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.~ of ', LISBO?, JUN! 11. 'aT u . , 'J. — The-publication of . the tents of the ce has not taken place as I y yesterdas tated.--- Ter.sons, with.whjt desin is - not k took adVantage of theorder to' the g nt Preiide of nown, Me Se nate to publi s h; that owing to the melancholy situ tion to whi c h the People are i:bout to be - reduced, the' re will - he no illumination on the approiching kYing-in of the PRINCESS ; and they fabricated an order for : the publiCation of the - Peace, which they caused to be circulated 'on the Change, and this pro daced a gieat colleaion of people in the public daces to hea r the Proclamation, it is said that the °lice have caused the authors of this fabrication to be arrested. There is no doubt, holy:ever, that the Prelimi naries are signed. Nothing has yet transpired re -I)etling the conditions. Don ROD IGUES, Mini !ter of Finances, having said to Mr. FRERE, that he .Knew nothing of 'the conditions, the latter Gentle man was induced to signify to the Fa6ldry, that their property was likely to be sequestrated. Xes terdhy, however, he gave intimation that the news was*less alarming. The eldest son of the Prince Regent, aged six Year, and who has of the Small Pox, is this !, 11 .ening t o b e b ur i ed i n the Church'of S. Vincent, which is the btrying-15_1ace of the Kings of Portu- o We hear from 4brantes, that on the conclusion c _ TtuCe, Army' ,vas to - set, out zi n ii its return, to Santarenk On the x Ith the Ar 'erY w ere , alreacl4' on their march for that place. • . . •TH tortp r iexe::Goveriunept has, 411 the . ipre, sent Moment,. - negle6.ted• all the means. of defence Viliich 'the - Country` Afforded. It never gave any credit to the.-threats of Spain, because, to exclude the English frotn 'the ?Oils of Portugal, would be to inVite them to . seek for the. Indemnities which the • Foreign PossessionS of the two Powers would obviously present to them. It thought that its system .of policy was .still more justified by the 'cir cumstance, that even France was. much interested in preventing - the execution of these threats. These causes led to the turprize of the Country. In the first fortnight of hostilities, the Province of Alentijo. has been conqueted. • On the Bth of June, the. Spaniards, 30,000 strong, had already reached Gekiion, four Leagues from Abrantes.— There were no fortified places to impede their Pro gress to Lisbon ; and there were opposed to them only 15,000 men at the utmost, commanded too. by the Duke .of FOENSE wh o was constantly retreat ing before/hem. Several small posts have surren - tiered without any resistance, among. others, Ife. riune.zkir.. The Commander of this place, who very . pnidenily stipulated' in his .Capitulation,, that he - should no.rser.ve for four years,- has been extremely ill-received here. It- has been said, however, that he was obliged to ail as he did by his Officers, who were influenced by :the despair dibplayed by the Soldiers. , The case has been very different - with the brave Commander of Campo Maggiore, who did not surrender till the Bth of June, all his warlike stores and provisions being then exhausted. Lieu - tenant-General FR ASE R, according to report, pro.: • posed to the Duke to make an attack with the English Troops, in'order to throw succours into the 1 4 ace,-- but this Offer was rejOied. • - It is mie that is,ooo men have been-assembled in the n eighbourhood . of Portalegne, .but, with Out arlY rnearks being provided for..their subsistence, and scarcely magazi nes or war lik e stores . It could have bee n expeted that the auxiliary troops, accustomed as they have been for more than four years to receive regularly a large allowance of pro, 'visions;, should submit with equal resignation to a state. of Want; b or dering'on famine, the price of an pniunition loaf being five shillings, add that of bottle 'ofvvater one shilling. It is true that they , hadbefore them - theexample of the Portugueze Troops, who a r e the - soberest in the world. But as even this yirtue•.catinot - save them from starving, ofe.Y Here On the point Of falling under the pressure circumstances; vvlien - the it'd's of a' Truee 'was here to the Camp: 'This intelligence .larriVed liere on. the at x th,. ten in the morning, by Capt. browEs, Aid-de-Camp. to General ,FtAscit, He Itt with him Dispatches for the Mi iliater.. . We are assured that . in, the night of the loth, 4.,?