The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

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PROVINCIALS.

Mosi-n! w.—=this re:we-tumble row, which belones to
Jelin Barnes, rie ,11.r—Bike, in the pare!. of Graysomke, Cumberland
which prodneed eaters in less ttiae two ye••rs, egain calved twins an
the I)th of last meentb, which made eicht e"ives she has penlueed in
less than three seals. and nine in ; thoueh only seven yeeis
NVinit ;s also remaik.-ble, the twin heifers (feta in numb r) are all living
Juni the hulk liame all been Isttened lot 'he Weller.
Peso nsTArns. ;feel. levy eights since, as,Anme fishermen
behmeine. to this place were ft lei 'it for meecknrel at the hack of Goodwill
S leis, they discovered laree fi la entangled in their tiles, whim h dies
were oldiged (4) cut ((MU bo.it to prevent the dancer that threatener'
thew. S ,mite h.. alter trey fell iu with their ne's imeain, with the
completely roll d in them, and it appmaied nearly exhausted. .On
their ene'otiehinc the fish, it pr,ved t•• be of an ear mous site ; aed
with the assistance of another nnar, they towed it into e r harboer.
On exatuin,ti,tn it eppsared to be a spec les Of the Baski• t Sh.ak, Of the
latreest elide kind its length is 31 feet and its greatest %eidi hat Ate top
of the hack. VI feet ; it is supposed to vrelglm6 tons : it has fin-• traverse
arrtures or time gills nit each skim-, and it is of a el..rk leaden colour;
the torte of the bedr life that of the Shark, is tapt•iing ; the upper jaw
J--ets considerably beyond the lower, and is rotund at the tst d. A
gr A onit.oer of people e:. me frem all pails of the Isle of Thnnet to
v vy, molester ate,. I)eep and the fa heemen have been umply
paid for the danmee sestaii ed by the loss el their nets.
Ou'Weminesday .ke'nnight a shocking aline. teok ;Aimee at the fair of
Carrokell, comity Danced. he'tveen a Miry of Orengemen and a
party of M 16.11111. 0, in w !lei' a ',umber of lives were lost. The
oriein of the quarrel dyes art seem to be hill understood it haying
been related 1.. various wit‘s ; hut the contending patties appear to
hat e met with intentionadeterminedly mrurdereke, (rich hat log 'supplied
themsm•lses with arms and amnsinnition. The Oranetenen having been
sivarsti:d in hr on .et, retreated to a s'illiatme where they took slit her in
some houses, thick their pursuers set on time. Driven to desperation,
they tir,d out of the windows, and kilted two of their opponents on the
spot : atterw rds they sallied out, with the intention milsameingthenselves
by retreat, when tteey st imbed another, who is now dead, but, being
overpoweied three of them were killed. Titus three of each party
have been killed, avid, we understand, a great number have been
wounded.—(Belfist 'News Later.)

An T'wuest was taLeu on Tuesday. in Saukville-street, Piccadilly, on
the hods of Roger Lirograve. Esq who shot himself at his apartments in
the above street, with a diteith g pistol, on Monday morning. The
d-ceased was brother to Sir George Brograve, originally a Cdprain in
the second Drapospi, and for some years had sported considerably oa
the turf. 'ripen, vallet to the deceased, stated, that his master appeared
much dejected since the Second Si,; ins► meeting at Nett-market, and
mire particularly so since Eio,ons laces, where he intornsvd him he
had lust un immense sum of money (it is said 8,0000-11 is muster he
c.:nsidered to be quite insane two days hetbre his death, and a verdict
to th it t ffcct was returned by the Coroner's Jury.---Mr. Prograve, at
the time of his dcatiar Lad 4;0001. at his banker's.

Uu Tuesday, a young man oldie name of John Pratt, was taken to
Bow-street, charged with assaulting a woman he cohabited with in Nor-
thumberland-street. The Sitting Magistratv out n.ed him to find bail,
and not being provided with any, he was loclted up in one of the cells
there, wheie lie attempted to ban, himself' with his nee:tcloth In the
evening he was committed to Tuthill-fields Bridewell. On Thursday
aftermion, about 1 o'clock, he borrowed a razor of a fellow-prisoner
who just been shaving bim elf. Pratt shaved himself very deli-
berately, after %%Heil he tell at the other priAmers feet, when it was
dim oveied, that he had cut his throat with the razor. yin alarm was
give!, and a surgeon arrived in about a quarter of an hour, but it was
to nu purpose, as he hini.completely separated the wind-pipe.