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The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-13

the newspaper war, which augments the public perplexity
at hom:., and destroys all clue that might lead to a right un-
demanding of the pending negotiations and of p-ssing events.
Notwithstanding the sanguine hopes expressed by some,
that a safe and hononrable peace may soon lie made with the
French Ruler, and those entertained by others, of his speedy
ditruction, it appears that neither of these events can
be expected for a considerable period. As far as they
are revealed in their conduct, the intentions of the Al.
lies do not seem favourable to a prompt termination of
the contest. Had they really wanted, as their Frank.
fort Declaration announced, to make peace with Buonapartes
they would have obtained any terms they pleased from hi%
before they had passed the Alsacian plains. Had they, on
the other hand, wi,hed to restore the Bourbons to a splendid
throne and exteudeci territory, they would have crossed t/te
Rhine in their name, and rallied the population round the
white standard as they advanced. 'Then would Napoleon
have trembled in his capital, and, forsaken by the people,
per haps by the army, if not by his generals, would have beep
compelled to fly (ruin his throne, and seek a refuge either is
Italy or amongst his good friends the Americans. A few
weeks might then have been sufficient to terminate the war,
by the overthrow of the Napoleon 'Dynasty : but the real
object of the allies would not have been accomplished.
They, we believe, little care whether F•anee be governed
by a Buonaparte or a Bourbon, provided her strength be
so exhausted as to secure them, fur a long sefies of years,
against the possibility of being attacked by but natttraily war-
like population. For nearly three centuries, and umter
the Bourbons themselves, France has disturbed thc re-ose
and threatened the independence of Europe, which she i.ad
lately almost annihilated. At the hour of be!. weakness final
humiliation, the nations of Europe have more than their ii.
berty to demand from her. They have to avenge the pact,
and to obtain full security for the future. Had they grant-
ed peace when beaten France offered to surrender her cott•
quetss, the principle of strength would have remained intact
in her bosom, and a few years would have served to uns
fold it in all its pristine exuberance.
Had they put down Buonaparte by exciting a popular t'el-
ing which would have replaced the bourbons on the throne,
they would have not only left. France a dangerous principle
of strength, but would have left it in full activity. To destroy
it, was therefore their chief object, the true cause of the;r
invading the French territory, and the particular kind (4
warfare they How wage. Had they united their firce, in a
single mass, and moved it at once on Paris, that capital
would long since have been in their possession : but tree
war would have bean ended before prance should linve
paid the debt of vengeance due to her invaders, and heforp
LAhe. shouli have expaiencod a degree of 4era3t4tiim awl a

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London, England, 1814-03-13

MARCH 11:

Inriee both a saint and a niertyr," s.tvs Rapin ; " unit ss it way pre.
tended that he was nturdet.d nut t.f reveng. (.4 his great affection
towards Dunstan at d the mn.k.."--St aticta Aim; is.
19. Saturduy.—.-Equal day and night. Sun uses at 6h. Om ; sets at
6k, Ow. •

NATURALIAT'S CALENDAR.
Defend all bulbous ttn,vers, of the more curious or capital sorts, now
advancing in their flower-buds, by covering them with mats, in fri.A,.
Lail, or -lee! ; particuhrly guarding the superior Limis of' hyacinth.'.
polyanthus, and narcissus. Also protect the ci.oice aneteonts
and iartutieulims.
Artricalus, and carnations, in pot', should be cleared from decayed
leaves; and fresh earth added to the tops of the VA?. Defend choke
ones from fro...r, as their flower-buds advance.
Tender e'er-greens. eglingt wahs or undrr nny species of shelter,
should !wive free air dur:l:g the milder hours of the day, hut must be
co% cud with mats towards evening.
The but-house plants yet require the constant aid of a lively bark-bed
heat, a•si-ted by fires in the evenings and mornings Continue your
pipes always in the bark bed. The generality of plants should have
fresh air, however, though cautiously admitted, and only on very mild
days; but they will all require moderate watering and some k.f thew to
be slat d pots.
Hot-house plants may be prop.7gated by the various methods; as,
sowng .ecd, phintit.g suckers; off-sets, slips, cuttings) layers, all in puts
slid forwarderi in a bark-bed.

Asparagu%l uotioos, and brocoii, should by tbii time be solie, if pos-
bil le.

HIGH-WATER, AT LONDON-BRIDGE.

MARCH.
Days. Morning. Etening.
33
14.
15.. Bh. 3i m:
16.

17.. lO h. 42 In. I II h. 13 w..
18.
.19.

An "Old Churchman" is received, and shall-be iti,etted in our heat.
Want of room compels us to omit the •• Layman," and tunny other
valuable commuucations.

TILE I\;ATIONAI, REGISTt:R.

Lon Don,
SUNDAY, NAN-Tim 1814.

f:AINIPAIGN IN FRANCE.-SUCCESSES OF THE ALLIES.

We have to announce a new., a most interesting change
'which has taken place in the respertive position? of
the French and Allies in France as slated in our last
Dumber. At that period it appe4.ed that the Allies had
been driven from the neighbuurflood of Pails on the north-
east and south-east quarter. On this IRS! Prince Schwart
retibeig abandoned the Lnks of the Seine, and even the
line of the Aube, to retreat towards the Marne. Bucher
bad also evacuated all the. cotintn between Paris and that
)ast•named river, and was apparently using his utniost en-
deavours to effect a junction with Schwa! tzenberg, for which
purpose be ha 4 passed the Aube at Arcis-sur-Anhe on his
'way to Troyes, where it was said be intended to join the
Grand Army; he was, however, attacked by Bponaparte at
llery-sur.Seine. The town in the Conflict was set on tire,
and Bnonaparte hoaste4 of only 100 prisoners taken in the
conflict. The next day Buonapa'rte was seen marcl?ing a
considerable quantity' of inttntry, cavalry., artillery, and
insigagc towards TroTei, Plucher than thou..6bt OW Ws eb..
A • •
London, England, 1814-03-13

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London, England, 1814-03-13

TIIE NATIONAL REC;ISTER.

