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London, England, 1802-02-22 00:00:00

be' tor e hint, and tee that there were no (Mules
in the way of his waggon, and that he had no oc-
calion to keep fo muck to the right as he had done,
but that he lhould have gone nearer the centre.
The Jury, after long- confideration, gave a vet.-
din for plaintiff—Damages 3•1.
sitcuross OF VERNER AND WOOD O. LANGLEY.

Defendant was the drawet of a bill of exchange,
which plaintiffs retained in their handl, for feveral
days after it was due, without giving notice to the
defendant that the acceptor had refuted paymtnt
of it—when at length they did give notice to the
defendant: defendant, not knowing the day that
the bill became due, and fuppofing the demand
regular, proniifed to pay it. The queflion fub-
nutted to the Jury was, whether or not this pro-
mile was given under a millaken idea, that the de-
fendant was bound in law to pay the bill ? Verdi
for defendant.

The following recipe for the cure of that dread-
ful difeafe, a Cancer, is given in a periodical Pa-
per :—Take one part of red lead, in tine powder,
and two parts of hog's lard ; mix them well to-
gether, and with the Calve thuseprepared, fpread
Oa lint, drefs the cancerous fore twice a day.
At New York a fine child, a year and a half
old, was [mothered in a cradle by a lap dog, which
jumped into the cradle for the purpofe, it is lap-
pored, of Beeping there.
A well-digger, at Brooklyn, Long Ifland, while
at work, on the zd tilt. being eighty feet below the
furface of the earth, part of the curve gave way,
and upwards of thirty loads of (tone tell in and
buried him. In the courfe of thirteen hours, by
the alive exertions of the neighbourhood, he was
I dug. out, and, to their altonifinnent, alive, a plank
I having providentially (luck acrofs the lower part
of the well above his head, which prevented his
being cruthed to death. Some years ago he was
in a fimilar fituation, and 'alike providentially
efcaped after being buried twenty-four hours.
A waggoner at Barton. mills, in Norfolk, invited
a thepherd, from whom it is Paid he ufed to pur-
chafe game, into his waggon to treat him with
drink, when he bored a cant of brandy, out of
which the thepherd drank with a reed, to fuch ex-
cefs, as to occafion his death immediately on alight-
ing from the waggon on Sunday laft.
The wife of Mr. Abrahams, of Chatham Dock-
yard, died bit week ; he was greatly affefted by
the circumliance,entering
and on the chamber
where the corpfe lay, he fat on the fide of the bed,
and obfervingg, that he felt he fhould not long fur-
vive her, he fell on her neck and expired.

The houfe of Mr. Webb, at Milton, near Marl•
borough,Was a few days ago burned to the ground,
and the proprietor with much difficulty extricated
from the flames.

One houfe was deroyed, and two others much
damaged, by fire at Philadelphia, on the 15th ult.
fuppofed to have been communicated into the cel-
lars of one of them by Come incendiaries. The fa-
mily were in bed, and with difficulty efcaped over
the roofs of Come adjoining dwellings.
On Saturday the 6th inn. in the afternoon, a
boat belonging to Newburgh, having on board fix
pilots, another man and boy, in the return from
piloting out a veffel, was overfet, and all perillied.
Six widows and 23 children are left to lament this
affiiaing cataftrophe.
On Saturday evening, the 7th inn. between fix
and feven o'clock, the Hope barge, belonging to
Mr. A. Mafon, of Maidflone, laden with a valuable
cargo, principally of wines and fugars, was run
down in Sea Reach (river Thames), by the Retreat
outward-bound Weft. Indianian, and intlantly funk.
The crew confifting of the matter and two boys
fortunately efcaped : the mailer faced himfelf by
jumping on board a brig alongfide of which the
barge was laying, and the boys laid hold of a fpar
that had luckily been picked up on the voyage.
upon which they feated themfelves, and after drift-
ing about nearly an hour, they were picked up by
a [loop and refcued from a watery grave. The .
brig had her bowfprit and foremaft carried away,
and was otherwife materially damaged.
State Lottery Office, No. 16, Comhill.—Mr.
Nictsocsois refpcelfully acquaints his Friends and
'the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY begins draw-
ing on Monday next, the tR of March. The
Tickets, in the greateft variety of Numbers, are
fold and divided into Halves, (trarters, Eighths,
and Sixteenth Shares, which are duly Stampt,
purfpant to A4l of Parliament. Schemes at large
Gratis, and Money for the Prizes as loon as
_ drawn.

RICHARDSON, Gooniucc, and Co. refpeafullr
remind the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY be-
ns drawing on Monday next, the Ili of March.
The
Tickets and Shares, from a Half to a Six-

teenth, are on fate in the greaten variety of Num-
bers, and will continue fo till the end of the draw-
ing, at their Offices, Cornhill and Charing-Crofs ;
alto in the City of Norwich, and at Liverpool,
where the Prizes in the prefent and all former
Lotteries will be paid on demand, and all banner's
in Lottery and Public Funds tranfaded with fide-
lity and pun duality.
TO DR. GARDNER, LONG-ACRE.

Sir—l have been a martyr to the Rheumatic
Gout for twenty years, to fuch a degree, that my
joints and limbs fwelled to double their natural
fife. For two months together I was quite help.
lefs, and fuffered the moil excruciating pains.—
Though I had advice of the moil eminent phyfi•
cians, I found no relief till Mr. Lowter recom-
mended your Pills, two ?uinea boxes of which
worked a complete cure. l'hefe Pins give a good
appetite, and will, in my opinion, cure the moll in-
veterate gout or rheumatifm. It is my with that
my cafe may be publithed for the benefit of fuf-
ferers, who know not where to leek relief.
Talbot Inn Keeper, Yours, Etc.
Whitechapel, 1797. tar Fussiest.
Dr. GaeoNsa's Pills, packed in gnefia, ss.
tat. and xis. a box, and boxes in Sulphur, as. 3d.
—6s. fared in the guinea box.
Of the thoufands of families, reduced to the nt.
molt diflrefs, and fome even to beggary, by rack.
ing pains, how many might have fated themielvse
by wain like M. Puma