The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-01 00:00:00

THE IqkTIONAL REGISTER.

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The Earl of AitrapteN has arrived in town from Scot-
land, whence-he was summoned by express by his Majesty'
Ministers, for the purpose, as is reported, of procef ding on
a special mission to the Emperor of AUSTRIA. His Lord-
ship will leave town early next week, and it is expected will
assist at the approaching Congress' on the part of this country.
The Earl of ABERDEEN is accompanied in this important
mission by his brother the Hon. Mr. GORDON, and by the
Honourable FREDERICK LAMB, Secretary of Legation.—
(Courier.)
It is rumoured that the English Ambassador, said in one
of the Paris Papers to have pa,scd through Neuss, in the De-
partment of the Moselle, on his way to the Congress, is Mr.
CHARLES STUART —(Courier.)

We understand that all political connection between Mr
CANNING and the Marquis WELLESLEY is at an end.—
(Courier.)

Thursday, the ships bound to St. Andero, Portugal, and
the Mediterranean, sailed fi om Portsmouth, with a fine breeze,
under convoy of his Majesty's ships Venerable. President,
lloratio, Beagle, and Echo. On board the shirrs bound to
St. Andero, was an immense quantity of stores of every
description, a considerable quantity of specie, and upwards
of 3,000 troops, for Marshal Wellington's army.
In consequence of the 7th Hussars being ordered for
foreign service, the 2d dragoons (or Crevs) hare been
ordered ft= Warwick to Hyde Park barracks, for the
London duty.
A Matta mail arrived on Tuesday. The plague, we are sorry
to say, up to the tlst ult. continued to make great ravages.
It was confined to the lowest order;- and no Eng!ishmen,
either merchant or soldier,had up to that period, been affected.
From . the 22d of May to the 15th of June, the average of
deaths was thirty allay; from the 15th of June to the 20th,
they did not exceed twenty. The greatest precautions were
taken to prevent the spreading of the infection; an expec-
tation was entertaked, that as the heat of summer became
mlre intense, the disea,e would be gradually extinguished.
SuA, at least, is the usual effect of the ardent summer beats
at Alexandria and other !;laces of the Levant, where the
plague is an anniral visitant.
The Court of Stockholm has recently published a Docu-
ment, whir h is considered as a great advance towards con-
ciliating Denmark. It proposes that Sweden shall abandon
her pretensions to Norway, and even to Drontheim, until
they shall leave bern appreciated and determined by the
farther, that the force of Denmark, which may be
craplocd in the common cause, shall not be placed at the
clisposal of the Crown PRINCE, but shall be under the com-
mand of their own Sovereign, and that the claim of in-
demnity for the numerous captures the Danish privateers
have made in a time of profound peace, shall he postponed,
if not ultimately resigned, by the 'Court of Stockholm.
JQSEPH BCONAPARTE is at Bayonne, endeavouring to
raise the peasantry in the South of France, to resist their
iavaders. The enemy's force at Bayonne is estimated at
20,000 reg Lars and 10,000 armed peasants, badly clothed,
and di stitu:e, in a !vent degree, of the necessary instruments
of war. Geneial CoPoNs, it is said, has summoned the
South of Catalonia to arms; so that SUCHET may be consi-
derably annn)ed in his advance into that province, especi-
al:, if igorously pressed by the Valencian armies.
Sir J. B. WARREN has declared the whole coast of Ame-
rica to be in a state of blockade.

• As soon as the account of the fate of the late 3/Ir. THOM-
SON BONA It reached St. Petershurgh, the Exchange was or-
-4 Ted to be-shut, and no busing 's wa transacted among the
commercial body on that day.

AUGUST 7

The estate attached to the Dukedom ofAlbufera, which
was given by BUONA P A RTE to SUCH ET, has been assigned
by the Spanish Cortes to Marquis WEL L I NGTON. The
revenues arc estimated at 15,0001. sterling per annum.
Tuesday, the PRINCE REGENT held a Chapter of the
Order of the Garter, at Carlton House, for the express pur.
pus .. of electing the Emperor of Russ' A a Member. Soel
after three his Royal Highness entered his closet in the full
robes of the Order, when Garter King of Arms proceeded
to call over the names of the Members resent, and walked
in procession through the State Rooms, in their full robes.
The procession having arrived in the Throne-room, and the
Prince having taken his seat in a superb chair opposite the
Throne, the Knights and Officers made their reverence,
when the former took their seats on each side of the Prince,
according to seniority, and the latter took their appointed
stations. Count LIEV EN, the Russian Ambassador, was
then introduced, and placed on the left of the Prince, when
the Chancellor of the.ader said, he had it in command
from the PRI NC E REGENT to recite the last statute of the
Order, which directed that, besides the Sovereign, it should
consist of 23 Knights, all the descendants of King GEORGE
U. exclusive of the Prince of AVALES; but it was now re-
commended to the Chapter to pass a new statute, for the
purpose of electing his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of
all the Russtas, a Member of the Order : and after having
taken the opinions of the Knights in writing, declared his
Impel ial Majesty duly elected a Member. Garter King of
Arms then introduced F. TowNsH END, Esq. and, in conse-
quence of his indisposition preventing him from under.
taking a voyage to Russia, proposed Mr. T. should go in his
place ; which being agreed to, Mr. T. was sworn in Garter
King at Arms for this special purpose. The oath was then
administered in Latin by the Registrar, and the Chapter
closed.

The M'ssion to the Emperor of Russia, in order to invest
him with the insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Gar-
ter, will be composed of Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor
Herald, Deputy Garter ; Sir Thomas Tyrwhytt, Black Rod ;
George Frederick Bette, Esq. Secretary to the Commission;
Stephenson, Esq. Herald Extraordinary ; James Putman,
Esq. Secretary to Sir Thomas Tyrwhytt ; two of the King's
Messengers, and a few other persons attached to the com-
m's3ion.—The Cygnet frigate is preparing at Sheerness for
their immediate embarkation.

The following is the form of prayer to be read in all
churches and chapels for the victory of Vittoria :—" U Lord
God of Hosts, who chiefly declatest thy Almighty power, by
protecting the oppressed, and who, smiting to the ground the
proud oppressor, and who, in the defence of injured nations,
teachest thy servants to war, and girdest them with strength
for battle, we yield Thee praise and thanksgiving for the con-
tinued successes in Spain, with which Thou bast been pleased
to crown the conduct of our General, and the valour of our
soldiers ; but more especially for the signal and decisive vic-
tory with which, under the same Commander, Thou bast re-
cently vouchsafed to the allied armies in the battle of Vitto-
ria. Continue, we pray Thee, thy blessing upon the coun-
sels of our General ; maintain and support the couraoe
and strength of the allied armies ; sanctify the cause in which
they are united ; and as it bath pleased Thee to put back,
with confusion of face, the proud invader of Spain and Por-
tugal, let the allied armies and the allied kingdoms prostrate
themselves with one consent befine Thee, and acknowledge .
with humility of heart the victory to be thine. These pray-
ers and thanksgivinzs we humbly offer to thy Divine Majesty,
in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and Sal
vicar Jesus Christ. Amen."