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PERTHSHIRE Hr-Tr.

The Perthshire Heat met at P?.?-th the week be.
fore last. Among the fas..ionables prescit were—
The E rl of Kin0.14.:1 t.ords Conao.i, Ltu.teio, P“) 11.), and
Murr ; Sir Patrick htoray ; Generals 13,!tan.nad, aL
M .cha q, !Stewart, of Ram, and :1130,5a14; Gra.
hltri MP. Moray Stirling, Aber-Niirowy, 11an.14, au' Bait!,of tiethten ; Major Stow,i, of Aberethi.wr ;
inchatanin ; the lionourable Mr. All.t.hotald; M•N‘t '•tlN`ri•
401, M P. Drutntucv.d. of Meggoich, Amon, of 1001..W11.-
vol. of Inenvra, &e ,te. 1.344. s L.nna.,i, Perth, an : Ca:-
tn ; Mi.tort" Al•n, Stirt=na. re.irrier a•I•1 Keit,
h1.1)on-i, and Sheridan ; Mit,a D'umo,o•Kr, Ki•::,at,d, stir-
Loy, Ntur•ay, itc

There were I.ails n- the ever:laza of Wednesday,
Thursday, an,i Friday; and on Tbursdsy,
.1..1 Saturday, races self-? on rile nary z Thu
301. pone WAS wan by a Looter of Lord 3,sasts
MUHIIIIr's, on I hursi
.day, against a rivire ot Lord
Rou.o's ; hut, ac the sped at neitiler WAS exerted,
there was, of course, no sport. Oa Friday, th•
ycom inry match s were determined in am races,
and Mr. WILLI A M DIU M LIxD, 04 Auchterader, as
ultisna e winner, bore off the silver cup.

A grand entertainment was given on the 9th in-
sta:st, by JANES F•NLiLINAILSON, EMI.
House, lllandf.rd. Ddrset, on his admin.; of Age.
The morning was ushered in by the ringi .g of bets.
At one o'clock the labouring people, and th :Jour
of each Paris's, to the number of two or thre• Lttn-
dred, sat dawn to a sumptuous entertainment, of
roast beef and plumb-pudding, when the Dorset.
shire ale soon set them all in motion ; and being -
provided with good fiddles. they kept up the festive
dance on the lavas, uutil a late hour. when they
departed, they were each provided with a pair of
blankets. and a pair of shoes, and retired* much
gratified with their entertainnacut. and the ra,ty
of their host. At six o'c ock, Mr. Fasitsuaa.:sow's
isnds sat down to an ele :ant dinner, which ended
in a ball, kept op till daylight, with much .ninth;
and festivity. On the following evening ( Thurs-
day) the neighbntv•ing gentry assembled to
,1 gran] display ot Chinese fire-worits, pethaps the
ri hest th.tt has e'er bean exhibited in this co:in-
try. The grand ball commeoc-d on Friday even-
ing, and vas MAL numerously attended by all the
gentlemen of the county of .I.lorset,
which, wish his other frie'ds, am-owed to unwatiis
of 400. The rimy dace was snpporte I with
much spirit, and continued till seven in the morning.
The ball was opened !,.), Mr. Fa vq..n vsos with
the Countess of CLANRICAftOt lif was j,v and
festivity; and the amuse-rent 5 continued trial Satur-
day night. Mr. FA INIP Comes into the pos-
session of property nearly amounting to sO,OOOl.
per annum. On Wednesday, when .11e entcrtaia-
ment was given to the tenants and peastiory, twelve
boys and twelve girls, belonging l') A cl:anty scdool,
cstahlishei and sopporied by the bouii:y of .
astir 14 A 440 N and hit sister. appeared its new cloat:.-
iog, furnished thi-ns on the occasion.
On Wednetday night, at half-p Ist eleven o'clock,
as two gentleme t were passing through Lincol..'s-
litn-Fields, they discovered a well.dressed nian.
leaning against a post, gtoin:ng bitterly 0,1 their
going to him, he comp] lined of shortness of breath,
and added, that he had bat a few minutes to live.
The gentlemen asked I.is *Ares% anil he hat just
strengai to articulate, " 25. Charles-streets. Hatton-
garden," before he expired. The b-aly was put
into a coach, without delay, and conveyed to the
house of Mr. Date, Surgeon, in Charles-street.
but all attempts to restore late were fruitless. The
deceased was a very respeetahle man. of the name
of MANLY, and resided where he had said. Ho
was a widower, and has left six children.

On Wednesday. a most dating nu:ritge an I rob-
bery was committed near Peokridge, in di- county
of Stafford. As Mrs. Dar: r. a respeesbh. 11.1 y of
that town, was walking at noon. in a field a.ljni.iing,
she was assaulted by a man, vela, most cioler4
thrust a handkerchief into her mouth, tied t str
hands, and then robbed her of money to a consider.
able atnount.

