huddled up in a blanket, and apparently sunk into the lowest state of physical exhaustion. He was surrounded by Mr. Plunkett, Mr. Burrowes, and other persons of distinction. When the deputation entered, he made an effort to rise, but was unable to support himself. His first words were 'My friends, I am going to die we are about to part for ever! All the gentlemen present evinced the strongest emotion, and there was not one of the entire group who did not shed tears." Yellow Fever at Cadiz, investigated. Dr. Pariset has been sent by the minister of the interior to Spain, in the month of October last, for the purpose of observing on the spot the nature, progress, and best means of cure of the yellow fever, that raged at Cadiz and throughout Andalusia, at the time. Dr. Mazet was also appointed as companion to Dr. Pariset, in this hazardous undertaking for the benefit of science. It seems, that the height of the epidemy was over before these gentlemen arrived at Cadiz : there died, however, daily, seven or eight persons. The physicians in that city furnished every information respecting the nature of the disease to these deputies from the French school of medicine; who studied it in its three stages, during at least fifty days, from the patients, and much longer, in the conversation of the Spanish physicians and the books which they obtained in the country. Up to the end of 1820 no report had been made. 26. NEW LOAN.-A notice to the following effect was posted yesterday at the Bank: "The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes, that books shall be opened at the Bank of England on Wednesday, May 31; Thursday, June 1; and Friday, June 2, for receiving subscriptions of persons desirous of funding Exchequer-bills, not exceeding in the whole 7,000,000l. It is proposed, that 997. 5 per cent stocks, the dividends to commence 5th July, 1820, should be given for every 100%. principal of Exchequer-bills subscribed, that 201. per cent on the amount subscribed should be deposited at the time of subscribing. And £. 20 on or before July 28 Sept. 28 Jan. 26, 1821. "The subscribers shall be allowed to pay Exchequer-bills in advance, and to receive the interest upon the amount of the Exche quer-bills for the first instalment from the date of the bills up to the 31st of May; and upon the amount of bills for each subsequent instalment from the date of the Exchequer-bills up to the day when the instalments would have become due. "Subscribers to have the option of paying money in lieu of Exchequer-bills, upon paying a premium of 20s. for every 100%. paid in money. "Subscribers paying money are to be allowed interest at the rate of 2d. per cent per diem from the day of payment to the day when the instalment in respect of which the payment was made would have become due. Scrip receipts to be issued from the Bank in the same manner as for a loan. "The earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer reserve to themselves the power of making any loan for the service of the year, to the amount of 5,000,000l.; and to increase such a sum as the whole amount of the funding may fall short of 7,000,000l. They also reserve to themselves the power of taking a loan of 12,000,000l. from the sinking fund." The 5 per cents fell per cent, and consols rose per cent on this notice being made public. RIOT AND RELEASE OF PRISONERS FROM DOVER GAOL.Dover, May 26.-On Wednesday the Lively, Excise cutter, captured a smuggling galley, having on board 57 half-ankers of spirits, and 37 bags of tea, which, with the crew, consisting of eleven persons, were landed here, and ten of them being found fit for the navy, the whole were committed to Dover gaol until the ten could be removed to some of his majesty's receiving ships. This morning was fixed for the removal of the ten fit to serve, but it being thought, from the vast influx of ill-looking men into the town, that a rescue would be attempted, every precaution was taken by the mayor and magistrates to guard against it, by having a body of constables, the seamen belonging to the preventive service, and a detachment of military drawn up both in and outside of the gaol. The time of removal was twelve o'clock; but two hours before that a large body of people had collected together, which continued increasing every minute; and at the time the men were about to be brought out, several hundreds were collected in front and at every avenue leading to the gaol, with every disposition to riot and rescue. The worthy mayor, sir T. Mantell, knight, and E. Thompson, esq. a brother magistrate, attended at the gaol. The door of the prison was opened, and the smugglers just upon the point of being brought out, when a general shout was set up by the crowd of "liberty for ever!" and a number of stones, brickbats, &c. were thrown at them. The mayor directed the removal of the prisoners to be suspended for the present. A deputation officer was wounded severely in the head by a blow from a large stone; and Mr. Thompson, the magistrate, received a contusion on two of his fingers of his right hand. The