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THE QUIZZICAL QUORUM.
THE QUIZZICAL QUORUM. A BALLAD, ■y 'Selling forth how they stopped a poor man upon the King's highway, nd robbed him of the earnings offiftten days' hard labolr. 0 Fame, blow your trumpet,and-scatters. wreath, Oil each Magistrate's noddle that governs Black- heath; Let your trumpet he hollow, & crooked ez mean, Not one sprig of sage in your chaplets he seen. Derry down, down, down, derry down. Sins, sing, how these doughty and Reverend prigs, Raised a terrible dust, as they all shook their wigs, And loyalty made a sublime adjuration, To die—or deliver the Heath from invasion Derry down, &c. A truculent monster, a demon profane, Had haunted the Heath, and molested their reiga; "Whose infamous crime was the general talk, I or the villain was guilty of-taking a italk Derry down, &c. What! walk on the Common without a permit! ■Has the rascal no fear of the bottomless pit ? His breaking the Sabbath we need not discuss, Siuce your Worships will own he has not wor- shipp'd us. Derry down, &c. Then turning their eyes up, the Quorum devout ■Sign'd a warrant for seizing the wretch on his route; But, doubting their own magisterial nerve, They oiaufuliy left it to others to serve. Derry down, &c. The Caitiff was seiz'd, and was dragging to jail, When his fiieuds (0 the iusolent r-ebl-is !) cried Bail -But, on seeking the Quorum, the valourous elves Were all of them g0, out a walking themselves Derry down, &c. May your Worships Ioog live, the Pedestrian's f,- c s, To lay fo!ks by the heels for exerting their toes; And joiig may ye vent your magnanimous might, ■Upon walkers by dty, stead of-footpads by night. Derry down, &c. So God save the King, and be-devil the French, Aud from purists]and,prigs purge the Magistrates Belich; May our beef sell for fourpence a pound, as it ought, ,A rl the haif-quartern loaf be call'd dear at a groat. Derry down, down, down, derry down.
To the Editor of the Ji'orth…
To the Editor of the Ji'orth IVales Gazelle. SiR, I read in your Gazelle of October the 5th, a Xetler signed MERVINIENSIS, alluding to a Paper which he stales, has been handed about, purporting to be an address to the Welsh Clergy, on the impropriety of bestow- ing preferments in Wales, on those who are no°t natives of the Principality" It was couched in warm and energetic language, hut < it seemed to me, rather an eulogium, on a late deceased prelate, than a refutation of the charge alluded to in the address—recoiling as widefy from the subject which gave birlh to it, as the east is from the west, as far as 1: could judge from the title ofthePaperquoted. I lake it for granted, the writer is basking in Ihe-sun-shineef preferment" bestowed upon him by the Dignitary for whom he now ap- pears as champion; if I am right in my con- jecture, he certainly has not been sparing of the mead of praise," in return for favours, received. Such conduct is highly praise- worthy, and I should not have presumed to trouble you upon this subject, had not a second candidate Parted up, (avowedly on the same (avon side) Ul\(--r th-s'signature of A SAXON, which impels me to-stale to you, my astonishment, that a person of you;- well-known candour, should admit into your columns, such obtuse matter. in reply to adocument, of which the generality of your readers are wholly igno- rant,—it never having appeared in your pub- lication. How is it possible the public can tfceide, who is right or who is wrong, without laying before them, at full length, the myste- rio.is'Address alluded to ? I begin to suspect, fountains some palpable truths, which sets refutation at defiance, or why withhold it from I he public eye T Report says, it has appeared in the Chester, Swansea, Shrewsbury, and other provincial papers if so, fselling delicacy aside) I conceive, it is a duty you owe to the public at large, to give It I-tiblicity in your widely circulating Paper, that your readers may see, in one view, the arguments on both sides, and deduce therefrom, whatever conclusion they think proper respecting this novel warfare. It is all axiom in tactie's, tilat to decide the superiority in valour, the con. tending armies should meet, face to face and as a la militaire is now the order of the day, 1 conjure you, Mr. Editor, to act like a brave and generous soldier, by allowing each party to form on the same ground, in battle array, for- When greek meets greek, then comes the tug of war." Your immediate acquiescenc-e will greatly oblige, yours, &C. &c. ø PALINURUS. 20TH OCTOBER, 1815.
