The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-21 00:00:00

RESPECTING THE REDUCTIONS OF THE REGIMENTS OF

INFANTRY.

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W..R.OFFICE, AUG. 1521.
.5111,—T have the honour to acquaint you that the King has
been plc:veil to order the esuibli,hinent of the Regiment of Foot
under your command, to he reduced from the 25th inst., inclu-
sive, so as to consist of the numbers specified hi follow:
Regiment of Foot, 8 companies.
i Colonel 1 Quartemiaster Scrjcant
1 Lieutenant Colonel I 1 Paymaster Serie:tat
2 Majors 1 Armourer Serjcant
f Captains 1 Schoolmaster Serjeant
10 Lieutenants 8 Colour Serjeants
6 Ensigns 16 Serjeants
1 Paymaster 24 Corporals
1 Adjutant I Drum Major
1 Quartenna,ter It Drummers and Fifers
1 Surgeon I 352 Privates
I Assistant Surgeon -
1 Serjeant Major

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Sir William Curiis.—lt could be little suspected
that the present Royal favourite, Sir NV. Curtis, had
originally been the political clove of J. llonie Tooke.
Such, however, it appears, was the case, and in
this manner Tooke related the occasion :—" Sir
William's anther had been a zealous friend of popu-
lar politics in the city and county, and at the period
of the great contest for Middlesex. when Wilkes was
opposed by Lutteral, old Mr. Curtis regretted that
his business and time of life prevented him being so
active in behalf of his fiivourite candidate as he
wished to be. My son, however,' says he, is
just now of age; he is young and strong ; take him,
Mr. Horne, under your own direction, and make
him useful in your canvas.' " The young man,"
continued Horne Tooke, " retained his acquaint-
ance with me tir some years afterwards but subse-
quently, as would readily he supposed, we seldom
met. It happened, however, after a very long in-
terval, while I was a member of the House of Com-
mons, that we did meet at the door of the House,
going out together into the lobby, and, what was
more extraordinary, going out on a division upon
the same side. Being side by side" said Tooke, " I
offered him my hand as an old political pupil, and
told him I was heartily glad to find that he had re-
turned to his master and to his orignal principles at
lasts ' Return ! ' replied Sir William archly, I
never left my principles; it is you Mr. Tooke, who
have changed.' How am I to understand you Sir
William?' Why, Mr. Tooke, when I engaged in
politics with you we had the majority with us; by
the majority I have always stuck, and I will keep
among the majority to the last."
At the general meeting of the Commissioners
under the Paving Act, held last week, a Memorial
was presented by Mr. Alderman Booth, signed by
upwards of 80 inhabitants of the first. respectability
in Nuns ich, requesting the Commissioners to take
into their serious consideration the necessity of ap-
plying to Pariiament for more extensive powers to
enable them efli:ctually to pave, light, watch, and
cleanse this city. In consequence ot• which, and on
the motion of Alderman Booth, seconded by Mr.
Edward Taylor, and supported by Mr. Plumptre
and other gentlemen, a Committee was appointed
for taking into consideration the measures necessary
to carry the above petition into effect, and to wort
thereon at the next monthly meeting.
At a meeting of the Norwich Reform Society held
on Tucsd..y (Mr. G. Kitton in the chair), it was
resolved that a subscription should be raised, in order
to assist in indemnifying Sir Robert Wilson for the
loss he has sustained by WA late dismissal from the