• PINT6's Secretary; who had arrived here from .°‘zdajazi bro ug h t t h e Preliminaries' of Peace to be S igned by the Prince: Nothing has yet-transpired !esPeeting the conditions: Men of the best infor- Illation - say, that they are_ so,disgraceful to this Courltry that they cannot -venture to make them known td 'the Peoplei-eicept-by degrees; and with. precaution; The rasure of" the Fortifications of _Eluas and iffoieda,.in order to render this Country. Perpetually dependant upon Spain---the detachment' Of her from her Alliance with Englan&---the placing •6f u Clarrisonl'Obe half Spaniards and the other half F - re nchs in all her Ports—the payment of '3o millions of livres to the French, and the free navi. to Brazil and. 9f the river Amazon,. are. of ,- '•-The condition of the Country is such, that still harder tms m in have been imposed unon it. A report e ' r. even in circulation, that iris 'in iended that 1° ki - N e z . 'Of BRAZIL shall tepairto id till th, the conclusion of Peace, in order._ to • P rev ent film from r,oing to Brazil. But thisireport is absurd. " It is true, however,. that the humilia tion and hard treatment which he is likely tä ex, perience Might ii - :duce him to take a step which scone reason ImigAgo . didated . to hini.=—For though the weakest Prince .in Europe; he might, by taking .. ( liPantage, of t h e troubles 'Which have 'existed in ::this part (.;f the Gleoh, and by transporting . hirnself to 4therica, have beconie the SOverelgn , of the most powerful acid &Anis - Mug E . nipire in the world: JUNE 134 461.. M.--jY6SteLday the President of the Senate received orders from the PR . INC E' i*ediaLOy, th:e terms, of the Peace with the usU'al forinalities, and ordered an illymination tit three days, giving notice at the same time .that there 'woldd, be none for the . aPprOading . lying-ini)f the PRINCESS. The English: ate . 'preparing to 'depart. It is said that Mr. FREE is also preparing to-leave this place. Mean While the conditions of the Peace ' r emain , a secret.- : -There are not here Transports sufficient to re ceive the A - rmy which- is about' to return from flletitejo. • :3 No,at - italat not, delay' ate, there to embarle as isCion.ns. tfithsports shall arrive. I.was yesterday told _twat some Gun=boats and Ships of :the•Lipe are,to be sent to the bar, apparently to di:pose the entrance of Ships of War ,to any, other nation.- The Secretary of r J kio, wh? brought ,the Treaty to be signed; is, to set our again, immediately with it as soon as signed, • which was to be done immediately after a Council of State, ; which was held yesrerday. Lotrts,BoxAi.Att•rE is . already mentioned as the Ambassador at this place. It is .believecl that Mr. FRERF cannot remain here; Arid ,that. the English. Flag will be excluded from the Ports of Portugal.— But it is said that the English merchandiiewill be allowed to be imported by the Neutral Powers: • PARIS, juNE z§. A FRENCH Privateer arrived at .eghori• from , Longano, reports that:Porto Ferritio obstinately per sists in refusing to surrender: The Besiegers were, in consequence, preparing to make a fresh assault. The Prefets of La Meurthe, Jura, and tha Upper Saone, have informed the Minister of Police; that they have apprehended a, numlier of Emigrants . tnlio had returned without permission from the doVern- Ment. • According to Letters from Dijon; a oniid - eraliie body of Troops is expeded there to assist iii coiii~ pleting the canal of the COte d'Or. PE'rEaSBOROH, MAY 30.