The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ROYAL FAMILY.

Friday a Guard of Honour entered the Court-yard of
Carlton-house, attended by the Band of the 3d Foot
Guards, in their state clothes. A party of the Life
Guards were stationed in Pall-mall. Although the wea-
ther was unfityourable, a great concourse of people was
attracted, by whom the Duke of Wellington was recog-
nized, and followed to the Regent's Court, with loud
huzzas. Prince Leopold, attended by Sir R. Gardiner
and Baron Elardenbrocke, arrived from the entrance by
the Park ; both the Prince and the Duke wearing Field
Marshal's uniforms. His Grace waited at the door of
the grand entrance to receive the Prince, attended by
his Staff. These august personages cordially embraced,
the Band playing God save the His Royal High-
ness then held the Entr:e Levee, which was attended by
the Dukes of York, Kent, and Gloucester ; Princes Leo-
pold and Esterbazy ; the Archbishop of Canterbury ;
the Cabinet Ministers; the Foreign Ambasstulors; the
Great Officers of State and of the Household ; the
Speaker of the House of Commons ; the Judge of the
Admiralty ; the Dean of Christ Church, &c.—The De-
puty High Bailiff of Westminster, Mr. W. Tooke, Mr.
Boyce, and a numerous assemblage of the Burgesses,
presented an Address to the Regent upon the marriage
of the Princess Charlotte with Prince Leopold. Mr.
Cotgreaves, the Mayor ; Mr. Jones, the Recorder ; and
Mr. Finchctt, the Deputy Town Clerk, attended by Earl
and General Grosvenor, presented an Address on the
same subject from the City of Chester.
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After 'the Levee the Regent held an Investiture of the
Order of tit,: Bath ; at which Admiral.: Lords Exmouth
and Gambier were invested as Knights Grand Crosses of
the Order ; and Alajor-Ganeral Sir Sydney Beckwith as
a Knight Commander.
The Prince Regent will give a grand entertainment
on the 12th inst. including a dress-ball ; there are al-
ready upwards of 1000 cards of invitation distrilmating.—
His Royal Highness, with a due consideration for the
British sranufactories, has ordered the following notice
to be Attached to the cards of invitation
" The Prince Regent has expressed himself desirous that the
Nobility and Gentry, invited to Carlton House on the I ttli
instant, should appear upon that occasion in British tuanufac-
tures.
" Carlton House, 2d Joly, 1816."

His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence wits yes-
terday so far recovered from his recent indisposition,
as to be able to take an airing in the vicinity of Bushy
Park.

On Monday the Princess Charlotte and Prince Leo-
pold prepared a grand dinner for the Duke of Welling-
ton ; but on account of an arrangement of the Cabinet
Ministers, which could not be dispensed with, forshis
Grace to dine with them at their Cabinet Dinner, at
Lord Castlereagh's, his Grace was unable to attend.—
Those persons who are acquainted with the strict eti-
quette of these Cabinet Dinners, will not be surprized at
this conduct of his Grace. They are attended by no one
who is not specially invited; the topics discussed at them
are generally of a political and confidential nature, and
frequently of the most important interest to the nation.
Politicians will therefore attach some importance to
a meeting which thus called. his Grace from his
pre-engagement. His Grace's Staff, however, dined
with the Prince and %mess. They consisted of •land
Hill, Sir E. Puget, Sir IL Ferguson, Sir G. Walker, Sir
E. Stopford, Sir T. Greville, Lord F. Somerset, Lord
A. Hill, Colonels Hervey and Freemantle, and Sir W.
Houston, together with Lord and Lady Keith, and
several oth r distinguished characters. After dinner,
however, his Grace paid his respects to the l'rincess and
Prince.

_
- The Princess Charlotte of Wales is certainly be-
coming very popular with John Bull ; and she will not
fail to continue so, if she observes throe things, for•
which the good old King was remarkable, viz :—to
be very punctual—never to bred a promise—or forget
a friend.

A Morning_ Paper says. " The Letters so formally an-.
nounced in an Evening Paper sonic little time ago, are
confidently stated to relate to a Divorce meditated in il-
lustrious life, which will unquestionably create no small
surprise, as well as discussion, in this country."
The marriage of the Duke of Gloucester and Princess
Mary will not take place until after the 12th inst. : but
the precise day is not fixed.
On Thursday the 11th instant, their Royal Highnesses
the Dukes of Kent, Sussex, and Gloucester, and his Se-
rene Highness the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, will attend
at Guildhall, to receive the freedom of the City. They
will afterwards dine with the Lord Mayor at the Man-
sion-House; and in the evening upwards of 2000 per-
sons are invited. The Lord Mayor has shown great an-
xiety to promote the wearing of Spitalfields manufac-
ture; and we hope, on this occasion, both Ladies and
Gentlemen will endeavour, as much as possible, to sup-
port that benevolent intention.
Letters from Gentian!: announce, that the Queen of
Wirtemberg is in a lamentable state of weakness. Her
Majesty can only take the air in a small chariot drawn
by little horses. Her laudable occupation has been tier
years since to superintend the education of young per-
sons of distinction, and w commul.;cate to them a pox.-
' Sion of her own distinguished aequiresueuts.

IVALTZING.

Get all the Ladies that you can,
And let each Lady have a man;
Let them, in a circle plae'd,
Take :heir partners round the waist;
Then by slow degrees advance,
Till the walk becomes a dance ;
Then the twirling, face to face,
Without variety or grace, •
%Hind and round, and never stopping,
Now and then a little hopping ;
When you're wrong, to make 'things worst,
Ilene couple, so perverse,
Should in the figure he perplex'd,
Let 'ens be knock'd dawn by the next.
" tstilicker now," the Ladies ca y;
They rise, they twirl, they swing, they Ay;
Puffing, blowing, jostling, squeezing.
Very odd, but very pleasing—
Till ev'ry Lady plainly shows,
(Whatever else she may disclose),
Reserve is nut among her faiilts;—
Reader, this it is to waltz!
Atgyle Rooms, Fiiday, June 24 1810.

