ceedingly beloved, one of his shipmates immediately leaped overboard after him, and brought up the body, but it was lifeless. Lord Henry was in the 15th year of his age, and promised to be an ornament to his profession.

The following is an account of the total value of the forged notes presented at the bank of England for payment, and refused, from being forged, for the eleven years, from 1st January, 1801, to 31st December,

1811:

The nominal value of the forged notes, presented for payment, and refused, within the above-mentioned period, is 101,6611.

H. HASE, Chief Cashier. Bank of England, 26th March, 1812. N. B. The above return includes all forged notes, supposed to have been fabricated on the continent, and presented within the aforesaid period. 6th.-EDINBURGH NEW POLICE BILL. The report of the committee appointed to concert measures for obtaining a more efficient system of police, has been published.

The defects of the present system are considered by the committee to have originated in there being too many unconnected police establish ments, all of them having a distinct set of officers and acting independently of one another; but, in order to remedy these, it is proposed that the sheriff should be placed as much as possible at the head of the police establishment, and all offences committed beyond the boundaries of the city to be taken cognizance of by him alone, while the magistrates are to judge of such as occur within their own jurisdiction. All cases, however, where, from the nature of the offence, it may be necessary to take a precognition with a view to future

trial, are to be left to the sheriff, and for this purpose the present magistrates have passed an act of council, waving their right to take such precognitions during the subsistence of the proposed act, and have recommended to their successors to do the same.

The sheriff is to have under him a superintendant of police, to be chosen by a commission, consisting of the lord president of the court of session, the lord justice clerk, the lord chief baron, the sheriff of the county, and the lord provost of Edinburgh, who is to hold his office during their pleasure only.

The villages of the Water of Leith, Restalrig, Jock's Lodge, and Portobello, are to be omitted in the new act, and in place of the six wards into which the city is at present divided, with sixty-eight commissioners of police, there are to be twenty-four wards, with three commissioners for each ward, but only one of these is to attend the general meeting. Their powers are to be confined to the subject of assessment and money payments, and to the making of general regulations as to the mode of watching, lighting, and cleansing the metropolis, while the power of naming watchmen is to rest solely with the superintendant of police. Instead of the present mode of giving the watchmen one half of the fines imposed on delinquents, a fund of 5001. is to be set apart to be applied by the sheriff towards rewarding those who shall distinguish themselves by diligence and extraordinary exertion. The city guard is to be retained.

The present judge of police is to retire, and receive a pension of 3001. during the continuance of the new act, and the expences of this esta

blishment are to be defrayed by a duty of one shilling and five-pence in the pound on the yearly rent of all shops and houses, not under five pounds per annum. This to be regarded as the ultimatum beyond which the assessment is in no event to be carried. All fines are to be applied towards the maintenance of prisoners in Bridewell, and the rates presently exigible for that purpose are to be suspended.

9th. A separation, by mutual consent, is, we understand, about to take place between the Crown Prince of Sweden and his consort, who, it is said, has an irreconcileable dislike to the climate and the society of Stockholm.

A forgery on the bank of Eng. land, to a large amount, was discovered this morning. This was obtained by forging the power of an attorney of a Mr B. who had 40,000l. in the three per cents. and the circumstance was not discovered until Mr B. came to town, and applied at the bank to sell out. No trace of the party who effected this robbery has yet been made, nor is the name of the stock. holder suffered as yet to transpire.

BARON GERAMB.--The King George packet, Captain King, sailed yesterday from Harwich, with a mail for Anholt, and the Lady Frances packet, Captain Rutter, with a mail for Heligoland. On board the former embarked the celebrated Baron Geramb, lately arrested under a warrant from the secretary of state, and sent out of the kingdom under the

alien act.

This much-talked of person, who has for a year or two past made so conspicuous a figure in London has thus been hurried out of the country. He must now try his luck in some other quarter, where, very like

ly, in spite of his gold-laced boots and enormous sable moustaches, he may experience similar treatment. This singular person ushered himself into public notice in London, by publishing a most inflated and ridiculous letter, which he dedicated to the Earl of Moira, in which he described himself as an Hungarian baron, who had headed a corps of volunteers in the cause of Austria, against Buonaparte, and stated, that after the peace he went to Spain, to give the benefit of his courage and profound military experience to the oppressed patriots of the peninsula. It is said that he alleges he had proposed to engage 24,000 Croat troops in the service of England, a proppsal which he pretends to have considered as favourably received by our ministers abroad, because they (Mr Bathurst, General Oakes, and Mr H. Wellesley, to whom he appeals), did not hesitate granting him passports, to enable him to come to England, to submit his plan; and for this service his charges were-journey from Cadiz to London 2501.; establishment in London, twenty-two months, at 2001. per month, 44001.; return to Hungary, 7001.-Total, 53501. The Baron, it seems, while the officers were besieging his castle, told them he had 200lbs of gunpowder in his house, and, if they persevered, he would blow up himself and that together; but finding them not intimidated, he surrendered. The baron, it is reported, has had uncommon success in the gaming-houses. He is said to be a German Jew, who, having married the widow of an Hungarian baron, assumed the title by which he has passed.

