The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-05 00:00:00

ALARMING FLOODS.

The river AVon overflowed its banks on Wed-
nesday morning, when, so little was a flood ex-
pected, that the poor people in the Dolmeads had
scarcely sufficient time to remove their property from
the lower part of their dwellings, and consequently
some of it. has been lost or injured. The judicious
widening of the bed of the river, however, at the Old
Bridge, which was carried into effect last summer,
materially contributed to prevent the water from
spreading. The Avon has now subsided to nearly
its usual level. The wheat crops on the low lands
of this county, we hear, are experiencing much in-
jury from the continued floods. The whole of the
country, for many miles round Langport, presents
one unbroken lake. The quantity of rain fallen
lately is unusually great; so mild a season as that
lately witnessed at this period of the year is of rare

occurrence even in this westerly part of the king..
dom. At Taunton, on Tuesday last, from seven in
the morning until four o'clock, p.m., the rain de-
scended in torrents, accompanied by violent squalls
of wind. The Bridport Mail was stopped on
Tuesday evening, in its approach to Taunton, on
a bridge near Ilminster, upwards of half an hour.
On the same day, after several hours' incessant
rain, the city of Wells and its environs were visited
with an awful deluge, which swept before it every
thing that opposed its progress. Torrents of water
poured into the city from the surrounding hills in
various streams, and meeting in a confined street,
called Torr-lane, the effect was appalling. In the
course of 10 minutes it rose in some places to the
alarming height of upwards of five feet, rushing into
the adjacent houses, and driving the affrighted inha-
bitants to the upper stories. By its violent con-
fluence it lifted about ten feet of wall completely off
its foundation, threw down 40 yards of another wall
10 feet high, which bounded the kitchen gardens of
the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, over which it
burst with incredible fury, emptying itself into the
frog of his Lordship's Palace; this, however, not
being large enough to contain the torrent, it again
burst forth, sweeping every thing before it,
and ultimately finding vent, in some degree,
by a large mill-stream. The water which
could not pass in this direction, rolled down the
High-street, where it rose from two to three feet
filling every cellar, aad inundating the lower rooms
of the most of the houses. The ground-floor and
cellars of the Deanery (the present residence of the
Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry) were alarm-
ingly inundated. Considerable damage has been
done to the south and west of Wells, accounts of
which are daily arriving.
The town of Caine, Wiltshire, was also flooded
on Tuesday. It is supposed that the water has not
been so high since the memorable flood in November,
1725, when two men were drowned in the principal
street, in sight of their neighbours, who durst not
stir to their relief, and when a cask of oil of 100
gallons was carried off, which could not be found for
several days.—Bath Herald.

RESUSCITATION OF A CONDEMNED
CRIMINAL AFTER BEING HUNG!

(From the Balm Chronicle.)

MR. EDlTort,—The strange rumour that got
abroad after the execution of Dr. Dodd, that he had
been restored to life, after hanging that period which
the law contemplates to be sufficient to put an end
to mortal existence, and had lived long, and ter-
minated his days happily, in the south of France,—
gave rise to numerous marvellous stories, having no
foundation but in the inventive brains of the writer,
Of similar instances of vital restoration. Numbers
of these may be found in " Wonderful Museums,"
and other corresponding publications of equal au-
thority.
Authenticated statements, however, of this de-
scription are very rare—and one of these I am now
about to communicate for the information of your
readers.

