The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-27 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

Sept. 16, T. Thackrayand It. Bottrell, Greenwich, Kent.
linen draper—l 6, J. W. A. Snuggs, Lithe Street, spirit merchant
—l6, J. Pugh. Red Lion Street, Holborn, ironmonger-16. W.
P. Weise. 'fooley Street. hat manufacturer-16. T. Warwick.
Hitchin. Herts. draper-16, J. Lewis. Mincing Lane, merchant
—l5, T. Symmon, Orange Court, Leicester Square. brass
founder-23. W. Miller, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, merchant-
-16, S. Cockburn. High Street, Marylebone, merchant-16, J.
Croft, Ratclitf Highway, wine merchant-16, T. Si.sell, Jewin
Street. tailor-19, J. Fitton, Preston, Lancashire, conch maker—.
18, T. Baker, York, linen uraper-21, A. Phillips, Kirklintoo,
Cumberland. bacon factor--1, R. Prickett, Lancaster. nierchant
—l6, J. Barker. Stratford, Essex, brewer-16, .1. Ziunner,
Walbeck Street. Cavendish Square, merchant.
CERTIFICATIiS to be granted Sept. 16.
A. Rae and W. Earle, Proprietors of the East London Theatre
—J. and J. Silver. and A. Boyson. Size Lane. merchsins—J.
Martin. Liverpool, merchant— T. Lynn. Jerusalem Coffee
House, Cornhiil, merchant—T. and J. Perry, Reading, iron
founderl-4. Pigot. Portsea, linen draper—R. C. Cinden.
Gravesend, slepseller—J. Sibley, Abchurcli Lane.. drysalter—J.
Bailey, Watling Street, merchant—C. Edwards, Gough Square,
furrier.

Letters from Berlin of the 13th inst. state, that
the Prussian Government has entered into a contrast
for a new loan, to the amount of thirty millions of
dollars. The contractors are said to be the mercan-
tile horses of Rothschild, Beneche, and-Schickler,
who receive, as security, a deposit of treasury note,
to the amount of fifty millions of dollars. The
plan of this loan is to be the same as that recently
concluded at Vienna for the Austrian Government,
and will be wholly negotiated on the Continent.
In reference to. the deposition of Theodore Ma-
jocci respecting the gittoco, or dance, pertinqued by
Slahomet in presence of the Queen, and which
was so strongly reprobated by the Attorney-General,
we wish to cull the attention of the public to the
description given of it in many books of Travels,
both in British India and in Turkish countries,
where it is so familiar as to be always performed at
the marriages and festivals of the Mahomedans, both
high an low. In India it is called " Nautch." In
Egypt, Savary calls the performance the " Alme."
Must of the English ladies as well as gentlemen in
India must have seen it, as matter of curiosity.
Forbes' Oriental Memoirs, Miss Maria Graham's
Work, the Asiatic Researches, and many other books
may be referred to, in proof that the usage is com-
mon in the east; and this explanation to the British
public may render innoxious the severe strictures on
this charge of the Attorney-General.
We are greatly deceived if the discovery of Me-
weci having been a resident in England, and the
joay in which he then spoke of the Queen, be the
only unexpected fact that will soon be established
by evidence. We have just learn a most interesting
facts respecting the rumours engendered in Milan—
that hot-bed of calumny and slander! During the
residence of the Princess of Wales in that neigh-
bourhood, persons were regularly stationed in the
different collee-houses frequented by English travel-
lers, for the purpose of impressing strangers, espe-
cially the English, with strong ideas of the miscon-
duct of her Royal Highness. The waiter of one
particular coffee-house mentioned to a traveller—
pointing to two men sitting in the room—that these
men were always there, and seemed to have no
other business or occupation but to give currency to
slanders of the foulest description against the Prin.
cess of Wales.

