simple way, a lighterman saying on the quay at Liverpool, that pepper and other colonial productions were landing at Runcorn, and that he would wish to have such a job. No lighter could be traced to have left Liverpool. An investigation immediately took place, which has brought this flagitious business to light. From the London Gazette. In pursuance of the directions of an act, passed in the 37th year of the reign of his present Majesty King George III., intituled "An Act for confirming and continuing for a limited time, the restriction contained in the minute of Council, of the 26th of February, 1797, on payments of cash by the Bank;" and also of the several acts since passed, for continuing and amending the same; I do hereby direct, that there be inserted forthwith in the London Gazette, the following notice from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, dated 18th September, 1817, namely:"That, on and after the 1st October next, the Bank will be ready to pay cash for their notes of every description, dated prior to the 1st January, 1817.” CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, September 22, 1817. 25. Waterford Chronicle.-It has become our painful duty to detail the particulars of an outrage of the most cruel and sanguinary barbarity, perpetrated at Springhill, in the county of Waterford, adjoining the road to Passage, and at the distance of three miles from this city. On the night of Tues On day last, about the hour of nine, Captain Johnson, late paymaster of the Waterford militia, his family, and Mr. Surridge, of Ross, who had that day paid them a visit, were sitting in the parlour, some of them amusing themselves with cards, and others engaged in conversation. Mrs. Johnson had occasion to leave the company on some family-business, and she requested her husband to take her place at the card table. The parlour where the party were is low, and the windows at a very short distance from the ground. Mrs. Johnson's return, she went to the window for the purpose of looking at the state of the weather; on opening the upper shutters, she suddenly exclaimed, that she saw a man under the window. Mr. Johnson immediately opened all the shutters, and threw up the sash, when he beheld two or three men in front of the house. On inquiring from them their business at that hour of the night, a pistol, or blunderbuss, was instantly presented, and fired in his face. Part of the shot wounded him above the left eye, and profuse bleeding followed, but this wound was afterwards found not to be of a serious nature. As there were no arms in the house, the family retired up stairs to a bed-room over the kitchen, and locked the door; they were fired at in passing through the lobby. The house consists of two wings; the bed-room is on the side opposite to the parlour, and at no great distance from the ground. Several shots were then fired through the bed-room window, some or which shattered the frames to pieces, and lodged in the ceiling. The The number of the assailants was eight; five of them gained admission into the house, probably through the parlour window, and three remained on the outside. Those who entered went to the bedroom door and tried the lock, but did not attempt to enter by force. They remained in the house about three quarters of an hour. When the family reached the bed-room, Mr. Surridge made his escape through the window, with the manly design of procuring assistance under such fearful and perilous circumstances; but he had not proceeded far when he was overtaken and seized by two fellows, one of whom presented a pistol, while the other urged his associate to blow out the brains of their captive. The last of these savage ruffians had a butcher's knife in his possession, with which he made a blow at Mr. Surridge, and cut him dreadfully over the muscular part of the left arm. Mr. Surridge then seized the knife with both his hands, but the fellow turned it in his grasp, and it cut severely both his thumbs. Mr. Surridge was knocked down in this terrific scuffle, but escaped in a manner which his situation has prevented him from being able accurately to explain. He crossed the Pill to the opposite side, but fell down through loss of blood, and remained in a state of insensibility for a considerable time. At length, however, he reached the house of Mr. Cotton, where he still remains, and where he has experienced the most humane attention from that gentleman and his family, and from the neighbours of Mr. Cotton. When Mr. Surridge had escaped from the bed-room window, he called out "murder!" On this, Mr. Johnson went to the window, and was again fired at, the shots entering his left breast, and the wounds inflicted by them depriving him of all power of exertion. The family remained in this condition till their enemies had left the house. A gold watch and considerable property were exposed to their view, and wholly at their command, but it is not yet fully known that they carried any thing off with them except some keys. At length, one