The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-30 00:00:00

THE FLOOD.

In consequence of the late heavy and almost in-
cessant rain, the waters arc so much out at Egham
and Staines, the road is quite impassable. A bridge
near the latter town has been entirely torn up. The
Exeter and Pool mail-coaches could not on Friday
morning proceed further than Egham, where the
snails were taken from them and conveyed across,
and for a considerable distance afterwards, in a boat,
the roads being under water. The guards proceeded
from Staines in a chaise with four horses to the Ge
neral Post Office.

The Prrtsmouth mail was delayed at Kingston on
Friday morning upwards of an hour, in consequence
of the waters being out.
The northern mails have been stopped two days
by the inundations.
At Newport-Pagnel the coaches could not pass
the bridge, owing to the floods.
The York House mail coach was nearly upset on
Wednesday night.
Poles are now affixed on the banks of the low.
lands to indicate the depth of water on the roads.
At Market Harborough, Northampton, and New.,
port.Pagnet, the waters were on Wednesday NO high
on the main-road, that they reached the backs of the
horses. At Market Harborough and Northampton,
the inhabitants were compelled to take up their re-
sidence on the first-floor, and the coach doors were
opened to let the water pa-s through. Much pro.
perty has been destroyed, but no lives lost.
On Thursday there was was a tit:mentions storm
of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, at Oxtbrd,
which continued nearly an hour with unabated fury.
The ruin literally came down in torrents, the streets
throughout the city were like rivulets, the thunder
was awfully loud, and the lightnilig extremely
vivid.

The flood at Frome, on Sunday morning last,
occasioned by the tremendous storm of the preceding
evening, Was higher• than any that has been known
in that town for nearly sixty years. The damage
sustained amounts to several thousand pounds.
The waters in the neighbourhood of Cambridge
have risen higher during the prescn, week than they
have been known to du for many years. The mea-
dows near• the banks of the Cam arc overflowed, and
in many places the roads have been rendered nearly
impassable. The waters in the tins arc unusually
high.
At Bristol and many other places, the heavy reins
have been accompanied with violent storms of wind,
thunder, and lightning ; unroofing houses, blowing
down stacks of chimneys, and in some instances,
burying the unhappy inmates under the ruins.
On Tuesday last the Birmingham mail, which
usually arrives at Bristol at six o'clock in the morn-
ing, did not reach its place of destination until one
o'clock at noon : it was stopped at Norton-mills, be-
tween Tewkesbury and Gloeestc•r, where the water
was nearly six feet deep ; the guide of the road
being lost, the horses soot► got off their legs, and the
greatest danger was evident: to increase the difficulty,
Shurmer's stage-waggon has also been stopped in its
progress, and was rendered immoveable ; o►ie of the
horses of the latter was drowned, and another died
soon after ; but by the great exertions of the coach.
nam and guard,the passengers and ►nail horses were-
preserved: the former were obliged to fro b.. 5 k to
Tewkesbury; the paccels'and luggage were left be-
hind, and the mail of lettsirs conveyed at length to
Cllocester, faun which it reached Bristol, six ~efinc
stated, at noon. No Other Coach jrcitche4 liris!44 titan
Birmingham during time day, and'on the 'Ttilliitiring

