inn at Eaton, being bit by a mad dog, was chained up, under the vulgar notion, that if canine madness does not make its appearance in nine days, the animal has not received the infection; and no fymptoms at the end of that time appearing, he was let loofe, and inftantly bit a poor lad of the name of Nagee, who was not only fent to the falt-water, but took the Ormskirk medicine; yet, notwithstanding all thefe precautions, he died miferably in a few days. He was perfectly fenfible to the laft, and what puzzles the medical gentlemen who attended him, actually drank a of cold water a fhort time before he expired, although he had from the time he was firft feized not been able to endure the fmalleft drop of that element, and even expreffed the moft fhocking fenfations on feeling the outward air from the opening of the doors or windows, or the coolnefs which happened from perfons in the room occafionally paffing between him and the fire. quart ACCIDENTS. Some workmen, on the 20th, digging in the cellars of a cotton-work, the corner of Hanover-ftreet, Manchester, too near the foundation, the building gave way, and feveral people were buried in the ruins; many were dug out alive, and carried to the hofpitals, but their existence is defpaired of. Two men and two women were crushed to death. Mr. Leach, a publican, to whom the building belonged, had ftabling under it, and upwards of thirty horfes in them; they were all except four dug out almost unhurt. It happened about eleven o'clock; and a moft melancholy fpectacle it was. The building was fix ftories high. A circumftance not lefs dreadful in its confequence than difgraceful to a civilized nation happened at High Green, a few miles from Sheffield, the begin ing of this month. A bear, kept there for the amusement of the country people at their wakes, got loofe, and entered the dwelling of a perfon named Rogers. The unfortunate wife of the .man was fitting with one child on her lap, and another befide her, when the creature feized her with all the favage ferocity incident to its nature, and tore her in a manner too fhocking to particularize. The cries of the poor tinfortunate, and of the children, reached Rogers and the bear ward, who almost at the fame moment entered the house, and beheld a fight fufficient to appall the molt callous mind; what then must have been the feelings of a husband? He flew to the animal, but was unable to wrench its jaws from the object of its fury. The bear ward then ftruck it on the head with a hammer, but the haft flying off, the blow was powerless; it however turned the bent of its rage on him, and it pursued him until he was nearly exhaufted with fatigue, and he must have fallen a victim had not the neighbours, alarmed at the outcries, come up with him, and, at a fecond fhot, laid it dead. The woman expired in dreadful agony two days after. The following melancholy accident lately happened at Reading : Mr. Barton, at Anvil Farm, near Bafing. ftoke, fent a fervant with a horse and cart to fetch his children home from a day fchool in the neighbourhood, but when they were arrived within a few yards of their own house, by the care leffuefs of the fervant, the horse run along a foot-bridge, and overthrew the cart into the river, by which accident Mr. Barton's only fon, about four years of age, was killed, and three of his daughters, with fome other children that were in the cart, very much bruiled. Mrs. Barton was the firft perfon who heard the fhrieks of the poor children, to whofe relief the immediately flew ; and ran into river, four feet deep, and fpeedily fetched out the girls; but could not find the boy for fone time, till at last she discovered him under the cart, dead. The horse was drowned before he could be difentangled from the harness. The 7th, a most melancholy accident happened at Iron-gate Wharf. Two men working the crane, one of them on a trifling occafion left his companion to manage the engine, but his ftrength failing him in lowering dowa above twelve hundred weight of cop per, the wheel threw him with fuch violence against the beam, that he was inftantly jammed to death. The The 6th, as Mrs. Barker, wife of Mr. Barker, of Attleburgh, farmer, and Mrs. Warren, of the fame place, were going to Norwich in a marketcart, they were met near the bridge in Damgate-freet, Wymondham, by a ftage-waggon, against which, owing to the darkness of the morning, they drove the shafts of their cart, which was thereby overfet, and the two women were thrown with fuch extreme violence against the waggon wheels, as to occafion their inftant death. LONGEVITY. henfion of a mortification in her extre mities, it is thought the cannot re-, cover. MURDER. Very numerous have been the riots, robberies, and depredations committed at Portimouth, fince the ships have be gun to be paid off; but on the 6th, a fpectacle of the most horrid nature pres fented itself; the body of a man in failor's cloaths was found just outside of one of the ports near the Sally Port, on the Beach. His skull was quite beat in, apparently by a hammer, and many There is at prefent in the island of other marks of violence appeared about Jura, one of the Hebrides, a woman of him. He was