NO v. 26. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Can man, can lordly man, put op, through lite, Witt! but one fetnale friend, asad that his wife? Or rirtuout ladies lie enotunt to cl o se Their harmless friendships with platonic beaux ? " iendslup"..--ii poet writes—" like hive's a name Are they not often, Ladies, both the same? iendship's a light that beams in sate controls!, To help, to guide. to gladden, or console; Should it the touch of fieret r passion know, Blaze into love, and with its madness glow, 14 mounts like raging fires in stormy weather, And love and friendship both burn out tocether. Enough of marriage; a trite theme that fits The brains of all that are, or woul.l be, wits. Now let is.. ask, what kind of fliendship aids The wiser lives of bachelors and maids? Oh ! from what various causes, aels, and th;nus, Friendship, or what at least is call'd so, springs ! From w inc. (*tom law. from quintets, illness, want s Congetsial fully, and conspiring cant, Agreeing hatred, undesery'd reproaches, Falls, fits, mistakes, and journeys in stage coaches. 4 ' Sir," says the challenger, wills courtliest grace. " You'll answer soon, and fix both time and place." et Tho' quite a stranger, I'll your ball attend. " I know no soul here, but I'll find a friend." The good matt, nulled by deceit and fraud, Burns to proclaim the villain's statue abroad; " Learn," he exclaims, " learn caution from my fall, " Trust not the wretch, for he'll betray you all." " Say that no more," cries one. " I recommend." " Not say't ! 'tis trite"—ft yes sir,—but he's my friend." The lawyer viewing wilt malicious breast, A rival's hag, that bursts with briefs comprest, Still keeps that amity, with .pile tho: That's still amused each morning with Isis wig; And teals convinced " Isis lordship won't attend " To the gross ignorance of my learned friend," Such friendship is, such is its Ilse and aim, All give, all take, all misapply the name. Who sold yon that vile nag, that rkk'd your life? Who stele your daughter? who sedue'd your IA lie? Who won your money ? who still makes you lend, And ne'er repays? one answer serves—my 'liens,. 'there is one sect, of wealth and worth partakers, Who not abuse the term......r mean the Qaakers; For they benevolent to all apply if. And rarely mean one jot of friendship by I have some ftiends too: such this hour demands; Whose fav'ring hearts speak by applauding Intuits. The best I know—and lwas our Author's %skim, That sent me here to find some such for him ; Well, then, " speak hand , ' for Itim"—a cheering sign, But let the hearts that prompt them still he mine. MISCELLANEOUS AND DOMESTIC. The French Journalists, it is said, have received orders never to mention the name of the Duke of Orleans, without the express authority of the Government.—Miss Nash is a native of Bath, in which city her parents now reside. Miss Nash, when very young, was a pupil to Rautzeni, and, since his death, of Mr . . Loder.----An awful mortality has taken place in 1 little more than a week in the family of Mr. N. Chantler, of Staplehurst, in Yorkshire. On Thursday, the 2'Gth ult. he lost a son, aged about nineteen years, and on the Sunday following, whilst attending the funeral of his son, a daughter, aged 1 3 years, also expired ; and in the course of the follow ing week Mrs. Chantler, his wife, also died ; and like wise two more of her children, and the latter were "all en tombed in one sepulchre.—Letters from the Meine affirm, that Marshal Davoust has been challenged' to fight a duel in the plain of Grenelle, by Major Schill and Dr..Schlott mann, of Coburg.—A letter from Lisbon, 'states, that the Prince Regent of Portugal has expressed the highest 763 di‘pleasure at the Regency, for having hesitated to put the troops at the disposal of Marshal Beresford, and sub sequently di-patched a messenger to Europe, who is ar ri‘ed at Lisbon, conferring the most ample independant powers on the Marshal.— An Evening Paper states, upon we know not what authority, '' 4 that the Government of Portugal has so far conceded to the efforts of Britain, for the abolition of the slave Trade, as to engage not to carry on that nefarious traffic on any part of the coast of Africa to the Northward of the rine." Letters from the Hague, dated the 7th, contain the fol lowing extraordinary piece of intelligence :—The sea 'has thrown - on shore, near the mouth of the Texel, a phial containing a note, in which is written, " the ship the Concord has been cast away on the coast of Madagascar, where we shall all perish ; I pray the person, into whose hands this phial may chance to fall, to make the present known to all our good friends and parents." This note was dated Feb. —, 1815, and was signed Wandorf, of Amsterdam.—Lord Hill gave a superb Ball, on Monday evening last, to all the rank and fashion in Paris.—Lord and Lady Harcourt arrived in town, from Paris, on Thurs. day.—A marriage is spoken of in Paris between Sir Charles Stuart and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, who is expected there.—Sir Charles Baldwin, attached to the Commission for British claims on France, left town on Saturday se'nnight for Paris with dispatches for Lord Casticreaght and official papers belonging to the Commission.—Lady Boughton, of Bagboroug,h House, Somersetshire, has re duced the rents of her tenants in Herefordshire twenty per cent. although her farms are let on long leases. Her Ladyship has also given her tenants an assurance, that if the above direction shall be found inadequate to the times, on the next receipt day she will reduce them a fur ther ten per cent.—The l3ritish troops in France are to be paid tenpence a day by the French Government ; and the additional twopence to make up the British rate, con stitute the whole amount to be drawn from England un der the head of pay.—Colonel the Hon. Granville Anson Chetwynd Stapleton, is appointed Paymaster to the Royal Marines, in room of the Hon. Col. F. Hastings Doyle.- -It is asserted that the Duke d'Angouleme has received a pet:tion, signed by 1500 Nlarsellais, desiring the trial of Massena for not having allowed them to march against Litiona parte. —I n the European Magazine for April 1701, we find as follows, " Died lately at Durseloy, near Gloucester, Mr. Handal, aged 76, famous in 1731, for riding 1000 miles on the same horse, in 1000 suc cessive hours, on Stnrchcombe Ilill." This sort of, exercise may be good for man, but perhaps few► . horses will be found able to perform a similar exploit.—. We are happy to state, that the Lord Mayor has com menced his office with the most commendable alacrity. His Lordship visited Billingsgate-market at five o'clot:k. on Tuesday morning ; and on Wednesday, about the Same hour, perambulated the streets, and visited the different watch-houses in the City. From a continuation of this conduct, at uncertain periods, we anticipate the most beneficial results.—lt is currently reported, as an evidence of the hardness of the time, that as many as five hundred persons have gone to the King's Bench and Fleet since the commencement of term ; many of them removed from country gaols to take the benefit of the new Act, of which Mr. Serjeant Runnington is the Commissioner.— ' On the 30th ult. a party who were coursing near WO : • ell Half, in the pirisli of Llanyblodwell, in Slicopslaret