THE NATIONAL REGlsnein LONDON : M.IRCII P. P. 719. Tit % accae.nts reeeivel on Friday, from the Coast, are very distressing. The Tempest on Wednesday night NI'A the most violent ever remembered. At Ports r.t'.?,,th the hurricane seems to have been most awful. The tide rose six inches beyond its greatest height at a::; former periud, and the difference between the even ;ell morning tide was five feet perpendicular. At Vir i .;:ite, the Nlarquis of Wellesley Last Indiatnan is on store, bet will be got off. At Ramsgate the Asia East. kdimaan, is on shore on the lqain. The Fly cutter lost her firemast and bowsprit, and above twenty other ship received damage and left their cables and anchors. At Cowes, for forty years past the title was never hymn Lie so high, and the intelligence fl'om Deal, \‘'cv n• uth, and Southampton, is tqually distressing.' '1 he was such as to create the utmost alarat Ott, cr. shore, where every moment it was feared it would I ave 1.);:en accompanied with wee great convulsion or nature. The stairs, piers, and sea walls about Haslar and South Sea Cie4lo. arc considerably dc:naged ; and the whole of that bceutiful and useful work, the New Pier at R.: 'c, is e.tio.. to have been almost totally des true. %V at :orsernerl. to add, that between Rams gate and ll:oadetuirs several dead bodies have been cast on shore. Paris Pipers to a late date h.svc Iwtr. rc,eircdau7ing tl.e week, hut eleir euntct.te are unireportmit. Utter s from raris etnounee that the Police had arrested three iltvlf4 who Were fusrcetei of not uneon. c. :e...11 it. th.:ettcrept up'n the Take of Wc:lillgton. Friday tii.,•ht r. llitisaburgh nntil arrived. B, it we le.rn the new King of Sweden is to be crowned on the e . :th inst. He expects hi 3 Queen from France. A nutice was published on the 10th ult. in the Ber lin papers, addressed to all Swedish and Norn , c„-iln suliects, to appear, nn the 15th of March, at the hotel of the Swedish Ambassador to tale the oath vf anze to his Nlajesty Charles Jilin, King of Sweden and tiorway.i C .:v ;17, i) vecr.ll:4 ;,!': r• - $(1:11e mis• ..;) f;•.)ra autlicatic t 1 .1:1 v.111::1 i . i~.^ 1,F: ! , was nrt r;Lr, r!;.- carc. c:Lr, , , kc THE NAWIONAL VEGISTEII. liberty, and the Captain had his freight paid hint. It is not the sot! bf the English enusur that the Dey com mandcd to be arrested, hut a person of the name of Ben Zaman, sori of an ancient English Vice-Consul.— This" yoking man has not been imprisoned, but obliged to beccnnea Masse:man, and the Dey has given him an employment In hi service. Lastly, it is not the daughter of the Sardinian Vice Consul who had teen carried off • and shttt up in the Seraglio, but the daughter of a per . son named 'Ponsibinio, a Sardinian =fleet, who, after having been fbr twer.t7.. years in slavery at' Algiers, now lives at liberty and carries on a little trade. This young person is only the God-daughter of M. Dams, the Sardinian Vice-Consul, who has formerly been se veral times in Mika. We have had no arrival of Paris Papers since Thurs day last. Pour Ity's Journals arc nr w due. _ The Finance Committee in its. progressive lab Ours has just brought out its Seventh Report ; this Report relates wholly to the Army Estimates, and is neither interesting by any detection of extravagance, or regula tion of economy; a clause of .the first paragraph is per- Imps the most important, which states that the num bers 03 the present Army Estimates below those of 1817 arc diminished (only) by about '4OOO men, and tl:at this reduction takes place in the troops stationed in Iceland, the remainder upon every other home and fo reign station cuntinuitig nearly upon the former esta -I.ll.:inenr. The estimates fur 1817 were 3,3.51,3771. and fur 1818, 3,:177,3741. baing less in the latter year by 74,0021. lOs. ; but