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SkTRACT 1111011 ♦ PIIIVATit LIMB. OATS*
lOULOGNII, IIIDST, SEPTIVIIIIM 20. -"I
My letter of yesterday was void of care. I have
Dow to give you a sad chapter of accidents which
happened here soon after :—As the Dasher Post-
office steam-boat, from Dover, was near the port,
the unfortunate engineer was caught in some of the
steam apparatus, and came into the harbour with
his arm dreadfully shattered and his kg miserably
torn, lying on the deck. Soon after seeing this un-
!de•sant sight, and passing through a street in the
upper pert of the lower towo, I saw a crowd, and
asking the cause, a French woman told me that the
English Countess was rode over and killed. In a
state of horrid anxiety I immediately went to her
house, Rue de VirHeld, where I saw breathing her
last the beautiful daughter of my very old friend
■nd acquaintance, Mrs. Chades Lock, the daughter
of the Duchess of Leinster by her second husband,
Mr. Ogilvie. Her eldest daughter married a fo-
reign Count of the name of Vizy, •od had just re-
covered from her aceoreheneent. As she was riding
out yesterday for the fl•st time on her donkey (boadet,
as they call it here), and coming down the hill to-
wards her own house, with her mother walking at
her side, and her sister, Mrs. Murray Gre►ille, in
coopseiy. • cart came down from the top of the
street, the horse running away with it at full speed,
ran over and killed on the spot the boy in attend-
ance, and run over Comtesse de Vizy and her bon-
det, the wheel passing over the lower part of her
body. In an almost lifeless state she was brought
into her house close by, where I saw the melan-
choly scene above mentioned—her husband, frantic,
leaning over her almost inanimate body. By force
lie was torn away, to give the surgeons liberty to
examine the hurt ; but, alas ! to no purpose, ►he
had breathed her last at the moment of separation
from her husband. M►s. Greeille had • narrow
escape, the wheel scraping her arm, and Mrs. C.
Lock was thrown down in the confusion. I shall
not attempt to describe the confusion, but God
' grant I may never witness such a scene again !

GRATIFYING ACKNOWLEDGMENT of BRITISH
MINA NITY.

The Alositettr of Friday 'apt says—" The King's
corvette PP:ferric, commanded by M. Behic, Capi-
Mime de•fregaie,sailyd fruto Brest on the tat inst.
for Mahlon, on a special mission, the object of
which was as follows :"
" All the journals have nnnnnnn red the shipwreck of
14/Igraine, which, proceeding from off the Caribbee Islands
to Newfoundland, encoontrred some thick fogs, and was
wrecked on the Isle de Sable, about LO. leagues (rain the
coast of Nova Scotia. That officers and new of this ship owe
their lives to the prompt aid and iutrepid evert
certain subjects of his Britisouic Majesty. The Sieur Hudg.
son, head of an English family established no the Isle de
Sable, his aos•iu-law, and one of their domestics, formerly a
seaman, contributed, at the peril of their lives, to save 80
linen, who made the first attempt to gain the shore. The
Siewr Darby, Captain and owner of the English gailist Tiro
Brothers, whom a particular mission brought into that gam.
ter, sad who heard the signals of dieter's made by I' rtfri•
eats*, without hesitation threw his cargo overboard, and en-
tared Mao dangerous passages in order to rende► prompt
amistoore. After having twice strut*, suit narrowly escaped
shipwreck, they an Jed in taking a portion of CAfrteoirre's
crew on board, and during the passage from !hence to Hali.
fax manifested the must kindly disposition in administering
to their comforts. Captain Dolby. rallied nut br log able lv
take all the frigate's crew on board, Sir James Kempt,
General and G of Nova Scotia, sent his own mom to
the Isle deSable, which look on board the remainder. Daring
their stay at Halifax the offi:era and crew of r effritaine it.
crived every attention from this General Officer and the
Officers of his Staff, and were supplied with every thing ne.
cemary. They also acknowledge, is grateful terms, the rood
offices of M. Haden, his Britannic Majesty's Cutuul•Geweral,
who zealously superintended the requisite ar►angements for
their return to Brest?'