CAPTAIN WRIGHT.
CAPTAIN WRIGHT. £ Thc IJcge Gazette contains the following letter 1 of M. d'Henout, in addition to that from the same Gentleman, published in our last.J Liege, Oct. 5.—Captain Wright was closely imprisoned in one of those dungeons,which in the language of tyranny is called a Secret, and which includes the idea of every thing most terrible to the imagination. He saw no hu- man being, but one individual, a turnkey, who visited him thrive a day. His Secret was situated in a small detached square, within which was also confined an old Jesuit, about 80 years of age, a man of quality and learn- ing who honoured me with his esteem and confidence. The Captain, as liasaiready been stated, had his throat cut with arazor between twelve and half-past twelve at night.* About seven in the morning the turnkey of this un- fortunate officer awoke all the Temple with his cries, repeating over and over—The En- alishcaptaiii has killed himself! The jailor came to the spot and allowed the prisoners to go into the apartment of the deceased. I en. tered in my turn, as did also 128 of my com- panions in Misfortune. The Captain was ex- tended on his bed covered with blood, and the fatal razor was lying on the floor. A Mont- feur of tilt; preceding day was lying as it were appropriately 011 the night table. It contain- ed the details of a signal victory gained by the French. "You see (said the turnkeys, who were doubtless well taught by Savary) our victory has driven the English Captain to de- spair." Nobody said a word, and no one, not even the turnkeys themselves, believed the story. On this point the public will particu- larly remember that the reading of the news- papers was slrictly forbidden to Capt. Wright, and that he had no razor, as the barber of the Temple shaved him twice a week, accompa- nied and superintended by one of the gaolers. These facts were notorious in the prison. Full of horror at the shocking spectacle I had seen I went into the Jesuit's apartment, which was Oil the opposite side, at some pares distance from the English Captain's. "What crimes are committed in this prison," said he, raising his hands and eyes towards heaven. Yes, father," I replied, they are enormous, and exceed all measure. Being so near the spot, you have probably heard all that passed. For my part I have heard a good part of it, or rather I have seen the precursors of the cata- strophe." Who were they ?" ,s 1-shall tell you-Being awake about midnight (for there is little sound sleep in State-prisons), I veiy distinctly heard the door of the wicket open, and then-shut. t I also heard some men walk- ing in the court, as well as the opening and shutting of the door which leads to tha tower. I confess I was seized with alarm, for it was j usually about this hour that the goalers came to exlraire (that was their term when they removed a prisonor) some unfortunate being, in order to carry him before a secret military commission, and thence to a fusillade. My 'fear was not unreasonable, for many had in thin manner perished during the night It ceased, however, when I found that the men I had heard were not coming my way. Curir osity now influenced me, and 1 put my head out at the grated window of my apartment.— The assassins returned slowly at about half- sin past twelve, but the night was very dark, and it was impossihte for me to count them. The wicket was opened and-shut again. Tiro Je- suit, in his turn, said to me, that about the same hour he heard the gate of his square opened. Three or four men came groping on their hands and feet (as he thought) and open ed and shut the door of the Captain's cham- ber. Some minutes after he heard it open and shut again, and finally heard the gate of the squares shut.t As for the mutilation of this brave Officer, which the Ghent Journal stated, and which the General Gazette of the Nether- lands has repeated on that authority, it is en- tirety a fiction, which every judicious histori- an will reject. I as well as all the prisoners in the Temple saw the dead body naked; and there was no mutilation except in the neck, where there was a very deep cut about four inches in extent. A report of the pretended suicide was drawu up, and sent to London, with a Moniteur as false as the manuscript do- cument. I shall send you information rela- tive to General Pichegru. D'H ENOUL, Advocate.. 1 This will be proved by the circumstance I shall state. + My apartment, which fronted the first wic- ket, was about 25 feet distant from it, and its elevation was about 80 feei. J Whatever precautions may be taken, the drawing of double bars, and the turning of keys in double and treble locks, seldom fail toawakeu the soundest sleepers.