To-sioaaow being the Fir rit-tiair of Drawing
the present Sra re Lot reii v. the first drawn Ti. k.
et will be enti 1:c1 to 10,0001. besides the beneficial
chance <,t all the other Capital Ps ices in the present
Ries Wheel, there being only two C.lpitals yet
drann above 1,0001. both of which were shared—
n im.tly, a 5,0001. Prize. and a 2,0001. the latter of
which, N. 16.501, was sold in sixteen Sixteenths.
by./. Be Anson w a and Co. Propriet,!rs of the Lucky
Lottery Offices, No. 11, 11.11 torn, Ne. 37, Cornhill,
and No. 38, Haymarket, facing Piccadilly, wh.•re
Tickets and Sha, es are now selling. w.rrt•nted 'in-
drawn, and as cheap as at any L;cenced Oilier in
London, and the utmost value given !or Prizes, as
sooa as df4Wa.

I

lf) THE EDITOR OP VIE RRITISII PRESS.

Me received, yesteretty, the rollowine commiinication and
think that we will best answer the piir;idse or the Writer.
by insetting it at length. The %tors alluded to eras copied
front another Paper ; and we think it incumbwit upon the
Editor. to Rive an answer to the points required. Fla.] the
*tors originated is this Parer, we shou'd have censidoed it
our duty to give a satisfa:tory ea planation.)

Ste—Observing a Paragraph in your Paper of
yesterday, the 15th instant, relative to the melan-
choly circumstance that occurred some years
at Mis. Partridge's, the Castle Inn (nut the Wind-
mill), at Salthill, and, as there moch reason to
doubt the truth of the story you hay related, it-,
would be a great satisfaaion to many persons in
this neighbnurhond, and particularly to the rela-
tives of the deceased gentlemen (several of whose
families still reside in this quarter). if you coul,l
state the name of the wailer wh:l is said to have made
the confession; also, Me Pace trh,re he died, and the
Above(' Is whom tic hawledanterd was made ;
as the tale of the stewed carp is much discredited
here ; the cook who lived with Mrs. Partridge at
the time, being not dead, oat new &in: with, Mr.
Botbam, at the Windmill, Salthill, truly and de-
servedly respated, as a man of the highest Fmbity.
and has never been absent from the service of that
house, since Mrs. P.'s failure at the other, some
years after the accident happened, having then gone
into the service of Mr. March, whom Mr. B. suc-
ceeded. It seems to be a similar fabrication with a
story related in the Newspapers, some years since,
of a woman cook having made a like deathbed
confession ; when the fag was, Mrs. Partridge never
kept a woman cook. I aro, Sir, your's,
Ort. IG. A FRIEND TO TRUER.

The general opinion of the faculty, at the time,
was, that the gentlemen died of a putrid fever.
caught from a pauper, who was brought before
them at the meeting, to be examined to his settle-
ment. some of the company being Magiarates, the
meeting being for public bnsiness ; and it after-
wards appeared, that the wife of A man named
Roddy, at Woburn, or Taplow, near Saldhill, died
of the same sort of fever—the pauper having been
lodged at Buddy's house, and the wife attending
him, while ill, pretriour to the examination.
The present Marquis of l'hornond, then Captain
O'Brien, who was of the party. was also taken ill of
that disorder, and, after hi. recovery, authorised
Mrs Partridge to :bake a letter. which he wtote to
her. paiiic, to contradia the injurious reports then
in arcillatipn. resaesting the dinner, wines. &c.
Since ;he within letter. I have laid my
he:-.d ow the ie.: paper, which I send you, to
elucidate any ap, mis-statement in the latter
pert. If you thip: i• at all worth while to notice
the contents, it is at rim serrice, es my only motive
to trotablit,g you, is to rrerent any improper ref Le.
t,nn being cast on the Memory of thr much-injured
Mrs. P. who certainly was a respedehle charaerer ;
he on the cook, who is now living, as before stated.

TO THE PAINTER Of THE Mg
111111.... The reports relative In the disease of which ~feral
gentlemen died, who dined tardier at Sittlifil, as the 29th
at last March, are so "orients arid the refit ¶l.as cast typos the
berm which entertainer) the,, are an ss•vere, that it 000 ms
squally an as of tity to the pub.ie, and of humanity to Mgt.
lArt.'olgo, to set the ease is a true light betore the world, se far
Mit came under my *Nieman...it. loon tn1S:11; nil this ncea •
stun, somewhat e:nbarrateml, Sir Printer:hi from the
nizular tine of profession to write in e.l'se .1 animadversions in
Newspaper.; but, ea the: m.inion of some G.mtlemen in the
facw:ty, no len eminent for their abiliti..v, than tin their in-
tegrity io private life, have been menti.me I through the same
emlate', I flatter myself that my moire will sufficiently ex-
cuse any singulkity that may he impiittsl to this publicatirei,
sad intitle me, if not to a faeiurahl.• tia..resoion, at least to the
candid indulgence et the community.
}laving exesionally attended Mr. I )'Peien, of TA;;010` (now
Marquis of Thomond), one of the gri.tiemen aft• ted, he no
sooner found himself berinitsly indisposed, than lie detusmoned
upon setting oN to London, for my advice; between the in•
tervel of the dinner at Santis% and the period of that deter.
rowatiou, Mr was in a yell restless state; hi• appe-
tite forsook him, his spirits declined, and his nights were ex-
tremely inteiriiptedi so that, though he was not siefeistitli ill
to keep his bed, he was by no weans well enough to co itinue
lis customary exercises.

