The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

ItEC; CGURT
Tuesday his Royal Highness the Prince Regent held his se-
cond Levee, at Carlton House, which was very numerously and
splendidly attended. I'here vi ere present ;
Th.ir Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent,
C;r Cambridge, 411(1 Gloucester; the Prince of Cas.
; the Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; the Lord ,
the Lord President of the Council; the Lord Privy
Sta. , First. Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the
Excheci.:irr ; the Secretaries of State; the Lord Chief Justice
of the Court of King's Bench.
f..llowing Addresses were presented to his Royal High-
nessoipon his being appointed Prince Regent :--
Pro.o the County of Somerset; from Beverley ; from the
Coiporation.'of Nottingham ; from the Corporation of York ;
from the Society of Ancient Britons ; from the City of Chester;
and trout Portsmouth.
lichides the above Presentations, there were above 1200 dis-
tinguished pasonages that attended the Levee. The visitants
on the first Levee amounted to 1 500; on Tuesday to 1270.
Thursday his Royal Highness the PRINCE REG ENT held a
Court at Carlton House, the JUDGE of the ADMIRALTY made
1114 Report to his Royal Highness thr PKJNCE REGENT of the
i a the English sailor convicted some time since at the Ad-
mir..lty Session, _ for being found on board a French ship. The
RECORDER of LONDON also made his Report of the convicts
capitaly convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions. sen-
tences were all respited. Forster, Lowe, and Blair, fur forgery,
not i „ortkid ; nor the two Portuguese, for
.cutting, Convicted
la.: Session.

THE -ARMY. •
The regulations introduced by
,the present Commander in
Chief, for limiting military promotions to specific periods of
service, will, doubtless, in a few years, le oduce very beneficial
results in the army.-:e-Of no less importance was the intended
plan, which his Royal Highness, the late Commander in Chief,
is said to have contemplated, namely, to discriminate and duly
:,preciate the nature and varieties of every officer's individual
b...rvices, respectively—a just and wise measure,and of the great-
est public utility, the completion of which has been reserved as
another improvement to he introduced by his industrious suc-
cessor. By this scheme, the real merits and pretensions of every
ohicer in the army will be impartially set forth and recorded.—
Thus would be distinguished the ofh;er who has toiled all his
lite in actual warfare, seeking those honours in the " cannon's
mouth" which injustice, of the malignity of his sters, had cruelly
denied to his services; ur he who has braved the fury of the
elements, and the distant and pestilential climates of the Torrid
Zone, unfriended and unrewarded. Thus would be detected
the many prototypes of Major Sturgeon, who, to the injury and
disgrace of our regular army, still continue to infest it, ar.d „
even to work themselves into power and command ! Parade
soleness, who in all their lives never experienced the want of a
luxurious meal, or a feather-bed ; whose services had rarely ex-
tended beyond their native soil, nor their marches farther than
the distance from one comfortable inn, or barrack, to another !
It is greatly to be wished that the Comniander in Chief, who
Las done so much, and has ever evinced so lively an interest for
the rights of the artny,stind of the deserving soldier, would place
the claims of officers who had unhappily served and ruined their
future health in the Torrid Zone, on a just footing compara-
tively with those whose services have been confined to temperate
and less sickly climes, by allowing to them the same right of
claim for length of servitude (if there was any claim of reward
for the officer) which is granted to the pensioners of Chelsea
Hospital, the rates of whose pensions depend on their length of
service, namely, that 12 months service, between the tropics,
should be held equivalent to a service of le months in any other
part of the world.
A material and certainly a very eligible alteration, has been
introduced into one of the clauses of the Mutiny Bill. It was an .
imperative duty formerly upon Courts-martial, to it:filet the
punishment of flogging,. for certain offences By the alteration
now made, it is left for the Courts-martial to inflict the punish-
ment of imprisoning instead of flogging, but it is discretionary
with the Court whether the offenders shall be flogged or im-
reisoued.
The following is the total return of the effective strength of
Regular and Militia forces on the 25th DecemberoBlo:
Regulars, 211,150; Militia, 84,300.—Total, 295,450. •
A reduction of one Major, four Captains, four Lieutenants,
andtour Ensigns, is ordered to
ts ke place on the 25th instant,
in several non-effective 2d bans.
A return of the number of desertions from the Replier
laid
Army
at home, from the 25th Dec. 1809, to the OA Dec. 1810,
before Parliament, states oat 2388. f
iNft.. •

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An INTRICATE GASC of CONSANGUINTIY7

MR. EDITROR,

-.-1 iii.....--

Will you have the kindness to allow the following intricate
case of Consanguinity to• be proposed, through the medium of
your interesting paper, to the Lawyers of the Inner Temple, tor
solution, as I am afraid it would puzzle most of your other
readers too much to yield them any satisfaction.
_ _

Thelate professor Anderson of the university,of Glasgow, bad
a full uncle, whose brother was not the prolesor's lode. \Viol
relation then did he bear to him ? This question once perplexs.•d
the Vatican, and before it is solved will embroil our Unlver-

Yours, &c.

SCUI U 4.

COMMEI?CIAL CREDIT.

The Report of the Select Committee on the State Of 011114.
mercial Credit has her', printed ; and its principal heads are—
That the Committee find, that the statements of the Cotton
Manufacturers in Glasgovi and Paisley, complaining of distress,
are founded in fact—that the principal part of this dicitress
arisen from excessive speculation at the opening of the South
American markets—that there was no want of disposition in
the Scotch Banks to afford accommodation—that great -distress
was also felt among the Importers of produce from the West
Indies and South America, the returns from the former of
which came home,in great part,in sugars and coffee, not imme-
diately convertible into money. The great extent to which the
system of warehousing the goods of foreigners had arisen, is also
assigned by the Committee as another cause of the distress. o
relieve this, the Committee recommend an issue of Exchequer
Bills, as in 1793 ; the amount not to exceed six millions, an to
be repaid in four‘instalnients-7thF first in January ne:tt, and the
rest at three, six, and nine months. . -

• PRISONERS IN FRANCE.
The French papers contain a long decree for regulating the
employment of prisoners of War in the works of the forti:...ations.
and of bridges and causeways, and to turn to the advantage of
the prisoners the produce of their labour. they art• to be or-
ganised into SO battalions, 15 of which are to he employed an
the works of the fortifications, and 15 on bridges and catls,fways.
'The prisoners are to be paid by the day or by the job,. at the
same rate as the workrnenot the countr.- but stoppages are ao
be kept back, to defray the expence of ir food, clothing, (.utti,,
lodging, and treatment, in case of ill health. The remainder of
their wages, if any, is to be at their own disposal. Perhaps the
practice of the French in regard to these prisoners deserves the.
attention dour own Government The French have the ad-
vantage over us in this respect, that they eau employ the prir
boners in fortified towns, where there is no danger of escape.