The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-15 00:00:00

OCT. 15.

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EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA.--Intelligence has been re-
ceived by late arrivals from Canada, of the entire dispersion
of the Colony founded by Lord Selkirk, in conjunction with
the Hudson's Bay Company, on the river Assiniboia, in the
interior of the North-west Continent of America. Disputes
with the Metiffs of the country, a race of people between
Canadians and Indians, inflamed the natural jealousy which
the latter have always felt relative to agricultural encroach-
ments on their hunting grounds in the interior, and, it is said,
compelled his Lordship's Governor to abandon the establish-
ment which had been made. About 140 settlers were eon•
veyed by the Canadian traders to Lake Superior, on their
way to Canada, and the remainder are supposed to have gone
to Hudson's Bay, with a view of finding a passage to Great
Britain. The Governor, Mr. M.Donnell, and a Sheriff, also
appointed by Lord Selkirk, Mr. Spencer, were brought down
prisoners to Montieal, the one for having granted, the other
for having executed a warrant, under the authority of which,
provisions, the property of Canadian traders, were seized
during the" preceding winter for the maintenance of the Co-
lonists, and these Gentlemen were admitted to bail in the
Courts of Lower Canada, to take their trials for this alleged
offence.

We have lately seen a paragraph in most of the London
and provincial prints, 'respecting a French mechanic at Neuf-
chatel, having discovered the perpetuum mobile, (perpetual
motion) consisting of a wheel, on the periphery of which w
two small pipes, half filled with quicksilver, and which have a
centrifugal direction. We do not doubt the truth of the state-
ment : but we are assured the object cannot in this way be
attained. In a provincial paper, of May 1802, appeared a
paragraph, that a gentleman had really discovered perpetual
motion ; and we have no doubt, from a communication
which we have received from the said person (who now resides
within the limits of this paper) that he is actually, and for-
tunately, in possession of this grand secret. He laughs at
the idea of quicksilver being introduced. The true perpe-
tual motion cannot be impeded with, or in any way interfered
with, by elementary changes—his has been buried in the
earth, immersed beneath water. placed in a hot oven, ex-
posed to cold, in which quicksilver would have frozen, and
has never varied; in all kinds of machinery it is capable of
effecting every thing that power and motion can possibly ac-
complish. When there is a certainty of his receiving the
proffered remuneration, then, and not till then, he will make
the discovery to the world at large. We are authorised to as-
sert that this gentleman will answer all proper inquiries
which may be made by any person who feels an interest in
this highly important discovery.—Alfred Exeter Paptr.
The report of projected hostilities between Russia and the
Porte seems to gain strength.
An article from Hanover in a Hamhurgh Mail which arri-
ved on Friday, states that the cession of East Friesland to
that kingdom has been definitively agreed upon; and that
Hanoverian troops are under orders to take possession of the
province. Thus a point of communication with the Conti-
nent upon territory belonging to the Sovereign of Great Bri-
tain has at length been obtained; a concession, which will be
of immense political and military benefit; many commercial
ones will doubtless be also derived from the access it will give
us to the German rivers.
The Meuse, it is said, is to form the boundary between tbe
Kingdom of the Netherlands and the dominions of Prussia.
By the Vienna Papers, intelligence is received of a revolu-
tion having taken place afSmyrna, the. Object of which is to'
place upon the thronenf.the Pty, a Regency of the Gran-
dees °lithe country, the members of which are to be chosen:
by the people, Very ;lide blood was shed. The foreign

