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one or two points. I shall, on every occasion | attended with the desired effect of anticiin my power, endeavour to procure either the pating individual distress, and of preservrepeal or suspension of some of these regula- ing public tranquility. Upwards of 20001. tions, which appear and are felt to be most pre-worth of Bank Tokens were exchanged for judicial to the prosecution of that liberal commerce it is the wish of his Majesty to estab- smooth shillings aud sixpences, to the fish, and I flatter myself, by the powerful as amount of 9s. for each one person; and the sistance of his Excellency Lord Cathcart, my poor expressed themselves well satisfied representations may produce the desired effect. and grateful for this well timed attention In the mean time. I more strongly recommend to their accommodation and relief, coming that all the rules and regulations, and customhouse laws, established by the Tariff of 1811, as it did on the eve of Saturday's market. regarding bills of lading to order, and other points, be most strictly adhered to, and that the expediency of so doing be made as speedily known to the trade as possible. "I am, &c

(Signed) "D. BAYLEY." It should appear that there was some misapprehension in this case. The Russian Consul in London has published his opinion that there was no unusual regulations enforced; nothing more than customary port orders, and usages.

Religious Toleration: popery. The inhabitants of York were lately gratified with the celebration of High Mass, at the Catholic Chapel, in Blake-Street; a spectacle which has not been exhibited in York, with so great a degree of splendour, during the last three hundred years.-York Courant.)

Travellers: cui bono?

It is said that above two thousand passports have been issued to noblemen, gentle men, and manufacturers, about to proceed to the Continent, within the last month.

Banks, caution to Insolvent Debtors.

Two farmers applied to the Magistrates at an adjourned sessions for Devon, to be discharged as insolvent debtors; but, in consequence of their having removed their property, to prevent their landlord from recovering the rent due, they were remanded to prison, where they are to remain for five years, the time fixed by the Act. Cash and Currency.

It is expected that the Bank will revive its payments much earlier than is required under the restriction law. From the situation of the Exchanges, money is from every corner pouring into the country, and as a fo re-taste, the Bankers of Lombardstreet daily issue a quantity of gold in payment for drafts. Some were given on Saturday, May 25, for the the first time for many years, in acqvittance for a common check.

Woods on Fire.

Lately, a fire broke out in a wood near Cranbrooke, called Angley Wood, the Bethlem Hospital. The election for two property of the Rev. J. Čramer Roberts: Physicians for Bethlem Hospital came on through the active exertions of the inhabiJune 10: the poll at its close, was as fol- tauts, it was happily got under after burnlows:-Dr. Mouro, jun. 106-Dr. Tuthilling uearly three hours, and destroying 151-Elected. Dr. Williams 160-Dr. Lamb 15-Dr. Cleverley 15.

The Opera-house was knocked down June 10, to Mr. Waters for 41,000l. at the Chancery sale-room, Southampton-buildings.

French Importation.

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about seventy acres of wood; the damage is computed at several hundred pounds. Gas Lights.

The Engineer of a Gas Light Company, has stated before a Committee of the House of Commons, that every mile of pipe, or conductor of the gas, costs the Company 2000l. that the Company at this time, consumes about 28 chaldron of coals per day, and that if they encreased their capital by 200,000. their probable consumption will be about 30,000 chaldrons of coals annually. The Company at this time light about 5000 private, and_700 parish lamps; they look chiefly to private lamps for reimbursement of the expences, and profits. A coal merchant who was examined, thought it would require 100 men to raise from the pits 30,000 chaldrons of coals in the year, and to put them on board the vessels; it would require about 40 horses, and 17 ships of 300 tons, to convey them to London: each ship to make eight voyages annually; there would be re

quired also ten men for each vessel. That the Company burning annually 30,000 chaldrons of coals, they would pay to Government 18,000/. duty per annum. Whale Fishery.

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trymen as the sable sons of Africa. Several resolutions for the promotion of this humane and benevolent purpose, were then moved by Hon. Mr. Burrel! Drummond, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hall, &c. &c. and car

Air-Balloon, on large scale.

