The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-31
PORTUGAL.

10Th NOV.
PORTUGAL.
LrsBoN, Nov. II, 1911.
We learn from Seville, on the 5Ist Oct
sshat the French General, Gordinot, had arb
irived there from 81. Rogue, with part of hisE
division and on being reprelien,led by Soulce
flor some part of his conduct, immediately
ishot himself. Another General has diedE
there Of his wounds.
7arifa, Oct. $1,000 French cavalry en-ss
tered Algezras Theirprincipal object wa
Ito rob and sack that place.
Cadiz, Oct. 23-The French have retiredE
From the Camp of st. Rogue, near Gibraltar,
land have been closely followed by the Span-I
fish general, Balasteros, to Ximena, where
lion the 22d, he made many prisoners from
sthe enemy's rear guard
| ELEMENTS OF THE ORBIT OF THE CoMETf
From the Paris loniteur.
Having been requested to rectify my ele |
aments OF the Comet by actual observations |
81 have the honor to communicate to you!
\ their result.
The Comet was nearest the Sun on thel
312th Of Sept. 1t was seen SO millions of
tleagues distant from that body, and 81 MILL !
ions of leagues from the earth. From the al
ibove date, its distance from the sun will in
Screase, and its distance from the earth will!
decrease, till about the middle OF OctobcS al
twhen the least distance of the comet from.
Ehe earth will be still more than Al millions
f Leagues. 1t is not probable that the bril-
lance of the comet will SO on increasing for
will gain by its approximation to the earth,
IN general, the situation of the orbit OF this
s1comet is such, that it can never approach
II gery near the earth.
q The nucleus of this comet appears sepa-
1rated from its coma, which surrounds it I'M
dthe form of a parabolic ring. This appear
ince, which has not been observed in ether
jcomets, is ascertained by the observations
dof all the astronomers of Paris, and will
doubtless be confirmed by those of other as
{tronomers Probably, however, it does not
aat all follow that the body is absolutely de-
jtached from the coma, as the space which
appears void, may be filed with particles
amuch less luminous than the rest OF the
!coma.
! The following are the elements Of the or
bit of this comet :--Perihelion distance,
/ ,O22, ~.
The instant of its passage by the perihe-
Hon, 4S minutes past nine in the evening of
athe 18th of Sept. 1911. Ascending node,
5I4O deg. l3 min. Inclination, 70 deg. 4o
I min. Place of the perihelion, "a deg. 70
4 min. BURS'hHA KDI,
Member OF the Institute.
Paris, Seht. 90.
Mr.. Burckhardt is esteemed one of the
Smost accurate calculators in Europe, and
gained the prize of the National mstit2te
Xior calculating the orbit Of tho comet O.
ll77O.
u From The Paris Ladicateur, of SEM. TO-
4 The horrid sngularity of the facts we are
3going to relate, and the scarcity of the PAM
/ phlet in which the details are contained, cre-l
\ ties the desire of giving the following mar
jrative. all the extent of which it is suscepti-I
Die.
Matthew Lova1, a shoemaker of Venice |
loHers an instance, extraordinary as it is de-
3plorable, of the dreadful effects of fanati-l
5cal melancholy, when excited to an enthu-I
dsiastic excess. One of the first acts of thisI
A mans madness was to MAIN himself: as hej
Had first prepared every thing necessary tel
5dress up his wound, he effected his cure sol
4 successfully that no kind of accident or anyI
anther bad consequence resulted therefrom.
Mot long after, he persuaded himself, that
aGod had ordered him to die on the Cross );
Iand from that moment his mind was con-
sstantly employed in the contemplation of his
s"ljcct, and his hands to prepare all the in.
5struments for his martyrdon.
\ For upwards Of two years, he meditatedl
jim silence and retirement, on the means of
~ i'ASt Viz
sarrived, CHS sad catastrophe happened at
Venice in tie month os May, 1869 eteryl
thing had been previously prepared, and;
3nothing omitted to insure the execution i
'Lovat placed on his head a crown Of thorns /
land stuck three or four thorns in the skin OF.
fhs forehead with a white handkerchief
tied around his side and thigh, he coveredI
the wound he had inflicted on himseif--thel
sremainder of his body was left naked. Inl
sthat situation he placed himself on the II i'll
IDLE of the cross, fixed his feet On the lower|
ipart, the right over the left, and drove thro.l
.both, with hammer, nail sixteen inches
|. nng, until 1t penetrated deep into the wood \
&c then with rope, around the middle OF
! ais body, tied himself fast to the cross ;hav-l
ng provided himself with two ctncr long.
1ais, wei siiarpened, he successfully drove;
e,slm through each OF his hands, by iirstt
1 laclu'. tho point to the middle Ct the pain,
S,nd t',@il By striking the head Of the nail oni
yhe fOcT, got them through this Gone, le'
htrctched lis hands up to the place where,
Shey were TO be fastened, and fixed the points
gjf The nails in the holes he had first pierced,
gm the transverse part Of the cross. kutl
{previous to his mailing the left hand, be-
,made use Of it, with his shoemakeg' s-knife 1
ito cut ii large wound into his left side (he had
forgotten, says the writer, that it ought I'll
have been on the right side)--this accom-
plshed, lie had nothing more to do, but {
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