10th-Wednesday a ballot was taken at the East India-house, for the election of six directors, for four

years, in the room of Charles Mills, Abraham Robarts, Richard C. Plowden, John Huddleston, G. A. Robinson, and J. A. Bannerman, Esqrs. who go out by rotation. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered over to the scrutineers, who reported that the election had fallen on William Astell, Charles Grant, John Jackson, Campbell Marjoribanks, George Smith, and Sweny Toone, Esqrs.

On Tuesday morning, Mr Agar, the celebrated pedestrian, undertook to go, by a circuitous route, from his residence at Kensington to Blackwater, in Hampshire, and return, being altogether a distance of 59 miles, in the space of eight hours and a half, for a stake of 200 guineas. The pedestrian started at day-light, dressed closely in flannel, with light, but thick shoes, and with his legs bare. He arrived at Ashford Common (17 miles) in two hours and ten minutes, and refreshed at Englefield Green (21 miles) in five minutes less than three hours from starting. The pedestrian continued steadily at work, until he did the half of his journey, in four hours and four minutes. Af. ter being well rubbed, Mr Agar pursued his Herculean undertaking, and did his seven miles an hour tolerably true, although he was much distressed in the last two hours, but he won the match in three minutes within time. This is the greatest performance of modern days.

11th.-MANCHESTER.--This town has been thrown into great confusion during the whole of this day. About a fortnight since a requisition, most respectably signed by 154 of the principal inhabitants, was addressed to the Boroughreeve and constables, "to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of the towns of Manches

ter, Salford, and the neighbourhood, to prepare a dutiful and loyal address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, expressive of the strongest assurances of our attachment to his royal person, and of our ardent zeal for the support of his government."

A meeting was, in consequence, appointed to be held in the diningroom, at the Exchange Buildings, this day at eleven o'clock. In the mean time several most inflammatory hand-bills were posted up in the town and neighbourhood. One contained a copy of the address of the livery of London, and another, which was circulated with the greatest industry for many miles round, was of the following tenor :

"Now or never!-Those inhabitants who do not wish for an increase of taxes and poor-rates-an advance in the price of provisions-a scarcity of work-and a reduction of wages, will not fail to go to the meeting on Wednesday morning next, at the Exchange, and oppose the 15 persons who have called you together; and you will then do right to express your detestation of the conduct of those men who have brought this country to its present distressed state, and are entailing misery on thousands of our industrious mechanics. Speak your minds now, before it is too late; let not the prince and the people be deceived as to your real sentiments. Speak and act boldly and firmly, but above all, be peaceable."

The merchants, fearing that the meeting would be attended with disagreeable events, announced that it was put off to another day, upon which the populace, being disappointed, immediately became disorderly, and turned the merchants out of the Exchange, throwing the tables and chairs out of the windows; and

in a few hours this fine building was demolished.

At length some troops arrived, and the riot act was read; but the magistrates could not act until an hour afterwards, in which time all the mischief was accomplished.

Died on the 11th of April, at the Pulteney Hotel, in Piccadilly, London, Jane Duchess of Gordon. Her grace was sister to the late Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, Bart. was born in 1746, and married to the present Duke of Gordon, October 1st, 1767, by whom she had, now living, one son, the Marquis of Huntly, and five daughters, viz, the Duchess of Richmond, Lady Magdalen Palmer, the Duchess of Manchester, the Marchioness Cornwallis, and the Duchess of Bedford. She lost a second son, Alexander, who died about two years ago. Her grace received the holy sacrament a few hours before her dissolution, of which all her noble and afflicted children were partakers.

13th.-LEEDS--The following account is given of an affair at Mr Cartwright's mill, at Rawfolds, between Cleckheaton and Littletown: About 20 or 30 minutes after twelve o'clock, on Saturday night, this gig-mill was attacked by the Luddites or Snappers; and the windows and door of the mill were assailed by a furious mob, who commenced their attack by the firing of arms and the beating of hammers and hatchets. The guard in the mill in stantly repelled the assault by a steady, firm, and well-directed discharge of musquetry from within. A regular engagement succeeded, which conti. nued from 15 to 20 minutes, during which time, not fewer than 140 shot were discharged from within. The assailants were foiled in their attempt

to force the windows or doors, and did no other damage than breaking the glass windows of the mill. The deluded mob did not escape unhurt. Two of the unhappy men were left wounded upon the spot, and there is great reason to believe that several more received the contents of the defenders' muskets, as traces of blood were observed. The two wounded men were put under the care of surgeons as soon as it could be done; one of them, John Booth, a tinner's apprentice, at Huddersfield, died after having his leg amputated. Samuel Hartley, a cooper of Huddersfield, who worked with one Webb, or Webster, at the same place (and formerly with Mr Cartwright, at Halifax,) was shot through the breast he died yesterday afternoon.

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From the direction of the shot, it is conjectured that he received his wound in the act of firing into the mill, or in an attitude similar to that of firing a musket. Several hammers, masks, and a pick-lock key were left upon the premises. Both the men died without making any confession of their accomplices; but several must have been so wounded as to lead to the knowledge of them.

16th.-MURDER.-On Sunday morning the village of Hankelow, near Nantwich, was alarmed by a report that George Morrey, farmer in that village, had been murdered during the preceding night, having been found with his brains dashed out, and his throat cut from ear to ear! It was supposed that the diabolical crime had been perpetrated by some ruthless villains, who had entered his house in search of glunder, and it would appear that his wife and every part of the family affected the most complete ignorance of the awful transaction. Ön the assembly of a con