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Extract of a letter dated Osnabruck, Oct. 5.:-..
" I have at length arrived in the kingdom of Ha.
nover, but am still one hundred miles from the
capital. In my progress to this town front the Prus-
sian frtmtier, I witnessed the strongest manifestations
of loyalty and attachment to his Nlajesty. A tri.
limphal arch has been erected on the spot where the
boundary line is drawn, and the decorations, though
composed of the most simple materials, do credit to
the taste and ingenuity of the parties who devised
them. The arch is sustained by fbur posts, festooned
with branches of palm, intermingled with the
greenest foliage of the threat ; and the whole is
mounted with the imperial crown, having the letters
" G. R." inscribed underneatb, on a shield of azure
blue, Similar arches arc constructed at every village
I have come through, and the people appear anxious
to rival each other in testifying their affection to a
Sovereign, whose name and family are connected
with their fondest associations. At Glandorf, the
first village 1 came to after passing the frontier, I
found the landlord of the inn, who is also the post-
master, brushing a suit of antiquated unifinm, in
which lie intended to appear bethre his Majesty.
He said he would present his Royal Master with
wine of a hundred and twenty years old, poured out
in a gold cup, and expressed his earnest hope that
his Majesty would condescend to accept the libation.
His daughter, who attended in the room with some
refreshments, on seeing an English gentleman tender
a sovereign in payment, immediately snatched it from
his hand, when she understood it was stamped with
the likeness of the King. Fixing her eves upon it with
!look of ecstatic delight, she contemplated it Lora few
moments, and then after passing it three or four
times to her lips, declared she would not part with
it as long as she lived. Surprised at the emotion
she betrayed, the gentleman asked it' she had never
seen the coin before? and she replied, that this was
the first time she saw the likeness of the good King
of Hanover." Betbre I left Munster, this morning,
I discovered that the postboys had a desperate con-
tention for the honour of driving his Majesty's car-
riage. One of them, who was a fellow of some
humour, said that the Koenig- von Prussen (the Kill..
of Prussia) when he passed through, did not provoke
such angry feelings among them, as they would all
have been very well content to let any one who
pleased drive his Majesty to the d—l. You will not
be surprised to hear that the King of Prussia is no
favourite with the postboys, when I tell you that
by an order lately issued at Berlin, any one of them
who shall be found asleep on his horse, is to 'be
placed on a seat, firmed by three pieces of wood,
brought to so sharp a point as almost to pierce
through the flesh, the unfortunate offender being
all the time compressed within a wooden frame, and
unable to relieve himself in any other manner than
by an of attended with a varied sort of pain....
This punishment continues for six weeks, during
which period the wretched sufferer gets nothing but
bread and water, except on the third day, when he
is allowed a little broth to sustain life. As soon as
the time elapses, he is obliged to pay a fine of la
dollars, and is then restored to his fOrmer situation,
only to undergo more aggravated inflictions, should
he again unhappily doze while on duty. From this
instance you may form a tolerable estimate of the
policy that exists in the King of Prussia's dominions.
The Ekyplion Obelisk.—. Fitts piece of antiquity was
lying in front of the temple in the island of Chiloc,
where it stood originally at the time of !gulonly, or pro-
bably anterior to that period, and was first noticed by
Gordon, alter various other travellers bo.h ancient and
modern. It was taken from that place to Alexandria
by the traveller Belzoni, to whom Mr. Banks is entirely
indebted for his arduous operation, as it may be seen.—
On the first attempt to convey it on board, the pier har-
ing given way, it slipt into the Nile. front whence it was
raised by great labour under the direction of Belzoni,
who being destitute of mechanical instruments, except
some palm-leaf ropes, and a few pieces of palm.trees,
contrived to have it turned up on the bank again, from
whence it was embarked in a small boat, and launched
down the cataract over a fall of water of about 20 feet
in breath, and 600 in length, full of rocks on every side.
It was then taken to Thebes, where another party of
trayMers claimed it, they made au attempt on Belzoni 's
life. At last the obelisk was safely taken to Alexandria
by lino, where it was shipped for England. It is 22
feet in length, 4 feet square at the basis, and folms ill
proportion about 130th part of the great obelisk now
lying iii Alexandria, named Cleopatra's nceole, which
is about 67 ket in length, by seven broad at the base.—
There is reason to hope that that great monument of ill-
tvpity will he brought to this country, particularly as it
Ices on the shore in the harbour of Alexandria, so fa.
vourably situated for its embarkation.
FUNERAL or Mn. ItEtimg.—The funeral of this
ulebratod Engineer being appointed to take place on Tuesday.
the neighbourhood of Stamford-street exhibited an unusual scene
of bustle. At ems early hour carriages were seen driving from all
directions to the late residence of the deceased, setting down gen-
tlemen to follow Mr. Rennie to the place of his internment. At
precisely twelve o'clock the procession proceeded from Stamford-
street over lilacktriara Bridge, to the great western gate of
Paul's, where, on the body being taken into the Cathedral, the
ofir
ceri
anliswtetlymicreclwi
accustounal solemnities ; the streets through which the funeral
with doe
pte,sed were thronged with spectators, and at the entrance of I.
Patin so great was the crush, that considerable apprehension.
were entertained for some manna that some acacia would
take place,

