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An Inquiry into the Influence of Sitna tion on Fulmonary Consumption, and in the Duration of Life. Illustrated by Statistical Reports. By John G. Manford. 8vo. 50. Monthly Ehronicle. FOREIGN EVENTS. FRANCE. The remarkable Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle has already partially manifested itself by a treaty for the evacuation of this country from the Allied Troops. It was signed in due form on the 9th instant, and as it sanctions a most important step, we shall copy its principal articles : Art. 1. The troops composing the Army of Occupation shall be withdrawn from the French territory by the 30th of November next, or sooner if possible. Art. 2. The strong places and fortresses which the said troops now occupy, shall be surrendered to Commissioners named for that purpose by His most Christian Majesty, in the state they were at the time of the occupation, conformably to the ninth article of the Convention concluded in execution of the fifth article of the Treaty of Nov. 20. 1815. Art. 3. The sum destined to provide for the pay, the equipment, and the clothing of the troops of the Army of Occapation, shall be paid, in all cases, till the 30th of Nov. next, on the same footing on which it existed since the 1st of Dec. 1817. Art. 4. All the pecuniary arrangements between France and the Allied Powers having been regulated and settled, the sum remaining to be paid by France to complete the execution of the 4th article of the Treaty of Nov. 1815, is definitively fixed at 265 millions of francs. Art. 5. Of this sum, the amount of 100 millions shall be paid by an inscription of rentes on the great book of the Public Debt of France, bearing interest from the 22d of Sept. 1818, at the rate of the funds on the 5th Oct. 1818. Art. 6. The remaining 165 millions shall be paid in nine monthly instalments, commencing with the 6th of Jan. next, by drafts on the houses of Hope and Co. and Baring, Brothers, and Co. It will now remain for us to watch the influence, which this memorable event may have on the political feelings of the French.-The Paris papers speak of it in a high tone of exultation and eloquence. One of them, personifying France, makes her thus address herself to her king:-" Speak, Prince; what must I do? Here I am; restored to independence, you may expect every thing from my devotedness that can be required from the courage of freemen. Like you, Prince, we detest war; war is the plague of natious, and must soon become the ruin of liberty. The danger is passed, but the lesson it has given remains engraven in the hearts of all Frenchmen. The Charter is your first gift; our independence is the second; the third is in the union of institutions that guarantee the eternal union of constitutional France with her Monarchs. France has been raised high by the glory of arms, but you can raise her still higher by the arts of peace and the science of liberty. "In the same spirit the other papers dwell on an event, which must stand for ever in the records of Europe a monument of the humiliation of France, and of the generous triumph of her allied conqnerors. Whether the repression of the piracy of the Barbary powers-the differences between Spain and the colonies-and those between Spain and Portugal will form a part of the discussions at this illustrious assembly, or not, remains to be seen. We may here observe, by the way, that Messrs. Owen and Clarkson, the two great philanthropists, are VOL. 111. $$ personally interesting themselves at this place, the one for the amelioration of the condition of the continental poor, and the other for the total abolition of that stain upon civilized Europe-the Slave-Trade. Spain. Since our last, a sudden revolution has taken place in the cabinet of Madrid. The three first ministers of the King have been abruptly dismissed from their situations, and hurried to the most distant parts of the country. Great mystery hangs upon the motives to this surprising change, as no new line of policy towards foreign powers appears likely to be adopted. Bad health is assigned as the cause of one of the minister's dismissal; but the disguise is ludicrously flimsey, and puts us in mind of that foolish bird, which, when chased by the sportsman, thrusts its head into a tuft of grass, and thus in the comfortable hope of being snugly concealed, leaves its whole body exposed an easy prey to its pursuer. Nothing of very prominent interest either from the East or West Indies, or America, seems to have reached us during this month. Domestic Occurrences. Dreadful Catastrophe at Nottingham.- tensive set of warehouses belonging to The records of misfortune scarcely will afthe Boat Campany. Hezekiah Riley, the ford a parallel to the shocking scene, captain, and his two men, Jos. Musson, which this month falls to our lot to por- and Benjamin Wheatley, proceeded to get tray; a scene of the most appalling de- the powder out of the boat, on the south scription, which has engaged the atten- side of the building; they landed it on the tion, impressed the feelings, and engross- wharf, and rolled it in the Warehouse.— ed the conversation of the inhabitants of Mr. Riley survived the explosion, and Nottingham far more than any calamity gave evidence before the Coroner's Jury with which it was ever before visited. On on the following day, and thus stated this September 28, a few minutes before part of the transaction :-"That the end of three o'clock, nearly a ton of gunpowder one of the barrels was out, and had been matexploded, and by its desolating effects ted up; that all the barreis were matted, but involved both the men and property within the wood end of one of them had broken its range, in one common ruin. This and let out the gunpowder, as the infordreadful accident took place at the wharf, mant was carrying the barrel from the belonging to the Nottingham Boat Com- boat into the warehouse; that the dowels pany, whence, as many of our readers or peg fastenings, which bound the piece will recollect, Mr. Sadler's balloon ascend- of the end together, had broken, and so ed iu 1813.