and leaning on a column, on which are the following inscriptions.

1. Peace of Abo, 1743.

2. Peace of Kudschuk Kainardschi, 1774. S. Peace of Friedericksham, 1809.

Government intend reducing the maximum of military pay to a dollar a day. At the same time the Mouks suffer nothing, and the Jesuit novices, of whom there are already 30 here, are ordered to receive each a dollar a day. These same friars have procured the extinction of the establishment of the church of St. Isidore, and have secured the emoluments for themselves. In this church the remains of the martyred patriots of the 2d of May, 1808, are deposited. Who could have anticipated that this Order would have been revived to guard their ashes, or that their blood should have been shed to bring about such a result! The cold here is terrible: Reaumur's thermometer has fallen to five degrees below Zero.

It is worthy of remark, that in one family, the father, son, and grandson, have concluded treaties of peace highly advantageous to Russia. Alexander Romanzow concluded under the Empress Elizabeth, the peace of Abo with Sweden, by which the towns of Nysteh, Williamstrand, and Friedericksham, were ceded to Russia. As a recompence, he received the title of Count. Count Peter Romanzow, his son, the celebrated Field Marshal, concluded the glorious peace with the Porte at Kud schuk Kainardschi in 1774. The son of the Field Marshal, the Chancellor Count Madrid, Jan. 29.-The King, on the Nicholas Romanzow, concluded the peace 21st visited the state prisons incognito, acbetween Russia and Sweden at Friederick-companied by the Captain of the Guard, sham, 5th September, 1809, by which the Principality of Finland and the Aland Islands were ceded to Russia.

the Duke of Alagon,, His paternal solicitude led him into the cells of the prisoners. His Majesty examined every thing in detail; perceiving the machine which was Pay of the Army increased. formerly used to apply the question, he orPetersburgh, Dec. 26.-The Emperor dered it to be burnt, that even the redistinguished the anniversary of this birth-membrance of that infernal instrument

day by a most remarkable and advantageous ordinance for the Russian army. The pay of all the Subalterns and Staff Officers, to the Colonel inclusive, is for ever doubled, and a large addition of increase given to the Generals, under the name of table money. Every Chief of a regiment receives an addition of 3,000 roubles, a Brigadier General 4,000, a General of Division-6,000, and a Commanding-General 10,000 roubles.

SAVOY.

The Journal of Savoy, under the head of Chamberi, January, contains the fol lowing:-"The fine weather, and extremely mild temperature which prevail here, are by no means so extraordinary as the following circumstances, which will form an era in the annals of meteorology and agriculture. We this moment learn, that they are reaping in our mountains the oats of last season, in proportion as the melting of the snow leaves them uncovered. The straw has suffered, but the grain is well preserved. Near Entremont they are dig ging up the potatoes, which are likewise of very good quality."

SPAIN.

Commerce: Monks: Cold. "Extract of á letter from Madrid of the 9th of February."The distress in this capital is unprecedented. The public treasury is exhausted. There is a report that

should be effaced. Those in the other prisons are also ordered to be destroyed.

National Register :

BRITISH.

King's Health.

February 1, the Queen's Council met at Windsor, on the subject of the King's health; and the following bulletin, being signed by the physicians in attendance, was exhibited at St. James's Palace ;

"Windsor Castle, Feb. 1.-His Majesty has been uniformly quiet, yet cheerful, during the last month. His Majesty's disorder is undiminished, but his bodily health continues very good." Signed as usual. Thanksgiving Prayer.

The following Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the preservation of the Prince Regent was ordered to be used at morning and evening service, after the Goneral Thanksgiving on Sunday last, in all

the churches and chapels in London, and in all others on the Sunday after it is received:

"Almighty God-Merciful God, who, in compassion to a sinful nation, hast defeated the designs of desperate men, and hast protected from the base and barbarous assaults of a lawless multitude the Regent of the United Kingdom, accept our

praise and thanksgiving; continue, we implore thee, thy protection of his Royal person. Shield him from the arrow that fieth by day, and from the pestilence that walketh in the darkness; from the secret designs of treason, and from the madness of the people.

