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London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

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A horrible crime, which presents in 'its actalls the;
faiost aetonishing cotwage and singular presence of mind
tuts been lately conneitted in the eiciuity of a little
a &age of the trio. it altogether forms :a drama, the.
episodes of which possess great interest. Utile trial .
to which it will give rise shall not obtain the melan-
eholv celebrity of the ..eaee of naiades, it will at least
of play the &a ractenia wow mew hose frightful situation
stas mere critical than that of the mysterious:mil im-
prudent heroine. 4 Rhode&
A pedlar enelehis wife, a short time since, presented
themselves. at night-fall atthe door ofolittle farm house,
sr short dietemee from the high road. -They 'requested
of the former permission to sleep there, whose wife was
Mill confined to her bed, having lately lain-in. Asuatli
.room was seetigned to them, where they passed the night
quietly. The next day being Sunday, the fanner and
Iris servants went to mats to a .neighbouring village.—
'The pedlar also expriesed a wish.to go there, and there
Ise:Lined ke the house only the Wife of the fanner, the
.pettlites wife, who complained that, the was not well,
and a child of eke years of age.
Scarcely had the people gone out, when the pedlar's
sorted with a knife, presented herset: at the bed
of the lying-in woman, and demanded her money,
tdireatening to kill her in ease of refusal. The letter,
tiek and weak did wet .eppetse the slightest resistance, 1
tini delivered up the keys of her drawers, at the same
time desiring the little boy to cuntluet tiro woman who
Lai to look for something in them. She rose softly
from her lied, figowed the pettier's wife, without being
heard, and having beckoned the child out of the room,
I.r: Lori, the rubber up in the chamber. She then de-
tired the child to run to the village, to appiize hiefa-
ther and desire hint to bring assistance.
The child did not lose an instant ; but by as ;noon-'
c nweivaLle fatality, met on the road thi pedlar, who
had left the church, no doubt to join his wife. Having
irked the child where he was going, the latter answered
ngenuously he was going to .seek his titther as an at-
tempt was made to rob them. The pallor took the child
by the him], and raid it would be unnecessin7, and
.that lie watild himself go and protect his soother.
They returned to the farm where the farmer's wife
-was shut oh' ; they knocked at the door, but this woman
set recognizing the voice of her husband, obstinately
rethsed to opel t; the pedlar made vain Mints to induce
her to do it, mid lxing unable to attain his end, threat-
cued to cut her child's Jeroat, if she did not instantly
decide upon it. Fs sous at not being able to prevail
upon her, he matted his' horrible threat, and killed
the child, almost under the eyes of its mother, who
Lead, without being able to give succour, the cues and
..and lust sighs of her sue.
After having committer! this useless crime, he en-
deavoured to penetrate into the house to save his wife ; '
time pressed, they might eaci. moment return from mass
and he could not succeed in getting admission but by
mounting on the roof anti daecending down the chim.
.mey. During all this time he exhausted his rage in
menaces and imprecations against the fiumer's wife,
who; almost fainting saw nothing to deliver her from
ecitain death. his wretch had already got into the
chimney, and was tollout to enter into the chamber,
when the farmer's wife, collectiog all her force drew
by sudden inspiration, the
,palliasse of her•beil to the
.e ige of the hearth, mind there mast it on tixe. The smoke
in a few minutes eliveleped the assassin, who, not being
able to reascend, very son foil into the tire, half
stamated. The courageous farmer's wife lost not her
prcaence of mind, .but struck him several blows with
the poker, which pothim beyond the chance of recover-
ing his senses. Finally, exhausted with fatigue anti
mental agonv, she fell semelem on the careet of her
.:ember, and remained in this situation till the moment
•tvbets the fetrmner anti his servants returned from church
to hs.witnesses of this horrible occurrence. The dead
lelav of the child, at the gate of the-fe m house, was
the tits spectacle that struck the eyes of this unhappy
Taber: Tamv forced open the gates, and after having
.1:.4J10.1 to life the farmer's wife, they seised the two
esinrits, who were delivereaup to justice. It is believed
the pedisir will survive his wounds, and be able to
receive the penishment doe to his crimes The two as-
• rizeiins will be immediately brought before the Court of
Assize of the department. where this aditir is in prerst-
mien finr trial, which excites the greatest interest
the whole country.

Among the fashionables now in town, we have to no-
tice Field Marshal Lord Beres: aril, after an absence of
many years.—liis Lordship is sitting to Sir .r. Law-
rence for his portrait, fbr his Grace the Duke of Wel-
.iington.
Claremont is about to he opened for the inspection of
public at largo, OF the direction of Prince Leopold,
7 ile he binfasf is absent trent England.
41raiiti' Jury of the county of C7atriwall have
fe, nd true bills orindictment against tof the electors
Gramliound, fsrbribery at the last election.
It is avid Mr. Ellis, who nc,..impanicd Lord Am-
herst mt •his entbarsy to-China, is to attend Lord Cos-
tktk.as!!, as :ILI Congress.

