heart-rending cries and lamenta tions were such as cannot be expressed-families, fathers, mothers, and children clinging together! The wreck breaking up, stern from midships and forecastle, precipitated all on it into one common destruction. Under these melancholy 'circumstances 206 souls perished, and the survivors have to lament the loss of dear relatives and friends.

"The officers and men of the Royal Veteran Battalion, who were returning home after a long and arduous service in Canada, and other remote climates, have now lost their all-the savings of many years, what they had looked upon with a pleasing hope of making themselves and their families comfortable with, on retiring from the service of their king and country. By this unfortunate event, the orphan daughter of Surgeon Armstrong lost her father, mother, brother, and two sisters; and the wife and surviving daughter of Lieut. Wilson are left wholly destitute. The disaster was so sudden and unlooked for, that not an article of baggage was saved; not even money, of which some had considerable sums, the produce of their effects sold at Quebec, which were paid for in guineas, on account of bills of exchange being attended with a loss of seven and a half per cent. for immediately after the ship struck she bilged and filled, drowning some who, from motives of humanity, attempted to secure articles of dress for the distressed females, who were hurried on deck in an undressed state.

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ors were landed upon was about 100 feet above the water, surrounded at the flowing of the tide: it being high water soon after the latter of them was saved, it was found impossible for these distressed objects to be got over to the main land until the next morning: on the top of this rock they were obliged to remain during the whole of the night without shelter, food, or nourishment, exposed to wind and rain, and many without shoes: the only confort that presented itself was a fire, which was made from pieces of the wreck that had been washed ashore.

"At day-light on the morning of the 12th, at low water, their removal to the opposite land was effected, some being let down by a rope, others slipping down a ladder to the bottom. After they crossed over, they directed their course to a house or fisherman's shed, distant about a mile and a half from the wreck, where they remained until the next day: the proprietor of this miserable shed not having the means of supplying relief to so considerable a number as took refuge, a party went over land to Trepassy, about 14 miles distant, through a marshy country, not inhabited by any human creature,and the foot-path through a morass. This party arrived at Trepassy, and reported the event to Messrs. Jackson, Burke, Sims, and the Rev. Mr. Brown, who immediately took measures for alleviating the distress, by dispatching men in their employ with provisions and spirits, to assist in bringing all those forward to Trepassy who could walk. Necessity prompted many

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to undertake this journey barefooted; the hardships and privations which they were enduring were so excessively great. On the 13th, in the evening, the major part of the survivors (assisted by the inhabitants, who during the journey carried the weak and feeble upon their backs), arrived at Trepassy, where they were billeted by order of the Magistrate, proportionably upon each house.

"There still remained at St. Shotts, the wife of a sergeant of the Veteran Battalion, who was delivered on the top of the rocks shortly after she was saved; the child and herself are doing well. A private whose leg was broke, and a woman severely bruised by the wreck, were also necessarily left there.

Immediately after the arrival at Trepassy, measures were adopted for the comfort and refreshment of the detachments. Boats were provided for their removal to St. John's. This being effected, his Excellency, Admiral Pickmore, the Governor, Major King, commanding the troops, the merchants, and gentlemen of St. John's, most promptly and generously came forward in the most handsome manner to the relief of the surviving sufferers. After remaining ten days at St. John's, refitting the distressed with clothing and necessaries, his Excellency the Admiral chartered the Mercury, of Poole, to bring them to Portsmouth. On this melancholy circumstance it is but justice to mention, that Mr. Joseph Bryant, master, Mr. Atkinson, mate, and the seamen of the Harpooner, deserve great credit for

their unceasing exertions: to their labour those that came on shore by the rope in a great measure owe their safety."

20. The Archduke Nicholas, brother of the Emperor of Russia, arrived in London at St. Albanshouse, with his suite in eight carriages. They had landed at Deal, whence the Archduke proceeded to Dover, where he visited the castle with all the fortifications. His arrival was formally announced to the Prince Regent, who commanded that every attention should be paid him during his residence in England. He is said in countenance much to resemble the emperor.

