The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

BRIGHTOY.

DEC. 25.—This afternoon, the service of prayers
adapted for Christmas day, were performed by the
Bishop of Exeter, assisted by the Rey. Mr Blomberg,
hcibre the Beget) and the Nobility of the Royal House-
hold. Afterwar,b;, the Sacrament MS administered

The Prince Regent's dinner party 0113 evening, is
confined to the select circle of Nobility at the Pavilion.
No additional arrivals have taken place to-day.
The customary hospitalities of the season are kept
up at the Pavillion in the usual style of English fes-
tivities. All the servants attaelrzd to the loyal House-
hold, were regaled with a liberal fare of roast beef,
plumb-puddings, and good ale.
This morning the 90th regiment of foot marched to
the cavalry barracks, where ''the s::rvice of' the day was
perthrtned by the Rev. Dr. TorAins, of this town.

The first business which will occupy the attention of
the new Parliament will be the appointment of a pro.
per personage to succeed the lute Queen in the care of
the person of (air venerable and ufHicted Sovereign. The
judgment of Parliament in this case way be considered
us already anticipated, or .ether pre-determined, by the
universal sentiments of the nation, which concur in
pointing out that the choice of a successor to her Ma.
jesty in this important trust can fall on no member of
the Royal Family with so much propriety us on Isis
Royal Ilighness the Duke of York. Among both the
Ministerial and Courtly Circles this is an appointment
which has been some time considered as fixed ; and it is
also asserted, that it is one which had the approbation
of her late Majesty. Some doubts arc entertained,
whether in the event of the Duke of York being nomi-
nated to this high trust, it will be considered compa-
tible with good policy, that his Royal Highness should
be continued at the same time in the chief command of
the army. The prevailing opinion seems to be, that
the separation of the two duties will take place. and
that, in such case, the command of the army will be
transferred to his Royal Highness the Doke of Kent.
The Morning Post says, `• We have heard hints that
there is an idea of removing our Sovereign to Kew, not
only for the convenience of medical attendance, but for
the purpose of permitting the Royal Sufferer to have
the benefit of' the air in those famous gardens, in which
his Majesty wits wont to be so much delighted. That
such a wish has been repeatedly expressed by the King,
iu his lucid intervals. we have no doubt. Hence the
rumour of erecting high walls round the demesne
Should this arrangement be carried into effect, the
Prince Regent will reside at Windsor Castle instead of
Kew."

The Mastership of St. Catherine's, near the Tower,
is in. the gift of the Queen, whenever there is one.—
That establishment having been founded by Eleanor,
wife of Edward I. the wives of reigning Sovereigns
have always been permitted to nominate the Master.—
If Colonel Disbrowe, the late Master, had died before
the late Queen, there can be no doubt that Major
General Taylor, to whom the Prince Regent has given
the office, would have received it from her Majesty,
the General having so long filled what was, perhaps,
the most confidential office about the King, and having
been also Secretary to herself The Mastership has
been uniformly conferred upon persons of some distinc-
don. It was held in 1710 by the Ei.rl of Eevershain.
The Royal Court of Paris is engaged in a suit which
excites the highest interest, both on account of the
distinguished personages who are parties in it, and the
importance of the point awaiting its decisioa. The
question is, whether a young man born of a marriage
which lusted sixteen years, but which lels been declared
void by a subsequent divorce upon lv:lich the second
marriage was contracted, may claim from his parents
the rights of legitimacy. The son is supporte.l in his
appeal by his mother, and resisted by his fittlier, who is
endeavouring to prove him an adulterinc. The twos-
, ing parties in this suit are designated ; the Duke de—,
and the Marquis de—. The latter is father to the
young man whose legitimacy is litigated, and the former
father to the Marquis. The mother was formerly the
wife of a Polish senator, from whom she had been di-
vorced, by virtue of the decLion of the Minkter of the
French Republic, and was married to the Nlarqius de
(then a General) in 1801, which Oivorce was
subsequently nullified, and on these grounds the
pretensions of her son, by this second marriage, are
disputed.
American papers contain an official account, by tit*
Governor of Georgia, of the escape of Captain Wright,
from trial, on account of the horrible barbarities inflict-
ed by him and the troops under hint on the Chehaw
town, belonging to the Seminole Indians. The GI.
vernor publishes his statement in order to justify bin--
self. and evidently also to palliate the atrocities of
Wright. We think that the effect will be the direct
contrary of that which he intended ; for to us it appears
ha; dly possible to read the narrative withent sespectirg
Wright's escape to have been connived at ; and it is in
the tir,t instance a suspicious circumstunce, that the
Governor is more intent upon describing the rot-ova-
tion given by the Indians, titan in stating the horrid
veugeante inflicted on them, though the latter should
have been more peculiarly the subject of his ammo-
nication.

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