molt probably murdered the name of Catherine Lindfay, who in one of those infamous houses at the has now attained to the furprising age of back of the Point, and the body thrust one hundred and fix. In all the courfe through the port-holes, with intent that of her long life he has enjoyed uninthe fea might wash it away. It was terrupted good health. She gained her harveft fee last year; the can milk a cow, Murfe a child, and thinks nothing of walking five miles without fhoes. Her teeth are entire, and the ftill enjoys the ufe of all her faculties. Her husband is living, who is upwards of ninety. In the fame ifland of Jura, which does not contain more than feven hundred inhabitants, there were found last year, by an actual survey taken by the minister of the place, eighty people who were fourscore years of age and upwards. WANT. A poor girl was found, the beginning of this month, in a barn in the neighbourhood of Hereford, in a moft deplorable state. She gave the following account-That he is a parishioner of Rofs, and had been on a vifit to fome relations near Ledbury; but on her return fainted, owing to the fatigue of her journey. She was taken up by a perion on the road, who conveyed her to the place in which he was discovered: the perfon there left her, promifing to return and render her that affistance the fo much wanted; but he inhumanly neg lected to realize thofe hopes which the femblance of benevolence had inspired. The poor girl added, That the remained in a miferable state of incapacity, and without fuftenance, feveral days; and faw no perfon whatever till fhe was ac cidentally difcovered. She was conveyed to the Infirmary; but, from her emaciated condition, and the appre LAVOL. II. oner's inqueft brought in their verdict, Wilful Murder by perfons unknown. It is, however, strongly supposed to have been committed by a woman with whom he had previously cohabited. taken to the work-house, and the co A moft barbarous murder was, in the night of the 17th, or early on the the navy, 30 the the house, and found the two murdered bodies weltering in their blood. JUSTICE. The 13th, the feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when judgment of death was paffed upon thirteen convicts; twenty received fentence of tranf portation for feven years, one to hard labour on the River Thames for two years, twelve to be imprisoned in Newgate, eight in Clerkenwell Bridewell, eleven to be publicly whipped, one fined one thilling, and thirteen were difcharged by proclamation. On the morning of the fame day, Edward Welsh, for the wilful murder of Margaret Lane, was executed in the Old Bailey, and his body afterwards delivered to the furgeons for diffection, agreeably to his fentence. At a court-martial held on the 16th at Portfimouth, on board his majesty's Ship Royal William,, came on the trial of John Underhill and Thomas Fox, feamen, belonging to his majesty's fhip Formidable, for difobedience of orders, and for ftriking a lieutenant, boatswain, and mafter's mate, belonging to the faid hip, when on duty at the dock-yard. The court, after examining feveral witneffes, and confidering the feveral circumftances, fentenced the former to be hanged, and the latter to receive one hundred lashes round the feet. DREADFUL FIRE. The 8th, at night, a fire broke out at Cumberwell-houfe, near Bradford, Wilts, the property of the Rev. Dr. Taunton, which confumed the fame, with all the plate, furniture, books, &c. &c. It was with the greatest difficulty the family escaped with their lives; two of the fervants jumped out of a window, one of them broke her leg, and the other her back, a third flid down the leaden pipe of the house, and forzunately escaped the flames. The butler going into the houfe, in order to fave fome valuable notes, writings, &c. belonging to his mafter, perished in the attempt. The lofs is estimated at upwards of five thousand pounds, no part of which, we hear, was infured. This melancholy accident is fuppofed to have been occafioned by fome linen being put to dry too near the fire in the laundry, before the family went to bed. FORCE OF READING ROMANCES. Sir R. Aindie, who fucceeded fir James Porter, as British minitter at the Porte, is, after more than fifteen years refidence there, about to return_re luctantly to his native country. It is no lefs fingular than true, that the pe rufal of the Arabian Night's EntertainEaftern manners, and a strong and unments first inspired him with a taste for abating defire to visit Conftantinople. His patron, the earl of Rochford, at fouthern department, accordingly grathat time fecretary of ftate for the tified his curiofity by the appointment he now holds, and after procuring for him the honour of knighthood, difmiffed him on his embally.