At the Old Bailey Sessions, in October, 1710,
William Duell was capitally convicted of a rape on
Sarah Griffin, at Acton, and received sentence of
death ; George Curtis, a noted character, his accom-
plice, died in Newgate, on the morning of the day
on which he was to have been brought up for trial.
In the November following, Duel!, with four others,
was executed at Tyburn, and, as was Mot the cus-
tom—a custom which might with advantage be fol-
lowed non,—his body was given to the surgeons for
dissection, and was accordingly brought to their hall.
Being a remarkable powerful man, it was determined
to anatomize the body, and preparatory to dissection
it was laid on the board. The surgeons' attendants
proceeded to wash him, immediately before the intro-
duction of the knife, when one of the operating per-
sonages suddenly called out that he breathed
The vital spark was obviously not extinct, al.
though it was remarked that he had been sus-
pended more than fifty minutes; and his breath
coming quicker and quicker, and with it a palpable
pulsation, a surgeon took several ounces of blood
from the wretched man, and in two hours he was so
much recovered as to sit upright in a chair. As this
was quite a " new case," in the school of anatomy,
the practitioners were posed ; but at last they de-
termined on restoring him once more to gaol, and to
Newgate he was carried. Discussion after discus-
sion was had on this extraordinary case, and the re-
sult was—what is rather common with surgeons,—
" an opinion," that the halter being misplaced, the
vertebra of the neck had not been dislocated !'),

On the 27th of NoTember, the case was laid be-
fore his Majesty, George 11., in Council, and some
other favourable circumstances appearing uneßn-
fleeted with the particular offence and the execution,
Duell was ordered to be transported for life, and he
was sent to North America, where, possibly, some
of his descendants now exist.
Reading, Dec. 26, 1827.

GALE'N.

It is the common opinion that the necks of criminals
arc what is generally termed broken, 1. e. dislocated, by
their execution ; but it is a mistake—it does not occur in
one case in ten. With respect to the possibility of resus-
citation, we believe Dr. Ure has some highly interesting
and important remarks on the subject, connected with the
detail of a Galvanic process on a murderer, at Glasgow.
That account is powerfully wrought up by the Dootor
without any apparent extraordinary effort, and in some of
its passages it is really terrific. We well remember having
some conversation with a medical gentleman high in his
profession, at Chester, during the exhibition of some gal-
vanic experiments on the body of S. Follows, executed in that
city for a most atrocious murder, worse infinitely in the
minutiae of its circumstances, than the late assassication
at Oxford ; and that gentleman's opinion was decidedly
confirmatory of the one expressed by Dr. Ure, which our
medical readers may recollect, but which we forbear men-
tioning.—Ed. Berks Citron.

His MAJESTY has been pleased to grant his
Ifoyal Letters Patent to an individual of Leeds for a
mangle on a very improved plan, which bids fair entirely
to supersede the huge and cumbersome machine in common
use, the new one not occupying more than one-quarter the
space, or requiring more than half the usual labour.

FASPIIONABLE CHANGES.-- Tile Earl of
Beauchamp, from Portman-square, for Madresfield Court,
Worcester ; the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, from
their house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, for Brighton;
Captain Granby Calcraft, in Hanover-square, from Italy ;
the Earl and Countess of Clare, at Sir Godfrey 'Webster's
seat, Battle Abbey, Sussex, from Brighton ; the Dowager
Countess of Mansfield, at her seat, Richmond Hill, from
Northamptonshire; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Rice Trevor,
at Lord Charles Fitzroy's seat in Northamptonshire, from a
tour; Mr. and Mrs. R. Gordon, in St. James's-street,
from the continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Markham, for
Brighton; the Earl of Orford, from Thomas's Hotel, Berk-
ley-square, for his seat in Norfolk ; Hon. T. W. Co-
ventry, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mrs. Montefiore and
family, from ditto, for Brighton ; the Earl and Countess of
Cassillis, Lady Mary Kennedy, and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy Erskine, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Bur-
lington and Cork-streets, for St. Margaret's; Mr. and
Mrs. Bliguy, at ditto, from Brighton ; Messrs. Lyons, at
ditto, from a tour ; Lord and Lady Headley, from Fla-
dong's Hotel, Oxford-street, for Ireland ; the Reverend
H. Mrs., and the Misses Whithoff, from ditto, for Suffolk ;
the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Ossory, from Jordan's
Hotel, St. JP.tnaa-§tact, for Briglato.

THE MURDER IN MONTAGUE-PLACE.

