The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-08
Sleelisas from Enelish Pap.ra.

her was eolled upon To prosecute a fellow
at Marlborough street Office fur having
broken his window. The publican CAV,
evidence To prove that the act was wliul
an the part OF the defendant, and brougl [
forward one witness To prove his ease, Oh
which the Magistrate convicted the deli n
dant in the salue Of the INJURY sustained Ia
the licensed ,iotnallcr, who naturally anti
eipated that the amount of the con,i tiot
would tall TO his lot; but, on the contrary,
he was Informed that the Act ofParia-
ment was imperative. He had only ho't
forward one witness besides himself 10
prove the fact--in that case the penalty
did not go To The prosecutor but to the King.
II he had hro't forward two witnesses 10
prove IL, then he 1.-THE prosccutor) would be
entitled TO the penalty to the amount OF
the injury done.
BY singular regulation, the Govern
ment couriers in Austria are ordered, when
! they are charged with dispatches sealed
with only one seal, To 20 at walking
pace II with two seals, 10 trot and irwith
three, TO gallop. A courier, hearing dns-
patch with three seals, passing lately thro'
a garrison town, was requested by the
commandment To take despatch TO the
next town, To which he willingly agreed !;
but pcrceiying, when he received il, that
II had but one seal, he refused IN take
charge oft, saying I" the regulations order
ed hun to walk his horse with such drs-
patch, aud rs he had another, with which
he was ordered to galop, he could not pos
sibly take them both"
Five fat oxen, the property of Mr.. VIM.
Dawson, the Gogar, near Blair Logic,
which had been grazing on his farm, by
the banks 0f the Devon, early on Wedncs-
day morning, the 9TH inst. leli the lowly
PLAIN for more elevated and romantic
spot on the brow of the towering Ochils,
which they gained, with some difficulty,
by c'rcuitons winding slope on the vide
oil deep glan. Pleased with the beauty
oi their newly explored situation, and gid
dy with the grandeur of the wide-extendrd
plain below, they hied them on Till they
had nearly reached
" Those towering cliffs, which, Atlas like,
High on thsirs houidefa bearthe misty clouds"
But here their footing became rather pre-
earious, having got upon bed of loose
gfavcl.--EYery step now set of, with reck-
less speed and laundering noise, a shower
OF earth and stones TO the foot of the noun.
tain to return was dangerous; To proceed
was more 50 and what wa. II BIZ done
Back they turned IN aiirghted ,iamay, and
forgetting The necessary precaniion they
hau used IN their ascent, redoubled their
speed as The danger Increased, till they
could foot II ns longer, when, one by, one,
they cut The knot, by taking "A sporting
leap over the lofty pingour, aud landing al
once ai the foot pf the mountain. The
spectators below were lost in wonder aud
establishment al the ilarcurnn feat. and
more 30, when, incredible dictp, two of
them started TO their feet again, and fed
rom their three less fortunate companions,
one Of which was dashed 10 pieces, ano-
iher escaped with Few bruises and a frac-
tnred limb, and the third received SO severe
a confusion as To be unable 10 follow.
,Siirliag yomHni.
one OF The masters nj Elton, who was
very much attached 10 young widow,
whose son being NJ the school, had receiy
eel great assistance from him, was on one
occasion pressed by the lady to accept of
a present. This he rejected, adding, from
Ovid, without rocolleeting that hls instruc-
tons had been given To the son and not 10
the mother "P'@mio npiia pefo nisi h.n
The lady begging him to translate, he, re-
covering himself, said, "Oh, | beg your
pardon II was merely to say, I seek 10, no
re~ard, unless ii be dish FRA some eve
nins when ! come your way"
Al AuchencfOw a small village in the
parish Buckingham, Northumberland, on
the afternoon of the 18th init. n SOW be-
longing to J. Robertson, mason, having
broken from It's confinement, his wife, to
prevent ITS straying, impruden,ly shut it
into the house, where her sou, an infant of
five months old, was asleep in the cradle 4
she went out, and in her absence the yora
cious animal seized the little innocent, and
had one Of its hands, and great part OF lis
face and throat deyonred when the mo
ther returned The child died in about an
hour.
The RrroRT--dn Historical Fact
When Miss Ann Pitt, sister To the great
William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham,
received pension from Lord Butte, her
brother wrote her very angry note, ga "
ing he never wished to live to see the
name Of PITT and pension togethcr."--
When the same William Pitt received a
pension from the same Lord Butte OF three
Thousand pounds per annum, his sister
stnt HIM back has oion letter.
Mr.. Lemercier, the French Tragic Poet,
author OF .1gamemnon, has been engaged
two years alta great work, in which he pro-
poses to bring regencrated Greece on the
scene. The title his work, which is in
state of great forwardncss, is LES .nnrtyys
De SoHi, or EpiruS regeaerdted.
.WankS BuH.-The committee for i'm
proving road in the Isle of Man, atter due
elaboration, had the following notice stuck
up =" Whereas the bridge of Kirk Brad
don being pulled dorm BEFORE il is built,
all persons going that wuy to Peel shall
take the other road.p