of the atrocious deed was prevented, and sufficient evidence obtained to convict the offenders. Mons. De Sartine's intelligence enabled him to prevent this horrid offence of robbery and murder, which, but for the accuracy of the system, would probably have been car ried into execution. SINGULAR MARRIAGE.We often read in the newspapers of persons attaining upwards of one hundred years of age, and entering into second marriages after former marriages of fifty years; but they very seldom tell us of so singular an union as that which took place a short time since between an innkeeper of la Courtila and a Quarter-master of hussars, discharged and pensioned on account of wounds received in battle. This Quarter-maser is a new Chevalier d'Eon, who, after distinguishing herself in many a cavalry charge, retired at the end of twelve years of service, to her wheel and her distaff with a husband, to whom she brings a portion of five hundred francs. ceived could only be known to himself.- GREY BEAR.-The quadrupeds of America is in general smaller than those of the old Continent, but the grey bear recently found in the remote parts of North America, near the head of the Missouri, forms a striking exception to the general observation. The grey bear, which also is known to be very numerous in the Andes of South America, is supposed to be a distinct species. It is asserted that the grey bear has been seen at the head of the Missouri, of the enormous weight of two thousand pounds weight (two hundred and fifty stone), butcher's weight! This animal is more dangerous to man than any other on the surface of the globe. When impelled by hunger, it attacks every creature within its reach. The scent of the grey bear is as fine as that of a hound, and the animal on which he fixes his pursuit has no chance of escape, unless possessing extraordinary powers of | flight, as the motion of his pursuer is so swift. From some animals, a tree becomes a secure refuge, but the grey bear climbs, not only with facility, but with great nimbleness, takes the water like a duck, and swims with WORKS IN THE PRESS. Miss Burney has nearly ready for publication a novel in five volumes, entitled Traits of Nature. Mr. Colburn, of Conduit-street, has announced his intention of publishing a Dictionary of all the Living Authors of the British Empire; containing, 1. Biographical particulars of each Writer; 2. A complete Catalogue of their respective Works. To render this Work as perfect as possible, he solicits Authors, Booksellers, and all who feel interested in its accuracy, to favour him with information on the subjects which it is designed to embrace; and he anticipates their assistance with the greater confidence, as they must be sensible that this will be the most effectual method of preventing error and misrepresentation. A new edition of Chateaubriand's Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, &c. will be ready in a few days. Mr. Shober is proceeding diligently in the translation of Chateaubriand's Spirit of Christianity, or Beauties of the Christian Religion. It will be accompanied by a Preface and Notes, from the pen of the Rev. Henry Kett, of Trinity College, Oxford. Institution, has in the press, a volume of the Elements of Chemistry. The Rev. J. Joyce is printing two volumes of Dialogues on the Microscope, uniform with his Scientific Dialogues. Dr. Stokes, of Chesterfield, will shortly publish a Botanical Materia Medica, in four octavo volumes. Mr. G. Dyer has in the press, in two volumes, a Series of Poems, and Disquisitions on Poetry; intended as a sketch of the author's studies and pursuits in different periods of his life. Mr. Adams, of Albemarle-street, has in the press a Treatise on the Morbid Affections of the Eye and its appendages. Miss Vandell has in the press, in a quarto volume, the Pleasures of Human Life, a poem. The Rev. Thomas Belsham has just sent to press Memoirs of the late Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, which will be comprised in an octavo volume. Mr. Barber's Fac-simile of the Text of the Greek Psalter, as it is preserved in the Alexandrian MS. is expected to appear next month. Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum, has undertaken to superintend the edition of Brand's popular Antiquities, which is now printing in two Dr. Davy, professor of chemistry at the Royal quarto volumes. INCIDENTS OCCURRING IN AND NEAR LONDON, INTERESTING MARRIAGES, &c. THE DUCHESS OF GORDON.-The Most Noble Jane, Duchess of Gordon, was the second daughter of Sir William Maxwell, Baronet, of Monreath, in the county of Galloway, and was early celebrated for her talents as well as beauty. Her sprightly wit, her captivating manners, and her elegant person, made her the toast of the Caledonian circle; and in the bloom of her charms she had the ambition to do more than shine in an assembly, or excel in a dance. She aimed to gain the esteem and render herself worthy the friendship of all the most eminent literati of her country; she was the correspondent of Lord Kaimes, of Dr. Beattie, of Dr. Robertson, of Mr. Home, and the other eminent writers of that day; and in her very exclusive correspondence with these authors, she displayed a depth of reading, a solidity of judgment, and a taste in