“And whilst we pray for thy mercy and protection, give us grace, O God, to perceive and know what things we ought to do; lest, impatient of present evils, and unmindful of thy manifold goodness, we seek relief where relief cannot be found, and abandon those never-failing sources of national prosperity and happinessobedience to thy commandments, and the fear of thy holy name.

and thanks for his splendid victory in the bombardment of Algiers. The Noble Lord was attended by ten Captains of his fleet, who had shared the dangers and glory of that expedition. The Lord Mayor accom panied the presentation by an appropriate speech; to which Lord Exmouth replied by the most cordial expressions of his grateful feelings for the honour conferred on him by the City of London.

It is a singular circumstance, that none of the Almanacks notice the now returning direction of the magnetic needle towards the North; in the year 1657 it pointed due North, but has been 160 years increasing in declination westward; last year it attained a declension of 25, and then became stationary, and it is now receding back again to the North.

"These prayers and praises we humbly offer to thy Divine Majesty, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord It is ordered that all the three-deckers and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." are to be in future first-rates; second-rates, The Prince Regent, with a view to les-50 guns; fifth-rates, 36 guns; and sixth80 guns; third-rates, 70 guns; fourth-rates, sen the consumption of corn, has ordered rates, 24 guns. No ship to be a post-ship the allowance of oats to the cavalry to be under 24 guns. One of the yachts is to be reduced from ten lb. to seven lb. per diem rated as a second-rate; the rest as thirdfor each horse in barracks and quarters. rates. The horses actually employed in the coastduty are excepted.

A proclamation, dated Carlton House, Jan. 29, is placarded all over London, offering a reward of £1000 for the discovery of the persons who threw stones at the carri age of the Prince Regent, with a promise of pardon to all those concerned, excepting the person who actually broke the wind ow.

We understand that the tenure of the magnifice at house near St. James's palace, which was granted to the first Duke of Marlborough about 100 years ago, expired with the death of the late Duke, and now rever!'s to the Crown. This was the house in w bich Queen Anne resided before she ascended the throne; and in all probability it will now be granted to the Princess Charlotte and her illustrious consort.

Saturday se'nnight the Thesis frigate was launched from Pater-yard, Milford; she is a remarkably fine ship, and will mount upwards of 50 guns; she went off the slip in a very gratifying style, amidst the cheers of a vast concourse of people assembled from the different parts of the neighbourhood to witness so novel a scene, the Thetis being the first frigate ever launched from the new Dock-yard.

At Gravesend and Northfleet, during the last month, such a quantity of floodwater has come down the river as to impede the tide, and render the Thames at Gravesend partly fresh; a circumstance never recollected by the inhabitants to have before taken place.

The labours of the late Captain Tuckey are not lost. His journals have been received complete, to the farthest point to The foreign journals announce the in-southern Africa. The journals of the nawhich he proceeded in the interior of tended pub lication of the travels of the Princess of Wales in Palestine and Syria: the work is written by a young physician in the suite of her Royal Highness.

turalist, botanist, &c. who accompanied Admiralty, and the whole are undergoing the expedition, are also received by the a revision, for the purpose of being presented to the public.

Lord Exmouth.-On Friday Feb. 5, af ter the adjournment of the Common-hall, the Lord Mayor proceeded to the Common Council chamber, where Lord Exmouth had been in waiting a considerable time, in consequence of invitation to receive the splendid sword voted to that No-ation blemau, as a mark of public approbation

NEW SILVER COINAGE.

change of the old for the new silver coin Royal Mint, Feb. 1, 1817.-The exof the realm being now fixed by proclaBritain on Thursday, the 18th instant, no to commence throughout Great

The Society of Arts have chosen a Secretary in the room of the late Dr. Taylor. The election was by ballot, and Mr. Aikin 4. No. 248, Oxford-street, the corner of was the successful candidate. The numPark-street.

5. No. 22, Denmark-street, near Saint Mr. Aikin, 415-Mr. Hiort, 107-Mr. Downing, Giles's church.

8. The corner of Abbey-street, near Ber- the sort used by Buonaparte in his Russian mondsey church.

10. No. 53, Thomas's-street, near St. Tho- in an hour; and 7,500 words when warm

12. The Angel and Crown, opposite White- Exeter, has in his possession a hen, which chapel church.

14. No. 166, Wapping-street, at the end of close to a corn rick, and the moment a

at 961. 12s. 1,121,3521. 8s. per annum, in the port of London only.