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
Thursday the Sessions for the City of Westminste r com-
menced before Mr. Const, the Chairman, and several
other Magistrates.
RIOT IN WESTMINSTER.
THE HMO V. WEARS'S', ROEROTTOM, AND OTHERS.
Mr. Adolphus stated, that the defendants, M`Carty and
tire others, soldiers belonging to the Foot Guards, were
tried last Sessions at the Old Bailey for murder and ac-
quitted. They had sitter been indicted for the riot on the
lhth of June at Westminster, but those who had prefer-
red the indictment did nut mean to proceed ; he therefore
had to request the witnesses might he called, and ou their
not appearing, the prisoners would be discharged.
Mr. Alley, Counsel fur the prosecution, stated that he
received no instructions to support the indictment for the
misdemeanour; and after the defendants had been ar-
raigned, and pleaded not guilty, they were acquitted,
there being nu evidence to lay before the Jury.
The Chairman, then addressing them, said—" It is
better before you go from the bar, under the particular
nature and circumstances of your case, that your atten-
tion should be called to theimpropriety of your conduct,
Your behaviour, subsequent to acquittal at the Old Bai-
ley, would almost lead one to suppose, that in the corn-
ms-ion of your offence, you had the intention of doing
bodily mischief, for since you were acquitted, yon have
nut wily considered yourselves justified, but although you
were under bail you have gone and abused the officers of
jostice, one of whom narrowly escaped with his life.—
You all know that yon have boasted that you glory in
a hat you have dune, and that you have said you would
die rather than make any concession. This is not ca-
p' e•sing a proper respect ror the law. You have not been
visited with punishment, and the Court think the lenity
chew a you should be taken hi a proper sense. However,
yon may have been prompted by high spirit, and recollec-
tion of the battle of Waterloo, the danger in which you
have stood, and the consequence of being again placed in
a similar situation, should have impressed upon you, re-
spect for the civil laws of the country. Persons who sup-
port the dignity of the military profession, and under
whose authority you ate placed, feel the necessity of as-
skting and protecting the officers of justice, and, I hope
heroic you leave this Court, you will du the Same."
Mr. Alley trod, it was impossible not to feel with the
Court that the conduct of the officers of justice had been
stood correct.
Mr. Const observed, that he knew nothing of the facts;
but the subsequent conduct or the defendants looked like
a malicious intention. _

Mr. Reynolds, the magistrate, said, he had occasion
to know that the soldiets, iu the riot alluded to, were
guilty of violence. He was tinder the nechssity of send-
ing for the Horse Guards. Without their assistance the
consequences might have beet' more fatal. Au attack was
made on the officers, who where only doing their duty,
and one of the defendants had gone so a public-house
and abused the officers in the grossest manner.
The defendants were then discharged.
John Roberts was indicted for assaulting, on the vith
of June, Peter Maslen.
The prosecutor with his wife, were walking along St.
James's-street, when the defendant, without any piovo-
cation. struck him a violent blow.
The defendant called three witnesses to prove Martin
Was the aggressor, but they all told different stories.
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to two mouths imprisonment in the House of Cor-
reetimi.
The Court was occupied during the peeler part of the
day with the trial of two men for a misdemeanour, dis-
gusting in the details.
atuAlf, 00T. 19.—Mary Torpin was indicted far re-
ceiving, knowing it to be stolen, a harness, the property of
George l'opeland.
It appeared that the defendant. who was a dealer in what
lire called marine stores, in Broadway, Westminster, had the
harness in a box in her parlour, where it was found by the
prosecutor in the execution of a search-warrant. The ac-
count she gave of it was, that the box was left there by a
young mail who had burrowed liive-shillings upon it,
but she knew nothing either of the man or the contents of the
box.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentence-3 months' imprisonment in
the Bowe of Correction.
The Court was occupied during the remainder of the day
in trying petty fiat4tilltr.
Watford applied to the Court to entreat the recogni-
zaticcs of John Fly and William itfitlis, who were ehttrged
As it la riot at the funeral of Francis and Honey, at Knights-
hi idge, on the 14th of -August. Ile said that the parties were
b,iund to come in and bike their trial at this sessions, but
they had neither appeared nor given notice.
The Court said that the learned Counsel might let his
Mallon stand as a notice, but that the recognixances could
hot be at present estretacti. The potties, while the beSsiutis
continued, might yet come in and demand their trial.
The UN N TV It AI. MOTH EK.—Nial Mason, the wife of
Wiiliant Tomlinson Alasun, was put to the bar on an
indict-
ment, charging her with havio; ueposited two of her intimt
children, both under the age of Iw,, years, at the doors of
the house of Mr. Knight and another inhabitant of 'Marl-
borough-street, the sth of .Tune last, between the hours of
10 and k tit night. Mr. Alley condurted the pro-
s, cut ion oil behalf of the overseers of St. James' parish, to
whom the children became chargeable.
Edward Thew, a servant of Mr. Knight, stated, that on
the night set forth in the indictment, he answered a knock
lit the door, and an opening it found a child sitting on the
threshold about IS months old cry lug bitterly. Mt. Knight
came and viewed the child, and rri examination found that a
scrap of paper was attach, d to the clothes of the little out-
cast, with an inscription, of which the fulloN lug is an exact
copy
" IVith reluctance I am obliged to leave these two poor
helpless diddle') to the care of the Almighty, being as I alit
unable to provide fur them, and they are forsaken by their
unnatural father ahu refu.ts to do anything for them. Their
father is a bakes, tirl comes fi um Newark, n:ar N oiling-
ham, his name is Tondiusem"
This note cowed a (either search. At the next door was
rotund tut infant about four months old, anti Mr. Knight had
them conveyed ton plaice ofseeurity till .....
Liken to the 11orktiouse, and front thence removed to 11 jou.
Heflin' to be nursed. talkers made every iimgaii), and
lit leugth a ream it of 5101. is ;is id. ed , soon iifter which tim
utinatui ii other mid net busltuud %vie apprs Iterated.
Seueral witnesses vivre examined, among whom was Litz.
Bali., a neighbour of the pii-rowts. It appeared fruits her
tout uncut that the ptisucer had told bcr ul bet dropping the