The King, on the report of these details, *hid
M. d.:t Clermont Tonnerre, Minister of the Marine
and Colonies, had the gratification of laying be-
fore him, has nominated Sir J. Kemp!, Commander
of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, and
has caused his thanks to be addiessed to MM. Ha-
den, John Baz flget, Brigade-Major, and. Major
Gore, First Aide-de-Camp to Sir James Krnipt.
Three gold medals, and one of silver, have been
struck to commemorate the intrepid conduct of the
Steur Darby, of the Steur Hodgson, of his son-iii-
law, and of their servant. Pecuniary recompenses
accompany these medals, and his Majesty has fur-
ther ordained, that these ackilowledginensa of .514-
faction shall be conveyed to their destination in one
of the ships of the royal navy.

The Right Hon. N. VANSITTAIT has purchased
au estate et F 0411% Cray, field, where he *di be
much exercised iu his vacations by the intruded im-
provements.

We stated some weeks ago that it was in con.
temptation to establish a communication between
this town and Manchester, by amain of a railway
and, with the view of carrying this stupendous un-
dertaking into effect, notice has beeu given of an
application to Parliament next Session, for an Act
with the requisite Worm It is also inteodrd to
have a rail-road from Newton to Bolton. thereby
connecting the communication with that town and
Liverpool and Manchester, as the direct rail-road
between these two places will rays through Newton.
A notice for an Act for this ;airtime has also Into
given.—/Liverpool Courier.)
Saturday evening, ■lout a quarter past nine, as
one of the Bristol coaches was returning to Bath, it
upset about midway between Newton turnpike and
'fwerton, when one of the passengers, a poor Irish-
man, named Ilastatfixos, was so seriously injured
that lie died on Weduesday.—An inquest was held
on the body. and a verdict given of Nanslaugleier
it appearing that the accident was occasioned by
the furious driving of the coachman, George Clark.
We are sorry to learn that two more persons have
died in• consequence of the injury they rereirexl
from the explosion of the steam-boiler at Messrs.
YARDLEY and CLEAM'S glut-mangfictory •it
L Crobtxrivell.

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:OLD BAILEY SESSIONS,
MONDAY, SEPTIMIBIA S.
John Boldini, a labooryr in the Loudon dock.,
was indicted for Stealing Sibs. of opitim, the pro-
perty of the Loudon Dock Company.
From the evidence of judkin, • watidtman in the
Docks, it appeared, that lie siw the Prisoner stoop
behind • pile of oakum, and pick up the opium
stated in the indictment, which he secreted in his
hat ; and on the watchman calling out to him lie
immediately threw it away.
The Ptisoner in his defence said. that he picked
up a piece of the oakum, and it was that, and not
the opium, which the sratchusuu afterwards saw hint
throw away.
Mr. Alderman Ansley, the Lord Mayor's bro-
ther, and several other witnesses, gave the Prisoner
en excellent character.
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The Jury found him Caihy, but recomntetided
him strongly to mercy, which the Common Serjeant
(who tried the cause), said should certainly be at-
tended to.
Jaws May was indicted for stealing two trunks,
containing wearing apparel, the property of Lizey
Donollan and Elizabeth Twycross, on the 99th
July last. in the parish of St. Clement Danes.
fOrs. Donullan stated, that the Prisoner *OS eo.
gaged as a porter to carry the 'hinge in question
from Lisson-streer, Paddington, to Newcastle-street,
Strand. She and Mr.. Twyeross (her mother) ac-
companied him. the Prisoner carrying the things
behind them, She saw hire at Blackmoor-street,
Drury-lane; but on 'mistily( at Newcastle-street
she turned round and found the Prisoner was gone.
Site did not see him again till a fortnight afterwards,
when he was apprelrendect
John Pittway keeps a public-house in Gray'. [nn.
lane. The IF'risouer came to his house at lour
o'clock in the afternoon of the 99th of July, and
brought with him a small trunk and a bundle tied
up in a red handkerchir f. He went into thelitcheci,
witness saw him take the article, out of the bundle,
and heard him skk his female servant to go and
pledge them, but witness forbid her doing it. Ile
then went away, leairing the trunk and the remain-
der of the bundle; he returned in about kill an
hour, and staid till near nine o'clock. Witness then
insisted on his taking the things sway, as they were
in the way. lie said the things belonged to his sis-
ter. A fortnight afterwards witness heard of the
robbery, and went to Buw-strret, and related what
be has now told.

