other public demonstrations of joy through- | bourg, who, as our readers must rememout the metropolis. Whitehall, May 3d, 1816. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent the has been pleased, in the name and on behalf of his Majesty, to declare and ordain, that his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld, cousort of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta, shall take, hold, and eujoy, during the term of his uatural life, in all assemblies or meetings whatsoever, the precedence and rank following, that is to say, before the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and all other Great Officers, and before the Dukes (other than and except the Dukes of the Blood Royal) and all other Peers of the Realm. ber, commanded the Allied Armies at an early period of the French Revolution; and Prince Leopold, united to the Princess Charlotte, is the youngest son of that emi nent Commander. On the occasion of the marriage of ber Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, all the magnificent articles of her Royal Highness's wardrobe were of British manufacture, and that of the best and richest kiud, except the Brussels, Mechlin, and Valenciennes laces. There were not less than 700 licenses issued from the Ecclesiastical Court, for marriages, to be celebrated on Thursday, May 2. Orders have been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's Office for the Court's going into mourning, on Sunday the 12th, for the late Empress of Austria; to change on the 26th, and go out of mourning on the 2d of June. A Return to an Order of the House of Commous states the net produce of the Revenue, in the year ending 5th April, 1815, at £65,806,470; and in the year ending the 5th April, 1816, at £66,292,135, making a difference of £485,665, in favour of the latter year. CIRCULATING MEDIUM. German genealogists trace the origin of the present Saxon Princes to Witikind, the celebrated chief of the Saxons, who, for 30 years, contended against all the power of Charlemagne, and who, after his final submission to that conqueror, still retained large territorial possessions, together with the Ducal title. From him were descended the Dukes of Saxony, of whom Bernard, in 1275, was the first that was raised to the Electoral dignity. The electorate was enjoyed by the descendants of It appears by a paper presented to the this Prince until 1422, when, on the failure of his line, it was conferred on Frederick House of Commous, that the prices of "the Warlike," Margrave of Thuringia, gold in May last were £5 6s. and £5 5s. also a descendant of Witikind. The per ounce; those of standard silver 6s. 94d. grand-sons of this latter were Ernest and and 6s. 614.; from which they are graAlbert, from whom are descended the Er-dually declined to £4 for gold, and 5s. for nestine and Albertine branches of the silver. According to the present price of House of Saxony. The Ernestine, which dollar silver, the three shilling tokens of the was the elder branch, continued to enjoy Bank are intrinsically worth 2s. 44d. each; the electorate until 1547, when John, "the their average value, according to the prices Magnanimous" was deprived of that dig-of the whole interval between February, 1815, and the 26th of April last, was nity by Charles V. who conferred it on Maurice, the patriarch of the Albertine 25. 8d. branch, to which the present King belongs, "The Protestant religion," says a learned writer of the present day, "has the greatest obligations to the Princes of the Ernestine line. Frederick, the eldest son of Ernest, was Luther's first patron and defender. John, the second son of Ernest, was the chief promoter of the protestation against the Church of Rome, from which the Protestants have derived their appellation." This John was surnamed the Constant." He was the father of the above mentioned John "the Magnanimous," and grandfather of John Frederick, the founder of the House of Saxe Cobourg. Of this illustrious House the late head was the Duke of Saxe Co An account has been presented to Parliament of the amount of Bank-notes in circulation, on every Saturday night, be tween February, 1815, and the 26th of April last. It is remarkable, that the lowest amount of those of £5 and upwards, which was £14,447,300, was on the 6th of January last, and the highest, which was £17,850,600, was on the ensuing Saturday. The amount of these notes, on the 27th of April last, was £16,777,650; that of the smaller notes £9,193,000. During the last year the amount of forged notes refused by the Bank amounted to £29,000. Total nominal value of bank notes presented at the Bank, and refused payment, on account of their being forged, for the last four years, to the latest period to which the same can be made up, specifying the total nominal value so presented, and refused payment in each year respective ly In the year 1812, £28,136; in 1813, £20,868; in 1814, £22,154; in 1815, £21,954; to the 27th April, 1816, £9,568. Total, £102,480. NEW COINAGE. The New Coinage, which is proceeding at the Mint, is said to include both Silver and Gold. The gold pieces are of 20 Shillings, which is certainly a great convenience to trade. The Silver includes what has long been much wanted-a Shilling of a new die. Both these Coins are said to be remarkably neat in the execution; and it is hoped (but of that our expectations are not very sanguine) that the accuracy of the fabrication will render the pieces difficult to be counterfeited.Scarcely any thing can be more obvious than the circumstances which occasioned a degradation of the coin; and yet few things appear to be less generally understood. In the first place, it is necessary to have a well executed coinage, especially of Silver. Where this is the case, the ring of