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came three times. About half-past eleven he called and I CURTOUS:INSTANCE of the INSTINCT of
wished to see her son; she called her son, but he would ELEPHANTS.
not come down to see him. He then went away, and said
he would call again; which he did, and he brought with
him an order to receive the watch.. No attention was paid
to this, and Coleman called again the next morning, and
brought the watch, when she sent for Pople, and had him
taken into custody.
Cross-examined by Coleman.—She did not say she
Would not prosecute if the property was returned to her.
She' did not say that if 20/. were offered nothing further
should be heard of the case.

At the siege of Bhurtpore, in the year 1805, an affair occurred
between two elephants, which displays at once the character and
mental capability, the passions, cunning, and resources, of these
curious animals. The British army, with its countless host of
followers and attendants, and thousands of cattle, had been for a

long time before the city, when on the approach of the hot season,
and of the dry hot winds, the supply of water in the neighbour-
hood of the camp necessary for the supply of so many beings be-
gan to fail ; the ponds or tanks began to be dried up, and no inure
water was left than the immense wells of the country would fur •
nisi'. The multitude of men and cattle that were unceasingly at
. _

Charles Kirby was again called.—The prosecutor's
mother said to me twenty times, that if the watch was
given up, no one should appear. She further said, upon
an expostulation, that if her son did not appear he would
have.to pay 20., " I can't help that; he must quit the
country.
The mother, who was a short distance from the wit-
ness-box, here vociferated, " Oh, God ! you wicked
man," and made two or three efforts to regain the wit-
ness-box, but without effect.
The CltarmitaN having ordered her to silence, or he
would send her out of Court, asked the prisoners if they
had any thing to say in their defenee?
Coleman, evidently overcome, and with great artless-
ness and appearance of truth, said, that he had but.re-
eently returned from Ireland, whither his avocations had
some time since called him ; and the first distressing tid-
ings which reached his ear on his arrival in this country,
was the degraded situation of his sister. With the warmth
of a brother's affection, he had sought out the spot of her
alleged crime; and not giving himself time to consider
whether she was really guilty or not, he strained every
nerve to sage her from an ignominious punishment. If
in so doing he had violated the laws of his country, he
declared ,most solemnly that he had done so ignorantly,
and without being acquainted with those laws, or know-
ing that he was subjecting himself even to the suspicion
of crime. It was the call of nature which prompted
him—a call which made him regardless of every other
consideration; and he hoped there was yet enough
of generous feeling left in the administration of Bri-
tish jurisprudence to spare him the torture of being the
associate of felons. Such a visitation must cloud the lat-

the wells, particularly the largest, occasioned no inconsiderable
struggle for the priority in procuring the supply for which each
were there to seek, and the consequent confusion on the spot was

frequently very considerable. On one occasion, two elephant
drivers, each with his elephant, the one remarkably large and
strong, and the other comparatively small sad weak, were at
the well together ; the small elephant had been provided by
his master with a bucket for the occasion, which be carried at

the end of his proboscis ; but the larger animal, being destitute
of this necessary vessel, either spontaneously or by desire of lii'
keeper seized the bucket, and easily wrested it away from his less
powerful fellow-servant : the latter was too sensible of his M.!
feriority openly to resent the insult, though it is obvious that he
felt it ; but great squabbling and abuse ensued between the keepers.
At length, the weaker animal, watching the opportunity when
the other was standing with his side to the well, retired back-

