THE NATIONAL REG 7,1 . 4 5: 4 ; 9 ".. ?M. • t 44.7 µw - +:•!• 1.,., Me. Join HARE Pown.t., the American Secretary bf Legatior, has lift town to embark for America, with dispatt hes • A private letter from a Gentleman resident on the coast of France states, that the French are making the greatest preparations for naval exertions for the v , inter season. They are getting their pri vateers in readiness, and the small craft are refitting for speculation during the long nights. Accounts from Berlin state, that the education of hi, Highness the Prince Royal being completed, this Prince is about to travel with Mr. Dellrue, who was his preceptor. Accounts from . Frankfort, dated Au g . 4, state, that since the intelligence has been received from Vienna, officially, of the great fire at Smyrna, and of the destruction of a vast number of cotton stores there, the price of that article has risen considerably. The accounts from Inspruck sta:e, that the heat has been for some weeks past insupportable in the tallies of the Tyrol, and that the drought, which is the consequence, has the most unfavourable effect Upon the productions of the earth. A forest within three leagues of I cspruck has been for four days on fire, without a possibility 'f extinguishing the flames. Every precaution has been taken to pre vent the spreading of the conflagration. A letter from Konigsbergh, dated July 21, says, that on•the . l7th, at.nine.at night, a fire bloke out in a street of the Old Town, and the consternation was general. By god-fortune the wind was lulled and .no one had retired to rest. Assistance was 'Very soon afforded, though that was not easily done • because the streets are in this part of the city very confined : but the buildings were solid and composed of stone. Only three houses were burned. No ac count has been given of the manner in which the fire originated. The conflagration which recently took place at Archangel, was not so disastrous as lately repre 'Seined. Several houses and warehouses were de- strayed ; but, the weather being calm, the flames did hot reach the shipping. GENERAL ELECTION. Sever al Gentlemen Lave begun to canvass different qmns and korougbs, on the supposition that a general election will shortly thke place. It is a little curious to remark the sort of opposition klready manifested, and the disposition to induce the electors to reject their o d Members.—At Wine! es er the electors are re quested by Sir T. BARING to ding away their Garirm•irl they have So long relished. At Grantham, a woe thy Baronet canvasses, tut the electors say they do not think he is a candidate of good 111an tiers. Ai S._ aford, t:.e Leech still continues to cling to them. At Great Grims!)y, a respectable Member of the learned profession tulicits that the electors will return him, and consequer.tly Grant his request. At Wexford, should the electors prove re fractory to the present Member, he means to aid his cause by a Lattering Ram / At Bodmin they declare that to listen to any other candidate tvey must be considered as Giddy indeed. At Buckingham they still mean to worship at the Temple. At Canittriqe, the notes of the Finch, though seldom heard, tire pleasing. At Castle Rising they declare that they like a Sharp represaitative. At Christ-church the R se it still delightful to them; At Corfe Castle the', trust the Banks will not give way. At Covewry they say it woo d be very unkind to kelp a faithful Moons, and therefore they will send him from thence, and the same time keep the Mills a-going. In Devonshire they are detttniined to c'•erisii and protect the Bastard. In Dorsetshire, In gra ;tilde to the memory of the Immortal Statesman, they keep the mouth of the Pitt open. In B,sex the Bullock is to be: te:Nud up; while at Woucester they will not suffer oue of the fiagidiciates to Morris off. . 1. MISCELLANIES. We understand that his Roy}al Highness the Prince Regent has uotified his intention to destinguith with gold medals; 'the Officers of rank who have fought in the different battles that, have taken place in Spain and. Portugal, subsequent to the me morable actions of Vimiera, Corunna, the Douro, and Tala vera. A letter from Cadiz states a that " the Regency, considering the distinguished services of William Carr liereeford, Esq. Lieutenant-General in his Britannic Maj esty's s'ervlce, and Marshal in the Portuguese service, for the particular ne rigs which he acquired in the glorious battle of Aibuera, in which he commanded as General in Chief of the Allied Army, have pro moted him, w th the advice of the General and E xt , aor di nary Cortes of e Kingdom, to the rank of Captain-General of the Army." Upwards of eight hundred.. butch fishermen have recently made application to the British Government to be taken undet its protection, and have solicited to be allowed to settle on sonar part of the east coast of Scotland. Government is devising tn‘a sures far procuring a permanent settlement for thetWiiiisil aid - Industrious people on some part of the- eaese,,- e.