at n The poor animal ately pursued, and in ive minutes the street led. She succeeded in her way down through Street: she then made her wn Oxford-street, and into ford-place, where she got into Corner next to the duke of St. Lan's house, and remained quiy there until she was taken alive the duke's porter. life and foot guards.-The organ, at th ect From les, a dce very Through some gentlemen who have just arrived from France, we have received the most afficting accounts, as to the state of our countrymen who are prisoners in that country. At Bitche, Valene ciennes, Arras, Give, Verdun, and Sane Louis, which are the principal - depôts, there are no less than 8000 English prisoners, who are treated in a manner not only unworthy of the character of a civilized nation, but inconsistent with the feelings which humanity generally preserves even in a savage state. The pay of the seamen, who compose nearly the whole of these prisoners, has been recently reduced from three halfpence to three farthings per day, which is a sum obviously inadequate to furnish them with any subsistence fit for the food of man. But the agents of the government seem indifferent to the fate of those unhappy beings, or rather perhaps anxious to consign them to the grave. With this view, they are confined in subterraneous cells and other nauseous places, where, particularly at Bitche, Arras, and Sanc Louis, they are dally dying. The treatment of the officers is somewhat less inhuman. They are di vided into classes of ten each, and the whole of each class is rendered responsible for the conduct of each are al...ire pour. av every 3, xxl $0,000 Ce English, , to arrive abim. The Dou Louis to Charles dinand VII.), elected reThe Conde ho has been aterim, is a to the English. der the mar. rived off this and have been der and Bilboa. Yesterday was observed lying Canchester-street, sed, strayed from of Thus if one misis parole, the .d, and can er mitigation of the medium of is very well unl and the terms universally An officer who is imprih several others in a house, pable of affording tolerable acimodation, is told without dise, that for a louis and a half, Te may obtain his removal to another house, where the prisoners are less numerous and the accommodation better, and that for an. other louis he may recover his liberty to walk at large within the boundaries. These bribes go into the pockets of military officers, who have the command of these depôts, and who can discriminate with as much accuracy as a London watchman, what description of persons are good subjects to be mulcted. Such of the detained as are known to possess good property or connections in England, are furnished with every thing for which they can afford to pay, or can hold out the prospect of security. But those who are poor, are involved in the utmost wretchedness. Resources of the Country. In the quarter which ended on the 10th instant, it appears that the produce of the consolidated fund has fully justified the expectations upon which the estimates of the last session were founded; and that the surplus is the largest that has yet been known in any preceding quarter. It amounts to 2,714, 1177. In the quarter ending the 10th of October, 1807, it was 2,310,000l. There appears, therefore, the therefore, the strongest probability, that there will be a considerable excess at the disposal of parliament in April 1809. Such is the condition of the permanent revenue. With respect to the war-taxes, accounts are not less favourable: their whole amount in the last quarter, ended 10th Oc-. tober, is 6,403,705. In the quar ter, ended 10th October, 1807, it was 6,179,0731. The propertytax alone has produced, in the year ended 10th October, 1808, 11,851,0001. 5. A daring attempt was made to commit a burglary in the coun. tess of Morton's house in Parkstreet, by five notorious characters. They were, however, met by stra tagem; the servant maid who had the charge of the house, having given notice to the office at Marlborough-street, of seeing some suspicious-looking persons for several evenings reconnoitring. On this, the officers went and secreted themselves in the house; the servant was sent out about eight o'clock, and soon after, the bell was rung vio lently, and afterwards loud knocking at the door, which satisfied the thieves that nobody was in the house. Hereupon they broke the door open, and went to the room adjoining the closet where the of ficers had concealed themselves, when the latter rushed out upon the robbers. A battle immediately ensued, and in the scuffle the candle was put out. One of the offi. cers had just time to discharge his blunderbuss, and shot one of them in the left arm. Thus rudely attacked, the robbers attempted to make their escape through the back part of the house, by