room a few minutes, early on Sunday inorning, leaving the other attendant in bed, when the deceased seized an opportunity of escaping to the top of the house. She stepped over a parapet, after which she was suspended some time by her hands, and at length fell down. She was dreadfully bruised, and died some time after. Verdict, Insanity.

Same day an inquest was held on the body of G. Carnevale, Esq. It appeared that the deceased, who was about 22 years old, had been lately married, and on the day on which he met his death, had been walking with his wife and a friend in the park. On their return, the deceased and his friend amused themselves with firing at marks in the garden of the house in which he rested.→After they had finished their amusement, the deceased retired into his bed-chamber, and shot himself with the pistol which he had just before been firing at the mark with. He had been subject to depression of spirits; and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of Insanity.

28. The Bishop of Landaff was voted the Gold Medal by the Board of Agriculture, for his new and extensive plantations on the banks of the Derwentwater Lake in Cumberland.

MAY 1. About three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the house of Mrs. St. Leger, in Upper Norton-street, Mary-lebone, which totally consumed it. One of the servants was killed.

2. An mquisition was taken at the Cannon Tavern, Portland-rond, Mary-le-bone, on the body of Anne Nicholson, killed by falling from the attic story of Mrs. St. Leger's house, in Upper Norton-street, while the premises were burning. The witnesses called to the melancholy facts were the following:

Elizabeth Gardner, the daughter of a pub. lican in Norton-street, knew the deceased; she was the wife of a seaman, now in his

Majesty's service; she slept at Mrs. St. Leger's house, and was employed as a chair

woman

Alexander Anderson, a bricklayer, in Up per Norton-street, heard the cry of åre, about three o'clock on Friday morning, as he was going to work: he observed two women standing at the south garret window of Mrs. St. Leger's house, then in flames. They were screaming for assistance. Witness went mito the garret of No. 68, the adjoining house, and held his arms out of the window toward the deceased, who flung herself out, holding by his hands. In this perilous situation she hung suspended some minutes; when witness being incapable of supporting her, and she being exhausted, she fell from his hold, struck with her feet against the call of the first floor window, and pitched upon the landing place of the door, and was killed. Witness had before saved the other female servant by the same means. The first woman exclaimed, "I can die but once!' and com

mitted herself to his hold; but she was much lighter and more active than the deceased, and witness lifted her into the window.

Mr. Richard Cooke, statuary in Portlandroad, was alarmed by the cry of "fire!" he saw, from his chamber window, a female apparently in great distress, striding across a rafter of the balcony, the roof of winch had fallen in with her weight, in jumping from the two-pair of stairs window. He left his house, and went to the front of that on fire, and saw Mrs. St. Leger at the door, who by this time had escape from her perilous situation. Witness offered to conduct her to his house, but she appeared greatly distressed, and exclaimed loudly for her child. Wit ness asked where the child was, and Mrs. St. Leger told him on the second floor. Winess made his way through the sinole to the place where he had been told the child was, but could not find it. He afterwards understood, the infant had been thrown out of the window by another person, caught in a blanket, and preserved. While on the staircase he saw the deceased and her companion in the garret. He called to them to rush through the smoke and descend the stairs, but they refused: witness then got down with difficulty, and went for the fire ladders, but was unable to procure the keys of the place where they were kept. Witness thought the parish very reprehensible in not having the ladders ready; and but for the delay, he conceived the bite of the unfortunate woman might have been saved. not more than five minutes before he arrived with the ladder that the deceased fell, and more than that time had elapsed in obtaining the keys. Witness did not learn how the fire began. Verdict-Accidental

Death.

It was

A duel was fought between Sir Francis Bardett and Mr Paull. It appears, that at a meeting of Mr. Paull's friends, the day before, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Sit, F. Burdett was advertised as Chairman. The Hon. Baronet did not attend; aud it was stated at the Meeting, by Mr. Jones Burdett, his Brother, that he had not given any promise to preside, and was surprised to find his name introduced in that way without his sanction. Mr. Pault explaned to the meeting, that he might have mistaken Sir Francis's meaning, who, though willing to propose him for Westminster at the Hustings, had not understood that he was to take the Chair at the Meeting.In consequence of the misunderstanding, Me. P'a ili called upma Sir Francis late at night; and an altercationa taking place between them, respecting the letter from the latter, read at the Meeting at 1 the Crown and Anchor, in which he dis

claimed ali promise of presiding there, it was settled that a duel should take place. The parties accordingly met this day, at en o'clock, at Combe Wood, near Wimbledon *