The Whale Fishery employs eleven thou-ried unanimously. sand men, and more than one thousand apprentices, who navigate about two hundred large ships, iu fitting out which near one hundred thousand persons are benefitted as boat-builders, rope and sail makers, ship chandlers, &c. The ouly set off against the above which the Gas Company make, is proved by experienced persons in the coal trade, to be the employing 17 ships, each navigated by ten men, in bringing coals to London. Whereas one shipowner in the whale fishery, at this time employs 16 ships, and has reared near one thousand and fifty apprentices. Is there a doubt which is the best nursery for seamen?

Mechanical Chimney Sweeping.

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A new discovery in Aerostatics, is soon likely to be exhibited to the public, by Mr. M. S. J. Pauly, civil engineer, and D. Egg. A balloon, which they have for some time been preparing, will be capable of being steered at pleasure, similar to vessels at sea, in a horizontal or vertical direction, without losing either gas or ballast. It is in the shape of a fish, being intended to act upon the air in the same manner as a fish acts upon the water, and will carry from three to four persons in safety.

Extensive Forgery and Swindling. Forgeries of considerable magnitude have recently been committed by a gang of On Wednesday, June 5, a numerous Swindlers upon various banking-houses. meeting of Ladies and Gentlemen was-The affair has hitherto been kept as held at the Mansion-house, to consider of secret as possible, in the hope of being the best means of abolishing the practice able to apprehend the parties. At present of sweeping chimnies through the indus only one of the gang is in custody. The try of boys, and of substituting, in its provincial bankers have chiefly been the room, a simple mechanical apparatus, victims of the schemes of these depredawhich would answer every purpose. The tors, and, as it already appears, to a seChair was taken by the Lord Mayor, who rious amount; but the full extent of the opened the business of the Meeting, by ad- mischief is not ascertained. The plan of verting to the cruelty and inhumanity the gang seems to have been to apply to which attended the present practice, and country bankers for disconnt, and offering the efficacious means by which it might their bills apparently on the first bankingbe obviated. His Lordship had received houses in London, or at least bills with several letters, shewing not only the infant their indorsement upon them. The better state at which children were employed in to lull suspicion, the swindlers generally the unwholesome and dangerous occupa- made application to such provincial bankers tion of sweeping chimnies, but also the suc as were connected with the houses in town cess with which the mechanical substitute on whom the bills were pretended to be was applied in Scotland and elsewhere.- drawn. Their plea for applying for counMr. Tooke read to the Meeting the Report try assistance was, that owing to the disof the Committee appointed to consider tresses in London, money was exceeding this subject, and pointed out the melancho- scarce, and no discount to be had. The ly afflictious with which children were bankers said, with respect to the scarcity visited by the continuance of the present of money, it was pretty much the same practice. He also dwelt on the fact, that with them in the country. The swindlers, this practice was unknown until the begin-who are represented to be by no means ning of the last century, and that consequently mechanical means must have been previously found effectual. The worthy Gentleman concluded by moving a resolution for the establishment of a mechanical system. Sir Francis Burdett drew an eloquent picture of the miseries of infants, some uuder four or five years of age, who are consigned to this dreary and cruel occupation. He concluded by enforcing the claim of the poor children of England to at least the same sympathy from their coun

deficient in address, then pretended they had great purchases to make in the coun try, and that they would be content to receive a large portion of the money in provincial notes. This lure generally suc ceeded, and the forged bills were discounted. The next object of the villains was to get cash in town for the country notes at the houses where they were made payable. By these means the swindlers amassed large sums before the forgeries, which were widely extended, were detected. S

skilfully are the forgeries in general exe-
cuted, that some of the parties whose names
are used, only kaew from circumstances that
the writing was not their own. The per-
son who is in custody on suspicion, was ar-part each its own way.
rested in town on his arrival from Ports-
mouth, and had upon him, when taken,
money to the amount of £1,800.

Then it became a contest for life or death;
the trout was in the last agonies, and the
duck evidently in a very weak state, when
the gut gave way, and suffered them to

Ichthyology.

