FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. This Gazette notifies, that the King has been pleased to con fer the honour of Knighthood on George August us Quentin, Esq. Colonel in the Army, Lieutenant Colonel in the loth regim.nt of Light Dragoons, Aide de Camp to the King, and Major Ge neral in the Hanoverian Service. It also notifies the appointment of R. S. Hadwen, of Lancas. ter, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. W. Gill, Scarborough. Yorkshire, linen draper. Solicitors, Messrs. Hurd and Co. Temple. J. Gear, Nottingham, fishmonger. Sul. Mr. Wolston, Fur. nival's Inn. J. Glover, Easthope. Salop, dealer. Sobs. Messrs. Willis and Co. Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street. W. Chafer, Kingston upon Hull, grocer. Sol. Mr. Hicks, Gray's Inn Square. T. Oliver, High Street, Marylebone, victualler. Sol. Mr. Carlon. High Street, Marylebone. W. Blackburn, Bedf o rd, Lancashire, manufacturer. Sols. Messrs. Hurd and Co. Temple. R. J. H. Jenkins, Axbridge, Somerset, clerk. Sole. Messrs. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn Square. J. Todd, Cottenham. Cambridgeshire, butcher. Sol. Mr. Robinson, Half Moon Street, Piccadilly. T. Coal, Burwell, Lincolnshire, dealer. Sobs. Messrs. Bell and Co. Bow Churchyard. J. Parker, Chapel Street, Edgeware Road, earthenwareman. Sol. Mr. Carlon, !lig!' Street, Marylebone. J. Hunter, llawk l iurst, Kent, corn dealer. Sols. Messrs, Gregson and Co. Angel Court, Throgmorton Street. J. Rogers and T. Keats, Savoy Street, Strand, harness makers. Sol. Mr. Lewis, Surrey Street, Strand. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 9. G. E. Aubrey, Manchester, merchant-26, T. W. Turner, Brentford, potter--31, J. Kenworthy, Saddlcworth, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer—l 9, T. Kenipster, Bouvcrie Street, Fleet Street, carpenter-2H. W. Tucker, J. Fenton. and G. Machon, Sheffield, silver platers-29, F. Deakin and Jr Oughton, Deritend Mills, near Birmingham, wire drawers-29, G. Hewett, Henley upon Thames, banker-26, C. Jackson, Upper Thames Street, sugar factor-26, .1. T. Thorn, Plymouth, currier-26, J. Hawkins, Famcornb, Surrey, crape manufacturer —26, .1. Ilaggart, Limehouse Hole, victualler-2G, J. Bayliss aid T. Thompson, Piccadilly, ironmongers—SO, F. English, Birmingham, draper-29, H. and H. Phillips, and T. Birmingham, toy makers—T. Parks and A. Lawton, Birming ham, merchants—Feh. I, H. Jones, Holywell, Flint,draper. cEirriFicATEs to be granted Jan. 2G. J. Ilayter, Bristol, watchmaker—B. G. Gunnell, Poultry, printer—C. I. Cameron, Gray's Inn Lane, hardwareman—W. ilowbottom, Oldham, Lancashire, machine maker—J. Du Bois, Copthall Court, merchant—lt. Clements, Coventry, ribbon ma. aufaeturer—W. Eyre, Cockspur Street, trunk maker—J. and J. Railton, Manchester, merchants—J. K. Hendy and L. Ilaydon, Welbeck Street, Caveadish Square, auctioneers. COURSE OF EX Amsterdam, 12 13 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 10 Rotterdam, 12 11 Antwerp, 19 7 Halation - oi, 37 6 Altotia, Pa' is, 3 days' sight, 25 60 Ditto, 25 011 lionvileatix, 95 00 Frankfort on the Maine, 136 Petershitrgh, 0 0 U. Vienna, EI. Flu. 10 16 Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 15 Madrid, 36—Cadiz, 36 11 ilhoa, 35/ lia celona,3si 14ANGE, J*a• 4. Seville, 3.74—Gibrallar,3ol Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 431 Malta,4s—Veniee, 27 60 Naples, 391—Lisbon, SO Oporto, 50-ILillia,s9 Rio Janeiro, Palermo, 119 per cent. Coil', 9 per emit. Foreign Odin bars,3l. 17s. - Mid. per oz. New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in bars,stantlartl, 4s, I STOCKS. Rank Stork Omni 1111 l 0. 3 per Cent. Red. 713 i I Imp. 3 per Cent. J per Cent. Consols 77i India Bonds 71 3i per Cent. luuta stuck i3tii 4 ter Cent. 95i I Exchequer Lillis 3s. pre n. rer Cent. Navy Cons. for Ac. 77; Lour. Ann. 191 1 Lottery Tickets PiiICE TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. onDon : SUNDAY, JANUARY 6. Those miserable Puppets of superior villany, Nlessrs. Shackle, Arrowsmith, and Weaver, (the printers and proprietors of the John Bull) had a nar row escape on Wednesday last, under an indict ment for libel on the character of the Countess of Jersey.—lt appears that they had sworn, in the al& davit at the stamp-office, that the paper was pub lished in Dyer's-court, whereas the fact was, that it was published in Johnson's-court, Fleet-street—it is usually an axiom that a man shall not plead his guilt in one way to save himself from another crime, but somehow or other this laudable rule was here overloaed, and the Jury declared by their verdict, that the defendants were " Not Guilty"—thus they had an opportunity for temporary triumph—as the man who is acquitted of the worst crimes to which human nature is incident, may exult that his prose cutor has mistaken the parish in which the offence was committed, by which the delinquent escapes the well-merited gallows—but they were not so Jinni nate on Friday last, when their trial came on for libels on her late lamented Majesty—the indictment set out only five out of five hundred, for which they might have been prosecuted, and the Jury instantly found a verdict of " Guilty" against all three of the defendants. Of the censurable and unjustifiable nature of these libels it is impossible to speak too strongly, and we devoutly believe, that to the in fernal publication in which they appeared may be sscribed (added to, _ " The neglect of him Who should have cherished tier.") the early termination of her earthly pilgrimage. — As to the parties who are put forward as TARGETS for prosecution we consider them as resembling strongly the victims who arc induced by absolute hunger to occupy Carlile's mart for blasphemy, with this great difference, that in this instance poverty, hunger, and distress, cannot be pleaded.