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occurred, was the swarm of birds, of all descriptions, that filled the air, uttering most hideous notes. Captain Parker, of the Navy, who lives in the same house with me, said he had felt a great number of shocks in Palermo, but nothing equal to the one of last night,

The shock was felt on the other side of the Tagus.

During the latter and more severe part of the great shock, we all heard a loud rumbling noise, like a carriage driven past at immense speed.

"The large square of the Rocio, where the great earthquake of 1755 was most felt, presented a most curious appearance; all the inhabitants occupying the centre, to avoid any crash from the houses; some naked, some with one boot, &c; one poor fellow died of fear in Gold-street.

Extract of a Letter from Madeira. Feb.8. 1816. There happened a dreadful earthquake here early on the 2d inst. it was very violent, and continued from three to five minutes according to different opinions, it has thrown down the cross from one of the parish churches, rent its walls, and other churches and houses are damaged throughout the island; but what I think is more alarming, an American ship arrived here on the 5th inst. the Master of her reports, that on the 2d inst. between the hours of 12 and 1 in the morning, then being about 300 miles from the Azores and 700 from hence, his ship got almost on end, and appeared as if run aground; the crew were dreadfully alarmed, and sounded, but could find no bottom. They could not account for so extraordinary a circumstance until their arrival here; therefore, there is cause to believe some accident has happened to the Azore Islands, or somewhere."

POLAND.

SPLENDID TITLES.-The Indian Prince, who lately visited Warsaw, the legitimate son and heir apparent of the Emperor of Aracan, and Duke of the Indies, is named Salomon-Justini Balsamin. - His father adds to the name of David the following titles:- Friend and Cousin, Blessed of the All Mighty, Brother of the Sun, Parent of the Moon, Star of the Morning, and of all the Stars; Emperor of Aracan, or of the Birmans; King of Pegu and of Awa, Grand Duke of the Indies, Sovereign of the Seas, Grand Lord of the Palace of Gold, Knight of the Palace of Silver, King of the Ele phants, Tigers, Lions, Leopards, and of the terrible Dragon, &c.

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The King's Health.-The following bulletin was on Sunday shewn at St. James's Palace: :

"Windsor Castle, March 2.-His Majesty is in good bodily health, and has been in a tranquil state of mind during the last month, but his Majesty's disorder is not diminished."

The Army Estimates, for the present year, have been printed. They occupy 67 folio pages. The following is an abstract: Land forces, including 2.

the corps intended to
be reduced, for Great
Britain and Ireland,
111,756-Expense
Regiments stationed in
France, number $4,031
Expense

Regiments in the East In-
dia Company's service,
number 28,491 - Ex-
pense
Embodied Militia
Pay of General Officers
Staff and Garrisons

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4,702,611, 10 11

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own conveyance to Canada, Earl Bathurst, as Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, has promised to recommend all such persons to the Government of the province, that they may have every accommodation given them, and that they may receive on their arrival at that place a grant of land, properly proportioned to their means and circumstances of cultivation.

Poor Rates: amount of

The

55,095 11 7
855,220 15 0
93,899 5 8 By a paper laid before Parliament, it
122,286 18 2 appears that the total sum raised by poors'
rates and other rates, in England and
Wales, for the year ending the 25th of
March, 1815, is 7,023,386. 18s. 8d.
only county marked as having made no
return at that date is Buckingham, but in
most of the counties several parishes or
places are stated not to have made returns.
The whole of these is for England 773,
for Wales 81-Total 854.

$70,669 18 5
88,819 17 2
$9,185 17 2

17,550 19 11

60,266 12 4

64,424 0 S

219,000 00

215,000 0 0

17,964 0 8

3.5,000 0 0

Officers attached to the
Portuguese army
Deduct from the above the troops in
France and the East Indies, and there re-
maius 183,505 men, of the expense of
whom, 6,7$5,9471. 17s, is charged to Great
Britain, and 2,246,428l. 10s. 9d. to Ireland;
making a total of—8,982,375,l. 18s. 4d.

Workmen Reduced.

