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night. If it is the pleasure of the 

 committee that any set of men 

 shall leave their employ, the order 

 is given, and the mandate is 

 obeyed. The want or low price 

 of work cannot be assigned as a 

 palliation of these excesses, since 

 the prices on the making have ad- 

 vanced from 10 to 20 per cent, 

 within the last six months. The 

 system of terror and combination 

 pursued, is of a nature to prevent 

 the detection and conviction of 

 the offenders, as in the case of 

 ordinary crimes. 



14. A mail arrived from Malta, 

 and the letters by it confirm a re- 

 port, previously in circulation, of 

 the re-appearance of the plague in 

 the isle of Gozo. The following 

 extract of a letter, dated March 

 26, gives some details on this sub- 

 ject : — "A man, a native of 

 Curnji, in Malta, at the com- 

 mencement of the plague in that 

 casal, or village, buried a box in 

 the ground, at some distance from 

 the casal, containing clothes and 

 other articles. A fter he had finished 

 his quarantine, about the end of 

 February, he dug up the box, and 

 carried it to Gozo, where his 

 daughter resided with her hus- 

 band. The man died rather sud- 

 denly, without any appearance of 

 plague, or suspicion. A few days 

 afterwards his daughter died also, 

 and an alarm was spread. The 

 intercourse between the two islands 

 Avas instantly interdicted; the civil 

 government was superseded by 

 the military—a cordon was drawn 

 round the casal — every precaution 

 taken to prevent its spreading, and 

 hitherto the infection is confined 

 to that casal. Up to the 23rd, the 

 deaths were 32, and the attacks 

 47, the plaguf has also njade its 



appearance at Damietta, which the 

 Bashaw has caused to be sur- 

 rounded by the cordon of troops." 



16. A nefarious adulteration of 

 flour was recently detected at 

 Truro. Two millers near that 

 place, of the names of John Rowe 

 and Henry Rundle, were proved 

 to have mixed a kind of pulverised 

 clay used in the manufacture of 

 earthenware, with their flour, to 

 such an extent that two quarts of 

 their adulterated flour weighed as 

 much as three of that whicli was 

 pure. Flour is sold by weight at 

 Truro. The magistrates lamented 

 that the law enabled them only to 

 fine the offenders 10/. each. Forty 

 sacks of this abominable compo- 

 sition were also discovered at Pl}'- 

 moutli, on board a vessel from 

 Truro ; but the ownership not 

 being clearly established, no con- 

 viction could take place. 



19. The Exchange of Ham- 

 burgh, after being so long closed, 

 was re-opened to the inexpressible 

 joy of the inhabitants. Though 

 the merchants must have suffered 

 excessively from French oppres- 

 sion, and especially from the ra- 

 pacity of Davoust, yet the restora- 

 tion of this emporium of foreign 

 commerce must iiave a very bene- 

 ficial effect on the trade and ma- 

 nufactures of the country. The 

 Hamburgh Correspondenlen, sup- 

 pressed during tlie French regime, 

 has also been revived. 



20. The Emperor of Russia and 

 the King of Prussia often enter 

 the Theatre or Opera, at Paris, 

 arm in arm, without a single at- 

 tendant. They pass together or 

 alone from one box to another, 

 during the evening, as they dis- 

 cover company, which they are 

 desirous of joining. Sometimes 