CAPE WINE.

1815. 257 Tuns | 1816. 1,119 Tuns. Account of Foot Passengers, Curriages, &c. which passed over London and Blackfriars Bridges in me Day, July 11.

Blackfriars
Bridge.

Passengers &c. London in 24 hours. Bridge. Foot Passengers.. .89,640....61,069

....

769.

Waggons....

........

Coaches....

Carts and Drays.... 2,924.

533

1,240..

1,502
990

509

822

Gigs and Taxed Carts 485. Horses..... ...... 764.... We are happy to hear that the demand for woollen goods has increased in our cloth halls the two last market-days; indeed, it is confidently anticipated that the stock of low-priced cloths will shortly be very much diminished.-Leeds Intelligencer.

Lord Amelius Beauclerk has recently introduced into Yorkshire a specimen of flax, of a most beautiful colour and texture, which is prepared in a novel mode. His Lordship proposes to find the raw material, and employ the labouring poor in manufacturing it.

Lately, the brig Eliza, Hennesley, from St. John's, Newfoundland, arrived in Dublin with a general cargo, after a passage of 14 days, being the shortest ever known. The weather was so severe at the time she left the island, that she was obliged to be

cut out of harbour.

Mary-le-bone new church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, in the presence of a great number of persons of the first distinction. The organ is placed at the back of the altar, and in the centre of the organ is an open arch, in which is placed a very fine picture, painted by the President of the Royal Academy. The subject is the Angel of the Lord appearing to the Shepherds. The exterior of the church is very beautiful,

The long-depending cause in the Court of Exchequer, between the King and the Bishop of Bangor and his Clergy, respect ing the liability of tithes let at meetings to the highest bidder, to the payment of auction duty, has been decided in favour of the Bishop and Clergy. Five per cent. on upwards of $2,000l. was depending.

The Church Union Society, in the diocese of St. David, have adjudged their premium of 50l. to the Rev. H. D. Morgan, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, for the best "Essay on Baptism, as an Ordi

nance of Christ, as his appointed means
of Regeneration from Original Sin, and, as
such, a means of Grace necessary to Sal-
vation; and on the difference between
renewals of the Holy Ghost."
Baptism, Regeneration, and the subsequent

Wesleyan Missions.

The Committee, during the last year, have sent out 19 additional Missionaries, viz. 4 to Ceylon, 1 to Bombay, 1 to the Cape of Good Hope, 4 to the West Indies, 2 to Nova Scotia, 3 to Newfoundland, 1 to Quebec, 1 to Gibraltar, 1 to Brussels, 1 to France, making the whole number employed in foreign stations, under direction of the Methodist Couference, 80. Johanna Southcote.

The delusion at this time practised upon the believers in the predictions and doctrine of the late Prophetess is matter of great astonishment. An interdict arrived at Newark on Sunday, the 19th inst. from a those of the faith, amongst other things disciple of the conclave at Leeds, inhibiting from attending to their ordinary business during the ensuing eight or nine days; and a manufacturer's shop in that place is at this time entirely deserted, and the busi ness of many small dealers suspended in consequence.

Public Houses: Regulations proposed.

Mr. Beaumont proposes as a constitutional remedy for the present abuses in the system of licensing public-houses, that a bill should be brought into Parliament, containing the following, among other reExcise shall be empowered to grant genegulations: 1 That the Commissioners of ral licenses to keep public - victuallinghouses to the occupiers thereof, upon producing a certificate from a magistrate and parish officers, of good character: the victualler to pay a duty of 2001. upon receiving such license. No public-houses to be of less yearly value than 201. and be rated houses already licensed to pay on the 1st of at that value in the parish book. 2. PublicOctober next a duty of only 201. If a public-house be wanted in a new situation, and no person be willing to pay 2001. duty, the Commissioners of Excise be empowered to take not less than 501. for such license. 3. No license be granted to the occupier of any house belonging to a common brewer or distiller. Persons interested in the ownerships of public-houses to be compelled to declare their trusts upon oath.

