The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-10 00:00:00

MATICII_IO.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES,

For tLc pre.ent year, have been printed. T following is
an AlistiArt :

LAlailincluding the corm intended
Illr reduccd, for fireat Oilman and lreland.
1 ii,7s6—Erpenq,, - . - - 4,702,611 10 11
Iteginients stationed in France, number 31,03 i,
Expene - - . - - 1434.596 13 6
Begitanu in the East India Company's Ser-
i ice. number 89,49 I—Expense - - 90641116
Embodied Militia . - . - 350,00100
ray of General OfEeers . - . 1R2,717 I 2
boll' and Garrisons . . - - 318.733 it 6
Full r.,), for Supernetincrary Offunte - -144.10 t 6 7
I'Ublic Department: - . . - lati.fal . 4 6
Exchequer Feel', Midi POIM(11,,?e• &c. - 127.attr 6 0
!balmy and Military Allowances - - 460.566 Si 1 1
la-l'emitinas of Chelsea and kilmainham .

Host; s - - - - - 53.095 11 7
eut.l'enaioncrs of ditto . - - 533.220 13 o
Widows Pensions - - - - 43.890 5 8
Vtlantc.-r CATS - - - - 1'2'2,91,6 18 2
lAical Militia - - - - 120,000 0 0
Foreign Corps, for varom painds in 1316_
nua.ber 21.5111—Expkinc - - 370,60 18 5
lloal Military °aliege - - - 5.7,812 17 2
Royal tory Asylum - . - 50.1P5 17 2
Itrtimd Chaplains. lAc- - - 17.550 19 11
Medicine.: and Hospital Expellees - - F 0,266 12 4
('umpa.sgi.cr.te 1.1,t, and Bounty Warrants - 04.424 0 5
Conuntsshrist 1/cpartnimt firaand) - • 219.000 0 0
Barrack 11..T.lrunent (Ireland) - - 213,000 0 0
Superann.tation Allowarwm - . - 17.94 0 8
Oilexas attached to the l'ortugaese Army - 33.000 0 o

Dada t from the above the troops in France and the lisst Indies, and
there remains 133,503 men, of the c•penst; of r.liom, 1i,7.;5,947L 17s,
if :1111),NA to Gnat PhritaM, nr:tl t,liG, k!sl. IGs. td. to Ireland; making
A CIAAI ISS.

A Flanders Mail notices the prompt and extraordinary
meast.res adopted to strengthen the frontier line of Bel-
gium. No less than $,09() men are to be. employed on
the tbrtilientions of Charleroi.

It appears from the Papers laid before the House of
Commons, that the supplies male by us to Spain, in
'limey, arms, ammunition, and military and naval stores,
from the year 1811 to the latest period the &nue could
be made out, amounts to 4,:157,8381.

By papers laid before Parliament, it appears, France
12 s already p.id this country five millions of fmnes as
ntributions, and upwards of one million of francs to-
aids the pay of the anuy of occupation. These sums
have been deposited in the military chest of the Duke of
Wellington.
A Brussels Paper of the sth inst. says, " One of our
most celebrated lace-manufactories has had the making of
the lace-dress intended for the Princess Charlotte of
Waks on the day of her marriage. It has just been
sent to London."

Private letters from Paris of Monday, mention very
serious disturbtusees to have again taken place at Lyons.
A strong military force has been dispatched to that city.
The King is stated to have determined upon a complete
change of Administration ; and it is generally believed,
that the l)uke of Angouleme will preside in the Council
of Ministers.

A fresh order has just been received at Calais, direct-
ing that no foreigners or strangers shall be allowed to
roeeed from thence to Paris without a passport, front
ther Ambassador or Government. Seventl persons lmt•e
been obliged to return from the Ship Inn at Dover to
lamslon, in order to procure such passports befbre they
cmlrarked fbr Calai•.

The restoration of old religious institutions seem to be
proceeding in Italy ; n Cenconlat is stated to have been
c,nchaled between the Papal Nuncio at Florence, and
the Grind Duke of Tuscany, under which there are to
he 7t.! Convents of both sexes in the Tuscan States.