the metal easily detects the counterfeit,-Secondly, there should be a strict rule against disfiguring the coin with punches and other tools. The coiners adopt this method in order to prevent the metal from ringing, and thus to get an op portunity of introducing their own forged - ware. All money, therefore, which had been punched, hammered together, cut, or otherwise disfigured, should be declared not current. Thirdly, a sufficient quantity of the new coinage should be issued to meet at once all the demands of commerce and lastly, which is the key-stone of the system, all base or inferior money should be entirely cried down, and the tender of it, after a short time, subjected to a penalty. WOOL REPORT. The Select Committee of the House of Commons upon Seeds and Wool, &c. have made their First Report ;-The following is a copy:-"The Select Committee appointed to examine into the policy of imposing an increased Duty on the import of Foreign Seeds, and to report their opinion thereupon to the House; and who were instructed to consider of the Laws relative to Woollen Goods; and the trade in Wool; and also to consider of the Laws prohibiting the growth of Tobacco in Great Britain; and were empowered to report, from time to time, to the House, VOL. IV. No. 21, Lit Pan. N. S. June 1. together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them ; "Have examined the matters to them referred; and agreed to the following Resolution : "Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, founded upon the examination of evidence relative to the prices of British Wool, that no part of the present Agricultural Distress arises from the inadequacy not expedient to make any alteration in of those prices; and therefore, that it is the Laws relating to Woollen Goods, and the Trade in Wool."29th April, 1816." EXPENSE OF THE RESIDENCE OF NAPO1. EON BONAPARTE AT ST. HELENA. (1.)-Estimate of the probable Annual Expense. £. s. d. MILITARY Charge:— Pay of a battalion of 1,000 rank and file, according to the rates established for the East India Company's service at St. Helena. PAY OF THE STAFF; viz. £. S. 2Aides-de-Camp 347 14 1 Secretary 695 8 1 Brigadier-Gen. 1,043 2 1 Dep. Adj.-Gen.. 695 8 1 Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.. 869 5 1 Apothecary 347 14 ORDNANCE: 84,789 11 10 £3,998 11-38,788 2 10 Pay of a company of Royal Artillery, according to the rates above specified CIVIL: Salary of the Governor, including all his civil and military allowances, table money, &c. Estimated annual expense of Bonaparte and his Suite Probable expense of provisions for the troops at 2s. 6d. for each ration. Total, Charge Deduct average annual expense of the garrison of St. Helena, previous to its becoming the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte. T 4,317 12 6 12,000 0 0 8,000 0 0 54,750 00 117,855 15 4 80,384 0.0 37,471 15 Probable Expense of the Naval Force. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Croker to Mr. Goulburn, dated Admiralty Office, 11th April, 1816. accomplished as less reprehensible than For his Royal Highness the act itself. cannot admit that any circumstance could justify a British Officer in having obtained, under false pretences, passports in feigned names from the Representative of his own Sovereign, and in having made use of such passports for himself and a subject of his Most Christian Majesty, under sentence for high treason, disguised in a British uniform, not only to elude the vigilance of the French Government, but to British lines. While the Prince Regent ron on the station is 181,2751. 9s. per annum; the expense of that part which cannot but consider it as a material agwould, if there were no St. Helena squad- gravation of Sir R. Wilson's offence, that rou, be restored to the Indian station, and holding so high a rank in the army, he employed in performing the ordinary duties should have countenanced and encouof the Cape of Good Hope station, includ- raged an inferior officer to commit a ing the Mauritius, &c. is 76,7121. 13s. 1d. decided and serious breach of military which being deducted from the first sum, duty, his Royal Highness nevertheless leaves 54,562. 15s. 11d. as the expense of thinks it equally necessary to express his the St. Helena squadron, contra distin-high displeasure at the conduct of Captain guishing it from the whole force of the station; but it is possible that the Admiral may find that the service can be carried on with a less amount of force, in which event a further deduction will be made from the above stated expense." "As it is not possible to state the precise disposition which the Admiral commanding make on the Cape of Good Hope station may of the squadron under his orders, it cannot be exactly calculated how much of the whole expense is attributable to the service of St. Helena; but an estimate of the expense on this latter account may be thus formed:-The whole expense of the squad-carry him in such disguise through the "I am, &c. (Signed.) “J. W. CROKER." Sir R. Wilson and Capt. Hutchinson. GENERAL ORDERS. "Horse-Guards, May 10, 1916. "So long as Major-General Sir Ro. bert Wilson and Capt. J. H. Hutchinson, of the 1st, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, were under trial, the Commander in Chief abstained from making any ob servation on their conduct. "The proceedings having now terminated, the Commander in Chief has received the Prince Regent's commands, to declare his Royal Highness's sentiments on the transactions which have led to the trial and convictions of those Officers. "In the instance of Major-General Sir R. Wilson, the Prince Regent thinks it ne cessary to express his high displeasure, that an Officer of his standing in his Majesty's service, holding the commission and receiv ing the pay of