The account in amorning paper of the exa-
mination and subsequent liberation of Charles
Knight, son of the unfortunate Mrs. Jeff, whose
murder has created such a strong sensation, is
incorrect in some of, the particulars. Our re-
porter was employed to a late hour last night in
obtaining information, and th© following state-
ment may be relied upon :
When the murder was first discovered, suspicion
attached to the son of the unfortunate deceased,
not from any direct evidence tending to identify hirn
with the horrible transaction, but from the convic-
tion that .the foul deed must have been committed
by some person well acquainted with the premises in
Montague-place, and- also witrthe habits of the
unfortunate deceased. From the open and candid
manner of Knight, however, the horror which he
expressed at the foul transaction, and the plausible
account which he gave of himself on Monday night,
when the murder was committed, the suspicion pre-
viously entertained against him was considerably
weakened. The Magistrates, however, deemed it right
to detain him in custody, until a Coroner's Inquest had
_sat upon the body. The result of that inquiry being
a verdict of" Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown," the prisoner shortly after was
called before Mr. Halls and Mr. Lett, the magis-
trates, at the Gower Arms, where the inquest, was
held, and discharged from custody,—not from th-a-
result of inquiries as to the truth of his previous
statement, but because from the wording of the ver-
dict he could not be legally detained any longer. It
appears, however, that the magistrates were not'
quite satisfied with the account which he had given,
and the circumstance of a pawnbroker's duplicate for
a freemason's medal (he himself being a freemason)
having been found, either upon his person or at his
residence, the pawning having taken place at a time
when he said he was absent from town, tended

strongly to renew the suspicion which was previously
enterta►ned. Under these circumstances, Furzeman
received instructions from the magistrates to prevail
upon Knight to accompany him to Lambeth, where
the medal had been pawned, and the pawning of
which he strongly denied, in order to confront him
with the person who received the pledge. Knight
appeared quite willing to go, and accordingly, at six
o'cloek on Thursday evening, Furzeman and Knight
proCeeded to Lambeth. The former, on entering
the shop of the pawnbroker, immediately made
known his business, producing the ticket ; and
pointing to Knight, he asked the pawnbroker
►f that was the individual who had pawned
the medal. The pawnbroker immediately identified
Knight as the person by whom the pledge was made,
at the very time when, according to Knight's state-
ment, he was at Longford purchasing feathers.—
Furzeman and Knight then returned to the watch—
house of St. Giles's, but Knight was suffered to
return to his residence in Cursitor-street, where,
however, he was taken into custody at eight
o'clock yesterday morning, by order of Mr. Halls.