-On his arrival, for Robert, in his houfe, his gardens, and his table, affumed the ftyle and fashion of a Muffulman of rank; in fine, he lived en Turc, and pleased the natives fo much by this feeming policy, which was no other than the gratification of his own inclinations, that he became more popular than any of the Chriftian miniters. He has, on feveral occafions, received the moft honourable marks of attention, not only from all the great officers of the divan, but alfo from the laft and the prefent fultan: his refignation will therefore be a ferious lots to the English fettled in the capital of the Turkish dominions, and to all fuch as, either from business or curiofity, may be inclined to vifit any part of that exten five empire. NEW SOUTH WALES. Lieutenant King, of his majefty's navy, arrived from Harwich at lord Grenville's office, and the Admiralty, on the 20th, with dispatches from governor Philips, dated at Sydney Cove, the 13th of April laft. We learn by this conveyance, that the new fettlement was in as flourishing a ftate as could reasonably be expected; the foil is found to be uncommonly fertile and luxuriant, and will in a fort time, it is hoped, yield a fufficient nourishment for its new inha bitants. Government has received fam ples of its produce of wheat, barley, and rice, all of which are of the finest qua lity, and very abundant in their growth. The harveft of last year already produced three hundred bushels of corn. A principal chief among the natives lives with governor Philips, in his house and and a native female lives as fervant to the chaplain. They are convinced of the fuperiority of the British government, and fhew no figns of refiltapce. The fettlement was in no great want of provifions when Hieutenant King left it; a further fupply from Europe might be expected to arrive at Botany Bay about fix weeks after heutenant King's departure, as the ftore fhips, which left England laf November, had arrived at the Cape and failed again. Great inconveniencies muft naturally arife in the formation of any new eftablishment, but thefe have been for the most part fuperceded. The allowance to each convict was two pounds of pork, four pounds of flour, and feven pounds of rice per week, befides fifh, which are caught in abundance. This portion of food is in every refpect ample. There avas plenty of cloathing. In addition to the fupplies that might be expected from England, that feat by lieutenant Riou from the Cape, would likewife arrive foon after Mr. King left Botany Bay. STORMS. The latter end of this year is diftinguished by the occurrence of feveral tremendous forms of thunder and lightning, accompanied with a powerful wind, which, in many parts of this hand, has done, confiderable, damage to buildings; many have fallen, many more have been unroofed, and feveral lives loft on the melancholy occasion. The hipping, alfo, has fuffered con fiderably. not DEATHS. At Winall, near Coventry, the beginning of the month, aged 108, John Plover, more ufually known by the appellation of Old Blue Skin. He lived as a fervant in the Beauwater family near fifty years, and afterwards built himself a cottage in Winall, near the turnpike road, and though he be by any means a young man, he lived to fee the trees he planted round it become large timber. He had several of his teeth when he died, and retained his memory to the laft. He obtained the name of Blue Skins from having very frequently, when a young man, been beaten black and blue; for, being a hardy fellow, and having a good deal of fpirit, his " body was feldom without bearing the marks of his adverfaries blows, as he had himself acknowledged. Lately, at Cheltenham, Mr. David Davies, a native of Lanfair, in Montgomeryshire, where he gave directions to be interred, and had ordered fix-pence to be given to every perfon attending his funeral, when no lefs than one thoufand and thirty perfons from off the mountains affembled on the occafion, and received fix-pence each. The 8th, Mr. Lewis Mendes, flockbroker, aged 74, of the ftone in his bladder. His property is left in the following manner to his eldest fon five pounds; to his fecond fon fifty pounds; and the remainder, to the amount of eleven thousand pounds, to his housekeeper quine Lately, at Crumlin, Ireland, Mrs. Mary Tench, aged 100 years; her father, Mr. Garret Tench, lived to the age of 104, her mother 96, and her uncle, Mr. Andrew Tench, to the age of 110: the has left two fifters living, whole age added make 170 years. The 17th, in the soad year of her age, Mrs. Cradock, relict of the rev William Cradock, formerly rector of Rickinghall Superior, in Suffolk, Lately, at Aberdeen, Anne Bannerman, aged nos years. The 18th, at his house near Stoke Newington, Mr. John Watson, aged . Mr. Watfon is fuppofed to be one of the latest survivors of the crew of the Centurion, who accompanied lord Anfon in his voyage round the world; and as a proof of his attachment to that fervice, he has bequeathed his house and garden to a person who failed with him, for his ufe during life. At the decease of this perfon, it is willed to any other (if fuch there may be) who can prove that he went the fame voyage as a common feaman. It is afterwards to go to the relatives of the original proprietor. Mr. Warfon by formerly keeping a public-houfe, and acting as an agent for feamen, had acquired a competency. At his villa, near Palota, Lower Hungary, M. Drunnetzar, who had written very ingenioufly on the methods of finding and comparing the gravity. of bodies towards the planets. He had annotated on the fublime mathe matical refearches of fir Ifaac Newton, 302 an |