The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-04 00:00:00

Lavallette is dirt to have reached the United States.

The wife and family of Joseph Buonaparte have arrived
at New York from Havre, in the French ship Good Henry,
together with 40 other pass'•ngers.
Jerome Buonararte, Ex-Kiog of Wcatphalia, has been
treated Duke of Montfort by his father-in-law, the King
of Wirtemberg.
We learn by the Hamburgh papers, that the King of
Prussia was to be at Carlsbad on the 23d. ; the Empe-
ror of Austria was to set out for the same place on the
17th.
Some misunderstanding appears to have taken place
between oar countrymen and the citizens of the United
States on the Lakes. The depositions of five comman-
ders of American trading schooners are given ; stating,
that they had been fired at, detailed, and searched by
British cruisers ; and that the pretest was, looking
out for deserters from the Royal Navy. Trade is very
dull, and distress great, in all parts of the United States.
An order was received on Wednesday, at Woolwich,
for 836 pieces of ordnance to oc shipped for Canada.—
Conveyance for these, and some other stores, bas been ad-
remised for, in the following Notice issued on Thursday
from the Transport Board:
" Transport (Ira, .fsity 310,1818.
" Wanted, conveyance of the under mentioned starts, viz.
8,200 tons of ordnance stores to Canada.
"'fenders to be received on Saturday, the 3d of August
lest."

This intelligence excited a considerable sensation in
the City, in which it was considered as bearing an hostile
aspeet. The Courier, however, deprecates any apprehen-
sion of this kind ; observing, that these supplies must be
neeossarily wanted in the ordinary course of things, and
that this is the properseason for sending them out.
The Americans lose no time in adding to their navy,
and in accumulating bands. About the middle of June
the schooner Erie, of about 800 tons, was launched at
Black Rock, intended for the Lakes.
Letters from Madrid of the Ist ult. state, that King
Ferdinand VII. had gone to drink the mineral waters of
Sacedon, near Cuenca. It is reported that his Majesty
contracted some disorder whilst at Valency, which it is
expected these waters will remove; and that this was
thought adviseable previous to the arrival of his spouse.
Extract of a letter from Barcelona, dated July 14 :--
" A Deputation has gone from this city, to pray his Ma-
jesty to prevent the introduction of English merchandise,
which destroys Spanish industry, and produces nothing to
the revenue, because the Custom-house Officers are easily
corrupted by the English traders. NVitlt the same view
of favouring Spanish industry, an order has been issued
to prevent the entrance of foreign artisans in matters of
luxury and fashion!'
Letters from Curnna, of the 20th of May, mention,
that the Spanish squadron having collected in Puerto
Cnvalln, Ike. consisting of two brigs and five schooners,
attacked Bolivar's naval forces, near the island of Mar-
garita ; when, after a severe conflict, the Independents,
commanded by Brion, captured the whole of the Spanish
flotilla, and took them into the principal port of the said
island. The troops Bolivar had landed in Margarita at-
tacked the 800 Spaniards who had intrenched themselves
in Pumpatar, took their position by assault, and put thew
all to the sword.
Pantguay has, according to report, formed a separate
Government of itself, independent, and against those of
Buenos Ayres and Monte Video ; therefore, at present,
there are three parties formed one against the other, and
each wishing to govern all three.
An immense mortar, used by the French at the siege
of Cadiz, has been brought to this country, and is about
to be placed on a platform, which is building in the
Park, opposite the Horse Guards—it carries a shell three

THE NAIONAL REGISTER.

DRAMATIC REGISTER.

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ENGLISH OPERA.

A new Ballet Divertisement, intitled, The Animated
Portrait, was on Tuesday night produced, and met with
the most favourable reception. It is a very lively baga-
telle—and, as it comprises Tome excellent dancing, and a
selection of very good music, it will doubtless be attrac-
tive tbr a considerable time.—The ballet derives its title
front the stratagem to which an old father has recourse,
in order to discover the amours of his daughters. For
this purpose, he cuts the face from a full-length portrait
of himself, which stands in one of his apartments, be-
hind which he takes his station, thrusting his counte-
nance into the aperture he had made in the picture.
Whilst he is in this situation, the two Ladies enter with
their lovers ; but in the mi Ist of their fun and frolic,
the old fellow rushes upon them from his hiding-pliice.
The lovers, however, plead their cause successfully, and
Pantaloon consents to their union with his daughters.