On the leih of April, es I see horn my notes, Mr. O'Brien
sent for me; when I /311/ him, 1 found the symptoms which
have just nu+ mentioned, namely, restlessness, dciection, and
Let of appetite, not o .ly considerably aggravated, but accoin-
partied with (ahem Will more alarming in short, 1 was pre
seined Mall the face of a disorder very formidalde, though very
distinguished b the different appellations of the gm',
the putrid, or the maignant fever: in my practice at home, I
have met with it frequently ; yet, my thorough acquaintance
ir.th it was arquired at the Havantiah, where, diving the late
war, I had the honour to he one of the Physicians to Ili* Ma-
) sts'i reftl.9l, and where the cases in which this dreadful ma-
lady occurred, were unhappily too numerous
A f..w days aft, my attendance upon Mr. O'Brien rem-
vienced, the report reached me, that several Gentlemen wbo
had dined in company with him on the 19th to March, at Salt-
soil, were dead; the sudJm illness and death of such a nun,-
ter I More.tvcr lea d, had givers birth t s en 'Jr., that they
we all poisoned Its .oniething wh`ieh they had either eaten or
dm i It at Mr. Pi:triage\ and indeed from the peculiar mor-
tality of the company, it is not surisesiPg that such en opinion
should h prevaleen with the meltitiole. For ma own part,
Lo sever, 1 was entirely atone: about Mr. Oil Imes case,
having. from the first moment, treated it as a putrid disease,
3.1 i be methods which I had often 6,,itid successful In similar
c, tplauin, fortunately prevented at from ;
ao :hat I can now, not poly positively pronounce Mr.., Bones.
Itaislth peretile tevestablialird. but pronoarice, likewise, posh
/holy, that let the mows »fined fur the death Pith:. whet
fa entledivi b- what they might, nothing lib the least prelim aus
appeared in the :tibiae of his doors's*.
W.% I to hatred a tottleethre in tiffs place, I shouts im•girie
that teethe., poisolieus existed in the ease' of the fairetlenien
who died, they we',. attacked about the earls time, as well a•
in the muse mower that Mr. O'Brien was mtacked, and front
she high ediniati in in soh ch I Kohl Use abilities of the Phy-
OiCiBllllwhO attended them,lam folly persuaded that they were
treated with the utnime propriety.
eceount, in a probable manner, for the sudtlen and ri:nilt r
alums of 41 many Gentlemen at the same time, who tompn.ol
the princi,ml pan of nee company,rt Sahhill, 1 ham it from
Mi. O'Brien', authreity to declare, that irotwitlutandiag the
assertion to the contrary, a Pauper cat introdueed to himself
Ind ether Magistrates, outlet 19th of Me-cat; this Pauper, he
besides iuforms me, was so exceedingly ill, that he could nut
sand itleout supprwt ; and Mr. °linen adds, from the report
of the Par.', Overseers, wlioliited the unhappy man int., the
tort to remove him to his habitation, (net the smell wh.ch
esued fr sus his person was se extremely offensive, that they
were otEheed to turn away their head,
In my narrative of Nr erfirica's raw, I have studiously
Wielded to give a minute detail of symptoms which could
Maher be hisivenive nor entertaining to the reader. I have
glen peeved b., the reamed symptoms in poisonom complaints,
Gores • like motet, as well as from a wish not to trespass un-
iseetootril. orrie the lieota of your paper Medical dinielsiv
ti nn, if entered ioto, Mr. Woolfall, requ,re more room risen
you coil spare, and mire leisure than I can cominaod. I shad,
sjeggit. a9nli,ote4 that, thee gh 1 am beyot:d cmieeption
.4, I. • • vo valuable a life to th • COMR.UNity, as
-14.1igh rim an additional satisfacion, if the
„. • from reproach, of the public pc*

sersett from apprehension, through the messui of, Sir, your
holl,b'eSer‘ago, HUGH ALEXANDER KENNEDY.
N4sasiustreet, April 30, 1775.
FROM THE LONDON EVENING POST.

Mr. MILLER—You will oblige a constant reader, by giving
a ;.la .• in your Paper to the following letter, from Dr. James
awl Dr. [luck, to Mrs Partridge, at Salthill.
MADAM, London, April 21, 1/7/.
Major Main, whom we attend, is one of thcr-e Gentlemen,
who, hoot Ting ir repoit, are said to have been polarised by
something which they had ate or drankat your house, on the
19th of Much. UiunGeited, and purely from a love of truth
and justice, we write you this to assure you, that Major
Main ,erer had one ilitipmni which could countenanCe the
Meet distant idea of a poison : lie has a retry of a very bad kind,
Which seioid hint eleven or twelve dais after dining at Salt-
hill, but which, we are thoroughly tonvinmd, could net be
having, in any degree, either to the quantity orquality of the
food taken so maw, days before his ilinr,s We have no
doubt but Nat hi, twer k the effe't of e.intagion.
We are, Madam, your most humble Servants,
R. JAMES,
R. MUCK.