I to whom Furzeman had communicated the re-
sult of his inquiry at the pawnbroker's. The
prisoner was ordered to be lodged in a room
in the watch-house, and in consequence of a
visible alteration in his manner, it was deemed
expedient that some person should continue with
him during the whole of yesterday. His man-
ner when first taken into custody, while it evinced
but little feeling for the horrible death of his aged
mother, was at the same time so candid as to raise
an impression in his favour. On his second appre-
hension. however, his conduct underwent a re-
markable change. He appeared lost and confused,
and continually trembled as though he was affected
with the ague. It was suggested by Le. magis-
trate in the course of the day (yesterday) that
he should be brought to view the bloody corpse
of his aged parent. He protested strongly against
it, declaring that lie had always the greatest
objection to see the corpse of any person, and that
so strong was this feeling within him, that he refused
to see the remains of his first wife and infant child,
and could not even bring himself to follow them to
the grave. He, however, although with consider-
able reluctance, went to the Gower Arms with
Furzeman, where the body then lay in precisely the
same state as when viewed by the Coroner's Jury.
When Furzeman withdrew the cloth from the head
of the unfortunate old woman, and pointed to the
attention of Knight the horrible gash by which it
was all but severed from the body, the terror exhi-
bited in the countenance of Knight was, according
to Furzeman's account, scarcely less appalling than
the dreadful spectacle before them. An innocent
man, however, might have been affected in the same
manner at the sight of a murdered parent. The un-
fortunate man trembled so violently as to call for
the assistance of Furzeman to support him from the
place; and when reconducted to the watch-house,
his manner, it is said, was like that of an insane per-
son. Lord Montford, Sir H. Baker, Mr. Halls, Mr.
Lett, and several other Magistrates, were, in the mean-
while, engaged at Montague-place, in close delibera-
tion ; and the result of their inquiries was to give
Furzeman instructions to proceed with the prisoner
to Longford, in the neighbourhood of Cranford-
bridge, to which place it will be remembered Knight
stated he went to purchase feathers, he being a trader
in that line, at three o'clock on the morning of Tues-
day. The object of Furzeman's inquiry at Long-
ford is, to ascertain if Knight's statement respecting
the purchase of the feathers is correct. He set off
with the prisoner yesterday evening to Longford for
that purpose, and had not returned up to a late hour
last night. It is probable, however, that he will be
delayed the greater fart of this morning in prosecut-
ing his inquiry, and that his return will not be until
late in the day. In the meanwhile, we have heard
a report which, if true, would anticipate the object
of Furzeman's journey. We heard last night, from a
respectable quarter, that a person, in no way con-
nected with any of the parties concerned in the
dreadful transaction, and whose sole motive was, if
pozsible, to discover the truth, set off for Longford
on Thursday, for the purpose of prosecuting the
same inquiry which Furzeman has been ordered
to pursue. It was communicated to us that
this individual, immediately upon his return to
town, about eight o'clock yesterday evening, (two
hours after Furzeman and the prisoner had set out
for Longford), went to St. Giles's watch-house, for
the purpose of acquainting Furzeman with the result
of his inquiry. Not finding him at home, the per-
son went to the house of Furzeman's brother, a pub-
lican, who lives nearly opposite the watch-house.—
To him and to others he stated, that he had been to
Longford, and had taken a circuit of five miles around
that place, with a view to discover the person from
whom Knight said he had been to purchase feathers.
After the most diligent inquiry in the neighbourhood,
the individual stated that he could meet with no
person engaged in the feather trade, although he
had been to every house, not only in Longford, but
in the circuit he had stated, where such a business
vas at all likely to be carried on. The return of
Furzeman, under these circumstances, is looked for
with the greatest anxiety.
With reference to the prisoner, it is but fair to
repeat, that his extreme agitation when invited to
inspect the body of his aged parent, and the convul-
sive horror which shOok his whole frame while view-
ing the horrid spectacle; may be accounted for on per-
fectly natural grounds, and without at all implying
that his terror arose from any other cause than the
dread of witnessing a sight from which, even under
ordinary circumstances, the mind would naturally re-
coil. Whatever turn therefore the affair may take,
the manner in which the prisoner was affected when
placed in a trying situation ought not, -of course, to
operate against him, although we have deemed it
right to state the fact. We suppose that the object
of the Magistrate, in requiring the prisoner to be
brought to see the body, was to try whether the
effect which it produced might not have caused him
to make a voluntary confession upon the spot. We
did not hear that the prisoner, in compliance
with a custom resorted to on such occasions, was
ordered to touch the body. The military glove
which was found in NlA.4ett's bedloola stained

with blood, is ascertained to belting to Mr. John
Lett, who was an Officer in the 10th Light Dra-
goons. It now lies, together with the razor-cast
found near the body, and the poor old woman's
blood-stained cap, at St. Giles'. watch-house. Mrs.
Lett, upon her arrival at the house, in Cointiany, with
Mr. Lett, on Tuesday evening, was with difficult;
kept from seeing the mangled remains of her old
and faithful servant: She was even restrained by
force from proceeding at oiit to the housekeeper's
room, where the poor old creature lay, and upon
yielding at last to the entreaties of Mr. Lett, her
feelings were so strong that for some time she waft
bitterly. When sufficiently recovered, she pro-
ceeded lip stairs to the bed-room of the deceased,
thinking to find -her purse under her, pillow, instead
of which she found her pray er-book.--,—liinie,L