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day (Wednesday) the mail was three hours after its
time, being obliged to go round by Cheltenham.
In consequence of almost incessant rains, there
has been a rapid succession of floods on the river
Severn during the last fi•w months. On Christmas
afternoon the inundation had attained a very unu-
sual height, though nearly two feet below the flood
of 1795. The lands on both sides of the river are
flooded to a great extent: the waters had risen so
high as to impede the passage over Tewksbury
bridge, in consequewe of which the guards was ob-
liged to take a bout, swim a horse by the side of it,
and thus gaining the road which was not under wa-
ter, mounted the horse, and proceeded.
The late incessant rains have caused a greater flow
of water throughout the low lands and valleys in
Lincolnshire, than we have heard for many years.
The London-road, near Caxton, Huntingdonshire,
was on Saturday night for some time impassable for
any kind of carriage, and the Edinburgh mail was
detained full six hours, until the falling of the water
enabled it to effect a passage. At the village of
Godmanchester, nearly every house has been filled
with water by the overflowing of the Ouse, and
some of the inhabitants were compelled, after mak-
ing their lower doors and windows as close as possi-
ble, to eject their unwelcome visiter from their
chamber windows by buckets. At Wansford, the
Nenc rose so high as to inundate the yard of the
Haycock-inn; and we believe every village situated
in the valleys through which the Ouse, Nene, or
Welland flows, has experienced some inconvenience
front the water. The fens of Lincolnshire are for the
greater part three or four feet under water. At
Spalding and its neighbourhood, the Welland rose
so high on Wednesday morning, that the inhabitants
resident near the river on the Dceping-road, were
called from their beds at four o'clock, to assist in
erecting a water-tight fence on the crown of the
road, to prevent the flood flowing over the fields on
the opposite side: numbers of horses and carts, and
a very great quantity of men were employed to check
the inundation; and, notwithstanding their efforts,
the water had increased so much as almost to bid
defiance to their attempts to arrest its progress.
A very heavy thunder-storm was experienced on
the 18th at Blandford and its neighbourhood, in
Dorsetshirc. The tower of Wareham church received
considerable injury by the lightning on that day.
The continued rains have considerably injured the
lands in most parts of Devon All tke moors and
low grounds present vast sheets of water. The sheep
in many places are suffering by a disorder incidental
to them in wet weather.
The neighbourhood of St. George's-fields was on
Friday evening was in many parts overflowed. Most
of the kitchens in Great Surrey-street were about a
foot under water, and the lower parts of the houses
in Union-street, Bankside, &c. were also in a state
of immersion. Bankside, particularly, front its vici-
nity to the river, and the several streets adjoining,
were completely covered with the flood.
FLOODS IN WESTMINSTER.
The neighbourhood of NVestminster Hall, Abingdon-
street, and Milb.utk•►treet, were on Friday afternoon
thrown into the greatest alarm, by the unusually high
rising of the swing tide, aided by the floods occasioned
by this late heavy rains. By three o'clock the what fs, etc.
behind those streets and fronting the liver were com-
pletely overflowed; the greatest difficulty, in many in-
stances, lacing in the way of getting the different cattle
out of the stables. The timber, suave, &c. that were sus-
etlitible of ',mien, on the approach of sufficient water,
begsn to float, and the wharfs thus became the scenes of
confusion that soon spread terror around the neighbour-
By four o'clock the currents front the Thames
began to make their way info the main streets, and Mill-
bank-street in particular, as well as Vine-street, the
Hug-eferry road, and other outlets front it, were 80011
overflowed, so as to become impassable except to houses,
cartiages, carts, &c. Many of the uhf houses in this
street were visited with peculiar severity, as, instead of
losing approachable by steps ascending, they are entered
by going down one o► two steps into the parlours. The
house of Mr. Blackman, the King's Alms, facing the large
stone-yard w Bich belonged to the late Alderman Staioes,
presented an extraordinary appearance. The sheet in
other parts is narrow; but facing Mr. Blackman's house
thew is a talge space, which collected sit immense quan-
tity of water, and formed a soft of lake ; and when the
water entered Mr. Blackman's house, it rushed through
wi h an impetuosity that no preCalliiollB could impede.
Tile parlours, tap room, &c. were suon several feet deep
OA cater. The Manse, though its visitation was not singu-
lar, became tile point of attraction, from its couspicnous
situation, as well as from several heats having passed from
the Horseferry stairs, awl appealing in the streets, con-
veying the inhabitants to and from their houses, and car-
rying those who had no other means of passage. The
extensive damage that was here ionicted, and the obstruc-
tions which were presented to all business, exceed
dem iption and as the flooding of the streets, which
already displayed so appalling NU appearance, continued
tail vast five o'clock, the time or tlouJ tide, the situa:ion
of the iuhahitauts was most painful.
impetuosity and extent Of the Thames oriel llovriog
its initiatory bounds were, however ►.ill more lotions op
tan bank, and beyond Vauxhall-bridge. By the Millbaok
wiiatt, which is beyond the Hurseferry-stairs, whence so
nixoy boats castle' to the relief of the passengers mid the
rohnbitants, the water rushed into the surrounding fields
and sti.etts, Mr. Johnsou's extensive premise+, the mar -
inel.:gal demi, Inc. haying the whole of mem uudersvaler.
—4l,:t even this extrusive scene of devastation was
5:51,i.i.5tql by what took place het wren four and five
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yowl Vauxhall-bridge; dim' this breakage is particular,
