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London, England, 1816-09-16 00:00:00

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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, AVOLISi i 4.
Two 'days since arrived the Queensberry; Capt
Hannah, In 37 days, bringing ttie July. Mail, having
sailed from Falmouth on the 16th • of that month.
G. Antrdbus. Esq. his Majesty's Secretary of Lega-
tion to the United States, came passenger in the
Queensberry. Same day arrived the Montague, Cap-
tain Watkins, in lour days tram New York, on her
way to'England, and for which she sails on the 25th
with a mail. The Graae packet, which brought out
the June Mail to this place, arrived at New York.
Arrived to-day H. M. S. Pactolus, Capt. ambit.
from Bermuda. The Niger frigate, Captain Jackson,
arrived lately from Quebec, after having landed at
that place, in a passage of ten days from hence, his
Excellency Sir John Sherbrooke .the newly appointed
Governor General. Arrived his Majesty's brig l'Es-
poie; Captain Duff, from the Bay of Funchy, which
ship sails for England with dispatches abobt the 30th
of this month. The Harrier brig, Captain Sir Charles
Jones, sails for Bermuda; at which plate the Saracen
brig, Captain Gore, is now lying. The Menai, of
20 guns, Capt. Pell, and Opossum brig, Capt. Lord
John Hay, are now cruizing in the Bay of Funchy;
and the King's ships now in Halifax harbour are the
Acbar, (50), Rear-Admiral Griffith, Cept. Charles
Bullen; Niger and Pactolus frigates; Hewitt. and
l'Espoir brigs ; and Centurion, (50), hulk.
The Attentive, naval transport, Lieut. Smith, sails
shortly for England, with two companies of the Royal
Marine Artillery on board, under the command of
Captain Parke, who lately arrived from Canada, in
his Majesty's ship Niger. In this ship, which proceeds
to England, is Major GeneralDosselin, the second in
command in the Garrison, in consequence of being
removed 4 the Staff, and likewise several discharged
men and invalids of different regiments. L'Espoir
brig, Captain Duff, takes home Sir James Cockburn,
the Governor of Berniuda, with a number of dis-
charged ;cameo.
Rear-Admiral Mylne is not expected to arrive at
Halifax to assume the command on the North Ame-
rican station, before the month of November next;
accounts having been received of that officer pro-
ceeding with Lord EXMOUTH'S squadron, in an ex-
pedition against the Algerines ; and the return
of the Acbar, bearing the gag of Rear-Admiral
Griffith, to England, is in consequence delayed.
Matters are at present all tranquil and quiet in Ca-
nada; and the arrival there of his Excellency Sir John
Sherbrooke, had created a universal satisfaction, and
the happiest effects are expected from his admioistra-
ton of the affairs of the Government of that country.
The weather this summer, in Nova Scotia, has been
very favourable, and the prospect of au abundant
harvest in all parts of the Province.
A steam boat, to be worked by horses, is now con-
structing, to serve aa a passage or ferry-boat, across
the harbour to Halifax, an Act of the Legislature
having been passed for that purpose. This vessel
consists of two boats joined together by a large plat-
form on the top, on which nine horses are to work in
the inside of a circular building, and round which,
on the outside, the passengers, horses, carriages, &c.
are to be arranged.

Wednesday an Inquest was held at the Bowl and
Pin, in Old-street-square, on the body of Martha
Youlter.—Jane Taylor, who lived in the same house
as deceased did, deposed, she saw her on Monday
forenoon upcn the stairs. She was much intoxicated
then, and had been so from the Saturday preceding.
Between two and three o'clock, witness not hearing
her in her room, went in, and found her lying on the
floor with her arm under her head, and quite dead.—
Medical aid was procured, but the vital spark was
extinct. Witness had no doubt she died from suffo-
cation produced by excessive drinking. Gin was her
favourite liquor.—Ann Rawlins detailed nearly the
same facts, and had no doubt she died from ex-
cessive drinking. Verdict—Suffocation produced by
excessive drinking.

Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven
o'clock, the neighbourhood of Monmouth-street was
thrown into a great state of alarm by violent scree.
mings, proceeding from the cellar of the house,
Nu. 9.0, in that street, in which Bartholomew Mad-
docks, a shoemaker, his wife, and John Cole Man, her
son, lived. On some of the neighbours descending
into the cellar, one of the most shocking spectacles
presented itself to their view. The father and the
son-in-law were literally covered with blood : Mad-
docks was bleeding profusely from the arm and body,
and almost instantly fell from the loss of blood. He
was immediately carried to a surgeon near the spot,
who rendered him all the assistance he could, and
then sent him to Middlesex Hospital, where he was
attended by Dra. Jobernes and Bell, and Mr. Heath.
He had received a dreadful cut and laceration in the
arm, and it was carried to such an extent as to rm.
der it almost impossible to take up the arteries and
thereby stop the bleeding. The professional Gentle-
men considered his life in imminent dhnger at five
o'clock in the afternoon. The account given of the
transaction by the neighbours is, that Maddocks and
his wife had had an altercation, which terminated
blows on his part : Coleman, the son, interfered in,
behalf of his mother, and was struck violently by
Maddocks ;. to revenge, which Coleman took up a
knife, which he with great rapidity plunged into the
arm and body of his father-in-law several times,—
Coleman was taken to St. Giles's watch-house. He
was nearly covered with blood, and appeared very
anxious to have his clothes changed ; this, however,
the watch-house keeper very properly refused to com-
ply with • his right band was stained all over with
blood. He appeared melancholy, and expressed his
sorrow at the tragical occurrence, which be accounts
for in the following manner s —His father-io-law,,
who has alwayi used his mother and him extremely
ill by beating them. bad beta drinking until he came
home in a state of intoxication, when, as usual, he
commenced an attack upon both of them. Particu-
larly on his mother. Prisoner Coleman remonstrated
with him on his conduct ; upon which Maddocks
gave bins a violent blow, which struck him from the
seat where be was sitting s'bpairing a pair of his own
boots f prisoner got up while he had a knife in his
hand with which be bad been pairing the heels of
his boots ; a sharp woggle ensued, in the cdhrse of
which (and how be did not know) the catastrophe
which is likely to prove facer to Meunier: mutes=
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