INDlN.—Ativices have been received by the secret Com.
mittoe of the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany,,,intimating that the decisive •measures adapted by
the Earl of Moira, in emisequence of suspicious :kppear-
:ewes in the conduct of the Hiram and the Pcishwa, haul
Icen attended with the most satisfactory resillt4.; thwe
P.inces having, immediately on the-approach of the BA,
tish troops to their respective capitals, ilyt!erahad end
Poonah,,etfered to give the most ample securities for their
pacific and friendly conthut.—An arrangement was ac-
conlimfly concluded, by which thu Ni am agreed to place
brother, the known instigator of his hOstile disposi-
ti..ns, iu dote confinement, in a fortress belonging to a
third Power: the Peithwa went further, and. gave up
Ids Minift:,r, the promoter of his military schemes and
pic:Amtions, who was brought a prisoner to Bombay,
ti ,Jc to be kept u the Government of British India may
17,its discretion think proper. The dispatches containing
t..is information bring sent home in the Secret Depart-
ment, according to the usual practice of all official advices
tl:e Indian Government, lire not yet offickilly noti-
f:cd from the select hotly of Director; composing the Se-
cret Committee. But we are assured, from some of the
very best authorities, that the particulars which we have
stz.,tod may be relied on as main:wiz,

Tut sTFISAPIto.—We hardly know *greater evil than the fob
ha:ling, and yet the cooscipitnees of it tills the (*.mitt of (law
!••,), with business. A &stator dies, confiding to two prisons,
in uliont he tlincios he can trust the di.p.a.al of his bequests.
of them from pique or indolence, throws the concern in
t' nrt of Chancery, to mantic that which his dying fr:eitd
h :I to his management, purposely to *built law t sad, after a di.
II of years, out comes the estate, like " a pair sirk y Out"
the sebstanee tieing wasted lti salaries to liecciven, Or-
d. rs of Alus:ers, and Fit of Court.

WIZ NATIONAL RISOISTiIift.

11:El „1 ND.

in Dublin Court of Common Pleas, Weilorsilay, Christopl er
Twee, Esq. v. Lord IV illiain Fit/ref:Wl, the plaintiff rceo-
♦iercd .500111. damages from his Lordship, for iron. con. with
Mrs. 'Faulk.

The Sligo Journal contains the following:-0 An armed ban-
ditti, consisting of about 30 persons, attacked the house or J.
M'lltrigh, of liuockakellan, in the neighbourhood of
inure, in this county, on the night of the 13th inst. and de-
manded his arms, a liidi he boldly refused to surrender; upon '
which they tired several shots into his house, anti sit it on hue ;
Le and his sons finding themselves in this perilous situation, re-
tnrued the fire in the most spirited and determined manner;
they killed one man (T. M'%%heeneyt, anti, as it is supposed,
wounded I,evcrat, as they are now missing from their homes.
.1. Lowder, Esq. a most active iniuistrate, has since committed
to this gaol two brothers of the deceased Melt Keeney, with
seven others, charged with assembling by night. demanding,
arms, and administering oaths. The gentlemeu of that neigh-
bourhood ar., using sneh measures as, it is hoped, will put an
cud to such practices in that part of this country.
• The Belfast Paper says:—" On the maiming of iVednesday
week, a baud of ruffians attacked the house of Mr. Johnson, a
mit.lin manufacturer, near the head of North-street.
began their operations by breaking 041 the shutters of the
' parlour window, which weresheatheil with irOil ; !mint:affect-
eil this they raised the lower sash, and introduced a large box
filled with pitch, tar, hemp, &c. and to rend.— their deign
still more destractive, they attached to diese inflammable sub-
stances a large bomb-shell tilled with gutipowikr, and other
combustibles, communicating, with which was a fuzee, to which
they set fire. A sen :lilt man, however, seized a pitchfork, tier
first weapon lie could find ; lie ran to the parlour, and called
out to alarm the family. When he entered 'he room, he per-
ceived the hail and 'laming fusee, and, not knowing a hat it
was, he dashed at it with the pitchfork, and the prongs having
steel: into it, he drew it toward,' him, anti retreated to the
kitchen. In the midst of his agitation, he abandoned the
pitchfork, and it :g bah, to call to his master up at aka. In
too seconds the comlnistilffes exploded like a clap of thunder,
and rent the house from top to bottom. Not a wall but was
shattered; the windows were blown to pieces, when the back
door fortunately burst open, whirl, gave vent to the fory of the
explosion. When Mr. Johumn was first alarmed, he started
out of bed, and laying hold of a blunderbuss, w Welt was ready
loaded, he went to a front window, and, perceiving eight or
ten of the ruffians at a distance, lie fired among them: but he had
scarcely duneaso, when the explosion took place in the kitchen,
and threw his family into the utmost state of consternation.
The assailants, on hearing the report, returned again to the
front of the house. land commenced an attack with fire-arms;
gygin which Mr. Johnson, haviutt ong loaded pistol, fired it at
them. ily this time the neighbouring families, being alarmed
by the explosion and the firing, 'were coming Iwo the street;
wton which the banikiti tan off in ifitlen•nt directions, and,
owing to the darkness of the night, effected their escape.
Happily not one of Mr Johnson's family received the
smallest injury. The inhabitants of Belfast have oileied a re-
ward of 2,0001. for a discovery of the offenders.

