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within a mile and a half of Chudleigh, threw open his house for the sufferers, and ordered, on Saturday, several sheep to be dressed, and sent to those who could not leave the ruins. Fifty tents were also sent from Exeter, as a temporary covering for those who, since the accident, have been obliged to lie in the fields. A subscription for their relief was also opened in that town, and in London.

One of them had a rope with a noose on it, for the purpose of strangling him, and the other was armed with a dagger, and carried a dark lantern. The officer had a candle burning beside him, and held a loaded pistol in each hand; he immediately discharged one of them, and killed one of the robbers on the spot; the other, in attempting to return through an aperture in the wall by which he had entered, was mortally wounded by the discharge of the second pistol. The officer then called loudly for help, and the neighbours rushed into the house, where they found him reloading his pistols. The landlord was immediately seized, and brought to Genoa in chains; and the wounded robber lived long enough to confess his guilt, and to enumerate the names of his accomplices, with the particulars of several of the murders and robberies that had been perpetrated by them.

Last week a freeholder, of the name of Morton, voted at the Sussex election for a freehold at Rusper, which had been in the possession of himself and his ancestors 750 years! The following singular occurrence took place a few weeks ago, at St. Sebastian, near Genoa, in Italy. A French officer belonging to the army of king Joseph, on going to join his regiment, took up his residence for the night in an inn at St. Sebastian. He was conducted by the landlord into a very elegant bed-room, and his baggage was Respecting the late interview deposited on the floor. The land- between the king of Prussia and the lord wished the officer a sound emperor of Russia, the Koningssleep, and retired when a dog berg papers state the following: belonging to the latter began to The emperor made his journey bark round the room, smelling at from St. Petersburgh, for the most every corner of it with a great part, in open sledges. On the 1st seeming anxiety. This excited at of April he entered Polangen, and first only the curiosity of his master; soon after his Prussian majesty ar but as the animal became more and rived there in his coach; when the more restless, his curiosity was soon emperor, without his hat, advanced "changed into suspicion. The offi- several paces to meet his Prussian cer resolved, therefore, not to lie majesty. The carriage stopped, down, but to be upon the watch all and his majesty sprung from it into night. About two o'clock in the the open arms of the emperor. morning he heard, not without They embraced for some time with. alarm, a strange rustling of the bed out speaking, but not without teart curtains; and upon looking towards in their eyes; and even after they the head of the bed, from whence had proceeded together hand in the noise came, he saw two tall hand, the emperor again threw his ferce-looking men come from be- arms round his majesty's neck.tween the curtain and the wall.—The king returned to Memel in the

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afternoon. He wished to have brought the emperor with him in his carriage, but he excused himself on account of his travelling dress; but on the next day, at eleTen in the forenoon, he made his public entry into Memel in his majesty's state coach. The king again advanced to meet him; they embraced, and proceeded hand in hand. All the generals, the ministers, and the court, were assembled in the grand saloon; but only baron Hardenberg and prince Rad. zivil were permitted to ascend the steps of the throne, where the queen was standing. The empe ror, on approaching her majesty, kissed her hand; her majesty, in return, kissed both the cheeks of the emperor.-"Dear cousin," were the only words which her majesty's feelings would permit her to utter. The emperor afterwards gave his guards the following sign and countersign, "Memel and Frederic."

When lord chancellor Sutton waited upon the late lord chancellor Ponsonby, of Ireland, in order to receive the seals, the latter, as was his duty, requested to see lord Sutton's authority. Lord Sutton then, for the first time, discovered that he had left the king's letter behind him in London: he was accordingly obliged to send for it, and, of course, several days elapsed before he could assume his high situation.

JUNE.

7. Between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, a dreadful accident happened off the coast of Suf. folk. His majesty's brig Belette,

having anchored in the Bay, put out her boat for the shore, in order to land Mons. Bedezee, a Prussian officer, charged with a special mission from his Prussian majesty to our government, somewhat relating to the defence of Colberg. There were in the boat with monsieur Bedezee, Mr. Kennedy, the master's mate, Mr. Parks, a midshipman, and four seamen: upon ap. proaching the harbour mouth, the gentlemen in the boat discovering that the sea, which was otherwise moderate, broke heavy upon the shoals which form the bar of the harbour at the harbour's mouth, very prudently attempted to avoid them, by running ashore upon the beach: but the tiller having most unfortu nately broke, by which the boat became unmanageable, they were thrown upon the breakers, when the boat immediately filled and sunk; by which accident, although it happened scarcely two hundred yards from the shore, Mr. Bedezee, Mr. Parks, and two seamen, were lost. Mr. Kennedy continued swimming, until picked up by a boat; and one seaman, John Simpson, swam ashore. William Carr, another seaman, was taken up by the boat, but every method was tried, ineffectually, to restore him to life. The bodies of Mr. Bedezee, Mr. Parks, and the two seamen, were not found.-The dispatches brought by the Belette were found by the boats, but the private dispatches brought by Mr. Bedezee were lost with him.