—We have long known some of these parties as respectable tradesmen, and though we would not breathe a censure on their private life if we were in possession of facts to prove it, we may be allowed to imitate their intrusion into the sanction-sanetorwn of domestic life to declare our belief that some of them discharge the duties of husband and father most meritoriously —yet for the sake of gain, of patronage, and noto riety do they allow their names to stand forward to skrcen some important rascal, who, unhurt, may covertly renew those attacks upon private virtue, which have, through the columns of the Juhn Bull' long disgraced the Press of England. These three persons are already in prison fur a libel on the late amiable wife of Sir John Wrottesley, merely be- I cause they refused to give up the author of the vile, the unfounded lie, the bas:: calumniation of the mausoleum's occupant—we know the reptile—and though a Secretary in a high official dedartment, we can assure him, that if tools of his infamy and ma lignity should at last see and take the only path which can rcconduct them to the esteem of honest men, by denouncing this heretofore hidden Devil, not all the powers his influence could command would shield him from the punishment he so justly deserves—while, however, he remains still in con cealment we have no doubt he will enjoy the fiend like conviction that he contributed to the efforts of those of whom her Majesty exclaimed—" And now at last they have uestreyed me. Saumur, which the French papers state to have been the scat of a conspiracy against the Govern ment, was lately exposed to destruction by lire. The Journal of the Maine and Loire says,—" A confla gration, on the cause of which opinions are not decided, has spread consternation through the town of Saumur. It broke out on the ev.miag M . the 18th ult. in the upper story of the residence of M. Petord, an eminent merchant. Alarm soon became general, as it spread rapidly, and assumed a most appalling aspect. The civil and military authorities, the officers and students of the Military Colleges, and inhabitants of all classes, were active in their efforts to stop the progress of the devouring element, in which they did not succeed until midnight. Five persons perished, and four were grievously, and, it is feared, mortally wounded on this occa sion." The reports of a revolution and massacres at Con stantinople appear to have prevailed to an extraor dinary extent on the Continent. The German newsmongers, who have a predehetion for the won derful, the horrible, and the mysterious, have been particularly active in circulating dreadful rumours on this subject. The Hornbill - Irk Currevondeal, in a letter from Vienna, dated Dec. 16, tells the fidlowing story :—" Constantinople is no more ! A conflagra tion far more terrible, of longer duration, and more destructive, than the great tire of Moscow, has re duced this capital to ashes. The magnificent church of St. Sophia, the Sultan's Seraglio, with all its beauties, even the arsenal has become the prey of the flames. The Grand Seignor and his son Abdul Nlirzad have been murdered, as have also the Mufti, the Reis Effendi, the Capudan Pashaw, and many other great officers of the Empire. Ail these atro cities and devastations are the work of the Janissa ries, who have taken to themselves a remote quarter of the city which was saved from the flames. One of the most determined of the leaders, an Orta of the Janissaries, is made Sultan. The foreign Am bassadors had the good tbrtunc to escape in time to 13ujuktlere and Scutari. All the Greeks and Franks were murdered and thousands of men, who are robbed of their property, roam about the neighbour ing country. These horrors were accompanied by an earthquake in the environs of Constantinople, which swallowed up towns and villages." Mr. Bastard and Mr. Fuller have sunk their rents nearly one half, not contenting themselves with a remission of 20 or 2.5 per cent., and leaving the rent the same. Thi s is a manly and an honourable mode of meeting the distresses of the tenant. THE REV. MR. mATTHIAs.—The death of this gentleman took place last week, at his residence in Mary-le-bone. He was of the Roman Catholic per • suasion, meek, benevolent, and most liberally tole rant to all whose religion differed from his owu.