The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-26 00:00:00

•ST:f NZAS.

Hr Mr. P. L. COI:ATTER, Sting at the Anniversary Dinner of the
Literary Fund. *Styr the 'roust. - The Navy and Army." to Mu
Air of the German Masonic Hymn, arranged as a Glee by W.
Sumn, Esq.
SINCF !:.a day-star of peace with mild ridianee is shining,
Dud •irnee and Genius again rear their head,
We'll rememher the chief+, who, their valour combining,
For Freedom, and Science, and Genius, have hied:
Hail! Hail! Hail! to patriot feeling dear,
Ye to whose trophiell fame
We consecrate the grateful tear!
Noble Howe Icil the van, in this noblest contention;
Bridport„lervis, and Dunces maintaited it awhile,
• Till Nelson, who knew with his fors uo convention,
Exploded their hopes on the shores of the Nile.
Hail! Bail! Hail! Ike. &e.
Neptune pans'il, and was still! w!ien a rival in glory,
On Egypt's &ear plains, in Ids plenitude came:
'Taw; the great .Abere•ombio, whose death and whose story,
The pride of his country, we fondly acclaim.
Hill! Hail! Hail! &c.
Yet Wellington lives!--May he live to embellish
The dearly-won laurels of fam'il Waterloo;
Feel for anus no unfitness, for ease no di:relish ;
And, should linty demand it, his triumph. truew.
Hail! Hail! Hail! ..tc. &c.
Play our Navy and Army still combat united,
While the banner of war Is by pifiee
Nor desist, till their valour their country ha: righted,
The SA% boars of Britain! the praise of the World!
Hell! Hail! Hail! osc.

Tul iiUM/ILT: PLTITION OF SALLY SUDS TO THE. MEMBERS
OF PARLIAMENT AGAINST TUE SOAP-TAX.

GREAT Sirs! I most humbly entreat your pet mission
To call your attention to this short Petition;
Reflect, ere you vote for this impost severe,
How many pour Washers will shed the sad tear ;
Instead of the song which prcvail'd at the tub,
They'll weep and lament as your linen they rub ;
And with soar ----over'd hands wipe their eyes as they fill,
Till blind they all get as a hnr,e in a twill ;
Then wa•h'd clothes and tout will to them be the same,
Andthe whole frothy tribe will vont. cruelty blame.
It' clean shirts you value, I heartily hope
You'll pame, ere you fix this vile tax upon Soap:
The slippery subject attention demean l•,
And mind when yon vote 'that tis done with dean hands;
This claims your regards more than kennels or studs,
So Sirs I remain your obedient SALL SUDS
Laundress, Soaphouee•eonrt, Starch-alley, Bath.

An article, dated from Vienna, mentions the amtem-
bliag of a Russian army of 160,000 men on the south-
ern frontiers of the Russian Empire, which has excited
the attention of the neighbouring Powers; but it is
added, that all the answers of the Cabinet of Peters-
burgh have been satisfactory, and such as might be ex-
pected from the great and faithful Alexander.
One of the Paris Papers contains a copy of the Defi-
nitive Treaty between Austria and Bavaria. The latter
surrenders the Hausruskvicrtel and the Innviertel, the
Tyrolian Bailiwick of Vii., anti the Duchy of Salsbourg ;
and receives in exchange the districts of Deux-Ponts,
Keiserlantern, and Spire ; the canton, town, and fortress
of Landau, and some other territories.
Tuesday a large meeting of Directors and Proprietors
took place at the Bank of England ; when it was agreed,
after some debate, to adopt the two following resolutions,
viz :-d

1. •'That the Bank do lend to Government three millions at
the rate. of 3 per cent. per al11111111."
2." That the capital of the Bank be increased 25 per cent."

By this arrangement it will be seen, that the Bunk
capital is raised from 11 to 14,533,0001. and that the in-
dividual proprietors gain a bonus of 25 per cent. The new
stock, of Which 1251. is given in place of 1001. old stock,
was dome on speculation at 216; which, for want of accu-
rately comprehending the true stateof things, some persons
represented as u full of 48 per cent. the old stock having
been some days previously done ut 264. It was however,
merely proportional fall, on the speculation that the
new plan would be carried into effect.
A Bible Society is now established in Iceland.

An account laid before the House of Commons esti-
mates the sum necessary for reinstating the buildings
.damaged or destroyed by the late fire at the Mint, at
13,0001.
An official account laid before the House of Commons
shewing the payments made in the quarter of a year
ending, the sth of Apr:{, 1816, iu respect of the charge
of' the Civil List for that quarter, and also an estimate of
the Demands outstanding on the said day, In respect of
the charge of that quarter, states the Total income of the
Civil List for the said quarter at 275,3361. Sd. and
the I)efi..iency at 141,0991. 9s. Old.
The Report from the Select Committee, appointed to'
consider the means of afibrding accommodation for trans-
acting the business of the Court of Chancery, has been
laid before the House of Commons, and pri:tted. It re-
commends that two Courts be erected for the Lord High
Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of England, in Lincoln's
Inn Gardens, on the North side of the New-square. The
building pmposed will occupy 75 feet in length, and 73
in depth. Its front will not extend to more than one-
third of the whole open space on the South side of the
Garden, and will not be of a greater height than 35 feet ;
nor will it be necessary to remove one of the trees. The
cxpence is estimated at 23,0001. to be defrayed out of the
-Suitors' Fund, in the Court of Chaucer', which now
yields, after paying the various expenecs charged upon
4% an annual s.:rplus of 1:2,04.01. cznA

TM NATIONAL. REGTSTrIL

LAW INTELLIG ENCL..

