The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-19 00:00:00

THE. NATIONAL KEGIST

A mail from Malta, arrived this week, brings an account
of Admiral Fremantle having takeu and destroyed the ports
of Fiume, Sequa, and Porto Reale, in thr. Adri4tic. The
plague continued in Malta, and the mortality was still at SO
persons daily. Subsequent accounts to the 514 August;
received in town, announce, that since that period the deaths
have decreased by one-half.
. A mail from CAtenhurgb and two from Heligoland also
arrived this week, but they bring no news of any importance.
There was much talk in Hat burgh of a variety of battlet
baying taken place. The inhabitants of Altona were in
daily apprehension Of a visit from the Cossacks. It was
not thought safe to venture at any distance from those two

towns.
Advices of a late date from Koningsberg assert, that Prince
Paul of NVurtemberg has gone over to the Allies with two
regiments of cavalry, and that his example has been ful-
lowed by many smaller parties.
The Danish Government has, on the 3d instant, issued a
declaration of war against Sweden. .This document con.
tains. as usud, a detail of various grievances ; it is, however.
much more moderate than modern declarations of war have
usually been, and we are glad to observe in it a return to the
old principles of the law of nations, so infamously trampled
upon by the French revolutionists and their apes, the Ame-
ricans. All Swedes, taken, no matter how, - are not to be
' considered as prisoners of war, but such only as are found in
arms, and mariners.
An Officer who has arrived from the Peninsula reports.
that the army of Lord Wellington, in its present !date, amounts
to 1 90,000 men, of which 30,000 are Portuguese, -40,000
British, and 50,000 Spaniards.
Sotne private letters received by the President, mention.
that Seult's loss on the 31st,-in the attempt to relieve St. Se,
hastian, was neatly 7000 men. The Spaniards thrice lost
and thrice retook their batteries.
The Coquette sloop of war, which has arrived from San-
tander, brought a report that Pamplona was greatly dis-
tressed for provisions, the grain being exhausted, and the
garrison reduced to live upon horse-flesh.
ifer Majesty and Princesses intend being present at the
Consecration of Dr. Howley, the new 13k-hop of London.
1 whieh is to take place on the 3d of next month, at Lambeth
Palace. Great preparations arc making for their reception.
Government have resolved to construct a pier or break-
water, and form a harbour in Portland Roads, for the re-
-1 ception, shelter, and security of his Majesty's ships of the
line. This project is designed to counteract the designs of
the enemy from the new and nearly opposite harbour of
Cherburg.
A whale of an enormeus size, measuring upwards of se-
venty feet in length and fifty in breadth, was towed alongside
the Whaler at the Mother Bank, on Wednesday. This fish
was observed, on Friday week, following a shoal of small fish
through Needle's Passage, which, thoueh sufficient for a
seventy-four to pass, was inadequate to that of this unwieldy
monster, as it soon found itself on a shingle bank, with the
tide ebbing, consequently, notwithstanding the most violent
exertions to get off, which were seen for many miles by the
prodigious quantity of water thrown fifty or sixty feet high,
remained an easy prize to the fishermen who went off and cut
its throat, from which, and other wounds inflicted on itself,
the sea was dyed for several miles. The supposed value is
five hundred pounds.
An estate of 60001. per annum, and nearly 40,0001. in
specie, have recently devolved on the family of the late Rev.
Mr. Glasse, Rector -of flanwell, Middlesex, whose pecuniary
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distresses, some time since, lej to his dissolution !

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Cottll Mr. Glasse, Rector of 11anwell, 'Middlesex, whose pecuniary
distresses, some time since, lej to Ins dissolution !