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London, England, 1806-12-30 00:00:00

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BRITISH .412111 T
Fart Sambre dd Greta Mein, (Roberts.
u';nre not viOto y over General RIGNIER. we have
had a c.nize in the Bay of Naples, and wen. at Ca.
pri, Ifehia, and Piochyta, where we annoyed the
French not a little, by threatening to land, and keep-
ing them on the alert. On Monday laR, the 7th
infirm, we experienced a molt vi.,lent (hock of an
earthquake ; it continued fornething more than a mi-
xture and a half ; we were etercifing in brigade at the
time, and I declare to you, we could fcarcely keep
our Ices. fo violent was the (hock; it hasdemolithed
feveral buildings, and What is rather (range, it turn-
ed the croft on the top of the Archbilhop's Chapel
completely, and without injuting the building. Whe-
ther will the fuperftitious, reckon is as a good cr
ill omen ? To hear the •cries of delpair that the
poor Sicilians fee up when it happened, was very
affetling. This is the fecund violent flock we have
had..tioce we came here—for we felt two or three_
befides, but properly fpeaking, only tremors of the
earth, which I allure you are not very agreeable.—
Out garrifon here is very ftrinisgtGeneral rot is our
Commander in Chief, and General Sir John Mania
is fecund in coalman( ; we are in daily expeftation of
a reinforcement from England." •
EZTItAOIIIIIIIIIIIIr PIDIISTIIIiII
has been Rated. that Glanville. a Sbropfhire man,
flamed on Friday morning, at (even, at the 14 mlle-
Itone on the Bath road, to go to the 85th, and back
to the ,4th, a dillance of t 42 miles, in 30 hours.—
From the great diftance, at this lotion of the year,
the odds were 7to 4 and a tot againft him. He
went off at a brifk walk, and fur two miles together
be broke into a (hurtling walk, at the rate of fix miles
an hour. His firft tioppage was at Twyford, at
which place he arrived, and took a bafon of foup, U
five minutes paft ten o'clock. He flopped about five
minutes at this place, 34 miles from town; and re-
frefhed again at Marlborough, and arrived at
the 85th mile-flone at ten minutes pall right in the
evening. This half of his journey was performed
at fomething left than five miles and a half an hour.
He returned a few miles on his way back, and re•
hefted himielf on a bed between blankets for about
an hour and a half, and arrived at Reading at a
/palter paft fix o'clock on Saturday morning. He
had now 25 miles to perform in five hours and three
quarters ;he appeared a good deal fatigued. After
reclining in a chair fur about twenty minutes, and
drinking half a pint of mulled wine, he tenewed his'
talk, and arrived at journey's end at a quarter
before one o'clock, and won with difficulty by a
quarter of an hour. He was attended the whole of
the way by two horfeaen.
Doran PeNance.--On Sonday, St. Matthew's
Church, Bethnal Green, was indebted for the great
control:ft of utteudahis on DirineScrvice, rather to
motives of curiofity, than eta %ncreafe of zeal among(
the parifitinners in the perfblmance of their religious
duties. Numbers &elect 'together from different
parts of the city, to be fpeetators of the execution of
the featence, pronounced by the Ecctefiaftical Coma,
on a p rfon named Curtia, for having ufed a very
op.probrious epithet to Mrs. Jennings, a neighbour's