wards a few paces, in a very quiet, unsuspicious manner, suit then
rushing forward with all his might, drove his head against the side
of the other, and fairly pushed bins into :he well. An inquiry
might naturally be made here, whether these animals were in the
case in question possessed of any thing like a moral sense? We
should certainly have no inclination to refer a moral sense, strictly
vpeaking, in any case to the lower animate; its existence, inde-
pendently of education and habit in man, may be problematical :
but there seems little doubt that the animals iu question had ac-
quired a principle not far, if at all, removed frtins a partial know-
ledge of right and wrong ; being constantly fed by portions or
messes, it may be easily supposed that it attained a knowledge'
of mewls and tustm, anti such a knowledge, however limited its
its beginning; might, from the constant intercourse of these
creatures with man, be in some degree improved, (of which
instinct is altogether incapable,) and more largely applied.—
This notion, however, presupposes a limited degree of reason in
the animal. It may easily be imagined that great inconvenience
was immediately experienced, and serious apprehensions quickly
followed, that the water in the well, on which the existence of so
many seemed in a great measure to depend, would be spoiled or at
least injured, by the unwieldy brute which was precipitated into
it ; and as the surface of the water was nearly 20 feet below the
common level, there did not appear to be any means that could be
adopted to get the animal out by main farce, at least without in-
juring him : there were many feet of water below the elephant,
who floated with ease on its surface, and, experiencing considerable
pleasure from his cool retreat4evinced but little inclination even to
exert what means he might possess in himself of escape. A va"
number of fascines had been employed by the army iu conducting
the siege, and at length it occurred to the elephant keeper, that I
sufficient number of these (which may be compared to buudi"
of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a Pile,
which might be raised to the top, if the animal could b°
instructed as to the necessary means of laying Ahem
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regular succession under his feet. Permission having beell,."
tained from the engineer officers to use the fascist"
were at the time put away in several piles of very colusidessbil
height, the keeper had to teach this elephant the lesson, which •
by means of that extraordinary ascendancy these men obtain over
the elephants, joined with the intellectual resources of the aubilal
itself, he watt soon enabled to do ; and the elephant began quickly
to place each faseine as it was lowered to him, successively under
him, until in a little time he was enabled to stand upon them by
this time, however, the cunning brute, enjoying the cool pleasures
of his situation after. the :beat and partial privation of water to
which he bad been lately exposed, (they are observed in 14eir
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natural state to frequent riven, and to swim very often,) was on"willing to work any longer, anti all the threats of his keeper cotuu
not induce him to place another fascine. The man then op" '
euoning.to cunning, and began to caress and praise the els. Slit'
and what he could not effect by threats he was enabled to do by.
the repeated promise of plenty of rack. Incited by this, the
animal again went to work, raised hiniself considerably higher,
until by a partial removal of the masonry round the top of the
well, he was enabled to step out : the whole affair occupied about
14 hours. This affair involves a series of intellectual operations
which it seems very difficult to separate front reason...43olNA
Express.

ter part of his days, and make him an object of disgust to
all well-regulated minds • and •he relied with firmness on
the well-known justice of an English Court, in his sincere •
and anxious hope that it would not cloy an act of natural,
and almost uncontrollable, brotherly solicitude, with the
degraded punishment of a criminal.
The prisoner was here unable to articulate, and •the
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CHAIRMAN proceeded to sum up the evidence.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
• Smith and Catlin were then sentenced to 14. years'
transportation, and Coleman to 12 months' imprisonment.
and hard labour.—The calendar having been gone through,
the Court adjourned until,October.