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DISTRESS ING CMG [IIIIBI'4MT.

A vo) beautiful young female, the daughter of a trathietnan at
T,:(usingtoit, AV 1/11 had married a drie:.oon, without her fitthet's con-
whia has since gone to ti.. 414 the !tat tics of leis country in Spain,
,w foinid in the Strand, on Friday -night, with an infant in her
mink, almeA wont•inal cold: gentleman observing
her ‘lretaied situation, humanely. enquired into her hapless tale,
and believing, figna the artlissness with whieh it was told, that it
ma, true, hr kindly procured her comfortable lodgings for the night,
oral has tindertaken to intercede midi her tither. who had, with a
citielty happily not frequently to he met with,' turned her and her
poor baby from .his door. at the Lour of nine at night, amidst a
heavy fidi of and sv ithout a farthing in hey pocket to procure
uteess“rit; of whiehiher tender frame stood so wirh in need.
1t is to be hoped that ere this his hard heart has rt.:lotted, and he
mill no longer fi;rget his duty as a parent and as a man.

173

HS.
" Wonderful and Tral.Mrs. licknorth, wife of Mr. Pickworth,
grazier, of Sempringln in F ii, near Piliingborough, i.vaS on Friday lase
delivered it two boys, I.IAI on Sunday morning of two more boys, whop
with the mother, were all alive and in a hopeful way on Sunday even-
ing at nine o'clock—walk lig an addition to Mr. Pickworth's family of
llVO'Cliildren born within ten morblis, and a total of ten children, the
oldest only six years of age last January. -Mrs. Pick worth is rather a
delicate than a robust wutnan, and is the daughter of Mr. J. Gould, for-
merly nit criiitient writing-master at Spalding "—(Boston Paper.)
Or twine, Mrs. Cott rave, Siarnfi:rd, making him._ children at two
It is renistkable that her mother, who lives at Billingborougi6
had eight childica ut four births, and 'her sister has lately had twins.

lIIt% lED.
On Motulay, the 7th iostattr, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Right
lion. the Earl of Portsmouth, to MitiS ILIII3OII, eldest datightft of Joh.'
Hanson, E•tl, of 13100 0,11;s-square, aid Fat Leigh House, Hants, and
cousin to tl►: Bishop ul Rtiche.ster.
London, England, 1814-03-13

IMPERIAL DECREES.

)lend-qoarters Fifirleo, Mare!: 5, It
Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 'lll-ng of Itaiy, Protector of
the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the 'tries Conti-dent-
tion, "itch ate.
Contidaring that the enemy's Generals have declared that (I '
would shoot sn the conntry people vrtio shonld take up arms, we
have decreed, and de decree as follows:

Article 1. All French citizens are net only anthorised to fly to
arms, bat regnired to do it ; to sound the tocsin as soon as they
shall hear the cannon of our troops approaching them ; to assemble,
to scour the woods, cut down the bridges, interrupt the comniuni-
cations, and to fall upon the flanks and rear of the enemy.
I. Every French citizen taken by the enemy, and who shall he
put to death, shall be Instantly revenged by the death as reprisals of
an enemy's prisoner.
3. Our Ministers are charged with the execution of the present'
Decree, which shall be printed, posted up, and inserted in Vic
Balletin of the laws

(Sighed) NAPOLEOS, by Me emperor.
The Minister Smeary of State,
Wired) Vbelie of 11,A8bANO.
London, England, 1814-03-13

POL !TIC A L D ISQ UIS 11110. V.

THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES EXPLAINED.

!flow king will the minds of men be racked with suspense
and anxiety! Interested spectato! s of the momentous and
sanguinary drama now acting on the Eurrpean stage, it is
inipossib!e they should await its close without mingled and
'violent emotions of hope and fear. Taught by the events-of
the last twenty years the fragility of human expectations and
human power, and the inconstancy of fortune, even in the
midst of successes, we sti!l remain in the situation of Damo-
cles. The sword which may blast our prospects bangs sus-
pended by a hair over the triumphal car, and until the desti-
nies of the times are accomplished, no event, however encon.
raging, can restore tranquillity or revive perfect confidence.
But is that tremendous consummation so near as some antici-
pate? The whirlwind that has laid waste the earth, has indeed
moved round to the land *bete it first began its course--but is
it to sink 4nd.disappear, or to recruit its strength and renew its
ravages ? Uncertainty,, which is the common lot of mor-
tality, is here encreased by the mystery in which the
very intentions of the warring Powers are involved. Indeed
all that passes at borne and abroad, whether intentionally or
not, is calculated to augment this indecision and to'blind
the public judgment. In the very centre of action, most o fus
only see its intricacy without comprehending its nature, or
being able to ascertain its results. We are tossed amidst a
political chaos, uncertain when light shall beam, order
spring and beauty bloom, or how long the wild uproar may
last, and confusion and obscurity prevail.
When Napoleon led the armies of Europe to perish amidst
the snows of the north, his declarations and his conduct at
once proclaimed his object, and the painfulness of doubt
was not added to the feelings of indignation with which the
free part of mankind beheld this attempt to Enslave the whole
Continent. When after the self-discomfiture •f his pride and
his ambition, nations resumed their courage and patriotism,
and turned against him the arms which they had hitherto wield-
ed
in his support, their glorious object was too conspicuous to ,
leave any doubt respecting its nature in the minds of men.
'When they crossed the Rhine in pursuit of their vanquished
enemy, they expressed their resolution to secure the inde-
pendence of every State and a safe peace, by the reduction of
his power within proper limits. But their conduct has since
given cause to think they would not be contented with that
object, which the assent of the enemy to their proposals placed
within their hands. Hence has sprung all the uncertainty
which now involves both the ends and the fate of the contest.
Hence the report of divisions amongst the Allied Sovereigns,
the passive obedience of the French people to their Despot
through ignorance of the exact views of their invaders,4o4
VI. No. Clic- Ult.
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London, England, 1814-03-13

