demesnes of the crown. In the first case, the palace would be the private property of Louis Buonaparté; in the second, the King would owe nothing to the former possessor.

5. Thames Police-office.-On Thursday and Friday last, capt. Charles M'Glashan, of the ship Margaret, from Tobago, appeared to a summons under the Act of Parliament passed last sessions for the more speedy recovery of seamen's wages, to show cause why he should not pay Alex. Campbell 91. 19s. 6d., the amount of the wages due to him on the voyage from London to Tobago and back again. On the part of the captain it was attempted to be shown, that Campbell had on May 26, while the ship lay in Tobago, deserted, and therefore forfeited his wages: in answer to which, it was proved by six witnesses, that the captain had inflicted four sabre wounds on the body of this seaman; that he continued to beat him with it until the violence of the blows broke a piece off the point of the sabre of more than four inches in length; not content with which, he ordered his mate to flog him, who accordingly gave him seven dozen lashes with a nine-thread rattlingline, folded four times with a knot at each end; and that with the permission of the captain, he went on shore up the island, a distance of 25 miles, to make his complaint to a magistrate, from whom, however, he could neither obtain a hearing or any redress that rather than starve on the island, he tendered himself to the captain to return with him to this country; but who refused to re

ceive him unless he signed a paper whereby he promised to pay all expenses the ship had been at on his account, admitted that the charges laid against him and the mate were unfounded and malicious, and acquitted them of all charges whatever, which he declined to do; in consequence of which he offered to work his passage home in the Governor Halkett, which captain Justus of that ship accepted.

Mr. Longly, Mr. Richbell and Mr. Kinnard, were all clearly of opinion, that a seaman quitting a vessel for the purpose of making a complaint to a magistrate, whether the complaint was in itself tenable or not, was not a desertion; and under all the peculiar circumstances of this case, taking into consideration the fact of this man's being obliged to sleep on the beach 13 nights, and existing day by day on the charity afforded him in the island and what he could find which the sea had washed on shore, the magistrates refused even to allow the captain 4., of which captain Justus had made Campbell a present for his services home on board his ship; and sentenced Mac Glashan to pay the balance of the wages out and home, amounting to 9l. 19s. 6d., and also the costs of the application.

Two other charges, by two other seamen under similar circumstances, against the same captain, were decided in the same

manner.

Guildhall.-Yesterday, James Hawley, John Jackson, Daniel Gulston and Charles Priest, journeymen printers, were brought

up

up before sir Richard Carr Glyn, in custody of Smith, the officer, on a charge of having printed a considerable number of Moore's Almanacks on unstamped paper. The prosecution, in this instance, was instituted by the worshipful Company of Stationers, and Mr. Rivington, who attended as their solicitor, stated, that the company, though not possessed of any exclusive right, were very extensive publishers of Almanacks; and that the four prisoners were pressmen in the service of the printer employed by the company, in which capacity they had the opportunity of taking impressions of the Almanacks surreptitiously, whereby not only was the company injured, but the revenue also greatly defrauded. This practice had at length come to such an extent, that it was felt to be absolutely necessary to put a stop to it by legal means; the more especially, as there was little doubt but that the paper also, upon which such impressions were taken, was procured by dishonest means.

Mr. Thorne printer, Red Lion court Fleet-street, deposed, that the prisoners were his pressmen, and employed wholly in a room set apart for that purpose, in printing Moore's Almanack for the Stationers' Company; and that they were not authorized by him to take any impression of that Almanack otherwise than upon stamped paper delivered to them for that purpose.

Mr. Woodfall, a printer, said, in consequence of information they had received; he went to Mr. Thorne's, accompanied by the stock-keepers of the Sta

tioners' Company and an officer; they found the four prisoners at work in the same room; they proceeded to search them, and found on Jackson and Hawley several copies of the calendar sheet of the Almanack on unstamped paper, and a considerable quantity was also found hid in a drawer in the room. prisoners when questioned confessed having printed them. Several quires of the Almanack on unstamped paper were also discovered at the lodgings both of Jackson and Priest.