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ehildreu and said that her (the prisoner's) mother was with
her at the time.

There being a link wanting in the chain of evidence,
namely, that the prisoner was the person who so deposited
iliem, • and that she did so with the view of forsaking them,
the Chairman Is. ineated that it was ; Ihere being no doubt
but that the prisoner had been very inhuman, but without
evidence the Jury could not convict iu•r. The parish had
acted wish great piopriety in instituting the prusecu-
lion, but lie was bound to charge the Jury to acquit the
prisoner.
Mr. Alley said that a woman who had burst asunder the
most tender ties of nature was not to go unpunished, and he
wished Slit Magistrates to detain her as he b huuld proceed
against her under the Vagrant Act.
The defendant, who is a young woman of gond appearance,
was taken from the bar with the young rhad in her arms,
and sent back to prison.

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.

The sessions for the borough of Southwark commenced
at the Town-hall on Friday, before the Lord Mayor, Ald.
J. J. Smith, the acting magistrate of the borough, and
Mr. Common Sergeant. Several individuals were con-
•icted of trivial offences, but the following were the only
eases worthy of notice:—
William Ladd, a decent-looking young man, was in-
dicted for a violent assault upon Elizabeth, the wife of 'll..
Humphries, a smith, in Baron's-place, lackfrlars•road.
The prisoner it appeared lodged with Mr. Humphries, and
was in arrears fur rent to the amount of 31. 17s. 3d
They gave 1l i 11l notice to quit, and finding at length that he
would not go, and there was no chance of getting paid
they at last locked the door against Mtn, and refused him
admission. The prisoner gave them no annoyance at that
time, but about six weeks afterwards the prisoner cams
and demanded a tub, which Mrs. Humphries said she had
sold. He, however, got sight of it in the coal-hole, and
insisted on having its and in his endeavours to obtain it
struck her several violent blows, particularly in tile ab-
domen. She was pregnant at the time, and the violence
committed on her brought on premature labour. In con-
sequence of the blows the mother had received, she was
considerably bruised on the aims and hack, and had a
large tumour on the groin ; and it was stated in evidence
that the child when born exhibited similar appearances
of violence upon its back end arms, and a swelliug in the
groin corresponding to that upon the mother.
The prisoner in his defence denied having struck her,
and said the bruises on her arms, &c. were occasioned by
herself in her struggles to prevent his getting the tub.—
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended
him to mercy. Sentenced to 1 months imprisonment.
Stephen Tyler was also indicted for an assault on a mar-
ried woman, tee w ire of Mr. Newton, a respectable builder,
residing in Wellington street. The prisoner was going along
the Borough-road on the evening of the 13th of March,
drunk, amusing himself with beating the lid againq the side
of a four gallon saucepan, which he had just bought. The
prosecutrix happened to come out of a passage at the mo-
ment the prisoner was passing, 1111 d lie, without any provo•
cations struck her a violent blow on the temple, which felled
her to the pound in a slate of imensibility. The prisoner
attempted to make big escape, but will stopped and secured
by the watchman. Mrs. Newton was in the eighth mouth of
her pregnancy at the time of this outrage. Site was put to
bed with every symptom of pretnatnre labour the HUM
evening, and suffering great agony for four days, was at
length delivered, Wlieu, as in the former instance, the child
was found to exhibit marks of violence similar to those that
appeared on the mother. The side of the temple corres-
ponding to the part on which Mrs. Newton had received the
blow showed marks of violence, and thecye was turned in its
socket.