We arc led to understand, that some of the
Pied froni the Times of this
in Montague-place, have
beenm mainorn
contradicted.
factst
rrespecting
we
thes havelGmi cluvor
murder
has
hot been taken into cus-
todyinquiries of FunzEstaN, at Longford, have also proved sa-
tisfactory again : nor was:he:at.the watch..house, as stated. The
to KNIGHT, who, we believe, is now at large.

SHEFFIELD LITERARY AND PHILOS()
PHICAL SOCIETY.

Last night the President of the Sheffield Literary
and Philosophical Society, James Montgomery, Esq.
delivered, before the Members, at the Music Halt,
the concluding lecture for the year just ended. The
subject was " Strictures on the Modern British
Poets." The lecture opened with a long-extract
from Sir Philip Sidney, on the invention of poesy,
and the lecturer proceeded to notice its antiquity,
and its superiority over painting, music, and the
rest of the Fine Arts. He stated that, with the ex-
ception of Rome, the best poets of all countries had
been produced in the middle age, between barbarism
and the most refined period of voluptuousness. He
drew a contrast detween the poets of Italy and Eng-
land, and showed how much the latter excelled the
former. He then proceeded to the main object of
his lecture, which was to characterise and place in
contrast a number of the most eminent poets which
had lived since the French revolution. He com-
menced the series by giving a very long, particular,
and interesting account of an extraordinary genius.
named Thomas Dermody, born at Ennis, in
the county of Clare, Ireland. This cha-
racter discovered extraordinary poetic talent
at the early age of ten years. The lecturer read one
of his productions at that period of his life, which
discovered peculiar merit. After describing his later
writings, and his strange career of vice and folly, and
subsequent miserable death, Mr. Montgothery pro-
ceeded to discover the writings of Bloomfield, a
poet who was born, not made, and who would have
been what he was under any circumstances. But it
was his misfortune to be exalted, at the commence-
ment of his career, above his real desertS, Capel
Loin-, and others, had loaded him with unmerited
encomiums. Mr. Montgomery here noticed the ef-
fect critics- produced on the public mind, and the
power they have of delaying, though not of retard-
ing justice in cases where real talent is evinced.
After Bloomfield, he passed on to Henry Kirk
White, and in the course of his remarks, adverted
to the deficiency generally existing, both in history
and biography, of information respecting the infancy
or childhood of persons who, in after life, became
conspicuous in the world. He justly observed, that
nothing could be called trivial in childhood, which
tended to form the mind. He noticed the effects
produced on the minds of persons, by the peru-
sal of juvenile poetry, and quoted several speci-
mens, particularly an extract from " The
,Babes of
the Wood"—the reading of which had deeply,
impressed young- White. rle read 'an extract
from White, on Rosemary, which was beautifully
touching, and when read by such a poet as the
lecturer, seems to be vested With charms before un-
noticed. He closed his observations with another
extract still more exquisite, the last production of this
lamented youth, written at a time when his dissolu-
tion was rapidly approaching, and in which he hazards
a wish for an increase of years, but, as Mr. Mont-
gomery beautifully remarked, he asked for life, and
immortality was given him. After the conclusion,
Mr. Montgomery anticipated an objection which
many would probably be prepared to start, at the
fact of his having only noticed three poets in the
course of the lecture, by stating that the plan he had
adopted would not allow him to do more, at one
time, but if his exertions were favourably regarded,
he should, if spared, be disposed to resume and pur-
sue the subject in a series of lectures to be delivered
at intervals. This announcement was received as it
deserved to be, with loud and continued cheers.—
Shqffield Courant.