BONAPARTE ON HIS VOYAGE TO…
BONAPARTE ON HIS VOYAGE TO ST. HELENA. A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON HOARD H. M. ship Northumberland, Int. 35. 53. long. 13. 45. August 22, 1815. As every circumstance relative to the man we are now conveying from Europe must prove acceptable, I embrace this opportunity of de- tailing some anecdotes of him, and also of contradicting some of the assertions that have been circulated respecting him. Auioii,, the latter is the one, that he took possession of Captain Maitland's cabiu the moment he came 011 board the Bellerophon, refusing thatgallant Officer even a corner of it to sleep in. Pre- vious to Buonaparleocoming on hoard, Capt.. Mailland had determined to give up his own cabin, and part of the wardroom cabins were to be appropriated for the ladies who were expected. Equally unfounded are the state- ments that Buonaparte walked the quarter deck furiously, with his hands behind him, and talking to,himself;-as also, that be asked if the Comraissaire (Purser of the ship) was not a rogue. Conversing one day about the siege of St. Jcan d'Act-e, Btioiialoarte observed- "That when Sir Sidney Smith was lhre, he distributed several Proclamations among the French troops, which made them waver a lit- tie." In order to obviate this, he published an Order, iu which he asserted that the E, tiglisi) Commodore was mad, and it concluded with prohibiting- all communication with him. This, he added, had the desired effect, and so enraged Sir Sidney, that he sent him a chal- lenge to single combat, which was declined," and Napoleon returning at the same time for answer, that when he brought the Duke of Marlborough to meet linn he would accept it." He stated most positively that he would then have taken Acre, if the English had not taken his battering train, and added, in English and French, "had it not been for you English, 1 would have been Emperor of the East, but wherever a ship could get 1 was always sure to find some of the English to oppose me,"— He spoke of the invasion of as his firm determination, and said that he intended to have landed as near Chatham as possible, and to have dashed at once for London. He admitted the great probability of his not suc- ceeding, and that he might have been killed in the attempt. That this scheme was not put into effect, he says, was owing to Admiral Villeneuve not obeying the orders he received. He was particularly inquisitive as to the cli- mate of England, and said that the cause of so many suicides was the humidness of the at- mosphere. The anxiety of the Euglish to see him when on board the Bellerophon, flattered his vanity in the extreme, and he would fre- quently stand at the gangway purposely to b afford the gaping and wondering multitude an opportunity of beholding his person, At this time, he had invariably a spy-glass iu his hand, which he frequently used in observing the r2 spectators. There was always a great number of well dressed females, many of them very elegant in their persons, and they never failed toattract his particular attention, and he would uot fall to notice to those near him how for cibly he gazed on their beauties. He appeared greatly pleased with the beauty and elegance of our fair countrywomen, and was always wishing to know their names, families, and any circumstance that could be communicated to him concerning them. He took particular notice one evening of a young Lady who was very close to the ship, and, as usual, inquired what was her name and family. He was in- formed she was a Miss B 11, daughter of General B. He bowed and took off his hat, exclaim iug several times, with peculiar empha- sis, to those near him—" Oh, Charmante — This admiration of the females was not con- fined to Buonaparte, for all his Officers were equally delighted and they expressed their opinion of the superiority of the English wo- men over auy they had before seen. Buona- parte gives great credit to our infantry and our Artillery. He said, the British Infantry is now what the French was ten years back, and that the Cavalry is greatly inferior to the Infantry in every thing but appearance-" He found great fault with the construction of the bits, which he siiys areso bad that the men can- not manage their horses. Bertrand and the others assented to the