The pi isoner's counsel had nothing to offer in his defence,
but in mitigation of punishment, pleaded the state of intoxi-
cation lie was in at the time, to a Melt alone this wanton act
was to be attribrited. He had been annoyed in his way home
by some girls of the (owe, and drunk as he was, his rage
had been indiscriminate. lie was a married man, and had a
wife and three children entirely dependent upon him far
support. He had already offered the only recompense in his
power, that of his services in the way of his trade as a
painter, to any reasonable amount, which had been refused.
The Jury vs idiom hesitation convicted the prisoner, and the
Court, taking into consideration his penitence, and the help-
less situation of his faintly, sentenced him to Duly six months'
impriso iiiii eat.
W. Canham was indicted for starling ISt cat, of what is
technically called Spanish tare, being the wrappers in which
Spanish wool is brought to this country, fro) n the warehouse
of Mr Griffiths, in Fell-street, Wood-street. From the evi-
dence stated, it appeared that the prisoner having a know-
ledge of the premises, hired a regular cart on the afternoon
oft he Ist of June, in broad day light, removed the property,
and disposed of it to Mrs. Palmer, a dealer in marine stores
in Bermondsey, for 51. lOn. With the money hs proceeded
to that scene of dissipation, Dover•strect, among the common
rumen, where he was taken into custody by the peace•
sinkers, it liapeeninr,z to he a search night. Mr. Griffiths
basin? got some information respecting the robbery, ap-
plied the nest morning for a warrant to search the premises
of Mrs. Palmer, where the ;mods had beta disposed, when
he karat that the prisoner was already in custody on another
charge.
Tile carter who remove) the goods, and the son of Mrs,
Palmer, who) purchased the .1, stated those facts and iden-
tified the pi isoner. The prisoner made no defeuce—Guilty.
Sentenced to seven years tramportation.

Matrimonial Caution.—The following advertisement
appeared in the last Eater Alfred.—" Whereas Eliza-
beth, the wife of Ambrose Shere, of Columpton, De-
von, did, on the 29th day of August last (being the 20th
time! )—Elope front her said husband without any other
just provocation than that of her own procuring, and
that she thought her said husband was too o!d to deserve
(being 78) ; and she being lost to duty and virtue, as
also insensible to shame and brutality, her adviser had
occasioned her disgrace and urn. This is to caution all
p;rsons not to trust her On my account, as such debt or
dc!gS will not he paid by me; and as the said Elizabeth
Slit re itlay assume sonte tuber name, it i. proper to ob-
wrve, that she is abour li4 years of age, short in stature,
thin its race, flattish arse, wattry eves, bad teeth, squints
a little, and capasot read ur sew without spectacles; she
condoned about Columpton until the 14th of Sept. and
then kit the wwit. Wituch my hand—A. Shere."