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Consuls quitted the city. Many families, the heads of which
were in the service of the Dry, have fled. It is stated that
the Regency has placed itself under the protection of his Bri-
tannic Majesty; but when the Commander of the English
cruiser asked to be allowed to land troops for the purpose of
maintaining tranquillity, permission was refused.
CONNUBIAL PERPLEXIT V.—A man, who some years ago
was sentenced to transportation for seven years, but who ser-
ved his time on board the hulks, a few weeks since at the ex-
piration of his sentence, returned to Maidstone for the pur-
pose of claiming his wife, who during his absence in durance
vile, had joined herself in the holy bands of matrimony with
,a knight of the thimblP. Much distress ensued: the second
husband was attached to the lady, but the fit st possec:or was
inexorable and bore her away in triumph But the fait one
being equally attached to the tailor, and he expressing him-
self determined to go through stitch with the business, and
prevent the thread of connection being cut, the first iushand
was, by proper reasons, induced to give up his rib On Mon-
'da'y, the parties all met at a public-house in Maidstone, and
before certain grave and proper witnesses, a deed of transfer
was duly drawn up and signed by the. several parties, and the
tailor on paying 71. to the first husband, received his lost wifo
to his and her infinite joy and satisfaction. We understand
there was some dispute about the stamp that was necessary, as
the new schedule has no provision for such sort of documents.
• When the Duke of A ngouleme was compelled to leave
France and withdrew into Spain, he still continued upon
the frontier for the purpose of encouraging the spirit,
which was known to prevail in the southern provinces in
favour of the House of Bourbon ; in furtherance of this
object, his Royal highness applied fur pecuniary as.
sistance from England, which was granted. lie was em-
powered to draw upon the Treasury for thirty thousand
pounds, and in order to remove any difficulties he might
experience in raising money, he was likewise furnished
with letters of credit upon commercial houses at Barce-
lona, at Toulouse, and at Marseilles. The manner of
employing this money, when once placed in his hands,
was necessarily left, in a great measure, to his Royal
Highness's discretion ; but he considered it as a sacred
deposit entrusted to him by the British Government, to
he applied solely to the objects of the war. The Duke
of Angouleme, after having had in his possession, for a
period of three months, the order upon the Treasury,
and the letters of credit with which he had been fur-
&shed, returned them to the British Government, stat-
ing, that he had fortunately not had occasion to make
use of them.

BUO4APARTE.—There has been a curious coincidence
in the Occurence ofsome of the principle events of the life
of Buonaparte in the month of March. In Mare'n, ► 796,
he was named General in Chief of the army of I taiy. In
March 180'4 he concluded the peace of Amiens. In
March, 1804, he destroyed the Duke D'Eughien. In
March, 18051 he accepted the sovereignty of Italy. In
March, 1808, he commenced war sgainst Spain. I n March.
1800, he undertook the last war against Austria. In
March, 1810, he received in France the Archduchess
Maria Louisa. In March, 1811, he announced the birth
of his son, the King of Rome. In March, 1812, he comma
menced war against Russia. In March, 1813, he re-united
the new forces in Germany against all Europe. -in
March, 1814, he was deprived of his throne. In March,
'lBl5, he returned master of Faris.

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THE NAT!

DRAMATIC REGISTER.

COVENT GARDEN.
A most extrtivag of dramatic nonsense, called g 4 The
Parse Writer," was produ:ed last week at this Theatre, and t ntwith-
Otansiing some eery sirorg and ridiculous inconsistencies, cowl' ties to
Maintain itself in the rufdtc favour. This phenomenon, .visich is not
to s: nnrnnui,tm in our clays, foa3 he attributed tw the degree of bmtle
which perv: des the piece, and valet' keeps the-mind Inn incessantly
tin a jol log •rot, to allow it a single moment of clear reflexion and
settled ,ens-.
On Erid le bight Mi..; O'Neill, who lins resumed the run of the
ellarac, rs wh cit fixed her last season at the head of the MMS, as
legittirrae success r to Mrs. Siddons, appeared in " Haller," mid
display. d, wit, unab ited power, her complete mastership over the
*en ibilides of the whale audience.
DRURY LANE:

Mr. Dowtott, whose ambition has lately taken wing and snared to the
I:eight t Shat;c.pear's Shylock, and bean's Chef.d'ouvre, made his
srcond appearance in that character on last Friday. The excellence of
this actor in the sphere to %sl►icit he has hitherto confined himself is so
great, as, perlu to throw a shade over his performance of parts
which do tint draw forth his charaettiistie abilities. lilts Shylock was
an eminent, brat net a surpaf.sine effort. His judgment retained all its
strength, and his conception all Its usual accuracy; but his voice, too
frequently weakened into a whi.per, and the good humour of his coun-
tenance, which, (tmuli capable of great e►tpression, seldom reaches
that of rnalloity and hatred, impaired the effect of his performance,
which, however, would have made the reputation of a less eminent
actor.

