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cargo for Halifax, when the 

 master went on shore to bid fare- 

 well to his friends, and convey to 

 the ship two of the last passen- 

 gers. In going ont of the harbour, 

 it was found difficult to row the 

 boat, and recourse was had to a 

 sail. The night was breezy, and 

 the boat wanted ballast j and, it is 

 supposed, that it was overset in 

 tacking. No one either on shore 

 or in the brig observed the catas- 

 trophe : and it wa.s far in the 

 forenoon of Sunday before it was 

 known. There were on board, be- 

 side Captain Miller, two seamen, 

 and a member of the Society of 

 Friends from Belfast, with his 

 daughter, who was going out to 

 join her husband in America. It 

 is melancholy to think that they 

 all perished . The body of the lady 

 lias been cast on shore. — Edinburgh 

 Coiirant. 



G. Stutgard. — The town of 

 Welzheim had, in an address to 

 the king, of the 17 th June, ac- 

 cepted the plan of the constitution. 

 The same has now been done by 

 hi villages and hamlets of that 

 ^vhole district. Sixteen deputies, 

 chiefly of the cla-ss of peasant*;, 

 presented the address to the king, 

 on Sunday, the 3d instant. Their 

 spokesman, the worthy high fo- 

 rester, Faber, made a speech, to 

 which his Majesty returned a 

 «iost gracious answer ; and after • 

 '\Tnrds con versed in the most affable 

 manner with these country people, 

 and listened to all their wishes. 

 His Majesty gave orders to enter- 

 tain them well at the royal ex- 

 ])ense, and, after they had had an 

 tiudience of the queen, who made 

 many inquiries of them concerning 

 ■their economy, they returned home 

 vith ii tliousund wishes for their 



Majesties welfare. In their ad- 

 dress they say, among other 

 things — " The language of your 

 Majesty is that of a well-meaning 

 brave king ; publicity is the foun- 

 dation of the constitution offered 

 by your Majesty ; and this is our 

 security, that it is your Majesty's 

 will to reign over a free people. 



" We are confident that a con- 

 stitution, founded on the force of 

 the upright sentiments of the peo- 

 ple, will i)rotect our posterity 

 against the encroachments of ill- 

 dis})osed sovereigns . better than 

 the old constitution could do, 

 whose important guarantee is 

 hourly proclaimed to us by a bell 

 from our chief town, Welzheim, 

 upon which !Madam Von Wurben, 

 to whom the place was given as a 

 present, calls herself " Chief Go- 

 verness of the Country, and Lady 

 President of the Privy Council," 

 and this at a time when the old 

 constitution was at its fidl vigour I 

 (^ladam V^on 'Wurben was mis- 

 tress to one of the Dukes of Wur- 

 temberg.) May it please your 

 Majesty, we agree with joyful 

 hearts to the royal plan of a con- 

 stitution, with the modifications 

 given in the rescript of the 26th 

 ]\T;!y, and \%ith God's will, we 

 shall not be the last of the country 

 people who, with entire confi- 

 dence, offer their hands to make 

 an agreement with their upright 

 king." — Allgemeine Zcitung, A'g. 



7- Isle of Mail. — On Thursday 

 a new code of criminal laws, an 

 act for regulating the sale of 

 herrings, and also an act for abo- 

 lishing all paper money for the 

 payment of sums under 20s., 

 having previously received the 

 royal assent^ were proclaimed ac- 

 cording 



