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o • proceed on their march in the most profound silence ; and f l oc or :heir front, Banks, and rear, scouts, who make signals whe y., it s rcrcwry to w.arn them of any danger. When all the parue • ire brought togethzr , the 'macaw collects money from them hiF r•• 1 tion to the goods they are to receive ; and this done, he o "arches with the whole body to the place where he had agreed with the master of the smuggling vessel the goods should be landed. “ Ile then establishes his outposts, makes a signal, the launches w i t h t he goods are rowed on shore, and in two hours the busi ness is finished. The mules are loaded, and the proetioo Ilto3lll pries them to the distance of two or three leagues until he sees them in security, or he leaves them at some point where the sm ugglers disperse to go to their respective homes. The practice b well paid both by the ship-master and the smugglers. With su ch precautions and such dexterity, it will readily appear that it must be very difficult for the military guard to prevent smug gling. How is it possible for 322 men to guard the '76 leagues of coast in the kingdom of Valencia, on which rich contraband cargoes are frequently landed? Durilig the 31inistry of Senor Soler, great efforts were made to put down s muggling. One of the measures of that Ministry was to a ppoint Royal Commissioners with very extensive powers, who i mpr isoned persons, sequestered property, and had in fact the liberty and propertyof citizens at their disposal. By this ar bi t rary authority, and with the assistance of the troops, smug :hag was in a great measure suppressed in Granada and Malaga. Another Commission was nominated for Murcia, Cartha gena, and. Alicant, which followed a different course, and ob tained a n equally advantageous result, with less severe and tyran nical wan& This Commission proceeded on a plan the adop tion o f w hich would not be inconsistent with the Constitutional mu ". 9x vessels were appointed to guard the coast, lines of patmb a ed Custom-house officers were formed on land, and te kophic signals announced the point on which a landing ap rued to be intended. Everything was so arranged, that within half an hour the whole force of the patrols and the guard-boats round be in motion on any given point. Thus the mischief of min gling was checked in these Provinces, and the result was an e xtraordinary augmentation of the Revenue in the article M I ta b a oco, on which the greatest fraud used to take place ; for in the year 1804, the value consumed, in the three Provinces, of Brazil tobacco and segars, was 1,305,735 reah, whereas in the year 1807, the value amounted to 10,4E4893, *flaking an increase 0E9,115,098 reals; and yet in the executing the plans of this Commission, only three pasons were imprisoned." THE ARMY. The 5.74 Regiment of Foot strived at Liverpool on Monday, from Dublin, and the first detachment marched from them:eon Wednesday morning, on their route 1i Chatham. Tnesdirthe .22d Regiment embarked and sailed fur Ireland. The transports which sailed from Gosport on Tuesday, with a division of the 84th Regiment, for Plymouth, are to bring back the right wing of the third battalion of Guards, and then to return with the second division of the 84th, and to bring back the left wing of the Guards, wise are to form part of the gar rison at Portsmouth. Last week a number of invalids, from the different regiments ienlided in ledia, arrived at Fort Pitt, Chatham. _ The 2d Battalion of the 3d Guards are expected to arrive shortly at Chatham Barracks, from Plymouth. Monday, the Militia of Warwickshire completed their annual wind of training and exercise, and were on that day inspected by Colonel the Earl of WA RWICL, who was pleased to express his entire approbation of their execution of the different ma iming. Lieutenant-General Sir CHA RUCS Garrote, who was on the ground, passed some very high encomiums on the appearance and discipline of the Regiment. Yesterday the Troop of Oxford Yeomanry Cavalry finished their duty of six days. They each day mustered nearly their full complement of men, and performed the cavalry manoeuvres in a steady and soldierlike manner. The great attention paid to , the Troop by its Commandant, Captain Peens, reflects the highest honour on this Gentleman, and it is probable that under his command it will become as efficient as any Corps of the kind in the service. On Tuesday last the members of the Troop. dined with their Captain at his seat at Chiselhampton. The dinner Was sumptuous, and the entertainment altogether was in the geauine style of English hospitality. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PAIXOUSTI. Oct. 11.—Wind E. by N.—Arrived the Martha Andrea, Ni 11.1014, from Dram; Trafalgar, Wows, from Lon na foe St. Mary's. leaky; and Jane, &EAST, from St. Peters lergh.—Sailed the Walaingham packet. with Mails for the Me iternnean ; and Henry, Quire, for Alicant. PLYSSOUTII, Oct. 11.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrived the Mary, lessiusta, from Bilboa for London; Robert and Margaret, Saar, from Riga ; and Anatolia, Paz, from Memel.—Arrived tithe port, the Zodiac, Humes, from Quebec for London. POWS:IOOTH Oct. 12.—Wind westerly.—Sailed the Loyal Dram and Brihutt, transports, for Jamaica; and his Majesty's lip Sam for the 'Eastward. Hsu, Oct. la.—Wind W.N. W.—Came down from the River sad wiled, the Onyx, %mute, for Honduras ; Catharine Green, lisiesso,fer Jamaica ; Alexander, Fssorsori, for New Orleans; seed Letitia Tenant, Mottsarimeay, for Belfast.—Arrived and mina, the Louisa Wilhelmina, Tarring, from Hamburgh for Awns; aid Nicolette Jane, Kw; from Amsterda& for Sums. Puss, Oct. 11.—Arrived the Perth. Grin, from Pen nk ued& l oss sf boom, bulwarks, and sails split. Ames, Oct. IL—Sailed last night and this morning the While of the outward-bound ships, and a Beet of colliers, for Ire, which have been detained by contrary winds. Ilsawaxe, Oct. IL.—Sailed the Vansittart packet, for Ha lal; and Lady Nepeaw packet, for Cuxhaven, each with a Mail. BUROL, Oct. 12.--Arrived the Experiment, CHWILILII, from llerstuithi. On the nth instant passed the hull of a ship, sup /led to be timber loaded, 100 miles W.N.W. of Lundy, dis inked and water-loued, decks and stern apparently out. Corror-Hooss, Ocrostula.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The Twee Gebroeders, from Wescum • Vrow Elizabeth, from Os kid Dowse Castle, from Petersgurgh; Gurdriut, from Am- 1 Imam ; Esher, from Petersburgh ; Jupiter, from Buenos Anis; Owed Intent, from Stockholm; Celerity, from ditto; Ihioo, from Antwerp ; Margaret, from ditto ; Harmony, from Itsesburgb.—Eatered Outwards:—The Mary, fox Bremen; * for Dublin; Nautilus, for Grenada; Saxony, for Ham brick ; Hermes, for Malta.—Cleared Outwards :—The Wit ihn, for Trieste ; and Rowdiff, for Honduras. Asanso—.At Newfo un dl an d, the Dorset, Beale, from Oporto. At *email Harmony, Romberg, from St. Thomas's; Meridian ken Baltimore; and Daedalus, from Kilrush. At Cuxhaven, narks, I.e Brock, from Buenos Ayes ; Vrow Sarah Johanna, hew Rio Janeiro; and Lavinia, Sint, from Bahia. At Elsinoce, dance, and Fortuna, Kock, from St. Croix. At Copenhagen, Radio, Himsen; Constantia, Gronberg ; and Ida, Schroder, he. St. Croix. At Stettin, S ta i nes , Sp encer • Em ilie, Golt ; anti Perreverance, from London. At Valery, Spencer; Ann Ham ill, from Inntion. At Bremen, Henry, from London. --- Thursday night, at ten o'clock, his Royal High. nes% the Duke of YORK left town on a shouting excur vve.for a few days. Private letters are said to have reached London, inn "ocing the safe arrival of his Itil A.TesrY in his Hanoverian dominions, after a most harassing jour tq, from the extreme badness of the toads. Mr. BRUNINJEL, commonly called Beau BRUMMEL, is a mong the English residents at Calais ; and, on the knio's arrival at that place, Mr. BRUNINKL took the liberty of sending a canister of snuff and a bottle very old brandy, as a present, which his MAJESTY vas pleased toaccept._Mr. BRUMMEL has been long :known as a connoisseur in snuff and snuff boxes. Risme LoanratA and suite artived, a few days siuce, at Gl asgow. Th e P r i nce came over i n t h e ikelipse steam-packet from Belfast. DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMarS STREET. PURTRIR PARTICULARS., 1 The very dangerous situation of the corner house, which had been left standing in a ruinous state, re tarded for some time the work of humanity, and rendered it dangerous for any one to attempt the relief of the remainder of those who were buried iu the ruins. After great exertions, however, by affixing ropes and striking . the walls with long poles, the workmen suc ceeded in pulling it down: it fell about four o'clock in the afternoon, and, we regret to add, upon that part of the ruins where the remaining poor creatures are immured, thus adding to the difficulty of restoring them. A fine youth, the son of Mr. HARDING, of the Edgeware-road, was taken out after being three hours jammed in between a mass of rubbish, without any other injury than his collar bone being broken. Eleven persons were buried in the ruins ; by three o'clock n ine, including Mr. HARDING'S son, were dug out, and taken to St. George's Hospital ; three were much maimed. The other five, after being dressed by the surgeons, were enabled to return home to their distressed families. In the course of the after noon the bodies of two more of the men were found both dead. At half-past eleven another, and the others at three this morning, all in a dreadful state of mutilation. The poor men in the Hospital were in a fair way of doing well this morning. FIRE AT IVOTTON HOUSE. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM sent the follow ing interesting Letter of 'Thanks to the inhabitants of the Parish °Mutton, for their exertions on the occa sion of the fire at Wotton House : " TO THE. INHABITANTS OF THB PARISH OF WOTTON. • " London, November 8, 1820. " itY OLD AND 400 D FATI*DS—I return you my best and hearty thanks, for your zealous and kind assistance, when Pao vmvvcs was pleased to afflict us with the calamity of fire at Wot ton. Many of you have grown grey under the shadow of those walls which you saw burning. I trust you will all of you live to seo the House arise out of its ruins, and again inhabited by the same hearts, inseparably connected with you. At the same time that I return my most humble thanks to ALNIGIIIT Goo. for his mercies vouchsafed to me, in the saving my son and daughter and their child from the flames, I cannot deprive my self of the satisfaction of acknowledging how much we owe to your exertions and activity. " The re-building the house will find employment for you all; and I have the comfort of feeling the proofs which you have af forded my family of your attachment. Thus out of this cala mity arise, thanks to Auttearry Gon, advantage to one party, and comfort to the other. I have directed some money to be distributed amongst your families, as a testimony of my thanks and satisfaction.—Believe me always, under aft circumstances, " Year affectionate Friend, CHANDOS BUCKINGHAM." LATE FINE IN PRINCES-STREET.—We are gratified to hear that upwards of £BOO has been equitably distributed by the Committee amongst the sufferers in this melancholy event, without any distinction as to their religious tenets. The widow Burnet, who lost her husband and child, has been reinstated in comfortable apartments, and £2O for life will be se cured to her by the purchase of an annuity. Yesterday morning, a poor boy, whose name is at present unknown, was found dead on a brick-kiln in the fields at Holloway, at the back of the Chapel. It is supposed he went there for the purpose of roasting potatoes, and afterwards went to sleep and was suf focated by the effluvia. The body now lies in the vaults of Islington Church, for the Coroner's Inquest. • Between the hours of eleven and twelve, on Thurs day night, a fire broke out in the first floor of the house of Mr. HORSEFALL, Pleasant-row, Pentonville ' which nearly destroyed the whole of the interior be fore the devouring element was subdued. The house was under repair, and a man who was left in the care of it slept in the first floor, in which was a great quantity of shavings and carpenter's chips. On his going to bed he left the fire burning; on the top of it was a piece of wood, which is supposed to have fallen off when the end on the fire was burnt away, and set the shavings in a blaze. The man had a narrow escape from falling a victim. The following Inquisitions have lately been taken by Mr. GOUGH, one of the Coroners for Oxford : At Kiddington, on view of the body of Wm. Tho mas, who suddenly expired whilst playing at cricket. Verdict—Visitation of GOD.-At Enstone, on view of the body of John Rooke, who died on the road from Oxford, where he had been for medical advice. Ver dict accordingly.—At beddington, on view of the body of Jobn Dace, who fell down stairs and frac tured his skull. Verdict—Accidental Death.—At Tackley, on view of the body of Hannah Baker, who was found suffocated in a Well. Verdict—Acci dental Death.—At Hook Norton, en view of the body of Hester Grimmett, who suddenly expired in the field, where she had been at work. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of Goa. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Grave Morris, Whitechapel-road, on the body of a man who was brought into Whitechapel watch-house on Monday morning, insensibly drunk, and died in the work house the same afiernoon.