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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Lontion
SUNDAY. JANUARY 27.
Following the example of the County of Norfolk,
requisitions arc in course of signatnte for simiiar
meetings in many of the nonhern and midland
counties.—Petitions of the same tenor as that
voted at the Norfolk Nleetiag have been curried
by acclatnation at such other meetings as have
hith, rto been held, but wh good they can do we
cannot perceive.—We have a debt o' 860 millions,
upon which the interest must be paid, and compared
with the amount of that interest the current ex-
penses, with all the extravagance of Government,
is but as a flea-bitc—Mr C )ke and the opposition
side of the blouse foresaw and foretold all the pre-
sent difficulty at the moment when the Tory faction
was voting the enormous annual expenditure of 84
millions—aud we wish it were only to fall on those
who did so—if reference were to be had to the Vote
Office of the House of Commons, and every member
of those majorities, by whose votes such infamous
waste of money was tolerated, were made to contri.
irate a moiety of his property towards the liquidation
of the Debt it would act in terrorem, and prevent a
future venal House of Commons supporting a bad
Government for the sake of the places and patronage
it had to bestow, by convincing them, that however
distant, the day of retribution would arrive.

We learn with regret, that the ignorance or want
of proper caution, on the part of ►omc of our co-
temporaries, has caused them to insert an adver-
tisement of a foreign lottery, by which they have
rendered themselves amenable to the penal Statutes,
1 and 2 Geo. IV. cap. 120. sec. 38. which subjects
offenders against the law to a fine of 501. with the
addition, (and the act is imperative as to the inflic-
tion) of imprisonment and public whipping !—Mr.
Hesse, the Solicitor to the State Lottery, bus al-
ready commenced proceedings against some of the
Papers, and we hear that the Commissioners are
resolved to prosecute every one of the offenders.
The Duchess of Bourbon died on the 10th inst.
in her 72d year. She was seised with a fit front
the extreme cold of the new church of S. Gene-
vieve, when she had been to prayers. The Duchess
of Bolibon was of the Orleans tinnily, and the aunt
of the present Duke, she was born in the year i 750,
and was married to the Duke of Bourbon Conde in
1770. She has been for man years separated from
her husband. The only issue of this marriage was
the unfortunate Duke D'Enghein, who was assas-
sinated at Vincennes in 1804. The following is an
extract of the will of the Duchess of Bourbon,
which seems to have been made the very day be-
fore that of her sudden death :—" I wish to be
le.ried without any pomp or ceremony. Let abun-
dant alms be given to the poor el my parish: thi► is
the only magnificence which I allow. I request in
the most pos►tive manner to be neither opened nor
en.balmt.d, nor exposed with my face uncovered, nor
watched ; but to be buried as speedily and as simple
us possible." The King of France has given di.
reetions that the requests of the will shall, as far u
possible, be complied with.
THE Aumv.—A detachment of the 77th foot ar-
rived at Stirling. on the 17th instant ; they are on
their way to relieve difliment detachments of the
41st, at present quartered in that place, Edinburgh,
&c.; the 41st having been ordered to
In consequence of the late changes in the Victua..
ling Office, Mr. Clifton, of the Admiralty, has been
appointed the Secretary of that Department.

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