that nature; above all, when the Proclamation of the King and the Infants announced their renunciation of the Crown. That proclamation I wrote myself, in the apartment and under the eye of the Grand Marshal Duroc, and I presented it to the Emperor, without either the one or the other perceiving the artifice with which it was drawn up, which gave me the greatest satisfaction, more particularly as it was drawn up in such manner that the most ignorant reader must see it was in reality a protest against the violence, and an exhortation to all Spaniards to continue the war, instead of regarding the proclamation as an order to receive the new dynasty." New Manufactories established in Spain. National Register. BRITISH. COMPARATIVE STATE OF THE In the Years 1701 and 1814, In 1701 monies voted by Par- Army in 1701, including Sub- Public Debt interest, in 1701 Permanent Taxes in 1701. 3,769,375 110,028,971 1,046,397 21,995,624 425,998 40,763,936 1,109,123 41,897,375 3,769,375 41,661,269 It is well known to the world at large, by a declaration from the highest official authority, inserted in every Journal of the civilized world, that the re-establishment of Autos-da-fe has diffused the most joyous delight in the heart of every Spaniard. Already the Journal of Atalaya indulges in the prospect of a spectacle so dear to all sons of St. Dominic. A score of Jews is set down as part of the spectacle; and if the number of Philosophers, &c. can be made to exceed a hundred, the satisfaction will be incalculably increased-as will the honour of the Church, and the glory of God. The present scarcity of San Benitos, paper robes, ornamented with figures of flames, hell and devils, it is intended to obviateIn 1801 the income tax, at 5 per cent. proby establishing a manufactory on a large scale, for this specific purpose. This es- duced 5,590,530. In 1813-14 the Property tablishment cannot but add greatly to the tax, at 10 per cent. 14,317,1271. giving 112 wealth derived by Spain from her nu- millions for the public income, as ascermerous branches of industry; and a monk tained in 1801, and 143 millions in 1814, who has undertaken the business, proposes, Not more than three-fourths perhaps was it is said, to associate in the undertaking a ascertained; so that in 1801 the entire few Capitalists from Ireland, selected un-public income was, in money, about 150 der the direction of the Catholic Board. SWITZERLAND. From July 5, 1813, to July 5, 1814, all sorts of taxes pro- 62,956,097 1,474,861 8,086,313 millions, and, in 1813, it was 190 millions. 6 millions. $8 Prohibition: Compensation: Dancings.Basle is a town in Switzerland, which conforms to Swiss manners. The carnival is the only time at which diversions are perIn which last year about three-fourths mitted among the people. On all the howas British and Irish produce and malidays of the year, dancing is prohibited;nufactures, the rest foreign and colonial at the carvinal it is indulged. This prohi- merchandize re-exported. bition has a singular effect; the territory of France is distant about a quarter of a league: here is dancing every Sunday and holiday, and hither the inhabitants of Basle resort, to make themselves amends for privations they suffer according to law within their own walls. A late traveller has been deeply struck with this peculiarity, and makes it a principal object of his remarks on the city of Basle. In 1813 there belonged to the ports of the British Empire 25,640 vessels, navigated by 165,557 men, and measuring 2,514,484 tons; that is, averaging about In 1812 above 2 7 men, and 110 tons. millions of tons cleared outward, but in 1760 only 647,000 tons; in 1780 the tonnage was 885,000; in 1800, it was 2,190,000. The average number of Bank of In 1814, Feb. 1, (exclusive of unfunded debt 30,968,9661. Of which there was on that day in the hands of the Commissioners for reducing the uational debt Leaving a balance (exclusive as above) 10,799,238 .29,532,900 814,867527, 97,S57,971 717,509,550 Amount of public loans negociated to carry on the late wars, between Jan. 1793, and Dec. 31, 1813, was: The various branches of the Consolidated Fund have been remarkably productive in the quarter ending the 10th Oct. amounting to no less a sum than 10,254,900/. exceeding the like quarter of last year by 20,000,000 upwards of 800,000l. There has been an 18,000,000 increase of the produce of Stamp Duties of 12,200,000 64,000l. and in the Customs of 665,000/ 8,000,000 in the recent quarter. The Excise, how11,000,000 ever, has fallen off in the comparative 8,000,000 period about 206,000!. The charge upon 4.981,300 the Consolidated Fund is 8,750,0001. being 12,000,000 less than the corresponding