Common, Sir Francis being seconded by Mr. Bellenden Kerr, and Mr. Paul by a Mr. Cooper. Having exchanged shots, Mr. Kerr asked Mr. Paul whether he was satisfied. The answer was, No: he required a satisfactory apology from Sir Francis. The latter refused to give it, and persisted in the assertion that he had made no promise to take the Chair at the Meeting held at the Crown and Auchor. This refusal, of course, prevented all adjustment; and the parties having taken ground, exchanged shots a second time; Sir Francis was shot in the thigh, and Mr. Paul in the upper part of the leg.

Mr. Bellenden Kerr, (formerly Captain Gawler,) is one of the claimants of the Roxburgh Dukedom.

An extraordinary circumstance occurred in the Island of Jersey. A soldier, named Hales, of the 34th regiment, having been sentenced to death for felony, was taken to the place of execution; where, after evincing great contrition, the rope was put round his neck, and he was turned off the scaffold. After hanging about a minute and a half, the executioner suspended himself to his body, by whose additional weight the rope extended in such a manner, that the feet of the criminal touched the ground. The executioner then pulled him sideways, in order to strangle him; but being unable 10 effect this, he got upon his shoulders, when, to the no small surprise of the spectators, the criminal rose straight upon his feet, with the hangman upon his shoulders, and loosened the rope from his throat with his fingers. The Sheriff ordered another rope to he prepared; but the spectators interfered, and at length it was agreed to defer the execution till the will of the Magistrates should be known. It was subsequently determmed, that the whole case should be transmitted to his Majesty; and the execution of the sentence was deferred till his Majesty's pleasure should be known.

3. A very melancholy event happened at Chedgrave, in Norfolk. William Moss, a young man of Chedworth, paid his addresses to a young woman of that place, named Crisp; her mother, however, refused her consent to their being married. On the day above mertioned, Moss, who is a Mem ber of the Loddon, Brooke, and Seething Volunteers, attended the parade of that corps on Seething Green, at which Ann Crisp and her mother were also present.-During the time of the parade, another young man came up to them, and solicited and received the mother's permission to have her daughter, This soon reached the cars of Moss; and he was heard to exclaim to Anu Crisp, “It I am not to have you, nobody else shall." When the exercise was over, and the young woman and her mother were on their return home. Moss watched his opportunity, and stabbed them both in their Lodies with his

bayonet. He then ran into his father's house, near which the deed was perpetrated; and snatching a knife out of his father's hand, cut his own throat, but not mortally; he has since been committed to the Castle by Sir Roger Kerrison.-We are happy to learn that the wounds of the two unfortunate women are not likely to prove fatal.

6. About half past two o'clock, a young man, respectably dressed, was observed to get over the rails in St. Janies's park, nearly opposite Queen-square; he walked to the side of the canal, when he pulled off his coat and hat, and plunged into the water. Several persons were immediately attracted to both sides of the canal, but too late to prevent him from sinking. In a quarter of an hour, however, he was got out, and carried to a public-house in Queen-square, where two medical gentlemen immediately attended, and tried to effect the restoration of life, for several hours, in vain. He is supposed to be one of the band of the 24th regiment. He was recognised by the son of the landlord of a public-house in Chelsea, as having dined at his father's house about an hour previous to committing the deed; he then appeared much distressed in his mind, saying he had absented himself for three days from his regi ment, and had committed a crime, on Tuesday night, for which he should be hanged if he were discovered.

The Election for the representation of London, which threatened as severe a contest as had ever been known, found a termination as awful as it was unexpected. Alderman Hankey, one of the Candidates, died of an inflammation in the bowels this atternoon, being the first day of the poll.

7. Information was sent to worship-street Office of a murder having been committed in the house of one Jackson, a weaver, in Spitalfields, when some Oflicers were sent, who, after a nunute search, found the bodies of two females, one about five and the other seven years old, with their heads downwards in the water cask.-Their mothe, who is suspected of the crinic, was, after a stout resistance, apprehended.