the water hurried along wish cataract fury, covering the
surrounding fields, gardens, &c. Vauxhall road, down
to the Sewers-bridge, surroutithog Pimlico, was laid un-
d.•i watt i to the depth of seviral feet, so that even lior,ea
and cutsiages could not pas. along without beim.; in ire
than halt nutter water. 'flip sutrounding scene, how-
ever, was the most afflicting than was any where to be
beheld; they tieing nutter water of the neighbood near
thel'enitentiary were calatnit ots,but tl,e devastst ors were
most distressing that were thus cooveyed into a new but
roller as extensive neighbourhood un the left of the
Vauxhall road, consisting of small houses, but on low
ground, and many of them of .e than a sufficiently
slight structure. The ground and roads about them, and
leading to them, were tilled with water to the depth of
several feet, so hat boats paved :dont with the greate,t fa-
t ility where there a ere not the impediments of high fences,
walls, or the like. Along some of the lanse mid toads the
water hurried (loan with as witch hole,- as if it were descend-
ing f hills; aid nosily of vie inhabitants, a ho hod already
narrated from the willows to the first-lloors with their
child,en, moveable limonite, &c. became apprehensive for
ti.s.r personal safety. Tit, yeomme. tad pruceedini;s of the
.1104 distressing nature'; females, ch,lat en, &c. being carried
from their dwellings in boats us fo men's arms, with as little
erreitiony and enmities-aeon its attend the efforts nt raging
tires to rescue encl.:yged lives from the fury of an overwhelm-
lag
ele consteieution appeared every whete.—
li nd, eds of faculty. wet e all has hurry in fom t ten homes,
a, parenil, wily noxious tor the pre ersatioa of existence;
alai the danger in many instances, to men who waded
through the water 1.11 hardened was i•tam nem ; to such a
depth were the places uve.fftwed. The 1111110 road from
Vauxhall Wll4 ctivered with boats, and horses being con-
veyed, or conveying away their titters, to pliers of safety.
FO3 timately the wind was southerly : had it been north.
ward, experienc d men stale that the fi roil west have beets
still more destructive and extensive.
PERTETUAL MOTION*—The piece of mechanism
consists of only one horizontal wheel, not exceeding
3-4th, of an inch is diameter, through the centre
of which, on the plane of the wheel, basses a small
magnetic bar, projecting about 3-4ths of an inch
beyond the circumference of the wheel on the one
side, and about 3-Bths of an inch on the other side.
These projections arc called the north and south
poles. The axis of the wheel is, of course, perpen-
dicular. Its operative power is magnetism; its
motion (probably owing to the friction it:separable
from the long-continued axis of the sockets) is some-
what irregular; but on the whole it is a curiosity
highly deserving attention. Owing to a sudden
shock, its motion was stopped entirely the other
day, but we learn it has been restored. About two
years ago it was stopped by sonic_ unknown cause,
but after a short pause recovered its motion of itself,
without any additional impulse, and continued its
revolutions without intermission. In u'room at Mr.
Swan's, in Coppergate, which was excessively warm,
and crowded with company, its action 'Tined alto-
gether, after first becoming irregular and sickly.—
Query.—Might not this simple fact lead to some
important issue on the question of the variation of
the compass? This we only know, that the mag-
netic influence was deadened by excessive heat, and
resuscitated by a more moderate atmosphere.—York-
shire Gazelle.
The Congress of the United States of America
was to meet on Monday, the 3d inst.; consequently
the President's message is expected by the next ar-
rivals. It is conjectured that Mr. Taylor, merub...x
for the State of New York, will not be re-elected
Speaker of the House of Representatives, but that
the choice will fall upon Mr. Nelson, of Virginia, a
staunch and respectable republican. The legislative
question which seems to be most anxiously and ge-
nerally auticiyated, is that of a National Bankrupt
Law.
A Pigeon Match, at eleven birds each, took place on
Monday, at Southall Flat, between Messrs. Tate and
Harris, from Suffolk, against Messrs. 1)ove and Harri-
son, from Hens, fur b 0 guineas a side. The following,
was the result—Tate killed ten, and his coadjutor
seven—Dove Lined Moe, aud his partner eight, which
made it a lye. A s.:eusail Watch took place instead of
drawing the stake, when Harris killed nine, and Tate
eight. The opposing parties killed eight each, and lost
the match by one. Tate challenged Harris to shoot at
15 birds each, tin half the wincing money, which was
accepted. Harris killed 12 birds, and his adversary ho,
and the sports closed.
Oil Thursday night, the t!oth inst. Plymouth was vi-
sited by a treineinions hurricane front the W.N.W.,
which has occasioned considerable damage in the town
' and neighbourhood, and at one time was so violent as to
cause many of the inhabitants in the higher parts of the
tow is to leave their beds, and to take shelter in the lower
apartments of their houses. The stack of chimneys on
rite new !'own-hall, iu Ker-strcet, yielded to the violence
of the '' Ile, and falling with a dreadful clash on the roof
il earric every thing belore it ; and we are much
con-
cerneJ to vale, that the paintings and ingestanis ma-
ry the Theatre of Art,. belonging to M. Thiuden,
(who rind been exhibiting there for some time ;past),
were entirely destroyed: unfortunately, thin, " at one
fell sweep," tedoeing time lahnor of years to a heap of
At Stolle:louse, we chimney of an old house
to time Ouay, fell 'wimp the root, and forced the floor
of the room in which a pi or ill ill named Richard Beavis„
was lying in lw I, into the cellar underneath, where he
was crushed to death by the t tibbish. Cyrote, Captain
'Fir4ttr, drove from her moorings in the Sound, bin was
brinigtst up when very near the tucks on Straddisii Point.
Wraitliktri winter went on shore at the duck-yard,
and the Loaiao tender, in Stonehouse Pool, but were gut
up without iojury. We are apprehensive of hearing of
great (Linage our the ciait.