-L-'l'here is in circula- . tion an anecdote of PE ciur, called Chevalier; for merly Assessor_ of the College, and Master of the .Ballets at Court, of such a dreadful naiute, that it could scarcely be credited, if the goodness of the . new Sovereign had not.given it a pubiicity, which, proved tbi innocence of the viaim as . thuch as it shews the justice of the EMPEROR. The Papers formerly mentioned the condemnation and punisb menr, but they did pot state that the cause was imaginary. The following are the circumstantial details A person named IV.lrk st BS, a native of Chamberry, formerly Secret - at); 'of the Sardinian Legation at Naples, and Captain of the Piedmont Militia, had lived for eight years at. Moscow he had been in. tiodgced to the world under the auspices of a re.. spedable Minister, Barbn DE LA TIMBRE, An.. basstidor from the KING of SARDINIA, and his condud made hint esteemed by all good men. He lived its the house of a Nobleman.narned NARtscx. KIN, whose daughter had contra&ed an unfortunate marriage, as far as related to tht temper and dia_ rafter of her husband. • The only means of restoting happiness to this young:persen, already separated from her husband, WAS to obtain a divorce the EMP.EROR aione pos sesses the right • of pronouncing a sentence of di_ and Pitut, objeEted:to aceeding to a deMand Which was cleen...d in opposition to the dielates Religion. Mt 11.1 ES. was fixed upon to go to Peters burgh, and solicit • He got introduced into the house of CaEvAr.z f. a, and . by ., a lure of k fifty thousand rouble:, and diamond nr!eldace, ob tained a piomie of en"-:iging Count Pt KENTAI _ sow to overcome the F.,,r Eit oß's reptigtiarice. MERMEs havihg returned to Moscow, received a letter, desiring him:to cone back to,Petersburgh, adding, that the affair was so far-advanced:Aar it . would pro!)ithlY be finished before his at ri Full of hope, MER hit *returned, bringing . it'll. him the; articles promised; and went : to qatschinai wheie the Count was. CHE V AL I E R corifirmedwhai-he had wti r_ : ten, and exhotticf him: to give hi wife nor . only,the necklace, but:half of the , co,ago roubles. MIL.P.SEe did all that was desired of Mtn. Threcwecks, how ever elapsed, .and the above was nor pronounced. L--• At length he perceived.be was tricked, and went. to Petersburgh,. where be 'told story to I\vll%.laMe PE Bou U ;L j • 'whp ..relate - d 'it ..to EjE- The prime.Minist c r, who Would have proofs;, sired to hear the Etas from . KERMEVS 6%,vr) Mouth. The latter was .accortlinly inviter to , dinner 14 Madatne 1J E Bdu:s L 's, where IC4. DE ROSTOP- Snv i .hid in an ad joining closet, lieard all that . pOised.. The Minister iiiformea PAUL of the . affair : the Emperor ; "italignOtit at, any - one's daring-to sell his favourS, coMmande'd the Procurator_ General to take infofmation respeding the conduet of . CHEVALIER and,his wife: • • ABEt.EXNLNOW, tt creature 'OfJC ENTA ISO:W, stead of fulfilling the intentio6s of his Sovereign, consented, with 'Madame . be CHEVAtiik's lover, to destroy'MEßmts,. as. the only means of saving their iepLl6tion..: ME RNIES was arrested as a )e_ mocrat, and a PrOpagandiSt. The f'roeurator, who interrogated him alone, forced him to :Jame the per sons whom he knew at Mosco‘O; and to renderhim odious to the .Publici twenty-two _person's' were taken up and sent to Pctersburkl l . ConfrOnted with •the - accused,. no one said a word ,against him, .and not having any, thing to say agairrst them himself, they were set at liberty in three - or. four . days; .yet it ,was necessary that the unfortunate man should' suffer the punishment destined for him. It is said, that CHEVALIER declared, at the moment Of his ar. rest, MERM es is taken up, and shall have the knout, for having dared to mention my name' a9d Madame CHEVALIER'S." In IVIERYtEsis house were hidden, on purpose, some Papers found upon some Propagandilts; and this proof, discovered by the Police in searching the house', was sufficient. ME RM ES received forty strokes of the knout, had his nostrils slit, and was sent to Siberia. He suffered his punishment with out speaking one word. As soon as MERMES was represented to PAUL, as an enemy to the Govern ment, the family of CHEVALIER was reinstated his good opinion, and Madame CHEVALI ER became so much in favour, that it was expeaed she would be declared the EMPEROR'S Mistress. Every body preserved silence respeEting this at_ fair, until ALEXANDER, informed of the severity ex ercised against MERMES, gave orders to bring him back to Russia, and gave him a pension of i z,OOO roubles, with leave to live where he pleased. The people, indignant against, Madame CHEYAL I V 2, would have torn her to pieces, goodness and indulgence of the Emperor alone saved her life. 111 woman has set out from, hence loaded with riches, which she is gone to spend iria foreign coml_ try with her love;. It was this affair that caused the disgrace of M. DE ROSTOPS3 N. LAIVIE - I'6kl i ! COUR I . 