truth of this observation. One day Buonaparte was speaking of the Duke of Wellington, and observed, he did not ex- pect he would have given him battle, but that he would have retreated, and waited for the Russians and other reinforcements, in which case, hesays, he must have been finally beaten; but that he was exiremely happy to find Lord Wellington did not decline the combat," add- ing, that he made quite certain of obtaining the Victory." He also said—" That he knew of the advances of the Prussians, but that he did not regard it of much consequence; and that he was betrayed by some of his Generals." He further said, that 1, the universal conster- nation among his troops taking place at a time of dai-kitess, he was not able to rally the fjgi lives, by t cwing his person to them, which he is convinced would have effectually restor- ed order had it been day-iight, but that, in consequence of its being dark, he was borne away by the crowd, and obliged to FLY HIMSELF." Ou being asked why he had not t, y given himself up to Austria ? He replied, What, give myself up to a nation without laws, honour, or faith No the moment 1 had got there, I should have been put into a dungeon, and never heard of more. In giving myself up to the English, I have given my self up to a nation with honourable and just laws, which afford protection to every person." At auother time he remarked at the singularity of Mr. Whitbread's suicide,but made no further observations on that melan- choly event. One day he observed, he ought to have died the day he entered Moscow, as ever since he had experienced a continualse, ries of disasters. He further observed, he would have made peace at Dresden, and also afterwards, if it had not been for the advice of the Buke of Bassano, who persuaded him against it. The invasion of Spain, Bonaparte says, he undertook at the speciat desire of Talleyrand, who was continually urging him t 11 to that measure, invariabiy pointing out the absolute necessity of its being undertaken, and if possible, accomplished at all hazards. II is astonishing the detestation in which Foucheis heid by Buonapirte and all his followers, who never mention his name but with the greatest contempt and they say, It was entirely owing to this creature that Buonaparte abdi- cated in favour of his son; and that he was continually carrying on a clandestine corres pondence with the allies." The respect that is still paid to Buonaparte by his suite is very great as an instance I shall mention that he was oue day playing at chess with Moutholon, who is by far the best player of the two.- Buonaparte had evidently the worst of the game, when Moutholon made purposely an improper movement, which was speedily ob. served by the former, and he ultimately was the victor. Moutholon praised the superior skili of his master (as he termed him) and de- clared himsjlf notcompetenito encounter such an excellent player again at which Buona- parte was highly pleased. At this game, or Vingt-un, Buonaparte generally passes his time but was much hurt when the Admiral insisted that neither of these games, nor any other, should be played on Sundays. He has been very inquisitive as to I lie c'l Iiii,,Ilc, &ci of St. Helena, and declares that he shall be more comfortable there than in Austria. Temper- ance, he says, is the only means of preserving health, and adds, that he never was ill but twice in his life, and on one of those occasions only applied a blister. Moutholon's wife has been unwell, and he enquired of the Surgeon how she was. He said, rather belter, but that he thought the fear of the tropical climates preyed on her mind. Buonaparte replied nearly in I he words of Shakespeare, Doctor, thou cannot administer to a mind diseased."— The force with which this remark was made, was observed by every one near, and appa- rently related to his own feelings. Bertrand and his wife are continually with Buonaparte, and the whole are more reconciled to their future destiny. Sir George Cockburn and Buonaparte are on excellent terms, as he is, indeed, with all the Officers of the ship they frequently play at cards, &c. in which, occa- sionally, they have the advantage of each other. Hitherto our passage has been very favourable, and no particular occurrence has taken place siuce we sailed from T01 bay.