The following reduction is ordered to be made in the number of artificers employed in his Majesty's Dock-yard at Portsmouth, viz. 94 shipwrights, 51 carpenters, 49 sawyers, 17 blacksmiths, 12 caulkers, 11 from the wood mills, 6 from the metal mills, 9 joiners, 7 scavelmen, 4 bricklayers, 10 bricklayers' labourers, 1 rigger, 9 riggers labourers, 2 painters, 1 painter's labourer, 5 millwrights, 1 plumber, 3 masons, 1 pitch-heater, and 7 oakum boys. The whole of these discharged men will be paid one week's pay in addition to what may be due to them as earnings.

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Wonderful power of Mechanics.

Lately the Nereide, Frigate of 36 guns, was pulled up at Plymouth by the aid of powerful and well-arranged machinery, on the ship lately filled by the Java. Many of our readers have, no doubt, observed the rapid inclination to the plane of this slip, and must, therefore, highly appreciate the triumph of the pulley in this instance. It is understood that an attempt will be made shortly to pull up a seventy-four gun-ship; and if such an immense mass of wood, iron, &c. can be pulled up an inclined plane, we should be more gratified in beholding it, than the launch of the finest ship that can be built.

Magnetism.-An important serics of magnetical observations, made by Colonel nicety, has determined that the diurnal Beaufoy, with instruments of the greatest variation of the needle is least in the morning, and greatest at noon-that the variations are greatest about the months of August and March, and least in Januarythat, without any assignable cause, there is often a great variation between two successive days-and that a S W. wind seems to increase at once the variation and the unsteadiness of the needle. These are curious and authenticated facts, for which, in the present state of our knowledge, we are utterly unable to adduce even a probable hypothesis,

Scarce Literature.-Amongst the many curious incidents during the sale of the late Mr. Lloyd's collection, at Wygfair, in the principality of Wales, were the following:

On the 10th day, "The Life of King Arthur, and of his Noble Knights of the Round Tuble, by Syr Thomas Mullory," was

intended destination was the Yorkshire coast.

Property yet of value.

put up, and the three first biddings did not exceed five shillings; it sold with all its imperfections, without binding, for 3201. to Earl Spencer!- Recuyele of the At a sale of farming stock in the East Historye of Troye, in worse condition, for Riding of Yorkshire, some high-bred ew 1261. and several other rare hooks at great sold as high as four guineas each, and one prices. The Astronomical and Philosophi- cow as high as forty-five pounds. Some cal instruments sold well; the 15 feet acro-proof that valuable stock has not lost its matic telescope by Dolland, was bought estimation. by Lord Kirkwall for 841. the seven feet reflector, by Herschell, by Dr. Treal, of Liverpool, for 991. 10s.

The duty payable upon the growth of hops for the year 1815, appears, by the return made to Parliament, to have amounted to 215,4411. 8s. 4d.

New Public Office.

Longevity.

A very singular instance of longevity is now evinced in York, in the persons of 31 poor women, who have been appointed to receive Queen Elizabeth's charity, called "Cremet Money," the united ages of whom amount to 2,468, making an average of 79 years and 7 months each. This extraor

proof of the healthy situation of York, which we may hence conclude, cannot be excelled, if equalled, by any other city or town in the kingdem.

The new building now erected in Can-dinary circumstance is certainly a striking non Row, Parliament Street, which was intended for the Transport Office, is, in consequence of the abolition of that department, to be used as the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs, which will be removed from Downing Street, the lease of the premises at present occupied, having nearly expired.

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Heaton Colliery.

On Monday, Feb. 19, the remains of 55 of the sufferers by the inundation of Heaton colliery, were brought out of the pit. Of these, 89 were buried the next day at Wallsend, and 4 at Long Benton, and the Eight had previously been found; one was remaining 12 at Wallsend on Wednesday, discovered on Thursday; and eleven are still in the mine. The remains of 54 of these unfortunate beings were found in a and about 35 fathoms above the bighest part of the mine in or near the crane-board, part of the water. There is every reason to believe that their sufferings were soon terminated by foul air. There were two horses in that part of the mine, to which the men had retired from their various workings. One of these they had killed by cutting his throat, and then hung him by the feet. His entrails were taken out, and his hind quarters cut up for use; but the place, and a considerable quantity of most of the pieces of flesh were found about candles untouched; it is therefore clear that they had not been assailed by hunger. The overman's book and chalk board were found in a corf, near which he was