A second instance of death occasioned by taking through mistake a quantity of the oxalic acid, appeared at an inquest upon the body of the wife of Thomas Fage on Tower-hill, a man of unexceptionable character, under the following extraordinary circumstances. The account given by her husband was, that he was walking with his wife on Saturday evening in the Borough-road, when he kicked before him, on the foot pavement, a small packet wrapped in plain blue paper, and tied round with string, which he picked up; but, supposing it dropped as a trick, he was about throwing it down again, when his wife took it out of his hand, and urged him to look at the contents: on opening the paper, his wife said it was fine Epsom salts, and just what she wanted, and she took it home. She communicated what her husband had found to a fellow-lodger, but neither she nor the husband remonstrated against her using

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the article so found, supposing her to have sufficient knowledge of it, she having lived in an apothecary's service before her marriage. On the following morning, she complained of a pain in her bowels while dressing, and said she would take the supposed salts; she then dissolved them in warm water, and after some hesitation between her husband and herseif as to which of them should take the mixture (they both occasionally being in need of purgative medicine), she drank the fatal dose. The singularity of the c.rcumstances produced a strong sensation of suspicion in the neighbourhood as to the conduct of the husband, but his evidence was corroborated in all the material parts, and particularly by two young men residing in the Kentroad, who came forward in consequence of a hand-bill which Fage had caused to be distributed, by whose evidence it appeared, that the one had, on Saturday evening, purchased an article (wrapped in the manner above narrated), under the name of acid of sugar, at the shop of Mr. Irish, druggist, in Blackman-street, for the purpose of making a solution to clean boot-tops, which he delivered to his companion, who lost it out of his pocket in his way home, they pursuing the course which Fage and his wife afterwards took; and in consequence of losing the packet, afterwards returned, and purchased another quantity of the article at the same shop, and which they both stated to have a similar appearance to Epsom salts.

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21. A French paper states, that the use of vitiated rye has pro

duced a singular disease, causing cruel ravages in the commune of Beaurepaire, department of the Isere. The effects of this poison are described as frightful. It acts with great rapidity even on the strongest men, producing gangrene in all the limbs, which it detaches from the joints in a manner so horrible, that unfortunate creatures have been seen to live for some weeks in the greatest agonies with only the trunk remaining. In this disease emetics have been prescribed, followed by antispasmodics, and especially strong doses of opium, the sedative virtues of which have been very useful. The parts threatened are sometimes recovered by the application of cloths dipped in a decoction of Jesuit's bark. Administered internally, this latter remedy produced no sensible effect.

22. Madrid.-The King has granted to the Community of the Dominican Monks of our Lady of Atocha, the privilege of selling for their own profit four Castilian titles (of marquis or count), two of which shall be free in perpetuity from the taxes of lance and demi annate; the produce of this sale is to be employed in the restoration of the chapel of the Virgin. This pious concession is not new in Spain, titles having been granted the same way on various occasions since the reign of Philip V. The Exchequer being exhausted of ready money, the King permits the religious fraternity which he wishes to aid, to sell a privilege the produce of which would have otherwise found its way directly into the Exchequer.

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26. Bedford (Pennsylvania).— On Saturday, the 23d inst. as Mr. Peter Smith, of Greenfieldtownship, in this county, was kindling a fire near where he in tended to hew sled runners, five miles distant from any house, in the Alleghany-mountain, he was mortally wounded with two bullets, fired at him by George Dively and John Lingenfelter, they mistaking him for a bear. One of the said bullets penetrated his body a little above the hip on the left side, and went out at his right shoulder; the other entered his back, and lodged in his body. On the following day an inquest was held, which, after examining witnesses, &c gave it as their opinion, that said persons had no intention whatever of injuring or killing said deceased."--New York Paper.