jumping off the first-floor leads into Park-lane; in the attempt one of them broke his leg, and was immediately se. cured. The man that had been shot, shot, ran down South-street, and turning down a mews where there was no thoroughfare, he was also taken the other three escaped. As soon as the man that had been shot was brought in, he dropped down, and fainted from loss of blood. Medical assistance was immediately procured. The above two burglars were so bad next morning, they could not be brought up for examination. One of them, it appears, formerly lived as groom in the earl of Morton's family. Collins, alias Jasper, one of the wounded housebreakers, under. went amputation of his arm on Thursday afternoon. Copenhagen, October 8.-An article from Gottenburgh contains a remarkable trait of swindling, which deserves to be made public, on account of its great boldness and adroitness, and in order to put all merchants on their guard against a similar occurrence. One of the first houses in Gottenburgh re ceived a letter from London, in which they were requested to instantly make the most diligent enquiries to discover a young Eng. lishman, who had just fled from the house of a rich banker, and who they knew had embarked onboard a ship, freighted for Sweden, The description of the young man was given in this letter, and he was declared the author of a rob. bery to the amount of 12,000l. sterling, in bank notes. "If you should find him," said the letter, "as he belongs to a respectable family, confine yourself to the making him restore the plunder; and afterwards have the goodness to give him 300 guineas in gold, which will take him to the Indies, where nothing more will be heard of him."-The Swedish merchant, to whom the letter was addressed, caused a thorough search to be made on all sides. At last, being one day upon the exchange, he perceived a young man whose figure and dress perfectly answered the description. He addressed him, and seeing that he was an Englishman, invited him to follow him. The young man hesitated,―he reddened-even shed tears-in a word, before he had arrived at the mer chant's house, he had confessed all. Arrived in his closet, he threw himself at his feet, begged of him not to be delivered up to justice, and gave up the 12,000l. which were still enclosed in a portfolio, with the seal of the banker. The Swedish merchant made many serious re monstrances to him; but, according to his instructions, gave him 300 guineas, and promised to procure him a favourable opportunity of going to Bengal. He made haste to inform the banker in London, that his 12,000l. was recovered; who replied, that he did not understand what he meant. The bank notes were all forged, but the 300 guineas given to the shar. per were good. 9. A child three years old, whose parents reside in Windmill. street, near the Haymarket, died of the hydrophobia this day. She had been bitten by a rabid animal` nearly a fortnight since, and her parents, having had her bathed in salt water, fondly imagined she was entirely recovered; but the day preceding her death, she was seized with the most violent paroxysms of that disorder, which speedily terminated her existence. 13. On the 7th of October, the two emperors went from Weimar to survey the field of battle at Jena. A temple dedicated to Victory was erected on the hill, where the emperor two years ago passed the night; and around it tents were pitched, in which a sumptuous breakfast was prepared. The two emperors then mounted their horses, and rode over every part of the ground occupied by both armies on the day of the bat tle. They afterwards enjoyed the diversion of the chace, and in the evening returned to Erfurth. 14. This day, at one o'clock, his majesty the emperor Napoleon, and his majesty the emperor Alex. ander, proceeded half way from this place to Weimar, where, with the same solemnity as when they met, the two sovereigns embraced each other, and took a most affectionate adieu. The emperor Alex. ander went forward to Weimar, where he will remain a few days. The emperor Napoleon returned hither, received a visit from the king of Saxony, gave a farewel audience to count Tolstoi, who returns to Prussia, and soon after, an audience to baron Von Vincent, to whom his majesty delivered a letter in answer to the communication of his majesty the emperor of Austria. It is believed that the mission of baron Von Vincent has removed all the distrust which gave rise to the Austrian levies. Soon after this audience, his imperial and royal majesty departed from this place. 