The National Register.
London, England, 1815-09-10 00:00:00

• Tilt NXIMNAL RF,GISTER.

On the loth ult. rap.ain Rottman, of the Salvador, a Sici-
Flat, vf sae!. fell in. off Lisbon with a British ship, by which be
wa, info, med that a man of war then in sight was the North-
unthelland, and that Buoraparte was on bnaid her as a prison-
er. enriosity to see the fallen tyrant, led the Sicilian to
direct his course towards the Northumberland : and when he
came near her Buonaparte happened to be upon deck. The
wind waa then-fair for St. Helena; and the Northumberland
:vas making the best of her way thither. It may be supposed
that. the clew, of a merchant vessel coming from a distant
port in the Mediterranean, and ignorant, till then, of the bat-
tle or Waterton, would he not a little surprised at meeting the
zoi-disoal Emperor on such a destination; but the mystery
was cleared up, when they learnt the occurrences and come-
quences of that memorphle day.
The entilt Martial fop the trial of Ney is to ennsist of
Marshals Jourdan (rho nreside), Victor and Nlarmont;_
of (Generals Mahon, Claparetle and Pic. Aloncey, who
declined to exercise the functions of President, is to suffer
his confinement of three months at Bitche. well known. as
a place of ine'rceration for British prisoners.
The Dnke of Wellington has addressed a letter to the-
Mayor t,f B,nssels, thanking the inhabitants of the city for
the care and attention to the wounded of his army in the
battle of Waterloo.

FAIR Puctr.tsTs..—A few days ago a curious case was tried
in the Court of Corectional Police. at Paris. The parties
were two ladies, evidently of a respectable rank in society,
each of whom charged the other with having scratched her
face. Both had upon their cheeks very distinct marks of a
sharp conflict The dispute was political—one was a Bour-
bonite, the other a Bonapartite. They had, it appeared,
gone into a coffee house on the Boulevards to read the news-
papers. This is quite the common practice of French-
women, as well as men; at first they talked with great tem-
per, but upon the point whether England was justified in
sending Bonanarte to St. Helena, the debate grew violent,
and terminated in a battle, The Bourbonite Lady said all
the meo in the coffee house were Bonapartists, and refused
to interfere. It turned out, however, that she was the ag-
gressor ; she was fined ten francs.

The winter Theatres are to b?gin a race of Parisian
novelties. Both have their agents on the Continent col-
lecting, translating, and preparing, whatever has been most
attractive abroad.

Dowton's Tunbridge Wells Company of Comedians were
-,.ery near taking their parts in a Tragedy a few evenings ago,
by the coach which the M*nager had hired to bring them
from Canterbury being overturned near the Kentish Tavern.
Not a single son of the Sock and Buskin escaped without
receiving some personal injury ; and Misses Bristow and
Leigh, two of the party inside, were so much hurt as to have
Leen ever since confined to their apartments.
Mr. Sadler, jun. ascended from the Bowling-!reen, New-
castle, on the Ist inst. in a balloon, amidst thousands of
spectators. Fie descended in twenty minutes at Whitby
Part., two miles north of Tvnemouth, and returned the same
eves kg to the place he set •ut from. The day was fine, and
no accident whatever occurred.

TRICE OF BREAD.—The Master, Wardens, and Court of
As-istants, of the Baker's Company, have agreed (somewhat
in the way of the Tallow Chandler's Company) to send
wtekly notices to the different Bakers of the ?narimum which
thry ought to charge to the public, to be regulated by Mon-
dq's prices at Mark-lane. The notice for last week states
t!' e price to be Itd. which commenced on Thursday last.

Friday night, Brussels papers arrived to the sth, and
Frankfort Gazettes to the Ist inst. • The former state, on the
authority of private accounts from Paris, that a part of the
Allied armies will evacuate France in the course of the pre-
sent month, provided the French army is wholly disarmed;
that another part will occupy the fortresses of Alsace. Lor-
raine, and the Northern frontiers; that the second and third
corps of the Prussian army will remain in France; and that
two other corps and the Guards will retire beyond the fron-
tiers. The return of the Emperor of Austria to his capital,
it is said, is again deferred, and the Coronation at Milan is to
he postponed till Spring. More Prussian troops were march-
ing into France.
SINGULAR FATALITY.--A labouring man living at
Hampstead whose name is Cursons, recently assured his
friends that he was forewarned of death, and that he was to
die some violent death on the Ist of September. This tale
was of course treated with contempt, but it still prayed on
his mind, and the first of Sept. was anxiously waited for.
On the morning he determined not to stir out the whole day,
and kept his intention till the evening, when his landlady
rallied him on the folly of his conduct and be began him-
self to smile at his superstition. His landlady observing that
she had not a drop of water in the house, he volunteered to
go to the Conduit in Hampstead fields, for some, arid took*
pail for that purpose. On reaching the conduit, which is a
deep arched well, while stooping for the water he unfortu.
nately fell in. Luckily from the draught which has pre.
vailed, there was only three feet of water in the well, so that
he escaped with a ducking. A month or two later, and he
would have been drowned.

SEVERE FaosT.—Such has been the severity of the frost,
notwithstanding the early season of the autumn, that in
several of the counties north of London, particularly on the
nights of the sth and t3th inst. several lambs were frozen to
death. Ice was taken up in sume places upwards of a quar-
ter of an inch thick.

A whale, brought to Shields in the Lady Jane. from
Davis' Streights this year, filled casks which held 1n,050
gallons : which, at a moderate calculation, is worth 1500/.
WAITER'S W►T.—A few days since as Guth/ was pro-
ceeding from London to Brighton, he took refreshment at
an Inn at Ryegate. A stage coach stopping at the door,
pretty well loaded with passengers, the waiter suddenly ex-
claimed, ‘. You are just in time, Gents. Gully has this mo-
ment set-to with the Chicken." The coach was in an instant
deserted, and the passengers, sans tcremonie, entered the
room, in which Gully, as the waiter had described, was
fiercely attacking the Chicken—just taken from the s it, and
done to a turn !

An order was issued some time ago from the head-quartets
of the British troops encamped near Pais, prohibiting all
officers from entering the city, except in uniform and with
side arms.