composition, which, if her letters should ever reach the public, would place her high in the estimation of the literary world,-with all this she was in society the gayest of the gay. Wherever she came she made a sort of holiday, as was happily expressed in an impromptu by the Honourable Henry Erskine, on her Grace's saying one day during the Leith races, that there was not likely to be any sport, so she would not go." Not go," says Mr. Erskine, "Why that is, as if the Sun should say, "A cold dark morning this, I will not rise to-day." Miss Jane Maxwell was married to his Grace the Duke of Gordon on the 18th of October, 1767, by whom she had two sons and five daughters, all of whom she had the merit of educating with that ability, zeal, and solicitude, which secured to her the satisfaction of splendid success. She gave to the world of fashion the example of a mother devoting every moment of her life to the happiness of her family, and she had the consolation of secing the complete triumph of her affectionate exertions. Her son George, Marquis of Huntley, remains unmarried. Her daughter, Lady Charlotte, is Duchess of Richmond; Lady Madelina, married first Sir Robert Sinclair, Bart. and secondly to Fysh Palmer, Esq.; Lady Susan is now Duchess of Manchester; Lady Louisa is the that the neighbourhood had been much disturbed by the moanings and shrieks of the child, and that the woman had beat her unmercifully, and the landlord of the house proved the child having been shut up for hours without food. The child, who appeared in a deplorable emaciated state, had one arm tied up, which she had been deprived the use of from the barbarity of the woman prisoner. On its being ascertained that the woman was not married to Hardinge, he was sworn to give evidence against her; but he cloaked as much as possible her conduct; she bad borne him several Marchioness Cornwallis; and Lady Georgiana is Duchess of Bedford. So splendid an establishment of a family is without parallel in the history of the Peerage; and it is a circumstance as extraordinary, that all these distinguished persons surrounded the bed of their revered parent, when with pious gratitude to the Giver of all good, she anticipated her dissolution. On Friday, April 10th, when symptoms of mortification appeared, and she felt the approach of death, she desired to have the sacrament administered to her at two o'clock on Saturday; but afterwards feeling the rapid advance of the moment, which she contemp-children, but the sufferer was by a wife that is lated with resignation, she desired that she might partake of the holy rite at an earlier hour; and accordingly, together with all her children, she received the Communiou, and soon after breathed her last in their arms. By her own desire the remains of her Grace are to be conveyed for interment to her beautiful seat of Kinrara, to which place the Marquis of Huntley accompanies the body. She was in her 64th year.-She was of the Kirk of Scotland, and therefore received the Sacrament on her death-bed, according to the religious ceremonial of that sect. HENRY GAWLER-This man, a clerk in the Navy Office, has been sentenced to seven years transportation, for defrauding a poor woman of six pounds, under pretence of procuring her son's discharge from the navy. dead. The woman was committed for bail, and the child was taken under the protection of the parish officers. She has since been found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. SUICIDE-A young woman, of the name of Suthell, servant in a tradesman's family in Maryle-bonne-street, was found in bed on the morning of the 1st of April, with her throat cut from ear to ear. She had been low spirited the preceding day, and not answering to her morning bell as usual, one of the family went into her chamber, and found her lying on her side, with a knife in her right hand. An unfortunate attachment is ascribed as the cause of suicide. BARON GERAMB.-A warrant from the Secretary of State's Office, for the apprehension of HIGHGATE TUNNEL.-About five o'clock on Baron Geramb, was issued on Monday, March Monday morning, April 13, the Highgate Tun- 20. He refused to surrender himself to the bearers nel fell in. The labour of several months was of the Secretary's warrant, and at length applica thus in a few moments converted into a heap of tion was made at Marlborough-street Office, for ruins. Some of the workmen, who were coming assistance to put the warrant in execution. Hato resume their daily labour, describe the noise milton and Craig accompanied the Messengers to that preceded it like that of distant thunder. It the Baron's house, to force an entrance in the was the Crown Arch, near Hornsey-lane, that event of a refusal to surrender. The Officers first gave way; and the lane, in consequence, forced the garden-gate with hatchets, and the fell some feet deep, and instantly became impas-prisoner resigned himself, on the officers assuring sable. The houses in the vicinity felt the fall him they were not bailiffs. The far-famed Baron like the shock of an earthquake. CRUELTY TO A CHILD.