A shrub has been discovered in our new In-
dian territories, from whose stein, when divided, there
issues a copious vegetable spring of limpid and wholesome
water. The natives know this well, and hence we rarely
meet with an entire plant. It is a powerful climber, and
is quite new and non-descript.
ANECDOTE OF CREEK INDIAN ARGUMENT
11 coNcLuniNG PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND THE UNITED
STATES, FROM A LATE NEW YORK GAZETTE.—When
General LINCOLN went to make peace with the Creek In-
dians, one of the Chiefs desired him to sit down on a lag.
He was then desired to move, and, in a few minutes, to
move farther. This request was repeated till the General
got to the end of the log. The Indian then said move
further,' to which the General replied, I can move no fur-
ther.' Just so it is with us, said the Chief, you have
moved us back to the water, and then ask us to move.
further !'

During the last term at Cambridge, Mr. C—,
while descanting on his system of Mnemonics in the Town
Hall, brought forward, in illustration of the success of his
plan, a boy, one of his pupils, who was able to repeat the
whole of " The Wanderer of Switzerland," not only from
beginning to end, but from end to beginning. During the
latter part of the youth's recitation he was interrupted by
a waggish gowns►nan, calling out, " Well, you have given
it us straight forward and backwards, now let us have it
sideways!" Mr. C—, somewhat piqued at this unex-
pected suggestion, arose, and commenced a long expostu-
lary discourse, defending his system, and indignantly
affirming that he had never before been so insulted. This
lengthy appeal, however, had no other effect than to call
forth the following from the same relentless wit : " Bravo,
Mr. C—, now let's have all that backwards !"

When ERA SIM US, having visited Sir TrroarAs
MouE, was about to return home, Sir THOMAS lent him
a favourite horse to convey him to the coast ; but, instead
of returning the horse, ERASMUS took it into Holland,
and, in return, sent Mou the following epigram :
Quad mihi dixisti
De corpore Christi,
Crede quad edas, et edis ;
Sic tibi rescribo
De tuo palfrido,
Crede quad habeas, et babes.
This conveys a satire upon the zeal of Sir THOMAS for
that miraculous dogma of the Romish Church, transub-
stantiation.—Afirror.

MURDER AT CAVAN.---011 the night of the
31st ult., a serving man, of the name of JOHN DOWNY,
in the employment of the Governor of Cavan gaol, had
been drinking in a public-house in that town, in company
with some soldiers of the 62d Regiment, quartered there,
at present. They remained until after the regular hour
for returning to the Barracks had elapsed, when the pie-
quet went its rounds, taking up whatever soldiers were
found thus transgressing. The soldiers in question, 'a
avoid being made prisoners of in this way, lied on theAl?-
proach of the picquet. DOWNY, participating their
alarm, fled also, and sought to avoid the apprehetoi-i dan-
ger by running up a lane, into which, howeve".iewas
followed, and overtaken by the corporal coao",_flumg the
picquet, who, with his bayonet fixed on the musket, made
a stab at him, and with such fatal effect, ,oat the weapon,
passing completely through the left, am, entered the side,
and penetrating the heart, the unfortonate ;Dunnman fell,
having merely time to exclaim" Corporal, you have ruined
me," when he expired. The perpetrator of the atrocious
deed was immediately taken ioto custody, when he alleged
that the deceased had attempted to deprive him of his arms.
A Coroner's inquest has been held on the body, and a vet
diet of 4‘ Wilful Murder" returned against the corporal,
whose name is PATRICK HUGHES. He has been accord-
ingly committed to abide his trial at the ensuing Assizes for
Cavan,Dublin Morning PM.

LITERATURE.

A RELIGIOUS 111iSSION TO THE EUPHRATES

London. 1828.

The Reverend C. Judkin—the author of the
present volume--bas shown how deeply interest-
sng a book may be made on the single subject of
a ret'gions mission to foreign countries. Not-
withstanding the idea of dullness mixed up in
the minds of thf3 unthinking with tracts of a
,serious nature, we have read few books which
have combined snore amus",qthent, with instruction
of a lofty order, than .the proent. It deserves
very general palm?,

THE FIRE SIDE BOOK.
London. 1828.

