3,AN. 19. MISCELLANIES. Lord Sidmouth, it is said, intends to renew his motion this Session, respecting the qualifications of Sectarian Preachers. A petition to Parliament, praying the total emancipation of the Ca tholics of Ireland, is now signing by the Protestants of Dublin. We have received the Dublin Papers of Tuesday last. The following extract is the only intelligence they contain on the subject of the new plot :—" The three following persons, John Keegan, Owen Adams, and Thomas Quartermass, have, we understand, been committed to thetaol of Kilmainham, charged with having traitorously conspired against the King and Government Keegan and Adams were brought up yesterday to the head office of Police, where they underwent an examination be fore the Magistrates of that office."—( Freeman's Journal.) The ships of the line at Spithead are to be put into an immediate state of equipment, for some sudden service. The report is, they are to take a reinforcement of troops to Portugal. Recent intelligence has been received at a French port, of the suc cesses of the Dantzic privateer in the West Indies, which is stated to have taken up to the middle of October, about thirty-five valuable ships. In a very short time the Captain was expecte to return to France, and resign his command to some other equally enterprising Officer. The privateer has made prizes amply sufficient to enrich her owners. Many of the ships captured were Spanish, with bullion on board to a vast amount. Eritish vessels have been long in-pursuit, and have frequently gained sight of her, but have hitherto endeavoured to come up with her vain.—ln consequence of the unparalleled successes of the Captain of the Dantzic, it was supposed to be the intention of Buonaparte to confer on him some titulary distinction. A cirrular has been transmitted to the Paymasters of cavalry regi ments, acquainting them, that in consequence of the present enhanced price of corn, the ration of oats is to be reduced from 12 to 10th;. per slay for each horse, and the ration of hay to he increased from 8 to 121bs. The ration of forage for horses in quarters remain unaltered. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has given the 78th reaiment, vacant by the death of Sir James Craig, K. B. to Sir Samuel Auchmin y, and Sir Samuel's regiment (the 103 d), to the Honourable .Alajor-Gene ral Lowry Cole, of the 27th foot. The Government of Blackness, which Sir J. Craig held, has beengiven to Lieutenant-General Hill. Prince D'Aremberg and General of Brigade Bron, taken by General Hill, in his late ga lam dash against the enemy, arrived at Swansea on Monday last, together with several other French prisoners, on their route to Welchpool, for which place they set out on the following morn ing- The Prince is of rather a diminutive size ; • but the General is a commanding figure ; and both appeared in high spirits. A circular letter has been issued from Whitehall res p ectin g Aliens, a who, it is supposed, aid the escape of French prisoneTs, declaring that all housekeepers who shall receive Aliens to lodge or reside in their houses for more than 24 hours, after the expiration of their li cences, without getting them renewed, are liable to a penalty of 101. APPREHENVON or GEN. SIMON.—By the exertions of Vickery and Lavender, .the Bow-street officers, the French General Simon, who is charged with a breach of his parole from Odibam, and with being guilty of traitorous correspondence, was traced. on Thursday evening to a horse in Pratt-street, Camden-town, where they apprehended him. They also took into custody, in the same house, M. Buiron, a surgeon in the French army, who is charged with being concerned with the General. They were not taken to Bow-street office and examined, but to 'fothill-ficlds, Bridewell, and safely lodged.—On Friday even ing, Vickery and Lavender apprehended the French woman at the house in Pratt-street, and conveyed her to Bow-street office, where she underwent a private examination, on a charge of concealing them. The following paragraph is from a Morning Paper of yesterday, but we believe there is no foundation for it " We undsrstand, that at a secret examination before Mr. Graham, the Magistrate, last night, Mrs. Vcrmilloe, of the Pear Tree public house, Ratclitf-highway, turned King's evidence, acknowledging herself to be a participator in the crimes committed b oth at Marr's and illram son's, and gave testimony against Hatt and Alblass a as perpetrating the murder of Mrs. Marr and the apprentice, while Williams was dispatch-• ing the husband.—Both Hart and Alblass are in custody, strongly ironed, and constantly watched."—(Morning Chronicle). A pitched battle, for 100 guineas aside, was fought on Mill-hill Com mon, Hants, on Monday, between one Anthony Jones, a butcher, and Peter Smith, a navigator. The parties were matched a month since, half forfeit. The contest was doubtfully maintained for two hours and ten minutes. It was a stand-up fight without science, and the comba tants were considered the hardiest men in the country. Jones, at length won the fight by giving his adversary a hard fall. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before Lord Ellenbo rough in and after Hilary Term, 18I2: Wednesday Monday _ Monday IN TERM. Middlesex. London. . Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Saturday Feb 3 I Wednesday . . . 11 10 Tuesday Thursday . . . . AFTER TERM. 13 I Friday • • • • • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. COURT AND WORLD OF FASHION. 43 THE KING. The following Bulletin was issued on Sunday last :"..." " His MAJESTY continues nearly in the same state." BIRTH-DAY OF HER. MAJESTY. Yesterday being the day for annually commemorating HER MAJESTY'S birth, who completed her 671 h year on the 18th of last May, the bells of the metropolis were acs cordingly rung, and its streets, towards evening, were enlivened by the accnst,rned illuminations on the part of HER MAJESTY'S tt aciesmen. PRINCE REGEN'T'S COURT. Wednesday his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Catlton House. At half-past two o'clock the PRINCE held a Pt ivy Council in the State . Room, at tended by Generals TURNER and KEPPEL, for the pur pose cf taking consideration certain estimates to be laid before P.ulia•r,enr, which was attended by— The Lord Presidcot oi• the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Ler.? of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Rlaster•General of the Ordnance, the three Se cretaries of State, the President of the Board of Control, the Duke of Montrose, Earls Wincheliea and Aylesford. His ROYAL HIGHNESS gave audiences to EarlsCAMo nEN WEs.rmonr,AsD, the Marquis WLLLESLILY, Mr. PERCEVAL, and Mr. RYDER. The roof of Drury-lane Theatre, it is understood, will be on by the 20th of March, and no d•iubt is entertained by the Architect of the Theatre hei!:g fully completed in September. The Pantheon Theatre (7t concern in opposition to the Opera House) is nearly complete':, but great doubts are entertained of the Proprietors getting a License from the Vice-Chamberlain. A long Correspondence bis.taken place en the subject between Lord John Tbynne, Vice-Cham berlain, and the l'untheon Committee. Mrs. Jordan, it is stated, has renewed her engagement at Covent- Garden Theatre, and is to fill up the interval till the return of Mrs. Sid dons, after Easter. Miss Duncan has received an offer from the Covent-Garden Mana gers, but is not yet engaged. Mr. Charles Kemble leaves Covent-Garden Theatre at the conclusion 'Of the season. '1 he dauzliter of a Gentleman, in the neighbourhood of Mary-le hone 'New-roar!, went off with a maid-servant, a few days since, without any apparent cause, in order to proceed to lrelpd, but was overtaken Stonh, and brought back, and now greatly repents her Inds at . • cretion. The LAW-OFFICER and the POLICE-OFFICER. The apprehension of a certain Stock-broker has given rise to a dim'. tation between a Law Officer and a Police Officer. The Police Officer, who went to Falmouth and took the Stock broker into custody, has claimed from the t aw Officer the Hundred Guineas Reward, specified in the hand rill and advertisem , nt of the Bow-street office for the ap prehension of the offender; but for, and on the part and behalf of the said Law Officer, several matters have been pleaded in bar to the claim of the said Police OfTic r, that is to say : First Plea.—That the Law tAlicer is entitled in right of his office to the gratuitous exertions of all Police Officers whatever. To this plea the Police Of f icer replies, that the Law Officer is not bound to hold, nor did he ever hold a brief fur a Police Officer without a fee, and that this service for the Law Officer was 7ioll quasi Law Officer, sed quasi simple individual; and thereupon ;ssue is joined. 'Second Plea,—l liat the said Police Officer could not have apprehended the said offender in expectation of the said reward, inasmuch as he, the said Poli e Officer; departed from Londe* for Falmouth aforesaid, the evening antecedent to the publication of the hand-bill and advertisement. To this plea the Police Officer replies, that he did apprehend the said culprit. Third Flea,—That inasmuch as the said reward of One Hundred Guineas is in and Ly the said hand-hill and advertisement offered to be paid by Mr. Stafford, of the Public Office in Bow-street aforesaid, be the said Mr. Stafford, or any tithes' person or persons whatsoever is and are at full liberty to pay the same4lll every or any part thereof. ' To this plea the Police Officer has do. murred. Whether this grave matter is to be settl«l by the Bench of Westminster Justices, or the Justices at the Bench at Westekd stet as not at present d i terrnined; hut it seems to be the general opinion, dot it is good policy to pay well a good Police Officer. il