A few evenings since a Coroner's inquest was held on Ann Davidson, wife to a journeyman taylor, and mother of seven cludren, m New Gravel-lane. Wapping, who hung herself in a gerret. It appeared, that previous to this action she carressed her intant, and put it mo a cradle under the care of one of her boys; the child being unruly, the boy ran to the garret to call us mother, who by this time was dead. It fur ther appeared that she had been confined m a mad-house at Newcastle, and that she was always remarked for her sobriety and industry.-Verdict-Lunacy.

11. The heavy ram winch fell caused the brook which runs through Derby to swell between twelve and one o'clock on Wed

nesday morning. The mundation was se

rapid, that in several streets the water rose three feet deep in 15 minutes. Though considerable damage was done, no lives were lost. On the preceding afternoon, two young gentlemen attempting to cross the river Derwent, near Derby, in a ferry-boat, the chain broke, by which accident the boat upset, and the youngest, 15 years of age, was drowned; a rope being thrown out was the means of saving the other.-At Lincoln, the hail, rain, thunder, and lightning, were of the most awful kind. The main street was completely inundated, and had for a long tune the appearance of a canal.--The Don, near Doncaster, rose nine feet in an hour and a half.

In the Court of King's Bench, a motion was made by Mr. Garrow, to set aside the judgment obtained under a warrant of Attorney, and to stay the levy in the hands of the Sheriff, under the following interesting circumstances:-It appeared from the affidavits, that a tradesman in the city, wishing to obtain a temporary supply of money, and being lured by the terms held out in a public advertisement, repaired to a house in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, where he hoped to obtain an accommodation on advantageous.terms. He was introduced to a lady, who proposed that he should draw bills, and she would get them negotiated. He was, however, to take, as part of the consideration, a capital hunter, a horse that had huuted with the King's hounds, and that the son of the Archbishop of York had offered 150 guineas for it; but it should be put in, as a great favour, at 120 guincas. The party consented, the bills were drawn, and as a collateral security, he gave a warrant of attorney, confessing judgment to the amount of the sum to be raised. When the hunter came home, said the Learned Counsel, the outside and inside value of him, disposing of his bones to make ivory black, his hide to the currier, and his flesh for the dogs, was not more than 31., the very same animal the son of the archbishop was represented as having offered 150 guineas for. But the whole was a delusion, and the tradesman presently found himself swindled. He would have gladly sustained a loss of S01. or 401. to have got his bills back again, but that was refused. The first bill became due and it was paid; the second was dishonoured, and the Money Lender on advantageous terms entered up judgment on the warrant of attorney. It was therefore to set aside that judgment, and to stay proceedings, that the present motion was made.-The Court granted a rule to show cause.

At Shrewsbury Assizes, John Corns, only 14 years of age, was convicted of a burglary, and received sentence of death.

At Monaghan Lent Assizes, Elias Gartlan stood indicted for the murder of Mary Gart Europ. Mag. Vol. L!, May 1607.

Thomas Jewett, of Old Malton, aged 24, was charged with violating the chastity of Elizabeth Stabier, his master's daughter, a child under ten years of age.-It was stated, that the prisoner was servant to W. Stabler, blacksmith, at Old Malton, and lived in the family as an inmate.-On Sunday, the 27th of July last, Mr. Stabler and his wife went to Castle Howard, leaving the care of his family to the prisoner. The family consisted of five children, the eldest of which was the child on whom the injury was committed, and who was at that time under nine years of age. The facts were clearly proved, and the prisoner received a good character.

The Judge, in stating the law to the Jury, said, “That the statute had made it a capital offence for any inan to have what the law calls carnal knowledge of a female child under the age of ten years: and that without any reference to the consent or non-consent of the child. Is Lordship then recapitulated the whole of the evidence.

The Jury, after consulting for a few moments, found the prisoner guilty, but recom mended him to mercy, on account of his general good character.

His Lordship, with the most impressive solemnity, then said:-

"Gentlemen,--I always listen with pleasure to your recommendation, whenever I can do it consistently with my public duty; but I an afraid I should hand over the young and innocent part of the female sex to the lusts of the depraved part of the other sex, if I should, in this instance, yield to your suggestion; and it will be my painful duty to leave the prisoner to the unmitigated severity of the laun."