The following facts may be worthy of record--the authenticity is undeniable:— One day last week, a porter presented As Mr. John Wane, grocer, Penrith, was a check for 2,1007. drawn on the banking following his favourite recreation of fishing house of Curries, Raikes, aud Co. in with roan, in the river Eamont, on Friday Cornhill, which was immediately paid; May 21, after taking a quantity of trout, and on returning to the spot to hand the in a part of that river near to the Ciant's amount to the persons who sent him with Cave, be found an unusual attack made at the check, he could not find him. Not his bait, and immediately discovered he knowing what to do, he applied to the had hooked a young ofter about 7lbs. banking house, and related the circum-weight, and apparently about four months stances; and the clerk re-examining the check, it was found to be a forgery.

Druggists punished.,

Lately in the Court of Exchequer, in the two cases of the King . Dunn and Walker, and the King v. Rugg, the defend. ants, chemists and druggists, were fined 5001. each, for supplying deleterious ar ticles to common brewers.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE IN FISHING. As a gentleman was angling a few days since on the Mill-dam, below Winchester, he accidentally threw his line across a strong white duck, which suddenly turning round, twisted the gut about her own neck, and fixed the hook of the dropper fly in her own breast. Thus entangled and hooked, she soon broke off the gut above the dropper, and sailed down the stream, with the end fly trailing behind her. She had not proceeded far before a trout, apparently about a pound and a half in weight, took the fly effectually. Then commenced a struggle the most extraordinary that ever was witnessed --a duck at the dropper, and a large trout at the end fly! Whenever the trout exerted itself, the terrors of the duck were very conspicuous: it fluttered its wings and dragged the fish. In case of no violent struggles on the part of the trout, the duck evidently gave way, and suffered herself at last to be drawn under some

bushes, where the shortness of the gut did not allow the trout to shelter himself in his retreat, and the duck to remain on the surface at the same time. The duck's head was drawn repeatedly under water.➡ By chance, however, the gut got across a branch, which hung downwards into the water, and the duck taking advantage of the purchase which this gave her, dragged her opponent from his hole, and compelled him to shew his head above water.

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old. Owing to the good condition of his tackle, he was so fortunate as to bring it within reach of his hand-net, but no sooner did he do so, than the young savage bit the rim of it in two, although made of brass wire about three-quarters of an inch in circumference; he nevertheless contrived to throw it over his head on the bank, and pursuing his success by intervening between the animal and the water, he, after repeated attacks, and not without cousiderable difficulty, seized upon it.

Finding itself in a very unusual element, the animal made a loud whistling noise, which brought to it (no doubt with a view of relief) the parents, and with them five or six young ones, which immediately swimming to the edge of the water, set themselves in battle array, by rearing themselves on their hind legs, and following the example of the captive by setting up a loud whistling poise, spurting water at Mr. W. and shewing every symptom of the They durst not, most savage ferocity. however, make any personal attack, and Mr. W. content with his prey, made the best of his way along the banks to a neighbouring house, about 500 yards distant, the old otters following him the whole way, evincing the most parental affection.-— Having safely lodged his captive, he resumed his sport, and, before five o'clock in the afternoon, having commenced fishing about six in the morning, he actually killed 67ibs. weight of trout, which probably is the greatest number ever taken by the rod in the same space of time. He has now the otter in his possession, and the animal, from his kind treatment, appears in a state of domestication.

SCOTLAND.

Robbers not in Romance.

The nest of a gang of thieves bas lately been discovered in East Lothian, which puts us very much in mind of the haunte