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FATAH THE PEDESTIHANT.---Thig extraordinary ara..
bulator, yesterday evening, at six o'cltick, completed 778
miles.—The task of the pedestrian during the past week
has appeared to be peculiarly severe; but notwithstanding
the wetness of the weather, the state of Eaton's legs and
feet, and the evident exhaustion of his whole frame, he
-persevered with a determination almost incredible;—
bets were considerably against him, but having com-
pleted much more than half his task, his- friends have
strong hopes of his ultimate success; while the weakness
and languor he now constantly exhibits, portends a sud-
den and certain failure. The Heath is crowded• daily to •
an excess, far exceeding that which distinguished the '
minor exploit of Wilson; and the Hare and Billet' hourly—
exhibits a scene scarcely to be described, affording at
once to the labourer and the mechanic—the merchant
and the man of fashion, amusement and accommodation. -

Ct.:mots IMPORTATION.—A few flays siace,a caravan, loaded
with '2 5 couple of foxes, imported from France by some sport
ing gentlemen, passed througb Maidstone. Of course no duty
was paid fur these uolestaniands, they being run goods.
BON MOT.—Two Gentlemen ( whose Waterloo medals sheav-
ed them to be military) having been introducedso each other, .
at a party, a few nights ago, one of them said to the other—
.' I think, Sir, I had the pleasure of meeting you last summer, .
at the Duke of Richmond's Ball, at Brussels."—" No, Sir, said
he, ,` I had not the honour of being at his Grace's Ball ; bat we •
probably met about that time at Napoleon's Grand Rod, as I .
see we were Ilea there."

JUSTIFICSTIO7I,-0/1 an areident which happened •itstrus
little time ago to one of the public coaches, where a number
of the passengers were most seriously injured, one of the pro-
prietors, to whom application wa.s made, replied," It was a
shame for people to find fault as they Old, when the coachman
himself IVUS killed."
SYMPTOMS OF POVERTY. —A person, in describing the total
want of company at a race in the. North, obeerved, " That he
saw .there oily two jockies, one horse, and a stray black legs.',

.11CaTIFIAaaa LAMCNTAIII,N.—A *quack, doctor, inveighing •
against "the vast ingratitude of base mankind," said, theca
were a 'mother of people who had once praised and supported
his medicine—but now their forgetfulness was latch, that he
did not know where to find them. " You call not have searched
properly (said an acquaintance)--look among thetomb•stones.'.

EXTR AfIRDINARY VORACITY.—Lc J.urnut des betas of the
27th ult. mentions, as an imutince of excellent appetite, that a
young man., a natics of Bourdeaux, only CO years of age, de-
soured at an eating-house in that city, on the a 'coif three
months old, which had been roasted on a spit for his dinner, in
consequence of a considerable wager.

Upwards of ten thousand livery servants are said to be now
out of place in different pasts of England.
From Leicestershire we Learn, that through the activity of
the Magistrates, and of the officers sent down. from ][...;6n, _
two melt were on Thursday brought to Leicester gaol, on sus-
picion of being collect ned in the attack upon Mr. Heatheote's
manufactory at Loughborough. Anotherman is in custody at
Loughborough—and one letter says, that two of the gang have
impeached their accomplices. When they enteied the manatitc-
tory, they had their fates blacked, hnd each was armed with a
bayonet (hung through the button-hole of the coat), a pistol,
and a hatchet. Their Captr.ina as they called him, was mounted
on a tine horse, and leaper: over the toll-gate going to Ashby de
la Zouch.. The poor tr.lard whom they shot in the neck
has had the ball extracted, mai is said to be out of danger. fly-4
the destruction of this manufactory, above VA Lauds are thrown
out of employment-•

'NUN imitiaoßt4.—On Saturday sennight, between one and •
two in the afternoon, the armoury of the castle in this city was
struck with lightning, during the continuance of a thunder-
storm. Thediuid entered at the chimney, passed through the
ceiling, knocked dawn and broke several drums. ran from
sword to sword, melting them in different places, and tearing
the scabbards ; from the swords it struck a pile of pikes, and,
encountering a nail, went thirongh the floor into the nest apart-
ment : here it was attracted fry the point of a bayonet. which
it incited blind, and thence ran time musket to musket —shat •
tering to pieces the stock of one in the bottom tier, and forc-
ing a screw out of the solid wood finally, it went through tho
under floor where there were several nails in contact with each
ether, and surds into the earth. The chimney, where the light-
ning first struck, is very h shattered, and 'oink. of the bricks
were thrown a considerable distance. There was only 4 single
clap of thunder, and at the time it burst Mr. Dalrymple and
two men were in the t,arrilen near the armour. The shock
was tremendous; each thought the other killed . was pro-
vidential the lightning Aid not strike the if it had
the town would have been much shaken, as there is a large
quantify of powder ie store. Two men were killed by the
lightuirrg about the sense time near Preston.--t (grad, paper.
Friday a Common Hall was held for the election of a Slu riff;
to •urve with B- Kirby, Esq. in the room of W. Moontford,
who had refused to gise hoed to take upon him the same;
when W- Piclsming, Esq. was elected.

PREFERMENT.
The Rev. Dr. Scott, many years Private Secretary and Chaplain to
the late I.onl Nelson, to vlw living o csttaia, u,:az Eu 1111101341, yorik.
bur, iz the gift of got CIONVI‘