—R. Plunkett, the Beadle, said, when he was brought to the watch-house he was placed at the fire, where he remained till the watch went off duty ; he was then removed to the lock-up room. At eleven o'clock he visited him, and finding him in a had state, he had him removed to the work house, where he died, as above stated. Verdict— Died from excessive drinking. Last week, some convicts digging in Sheerness Dock-yard, discovered something of a strange ap pearance, about the depth of twenty feet, and on care fully clearing away around it, found it to be the body of a man, lying on his back, with his clothes on; when touched with a spade it fell to dust; three-pence farthing was found close by it of the coin of Geo. If. which is supposed to have fallen from one of his pockets. That part of the yard where the man %cgs found, has, within a few years, been raised several fegt, which, of course, considerably reduces the depth Won) the original surface, and as much of the yard is made ground, where there were formerly moats and ditches, it is probable he may have fallen into a moat and have been drowned. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.' In this Court, yesterday, a Half-pay Officer of the Marines, was opposed by Messrs. Brock. Henry Moss, and Strudwick, on the ground of contracting debts which he had no visible means of discharging. It appeared on the examination of the insolvent (an elderly gentlemanly-looking man), that he had been in the receipt of his half-pay of ss. per day since 1797 ; that he was possessed of some property at Granada, in the West Indies (being heir to a debt of £4,000), but his receipts from thence had stopped seven or eight years ago. He had now contracted debts to the amount of £1,200, thus spending £lOO a-year more than his income. He had now living a wife and eight children, the eldest of whom was only fourteen years of age. Mr. Moss, a tailor, residing in Westminster, op• posed the discharge of the insolvent in person.— Having been sworn, he stated that his debt amounted to £l2 12s. The insolvent, some time prior to his imprisonment, called upon him and asked him to make a suit of boy's clothes. To this he consented, after learning the insolvent's place of residence. The insolvent stated, that he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, that he had plenty of estates in Suffolk, and that he was in the half-yearly receipt of money from Granada, in the West Indies. Witness looked in the Army List, and perceived that the insolvent was a Major in the Marines, and this was for the present satisfactory to him. The boy's suit was made and sent home. Some time afterwards, the insolvent asked for some Ladies' cloth, to make a pelisse for his wife and little girl, and witness produced a piece of eight yards, at 18s. a yard. The insolvent then pro duced a bill for Cl 4. 15s. which he said he had ob tained from Messrs. Hawes, his agents for the West India property. The insolvent added, that he had two other bills, and he shewed them, one for £l5, and the other or £l7, and that he (witness) might take his choice of them. The bill for £l4. 1.55. was taken, and it was agreed that witness should take £l2. 12s, the amount of his debt, out of it, and return the change when he sent the cloth home. The cloth was sent home, and one of the insolvent's little boys called next day upon the tailor and asked him why he had not sent the change? Witness answered, that he had it not at present in the house. In the mean time witness made inquiries about Messrs. Hawes, the drawers of the bill, and found that all was not quite right. He went to Messrs. Hawes, and saw a person who called himself a clerk, in a large warehouse with nothing in it. He was advised by the neighbours to have nothing to de with the business. Witness after wards called upon Mr. Strudwick, the landlord of the insolvent, who told him that inquiries of a similar nature had before been made. All this induced him to give no change for the bill he had received from the insolvent, and when it became due it was disho noured. All the parties had decamped. After this he saw the insolvent, who declared positively to him that the money should be paid in three days: witness said he could not wait, and gave an order for his arrest. The insolvent added, that he (witness) might think himself d—d well off to get the money in three months, for that most tailors gave two years' credit. Before the bill became due the insolvent told witness to be careful what he said about Messrs. Hawes, the drawers of the bill, for that an action might be brought against him. He (witness) had been induced to trust the insolvent upon his re presentation that he had money coming from the West Indies, and upon finding that he was a Major in the Army. The insolvent was so extremely leaf, that ht heard not a syllable of what Mr. Moss had sworn against him, and the Commissioner read to him the notes he had taken of the evidence. The insolvent then most solemnly declared that every word of it was false.