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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [April. 



conceived opinion, is to examine 

 into all tlie local circumstances; 

 their way of life ; their conduct ; 

 and take care of them, as an im- 

 partial Governor who studies the 

 good of those who are confided to 

 his care. The fate Of these set- 

 tlers must be permanently secuied : 

 they must feel that they are under 

 the protection of the laws : and 

 then, but not before, liis Imperial 

 Majesty says, " We may expect 

 " from them attachment and love 

 " to the magisti'ates." But, it is 

 added, if these sectaries " seek to 

 " draw away others from the esta- 

 " blished chuieh, and to injure 

 " them with tlieir own religious 

 '• notions, then the energy of the 

 " law must be exerted aiiaiii«^t 

 " euch violators of it, and such 

 * ■ illegal conduct must be checked." 

 But even then it is not allowable, 

 that, on account of one or more 

 criminals who are convicted of a 

 violation of the law, the wliole co- 

 lony, which lias had no shaie in it, 

 siiould be made responsible. Such 

 complaints and accusations require 

 a careful examination, from whom 

 the complaint comes, and what 

 may be the motives of it. Thus 

 the two Duchoboozl named in your 

 representation, who after tlieir re- 

 turn to the true church, accused 

 tills society of various transgres- 

 sions, and deposed to their blame- 

 able way of life, may have done 

 this out of malice or revenge : 

 perhaps they weie excluded from 

 the society for crimes, or deserted 

 it fnmi a contentious i.nd inimical 

 spirit. Such mere complaints, 

 vvliicb deserve altogether no atten- 

 tion, must never indupe the adop- 

 tion of severe measures, which may 

 be followed by the arrest, impri- 

 suument^ and torture, vf those 



who are not yet convicted of any 

 bad intention, or any crime." 



APRIL. 



7. Friday morning as the steam- 

 packet fiom Norwich to Yarmouth 

 was pusiiiug from its moorings, 

 the vessel blew up ; eight persons 

 were killed ; seven had almost 

 eveiy limb broken; the whole 

 were thrown inditferent directions, 

 and to a considerable distance. Of 

 the seven taken to the hospital, 

 there is not the least cliance of two 

 living. 



fFroin the Noncicli Paper.) — - 

 One of those unfortunate accidents 

 which attend even the best arrang- 

 ed establisliments, that cairy with 

 I hem a certain, thc^ugh remote, 

 danger, occurred here yesterday 

 morning; and we state the exten- 

 sive calamity with much acute 

 j)ain. The horrible spectacle of 

 eight mangled carcasses is yet be- 

 fore our eyes. These are the mi- 

 serable victims of the bursting of 

 the steam-boiler in the packet 

 which sails from the Foundiy 

 bridge. Just after the boat had 

 started, it had not gone twenty 

 yards when the tremendous explo- 

 sion took place. The vessel was 

 rent to atoms, so that little re- 

 mains entire, from the stern to 

 the engine-room, except the keel 

 and the flooring. Twenty-two 

 passengers appear to have been 

 on board. The bodies of eight are 

 fotind, five men and three women; 

 one child yet missing ; and si.x 

 have been sent to the hospital in a 

 wounded state : si.x escaped un- 

 hurt. Of these last, one man 

 was standing over the boiler when 

 the explosion happened. It is 



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