— He had been elected Canon of St. Denis, and had been frequently solicited to accept a French Bishop ric, which he declined from motives of humility and love to this country. A month previous to his la mented death, we ere assured that he received a letter informing him that his name was drawn for the first vacant See in France. He was respected and beloved by all the Bourbon family, and by a numerous circle of fiends of the highest rank in this country. To the poor he was a fititliful pastor, a protecting fAher, a liberal benefactor. In the circle of his own he solemnly and affectionately ful filled those sacred duties enjoined by God himself, administering to their necessities while living, and bequeathing to them at his death the bulk of his property. Thus, his death-bed, as might be ex pected from his conduct and character, exhibited a scene of genuine piety and peace, edifying to all around him. It will be remembered that this gen tleman was attacked with a sword by an insane person in the Spanish Chapel, while officiating at the altar, a few years ago His manners were .meek, elegant, and unaffected. SHIPWRECK.—On the evening of the 28th Dcc. during a most violent gale from the south-east, a brig was observed on shore on the rocks, within four or five hundred yards of Sandy Cove, near Bullock, Dublin ; the sea running mountains high, with al the horrors that accompany a dark tempestuous night. Lieutenant William Hutchinson, the hoe. hour-master of Dunleary, volunteered, with 14. gallant fishermen and pilots, and embarked in tlie life-boat, in hopes of saving the suffering crew from apparently certain destruction, who were expecting every moment that the vessel would ge to pieces.— They succeeded after the greatest exertion, in reach ing the wreck, and when under the stern of the vessel, in the broken water, the life-boat filled, and every succeeding sea passed over hcr,the crew of the vessel were endeavouring to get into the boat, an overwilehning sea washed six men and Lieutenant Hutchinson out of the life-boat ; tha remaining eig:it clung to the boat; two of the six men caught hold of a rope at the stern of the wreck, anti were hauled on board by the crew. Lieutenant Hutchinson, after contending with the waves !ur :roue. time, was must providentially saved by eate!:- ing hold of the life-boat, which was driven with much risk on the rte•ks, and the remainder of her crew gut on shore with many bruises; the other four brava fellows unfortunately petished; two of them left wives and young chi'.dren to deeply lament their I loss. Notwithstanding the danger and fatigue Lieutenant Hutchinson went through, he remained all night on the rocks, to render, with lights, every assistance to the crew of the vessel, and fortunately succeeded in getting them from the wreck at 10-. v I water, at filar o'clock in the meriting. The brig was called the Ellca, of Liverpool, laden with a general cargo, William Bird, master. Another brig i belon g ing to Mr. Pim, would have been lost in tha same place, but for the exertions of Lieutenant H. by showing lights and firing shuts, to wain them of their danger, upon which they got out anchors. FREE PARDON.—His Majesty has been most gr. ciously pleased to grout a free pardon to John Rey nolds, alias John Diel, who was tried at the 134 Northumberland Assizes, and convicted, subject to the opinion of the Judgs on 3 point of law, for ma liciously shooting into the Siva!low revenue cutter, on the coast, near Newbiggin. IL has Leen ac. cordingly discharged from prison. It will be recol lected that the point reserved was, as to the S,v.zi/wu h a ving hoisted the proper colours ; and that Diel's leg was shattered in the action, and amputated when they left him at Boomer. On Thursday morning the bridge at ashen, near Great Marlow, was washed away by the flood, and the road rendered. impassable. The fine dry weather on Monday did much good, as the water was rapidly receding. The road front Eton to ' Slough on 'Friday, was rendered impassable by the water, which was four feet deep, and rushed through the road in a rapid stream. . , ~, THE NATIONAL REGISTER -,_.~ • • A NEW YEAH'S GIFT. The opening of a New Year naturally excites sentinserds protbuitil gratitude from Nlessrii. HOWLAND and SON, sde Proprietors of the GENUINE NIACASSAR OIL, for the unparalleled patronage with which a liberal and tiis,•crair:4 Pidle. has honoured that admired article. It virtue, in pro moting the growth of hair, beautifying and preserving it front infancy to old age, are now known throughout the habitat:ie. globe. To parents and gtutniiisits a more acceptable present re those under their care cannot be granted, so far as concerns the preservation of that %Inch every oho admires—personal beauty. It is essentially requisite, in purclus4air the above article, to ask for " Rowland's Macassar 0.1 ;" also to observe, that e..ch ,;e -nnine bottle is enclosed in Howland's Treatise on the Hontin . Hair, (highly worthy the attention of parents, and signed on the label in red ink, A. Rowlatol and Son. Price 3s. 6d. is. f„ 1. In;. 63. and .1:1 is. per bottle, No. 1, corner of I►irby Street, licton Garden, London. ..••• I 6