— Being interrogated by the Court, the insolvent said that he knew nothing of Messrs. Hawes, the drawers of the bill in question, and never once stated that they were his agents. The , manner in which that bill had come into his possession was this—a Mr. C. had given it him for a bill which he (the insolvent) had drawn, and had paid long ago. It was a mere matter of accommodation between himself and Mr. C. That Gentleman went with him to the tailor's house, and told Mr. Moss this to his face. Mr. Moss then said, that he never suspected him (the insolvent) of any dishonest practices. He had been induced to take the pelisse cloth from Mr. Moss's pressing persuasions, and this bill had been given in payment. He never produced a £l5 bill, or a £l7 bill. He had not got them to produce. Mr. C. he believed, now lived at Croydon. He was a friend of his, but did not know precisely what business he was in. He was a merchant, or something of that kind. Mr. Strudwick, another detaining creditor, also opposed the insolvent on the same grounds. He had let the insolvent a ready furnished house for £lOO, and according to his (the insolvents) own statement to-day, be was worth no more than 1 1 01 a-year, with which he was to support a large and helpless family. The case was ultimately ordered to stand over till Monday, in order that Mr. C. might be produced as a witness. Thomas Donaldson was opposed by Mr. Grainger, a detaining creditor, for a breach of trust, and a mis appropriauon of monies. The facts of the case, as shewn by the insolvent's examination, were these:— Money was given to the insolvent by Mr. Grainger, to the amount of £5O, to take up a bill that was due. The bill was never taken up; but the insolvent lost £9 of the money in a public-house, and was's() much ashamed to return home•without it, that he set off to Paris, and spent the remainder of the £5O there. In Ithe Rue St. Honore he opened a house, and Mr. O'Shaughnessy, the boot-maker, was his lodger for some time. By him he was now owed £2.5. Since the insolvent had been in prison, he confessed he had received a debt of £4O. This he had never inserted in his schedule. Mr. HEATH, on the part of the opposing creditor, thought that a sufficiently strong case had been made out. He thought Mr. Grainger had done the insol vent a great favour in taking so mild a course, for he had committed an offence which was perhaps de serving of a very different punishment. The Coon; in deciding the case, observed, that the insolvent, to speak in the mildest terms, had been guilty of a most flagrant act of injustice. It was quite ridiculous to suppose that shame had induced him to travel to Paris, and to purloin all the rest of the money. He hal as much stolen the money as any man *ho had• been convicted of picking a pocket, The judgment of the Court Was. that he should be imprisoned at the suit of Mr. Grainger! for twelve months from the signing of his petition. Mary Ann Ingram was opposed by sir different creditors, for obtaining money under false colour and pretence. It seemed that Mrs. Ingram kent a school, and in 1809 had thirteen girls and some apprentices in her school. This she had carried on in the name of a Mrs. Deely. A gentleman of the name of Mills had sent a Miss *Donnell to her school as an ap prentice, and had paid £5O with her. He did not know that Mrs. Ingram held the school in trust for Mrs. Deely. Before he paid the money he had heard that there were some embarrassments in the establish ?pent, and he questioned the insolvent about it. Mrs. Ingram then said—a Do you think I could be so base minded a woman as to take people's money unless I was able to go on with my school?" The insolvent was about the same time paid £7B avith another young lady who was sent to her school. Soon after the establishment broke up, and the children were sent home. Ultimately the case was postponed to some future day, for the production of a book in the insolvent's possession. The decision of the Court was therefore at present withheld. PALACE COURT, OCTOBER'S. HARRIS V. HASTINGS. This was an action to recover the sum of £5 ss. for a quarter's rent, alleged by the plaintiff* to be due to him from the defendant, for certain premises held by him. The defendant pleaded a tender of half that sum, which he said was all that was due to him, under the circumstances of the case. It appeared from the evidence, that in 1817 the premises were occupied by a person of the name of Capel, of whom the present defendant took them on the sth of May in that year, and went