what is more singular still, it:, that the Staff for 1813 is more thanthat.of the preced ing year by 3,1341. _ _ _ II the Coarse of a conversation which arose in the 11Juse of Coin:none on Widnes:lay night, on the motion of Mr. Brougham, for the appointinent of a Com mittee to enquire chat steps had been adopted for At>. stroyit:;; decum:•!lt3 relative to the deceased Pro perty 'Fax, the l !lane( llor of the Exchequer unequivo cally 41; Oared, that it was not his intention, under any ciretun , tances, during a period of peace, to propose a r;Atival of that Tax. This declaration of the Right I Ton. Gentleman is important, inasmuch as it will dissi pate the apprehensions entertained by many persons, that an attempt to revive this oppressive Tax, not withstanding the declared opinion of the country on the subject, would form one feature of theituancial system to be submitted to the new Parliament. The Election Bill is thrown out, there was not a single clause in it, which went to narrow Ale power and means of corruption ; its sole purpose seemed to be, to spare the candidates purse, in the little offices °fla vours, to shorten the pllification of the time, and to patch up a parsimonwus return. All the usuagcs of absolute and tangible bribery remain untouched.. Mr. Curwen proposed a clause in his Bill, to oblige every Member to take an oath at the Table on his,atl mission, that he hail not procured his election or return by any act of bribery, bargain, promise, or reward, either by himself or others—and that be would neither fulfil nor be accessary to the fulfiling of any bargain, promise, or contract dim had been made fcr hint, and that a verdict in a Court of Law, proving that he had obtained his scat by corruption, should not only be a forfeiture of his seat, but should subject him to the pubis anti pnialtiet; of pajury. The following is an Extract of a Letter, received in town on Friday morning, from - the Captain of the ship Romulus, bound to Noriblk (Virginia), lying in the Downs:s— " In the t rents:adults gale of Wednesday night, a ship, totally distuasted, ss.fist down under his stem, and all hands on hoard ptriwlicd ; he could not rtmdc: any as sOue,,, but was forced to cut his twc, ci.bles and run for Et:no:gate Harbour, not b.:ing ab:e to ride out the ;rale ;. he states that upwards of .CO vessel, were on shue flt difierent parts of the coast." A Court of Common Council was hcg at Guildhall, Frilay, when un Especial Committee was appointed to report to the Court en the order of the 'louse of C:aumons, -On pursuance of Mr. H. Sumner's motion,) requiring the Corporation to lay their necoants before that house.—Mr. %Voodthorpc, Jun. was appointed Deputy Town Clerk, and Anthony I iarrison, was elected a Murshalman in the room of D. Cartwright, deaeased, There will be.saveral new candidates for the City of London. A publie meeting of Mr. Waithman's friends is adver•ix.l for Thursday next, and it i 3 intimated that Mr. AM. Thorp intends to start on the popular interest. A motion was lately. mado in the Legislature of Massachusetts, to alter, by law, the names of the days is the week. in catts•-tinence of their being derived from t'r,e 11e/11:;:a Clo-ls. • We are yo. to horn the fate of this rnatior, which wily could have origiaated mat& land of vatic •e c. A tat): place ir , rt.l.tv 1.1::t. in . the .ot.m.! .Tors !Z:wEn. itr tht: Cavalc :tt t IvltLtu a tatiott cf it'i ••ta , ltt . v.i in a wat. t;;Titiot rm. rex Niartril it: 1.:%:•:ur Varl arc no, be t!•ta •i!lt Fatrons L.ltereti - 1)11 :1 1 .1 - mt /;;•01. wt:S c‘ri trilNotcd. Earl of a tioaa..:.-.1 ,f 1.0001. NtAltrri 9 Win-mourn, Frs. .