Mr. John Kitchen, house sur. geon at St. George's Hospital. The deceased was brought to the hospital on Friday evening a little past 8 o'clock; she was in excruciating pain. She had a wound on the right side of the abdomen about 6 inches in length, apparently inflicted with a sharp instrument. The greater part of the bowels and part of the stomach protruded. The bowels were cut through. She lingered until 5 o'clock the following morning. The bowels had been wounded in four different places. The jury instantly returned a verdict of wilful and deliberate murder against Francis Losch, the deceased's husband, who is in custody. On Thursday the fifteenth, Mr. Fisher, an officer belonging to the Dorothea, Capt. Buchan, arrived at the Admiralty with dispatches, announcing the return of that ship and her consort, the Trent sloop, from the North Pole. It appears that the highest latitude the ships ever attained was about 80° 30', longitude 12 east. They attempted proceeding to the westward, but, as in the case of Captain Phipps, in the Racehorse, in 1773, they found an impenetrable barrier of ice. The ships proceeded nearly over the same space as Captain Phipps did, and met with similar impediments as experienced by that officer. The Dorothea and the Trent are on their way to Deptford. 22. Clausthal in the Hartz. Yesterday afternoon a powdermagazine, containing 20 cwt. of gunpowder, unhappily blew up. By this explosion, the cause of which it is not easy to discover, two overseers, who were just delivering out powder, 18 miners, one woman, and three children, were blown to pieces and burnt, and four miners and one child mortally wounded, at least so that their recovery is despaired of. The unhappy persons have most of them left families unprovided for. A Coroner's inquest was held on Oct. 27th, before Roger Callaway, Esq. Coroner, of Portsmouth, on the body of Thomas Huntingford, aged 71, a shipwright in this dock yard, who was found dead in his bed, covered with blood, early on the morning of Saturday last, at his lodgings in Orangestreet, Portsea. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against his wife, Sarah Huntingford, aged about 60, who has been consequently committed for trial. Huntingford and his wife retired to their bed-room, being the front garret, at their usual hour on Friday night; it did not appear that either of them was intoxicated. About three o'clock on Saturday morning, Samuel Bately, a superannuated shipwright, who occupies the back part of the same house, was awoke by the steps of some person coming down stairs, which person he heard go out at the back door. He immediately threw open his window, when he discovered a female in the yard walking to and fro, with some garment wrapped round her head. He called but received no answer; he saw the person return into the house. He put on part of his clothes, and opened his door, when he discovered Mrs. Hun tingford tingford going up into her own room, with a lighted candle. She appeared alarmed, shook much, and, on his speaking to her, she dropped her candle, which went out, and she exclaimed, "I am murdered and robbed." Bately took up the candle, and went into the land-lady's (Mrs. Jennings's) room, the front room on the first floor, where he lighted the candle. Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Huntingford went up stairs; Bately followed so soon as he had dressed himself, and also went into the room, when the deceased was discovered lying in the bed, covered with clotted blood; a great profusion of blood was upon the bed, and blood was also spattered on the wall at the head of the bed, and on the floor. Bately immediately called some neighbours, and went for a Surgeon, who on seeing the deceased, pronounced be had died from bursting a blood vessel-the idea of his having been murdered not at all being then presumed; but before he went away, he desired that a handkerchief, which was tied round the deceased's throat and head, might be removed, to ascertain if he might not have been strangled ; on removing which five wounds were found in the forehead, four of which had fractured the skull; several other wounds were also found on the head, particularly one on the left temple, where the bone was so depressed, that a finger could reach the brain, all of which appeared to have been made with a heavy cutting instrument. When Mrs. Jennings and Bately went into the room, and discovering the dead body, Mrs. Hunting ford said, that two men had been there and murdered her husband. The truth of this assertion was instantly denied by all the inmates of the house, who had heard no noise whatever, and who found no violence had been used on the doors. In reply, Mrs. Huntingford said, her husband had been down the yard before he went to bed, and had forgotten to fasten the door on his return. She was asked why she had not made a noise; she replied, they had threatened her with death if she did so; that one was tall, and had a tomahawk in his hand, and one a short man, who had a lanthern; and both their faces were blacked. She also said, that she was in bed at the time; that they asked for money, and on her husband's making resistance, the tall man struck him and killed him: that they made no noise, because, she said, they had no shoes on. Upon being asked why she should have gone into the yard without giving alarm, she denied she had been into the yard; but Bately swore positively to her being in the yard, and to his having met her in the way going up stairs from the yard to her own room; that she remained on the second step from the first landing-place, while Bately lit the candle she had dropped, by the candle which was in Mrs. Jennings's possession; who also saw her at the same time. An instrument, of the shape of a common bill-hook, but heavier and more sharp, was found in the coal-hole at the foot of the stairs; and past which spot Mrs. Huntingford went on her going and returning from her garret garret to the yard. This instrument accorded with the wounds, and was bloody. In further proof of her guilt, it appeared, in examining of the bed in the first moment of the discovery, by Mrs. Turnbull (a midwife) and another neighbour, that only one person had lain in it that night; there was no second impression, and the deceased was lying in the middle of the bed, perfectly dead and stiff; and from the appearance of the blood, must have been dead some hours. Mrs. Huntingford, upon this contradiction to her statement being observed, acknowledged she had not been to bed, though, in