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Falsi Accidenl.-As four young Gentlemen were upon ^shooting parly, iu the neighbour hood of Llangharne, Wales, one of them stum- bled and fell, in consequeuce of which hisgun went off, and lodged its contents in the lega of another of the parly, Bingham Walter Hamil. ton, Esq. Surgical assistance was immedi- ately afforded, aud no fatal consequences anti. cipated, until the wound, in the short space of six and thirty hours, turned to a gangrene, which spread so rapidly as to render amputa- tion and all medical assistance useless. We understand that the very extensive Code of signals, which was presented to the Admi- ralty by Sir Home Popham, is likely to be immediately adopted it has undergone a very 0 1 minute examination by a Committee of Flag- Officers, since which it has been I)rinted.-A new telegraph has also been submitted to Go- vernment, we believe by the same Officer, which from its simplicitly and comprehensive- ness, is most likely to supersede all other tele- graphs. The Duke of York has ordered some to be made for the use of the army. The woods attached to the dotation of II)c Prince of Waterloo are all situated in the very theatre of the exploits of the Hero of our days, in the ancient Duchy of Lothier, near Flemish Brabant. The wood Bossu is in the Commune of Boissy, which is the birth-place of the celebrated Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lothicr. Tuesday last, a man of the name of Holdin, undertook at Tunbridge-Wells.to walk against time, 50 miles in twelve hours, without any nourishment. He performed his task in eleven hours and a half, without the least signs of fatigue. The principal remuneration he re- ceived was from a collection made on the ground, which was very considerable. The same person, who about three seasons ago, engaged to walk and run 20 miles round the race cource, (a distance of a mile and a quar- ter), in four hours, for a trifling sum this he also completed with the same case in three hours and a half. On Tuesday, about five o'clock in the after- noon, a most daring- robbery was committed a little beyond Botfey, on the turnpike road leading to Ensham, at a poor man's cottage named Floyd, who, together with his wife and children, were at work in the fields, and on their return home, found that some villain had entered the house by the casement of the window, and had stolen the poor man's clothes, part of a loaf, and his wife's riug.- Information was obtained from men working on the road, that a sailor had been seen going alung- with a bundle at his back he was pur- sued by the poor man and his brother, aiid was met with very early the next morning at Witney, with the bundle and all the stolen property, and being taken before the Rev. Mr. Hyde, a Magistrate of Oxfordshire, was by him committed to the county gaol. The ring was on his finger, and could not be got off without filing it through. Early 111 the last month, a profligate and dissipated fellow, living at Queeuborougli, Kent, deserted his wife and family, leaving them chargeable to the parish for a reward offered, he was soou apprehended, and brought before T. Y. Greet, Esq. Mayor of that town, who sentenced him to three months imprison- ment, and to be flogged at three different times in the open market place, and on market days; but lo no one in the town would un- dertake the office of fiagellator. The time approaching for his first portion of the allot- ted punishment, a notice was sent to Sheer- ness, where there is a regiment stationed, offering a premium of 5s. to any one who would take that office 011 himself; but to the surprise of all, neither boy nor man could be found for the purpose. The spirited and worthy Mayor, determined the fellow should not escape, attended at the place, and, at the time appointed, threw off his coat, and with a dexterity that could not be excelled, bestow- ed upon him one third of the punishment his conduct had so justly merited. Shadwell Office.ri)e dreadful alarm which has of late so much agitated the neighbour- hood of Mile-end, by the assemblage of near- ly 200 sailors, who had been paid off from their respective ships, and taken up their re- sidence in the different huts of the brick ground at the old town, and who have been stealing poultry, robbing the potatoe grounds, as well as committing numerous other nocturnal de- predations, has, in a great degree stii)sided.