The National Register. — 1808-04-25 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  267  -oiee classes of the inhabitants sutler distress, thoic especially who depended on the Conrt for their subsistence. and who have lost their employment in consequence of its emigration. The French. we are informed, with their characteristic activity, have proceeded in making groat improvements in the city ; more, indeed, than have beet ado for many years before. The Governor has ordered .t.e cleansing, and now pa..ring of most of the streets whit* were before in %cry bad conoition. Other changes, how. ever, have been ofa less grateful nature, and proceed frons motives more doubtful. General Junot has ordered that the images should be melted down. A deputation of Friars waited on the General to procure a respite for a very large and favourite saint, which they begged leave to remove and preserve. His answer was—•" If the statue is of wood, vou may throw it into the Tagus; if brass, von may break it ; but if it is silver, or gold, you must bring it to mei and will melt it."  Our squadron in the Adriatic has experienced much kindness from the inhabitants of the Seven Islands, who have expressed their dcsire to co-operate with a British force iu the expulsion of the French, who are nut in sufficient numbers to sustaiii th:rnselves against a very moderate British force. At Corfu they have only ;ift.;.on !intited men, at Zante only ttie hundred, and fifty at Aphalonis. This latter Island would be an acquisition of great %a I tic to us, as we night keep it with 500 men. The inhabitants, who have 110 vessels, are particularly attached to the English. 'it'd by no means partial to the French. We have been informed that Christophe, one of the En-, perors of Hayti, has appointed M. Peltier, the quondam Ediitor of L'Ambigu, to be his Imperial Ambassador at. the Court of London, with a salary of three thousand a year. It is added, that the first remittance has already 14een received by his new Excellency in coffee. If this story be true, will our Government accept him ? Capt. Goodall, Admiral of Hayti, is arrived in London. and states, that the object of the expedition of which he had the command, was to destroy yetion's privateers, anti to protect the British trade from insult, under the operation of this decree. This object was effected by the destruction of Petioles vessels in the manner already stated. B. H. Kennedy, Esq. Deputy Commissary General, is appointed for the expedition to Sweden, who was out on the late expedition to the Baltic. _ _  It is said that the voyage of the Duke of Orleans for the Mediterranean, has in view an important political object. The Queen of Etruria, it was reported, ssas to marry Lucien Bonaparte. They were then to govern Portugal jointly. Luck-a may perhaps now be less obstinate than soire.years since ; and he may possibly be less averse now to a divorce than when he incurred the resentment of his brother by his attachment to his plebeian wife. The body of the late Mr. Paull was removed from his house in Charles-street, at six o'clock on Thursday morning. and interred in St. James's-church-yard. The funeral was ver► private, and the body was deposited on the western side of the church-yard. It is said, that Mr. Paull lost 1600'. at the gaming table, on the night previous to his committing the rash act of suicide ; 500/. of which was lent to him by a Marquis. The will of Mr. Paull has been found sealed up, and addressed to Mr. Wollesley, of Shropshire, who was one of his most particular friends. On the day after the suicide, four sealed packets from India were delivered at his house. It is supposed they contain pearls to a considerable amount.  A new Harlequinacle and the Classic Story of Jason and .ITedea, brilliantly illustrated with dresses and scenery, is ,iow performing with bursts of applause, at the New Ace— tre, iu Catherine-street, Strand. The Proprietors have undertaken the task with considerable spirit, and have rendered the Theatre (he most commodious place within the Liberties. The dresses are designed by Mr. Johnston, me. etanist, late of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane ; the mil!4;1! by Mr. Omni. We sincerely hope their ondeQuurs weet siith