The National Register.
London, England, 1812-04-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

EASTER FESTIVAL.

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Monday, according to annual custom, thr Lord Mayor, accompanied '
by several of the Aldermen, the Recordt r, Sheriffs, City Offi:,.rs, 3:1.1
Governors of the City Hospitals, preceded by the children educated in
4.'.hrist's Hospital, who had previously assemhied_iii the Royal Ex... 1;.; .
semi in procession from the Iviamior.-house to Christ Church, Nrw-
gate-street, where the state of-the differeot Hospitals was read, auti
sermon rreached by the Bishop of Carlisle ; after which the C.a-po7azion
returned to the Mansion-house, where,,,a,samptuoUs dinner was pro-
vided for them, acid a numerous assemblage of t7ie tnost distiroli-1:41
Citizens, Stc. invited by his LordsiiipAto Partake of the annual festivity
which custom immemorial has preseri.,ed. 'There were present at
Ole *Puller his Royal Highness the ,Dultle of. Cambridge, kis Ser.ne
Higb;;er+the Duke of Brunswick, his ExcePency the Duke
0.40 M. de St•tisa' the Earl and Countess of Darnley, Lord
Vaetiereisght the litaxl of iiirrineon, Lit 4; ktoggeritou, Sir 1 humAs

ApRIL 5.

Trigg, General Arabi!), &c. L-Kly Mayoress and the Ladies
lent the Egyptian Hall about nine o'clock.— the ball was opened by the
Doke de l'lnfantado and Miss Townshend. The rooms were as usual
extremely crowd,..l.—The Lady Mayoress was most superbly attired in
a Court Dreth, made of rich pink blush satin. The petticoat with dra-
pery, vas covered with crape, most richly worked in silver lamif, and
suspended wish silver robes, tassels, &c. &c. ; the body and train, with
a rich embroidered border to correspond.—Tuesday, the toys of Christ's
and Bridewell Hospitals again walked to the Royal Exchange, and af-
terwards, according to annual custom, to the Mansion-house, when
each of them received from the Lord Mayor a sixpence or a shilling
according to their merit, with a bun and a glass of wine; the former
custom of giving them newcoined money was revived, all the sixpences
and shillings being new money.

MISCELLANIES.

BAROti Geitame.—This distinguished foreigner was taken into cas•
tody, on Wednesday, by Hamilton and Craig, officers of Marlborough-
street Police Office, by virtue of a warrant from the Secretary of State's
Office, but on what ground is not known. The Baron's house, in the
neighbourhood of Bayswater, had been a scene of bustle and tumult
previous to Wednesday. He had affixed a p:acard to apde at the top
of his house, with the following inscription, in large printed letters:-
0‘ NIT House is MY -CASTLE, I are unricr the protection of Brztigt
Law." The Baron had refused to surrender himself, or to be taken by
the Messenger from the.4ecrerary of State's Office, for three days, and
at length application was made to the Police to carry the warrant into
(Sect. The officers forced the garden-gate with hatchets, and the pri-
soner surrendered himself, on the assurance of his pursuers that they
were not bailiffs.--A Morning Paper says, the Baron was sent off on
Friday to the coast, in a chaise and four, from whence, under the
,alien Act, he is to he conveyed out of the country. It is said, that
a correspondence of a very unbecoming nature was discovered between
him and persons in Sicily. ft is also said, that he had written to Mi-
nisters, making very exorbitant demands on the national generosity,
and had becter.e extremely troublesome, not only for his importunity,
bat for the menaces with which his applicatfons were accompanied.
flu xco PARK,—Extract from the Ca/vette /1/74»tt/dy loin/at, for
June, 1811 :—" No certain intelligence has-hitherto been received of the
late of Mr. Mango Park ; but it appears by the English Papers, that
the accounts of his safety are again dctubted. We know not whether
the following circuristances, as communicated by Mr. Pearce, in Abys-
sitiia, to Captain Rudland, at Mocha, in a letter, dated Antaiou, the
e.oth of December, 1810, are calculated to lessen those doubts or not.—
' The person alluded to is either Muogo Pai'k or Mr. Hornemon, who
has been sent by the Diletanti Society on a eintil'ar mission. A friend of
Mr. Pea: ce's, who has a relation a merchant, in the Shoa, Cofia, and
who left. Etat three months ago, said, that some strange white man had
arrived in the country of Shoa, and was expected at Efat, with an in-
ent to proceed thence to ligri. Since this information, Mr. Pearce
d, that a white man was seen beyond Shoa. Mr. Pearce had ob.
t lined 1r eve from the Ras to proceed to Shoa. In consequence of a let-
ter athiressed•by Captain Rudland to the Ras Welleta Selasse, orders
had been given, that in case Mr. Park entered the territories of the
has, every attention was to be shewn him, and every assistance afforded
him to reach Massowa."
Ma. hs t TY. file re-appearance of this Gentleman, better
known to fame a% the Young Rosous, before a London audience, is
said to he positively agreed upon; and that he is to form one of the
neva prominent among the theatrical wonders which are to be exhi•
titled nest season at Covent-garden Theatre.
The plan for convicting the rebuilding of Drury-lane Theatre, is
sei 1 to he the raising of three hundred thousand pounds, at an interest
of V per cent. for (21 years. Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Richard Wilson are
said to be very active in their endeavours to acocmplish this object.
The button to be used by Admirals, Captains, and Lieuteuanta, in-
.stead of bearing the impression of an anchor, as heretofore, is to have
the impression of a crown and anchor.
A petition, signed by nearly ftiur thousand frame-work knitters, of
Nottingham and neighbourhood, • has been sent to the Prince Regent,
praying for mitigation of punishment to the men convicted of frame-
; breaking.
(in Tuesday last, in consequence of a requisition presented to the
High hbeiliff of Birmingham, a respectable Meeting of about 700 of the
merchants and manufacturers was held at the Royal Hotel in that
town, when, after a very animated debate, ten spirited Resolutions,
. declarative of the right and duty of British subjects to discuss political
' questions* awl of the injostice and ruinous tendency of the Orders in
Council, were agreed to, and petitions for their immediate revocation
were ordered to he preseired.to both Houses of Par lament.
• A Swiss calf, le months old, was -eihibited at Dresden in November,
,
I wank had growing under the neck, the arm of a man, at the extremity
• of which-were six birds' claws instead of fingers, and upon its back the

breast of a wornaii.
It is said to be a spociiic for rheumatism, to apply a cabbage leaf to
the part affected. Clinic a perfect leaf, cut off the. prottibernit stalk at
Ibe bark, and place it on the part with a bandage of flannel at going to
bed. ft Will produce a beat perspiration, and on two or three rejeU
.t.ws oilei:t a cur*.