46 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Mak. 



mind any erroneous impression 

 which unexplained and unauthen- 

 ticated reports may naturally 

 tend to create, 



Resolved, That the preceding 

 statement \)e signed by the chair- 

 man, and published in the. morn- 

 ing and evening papers. 



Richard Twining, Jun. 

 Chairman. 



Resolved, That the thanks of 

 this meeting be given to the 

 chairman. 



Paris. — Chamber of Peers. 

 Bulletm of ihe Yltli. — A commu- 

 nication was made to the Cham- 

 ber in the name of the Govern- 

 ment, by the Minister of the In- 

 terior, the object of which was to 

 submit a project of law adopted 

 by the Chamber of Deputies, 

 purporting that no person shall 

 m future be elected a member of 

 that Chamber, unless at the time 

 of his election he answers all the 

 conditions of eligibility decreed 

 by the charter. The law was 

 immediately referred to the 

 bureaux, the discussion was 

 opened afterwards in the Cham- 

 ber, and the project having met 

 with no opposition, was voted 

 unanimously in the same sitting. 

 The Chamber adjourned to the 

 21st inst. 



17. Greenoch. — The brig Lean- 

 der. Fish, 236 tons per register, 

 of and for Shields, from London, 

 in ballast, being driven northward 

 by the late furious gales, found 

 himself embayed in the dreadful 

 storm from S. E. in the night 

 between the 4th and 5th inst. and 

 soon after struck, about 1 a. in., 

 an outer rock on that dreadful 

 part of the coast at Longside, 

 near Slains- castle. The vessel 

 being thereby thrown on her beam 



ends, fell with her gunwale under 

 a shelving rock on the main land, 

 on which, at this awful moment, 

 two of the crew jumped, and 

 had with difficulty only just 

 secured themselves, when looking 

 round, they found their unfor- 

 tunate vessel, with all left on 

 board, eight men and a young 

 woman, passengers, had totally 

 disappeared. Left in this hope- 

 less situation, the survivors, An- 

 drew George and James Durward, 

 (young men, and the only two 

 on board unmarried ) clung to the 

 rock, exposed to all the horrors 

 of that most tempestuous and 

 dreadful night, in vain expecting 

 the dawning day to bring the 

 prospect of their deliverance ; for 

 on the return of day-light they 

 found themselves under an im- 

 pending precipice of prodigious 

 height, from which there was 

 hardly a possibility of their being 

 seen from the land, or their es- 

 caping from their perilous situa- 

 tion but by the ocean, into which, 

 after passing the day in a state of 

 despair not to be expressed, the 

 poor seamen, although much ex- 

 hausted, threw themselves; and 

 swimming round a point, got to 

 an accessible point of the steep 

 clift', and with the greatest ex- 

 ertion gained the summit in the 

 evening, relating the melancholy 

 particulars of the disaster to some 

 fishermen, who could hardly 

 believe the sorrowful tale, until 

 confirmed by part of the wreck 

 discovered afterwards. 



GAZETTE OF cARACCAS, Tues- 

 day, March 18. 



Official Report from his Excel- 

 lency the General -i?!- Chief of 

 the Expeditionary Army, to tne 



Captain 



