The National Register.
London, England, 1811-11-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANIES.
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On Friday his Royal Highness the buke of Clarence reviewed
the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, commanded by Ma-
jar-General Bell ; after which his Royal Highness and. suite ao•
mired the General and Officers with their company to dinner
at their splendid mess-room in the barracks.
Colonel Shrapnell has made some very great improvements in
his shells. An experiment will in a few days be tried with them
in Mount's Bay. Six privates and a hbn-commissioned officer
from each of the artillery companies at Plymouth and Exeter,
are to attend the experiment.
The Officers and privates of the North Down militia, quar-
tered in Cashel, have, much to their credit, subscribed 501. fur
she relief of their brethren, prisoners of war in France. Lord
Crernorn and the Right. Hon. D. Lateuiche and Co. have also
subscribed for the same laudable purpose, the former 1001. and
the latter 501. Were every soldier and sailor, including yeo-
manry, volunteers, merchant seamen, and fishermen, belonging
to the United Kingdom, to subscribe but owe penny per trumth
while the war continues, to the relief of their fellow-subjects
in the power or Buonaparte the suna would exceed 30,0001. per
annum. This, with the donations of the Officers, and of the
Public generally, would produce abundance to meliorate the
condition of our confined brethren. .
Those who know the real state of the works in Drury-lane
must have been amused in reading the paragraph which found
its way into most of the Papers of Wednesday last, announa-
ing that the first stone of the new theatre would be laid
next week, aed that Mr. Whitbread would perform the cere-
mony. The truth is, the foundations were laid lust week, and
the walls are now up to the level of the ground almost all round.
Had any celebration bet-it intruded in laying the first stone, his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the great patron of the un-
dertakieg, would undoubtedly have been solicited by the Com•
rnittee to do that honour to the Company of Proprietors, to
which he has so graciously condescended to belong; but it ap-
pears to be the wish of the Committee to keep steadily .and un-
ostentatiously to work, to reserve all display, and to restrain Tv ery
I,:stive feeling, till the completion of the building shall have in-
sured the triumph their labours so richly deserve. Wo are glad
t.) hear the number of subscribers increases daily; and We look
s. aft anxiety for the publication .of the reports, which we un-
Oa :stand will appear in the course of the week.
An ingenious clock and watchmaker, at Nottingham, has in-
vented a machine upon an improved plan, to be applied to the
works of a silk, cotton, or worsted mill, which, it is supposed,
will effectually keep such works in their necessary motion,
without the aid of steam, horse, or water; the machine bring
kept le motion by a weight, but which, by a simple operation.
h necessarily admitted so slight, as to render its winding up of
'eo consequence, either as it respects power, or the motions of
toe machine. The instrument consists uf a perpendicular wheel,
that gives motion to another with octangular arms, which act
epon two moveable inclined plants; the. latter of which acts
upon an horizontal wheel, and that upon * eog, which by being
applied to the pinion of a mill-wheel, win set the necessary
works in motion.
An Officer in the East India Company's service, who had
long been stationed at the Courts of the Javan Emperors, once
witnessed a most extraordinary occurrence. A Javan, who
had been condemned to he torn in pieces by tigers, and for that
purpose had been thrown from the the top into a large cage
where several tigers were confined, fell exactly upon the largest
and fiercest of them, across whose back he sat astride without
the animal doing him any harm, but, on the contrary, apppeara
ing lintiinklated; while the others also, awed by the unusual