RELIEF TO THE POOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

Stn—The continuance of' a severe winter, and the great 'weevil.
ties of the poor, induce me to beg your attention and a small spaci
in your valuable Paper to consider this subject. In many paris.hea
great and sea ()liable relief has been administered with eqoal ahiaty,
humanity, and disinterestedness ; in others, I am sorry to say, al-
most tot much evil as good has been done to the poor. In some in-
stances, money has been given to them, which was instantly used iii
purchasing gin ; in others, clothes were given,. which iinmetliatcly
travelled to the pawnbrokers ; and, in certain cases, coals and bread
have Mtn very judiciously distributed, but the'former at an cues.
mous a price which is wholly incompatible with our notions of joss
Lice and humanity. Thug, for example : on the same day I find the
Committees for collecting money and distributing relief to the raw
in St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. George's, Southwark, paid on's,
73k. a chaldron for coals, while 1151. were given in Clerkenweii!
This extraordinary difference of 40s. a chaldron I conceive to be in-
explicable on rational principles of fair dealing, and it becomes the
Committre of Clerkenwell to publish to the world, and at their own
individual expeLee, the reason of their giving away the subscriptions
in this careless manner. I have Icartied from ow or the •‘ Gtty dia::a
of the Poor" in that parish, that about 80 chahh un of coals I::tve
been given to the indigent, and Cutt on an avm,ge they curt abont
a guinea a chaldron more than in other parisker!. This app: at to
me such gross mismaragement, which my informant could not ac-
count for, that I think it a duty to state the tarts as rt-latrd to me,
in order that time public or benevolent and di,intetetged indivi4:ttal*
may examine the matter more, attentively, and endeavour to
gate ill &tore the snfferings of the indigent and uneuipkyed, w Wt-
. out any hope of personal adviistage. Let them begin by el:chiding
coal dealers from sitting and voting in such benevolent Committees,
and all persons whatever whose line of business renters them, either
directly or indirectly. interested in the consumption of the ai ticks
given to the poor. This is the very basis on which all Committves
should be fortnid, and a neglect of it seldom f;tils of being at
with the most injurious conseqnences, to the parish poor, and the
utmost dissatisfaction of the subscribers.

I um, Sir, your's, &c.

March Ito 1814.

A CHRISTIAN.

EARLY DERR AVITY.—Nine boys, of the age of twelre and under,
are under sentence of death in Newgate, convicted ot. burglary, la
starring, (1, t. breaking) tradesmen's shop winduw`i and ateallni
such goods as are within
London, England, 1814-03-13

gROVINCIAL ASSIZES.

ESSEX.—CHELMSFORD, MARCH 10.
THE KING e. KELIIAM.
Mr. Heath stated that this was an indictment against Mr. Kel-
Lain, a printer, of this town, for the publication of a libel on Mon-
tague Burgoyne, Esq. a gentleman of the comity.
Mr. Serjeant Best then stated the ca,:e. lk said, Mr. Bnrgoyne,
on the late election, was a candidate for the high 119nour of repre-
renting the county of Essex in Parliament, and during the election
the libel against him was published, which was one of most atro-
cious malignity. His Learned Friend, Mr. Nolan, who was counsel
for the Defendant, would argue that it was a mere election squib;
Litt the Jury would judge .whether that was a proper Character of
it when they came to hear it read, The libel was a parody of a
well-known poem, beginning, " Pity the sorrows of a pour old
man," and it began :--
Pity the sorrows of a fallen man, •
Whose wounded conscience leaves him no repose,
Whose honour's dwindled to the shortest span,
Oh, deign to listen to his tale of woes!
Here the libeller plainly told the world that,qhe Hau. Gentleman
bad lost his honour; and the next went on to state those facts
which he imputed to him as the cause of his honour having dwin-

Should I a history of my crimes reveal,
That goads :vtith anguish this afflicted breast,
O'er your flushed cheeks resentments glow would steal,
. And looks of horror could not be.represt.
An honour'd name was my paternal lot, .
And pure the joys of life's untaruish'd *min ;
But, all! too soon their influence I forgot!
My name now bringi me but contempt and scorn.
My !leapt high beating for my counti3's cause,
I fondly thought that cause would still **Wain,
I rais'd a regiment to support her laws;
London, England, 1814-09-25

ACCIDESTS AND OFFENCES.