01. KlNG's' BENCII,I-t;t.V SITTZN,C3 L0:214..t:,,:.:1Y(3it•AN1! A s?Eqi4L. ,i.t'Ls - 1:.!3TE.r,.-11ALL DELATIif COPLEY'. This was an Affion brought b .- ; , the Plaintiff, who is an Engraver, against the Defendant, who is a Painter, to recover tiles= of 5.501‘ being the temainder of the sum . of 8034 which the Defendant undertook . . to pay to the Plaititi.i for engraving, upon a .smaller.pt ceintraded scale,- the resemblakiee of the Picture of -,the Death of - Lord CHATHAM ; which the Plaintiff was to do from another engrav ing, ekecuted by nartolozzi, from a. drawing of Cipriani, &c. The Plaintiff.had eXeCutesi thispiece of .Engrav ipg, which took him tip three years.ankupwards to perform,. and Bartolozzi had two thOusand guineas ' for. that of which his was to be the copy. . It appeared by; the evidence of Mr.. BAiTo... tort, that this piece of Engraving was very Well executed; Considering that it was a copy three times removed from the original; that is, a . copy of a copy; &c ' .. and . that it : was upOn . ..a reduced scale,. which made it the - more difficult -to Pre serve. the likenesses of all•the figures in the• groupe of the piece, .whiCh are fifty.twO in number.; • that the... Plaintiff was a man of verj7. 'considerable skill in his profession; ;And; as a - .proof that such was the opinion of Mr. /..Bartolozzi, he hiniself employed him in the enkraving.a part of,the other work, for which he gave -him seven bundled guineas, that. the piece of Digraving in question; was a very , respeaable one, i'uid certainly the best'performance of the Plaintiff's gra'ver, and suet', as ought to have satisfied Mr. Copley, , but who, Mr. Bartoloz,zi thought; Was never: to be satisfied with the per, formance of any Engraver who had to engrave for him; in itnitation of ai+y of his ; pictures, and. there- :- fore he was dissatisfied' with this performance, &c.. , •- Mr. tiot.FoßD, Mr. RYDER ; Mr. 'BiliN ; Mr. BROMLEY, Mr. PfCkEN,S6N, mr.•LANDSEER, NEAGLt; Mr. A. SMITH; Mr. ARTOIS, Mr. TolUx eminent Engravers, were of,- opinion -that this Engraving was a very good and respeaable performance ). so was Mr. jos. EvANs, -a Prints-el ler and. Mr. Jos'..C6L - E and Mr. ANTHONY M ON , Artists';. and also Mr—Gto. BAKER ; a Merchant', who had been in the habit of purchasing these Works of Art, &c. On the part of the Defendant it was contended, that this performance, was so. far from being respec table, that it Was extremely ill executed; that the . Piece being a mOdern Historical Piece, made up of agroUp of fignres, who were supposed to attend the catastrophe which the Piauredescribed, the great merit of it consisted in the resemblance of the por traits,- that unless :they were likenesses, the Piece was good for ,nothing ; that the' figures . were Most Of them very. defectively done, and . same of them, ridiculously so, and such as.might be called carica-.' tures, &c. ; that this being the Case, it wai so far 'from being worth' Sool. to PA T . Copley, that it Would be better for him to give a thousand gui nea's to buy up the copy, to preVentitfrom coining into sale, on account of the injury it would do to the •qpittation of' Mr. Copley, if it came into cir culation; '&c. and th . e Plaintiff was ' entitled to nothing, although - he had received . 7:561. • anit that thetefOre theygrciio ought to be for the Defendant, In support of this defence, Sir VIM. BEECIIy was examined, who thought the work: every defedive, and inadequate to the purpose for which. it was designed ; he thought the groupe so, ill that he should hardly have any of them, Sze. in a word, if Mr. Copley c yecieti any thing froth* this. Engraving that was c...mducive . to his interest or his fame in publishing it, ~he must certainly be totally disa?pointed. . E Was of the same, opinion, and so was Mr. COSWAY., • Mr. WEST, the President of the Royal Academy, .was aiso of this opinion, the reasons for whiCh he gave very elaborately, and Mr. lioi , i;AEß, Sir FRANCIS 43ouitcF.Ois, Mr. Po, cosii.A - 1.5: Mt. Jo i a BOX DELL, were