SIIERIFF3' COU:4T, SA•rVnuAV, May 25.
CRIM CON.
nuNg two's ccAv.

'rids was an enquirYiOasses;7lamag;; in an r etinn for co-'.
mined conversation, in which the defendant hail sndeted
judgment to Ef) by default. From the evidence adduced on the
part of tlie plaintiff it appeared, that he is a captain, at present,
in the Life Guards, and that the defendant if a lieutenant in
the oth Dragoons. In lal3 the plaintiff married his w ite. It
was a loveanatelt, and the attachment of both parties was equal.
Immediately alter the nuptials they went to live at Lewes,
where the plaintiff's regiment was quartered. The defendant was
then in the same regiment with the plaiatitf, and was received
in his lonise on the most intimate (ammo. At the beginning
of !MIS they went to Park, where the plaintiff presented his
wife at the French Court. fa fact, the utmost harmony pre.
vailcd between them. Iu the month of Alarelt they returned
to this country ; coon after which the plaintiff took 4 house on
Ham Common, %%hick hail belonged to Lord Dysart. Here the
same uninterrupted felicity prevailed between hint and his lady,
till five weeks after lying-in of her second child (in Septent.
bee), when she sniltlenly disalyeared„ The plaintiff could not
imagine the cause of her departure; his attention and kindness
having been unremitting. Ile %Of/Ilk:mit that she had tied to
the continent; but why, or with whom, he dill cut enquire.
It was sufficient fur hint that he had every confidence in her
chastity, and that she was restored to his arms by her mother,
who conditelied her from C4lais, and he received her on Dover
Pier in a perfeet delirium of joy. Front that time till the 4th
of December following their happiness was renewed; but on that
fatal (lay Mrs. I)min again disappeared ; and, as it afterwards
turned out, had gone off with the defendant. For some time, so
secretly was the elopemmt conducted, that the scene of their
guilty transactions could not be traced. At length, however, it
was found that they had taken refuge in the city of Lincoln,
where they resided as nun and wife, under the assumed name
of Mr. and Mrs. De Corson. It afterwards appeared that the
defendant had been seen with Mrs. I)ttnn when site first fled
to the Continent.

On the part of the defendant, his guilt was not palliated:
but in mitigation of dainales it was submitted, that sufficient
evidence had not been adduced of the state of affection in
which the plaintiff and his wife lived, down to the period of the
elopement. It was denied that there was any premediiiited
seduction, and itrited that the defendant had fallen a victim to
circumstances which his virtue was unable to withstand.
The Jury assessed the damage at boar Hundred teamds.

In the Court of King's Bench, Friday—The King. v. Rncii
G.)0(1. Esq.—This was an information filed again -t the defen-
dant, for having, in his capacity of Collector of Assessed 'faxes,
and of House Taxes, in the county of Warwick, fabricated
certain tickets of charges for taxes, parpooting to be due he
Maria Harris and others, and which sues lie had afterwards
neglected to account for with the Receiver General of the
same; to whom he was !infinity by virtue of his office, to pay
the gurus so obtained.—.laulgiucut, 19 months impvisounieut in
Derby gaol.
The Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex has just
circulated a Resolution of the Sessions of the 4.114 of April last.
stating that the Court, having received from Mr. Maintrarnez
a letter, that he intends at the next Session to reuign the °thee
ol Chairman, would proceed to the election of a new Chairman
on the :10th of May. The Circular is dated the 11th of May,
Isla.

Sir G. Drummond, Governorof Lower Canada, has is-
sued a Proctarnation, restoring the trade between that pro-
vince and the United States to its firmer thoting.
The Lewes Paper says—" Master Wilson, son of Sir
R. IViLson, arrived here from Paris by the Lord Welling-
ton Packet, Capt. Holden. Ile left his father on Tues-
day night in good health. The French Government
have made an offer to Sir Robert to remit his imprison-
ment unconditionally; which he refused to accept, declar-
ing that he would aeocpt no favours. This explicit de-
termination Sir Robert has desired to be communicated
to his friends in England.
In the Address to the Regent on the Princess Char-
lotte's marriage, from York, is the following passage
" It is neither fleets nor armies, neither alliances abroad
nor guards at home, that can give permanency to that
rule to which the love of the people is wanting."

We understand that the Author of " Oberon's Oath" is
Mr. Thompson, the Gentleman who adapted the Play of
The .S'irangdr for the Stage.
The idea of making a new street from Cockspur-street,
opposite Pall-mall, to St. Martin's-lane, across the King's
Mews, is again revived. Should this desirable improve-
meat take place, the noble portico of St. Martin's Church,
now beautifying, will laminate the view eastwards from
the mall.

Piccadilly, from the commencement of the Green Park
to Hyde Park Gate, is about to be paved with east iron,
which is now preparing at a foundry in 'Wales, by direc-
tion of the Parish of St. George, Hanover-square.
Arrangements are at least completed fur building the
Regent's-street to Portland-place.

POLICE.