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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

spot. When the defendant came ont again to demolish
the work with his adze, the plaintif went out to
defend his property, when a scuffle ensue I, and the de-
fendant aimed a blow at the plaintiff with the ml z',
which hit him in the cheek. The defendant's suit heir-
int; the disturbance, ran out and set upon the plaimilif,
who it was sworn was severely beaten ltv the two, who
are hoth powerful men. 'lite platandt's dan on
interfering for her father, was struck several nines by the
ilefendatn's snit.

On the part of the defendants five witnesses were
called up, and swore point blank against the evidence
of the ten for the it was proved, however
that the scraper was so fixed as to encroach upon the
defendant's premises, and was placed on the left hand
side of the door instead of the right, where it could
have been of an inconvenience or annoyance to the de-
fendants.

The Jiffy after an excellent charge from the Learned
Jil,'ne, returned a verdict against both defeudants.—Da-
iiiaBes, 16. cacti.

Melancholy Catastrophe —FRASERBURGH, JAN. 25.
This attentotm, btaween nvo and three o'clock, a sloop,
supposed, and which was afterwards ascertained, to be
the Mary, of Gartletistown, coal laden, hove in sight,
and'otade for this harbour; the pilots maimed three
boats, and went out to meet the vessel, with hawsers,
but the sea was running so hipli that only one of them
could reach the sloop ; and melancholy to relate, that
one, when close by the vessel, was by a heavy sea upset,
and all hands (five in tier) %vete precipitated tut° a
watery grave. The vessel then 'hove in the leeward,
and haying struck nit a ridge of rocks, all hopes of saving
either ship or crew were lost. Lieutenant Crocker, of
the ereventive Water-guard stationed here, iiimiedi tidy
on seeing the perilous situation of the trtfortuthate crew,
who were by this time clinging to the rigging, with a
degree of humanity and courage which deserves the
highest commentlatton, got his small boat launched, and
along with three of Ina own inen, arid a sailor belonging
to this place, went to the vessel, and, had hot all hams
the boat, con. rary to his order, whereby the
rowers were so t•iictinibereil that they could not mattagc
their oars, would in all prattability have succeeded in
saving the whole, ()tit by the violence of tile wind and
sea, the boat was carried among the breakers, which
were running mountains high, and. amidst the heart-
rending cries of the wives and relatives of the poor
sidieras, and others who witnessed their deplorable si-
tuation, upset, and all in it, 14 in number were com-
et tttttt nued to the fury of the waves. Lieu', Crocker
being an excelleut *smithies., was the only person who
reached tile shore in lute, and though much exhausted
when he did so, is now happily in good health. Nine
of the seamen who have perished, belonging (0 Ohs place
have kit widows and children in very dependent cir-
cumstances. Eight of the dead bodies were cast ashore
a few hums alter the boat upset, and every 1114:JUS used
with them fur restoring animation, but in va to.
The report which is so general of a letter having been
lately received from a high personage in his eon hand-
o ming, by the President of the College of Phystciatis,
prescrtbmg, with great utinuteneu, a Court dress to be
worn on all luture occasions, reminds us of an amusing
anecdote which took placesonic years back Al Plymouth,
and tends to spew how differently the same owner was
there treated. A certain Doctor of Pnysic, who was a
little more attentive to personal appearance than some of
our hard fighting scannas thought necessary, and whom,
from general respect to his eharacter, we forbear to name,
applied to a noble Earl, now far advanced in years, who
at that tune cot 1111 l anded the Channel Fleet, with a vi-
gour, capacity, and genius wholly unexampled, and
ink/ruling I • hat no uniform had, by the regulations
of the ter% ice, been appointed to the physician oh the
deo, begged to know if he might nut be permitted to
wear one. " Yes, certainly, I)octur," was the illlSMer.
" What shall it be, my Lord ?" " Just whatever you
please, Doctor," was the reply. Akw days aiterwards,
a boat, containing an eflieer, apparently very richly
dressed, approached tile title die Paris. The Admiral,
whom nothing ever escaped, stepped hastily on deck,
ordered the whole crew 1111 be turned tip, the yards to he
manned, and the officers to put on their side arms; by
this time ilie boat had ipproached so near, that a consi-
derable uieBree of discomposure and Ulleaslllel4l was nis-
cermble in the countenance of the richly dressed stranger,
who began to call out with all his might to the First
Letatenant, whom he knew by name, " Stop the baud,
fir Gull's sake, I am Doctor his Lordship will he
so :wary when he hears it." Au order on board the
Fake de Paris Watt never long in eat cu•tuit ; every yard
was manned, every officer was its full dress, and the
whole band in full play, a ceremony so imposts% as ne-
ver to tut forgotten by any body. whir it is wino ised it—
During tills tattle, the poor Doctor, won fil.•Clell the
whole to hate been a west, key acraniblvd tip the stile's
side as fast as possible, arid tuninled isrm the duck! Not
A word was s wkeu; .very tutlitxr and luau w.s
headed ; the Larl himself, attended ley the Captain,
stepped out of the cabin, and mak mg one of his luiwust
aim hest-bred bows heime the appalleu here benne him;
as he lifted up his head, he for the fits( time c.a.. Ina
eyes upon his countenance, exclaiming in a trine to tile
greatest apparent surprise and sualpheity, " I
declare I thought it had been an A meal of the Fleet
g out to supersede MC." It was obsersed after 41116.
it it thougii the Doctor s often led omit on board
the Ville ale Paris, Ire llt‘cr atterwartis Caine lit
eight and mite o'clock, out
%%dewily night, a hoe lute girl, who was earryity a
LIMAN tit eluuhrs home to her SIO.IIIICI, was stomped
near the Castle in Tuthill-meet, Portpule-laitr, by a gang
at youmnm rutliato, ono linen that Limier whilst OA° ul
kept her p(I both. I ‘4lll!elic.i hauls Oil her i nn.1,1 It,
prevent her calling out, dimmer tit the gang ruts uti with
the Imitate. Site was then knot:6.d down m tie u. 011•,
AA her nead was shockiugly bruised against the Stunk s.
The villains then ejecta! their escape. 11110(I11.114,111 ,
was 61. C 4. tau .li.Ufladay IN the lush.,) at iieteott:sa-et