The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-19 00:00:00

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We understand that the Spanish Goventament
acceded to the proposition for establishing a. mail-
coach from Madrid to Corunna, to be connected
with a series of steam-packets, to sail from that port
for .Falmouth, according to th 3 suggestions made by
Sir John Doyle. By this measure the letter* from
Madrid, which are regularly, when the snail comes
through France, 14 days on the road, will now
arrive in eight days, it being engaged by 'the par-
ties who contract fitr the conveyance of the letters.
that the voyage from Falmouth to Cerunna shall
not occupy more than four days ; the remaining
time being divided between the land Journey front
Madrid to Corunna, and that from Felmouth to
London. This new arrangement has givers the
greatest satisfaction to the merchants corresponding
with Spain, who will now receive their remittances
in all oases, six days earlier than usual, anti- with
much greater certainty than before, escaping the
double danger of interruption on the Spanish fron-
tier, and of inspections by the agents of the French
post-office. The parties contracting with the SPa-
nish Government are said to be men of long expe-
rience in the management of steam packets hum
Edinburgh to London, and therefore fully able to •
estimate how far the performanthuf the' voyage by
sea Icily be reduced to certainty
Ad until have been received from Aleppo to the
19th of November, at which time the shocks of the •
earthquake were still frequent, and some of them
violent. The damage that has teen sustained is
incalculable, and the loss of lives almost unpiu-el-
leled, even in such calamities. One of the most
frightful and sweeping scenes of misery had mac- •
ceeded, the honors of which were aggrayated by the
state of insecurity to which the poor sufferers were
reduced by the continuance of the shocks.
Extract of a letter fmm the Agent to Lloyd's•at
Memel, dated Dec. 28 :—" Since last night we 'have •
bad a sharp frost, and our halls completely fast to •
the entrance of the harbour.• • in amsequenot of
the repeated applications made from ,home against
the late additional port charges laid on British and
other shipping, it is expected that en alteration will
take place before spring. I, however, think it ne••
cessary tp point tut to owners and ship-matters, that
all vessels.*whick bring limestone, chalk, rubbtsh,
or even stones of little or no value, as is often the •
GM from some ports is Scotland, Sweden, awl
Norway, are liable to double port slaw* the mine •
as if loaded with valuable corgese; aspremeentiene
having been made against this chugs, mid it is `.
to be hoped that an exemption will be mederrwhinh •,
I shall not fail to communicate."
• Eatreet of a letter from the Apra to Lloyd's it
Constantinople. dated 10th Deoenber:—" The Shop
Lashley, and the Ladoga, Bailey, have arrived here
I from Term-rock, with only a small part of their
cargoes on bout?, having been 'foreed•to leave the •
Bey in consequence of a heavy gale from the north- •
east, which branght down large bodies of ice.'
CRONITADT, Ditc.• 11 (23.) —On the Bth it blew •
a violent gale of wind from the westward, which
broke up all the ice below; and the next day a
Ramie& salliott, supposed to be the Aksander,
&reed bit way into it, and anchored $ os 4 wrests
from the mole.

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OLD BAILEY SICSSIOVS.—(ThrtapAv.) •

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SATORDAY,,JAW. IL—Jeremiah James liestlingvagsel '
72, described as agent. a person of respectable afp.sMinse,
was inducted, and the indictment charged •blisoosissa •
stealing twofold watches, the property ofJanseso.lllNo •
and others.
Alt. 04sion stated, that he was in partnership illld re- -
sided in Ilavies-strset,•Berkeleydsquarei He had known., •
the prisoner a year or two bemre the flu o 1 No.. WYI,
when he called on witness, and said he wanted, two
gold watches for a young Nobleman, whose nano lie
was not at liberty to mention, as' his friends would twit
hear of Iva purchasing such expensive-armies., -Wit-
ness was satisfied, and allowed him to hare the wretches.
Ahoet lb day. afterwards, he called to have his own
watch regulated. when witness pressed him for payntent
of the properly had on the 21st. He said the nobleman.
was net then w the way, and at other times he said its
was on the Continent. Witness at length called upon
hint, when he spoke of some difficulties bsu said the
money should be paid ; this not beingslune, witness,
May, ktfiltr, issued a warrant of debt.
Cross-examitsed—alte prisoner visited the alum after •
the transaction. Did say he would accept a good bill ;
be left uff visiting the shops considerable time before the
writ was issued. This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, on being called urnn tor his defence,
said, he would lure the case OF the hands of the Court
and Jury.
The Jury, after consulting some time, requested the
Court would allow them to pun a few cpsestions to the
' witness °goon, who, in answer, said he had known •
the prisoner two or three years, and that the oidy bus'.
ness done, prior ti the tr fluvial. the ground tat the
present enquiry, was the repairing and regulating .a
watch, which was duly paid for.
The Jury retired from the Court to sonsider their
verdict—and, after en absence of twenty minutes, pru-
.sounced a verdict of—Not Guilty.
Time is a seeondidierge against :he prisoner, which
Was net proceeded ie.

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