- A boat, belonging to Mr. loosed the end and let out the gunpowder; Richard Barrows, was brought into the that he never perceived the said end of the bason, under the crane of the wharf, to barrel to be defective, till he removed the anload, which had come from Burton barrel from the boat to the warehouse; that Joyce that morning, and which was laden on first setting down the barrel from the with flag stones, cotton, wool, molasses, boat on the wharf, a considerable quantity sope, and 21 barrels of gunpowder, each of powder, as much as three or four barrel containing about 100lbs. This car- pounds, fell upon the wharf-side between go was wholly taken in at Gainsbro', and the boat and the warehouse door. He does the powder was received from Messrs. not know whether or not any of the pow Flower, of that place, to be conveyed to der fell from the barrel into the boat; the Nottingham, and thence to Derbyshire; barrels lay sideways in the boat; and the but to whom it was consigned we have not barrel in question was delivered from the been able to learn, though it is supposed boat to him, on the wharf, by Benjamin it was intended to be used in some of the Wheatley, and this informant never saw mines. The boat was moored in the bo- any powder fallen from the barrel, until son, partly under the archway of the ex- and except upon the landing-place of the wharf; that this examinant put back into the barrel the powder which so fell out, or as much of it as he could; there might be a couple of ounces or so left amongst the dirt; whether any had fallen into the boat he cannot tell." Riley having thus seen the powder, as he conceived, safely deposited, went away towards the counting house; and Joseph Musson, (originally from Edingley, but lately living in Meadow Plats, in Nottingham, where he had a wife but no children,) went across the wharf, to a boat belonging to Mr. Simpson, in which was Richard Allcock, William Bish, and Joseph Champion, and addressing himself to the former, said, "You've got a fire in your boat, I want a live coke," adding, "Lads, I am going to have a flash," or words to that effect. Musson accordingly took an ignited coal, and carried it a great part of the way between two sticks, but letting it fall, he took it up in his hands, and chucked it from one to the other, proceeding to the spot where the powder had been landed, and in a moment the whole exploded, and precipitated himself and nine others into an eternal world. The unthinking instrument of this destruction was blown across the canal and the hauling path, into the meadows, over what is called Tinker's Leen, on the opposite bank of which, it appears as though his body first touched the ground; one of his legs were left here, while the other mytilated parts of his body were propelled with great violence, along the ground, at least a dozen yards further; but the detail of its effects upon the unhappy victim is truly horrible, and too long for insertion in our contracted limits, In the town of Nottingham, the houses were shaken as if by an earthquake. and people ran out, euquiring one of another, what is the matter? Many supposed that their neighbours' honses or their own back premises had fallen, and by some it was conjectured that the military magazine had exploded. While the affrighted inhabitants were running about the streets, and looking in different directions, an immense volume of smoke coming from the south up Lister-gate, and so over part of the Market-place-up Fink-hill-street, and through Nicholas's Church-yard, denoted the vicinity whence the shock had come, and while hundreds, nay thousands hastened to that part of the town, many of them were arrested by seeing the affrighted women with children in their arms, locking up their doors, in Chesterfield and Fink-hill-streets, and seeking refuge in higher parts of the town, under an expectation of another explosion.Every moment rendered this the less likely, and many persons rushed into the yard. where a scene of devastation presented itself, such as was never before witnessed in Nottingham. Bricks, slatės, tiles, human bodies, huge masses of timber, and all kinds of goods lay strewed upon the ground in frightful disorder. Many women and others were running about as if distracted, anxiously enquiring after the fate of their husbands and relatives, and the agonizing cries which burst from their bosoms on a conviction that their fears were too well founded, and that in some mangled corpse before them they recognized a tender relative, were almost too much to endure. None could behold this scene without the most touching emotions. The fine set of warehouses belonging to the Company was totally destroyǝd, so that not a vestige of the building remains. A gentlemen crossing the meadow at the time has expressed to us the surprize which filled his breast, when on looking that way, he saw the whole building lifted up in the air, to the height of several yards, and then burst asunder into innumerable fragments; the bricks, the beams, the slates, the packages, the bales, and the hogsheads flying in all directions, so that literally there was not one brick left upon another,that was not thrown down. The stone floor of the warehouse where the powder stood has been forced into the ground a considerable depth.Huge pieces of timber and bricks were' propelled several hundred yards, both north, south, and south-east. Most of the buildings on the wharf along the canal, are partially unroofed, and others are more or less injured, Welsh Jury.