Timothy Marshall, and Mark Marshall of Brimpton, Somersetshire, hoop makers, and woodmen, have been committed to the House of Correction for one month, on the

complaint of Mr. W. May, for having spent their money in an improper manner, and not having employed a proper proportion of the money earned by them towards the maintenance of their wives and families, by which they became chargeable to the parish of Brimpton.

Hard Soap, versus Soft Soap.

In the manufacture of hard soap, which is in the proportion of twenty to one more extensive than that of soft soap, upwards of 100,000l. worth of British tallow is used, and a vast quantity of the kelp, manufactured on our shores, the consumption On Friday, the 3d of Jan. the Commis- of which would have been sacrificed to the sioners of Hackney-coaches revoked the li- Whale fishery and American potash, if the censes, No. 99, 658, and 924, all belonging manufacturers of hard soap in London, and to one owner, on the complaint of the in- the woollen manufacturers in Yorkshire, spectors, for keeping the whole of his horses had not taken the alarm. The measure in such a state of starvation and wretched-issued in an additional duty generally uess as to be incapable of performing their labour.

The Leeds Declaration against the Seditious.

on all soap, to the amount of about £200,000.

The Turbot fishery.

The manner of catching this excellent fish has been recently introduced into the County of Durham, although it appears to require less skill than any other mode of catching fish. Not unfrequently a single draught will sell for 50 guineas. It is a curious fact in natural history, which has never been noticed before, that although

city, yet young turbots are never found in the stomachs of other fish; which seems to account for the immense quantities which have been discovered all round the island, since this method of catching them has been sand round the coast that does not swarm introduced; and there is hardly a bed of with turbots.

"We behold with detestation, wicked attempts to produce disaffection to the established form of Government, by exciting popular assemblies, promoting political clubs, and thus setting the ignorant and uninformed in judgement over their rulers.-Men of abandoned character and desperate fortune, taking advantage of our commercial difficulties, and the unfavour-fish prey on each other with furious voraableness of the seasons, sow discontent among the labouring classes of the community-vilify the high Authorities of the State-dare to use openly language of intimidation, and to disparage the very charity, so liberally extended to the poor, during this period of unavoidable pressure. The difficulties under which we labour, are attributed by them to the corruption and mismanagement of Ministers; and General Suffrage and Annual Parliaments (evils deprecated by the judicious of all parties,) are held out as the only correctives: yet these would, in truth, lead to the subversion of the Constitution, and to that disturbed state of public affairs, which has produced the most calamitous effects in a neighbouring nation.

"We contemplate with peculiar horror the organised system, which the seditious have contrived, for the furtherance of their designs, by the extensive circulation of inflammatory tracts and pamphlets: of these some are blasphemous parodies on the venerated forms of our Holy Religion, and which tend to root out of the minds of the unwary all fear of God, honour of the King, and reverence of the Laws.

"Against these wicked conspiracies, we consider it the duty of ALL his Majesty's faithful subjects, to unite, and to quell the the spirit of Rebellion, by opposing to it the firm and dauntless front of Loyalty."

A Declaration to the same effect has been adopted at Manchester, and many other towns in the North.

The method of catching this fish is extremely simple: long nets are buoyed up by corks, and kept on the ground by lead, which stand like a wall, their height seldom exceeding seven feet their length seems indeterminate. This net is sunk to the bottom, where it remains for 24 hours. The fish, when they find themselves opposed by the net, still press forward, and soon become entangled--and in this manner, which is so perfectly simple, hundreds and thousands of fish are caught.

The following Furs, Skins, &c. were imported from North America, this season, Skins, 40,600 Parchment Beaver, 45,000 Raccoon, 30,000 Marten, 9,500 Otter, 7,000 Bear, 1,000 Wolf, 2,300 Cat, 9,000 Mink, 4,000 Fox, 3,500 Fisher, 200 Wolverin, 172,000 Musquash, 4,000 Swan, 25,000 Deer in the hair and shaved. 5000lbs. Castorum.

Extraordinary sale by auction.

The Rhinoceros, which has long been a visitor at the Provincial Fairs, was taken in execution a few days ago, at Norwich, by the Sheriff of Norfolk, to be knocked down by the hammer of an auctioneer. It was sold for £300.