wife. During Divine Service, the eyes of maids,
widows, and wives, involuntarily raved through the
whole sifle, to difcover this Violator of Female De-
licacy. The Service concluded without gratifying
their. curinfity3 he had eluded the vigilance of his
• multifarious guards, by mean' of a fide door from
the veftry.room, where, after (mice, having mace
a confellion of his improper condo& and acknow-
fr lodged his contrition, he was, by the lenity of thole
charged with the mention of the fentence, exempted
from the more difagrecable part, that of walking in
is regalia renand.the church.
A letter from Fort George Rates as follows :
ss moll unfortunate and lamentable accident oc-
curred on the evening of the Lath inftint, by the up.
rating of the pelage boat, on the ferry betwixt Fort.
George and Fortrole.- Several paffengers. whole
names we hhve not diftinetly I:arned, and all the
boatmen, viz. William M'lver and fon, Andrew
ClaAe and David Lanoon, were drowned. The cattle
of this melancholy event was, the top weight which had
been contrary to regulations and law, heaped on the
boat, and the eXtreinte intoxication of the ferrymen."
A melaneholyaceideat happened on Chriflmas day.
• In eonfequince of a heavy (well in the river Conway,
the boat which cartied the frith mail, with eight paf-.I
fengers, the coachman, the guard, and a youth about
fifteen years of age, in all fifteen in number, includ..,
ing the boatmen, was upfet, and all, except two
perillied. 1
Sunday fe'nnight,neat five o'clock in the afternom,
a fire broke out in a cot houfe at Eaft Fortune, near
Haddington, which in about four hours eonfumed
fie thatched cottages adjoining. Thenfire continued
to burn among the embers all the night, as they were
corafionally fanned b 7 irregular, though generally
Iftrong breezes, It threatened detlruflion to the
whole farmtlead and flackyard, hut was prevented by
the timely efforts of a fet of Relive fereants from all
Stutters, under the diteftlon of the neighbouring
'farmers.
TO Mt notTABURT.—Maria, Arguft rs, aloe.
8i —the *titer, in June (all, called on you with
a yam/ Woman of the name of Brookes, whit had a
bad leg, find to Whom you lave a pint of your Drops,
which has nearly, effedteda core.—The following cafe
bas alfo necturo hi this neighbourhood : James Gy b.
fors teas itint-tithied at ten years of age; half a year
-aftetwates'lttiraifetzed with a pain in both legs, fup.
poled for fome time to be thenmatifm, or growirg
pains, but it fettled finally in one leg, which fwelled,
itAdrendertillsith incapable of walking. Heise( in
fotr ;mare, I I Sr 12 ulcers, and 13 pieces of hone
aftee taken out. His health was impaired, and he
eras coußatuty carried about. He was (applied with
fifteen bottles of Soo tea av's Patent Ai:tit-cos butic
Deeps, whieb entirely cured him. It is now three
• years flue ; he is grown tall, healthy, and wogs
conflantly as a bricklayer.—The bearer is alfafresion.
mended as a deferving ONG& for your excellent Infli.
(Won. She lives thirty-two miles from London,
and it has been thought bed to (cad her to town that
you may fee her.
The Genuine Patent Antifenrhutie Drops are, fold
in books of p. 6J. sot. and 11. 25. duty included,
at the Difpenlary, No. 15, Sohaquare. London.—
To prevent counterfeits, each bottle is accompanied
with a black ink Ramp ; and the cork, at the mouth
et each hock, leaded with MI wax.

