100 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



brought over 5^S,i00 



Auxiliaries, &c. &c. 



Infantry of the 

 line, 162 bat- 

 talions - 97,200 



Light infantry, 7 



battalions - 4,200 



Cavalry, 27 squa- 

 drons - 5,400 



106,800 



Exclusive of the 



troops in the 



artillery and 



engineer de- 

 partments, of 



which there are 



French, 501 



companies, 



which taken at 



100 men each 50,100 

 In the auxiliaries, 



19 companies 1,900 



635,200 



52,000 



Men 687,200 

 A lamentable accident happen- 

 ed in the small town of Villemur, 

 near Toulouse. A house, which 

 was re-building, suddenly fell, 

 and in its fall pulled down ano- 

 ther. A number of persons of dif- 

 ferent ages, and both sexes, were 

 buried in the ruins. By great ex- 

 ertions and labour, twenty-three 

 persons were dug out, of whom 

 three were dead, killed at the in- 

 stant of the fall, another died two 

 days afterwards, and all the rest 

 were more or less hurt. The landlord 

 of one of the houres which fell 

 was found in the cellar, with half 

 his body buried in the ruins, but 

 his head was secured by pieces of 

 wood, which, crossing each other 



as they fell, formed a kind of arch 

 over him. In this situation he re- 

 mained five hours, and heard the 

 dying groans of a girl of sixteen, 

 who expired over his head, crush- 

 ed to death between the timbers, 

 which, by the particular manner 

 in which they fell, had saved his 

 life. A mother, with a child in 

 her arms, was killed by a blow 

 from one of the falling beams, and 

 her child fell at her feet. The 

 cries of the little infant were heard, 

 and it was at length got out, no 

 otherwise hurt than by a few 

 scratches on the face. 



All the money on board the 

 Abergavenny, lost some years ago 

 near Weymouth, to the amount of 

 60,000/. in dollars, has been re- 

 covered by means of the diving- 

 bell. The vessel has been since 

 blown up, under water, so as to 

 prevent the wreck from forming a 

 dangerous shoal. 



3. Government, in order to check 

 the escape of French prisoners, as 

 also the guinea export and smug- 

 gling system, gave orders, a few 

 days since, for the seizure of all 

 gallies of a certain description, 

 carrying eight oars ; seventeen 

 were seized at Deal, ten at Folke- 

 stone, Sandgate, &c. They are a 

 beautiful description of boats, 

 about forty feet long, painted on 

 the outside so as to elude the sight 

 at sea in the night, so lightly con- 

 structed that nothing can catch 

 them, and in calm weather they 

 can row over to the French shore 

 in two hours. 



A memorial from some mer- 

 chants interested in the trade of 

 New South Wales, praying for 

 leave to import direct fromthencea 

 considerable quantity of mother- 

 of-pearl, and pearl shells, the pro- 

 duce 