A few evenings ago two men stopped a gentlemen's coachman and
a young woman, near Hackney, tinder pretence of begging. The
man gave them a shilling, with' which seeing they were nut satistiod
he requested them to keep their distance. They inaneaiately at
tacked hint with knives, and a desperate coniiiet cioutd.
coachsnan defended Lionsclf, until the cries of the 2:oung woman
brought hint assistance front some adjoining houses. The robbers,
however, escaped, after stabbing the coachman in two places in the
hood. He was taken to a house in the neighbourhood, where he
lies dangerously ill.
On Wendesday night last, soon after 10 o'clock, a must darn j
robbery and murdeV was attempted in the neighbom hood of Hoxton.
Two men, in seamen's attire, who it appears had been neatly the
whole of the day dogging a collector of rents in the neighbonmitood,
attacked him with thick sticks, in the public road near the Haber-
dashers' Almshouses, with a view to Lob him. Time mato, beaten
down and overpowered, called loudly for assistance. A git I from a
public house adjoining wets the first who observed his situation.
One of the eatrui was kneeling upon him, and stiiking him ou ihe
head, whilst the other seemed to be rifling his pockets ; his voice
became exceedingly faint, and the young wo lien) supposing the affair
tnerely a drunken quarrel, went up to the spot, when one of the
villains struck her a violent blow on the arm she immediately gave
the a:arm at the next house, and several rim to the assistance of the
collector. One of time villains was secured whilst in the act of plum-
deeitug • the other made his escape. Time collector was taken to the
hospital iu a dangerous awl bruised state.
London, England, 1814-09-25

ROYAL PATRONAGE.

JAMES'S TRULY CELEBRATED LAVENDER WATER.
This odoriferous subtle fluid is the richest and ',test refreihing per.
time in the universe, in price turivalled, and b.!ing trebly distilkd
with very little heat, possesses all the balniv frazranee oi the freshest
lowers, and being naturally volatile, speedily dilttivs its srotnatic ce•
pha is and nervine virtues through the most spacii.us apartments,
while the fragrancy of its scum revives every ',vim) around : it is i
the daily tt,e ^I Ro% ally itself, and a most t eves,ary appendage .o
ev,ry f tshionable toilette; a few drops on a poe.et-"tandkerchief will
he more grateful -re•reshitig in pla,:es of pi hlic amusement, or
crowded as emblies, th• n any other pwparation J.tines's celebrated
Lavender Water is sold wholesale, and fcr exportation, at his
AVarehouse Qe, Southampton-street, StrAod ; and hi, all resueetab:e
Perfumers in town and Lotintry, at floe very tedut.cd price of 3s. the
pint bottles or one dozen for 30s
London, England, 1814-09-25

'TIE NATIONAL REGISTER:

that whenever the enemy is d►iven out, and the finances put in
order, we shall all be paid our debts sand losses.

" It is, indeed, a sight that makes iminiosity shudder, to Pee the
preparations tusking for the destruction of the cities, and every thing
in them not poe table to the mountains. The arsenals are filed wi!lt
torches ready to he lighted. If a suggestion is whispered at the Go-
vernment house, ouestioning the policy, the reply is, look at Moscow ;
adding, that had Moscow not been destroyed, Napoleon would still re-
main the despot Of Europe.
" I confess the reaomiog appears sound. For my own part. I hope
shall. so far close my affairs, that I shall not be an eye witness to the
ttagical scenes that must take place here. The two parties, those of
Potion amid Christophe, can bring into the to-h 1 upwards of tio,ooo
fighting men, in the event of a French invasion ; stud the soldiers are
loured to fatigue and danger. In truth, I have oilnessed in the la'e
sioge of this city, acts of bravery in whole regiments, that would do
!morn to the finest troops in Europe. MI floor forts and strong places
in the mouotains are filling with cured porisions of the country, and
ammunition. Such is the present stare of Hayti, and such the pre-
paratiosis making for human dtstrection, and all under the administra-
tion of an enlightened and virtuous man. M ..•.y soul sinks ithin me
when Icontemplate it. The indigenous part. of the population is cr.i.
ciliated at 3to 000 siouls ; she idea of destroying so ma'.y human hat-rigs,
is "neither charitable its conceptson. so.r is it easy iti•Oxecution." A
few months will di tide, whether the finest emirory in the Western
world is to become a dreary desart, or a flourishing state."

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

0.-^••
London, England, 1814-09-25

POLICE.

Bow-Srrry.T.—The Tovistock Hotel, Corent Garden, has of late
licen repeatedly robbed of property belonuing to Mr. ilairison the oc•
envier,clerk. it'd those who frequent the hs•nse; the cash of the
clerk In hi en frequently deficient, although he has had it under his
own s,ck at d key : no person was suspected helongalg to the house.
Mr. Ii .err-on c•uiskilted with Peprkes the officer, who advised him
how oii :.ct On Tuesday Mr. liarri:!,ott missed a nhe pound Bank of
En:zland te two a drawer ins desk, where he had placed it on
Monday ‘‘ith Iwo other one pound and a two pound Bank of England
Lutes. 'll;ey were all under lock and key, bat he was positive he
London, England, 1814-09-25

SEPT. t 5.

14. A itoman Marriane.--One of the attendants out-tine a dove,
emblem of Love ; a ',beep is brolieht in, the offering of the husband :
behind are women with garlands, Concord and Plenty.
The decoration of the tin, d tier is a gold scroll work in relief,
running from a centre oruarePut of the same description, ou a blue
ground, to the end of each side.
London, England, 1814-09-25

KINGDOM OF HAYTI.