quarter of last This arises from the S 6,789,625 year by 244,000/. Sources of Revenue in 1813 Permanent Taxes 15,650,000 circumstance of having taken the benefit $21,000,000 of the stock cancelled by the 54th of the 22,000,000 King, amounting to 35, 542,000l.; the half $19,000,000 year's annuity upon which, amounting to 27,000,000 348,180/. is withdrawn from the charge. The war taxes received at the Exchequer in the quarter ending the 10th amount to upwards of 8,215,000l., of which sum 5,212,000l. is on accouut of property tax. 8,086,313 This tax alone has produced in the year 18,526,879 ending the 10th instant, 14,189,0007. and 5,552,460 the total of the war taxes upwards of 7,803,459 23,470,000l. The sum at which they were 1,619,136 taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 32,575 in the last year's budget was but 21,000,000l. By the returns of the Tax office, it appears, that there have not been half the sporting licenses issued this year that there were the last. Hereditary Revenues, as Crown lands, &c. War Taxes: Customs Excise Property Tax 22,245 18,203 41,661,269 Sundry arrears paid up A one-pound Bank of England note passes at present, in Paris, for 21 francs, or 17 shillings and sixpence, to 18s. Chichester market was almost every day, lately, glutted with French fruit, such as apples, pears, and plums, at one shilling per gallon; filberts, very fine, at two shillings the gallon, which of course commanded the market. Small casks of good butter, of French manufacture, were also in great supoply, at nine pence per pound. Those who become blind in the service, or lose a limb, receive for the remainder of their lives, per diem s. d. Serjeants Corporals Drummers and Privates 6 1 2 1 AUCTION IN THE GREEN PARK. October 16. The Temple of Concord, and other preparations used in the late public rejoicings for the peace, were sold by auction. The first day's sale fetched 1981. 6s. 6d. for 100 lots: The second day's sale was of 99 lots. The following are some of the prices obtained. Lately, at the Custom-house, Ports- and brought them over gratuitously.—Susmouth, some of those numerous French pro- sex Advertiser. vision-sellers, which daily arrive, brought over some loaves of bread, as they pretended for sale, which they had with them at the Custom-house. One of the persons employed there, in passing, jocosely struck a loaf with his stick, when it divided--and out flew a pair of silk stockings! Of course this was the signal for searching the remainder, forty in number, which were prolific enough to produce no less than thirty-six pair of silk-stockings. They were all seized; and the embarrassment of the bread-sellers may be better conceived than described. Not long since, among their dead stock, a turkey was found stuffed with fine lace. The Officers of Customs at Margate seized a boat laden with provisions, with French lace worth 20001. concealed under the forecastle.-The officers at Deal seized 420 pieces of Bandana silk handkerchiefs, concealed in premises behind the Hoop and Griffin Inn. A commercial traveller's horse and gig were lately sold in Carlisle market, by order of the Commissioners of Customs; he having a quantity of French lace in his possession. VICTUALLING CONTRACTS.-The contracts for Irish beef and pork for the use of the navy for the ensuing year, were arranged by the Commissioners of the Victualling Board a few days ago. The quantity contracted for is little more than half of what was required last year, and the price is considerably lower. Last year the total supply was 75,000 tierces, beef and pork. This year the total supply is only 40,000 tierces, contracted for in the following proportions:— Sir C. Flower, Bart. and Co... 20,000 Tierces. Rose and Son.... Wm. Clanchy Hanmer and Co... 6,000 6,000 2,000 40,000 Tierces. The proportion between beef and pork is to be at the rate of 25,000 of the latter, to 15,000 of the former. The price on the average of beef and pork is about 81. per tierce. The price last year was 121. 