Cass IN PoiNT.—An eminent Barrister had some
years ago a ease seat to him for an opinion. The
case stated was the most preposterous and improba-
ble that ever occurred to the mind of man, and con-
cluded by asking, whethe , under such circumstances,
an action would lie? He took his pen and wrote,
" Yes, if the WITNESSES Will LIE Wo, but not uthei.
wise."

An article from the Maine, of the 6th August,
says—" The reported reconciliation of the Porte
with Ali Pachs is greatly doubted. The whole
report, appears to have been circa:ated by a certain
mercantile house.

Bank Stork ITO
S per Cent. Red. 681
3 per Cent. Cousula 071
31 per Cent.
4 per 87
5 per Cent. Navy 1031
Loug Attu. 18 1-16

Omni um 0.
Imp. 3 per Cent.
India Bonita Y 2.
India Stuck Vl6
Exchequer Bulk 3s. dis.
Cu,.o 1,,r Ac. 1111.
Loliery 'rackets £29 IS..

THE. NATIONAL REGISTER.

LOllOOll.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27.
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We have suppressed the most indelicate of the
Evidence given by the first Witness. against the
Queen, but have given, enough of that and his
cross-examination to convince our readers what sort
of a witness was relied upon as a chief support of
this persecution. It was reported on Tuesday that he
had been committed by the House of Lords to New.
gate, to be tried fur perjury ; we regret to say that
we cannot yet congratulate the friends of justice,
truth, and honesty, on this being the fact. After
such a sample we presume the house of Lords will
reject the Bill with indignation, and immediately in
justice to the Queen address his Majesty, calling
upon him to grant her an establishment suitable to
her rank. Perhaps, however, there may be some
other mode of persecution in embryo which may be
matured on the failure of the present proceedings.
Every hour of the trial, hitherto has given fresh
evidence how slow people ought to be in giving cre-
dit to er-perle statements, and tales of general slan-
der. Who could not have believed, from the general
complexion of Majocci's evidence, that the man was
a perfect stranger to England, imported only fur the
sake of justice, to assist in eliciting truths which
otherwise could not, be got at? Who could have
thought that this witness had fur some time been in
the service of a gentleman at Glocester, and had
declared to many, that the Princess of Wales was
" a most excellent woman—a good. woman "—lt is
true, that he seemed to wish to avoid particulars

respecting what he might have said at Glocester, by
his usual answer, "Non ml ricordo:' But it hap.
pens very fortunately, that for the proof of what this
hired witness did say, her Majesty's Counsel will
not need send to Italy; and the evidence will not
be attended with any "non ricordo," but, on the
contrary,. will completely supply Majocci's want of
stentory.
It has been observed by many, that the•most
unforeseen accidents and chances ofteu occur to elu-
cidate facts which otherwise might remain inscrut-
able. We are not of the number of those who be-
lieve in chance : we consider such occurrences as
Divine interpositions for the defence and justification
of innocence—for the exposure, if not always the
punishment, of conspiracy and crimes.
It must have struck must people as rather singular
that Majocci, when again brought before the House,
should have been so eager to volunteer a declaration,
through the Interpreter. " that he was ready to lay
down his life in that place if his former testimony is
not correct!" What could put this in his head?—
Had conscience enabled him to anticipate the possi.
bility of forthcoming of ENGLISH WIINESSES to
invalidate his testimony ? And, if so, could he think
it possible that this volunteer boasting would weigh
a feather against their unbought evidence !
It is also a curious fact, when speaking of un-
bought evidence, that the Mate of the vessel is to
be paid 800 dollars a month, besides being still
entitled to his one-loin-ill of all profits aristsg. from
freightage of the vessel during his absence. The
Captain is to be paid 1,000 dollars—a greater sum
than he was paid fur the hire of the whole vessel,
while in the service of the Queen, including his
own pay, the pay of the Mate, and the pay and
maintenance of the whole crew !—The sum paid by
the Princess of Wales for the hire of the whole

teasel, Captain, Mate, and crew—twenty-four souls
in all—was only between seven and eight hundred
dame per month 1!