CHRONICLE. 5 
‘The latter arrived in town last 
night, and relates that they left 
Derry on ‘Saturday evening, and 
their sails being shivered.to pieces 
in a dreadful storm, the vessel 
struck about five o’clock, when the 
master, one of the hands, and 
some of the passengers, took to 
the boat, but-were drowned; that 
:he.and the mate stuck in the rig- 
ging, and, when day dawned, 
though a great number of people 
were collected on the shore, from 
the violence of the storm, no as- 
sistance could be given them, 
There was then on the deck aman, 
holding his wife in his arms; a 
jvoman surrounded by five chil- 
dren, on her way to her husband 
in Glasgow ; another woman and 
child, a genteel looking women, 
who told him she was a Quarter- 
master-serjeant’s wife, and had 
lived some time in Hamilton; and 
a Mrs. Carrick, the only person 
whose name he knew, with her 
child. The tide making about-11 
o'clock, they were all swept off 
the wreck, and though some 
reached the shore alive, they were 
all so benumbed with cold, that 
they soon expired. Fifteen of the 
bodies are already come ashore, 
‘but the corpse of the master is 
still missing. 
Bank of England Accounts.— 
The average amount of public ba- 
lances in the hands of the bank, 
between the lstof February, 1814, 
and the 15th of January, 1815, 
‘both inclusive, upon accounts 
opened atthe Bank,was 26] , 162/.; 
and the amount of the same (ex- 
clusive of the Exchequer account) 
between the Ist of February, 
1814, and the 15th of January, 
1815, both days inclusive, upon 
accounts opened at the bank, pre- 
vious to the'28th. of March, 1800, 
was 4,227,025/. The aggregate 
amount of bank notes (including 
1,200,220/. in bank post bills) in 
circulation on the 15th-of May, 
was 26,473,8601. The average 
amount Of unclaimed dividends 
in the hands of the Bank for 
twelve months, up to the Ist of 
January, was 779,7941., making 
the gross amount 9,357,533. 
The amount .of unclaimed divi- 
dends.in the hands of the bank. on 
the Ist of January, 1815, was 
1,297,7421., of which 876,739/. 
has been.advanced to Government 
per 31 and 48 Geo. 3, leaving 
a remainder in the Bank of 
421,0031. 
Ten Shilling Notes.—On the 
15th inst. Mr. Morwent Baron, of 
Coleford, in ‘the county of Glo- 
cester, was convicted before E. 
Davies, esq. in the mitigated pe- 
nalty of 5/. for uttering and ne- 
gociating a certain undertaking 
in writing for the payment of a 
smaller sum than twenty shillings. 
This, it is believed, was the first 
conviction under the act; but se- 
veral others have since taken 
place; and it appearing to be the 
intention of Government to put a 
total stop to the circulation of all 
notes or cheques of the above de- 
scription, we subjoin the follow- 
ing clauses from the Act, as a 
caution to the public in general:— 
By the 15th Geo. 3, c. 51, “ All 
promissory or other notes, bills 
of exchange, draughts, or under- 
takings in writing, being nego- 
tiable and transferable, for the 
payment of any sum or sums of 
money less than twenty shillings 
in the whole, shall be void; and 
if any person shall publish or ut- 
ter any such notes, &c. for a less 