The following is an extract of a Dispatch from the Minister Ses
crow y of State for Foreign Alairs of the Kingdom of Hayti,
date 1 Palace of Sans Solid, June 16, 1.814, eleventh year of Wt.-
pendence.
Ilse Count de Lintonevie, Minister Seerelary of Stale ani for Foreign
Affairs, to M. Peltier, London.
slll,—Your dispatches of the Vitt of March. sth of April last,
and their duplicates, reached me by the English brig Vigilant,
Flannagm, which entered the port of Cape Henry on the 10th
of Mav ; and by the Betlfid, Capt. Stnekfietd ; and the Smolensk,
Capt. jowsey, which entered yesterday, bringing me your Arabi.
};us, Gazettes, and other papers, Sic.
I have laid these dispatches before the King. who heard them
read wilt all the attention which the-y merit.
The details which you give U 4 of the great events that have taken
place in Europe, and particularly is France, have afforded tile
King much satisfaction. The King, who had attentively observed
the train of events which took place after the retreat of Napoleon
front Mosct,w, and successively these of Germany, had concluded
that Napo'« n, without the entire support of the French people,
by a levy en masse, could never make head against his numerous
neinirs, we() were so much the more formidable, because they
were instructed by experience; because they had long standing
quarrels to revenge; because the safety and the honour of thrones
were at ; because they felt the necessity of uniting, to torn
a mass of active force which nothing rook! withstand. His Ma-
, jesty, calculating the itm»ense losses sustained by the French, and
the new sacrifices which •it would have been necessary to make,
foresaw that it Napoleon was not seconded by the people, he would
inevitably sink. His Majesty thought, besides, that if Napoleon
fell, he would not fall to hsiy himself under the ruins; but his Mir
London, England, 1814-12-04

DECENIIIER.

December conies, and, dark and diear,
Cuidly concludes the varied year.

4. Second Sunda► in Advent.—horning Lessons are from Isaiah S,
and Acts 5: Evening are from halal► 24, and Hebrews 10.—Last
Quarter of the Moon, this mo►ning, at 33 minutes past 3 o'clock.
5. Illondan.—Jupiter ss 11 be in conjunction with the Moon about
tuidnight.—Night is 16 hours in length.
6. Tuesday.—St. Nicholas, who was made Bishop of Myra in holy,
by Constantine the Great ati.l was present in the Council of Nice,
where he gave Arius a. box on the ear !
IVedwid►ry.—Day has decreased 8 hones and 38 minute,.

8. Thursdaq.—Conception of the Virgin, Mary,—a festival first in-
stituted by Austin), Atelihi4,llop of Cinlet bury, on the eircurossance 4,f
William t ht. (7onqueror's fleet being delivered. from ae storm : but ►he'
Conicil of Oxford; in Itet22, left the observance of this festival at dis•

9. Friday.—Saturn will set at 7 minutes past 7 iti the evening.
JO. Saturday —Sint r;q9l at 4 niinoteu lifter 8 ; sets at 57 minutes
past S.--Juptter rises at 27 minutes past 1 in Ike morning.

NATU RALIsT'S CALENDAR.

Planting may still he performed, during mild days, in bulbous roots.
hardy perennials and biennials, -and most sorts of trees and shrubs, bat
more especially those whirll lull under the description of deciduous. •
Of the bulbous ro2ts. such ns hyacinths', tulips, jon►luils, and crocuses.
should he planted in beds and borders of ligl►t dry earth. Eradicate
weeds; at the SWIM time, whether in beds or borders, by digging ani
by raking. •
13.ilbs will admit of planting in water-glasses, or in pots, to blow 141
the house ; taking care, if in glasses, to change the water cn►ce in two
ur three week..
- - -

Auricular and carnations, now in pots, must, at this sessfia, be shel-
tered a►►d detended. Plant clisubers. to run over arbours, or to ascend
trees and walk. Anemones, ranunculuses, an►e the winner aconit►•,
way also be planted in beds or borders ; and likewise in pots, to dower
in the ltouse, or for earlier flowering in the hut-house.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

DUI "Illt lt.

892

PRICE OP SIOCKS YESTERDAY.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

fonDott,
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1814.

S per rent. Co►►g.
4 ee-r Cent.
5 Per Ceestee.
Vonsuts
London, England, 1814-12-04

FROM THE UNITED STATES

We are happy to find that Sir James Ye° has succeeded in
succouring General Drummond. And, for the present year
we may consider the campaign as closed.
We find it stated by some of our cotemporaries, that the
hope of peace with America has occasioned the late rise in
the funds of this country. NVe believe that if such an
event were really anticipated by the majority of the public,
the feeling attendant on that anticipation would deserve any
appellation rather than hope. To have taught the Americans
to beat us by land and water; to retire from the contest with
the di,grace of Lake Champlain and Plattsburg, on our backs;
to have thrown away the golden opportunityof 1814, and not to
attempt to retrieve our losses by new efihrts in 181.5. would ap-
pear so imbecile and so cowardly, that British minds could eot
endure the reflection. Besides it is to be remembered, that
we have at the present moment a powerful ex pcd:tion ditect-
,
ed against the Southern border of the United Slices. T%‘o
sail of the line, several ft i-,;ates, and 1)161)114 not lugs than
10,000 troops, have been devoted to this undeistakieg S, me of
the ships of war went rouud by Jamaica, to take on board two
black regiments ; and subsequently four other iegituents have
been sent ofito join the expedition, of which it is impossible
that we should learn the re,ult in a less period of time than
four or five months. On the other hand, if we look to the
American finances, we pla;oly see, that they are in a state of
entire and hopelt s•ti destitution, awl that the exist ire;, athnieis-
!ration cannot drag through another campaign without ab-
solute bankruptcy. Under such circumstances, it is not cre-
dible that our government can be induced to conclude a
precipitate peace, and to forego those advantages of which a
small degree of addhional peisevetance and exertion promise
to put us in full po,session. The public, however, still ask
with surprise, why they do not sec one of our most celebrated
Generals at the head of our army in America? Why is net
a Piston, a Hill, or even a Wellington, entrusted with a
task, Nvilich is found so much too hard for weaker hands ?
Do we still indulge the puerile but fatal prejudice, that
it is beneath our first Generals to conduct au Ameri-
can war ? The great Lotcl Chatham thought far otherwise,
London, England, 1814-12-04

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

BISH Sold and Shared in the Lottery • thnt finislretl on Wt dne•day
evening last, the following Capital Puzcs, .n►d the fortotmle holders
may receive their Money on demand at No. 4, CORNHILL, or 9,
CHA It I NO- C ROSS : _ _

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500 5.776 - - A - - 200

Tickets and Shares for a New Lottery, to be Drawn the 18th of Wilt
Ituntli, are now selling, and Schemes, with particulars, may be bed at
No. 4, Carnhill, or 9, Charing-cross.