„ In consequence of the interchange of the trittisf.eff. the two countties. the 6th, 20th, and 26th nit ntry re . grtileitts, are order ed immediately to embark at Cork, to semfoice the - British army in Portugal. • A letter from Cork states, that the Pel Surrey militia arrive 4 at Cove on the 12th instant ; the Aberdeen and Northumberland were off the harbour, and expected next tide. PEY ROOS r.—Accounts from Paris, dated Aug. 5, says--IclV* shall at last have positive accounts with regard to the - fate of the celebrated Peyrouse. It appears certain, that twelve seamen, the unfortunate remains of his crew, have been found by an English ship, in a desart island of the South Sea, near which the Astrolabe was wrecked. We are even assured that these 'nett are arrived in France, and we may expect to receive from them certain information with regard to the fate of their companions." On the surrender of the Isle of France, some captured Beet tish seamen and soldiers were found carrying arms against their country, having been induced, either by bribes or thrcata,..to enter the service of the enemy. Sixteen of them are, it issaid, to be tried for this crime at the next Adnilralty Sessions. • A German Baron, who holds a Commissios in the Austria service, hay been recently ordered out of this country. The great pending battle, betwixt Crib anti Wait:cult, will not take place at Doncaster, some of the Magistrates having ex pressed their determination to resist an attempt of the sort. the battle will most likely be fought about a hundred miles from town, on the skirts of several counties. Molineux, Ri:hman, and Belcher, left London, on Mon, a'. by special invitation from several towns in England, to instruct the untaught in• the polite and fashionable art of boxing. The Fifteenth Report of the Commissioners of Military Impsiry has just been published.—it relates to the following branches of the Ordnance Department :--Fortifications an 4 Buildings, barracks, Small Gun Deparenent, an i Shipping. Hoiterssv and Co. Stock-Brokers, 26; Cornhill, respectfully inform the Public, that they have on Sale a great variety of Tickets and Shares in the present State Lottery, all to be drawn Oct, 22d. Present Price, Tickets, only 191. les. ; Half, 101. 55.; Quarter, 51 45.; Eighth, 21. 13a.; Sixteen, Is. 7s. The Scheme tontains only 13,500 Tickets. Wednesday evening, about six o'clock,ac Mr. Butlitt,ehyeniir, - of Fleet -street, was travelling in a gig, in company with a Gen tleinin • they were stopped at Great Booklraut, near I e itte'r• head, on their way to Guildford, by three footpAds, arinrd'avitit • pistols, who robbed them of their ca,h and watches LISD- their chains and seals, but, singular to relate, they returned there. — They were pursued and come up with at Headly Heath, near l3oxhill, but they made finer escape kw a thick cever and wood, and it having become dark, they could not be found. VAUXHALL. The natal day of the Prince Regent, and that of the Com mander in Chief, were celebrated here in the last week with un precedented splendour. The Chinese lanterns have a most su perb , til-ct. In China, once a year, they have a custom of die, playing lanterns from every house. The grandeur of the. spec ta..le thus exhibited excited in one of their Empero'r's to strong a desire to view it, that (ai consistently with their established customs he could not grati7y his desire) he applied to a magician, who cause,: him to ascend to .1 vast height, from whith he could see that which he was so a limo, to behold. It the splendour of the scene th n witnessed by the Emp , pH - was such as to satisfy him tur the trouble he had taken, that which- is now to be seen at this fashionable reso t so far surpass, s it, that we should hardly be surprized, when its tame readies China, if the pre sent Emperor were to apply to a conjurt)r to tzansport hillhillto Vau ~ ~~