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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



[Dec. 



each vessel. They will also be 

 provided with every append.nge 

 used by tlie Greenland ships ; 

 and some experienced men in that 

 service are to go in the vessels. 



The QuGtidienrie contains the fol- 

 lowing paragraj)h : — 



'The Archdukes John and Lewis 

 hare given permission to a German 

 journalist to publish some extracts 

 from a journal which they kept 

 during their stay in England. 

 These piinces examined with care 

 the English manufactui'es and 

 agriculture : they give also some 

 details as to the style of living in 

 the upper classes, which are not 

 within the reach of all travellers. 

 The magnificent interior of the 

 country-seats, the taste of the fur- 

 niture, the amiable and decorous 

 freedom of their conversations, 

 the interest which the women ex- 

 cite, as much by their cultivated 

 minds as by their charms — these 

 arc the points which struck these 

 illustrious travellers during their 

 aliodc in the country. It is there, 

 say they, that you should study the 

 high society of England, and even 

 the character of all its gentlemen. 

 London is merely a large inn ; it 

 is at his country-house that the 

 Englishman is hospitable and ami- 

 able. 'Jlie Archdukes describe the 

 manner of dining at the Marquis 

 of Anglesea's. It presents a no- 

 velty for our gourmands ; after 

 soup they took cold punch. A 

 celebrated agriculturist, the Che- 

 valier Sebright, had the Princes 

 for his guests, and showed them 

 his numerous .nachines. Miss 

 Sebright is a xavante (a scientific 

 lady) ; she made an experiment 

 in galvanism before the Arch- 

 dukes, with a little galvanic bat- 

 tery. The Chevalier Sebright 



grows such enormous turnips, 

 that one day he sent to his sister 

 19 partridges in the hollow of one 

 of these roots." 



The following article, from the 

 London Gazette of July 1.5, was 

 accidentally omitted in its proper 

 division of our Chronicle : — 



By His Royal Highness the Prince 

 of Wales, Regent of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, in the name and on 

 the behalf of his Majesty, 



A PROCLAMATION. 



George, P.R. 

 Whereas it has been represented 

 unto Us, that divers misguided 

 persons in some of the midland 

 counties of England, have of late 

 years conmaitted various acts of 

 outrage, in breaking and destroy- 

 ing frames used in making stock- 

 ings, lace, and other articles in the 

 frame- worked-knittcd manufac- 

 tory; and that, among other in- 

 stances of such outrages, a most 

 heinous one was committed on the 

 night of the 28th day of June last 

 at Loughborough, when a large 

 number of such flames was broken, 

 and an attempt was made to nuir- 

 der one of the persons intrusted 

 with tlic care of them. And whereas 

 it hath been farther represented 

 unto Us, that such outrages have 

 for the most part been prompted 

 by a desire, on the [)art of the jour- 

 neymen emj)loyed in the said ma- 

 nufactory, to dictate to their mas- 

 ters the terms on which the manu- 

 factory should be carried on, or 

 the pjiccs at which work should 

 be done, wliich dictation is utterly 

 inconsistent with the principles of 

 justice, and destructive of the free- 

 dom and prosperity of trade. And 



whereas 