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DUTCM MAIL.

BERLIN, DEC. 13.-A half-official paper asserts,
that there is no foundation whatever for the report
which has been spread, that, in case of war between
Russia and Turkey, Prussia is to furnish an auxiliary
corps of 30,000 men, or subsidies in the room of it.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 14.—The last letters from
Vienna are less pacific than the preceding. The
general opinion at Vienna is stated to be, that war
is inevitable, though some time may still be spent in
renociations.
The positions of the Russian corps stationed on
the frontiers towards Turkey are such, that they
naturally induce a belief of war. A letter received
from Poland states, that the Russian troops arc con-
centrated within so narrow a compass, that they
cannot remain many weeks in the same position ;
they must either advance or retrograde.
It is affirmed that the King of Bavaria will make
an important communication to the two Chambers,
on the opening of their session in the month of Ja-
nuary. It is supposed to relate to new political
connexions between Bavaria and Austria.
BausseLs, Dec. 1 9 —The accounts from the sea
coast give the most afflicting details of the disastes
caused by the tempest which continued with so much
violence for several days on the coast of the Nether-
lands. Some vessels have eseaped with the loss of
their anchors, cables, sails, and cargoes; others have
been greatly damaged in the 111111, and others have
totally perished. Among others, a brig and a koff
loaded with wheat, have been foundered off Wan-
gerog and Borkum, and only two wen of the crew of
the last saved themselves. Another brig and a koff
perished near Schiermonikoog, and a third brig near
the island of Ameland. Seven or eight damaged
vessels have been driven on the coast of Delfzyl. A
Russian ship of war is stranded near the Vriesche
Gat; she has, however, been brought to Zoutkamp,
but with the loss of all her masts. The carthagota,
Captain G. Kind, bound from Porto Rico to Amster-
dam, has perished on the Scarhoru. A bottle has
been found on the sand near Bottum, containing a
letter from this captain, dated the Ist of December,
from which it seems that he endeavoured to save
himself, with his crew, in the long-boat, but in vain.
He writes, that during nine days that the storm
continued, he had been three times on the coast of
Holland, without being able to obtain a coasting
pilot: that at last, on the 30th of November, after
having lost the best part of his sails, he arrived in
sight of Heligoland, hoping to get into the Elbe the
next day, and to procure a pilot, but that the storm
having driven him off again during the night, he
gave up himself and the crew fur lost, and that in
these circumstances he wrote this letter, that those
persons who were interested might be informed of
his fate. Lastly, accounts from Heligoland of the
27th of November say, that two sloops and two
other vessels had succeeded in towing in a three-
masted vessel which was drifting with the current,
and full of water ; it had Swedish colours, and was
laden with timber. It is supposed to be the Provi-
dence, and that the crew escaped on board another
vessel near Zanderland, where she first stranded.