also of the sane opinion, and some of these Artists treated this`performince . as perfaity contemptible in some of its parts ; but, they a - Ought its fiiults were rather the effe& of ignorance thaii Want of skill. Such being the outline of the Case, and more than an outline we cannot at present pretend, to. give, in which the highest authorities' in this. COuntry, in regard to the Arts, differed ; the one set.9l' Wit-, nesses being the most eminent among the En gravers, who were for , the Plaintiff ; the other among the, most erain,ent of the Painters, who were for - the Defendant, Lord KENYON said,-he should not make many observations. The TAW , of the Case his' Lordship said, had been corrrealy stated, when it was said that the Plaintiff should recover the whole of the sum of 8001. or none, because the Contraa was an entire Contraa,. If the performance was equal to the Contraa, the whole sum was earned by the Plaintiftl—ii it was not equal to the Contraa, then nothing wes:due, - because there was no divid.. ing, fox ( there was no division in : the engagement, so that ,there could not be made any thing like what was_to he called a reasonable allowanCe for what the plaintiff had done. The question was, whether the bargain was wholly performed or'not ? There was, in this case, no Such ,thing . as performing it in 'part.: His ,I.ordship said," he knew - nothing cif the Fine Arts, ,a deficiency which he very Muth lament ed, since a knowledge_of them, jraproVed the self.. sibility of the. human charkter, and he believed, thereby enlarged the sphere of huMan pleasure. He was therefdre quite unable to lend the Jury any as.:,. sistance whatever : he did not say' this from.a, de_ sire to save himself the trouble of giving an opinion, for that, however laborioas, he should not shun, nor did he say it out of affeetation, with a view of having it understood, that he wished to speak.with reserve, but he said it fairly as a confession of an unfortunate ignorance of what he wished he kneW. Here he stood in the midst of the greatest dif- ticulty, which he could have to encounter, if he lad to decide the case; which, however,', he tivas gtad lie had - not: There were l'Oartecti labirintrit Qa hii rizht'hnd,, and 6uilecn•:m•the . .. . ; lett :--•• He Meant, there were ; fourteen Winitlss, on the one. side, and fourteen on the -tiler; -- they, were most respeetable- -in the profession 67 whiCh. they• belonged z —They: - were exaeily„ that number on the onaside, and exaaiy that number on the other--,His Lordship wouAi not be so presump,' tuorts as to.affea to .hav",e an opinion Upon a case where there was such a difference, ! His Lordship paid handsome compliments to - several of the Wit. nesses. on both sides, and particularly to Mr. WEST, who was the .worthygucces!:or ~of the hire delebrated President of the Royal Academy., There. Was no difficalty . on the law of the. cast i he: Tut - il stat ed how. that stood a l rea d y . Th e Plaintiff either was 'entitled to the whole, or none, in this business;. tbr thecontrata was an entire enntraft, and it was either performed_Completely, in which case the whole w:t3 due, or else not, at ,all, in which.-case nothing was due., His Lordship . said, h e Shoqld take care rent to expose himself as the Philosopher did with the - Cartbaginian General, who, ,did well enough, while he spoke orr toPicS he iinderstocid, bait when he tame to . discourse on war, obtained . the 'thaultffer .0f . ...'a babbler. —His Lordship w..t. .determined to shun the imputation . of - dart charitaer. The si t -m.)le .que'stion,.Undbubtcdly, in tliis case wag this: - --`,Vase this a - fair repre!,entation, such as ,coulA haver been expected, notfront tli : _ skill of M r . gar. toluzzi, whose - skill is, perhaps, inithitabie ; but such suat as migFit be extithed fro'm the 'skill of a, man of considerable eminence, sucn as Mr. Delittre was allowed to be ? For that, bitt , no . more, the Dv. fendant, Mr. Co ley, had a right to exped: . The Jury withdrew, and in about half an hoar brought in 'their verdia f or t h e Plaintiil; damages 5501. , being the remainder of the 8001. originally, agreed upon. , , SUMMER- CIRCUITS, 1801., HOME . . 