to the plaintiff to get himself accepted as a tenant. The plaintiff, as the defendant alleged, accepted him as a tenant, at a rent of twenty guineas a year, from the half-quarter day next fol lowing, namely, the 12th of May. The defendant paid the half-quarter's rent, which became due at Midsummer, and from that time continued to pay his rent at the regular quarter-days. This continued up to November last, and on the 11th of November the defendant gave a notice, that he should quit on the 12th of May following, at which time be con tended his period as tenant, reckoning from the pe riod at which he took the premises, would expire. On the 12th of May last the defendant went to the plaintiff's house, and tendered the half-quarter's rent, due from Lady-day last past, and the key, saying he considered his occupation of the house as at an end. The plaintiff was not at home, and Mrs. Harris said she knew nothing of half-quarters, but considered the defendant's time would not expire till the regular quarter-day, Midstimmer. She, therefore, refined to take the sum tendered, and threw the key oat of the house after the defendant. The plaintiff after wards brought his action for the quarter, and now contended that he accepted the defendant as tenant from quarter to quarter, as appeared from the regu lar quarterly payments made by the defendant, that he was therefore entitled to a quarter's rent, and that the sum paid into Court by the defendant was, there. fore, no answer to the action. The Jury, after hear ing the evidence, found a verdict , for the defendant, considering that his hiring was from the half-quarter, and that a notice to quit at the half-quarter was, therefore, a good notice. . ' The Tourist steam-packet, at present on the Leith and London passage, made eighty-six trips between Aberdeen and Leith in three months, carried 9746 passengers, sailed upwards of 10,000 miles in day. light, and never exceeded fourteen hours in making her passage, a distance of 103 miles, on the moss exposed coast in Great Britain. The blood horse which won the match on Chatham Lines, on Monday week, by performing ten miles in twenty-seven minutes, was backed to go a mile in two minutes, on the same piece of ground, on Thurs day se'nnight, which he lost by three seconds. It is generally believed that the horse would have gone the distance within the time, had it not been for the unfavourable state of the weather. General Sir GEORGE WALKER lately purchased a very spirited horse as a charger, which, at three o'clock, on Wednesday afternoon, agreeably to his orders, was brought to his house in Harley-street, when Sir Gaoaue, in order to have a trial, mounted him, but he was no sooner in the saddle than the ani mal set off at full speed up Harley-street. Sir Groirtoz's endeavours to pull him in were useless : at the extre mity of Upper Harley-street, he came with such vio lence against the iron pallisade that forms the barrier, that he was thrown to a considerable distance, by which his shoulder bone was fractured. He was con veyed home in a chair, and surgical assistance im mediately procured. The horse was also injured. _ _ _ Lord STOWELL and his daughter, Mrs: Wtxnsoa, are on their way to town from Buchanan House, the seat of the Duke of MONTROSE, in Stirlingshire, where they have been on a visit. The Hon.*Mr. Scon, his Lordship's son, remains indisposed at Edinburgh. Before Mass on Monday morning, a stranger of distinction, who, by his Eastern apparel, appeared to be a Chinese, was presented to the king of FRANCE, by a Captain in the Royal Navy. DoEt..—A, meeting took place yesterday morning, on Finchley Common, between J. J. C--1., Esq. and a Gentleman of the name of M.—R —N, relative to a disputed bet at Enfield Races. Mr. was wounded in the arm in the first fire. Tuesday last, was committed to the county jail, at Maidstone, by the Magistrates at Margate, Joh* Ramsay, alias Buffington, and Thomas Hay Webster, both of Canterbury, charged on the oaths of Wash ington Carr, and others, of being concerned in the late smuggling affray at Marsh Bay, in Thanet.— Ramsay WAS committed as a principal; and Webster as an accessary for assisting and concealing the of fenders. Several persons, of whom better conduct might have been expected, are said to have cone ibuted to the concealment of some of the smugglers, and that their names have been forwarded to Government. APATHY.--A footman of Lord DAcne was hung in 1763, for the murder of his Lordship's butler. The culprit was only 19 years of ago. While writing his confession—“l,murd--" he stopped and asked, u How do you spell murdered r bat L tO WI