the first instance, she stated she had jumped out of bed on the first appearance of the men in her room. Upon her person there was not much blood; upon her pockets and one of her petticoats there were some small spots. The deceased's pockets had been turned inside out, but were not bloody; and a small box, in which the deceased at times had kept money, had been opened, but without violence; no money, however, was in it, nor could any be found upon the wife. It appeared this wretched woman had, previously to this shocking discovery, pawned some spoons and her husband's best coat, which he had that day asked her for; and as she had been long addicted to sottish drunken habits, it is presumed the fear of detection, from having made away with his property, and the hope of finding money in his box, led her to the perpetration of this most depraved and horrid deed, which must have been effected shortly after they had retired for the night. The prisoner, formerly, many years kept a grocer's shop at Portsea. The deceased had been upwards of sixty years a shipwright in his Majesty's Dockyard; he was of a remarkably quiet inoffensive disposition; they had been married upwards of 40 years. It is not the least shocking part of this horrid transaction, that the woman throughout the proceeding, showed the most callous insensibility. 24. Woolwich. His Majesty's ship Dorothea, Captain Buchan, and the Trent, Lieutenant Franklin, have arrived in Gallions from an unsuccessful expedition to the North Pole. The crews of both ships are well, which is rather surprising, when the Dorothea is viewed; for on the larboard side, from about 2 feet before the main-channel, and the length of about 15 feet aft, the ice has stove in the side so dreadfully, that had it not been for the steady and seamanlike conduct of Captain Buchan, assisted by Lieutenant Franklin and their ships' companies, who rendered every assistance at the pumps, while the carpenters were stoking the great hole made by the ice, they must have been lost. There is hardly one bit in the sides or deck but what has opened, some three inches wide, others more or less; also a great number of her timbers have broke quite through, so that they were obliged to place large planks upon the broken part, and well bolt them with extra beams, and planking inside. OFFICIAL OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS RELATING Council-office, Whitehall, Sir;-The Lords of his Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy George Delavaud, Esq. Gibraltar, Sept. 26. My Lord;-I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship, that I have received letters from Tangiers up to the 23d instant, and am sorry to inform you that the plague has considerably increased in that town during the last fortnight. By the inclosed list your Lordship will perceive, that from the 8th to the 21st instant inclusive, the deaths amounted to 134. The plague continues to rage in the villages in the vicinity of Tangiers; and by accounts from Tetuan, I find that the disease prevails in all the villages in that neighbourhood, particularly in those of the mountains of Sesnau, opposite to the town; indeed, there can be little doubt but that the contagion exists in it, as a muleteer, who arrived at Tangiers from Tetuan on the 23rd instant, stated that 23 persons died in the At Uzda the plague continues to rage. I do not trouble your Lordship with the details Mr. Simpson has sent me respecting the vessels in all the Barbary ports; but I circulate them to the Spanish Generals on the coasts, to apprize them of the danger they are exposed to, should any of these vessels attempt to enter any of the Spanish ports or creeks. Our quarantine vessels here are also on their guard against them. (Signed) GEORGE DON, General. Earl Bathurst. Daily List of Deaths in TanSeptember, 1818:giers, from the 8th to the 21st of Sept. 8 6 Sept.15...... 11 16 ...... 9 12 9 out-ports, to pay strict attention, and apprize them of any matter that may arise fit for the cognizance of the Board. (From Barbadoes Papers, Oct.) By arrivals from Dominica and Martinique, we are informed (as, indeed, was naturally to be expected), that those islands experienced the tempestuous weather with which we were recently visited. It had been more severely felt in the former of those settlements; for, according to the statement of a Dominica paper, provisions of every kind had been laid waste-plantains especially, throughout every quarter; and on many estates, the canes, that were previously in a forward state, had been levelled with the earth; the coffee trees were also severely shaken. In consequence of this alarming state of the colony, there being the prospect of a want of food for the inhabitants of every description, the House of Assembly had wisely applied to his Excellency Governor Maxwell, to open the ports of that island, for the admission of supplies, in vessels of any country, for a limited period; and with the advice of his Privy Council, the Governor issued a Proclamation on the 30th ult. to that effect. NOVEMBER. "Kew-palace, Nov. 1. An immense bank covered with cod-fish has been discovered,. extending from Papa Westra, in Orkney, along the west coast of the Shetland islands. Already the fishing has beengreat. The fishermen report that from 150 to 200 sail of vessels can fish on it, and out of sight of each other. Protocol of Nov. 3. The Duke of Richelieu represented at the Conference, that the terms for the payment of the 165 millions to be furnished by France, according to the Convention of the 9th of October, having been fixed at very near periods, a too rapid exportation of specie has been occasioned, which tends to produce a depreciation in the value of the inscriptions, equally injurious to the interests of all the contracting parties. Το remedy this evil the Duke of Richelieu proposes 1. That the 165 millions which France was to discharge by monthly instalments, from the 6th of January to the 6th of September, be discharged in twelve months, by monthly payments from the 6th of January to the 6th of December, inclusive: the interest for the delay of three months being made good at the rate of 5 per cent. 2. That the 100 millions in inscriptions, for which the different Governments have treated with MM. Baring and Hope, shall be realized by payments made at the same epochs, with the same bonus of interest, in proportion to the delay of three months. 3. That arrangements shall be adopted with the abovementioned houses, in order that the bills L drawn |