MAY 7. (if Owl 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 n t present non est inventax, bein4 deficient 10,0001. chiefly t h e 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 enumerated o shall 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. !NASAL REGISTER. SliPwatcgs.---The Concord, Captain Buse, and the Ft iends' Goodwill, Captain _Bryant, both of Swansea, were lost on Friday se'nuigh!, in a gale of wind on the north coast of Cornwall ; and it is feared all on board perished. ex cept one man and a boy who belonged to the latter. The body of Captain Bryant was thrown on shore near Padstow same day.—The Britannia, of Cardigan. Owen master, front Liverpool to Padstow, with salt and cheese, was lost same day near Padstow; crew saved.—Same day. the brig Nep tune, of Fisleoend. Griffiths master, was driven on shore, ne;ir Gedreavy, in St. IvCs Bar. The crew were fortunately saved, but the cargo, consisting of coals, will be almost entirely last. It is scarcely ciedible, though unfortunately too true, that some of the ruffians who assembled under pre tence of protecting the properly. actually robbed the Cap tain o f his watch, and plundered the unfortunate seamen of the clethes they endeavoured to save at the risk of their lives. One of the crew who got on shore almost naked, saw a num ber of misc:eants employed in carrying. off some rope, and remonstrated with them on the atrocity of their conduct ; when he was told, that unless he immediately departed, and refrained from molesting them in securing their lawful spoil, they would strangle him ! In the list of Insolvents who have taken the benefit of the present Act, printed by order of the [louse of Commonq. is a fashionable Surgeon for 10;3631.; a Cook to one of the Royal Family for 1 QOl. ; a Bart ister for 130,0001.; and a Baronet for SOL 4s. In the Vienna theatre, at the Opera of Palmyra, in the' scene where one of the characters .states, that if the Three Sovereigns remained united, „the monster would be annihi lated, the whole audience rose and applauded for nearly half an hour. The King of Prussia was present. When Murat, the other day, addressed a Proclamation to the Italians; he called on them to throw off' a . foreign yoke, and take him as their leadar. Now it so happens, that of alt the actual Sovereigns in Italy, Murat is the only one who is not an Italian by birth. The King of Lombardy and Venice (Emperor of Austria) was born at Florence : so was his bro ther the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The King of Sardinia was horn at Turin, and the Pope was born at Cesenna; while his Majesty, the sot-disant King of Naples, first - drew his breath in a little pot-house, near Cahors, in France. A letter, dated from Calais, last Monday. says, that all the Bens d'armes had been marched from that town in consequence of a sudden order from Paris. At that town, as well as at Boulogne and other places along the coast, the young men alio had been drawn as conscripts have refused to march. The Will of the celebrated Joanna Southcott passed the Seal,of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 28th the letters of admioiqration granted in January last to Wi!a ham Southcott, the brother, having been previously revoked by decree of the Court. She has left a few trifling legacies to relations, and the residue, in case of no issue mate, to Mrs, Jane Townley and Ann Underwood. her executrix. There is a clause, directing restitution of the various presents, made in expectation of the birth of a male child, in case of no such event, to the respective Devotees; and reference is made to a book, containing a catalogue of their names and offerinas, which it has been nacessary to record with the tes tamentary papers. Every possible want an d accommodation seems to have been anticipated with scrupulous attention. There •are cradles, robes. mantles, (some of white satin), bows. caps, and napkins out of number, several articles plate, m-nev from ‘• six goineas" to " a pretty sixpence," so denominated , '4 three q,utmegs" by one contributor, and pieby another. 7 - 4 I