The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-09-22 00:00:00

JOHN LOCKIAR.

We lately gave an interesting account of the ex-
tromdinary accident which happened to —sr.
The following pal tit-ulna are copied from 7 :, a..th
Herald of this day :
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That a human bring should exist nty days
(from the 19th s,f Auguat tsi the Bth c.t ',-iep:toalverj
without any subsistence, but the little rain-water !-
wes able to catch in his shaving -up, and by chew-
ing the surrounding gnu, %till appear inc7..dible,
but it is a tazt, and will be clPady subitintiate.l.
His senses appear to have recovered horn the effeas
of the lightning much sooner than his powers o'
speech, or the use of hit limps. He was c.inseiou%
of his situation long bef..r.• h had the shady to srel,k.
or the inclination to endeavanr to more. •
The *Professional; Gentlemen, who now attend
him, from the seas .tions of tingling pain whica he
experitne..s, have the greatest hopes that he will
soon obtain a partial use of his legs and feet, wi,h
the loss of his toes, as we have before sated.

The following are the triewranda •the m:nnted
on the stale 1 f a black letter cave; and which
book is bent and cackled up, evidently appearing to
have been snaked through by tl•e wet
" I era just si,:e to stencl! this—l b,li rc v.e fatal thunder.
Mann (to me) via, on the 1801.0 Augost--I should not have
known how the lime V": 119 on only by ',miring the guns go off
for partridge rhooting tire first of So;.teinber, and it is due the
fourth I em pencilling this—•from the abase till now l have
not had any thi..g to put in my mouth"
On another teal he had written on the day he
was discovered :
" As I was going across this wood to carleigh. I was struck
drop by a violent clap of thunder, where I lay scriseess for
God knows how lung. When I came to narocif, my ha .1s
and feet were 'welled very nisch, so that I could mat stand,
nor have I eat or drank any titing for three weeks past.—Qad
only knows as anterior."
• It was on the 19th.

The Kttio has been pleased to confer the ho-
nour of Knlghthood on ST r rs Sit AIR?, Esq. His
MAJLITV's Consul-General in Russia.—( Gazette.)

A very fine Mouse Deer, for Lord FITZWI EL I AM,
was Lorded on Friday morning at Portsmou::),
hom the Leander. from Halifts.

At Oswestry itaces, this week, muds sport and
fashionable company ate experled.
Friday se'nnight, a peney..eleven hands and a
half high, the property of a horse-dealer, of Cb*rd.
Somerset, started from floniton. for a considers ole
bet, to go oae hundred miles in sixteen succestive
hours; the-ground chosen for the purpose was hint(
Honitor. to Exeter, a distance of sixteen miles, which
he was f.) go over six time:, with an additional four
miles of terwarda. He art off from Minium at a quar-
ter past feint in the morning, arrived at the hotel. in
that city, quarter before six, returned to Hnniton,
and arrived secondly at the same place at ten
o'clock, and again for the' third time at three o'clock
iniathe efternoun, wert ofi" perfeSly fresh, and com-
pleted the distance with the greatest ease in thirteen
boors and fifty miantes. being two hours asd ten
minutes less than the given time. The poney was
rode the whole way by one lad, whose weight was
little short of ten stone.
A m in, calling himself Dr. FISH, has lately ;win.
died several p,sor persona in the county cf Norton:.
under pretence of curing various diseases. Phis mo-
dern tur4rpres is a sawyer by trade, and his wife a
chair bottumer.

OLD B.IILET sr:zwPws, SLPT. 20.