12 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Jan. 



Royal Highness the Prince 



Regent. Edinburgh Courant, 



Jan. 17. 



20. Berlin. — His Majesty has 

 addressed the following letter to 

 M. Luther, Inspector of Taxes 

 at Schcenbeck, near Magdeburg, 

 and descendant, in the eighth 

 degree, from Jacob, the brother 

 of Martin Luther: — 



" In consequence of the request 

 addressed to me on the 24'thof last 

 October, I inform the Inspector 

 of Taxes, Luther, that, in order 

 to honour the memory of Dr. 

 Martin Luther, in his descend- 

 ants, I have ordered that the 

 eldest of the two sons of the 

 petitioner shall be received, next 

 Easter into the establishment for 

 educating orphans at Halle ; and, 

 to provide for all necessary ex- 

 penses, I have assigned him an- 

 nually an additional aid of 70 

 crowns. I have also assigned to 

 the Inspector Luther, reckoning 

 from the 1st of January, an aug- 

 mentation of salary of ] 6 croM'ns 

 annually ; and I have given the 

 necessary oi'ders upon these sub- 

 jects to the Ministers of the 

 Treasury and Finances. 



"Frederick William. 

 " Potsdam, Jan. 1818." 



Manchester, Jan. 27. 

 The following is the copy of 

 the letter sent from the Secretary 

 of State's Office to W. D. Evans, 

 esq. of the Police-office, Man- 

 chester : — 



(copy.) 



Sir ; — Lord Sidmouth being 

 informed that several of the 

 persons. Mho, after being appre- 

 hended and detained by his Lord- 

 ship's warrants on charges of high 

 treason, having been lately dis- 



charged, upon entering into re- 

 cognizances to appear on the first 

 day of next term (the 23rd inst. ) 

 in the Court of King's-bench, are 

 under some anxiety for the fulfil- 

 ment of their recognizances, is 

 desirous of letting the several 

 persons so circumstanced know, 

 that, as nothing has appeared 

 against them in their conduct 

 since their discharge, their attend- 

 ance in the Court of King's- 

 bench will be dispensed with ; 

 and his Lordship has directed me 

 to request, that, as the persons 

 named in the margin reside in 

 your immediate neighbourhood, 

 you will have the goodness, either 

 through a constable or any other 

 medium more convenient to your- 

 self, to communicate to those 

 persons, that they need not ap- 

 pear in pursuance of their recog- 

 nizances in the eiisuing terra ; 

 and his Lordship hopes that their 

 future conduct will never render 

 it necessary to call them into a . 

 Court of Justice. — I have the 

 honour to be. Sir, your most 

 obedient humble servant, 



H. HOBHOUSE. 



TV. D. Evans, esq. 

 Police-office, Manchester. 



The Dear Hunt. — (From an 

 American paper.) — On the 29th 

 of Januai'y, a bear was caught, 

 and taken from its den, in War- 

 wick Mountain, after a vigilant 

 search of eight days, by a party 

 of huntsmen from Warwick. Tiie 

 bear had taken shelter in a decli- 

 vity of rocks of about forty feet 

 deep. Attempts were first made 

 to get him out by smoking, &c. 

 but without effect. Dogs were 

 then sent into the hole, but they 

 either retreated at his terrific 

 aspect, or were destroyed by his 



grasp 



