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at,froal 5!. t pek.t,oa, to make brass when mixed with cop-
ier, e,tcjosi has been used for painting.
A censicettnirtina.frfity of silver Vain, of Elizabeth, James,
attl Ohnrles, iva§.d:re% uplast week on a farm called Lan, in ti e
pnriSb` rear Anertaiitt,' ittair Carmarthen. Tradition informs us,
thalzvia racoon malt stood on this spot, during part of Croat-
'to bitrotectOrsli i F .
The fallow inz is the most singular instance of swindlin.
vehie.ll recollect to have heard of for some time. On Satur-
day *e'imight, a genteel looking. man arrived at a town in 114.
cestershir- in a citaise ; and after making many inquiries re•
spectiag we inhabitants, he sent a note to the Clergyman of the
parish, sa lug, that with his permiss:on, he would do the
duty of the Cl arch on the following day.—The Clergyman cop
senten, and aecordinely the stranger went through the variou
duties af the day. Being in comparrY in the evening, he saki
that he whs going to take possession of a living in Bromptoo
Brian ; and onseried, that he should be rather short of money,
if he could not get somebody to cash a check, (which he pro-
duced), on a London Banker. A Gentleman present offered to
supply nim with cash fur it, vehich he accepted, and said that
he was goine. irota the place, but should retera on the follow in
Titurzday. In the mean time a person arrived at the same tow ii
from Bat;I, and said that he was in pursuit of a man who had
given him a cheek upon a London Banker, which was found to
be el'au value; and, an mahing inquiry, he felt convinced the
the strange Clergyman must be the inan he sought ; and an in-
terview coneinced hint that he was right. The supposed Clef-
gy.:nan framed some plausihl excuse for his conduct, and satis-
fied his pursuer by paying him the greater part of his debt, with
the money., it is suppo-ells that he had obtained fromihe alio;
Gentleinau. The item morning he left the town, and no tiding
have since been heard of him. lie appeared about 26 years 0:
age, an,lpos,es-ed an ert.,aging per3on and address; it is most
probahie that ite isnot a Clergyman.
On Tuesday se'nnight, a fire broke out in the house of Mr.
Weathered, bridge-street, Berwick, but was fortunately got
under betore doing an. serious damage—we understand it was
occasioned by some straw that had been put up the chimney to
prevent we- soot frau, falling upon the floor, and which, no:
being taken out when the tire was put out, fell down and threat-
ened the w hole premises with an instant conflagration.
Several persons lost their lives one night last week in attempt-
ing to return nonce from Whitby-market. Christopher Swal, s.
a biark' milli, at Goatiand, about ten miles from Whitby, or
his return, called upon his son at Sleirhts, who seeing his father
determioed to i;roceed on his journey, undertook to accompair.
him over the most difficult part of the road. Having travelled
a ICW miles, the old man grew so faint that his son was under
the necessity of taking him upon his hark. After encounterine
the greatest diticulties, they reached the end of their journey,
but not hetore the father had suffered so severely from the cold
and fatigue, that he expired almost immediately on entering the
boteht. 1 tie son was also reduced to such a state of weakness
by the exvitions he had heed compelled to make, that his reco-
vc-v was for some time doubtful. Another victim to the seve-
rity of the storm, was a young worear of the nag:-..- of Sellers,
a resident in Goatiand; the most pressing entreaties of
her t'.:ends at Whitby could tint prevail with her to stay the
; her constant reply being, that it' she did not go home.
he.: mother wohtd conelade that something had happened to her.
xio the evening °fine ISte, she was found sitting upon the snow
on the moor, with her hoi F.,e standing h,. her, and the bridle ill
her hand, dearly perished to (Atli; hut on being taken to
thrm-horse, sae soon reeovereti. She must have been exposeo
to the severe storm not less t han 30 hours. A farmer Of Live:-

ton, Rcithen also returning from Whitby, lost
his life near Scalii.gdam, titan the incleihrocy of the iveather ;
his body was fouod a few days afterwards und, r the snow ; th,
people whoniscoveced him nv.H...,..irawn to the pot by otherving
a stick placed upi ight in the snow, w hien taeasure it appear-
the deceased had adopted as a signal, when exhausted nature
Lad heel) compelled to resign the hopeless contest. Two men
have been found 'it) the 'Moor, near Cock Aloor-hall, in the
rici,hbourhood of Sc,.rhorough, who had perished in
.the storm
.;a.ltirday the 17th ultimo.
1' A illorking ..tfair happened on Thursday last at Dowghte
no,,r Welling, Bucks. Fourteen men were at work
tae v..t.,ch is 100 feet deep, when an impending cliffgave
•• • • - * d of them, with two earls and four
Iv ay • 4,1. _one seven
"itielfb' the iren were dug out on the same day, tw o of whom