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The superior properties of the Curling Fluid for dressing! the
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the Hair has already begun to fall off, presents it from falling. oft
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London, England, 1814-12-04

PO L 171 CA L DIS'QUIS 17'10 N.

EXPEDIENCY OF PRESCRIBING BOUNDS TO THE
RUSSIAN•EMPIRE.

Proposing to call the attention of our readers to this
sti'lmt in a more detailed manner, we think we cannot
commence it in a better way than by chewing the light in
which that Power has at different times, and in different
countries of Europe, been regarded.
The progress which Prince Potemkin made in 1790 in
the grand scheme of a Creek Empire ; the assistance
Catherine derived from Austria and France ; the opposi-
tion she experienced from Great Britain, Sweden, Prussia,
and Poland, as the Allies of the Porte, arc not to be for-
gotten.

To develope these events more accurately, it is our
intention to make extracts from a Ministerial Pamphlet of
1791, which briefly shows the diseased and ignorant state ofil
public opinion at that time. It is entitled, "An Inquiry into!
the Justice and Eapediency of prescribing bounds to the
Russian Empire," and was printed for Faulder, in Bond-
street. Iv no rti. instance, it contends) can Russia essen-
tially bassist as. It ;4poses that we may be at war with the,.
House of Bourbon, and triumphantly asks, " in what
manner can she be of service to us

" France," continues this alarmist, " and Spain still
more so, are invulnerable to her attacks by land. The
difficulty of marching an army of, sufficient effective force
to so great a distance, and the yet greater difficulty to
maintain and recruit it, seems to secure them from inva-
sion : but even if these obstacles, great as they are, could

.be surmounted,it is not probable that Poland, emancipated
as she is from a slavish dependence on the court of Peters-.
bur,;hllvould consent, or that the King of Prussia, and the
intermediate Princes of the Geiman Empire, would permit
a Russian army to traverse their respective territories, for
the purpose of carrying war, desolation, and :disease, into

two nations with whom many of them are in alliarce, or

in amicable intercourse. All idea, therefore, of being
able to divert a part of the enemy-'s force from hostile en-
terprises against this country, by rendt.iring it necessary to
the defence of their frontiers, must be relinquished. We
might as well apply to the NabOb Of Arcot for an army
to march to the Rhine, as to the Empress of Rue,sia
Va l VI. No CCCLVII.

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London, England, 1814-12-04

DEC. 4.

SMUGGLING. •

Lord Auckland (then Mr, Eden) in his vindication of the
Treaty of Commerce with France in 1786, asks, " What pe-
nalties, what punishments can ingenuity contrive or severity
inflict, sufficient to deter or prevent mankind from pursuing
g lin where the profit overbalances the hazard ? Human
wisdom seems to have been exhausted in inventing laws for
the prevention of smuggling in this country. The public
have spared no expence to maintain and reward officers with-
out number, and have given them the aid of forces by sea ankl
land Every nerve has been strained, and the exertions of
Cove.i.ment carried to the highest pitch ; yep is smuggling
cal lied on with so high a hand. that above three million gal-
lons of foreign spirits, upon the best calculation, have been
smuggled into Great Britain within the year, although the
legal importation fell short of one million. The present du-
tits upon brandy amount to above seven hundred per cent.
uvon the first cost of that article. Is it possible for the wit
and vigilance of man to increase the hazard of a contraband
tiad2, sufficiently to ovel balance the immoderate profits to
be obtained by the smuggler under such circumstances ?"
The prospect of the revenue in 1814 may be judged from
the fol!owing assertion made in a respectable country paper:
" Four bundled coopers have gone from England to the op
polite coast, to assist in making brandy kegs ; of these one
hundred and seventy have setasd at one port."—OVestern
Lum nary.)

TUESDAY'S LONDON GACE7'7'E.
London, England, 1814-12-04

DEC. 4.

beilioo, or insurrection ; none of these cathes now existed, he,
therefore, considered that to retain them in military service was
ontrary to law, and to the just expectations of the privates em-
bodied.•—He'eoncluded with moving a resolution, declaring that the
retaining the militia force embodied :titer six months tram the
ratification ►►t a difinitive Treaty of-Peace to be contrary to the Act
of Parliament, and a violation of the Constitution.
The Solicitor General (SHEPHERD) agreed with Sir S. Romilly
as to the law by which the militia were called out, but contended
that not a sentence was to be found in the Act to prescribe the time
at which they should be di,embotlied. Hence he concluded that as
tio restriction was imposed none was intended, and that the legisla
tore meant to leave thai, question to be determined by the discretion
of the Crown.

Lord observed, that the Learned Gentleman who had
just sat down. had pursued the course which it was too much the
habit of lawyers to follow in that House and elsewhere, namely, in
adhering to the letter without regarding the spirit of the law.—The
doctrine now advanced would go this length, that the Crown had
the right of continuing them embodied for an indefinite period—in
truth they might be continned embodied to all eternity. Tne
Noble Lord had no &Wit that the measure under discussion formed
a putt of a system, which had been long too evident, to deprive the
militia of its constitutional character.