Christmas and its revelries are not yet quite
exhausted -=the present volume, therefore, which
professes to detail its amusements and its con-
vivialities in the good old times, is still an ac-
ceptable addition to out gratification. The sceflC
'of the book is laid in one of the Baronial Halls of
England, somewhere about the middle of the
18th century. A party of friends are supposed
to have met at the hospitable residence of an old
English country gentleman, where in lieu of
other amusements, they while away their winter
evenings by each relating some appropriate story
or anecdo:c. The family consists of an old
father—a generous, lively, sort of personage—
just the man to impart a social flavor to Christ-
mas—a very beautiful young girl, his daughter,
who has of course an admirer--a respectable
great aunt
aunt, and an airy sportive. soot of French
coquette.
as et
y c alternateonclu
d set, oarriee s,
of
varwhich,iotl s as
thereader
entertaining characters. The idea is not origi-
nal—being borrowed, in fact from Geoffry
Crayon's elegant, but feeble " Bracehridge Hall"
—still enough remains to do credit to the author's
task. We should not omit to state that the mora-
lity of his tales, without being overstrained,
healthy and instructive ; his sociality never sinks
into vulgarity—nor his incidents into triteness.
An additional recommendation to his volume
him-
self as the author of those pop2lar and impres-
sive books, " May you Like it,' And, we
" Body and Soul."

MR. YATES'S COLLECTION OF
HOGARTH'S WORKS.

The sale of this very choice collection, which way
concluded last week, attracted a numerous assem-
blage of amateurs and collectors to Mr. Sotheby-%;
rooms in Wellington-street. As it is seldom that
so extensive a collection of Hogarth's works is
brought before the public, a selection of some of the
prices they brought may be of interest. We
should observe that the whole of the works were
the most perfect state, and many of them contained
some curious variations. The Election Pieces, a
remarkably choice set, itr the finest state, brought 7
guineas ; T. Morell, by Basire, a fine proof, with
the original Drawing by Hogarth (pen and ink,
slightly touched with black), 101. Bs.; Hogarth's
own Portrait (a whole length) painting the figure of
Ccmedy, first state, 1758, IL 175.; the Bruiser
Churchill, first state, with the White Lies; and the
same in the character of a Russian Hercules, before
the caricature on the pallet; the same, with the
caricature, but the figure of Hogarth thereon, un-
finished, very scarce; and the same in the common
state, 3/.; .Jacobus Gibbs, architecttis, 21. 10s. ;
Ticket for the Foundling Hospital, and the Ja-
cobits's Journal, wood cut, on the perfect sheet,
I/. Is.; the huge Masquerade Ticket, W. 18s :
the Receipt Ticket for the March to Finchley,
with the autograph and seal of Hogarth, from
Mr. Baker's collection, 2/. 45.; lEneas in a
Storm, 2/. 12s. 6d.: the Distressed Poet, first state,
.with Pope thrashing Curl, 2/. 19s. • the Enraged
Musician, first state, 21. Hs.; Strolling Actresses
dressing in a Barn, earliest state, 31. Ls.; the Idle
and Industrious Apprentices, first state, with 'Good-
child and West, 3/. 14s. ; the Sleepy Congregation,
and the Bench, If. 18s.; Times of the Day, first
state, 61.55. ; the Rake's Progress, first state, and
the same, with the additional plate of the Bedlam
scene, in the last state ; and the London Farthing
Post, of the 6th of November, 1738, 7/. Is.; the
Harlot's Progress, first states, and the same with
the Crosses, 51. 25.; the large set of Hudibras, with
" Down with the Rumps," 3/.; Marriage ala Mode,
first and second states 4/. 2s. ; the March to Finchley,
with the single S. ; and the same, first state, the Sunday
Print, 4/. 25.; Modern Midnight Conversation, first
state, before the cross hatchings, 1/. 10s.; South-
wark Fair, 2/. I2s. 6d.; Five orders of Perriwigs,
first state, before the letter E in advertisement,

