The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-24 00:00:00

Count Gottorp had on Tuesday a long interview with Mr.
Yorke, at the Admiralty. It is salt! that this illustrious person
will accompany Sir James Saumarez, with the ships uuder his
command, to the Baltic.
An Order in Council was agreed aaon at the Prrnee Regent's
Courtsheld on Thursday, for filling up the vacancies in the seve-
ral reginrentsof Militia by a fresh
The 10th Light Dragooes have received permision to assume
the epithet of " Royal • —their facings, which were yellow, will
Dow be changed to red. •
Official orders are given for assembling the Local Militia in
•-Great Britain for fourteen days, training and exercising, exclu-
, sive of the day of marching. All the men who have not been
trained in any preceding year, are to be assembled for seven ex
tra days preceding the asse nbly of the rest of the corps. No
corps to be pernitted to assemble before the first of April, or
•'s subsequent to the first of October.
It is confid • ntly said, that a promotion of Admirals will shortly
take place, which will include Capt. H. M. Scott.
A letter from Falmouth, states, that the Express packet, Cap-
tain Bullock, has arrived at that port with mails from Jamaica,
after a passage of forty-five days, and has brought over 5C0,000
dollars on freights There will be a gain on these of 14,0001. in
consequence of the packet having arrived a day after the Bank
advertisement was issued. The Lady Pellew packet sailed from
Jamaica the 31st of December, and is not yet arrived, and fears
are entertained for her safety. She has on board 35,000 dollars
on freight.
The French Emperor has decreed, that the knowledge of the
dead languages is not necessary for holding any public situation,
or taking any degree in the national institutions of Fi ance.
All public proceedings are to be conducted and registered in the
French language, and the prescriptions of physicians are like-
wise to be written in that tongue,
It appears by recent letters from Holland, that the offensive
rigour of the Conscription Law has been relaxed, by the adop-
tion of the principle on which men were some few years ago
raised in this country for the navy. A certain number of men
are required from each district, leaving the people to raise them
in such manlier as shall heleast inconvenient to tl
he price offered for substitutes has been so tempting, that there
has been no difficulty in producing the contingents required.
A fruit ship, arrived on bunday, at Plymouth, after a very
short passage from Lisbon. 'When • sue came away the ar-
mies in the vicinity of that city remained in their former posi-
tions, nor was there any account of the enemy having obtained
furthct'advantages on the side of Spanish Estremadura or An-
dafusia. -We are happy to state that our troops never were in
better health or spirits. Those in hospital did not exceed
tnclu4ngtonvalesOnts.
A fetter received from Gibraltar' dated the 9.3 d of last
Month, states, that General Graham landed at Algeciras with a
considerable 'force, ih excellent health, andimpatient t meet
the enemy besieging Cadla. • '
The accounts from Neve South Wales are extremely flattering.
A considerable quantity of ground has been cleared, and land
ten miles from the town, though the road is bad leading thereto,
lets for one guinea and a half per acre. Several oificers, who
have returned home, are gone out again to bedome tarmers. she
state of society improves daily; a great number of the convicts
are reformed, and are now usetul and industrious inembyr, of
society, and the air is so salubrious and fine, that few who have
enjoyed the climate wish to remove to any other.
By the provisions of a Bill now in progress through the House
of Lords, no person is to be arrested for a sum which did not
a
originally amount to 201. exclusive of costs, charges, and ex-
Fences incurred in suing for the same, except on Bills of Ex-
change, or Promissory Notes.
. . .
The parishioners of Harrow-on-the-Hill, dissatisfied with the
decree against their claim, declared by the Master of the Rolls,
are determined to collect as many parishioners sons as possible,
and present them for education, after the Easter recess, free of
expence, pursuant to the will of Mr. Lyon, the ancient Founder
of that hilarity. •
It is reported, that to defray the interest of the Exchequer
Bills now funding, and the ensuing loan, an increase of the Pro-
perty-tax will be proposal. •• •
' The tickets for the State Lottery are now delivering at the
Bank of England.—Any favourite numbert may be secured by
bespeaking them at. either of the lottery offices. The scheme
Contains to capital prizes, and the lottery will. be drawn on the
Wares bisth-tlay, the 4t otJuge. •

