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eery, and appeals and writs of error 

 before the lords, have reported 

 that the arear of Chancery causes 

 is undiminished, and the appeals 

 to tlie Chancellor from the master 

 of the Roils increased in number. 

 At the end of Hilary term, 1812, 

 109 original causes remained, set 

 down in the Chancellor's paper 

 for hearing, and 39 appeals from 

 the Rolls. Re-hearings remained 

 much the same as before. The bank- 

 ruptcy arrears were diminished. 

 The committee are concerned to 

 find so great a number of causes 

 before the House of Lords, waiting 

 for decision. There remain to be 

 heard — 19 appeals from England; 

 179 ditto Scotland; and 57 

 ditto Ireland: — 11 writs of error 

 from England; 2 ditto Scotland; 

 and G ditto Ireland. 



29. The German papers mention, 

 that the count of Gottorp, who 

 had resided for some time at Her- 

 renhut, wished to become a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Moravian 

 Brethren ; but the directors of the 

 Union would by no means give 



their consent to it, it beinsr con- 



... . . ° 



trary to their mstitution to connect 



themselves with crowned heads, or 

 those who have been such. 



Mr. Sadler, the aeronaut, made 

 his twenty-third ascent at Man- 

 chester, and alighted at Oakwood, 

 about six miles from Sheffield. He 

 made the passage in forty-eight 

 minutes, so that he must have 

 travelled at the amazing rate of a 

 mile in a minute. 



30. A melancholy accident oc- 

 curred on the river Thames on 

 Sunday last. Eleven persons, all 

 married men, engaged a sailing- 

 boat of the wherry kind. The 

 wind which had been very high, 

 becoming more moderate on sea- 



reach, they made fast the main- 

 sail to the side of the boat ; soon 

 after which, a sudden gust of wind 

 upset the wherry, and six of the 

 unfortunate men were drowned. 

 Another account states that nine 

 lost their lives. Most of them 

 have left large ftimilies. 



The number of French commis- 

 sioned officers, and masters of 

 privateers and merchantmen, who 

 have broken their parole in the 

 three last years, ending 5th June, 

 is 692, of whom 242 have been 

 retaken, and 450 escaped. A 

 considerable number of officers 

 have besides been ordered into con- 

 finement, for various otherbreaches 

 of their parole engagements. 



The Abbe Komanelli has visited 

 lately all the catacombs which 

 surround Naples. He likewise 

 entered the subterraneous caverns 

 of thechurch of St. Gennaro; and, 

 assisted by a guide, explored them 

 to the extent of two miles and a 

 half, in the midst of human ashes, 

 broken coffins, skeletons, anil 

 ruins. He beheld on all sides, 

 Greek insciiptions, sculptured 

 upon stone or marble; and paint- 

 ings of Christians who had suffer- 

 ed martyrdom. He also noticed 

 the remains of some altars, the 

 tombs of the first Neapolitan 

 bishops, and one catacomb, the 

 inscriptions on which recorded the 

 ravages of a pestilence in Naples, 

 in 1020. 



The island of Goree, off the 

 African coast, now contains 2,000 

 blacks, who have been rescued 

 from slave ships by our cruisers. 

 A plan has been lately devised for 

 recruiting the West India regi- 

 ments from them ; and some offi- 

 cers are about to be sent out, to 

 cany it into effect, 



JULY. 



