taken up, not only alive, but without a broken bone, and walked a distance of about five miles the third day there. after.

There was lately found in Tyninghame Sands, near Dunbar, the body of a large wolf. There were several wounds on its head, and a cut on its neck, and, from the appearance of the body, it had not been long dead. It was immediately skinned and stuffed, and is in good preservation. The colour is light dusky yellow, black ridge down the back, and nearly white in the belly and breast. It has a sharp It has a sharp snout, erect ears, strong fore-parts, and a bushy tail. The length, from the snout to the tip of the tail, is six feet. The legs are shorter than usually described. It is conjectured the creature had been aboard some of the vessels lately wrecked on the coast.

On Christmas last, an unfortunate man, at Dalnamin, Inverness-shire, who had drunk whisky to excess, in consequence of a trifling bet, was carried home a corpse to his own house, where his father lay ill. The poor man was so much affected by the circumstance, that he died the same evening. A widow and family are left the destitute victims, by this act of folly and intemperance.

The general sessions of the peace for the city of Canterbury, were held on Monday at the Guildhall, when Joseph Newson, for feloniously uttering a false and forged check, purporting to be drawn by John Browne, with intent to defraud Messrs Payler and Co. of the Canterbury Bank, of the sum of ten guineas, was found guilty; and, after a charge from the recorder, in which he pointed out to the prisoner, that, notwithstanding the recommendation to mercy by the prosecutors, to which he would give every effect, the heinousness of his offence in a commercial country could justify no hope of a pardon; the mayor, sensibly

affected, passed on him the awful sentence of death. The prisoner immediately sunk down, and was taken from the bar in a state of insensibility. He was a non-commissioned officer in the royal waggon train, and an excellent character was given him by several of his officers, and by two other respectable persons with whom he had lived as a servant. The court was uncommonly crowded, and seemed to participate in the feelings of concern for his fate exhibited by the chief magistrate.

19th. On Tuesday night, about eight or nine o'clock, as Mr Rogers, a surgeon, of Hampstead, was passing about half-way between Ivy-house and the five-mile-stone, on the Hendonroad, he was stopped by two footpads; each of them presented a horse-pistol to his breast, and demanded his pocketbook, watch, and cash. He of course surrendered to such a formidable attack: The robbers, however, proceeded to tie his hands behind him with a tarred rope, and then took a worsted ruff off his neck and blindfolded him with it; and after rifling his pockets, inhumanly pushed him into a ditch, where he lay till he heard some persons passing, to whom he called for assistance, and they got him out.

Cooper, who escaped some time ago from York Castle, and was retaken in Hull, has again vanished. The walls of the court where he was confined are 13 yards high, with iron spikes fixed in every angle.

On the 26th ult. as Mr Hutton, contractor for supplying Dartmoor prison with butcher's meat, was returning from Tavistock-market, in the evening, having dismounted to refresh his horse at a rivulet, it being dark, the animal escaped from him, and in endeavouring to recover it, Mr Hutton missed his way, and was precipitated into an old lead shaft, upwards of 68 feet deep, but there being several feet of water in the bottom, his fall was in

some measure broken. On rising to the surface, Mr Hutton laid hold of one of the cross pieces, on which he supported himself ; and he plainly heard the passengers conversing on the turnpike road ; but his efforts to make known his situation proving ineffectual, he endeavoured, by means of a pair of scissars, to dig holes in the side of the pit, to facilitate his ascension, and had got within a few feet of the surface, but the earth giving way, he was again plunged into the dark abyss. He remained in this dreadful situation until the Friday following, when he was discovered by a labourer, who was passing by; ropes were immediately procured, by which he was soon released from his perilous situation, and is now perfectly recovered.

In the storm on Saturday se'nnight, the Hoylake life-boat, in attempting to succour and relieve the people on board the ship Traveller, driven on shore in the Mersey, was overwhelmed by a dreadful sea, and eight out of ten of her crew were unfortunately drowned. The bodies were all found the same day, and carried to their respective homes. The deceased were all near neighbours, and lived in a small village called the Hoose, near Hoy lake, in the most brotherly kindness. They had always displayed the greatest promptitude and alacrity in assisting vessels in distress. They have left large families totally unprovided for.

