98 
Smyrna, fired many signals of 
distress, during the night and in 
the morning, but nobody could 
afford any assistance, the waves 
running mountains high. It was 
dreadful to see how the people on 
board implored assistance ; there 
were 30 passengers with women 
and children ; among them was a 
brother of general Bianchi, a 
French major of horse, the French 
consul at Tripoli, &c. The mer- 
chant to whom the vessel was con- 
signed, offered in vain 2,000 ducats 
to save but the people. At last 
40 brave sailors of his majesty’s 
frigate the Christina, ventured 
their lives, and were fortunate 
enough, after an hour’s exertion, 
to bring the ship into the harbour. 
_ 30.—A_ sheriff’s officer of Li- 
verpool, having a writ to serve 
upon a man in the neighbourhood 
of Knowsley, who was enderstood 
to be a very daring and resolute 
fellow, and likely to make consi- 
derable resistance, went thither, 
accompanied by a young man of 
the name of Shuttleworth, They 
took a gun With them, merely ‘as 
we have been informed, to amuse 
themselves with shooting birds 
in the way, and they did not se- 
cure the object of their search 
without, a severe ‘struggle, in 
which IGE ED etek tg Ps 
ceived many heavy blows. Hav- 
ing, at length obtained ‘possession 
of the person of ‘their prisoner, 
the sherift’s ‘officer and his ‘com- 
panion threatened him, that if he 
should attempt to escape they 
would certainly shoot him ; and 
at the same time Shuttleworth, 
as a Confirmation of the reality of 
their intention, put the ramrod 
into the ‘Sun ‘to “sHow ‘the ‘han 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
that the piece was charged. The 
prisoner, nevertheless, took to 
his heels immediately, and Shut- 
tleworth, in his haste to put his 
threat in execution, instantly le= 
velled his gun, without extract- 
ing the ramrod, and fired; the 
charge of the gun, together with 
the ramrod, entered the body of 
the unfortunate prisoner, who 
turned round, and attempted again 
to strike his assailants, but fell, 
and in a short time expired. The 
verdict of the Coroner’s inquest 
was Wilful Murder. 
DECEMBER. 
1.—From a recent survey of the 
houses in the town of Liverpool, 
made for the purpose of compil- 
ing a new Directory, it appears 
that ‘a very great diminution in 
the number of empty houses has 
taken place since the last ‘survey 
in 1813. The comparative num- 
bers are as follow :— 
The empty houses in Li- 
verpool and its environs 
amountedin1813 (reckon-¢€ 1422 
ing front houses only), toJ* ~ 
According to tle survey « 
in 1815, they are . . : 73h 
_ More front hoises' océt- 
pied in 1815 than 1813 .. 691 
This number, on the usual scale 
of 54'persons toa house, adds to 
the population 3,800 persons, ex- 
clusive of the back housés, which 
have increased in ‘nidre than ‘af_ 
_ equal proportion. 
A German paper states the fol+ 
lowing, as the value of the exports 
from Riga in the present yéar :— 
To England, ‘11j625,292 rithles> 