- On Wednesday three vigilent officers from Shadwell visited their places of residence, and succeeded in dispersing the greatest part, and bringing 4S (If them beforo Edwd. Markland, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, when he commit. ted nine of them to the House of Correction, as rogues and vagabonds some he ordered to their respective parishes, others to work on the Mile-end-road, lIntilother employ could be had for them and the remainder, being foreigners, to be taken to the respective Con- suls, representing their country, for relief. A laughable accident, though attended with considerable loss to the party, occurred on Monday, in Hinde Street, Manchester Square; two men who were employed to carry a lafge looking glass, slopped where a showman was exhibiting Mr. Punch and his family to a gap- ing multitude; they put down the glass and placed it securely against the iron railing on the opposite side of the street, covered over with a sheet, whilst they went forward to see the cxhipiton. In the mean time some mss- chicvous boys who were at play threw up the sheet, and left the glass exposed; at the same moment a fine he goat, whogenerally ran after the poys, crossed from the opposite Mews Menl up to tiie glass, and seeing as he fancied another goat in it.he retired back a few paces, and rearing on his hind legs, darted forward with all his might, and matle a desperate plunge at his supposed antagonist, going head and ahooiders through the glass. The crowd de- seled Mr. Punch and his family, and joined in a general lauSh at the mischance of the unfor- tunate men. .4 Stage Coach seized, forfeited,$c.-—0.u Sa turday,an information, under the Excise Laws, the 55th of thp King, ch. 93, came on for dis. cussion before the Surrey Magistrates, relative to the seizure of a Brighton coach and four horses, whilst coming to town on the 24th of July, in consequence of its having a parcel therein, containing contraband goods.—It ap- peared from the evidence of Officer Boys, an Excise Officer, that in consequence of some intelligence, he went down to Reigate, ou the 14th of July last, to meet one of Messrs. Cross aud Co's Bnghtou coaches in its way to town when the coach came up, he obtained a seat on the outside the coach between Croydon and Streatham, the Croydon coach passed, and the witness observed a man, named Joice, on the roof, between whom and Mr. Newman, who drove the Brighton coach, a sign passed. When the coach arrived at Streatham, Mr. Newman got down, and was taking a small truss out of the boot, and proceeding into the house with it. This was the article alluded to in the witness's information hejumped down, seized the truss, and asked Mr. Newman if he knew what it contained. At first he hesitated, and then said he did not. The witness told him hewaa a Custom-House Officer, and would show him. He accordingly cut open oneend, and discovered some IBandana handkerchiefs. He immediately put the King's mark upon the truss, and ordered Newmau to put it into the boot agaiu; at the same time saying he should also aeize the coach and horses. It being proved that Newman was a proprietor, and privy to the fact, the coach and horses, j TAILie £ 250, were forfeited. J Sunday night the seals were cut from the watch of Mr. Nicholls, of Somer's Town, in the porch of Rowland Hill's Chapel, during the time the congregation were singing the Hymn before the Sermon. Bullion and foreign coin have [again fallen in price. Portugal gold in coin, and foreign gold in bars, are now 41. 3s. per oz. new doubloons, 3/. 195. and silver iunew dollars, 5s. 3d. per oz. An Elopement.—The topic of conversation in the Libraries yesterday was a breach in a matrimonial contract, and an elopement.- The parties have already claimed notice—we allude to the family of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke. The circumstances are as follow.-— A young man, who in a few months will be- come possessed of 50,0001. accidentally saw Miss Mary Anne (the Lady who was lately arrested by mistake), at a Library at Broad- sairs, and fell desperately in love with her, so much so, that he declared, at the first jlHr- view with the mother, that he should die, if he did not possess her ere Christmas. He pro- fessed honourable intentions, and with the consent of a third party, he commenced his | suit. When all-matters were in a train of for- wardness, the capricious youth suddenly all- tented himself. On inquiry, a discovery, fatal to the hopes of Miss Clarke, took place. Mr. M. eloped on Thursday last with a handsome girl he accidentally saw at St. Peter's.—(Mar- gate, Oct. 14,) Sudden Deaih.