8. Another great fire has happened in the West of England: the vil lage of Huish, near Langport, in Somersetshire, is almost totally detroyed; scarce any house is left but the parsonage. It was with Ff2

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great difficulty that the town of Langport escaped.

The Dublin Evening Herald of Monday says "We are sorry to inform our readers, that some dispute having occurred between Messrs. Colclough and Alcock, two of the candidates for the representation of the county of Wexford, these gen. tlemen met; the result of which rencontre was the immediate death of the former by a wound through the body."-The same journal gives the following, on the authority of the Wexford paper: "Thursday evening a meeting took place on the Strand at Ferrybank, Wexford, between Thomas M'Coard, esq. of Ross, and Standish Lowquay, esq. of the said place; the parties fired two shots each, and on the second fire Mr. Lowquay was wounded in the groin."

14. The shortness of the interval between the commission of a crime, and the misery and ruin which are the consequences to the perpetrator, was exemplarily shewn last week. A person, of promising circumstanees and respectable connections in life (engaged as land-surveyor and agent to admiral Bentinck), on Monday se'nnight decoyed a girl only twelve years of age into a barn at Terrington, near Lynn, and committed a rape upon her person. The girl, when Mr. John Paterson, the offender, accosted her, was dib bling potatoes in a field, with several other persons who were under kis orders, and to whom, as soon as released, she complained of the treatment she had received. warrant for the apprehension of the ravisher was soon after procured; in consequence of which he absconded; but being pursued, was traced to Stamford about eleven

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o'clock on Thursday night. Here he took the Nelson coach, and proceeded into the north. The party in quest of him, being joined by Mr. Tinkler, of Stamford, set off after him, and about eight o'clock on Friday morning found him at breakfast at Markham Moor. Being apprehended, he acknowledged the offence with which he was charged, and said that he did not mean to evade justice; but intended, after having been into Cumberland to see his wife and three children, who were then residing there, to have returned into Norfolk to take his trial. After talking rationally and collectedly for a few minutes, ho requested permission to go into the garden, which was granted, and he returned: complaining of indisposition, he begged to retire a second time, which was permitted; but he had not been absent above two minutes, when the report of a pistol attracted attention, and the miserable man was found to have blown his brains out.-A coroner's inquest sat on his body on Saturday, and returned a verdict-Felo de se. He was immediately buried in the crossroad near Markham Moor.

Messrs. Coutts and co. bankers, in London, paid 63371. 2s. 10d. (the produce of 10,0001. consol. 3 per cent. annuities), a few days ago, to the treasurers of the Infirmary at Derby; as a donation to that charity, from a gentleman who requested that his name might not be known.

16. A court of aldermen was held at Guildhall; when the lord mayor acquainted the court, that Samuel Birch, esq. had been duly elected alderman of the ward of Candlewick, in the room of John Peter Hankey, esq. deceased. Mr.

Birch then took the usual oaths, and his seat on the alderman's bench. A sailing match took place at Swansea: eleven boats started to sail round a boat moored off the Mumbles, and return to Swansea, the three first to be the winners of the respective prizes. The day being remarkably fine, and a fresh breeze blowing, promised great amusement to the numerous and fashionable spectators at present at that place; but unfortunately a boat, belonging to captain Roberts, in which were eleven persons, who went to witness the manoeuvring, owing to bad management, was up. set; by which the following seven persons were lost*, which threw such agloom over the countenance of the inhabitants, as has not been witnessed for many years before in that town.

