Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-06-10

loving couple at not benS able to confirm
the report, went up to them, and III the
honest language OF a British seaman, thus
addressed them,:: Come my homes, they've
set hes aioat about you. let's make them
true if you'll be we'd, I'll pay for the Ii
cence and ring" The offer was no soon
er made than accepted, and the lovers be-
came man and wife two months earlier
than they had intended.
TIE lcts Fct,a Pa1tac OH High Life.-On
Sunday morning last, when lord - re-
turned from church, he was met on enter
ing his house by his daughter, child of
only six years Of age, whom he accompa-
MED to the door of the nursery, which he
found closed, and on looking through the
key hole. he saw his lady with an intimate
friend efhis lordship in such situation
that it cannot be described. His lordship
INSTANTLY flew to his chamber, and Selling
a pistol, returned to the door of the nurse
ry at the moment it was opened By the a.
dulterer, and levelled it at his head-by
raising his arm he avoided the fatal effects
OF the ball, which he received in his right
arm, by which it was shattered.
".aIdria, or the Kolianders "a trans
lation of tins work, the production of Lou
lis Bonaparte, the late kingof Holland, will
appear in few days. The foreign Jour
nails pronounce it to have considerable in
lterest, and in particular to exhibit a most
lively picture of society and manners in
Holland.
Feb. 6.
On Friday last forty capital horses, some
OF them remarkably handsome, were bro't
to Brighton, on their way to New-Haven.
to be embarked on board any of the pack
cts that might sail from that harbOr for
France, where the breed of such cattle is
but little known. The horses, one of
which was valued at 500 guineas, were Sc
lected by dealer in London, and purcha-
sed for certain French gentlemen, by their
agent, sent to England for that purpose
In case no passage offered at New-Hayen,
they were to be sent on to Dover.
Thomas Brierctlfa, butcher, of Little
Bolton, Worcestershire, on the laudable
prosecution of the humane municipal Off
GERS OF that place, was at the last quarter
sessions sentenced to three months impri-
sonment, for cruelty and torturing
a sheep the court deeply regretted that
they were not authorised to inflict the adj
ditionai punishment of whipping.
A late eminent professor of anatomy,
well known in the west ofEngland, being
engaged in embalming alady at Sidmouth,
remarked the cause of her death was obvi-
Ious-cn adhesion Of the lungs, occasioned
by the breast bone being bent backwards,
in consequence of wearing certain fashion,
able stays, with what are called in Ireland
:. iron bones"
January 10.
Foot race. Mr.. Hunt, member of the
Merry Club, undertook fora considerable
wager to run mile in FIVE minutes, which
ne accomplished with apparent case, on
the Clapt0n Road, in twenty seconds UNI
der the given time. Belts and 10 to Il
against him. The club afterwards partook
of a sumptuous breakfast at Mermaid, Hack
ney.
February 90.
A gentleman, not having any halfpence,
told beggar that he would remember him
on his return % Please your honor,' says
the fellow" it is unknown the credit II
give in this way"
January q.
The old Bailey sessions concluded last
morning, when no fewer than 25 prisoners
received sentence Of death several of them
mere boys. Thirty-eight were sentenced
to transportation for seven years, five for
fourteen years, and great number for va
rious periods of imprisonment. The court
will sit again the 18th of next month";
Should crimes continue to increase as they
have done for some time past, the court
must sit permanently.
MADRID, Jan. IL.
The inquisitor-general has published an
edict of the king, that " with the advice oil
his majesty's council, and of the holy in
quisiOn, he will receive with open arms,
and with all the tenderness suitable to his
character and Office, all such free-nasons
as shall within fifteen days, spontaneously
and voluntarily demounce themselves 3
but that ifany Of them shall persist in fol-
lowing the way to perdition, he shall then
be obliged to resort to the rigorous mea-
sures enioined by the civil and canon
laws
This edict al'owsverylitle time forrehec-
ton, and all persons absent from the Pc
ninsula are excluded from the benefit OF
this amnesty.
LIVERPOOL, (Eng.) April 1.
The hon. captain Percy has been tried
by British court martial for the loss of
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