AMERICAN PAPERS.
CHARLESTOWN, Nov. 23.—FROM HAIPANNAH.,
On the 1 lth inst. a Spanish line-of-battle ship
arrived from Vera Cruz, in 29 days, with specie.
He brought the Vice King, Apod-ca, of Mexico,
who, in passing the Moro Castle, refused to salute:
lie likewise told the officers of the Governor, who
went on board for news, that he had no news for
them, and would give them nu satisfaction, but
treated them very impolitely : he disembarked the
day following, and went to Gauagabocoa, where he
still remains, without having visited Havannali.
Yesterday arrived a corvette from the same place, I
with another Vice King, Novella, the successor of
Apodaca, by which we learn, that the city of Vera
Cruz is at present completely independent. In the
Castello (a tort in the buy) there are about 100 sol-
diers, and about two months' supplies, after which
it must inevitably be given up.
NEw Yonc, DEC. I.—Wu mentioned a few days
since, that a plot had been detected in Havannali for
an insurrection among the blacks. By subsequent
accounts it appears that they had proceeded so far in
the organization of their scheme us to appoint 1. rds
and ladies, in futitro! The number lodged in the
Moro is thirty, seven of them females. The police
of Havantialt, if it ever had a police, is said to be now
very vigilant. Bravoes and robbers, the common
and ancient pest ot that city, are now to be hunted
down: one of them was shot in the streets. We
wish success to this new order of things. Personal
security has never been the peculiar blessing of the
inhabitants of Havantir.h.
(Frain the Philadelphia Aurora.)
SOUTH AMERICA.
The present state of South America merits the
particular attention of the American merchant, agri-
culturist, and manufacturer, A field so vast, and

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so abundant in all that can invite the exchanges and
the intercourse of mankind, was never before opened
to human opportunity, and to none are those oppor-
tunities of so much consideration as to the people of
the United States. Independent of Mexico, which
cannot long remain in its present distracted state,
the population between the Mexican gulf and the
southern bounds of civilization, amounts to nearly
1:2 millions of people, who produce and consume.
Mexico exceeds six millions of the same description.
There is no production, nor is there any climate,
which is not comprehended within the space that we
have here noted; for the elevation of that vast range
of continent places it above the influence of that heat
which, in the same latitudes of Africa and Asia, is
uncongenial with wholesome temperature.
The establishment of the popular reprensentative
system in Columbia decides the cast of government
for all America. The central position as that repub-
lic, its riches, its numerous sea-ports, its more various
products, its internal navigation, communicating
with both sees, and open to North-East America
and Europe, and North-West America and Asia,
Peru and Chili will follow the republican regime;
La Plata and Mexico will, from a necessity that is
too obvious to be mistaken, soon follow in the same
track.
The American merchant should look about hint
in time: it is in the new world he is to find the
means of commerce, which can either command or
render him independent of the policy or envy of the
old. It is in South America that N:aali America
will find the permanent mart fur her products of in•
dustry and art—,for the employ went of her seamen.
The South Americans will not maintain any naval
establishment : having within themselves the means
of subsisting in abundance and ease, they will be an
exporting people; they will indeed receive from
other nations whatever may be brought ; but it is
in nations where the climate is not prolific, that
commercial enterprise is necessary. The same mo
tive for enterprise does not exist at Bogota, Mexico,
or Lima, for adventuring to the sea, that exists at
London, or Amsterdam, or Boston, or New York
which, like Athens, Rhodes, Carthage, Genoa, and
Venice, had either a steril soil, or no soil; or a
cli-
mate locked up to vegetation half the year: in South
America it is perpetual summer. The South Ame-
ricans will nut exactly imitate the Chinese, but they
will in some weasur.i--they will hold intercourse
with all nations who shall behave themselves well;
but they will avoid entangling alliances, and the
perpetual festering disease of diplomacy—they have
the keys of universal commerce in their hands—and
the United States will find in their ports that em-
ployment which will mak,i the commerce of all the
rest of the world an inferior consideration.