-At the last Caernarvon Sessions, J. Jones, a drover, wes tried for uttering forged notes, and notwithstanding 31 witnesses established the charge, and Mr. Glover, inspector to the Bank of England, traced 39 notes to have been paid by the prisoner to different individuals in purchasing cattle, the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Next day the same prisoner was indicted for having forged notes in his possession, and the Jury again returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Chief Baron Richard then said : "Prisoner, you have been tried for a very great offence, but the Jury, both yesterday and to day, thought proper to bring in a verdict of Not Guilty! Such a verdict, after such a mass of evidence, must be extremely prejudicial to the public in. terest; and for my own part I cannot con ceive how they can answer it to their own consciences! That you are guilty is as clear as that two and two make four. However, if your conduct in future prove bonest, it may be considered a fortunate circumstance; but, should you ever appear at that bar, I hope you will never meet a Jury so unjust." This was delivered in the most solemn manner, and seemed to have been felt by the whole court. tion of the free blacks and people of colour in the United States, amounting to 200,000, has lately excited the interest and sympathy of many leading persons in that country, and an extensive Society has been formed, of which the nephew of the venerable Washington, now Chief Judge of the Federal Court, is the President. In the Isle of France and Ceylon, the same encouraging hope is held. Of the whole population of Sierna-Leone, a very large proportion consists of liberal captives distributed into various villages, pursuing the occupations of peaceful industry on farms of their own, gradually laying aside their native superstitions, and eager to avail themselves of all the means of instruction within their reach. British Residents in France. It is stated, that the number of English, Irish, and Scots, in France, appears on the police books to amonut to 62,000, every one of whom is registered as to name, residence, &c., and could be arrested in 24 hours. The evacuation of the country by the Army of Occupation will be the signal for the return of a great proportion of this emi-cussion, that the enormities of the slave grant population. It is estimated that their expenditure amounts to £50,000, aday. Manchester and other Disturbances.The commotion excited in this great town and its vicinity by a combination among the spinners and weavers to insist on an advance of wages from their employers, and which for several weeks back has kept its commerce in a state little short of perfect stagnation, has now, we believe, almost subsided. With the exception of a few stragglers, the spinners are once more following their respective employments at the old prices. The major part of the weavers, also, are again at their looms, with advances, of various rates, on the prices lately paid for weaving African Institution. The Directors begin their weekly report on the proceedings of the last year, by laying before the general meeting, (April 9, 1818,) brief view of what has occurred in relation to the Foreign Slave Trade. The first article is upon the necessity of the right of search in time of peace, by which it appears that the Danes and the King of Netherlands have acknowledged this right. In reviewing the state of the French Slave Trades it appears that the benevolent views of the King have not been pro. perly acted upon by individuals, and that a very culpable degree of supiueness has been shewn by that government, in executing the conditions of the treaty solemnly subscribed to: the Portuguese and Spaniards also appear to have been extremely active in this horrid traffic; though the sincerity of the latter in its intended abolition, is argued from their having admitted"the right of search." In America, it appears, that the coudi It was not till after many years of dis trade were fully acknowledged, even in this country, and the abolition laws passed. In the course of 11 years since that time, the iniquity of the traffic has been solemnly declared by all the great powers of Europe; some of them have entered into treaties for its effectual supression: a large part of the African coast has at length been rescued from its ravages: and of the two states which still suffer the trade to be openly carried on, one has pledged itself within the limited period of two years to a complete abolition. The report proceeds to lament that the slave trade had, during the last year, been carried to a great extent, and attended with greater inhumanity than ever. The Spanish flag being the only one which could legally be employed in this trade, the French, American, aud Portuguese (we hope not the English) had largely availed themselves of it; but it is hoped the last treaty with Spain, accompanied with the right of search, will check its course north of the line very considerably, It will be long, however, before the injury done to humanity, and even to commerce. can be repaired. New Coinage.-New silver is in great forwardness at the mint, and will very shortly be issued to the public; it consists chiefly of crown pieces, said to be of a very beautiful dye, and will amount to three mil lions pounds sterling. Most melancholy Occurrence.-With painful feeling we this week record another of those dreadful accidents, which the administering of improper drugs, through mistake, so often occasions. On Tuesday week, the wife of Mr. Kirby, farmer, at Hanging Grimston, near Garraby, having occasion to prepare a very common country |