The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

We have received Jamaica Gazelles and Papers to
the Ist ult. The Gaz•elte of the 30th of March gives
distressing accounts of the cruelties committed on the
Spanish Main : it is stated, that the army of General
Morillo was attacked by hunger and disease; the native
troops under his command by the small-pox, and the
Europeans by the dysentery. Detachments which had
been sent into the interior had been defeated, the inha-
bitants retreating to the mountains and burning their
houses. A party stationed on the mountains near Zimity
had been surprized and put to the sword by the insur-
gents. The army of Morillo afterwards on entering
that place put 1500 of the inhabitants to death.—General
Morillo, on summoning New Granada, had received in
answer, that the inhabitants were determined to resist
to the last breath ; and that the most horrible of wars,
that of extermination, would inevitably ensue.
The arrangements concluded between Austria and Ba-
varia fier an exchange of territory arc already carrying
into effect : Bavarian troops mares! about the end of
April to occupy the important throe*, of Landau, with
the contiguous territory.
The marriage of the Prince of Orange to the Grand
Duchess Maria Paulowna of Russia, was announces! by
an Official Message from his Majesty to the States-Ge-
neral at the Hague on the 7th inst.
It is positively states!, that the Pope has recommended
to the Irish Hierarchy to accede to the reto in all its
details ; and to impress upon the Laity the necessity of
submitting with gratitude.
Among the strangers in London (says the Journal des
Debuts) the French Generals Sebustiani and Flabaut
are remarked. It is observed, that the former visits only
the ministerial party, and the latter those belonging to
the opposition.
The Ausglmrg, Gazelle says, that some very well-in-
formed persons assert, that M. Lavalette has not quitted
the continent, and that he was recently in that neigh-
bourhood.

An account laid before Parliament estimates the pro-
bable annual expcnce of the Island of St. Helena during
its continuing; to he the residence of Napoleon Buena-
parte and his suite at 37,4701. I ss. 4d. To this is
to be added the adfrtiAsal expellee in the naval depart-
ment, which, in a letter from Mr. Croker to Mr. Goul-
bara, io estimated at 54,562]. 15s. 11. ; but it is ob-
served, that it is possible the Admiral may find that the
service can be carried on with a less amount of force.
A return to an order of the House of Commons states
the total number of debtors committed to prison in Ire-
land, within the last five years, at 17,785.
An Accennt, laid beEire the I louse of Commons, states
the number of persons prosecuted for forging and utter-
ing, or having in their possession, forged notes of the
Bank of England, for the last four years, as follows :
Til 1812, 64 persons ; 1813, 65 persons; 1814, 47 per-
sons ; and in 1515, 63 persons.
In the printed official accounts of the Army Extraor-
dinaries laid before the House of Commons, there is a
sum of 1,2521. 2s. which appears to have been paid for
two Field Marshal's batons, for the Duke of Wellington
and his Royal Highness the Duke of York.

The mansion in Streatham Park, at which Dr. John-
son was so often an inmate, has been sold by auction,
with all its furniture, library, and pictures. Friday
se'mtight was the last day of sale; when the Collection
of Portraits, including those of nearly all the visitors of
Streatham House, was thus disposed of by Mr. Squibb's
hammer :—The portrait of Lord Sondes, 35 guineas ;
Lord Lyttleton, 41gs. ; Mr. Murphy, 98gs. ; Dr. Gold-
smith, 127g5.; Sir J. Reynolds, 122 gs. ; Sir R. Cham-
bers, 80gs. ; Mr. Garrick, 175 gs. ; Mr. Baretti, 824.;
Dr. Burney, 80gs. ; Mr. Burke, 240 gs. ; Dr. Johnson,
360gs.—The above were all painted by Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds. We are glad to see that the portrait of the ve-
nerable and mighty teacher of sound philosophy far ex-
ceeded the others in the estimation of the company, in
which were many of the surviving friends of nearly the
whole school ; and that Mr. Burke stood next to him.
_ _ _ .

The Marquis of Buckingham has reduced the rents of
his tenantry 151. per cent.

Saturday sennight, a small poncy, the property of a gentle-
man in Park-street, for a bet ot• Ink started on the Edgeware.
road, at six o'clock, and was rode by a lad who weighed S stone
7 lb. to co 20 miles in two limits; which it perfinmed, notwith-
standing the heaviness of the road, three minutes within the
time.

Cutlets C tSE.—Early on Friday morning, as the watchman
was going his rounds, in Bond-street, he oh-erred a man put a
box, resembling a tea-chest, into a hackney-coach; suspecting
ail was not right, he stopped the coach, and ON a aminiti the
box, the contents proved to be a human body and fi'oll, the
circumstance of its having, mustachios, it is supposed to be the
body of a foreigner or a hussar soldier. The man who had the
box, however ran away ; but the coachman was secured, and
was examined on Saturday hetiire the Magistrate,, and dis-
charged, as it wax proved lie did not know what the box cor-
tiined. A coroner's Inquest will be held OH the body this
day. •
AGRICULTURAL APHORISMS.
Hand to the Plough,
Wife to the Cow,
Boy to the Mow,
Maid to the Sote,
Will pay the rent now.
ant —Man with his Talk ho,
Wife's squalling Pian-0,,
Girl with her Satin-oh!
Boy with his Lorin-oli!
Is splash, duth, and must end in Ruin oh
kiss.