50 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Mak. 



The American papers inform 

 us of the dreadful fact of the 

 extensive powder-mills at Brandy- 

 wine, Delaware, belonging to M. 

 Dupont Nemours (who fled from 

 France with Marshal Grouchy), 

 having blown up on the 19th of 

 March, and that about 30 persons 

 were killed and 10 wounded. 

 Marshal Grouchy exerted himself 

 greatly, but in vain, to save the 

 house of his friend Dupont. The 

 windows, floors, and roof were 

 blown off. The only article 

 saved was a portrait of Napoleon 

 Buonapartg. 



Russian Consulate. 



(circular) March 25. 



Tlie undersigned Russian Con- 

 sul General has just now been 

 officially informed, that, although 

 the estabhshment of a Port Franc 

 (free port) at Odessa was made 

 known to all Europe 10 months 

 ago, the epoch, however, of the 

 opening of that port is still un* 

 certain. The miraense works 

 required by the forming of the 

 moat, and the barriers which are 

 to surround the city at the 

 distance of 4-, 5, and 6 versts, do 

 not permit the hope that the Port 

 Franc can be opened before the 

 month of September next. It 

 being possible that many mer- 

 chants, thinking that the Port 

 Franc is already open, may send 

 to Odessa goods prohibited, and 

 thus expose themselves to a con- 

 siderable loss, or at least to the 

 prejudicial delays of selling them; 

 in order to avoid all such incon- 

 veniences, the vmdersigned is 

 authorized to advertise, to the 

 tommercial public, that care will 

 be taketi in giving due notice of 



the fixed epoch when the Port 

 Franc will be opened. 

 (Signed) 

 A. De Dubatchefsky. 



(circular) 

 London, March 25, 1818. 



The undersigned Russian Con- 

 sul- General, in order to fulfil the 

 commands of his government, 

 hereby makes known to the 

 British public, and to all person 

 or persons to whom it may 

 concern, — 



That notwithstanding the qua* 

 rantine regulations of the 25th of 

 May, 1816, have been published 

 in this kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, some foreign vessels, 

 bound to Russian ports, both in 

 the Baltic and in the White Sea, 

 have appeared without having 

 brought the necessary certificates 

 from Elsinore, of their being free 

 from epidemical disorder. The 

 positive news of Algerine corsairs 

 having the plague on board, 

 stopping and visiting all vessels 

 they meet with, has induced the 

 Imperial Government, with the 

 supreme approbation of his Im- 

 perial Majesty the Emperor, to 

 adopt additional measures for 

 preserving the empire from any 

 kind of infectious disorders. 



1st. That with respect to the 

 vessels coming to the Russian 

 poi'ts without being furnished 

 with certificates, required by the 

 regulation of the 25th May, 1816, 

 will be proceeded with in the 

 strictest conformity to the same, 

 whereof the foreign merchants 

 will be informed by the Imperial 

 Ambassadors and Consuls. 



2nd. That the Marine Minister 

 has to observe that all ships or 

 vessels coming into the Baltic, 



and 



