lais, when the King of France entered the barbour. The quays, on both sides, were lined with spectators of the most respectable appearance. Happiness at the prospect of a mild and legitimate government, and joy at the return of peace, obliterated for the moment all sensations of past tyranny and oppression. "Vive le Roi !" resounded from all sides, and was succeeded by "Vivent les Bourbons!" "Vive Louis XVIII "Vivent les Anglais! The fineness of the weather, added to the superb appearance of the royal yacht, contributed much to the splendour of the scene. MAY. 2. Bristol, it appears, is the first of the out-ports which has availed itself of the late alteration in regard to the East India trade. Two fine vessels sailed from thence for the East Indies last week. 4. Between 12 and 1 o'clock, two old houses in Lombard-street, Mint, in the Borough, fell down with a tremendous crash. Four persons were killed by this terrible accident-two men, a boy, and a girl. These unfortunate creatures were literally bruised to mummies, and were with great difficulty got out of the rubbish; three others were much hurt, and taken to the hospital. The house had not been repaired for a considerable time, and like many others in the Mint were mouldering with age. 12. Letters received from Nottingham represent that the nefa rious practice of frame-breaking continued to prevail there, to the great annoyance and alarm of the town and neighbourhood. On Sunday evening, about ten o'clock, two men entered the house of Bullock, who lives in a court at Bellagate, with the familiar question of "how do you do?" and then proceeded up stairs and broke four frames, whilst the door was guarded by eight or ten of their accomplices. A constable who lived next door, hearing a noise, and supposing them thieves, repaired to the spot, when one of the villains presented a pistol at him, and threatened to blow out his brains if he interfered. The constable retired, and the banditti dispersed without the least discovery having been made as to their persons. One of the letters affords some insight into the system of combination and terror pursued by these misguided men. They have formed themselves into clubs and committees, who assemble in the different villages, and take upon them the apportioning of the different sorts of work to be done by the manufacturers, and the regulation of the prices which the men are to be paid. If their demands are not complied with, the manufacturer is placed in alarm for his property, and those of the men who strike are supported by subscriptions to a general fund, for which also they issue their requisitions. It is supposed, that the frames of the person mentioned above were destroyed, merely because he refused to subscribe to this fund. These villains have now become so bold, that they hold committees at all times of the day, and issue such orders as they wish to have executed at night. If it is the pleasure of the committee that any set of men shall leave their employ, the order is given, and the mandate is obeyed. The want or low price of work cannot be assigned as a palliation of these excesses, since the prices on the making have advanced from 10 to 20 per cent. within the last six months. The system of terror and combination pursued, is of a nature to prevent the detection and conviction of the offenders, as in the case of ordinary crimes. 14. A mail arrived from Malta, and the letters by it confirm a report, previously in circulation, of the re-appearance of the plague in the isle of Gozo. The following extract of a letter, dated March 26, gives some details on this subject:"A man, a native of Curmi, in Malta, at the commencement of the plague in that casal, or village, buried a box in the ground, at some distance from the casal, containing clothes and other articles. After he had finished his quarantine, about the end of February, he dug up the box, and carried it to Gozo, where his daughter resided with her husband. The man died rather suddenly, without any appearance of plague, or suspicion. A few days afterwards his daughter died also, and an alarm was spread. The intercourse between the two islands was instantly interdicted; the civil government was superseded by the military-a cordon was drawn round the casal-every precaution taken to prevent its spreading, and hitherto the infection is confined to that casal. Up to the 23d, the deaths were 32, and the attacks 47. The plague has also made its appearance at Damietta, which the Bashaw has caused to be sur rounded by a cordon of troops." 16. A nefarious adulteration of flour was recently detected at Truro. Two millers near that place, of the names of John Rowe and Henry Rundle, were proved to have mixed a kind of pulverised clay used in the manufacture of earthenware, with their flour, to such an extent that two quarts of their adulterated flour weighed as much as three of that which was pure. Flour is sold by weight at Truro. The magistrates lamented that the law enabled them only to fine the offenders 10l. each. Forty sacks of this abominable composition were also discovered at Plymouth, on board a vessel from Truro; but the ownership not being clearly established, no conviction could take place. 