The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-02 00:00:00

ANECDOTE or LORD CO RIV W4LLIN.

Ifo ring the sieges( Tork-tone, ill Virginia, van.
Dos were Noe shnekieg spectacles which daill preseet-
rd themaeives to the view of Ante persons who •ere
irecws..any cwootioad within she oontractell limns of
the Windt lines. le the coots. of that erannondoes
mei ihreemot eennorsade, which was kept sip is) the
besiegees tot weeny Iwo week., scarcely a shoo, In.
Wont recrerred, winch was better cab slated to ill
the mi..d with boner sod angaish than that which
gave r.se to Ono telionina anecdote:—
One of the sheik thieve from a battery of the At
lied Army, kilts demist, pleteed the roof and pose.
treed the doers of • dneiting.keese situated on the
beach. in • fee memeats it hero in the eviler with
• groat eapiesioa, by which circumatance the house
Vas materially injured; and an unfortunate woman,
who' was limos in a front room with her infant, of
shoat ten mouths odd, fondly clapped in her arms,
were together ;impeded several yards into the street
Some little time after nerd., Lord Cornwall's, the
Cnnernander of the post, taking one of his aso-i
walks around the lines, ',tended by several Officers
of ire aarriann, happened to pass that woe. Ile ob. I
served the mother ea..nded tittle's upon the ground,
while the infant, unhurt, sad ignorant of the los. it
had sustained, appeared drawing from the breast of
the Ittelets cot pee its wonted notoriehment.—Shocked
to an esteem, within uncommon an instance of the
direful edicts of war, his Lonfoliip, after ordering
the deceased to he decently interred at his espence,
dispatched a messenger t• a poor ...low, who was
the mother of werel children, and who Ws. to.
soarkable for her kiwi and 01F...donate disposition.
On her presenting herself, he misted to her the acci-
dent which had happened, and expressed his desire
that she would take the unfortunate n 1 plum inching',
verso it nith the leotiereesa, and educate it with all
eke are of a parent. To this she seedily agreed,
when his Lordship took from his periosnd pee her
10 guineas, and ordered her several oecoseary gni.
du, as null ler her own us, as Ur She use of her
adopted son. 'Dia ealimple el she araiiiinnesmi of the
Earl was soon imitated by numbers who hosed the
assisadinly leis; by *boss united 116,111 rontriba.
tier's, do nesse with bet family were wattled, with
redone, and iseanisy, in We In a very condonable
Arco in Virgioia, eine OM sounder of the British
Army le the easibisisi forces of Payee and Almeria*.

Yesterday morning the family. of Mr. Henry
Pearce, of Hamilton-row, Ihttir•britige, were tires&
fully alarmed whilst sitting at breakfast. by a shot
being fired in at the window, which broke several
panes of glass, killed a canary bird, and aliattequil
the cage to pieces; fortunately the family escaped
unbar*. On •sqvlry into the cause, it was found in
trocool heavers boys tieing at sparrows.
Thieeijtidpbt, about half-past sit °Weeks Mr.
l'iletbantel Bytes% °POP Ilaarsoesd-toad, was se.
floated to the lttew•road,by two fellows, who knock-
ed him dove, and robbed hies of his watelaaad sorry
silver, with which they escaped.
Daring the fog yesterdayevening,s yuong worsen,
going froth Shoreditsh Church towards the Leaden
Apprentice, was enacted sell robbed of her •hawl,
• tidiest, cogssaining 31. slid the ring from of her
finer. Abs.st the POMP time Thomas Jenkins Wil9
&MOAKd doil3 its Shorediteh, sud t0hi,..4 of hi.
stitch Rod appendages. lie secured one id the wil-
lalos, bet before he could °Masa assistauce com•
regime R•seed him.
bins Illaitey, a labourer employed at St John"
chotth. Glasjb', fell from the tower, a height ef
lOU feet, sod get himself most shockingly hurt ;
*vial of his bones "wete broken, slid his burly dread-
brelmvil. Ile was immediately token to the
Raysi liar. try , where he died es Wednesday
farenorts. This is the Komi accident at the same
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