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Extract of a leUcr from Leith, 

 dated Nov. 10. — " A melancholy 

 accident occurred here yesterday 

 morning. One of the Kirkaldy 

 pinnaces sailed from this port 

 about 1 1 o'clock, and when half 

 way between Leith and its place 

 of destination, the boat shipped a 

 heavy sea, and immediately went 

 down. Every person on boai'd 

 was drowned ; but the exact 

 number has not yet been ascer- 

 tained. Eight hats have been 

 picked up, belonging to the un- 

 fortunate sufferers. There were 

 one or two, if not more, women 

 on board. A dog, belonging to 

 the boat, swam on shore." 



Official Documents. 



Copy of the Note Addressed to 

 ttie Duke of Richelieu by the 

 Plenipotentiaries of the Courts 

 of Austria, Great Britain, 

 Prussia, and Russia, on the 

 Uh of Nov., 1818-. 



The undersigned Ministers 

 of the Cabinets of Austria, 

 Great Britain, Prussia, and Rus- 

 sia, have received orders from 

 their august masters to address 

 to his Excellency the Duke of 

 Richelieu the following commu. 

 nication : — 



" Called upon, by Article 5 of 

 the treaty of the 20th of Nov. 

 1815, to examine, in concert 

 with his Majesty the King of 

 France, whether the military oc- 

 cupation of a part of the French 

 territory, stipulated by the said 

 treaty, might /;ease at the end of 

 the third year, or ought to be 

 prolonged to the end of the fifth, 

 their Majesties the Emperor of 

 Austria, the King of Prussia, and 

 the Emperor of all the Russias, 



have repaired to Aix-la-Chapelle, 

 and have charged their Ministers 

 to assemble there, in conference 

 with the Plenipotentiaries of their 

 Majesties the King of France 

 and the King of Great Britain, in 

 order to proceed to the examina- 

 tion of this important question. 



" In this examination the at- 

 tention of the Ministers and 

 Plenipotentiaries had for its par- 

 ticular object tlie internal situa- 

 tion of France; and had to be 

 also directed to the execution of 

 the engagements contracted by 

 the French Government, with the 

 co-subscribing Powers to the 

 treaty of the 20th of November, 

 1815. 



" The internal state of France 

 having long been the subject of 

 serious deliberations in the cabi- 

 nets, and the plenipotentiaries 

 assembled at Aix-la-Chapelle 

 having mutually communicated 

 the opinions which they had 

 formed in that respect, the august 

 Sovereigns, after having weighed 

 these opinions in their wisdom, 

 have recognised with satisfaction, 

 that the order of things happily 

 established in France, by the res- 

 toration of the legitimate and 

 constitutional monarchy, and the 

 success which has hitherto crown- 

 ed the paternal care of his Most 

 Christian Majesty, fully justify 

 the hope of a progressive conso- 

 lidation of that order of things so 

 essential to the repose and pros- 

 perity of France, and so intimate- 

 ly connected with the great 

 interests of Europe. 



" With regard to the execu- 

 tion of the engagements, the 

 communications which, since the 

 opening of the conferences, th^ 

 Plenipotentiary 