of the Misses Johnson repaired to the house of Mr. Usher, a magistrate, who, accompanied by his nephew, Mr. Hewson, returned with her to her father's, and entered most zealously into the transaction which had taken place, and afterwards went in pursuit of the criminals. A servant was despatched to this city, with a request for the immediate attendance of Dr. Poole and here another feature of this inhuman transaction unfolded itself. The messenger was countered near Cove by the assailants, deprived of his horse, and threatened with death if he should dare to proceed. This circumstance delayed Dr. Poole's arrival at Mr. Johnson's till five o'clock yesterday morning, no information having reached him till four. There were three wounds in the chest, but only two balls (slugs) have yet been found and extracted. The knife by which Mr. Surridge was wounded, and the cuff of a coat, were found on the spot where the struggle occurred. One of the banditti wore crape on his face; the rest were undisguised. en 26. Yesterday, about one o'clock at at noon, a Welchman, named David Owen, a cow-keeper, came to town from Edmonton, and proceeded to the house of one Jones, his brother-in-law, who is also a cow-keeper, resident in Gibraltar-row, Prospect-place, St. George's-fields. After knocking at the door he was admitted to the room on the ground floor, where Jones, with his wife and maidservant, was at dinner. After sitting for a few minutes, he started up, and with two knives, (with which he had provided himself before his visit,) he rushed to the execution of his execrable purpose. He first attacked the man Jones, whom he wounded dreadfully in the belly and the head, so as for some seconds to deprive him of sense and motion. He then flew at Mrs. Jones, his own sister, and inflicted upon her several shocking wounds: he stabbed her in the forehead, cut her severely though not dangerously between two of her ribs, and having thrust his knife in her mouth, drew it clean through the face to the ear, laccrating her tongue, and laying the cheek completely open. The ruffian last struck at the servant-girl, whom he seriously cut in the face and one of her hands, besides dividing the main artery of her arm. The poor wretches, though faint and almost insensible with terror and loss of blood, contrived to make their way into the street, where they were immediately observed by their neighbours, and were carried into the adjoining houses till medical assistance could be procured. In the mean time the assassin had fastened the door of Jones's house, and with loud imprecations threatened to destroy any person who should dare to approach him. This threat, together with the impression of the horrible scene before them, and the circumstance of Owen (who is a remarkably large and powerful man) being armed with two knives, completely deterred the multitude, though soon consisting of many hundreds, from attempting to enter the house. Policeofficers, however, were sent for, and on their arrival and after the interval of nearly an hour, it was determined to break into the house and seize the desperate villain. For this purpose a great number of persons armed with pokers and crow-bars, some with ladders at the windows, and some on the ground, made a simultaneous attack on the house, and bursting it open above and below, rushed in with great force. They found Owen on the first landing place, standing with an air of defiance, and whetting his knives one upon the other, as if for the purpose of rendering them more effectually murderous. One of the officers, however, without a moment's delay, struck him a violent blow with a crow-bar on the head, which knocked off his hat and staggered him; and another instantly took advantage of his tottering, seized one of his legs, and threw him on the ground. Still the ruffian was able to resist, which he did so obstinately, that the officers were compelled to beat and even wound him severely about the face and body, before he was subdued to a state of acquiescence; they then put him into a hackney-coach, and conveyed him to the prison in Horsemonger Horsemonger-lane, thousands of the multitude attending the coach, with arms of various kinds, in order to prevent the possibility of his escape. While this was going on, surgical aid had been procured for the wounded, and the result of the examination made by Mr. Dixon, surgeon, of Newington, was, that he considered the husband likely to die, the wife dreadfully though not mortally wounded, and the girl, though very seriously hurt, likely to recover. The man and the servant were at the recommendation of the surgeon taken to one of the hospitals in the Borough. Mrs. Jones was carried back to her own house. The Norwegian brig Bergetta, Captain Peterson, was wrecked on Cefn-Sidan Sands, in Carmarthen Bay. She was bound from Barcelona for Stettin, with a cargo of wine, spirits, &c. when the master losing his reckoning, owing to a thick fog, fell into the fatal error of taking the coast of Devon for that of France, and acted under that persuasion. So circumstanced, a violent gale, together with the tide, drove the vessel into the Bristol channel, and she struck upon the above sands, and, in the space of two or three hours, went to pieces. The master and crew, with great difficulty, got into the boat, and were all happily saved. Notwithstanding the greatest exertions on the part of the officers of the Customs, supported by several gentlemen and others, acts of plunder were committed to a considerable extent. Of 266 pipes and casks of wine, &c. not above 100 have been saved! Hundreds of men and women were reduced to nearly a state of insensibility through intoxication. 