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so ably described in Guy Mannering. In him competent to achieve much good or the ruined castle Tantallan, which is si evil, after having escaped, by means which tuated on the brink of a high cliff, there appear miraculous, from various guols, still remains one room capable of affording was some time since lodged in that of Maskelter from the storm; it is near the sum- | ryborough, the capital of the Queen's mit of the building, and so situate as to be county. Here, being abundantly supplied thought entirely inaccessible. time ago, the children of some working such things as the prison afforded; and A short with money, he treated the prisoners with people in the neighbourhood were playing repeatedly told the Sheriff, as well as the in a little bit of potatoe ground just under the ruins, when one of them, happening to them to visit him, that he would elude their numerous persons whose curiosity induced cast his eyes up, observed a head with a red night-cap looking over the top; an im they could make. The discovery that he vigilance, in defiance of every exertion mediate alarm was the consequence; and after much trouble, the castle was stormed, ouly sufficient remaining to keep them had cut his irons nearly through, leaving and one inmate taken prisoner. On exa- together, and the substitution of others of mining the premises, there were found most singular weight and thickness, did abundant marks of good cheer and accommodation for several people-all the rest at the zeal of the Officers of the detachnot appear to disconcert him; he laughed were abroad foraging, traces have been discovered of their retreat. lodgings opposite the gaol, as a measure of and hitherto no ment, which had induced them to take It appears, that the gang have remained increased security. unobserved for several months, and have immense irons were put on him, he cut The night after the lived chiefly by their nocturnal depreda- through them, and through those of 22 tions on the poultry-yards and farm houses other men, charged with capital offences; around. The person apprehended was and, rushing forward at committed to Haddington gaol, knocked down two soldiers stationed in their head, the passage, then the furnkey and his Mr. John Ruthven, of Edinburgh, has key of which he had seized, assistants; and, opening the door, the been employed in improving, and apply-down two soldiers who were at the outside of it, and taking their arms, as he had knocked done those in the passage, ran down the street, with six of his associates, crying stop thief,' till the darkuess of the night rendered pursuit unavailing. On the first alarm in the prison, a man, confined for debt, and who was taking tea with the gaoler, ran into the passage, and with great which means the flight of 16 of the felons presence of mind, shut the iron gate, by remanded to their former quarters. The was fortunately prevented, and they were proclaimed through the country by his deescape of Grant was almost immediately predations. The night after he carried off Mr. White's coach horses from Scotswrath, between Montrath and Abelaix; sixty English miles distant, and returning he committed a robbery near Waterford, with equal rapidity, plundered the house of Mr. Horan, close to Maryborough, of every article of value.

Printing from Stone.

ing to practical purposes, the important art of printing drawings, &c. from stone. This is much more extensively useful, by being combined with the ingenious press lately invented by Mr. Ruthven, by means of which any individual may take - off any number of impressions with the

utmost ease.

IRELAND.

An official account laid before the House
of Commons states, the total official value
of the Customs Revenue of Ireland, in the
present year 1816, at 2,681,1011.

A return to an Order of the House of
Commons states the amount of the total
expenditure of Ireland for the year 1816,
at 17,382,9131. Irish currency, exclusive of
the charge of management.
6,408,0361. is on separate account, and the
Of this
remainder on joint account; including the
sum of 6,616,9861, paid on account of ba-
lances due by Ireland to Great Britain on
the joint account.

Wellington Bridge, a testimonial to the
hero of the British army, has been erected
at Dublin. It consists of an arch of cast
iron thrown over the river Liffey, and is
one of the most beautiful in Europe.

Robber uncommonly active.

DUBLIN, MAY 23.-A person, generally known by the name of Captain Grant,

of fine silver,
Silver Coinage.-One shillling, contained,

23 Edw. I 18 Edw. III. 27 Edw. III. 9 Hen. V. 1 Hen. VI.

264 gr.

236 213

36 Hen. VIII.
37 Hen. VIII.

60 gr.

40

3 Edw. VI.

40

176

5 Edw. Vl.

20

142

6 Edw. VI.

88

44 Hen. VI.

176

2 Eliz.

80

9 Hen. VI.
1 Hen. VIII.

142

13 Eliz.

85 58-62

119

80 8-11

whose extraordinary endowments rendered | 34 Hen. VIII.