Martha West prov-d that the Prisoner came to
her house and asked her to pledge some articles of
fetnele apparel for him, which she did, and he after-
wards gave her the duplicates, which she sold to
Moves Davis for 5•. Gd.
Moan Doris and the Pawnbroker were called,
who corroborated the testimony of the last witness...

Some of the articles were produced and identified
by Mrs. Dr:414)110n.
I'hr Priooner, in his defence, said, he had acci-
dentally missed the ladies, and did not Itriuw where
to lake the things.

The Jury, without troubling the Recorder to sum
up the evidence, immediately found the Prisouer
and
The HICCUIDER sentenced him •to be imprivoned
two years, and to he publicly whipped.
Ceo. Willoughby, William Hedges, and Thomas
Brow* were indicted for burglariously breaking
and entering the house of Thomas Hughes on the
4611) of A upset last, and stealing therein a watch
and seals, ■ clock, ■ snuff-box, two silver spoons,
and other articles, his property. There was a coma
also in the indictment which charged the • Prisoners
with stealing 6s. the property of Susan Angel.
Susan Angel, who lived in the service of Mr.
Hughes, in Green-st►eet, Grovvenor-squnre, de-
po-cd, that an the night of the 46th August she Paw
the doors awl windows locked and bolted before ►he
went to bed. She heard no noise in the night, but.
on rising the next mut ll iii g, at seven o'clock, the
went into the perfour to open the shutters, and-
found every drawer had heed broken open. She
went into the kitchen and found the lock of the out-
side area door had been forced off. The door lead-
ing from the area to the kitchen had the panne! cut
out, which would admit a m sat. There was another
door in the passage [radio', from the kitchen to the
parlour, which had been taken off the hinges.
Cross•examined by Mr. Rao DER I c —Tlir Pro-
secutor is not in Court, he is quite blind.
Elizabeth Elliott, niece of the Prosecutor, de-
posed, that tier uncle's name was Thomas Lowe
Hughes. She had hestd it so stated. but disputed.
The rest of this wifaeles testimony corroborated
that of the last witnesses.

John King, a watchman near the Penitentiary
House, deposed, that he saw Hedges about twelve
o'clock on the uight of the robbery, with three other
men, whom he did not know ; they had large
sticks in their baud•. They went towards Buck-
ingham-Fate; witness followed them to the next
watchman, to whom he communicated what he had
observed of them.

Thomas Simmons, • watchmen", deposed, that
his box is in Park-lane, near Gieen-street ; he
knows Hedges and Brown. He was calling the
hour about tour o'clock in the morning of the rob-
bery, when he sew the Poisoners, Hedges and
Brown. snd two other men, coming from Green-
street. Hedges, when he came opposite the witness,
asked what o'clock it was, which sitars. told hint.
They all went hit) Hyde Park through Grosvenor-
gat e.
Donaldson. a watchman in the Vonxhall-road,
deposed, that on the morning of the 9.7111 August,
about fire o'clock in the morning, he saw four men,
of whom Hedges was one. They were cowing in
the direction from Grosvenor-piece ; H. dges was
eau} tug • bag over his shoulder.. Witness host
sight of them in Gardne►-strret. As they otine
oolong they kept hooding things from their pockets
to each other.

Joseph Cooper, an °film of Queen-square. in
consequence of information, lw and another officer
went to Perkins-rents, Tot hill-fields, on the morn-
ing oldie 27th August, and inn house the corner of
• Pump-court, they searched but found nothing.
As they were giung out witness met the Prisouir
Willoughby, and asked him who lived in the par-
•lour, and who kept the house? He said be lived in
the patitmt, occasionally, sod a girl wills whom
lw cohabited. He produced the key and opened
the done, on going in and searching under the head
of the bed, he found two Ant+, arid •asketl " Whose
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