Ho tr.—The present inconvenient duty on jaanting-ears has
brought that mode of conveyance into general disrepute, and
substituted a prudent taste for pedestrianism, which is ;lady
becoming_more and more fashionable. We may soon expect to
sec reviveiranioug oar fair comitry women, the good old emit-
fortable pillion so long exploded, and on which 011een
Eliza-
zeth was so often wont to recreate bier royal person. A hearth
eidieetor, us we are informed, lately doing supervisor's duty iu
a lame town in ti.e south of Ireland, looked somewhat aghast
to find that every ear of which 100 paid the preceding year)
had disappeared, was put hors de coothal, or disposed of in some
way to escape the tax. The collector, who, it appears, hail a
dash of the wag arrout him, concerted a little plan to try tile
honesty of ,o many respectable persons denying their liability
to the duly. In a titre:paper, printed in the town, he published
an Advertisement to the following effect:—" Wanted imme-
diately, a second-hood jaunting-ear, with harness complete,
and a strecg steady honw, to suit a travelling tainily."—Dii re-
tion, were added where to apply ; and a tit person, properly
instructed in the secret, vans placed the following manning in at
convenient apartment. The scheme succeeded to a miracle.
Berm ten o'clock the knocker was almost beaten through tho
door by surceive crowds of visitors, every one of wl bad
an excellent car, very little run, which he had no particular
objection to dispose of just now, on reasonable terms, the sea-
son tiles so unfavourable, and indeed his family was growing so
mach less, tee. &c.—The applicants were admitted one' by one,
and the pretended purchaser, lifter some preliminary. civilities
and inquiries, begged have to take down their names and ie•
sidences, promising to wait upuu each in the course of the day
to close the bargain, which he punctually slid, briuging the
supervisi.r, moreover, alone with him, and introducing him to
the disconcerted and astonished parties, as the Gentleman that I
advertised for the accommodation. This, as may well be Con-
ceived. produced a desonciarst of the nmst risible description.
The etfeet was altogether theatrical; and a scene of einstet,
nation and einharrassment ensued, to do justice to which
won'el require the broad rarebit delineation of Foote, or the
caquisite comic colouring via Hugarth !—Lem, l'ackrt.

The Spanish Insurgent General Bolivar, who defended
Carthasena, afier its captum escaped to Jumnioa. A rles-
purodo was employed to tidlow and assassinate him ; for
which service he was promised 50,000 dollars and a free
pardon. Bolivar took up his abode at u lodging-house in
Jimmies ; but happening to sleep out on the very night
the murderer had fixed tin- his purpose, a strange gcnt'e-
man by chance slept in the bed, and•foll a victim to the
diabolical scheme. The Spaniard. who undertook the
murder, is apprehended.
Mrs. Basc:cy. bite Miss Wade, applied to the Court of
Chancery on saturday sennight, for money to sustain
the expellee of her approaching aceotwh►nrnl.—The Lord
Chaicellor ordered her 5001.; and likewise directed the
whole of her fin-tune to be settled on her in as strict a
manner as possible, tint her husband might be prevented
from touching a shilling of it.

BOKlN(l.—Curtis and a man called West Country
Dick, foughta battle, l'ucadry, on 1-laves Common, near
Uxbridge. They niet at one o'clock, with their seoonds,
Oliver and Richmond for Curtis, and Shelton and J.
Clark. fin' I)ick. Betting, 6 and 7t04 on Curtis. After
battle that Listed Lifty.cigLt ukutes, Dick gave in.

PROVINCIALS'.
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C tnrisr.s: ELCCTION.—State of the fourth day's poll : J. C.
Cnrwen, I•'sq. :49 ; Sir P. Musgrave, Bart. 201; Majority for
Mr. Cursven," 2.3.—TlinAe who know how well espericuced Mr.
Ctirwen, k in the business of this House of Commons, and how
greatly the ogricultitt;tl interests are indebted to his indef.:di:fa-
ble attention and labours, cannot fail to wish him success in his
electron.

