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The Wheel continues extrimcly Rich, there being
Two Prizes of £20,000 and Xlo,tx,o, and F..ur
Prizes of £2,000 mid &c. &c. ; and on Fri-
day next, the 4th of 2une, il:e tilli.hcs. The
fortunate holders of the vArinir C Tit Als s id At Bisn's
may either exch.inge their Prize: fir Awn Tickets
and Shares, or receive their mgicy on demand.

THE 4, STRANGE WHITE MAN."

A Mahomefan from Gondar, by name Abdoola,
arrived at Antalow in February last, the residence
of Ras Welleta Sellasse, Governor of the province of
Tigre, who informed Mr. Coffin hnd Mr. Pearce, two
Englishmen residing there under the Ras' protection,
that about three months before he'saw a strange white
nun at a large town beyond the province of Wal-
byte, inhabited by the Pagan Gana, who informed
him he was then learning the language, that he had
come from the West, and was bending his course to
the East or Mecca. He appeared in the dress of the
country ; be spoke Arabic, and asked Abdoola, if
be could speak English the latter, answered he
could not, but that he understood Arabic, Tigre, and
Amhara.
Abdoola had intercourse with this stranger for two
months during his stay in those parts, and was sure
he was not a native of the country, from the circum-
stance of his constantly looking at the moon, and
counting the stars when visible.
He supposed his age to be 50 ; his beard was of a
light red colour ; he had no hair upon the crown of
his head ; his manners and dress were the same as
those of the people of the country ; he lived in a
common hut, chiefly by himself, and at times seemed
neglected and treated indifferently, though he gene.
rally took his food with the principal people.
This stranger further wished to know from the
Mahometan merchant the distance from the place in
which he then resided, to Efat or Gondar, who told
him it was three months journey for the Cofla. He
then said, that he should endeavour soon to make his
way toone or other t f those places.
Mesirs Pearce and Coffin offered the merchant 150
dollars (all the money they possessed) to return to the
place the' white man was detained at, and either
bring him or a letter from him ; but bcingengaged
In his commercial affairs he declined accepting this
offer ; and said, that as he was going to the markets
in Etat and Shoa, it might be two years before he vi-
sited the west country and Tumbuctoo again.
Messrs. Coffin and Pearce felt so much interest on
account of the report of this man, whom the Ras had
known for many years as a respectable trader, and
who could have had no motive for making a false
statement on the present occasion, that they solicited
to proceed to the province of Walkayte, in quest of
the supposed stranger, but the Ras objected to it.—
He thought the risk of the journey too great for them
to undertake ; besides, he had promised, he said, his
friend Mr. Sart to take care of both of them, and
would not suffer either to be exposed to a danger
which he did not undergo himself.—Madras Courser,
July 10, 1812.
Is it possible that the" strange white man," allude 4 to In the
above nal rative, can be M u NG° PA R K SO lung reported to be dead?

POLICE,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---Hucindi, the late stock-
broker in Ryder-street, St. James's, was yesterday
fully committed, charged with forging Bank receipts,
with the signatures of Stock-brokers, whom he repre-
sented to have purchased stock for him. These for-
pries, four in number, were proved by two Brokers.
the persons who had paid the money into their hands
for the purchase, proved that tity had received the
forged documents from the prisoner, and that be had
decamped previously to the dividends becoming due.
CIIILD-DROPPlNG.—Elizabeth Green, the wife of a
Plate-worker, residing in Snow's-fields, appeared yes-
terday before Mr. EVANCE, at Union Hall, and stated,
that on the 15th instant two women, decently dressed,
came to her house, and, entering the private door,
which was open for the accommodation of her lodgers,
proceeded up stairs, and left an infant lying on the
floor in a front room. She had kept the child ever
since; and on her application to the Parish Officers
for relief, they refused to afford her any till she came
and made this statement to the Magistrates. Eleanor
Byrn also stated, that on Wednesday last, whilst she
was out at market, having left her daughter, a child
about twelve years of age, at home, to keep house, a
young woman came into the room, and left an infant
not a month old, telling the girl to give it to her
mother, as it was her father's child.—A strict search
was ordered to be made to find out the unnatural
parents.

Monday came on before the Judge of the Court
of Admiralty at Edinburgh, the trial of J. and D.
Farmer, accused of scuttling the Hope, of Dundee,
off the North coast, in order to defraud the under-
writers.--After Counsel were heard, the trial was put
off, and informations ordered.
The Jolbooth of Cupar-Fife has been empty for
one month, from the 4th ultimo to the 4th instant,
both inclusive. The population of that burgh amounts
to upwards of 4000—that of the whole county, to up-
wards of 100,000.
The amount of the collection made in this country
towards repairing the loss of the Baptist Missionaries
in the East Indies (whose printing-office was lately
burnt down), is £10,611. Is. I Id. The sum was
raised in about seven or eight weeks after the news of
the loss arrived I

It is now the wish of Everybody, that they had
bought their Tickets and Shares at BRANSCOMB'S
Lucky Office, Holborn Bars, as Anybody might have
got a share of the largest Capital Prize in the present
Lottery, viz, 8,385, entitled to £20,200, which was
sold as above in eleven Shares. Nobody should omit
the present opportunity of purchasing undrawn Tickets
and Shares of BRANSCOMB for the last day of draw-
ing, being the 4th of June, as Somebody must then
get the numerous Capital Prizes yet undrawn.
Smart:co.—Mr. CRAVEN'S horse Pontagon is
matched against Mr. PAYNE'S Popinjoy, at the next
Newmarket July Meeting, for '2OO guineas. Mr.
Vit.Licits's Don Cossack is matched at the same
Meeting against Mr. SHAKESPEARE'S Hydaspes, for
200 guineas.
BOXERS.--liformux in anxiously waiting another
match with Carter, for any sum ; and Oliver, the gar-
dener, can also be backed against him ; but Carter
had rather spar than fight, and has not shewn lately.
Power, the celebrated pugilist, and the best twelve-
stone fighter of the day, was vanquished by death on
Wednesday night, in the 23d year of his age. He
had been twelve months in a decline • and, as a proof
of his manhood, he beat Carter in November last, at
Rickmansworth, when, technically speaking, he was
half dead, that is, in the second star of a decline.—
He had beat Dogherty, King, and Carter, and some
commoners, and he bid fair to reach the British
championship, but for the illness which led to his
death.
Yesterday as a carman to Mr. Mabberly, at Paul's-
wharf, Upper Thames-street, was standing in his cart
under the crane, while unloading some bales of linen,
the rope broke, when a bale fell upon him, by which
both his legs were broken, and he was crushed in so
shocking a manner, as to be taken to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital without hopes of recovery.
Friday last a Coroner's Inquest was held at Hain-
ford, by Mr. QUARLES, Coroner of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, on the bodies of Dinah Maxey, aged 50, and
Elizabeth Smith, aged '22, (the daughter of the above
by a former husband.) After a minute examination
of witnesses, and the bodies being opened by an emi-
nent surgeon of Norwich, the Jurors' verdict was—
Killed by poison administered by a person or persons un-
tnown.—lt appears that on Thursday the 20th inst.
these unfortunate victims breakfasted at their usual
hour, and made their tea from the water of a kettle
which it was their custom to fill the preceding even-
ing, and placed in a closet, and into which arsenic,
or other corrosive poison had been infused ; the young
woman observed the water being white as it was
poured out, but took no further notice ; she was soon
alter taken suddenly ill, the mother was attacked in
the same manner, and a few hours terminated their
existence. No clue has yet been given to discover the
I author of this horrid catastrophe.

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