The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-06 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKES.

By letters from SL Jago de Chili, it appears that
on the night of the 19th November a shuck of an
earthquake was experienced, the most severe ever
remembered in that country. Its duration was of
very extraordinary space of four minutes, during
which the earth is described as being in continued
%notion, resembling the rolling of a heavy sea. Its
effLicts were most fetal at Valparaiso, where, it is
said, few houses were left standing: of those but a
small proportion were habitable. There is some
vuriatiott, however, in the accounts as respects Val-
paraiso, as it is natural to expect, under the first
impression of so awful a calamity, that there should
be much exaggeration, it is probable that has been
the case in the present instance. The loss of lives
in Valparaiso is stated at from ISO to 200, among,
whom are some English—the only names mentioned
are those of a Mr. Stevenson and of Mr. and Mrs:
Kelly. Most of the villages in Chili. had coffered
severely, and some of them were. destroyed.. No in-
telligence had been received from Conception, but
squally dreadful accounts were anticipated from
thence. At Santiago the shock-had been compara-
tively slights no lives were lost there, nor any
Louses thrown down, but alt the churches except
three had been so much injured as to require taking
(town, and it would be necessary to rebuild many of
the houses before they could be rendered habitable.
From the 19th to the 28th of November, which is
the date of the letters, slight shocks had occurred
daily, so that many of the inhabitants slept in tents
without the city, only venturing into their houses
to take meals, during which time all the doors were
kept open.
Letters from Naples, of the llth of March, state,
that a severe gliock of an earthquake was felt on the
sth at Palermo, by which a nun:ber of houses and
churches were damaged, 21 persons killed, and 125
wounded. The damage dune to the city alone was
estimated at 50,0001. It. was not ascertained that
any other part of Sicily had suffered.

General P. Humbert. formerly distinguished in
the army of the French Republic, who landed in
Ireland in 1798, and defeated General Lake, &c.
died lately at New Orleans.
Martin Stapylton, Esq. has written to the Ma-
gistrates of the North Riding of Yorkshire, com-
plaining of a most unconstiiutional practice—viz
the committal-of prisoners untried. to the degreda-
tion and severity of the tread mill. This is evidently
a. most gross violation of the law. Mr. Stapylton
entreats a meeting of the magistrates on the subject
on the 17Th inst.
On Thursday last the Lord Chancellor confirmed
the Master's Report, on the motion of the Attorney-
General, by appointing Mr. Fellowes the Committee
of Lord Portsmouth's person.
The New Court erected for the accommodation
of the Lord Chancellor during the ensuing Term in
Westminster Hall, is nearly fitted up. The apart-
meat on the other side the steps, is for the Lord
Chancellor's officers.
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DFATH.-Itlia
with painful regret we have to, announce the sud-
den death of Mr. R. Crowder, one of the proprietors of
the Public Ledger newspaper, who departed this
life about half-past eight o clock on Sunday night.
Mr. Crowder was about 46 years of age, in full
strength and vigour, and exceedingly healthy in
appearanne. He had been chief manager of the pe-
cuniary part of the said newspaper business during
the time it was the i roperty of his uncle, and since
that, equally as before was most attentive in the
business. At eight tielock on Sunday night he was
at the yaw, in his usual cheerful state of health,
abbot half an hour afterwards, having been seized
with a fit of . apoplexy, he was a corpse, notwith-
standing all medical aid that could be procured was
adopted. He has left a widow and eight helpless
orphans to deplore his loss
NUNEMBUSO, MAROtt Sis.—Extract from a pri-
vate letter.—" According to our &deices Vi.
enzia, the Austrian Ambassador at Petersburg,li had
received from his Government, instructions to sup-
port the negocrations -commenced by the. British
Minister Sir Charles Bagot with the Russian Ca-
binet, and which have fur their object the mainte-
nance or peace in the South of Europe. It is never-
theless added, that the Court of Vienna has declared,
that in the case of Russia not adhering to the politi-
cal system of England, Austria cannot dispense with
the fulfilment of the obligations imposed on her by
her alliance with the Cabinet of Petersburgh, as
well as by the particular conventions concluded bc-
tween the great Powers at the Congress of Verona.
It is still asserted that the Emperor of Ruuia wishes
that the same course should be pursued with respect
to Spain as was adopted towards Naples and Pied-
mont in '11.21, which makes it presumed that Sir
C. Begot will fail in his efforts to change the system
oldie Cabinet of Petersburgh "
A few days since, Lieut. Moore, It. N.
urvog command-
fog the Newt peventive boat, crept up 91 tabs of contra-
band spirits in Thorness Hay, where they had been sunk by
Ise smugglers, sad depositest them is the cestosphouse.

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