The National Register.
London, England, 1812-02-23 00:00:00

En, 243.

The dignity of an-Eatt of the United Kingdorn unto
the Right Hon. ARTHUR ViSCOUIIt WELLINGTON, K. B.'
was officially announced in last night's Gazette ; Also the
sppOiritllleiltS of Lieut.-Generals GRAHAM and HiLi.7 and
Major-Gen. Sir J. AUCIIMUTY, to be Knights of the Bath.
This Gazette likewise contains the following appoint-

rents
Major-Gen. W*k.t to be Governor of Martinique.
Major. Gen. MEADE, to be Lieutenant=Goveritor of the Cape of
Good Hope.
Lieut.-Col. NArtza to be Lieut.-Governot• of the Virgin Islands.
Lieut.-Col. DAVEY to be Lieut.-Governor of Dienien's Land, New
South Wales.
R. est yrs, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul at the port of Maran-
hao, and the adjoining provinces of Para and Stara.
On Tuesday, the restrictions. imposed on the PRINCE
REGENT, by Parliament, expired ; and the first use his
Reim.L HIGIINES made of his authority was to confer the
title of Earl on Lord WELLINGTON, and to recommend
to Parliament v.) grant his Lordship a pension of 2)0001. a
year.
We are happy to announce the safety of the Snrveil.
lante, reported to have been driven under the guns of St.
Sebastian s. taken by the enemy. She arrived safe
at Ply mouth on Thursday :
PLvxtotrru, Fez. 20, I lye P. M.—We arc happy, through the
channel of your intelligent Vairer, to annx)uncel that abuut ten minutes
rime, La c•Arveillaute, of 56 guns, Captain Sir G. CoLcir a, Bart. said,
by the iNitgente,.arrived from Corinna, to have been forcedinto St.
Sebastian's, and lost, has just passed I'enlee Point, and is now about
anchoring in the 3otand. She made her number to I'Vlaker Tower,
which repeated to the Leonidas, of 36 gulls, guardshi,: for tl.e day, and
again repeated to.tbe Admiral's ship, which has telegraphed the Admi-
ralty.
'fire Republicans of South America have derived very
considerable assistance, both in men and arms, from the
United. States.
A. picket is arrived from Malta and Gibraltar, the
latter of which pl -ices it left on the 9th inst. The intelli-
gence from Sicily mentions, that the KING was .engaged
in forming a new Administtati .n. His MAJESTY is said
to have published an Edict, forbidding the communication
of his subjects with those persons who had been deprived
of their ascendancy in tiwOoviernment. The Malta
letters state, that traisports were sending from:thence on &
the 12th ult. •with dish troops to garrison the city of.
Palermo.
A mail from Anholt arrived on Tuesday, with Letters
and Papers to the Bth instant.7—The French have seized.
the Isle of Rugen, and all the ships there. The seizure rrf
this place may have been with a view to the nime rigid
enforcement of BONAPA RTE'S continental system ; but it
is not so regarded on the Continent. The report of a
war between France and Russia is repeated with increased
confidence, in which Prussia, it is said, will be forced to
fight under the banners of the former. In addition to the
troops already said to be in motion, the garrison of Frank-
fort is stated to have received orders to march to Dantzic.
Walsh was certainly liberated from Newgate on Friday
night last, but not by a pardon from the PRINCE REGENT.
By a letter received from Nottingham yesterday, we
learn that the riots still continue, in defiance of the mili.
tiny and police.

A man of the name of Melling, who formerly kept a public-
.house in Wigan, hut who lately removed to Liverpool, being on his
death-bed, last week, sent for a clergyman, and .told him he could
not die till he canfessed a murder committed by his sou (since
dead) and himself, on two recruits quartered in his house, one night,
bouts ten year, ago, when his son returned from robbing a mail. Fear-
ing they might lead to a disc very? they determined to murder them,
Which they did, and buried them in the garden. This confession was
sent to the Magistrates of Wigan, who, on Monday, caused a search
t!) be made, and on 'Tuesday the remains were found near the place
UoUribed by the murderer.