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LOVE AND MA DNESS.M iss —•-•-••••• daughter of a
respectable professional gentleman, of 11--, near
Grantham, had for a considerable time, with the appro-
bation of her family, received the addresses of the Bev.
Mr. clergyman of the same village. This gen.
deinan lift his house on Friday evening last on horse.
back, but shortly other called on Miss who
accompanied him, as was supposed by her family, for an
evening walk. Her not returning home at the usual
time only excited an ordinary degree of surprise; her
absence was accounted for by aupsing, from their
extreme intimacy, that they had gone off to Gretna-green,
as their intended union had not met the entire approba-
tion of the gentleman's friends. The gentleman s horse
having been found turned tip in a neighbour's close natu-
rally strengthened the above supposition. Inquiry was
then made at all the public inns where it was likely to
obtain post hurPes, but no intimation could be obtained.
The mystery was not of long continuance, for at five
o'clock on Sunday morning the father of the young lady
was called from his bed, and to his soul-sickening sur-
prise was told that his daughter would be found dead in
the neighbouring plantation of Mr. A candle
and lantern were immediately procured, when the
information was found to be too true : the lady lay as if
asleep, with her head upon her arm, which was bloody,
wrapped in Mr. —'s surtout and handkerchief. It
appears they had both taken a large quantity of laudanum.
he laudanum swallowed by the unhappy lady bad taken
...fleet, but the stomach of the gentleman had rejected it,
while he lay in a state of insensibility by her side, on
recovery from which, it is said he made an ineffectual
attempt to cut his throat, which accounts for the lady's
arm being found bloody. He is now at his own house.—
The affair will undergo the scrutiny of a coroner's inquest,
which will be attended by two physicians and tvvo sur-
geons, when this melancholy and distressing affair will
meet further elucidation. As the young lady was its
the habit of compounding her father's medicines, her
access to laudanum is easily accounted for. Toe reverend
gentleman, who was only curate of was, it seems,
originally brought up to the law, which, from consci-
entious motives, he left for the church. His character
is exemplary. The age of Miss was 25. When
she was removed to her father's house she was not quite
cold, appeared asleep, and as bloom ng as when alive,
but in a short time her colour Hal, and she °stinted the
appearance of death. By this dreadful affair, the de-
ceased's family, which is large, is involved its great sorrow
and distress.
The second steeple chase match, between Captain
Smith and Mr. Hnneywood, took place on Tuesday,
from Hawthorn Wood. Surrey, to Kitislake, for 20U
guineas a side. The distance was 20 miles, and it was
done by Mr. Honeywood in one hour and twenty-nine
minutes, over a rough country. Captain Smith took a
circuit through Crane Wood, and swam across the Bad.
del-river, his adversary keeping the high ground in the
direction of Leith-hill, each had many leaps, and the
Captain lost the match by about a quarter of a mile, his
horse refusing to leap a hedge.

SHOCK INO ACHI DENT.-011 IVednesday eveninglast,
as a van was going along the Strand (near Northumber-
land-street), the near fore-wheel came in contact with a
post, the force of which broke the fore axletree, and
pitched a young man that was sitting by the side of the
driver, from his seat, on the post, and killed him on the
spot. The manner of loading vans in general is very
dangerous, and requires some better or effectual regula-
tion to iirevent accidents,

PROCESS FOR COUNTSRACTING CONTAGION:•••At
the moment when contagious maladies are causing such
ravages, it cannot be superfluous to make known a dis-
covery which is due to hazard, and which has for its
object the application on a large scale of the process for
counteracting infection, invented by the celebrated
Gorton de Morveau, of philanthropic memory. l'he
following is the manner in which the author of this dis-
cove•ry describes the circumstances which led him to
make it :—Being lately employed in the decomposing
marine salt, by means of sulphuric acid, in order to
obtain soda, he observed that the tnwn near which Se
resides, was in a few moments, covered with a thick
cloud formed by the vapour of the muriatic which was
escaping from the furnace. The vapour wnetrated every
where, and extended to a considerable distance. lie
besides observed, that it acquired great intensity in pro-
portion as the air wa• more humid. It then occurred to
him, that sets of apparatus, so prepared as to be capable
of being moved to points whence the wind might drive
the emanation on infected places, would be or great
utility, while the expellee of the experiment would be
inconsiderable.

SINGULAR ROBBERY.—On Monday night last, about
11 o'clock, white a hackney-coachman was asleep oil
his box, in Holborn, waiting for a fare, sonic rogues took
the horses front the carriage and escaped with them,
leaving poor Jarvis snoring with the whip in his hand.—
On the poor fellow being awoke, his surprise and con.
sternation may easily be conceived. On kriday morning
the animals were found stripped of their harness in a
field near Nest-square, Lambeth.
link RID MUSE/CC—lt is with painful feeling we
we h ice to slate another dreadful act of atrocity which
ha, hcen committed in this county. On Monday last,
in the pari3h of Crathic, Brackmar, a young woman
residing with her aged mother, a widow, who had been
lonc; bed-rider, was found barbarously murdered in the
house, her throat being cut in the most shocking manner.
From the reported intimacy between the parties, and
other circumstances which, in the present stage of the
business, it would be impioper to enter upon, suspicion
fell upon a young man of the name of Thomas Mackin..
tosh, who, after undergoing all examination before some
of the Justicee of the neighlomrhood, was brought to
town and 10-iged in jail here on Wednesday. The Sheriff
Substitnte of Aberdeen and Fiscal of the county base in
the mean time, we learn, gone to the scene of this sad
catastrophe, to pursue the legal iiivestigation, so as to
lead to the discovery of the guilty perpetrwor.—Alstrdeen
Papa.

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