28. Particulars of the distressing fire which occurred at Neustadt, in the duchy of Holstein. The fire originated in the house of a distiller. Only five dwellings in the whole town escaped the general conflagration; and not fewer than 1,400 inhabitants have been left without the means of shelter. This unfortunate place has an excellent harbour on the Baltic, and very extensive expedìtions were despatched from it at the time during which Lubeck was occupied by the French. A great quantity of corn is said to have been consumed in the warehouses on this disastrous occasion. Every attempt was made to save the merchants' stores from the flames, but unfortunately without effect, owing to the high wind, which increased their fury. 30. We are sorry to relate a dreadful accident which happened near Kirby-parsonage, Bungay, the residence of the Rev. Mr. Wilson. Two very fine young men, both under twenty years, the Hon. Messrs. Keppel, sons of the Earl of Albemarle, went out with their guns, and in getting through a hedge the coat of the one caught the other's trigger, and the whole contents of the gun lodged in his brother's leg. The youth not wounded rendered his brother every assistance possible, but finding he could not remove him, or do him any permanent good, fled with the greatest speed for medical aid, which happened most unfortunately to be at a great distance; and, sad to relate, on his return with a surgeon he found found his brother had bled to of the explosion, and had most of death. OCTOBER. 3. About 20 minutes before seven in the morning, the corninghouse of the gunpowder works belonging to John Hall, Esq. at Ore, near Faversham, containing about 12 barrels of powder, blew up with a tremendous explosion, levelling instantly every part of the building to its foundation, and spreading the massy timbers in every direction. At the moment of the explosion there were three men employed therein, whose bodies were literally blown to pieces, the scattered fragments of their limbs being found at considerable distances from the spot. Their names were-Thomas Wanstall, aged 18 years; John Robinson, 45; and James Philpot, 24; the latter has left a wife and child to bewail his fate. In this, as in all former instances of a like nature, no cause can be assigned for the lamentable event, other than the nature of the process in the corning-house, certainly the most dangerous in the manufactory; but in this instance it is the more remarkable, from the machinery having been put in motion by water flowing with a regular current. Had the accident happened 10 or 12 minutes sooner, its consequences would have been more fatal, as Mr. Johnson, the overseer of the works, and five other persons, were in attendance at the building, removing 10 barrels of powder. The house and mill of Mr. Ashenden, at Ore, received a severe shock from the concussion the windows broken; the windows of several other houses at Ore were also partially broken; and the effect was extended to Faversham (although a mile distant), where the windows of several houses were similarly injured. The sound of the explosion was heard in the direction of the wind, which was easterly, for nearly 10 miles. 4. Disturbances at Worcester.— This city has been the scene of a dangerous riot. On the 7th of August a meeting of freemen of Worcester took place at the Hoppole Inn, to consider the best means of removing certain encroachments alleged to have been made on Pitchcroft, on which ground the freemen have a limited right to depasture cattle, &c. A committee was appointed to investigate the subject: on the 25th of August the committee announced that they had unanimously resolved to serve notices on all persons who had encroachments on Pitchcroft, to remove them on or before the 29th of September; but subsequently considering that the removal of the whole of them would be attended with great loss to a charity which derived a considerable income from them, they deemed it most desirable to direct the removal of those buildings and fences only which appeared most obnoxious, and which the parties interested agreed to remove before the 29th of September. Notwithstanding, however, all these endeavours to prevent any breach of the public peace, the expectations of the committee were disappointed. On the morning of Monday last, between eight and nine o'clock, numbers |