a Major-General, should have been so uumindful of what was due to his profession, as well as to the Government, under whose protection he had voluntary placed himself, as to have engaged in a measure, the declared object of which was to counteract the laws and defeat the public justice of that country. "Nor does his Royal Highness consider the means by which this measure was J. H. Hutchinson, for having been himself an active instrument in a transaction of so culpable a nature, more especially in a country in amity with his Majesty, where the regiment, with which he was serving in the course of his military duty, formed part of an army which had been placed by the Allied Sovereigns under the command of the Duke of Wellington, under circumstances which made it peculiarly incumbent upon every Officer of that army to abstain from any conduct which might obstruct the execution of the laws. "His Royal Highness the Prince Regent being unwilling to visit these Officers with the full weight of his displeasure, which the complexion of their offence might have warranted, and also taking into consideration the degree of punishment to which they have subjected themselves, by violating the laws of the country in which this transaction took place, bas signified to the Commander-in-Chief these his sentiments, that they should be published to the Army at large, in order to record, in the most public manner, the strong sense which his Royal Highness entertains of the flagrant misconduct of these Officers, and of the danger which would accrue to the reputation and discipline of the British Army, if such an offence were to pass without a decided expression of his Royal Highness's most severe reprehension. By Order of his Royal Highness, "THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF." Among the many experiments for stopping the dry rot in timber, that which is now in use at Plymouth yard is, a hole bored to the depth of nine or ten inches in the head of each timber, and filled with train oil; the hole is then plugged up, and the oil left to penetrate into the timber. CAUTION. was removed by a majority of 45 against 35. Mr. Haslam had but four hands held up in his favour. Conveyance of Fish to the Inland Counties. Market in this city was opened yesterday. Oxford, May 5, 1816.-The new Fish The extreme poverty of the Spitalfields weavers, as lately exposed before a Pub-Eight hundred weight of fresh sea-fish were lic Meeting at the Mansion House, ought certainly to induce British females to abstain from wearing foreign manufactures, to the injury of our poor countrymen. Smuggling especially, is a moral evil, which is greatly aggravated when it in creases the sufferings of the labouring population. Mir. Hale, at the meeting referred to, justly observed, that there were many hundreds of our brave soldiers and sailors, who had been to fight for their country, and had returned into Spitalfields; but now were sinking under the extreme of distress; while they had to lament that one cause of their want of employment was, that many English ladies wore silks, which were the production of foreign looms. This remark deeply impressed the assembly; and we wish it may be duly regarded by our fair country-women. would hope, after this hint, at least, says an Evangelical preacher, to see no exhibition of contraband goods in our places of worship. Smugglers: Smuggling. We A most scrupulous search and corresponding activity prevail among the Custom-house Officers, at Brighton, and other stations, to put a more effectual stop to the introduction of contraband spirits along the coast. This is become more necessary from the equipment of several boats at Fecamp for the express purpose of smuggling. They are built very strong, and being 40 feet long, aud only 7 in width, make an astonishing progress through heavy seas. One of them run a cargo of 180 tubs from Fecamp in six hours. At that port a number of persons have formed an establishment, and liberally contribute towards a fund for the support of those men who fail in their clandestine speculations. An agent at Dieppe facilitates the means of engaging many sailors to embark in these dangerous expeditions across the channel. Physician and Surgeon removed. A Court of the Governors of Bethlem Hospital met on Wednesday May 15, and taking into consideration the evidence concerning Mad-Houses, before the House of Commons, they refused to re-elect Doctor Monro and Mr. Haslam, as Physician and Apothecary to the Hospital. Dr. Monro exhibited, and sold at very moderate prices. The novelty of the scene attracted such crowds, that the place became a complete Billingsgate The Constabies and other Police Ofhcers were called in, and had no small difficulty in dispersing the multitude, and giving the purchasers an opportunity of getting into the market. Arrangements will shortly be made for the supply to arrive exactly at noon. said so much on the fisheries, is here, and Mr. M. Phillips, who has written and has received the sanction and support of the Heads of the University to his Grand Survey. Mr. P. asserts, and his assertions England might, with common activity, be appear well founded, that every town in supplied in the middle of the day, with abundance of fish taken from the sea on the preceding evening. This neighbouralmost any other part of the kingdom, afhood being further from the sea-coast than fords sufficient proof of the practicability of the argument: and, as thousands of per sous might find employment, it is hoped, every encouragement will be given to facilitate an object of such great importance. Apple Trees.