CUMBERLAND PACQUET 12 November 1816 / News Items.

[Barb Baker]

NEWS ITEMS.

 

Vessels laden with grain continue to arrive at Leghorn from the Black Sea.  A depot of 570,000 sacks has already been formed at Leghorn, and a fresh depot has been formed at Pisa.

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The DUKE OF RUTLAND gave the late SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS one thousand two hundred guineas for his fine picture of The Nativity , which was unfortunately destroyed by the late fire at Belvoir Castle.

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The Americans, it is said, are fitting out two vessels for the purpose of exploring the North-west coast of that continent, and making discoveries in the Pacific Ocean.  Their equipment is represented as being on an extensive scale.

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INFORMATION TO MARINERS. - Extract from the log book of the ship William Manning, JOHN MARTIN, master, on her voyage to St. Kitts: -

"On the 13th of June, 1816, at nine a.m. a moderate breeze from the eastward, with studding sails below and aloft on both sides, at lat 16. 33. N. and long. 58. 12. W. steering west, going 6 knots, observed a shoal on the larboard beam, about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, bearing south half a mile distant, in appearance white sand and yellow weed, supposed to be the Longshamps shoal."

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A magistrate at Philadelphia has declined to issue a writ for the apprehension of a deserter from a British merchant vessel, on the plea that a foreign nation is not entitled to such process unless expressly stipulated by treaty.

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The wealth of MR. WATSON TAYLOR, the purchaser of Houghton Hall, is immense.  For that mansion and a large quantity of land round it, he gave the MARQUIS CHOLMONDELEY three hundred and fifty-five thousand pounds, still, however, not purchasing the whole of the MARQUIS's estate in Suffolk.  MR. TAYLOR, as we hear, is bound by the will of his ancestor, to expend seven hundred thousand pounds in landed estates; and, besides the income which may arise from them, he has ninety-five thousand pounds a year.

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Another fatal accident happened to an American steam boat at Charleston, on the 15h of September.  The boiler burst, by which five persons were killed and three dangerously wounded.

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Cambridge, Nov. 1 - The Seatonian prize is this year adjudged to the REV. G. H. TERROT, M.A. of Trinity College, for his poem on "Hezekiah and Sennacherib."

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