They looked in vain for Mr.Whitehead, who had sunk to rise no more. His body, on being dragged for, was found about three hours afterwards. The deceased was considered an expert swimmer, and has been known to swim nearly a mile at a time. His being drowned is supposed to be owing to his having come suddenly in contact with the dead body already mentioned, the sight of which had so terrified him as to deprive him of his faculties. Richmond Steam Yacht.-On the 28th, about half-past six o'clock, the steam boiler of the above packet burst at the top, and injured three persons in a dangerous manner. The yacht was injured on Saturday week in a slight degree, and had been repaired to render it fit to perform its passage. It fortunately had no persons on board at the time the event occurred, except the persons who navigate and conduct it. The shock was very great, but the injury done to the vessel was very slight. The top of the engine boiler was blown off by the explosion. The yacht had been prepared to sail on Monday. The conductors had been rowing it up the river; and when it had got about 100 yards above Westminster-bridge, the accident unfortunately took plate. Mr. Arnold, the conductor of the yacht, was near the boiler when it burst, and was injured in a shocking manner. Two labourers belonging to the yacht were injured in a less degree. They were all conveyed on shore by a waterman, who was near when the accident happened, and taken to St. Thomas's hospital, in the Borough. JULY. 1. The following particulars respecting the fire, on the 1st instant, at Uffington-house, the seat of Earl Lindsey, near Stamford, are copied from the Stamford Mercury : The Marchioness of Downshire, with her daughters, the Ladies Hill, had arrived on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Lindsey, on Monday night: being fatigued with travelling, the marchioness retired early, and the whole of the family at the Hall were in bed by half-past twelve o'clock. At about two in the morning, the Earl of Lindsey being indisposed, his countess got up to administer medicine to him; and having occasion to pass into the next room, her ladyship was alarmed by the smell of fire. She called up the housekeeper, Mrs. Vaughan, who, as soon as possible, descended into the kitchen, and there discovered that a large table standing in the middle of the apartment was on fire. The flames had got great hold of the solid table, and several of the drawers were partly burnt, and their contents consumed. With much resolution Mrs. Vaughan immediately procured water, and in a short time succeeded with assistance, in extinguishing the fire. All danger, it was hoped, was then over; but on looking up, Mrs. Vaughan perceived through a window which commands the kitchen from the housekeeper's room, that the latter apartment was in a blaze; and, on entering it, the windowcurtains were found to be on fire; and it was also discovered, that a large closet, in which a quantity of of table and bed-linen, and some valuable china, were deposited, was greatly damaged; some of the shelves were quite burnt through, and the linen was consumed: the china also was made so hot, that some of the persons whom the ringing of the bells in the village, and the alarm of fire, had brought to the Hall, broke many costly plates, and other articles, by dropping them in endeavouring to remove them. The fire, thus perceived, was soon subdued, but the cause of it, and the extraordinary circumstance of its breaking out in two distinct apartments and that in a closet and the drawers of a detached table-remains a mystery which it is painful to reflect upon. It is believed that, had not the sudden and providential illness of the noble earl occasioned a timely alarm, the fire would in half an hour afterwards have got to such a height as that all the family must have perished in the flames. Under the circumstance of its wonderful discovery, the damage done, we understand, does not exceed 4 or 500l., principally in linen and china. Lavender left Uffington on Tuesday last; and we are sorry to say that nothing is known to have been at present discovered tending to convict the perpetrators of a fire which, there is every reason to believe, has been wilfully occasioned. 4. Total Destruction by Fire of the Regent Margate Steam Packet. On Wednesday morning last this vessel, commanded by Capt. Harvey, left London for Margate, with between 40 and 50 passengers on board; and it appears, from ac counts received in town yesterday, T that when off Whitstable, which is 18 miles from the port of destination, she was discovered to be on fire; at this time she was also three miles from the main land. As a vessel of this description never carries a boat larger than sufficient to hold her own crew, which seldom exceeds a dozen persons, the consternation of between 40 and 50 passengers may be better conceived than described. The fire was discovered to proceed from the furnaces used for the boilers of the steam-engines, and to gain rapidly on the exertions of those on board. The vessel was seen from the shore; and one account which we have seen states, that she was met by several boats from Whitstable, who succeeded in getting all on board safe to land; and this account seems corroborated by the following notice, which was posted yesterday, in the afternoon, at Lloyd's: The Regent steam-packet, bound to Margate, was burnt to the water's edge, yesterday afternoon, off Whitstable. Crew and passengers saved. The cause of the fire is stated to be as follows:-The gale of wind being strong, blew the chim ney flue away, and the woodwork, that is nearly breast high from the deck, at the bottom of the flue, for the purpose of keeping the people near the chimney from burning themselves, caught fire: the men in throwing the buckets over for water to put it out lost them, consequently the fire was not checked, and the captain immediately made for land, and got all the people and crew, and luggage, safe ashore, but but the vessel is almost entirely consumed. From the London Gazette, Saturday, July 5. By his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE, P. R. Whereas we have thought fit to order that certain pieces of gold money should be coined, which should be called " sovereigns or twenty shilling pieces," each of which should be of the value of twenty shillings, and that each piece should be of the weight of five penny weights three grains 2,740-10,000 troy weight of standard gold, according to the weights approved of and confirmed by us in Council, in pursuance of an act made in the 14th year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act for regulating and ascertaining the weights to be made use of in weighing the gold and silver coin of this kingdom;" and we have farther thought fit to order, that every such piece of gold money so ordered to be coined as aforesaid, shall have for the obverse impression, the head of his Majesty, with the inscription "Georgius 111. D.G.: Britanniar. Rex. F.D." and the date of the year; and