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Quantity of WHEAT and WHEAT FLOUR imported into and exported from Great Britain in the year 1820.

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Average Prices for England and Wales, of the Quantities of Foreign Corn imported into Great Britain, in the year 1820.

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Quantities of GRAIN of all kinds warehoused in Great Britain from 5th of April 1820, to 5th January 1821.

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Quarterly Prices by which the admission of WHEAT, BARLEY, and OATS, from foreign parts, for home consumption in Great Britain, is regulated, by 55 Geo. 3, cap. 26, from 15th May 1820.

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BILLS OF MORTALITY from December 12, 1820, to December 11, 1821.

Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls of London, 1,105-Buried, 1,096.
Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls, 5,445-Buried, 3,606.
Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey, 14,550-Baried, 9,605.
Christened in the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster, 4,129-Buried, 4,150,

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Buried Males, 9,379-Females, 9,072-In all 18,458.

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Decrease in the Burials this year, 897.

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There have been executed in London and the County of Surrey, 34; of which number 18 only have been reported to be buried within the

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Statement of the Number of Persons committed to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, in the year 1821, and how they have been disposed of.

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Do, to the House of Correction for the City of London,
pursuant to their sentence

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Do. on board two Female Convict Ships bound to New
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Do. to the House of Correction, having had their sentence
of transportation mitigated, on condition of being impri-
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Discharged, having had his Majesty's free pardon
Do. being acquitted at the Old Bailey Sessions

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One in six of both Males and Females have been in the Gaol before, and more than two-thirds of the whole number could read, and three-fifths of them could write also.

NARRATIVES.

MASSACRE AT MANILLA.

At Manilla, on the 9th day of October 1820, the Indians, in a large body, excited by the Spaniards, commenced the massacre and plunder of all the foreigners they could lay their hands on, and continued the bloody business until the afternoon of the 11th. The following account is written by an American gentleman, Mr. Prince, who was an eyewitness to the massacre, and narrowly escaped death. The French are supposed to have lost 212,000 dollars: and the Chinese, who were assassinated to the number of 85, a much more considerable sum. Mr. Prince's Account of the Massacre at Manilla, on the 9th October, 1820.

The attack commenced about 11 a. m. on Mr. Godfroi, a surgeon, in the street of Santa Cruz : they cut and mangled him in a shocking manner, and left him for dead; he was taken to the guard-house, and, on his coming to his senses, his hands were tied behind him by the Spanish soldiers, and he was carried into the corregidor's prison, where he remained 24 hours, without any assistance; he was then sent to the hospital, and I am happy to say, that when I left he was recovering fast. The report of this act of atrocity spread fast, but

it was rumoured that I had been the sufferer. Captain Nicholls, on hearing it, immediately started to my assistance, leaving a note to Warrington and Wilson, informing them of the event, and requesting them to follow. This note was shortly after received by captain Warrington; he and Mr. Wilson proceeded towards the quarter of St. Miguel, where I resided. At the apothecary's shop, in the Escalta, they met Mr. Stewart, American consul, and captain Balston, of the English country ship Edward Strettel, who informed them that Nicholls had ascertained it was Godfroi who was wounded, and that he had met Godfroi the nanot me, as he had supposed; and turalist, and that both of them had gone to the palace to demand protection and assistance from the governor.

Godfroi and Nicholls shortly after joined them. Nicholls said, the only satisfaction they could get from the governor was "that he would consider of it.” The whole of the company (Stewart and Balston excepted) now started to visit the wounded Godfroi. Warrington was called back by these two, and advised not to proceed; but he jumped into his carriage, and ordered the coachman to drive and overtake his companions. The mob at this time was large, and was growing so out

rageous, that he was unable to come up with them: several attempts were made to pull him from his carriage, his coachman became frightened, turned the carriage, and drove back as far as the apothecary's. Here they rejoined Balston and Stewart. The mob was now approaching towards them, and they could distinctly see that Wilson, Nicholls, and Godfroi, were prisoners. To provide for their own safety was all they could do. Warrington and Balston entered the house occupied by some Persian merchants, and Stewart the house of a Spaniard; the two former were at first concealed in a back room, which they had hardly entered, when the Parsees exclaimed, "Poor Wilson is murdered, Nicholls is stabbed in the back, and the Frenchman they are cutting to pieces, and dragging about like a dog."

An attack instantly commenced on the house of Mr. Guillot, which was exactly opposite that of the Parsees poor Guillot was first fired at by a serjeant of the regular army, and afterwards literally cut to pieces; and an Armenian, Mr. Baptiste (who had been 20 years in this country, where he had married), escaped badly wounded. The house was stripped and plundered. The Parsees, expecting the attack now on their side of the street, insisted upon Warrington and Balston's descending into the common sewer, where they remained five hours, and afterwards (say the next day, at 10 a. m.) escaped into the city in a close carriage, with a guard of dragoons.

The hotel for foreigners, kept by Bernard Hautelman, a Ger

man, who held a commission as lieutenant in the Spanish marine, was the next place they attacked. The mob, which had greatly increased, now filled the street in front of the house; Hautelman went to the door in full uniform, thinking they would respect him, as a Spanish officer, but he was deceived; they cut him down, left him for dead, and rushed over his body into the house. At this time there were, luckily, only four gentlemen in the house ;viz. Toulon, Gautrin, Vose, and Duperat. Vose immediately leaped from the window into the outer yard of a house belonging to a Spaniard, and concealed himself under a platform, where he remained till night, when he entered the city blacked and dressed like an Indian. Duperat was instantly butchered; his grey hairs could not preserve him from the blood-hounds of Manilla. Toulon and Gautrin were in the same room; they took leave of each other, when the former concealed himself under the bed, and Gautrin covered himself with a mat; the mob rushed into the room, dragged out Toulon, and killed him by a thousand wounds, but did not

discover Gautrin. They again returned, and again left the room, one villain excepted, who stopped, probably to look for more plunder; and discovered Gautrin, who is a stout, powerful man, and from whom he received a blow that knocked him down, but before he had given the alarm, the mob returned, and Gautrin, with his fists only, fought his way through them, receiving terrible wounds at every instant, from the pikes, knives, and clubs, of the assassins: just as he cleared the crowd that still pursued him,

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