sitting; but there was no writing or mesufferers. Three men were found in a narmorandum concerning the situation of the themselves up, by a slight fastening of row head-way in which they had shut boards at the entrance, and they had candles stuck against the wall not much burnt, and a lump of horse-flesh wrapped up in a jacket. Many of the bodies when found were nearly naked, and all in a state of great decay.-The other horse was tied fast to a prop; and a corf which had stood

within his reach was torn entirely inter mark, had been indulged with a lift in pieces, but whether by the animal cannot the pass cart, and went to the vagrant's now be known. The funerals were attend- lodging-house, in order to pass the night ed by a large concourse of real mourners; with his road associates. In the course of and by other persons from curiosity, who the evening, observing some writing of an heated each other's feelings by tales which indecent nature on the front of the chimhad no foundation. ney, he took his hat, and while Яapping the brim upon the offensive words, with a

Earthquake extensive; but slight.

served to drop from it, which, on examination, proved to be a hundred pound note of the Bank of England! The account the man gives of himself is, that some weeks before Christmas, being in London, in very low circumstances, and shabby in his appearance, he called upon a brother of the hat, which he told him he had picked his, a soldier in the Guards, who gave him up on the field of Waterloo. The note has returned it to the poor fellow, who says it been sent to London, and the Bank has will be the making of him all the days of his life. We have the communication of this curious circumstance, from a most respectable correspondent of Huntingdon, and be relied on as a fact.-(Stamford

it

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Mercury.)

Ann Moore, the notorious Fasting Woman !

The country journals furnish the follow-view to obliterate them, a paper was obing particulars-On Saturday the 17th of March, 28 minutes before one o'clock (true time) a slight shock of an earthquake was felt in Derby and neigbourhood. The shock was of very short duration; but sufficiently long to leave no doubt on the mind as to the reality of the phenomenon. We have not heard that it has caused any injury, except the slight alarm that it occasioned for the moment to those who felt it. It was accompanied by a noise similar to that of a rising tempest, and caused the windows to shake violently, and the doors that were a jar to move. A glass lustre, which hung in a gentleman's breakfastroom in that town, was put in motion; and the chairs and tables were very perceptibly shaken. At Shipley-hall it caused the bells to ring, and the body of a mangle in one of the upper rooms, moved on its rollers several feet. It was also perceived in the Churches of All Saints and St. Peter, in Derby, and caused in the latter place a piece of plaster to fall from the roof into the body of the Church. We have not been able to ascertain the extent to which the shock was felt, but, as far as we have already learnt, it extended about twenty miles east and west of Derby, and appeared to proceed in a direct line from north to south. The recent experience of this dreadful phenomenon in various quarters of the earth, as well in Spain, Portugal, and Madeira, as at sea, when considered with this shock in the North of England, seems worthy of the best attention of men of science. The activity and extensive connexion of subterraneous fires must have been, as it probably now is, very great.

. Land Mark Destroyed.

The ancient land mark on the coast of Holderness, Owthorn Church old spire, better known by the name of the Sister Churches, was lately destroyed by the tide, and fell to the ground with a tremendous crash, to the great alarm of the inhabitants of the village. It had long ceased to be any thing but a ruin, except as a guide to

seamen.

The common gaol of Chester is, at last, become a receptacle for this dealer in chicanery and deceit. Ann Moore gulled the community of several hundred pounds, and would, probably, have continued her exhibition to this day, had not the incredulous disposition of the Committee of Gentlemen, who unravelled the mystery of her fasting, enabled them to pronounce her a base and iniquitous impostor. She and her daughter, a decent looking girl, about 17 years of age, arrived at the White Lion, in this city, by the Manchester coach, on Wednesday last, and were immediately conducted to the Castle by a constable, and a great crowd of people, who evinced a strong desire to feast their eyes on the miserable figure of this fasting woman. Both mother and daughter are committed for trial at our ensuing assize, under a charge of felony.-Chester Paper.

