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-dm!, No. 23.

On the 17th of August last a hawk, with bells to Its
thighs and a silver ring to its leg, with the name or ;Ist
Hon. J. Finch engraved thereon, e.nie on hoard ;be
Spence, of North Shields, Captain Huggup, bound 40
quebec, in lat. 44, long. 26, west, about midway be-
tween Iceland and the American coast, and after being
tm board about 20 days, unfortunately died.. It Wits
I perfectly none. The Captain having some chickens Ora
.Ixiatil, allowed him to help himself. A chicken served
him five days.
SWINDLI NO.—A swindler has, within these few.daya,
bean practising his cruel deceptions upon several' poor
sehoolmasters in this town and neighbourhood. He igloo-
dttces himself to his intended dupe under the pretest Ihet
be is sent by the trustees of an endowed school at AuCt-
land, or Allendale, or other distant place, to oftr hire the
mastership, which, he says, is now vacant, and that the
'trustees have fixed upon him, in consequence of bearing
Of his excellent character and greet abilities, and that be
must prepare to take immediate possession. The knee.
Aso takes care to endow the iroaginary school with alsa%try•
'of ROL a year at least, an excellent bouse, barge garden.
land to keep a cow, •itid all the °thir requisites tosmote
a country life agreeable.' The poor Dominie, flattered
the alleged preference, and overjoyed at his unetpeettril
' fortune. • • the kind with