mob, being foiled in their attempt to rescue the prisoners, proceeded to further acts of violence, and notwithstanding the Riot act was twice read from the gaol window by the mayor, commenced an attack on the gaol with crowbars, pick-axes, hammers, saws, &c. &c. unroofed the top, and threw part of the side wall down, and not only released the whole of the eleven smugglers, but several other prisoners confined in the gaol under sentence, and succeeded in getting them clear off. One of the persons most active in the riot was taken, and placed in a chaise with two constables, to be conveyed to Canterbury gaol, but a mob collected at the end of the town, stopped the chaise, dragged the rioter and constables out, and notwithstanding the former was handcuffed to the latter, threw the constables down, and severing the hand-cuff with a cold chisel, released the rioter. 27. The King v. Hannah Whitehorn. This was an indictment against the defendant, a girl about 15 years of age, for wilful and corrupt perjury, alleged to have been committed by her at the Old Bailey, in September last, upon the trial of an indictment in which she was the prosecutrix against a gentleman named Samuel Milnes, for a rape. The prosecutor, Mr. Milnes, formerly a captain in the 49th regiment of foot, had resided in Smith-street, Chelsea, and had employed the defendant as a temporary servant, from the 28th of July to the 13th of August 1819. During that interval he found occasion to be dissatisfied with her, from personal dislike, and dismissed her his service. The prosecutrix, who is the daughter of a shoemaker, working in a cellar in Suffolkstreet, Charing-cross, immediately after preferred a charge against him of having violated her person, and communicating a certain loathsome disease, in consequence of which he was apprehended, examined before a magistrate, and committed to Newgate for his trial, which took place at the September Sessions following, at the Old Bailey, before Mr. Baron Graham, when he was acquitted under the circumstances then disclosed in evidence. The present indictment was founded upon facts to which she swore upon that occasion, and the assignments of perjury were addressed to three particular statements which were traversed in the indictment, namely; first, that she could not communicate to any body the ill-treatment she had experienced from the prosecutor until she saw her mother; secondly, that she could not get out of the house to inform her mother of the transaction; and third that she was VOL. LXII. not afflicted with the malady alluded to, until the violence committed upon her by the prosecutor. To support the indictment, the evidence of the proceedings at the Old Bailey was first adduced. Mr. Milnes was then examined, and after describing the circumstances above-mentioned, under which the prosecutrix entered his house, he swore positively that he had never taken even the slightest liberty with the defendant's person, still less that he had committed the outrages imputed to him. He deposed that he had parted with her in consequence of the filthiness of her person, and her being unfit for his employment. On his cross-examination, he admitted that he had discharged eight servants, inclusive of the defendant, from the month of August until the month of December 1819, and that on a charge made against him before Mr. Fielding at Queen-square office, he had paid to two of them a ll. note each, in satisfaction of complaints then made by them against him. A female, named Catharine Vigors, deposed, that she had occasionally worked for the prosecutor as a needle woman, and that when he was without a servant, she had acted for him in his house. This witness was called principally for the purpose of showing that the defendant had not made any complaint to her of the alleged misconduct of the prosecutor, although she had the opportunity of so doing. Two other females, named Potter and Hodges, were called for the same purpose, but their evidence appeared to fail of its object. N Mr. Brodie, a surgeon of eminence, deposed, that he had examined the person of the defendant after the supposed violence committed by the prosecutor, and in his opinion there were circumstances indicating a confirmed disease of the nature above mentioned. He stated that two other surgeons, named Howe and Fincham, had also examined her, but these gentlemen were not examined.