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any disturbance in the country, will doubtless produce the same good effects.

A number of persons supposed to be leaders in the late riots, have been taken up by the police. The greatest consequences are attached to the elder Watson, Preston, Hooper, and Cashman, a sailor. Great assiduity has been employed for the apprehension of young Watson, but hitherto without effect. It is almost now certain that he was the person who shot Mr Platt in Beckwith's shop. The pistol he left behind him has been proven to have been one of four purchased by a person answering his description, and who, in fact, gave his name to Mr Birnie in Holborn. When the pistol had been taken from him, and Mr Platt

told him he had shot him, he either expressed, or affected to express, great regret. He cried out to send for a surgeon; he then said he was a surgeon himself. Mr Platt is attended by Mr Ashley Cooper, and remains in a very dangerous state. Preston talks enthusiastically about the extent of the insurrection, and, it is said, declares there were 300,000 persons inrolled in the cause. He constantly exclaims, "Twas I who brought Hunt to the field, but that wretched young dog Watson spoiled all."

So anxious are the public for the apprehension of Watson, that particulars respecting persons like him being taken up and examined, are received every hour by the Lord Mayor, and the public offices.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX I.-STATE PAPERS.

Treaty of Marriage between her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta and his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c.Signed at London, March 13, 1816.

In the name of Almighty God,

Be it known unto all men, by these presents, that whereas his Royal High ness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his most sacred Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire. land, has judged it proper that an alliance should be contracted between the family of his Majesty and that of his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c. and has therefore, in the name and on the behalf of his Majes. ty, consented, with the full agree ment of the parties interested, that a marriage shall be celebrated between the most high and illustrious Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of his

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld, &c.

In order, therefore, to attain so desirable an end, and to treat, conclude, and confirm the articles of the said marriage, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, as well as his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld, &c. have named and authorised mutually, viz.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the be half of his Majesty, the most reverend father in God, his right trusty and right entirely beloved councillor Charles Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan; his right trusty and well-beloved John Lord Eldon, Chancellor of Great Britain; his right trusty and well-beloved cou

sin and councillor Dudley, Earl of Harrowby, President of his Majesty's Council; his right trusty and wellbeloved cousin and councillor Henry Earl Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; his right trusty and well-beloved cousin and councillor Robert Banks, Earl of Liverpool, first commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury; his right trusty and well-beloved councillor Robert Stewart, commonly called Viscount Castlereagh, one other of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; his right trusty and well-beloved councillor Henry Viscount Sidmouth, one other of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and his right trusty and well-beloved councillor Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of his Majesty's Ex chequer.

And his said Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c. William Augustus Baron de Just, Privy Councillor of his Majesty the King of Saxony, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty, King of Hanover, and Commander of the order of Civil Merit of Saxony; who, by virtue of their respective full powers, which they have mutually communicated and exchanged, have concluded and agreed upon the following articles,

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sent, according to the due tenour of the laws of England, and the rights and ceremonies of the church of the United Kingdom, as soon as the same may conveniently be done.

II. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, promises to secure to her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta, and to his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c. during their joint lives, and to the survivor of them, the annual sums herein after mentioned;-that is to say, during their joint lives, the annual sum of 60,000l., to be paid quarterly; 10,000l. of which annual sum, also to be paid quarterly, shall be granted unto commissioners, named for that purpose by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting as aforesaid, to be by them received for the sole and separate use of the said Princess, notwithstanding her marriage state, and without his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c. having any power over the same, and which annual sum of 10,000l. so payable quarterly, the said Princess shall not have power, either separately or conjointly with his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld, &c. &c. &c. to alienate, mortgage, or receive or direct to be paid by way of anticipation; but the same shall, from time to time as the same shall become due, be paid and payable into the proper hands of the said Princess alone, upon her own sole receipt, or to such person or

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