FUEXCII I'3PERS.

Pants, DEC. 22.—This day, at noon, the King
transacted business with his ministers.
This being the anniversary of the birth of the
Duchess d'Angouleme, her Royal Highness received
the congratulations of her family. The Duke and
Duchess of Berri paid a visit, with the Duke of
Bourdeaux and Mademoiselle. The young Princess
recited, with all the ability expected at her age, a
compliment to her august aunt.
The King of the Two Sieilies, wishing to give to
Chevalier Fontenoy, Charge d'Affiiirs of France,
an expression of satisfaction, with respect to the
conduct he observed during the troubles in Naples,
has sent him the decoration of a Commander of the
Order of St. Ferdinand.
Letters from Barcelona, of' the Bth of December,
contain the following details :—" Before the depar-
ture of Messrs. Pariset, Bally, Francois, and An-
douard, from Barcelona, those gentlemen answered
various questions proposed by our Political Chiefs.—
They declared that the character of the malady is
the yellow fever—that it is exotic and contagious.—
They could not prescribe any efficacious remedy
against the contagion. They say the best mode of
treatment will not produce any beneficial effect,
without a well regulated police of health. The fol-
lowing is their opinion upon the disorder :—lt is a
sort of venom, which attacks the principal interior
organs of the life of man, such as the nerves, the
heart, stomach, and intestines, which it irritates,
mortifies, and paralyses It attacks the rein, and
occasions the sharpest pain. They have discovered
by opening several bo3ies that a sort of deyot of glut-
inous oil is formed in that part of the body. The
decomposed, dissolves, and evaporate by perspirations.
The best remedy known is the Melambo, taken like
the Kina."
The French Consul at Cadiz wrote, on the 27th
of November, the following letter to the Prefect of
the Haute Garonne :-
6' I had the honour to announce to you on the
Gth of this month that the yellow fever was in ex-
istence at Port St. Maria, Xeres, Lebreja, San
Lucar, Cadiz, and other cities of Andalusia. It was
then expected that the approach of winter would
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that is not the case, for most of those cities still pre-
sent the same appearance. Cadiz itself; which only
found four or five persons infected, now has fifteen
in the hospitals. The communication between Cadiz
and other cities is too frequent to hope the disorder
will decrease."