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Smith produced the copies found at Mr. Thorne's, and upon the prisoners Jackson and Hawley; and the sheets found on searching the lodgings were also exhibited by the officer employed, amounting together to nearly 20 quires.

The prisoners acknowledged having printed them. The impressions were upon paper of various descriptions, and some of it Mr. Thorne stated to be part of the same kind as another work was being printed upon in his office.

Sir Richard Glyn said, he considered the charge as completely proved against all the prisoners; but as there appeared to be different degrees of guilt, he should feel it his duty to make similar distinction as to their separate punishments, and accordingly sentenced them to hard labour in the House of Correction, Jackson and Priest for the whole term of three months, Hawley for two months, and Gulston, as the least offender, for one month only.

On Saturday morning a melancholy accident happened in Kell's-pit, near Whitehaven, by

an

an explosion of fire-damp, in which twenty persons were unfortunately killed. It is stated to have been a most unexpect ed occurrence, every precaution having been used, and an excellent ventillation regularly preserved. The explosion proceeded from a part of the workings where the pillars are being removed, and where the atmospheric air was forced over the broken parts as much as possible. The overlookers and workmen had orders to examine daily whether any fire-damp existed in this part of the pit, and on no occasion had any been perceived.

It is one of the regulations in the Whitehaven collieries, that no hewer shall approach his work without a Davy or safety-lamp; and with one he may safely explore, let the quantity of firedamp be what it may. The present lamentable event was the consequence of this regulation not being observed; and possibly the indiscretion of one individual led to the catastrophe.

These workings in Kell's-pit have been quite free from firedamp, and on Friday evening they were left in supposed safety. Impressed with the idea of a total absence of danger, workmen become more adventurous, and are apt to consult their own convenience in the utter neglect of rules framed for general benefit. Şir H. Davy's admirable lamp, if kept in order, is perfect security to the miner. From its construction, however, the light it affords is not so strong as can be obtain ed by other means; and miners are frequently induced to remove the safety-cylinder, or to have recourse to candles, thereby occa

sioning danger which otherwise would be avoided. Fatal as has been this accident, had it occurred an hour later, more persons would probably have suffered, as a great many of the work-people of this pit had not assembled.

Two men were taken out alive on Monday morning, after having remained in the pit above thirtysix hours, exposed to the noxious vapour occasioned by the explosion, and probably owe their lives to having upon them good flannel shirts, which, in a great degree, preserved them from the fire, and kept them warm afterwards. These two persons, with five others, had retreated into some old workings where the air was less impure, but their companions did not survive; and when found had no shirts upon them, and for want of covering may have perished by cold. It is surprising that the two men, a father and son, could so long exist in the place where they were, as the air was so impure that the lamps would not burn when the people went to bring them out. A little dog, the property of the two men, was also taken out alive, and was lying close by his masters.

6. Further particulars were received at Lloyd's yesterday, concerning the late daring acts of piracy committed in the Mediterranean by the master and crew of the William, Delano, from Liverpool. On the 29th of Aug., subsequently to the plunder of the Helen, the William arrived at Malta, where, from the description given by two of the crew of the Helen, who were brought there a few days before, and also from the contraband trade carried

on

on by the master during his stay, suspicion was excited that it was the William which had committed the piracy. Delano sailed for Smyrna on the 3rd of September, and the suspicions were so much increased after his departure, that application was made by the merchants of Malta to the government for a vessel of war to be sent after the William; but this request could not be complied with, as the only vessels then at Malta were the Spey and Racehorse, the first preparing to sail for Genoa, and the other not ready for sea. The insurance companies at Malta, however, determined on preventing the escape of the criminals, chartered a Gibraltar brig, the Frederic, which was manned by 20 seamen from the ships of war, under the command of lieut. Hobson, of his Majesty's ship Spey, and sent her in pursuit of the William. Lieutenant Hobson arrived at Smyrna in 13 days, where the William was discovered lying at anchor, and was immediately recognized by the two seamen belonging to the Helen as the vessel that had boarded them off Cape de Gatte. Lieut. Hobson conveyed the whole of his party on board by boats, concealing them under a cover in one, and towing with the other, which precluded the possibility of resistance or escape, and quietly took possession of the William, and all her crew, with the exception of one man who happened to be absent, but his description was left in the hands of Mr. Wing, the British Consul, and there was little doubt of his being apprehended. Lieut. Hobson, after so VOL. LXI.