-A man named Hardinge, who resides in Charles-street, Drury-lane, and a woman who passed for his wife, have been charged at Marlborough-street with beating and treating with various acts of cruelty Hardinge's daughter, a child seven or eight years old, and also withholding from her necessary food. The prosecution had been laudably instituted by the Parish Officers of St. Giles's, from the representations of many respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood where Hardinge lived. The testimony adduced on the occasion went to prove was sent off on Friday, April 3, to the coast in a chaise and four, from whence, under the Alien Act, he was conveyed ont of the country-It is said a correspondence of a very unbecoming nature was discovered between him and persons in Sicily. It is also said that he had written to Ministers, making very exorbitant demands on the national generosity, and had become extremely troublesome, not only for his importunity, but for the menaces with which his applications were ac companied. A placard was affixed to a pole at the top of the Baron's house, with the following words, printed in large characters :-" My house is my castle; I am under the protection of the || April 15, an extraordinary investigation took British law."-The Baron, it seems, while the || place at Bow-street. Croker, the Officer, was officers were besieging his Castle, told them that passing the Hampstead road; he observed at a he had two hundred pounds of gun-powder in the short distance before him two men on a wall, and house, and that if they persevered, he would blow directly after saw the tallest of them, a stout man, up that and himself together. Finding, however, about six feet high, hanging by his neck from a that they were not to be deterred by this menace, lamp-post, attached to the wall, being that instant he surrendered himself with the meekness of a tied up and turned off by the short man. This unlamb. But it is said that he was not in reality expected and extraordinary sight astonished the averse to a State removal, being apprehensive of Officer; he made up to the spot with all speed, visits of a more civil description.-Baron Geramb || and just after he arrived there, the tall man, who arrived at Heligoland on the 10th of April. He had been hanged, fell to the ground, the handkermade a conspicuous figure, being dressed in a chief with which he had been suspended having Turkish habit made of black velvet, and boots of given way. Croker produced his staff, said he was green Russian leather, curiously worked with au Officer, and demanded to know of the other man gold lace and silk. Before he embarked at Har- the cause of such conduct; in the mean time, the wich, he wrote a most furious and bombastic ma- man who had been hanged, recovered, got up, nifesto, proclaiming the injuries which he had re- and on Croker interfering, gave him a violent ceived from the British Government, and threat- blow on his nose, which nearly knocked him ening the nation with his vengeance. He de- backward. The short man was endeavouring clares that he will throw himself upon the mercy to make off; however, the Officer procured as. of the great Napoleon, who, he is sure, will par- sistance, and both were brought to the office, don him for offering his services to this country; when the account they gave was, that they workand he adds, that he will make bis wrongs resound ed on canals. They had been together on Wedfrom the banks of the Seine to those of the nesday afternoon, tossed up for money, and afterDanube. These wrongs, he says, were inflicted wards for their clothes. The tall man, who on him, not only by the Government, but by the was hanged, won the other's jacket, trowsers, newspapers; and he will, some time or other, come and shoes; they then tossed up which should here at the head of his tremendous Croats, and hang the other, and the short one won the toss. take vengeance upon us. In the wean time, he They got upon the wall, the one to submit, and says he is quitting this country with no other the other to hang him on the lamp-iron. They property than his sabre, though he brought both agreed in this statement. The tall one, £8000 into it. It may afford some satisfaction to who had been hanged, said, if he had won the his creditors to know, that "it stabs him to the toss, he would have hanged the other. He said, heart" to think of leaving England without payhe then felt the effects on his neck at the time he ing his debts. The Baron, with his whiskers, was hanging, and his eyes were so much swelled owed, in a great degree, his successful introduc- that he saw double. The Magistrates expressed tion to the ranks of fashion in this country to their horror and disgust; and ordered the man a certain Chevalier, who, some how or other, has who had been hanged, to find bail for the violent made good a strong footing in some families of the and unjustifiable assault upon the Officer, and highest rank. He came from Italy seven or the short one for hanging the other. Not hav eight years ago in quality of Music Master to ing bail, they were committed to Bridwell for Grassini. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.-On Wednesday, trial. PROVINCIALS, INCLUDING REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, &c. IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. CUMBERLAND. DARING ROBBERY.