The National Register.
London, England, 1808-11-06 00:00:00

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Treatcit courage and eatbasiasm. w e communicate this
or the general satisfaction, 011 the complete details can he
ablished. The disembarkation of ass English troops has
commenced, and will continue, to the ,aniouut of three
thousand men. These will proceed on their march di-
rectly, and will be followed by others when they are suf-
fciently adverted, Not more than a battalion can proceed
at a time, on account of the want of accommodations on
the road, The whole will meet at Burgos, when they
will join General Moore, who is advancing thither from
Portugal, with about 15,000 more. Ilia Beitannic Ma-
jesty's ship Air elia sailed this morning with transports,
having on hoard the itch and 31st tegiments. Their
destination is said to be Lisbon. Mr. Frere has set out for
Madrid.

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SCOTLA N D.

• Niorrxt; OCT. 26.—We had yesterday a most dreadful
'form of wine and rain, and the river, in the neighbonrhoo.i
flame down in witch torrents as were never seen before by the
eldest people here. Amongst the damage occa-ionesl by it, we
*re .0;31 to state ga distressing accident which happened to the
elail coach from tilasgow to Carli-le, n bid) pa,-es this. nay, at
the Bridge over tle River Evan, about nine miles from hence,
its a place called-1,1e5% cicagh, betwixt nine and ten o'clock last
fright.
- The coach I:ti jiff got about half way over w hen the bridge
gave way in the migdle of the arch, and the coach, passengers,
horses, c. were.itststantls precipitated into the river, down a
were of or 40 feet:. There ete four inside and two outside
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~a...geri; the too latter and two of the horses were killed
o puu the spot, and ,the other passengers had a most miraculous I
peape pith their lives, but U r are carry to say they are very
consitte ably hurt t the c,iachniau and guard were also much
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hurt, he former had arm broken ar broken and otherwise much
bruise +, and the guard got a severe contusion on the head.
The other coach from Carlisle to Gla,c-nw narrowly escaped
*haring the carte fate; it arrived at the rirldge just at the time
.qhe accident bappeaed, and from the darkness of the night, and
• the rate the coach necessarily ttavels, must ia,!vetably have gone
Opeethe river at the same breach in the arch, had not the cries
.4T one of the sufferers alarmed the coachman, and induced him
to stop.
. By the exertion of the coachman and guard of the other coach,
the passengers w ho sins ived (a lady and three gentleman) w ith
She coachman and gaud that had fallen into the abyss, were
extricated, and conducted to a place of safety, until oilier as-
sistance was afforded them. Much praise is due to the propri-
etor at Moffat, fur his exertion and assistance on this occasion;
immediately on hearing of the accident, he set out in the mid-
dle of the night with several of his servants and surgical assis-
Agate, and rave every possible relief to the passengers, and by
this means, we are happy to say, the London Mail and many
yaluable articles in the coach have been saved. The exertions
of one of the proprietor's servants is particularly deserving of
votive: at the risk of his life, he went down the precipice sus-
pended by a rope, And saved the life of the lady (one of the pas-
*veneers), and recovered the mail bags, which must have been
carried down the stream. The bodies of the two passengers
*eve been found and conveyed to Moffat, and notwithstanding
*he detention occasioned by this calamity, the mail cysts yester-
day delivered in town in its regular course.

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PROV I N DIALS.

NOV. O.