2/. 95.; Beer-street and Gin-lane; and the former
in the first state, with the Frenchman, 11.
elr/
f.oc
itsie
the. latter:Seal-
ing;
a p
the Sepulchre; and the Resurrection of Christ,
from the
2 Pictures at
aarttl ie3srisFtiorls't bly'hojngeill
i
pie-
turc of Morning, an interesting finished sketch for
his celebrated picture, presented by Hogarth to his
friend, Mr. Birch, 21/.

On Monday Mr. Sotheby concluded the sale of
some fine engravings and drawings belonging to a
distinguished amateur, consisting chiefly of the
works of the most celebrated modern artists.—
Among several of the principal works of Woollet
was a magnificent proof, on India paper, of the
Death of General Wolf, after West, which brought2l/.
The other works of Woollet, which were all proofs,
went off at the following prices :—Battles of the
Boyne and La Hogue, after West, on India paper,
14/. ; Cicero at his Villa, after Wilson, 71.; Ceyx and
Alcionc, after Wilson, 6/.105.; the Maid of the Mill,
after Richards, 4/.; Niobe, after Wilson, 31.45.--
The collection also contained some beautiful engrav-
ings by Morghen, Schiavonetti, Sc. A fine early
impression of the Last Supper, after Leonardo da
Vinci, by R. Morghen, produced 13 guineas; The
Transfiguration, after Raphael„ by Morghen, 61. 12"
6d. ; the Dead Christ in the lap of the Virgia, with
weeping angels, after Vandyck, b
17s. 6d. The large series of Rossini's Views of
~
the most celebrated Antiquities o):
Rome,
7 guineas ; Napoleon le Grand(w aSchiavonetti,
fine
s eB/t;
hole length), in
his coronation robes, after Gerard, by Dcsnoyers,
5/. 12s. 6d.; the St. Jerome of Corregio, by Gan-
dolfi, 4/. 14s. 6d.; Cromwell dissolving the Parlia-
ment, and the Restoration of Charles II after West,
by Hall and Sharp, 4/. 195'; 'l/43t. Paul preaching at
Athens, a Cartoon after Raphael, by Holloway,l/.;
Penn's Treaty with the Indians, after West, by-
Hall, 3/.; Concert de Pauline, after Schalken, by
Wille, 8/. 12s. 6d.

,
MELANC4°LI LOSS OF A BOAT AND
CREW IN KiAKWALL nay.—On the night of Monday,
la.serballati°rgrelisn to°f tar, part ibiaa
the 24th December, a boat from the island of Stronsav,
ryt oo ff tKbierkolavr'aglol, 0
fhaving
Russianon vhoos
sa,;;Ll
who had been wrecked on that island some weeks ago.
The boat, in standing in towards " The Mount," a little to
the eastward of Kirkwall harbour, struck gently upon a
eunken reef, which lies about fifty yards from the land.
The crew immediately put about and stood to the north-
ward, the boat having received no damage; but having
again put about to stand for " The Mount,', the night being
very dark, the boat struck violently upon the sunken reef,
and immediately upset. Three of the crew and a woman,
a were passenger, drowned. A lad who was in the boat,
with difficulty reached a rock, where he remained during
the night ; but the sea ran so high, he had his arm dislo-
cated in the attempt. One of the crew also reached a
rock; but, after remaining upon it several hours, perished
from the effects of cold. the accident happened about
twelve o'clock at night ; and, although the place where the
boat upset was not a quarter Of a mile distant from Kirk-
wall harbour, no person on shore heard the cries of
the sufferers, nor vas the lad upon the rock rescued front
his perilous situation till daylight on Tuesday morning. A
sloop was beatinginto the bay at the same time with the
boat, the crew of which heard the cries of the sufferers,
but thought that these proceeded from some persons On
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