The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

now I e,ond• the Rhine. His reputation has sulreredsmore
by termination of the late contest, than frbin any he
b I;een ever be ore engaged in. He has not fulfilled a
AL isle menace he had hurled against the Emperor FRANCIS;
waif t.that Sovereign retains the very means which pre-
ventcd their execution. Under circinusLi.ces so propiti-
ous, we appeal to every dispassionate man, if it would be
po!itic in our Government to relax their efforts in. favour
of the Peninsula ? Is it con,;isteut with forme.. professions,
witty the enterprising character, and the generous policy of
this country, to abandon to French rapacity tie resources
of Spain and Portugal. We cannot abandon that country,
without abandoning a system coeval with our history since
the congnest ; and which since the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth, grajually raised us to our present greatness.

Prince Stahremberq, it is said, has received orders from
his Government to break oil' all further communkation
with this country, 10 compliance with the 161 h article of
the treaty of Vienna and to return to Austria.
On Buonaparte's arrival at Angsburgh, in October last,
he desired a mass to be celebrated. No preparations hil7-
ing been made for that purpose, it fell to the tot of a poor
priest, y:.10 happened to be in the way, to officiate on the
occasion, and received, elated wit:l joy, a diamond ring of
considerable value for his trouble.

The Lord 1-Ugh Chancellor holds his Sittings out of
Term ia Lincoln's Inn Hall—his insignia of office accom-
pany him ; former Loft] ifgh (:leuicellors never went
with less than two coaches; about five years ago one
coach was gwietig dropped,
.The lest Lord High Chancel-
lor (though far from ostentatious) restored, with general
satistactioa, the good old custom of two coaches; the
hint,. however, has not been taken—Chancellor, Seal,
Mace, Secretaries, &c. all bundle again in one coach—bAt
this is not all ! Passing some days ago by Lincoln's 11111
when theiCourt rose, there was a most dirt', common
hael,:icy coach driving furiously through the Inn up to the
Ir door of the Hall—no carriage or servant in waiting
lo his Lordship. What could be the matter? On a sod-
tit n the door opened—the Great Seal, the Mace, &c. poo•
pod into this filthy vehicle—doer slammed—coachman
drunk, with a crown of hay-bands on his head —" Where
to, your honour ;" and away it drove, God knows where !
perhaps singing Longo Lee. We eon rhided they were stolen,
a h; we expected to hear of a reward for the offender, whom
we considered equal in enormity to Blood, the Crown stea-
ler. tut no—some how or other they have been reco-
ver Pd. and arc now lying in Westminster Hall as if nothing
had happened.
Mr. Hill, who died on Thursday se'imight, has left pro-
perty to the enormous amount of 800,000% To Mr. Fish,
Crevillc-street, Hatton-garden, and to another Genii:man,
he has left 260,000/. each ; to the Rev. Mr. Taylor, his
nearest relative, Who was offered 100,000/. some time ago,
for the chance of his legacy, he has bequeathed 36,000/.—
Ire has ?cf.! nothing to his relatives in Somersetshirc, whom
had placed on a valuable estate in that county, which
he ;a id. boie,-ht for 75,0001. and xvhich he assured them
ra,,y soeu d iuberit. Mr. Hill, the testator, was originally
a toiler at Brentford ; and the person who succeeded him
in that business still carries on the trade in that town. It
was by the poWder-mills at Whitton that Mr. Hill realized
his vast fortune. He enjoyed the complete supply of
'Dicke) is ponder, whence he imported hack tl:c produce.
of the Levant, and with it carried on the business of a
Turkey merchant.

Third and fso:t Grand City Lotter) of Preelanl.l ITontacc.laarTed of Land
Ta), tiptS•atlig i,f,-.1:100,04)0 in Capital Prizes. 'Po he drawl in ;ti; 411:all, in
prmr Dap:, 5000 Tiel.teVa earl' thy. No fisc(l Prize. Schen-ie. I Prize a
I- I h.:µo, I al9rnitol. I of4•stiul. I of 6,9001. 1 of 4.10ft1. L of %omit. 1 of 3,4101.
I r.r of ?Awl. 3 of 3.10111. :a 9..0)01. 3 of 3,04101. i- 9,001. 1
of.Micol.l of '2OOOl. I of e,GOOI. 1 of '2,3(0. 1 of 1,9001.1 of :,sOOl. 1 of 10001.
1 efL,•O:.
-'! hz• above not-bold Property has been recently valued by reeptctable Sur-
ye c.c., at vp%•,:rtii, of 1.1),c01. aAd Tickets aro nu,. seiLlig at 411 the Lievused

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ExTRaoRDLLARY AP. AL CQATIL4C.C.