-11 is Serene Highness Prince Leopold, on hearing of the melancholy death of the late Sir It. Croft, immediately suspended all his favourite amusements; and the effect produced on his mind by the news of this melancholy catastrophe may be betfir conceived than described. We are happy in stating, that, notwithstanding all untoward circumstances, the health of this illustrious Pc:rsona,, , re continues in an im. proving state. The Prince and his establishment are expected to occupy the King's Lodge in the course of a. fortntbr: _ _ The Duchess of Gloucester has been honoured with the selecting of the wedding dresses, ornaments, dec. for the intended Duchess of Cambridge, with which a Hanoverian Messenger left town on Wednesday. They are extremely elegant. The Royal Duchess (to hoc credit be it spoken) has selected the whole of British manufacture. The Hereditary Prince of Hesse nombourg, whose unir,rt with the Prinesses Elizabeth of England seems to be certtiim, is Getteral.of Caralry in the Austrian Nrvice, the Proprietor of a Regiment of Hussars. Ne. Leipsit he commanded the reserve army. and in francs. led the Allied Southern Army which took Lyons. The pupil of•Loudohn, ivitil: still very young, distinguished himself in the siege and storming 1)I Bel , grade, and was remarked in the succeeding war equally for humanity And bravery. It is defluitively arrange.:L•that the marriage of her !loyal Highness the Princess Elisabeth, with the Prince of Hesse liombonrg, shall - take place in Easter , week. After spending two or three weeks at Craft bourne Lodge, which is prep :ring for their reception, the Royal couple will proceed &Decay to Hamburgh, through France, by way of Calais. Lady Campbell and Lady Elizabeth Montage will have the honour of attending her Royal Highness mt the journey, and Sir Harry Campbell will also be of the party. Monday being the Duchess of Cumberland's birth. day, the same was observed in the morning by the King's Guards, at St. James's Palace, with military . honours,. &c. In the evening, the Duke and Duchei gave a grand dinner upon the occasion to the Prince of I lesse Hombourg, and a select party. Report says ' that a conf‘rence took plan between an . illustrious Duke and Ministers on the subject of his wished-for matrimonial alliance; when the objectiuns of the confidential advisers of tile Prince Regent to 6:1 Royal Dukt;'s marriage with a subject of the 'Cr<iv:r., were frankly stated.- It is added that his Ftqyal il.igli ness required sonte.titne to give his definitive an . s , r, whether he would' persist in putting the entry bid the books of the Privy Council, according. to the provision hr the statute, where previous an was withheld:. Miss Wykehern's father was twice marrictl : she and her brother were by the first marriage. Her bre:her died young., and :"lips Wykeham had lJng suit with her uncle, Philip NVykehar3, Esq. which - was finally decided in her .favour by the present - lord Chancellor. Her father's second wife is now marriel to a limner, near 13anbury, aid has an annuity or 30t. a year From the Thame estate. M;ss Wylcehatn delights in field sports; and has reetatly gut the name of :Wet Wyfehans. The new Queen of Sweden appears to wiih'to re incvnito ; she lives at Paris under Cie ne.fai of the Countess of Gothlarul The carriage of the Prince of Hesse Hombourg Wai actually lost, for a time, during the litre:cane .): 1 Wednesday nialit. When the servants went to p:t the horses to, at the time apoointel, to• take his Serene Highness from Alinack's, they were thrown into con siderable alarm at finding it removed from its station in the King's Mews, and it was sometime before it -.vas discovered in au obscure touter, at the bottom of the Mews, near Cockspur-street. The wind had blawa-it a distance of nearly 200 yards. Election contests generally produce references to t roily matter. Thus, it is now stated, that the • Eiany of the prc , ent Earl of Lonsdale have been