MA VII 20. TirfE NATIONA Monday.—Thin day, et 37 minutes alter .5 in the siso:rsing, the s u n «ill enter the sign Aries (England's Ascendant), when theTerrthf I (ohm takes place. Nature is rejoicing at the retfeat of winter I Bee• 44 i l Stun begin to appear ; a certain indication of the effects of Spring. 11 r•ha.o Assizes. N e w .11,m i' at 13 minutes after 9 at night _—This day is also the an. niversary of the celebration of St. Benedict; born at Nursift, in Italy. of an honourable family, and founder of an order of Monks. 'fhb order, denominated the Benedictine, was instituted in the sixth century of the christinn era; and in the ninth, h&c' unrivalled the reins of the monastic empire. Benedict was a man of great piety and repute is his nee. Tocsday.—Nottingham Assizes.—Night is now 11 hours,. 48 minute•' long. _ _ •23. Wednesdno.—Flirerrbbory Assizes.—Mercury is stationary ; and wilt be %Coil the • Moon, at I in the morning. 24. Thursday.--Surrey Assizes, held, this year, at Kingston-upon itarnec. 25 Friday.—Lady Day ' , or Annunciation of the Virgin Marv. Au punciate signifies to lying tioious ; and the word Annunciation here r, furs to the declaration %loch the Angel Gabriel made to the Virgin Mary, that " she should be the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ—who should he great, and called the Son of the Il!ohest !" This importzmt festi% al is supposed to have been instituted in 530.-11oliday thiooghout the public offices. titti . .loti. —Jupiter sets at sh. Gni. in the morning. 7 —Eun rises M sh. 46 tu.; sets at 6h. 14tn. NATURALIST'S CALENDAR. Compartment., de,igned for planting with any kind of flowers, roots, or plants, shrubs, or trees, should be forthwith completed. Rey ulatc, dl o. all sorts of edgings of box, thrift, &c. ; and plant new cdeings where airy are required. Annual flower-seed,,, of all corts, may now be sown ; brlth of hardy kends in the open ground, nn,l tender sorts in hot-heels. Flowering shrubs nr iy still be planted ; us--roses, hone) suckles, Itypericutus, spiry a ° , and syringas. Place in a hot house such pots of choice flowers, and flowering shrubs, a, you dri,tre to havc early in bloom. Trader evergreens, together with choice having had due pro tection during the past months of winter. .;mold be prirraitted to enjoy to! I air nit the coming of temperate %scathe r. Sweet-briars way be soAn im drill ; and young plants also planted in Slit übtJecies. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Days. MARCH. Morning. Crcnin4r. 20 tl. 22. V:3. 24. ~ !.5. 26. OLYMPIC THEATRE, NEW CASI LE STREET, STRAND. Under the Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. FOR TILE BENEFIT OF MISS SYDNEY. Miss SYDNEY most respectfully acquaints her Fricrids and the rtiblic, that her BENEFIT is fixed for 'I 0-MORROW, March:2f, Jill. when will he presented the highly popular Melo-Drame, called LOVE'S PERILS ; or, The Hermit of St. Kilda.The Melo-branie will open with that extraordinary piece of Stage Machinery, the Broadside section of a Ship of War. In Act 111. a Stratliqcy, by MissG !Ten ; and a Scotch Dance by Mr.Glll and the Corps dc Ballet, 6 ' Botmtt 'Prentice to a Waternmn ' " and " Jack's the L a d, " .by Mr. M ILL ER. Mr. FITZW ILL! AM, by particular desire, and for that night only, will sing " Paddy Carey ; or, the B eaut if u l Irishman." Mr. . PEAR MA N, will also sing an entire New Ballad." The words by . 1. Keith, Esq. The Music by Mr. PEA R MA N. In course of the Evening, " Belles have at ye all," will be Rt:ciled by Miss Dely. F. r that night only, and by particular de,ire, Mr. R EES,:sen. will give his admirable Immitation of Mr. KEA N, and s•-veral popular London Performers. After which the EAR I.S of HAMMERSMITH. To conclude with an entire New, Splendid, Cvniic Pantomime,. with New Music, Ice called FROST FAIR; oi, Harlequin Frac the Noith. Should Tickets be ofkred for Sale at the Doers they will not be adinitted.—Tickets to be had of Miss S dncy, 11, Newcwatle- street, Strand : and at the Theatre, where PlAces may be taken &Mea t 4*. Pit,'`ls. Gal. is. PrAISTER. Is 7 ,'. 'The great press of imporilaut Foreign Infoimation this week,. com pels us to postpone. till ouy next, our -remarks ou. Mr. YOL'N ci's excelicitt Rerfinmance of Richard lII.' and Mr. ..KEAti4 Hantlet. ' • "An Old Watchman's . " hint will be kept in memory. 14fany valuable communieritioms unavoidably postponed. PILICF SII'OCKS YrATEkt.DA.Y. 3 per Cent. Con. Excbequer Bljig 35 p Coos for Arc 7I ti THE-NATIONAL REGISTER otiDNI, SUND..4Y„IL4 BCH' 20, 1814. GIZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. The Gazette of last night contains farther dispatches from Colonel Lowe, dated Laon, March 11, stating the loss of the enemy in the previous engagements at 48 pieces of can• non and 6000 prisonners. Buonaparte was then retiring towards Soissons, where it was considered as possible he might make a stand, although, in a former Gazette, that town was represented as having been taken by storm by the allies. The Gazette contains also dispatches from Lieutenant. Colonel Cooke, who, IL seems, is also one of Government's intelligent col respondents, arid attached as such to General Winzingerode's army. Ills communications go down to the morning of the 12th, and are dated from Laon ; at which period lie states that the enemy was in full retreat, and that the Cossacks, who pressed hard upon him, had already brought. in a considerable number of prisoners, and a great quantity of b;lggage, among which was that of General Le fevre Desnouettes. PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE. 11 We understand the Preliminaries of Peace are in sub. stance agreed upon. France is to be reduced to her antient boundaries, those of 1789.—8ut the Allies insist on certain fortresses in Old'France being given up to them as securities till a definitive treaty of peace.—These arc Strasburg, Metz, Valenciennes, Lisle, Bayonne, and Perpignan.—Upon the question of the surrender of these fortresses alone, if not en tirely, we understand, the signature of the Preliminaries stands over: —lt is said that Buonaparte is willing to surren der some of them ; the Allies, of course, to retire to the hon. tiers of Old France."— (Courier of last night.) MILITARY OPERATIONS IN FRANCE —LONDON GA. ZEWE.—DISAbTERS AT BERUEN-OP-ZOOM. The military prospect in France has undergone a variety of changes during the course of the last week; and, to our great mortification, we are unable to trace so satisfactory a sketch of the situation of the armies as we have been in the habit of doing, owing to the unaccountable discrepancy in the accounts published in The Lando?? Garetie, whose autho rity the public has been so long accustomed to look as a guide, at least in the most impGrtant occurrences. in the early part of the week, The Hague .Vatc:; Courant, which it seems is now the Dutch official Gazette, a title of no great re commendation in our opinion, was receivPd in town contain• ing a letter from the Pt ince of Sake Weimar to the :-40ve reign Prince of the Netherlands, transmitting a hasty bul letiu from Blucher, from which it appeared that the gallant veteran had obtained on the gth at Lam', a complete victory over Buonaparte, with all the circumstances usually accom-