Commissioners of the Treasury, to signify to them our intention of paying, in aid of the general services of the year, and in quarterly payments, one-third of the nett profits arising from the salary and fees of our respective Tellerships of the Exchequer.

We propose, and intend, to continue this voluntary contribution for and during the present war, and commence it from and after the present quarter ending on the 5th of January next.

We have the honour to be,
Sir,

Your obed. humble servants, (Signed) NUGENT BUCKINGHAM, CAMDEN.

To the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. (Copy). No. 5. Th Marquisses Buckingham and Camden to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Exchequer, Dec. 11th, 1812. SIR; As it is understood, from the discussions that have taken place in the House of Commons, on the subject of the public revenues, that the expenses of the ensuing year will probably exceed those of the present, we think it right, in explanation of the letter which we had the honour of addressing to you on the 21st of November last, to state to you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, that if in any year during the present war, the nett profits of the several fees and salaries received in our offices in the Exchequer, should exceed those of the current year, it is our intention, in every such year, to pay, as our voluntary contribution to the public, in addition to the one-third of

our profits as stated in that letter, the whole of such excess beyond the nett receipts of the present year.

We have the honour to be,
Sir,

Your obed. humble servants, (Signed) NUGENT BUCKINGHAM, CAMDEN.

To the Right Hon. the Chancellor

of the Exchequer, &c.

14. At the mill of Elrick, near Edinburgh, the miller, of the name of Walker, his wife, and a child, were all found dead in their sleeping apartment. The preceding evening, in a small bed-room in which they slept, a quantity of wet shellings of oats had been put on the fire, for the purpose of preserving it during the night; and the smoke thereby occasioned, spreading through the room, it is supposed proved fatal to this unfortunate family.

15. There is now at Mr. Sheriff Blades's, on Ludgate Hill, a set of Chandeliers, which has been ordered for his Highness the Nabob, Secunder Tale Behauder, Subahdar of the Dekan; and nothing that was ever seen from Germany, Venice, or France, can bear a compa rison with it for richness, elegance, or magnitude. The principal chandelier is, we understand, eleven feet long, and four feet and a half in diameter, with thirty lamps in three circles; it weighs five cwt. and is valued at 1,000 guineas. This is considered as the finest piece of workmanship hitherto produced in England, and decidedly superior to the celebrated one, sent as a present some years since, to the Grand Seignor by his Majesty. Two others, of sixteen lamps each, and of equal taste,

with sixteen smaller, complete the set. They are to be the ornaments of the palace at Hyderabad. The great chandelier is to be suspended at the head of a state staircase, 50 feet high; the two smaller, crowned with golden circlets, and wreathed at the foot with ornaments of grapes and vine-leaves, to be in the center of the banqueting-room; the sixteen others to range along the wall. The whole are designed by Mr. F. Jones.

18. The Alban cutter, Lieutenant Key, was driven in from her station on the coast of Holland, and being forced on shore at Aldborough, in Suffolk, became a complete wreck. Out of a crew of 56 men, only one seaman was saved. The surgeon, Mr. Thompson, came on shore with some life in him, but died immediately after. There were also three women and two children on board, of whom one woman, the servant of Mrs. Key, was saved.

The following particulars of the loss of this vessel are stated by a gentleman who was a spectator of this deplorable catastrophe. He says, that the cutter had been cruizing, or was going to cruize, on the coast of Holland ;-that, owing, it is supposed, to the ignorance of the pilot, she had struck on a sand-bank, when they were obliged to throw the guns overboard, and cut away their mast, after which they drifted at the mercy of most tremendous weather for three days, when they were driven, on Friday morning, at eight o'clock, on the beach in front of the town of Aldborough. The surf was so high that no boat could be put off; but the beach being steep, the vessel was thrown up very high, and the

tide retreating, the people of the town were soon able to reach the vessel. Though all the crew seemed to be safe at eight, by nine there were only three remaining alive— a young man, a woman (servant to the captain's wife), and the surgeon. The crew consisted of 56, Mrs. Key, wife of Lieutenant Key, who commanded the vessel, and two children. The surgeon unaccountably jumped overboard at the time that relief was giving to them, and was lost. The great loss of lives seems to have been occasioned by the state of intoxication of the men, some of whom were found drowned in the vessel. As the cutter did not go to pieces, it is difficult otherwise to account for such a melancholy catastrophe.

18. On Friday night a fire brokę out at the Swan Inn, Wangford, Essex, which in less than two hours destroyed the whole of those extensive premises, together with the stock, furniture, &c. Great fears were at one period entertained for the safety of the greater part of the village; but fortunately, by the activity of the inhabitants, the flames were prevented spreading further. A poor old woman, 83 years of age, who was an inmate, perished in the flames.

Belfast, Dec. 19th.-On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the new raised men on board the Neptune tender, lying in the Lough, broke through the pressroom, and took possession of the vessel. After confining the crew of the tender below, and securing the hatches, they lowered down the boats, and twenty-six chiefly impressed men, effected their escape, and proceeded towards the shore. Owing, however, to the tempestuous weather,

or

or their ignorance of the channel, it is supposed the boats struck on the banks, and the men, attempting to wade to land, it is feared have all perished, as at daylight one of the boats was found on shore, and two dead bodies lying near it. Six hats and several bundles of clothes were also picked

up.

21. Portsmouth.-The Fortune, cartel, returned to that port from Morlaix, having on board an interesting woman, a native of Ireland, 22 years of age, who having been married to Colonel Berthon, a French officer of artillery, lately on his parole at Chesterfield, received the permission of this government to follow her husband to France, and embarked for that purpose at Portsmouth on the 17th of August last; but has now been cruelly driven back, together with her son, an infant of 19 months old, by order of the French authorities, and is arrived at Portsmouth as above mentioned, in a state of the greatest misery and distress, destitute of the means of subsistence for an hour, until relieved at the charge of this government, as is done in all cases of English wo. men arriving from France in a state of distress. The conduct of the French government towards this unfortunate young woman affords an additional proof of a fact which cannot be too publicly known,-namely, that all mar. riages contracted by French subjects, detained in foreign countries as prisoners of war, are considered by the present French laws as totally invalid.

Carlisle, Dec. 26-Robberies.Saturday night about eight o'clock, as Mr. Hudson Scott, of Caldbeck, was returning fron Carlisle market, he was stopped aud robbed by three footpads, on Hawksdale Pasture.-As Mr. Irwin, of Newhouses, Salport, in company with Mr. Tinniswood, were returning home from Brompton-market, on Tuesday evening last, between six and seven o'clock, they were attacked by four footpads, between Brampton and Irthing-bridge, who robbed the former of bank-notes to the amount of 18. with which the villains made their escape.Monday night, about six o'clock, as Mr. Raper, of Bothwell, was returning from Wigton, he was stopped near Red Dial, by four villains, who robbed him of 8 guinea notes, and a parcel of cloth. Tuesday morning a poor man was robbed of 10l. on the road betwixt Penrith and Appleby, by two villains, who inflicted such wounds upon his person, that in consequence he is since dead.-Wednesday night last, the weaving shop of John Robinson, of Cumwhinton, was broken into, and two webs cut in the looms, which were taken away with the cloth beams.

28. A party of Luddites, eight in number, this evening entered the house of Henry Cox, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire, one of whom stood guard over the woman (who happened to be the only inhabitant then in the house), while the remainder proceeded up stairs into the workshop, where they broke and destroyed an 84 gauge yard wide frame.