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flict ,ii th lie.tl t).tfi.!.rs of thi army, as the accompanying
letter fro.o letal St -.wart, m ty I he permitted to offer
my w•wituvgle.l; acit of the uoeforin esernou and support I
have cs;iJriern...ell from you, during the term 1 have acted as
head of the Medical Dapartintut ;, and to which 1 must in jus-
tice ,tribute this distinguish.%) mak of approbation; and fur-
ther allow me to as,tire roil, it wort:d be to me thc greatest
ply ri.we on any future occasion to ;tire under the same corn-
towel, nod wall the M.s.lic.ilOffic.cis of thearaly lately return-
ed
" 1 bar: the honour to he, with the greatest respect and esteem,
" Your erio-t obedient huriole bervatit,
"To thr M-the a (hiker, of W. R. SII.‘PTER., M. 1.).
tb.; Ann.!, lately i.t Insp.:ma of 114spitals.
le r pt."
The 61st :tnct Wattewilles regiment are to remain
hare. It is said, the others are destined 14 England
and Gibraltar. l'he Turks are now beginning to dis-
cipline their soldiers after the English manlier.
Captain Hays, of the engineer department, has been
left behind with them in Egypt, and Major Messet,
G,nerai Stewart's Aid-du-Camp, is still there, ar-
ranging such affAirs as were left unsettled.

PHILADELPHIA MARCH 18.

[From the New York Herald of the 2J April.]

ROBBERY.

The following interesting account of a most bar-
barous and atrocious robbery, has been communi-
cated for publication by a respeetable gentleman at
Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The unhappy sufferer is a young lady, of about
14 years of age, named Esther M.Dowall The his•
tory- of her misfortune is thus related ; Miss M,Dow.
all is the daughter, and only child, of Dr. John
M,Dowall, who, about three years since, removed
from Montreal to Kentucky, where he had pur-
chased an estate : he left his daughter to reside
with an aged aunt, who has since died, and left her
niece a considerable property. Upon the 'death of
her aunt the young lady expressed a wish to reside
with her parents at Kentucky; accordingly her fa-
ther sent a man, whom he had brought up from his
infancy, in whose fidelity and honour he had the
most implicit confidence, to conduit her home. She
proceeded with him from Montreal, and arrived in
the neighbourhood of Williamsport on Monday
evening the 21st of March. During the day, the vil-
lain had taken care to avoid observation as much as
possible, by leaving the road, and passing through
obscure and unfrequented paths. 'ley continued
to travel till about ten in the evening, when he sud-
denly dismounted, and dragged the lady from her
horse presented a pistol to her breast, demanded
her money, and threatened to murder her if she
made the least alarm. She implored his mercy, and
offered him all she had to spare her life. At that
instant, he polled oft her bonnet, gagged her mouth,
and proceeded, to strip her of every article of her
clothing, and tying her hands behind her, made her
fast to a tree, while he packed up the things in his
saddle bags : having done this, he removed her to
more distant part of the woods, and after tying her
fast to a thicket, made off with the horses and all
she had with her. In this deplorable situation she
remained, entirely naked, exposed to the severe cold
of the night, until break of day, when, by her strug-
gles, she loosened herself from the tree, and with
much difficulty made her way through the woods
to a house about BO rods distant, where she was
kindly received, and supplied with necessary assist-
ance. lc was not until after a considerable time she
was able to speak, and relate the particulars of her
disaster. She is now, as our correspondent informs
us, at the house of the Rev. Isaac Grier, who lives
near the place where the crime was perpetrated.
Though near 100 persons have been sent in pur-
suit of the villain, we are sorry to say that no cer-
tain intelligence of him has, as yet, been obtained.
His person is advertized, and a reward of 100 dol-
lars offered for apprehending of him.

A bowl, made of granite, weighing five ton, is
just arrived from Egypt, in the Anacrron transport,
as a present for the Lour MAYOR of London.—
There being certain duties to pay, his Lordship
wrote to the Lords of the Treasury to have the

duties taken off.
By an account of the Territorial Revenues and
Commercial Duties colle6led within the Islands of
Malta, Cow, and Comeno, previous to the occu-
pation of the Fort of Valette by the French in 1798,
presented to the House of Commons, the whole is
only 34,6631. 1 4s. '2l sterling per annum.

One of the French Journals states, that the squa-
dron ofAdmiralThornborough,which was erusing at
the mouth of the Meuse, has suffered a good deal
by the late tempestuous weather. Several vessels
lest their anchors, particularly the his of .50 guns,
which has suffered s 4 much, that Admiral Thorn-
borough sent her to Spithead to be repaired.
On Sunday last, during the absence of their prin-
cipals on a visit, two young men, apprentices at a
mercantile house in Dublin, determined on a trial
which was of superior capacity in sustaining the
greater quantity of wine, and after dinner the un-
fortunate propoeition was accordingly brought to
experiment. One bottle of red port and six of white,
were drained in a contest which, we lament to state,
proved fatal to one of the youths, by suffocation,
and produced such direful effe&s on the other that
his recovery is somewhat doubtful.
On Thursday morning about ten o'clock, as a
lady of Bristol was walking on that part of Durd-
ham Down, nearest to Clifton Down, with her
servant and ycaing child, she was accosted by a Irian
in a black coat and dirty trowsers, having a hanker-
chief tied over his face up to his eyes ; who ordered
her to stop, and on being asked what he wanted ?
told her he wanted her money or her life, and pro.
duced a three-bladed knife. On her not immedi-
ately complying, he told her to make haste, that
he had no time to lose, and insisted on her money
instantly, which she then gave him ; but not satis-
fied with it, be insisted she had not given him all,
and ordered her to produce more, when she gave
him what halfpence she find, and a shilling or two
amongst them. On this he went hastily of, joined
another man not far distant, and then took the hand-
kerchief off and put it into his pocket.
ALTERATION !-A London Newspaper,. dated
about forty years back, contains an advertisement
announcing to the public that a stage coach would
set off from the Blue Boar, Holborn, on the first
dal of every month, for Edinburgh, in which city
((,od willing) it would arrive cut the 15th, and
return to London on the 30th !

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