There is a merit in Consisfeney even in urrmsg, which
tempts us sometimes to give the name of fortitude to what
is merely obstinacy ; on the other hand, we are disposed to
excuse a relaxation, even from a just principle, when this
relaxation is productive either of individual or of geueral
good ; but whea we Fee a set of men, in direct opposition
to their own recorded pled,,2;es, venture oa measures, which
even their own venal scriaes and diurnal partisans have
not dared to sappose their auta;fonist.; capable of, we feel
our duty to pull of the mask from official duiTlicity,
which Junes like can with doubly n;ce, cooly and deliber-
ately, contemplate measures of the most opposite nature.
Our Headers will readily perceive that we allude to the job,
though even that is too mild a word, which has lately been
developed in the Milford Haven business; a in which
our very liberal late Ministry, as e cannot he said to have
once pre:?ent, enfrusted one of the most important parts
of our national defence to a Catholic and a FonEtuNER, •
that foreigner a Fa ENcu mIN ! With respect to the Catholic
part of the business our sentinwnts on that subject are al-
ready recorded, indeed we have no doubt, as the saifilent
Editor of " The Fun" observes," 66 that the ship a Catholic
builds will swim as well, her seams will be caulked as tight,
her bread room will smell as sweet, as if she had been
built by an orthodox Protestant," it this, therefore, was
the only ground of complaint, we should feel a want of
consistency in ourselves to make it a sub!ect of animadver-
sion ; but when we see Foreig-iiers, nay Frenchmen admitted
into the arcana of our public departments, and tilling;
these situations whose duties are paid by the produce of
British industry, and the fulfillment of which duties ought
to bc both the stimulus and reward of British genius, we .
cannot restrain our better execrations against those men'
who could advise, or even permit, such a dereliction of
public dui..., and of real 'patriotism. To sum up the whole
of the char 4e and defence in a few words, we will briefly
notice, that as far back as the tear 1796, the Navy Board
contracted with JAcons, the builder at Milford ilaTep, for •
the supply of a line of ;aide ship and frigate, (the Milford
and Lavinia) at the rate of '2O!. per ton for the one, and of
131. los. for the other, a difference produced by the differ.
ei:ce of value in the relative scantlings of the necessary
timbers, and from the consideration that the double
contra:q would enable him to work up for the one,
what in some measure was the waste of the other. At
this rate of calculation, the Milford alone would have
cost the sum of 42,338/. 11s. a sum certainly not
above the then current price ; the bankruptcy of 31r.
Jacobs, however, soon after the framing- of the ships, ren-
dered it necessary that Government should nominate some
person to complete the Contract on the public account, in
addition to the Inspectors always employed at the private •
yards. To this important Office then, was IL BarraWer
appointed, with his son under him as'assistant, two emi-
grant Frenchmen from Toulon,. but who had never been
employed there as naval Shipwrights, the father in fact
having been literally a Stone-Mason or /1 rchitect,
fled with the high sounding Frenchifled title eef" Eng-rtiPier
de Pierre." These ships certainly took a long time in
seasoning, the frigate being launched in hiG7, and the
line of battle ship; not till last Spring ; but doubtless theM.
M. BLIMILLIER. fOlUld that they thems:Aves required a little
seasoning, and were, therefore, not willing to part with their
job, till their business was completed ; besides, as the
French builders on the other side of the water, were very
active in supplying the British Navy with new ships only for
the trouble of taking them, it was the less necessary for
the French builders on this side, to he in a hurry with
theirs, and Ilins launch themselres, anti their ships to the
wide world. It has been brought forward as-an excuse for..
the employment of Foreigners, that they work cheaper
than Englishmen ; of this.rheapne7s, however, our Headers
:41ay furs some idea, when they are told that three years