or wheat, the farmers have kept their teams at work, its mud
a, possible, in making up the land for their sifting mops, a
mode of husbandry which is of the utmost advantage, and whirs
should never be neglected when it ran be had recourse to with
convenience. The droppings of the season in the preceding; as
well as the present mouth, has afforded an unusual quatitilitsii of
feed for live stock, both in the meadows and pasture lands ; so
much so, that in some of the counties iu the minium p
the island, they have scarcely a sufficiency of stock to cumeme
it before it becomes injured by the frosts. The turnips, both
Swedish and common; as Well as most other sorts of writ c.tde
4 rope, in general look uncommonly well, and base in many
cases risen to a size that must afford a considerably mote ;wn.
dandy supply of winter and spring food than was at one period
supposed by those Canters a ho grow them. The season has been
h ghly favourable for them in most places. The beans in moat
of the more ni rthein counties mere but very indifieleat crops,
3 ieldin; an unusually short produce.
II rit Ero Rust' IKt AGRI( VI.IUIC4L SOCIETY.-At the late
Anniversary Meeting of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society,
which was more numerously and respectably anemic(' than on
sun formet occasion, the premium for the best new varlet% of
the Apple was adjudged to T. A. Knight. Esq. for the Follev
Apple, being a cross between the yellow Siberian Cr:th and the
Oraiive Pippin. In size it is nearly equal to the Old tiobleti
Pippin; the pulp i 9 of a deep yellow colour, null the juice rt•
mart: ably rich and saccharine ; the wood and blossom, are Sup.
posed to be as hardy as the native Crab. The premium for the
best two-year-old heifer was not assarded ; that for the bc.•
three-sear-old was adjudged to Mr. Edward .letTeries, of 6.:
Sheri& ; and that for the best pen of title-Ivor:fled ewes to
Mr. Watkins, of Brinsop. After the business of the day a4s
finished, the company dined at the hotel, aniountitig to nearly
KAD persons, and included the Earls of Oxford and Talbot, Sir
Charles Morgan; Sir George Cornewall, Sir H. 11oskpls, th.:
members for the county and city, and many other geuticmes.,
farniers, and breeders.

MORE WITCHCRAFT.
We last week et posed to public view some of the wicked awl
dtalm'ical arts prod Coed by Mary Bateman, of Compfield, oe,•
Leeds, upon the distressed and ruined family of William Pr
TI:;0, of Bromley.
W a have another atrocious act of the same kind to commun.

rate.
James Suowdeu and his family have also been the dupes of
Mary Bateman, in a degree little inferior to Perigo ; living at
the next door to this artful wotnan, she learnt that Snosv den's
wife had a sort of preseutimrnt that one of her children would
he drowned, rind offered her services to avert to heavy a rata
mitt'. The agency of Mks Blyth was culled in here aguir
Mary pretended to write to her at Thirsk, and received a letto
directing that James Snowden's silver watch should he sowed up
' in the bed by Mary Bateman;--next, money, to the alumna
nof
twelve guineas, was demanded, and obtained in a manner a god
deal similar to the way in which it was extorted from Prfiro
this was also to be sewed up in the bed. Ily and by, it becorr
necessary, Miss Blyth said, in order to prevent their son brill
drowned, and their daughter becoming abandoned, that S 00%•
den's family should leave Leeds and go to Bowling, in the neigh
bourhood of Bradford, taking the bed, At ith the watch an"
motwy in it, with them, hut leaving a considerable portion r.f
fteir property in their hong. at Leeds, and giving, Mary Bater'v
the key. At length, they ex pre,,sed their wish to Mary ta
be
allowed to look into the bed, and to take out the watch NA
money , but the time bad not yet arrived i and before this inspcc•
t on was to be made, the family of Snowden were intake a
which was at that time iu preparation for them. and wothist°
been administered during the present week !
was never taken. Oat wu
Saturday last, James Snowden a' P"
dw
! sing part of his evening at a pobli; -house in Bradford, ad the
Loeds Mercury being prodwed, one of the company underto4
Ito read the article which bad produced so much conversation
I 'luring the day, under the head " W itchcraft, blarder,
lib Crch-
;"—Snowden heard the narrative with violent cataii"!
selen it was nished, he stared from his chair and made the bct:t
his way hofime, is firstt care was in open the foldi o
('o'
f •
b d, w hen lo ! instend of his watch and money, he found—'
bad
per t came over to Leeds, mid found his hou
se. whic-
It ia Vie rare of Mary Bateman, plundered, and on a t.ar...
warrant brio?: procured, part of the property tvai found in 04;
cit.
mu% ;—Juiw eatentan was in consequence apprebea