The Chambers were occupied on \Vednecday and.
Thursday with routine business only.
Dec. 20.—A woman of Provence named Pattie
Caussac, almost sixty,has just been tried for polygamy.
This woman had already buried two husbands, and
was separated from the third, for whose death sha
had not patience to wait to enable her to marry a
fourth. She was living with the last when No.
3 found her out to the great surprise of No. 4, who
having no wish to retain possession, offered to sur-
render her. No. 3, however, would not receive her,
and she was delivered over to the Court of Assize of
Vas, which sentenced her to five years' hard labour,
'lle Duke de Richelieu is gone to his estate of
Courted, where the Duchess resides.
On Tuesday a hearing took place in the Seventh
Chamber of the Correctional Police, of the atlitir of
Viscount Montelegier and Colonel Barbier-Dufay.
NI. Borneville, the King's Advocate, concluded
against M. Dufay fhr fifteen days' imprisonment and
100 francs fine. 'l be tribunal postponed further
proceedings to that day se'nnight.
In the Sixth Chamber several persons were tried
for the publication of a work entitled " Buonaparte,
or the Man of Dstitty," preceded by an engraving
inscribed—" Itecep' ion of a great Man in the Ely-
sian Fields." The sentence was one mouth's im-
prisonment, and a line of 200 francs each.
RisA, Nov. 10.—General Yermoloff has at pr 4. •
sent no other command than that of the co, ps d'arnice
detached to Gergia, which forms a separate inde-
pendent army, and not one of the corps on the fron-
tiers of Turkey. Gen. Miloradovitsch continues in
the government of Petersburgh, and consequent
he has not joined the army, as some of the journals
have reported.
The Imperial Guard has not advanced to the fron-
tiers of Turkey, but has only taken up cantonments
upon an extended plan in the eastern part of the
empire. In case war breaks out, Russia will not
have many great movements to make.
The different corps &armee arc ranged in echelons,
in such a manner that as soon as one corps disap-
pears in advance another is prepared to take up the
same ground. All the army is in a state of prepa-
ration, and ready to march at twenty-fbur hour:'
notice.
Carats, Dec. 21. Lambton and Sir R.
Wilson are here. They crossed the Channel in an
open boat in a tremendous sea. The object in pres-
sing their dep.ature from Dover was to forward
answers to letters from Paris, which were of pecu-
liar importance. They wait here the arrival of
their travelling chariots, and will then proceed to
Paris. The storm is now raging—it exceeds in its
fury any previous recollection of the oldest inhabi-
tant. Two vessels have been within the last hour
driven on shore on the sands. Great apprehensions
are entertained of their being able to survive the
hurricane.

Dec. Trafalgar Engl6h packet and
the French packet Desiree, sailed this morning—
They were scarcely an hour from the port, when
they encountered a storm of thunder, lightning,
and hail. The rumour is general here, that a war
between the Russians and Turks is certain. Spain
is in commotion in almost every province ; and Italy,
at least the Subalpine Provinces, have manifested a
determination to renew their eitiirts for ludepend-
ence.

There has been more rain fallen in this kingdom
the last six tweeks, than fell in the same period for
years past. The wet will injure the grain in the
ground it is feared very much ; and the accounts
from Ireland arc equally unfavourable, as they are
from the low lands of this country. For some clays
past the vacillations of the barometer have been
quick, irregular, and very extraordinary, occasion-
ed by the sudden and repeated transitions in the
weather.
The National Advocate, (a New York paper), of
December 1, states that ' Mr. Wallack, bein p`n
his way to Philadelphia, was upset in the stager
Brunswick, by which accident his leg was' broken.
The horses it appears ran away, down the hill near
New Brunswick, and clashed the carriage to pieces
on the bridge. Several passengers were injured like.
wise. The accident, serious as it would be to any
person, is peculiarly unfortunate to Mr. Wallack.—
Just arrived from England, where he left his wife
and children, braving every danger to acquire fame
and profit in his profession, and in a strange coun-
try, he meets with an accident which must confine
him for a considerable length of time, and deprive
him of those facilities which he had reason to calcu-
late upon. The accident is generally regretted;
few strangers possessed more friends than Mr. %% •
public and private."