-An Inquisition was taken by G. Hodgson, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, at the Pomfret Castle, Barrett's court, Mary- le-bone, Loudon, on the body of William Rose, a shoe maker, lodging at that house, who was going up to his bed.room on Satur- day, apparently in a good state of health, when he dropped down on the stairs, and in- stantly expired without uttering a word. Ver- d ic t- Died by the Fisitation of God. Mr. Hod- son took another Inquisition at the Carpenter's Arms, in Adam-street West, on the body of J. Griffiths, a hackney coachman, emplaye(I ( by Messrs. Wilcox and Clarke, in Manchester- street, Manchester-square, who, it appeared. was driving a Lady, who engaged him for the i day, on Friday, to different parts of the town when he came home at night he was perfectly sober, and did not complain of being ill but before the horses were taken from the coach he dropped down in the yard and expired on the spot. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God. liori-id Uitrder.-We regret to state, that a murder of the most shocking nature has been committed almost at our doors. oil Tuesday night, at an early hour, a young man of the name of M'Anirliu, returning to his house from the market of Slrabane, was followed from Leek by three or four ruffians, who et- tacked him near to the six mile stone, and beat him in the most inhuman manner. After they had left him for dead, he crawled to the house of a neighbour, but died a few hours after in the most dreadful agonies, his skull being fractured in several places. He was able, however, in the mean time, to make known his murderers, who were also known to a person who happened to be upon the road at the time, hut who fled, dreading a similar fate. On the alarm being given, a number of country people, much to their credit, sallied forth with such arlllS M they could provide, and two men, charged with having been of the party, were secured, and conveyed to Amngh gaol. A third escaped, and has not since been heard of. M'Anirlin, though of Roman Ca- tholic descent, was a reputed Orangeman.- (Deny Journal.) Sunderland, October 14.-Tlie riotous con- duct of the seamen of the ports of Newcastle and Sunderland, has been so slightly noticed in the Newspapers, that the country can hardly be aware of the extent of the mischief occasioned hy these misguided men. It is now many weeks since any shipping have been allowed to depart from either of these ports, with the exception of a few vessels bound to Lynn, Boston, &c. which have been permitted to sail, with printed licences from these new naval lords, to whom the masters were obliged to pay ten shillings for every seaman which he had 011 board, to take an oath that his cargo should not be delivered at London. The bu- siness of the rioters is conducted iu the most systematic manner they are governed by committees, and the two ports are in regular communication with each other; the most strict discipline is kept up amongst them if any of their body absent himself from muster (which takes placejtwice a day) he is punished by being paraded through the principal parts of the town, having his face smeared with tar and his jacket turned inside out he is after- wards obliged to mount a platform attached to poles set up in triangles for the purpose, where he remains at the mercy of the mob.- The numbers of seamen increase daily and if some slop is not speedily put to their proceed- ings, the country must suffer severely the price of coals in London aud other places de- pendent on these ports, will necessarily be greatly enhanced, and the revenue arising from the duty on that article fall considerably short; it is calculated that there areat present upwards of 1000 sail of shipping in the Tyiie and Wear, all of which have lost onealld many of them two voyages in consequeuce of this stoppage, the duties on the cargoes of which would amount to i5o,oool. I The civil power of the neighbourhood is altogether unequal to the task of enforcing obedience to the laws., and thè haedtul of military in the district is insufficient to overawe so large a body. The sailors of Shields paid a visit to their fellows at Sunderland on the 9th inst. they paraded the streets with dru, and flags, and after- wards assembled on the town moor to the amount of 5000. The shipowners of Shieldt have offered the men 51. wages per London voyage, or 4/. per month ou foreign voyages, and to have their ships well manned; The Sunderland shipowners have offered them 4/. 4s. per voyage, and to man their vessels agreeable to a scale, according to burthen, which offers have been rejected the seamen are determined not to give way. Sailors' wages from the Port of Loudon, are, at pre- sent, 50s. per month. B AIVGOR: PRINTED BY JOHN BROSTER. C:1r Orders and Advertisements are received by --NEWTON and Co. (late Taylor and Newton,) No. 5, Warwick Square, Newgate Street; and Air, J, Wli LTE, No, 33, Fleet Street, London,