When his Lordship passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, he repeated the above sentiment, and added:-

"It would be in vain that the law protected female youth and innocence, with the heaviest penalty against those who outraged them, if the ministers of the law had not courage fully to

execute it "

At the Taunton Assizes, William Goodland, alias Jemmy from Town, was found guilty of robbing Mr. Henry Marshall, of Bath, on the highway.

Last week a shoemaker at a public-house in Salford, devoured four pounds and a half of bacon, fried, together with forty eggs; after finishing the bacon and eggs, he added to the fat, wherein they were fried, a quantity of vinegar, sopped bread therein, and devoured it.

A few days since, one of the stage-coaches on the North Road ran from London to Stamford (a distance of 90 miles) in 9 hours and 4 minutes. The passengers, four in number, breakfasted and dined on the road; so that it must have run at the rate of 12 miles an hour all the time of travelling.

A few days since, two sisters, women of the town, were charged by a sailor named Jones, before the Magistrates at Union Hall, with a robbery. One of them embraced him, while the other picked his pocket of a tobacco-box and six pounds. One of the prisoners acknowledged the offence, exculpated her sister, (who was discharged,) and she was committed for trial.

12. The Princess of Wales, after a long estrangement from the presence of her Majesty and the Princesses, paid a visit to those angust Personages, at the Queen's Palace, with whom she remained about half an hour.

13. The London election closed; when the numbers for the existing Candidates

14. A Banker's Clerk lost his pocketbook, containing 10,000l. in Bank notes. The book and notes were restored the next day by a poor man, and 5001. reward paid to the finder.

14. The day announced for a Drawing. Room to be held at St. James's, excited more public attention than any that has been held for a number of years, owing to a rumour that the Princess of Wales would be present, after an absence of about two years. It was, in consequence, much more numerously attended than we have of late been accustomed to witness.About two o'clock, her Majesty and the Princesses entered the Grand Council Chamber. The Duke of Cumberland, in Ins Court dress, gave directions to be informed as soon as the Princess of Wales's Orriage approached; which was accordingly done, and his Royal Highness was at the door when it arrived. As soon as it halted, the populace gave three cheers, at which she was much affected; her Royal Highness appeared

in good health. Her dress, which was halfmourning, consisted of black crape, richly ornamented with pearls. Her head-dress was a pearl net, with a plume of ostrich feaed her Royal Highness. The Duke conthers. The Marchioness Townshend attenddueted her to the Grand Council Chamber, where her Majesty was holding the DrawingRoom, and presented her to the Queen; and, after conversing for a few minutes, her Royal Highness passed on to the Princesses; the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, the Dukes of Cambridge and Gloucester; and, after their congratulations, her Royal Highness received the compliments of the principal part of the Nobility and Gentry.She remained in the Drawing-Room exactly an hour; after which she dined with her Royal Daughter at Warwick-house.

15. At twelve o'clock, notice was received at the Opera-house, from the Marchioness of Townshend, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales would honour the Opera with her presence in the evening. The Duke of Cumberland, and Mr. Thomas, Vice Chamberlain to her Royal Highness, dined with the Marchioness of Townshend, at her house in Weymouth-street, where her Royal Highness arrived, about half past eight o'clock, in her carriage and four, from Blackheath. In a short time after, the party proceeded to the Opera-House, where they arrived at half past nine o'clock; Mr. Jewell, in full dress, was in waiting to receive them. Colonel Thomas conducted her Royal Highness along the passage, and up the first flight of stairs. The Duke of Cumberland

then took her hand, and conducted her into the Marchioness's Box. Their Royal High Besses were soon recognised by the audience, who immediately rose, and made the house resound with their acclamations. The huzzang and applauding continued nearly five minutes. The Divertissement having just concluded, Miss Griglietti, Signors Naidi. Rovedino, Siboni, and Giovanni, came to the front of the stage, and sung God save the King," accompanied by the full band. Royal Highness was elegantly dressed in half mourning, profusely ornamented with silver bugles and spangles, and a rich display of diamonds on her head and neck.

Her

17. This afternoon, as Mr. John Stubbin, of Raydon, Suffolk, was amusing himselt in a small boat, near Raydon Mill, the boat upset; and he was drowned in presence of two of his children, who were standing at the water's edge.

20. The following were executed before the Debtors' Door of Newgate :-William Fisher and Wm. Freeman, for forgery; John Harford, John Fordham, John Harvey, and Win, Ridge, for robbug the house of Mr. Spencer, of Ponder's End.

