The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-19 00:00:00

1111SCELI„lNEOL'S.

Friday, in the House of Commons, Mr. Ponsonby
put to Lord Castlereagh his promised question, relative
to the renewal or continuation of the Habeas Corpus
Suspension Act. Lord Castlereagh, in reply, stated it
was expected that a communication Would be made to
Parliament by the end of the present month front the
Prince Regent on the internal state of the Country,
when it was intended to propose that the same course
should be taken that had been resorted to in the first
part of the Session—that Committees should be ap-
pointed to make inquiries into the real state of the na-
tion, and to report on the same. We, however, learn
with regret, that from the intbrinatien of which Minis-
ters arc possessed on this subject, the public safety de-
mands that the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act shall
not expire on the first of July, the period to which it
is at present limited ; and they, accordingly, have it in
contemplation to continue the pro Visions of it in force
till the first day of the next Session!ef Parliament.
Although the Emperor of China would not receive
Lord Atnherst's Embassy, in (=sequence of the refitsal
of his Lordship to submit to the prostration which the
custom of the country prescribes, we urkderstand his
Imperial Majesty has sent several most curious, rich
and splendid presents to the Prince Regent. The num-
ber of Chinese killed in the forts by the fire of the Al-
ceste, amounted to 40. This affair was kept secret from
the Emperor, his Alinisters being afraid to communicate
it to him.—Morning paper.
On Wednesday last the Duke of Sussex was hallotted
for, and elected a member of the honourable Artillery
Company. After going through the usual forms on the
admission of members, his Royal Highness went over
the house, armoury, &c. when he partook of a cold col-
lation, and left the Artillery-ground about 4'oelock.
Letters from Mayence dated the Ist of May, an-
nounce that upwards of 10,000 emigrants from Swit-
zerland, Alsace, Wirtemberg, and Ratko, have passed
there by water, in search of a new country, not in-
cluding those who arrived by land ; and that from the
13 to the 30th of April, no less than BS9 funilies had
passed thut city, amounting in the whole to 3,3.'2 in-
diriduals.
Lieut. C. Moore. who, at the extreme hazard of his
own life in the cause ofhumanity, was enabled to save
two Frenchmen, and nearly a third, who were wrecked
off Calais, of which an honourable mention was made
in the Mouileur, and inserted in sliis paper, had lately
the honour of dining with his. Excellency the French
Ambassador ; who was pleased, by order of his Most
Christian Majesty the King of France, to signify to
him his Majesty's full sense of so great an example of
heroism.

From the Finance Accounts of Great Britain, for
the year ended the nth of January last, which have
just been printed, it appears that the gross receipt of
Revenue within the year, amounted to no less than
81‘,96:2,4781. 13s. :21d., and that the net sum, after
deductions for management, &c. applicable to national
objects, was 75,519,2231. ss. 3d.
RonEnT GIFFORD ESQ., the new Solicitor-General,
is a native of Exeter, and about 35
,years of age. He
served his Clerkship in the Jtiice of Messrs. Jones, of
Exeter. .This firm wished to retain him hi their employ;
but this be refused, unless they would take him into
partnership. This not being agreed to, he said he would
seek his fortune in London ; wilither he came, uud soon
rose into considerable practice having hadgrcat business
on the Western Circuit. Ile married last year to a Miss
Drew, a relation of the Gentlenuut of that name in the
firm of Drew and Loran, Solicitors, New Inn. Mr.
Gifil3ril, has been returned flir the Borough of Eyre,
is Snifidk, iu the room of Sir Vi in. (:arrow.
The displeasure e.xpressed by King Ferdinand against
the circulation of coarse likenesses of his royal counte,-
nance, reminds its of the reply made by a Chinese por-
trait-painter to an English sailor, who made .0 similar
complaint—" If master no got handsome face, how can
master have handsome picture ?"
The striking of the new Gold Sovereigns, Half So-
vereigns, and Double Sovereigns, began on Tucsday at
the Mint. Ten millions sterling is the_ sum which it is
said will be struck.

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Gold remain.' at 31. 191. per ounce; but Dollars
have advanced to ns. :Id.

MRS. HAYWOOD.—This amiable woman, and ad-
mired actress, died at Bristol, on Monday last. Iler
maiden name was I)eley, under the pure sanction of
which she first perthriukl at the Surrey Theatre. Iler
disorder was, we axe sorry to say, a—broken heart !

DIVINO BELL—(Orders hive liven slut to I'ty outwit fur 111‘
Rest)tote vest; to repair to Porisokautlt, w urdei (hut tilt.
stalt ut•Utr Royiki (ieott a way be it,.eut I.titu plepardtut%
t.
ocatuvAl al her huh, a Ober top ther ur
reittotits ale eNtiotated of 36,0001. while the 1.•1,1•111,1t. et 1 iiill44
them will, pfubably, be uut tuute than uue-titth part al Um
tuustey.

157

The fidlowing letter from an Officer of his Majesty's
ship Cherub, relates a very gallant and successfill at-
tack made on a French schooner, whilst engaged in
the African slave trade :

" lli.r :thijesty'sship Cherub, Cape Coast, March 3, 1817.
a We capture d, on the 17th of January last, a Portuguese
ship, with a cargo of 413 slaves on board, which we sent into
Siena Leone. On the 30th of the same month, we Saw a
schooner about eight a. in. a long way a-head : at one p.
sent tie pinnace, under First-Lieutenant Henderson, and
Messrs. Morrison, Crown, and Brag, Midshipmen; and the
gig. aids Mr. Miller, Master; and Mr. T. W. Pearce, Mid-
shipman. A breeze springing up we could not catch her, and
lost sight of her at sunset. Next day, at three a.m. saw a
veesel right u-head, distant about three miles : at day-light,
she proved to be the same schooner. At six a. m. tired severi.l
shot, but a ithout etre ct : at eleven, becalmed, within two
miles and a half of the schooner: at twelve, manned the
heats, and sent them to the attack—the pinnace and gig, as
to-fore, and the cutter. with Messrs. Belelicss and Young,
makuag in all, 37, ins holing officers and men. Shortly after
we shoved off, observed the schooner to cut her boat away
and prepare for action.
At I.:A. the se homier fired several guns and muskets at the
boats ; returned them immediately : the gig being the fastest
pulling boat, got alongside of her first, and alien in the act of
boarding, bad seven men wounded out of eight, so that we
were obliged to drop astern a little ; but the master (Mr. Mil-
ler) and two men, although wounded, pulled up alongside of
her agaiu. The boats being now all tip, we gave three three
British cheers, and boarded her, under a he avy tire of mess
gentry ; every time flue Pinnace was going to tire, the cow-
ardly rascals ran below; and after they had struck they tired
two guns at the cutter. Mr. Miller, the master, was wounded
in the leg ; Mr. Morrison, Midshipman, in the eye—the ball
lodged in the back part of his head (since dead). Mr.T. W.
Pearce, Midshipman, received a dangerous wound in his left
side—the ball catered between the fifth asset sixth riles, close
to the bottom of the heart, and came out between the
sixth an 4 seventh, the bone of the spine having turned it
—he is getting better, and likely to do well. In this affair of
the boats we lost two seamen killed, and eight severely,
wounded. The vessel proved to be La Louisa, French
schooner, of 16 guns, from Guadaloupe, bound to Bourbon..
with 800 slaves."