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the Seventh man was protected by a cart, and. is nm hurt.
horses. although not kilted, were rendered useless.
nifecting scene occurred at Southend, Yorkshire, abnat
six o'clock last Wednesday seennight. During the violence of
Lae storm, five of the Humber pilots took a .wall iroat, with
the intention of going .aboard their pilot-boat, lying off the
garrison. Jupt as they put off, a wave struck the biiat, which
instantly was upset in the sOit of a number of people, and only
two were saved.

Last week some persons amusing themselves with a rifle-piece,
on the Salford side of the Irwdl, a bail from it entered the
window of a house in Strangcways, struck oil ine head of a
ailit's doll king aside, and passed through 10 the If-irk yard.—
Providentially at the time the shot wac hied, the mistress of the
nouse was stooping to sweep the hearth, otherwise it must have
proved fatal to her. Several children were playing in the yard
at the time. The danger of this practice has been becore pointed
out, from similar hazard atn-iining it.
A very melancholy aer;dent happened a few (lays ago At
Sharperion ford, on the Coquet River. As a poor blind man
named Howey, with his- son, a lad about twelve years of age,
,sere in the act of crossing the Ford to Woodhall on a small gal-
loway, , it is supposed the ice coining down very rapidly, hail.
inoeked the animal over, and the poor man being unable to
render himself or son any assistance, both were unfortunately
drowned.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

Downing-street, Jun. 10, ISO 9.

Dispatches, from which the following are extracts, were, on
the tith instant, received at the office (If Lord V iLcontit Castle-
reagh, one of his Maje3ty's Principal Secretaries of Stale, front
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, K. B. Commander in Chief
of his Alaje6ty's Forces employed in Spain :
Bencrente, Dec. 28, 1803.

Since I had the honour to address you upon the 16th, from
Coro, the Army has been almost. constantly marching through
snow, and with cold that has been very intense. The weather
within these few days, has turned to rain, which is much more
.nacon►tortabie than the cold, and has rendered the roads ahnost
impassable. On the 21st the Army reached Sahagun ; it was
nece,,sar% to halt there in order to refresh the men, and on ae-
connt of provisions. The information 1 received was that
Marshal Soul t was at Saldana with about sixteen thousand men,
with posts atom; the river frotn Cuarda to Carrion.
The• Army was ordered to march in two columns at eight
o'clock on the night of the `3d, to force the bridge at Carrion,
And from thence proceed to Saldana. At six o'clock that even-
ing., I received information, that considerable reinforcements had
•arrived at Carrion from Palencia, and a letter from the Alartbn is
tie lit Itomana infor►ned me, that the French were advancing from
Madrid, either to Valladolid or Salamanca. It %vas evident,
that it was toe► late to prosecute the attempt upon Soult, that I
must be salisfied with the diversion I had occasioned, and that I
had no time to lose to secure my retreat. . .

The next morning Lieuteamit-General Hope, with his own
Ii vision and that of Lieu 0 oust-General Fraser, marched to
Thijorga. I sent Sir David Baird with his division to pass the
river at 'Valencia, and followed L. ieut.-1 ktneral Hope on t he 251 h
ith the reserve and the light brigado,:, by Mljorga, ValderaB,
Benevent,. The• cavalry, under Lord Pa ,et, followeil the
reserve on the 26th ; both the latter corps entered this place
sesterday. We continue our march on Astorga. Generals Hope
and Fraser are already gone on ; Sir David Baird proceeds to-
morrow from 'Valencia; and I shall leave this with the reserve
it the same time ; Lord Paget s ill remain with the cavalry, to
lye us notice of the approach of the enemy ; hitherto their
tufantry have not come up, but they are near, and the cavalry is
round us in great numbers; they are checked by our cavalry,
which have obtained, by their spirit and enterprise, an ascend-.
ancy over that of the French, which nothing but great superiority
of numbers an their part will get the better of.
The diversion made by our march on Sahagun, though at great
risk to ourselves; has been complete ; it remains to be seen what
advantage the Spaniards in the South will be able to take of it ;
but the march of the French on Badajoz was stcpped when its
advanced guard had reached Talaveira de la Reine, and every
thing dispmable is now turned in this direction.
The only part of the Army which has been hitherto cng,a.-ed
aith the enemy, has been Or; cavalry, and it is ImpoiFible tor