Average Price of Corn per Quarter in England and Wales, 1814. 74 71 44 21 37 6 | 26 8 46 8 Price of the Quartern Loaf according to the Assize of Bread in London. A Statement of the Quantity of Porter brewed in London, by the twelve first houses, from the 5th July, 1813, to the 5th of July, 1814. Barclay, Perkins, & Co... 262,467 | Coombe, Delafield, & Co... 95,398 .... 45,162 ... 42,126 Henry Meux and Co.... 100,776 Hollingsworth and Co..... 30,252 Felix Calvert and Co.... 100,391 | Cocks and Campbell..... 30,162 Lord President of the Council. First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer. First Lord of the Admiralty. Master General of the Ordnance. S Secretary of State for the Home Department. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Secretary of State for the Depart ment of War and the Colonies. President of the Board of Controul for the affairs of India. Right Hon. Charles Bathurst.... Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster. STATE PAPERS. BRITIS H. Extract from Lord William Bentinck's Official Note to the Duke de Gallo, the Neapolitan Mi nister. "Bologna, April 1. Nease of the Neapolitan Government exacting a written confirmation of the sentiments which Lord Castlereagh has verbally declared, a confirmation which has not been called for, not thinking it necessary, the undersigned is authorised to declare officially, that the English Government entirely, approves of the Treaty concluded between the Austrian and Neapolitan Governments; that it consents to the addition of the territo ry there specified, under the same conditions made by Austria, of an active and immediate co-operation of the Neapolitan army; and that if the English Government refuses to sign a definitive Treaty, it is caused by sentiments of honour and delicacy, which make it unwilling that the hereditary estate of an ancient ally should be given up without an indemnity; and the undersigned has in consequence orders to invite the Neapolitan Government to make the greatest efforts in order to obtain the same object." ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL PAPER. "Admiralty Office, "The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty cannot announce to the Fleet the termination of hostilities with France, without expressing to the petty officers, the seamen, and royal marines of his Majesty's ships, the high sense which their Lordships entertain of their gallant and glorious services during the late war. "The patience, perseverance, and discipline; the skill, courage, and devotion, with which the seamen and marines have upheld their best interests, and achieved the noblest triumphs of the country, entitle them to the gratitude not only of their native land, which they have preserved inviolate, but of the other nations of Europe, of whose ultimate deliverance their successes maintained the hope, and accelerated the accomplishment. "Their Lordships regret that the unjust and unprovoked aggressions of the American Govern ment, ment, in declaring war upon this country, after all the causes of its original complaint had been removed, does not permit them to reduce the fleet at once to a peace establishment; but as the question now at issue in this war is the maintenance of those maritime rights which are the sure foundations of our naval glory, their Lordships look with confidence to that part of the fleet which it may be still necessary to keep in commission, for a continuance of that spirit of discipline and gallantry which has raised the British Navy to its present pre-eminence. "In reducing the fleet to the establishment necessary for the American war, the scamen and marines will find their Lordships attentive to the claims of their respective services. The reduction will be first made in the crews of those ships which it may be found expedient to pay off, and from them the petty officers and seamen will be successively discharged, according to the length of their services; beginning in the first instance with all those who were in his Majesty's service previous to the 7th of March, 1803, and have since continued in it. "When the reduction shall have been thus made, as to the ships paid off, their Lordships will direct their attention to those which it may be found necessary to keep in commission, and, as soon as the circumstances of the war will admit, will bring home and discharge all persons having the same standing and periods of service, as those before discharged from the ships paid off; so that in a few months, the situation of individuals will be equalized; all men of a certain pe riod of service will be at liberty to return home to their families; and the number which it may be still necessary to retain will be composed of those who have been the shortest time in the service. "An arrangement in itself so just, cannot, in their Lordships' opinion, fail to give universal satisfaction; and they are induced to make this communication to the fleet, because they think that the exemplary good conduct of all the petty officers, seamen, and marines, entitle them to every confidence, and to this full and candid explanation of their Lordships' intentions. "Their Lordships cannot con clude without expressing their hope, that the valour of his Majesty's fleets and armies will speedily bring the American contest to a conclusion honourable to the British name, safe for British interests, and conducive to the lasting repose of the civilized world. By command of their Lordships, |