31. At the fair of Falkirk, an exhibition of wild beasts was made in a caravan, in the marketplace, when a girl of about 3 years of age, in the charge of her sister, who is about 17 years of age, while witnessing it, was seized by a leopard, which (though every means that the circum

stances of the case afforded were used to save the child) lacerated the right arm to that degree that amputation from the shoulder was found necessary. It is expected, however, that the child will live. As the animal was properly secured by a close iron grating, it appears that the accident happened wholly from what may be considered an inattention on the part of the girl, for the purpose of gratifying the curiosity of her little sister, by suffering her to put her hand forth unobserved,

DECEMBER.

1. In the case of the King versus the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, recently tried in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, and in which the verdict was in favour of the Crown, Judges Day and Daly delivered their opinions to the Jury in favour of the Crown, and Mr. Justice Osborne in favour of the Chief Baron. The office of Clerk of the Pleas, the appointment to which formed the subject of the issue, now estimated at 20,000l. a year, had an annual salary of five marks attached to it, 31. 16s. 8d. and was actually sold in reversion, in the year 1596, by the then occupant, a Richard Rowe, to a gentleman of the name of Carroll, a citizen of Dublin, for 801.

On Sunday evening between six and seven o'clock, the house of Mr. Howard, a farmer, 90 years of age, at Yewsley, near Drayton, in the parish of Hillingdon, Middlesex, was entered by a gang of robbers, supposed to be four, in a disguised state, and robbed of considerable property, 1501 in cash and notes at least. A man and boy, who lived in the house, went out about six o'clock, when they left the aged man and his housekeeper, 73 years of age, in the kitchen. On their return to the house they found that it had been robbed of the valuable property, and the aged people lay on the floor, presenting a most horrid spectacle from the wounds and bruises which they had received. Their heads were cut in several places: they were insensible. It was discovered

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from the bloody state of part of a flail used for thrashing corn, that the wounds had been inflicted by that instrument. A surgeon was procured, but his assistance was of no avail. The poor old man died of his wounds on Monday, about four o'clock. His housekeeper remained in an insensible state, and was living yesterday morning, but very little hopes were entertained of her recovery. Chippenham, (Wilts). - Early this morning, about three o'clock, the corn and flour-mill (the largest and most extensive for many surrounding miles) belonging to Messrs. Dowling and Gaby, of this town, was discovered to be on fire, and, together with its stock of wheat and flour, was in a few hours totally destroyed. The damage is estimated at 10,0001. and upwards. The immediate consequence of this is, that on our next market wheat will of course rise considerably. There can be no doubt of its having been purposely set on fire. Upon the first alarm, the flames were discovered issuing from three different places at the same time-from the right, from the left, and centre of the building. Besides, the proprietors only last Thursday received an incendiary letter, containing a threat that, unless the price of flour was lowered (that is to say, unless they consented to give up the profits of their trade), their mill and house would be burnt. The house, which stands on the other side of the road, is untouched, and the proprietors are insured. It is remarkable, that there as few unemployed poor at Chippenham at this moment as have been

remembered there for these many years past.

2. On this day a riot took place in the metropolis, which for a time put on a very alarming appearance. About a fortnight preceding, a popular meeting had been held in Spafields, chiefly at the instigation of Mr. Henry Hunt, once a candidate for representing the city of Bristol, for the purpose of presenting a petition to the Prince Regent from the distressed manufacturers and mechanics. By means of handbills dispersed over London, the people were invited to attend at the same place on this day in order to hear the answer to their petition. A considerable crowd was assembled, which was waiting the appearance of Mr. Hunt about the Merlin's Cave public-house, when, about twelve o'clock, another crowd, with tri-coloured flags and a banner, entered another part of the field, in the midst of which a waggon was stationed. This was ascended by three or four persons, one of whom, by name Watson, an indigent person of the medical profession, made a very inflammatory harangue to the surrounding populace, in which he was succeeded by his son. They then descended from the waggon, and attended by a number of followers, among whom were many sailors, proceeded to Clerkenwell. Passing thence through Smithfield, they went to Snow-hill, and a cry for arms being raised, they attacked the shop of Mr. Beckwith, a gunsinith. Here a young man, the first who entered, demanding arms, was told to go about his business by a Mr. Platt

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