The following melancholy accident happened at the marquis of Bath's seat at Longleat :-A sail ing boat, purchased at Portsmouth, was brought down to the lake at Longleat, under the care of a seaman, and was rigged and fitted out under his direction. He had employed more than ten days in making the neecssary preparations, and the launch took place on Tues. day. It was then intended to work her up to her anchorage in the middle of the water; when she unfortunately upset. There were five persons in her; viz. the sailor, another man who formerly had been in the sea service, a labourer and his son, and Mr. Wade, the prin cipal artificer at Longleat. A boat, with several persons in her, follow

ed close, to afford any assistance that might be required, and coming immediately to the spot, took up the labourer's son. Another boat, which was at a distance, came up and saved the labourer: but the two scamen and Mr. Wade were unfortunately drowned. Mr. Wade has left a wife and eight chil. dren.

23. The following dreadful ac. cident happened at Ballyrankin, near Ferns. As Mr. John Rice, with several others, were standing round the mouth of one of his bro. ther's lime-kilns, observing a cinder, he imprudently leaped on it; and the kiln not having been drawn for some time before, and the stones mostly burnt into lime, he instantly went down, and before any assis. tance could be given, was burnt to death. Every means, however, was used to recover the body, by throwing water on the kiln, and afterwards pulling it down. they effected their purpose, it was a most shocking spectacle, being nearly reduced to a cinder.

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King's Bench, Saturday, June 27, Crim. Con. Knight v. Dr. Wolcott, alias Peter Pindar.

This case had attracted a conside rable share of curiosity, and the court was crowded at an early hour. The Attorney-general and Mr. Garrow were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Parke, Mr. Jarvis, and Mr. Marryat, for the defendant.

The attorney-general, in opening the case, observed, that the action instituted against the defen dant was of a nature that required the most serious attention of the

Lost.-Capt. Logan, Mr. Thomas (Custom-house), Mr. Bagot, Mr. Collier, Mr. Willams, Master Sylvester, Jer. Williams's son.

Saved-Capt. Roberts, T. Grove, J. Francis,―Jenkins (belonging to the Morriston).

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jury, which, he was glad to find, was composed of gentlemen, and men in a respectable line of life. The plain. tiff came into court to complain of a most serious injury, aggravated by many circumstances which added to the weight, and inflamed the poignancy, of his feelings. He had been reduced to that situation which makes a man at once an object of ridicule and compassion. He was what the world, in grosser language, would call a cuckoid-a name of reproach which a man could ill bear who had not de. served it, and which must excite a most bitter acuteness of feeling, and the keenest sense of resentment in him, who was conscious that he merited the honourable appellation of an affectionate and constant hus. band.

"In the month of November 1799, my client, whose name is Knight, was married to a miss Franks, a lady extremely young, and of a most attractive person. The marriage was what may strictly be cal. led a match of affection. My client was bred to a sea-faring life, and was in the service of his king and country. For six years they lived together in the utmost harmony; they had four children, two of which are dead; the two youngest are still living to share the dis. grace and misery of their father, and to lament the alienation and loss of a parent by the artifices of a seducer. Of the affection which subsisted between them I will give you abundant proofs, up to the time in which the train of the pre. sent crime was laid. They endured many hardships; amongst the rest shipwreck. But adversity knits together those whom prosperity separates. However obstruc

ted by occasional misfortunes, their stream of life might yet have rolled on in peace and mutual contentment, but for the practices of the defendant.

"In the year 1806, Mr. Knight took a small house in Pratt Place, Camden Town. This house he let out in lodgings. In the month of August, Dr. Wolcott, the defendant, was recommended to these lodgings, and he accordingly engaged a bed. chamber, which he rented at 8s. per week. Shortly after, he removed from his attic to the first floor, and became tenant of the drawing-room and adjoining bed-room. I should inform you, that he had lodgings in town likewise, and was accustomed, upon every open and fine day, to walk thither, staying at home chiefly in wet weather. The defendant, I must tell you, is a man in years, old in vice and the experience of wickedness, but with the passions of youth, which we should have thought quelled in one of his age. Being intimate with the plaintiff and his family, in the capacity of a lodger, he meditated the seduction in the following manner :

"He first practised upon the lady's vanity; he told her, that she had powers which were lost in her present obscurity, and which if employed in their right direction, would bring fame and emolument to herself and husband.-He flattered her into an opinion that she would make an excellent actress,——— got her to recite to him,-corrected her enunciation, shewed her the more graceful attitudes of the stage, and taught her much of that gesticulation and manner which we see upon the boards of the theatre.

"He told her that he had taught Mrs. Siddons; that he would gladly

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