At the ensuing Chelmsford Assizes, there are nearly eighty
prisoners for triul, seven of whom arc for highway robherir•,
and many others for capital offences. Shocking to 'et:de,
nearly twenty of the priseners are under twenty-one years of
age.

Samuel France, aged 15. was nn Friday last committed to
Salop enmity goal, charged with the wilful murder of his fa-
ther, Richard France, of Codrington.
Six times has the counting.vionse and brewers, at Creat
Dtintnow, Essex, belonzing to :Messrs. Randall nod Co. been
robbed within a short period ; the last lime was on Titeqlay the
20th ult.; when the artful villains chided a spring gnu placed
so as to command the entrance; anti having secured it from
going off, robbed the premises of a gun and 26*. in money.

A dreadful snow storm has recently done immerve damage
in Hungers.. The inhabitants 4.1* adrininz horses cruld not
get at each other fur day. together. In the comity of Iteregh,
20,000 sheep are lost ; and a fartmr in that country, wlte.,e
los,: was, perhaps, not the greattst, had 1,203 fat oxen frozen
to death.

The Leeds Mercury says, "Last %slay morning, about
two o'clock, several, persons brake into the house and
shop of J. Roberts, of Quarruby, near Huddersfield, chins-
dresser; and, after demolishing, all the windows aud window
frames, for several yards square, proceeded to break the
shears and improved shcar-frames used in the cloth-dressing
business; and, having 'efrected their lawless purpose, retired
without molesting any part of the family. It is fervently to he
hoped, that the outrages which disgraced the neigh!) .itt hood
of Hadderstield some years ago, and which proved so fatal to
their perpetrators, art not about to be renewed; but should
that be the case, we are assured that the perstms whose pro-
perty is likely to suffer in the event of a renewal of the fame-
breaking system, arc determined to defend their property
against any attack that may be made tipim it, and to reader
mutual assistance to each other for this imporban object."

AN EXTRAORDINARY SHEEP.--A Soutlidown v. ether sheep,
three years old, bred and fatted by Mr. Litman, of tilynde, was
Lilies' there ou the 10th tilt. and exhibited, front the extensivo
improvement which has, of late years, been made in the breed
of that very Irwin' unbind, a superiority iu point of Cesh
bone, which our forefathers, rho lived bet'ore the establishment
of Agri..-nlinral Societies, could have formed no conception of,
It weighed, when alive, 'Xi gone, 7 pounds; and when s;aligi:.
tered, as folio*, lb. pluck, it ditto; entrails, 14
ditto; shin and wool, 11l ditto; blood, 7 ditto.—Totol of othal,
0 stone 21h. Leose fat, 2 stone .11, ; carcass, Id stone 7; lust
in dressing, 25 stone 7
ExTitaontne An y EISCAPE.— 011 Sunday evening last Mr.
J. Holman, a farmer of Perran, Cornwall, was returning from a
place of worship, across a common to his own honse, a heavy
mist falling, lie mistook his way, and tell Into an exposed shaft •
, of a mine, tni feet deep, besides nine feet of water in the bets
tom; and, almost miraculously' he reached the water without
reeds Mg any serious injury. Being au expert swimmer, he
;sept himself afloat during the night; occasionally relieving
himself, by clinging to the projecting points of rock Ia the shies
of the shaft. 'flit return of daylight, ma Monday, enabled him
In Afe a kind of ledge on which lie contrived to get, and oa
which he lay the whole of Monday, eating for assistance; but
do person approached the place, and Monday night come on
whilst he cantimied in his perilons situation, where, overcome
by fatigue, he fell asleep, and nolo fell into the water, 'Tim
darkness of the night prevented his regaining his resting place,
a inlllo-. had to !Rimini himself us betbre, until Tuesday mom-
big, when he regained the spot front whirl' he fen. lie had
HOW become (mite hoarse from cold, and almost incessant
calling for help, so that the only resource be had for drawing
the attention of those w hom, lie supposed, would be sent to
seek for him, was by throwing stbnes into the water. Toes,in,
night cattle withitut affording hint any relief; hut the terror of
again filling into the water cliectnally prevented his sleepin
(hi IVeduestlay, however, the noise made by the stones whisk
lie continued to throw into the water, attracted the attention
of some persons whom his distressed family had dispatched in
search of his remains, and lie WAS extricated from the dreiwifel
abyss, without sustaining any serious contnsiuo.