The National Register.
London, England, 1809-12-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER:

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our. prueeedings ; and made no demonstration expressive
ore'an" intention .to molest the departure of our troops.
On Sunday last, the dock-heads avd basitf were blown up
and destroyed. The explosion was made wiih 2,500ewt. of
pofftler. The duck-yard, store-houses and drseual were
consumed on the same day ; and the conflagration is repre-
sented as having been awfully tremendous. The works,
constructed by the French, at immense labour and expence,
and which 'were carried oti for fifteen years, without inter-
Mission, were thus destroyed in the course of a single day.

The Persian Ambassador cannot stir out of doors until
be has delivered his credentials to his Majesty at his
Court. The ceremony is to take place on Wednesday.
next, the 20th instant, when his Excellency will make his
formal entry to the Queen's Palace with Eastern splendour.
The Persian Ambassador is a person of noble and dignified
deportment. He has a family, which is not considered
large,, of only sixty-three children; but it is considered as
a mark of peculiar good fortune, even in Persia, that he
had six children born to him on one and the same day. A
house is taken for his Excellency is Mauslield-street.

The rufi.our of Lord Chatham's resignation daily gains
ground ; the propriety of it is, we apprehend, unquestion-
able; and has been rendered more apparent, !,probably, by
the proceedings iii the City. A change at the Admiralty is,
likewise, said to be in agitation.
The lion. Henry Wellesley is appointed Minister Pleni-
potentiary to ;:pain, in the room of Mr. Hookham
Frere.

Eight hundred thousand re-stamped dollars will shortly
be added to our silver currency. They were sent a few
cluys ago from the Bank to Birmingham, to be re-stamped.

The weather was so tempestuous on Monday and Tues-
day last, that the most melancholy accounts may be ex-
pected. Many ships have heeu lost and driven on laud on
various palls of the coast.

A naval Court Martial was held on Mouday last in
Portsmouth Harbour, on James Nehemiah Taylor, Esq.
surgeon of his Majesty's ship Jamaica, of 24 guns, who
was charged with an abominable offence. The Court,
after hearing evidence in support of the charge, and on
behalf of the prisoner, were of opinion that the charge
had been proved, and sentenced him to be hanged.
On Thursday night, after the performances had closed at
Cirvent-garden Theatre, a great noise was kept up in the
aveaues leadimr, into the Theatre, by way of rejoicing at the
victory obtained by the 0. P.'s. Mr. Graham, the Magi-
strate, sent one of the patrole to ascertain the cause
of the disturbance ; he returned, and reported, that
Mere were about forty or fifty persons dancing the
O. P. dance in the avenue leading to the pit, and two fifers
playing to them, Mr. Graham desired the patrole to take
assistance, and bring the fifers before him. The man took
his own party of the patrole with him, rushed in among
them, and seized one of the fifers by his collar. He and
the fifer were immediately surrounded, and actually car-
ried off their legs to the iron gate. A woman kept
elose to the side of the patrole, nuil was continually
biting his thumb and baud, that had hold of the
fifer's collar. When they got into the road, they
all three fell down in the mud together; a violent
scuffle ensued between the patrole and the fifer,
and those who assisted him, in which the, coats of the
tifficer• and the fifer were torn to rags, as well as the
'Woman's gown, ad they were literally cavered with mud.
They got up, 'the patrole keeping his hold, and endea-
vouring to get the fifer into the Brown 'near politic house,
but in which he was disappointed, by another party of the
b. P.'s coming, by which he was carried to the upper part
of the street, and he was then glad to extricate himself,
and make his escape. • ..