100

Proposed new
coinage.

cerning the Admiralty. The plea was long service; but had these gentlemen seen long service? It was true the Secretary

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY. CHAP. III. Salaries Economy-Navy Esti-of the Admiralty in war time received fees

mates-Ireland, &c. House of Commons. March 19.-Several Petitions presented praying the House to repeal such Taxes as affected Agriculture; the depressed condition of which they stated in strong terms. 21. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice of his intention to repeal the Malt Tax, as a relief to agriculture. Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, observed that what the farmer most wanted, at the moment, was a market for his barley. Barley soils would not produce wheat; and they must be thrown out of cultivation, unless their produce was rendered saleable.

Mr. Methuen introduced a debate on the increase of salaries in the Excise of the Customs, and the Admiralty. In the Excise the two chairmen from £1,700 had now £2,000; and seven Commissioners £200 per annum, additional each. In the Customs the Chairmen were raised from £1,400 to £2,000. The salaries of the Secretaries to the Admiralty had been encreased one fourth, and this in a time of Peace!

Lord Castlereagh said there would be a saving in the Secretary of State's Office of about £4,000 per ann. In the Paymas-" ter's Office about £41,000 per ann. In the Commissariat Department about £100,000 per ann. In the Storekeeper's about £10,000. The Barracks would be reduced from 90,000 men to 40,000. The Admiralty would save about £400,000. The Victualling about £25,000. Total £571,000, soon to be augmented to £650,000.

But, they could not suddenly forget their meritorious servants, nor turn off all in one moment. After their length of services the whole sum divided as increased salary among the officers retained was only 7,5001. He moved the previous question. Mr. Brougham insisted that this parade about saving 5 or 600,000l. was all mere verbiage. It was true, a number of work. men had been turned off, as there was no more want of them: but, saving there was none. The salaries of Mr. Croker and Mr. Barrow (Secretaries to the Admiralty) should bear some proportion to their labours; but, surely, their labours were less in time of peace. To put 1,0001. per Ann. into the pocket of one, and 5001. per Ann. into the pocket of the other, was burdening the public, already too much burdened. It was a piece of Court favouritism.

Mr. Peel opposed the addition.

Mr. Tierney took an enlarged view of the subject in respect to its fitness, as coneruing the Revenue Boards, and as con

to the amount of 14,000l. per Ann. but, this had not been stated as the reason for limiting the former Secretary, Sir Evan Nepeau, to 3,000!. The whole Administration made common cause against the country on the subject of economy. The people of England could not be persuaded out of their common sense: the whole was a mass of extravagance.

Mr. Wyune, Mr. W. Pole, Mr. Banks, and Lord Cochrane spoke when the House divided :

For the amendment Against it

Majority

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March 29.- The Bill for authorizing money to be advanced by the Bank, was described by Mr. Grenfell as borrowing three millions of the public's own money, for which the public pays 240,0001. leaving eight millious and a half of their own money in the hands of the Bank. He hoped if the immense paper circulation was to be continued, that some means would be devised to enable the public to share the profits. About 40,000l. had been saved to the public, it might make up 100,0001. Navy Estimates.

In a Committee of Supply, Sir G. War render moved that a sum not exceeding 34,8641. 12s. 6d. be voted for the expenses of the navy pay office.

Mr. Bennett thought 4,000l. a year too much for the Treasurer of the Navy. Those of the army had only 2,000l. a year: and he thought the same sum might be amply sufficient for the Treasurer of the Navy.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer observed, that the balances of the public money held by the Treasurer of the Navy, when his salary was only 2,000l. were a source of incomparably greater income than the addition of 2,000l. making up its present amount. They amounted annually, on some occasions, to 40,000l. or 50,000l.

Mr. J. Martin moved, that the sum of 7,000l. for the Navy Pay Office, placed under the head of contingencies, be deducted from the vote, because the details of the items promised to be brought down were not yet before the House--Negatived, by 153 against 57.

Sir George Warrender moved a resolution for 49,1951. 38. 4d. for the expences of the Victualling Office, which was agreed to, as well as 27,5331. 2s. 6d. for Deptford Yard; 33,0611. 7s. for Woolwich Yard; 35,4501. 2s. 10d. for Chatham Yard; 25,4531. 6d. 6d. for Sheerness Yard; 60,7281. 5s. for Portsmouth Yard and the Naval Col

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