The contest for the office of Chancellor of this University, is
likely to be altogether as animated as that which lately took -
place for the b.OTIC (Enmity at Oxford. it appears too, from the
tenor of some of the articles sent forth to influence the minds
of the public, in favour of the Duke of Rutland, that the
it No I. Tery-men" dread a similar termination. We hope
ti.at the example of Oxford will not be lost upon Cambridge.
It is fit that the Universities should always be attached would
should support the established religion and the rights of the
Church, and Oxford has not lost sight of that duty in making
choice of Lord Grenville; but their honour demands at the
same time that those chief seats of learning and philosophy
should not be any longer marked but by the odious distioctioa
of being the chief remaining fountains of the big yof the
dark ages; the chief places of retreat and refuge for the spite
of antiquated pr judice, and uncharitable persecution, which
the rest of the enlightened world has exploded and banished
If Cambridge shall acquit herself as Oxford has done, it will
be no small addition to the triumph, to which it is at present
an honourable indteirent, that the leader and rallying point of
the cause of liberality is a Prince of the blood royal of Gre. t
Britain.
The Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Rutland, both
Members ef Trinity College, are the Candidates for the Chan-
cellorship ; the honourable Jahn Smyth, M. A. of Trinity
College, 'grandson of the hate Duke of Grafton ; and the Right
Hon. Lord Paln.erstou M. A. of St. John':.College, Secretary at
'War, are candidates for the Representation of the Univer-
sity. Strong contests are expected on both occasions.—The
Duke of Rutland, in his letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge, announcing himsel a candidate for
the Chancellorship, says—" I will not, because I cannot, look
for fou:sdation to my pretensions in any ila'.;vidual meths of
my own ; but I ask permission to state, as a circumstanc s
of no trivial importance and gratification to me, my bekef
that his Majesty has hem graciously pleased to express him-
self favourable to my cause ; and I have the additional pleattue
of receiving the wannest as!krances of support from the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Pereeval."—The. Duke of Glou-
cester, on the other hand, thus introduces his claim grou:ul
not my pretensions on the influence ()lan mud, however exalted
his rank or character. I ground my pretensions upon my exclu-
sive and unalterable attachment to the place of my cducatiun ;
being the sittly one of the Rayal Family who has studied ha au
English University. I shall take particular pride in promoting
the interests of that Body to which I haveothe honour to b horn.;
and I trust that the unvaried deference to your laws and casu.,.
line, which I paid (luring my residence at Cambridge, will be au
earnest of my endeavours to maintain these privileges, if eat-
trusted to me as your Chancellor."

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• TILE BANK.

A Quarterly Meeting of Bank Proprietors was held on Thurs-
day, at the Bank, at which the Governor (Mr. Pearse) pre-
sided. The dividend, which will be due to the Proprietors on
the sth of April next, wAs declared to be five per cent. for the
half year—the l 3 tt.h paying the income tax thereon, the Gover-
nor begged to state, that very improper reports bad gone abroad,
reflecting on the Directors for the incautious and slovenly man-
ner in which the bills to be discounted were admitted into the
Bank. He assured the Meeting, that every pru&nt and neces-
sary precaution was diligently observed by the Directors; and
that during the whole of last year, and down to the present hour,
the uup.u,l !,ills did not exceed 400,0001.; for the ultimate pay-
ment of the Directors still had many goad securities by
indorseme!its aid otherwise, which would go far to diminish tint
gru3b amouat.—llie Court then adjourned.

ANNIV r s.titY of Sr. PAT RI .—Monday , the Anniversary
Festival of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick was celebrated
at the London 'raven'. It was near six o'clock before the com-
pany sat down to dinner, among whom were ~everal Noblemen
and Gentlemen of di:tinction. The children of the charity were
ititroduced after the cloth was removed, a• had a very interest-
ing appearance, and a liberal subscription was made. •The
Prince sent his annual donation of 101 guineas, and among the
other liberal conttibutions were the Duke of Leinster, the
Marquis of l)ownshire, the Marquis of Lansdowne , Earl Moira,
Lord Eirdley, Lord Hawke, &c. Stc.—The day was distinguish-
ed by hilarity and good humour.
Sevenal vessels, biz-ger-rigged, are preparing, by order of tle.
Admiralty, to cruire in the Channel, to prtvect the depreda-
tions of the ekieray'a pay-await-J.

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