-One of the most daring and barbarous acts of robberies which perhaps ever occurred in that neighbourhood, was perpe- || trated on the afternoon of Thursday, Apr** at Upperby, a village near Carlisle. About four o'clock, a fellow entered the house of George M'Adam, late an engraver at Woodbank Printfield, during the absence of all the family but his wife. He immediately accosted her with "your ed, on her having a large family. "None of your prattling," replied the ruffian on saying which, he immediately knocked her down, and most barbarously kicked her in the face, breast, &c. until he left her for dead. He then plundered the apartment of property, in notes and sliver, to the amount of eight pounds, with which, we are sorry to say, notwithstanding an immediate hue and cry, he got off andiscovered.-Mrs. M'Adam was discovered soon afterwards lying on the floor by one of her children; in the course of about two hours she somewhat revived, and, though in a very languishing state, it is hoped will recover. The inhuman ruffian, was a tallish young man, of rather a genteel appearance, and wore a pair of blue pantaloons. CHESHIRE. money or your life!" Mrs. M'Adam remonstrat-him with an axe, and beat him with it about the head, until they thought him dead, and in the course of their brutality, struck out one of his eyes. That they then left him, but were soon apprized that he was yet living; they returned to their work of blood, and again retired, under the persuasion that he had breathed his last. That they were still disappointed, and although the unnatural wife pressed the man to go and make a finish of his master, he said he could not resume the task; and he absolutely refused, until she found an expedient to remove his scruples, by furnishing him with a razor, to cut his throat! It was then the work was completed. He stated, that he had been urged to the horrid deed by his mistress, who wanted him to marry her. Immediately on this confession, the Constable unlocked the handcuffs, with which he had locked himself to the prisoner, fastened the latter by the same instruments, to an assistant he had with him, and immediately went back to take the wife into custody. When he entered the house, he told her the confession of the servant, and bid her prepare to accompany him to the Magistrate. On this she covered her face with her apron, drew a razor from her breast, and ran it across her throat, making a deep incision. Mr. Bellis, of Audlem, surgeon, who happened to be there, viewing the body of the deceased, sewed up the wound, which, we understand is not considered dangerous. We have not heard the result of the examination of these wretches before the Magistrate; nor have we heard the minute particulars, farther than stated, of this shocking affair. We have no doubt, however, the circumstances above recited are generally correct. The young man is about nineteen years of age, the woman forty. Mr. Faithful Thomas, Coroner, has set off from that city, to hold an inquest on the body of Murray HORRID MURDER.-An occurrence has just come to our knowledge, which is enough to petrify with horror a heart the most insensible to feeling; and sorry we are to say, that our own country has been disgraced with such an awful scene of depravity and blood! We shall detail some few of the particulars.-On Sunday morning, April 12, the village of Hankelow, near Nantwich, was alarmed by a report, that George Murray, farmer in that village, had been murdered during the preceding night, having been found with his brains dashed ont, and his throat cut from ear to ear! It was supposed that the diabolical crime had been perpetrated by some rut less villains, who had entered his house in search of plunder, and it would appear, that his wife and every part of the family affected the most complete ignorance of this awful transaction. On the assembly of a concourse of people, which so unusual a circumstance was likely to create, suspicion fell upon one of the servant men, by distinct traces of blood from the bed of the deceased to that of his, which was in a higher part of the house. On examining him, these suspicions were strengthened, by finding marks of blood upon his shirt. A Peace Officer was sent for, and the young man taken into custody. When the Constable was taking him to a neighbouring Magistrate, he said to the Constable, "Well, I suppose I must be hanged;" and on being pressed for a disclosure of his meaning, confessed the following particulars-That the murder of his master was determined upon between his mistress and himself; that the time, manner, and circumstances of it were concerted by them; that in the night time they fell upon GLOUCESTERSHIRE. MURDER. At Gloucester Assizes, on Friday, April 3, the trial commenced of M. Broneville, a sweep, for the murder of his apprentice, aged ten years. The boy had run away from his master and on the 21st of March last, on the Newent road, near Gloucester, a witness deposed that he saw the prisoner driving the boy before him, who run into a canal, and clung to the hedge. The boy was crying, "Don't beat me, master." The prisoner dd him, and called him a rascal. Witness asked "if he was going to drown the boy" to which the prisoner answered, “you are an infernal liar." Witness said, "if you don't pull the boy out of the water, he will be |