In the Court of King's Bench was tried an action for Crim. Con. at the suit of Mr.

Railston, a merchant of Wolverhampton, against Colonel Bedingsfield. Mrs. Railston having, for the recovery of her health, gone with her sister, Miss Brown, to Aberystwith, a watering-place in South Wales, they were there met in the course of their morning walk by the defendant, and a Mr. Edwards, who were altogether strangers, but introduced themselves. The defendant and the married lady strolled one way, his friend and Miss Brown another; and Mrs. Railston did not come home till eleven o'clock that night. A few days afterwards, the Colonel drove Mrs. Railston out in a gig, to a place called the Devil's Bridge, where they passed the day, and slept together at an inn. In the morning, the husband unexpectedly arrived. Under these circumstances the action was brought, and a verdict, with 1000). damages, obtained.

21. As the King was about to mount one of his chargers at Windsor, the horse reared up, and threw his Majesty; but providentially a chain fixed to, some posts broke the fall, which might otherwise have proved of most serious consequence. The King, not intimidated by this accident, ordered another of his chargers to be brought out, which he immediately mounted, and pursued his morning's ride through Windsor Forest.

23. The Westminster Election feally terminated; when the numbers were, for Sir F. Burdett, 5134; Lord Cochrane, 3708; Mr. Sheridan, 2615; and Mr. Elliot, 2137.--At the moment the business was over, the mob, according to ancient custom, pulled down the hustings, and carried away the materials. -Mr. Sheridan expects to dispiace Lord Cochrane upon the Treating Act.-Lord Cochrane was chaired.-Sir Francis Burdett was not well enough to attend: he is to be chaired on his recovery, from his house in Piccadilly to the Crown and Anchor Ta

vern.

Mr. Sheridan and Lord Cochrane were the principal speakers from the hustings. Among the notable things of the formerone was, that, instead of gaining by the place he held under Government during the late Administration, he was 1200!. minus; another, that his son might have kept his place in Ireland, if he (his father) would have consented to a little forbearance toward the present Ministry. At this proposal Mr. Shedan spurned with contempt, and his son lost his place.

Lord Cochrane's constant theme was Naval Abuses; and yet he was the avowed enemy of the great corrector of naval abuses, Earl St. Vincent.

Before the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Glasgow, a few days ago, Adam Cox was tried for the murder of his own child, by throwing it into a clayhole near Tradestown. The trial lasted several hours. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. He was sen

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Mr. Deputy Birch has been returned for the Ward of Candlewick, by a majority of eight. His opponent, Mr. Atkins, has deman led a scrutiny.

Duncan, the gardener, of Clapham, has received a conditional pardon, to be transported to Botany Bay for life.

A man of the name of Bricknell, who was to stand in the pillory at Winchester, contrived to hang himself in the Gaol, with his braces, about an hour before the time appointed for the exhibition of his person.

A few days ago, a rat's nest was found by a terrier dog, in a field near Netherhali, in Cumberland, within five yards of the river Ellin; in which was found the old she rat, ten young ones, and 57 lamper eels, of which more than 30 were alive.

The beautiful little town of Chudleigh, in Devonshire, we are sorry to state, has been nearly destroyed by fire. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at near 200.

An overland dispatch from India has brought intelligence, that a conspiracy had lately been discovered; the object of which was, to destroy the the 9th and 11th regiments at Nurn Droog.

Letters from a Petty Officer of the Nau-, tilus, of 18 guns, Captain Palmer, wrecked on a desert island in the Mediterranean, state, that about 70 of the survivors, among whom was the Captain and First Lieutenant, had escaped the horrors of a watery grave, to encounter a more dreadful death by starvation. These poor fellows were without food nearly ten days. The Captain and. First Lieutenant, with the greatest part of those on the island, perished from hunger. The few survivors were taken off by the boats of Admiral Louis.

Ignis Fatuus.-A light spread gradually upon the head and between the cars of a man's horse, while riding from Euston to Fakenham, in Suffolk, on the night of the 5:h instant. The luminous spectre, or Willof-the-Wisp, kept its station, and preserved its brilliancy, to within a short distance of Fakenh on parsonage; when it gradually vanished, and leit no trace behind.

Roman Catholic Address.-The principal Roman Catholic subjects in England have published au. Address to their fellow countrymen, in which, after expressing their as