•LAMEirTALTi.E CARE OF SIiIPWRiECK.
(FROM A *JA'SVAICA PAPER'
We reget to state theRWR of the schooner Jane, from
this port (Kingston,) to New Orleans The follow-
ling particulars arc derived from 'a letter from Capt.
Liviugton, dated the liavannah, 'May '2O :
" • is with great reget I communicate an account
of the loss of the schooner Jane, which upset in a
white squall half an hour befirre mid-day, on the 281
March, about 'two leagues to t'he southward of the Isle
of Pines. Nothing could possibly be saved belonging
to the vessel or mgr. Mrs. Shaw, the actress, and
Madame Yalon, being both in the cabin, were in-
stantly drowned, as no assistance whatever could be
rendered them/ The schooner did not immediately
go flown, but .our boat being lashed to leeward, we
could not get at ; tlierefiire formed a reft, and
all the men, and Messrs. Corney, Nil:in, and myself,
got on it. Patrick Flanigan was washed off and
drowned; every one else got ashore on the south coast
of the Isle of Pines about four o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 241 h, after having been upwards of sixteen
hours, ies the water, twelve of which we were up to the
arm pita
" On the-following day, we lost Mr. Corney, and
notwithatinriling thy most diligent search, we could
not find him. He was, however, mimeuteusly pre-
served, himself, us wc-fl as Thomas Burke, who, from
weakness, remained behind, lowing been ennducted
by a dog to a house,. not far distant *era where we
got ashore; but which, in our ansioes state, we
never discovered. Thus what appeared a misfirr-
trine proved a benefit, as they never Could, in their
weak state, have tredergone the fatigue the rest
didfor five days afterwards, without any sustenance ;
when, at length, we met a fisherman, who relieved
our wants as munch as lay in his power. We were
sent from the Isle of Pines by the Commandant of the
Island; on the supposition that we belonged to an In-
surgent vessel, and were kept in custody at this place
some days. before we were released. \flan, I regret to
say, was lost is the woods, and, no doubt, perished of
hunger."
•
The hfoniteur of the sth inst. contains a Royal ordi-
nance, -which fixes the proportion of general officers for
the establishment of the Trench army in war and peace.
In war time, the number of Lieut.• Generals is to be
130; of Major Generals, 250. During peace, the
Lieut. Generals will be 80 and Major Generals 160,
kept on active service. Then follows an ordinance for
regulating the proportion of the army, the details of
whiCh fill 19 columns of the Nfonillatr. The Paris
journals 'contain little cisc of interest, foveign or do-
mestic.

•IVe learn by a letter from llourdcax, dined tart
instant, that the Arismendi, which arrived there a tiny
days previously from the Independent Government of
Buenos Ayres, had left that port. It wan reported (lint
the French Governmeet had declared its intention of
preserving a strict neutrality in the struggle between
Spain and her colonies, amid that it would not COlie•
quentiv make any sort of acknowledgement of the in-
dee entienee of the Patriot state of Buenos Ayres.
ILast week rather a novel sight attracted the atten-
tion of ninny of the inhaLitauts of Gloucester, nothhee
less than a youthful couple (the gentleman not 11, and
the lady only l 6,) making the best of their way to tie
Blacks:nith's lodge, at Gretna green.—They arrived
about ten o'clock, and ineautionsly waited breakflea,
but had the start of papa, who, with two legal :insistent s,
pistols, &c. came into town at eleven, and immediately
proceeded on the north road; near Kidderminster he
came in view of the fugitives, and ultimately overtook
them, when the capture was made; and about eleven
at night, they were brought to Ohmeester on their re-
turn to the neighbourhood of Taentott, there to meet
the frowns of mamma an..i tWQ maiden +toil Li.
Mr. Keat the surgeon has been called in to attend
her Nlajesty within these few days On Saturday 'he
went twice to Kew from London, and yesterday morn-
-Iw', after eleven o'clock, he went again. The rep.ort
of her Majesty's state yesterhy wae, " The Queen
hos had a wry good night, and is a little better this
mornin.,;."
It is truly 'gratifying to tin r 1 that tme. great improve-
ment of the revenue for the present year continues to
increase in .a most extraorilia.ay manner. We under-
stand that the four last weeks yield an excesaaf np?
wards-of 850,00 a as couwared_with the like tetic4
in 1817.

Ey letters received from Nova Scotia, it appears,
that Lord Dalhousie, the Coveroor, has i.►tted orders
fur bringing the chimney sveeping nittehines itito4e!
neral tire in that C'oloit.

It is rather sieg,ilar, flu: sister of Hussey 4e.
strayed herself in a tit of insanity at Mr. Shore's, at
Highgate, last summer ; anal. that Hussey's brother -
and uncle are at pmsent vent:nal in Bethiciu Hcspital.
It is now eurreutiy reported in the first military cir-
cles, that oft tho arrival of the British troops from
France, a re..incem of one lklajor and two companics
toil take place in cve•ry regiment of the line except
those on foreign tYnit the min:there wilf•he'i
limited, so as to niaito the Junius re-,

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M. Cotten, Abe French joke who presided at the
trial of Sir It& Wilson and Messrs. Bruce and Hutch.
insom, fur aiding. Ale escape of Lsvellette„ was in the
Crown Court at Durham, each day sham the business
commenced. lie aplv..ars very attentive to the proceed.
ings. His visit to England is understood to be at the
charge of the French Goveruntzmt, with a view to wit.
ness and report the mode of administering justice, earl
particularly the rules of evidence, and manner of coal.
ing at, or opyosing., the reception of p..oats,
The single state of New York is represented 'by 7'.;.c
IT'aNhingtog Gazale, as :living full employment w
1271 lawyers!

Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Cornenv,
data July Yesterday the. Insurgent cruisers off tl.k
pant set tire to n coaster, Weil %villa lime ; she drifted near the
ligMlumse here, and went to inter son the rocks. A Suar.;sis
schooner laden with salt, from Cadiz, bound to the eastward
of this port, has put into Mortis, hawing been twice plumb red
on the passage by Insurgent privateers." •