The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

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The last accounts from Leghorn state, that an En-
glish vessel, arrived at that port from Alexandria and
Tunis. was under the strictest quarantine. The whole
crew and passengers died of the plague on the passage
from Tunis to Alexandria : the pilot alone escaped,
though attacked by the disease. The vessel having ar-
rived at Tunis, the British Consul, that the vessel
might proceed to its destination, engmgeAl a pilot and
six English sailors, who had deserted from Admiral
Duckworth's fleet when that Admiral threatened Con-
stantinople. He promised the deserters pardon, and
a considerable reward to induce them to go on board.l
It is this crew which has navigated the vessel to Leg-
horn.

Ad vices have reached town direct from Port-au
Prince, in St. Domingo, to 20th June, At that
date l'etion, whom the French Journalists report to
be dead, was living, and in good health. The rumoured
event, however, may have happened between that dace
and the 25th, to which the advices received in France
extend. In consequence of large purchases of Coffee
by the Americans, that article had considtrably risen
iu prici.
The famous Czerny-Georges, formerly Chief of the
Servian insurrection, is reported at Vienna to have
been acized at Kissanov, in Bessarabia, where he has
been lining in retirement, and beheaded by the l'acha
of Belgrade, on a charge of stirring up commotions.
The Scots Greys, which are now nearly a new re-
giment, from the numbers of the old one destroyed at
Waterloo, are marching into their own country to re-
cruit. The officers are as newly appointed as the men.
One of the privates, who now carries the Waterloo
medal, had received nine wounds froth the foreign
lancers.

The Office of .mint-Paymaster of the Forces has been
abolished, and on Monday it was officially dispensed with
for the first time. Mr. Long is noW sole Paymaster of
the Forces.

Sunday night Lord Amherst and his suite arrived in
town from Portsmouth ; and the following morning
his Excellency accompanied.by Sir George Staunton,
and Mr. Ellis, attended Mr. Canning, President of the
Board of Controul, and waited upon the Directors of
the East India Company at the India House.
The Friends of lletbrm, in Dublin, held a Meeting
on Thursday, at D'Areey's Tavern. It was rather
thin, and consisted of seven members only. The ob-
ject was to ascertain Sir F. 13urdett's intentions in re-
gard to the proferred dinner to he given to him by this
Association. We understand that Sir Francis did not
give any direct answer to the invitation, but he autho-
rised a Gentleman to express his sentiments, which
ninounted to a refusal of the intended honour. iVe
have also learned that a list is making up of those who
are considered respectable persons thr a dinner party,
to ivhich Sir F. will be invited.—(Dublin Jonrnal.)
His Majesty's ship Julia arrived at St. Helena, June
19, from•a cruise in search of the island of Mathew,
laid down in some charts, which she ascertained doe
not exist.

Two hundred and fifty poor persons, who by the
late Metropolis Paving Act, which, it must be con-
fessed is extremely and unnecessarily severe, were fir.
bidden to sell fruit, oysters, &c. in the public streets,
applied, on Thursday, in a body to the Overseers of
Mary-k-bone parish, in order to throw themselves into
the workhouse, wl'en they were told to follow their
industrious occupations without fear of molestation.
- By letters from Liverpool, received on Wednesday,
we barn, that Incledon had taken his passage on board
the John and Edward, bound to New York, and was
to sail the following day, wind permitting.
Mr. Maywood, a tragedian of much provincial fame
in the North, Mr. Stanley, and Mrs. Bcichambers, of
fie liath Theatre, and Mr. 11. Johnston, arc amongst
the new performers engaged at Drury-lane ; and last,
not least, Mrs. Glover returns.
The greatest house at Nylxrg, that of Juler, has
failed, in consequence of unsuccessful speculations in
corn. -

Mr. White, of Fordington, near Weymouth, has
contracted to supply superfine flour, at fith.t per sack,
r twelve months, from the Ist. of August.
A few days since a pike caught by Perse Prvse,
Etc. in the Lake at liuscot Park, in Berkshire, which
measured three fiNt and half an inch in length, and in
girt h•one foot. two inches and a half, and weighed 3011,.
when gutted. This. Leviathan of the take was sent
a: a present to his Royal Highness the Piince ILMent.
It appears that the account of the late Duke of Nur-
thumberland having died intestate is incorrect. lie has
left a will cx?euted in 1809, and proved in Doctors
Commons by the present Duke, who is joint executor
with the Duchess Dowager; and by which he leaves
20,0001. to-each of his junior hildren, independent of
what they may derive undo r his Grace's marricge settle- •
ment. The estate of Stanwick in bequeathed to his se-
e st.n, now Lord Prudhoe, chargeable with 20001.
• year to the Duchess Dowager, cxeltisivelv of InIV
• j inture. The persona: property is sworn to as
un ler 700,0001. which, we um:lent-and, is the Itogest
ani Aint of that des.:ription known since the imposition
of the exl:ting duties. The next in inuount was the
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