'Lord Chief Justice KEN YO4l, 'Justice GROCEi • ifertford, ,. July 20 ; CileL, l 4 . lSfOrd, July 22 ; M alu st ot l ei July 27; LeyveS, 'luly ; Crcydon; August 3. NORTHERN. • Lord Chief justice A Li,. ANLE y, Justice CkiAM BR S. York and City, July /8 ; Durham, July ao; Newcastle ,arid Town, August . s ; Carlisle, August 7 ; _Applet?y,'Au., gust s 2; L.aiwaster„ Au.ust Is. • • 1V O.R.FtII,K.* • Lord Chief Barth] MA CDONA LD," Baron HOT ItA Buckingham, r3i Bedford, July 16 ; tlinntingdon, Tilly 18; Cambridge, juty 2 0; Bury St. Edmund's, july'n ; Ndrwich and City, j u t y 27. . • MIDLAND. Justice HE Justice RooKs. , - North4mpttm, is fuly r 4 ' ; Oikham, July 17 - Lincoln and City,. July 18 ; . ottingham and Town, J u ly 23; Derby. July 23k; Leicester and Bor,on&h, July 29; Coventry and Warwick, Angust,x. • OXFORD. • - Baron THozrzsoN,. justicetAwrttncs. • Abingdon, July if; Oxford, July 14; Worcester and CitY, July'/7 ;•• Stafibrd; July 2i; Shrewsbury, !July 15; Here ford, July 3o; Monmouth,. August 3; Gloucester end City,'Aupst 5. • - , „ , WESTER.I4. . • justice LE BLANC, Baroll GRAHAM. . • - • Wincluistcr, July 14; Sarum, July 15; Dorchester, July 23; Exeter and Ciiy, July 21;Imin, August 3 ; B trateri • A ug t d 8;• ugust Some idea May be' formed of the Commercial State- of France, when the - French Papers represent a Subscription made on the Exchange of for the family of, a man who perished by an extraordi nary calamity, amounting to about 341. sterling, as most munificent.. The Glizz,ette • di: Franee observes, witli'more propriety, " considering the present si tuation cf our affairs, and' the . stagnation-,of. cur Commerce, this sum . may be. cpnsidered as the wi dow's mite." ." On the '6th ult. some Sportsmen belonging to Nievre,' killed a furious wolf of an uncommon size and strength.- Seventeen pellons had been recently devoured by it, among whom we're a girl of sixteen and a boy of fourteen. This terrible animal; which was five feet long and thirty-two inches high, re.. senlbled a greyhound in•the body; its head and neck were nearly white, its muzzle long - and - pointed, and its shoulders covered with thicker and longer hair than that of ordinary wolves: . , A .German Physician, in the Universal Gaz'ette (a journal of great merit), :.. reeannnends to persons occupied i.n .sedentary labours, to Live as as possible on legunainouls food, and 'to ada to it, iii winter, a little meat with. much I t read ; `but he ad_ vises thOSe who' are employed. in fatiguing bodily labours, to - §itbstitue cake date de falltre) for bread. . . • v y • Dr. HA' of Vienna, las compo se d another -,- , rand, musical,Piece, called The -Font' Seasons, which , was performed foi the -'rst tiine r on the 23cl'of May, and we trust will soon be Introduced in'Englancl. The text has been again 'composed"by th same 'BA-- R ,- )NI"Scvl ET EN, {son of the famouS l'hysician) who rote the Creation. T - • oitSSA I NT has recetKen new Commission from France, constituting M m Prefed of St. Dominio. On Monday- as Lieutenant-Colonel .HAwx ex and a Party, were ,fishing .with ,a trawl-net in Catwater, near Plymouth, thr,y ‘ baufe,d up a fine lively young turtle, of :about .1:21.b. weight - . It• is supposed to have failen over board, from some West Indiaman lying thug on Lr honievv,tr4pund passage. In .the course of last Week an uncommon number of accidents happened in the neighbourhood of nr ringdon; Berkshire Yoking man was thiown from a gig, and dislocated 'his knee. An elderly lady arid her son were - thrown from a gig ; the lady was killed on the spot,' sand her son most severely wounded. And on the same day another lady,. hearing of the misfortune, caused herself to be tied in her gig, to prevent a similar accident; but the horsc raking. fright, .and . rearing "very much, the shafts were broken, and one of the pieces coming with great violence against the lady's neck,. she, vas .so much hurt that her recovery is .doubtful. A young -man, on a visit to his frynds, was drowned . in . fishing ; a ,farrner's -daughter at ,Goosey, dropped suddenly down, dead. A labourer, going to Shellingford on horseback, with two or three scythes, the horse took fright, and one of his l egs wa s so severely cur, that'it is thought an am putation will beilmisLry.