PA kik ictrits..—A man, named Boutilly, who had been a prisoner in
ngl and , and returned to France, in consequence of the Treaty of
Paris, has IrAged for snme time with his mother, in the Rile de Cha.
tentoo, In Paris. In the night of the 28th of September, this unfor-
tunate woman hati retired to bed, and about one o'clock, when she
was fast aslceo) this monster put an end to her existence, by giving
her 36 wounds with a knife. He has not been apprehended.
A Pew n'ehts ago, on emptying the cesspool of the house in which
A tis, the late Governor of e House of Correction in Coldbath.
fields lived in, iu St. Pancras, there were found at the bottom two
iron crow bars, such as bouse.breakera generally use in forcing open
dolts alto two large ke)s, one a double-headed key, which were
brought hetora the Magistrates, and tried by Mr. Adkins, the present
Governor of thi• House of Correction, when, on trial, the large key
was round to open the great outer gates, and the double.headed key,
one end was found to open all the doors of the men,' cells, and the
other end all the doors of the ‘vorners' cells, throughout the entire pri-
son. By Wll4l tnteans they came to be hi such a place, is at present g
cause of inquiry.
A female, elegantly dressed, apparently about 30, on Thursday
morolog at ctopt‘d to drown herself in the Regent's Canal, but Was
saved by two labourers, 1% hu saw her plunge into the water, She re.
fused to give any account of herself, or the cause of her conduct ; only
said, that she was not now surpri:ed at being disappointed when she
expected to be for evermore happy, because she was on all occasions
sKoustotned to disappointments. Her bonnet was found on the hank
with some verses in it. A coach was procured, into which she went,
tinning the cLacl.than to drive to Portman-square, but the persons
who saved her did nOt follow he home.

BURG•JARY sorrosEn Moans;.--The Inhabitants of tbe.pa-
fish of Mary-le-b-ine have been in considerable alarm since Thursday
last, in colsequence of a report being in circulation, th:it a woman and
girl, left in care of the house, No. 19, Foley-place, had been mur-
dered. The house in question was fittel up last si ring as a lodging
house, and was soon after taken by a family who were little known
In Vie neighbourhord : a tew weeks back they went ir to the country,
ttnd since that period the tradesmen. &c. had no communication with
the house, but an e:derly woman and a girl were occasionally seen
there, who sere suppoacd to be le:t In the care of the house. Last
Thursday morrrog the area-gate and kitchen shutter was observed
broken, and et: further examination, it Was found that all the furni-
ture was taken away—mil the Venetian blinds were taken from the
windows ; the persons before alluded to were also missing, and have
mot since been heard of. Hence it was interred by some of the neigh-
bours, that they were murdered, and their bodies carried away by the
robber..
Blween Cve and six o'clock on Friday morning) the warehouse of
Messrs. Alchorne and Stubbs, of Old Fish-street, Doctors' Com-
m ins, was broke open and robbed of several bales of goods, consisting
of superfine and other cloths, kerseymetes, fine serge 4. Irish linens,
Lid various other articies, to the amount of at least 6001. The watch-
ri n, It appeared, had left his stand but a short time previous, and a
urviutt, woman, in the premises, having heard a catt draw tip to the
doer, and again retire in about a quarter ut an hour) her suspicion was
excited) and atter witting up IV asGertaht tli fast, tli robbery was
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