-Mr. Box, the surgeon of Newgate, deposed, that at the request of the prosecutor, during the time he was in confinement under the charge imputed to him by the defendant, he had examined his person, and found him wholly free from the disorder alluded to. A witness named George Youngman was called to show that the defendant was out of the prosecutor's house during the time she had stated that she had not an opportunity of communicating with her mother, but his evidence failed of its purpose. Mr. Denman pointed out the manifest defects in the evidence adduced in support of the prosecution, contending that it was impossible for the jury to convict the defendant, inasmuch as, according to the rule in such cases, there were not two witnesses to support any one of the assignments of perjury alleged in the indictment. Several witnesses were examined as to the defendant's character, who spoke of her as a young girl of good moral conduct, decency of manners, and of unimpeachable veracity. The Chief Justice having summed up, the jury found the defendant Not Guilty. Nixon v. Sir G. P. Turner. This was an action by the plaintiff, a builder, to recover from sir G. P. Turner the balance of an account for work and labour done at sir Gregory's seat, in Northamptonshire. A number of witnesses were called by the plaintiff, to prove the work properly done, under the superintendence of sir Gregory's agent surveyor, Mr. Hatchard; whilst on the part of sir Gregory, a number of surveyors and builders, who had examined the work, were called, and stated, that the work was badly done, especially the joiner's work, and the tiling of the roof of the picture-gallery. The latter, it was said by some of them, would require at least 70l. to complete it, and in their opinion a deduction of 6251. ought to be made from the whole bill. There was also a charge of 76l. for a survey and estimate made on some occasion by the plaintiff, but he failed to prove it was done by the defendant's order. The Chief Justice therefore directed the jury to deduct that sum from the plaintiff's demand; they accordingly did so,and also deducted 100l. from the bill, giving to the plaintiff a verdict for 4,511, costs 40. THE CORONATION.-It is a positive fact, that an eminent furrier at the west end of the town has increased his insurance 6,000l. in consequence of the approaching coronation.-The stimulus given to various descriptions of trade by this event has already been productive of great advantage to many distressed families. A dreadful catastrophe happened lately at Fenton-park colliery, near Lane End, Derbyshire. The workmen had assem bled to be let down into one of the pits about 160 yards deep, and 6 of them with a boy had got into the chain, and descended to within about 20 yards of the bottom, when the flat rope gave way near the drum, at a part where it was joined, by which the whole were precipitated to the bottom, with the disengaged chain, and about 150 yards of heavy rope, which fell upon them; they remained in that situation until persons were let down to their assistance; nothing less than their complete destruction was contemplated; they were discovered under some hundred weight of chain and rope; one man was dead, another died in about two hours; the others are so dreadfully bruised as to leave but little hope of their recovery: the boy being in the midst of the men, was thereby screened, and is likely to survive. This awful calamity is rendered still more distressing from the consideration of each of the sufferers having families. EXECUTION OF SANDT.-The following account of the execution of Sandt is contained in a letter from an eye-witness, addressed to the editor of the Brussels Oracle : "The general interest which has been excited by the unfortunate young man of whom I am going to give, you an account, induces me to send you the following details: Sandt, the assassin of Kotzebue, was executed this morning at five o'clock. So early as half past three o'clock the infantry and cavalry, and almost the whole population of Manheim, were in motion. Sandt was brought from the prison in an open carriage. His countenance, which was pale, had in it something extraordinary. All A smile was on his lips; and he went to meet death as we should go to a fête. He bowed with much grace to some ladies who were at a window, and who returned his salutation with very evident marks of interest. When he reached the place of execution, which was on a very large plain, he mounted the scaffold immediately; his sentence was read to him; after which he made a speech. Not understanding German I cannot communicate to you what he said. I observed, however, that he spoke with energy, and at the end raised one of his hands towards heaven. The executioner took hold of him, and made him sit down on a chair, fastened to a small post. He tied both his hands, cut off some of his hair, and put a bandage over his eyes. In two minutes after he was no more. the preparations for the execu tion were made very slowly; 20 minutes were employed, and 10 would have been sufficient, as the reading of the sentence and his speech did not take five minutes. Though I at first intended only to see him pass, I was carried forward involuntarily, constantly looking at him. He was dressed in white, but wearing a black great coat, and his shirt collar turned down; his hair fell in curls on his shoulders. For 15 months past his life had been preserved by the most strengthening regimen. Every effort was used to prevent his sinking under the effect of the wounds which he had inflicted on himself; he was, in fact, so very weak, that he could not mount the scaffold without supporting himself on the shoulders of two persons, which makes the courage, that he |