4s. 9d. Lately, a number of stocking and other weavers, who for want of employment in this country had in vain sought it in France, where during a considerable stay they could not procure a day's work, were landed in a very distressed condition, by Captain Blaber, of the Thomas packet, who took compassion on them at Dieppe, The sale commenced with the flag Alexander and Kutusoff Spain and Portugal.. ... £ s d 070 070 0 8 0 0 8 0 2 10 0 3 10 0 330 3 3 0 212 6 2 12 6 3 0 2 15 2 2 2 0 0 20 2 0 0 ess visited Paris recently, and resumed their functions, have brought with them an assortment of the most appropriate, expressive, elegant, and delicate terms that can be picked up in the streets of the Gallic metropolis. The following is one preof, which lately appeared in a morning paper under the article, The Ship's Cook a great Officer. According to an established form in the Navy, when a ship is paid off, no officer must quit the port or consider himself discharged, until the pennant is struck, which can be done only by the cook, as the last officer, at sunset; and should he be absent, however desirous the officers may be of no other person can perform the office, taking their departure, and although there may not be a single seaman or marine on board. A curious instance of this took Several Demoiselles de Pavé were ushered into the presence of the Lord Mayor, inledonia's being paid off. When the time place lately, at Plymouth, on the Capursuance of the resolutions of a late Court arrived for hauling down the pennant, no of Aldermen, for meretriciously promenading the public streets. Some made the curtsey to his Lordship, with the promise of amending the complaint, while others had une lettre de cachet to Bridewell for a lunar revolution-!!! Police: Mansion-House. cook could be found, from which cause the officers were under the necessity of waiting a day or two, until he made his appearance. Glut of Mackerel. Lately immense shoals of Mackerel came Honours from gratitude.-As a mark of over the bar to the shore of the town of especial favour, and in discharge of a debt of gratitude due to the Marquis of Buck-curred for upwards of thirty years. BeExmouth, a circumstance that has not oeingham, for the noble hospitality shewn by him and his family to the French Royal Family, during their residence in England, Louis XVIII. has conferred upon the officers of the First Provincial Battalion, commanded by the Noble Marquis, the decoration of the Fleur de Lys; and the Prince Regent has given them permission to wear it. There have been paid into the Exchequer at different periods, between the 5th January, 1809, and the present time, various sums, amounting together to $500l. and upwards, for conscience-sake, by unknown individuals, who have considered themselves debtors to the revenue, principally on account of the property-tax. Of this sum, 1600/ was paid in during the year 1811, and above 800/ in the current year. This money is usually remitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, and is by him invariably paid in aid of the Consolidated Fund. A Cornwall Paper states, that Government has determined on giving up the naval establishment at Falmouth; and that orders have been received for transporting the stores to Plymouth. Questionable cargo.-The Custom House officers at Liverpool have seized a vessel laden with cotton from Amelia Island. A letter from that port states, that since the officers released the vessels from the same place with similar cargoes, they have been otherwise advised on the subject, and now mean to try the question of liability to seizure with the owners of the cotton. tween six and seven in the morning a most enlivening and interesting scene presented it self. The passage that separates that place from the opposite Warren was covered with boats, some with hooks and lines, and others with nets of various sizes. On the ccine being drawn, near the bathing mashines, it was so loaded with mackerel, that it was with some difficulty it could be dragged ashore. It is rather singular, that at a short distance below, another seine was drawn, without enclosing a single mackerel; but each time it was filled with an innumerable quantity of fish of a large kind of sprat: these were indignantly thrown away by the fishermen, so that such who chose to pick them up were supplied gratis. Glut of Herrings. The quantity of fish caught on the coasts, and in the rivers of Northumberland, has exceeded any precedent in the memory of man. One morning there were upwards of 10,000 salmon in Berwick market, caught in the Tweed, some of which might bave been bought at 2s. each. At the same time the finest herrings (of which an immense shoal was on the coast) were sold for 2s. the hundred of six score. On the same day, the best salmon was sold in Newcastle market a 6d. per pound, and some of the inferior kinds, as low as 4d. Some lightermen lately, about one mile down Ipswich river, fell in with a swordfish, which with some difficulty they se sured and brought up into the town, and exhibited to the curious. It was 9 feet long from the tail to the end of the sword, and weighs about 3 cwt. A steam Boat, from Dundee, lately arrived at Newcastle quay. She draws only three feet and a half of water when loaded, and made her passage from Shields, against the tide, in one hour and twenty minutes! She came over the bar in grand style, notwithstanding a very high sea running. Extraordinary produce.