on the reverse the image of St. George armed, sitting on horseback, encountering the dragon with a spear, the said device being placed within the ennobled garter, bearing the motto "Honi suit qui mal y pense," with a newly invented graining on the edge of the piece: II. and whereas pieces of gold money of the above description have been coined at his Majesty's Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders which we have given for that purpose: we have therefore, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, thought fit to issue this proclamation; and we do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of gold money so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful money of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called "sovereigns, or twenty shilling pieces," and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and every of such pieces shall pass and be received as of the value of twenty shillings of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland in all payments whatsoever. Given at the Court at Carltonhouse, the 1st day of July, 1817, in the 57th year of his Majesty's reign.-God save the King. By his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it has been represented unto us, that great quantities of the gold coin of this realm, deficient in weight, are now in circulation, contrary to the tenour of Lis Majesty's proclamations of the 12th of April, 1776, and 21st of September, 1787; and there being reason to believe that due attention is not paid to the weighing of the said gold coin, and to the direction given in the acts of Parliament now in force with respect to the cutting, breaking, or defacing of such pieces thereof as are found to be of less weight than those declared and allowed by his Majesty's said Proclamations to be current and pass in payment we do, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, by this our Royal Proclamation declare and command, in like manner as was declared and commanded in his Majesty's beforementioned Proclamations of the 12th of April, 1776, and 21st of September, 1787, that all guineas, half guineas, quarter guineas, more deficient in weight than the rates specified in the table following:Guineas, five penny weights eight grains; Half guineas, two penny weights ny weight eighteen grains; Sovereigns, or twenty shilling pieces, five penny weights, two grains, three quarters; be not allowed to be current, or pass in any payment whatsoever : and we do hereby strictly require and command all his Majesty's loving subjects, and particularly all the officers, collectors, and receivers of his Majesty's revenues, strictly to conform to the orders hereby given, and to the directions and regulations enacted and established in the several acts of Parliament now in force with respect to the cutting, breaking, and defacing such pieces of the said gold coin as shall be found deficient in weight and we do hereby farther ordain, declare, and command, that the guineas, half guineas, quarter guineas, seven shilling pieces, and sovereigns, of the weights above described, shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in all payments whatsoever. : Given at the Court at Carltonhouse, the 1st day of July, 1817, in the 57th year of his Majesty's reign.-God save the King. 5. Another dreadful explosion has taken place in a mine near Durham, by the obstinate conduct of a man, in lighting a candle. The following is an extract of a letter from the spot : At two o'clock this morning (Tuesday), when the colliers went to work, the overman found it necessary to order Davy's lamp to be used in certain places, which order seems to have been attended to by the first shift of men, till 9 o'clock, when they were relieved by the second shift. An obstinate fellow, belonging to the second shift, when he relieved the man who preceded him, in the farthest working, (and at the same time the most dangerous, being in the last of the ventilation), persisted in lighting a candle, because he thought there was no danger, and because because he thought he could see better with a candle. The poor fellow whom he relieved remonstrated strongly against the lighting of the candle, stating that the overman's orders were peremptory, and he even put the candle out by force. The infatuated victim, however, persisted, and lighted his candle again, when the other left him working with it. On his way out to the shaft he met with one of the deputy overmen, and told him what had occurred, who went with the intention of compelling the delinquent to do what was right, or to punish him; but whether he reached his destination or not we cannot tell, as the explosion took place in a few minutes afterwards, just as my informant, and a companion, who can also make affidavit of the fact, got out of the pit. We do not yet know the number killed, as I cannot get a correct list of the men at work, and the bodies are not all got out, but I fear it will not be less than 34 or 35 individuals. I do not think that more than four or five will survive out of 39 or 40. We have already got upwards of 20 dead out. The explosion was very strong, as the pit is 82 fathoms deep. We are sorry to learn the additional misfortune, that on the following day, some pitmen having descended into the pit in order to ascertain all the mischief done, eight of them were suffocated, in consequence, of the very impure state of the air. The Imperial Ukase, by which the Bishopric of Abo has been raised to an Archbishopric in honour of the secular festival of the Lutheran church, is as follows: We, Alexander I. by the Grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland, &c., make known by these presents, that as the Swedish Lutheran church, to which also Finland belonged, has had from old times one common supreme head, whose office it was to preside over the clergy, and to manage their deliberations and concerns in the assemblies, but that since the union of Finland with the rest of our dominions, the elergy have been without such a supreme head; we, therefore, constantly friendly to institutions which, by their antiquity and their value, have gained the esteem of the nation, induced by the remarkable event so important to the Protestant church, the memory of which will be this year celebrated by a general festival, have been graciously pleased to ordain that the present Bishopric of Abo shall henceforward bear the name of the Archbishopric of the Grand Duchy of Finland; and that the person who fills that see shall, in his quality of Archbishop, be the supreme head of the clergy in this grand Duchy. Intestimony whereof we have signed these presents with our own hand. Done at Czarsko Selo the 8th (20th) of July, 1817. ALEXANDER. 9. All the accounts from the eastern part of Switzerland announce the terror and the damage caused by the late inundations. The storms have carried desolation into the lower parts of the canton of Glaris. The Linth has broken its dikes in three places. The bridges of Glaris and Helstal |