Sir A. PIGGOTT said, if there was no specific time pointed out by
the Act when the militia should be disembodied, ought they not to
look at the purposes content! • ited by the Legislatin e, when it Clll-
- the Crown to call them out ; and if they did examine the
law under that sound and constitutional construction, they would
Mtn find the power limited by the purposes thy which it was given.
Without that interpretation, lie could see HO difference between the
militia and a Mamba?, army,
Serjtaut 81ST and Mr. P. C. GRANT opposed the motion ;
the latter gentleman contended that the as yet unsettled state of
Enrope ju,titied Ministers in w hat they had done.—After Sir S.
had .replied, the House divided—For the motion, 32 ;
against it, tri ; majority, 63.
London, England, 1814-12-04

SlO

THE THEATRE

GRAND PHILOSOPHICAL RECREATION,
BY
PROFESSOR GARNERIN,

Continues to be visited by the must fPshirm•ibte compan. It is
opernd every Mond4y, Wedne.c:ay. and Friday ; and the Proft.ssoi
*ill introduce. this Wt.ek, the Burning Mirrors of Archimedes. and
the Destruction of a Fortress.
London, England, 1814-12-04

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

ExTr: A Olt DINA itY RosnritY.—Lord Longford's house, in Charles-
.street, St. James's square, adjoining St. Alban's Hotel, has been pur-
chased by the Commissioners for forming the new street from Carlton
- House. His Lordship is gone to Ireland, And had left the whole of his
valuable furniture in it under the care of Messrs. France and Banting,
upholsterers and cabinet-makers, who took all due precaution to protect
it, by appointing one of their oldest and most trusty men to sleep in the
house, which lie has done for these three weeks past. He spent Sunday
with his wife and family, and was leaving them in Tufton-street, West-
It limier, in the evetiii.g, to go to sleep at the house but on account
of the torrents of rain which fell, he did not go. Monday morning,
'when lie went to the House to see that all was safe, he found that it had
been stripped of all the valuable looking glasses, consisting of four
London, England, 1814-12-04

POLICE _INTELLIGENCE.

BOW •S'rxEET.
Friday an extraordinary case came on, in which it appeared, that
•n Thursday night, about eleven, a man respectably dressed spoke
to two of the box-keepers on the first circle of Drury-lane Tit.-atre
respecting a glove, holding a pistol in his hand, which being of
brass, and bright, was easily discernible. The box-keepers took 310
farther notice of him ; but a gentleman who observed the circum-
stance, watched him into the saloon, and procured Nettbeton, the
constable, who followed him, expecting to see him produce the
pistol. The gentleman insisting on his stopping him, the constable
went very civilly to him, and asked him if be had any fire-arms; he
answered, " no ;" this not satisfying the constable, whose informa-
tion was positive, lie asked permission to search his pockets, when
he found two pistols with spring bayonets at the end,and a flask with
bull is and powder. Not giving a reasonable account of them, he
was conveyed to the watch-house.
Friday, he was examined before Mr. Nares, when the account he
gace.of himself, and why he carried such weapons in such a place.
m as, that his name was James Slater Busby, and had been an officer
in the navy and army, but now lived on his fortune. That he had
estates at Bethnal-green, and that Mr. Mercer, the Magistrate, was
his Steward, and received his rents. The pistols were his own, and
had lately been repaired by Mr. Egg, the gunsmith, for which he
had paid. On Thursday lie was short of money, and in the evening,
about half-past eight o'clock, lie called at his lodgings for the pistols.
to take them to Mr. Egg's to dispose of them, he not having any
occasiorefor them. He was asked if that was not an nnreason:ibte
hour to go to Mr. Egg's • lie replied, he should have been admitted
by the private door. Hei said, he had dined with Mr. Tindale,
miiishipman, who treated him to the play at half-price, to see Kean
lle aeknowleaged his impropriety, and apperred sensible be had
dune ssronz.
His landlord gave him a good character for honesty and quiet-
ness. His uncle said, he had no doubt his conduct was only a
fiolic.
Mr. Nares reprobated this construction of his conduct, and the
whole of his proceedings ; but the mildest excuse of it was, that he
had taken too much wine; and owing to the lenity of the Magistrate
and the officers of the theatre, he was not held to bail. The pistols
were delivered to Ins uncle.
London, England, 1814-12-04

as to her fleet, in the name of Heaven, what assistance
could it give to the fleet of Britain ? Her navy consists of
forty line of battle ships ; and, supposing her zeal would
permit her to leave her own shores defenceless, by sending
us the whole of her marine -force, it is not probable that
we shuuld dc::ve much benefit from it."

The author of this Pamphlet then proceeds with a
firm denial of the alliance between Great Britain and
Russia being to he considered as at all a natural one. In-
deed, he endeavours to contradict the existence of any
those (so called) natural alliances, except, perhaps,
in the instance of Sweden and Denmark ; and, in this
case, such appears to be his horror of Russian aggran-
dizement, it merely arises from their vicinity to her.
gg A spirit of conquest has .uniformly marked the con-
duct of Russia since Peter the First laid the foundation of
that greatness which threatens to overwhelm us. A
spirit of commercial enterprise has joined itself to that of
conquest ; and nothing less than the full possession of
Constantinople and the Black Sea, at least, will satisfy
her inordinate ambition. In possession of the Euxine at
one extremity of Europe, and of the Baltic at the other,
her immense domains will encircle the fairest and best
cultivated portion of the globe. Silo will embrace; :.s :'
were, all Europe ; not to caress and foster it with the
tender and animating pressure of.affection, but to stifle and
destroy it by the savage and remorseless hug of the bear--
the
/
hug of death ! Let the partisans for an alliance is ith
Russia demonstrate, that this country„ has nothing to.ap-
prebend from the vast acquisition of territory to sshich
she aspires; and then we will debate on the equity and
propriety of prescribing' hounds to her empire. In the
language of all nations, expediency is RIGHT ; and this lan-
guage will ever be held and maintained by those who
have the means of enforcing it. The sole question to he
considered is, how far it is consistent with the safety of the
British Government to permit the Russians to extittguish the
Turkish Emp:re, and establish their dominion on the Bos-
phorus. If it should appear, on examination, that the
commerce and power of this country would be endangered
by such en event, tho.expediency of preventing its taking
place can no longer be disputed : and that it would be at-
tended with much mischief to our trade in general with
:dal ,and absolute ruin in particular to the trade *e
1 .