19. The Exchange of Hamburgh, after being so long closed, was re-opened to the inexpressible joy of the inhabitants. Though the merchants must have suffered excessively from French oppres→ sion, and especially from the ra pacity of Davoust, yet the restoration of this emporium of foreign commerce must have a very beneficial effect on the trade and manufactures of this country. The Hamburgh Correspondenten, suppressed during the French regime, has also been revived. 20. The Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia often enter the Theatre or Opera, at Paris, arm in arm, without a single attendant. They pass together or alone from one box to another, during the evening, as they discover company, which they are desirous of joining. Sometimes the the Archduke Constantine accompanies his brother, or some general officer; and, in like manner, the king of Prussia is at times joined by some one or other of the Prussian Princes. Both these 80vereigns pass from their seats in the theatres without any attendants or retinue; on the threshold of the theatre, an officer or two may chance to wait to shew them to their respective carriages. On the 16th, the Emperor of Austria visited the catacombs at Paris. These are immense excavations, in which the bones with which the church-yards of the capital were overcharged have been deposited, piled in various forms, appropriate to the religious awe that the mortal reinains of a hundred generations should inspire. The Emperor of Austria is the first Sovereign that ever visited them. The Emperor of Austria never goes to public places at Paris but in great state. He is attended by his great officers and a guard, which keep their place during the whole performance at the back of the Imperial box, suffering none to come near it. As he approaches to his box, and retires from it, he is preceded by several branches of lights, before which the crowd are forced to yield way, In his person he is of the medium size, rather spare and thin, and his features small. 21. Cows, sheep, pigs, and poultry, to a considerable extent, were imported last week at Portsmouth from France, and produced there a reduction in the price of meat, although not in the same proportion as in other places in that part of the country. At Southampton, pork was sold at from 6d. to 8d. per pound; fowls, butter, and eggs, were at equally reduced prices. At Weymouth, pork from Cherbourg was sold at from 4d. to 61d. per pound. 22. An official return of the number of regimental officers of the regular army, printed by order of the House of Commons, states them at, Field-Marshals receiving full-pay, 5.-Generals receiving full-pay, 4; ditto, half-pay, 7; total, 81.-Lieutenant-Generals, full-pay, 113; half-pay, 44; total, 157.- Major-Generals, full-pay, 152; half-pay, 69; total, 221.Colonels, full-pay, 111; half-pay, 41; total, 152.-Lieutenant-Colonels, full-pay, 518; half-pay, 100; total, 618.-Majors, fullpay, 572; half-pay, 40; total, 612.-Captains, full-pay, 2,504; half-pay, 456; total, 2,960.Lieutenants, full-pay, 3,909; half. pay, 816; total, 4,725.-Cornets, full-pay, 224; half-pay, 66; total, 290. Ensigns, full-pay, 1920; half-pay, 378; total, 2,298. 28. An engraver at Somer'stown, named Wilkins, died a few days since, in consequence of haying fractured his skull in the following manner: He was drinking tea, and, according to his usual practice when seated, was balancing himself upon the hinder feet of the chair, when he lost his equilibrium, fell backward, and struck his head against a marble slab; he was taken up in a state of insensibility, and survived only four days. 30. A transaction, peculiarly lamentable, took place at Shercock, in the county of Cavan, and was stated to the public in the Dublin Journal, and the Free man's "At the fair of Shercock, in the county of Cavan, several trifling disputes took place between the Protestants and Papists; but, at six in the evening, the matter became more serious, and there was a general cry, as usual, of five pounds for an Orangeman; a few of whom being recognised, were severely beaten, and with difficulty made their escape into the house of one Carrol, where an Orange Lodge is held: the doors and windows were assailed with stones, but the Popish mob did not succeed in getting in. They then paraded the street in great force, and sent a message to Lieutenant Wimp, who resides in the town, to give up the arms and ammunition which he had; but he declined doing so, and they attacked his house most furiously, breaking the windows, and attempting to force the doors Fortunately for him he prevailed on some of his Yeomanry to remain in his house from the early part of the day, as well to protect himself from attack, as to keep them from the