The Funds have improved nearly one per cent.;
Consols, which were on Friday 64 were yesterday 64.

It appears by an official letter from the Prussian Am-
bassador at Paris, that the Emperor of Morocco has com-
menced hostilities against Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

A letter has been received from on Officer on the Staff
at the Mauritius, communicating the melancholy intelli-
gence, that all the persons belonging to an infant Settlement,
established in the end of the last year, by orders of Go-
vernor Farquhar, in the North-west part of the Island of
Mad.ignsear, had been murdered by the Natives; owing
to some itisacrecnient, and a blow being imprudently
given to one of the African chiefs. The number of
Europeans thus unhappily sacrificed is not stated.

Friday Admiral Sir G. Cockburn arrived sit the Admi-
ralty from St. Helena.
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Accounts from Malta arc said to have been received
at Frankfort, of a massacre of Christains (Engsh ,
French, and Spanish) at Tunis, on the Ist of June.
The preliminary confermees_of the Diet to be held at
Frankfort were to commence on the sth, and the solemn
opening to take place on the 17th instant.
We recommend, that Sermons be preached in aid of
the Fund for the Relief of the Poor, under the existing
pressure ; as we are persuaded the result will be most
'ieneficial. Those who can only afford a shilling or two
will not like to take it to the Committee, but will cheer-
Ally give it at a church-door.
r. Wednesday, being the Ist of August, the annual coat
and badge, bequeathed by Doggett the Comedian. was
rowed for by six watenuen. Lanham, of Blackfriars-
bridge, won the prize, after a very hard contest.
The following is the amount of the British Naval
Force up to the Ist inst. :—ln commission, 221 ships
and vessels ; ordinary and repairing for service, 375;
building , 30.—Total, 626..
The Commissioners of the Navy have determined not
to admit, fir the present, any more apprentices to the
new establishment at Portsmouth—a superior class of
shipwrights, now denominated the Royal Naval Archi-
tectural School.

The small-pox has appeared in Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
and, according to a letter from Dr. Trotter, near 100
children have died of it within three months. The mor-
tality in North and South Shields was still greater.
Some Parisian Journals speak with no inconsiderable
share of self-flattery of the number of English youth of
both sexes who have been recently placed in French
Schools. Their vanity in this respect we deem quite
pardonable. The shame is on us. and on our children.
Are the means for the education of the children of the
decent or opulent ranks of society wanting in their own
country, in which every practicable mode is in the pro-
gress of adoption for instructing the lowest classes, and
from whence they are diffusing themselves over other
parts of the European community ? Are the mastery
of the pronunciation of the French tongue, and the ac-
quisition of French manners, such important branches of
the education of a boy or girl of Britain ? Is cheapness
of tuition a sufficient set-off against the dangers of fit-
reign habits and feelings, and of principles and sentiments
unpatriotic and un-British ?
A Gen. Francischetti, who had signalized himself by
his devotion to Murat, having followed him in his last
expedition, had since escaped the pursuit of justice by
taking refuge in the mountains of Calabria. lie was
living there thrgottenhy Government; when,weary of this
wandering life—and perhaps touched with a feeling of
repentance, he determined upon throwing himself on the
generosity of Government, and accordingly surrendered
into the hands of the Authorities of Cosenza. A report
on the subject was immediately made to Government;
and a Council, presided by M. de St. Clair, the Minister
of War, and actuated by the spirit of the French Ultras,
decided that he should be brought to trial, and made to
suffer the fate of his fallen Leader. This decision being
laid before the King, his Majesty, with his own hand,
added the following minute to it :—" The guilty who
fives himself to law, confides in the mercy, not in the
justice, of the Prince. There is no room tiir his trial.—
Let hint T?.tire into Sicily."—So grated was this act of
clemency to the Public, that on his Majesty's appearing
shortie after at the Theatre des Florentini, he was hailed
by unusual acclamations of joy.