The National Register. — 1819-07-25 (London, England)

JTIL /5.  --Mr. F. tlibinson, Treasurer or lime Navy, is appointed one of the Directors of Greenwich-hospital in the room of Mr. Rose. Our .eaders will recollect, that about two years ago a singular bet wits made between a Noble Lord, (Yarmouth) mid a gallant Admiral (Nagle),. relative to an illustrious Personage going to sea. To decide the question, the gallant Officer gave the Noble Lord 50 guineas, with a proviso to teceive back one guinea tar every league the Illustrious Personage sailed for the space of five years. In the first ) car, the royal yacht ran 90 leagues, and probably this year she will sail three. times that distance Thu.. the Naval Veterawis•likely to make a good hargein for the unexpired term of three years. A deplorable event took place on the llth inrt. at the gates of Rouen. M. P—, a rich mauutltes tun)• in that city, was returning from the country with his wife, his daughter, a friend, and a female servant, in a four wheeled carriage, when a part of the harness broke, and the horse ran away. •Mr. P. end his friend, endeavouring to stop the animal, were thrown out ; and the carriage slashed against the corner of a wall. Mr. P.'s slaughter was tilled on the spot ; .his wife •was so injured as to he in great danger ; and the servant's life was despaired et. What made the accident more lamentehle was, that the young lady was about to be warned to one of the ornomentsof• the French bar. An article from Tangiers, in the Paris papers mentions that the Emperor of Morocco, Muley Stillman, lately assembled a corps of troops behind the river Sebon, for the purpose of compelling the re. volted inhabitants of the mountains of Todla to pa!, tribute. Scarcely bad the troops assembled, when those mountaineers, who are called Berberes, stn% prised the Emperor's camp at night. The black guard of that Prinoe neva almost entirely destroyed His treasures, valued at 400 quintals of silver, mei ve of his women, his private tent,and his baggage, remained in the hands of the rebels. The Paella, Governor of Tangiers, died of his wounds ; and Muley Ibrahim, the Lmperor's eldest son, was woendal in the head. That young Prince, it is said, escaped to Fez, through the exertions of some Moors who protected his flight.. For ten days the Ernie roz himself was supposed to be killeJ. He found Li, way, however, in disguise, into Mequinez, escorted by a single. Moor who was with the rebels, and who having been the first to enter his Sovereign's tent, informed hint of his peril, and procured him thu means of regaining his capital amidst the greatest. dangers. The following singular suicide was committed at Paris on Friday :—The Sieur Guillet, a lodger in the Rue des Lyonnais, No. S 2, aged nearly hung himself in his apartments, between three and four in the morning. A paper was found neer in his own hand writing, stating, in the ft-liming terms, the motive for the act ;—" Jesus Christ has said that when a tree is old and cen no longer bear fruit it is. gaod that it should be destroyed." 'lids foolish old man had previously several times attempted his life. The Bishop of Calcutta has lately addressed the Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, informing them that the sum of 5,0001. voted by that Society flir the promotion of Christianity in India, would be applied by his Lordship towards the erection of a mitetion college in Calcutta. On the receipt of this letter, the Society for promoting. Christen knowledge, in Bartlett's-buildings, immediately voted 5,0001. more towards the intended college, and the Church Missionary Society has just made a grant of 5,000/. in addition fi,r the tame object. Thus no less a sum than 15,00'J/. has been voted by three Societies, in connexion with the Established Church, for the great object of promoting Christianity throughout British India. The Bath Chronicle of Wednesday stops the Press to state, that an order had just arrived at the Yea. manry Office there, for one troop of the North Somerset Yeomanry and Rifle Corps to march to Trowbridge, in aid of the Civil Power. A troop of the 16th Lancers bud also set cif fir the ramie destination. Nine men were on Thursday taken to the Salisbury Infirmary, dangerously wounded, and at least fifty others were very much cut and beaten. 1 hese disturbances have arisen out of the pending contest for the tepresentation of Wiltshire. Mr. Bennet is 281 at the head of the poll. The following is an extract of a letter from Holyhead, received on Sunday, slated the 15th inst : The Talbot steam-vessel, which arrived here this morning from I lowth, took fire, whilst lying close to the pier; but by the great exertions of the persons then present she was saved from total destruction. A considerable part of her deck, however, has been cut away, to prevent the lire spreading. A poor fellow, who was employed in this work, had his finger chopped off in the hurry and cenluaion inseparable from so alarming an accident. The vessel has fortunately, in this instance, been raved, as it was perfectly cabin ; had there been a breeze, else must have burned to the waters edge.