consequences of rioting: and, at the moment the mob were just forcing open the door, they fired one volley of blank cartridge, but this seemed to irritate the rioters the more; and they attacked with redoubled fury; when the yeomanry driven to extremity, were obliged, in defence of their lives, to fire ball car ridge. Unfortu nately 13 of these deluded wretches fell victims to their folly, and a vast number of them, between 40 and 50, have been wounded." Dublin Journal. "We have seen a letter from the county Cavan, which intimates the horrible and melancholy fact, of 24 men and 2 women having been massacred, in an Orange affray that occurred at Shercock, on Monday last!" Freeman's Journal. On the oth of May, at two p. m. a singular penomenon took place in the province of Ischernomorsk, near Altemrjuk, opposite to the Salt Marshes, in the sea of Asoff. The weather was calm and serene, when a tremendous noise was heard issuing from the sea, at the distance of about. 200 fathoms from the shore, and the bottom of the sea was seen to rise above the surface of the water. Flames, accompanied with a sound like the discharge of cannon, burst from it, and large masses of earth and stones were projected into the air. The first ten eruptions, which followed, within a quarter of an hour of one another, were the most violent; the succeeding ones were more distant and weaker. This phenomenon continued till after night. A smell of a peculiar kind, but not resembling sulphur, was diffused to the distance of 10 wersts. The noise was heard at the like distance; and a subterraneous motion, attended with a hollow rumbling, was also perceived. Hereupon an island appeared at the above mentioned spot, with several springs, which threw up a fluid mud which gradually became dry.. On the 20th, people began to examine the is and. It seemed to be inaccessible, as it was completely surrounded to the distance of five fathoms by a sims mud; and it was only in one pace that they succeeded in reaching the middle of it. Its length, from west west to east, including the mud on the border, is 70 arschines; and the height, above the surface of the water, one fathom and an hat The whole surface of the is and is covered with a whitish stony substance. A letter of the 28th of May, froe. Botany Bay, states, that three of the settlers had passed the Blue Mountains, forming the boundary of the west and north, and had discovered a fertile tract of country, of great extent, through the whole length of which a fine river rans. A settlement was about to be formed in the territory thus discovered, and the Governor had allotted a thousand acres to each of the individuals who first ventured to pass the mountains. It is added, that there had prevailed a continued drought, with scarcely two hours of rain, for nearly ten months: 5,000 sheep, and 3,000 horned cattle, were starved. 31. An account has been received from Jamaica, of the origin of the duel which led to the death of Capt. Stackpole, of the Statira. The circumstances were as follow:-So long as four years ago a naval officer inquired of Lieut Cecil if he knew Captain Stackpole. Lieutenant Cecil replied he did, and had the best opinion of him as a brave officer, adding a the same time that he believed him capable of drawing occasionally a long bow. This answer was publicly talked of in the gun-roon of the Statira, and at length reached the ear, of Captain Stackpole, who having ascertained that the words were spoken, declared that he would call Lieutenant Cecil to an account when and wherever he met him. It was so far fortunate that they did not meet for four years; but the opportunity at last offered, when the Statira was lying in the harbour of Port Royal, and the Argo, of which Cecil was senior Lieutenant, happened to enter that port. Captain S. immediately sent a message to Lieutenant Cecil, purporting that he must either meet him, or make a suitable apology for the slanderous words he had used. Lieutenant Cecil, in reply, said, that four years having elapsed since the words were spoken which he was charged with having uttered, it was impossible for him to recollect how far they were correct or not; but as a brother officer and a man of honour had quoted his words, he could not act otherwise than avow them. As to an apology, he wished Captain Stackpole to understand, that under all the circumstances he should have had no objection to apologize to any other officer in his Majesty's navy, but to him it was impossible; the Captain of the Statira being reputed throughout the navy as a good shot, and had been the friend and companion of Lord Camelford. The consequence was a meeting between the parties on the 23d of April; the result of which was, the loss to his Majesty's naval service of a brave and meritorious officer. The challenge of Captain Stackpole, to fight the Statira against the American frigate the Macedonian, had endeared him to the crew, and not a man could refrain from tears on learn. g his fate. |