—" Gentleman (said
he), it is evident you did not know the reputation of
the Rocher de Cancale." They offered him the secu-
rity of their watches, which he generously refused—
" Gentlemen, I should be sorry to be censidered worse
than the litre with which I regale my friends ; the
sum is a trifle, pay it when you please."
Tracy write from Brussels, under date of the 11th, as
follows:—" A Belgian soldier of the Bth regiment of
militia was some days ago condemned to receive several •
strokes with the cane. When the guard came to con-
vey him to the place of punishment, he made resistance,
and at the same time stabbed himself with a knife, ex-
claiming, that a Belgian would not submit to dishonour.
Ile is now in the hospital, and his life is despaired off."
The gamekeeper of Fislicrwick manor was shot at a few
nights ago by some poachers who were out in the woods. A
dog belonging to them was seen and Oust at, which gave birth
to their resentment.
Elizaltedi Ward, capitally convicted at the late York
Assizes for attempting to poison her sister-in•law, anti who
was reprieved on condition of being transported for life, has
obtained a further remission of her sentence, and is now to
be confined tar ten years in the reuitestiary•bouff, at Mill-
batik.

A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE.
At abuses - . .
Dor. calla Ai. a seater.; -' •
Tel de rol de rol,
Clone by Saint Sepulchre.
Ar. wants Dor. to -fight,
I)or. of death had much beard; '
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•1. V..*;

Says he, " no not to night,
For fear I should be butcher'd.V • • '
Doc had got a cold,
Which he a fever reckon'd;
Sure one need be told, •
He did not want a second. ... ' •
To Coventry, he swore, •
Poor AL had once been bad*
And ao to dear the score, • •
To Maidstone off 1)ol sanish'd. • '
Then AL "IL P. 4114 Font," • •
Calls names, and struts and swaggers; • •
And prints it all to boot,
In words that look like daggers.
Thus wig and sword and gown,
And all this noise and rattle,
Have humbug& half the town,
To think 'twould end in battle. •
But one good proof they give,
Worth all I've been inditing;
Men may by quarrels live,
Who'll never die by fighting. QUIZ.

SUPPOSED SOLUTION OF MISS SEWARD'S ENIGMA.
Of all the objects of the works of Art,
"Fis Architecture claims the noblest part.
Of all the gems by bountem.s Nature given,
The D'stniond drinks the purest ray of Heaven.
The lawyer's lease we null and voildeclare,
If Right that point essential be not there.
When peace returns, whilst shouts ascend the skies,
Illuminations glad our dazzled eyes—
The Agriculturist bis name must yield
To simple Willy—when he ploughs the field.
Lothano's vow, made at the shrine of Beauty, .
Is Nominal—so is the soldier's duty.
Unseen till late, amid the orbs of light,
Blight Others stands reveall to mortal's sight.
Perfeetion dwells alone above the skies,
No human merit ere attain'd the prize.
Lucre thou art the Miser's fatal snare,
The badge of Jews, unworthy Christian care. •
Endowment crowns the Wife's ambitious views,
And likewise comprehends the Parson's dues.
By all these Letters dearly will be shewn,
That ancient •City of no small renown.
N.B. The Planet mentioned in the Enigma is not apeoificst
moving between the Earth and Sun, but only seen.
Oct. 13, 1816. Adrianople.

" Lord Byron (says a private letter, which has been
published) has been frightened away from his residence
on the Lake of Geneva, by the re-appearance of his
country in the midst of these solitudes. The retreat of
the Noble Childe is in the remotest part 'of Italy. At
Geneva, continues the same writer, we found all the
inns, hotels, lodgings, and cabins, delumed with Eng-
lish riches and English ennui. The whole circuit of
the lake appears an English colony, and all Geneva
wonders what strange revolution in the state has driven
so many of our countrymen into exile. Geneva has at
present precisely the air of an English watering place ;
the long coats, lounging figures, and promenade of
equipages--the salutations, the inquiries of people who
were tired of each other, and of themselves, would ul-
, most make one imagine, that Cheltenham underwent a
supernatural transportation, like the holy house of Lo-
retto, from its ancient site. The price of all the ne-
cessaries and luxuries of life have risen immoderately,
and the whole state is likely to remember for ages to
come the prodigious influx of wealth from the waists
and follies of our English travellers."

Among the English who, after passing some time in,
France, think proper to write on our country, there are
some who do not content themselves with publishing
calumnies on our morals and manners, as was done by a
Mr. John Scott, editor of a weekly journal called the
Champion; they sometimes add to this such absurdities,
that we willingly pardon them in return for the oppor-
tunity they give us of laughing at their expense. The
following is tho way in which an anonymous English
traveller, whose correspondence is printed in the Morn-
ing Herald, expresses himself of French bunco:— '
" I have often heaed it said in England, that French women
walked gracefully. I have found quite the contrary here :
their step is awkward, ungraceful, and unsteady, which may
be catiord by the abominable paveme•ut on which they are
obliged to walk. The Parisian wontcn•are by no means hand-
some ; they are sun-burnt, and many of their young bthothave
a thicker beard than our young Englishmen from ii lts.
They have thick legs, and acquire too much colpolence acs
they advance in yenta."
If our ladies do not recognize themselves in this por-
trait, we hope they will at least laugh at the caricature.
Here follows the judicious critit istu of the same travel-
ler on the Opera, in another let:cr
" The Fomeli Opera is all that is tine; the orchestra rn
row and exedieut. Some of the chief c ‘is are lunch be-
yond any thing we have iu England ; but I cannot may so much
for the women : their ilaucing is by m Poems peryiet. and 1
have been much di appointed in what I expected of them :
their movements ate anther so' stipple nor li,ely as I imagin-
ed." Sze.
It will be seen that the French f,•ir sex is not an ob-
ject of idolatry with this prothund observer. It may
not be useless to remark, that the best female dancers
on all the London stages are Frenchwomen.—Journal
des Debra:.

A stage coach was upset on Snturday secek, nn its passare
down the hill from Browley to the iron bridge, by which an
outside pa,senger (Mr. F.taus, timmelmanutacturer, neat
New uo, Montgewer;shile) was Lilkd on the spot-