-The following is an instance of extraordinary produce from a single pea; Mr. Thomas Hanson, of Colby, near Appleby, had from one pea the first year 663: the second year 8 quarts; the third year 4 Winchester bushels; and the fifth year 73 bushels. [The produce of the fourth year seems to be omitted.] The crops of Onions, which were so extremely deficient last year as to make the price of seed higher than ever known, are this year more abundant than any year in the gardener's memory. Such is the increased value of land in Craven, that the late Miss Stackhouse's unleased estates at Burnsall and Hartlington, were lately sold for 75891.; the rent of the former being 354. produced 2045l.; the latter being 5544L.! Valuable Grass Seed. At the Anniversary of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society, the assigned plate, adjudged last year, 114. in value, was delivered to the persons to whom it had been voted. The fleeces of the three ewe tegs exhibited by Mr. Large, weighed 15 pounds, 14 pounds, and 12 pounds.-Mr. Newton, of Preston Crow-marsh, exhibited a sample of grass-seed, called chute bent, which produced on poor land from 20 to 24 bushels of seed per acre, and sold at 63s. per quarter; the dealer sold it since at 73s. Winter Barley, as a cattle food, is getting into high repute, not only from Mr. Greg's great success in Herts, but from that of various other persons within the last two or three years. It is the most certain and productive of all our winter green crops, and perhaps the best calculated for sheep and lambs: after supporting which until April, it is shut up, and gives a crop of the best malting barley. Winter barley may be sown in a showery time, from July to the end of September. Caution: Adder: Medical advice necessary, A poor woman, the wife of a rope-maker in the Dock-yard, Plymouth, who lodges at a baker's in King-street, perceived, as she was going through the passage, a glittering substance, through some furze that lay at the door. Stooping down to examine it, she found an Adder, coiled up: ignorant of its dangerous nature, she took it up with one of her hands. In removing it from one hand to the other, the reptile bit her in the middle finger of the right hand. Some old women advised her to have the creature killed, and its skin fastened round the wound as a charm, which was done accordingly, but with no effect, as in four days time the venom had communicated itself to the arm, close to the shoulder, which it rendered as black as ink, and enlarged, to more than six times its usual size. A mortification was dreaded by her medical attendants; but the immense swelling subsequently abated, and hopes are entertained | that her arm will be saved. Lately as Mr. Thomas Meredith, of Surfleet, was attending a thrashing machine at Mr. White's, in that place, the feather of the spindle caught the frock worn by Mr. M. and, drawing him towards the machine, so dreadfully lacerated one of Mr. M's. thighs, and part of his body, that he now lies in a very dangerous state. Cruelty to Animals. A Coroner's Inquest was taken lately at Leicester, on killed by the kick of a horse. It appeared the body of John Scott, that the deceased was beating the horse with a stick over his loins, having at the same time hold of his tail and standing bekick, and his heels going with full force hind him, which occasioned the animal to against the belly of the unfortunate man, he laid himself down on the corn bin, and expired instantly!-An awful lesson to those who exercise cruelty to animals!! Slave Trade. It appears from the records of the Court of Admiralty, that 124 vessels laden with slaves have been captured at different times, and on different stations, under the Acts for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Almost all of them were condemned. The maintenance of captured negroes in the colony of Sierra Leone, for the year 1813, cost this country 40591. Of these, 428 had been enlisted in the Royal African Caution: Pasture: Meadow Suffron. Mr. Robins, of Beverstone, near Tetbury, lately lost 7 yearling beasts out of 18, by putting them into a piece of pasture ground, in part of which the colchicum autumnale (meadow saffron, or the tube corps. root) grew in great abundance. On theirbodies being opened, the food was found clogged together, in a crude and undigested mass, incapable of passing through the proper ducts. The total number of Petitions against the Slave Trade was 864: the number of signatures was upwards of 755,000. An article in a French paper, respecting St. Domingo, states, that an importation |