,•':. '1 • POLICE.

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v. mesa tv-sTa arr.—Yefterday a great summon or 1
perfons ambled at the Public Office, Worftfip-
ifreet, expecting to hear a public examination of Ha-
gerty,
}folioWay, and the King's evidence, Hanfietd
—but they were ant brought before the Magißraces,
although the commitment or liberation of theiteper-
fans, charged with the murder of Mr. Steele, Was to
have taken place on the Monday following their be-
ing laft lathe above Office. We know not when they
are to appear again kofore the Magilltates.
MARLBOROUGH s r.—johi Lewis Bapiee Bar:
rim& (valet de chambre to Lord Caledon) yefterday
underwent another examination at this Office.
The Prifoner, it will be remembered, is charged
with having committed robbery, by obtainibg pack-
ages (tom the Portfmouth waggon inn, winch had
been feed thither by order of Lord Caledon, to be
tot warded to Portfmouth, that they might be (tip-
ped for the Cape of Good Hope, whither his Lord-
-04 is about to depart as Governor. Lord Caledon
had gone to Ireland, to take leave of his friends ;
and had left the prifoner, who was confidered as a
confidential fervent, in care of his houfe in town.--
Lord Caledon had not arrived yefterday ; hot a part
of the property &den belonged to Colonel Alexan-
der, 'who is appointed aid de camp to his Lordfhip ;
and Si he had arrived from Portfmouth, the exami-
nation was entered into. Some articles of linen,
which were (worn to by this Gentleman, were proved
to have been packed in one of the packages delivered
at the inn, and afterwards fold to Myers, A falefman
in Swallow-(beet, by the prifoner. On examining
one of the buxes, Colonel Alexander found force
garments milling, one of which was the uniform of
an aide de camp, which, with a falhionable bloc
coat, were found at the houfe of a celebrated minia-
ture painter, in Dukt-fireet, Portiand-place. The
' prifoner, it appeared, had taken the uniform coat
thither, to have his likenefs taken in a ftmerb diets,
and he Ritually wore it whilft the limner took his
likenefs. Lord Caledon's coachman, who had ob-
(treed the prifoner bring back the package which
contained part of Colonel Alexander's linen, after it
had been taken to the inn, proved this fait. He alto
defcribed him as baying ai10..1 in the molt incoherent
manner in feveral inflances. He in one intance in-
fitted on going to the Opera in his matter's carriage,
and on being refuted, he produced a written paper,
purporting to be the fanetion of Lord Caledon for
fuch a (tech The carriage was, however, rendered
unfit for de and the prifoner was drfalepointed. In
all the tranfadinns of the prifoner, he teems to have
been particularly attentive to the fair...les, infomuch
that he was known amongft them by the watch word
beauty, and he teems to have devoted the (tuns of his
daily purfuits to decorate them.
A female who had captivated him, whore name is
Cart, unfortnaately for the prifinier, was a very ma- '
terial wheels. She fill law him at the Theatre,
when he was dteffed is the extreme of fathion, with
abundance of rings, jewel?, &c. lie was knows to
Come females who were with Mitt Care, and Mifs C.
obferved he had got his wife's feat on his watch
chain. The prifoner immediately infitted, that as it
was a laly's feat he would make it a preterit to her,
and alto the chain. She at firtt refuted to accept it,
but at length flie did take it, and the next morning,
when the prifoner (whom the had never fees until
the moment of his generofity) called on her—the
gave him back his indent, (eating. Tome ill might
come of it. She taw him feveral times afterwards,
and he always reprefented himfelf as a Nobleman
She breakfasted with him at Lord C.'s houfe in
Stretton•flreer, which he reprefented as his own man-
lion, and he (hewed her a confiderable quantity of
rich furniture, Sm. Mifs Care perceived a coronet on
the linen, and on her silting him bow a foreigner
could wear a Britilh Coronet, he was at a lois to ex-
plain. He then Paid he would, tell her the truth,
which was, that he was a Swift Noble, and he was
going out to the Cape with Lord C. as his Lord-
(hip'. Aide de Camp. Mite C. was accommodated
with a quantity of wine, which flue took borne in a
coach with her, in a box, which box had of igints4
been filled with Colonel Alexander's property. Ha.
had often (hewn her a (superbly rich gold mounted
fnuff box, which it appeared had been mounted at
Lord Caledon's expense. Mitt Care confidered him
an extremely polite gentleman, and an admirer of
the ladies, to many of whom in her circle he was
well known., She always fuppofed him to be a goo;
denten becaufe he was a foreigner. -
Mr. Smith, a linen draper in Piccadilly, to whom,
he had offered to difpote of table linen, attended...;
He had reprefented himfelf to Mr. Smith as a Noble-
man, and that he bad ten thoufand pounds worth of
property to difpofe of, ac he was about to leave the
country. He had endeavoured to impote on tredef-
Men by hit afftimed eo•fequence, but the firatagem
has invariably failed. The only perfons who have
filtered are his matter and Colonel Alexander. The
Psifoner was remanded till next Monday.

Hasson Gaines —Yefierday Enoch Roberts, John
An-dhows. John Hervey, Welhain Hartford, and William
dredge wave examined on a charge of entering the
bottle of Mr. Spencer. a Ponder's End, on the soth
infirm. The family were confined below by one
of the party. while the tell went ever the holds to
plunder it. Tie alarm becoming general, Trott and
Chapman apprehended them ; when Enoch Roberts
made a voluntary conteflion of their plan to rob
every where they could. The prifoners were fur-
nifbed with fire arms and malks ; and in a field con-
tiguous to Mr. Spencer's, feveral weapons were
found, with a hat. Tlanprifoner• were committed
for reexamination. A man mho was flint through
vI the hand on Epping Purell a few nights ago, at-
' tended.

A melancholy accident lately happened to the Rev.
Mr. Busfield, Curate of Great Berkhamllead, Herts.
As he was returning to his inn from his uncle's houfe
in London, owing to the darkuefs of the evening, his
foot flipped, and be fell down on the point of his
umbrella, which perforated his right eye, and has en-
tirely deprived him of the ufe of it:

Tuerday night, a party of robbers attcmpted to
Asal the feeding geese of farmer Roberts, of Ruan•
lanyhorne, near Tregony ; but the eacklinc guardians
of the Roman capitol alarmed the houre.dog ; hit
noife alarmed his mater; and in the general alarm,
the robbers decamped, leaving behind them two other
pee, which tip bad previpt.ily ltolea elfewhere.