-The following recipe has been used many years with success by an experienced farmer in Somersetshire, who says, "that for the last seven years he has had full half a crop, while many of his neighbours, although with the same prospect before the blossom appeared, had scarcely enough to make a pie." Recipe. To every acre of orchard take a load of muck-straw, or orts raked from the grass fields; lay it in about six or eight heaps, into which divide a pound of sulphur; endeavour to choose a clear day to burn it, with a brisk air; and it will not only destroy the insect in the bud, but kill all worms and other insects that breed under the moss of the trees and the bark. The late Winter.-It is among the singular proofs of the late continually inclement season, in which no progress whatever was made in vegetation, that the potatoes which were buried in the ground in what are called potatoe pies, or stacks of potatoes, none of them had sprouted, but came out of the ground in as fresh a state as when they were put in at the beginning of the winter. A Provincial Paper states, that Mr. Atkinson, near Morpeth, has suffered the amazing loss of 7000 sheep from his flock by the severity of the last winter season. Natural History. There is now to be seen in this town the singular curiosity of a young living Alligator. The Egg from which it was hatched was brought by a sailor from South America to Greenock, and the person who now exhibits it procured it when it was so small that it could be easily held in a person's hand. Not knowing how to treat it, he kept it without food for about six months, during which period it must have procured nourishment from the water with which it was supplied. As soon as it was advertised in Edinburgh, it at tracted considerable attention, and, among others, it was visited by an eminent Naturalist, who suggested a different, and, as it appears, a most successful mode of treating it. Since that period its growth has been rapid; its length at present is åbove three feet, and every day makes a visible difference in its size. It is thought that it will grow to the size of 20 feet, and still remain tame. It feeds upon herrings, oysters, or generally on any kind of flesh, and is kept either in the water, or in a sort of box, with a glass top, near the fire. It is remarkable for its sagacity, and if through the night it wants water, it will leave its couch and make its way to the keeper's bed, when it will moan, and if by this means the keeper is not awakened, it will strike him with its tail until he attends to its wants. In like manner, when it grows cold from the fire going out, it makes its way to the keeper's bed, and pulling aside the bed-clothes, lies down beside * him in order to procure heat.-(Newcastle Paper.) At Coventry fair, an extraordinary large sheep was shewn alive, and afterwards slaughtered, which weighed, when dead, 59lbs. per qr. a weight seldom, if ever known, for a ewe sheep. She was fed and bred by Mr. William Palfrey, of Upton Old Farm, in the County of Worcester, and was allowed by judges to be the most complete animal, in a live and dead state, ever exhibited there. Non-observation of days. We understand that a conviction under the Game Laws took place last week at Godalming, on the following curious grounds. An information was lodged against a qualified gentleman for having shot at, and killed, after the 5th of April, a snipe, not having a licence; and, according to the literal construction of the Act, the Commissioners of Taxes were compelled to fine him in the penalty of twenty pounds, although it appeared that he had regularly applied for a licence, and had been in the habit of sporting with a license for some years. The inference to be drawn from this conviction therefore is, that no man, qualified or unqualified, can, as the law now stands, use a gun upon his own estate or elsewhere, between the 5th of April and the 20th of July (the earliest day as it appears on which licences are issued) without subjecting himself to a similar penalty. Extraordinary Performance of Manual Labour, On one of the pillars of an ancient_bara lately taken down at Cholsey, in Berkshire, there was fixed a marble tablet with the following inscription:-" In this barn, Hopkins, five quarters seven bushels and a James Landsley thrashed, for Mr. Joseph half of wheat in thirteen hours, on 15th March, 1747." Landsley was a native of Chievely, in Berks. He died at work in the same barn, the scene of his constant labour for more than sixty years, in the spring of 1808, aged 95. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS has submitted a plan to Government for white-washing the whole City of London, as a measure of of assistance to the lime-burners, whose health and beauty to the Metropolis, and trade has suffered by the great stagnation in building. In carrying on the works for the im provement of the river Witham, many sub-marine articles have been thrown up; lately, near Washingborough, about four miles from Lincolu, a complete canoe was found, of 30 feet 8 inches long, 2 feet high at the sides, and about 2 feet 6 inches wide, made out of a single tree. After being exposed to the air, it was found impracti cable to remove this curiosity, the least movement causing it to break. A great number of trees, several yards under ground, deer's horns,some of them very large and human skulls, &c. have been found; but the object of greatest value is a beautiful silver cup or basin, richly ornamented with wild animals, &c. and having in the centre a small statue. This is now in the possession of a gentleman in the neighbourhood. INTERESTING SALE.-The mansion in Streatham Park, at which Dr. Johnson was so often an inmate, has been sold by auction, with all its furniture, library, and pictures. Friday was the last day of the sale, when the collection of portraits, including those of nearly all the distinguished visitors of Streatham House, was the |