The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

DECEM DER.

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Sl,otte•t of all the varying days,
That hit the circling round of time;
Expectance Lens the Sun's bright rays.
Soon glancing from the southern clime.

• 18. Faut tit gloving n Adceitt.—Morning Lessons are from Isaiah 30,
and Acts 18; Evening; from Isaiah 3?, and 2d Peter I.—Sun rises at 7
minutes after 8, and sets at 53 minutes past 3.
19. Monday.—First Quarter of the Moon, 3 minutes after V o'clock
at nicht.—Mercury will rise at 13 minutes past 6 in the morning.
'lO. Tuesday. —bay break at 6 o'clock in the morning.—Moou souths
at 43 minutes after 6 in the evening.
!!.1. Wednesdty.—St. Thomas ; and, the shortest day —Seripture is
silent to the country or kindred of St. Thomas, who, although he at first
discredited the resurrection of Jesus, was of an affectionate and resolute
stirit, preached the gospel with success, and finally was honoured
with the crown of martyrdum.—This is the shortest day ; being at Lon-
don nbrint 7h. 44m. 17 sec.

Thursday.—Sun rises at Bh. Im. sets at 3h. 51m.
21. Friday ---Twilight ends at 59m. after S o'clock in the afternoon.
24. Saturday.—Day is now exactly 7h. and 44m. in length.

NATURALIST'S CALENDAR.

Prepare for the defending of curious and tender plants, whether in
beds or pots or borders, by frames or awnings of mat, as frost and snow
%I.ortly to be expectstd.—Sweep and roll gravel walks.--iferbaceous
plants of the hardiest 'kinds may be planted in open weather.—Dwarf
tulips hyacinths and jonquils may be planted in rummy pots; also
pi►►ks removed with balls. Perennial flowers, of the hardier kinds, may
sti!l he transplanted in mild weather, as during the month of No-
yember.—Turf may be yet laid.--Tender and choice evergreens will
•..on require to be defended.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

DECEMBER.

Daus. Morning. Afternoon.
18.
19.
f.'l. - .. 7h.37 m.
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2. . 9h. 35 m.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1814.

CAPTURE OF NEW LONDON•

We have seen letters from Bermudas, dated on the ISth
November. which contain the following important intelli-

gence.!—

" Accounts have just been brought by a sloop from the.
American coast, stating that our gallant Admiral, Sir Alex-
ander Cochrane, had at last shaken off his inactivity, and, on
the 7th instant, attacked and captured the city of New Lon-
don, which was immediately given up to plunder. All the
American shipping which he could not carry away was com-
pletely destroyed. A division of the 60th regiment distin-
guished itself in that operation."
We attach much credit to this information. ft is true
that the latest accounts we have received from New York are
to the 10th of Novi and that it may be urged an event of
this kind would !laye. beep kflowp by tlt4t time in thAt city

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les distant from the reported seat of our
triumphs. But it must be considered, that if the attack was
made on the 7th, in the tumult of defence and defeat, the
regular course of the post is very likely to have been suspend•
ed, if not entirely intercepted, by the position of our troops.
Supposing that we bad evacuated the town in the morning.
of the 9th, and it could not well be done sooner, if even
then, no dispatch could possibly be sent to New Yolk until
the loth, or received there until the 11th, for, all the time
we were in possession of the place, no intercourse whatever
would be allowed with the country. Hence the silence of
the New York Papers, which do not come down later than
the loth, is evidently no argument against the correctness
of this intelligence : whilst, on the contrary, ships have
been known to sail from New London to Bermuda, in ft.ur
days, and, in the present instance, the sloop stated to have
-brought the news had full five days and a half to perform that
passage. .The letters containing this information were
written on shore on the 13th, and received on board ship
by officers who bad already embarked in the convoy for Eng-
land. Our accounts from Halifax are to the 23d of Novem-
ber, and also silent on this subject, but both distance and
the nature of the winds which prevail at this time of the
year, furnish sufficient reasons why the capture of New
London should not even at that time be known in our _Ame-
rican continental possessions.

DEC. Is 4.

ALEXANDER SECEDED FROM THE CONGRESS. -
The important .intelligence has at last arrived Of
having seceded from the Congress, ar►d rqe
moved to Warsaw, where it is intended he shall be pro-
claimed king, not of Poland, hut of the Poles. This k 4
circumstance of a most important nature. It gives to Russia
a new character. It pushes forward her advanced posts, at
one and the same time, into Europe and Asia. It gives her
greater influence in the Baltic) and, from the summit of
Mount Hemus, she will soon have a view of the Mediterra-
nean. The impediments to Catherine's being proclaimed
Gumeornm Imperatrix have been reniovedby Alexander, and
Poland, in a state of integrity, will become the foundation of
that Russian aggrandizement projected by Peter, fostered by
Catherine, and finally consummated by Alexander. Poland,
in the actual state of its military character, will furnish not
only officers but privates, and all these are soldiers of the
most inestimable quality.

This is 'indeed a derangement of the equilibrium of Eu.
rope, and calls for serious attention.
Some persons imagine it will lead to the union of the
interests of France. Prussia and Russia, each haying a view
to individual aggrandizement. Some fear *that France
will urge Prussia to yield Saxony and
that even the project of Frederic to uht►a

attempted. This done on the part of Pi

sesses herself of Belgium, and thus have
rowers on the northern flank of Europe.
As to the South every thing is involve,
persons think that Murat is -about to
House of Austria, and that the equiva,

will be his sanction to he{ olatainina ~ he:

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