The National Register.
London, England, 1815-11-26 00:00:00

di‘pleasure at the Regency, for having hesitated to put
the troops at the disposal of Marshal Beresford, and sub-
sequently di-patched a messenger to Europe, who is ar-
ri‘ed at Lisbon, conferring the most ample independant
powers on the Marshal.— An Evening Paper states, upon
we know not what authority, '' 4 that the Government of
Portugal has so far conceded to the efforts of Britain, for
the abolition of the slave Trade, as to engage not to
carry on that nefarious traffic on any part of the coast of
Africa to the Northward of the rine."

Letters from the Hague, dated the 7th, contain the fol-
lowing extraordinary piece of intelligence :—The sea 'has
thrown-on shore, near the mouth of the Texel, a phial
containing a note, in which is written, " the ship the
Concord has been cast away on the coast of Madagascar,
where we shall all perish ; I pray the person, into whose
hands this phial may chance to fall, to make the present
known to all our good friends and parents." This note
was dated Feb. —, 1815, and was signed Wandorf, of
Amsterdam.—Lord Hill gave a superb Ball, on Monday
evening last, to all the rank and fashion in Paris.—Lord
and Lady Harcourt arrived in town, from Paris, on Thurs.
day.—A marriage is spoken of in Paris between Sir
Charles Stuart and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, who is expected
there.—Sir Charles Baldwin, attached to the Commission
for British claims on France, left town on Saturday
se'nnight for Paris with dispatches for Lord Casticreaght
and official papers belonging to the Commission.—Lady
Boughton, of Bagboroug,h House, Somersetshire, has re-
duced the rents of her tenants in Herefordshire twenty
per cent. although her farms are let on long leases. Her
Ladyship has also given her tenants an assurance, that if
the above direction shall be found inadequate to the
times, on the next receipt day she will reduce them a fur-
ther ten per cent.—The l3ritish troops in France are to
be paid tenpence a day by the French Government ; and
the additional twopence to make up the British rate, con-
stitute the whole amount to be drawn from England un-
der the head of pay.—Colonel the Hon. Granville Anson
Chetwynd Stapleton, is appointed Paymaster to the Royal
Marines, in room of the Hon. Col. F. Hastings Doyle.-
-It is asserted that the Duke d'Angouleme has received
a pet:tion, signed by 1500 Nlarsellais, desiring the trial of
Massena for not having allowed them to march against
Litiona parte. —I n the European Magazine for April 1701,
we find as follows, " Died lately at Durseloy, near
Gloucester, Mr. Handal, aged 76, famous in 1731,
for riding 1000 miles on the same horse, in 1000 suc-
cessive hours, on Stnrchcombe Ilill." This sort of,
exercise may be good for man, but perhaps few►.
horses will be found able to perform a similar exploit.—.
We are happy to state, that the Lord Mayor has com-
menced his office with the most commendable alacrity.
His Lordship visited Billingsgate-market at five o'clot:k.
on Tuesday morning ; and on Wednesday, about the
Same hour, perambulated the streets, and visited the
different watch-houses in the City. From a continuation
of this conduct, at uncertain periods, we anticipate the
most beneficial results.—lt is currently reported, as an
evidence of the hardness of the time, that as many as five
hundred persons have gone to the King's Bench and Fleet
since the commencement of term ; many of them removed
from country gaols to take the benefit of the new Act, of
which Mr. Serjeant Runnington is the Commissioner.—
' On the 30th ult. a party who were coursing near WO-
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ell Half, in the pirisli of Llanyblodwell, in Slicopslaret