ably executing the commission that had been intrusted to him, returned to Malta on the 3rd of Oct. with the master and crew of the William in irons, who were immediately put into the Quaran➡ tine-prison. An examination was immediately commenced by the crown solicitor, which left little doubt of the guilt of those wretches, who all were eager to be admitted as king's evidence, in order to save their own necks. The name of the mate who left Liverpool in the William is Robinson, and, as he is missing, he is supposed to have been murdered by the rest of the crew for refusing to join them in their depredations. The trial of Delano and his crew was to take place at Malta on the 26th of October. By intelligence received yesterday from Gibraltar, dated the 14th of October, it is feared that the English brig Arno, bound from Malta to that place, has met with a fate similar to that of the Helen.

The Arno sailed from Malta about ten days before the Walsingham packet, but though the latter had arrived at Gibraltar, the Arno had not been heard of, notwithstanding that the wind had been perfectly fair for several days. It appeared that the Arno and the William left Malta about the same time, that both the masters were intimate, and had dined together, when Delano, it is thought, found means to get from him an account of the money he had on board, and was probably tempted by the prospect of so valuable a booty. Little doubt was entertained at Malta of the conviction of the pirates.

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6. No information, it is said, has yet been received from lieu tenant Parry, who commands the expedition for exploring Baffin'sbay. As the season is now rapidly advancing, it is conjectured he has passed through sir James Lancaster's Sound, notwithstanding captain Ross's assertions of its being encompassed with land, or that he is unable to return to the southward from the tremendous bergs and masses of ice which move in that direction during the summer. In either case no deficiency of provisions or warm clothing can be experienced, as both the Hecla and Griper are well stored with every necessary. It is well known that lieutenant Parry always conceived that the attempt at discovery in the polar regions was relinquished at the time when the greatest chance of success offered. The months of August, September, and October, are considered as the most favourable in this respect, the new ice rarely beginning to form until December, until which time the old ice continues wasting. The land expedition, under lieutenant Franklyn, from Fort York, Hudson's-bay, to the Copper-mine-river, where Mr. Hearne stated he fell in with the sea, proceeds before the close of the present year, by which he will reach the high northern latitudes in the spring, and have the summer to prosecute his researches. Lieutenant Franklyn, with a surgeon, two midshipmen and two seamen, have been some time at Fort York, making the necessary arrangements with the Indians for their journey.

By an order of the emperor of

Austria of the 7th ult. lithographic presses, either for printing or engraving, are prohibited, unless used with the special authority of government. The punishment for contravening this order to be the same as for having a clandestine printing press.

Letter from Leeds. I mentioned in a former letter, that ten pieces of artillery had arrived in this district. Out of this number, two fieldpieces, with a proportionate number of men, arrived here to-day, and are to be stationed in this town; the others are to be placed at Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, &c. in the immediate vicinity: so that all, if wanted, may be brought to one point of action at a short notice. God grant that their services may not be required!

In addition to the two troops of the 4th, or Royal Irish dragoon guards, already stationed here, another troop arrived this day; and in order that we may be better protected, some extensive buildings have been inspected, and are ordered to be fitted up immediately as barracks for a regiment of infantry shortly expected. It is also confidently rumoured, that the regiment of Yorkshire hussars commanded by lord Grantham, and the other yeomanry and volunteer corps, are to be immediately called out.

The premises that have been taken for the infantry barracks are understood only to be for their temporary occupation, as substantial buildings for that purpose are to be erected, not only here, but in every other large manufacturing town.

12. The king of Spain, in order

to