The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-07 00:00:00

MAY 7.

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The return apArt, ha's already been felt by its per.
nicioug effects on our manufattures ; at Nottingham, a num.
her of persons are thrfwu out of employment. Blitish
goods at Leipsic sold thirty per cent. lower than was expect-

A Paper of Friday says:—" A dasAing haltpay Agent is
nt present non est inventax, bein4 deficient 10,0001. chiefly
the property of Officers, received by him upon their respec-
tive accounts."
A misconception -hes gone abroad as to the late. Coin
Law, which is supposed to have allowed the import of foreign
flourwe quote the w-rds,ol. the Act in order to co: rect thin
;
mistake: "and he it hither enacted, that whenever the aver-
age 'vices of British Corn, en made up and published, shall re-
spectively be belo4 the pt ices het eitt before stated, no foreign
corn, or meal or flour, made from any of the respective sorts
of foreign corn herein before enumeratedoshall be allowed to
inworted into the United kingdom, for the purpose of
home consumption, or taken out of warehoUse fur that pur-

poce."
The Bedfotd fancily was in great alarm on Sunday, in con-
sequence of a t epos tof the Duke being killed by In igands in
Italy; the truth is believed to be, that the buke was stopped
and robbed in the mountains of Itri, on his way from Fundi
to Naples, by cighteep brigands—four gens d'armes, who
escorted him, yelp killed, in defending him, as well as two
postillions. The Duke has lost almost all his effects, which
were in two carriages ; and it may be believed that the
brigands gained no little booty. The Duke, on rejoining his
family at Naples, intends to embark with them for England.
On Tuesday week, at Alton, a mob of disorderly persons
proceeded to parade the streets, breaking the windows of the
corn.dealcrs ; and on Thursday about 800 collier's assembled
about half a mile out of the town, and threatened to destroy
the houses of some landed gentlemen who were favourable
to the Corn Bill, but were persuaded to desist on the gentle-
men's ptomise that they would endeavour to procure a
repeal of that and that meal should not be above Is. 4d.
per peck.
Of six vessels that sailed from Harwich on the 16th ult.
for the Heligoland fishery, only one escaped the dreadful
storm of the following day, and got back to that port in a
disithled state; one of them was wrecked off the Texel, and
her crew of seven men all perished , the other four are also
believed to be lost.—They were all the property of Mr. S.
Howard, of Mistley, and commanded by his six sons.
SMUGGLING HOAX.—Within the course of this last for!.
uioa, a number of the inhabitants of North Sliields have
been completely taken in by•a man vending what he tertned
snoraed gin, in casks at I'2s. (id. per gallon. In order that
his customers might he convinced of its superior quality, he
spited each cask, which on tasting was found excellent ; and
the lovers of the reviving cordial deemed themselves fortu-
nwe is being able at so cheap a rate to gratify themselves in
drain drinking. But, alas ! on drawing it oil, what must-
their sorrow and disappointment have been. when, instead
of neat liollands, they found slit water, with the exception
of about half a pint of gin contained jn a tin tube, which
was artfully fixed to the end of the vessel, where the im-
porter took care to make his spilt holes. It is believed he
ha', by this deception, carried away between 2 and 3001. in
cash !! ! ( Dui haw: County. A dcertist?, April IS )

A ciicular order has been sent to the Commanders of
Militia regiments not disembodied, ordering-such volunteers
and substitutes as have completed their five years of service,
to he discharged in four equal pi tions on or before the 10th
of August next.