The total number of persons that have belonged to the 42d regiment, from 1767 to the present time, is 18,127. There are only three men in the corps that fought against BUONAPARTE'S Învincibles in Egypt.

Sir Ralph Langley, Knight, built Oldham Church in the year 1476 (as appears by a deed found in the Tower of London ;) Curious Discovery. —Saturday the 17th and the charge of building that part of the of February, gave birth to an extra-church betwixt the pulpit and the steeple ordinary discovery at Godmanchester. A traveller, whose finances were at low wa

was 281. 18s. 4d.-Day labourer's wages and the price of food, &c. about the above

mentioned time were as follow, say, from | parishes, Gransden, being nearly in the the year 1418 to the year 1524:

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PRESSURE OF THE TIMES: PEACE! All the late Circuits have been very unprofitable to the Gentlemen of the Long Robe, the poverty of the country having prevented those pleasant controversies, in which they delight so much. It is said, on calculation; they had not half a cause each.

same state."

Tax Gatherer's Hoax.

The pressure of the times, combined with other circumstances, occasioned a very great number of defaulters in the payment of the Poors' Rates, at Arundel; the Overseer of that town (who is celebrated for originality of thought) hit upon the following remedy: He caused the bellman to go round the town, and give public notice, that General Wilder, one of the Members for the Borough, had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; aud as a new Election most consequently take place, all who possessed the right of voting would lose such regularly pay the Taxes. The expedient right, if it should appear that they did not had the desired effect: the next day he perfect satisfaction to himself! was enabled to balance his books, with

Beggars in the Stocks.-Thursday mornThe unemployed foreign seamen at Li-ing a miserable looking African, apparentverpool have had their distress alleviatedly in the last stage of poverty and wretchby the Corporation. Those who will goedness, was seen lurking about in one of up to the workhouse, and labour six hours per day, have a good dinner, and its remains given to them, and six-pence to pay for lodging. They who will not work, get

nothing.

There is an absolute falling off through out the country in the trade of bricks for building.

the Transfer-Offices in the Bank. His "sorrowful and woe-begone" appearance ble disposition of some of the Clerks there, had an immediate effect upon the charitawho made up a purse of 138. and presented it to him. He accepted it very thankfully, but was shortly after seen signing his name in a book at the other end of the of

The journeymen carpenters throughout fice; and, on enquiry, it was discovered the metropolis have struck for wages. The that the supposed mendicant was acceptmasters, who formerly gave 30s. per week,g a transfer of 1701. stock, which he had have resolved to reduce it to 27s.. The just purchased. journeymen stone masons have also quarrelled with their masters on the same account.

The last Feat: one too many. The Indian Juggler, who astonished London, a year or two ago, by his dangerous feat of passing a drawn sword down his stomach, has fallen a sacrifice to his presumption, at an exhibition in Scotland: the sword, taking a wrong direction, wounded the ventricle of the stomach, and he died almost instantaneously, in violent convulsions.

John Horne, Bonaparte's military coachman, who had drove him for ten years to his celebrated battles, has lately been discovered to be alive, having been miraculously saved, although he received twelve wounds at the battle of Waterloo.

The Bath and Cheltenham Gazette has the following gloomy paragraph:-"The poor of the parish of Yelling, (containing about 4000 acres), in the county of Huntingdon, and in which Sir G. Leeds has a large estate, are in a deplorable state: the clergyman and overseer of the parish, attended the meeting of magistrates, held n Saturday fortnight at Huntingdon, to request them to decide who were to keep the poor from starving, as all the farmers renting land, except one, had thrown up their land, and left the parish! This being proved, the chairman referred to the Act of Elizabeth, which provides, that if a pa- cians are travelling the fashionable parts A company of itinerant French musirish shall not be able to support its poor, the adjoining parish must do it. A differ-lar French and English airs. of the metropolis, playing the most popu ence of opinion arose, however, between the magistrates, in consequence of there being three parishes joining, as to which should be ordered by the Bench to keep the poor of Yelling, one of those adjoining

Native Silver: fine.

We understand there is now in the possession of Mr. Arthur Penrose, of Truro, Agent for the Crown Copper Company,

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