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London, England, 1814-12-04

TIM NATIONAL RIMISTER.

DEFENCE OF SIR GEORGE PREVOST.

It is evident that more than ordinary pains • have been taken by
the party hostile to the administration of Sir George Prevost, in
Lower Canada, to inflame the finblic mind against him by the many
exaggerated statements and gross •misrepreseotations on the subject
of .the unfortunate failure of Plattsburg, as well as on the aft :irs in
general in the Canadas, which have appeared in the puldie prints
for several weeks past. The precipitate aftskeraharassed• manner in
which the retreat from Plattsburg was said to Gave Teen conducted,
and the serious losses stated to have attended it, alr'eatly, been
contradicted from authority; and there are strong grounds for be•-
lieving that the dissensions said to subsist between Sir George Pre-

• Krt.,
I Vi

-voat and the
,General ()dicers serving under him, Juid all ..as
been asserted of the irritation of the public mind, and the clamour
excited against Mack, the Canadas, are equally withaut foundation.
It is certain that neither resignations or arrests of any of the officers
serving in the Canadas have taken place, as has been stated ; nei-
ther have any complaints been preferred by them against Sir George
Prevost.

The observations of the Editor of the Quebec Onettee, of Sep_
tember last, a paper of the hildiest respectability in Lower Canada*,
Kill, it is hoped, be received as evidenCe of at least equal autho•
rity, as to the state of the public opinion upon the recent events
there, with the letters extracted from the Montreal Herald, so
industriously circulated in this country several weeks ago, and
which have again made their appearance in the Morning Post. of
Monday last. •
London, England, 1814-10-09

NATURALISTS CA EN DAR.

Althoutyh the lateness of the Spring het partly +tern compensated fir
in the continued atyness of the tiers. vet the tali of the leaf NiH iu 014
probability be accomplisher, by the middle of November.
Plant and rantmentusea, for an early floaerine next r nr.
i 4 rows six incites asunder and two deep --uiteituove the atitietske
C mations in pots. to a warm border, c r place the choicer sorts is
frame, soi thou these may always be sheltered from the extreme% of t..
weether.—P ant the %luster aconite, ei. her in the edge or front ot
border, to flower e irly in Spring.
Arbutus, a tine evergreen flowe ring shrub, ornamental in its beantifit:
strawberry-like fruit et this season, may he philter, in dry situetiu fi •-•
NII nimeite. in pots, will require to be sheltered. Chi-wines rose. l
cid cyclamen. early-flowering perennials, may, it of low growth,
now planted in warm borders; and finish planting the cuttin;s •t char
sailthemum. •

HIGH WATER AT IDNIDON BRIDGE.
London, England, 1814-10-09

SIR JOHN MURRAY.

COPY or TIH CIIARC;ES TO TIE PREFERRED AGAINST T.TEIT•
TENANT-GENERA!. SIR *Tops MURRAY, BART., &C.

1. For landing, or continuing on shore when landed, between the
7th and I2th of June, near Tart agona, a large qinuitity of heavy artil-
lery, ammithitiiai, and stores, when he had good reason to believe
that no real betieflt would be derived for ten or twelve days 4s to pro-
ducing the fall of Tarragona by these awl when he had received -
information, %%hie!, he believed, that long heloce that time a super.or
force of the enemy would be near him, and was aware that the siege
must then be abandoned; knowing at the sante time the great riff.culry
I and dangers attending a sudden re-emb4rkathes oil that coast ;
such couduct, being highly rutinilitaq, and against the spirit of his in-
structions.
'2. For neglect of duty, and disebedience of the express written or.—
ders of his Excellency Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, the
Commander of his Majesty's Forces in the Peein•ula, by not imme-
diately re-embarking the whole of his forces under his command, atter
he had determined to raise, and had actually raised the siege of Tar-
ragona, end returning to Valencia in order to assist the Spanish armies
in that province, in securing the positions which they might have ac-
quired there.
3. For neidect of duty, in hastily re-embariiing the forces under his
command without aby previous preparutions Of afrangtownts, and thug
precipitately abandoning a considerable quantity of stores,.
and ammunition, about the 12th id June, 1813, rear Tarragona, wiles
t ate was so far from being compelled to this degrading measure, by the
immediate epproach of any superka force, or by Any oilier suthcatatt
cause, that by due zeal, firmness, and exertion', the greater part, if
not the whole, might have been embarked in safety; Admiral
Uallo-
well, who was at the time on duty at the station, eneal4ing to effect the
same ; such condact being hietily to the prejudice of the service, arid
detrimental to the British military character. •
(Signed) E. M. FAKES lI AM, Arliutaut-Cialerai.
F, SpyrOur 4arpepi, Esq. PFputy-4udq-Advocitte,