S ANNUAL R E Cr I S T E R, 1816. 



of machinery, called gig -rai//»', to 

 the use of wliich the comniittee 

 objects. The persecuted man 

 having given information to tlie 

 magistrates, all the mendiers of 

 the committee, with their books 

 and papers, we«"e taken into cus- 

 tody, and an extensive correspon- 

 dence and combination have been 

 discovered. 



As the servant of Mrs. Shuttle- 

 worth was driving a gig with his 

 mistress in it, down Parliament- 

 street, Nottingham, the drums in 

 attendance near the mess -house 

 began to roll, which so alarmed 

 the horse that he Hew with great 

 rapidity, and the man turning the 

 horse from his course to prevent 

 his running over a woman, ren- 

 dered him more furious ; the ve- 

 hicle was overturned, and the 

 liuly and man dashed with great 

 violence against a newly built 

 house : the man was sliglitly in- 

 jured, but Mrs. .S. died on tlie Wed- 

 nesday njllowing, at her house in 

 Lenton-terrace. 



Cork, Jan. 8. — ^^'e regret much 

 that we are obliged to state the 

 loss of the government packet 

 Greyhound, captain Rich, on her 

 passage from this city to Britoi, 

 with passengers. She was lost on 

 the Ctdver Sands on tlie '29th ult. 

 and all on board have perished. 

 Amongst the passengers, we re- 

 gret to say, were many of our 

 fellow-citizens, and their con- 

 nexions. 



10. The recent success that 

 attended <iischarging guns with- 

 out the application of fire, has 

 proved how important the method 

 might be on service, either at sea 

 or in the field. When the Leipsit 

 brig was wrecked on the bar at 

 Yarmouth, the force of the wind 



was so extreme, and the sea break- 

 ing so furiously over the pier 

 head, that a match could not be 

 kept lighted to explode tlie mortar 

 with ; fortunately lieiit. Woodger 

 had with him tubes primed with 

 a mixture of hyperoxymuriate of 

 potass and sugar-candy ; also, a 

 bottle of sulphuric acid, which, 

 on his ap})lying a small cjuantity 

 of the latter to the former ingre- 

 dients, produced the instanta- 

 neous ignition conseciuent on 

 their coming in contact, other- 

 wise, it is probable the mortar 

 coulii not have been fired, and 

 the crew would llierefore have 

 been lost. 



A German Gazette contains the 

 following article : — " We are in- 

 formed, that the Jesuits are leav- 

 ing Rome by dozens, and by hun- 

 dreds, to repair to the different 

 colleges re-opened for them in 

 Spain, Naples, Sicily, Parma, &c. 

 There have lately departed 300 

 for the first of these dominions. 

 As this order has been sujipressed 

 about fifty years, viz. in Portugal 

 ia 17.5<J ; in Spain, 17 67 ; in Na- 

 ples and Parma, in 17^8, the 

 members of tliis order must either 

 be endowed with an extraordinary 

 longevity, or they must have re- 

 cruited in secret, in order for us 

 to be able to comprehend how, on 

 a sudden, so great a number of 

 Jesuits appear." 



11. Mr. Macdonald, younger, 

 of Rhue, and three servants, hav- 

 ing set out frcmi Arisaig, for 

 Knoydart, by Sea, their boat sud- 

 denly struck on a hidden rock, in 

 a hard gale, and was placed on 

 her beam ends. In this perilous 

 situation, Mr. Macdonald and his 

 men clung to the gun-wale, but 

 perceiving that they could not all, 



without 



