MOMM. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Fi ly a Court of Directors was held at the East India llt.use, Ndien Lieutenant-General Sir SAMUEL A uclisiuTY, Commander in Chief at Fort St. George, w::s ointed Provisional Governor, upon the death, resignation, er coming away of Sir GEORGE BA RLOW.—The Court adjourned to Wednesday next. A report is current, that, with a view to the per fect re , ,:oration of tranquillity and concord in our Indian Empire, the Eat: MnittA is to be appointed Governor G,-1 eral. 'There is also a report that Mr. TIERNEY ‘‘ id succeed Lord MELVILLEat the Board of Collt1"('Ui The Court of Inquiry at Halifax has decided, that the Little Belt did not fire first. We copy the following from an American paper: Extract from the journal of the brig Captain Cook, f Noah Shirlds, Patterson, master, arrived at Picton, June 7 : " In long. 36. lat. 45. 48. on the lgth of May, at 7 P. M. spoke ..the brig Surprise, of and for Greenock, from the Havaninth, which had been captured by a look-out brig cf a Fri.nch dron of eigla sail of the line on the 11th of Noy, and rec:.p nicest on th 15:h by a brig from the IL:ifax st.nion, name un known, in lat. 36. and long. :38 or 40. The prisoners on bean; informed of P. i:sge nurnbzr of the outward Quebec fleee having been also caiqutLt. by the above squadron." We totally disbelieve the latter part of this report 'as to the capture of the Quebec fleet. We Aliould have heard of it long ago had the case been so. The trench squadron may have been that which admiral De Courcy went in queot of, off the Bra zils, but its force is evidently much exaggerated. The Prince cf ORANGE, Nvho lately lett England to j the Allied Arm'es in the Peninsula, is now at Lord WELLINGroN's bead-quarters. He is de servedly much esteemed and respected. • A repori. is current oh the Continent, that Ba E '..p,!edily put himself rt the head of 100,000 men, to finish the war in the Peninsula MARIA Louisa will, it is said, accompany him to Madrid. General GRAHAM, lately arrived at Lisbon from Cadiz, is appointed to succeed Sir W. BEREseoRD as second in command to Lord WELLINGTON.— Marshal BERESFORD is gone to Cintra for the benefit of his health, having suffered much during the late active operations on the Guadiana. According to' the List letters from Buena: Ayres, the Junta's army had proceeded in great force to blockade Mont.e Video. On Thursday one of the most tremendous squalls of wind ever experienced by, the Gravesend packets, overtook them a few miles from Gravesend, accom panied by thunder and lightning, which had nearly upset several vessels ; its duration was about ten minutes. A person who was on board of the Queen Charlotte saw distinctly the bottom of a ship at some little distance off. The Queen Char lotte had a narrow escape of being lost. SLe owed her preservation to the great skill and exertions of the Captain and his crew, aided by one or two sea men who were passengers. FULHAM FA I kt.—The Magistrates in the neigh bourhood of Fulham have come to a resolution to suppress the annual Fair which is usually held on Parsons-green, on the 17th,18th, and 19th of August. The Bishop of LONDON, who is the Lord of the M nor, has declared, that he can find no charter Vi which the Fair was established. MThCELLANIES. 505 The Prince Regent bad it in contemplation to spend his birth day at Brighton with much splendour. Preparation • were making to give a dinner to sev: Al hundred p;rsune but orders have been sent by commard of the Prince P,Lgt nt for the whole to be stoppz-d, aft.. t o public celrbraLion to take place. Mr. Sadler, the British Aeronaut, witl asce d to•niorrow front the 11.1crni:tid Gardens at Hackney, liunour of the Prince Re gent's birth-day. The patent a,;pointing Lord Ale:ville to the.uffice of Privy Seal for Scotland contains, it is sai a clause, by which the pa trilt is to cease as boon as the restrictions under the Regency Act are at an end. The Countess of Berkeley, it is understood, embarked for the • island of Madeira, with the minor part of her family, about a fortnight past. On Earl Stanhope's late return from town, to his seat at Che vening, Kent, the farmers in that vicinity proposed to testify their gratitude for hi, Bank Note Bill, by drawing his carriage home; but Ms Lmtlship, appriied of their intention, defeated their object, by taking a cif etiitous route.—The ringing of bells, however, and every other demonstration of joy, welcomed his arrival. Mr. Horne Tooke is now much better than he has been for some time past. He is daily wheeled round his garden at Wim bledon, in his c1n..1 - carriag?, by his favourite servant, and he c an at times take a part lit ,htierful conversation. The Captain of an American !chip at Copenhagen, in a if to his owners, informs them, that his vessel, as well as the rest of the Americaus carried into, and sequestered in the ports of Den mark, had hi en released at the initinte of Mr. Irving, the ac credited Minister of the Unitt d Stat•.•s, who had been rec.:Lived at Coilenhagen with the utmost respect and cordiality by (Ii Government there. _ _ _ The 4th of Jitly has been celebrated with much ostentation in the United States. .At New York, the two following toasts wdre, among others, drank with unboundtd arrplause—" Com modore Ro4;gers—the spirit aid bravery with which he defend ed our Gog from insult, And hianbled British insolence, deserve the ityplause of his countrymen."" Captain Bingham—a few more lessons on common law will soon tit him for promotion in the British Navy." The Favourite, Captain Clement', is returned from a cruise off the coast France; she fill in with a French convoy, which he drove on shore. The Eagle, just brought home, was found in the Alva river. Tlle Eagle-bearer was shot in the month of March last, and fell into the Alva, when the enemy, under Massena, precipitately paved that river, cloely pursued by our troops. Mr. Thomas She: Wan is perfectly recovered from his late alarming inensposition. The Lyct urn Theatre will open the winter season under Ins management, and proprietorship,jointly with Mr. Arnold. An Opera, from the pen of Mr. Moore, is said to be forth coining at the Lyceum. Mr. Moore is the author as well of the music as of the piece. In the fertile fields of Caddington, a beautiful village, in .the counties of liedhual and flerts, the wheat harvest commenced this year earlier than is recollected by the oldest person now • living, being one day earlier than a season which is still consi dered as remerkable on that very account. The Surveyors of 'faxes, by direction of the Commissioner. acting under the Property Ac:s, are calling for a list of all the " Methodist, Dissenting, and other Meeting Houses," with the names of the Trustees and Managers, what money on interest, and to %hum such interest is paid, and to what amount per annum. Sir Francis Burdett is said to have brought a writ ofappeal respect to the late decisions, and both actions will be again agi tate.' before the Court of Exchequer Chamber, composed of the twelve Judges, all of whom sit together, and hear the advocates on both sides, and afterwards pronounce their judgement seruet tn. 'g file following is the ori,)n of the old adage," If it rains on St. Swithin's-day, &c." In she year 8 6 5 , St. Sw:thin, Bishop of Winchester, dying, was canonized by the then Pope. lie was singular in his desire to be buried in the open church - yard, and not in the chancel of the Minster, as was usual with the then Bishops, which request was complied with; bu t the Monks, on his being canonized, taking it into their heads that i t was disgraceful for the Stant to lie in the open church-yard, resolved t o move his body into the choir, which was to have been done in solemn procession on the 1 5th of J uly. It rain e d , however, sn violently on that day, and for forty days suc c e edin g , as had hardly ever been known, which made them set aside their de sign, as contrary to the will of Heaven, and instead. of removing the body, they erected a chapel over his grave. ._ -