15. Notwithstanding that the conferences of their imperial majesties, during their residence here, have been covered with a thick veil, there appears to be no doubt that they had the following objects:1st, The restoration of general for two couriers, one peace VOL, L. French and one Russian, have been dispatched from this place, whose journey could be for no other purpose but to communi. cate to the court of London the desire of both emperors. 2dly, The securing the tranquillity of Germany. Indeed, it appears that the princes of the confederation of the Rhine have received orders to break up their encamped contin gents for their respective garrisons, or the neighbouring cantonments. It is also certain, that through the mediation of the emperor Alexap. der, Prussia has obtained, in the last treaty with France, a considerable reduction of her contri. butions. Some days ago, a girl of the name of Sophia Weaver, about six or seven years of age, who had gone into the fields at Downside, in the parish of Backwell, Somersetshire, to pick blackberries, was missed by her parents. A diligent search was made after her by several of the neighbours, till twelve o'clock at night, without effect. In the course of their search, they found a deep pit, covered over with brambles and long grass, from which, many years since, lead ore had been extracted, to which they were led by the barking of a dog belonging to the father of the child. The grass, it appeared, had recently been trampled upon; but the lateness of the evening deterred those who were in search of her from descending. In the morning, however, they returned, and two men were let down with ropes; when, to their great astonishment, the child was found, standing upright and free from injury, excepting the little hurt she had received in being scratched with the bram bles. She remained 14 hours in the pit. Its depth is upwards of 100 feet. A most distressing accident late ly occurred at Brighton. Mr. and Mrs. Ball and miss C. Henwood, having returned from the fair at Steyning in a whiskey, between six and seven in the evening, were proceeding along the cliff, where some boys were diverting themselves, with letting off rockets, &c., by one of which the horse was so alarmed that he became unmanageable, and dashing furiously forward, brought himself in horrid contact with a brewer's dray. Stunned by the shock, he instantly dropped; the chaise was suddenly overturned, and miss Henwood, a fine young woman about 20 years of age, fell with such violence on the kitchen gratings of a house, as to fracture her skull above and about the temple. She was taken up in a state of insensibility, and no hope of her recovery was entertained. Mrs. Ball was also so seriously injured, that she was confined to her bed; and Mr. Ball, who is a surgeon of that place, received some material hurt. The earl of Lonsdale has signified his intention of enfranchising his numerous copyholders throughout Cumberland and Westmore. land, by which measure he will be enabled to inclose more than 20,000 acres of land in those counties, at this time in a state of commonage. Died lately, Mr. G. W. Marshall, clerk of the three parishes in the town of Thetford. Having occa. sion (in his situation of serjeantmajor of the Thetford volunteers) to assort some damaged cartridges, a spark from a hearth-brush, which bad just been used in sweeping up the ambers of a wood fire, and was procured by his son for the purpose of gathering up some scattered powder, accidentally communicated with a barrel of gunpowder standing near, which exploded, and blew up him and his youngest son a considerable distance. The workshop, in which they were, instantly took fire, and from its communication with the house and adjoining buildings, at first occasioned considerable alarm, but the flames were SOOR subdued, from the ready assistance afforded by all classes of the inhabitants. Mr. Marshall and his boy languished until the following evening. It is not unworthy of record, that this man had, for a considerable period, filled nearly thirty situations in the bo-, rough of Thetford, and his loss is much deplored there. The father was forty, and the son eleven years of age. 17. Fatal Effects of eating Champignons.-This day, an inquest was held before Charles Jemmett, esq. coroner for the county of Surrey, respecting the deaths of Mary Attwood, aged 14, Eliza, aged seven, and Sarah, aged five years, daugh. ters of William Attwood, of Mitcham, print-cutter. Mr. Perrott, surgeon, deposed, that on Tuesday the 11th instant, he was desired to visit William Attwood, his wife, and four daughters, who were supposed to be poisoned, in consequence of their having eaten stewed champignons on the preceding day; that he visited them immediately, when he found each of them suffering under severe vomiting and purging, attended with great pain in the head and violent pain in the bowels; that he administered to them such remedies as appeared to bim best calculated to get |