settled in Westmoreland ever since the year 810. Sir John Lowther, one of the ancestors of the present Earl, repre sented that county in Parliament in 1624. The floilg ham estates were purchased of the Bird family, the latter end' of the seventeenth century, by Cormni3sioncr Brougham, who entailed them upon his flair nephecc,s, from the vocageg of which the present Mr. Brungla.:A is descended. ANTIQUITIM—AI , cut three weeks ago some men, in the employ of Sir W. Hicks, Bart. while tliwing up the root of an di ash tree, at Cot-Tea-hill, Lbout fors miles from Gloucester, struck r.r. a large stone ; and on removing it they discovered a tight of steps leading !iv tta apartment, in the centre of whirls was a ci:4•: , t about a vt;eil rivare in leaning teat mm, the of a bliealo lord r. bui!ock, with hornr!, awl the remai....l ni :t fire phtre, with a qu:nititly of %, , lotls ivhcF, apar . :o, •• ; in r.ne of 1%-1.;..11 •.•t.7 vori:.tts . ;OF. ; 1 • C.J. pavement, a:r.a lac rcot.ain% of sevontl ttr:ll tigure,l titles of Roman of co , .-: airartmontc. and also ;Iv.: r 11.:,:: i 1 .1 1 :t Fc.trit. t. al of ..1111 ;In a 101 1 Front Me LONDON GAZETTE, Saturdv, AlarcA 7 . TIANKRUPS. D171E3 T. jun. Chorhon. rimier. farmer, March I', 114. April 18, a: Liverpool. Att. M. Che,ter. Staple Inn. P ):.L ITT I'. Manche:Asir, irroe,g. April 4,6, 11, at Manchester. Atts. Aillington ahtl Cu. Medford-row. r.,ii.ut:a 11. Sheffield, merchant. March 24, 25, April 18,at Shcf eal. Ac,. I)arke add Co. Chancery-1112c. Mtfn n Liverpunt, socreliant. March 19,'Ajoil 7, 18. at Liver - 'tool. Ar. Mr. Batty; Chancery-lane. 1) oiccv N. Bri;tol, linentlraper, March 25, 26, Arra 18, at Bris k:. Att.:. Jenkinsvirl Co. New Inn. 31 ,, :n0i - x .1. Lb:, r 07., cloth iniaufacturer. March 34. 25, April "1, at Bradrunl. York. Att. Mr. Evans, Hatton Gard:n. ::n;::.1. Lung Acre, coachidatcr. March 14, 21, April I°, at • ::.1,17,:.11. 'Att. M,r.lTiil, heti-Pron. • l'!: 3. are W. Ilnatn s. Winchester-street, merchants, March April 18. at Guadhall. Acts. Clarke and l :sere I. re: W. jun. late of Alder ate-street, cooper._ March 7. 14, i::,1 tr., at Guildhall. Atm. Boardillon and Co. Bread-stmt. I': Ji.tei-iti;.d. brizklarer, March 14. 21. April 18, at Att. ?.!r. West, Red Liam-street. Wapping. DIVIDUNDS. Lrrant., Woof Garden-court. Tzt.i.C.e, dealer, ?lay 2. C. Bund.stuf t.jerrell,:r. /14..ril 7. c • Atellcy, late f Cm:tin-bury. victualln, March :Os. Portinan.sguare, ivoninen e :rr, March 28. 1▪ i.. A. Smith. 11:rhy. mercer. March. 11 iinip!irysts, daetardatm-place, fit. George's-fields, Leraeclealcr, );.trei 38. 17 Warden and L. F.r.lth, Austin Priers. w.erchante, March 28. 4.;. Dwyer, einim4e-c 7 .74, broker, Mare% '_t. M. Abrahams. Daltc-:trezt. Alrliole, merchant, April 7. V. Sisi-211, ofiewin •strert, Cripplegate. raylor. T. Wheeler. elt. A gls:ls cutter, April 7. r,„ 'ate of Lcarts, 3w4ex, shopkecper, March 71. W. 11. Tue4l7, High-street, Barougia, iron In-relent, Apti! 4. J. Wand and J. Sattcrthwaite, - Fen-court, insara.::e brokers, April .or Roild, I.cndon.street, merchant. April 7. G. Noble. Ely- in .nvhant, March VS. York, saddler, April 6. T. and IX Bin sea. hpirotLnd, Lancaster. tann.rrs, April o. Itro ea, C.71.r1.1.1 anc.tster. totton-tilantthietaro, April P. 1.. ll:retard. late. of Fcnchurchatrcet tusurahre broker : 7 -I . arelt 28. V, . Arawell and H. Brcwster, Ncwcr-stl:-tipen.Ty.te. incre.lacts, :'.arch 25. C.1711T/VICATL. , , MARrit 28. S. Let. Duke's place, vicutaller—.l. Oliver, Newington ransetrz!-. eardwainer-11. C.•11;;r, ettelt:inhari, porter dealer — F. Kidd. Li verpool, niero'laut—J. Itoiac and 1) . Shout, f Mu:ll'4.Tc IVOI3, w ers—S. Wa Mitt 4„.0n. Drig!iou,:, York, corn fa •to.---•ti - . ree l) lrly Litz of S:. ttendin4, cml increritt —D. Duch, Whitby, lklar.chc..tcr, dra:cr.