:.*
41

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
T. Mots, Vauxhall, potter, from Jan. I to Jan. 15.
It. Needham, Brompton, silversmith, from Dec. 29 to Jan.ls.
J. Ward, London, Importer of foreign fruits, from Jan. 1 to
Jan. 5.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
J. Bramall, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, worsted spinner.
W. and S. Kinner, Notting Hill, Middlesex, stage coach
proprietors.
H. Williams, Plough Court, Lombard Street, merchant.
BANKRUPTS.
J. Frost, Temple Normanton, Derby, maltater. Solicitors,
Messrs. Bromley. Gray's Inn Square.
W. J. Simpson, Machester, hosier. Sols. Messrs. Adlington
and Co. Bedford Row.
S. and H. Andrew, Micklehurst, Cheshire, woollen manufac-
turers. Sols. Messrs. Hurd and Co. Temple.
H. Bush, Loddon, Norfolk, grocer. Sol. Mr. Windus, Bart-
lett's Buildings, Holborn.
T. Haigh, Poland Street, bookbinder. Sol. Mr. Mayhew,
Chancery Lane.
I'. H. Midwood, London, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Hurd
and Co. Temple.
0. Scott, Manchester Buildings, Cannon Row, Westminster,
army and navy agent. Sols. 'Messrs. AUiston and Co. Freeman's
Court, Cornhill.
DIVIDENDS.
Jan. 19, J. Nowill, Cheapside, warehouseman-26. T. Col-
beck, Westhouse ; W. Ellis, Castlefiel ; J. Wilks, jun. Burley ;
W. Holdsworth, Branford; and J. Holdsworth, Morcly, York.
shire, flax spinners-5, J. Vice, Valentine's Row Blackfriars
Road, oilman-19, L. 0. Edward, Nlinories, merchant-11, T.
Kempster Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, carpenter-2'2, W.
Johrhon, Ileybridge. Essex, salt manufacturer-2C, T. Walls,
Webber Street, Lambeth Marsh, hatter-30, W. Ellis, Liver-
pool, basket maker-19, T. Noon, Sheplon Beauchamp, Somer.
setshire, sail cloth manufacture-21, J. Boyce, Bordesley, near
Birmingham, brass founder-25, J. Knight, Castle Cary,
Sotnersetshire, surgeon-19, T. Belhant, Stratford, merchant-
-22, J. Greensmith, Caramel, Lancashire, cinder burner —26, J.
H. Silva, Liverpool, merchant-2n, G. Gundry, Knaresborough,
York, iron founder-15, W. Brown, Sutton at Hone, Kent,
cattle jobber-24, G. Pryer, Newport, Monmouth, shopkeeper
—l2, N. Brooke, Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, shoe ma-
nufacturer.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Jan. 19.
J. J. Saintmarc and L. M. Gazeau, City Road, rectifiers—F.
S. Newcomb, Gillingham, Kent, dealer—J. Llewelyn and N.
Belcher, Old Jewry, ship brokers—P. Arnold, junior. City Gar.
den Row, St. Luke's, tailor—G. Wilson, Liverpool, linen draper
—T. Ketland and J. Adams, Birmingham, merchants.

COURSE OF EXCI
Amsterdam, 12 13 C. F.
Ditto, at sight, 12 10
Rotterdam, 12 14
Antwerp, 12 7
Haniburgli, 37 6
Altona, 57 7
Paris, days' sight, 25 6u
Ditto, 25 90
Mourdeasix, 25 00
Frankfort on the Maine, 156
Petersburgli, 0 0 U.
Vienna, Er. Flo. 10 18
Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 18
Madrid, 36—Cadiz, 36
8i1b0a,35/ Bareeloua,3sl

PRICE OJ
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 763
3 per Cent. Consols 771
31 per Cent.
4 per Cent. oni
per Cent. N•vy
Long Aun. 199

THE NATIONAL REGISTER•

It anon :
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30.
GENERAL WARRANTS.

We had always supposed that these Wens on the
British Constitution had been for ever done away
with, and the memory of Wilks has been consecrated
to futurity on account of the active share he bad in
their destruction—but we think they are now vir-

tually revived—Warrants have been recently granted
for the arrest of persons described as those " whose
names are unknown," and parties have been arrested
and ordered to find bail under such warrants. Now
we know very well, that when Sir Robert Wilson
was casheired, not only without trial, but without
even the crime he was charged with being made
known to him, it was implied that the cruel, harsh,
unjust, and unconstitutional measure had originated
in depositions sworn against him—that he denied
their truth—that he proved their falsehood, and yet,
that on his application to Lord Sidmouth for copies
of those depositions, for the purpose of indicting the
the parties for perjury, his Lordship coolly replied
—that he did not consider it his duty to comply
with Sir Robert Wilson's demand.—Now to sup-
pose a case, to put the thing (as Lord Liverpool
once said in the House of Lords,) before he drew
a demoniacal female character, and afterwards ap-
plied it to one, who is, no doubt, in Heaven,
and perhaps interceding for her cold-blooded perse-
cutors in this world), to put it hypothetically, let
us suppose that instead of the present administra-
tion, is future period should see us cursed with one,