The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-23 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 23.

NORWICH ITNION FIRE OFFICE,
MRIDUE-STUEET,III.ALAVIIIAItA.

Ti IL Managers recommend the Plan of this Office to
the Public Mr thefidlowing reasons :—lt calculated through
the appointment of local Committees. and other advantageous niea-
sines adopted by the Society. to lessen the number of iwcidents by Fire:
iit retucc the number of Incendiaries; to prevent Fruud by removing
the temptation to commit it ; and to Millet` the Expenee of insurance
one half or mom, in uniting the Premiums and plating the :Money at
Interest tiir the benefit of the Insured, In which means a much greater
Fund is pnilnced, and better Security Ain-LW to the Public than call
bl Obtained frani Insurance companies. •
Institution for the Insurance of lairds and Survivorship*, and
granting has been established on the saute eligible plan,
and is co:1011°,1,ml at the above Office, where new be had particulars of
both Establishments. THOM.i.S 11IGN(11.1). Sec.

PRICK OF STOCKS THIS OAY.
. per Cent. Ciins. fee, 61: I India Bonds, 7 K prem.
per Cent. Navy. 9.113 92 I Exchequer Bills, 5 5 prem.
Indi3 Stuck, 1h•: Consuls fur Acct. 611

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
MONDAY, SEPTE3fBEI:

IN our Paper of this day the Dutch account of the
Battle of Algiers will he ibund—And it' the French are
inclined to do every thing in their power to underrate
its brilliancy and importance, the Dutch, ourbrave Allies,
aro disposed to do ample justice. No petty jealousies, no
reluctant panegyric. The gallant Vice-Admiral Capel-
len speaks with.a liberality, a candor and a justice that
render him worthy of being the oottntryinnn of ltuyter
and Van Tromp. Of Lord Exmouth's bold maraeuvre
by which he placed the Queen Charlotte within pistol
shot of the batteries, just before the opening of the mole,
he speaks with the admiration of a real seaman—" The
daring and unexpected manoeuvre of this vessel, a three-
decker," he says, " appears to have so confounded the
enemy, that a second ship of the line had already well
nigh taken her position before the batteries opened their
fire, which, how violent river, was fully replied to."—
" His Majesty's squadrn," adds Admiral Capellen, "as
well as the British force, appeared to be inspired with
the devotedness of our magnanimous chief to the cause of
all mankind ; and the coolness and order with which the
terrible fire of the batteries was replied to close under the
massy walls of Algiers, will as little admit of description,
as the heroism and self-devotion of each individual gene-
rally, and the greatness of Lcrd Exmouth in particular,
in the attack of this memorable day."

This is indeed to be an Ally—and as such we always
hope to have these brave fellows the Dutch.
We did not stand in need of Admiral Capelien's dis-
patch to know the able and gallant manner in which he
kd his little squadron into action, and the intrepidity
and coolness with which they performed the part they
kad in it. They will not, we are sure, think it a bad
compliment to them when we say, that they are worthy
of being the comrades of British seamen.

Paris Papers to Wednesday were received on Saturday
morning. There is no news of importance in them.— '
Some of those articles are inserted in defence of the late
Ordinance. "It has given universal satisfaction, and all
the letters•tbat arrive from the Departments are full of
.gratulations and joy." The Papers assert this because
they arc commanded. It is not to them that we ever look
fir a true account of the state of France. If we arc to
credit the friends of the Ordinance, it has saved France
from the greatest calamity .For our own parts we know
of no greater calamity that can befhll France than a sys-
tem of vacillation—an unsteady, changeable policy, that
undoes this day what was done yesterday, and pronounces
the severest condemnation upon measures that were con-
sidered but a short time ago not only necessary but indis-
pensible. The French scent to have the quality which
they impute to our climate, that of fickleness and change.
They delight in novelty, whether it be in the timn of a
Covenunent or the fitshion of a Cap—in an Ordinance of
State or a Ballet at the Opera.

A letter to a Gentleman in Bath, from a Lieutenant-
Colonel in the East India Company's service, dated Ma-
dras, April 17, says—" It is expected there will be a
Mahratta war immediately ; the Guntoor Circar having
lately been plundered, by a body of .it►oo horse from the
Mahratta country, which has caused the greatest conster-
tiation, such a circumstance not having taken place since
the days of old Hyder Ally."
Madras Papers of a later date 30th April, have been
received which arc totally silent upon the subject. But
we arc not prepared on that account to discredit theintelli-
bence in the letter.
Thursday, the Acorn, ,0, arrived at Portsmouth from
Madras, she touched at St. I lelcua, whence she sailed on
the :10th July. ('ol. I Keating, thrmerly Governor
of the Isle of Bourbon, and who had been many years
most pliantly and zealously enpged in various services
in that hemisphere, came home in her. This Officer had
a long interview with Butmaparte, whilst the Acorn lay
at St. Helena. Blumaparte, it would appear, was induced
to break through his accustomed restraints upon this oc-
casion, from a desire of' being acquainted with the charac-
ter and condition of several persons whom he had banished
t Bourbon, and who resided there under Colonel Keat-
ing's government.—lt was, likewise, the last hold of the
French '-• the East ; and • these subjects Bumaparte