The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER:

.uch damage has been done in the neighbourhood of Leices-
,by the high winds on Tuesday night. Some new buildings
Granby-street were materially injured. Upwards of 100
of a lofty new-brick built wall, in Land Pit-lane, were
'n down, and a poor man of the name of Agar, passing at
ime, was killed by its falling upon him; a woman was
n down, and broke her leg; and several other accidents
;red during the night.
person in very respectable circumstances, who resided at
irk, went from his house about three months ago, in emu-
with his wife, saying they would return the next day.
stopped at the house of an acquaintance soon afterwards,
since then were not heard of, though the most diligent in-
ies were set on foot. A few days ago, however, the ho-
of both were found in a wood, some miles from their own
,e; a part of the man's remains having been eaten, as sup-
al, by dogs. From the man having occasionally shewn
atoms of derangement, as well as from some marks on the
,an, and a weapon found by her husband, it is supposed he
first strangled her, and then stabbed himself.
Lately, Joseph Gerard, of Pleasington, died suddenly. He
had supped with the family on muscles the night preceding his
death, and retired to bed apparently well ; he awo!ie about
four o'clock in the morning, in the greatest agony, and was a
corpse by five. An inquest was held on the occasion the fol-
low ing day, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of this
sudden catastrophe, when the attending surgeon gave his depo-
sition to the Jury, that his death was owing to the muscles he
had eat the night before ; this testimony was corroborated by
every attending witness, and also by the symptoms which usually
accompany those who are what is generally called muscle stung.
It is well known what disagreeable effects frequently attend the
tiug of this species of fish ; and what is singular, this disorder
01 crates on some individuals oftener than others, owing to an
id.ocrisy of constitution. Let those persons, therefore, who
are thus affected, abstain from sleep till the symptoms subside,
for it is probable that the noxious effects produced by the fish
act with much greater force on the system during the time of
sleep, than when awake. The most efficacious remedy for the
removal of this troublesome disease is an emetic, early ad-
m;ninistered.

Barbara Malcolm, alias Sutherland, is committed to the
Tolbooth, Edinburgh, on a charge of administering poison to
her own natural daughter, Margaret Malcolm, of Sunderland,
a child of eleven tumults old, in the house of Adam Gordon,
labourer, in Lady Lawson's W yud, Portsburg,. Under pretence
of grit;;; it the medicine for a cold, she forced a quantity of
aqua fortis and tirenic down the child's throat. The edect was
almobt 111.A:tut:meow, and the child expired in the most dreadful
torments. So powerful was the poison, that in a few minutes
the bottom of a new tin jug, in which it was contained, was
destroN eel.

A trader, from Leed► to Hull, Vessey, master, in going down
with a cargo of coals was stranded below Whitton Salltls ; at
the time the vessel foundered, the master, his pregnant m ife, and
tsso of their children were on board. Ills first care was to save
his wife, %; limn he carried in his arms from the vessel to the
shore, a distance of about a mile ; he immediately returned to
his children, and, notwithstanding the rapidity of the current,,
and the interruption of the large sheets of floating ice, he suc-
ceeded in getting then► on shore ; w hen, awful to relate, he
found his wife a corpse, and to eo►npleie the climax of heart-
r'•nding distress, his tw o children, overcome by intense cold, ex-
pire.l in his arms.

A stratum of sea-shells, among Is hick were many fishes hones
and unopened oysters, in their complete state, were last week
found by the workmen emplo%ed in sinking a well in Fisher-
row, Reading. Besides the NN ell-known strata found at Kates-
grove Brick-kiln, these antediluvian relics are frequently found
under similar e uktatce ‘.

One of the bells in the st.:eple of the town church of St. An-
drew's was lately taken down in consequence Of its having been
accidentally broken, when it appeared irons the inscription that
it had been there for 800 years, and that it had been a present
front the then Pope.
Fro:t-bitten potatoes arc restored to their natural taste and
tl.tvour, by being steeped iu cold water fur twelve bowl before
they are boiled.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

It the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of December, 180;
present, the King's Most Excellent Mqjesty in Council.
His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of his
Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no-
thing in His Majesty's Order in Council of the 11th of No-
vember last shall extend, or be construed to extend, to per-
mit any vessel to import any articles of the produce or ma-
nufacture of tne enemy's Colonies in the West Indies, direct
from such Colonies to any port of this kingdom ; and it is
further ordered, that all vessels which may arrive in the
ports of this kingdom, direct from the Colonies aforesaid,
shall, nevertheless, be released, upon proof being made that
the charter-party or other agreement for the -voyage was
entered into before notice of this Order. And the Right
Hon. the Lords Commissioners of Flin Majesty's Treasury,
His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, thi! Lords Coin-
missioners of the Admiralty, and the Judges of the High
Court of Admiralty and Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to
take the necessary measures herein as to them shall respec-
tively appertain. y TV. l'airkExart.

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