city were thrown into the utmost alarm by one of the female do-
mesticsmerchant attempting to poisoli herself. She filled the situation of
housemaid, and for some neglect of duty was gently reprimanded by
her mistress, who desired her to be more careful fur the future.
The lady then left the room, and in a few minutes afterivards she
was followed by the girl, who proceeded to the kitchen, when
taking up a bottle which contained a quantity of oxalic acid, she
emptied a considerable portion of the burning poison, mixed with
some laudanum, into a basin of water, and had just raised the
basin to her lips, when another of the female servants entered the
room, and asked her fellow servant what she had in the basin.
Only some water she replied. When the former said, " Well,
Mary, you shall give me part of it ;" this the infatuated girl re-
fused, and proceeded to drink the contents of the basin : the other
female, not having the least suspicion of its being poison, ran up
and made a snatch at the basin, with an intention of partaking a
part of the water ; when, in the struggle, a portion of the con-
tents was spilled, part of which fell on her gown, which instantly
began to smoke ; she immediately ran out and gave the alarm,
when medical aid was resorted to, and the usual remedies were ap-
plied for some time, but without effect: Other medical gentle-
uses were lent for, when it was, deemed, necessary to apply Weiss's
stonutoh-puinp ; thisoperation the female resisted for a considerable
time, at length by force it was introduced, and the poison removed.
This attempt, which had nearly proved fatal, odottunately, was
not the first of this female at self-destruction.
LOVE IN A VILLAGE.---An. affray, tflicting in its
consequences to one of the parties concerned, lately occurred at a
place not twenty miles from Bradshaw. It seems that a certain
Knight of the Thimble.had successfully cast amorous glances to-
wards the fair daughter of a buxom widow, and that a Son of the
Shuttle. had laid siege to the yielding heart of the gentle widow
herself. Both parties have been in the habit of breathing their
tender vows at the widow's fireside, and the affray in question arose
in consequence of a dispute, as to the right of occupying the
feather-cushioned chair. Shuttle thought as he was the questrist
of the she, who could confer on him the dignity of head of the
family, the seat of honour, of right, appertained to him ; which
claim, Master Thimble, however, pugnaciously refused to acknow-
ledge, as in duty hound. Words begat words, and the fierce din
of battle shortly disturbed the welkin. Encouraged by their re-
spective lady-loves, the enraged combatants fastened on each other
‘s' tooth and nail," but the needle, notwithstanding the sharp tips
of the shuttle, proved too keen for his antagonist, stitched up both
his peepers, and laid him sprawling, like a goose, on the hearth-
stone. What adds to Shuttle's misfortune is, that the widow picked
him up, set him,upon his wheels again, and shoved him out of
doors saying, " Get along, a fig for thy prowess ;" thus annihilat-
ing, et one blow, all the fair visions he had conjured up of future
bliss in the arms of his lovely inamorato.—Bolton Express.
Yesterday at two o'clock, an inquest was holders at
the White Horse Tavern, Cloak-lane, Cheapside, before Thomas
Shelton, Esq., Coroner, on.view of the body of James Brooks,
who terminated hie existence under the following circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence of the unfOrtunate man's wife, that
the deceased was employed at Steel's Wharf, in Thames-street,'as
carman. About a fortnight since he becaMe ill with a complaint
called St. Anthony's fire', and was attended by Dr. Harper, a
medical gentleman in the neighbourhood ; his disorder, however,
increased and produced at intervals delirium, On Saturday last
his wife returned home to 'No. 4, College-street, St. Thomas
Apostle, and not finding her husband in his bed,
she went over
the house, and discovered him hanging to a large hook with' a
piece of cord, in the garret; the immediately gave an alarm, and
the unhappy man was cut down by a person who came in. In
answer to some questions from the jury she said, that her husband
was 46 years of age, and had a family, which, however was
provided for ; she also stated that she thought that the medicine
which was given to him by Dr. Harper had proved -too violent
add caused the delirium. 'William Lacy, a printer, living in
College-street, deposed; that he knew the deceased, who with his
wife had the care of No. 4, College-street ;he drove a team of
horses. On Saturday morning last he beard an alarm from Mrs.
Brooks, when on going to the spot she informed him that her
husband had hung himself in the garrett. Witness immediately
ran up stairs, and discovered the unfortunate man suspended by a
piece of cord to a hook in the wall ;
he instantly cut hint down,
but life seemed to have' fled. Witness, however, ran for Dr.
Harper, who attended, and pronounced the deceased dead. Dr.
Harper was in attendance, but being one of the Society of Friend'
(Quakers) he refused to be sworn, as varying from the customs of
his sect, their affirmation being always taken in all civil courts of
'
justice: his statement merely went to prove that he attended the
unhappy man while labouring under the above- complaint, and
that every thing proper was administered to him to prevent deli-
rium from increasing, hut without effect. There being no further
evidence, the Coroner addressed the Jury, who almost immediately
and gleaners, 'and
,--on Saturday last, about half-
returned a verdict of " Inaani!P"
ipl'utisseartii:editeilliroli'gli the
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past ten o'clock, a hare was started in a wheat-field
betweenstirrou: 4.S soon
ianntyo the turnpike road, and made for Hoddes-
ahftedergem
doll, On entering the town, men, women, children,
and dogs, eagerly joined in the chase, and poor puss
wits turned back on her assailants. The course was by
IdWedatli'u)eyr:asnditi:Hotls:ted.ofdifeelsd(rl,:apers
this time become very interesting ; men cutting at her
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with their scythes ann. stemes, Doys and womenth
striking at
mg stones and her with sticks; but notwith-
standing she was completely stirrounded, she broke
away in gallant style, and 'ran under a gate, just as a
dog was about to grasp her. Having slipped from
numerous pursuers, she took refuge in some shacks
of wheat, whence she was l quiet yta ken by a man
Wahollt any injury
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