21st.-LEWES.-The atrocious disposition which had manifested itself some time ago in the northern part of the parish of Mayersfield, on the borders of Ashdown forest, by threatening letters, and the burning of buildings and stacks, has burst out afresh with double violence; and on Thursday morning last, about one o'clock, the parsonage adjoining Mayersfield churchyard, where the curate, the Rev. Mr Bingham, resided, was burnt down. Last year Mr Bingham's stables were

destroyed in like manner, and, as supposed, because he had endeavoured to check the disorderly conduct of some of his parishioners ; but, notwithstanding the active measures of Lord Sheffield, and the rewards offered, no discovery has yet taken place. Encroachments on that part of Ashdown forest, in the Duke of Dorset's manor, have been continued in an audacious manner, supported by the most outrageous threats. If Mr Bingham had not been awake, in consequence of indisposition, he, and his wife and nine children, would undoubtedly have been smothered, or burnt in their beds. He having heard a noise, got up, went down stairs, and saw a man going from the house: he attempted to open a door, which he found obstructed by part of the furniture raised against it; he then went round to an outward door, which he had bolted within just before he went to bed, and found it broken open, and some furze faggots burning, which had been brought into the room, and the furniture placed round them. The fire was so rapid, the house being chiefly of wood, and the smoke so instantaneously great, that it was with difficulty any lives were preserved ; two of the children were obliged to be thrown out of the window, and two were nearly suffocated before they were extricated; but no wearing apparel, furniture, or other property could be saved. The extreme distress of Mr Bingham's family is, for the present, in some degree relieved by the kind reception of it into different houses in the neighbourhood. Lord Sheffield soon visited the spot; and there can be no doubt, that the same public spirit and activity which have been manifested on like occasions by that noble lord, will be exerted on the present.

A small island of the Danube, called Engel, near Pichment, has exhibited the phenomenon of a floating island. In the memory of the oldest persons it

22d. EDINBURGH.-On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock a most brutal outrage was committed in a dancingschool, kept in the Roman Eagle Lodge of this city. A party of fellows, upwards of twenty in number, armed with bludgeons, made a forcible entrance, and, without provocation, knocked down and beat the scholars indiscriminately. Some of the young men, who had courage to offer resistance, were seriously cut and bruised.

A serjeant of the 24th light dragoons was tried on Tuesday, at the Norwich Quarter Sessions, for having

received a small sum from a recruit who had enlisted, to discharge him, without acquainting his officer. The serjeant was convicted, and sentenced to receive 300 lashes, and be degraded to the ranks.

PARIS.-The Bulletin of the Allier contains the following letter, addressed, on the 14th inst., by the sub-prefect of Gannat to the prefect of the department of the Allier.

"M. Prefect,-I know not how to give you the narration of a frightful crime, committed on the 15th ult. in the commune of Biozat. My pen seems to recoil at tracing details so horrible. A young woman, 23 years of age, has just murdered her father, her mother, her brother, and two sisters!

"On the 13th December, Amable Albert, of the commune of Biozat, a respectable man, poor and with a large fanily, was obliged, by the bad state of his

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affairs, to sell a small part of his property. His daughter, Madelaine Albert, of a vio lent character, of suspected morals, and unfortunately accustomed to abuse her falanguage the most violent on account of ther and mother, reproached her father in this sale, and ended by imperiously demanding a part of the sum which he had received. The father refused, mentioning to her, at the same time, the state of his affairs; she insisted, and abused him outrageously. The father, vexed and affronted at the insolence of his daughter, gave her several blows on the shoulders, and ordered her to go to bed. She obeyed and went to bed. A quarter of an hour after, she seized an axe, and advanced without noise towards the fire-side, where her father, mother, and three brothers and sisters were warming themselves. She aimed a blow with the axe at her father's head, laid open his skull, and, in spite of the cries of her family, she repeated her blows. He was killed by the first stroke; any one of the wounds would have been sufficient to deprive this unfortunate man of life. They were so deep, that the monster must have been possessed of extraordinary strength to produce them. She then threw herself on her mother, without being softened by her prayers and sighs, struck her five times with the hatchet, and laid her at her feet. Her two young sisters, one eleven, the other three years old, met with no greater merShe struck the eldest both on the head and neck, but did not kill her, because the poor creature crept under the bed. These numerous crimes did not satiate the tigress. She seized her youngest her in her arms, and threw her, alive as she sister, who held her mother's body, took

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was, into a well.

"Of all this family, a brother, 13 years old, survived by a kind of miracle. He was so fortunate as to creep behind a trunk,

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open the door, and to make his escape, calling for assistance. Madelaine Albert added to so much atrocity the refinement of hypocrisy. She called to her brother, requested him to return, and promised to do him no harm. In a voice, the most mild and calm, she endeavoured to prevail on the boy to return to the house; but he was too much terrified, he ran away, and took shelter in the house of a man of the

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name of Richard. In consequence of his story, several of the inhabitants went to assist the family. They found Madelaine Albert walking with great agitation in the house, with a large knife in her hand, with which she threatened to kill any one that should approach her. The darkness of the night, and the terror inspired by so dreadful a sight, paralyzed the courage of these men; they durst not advance and seize her. In their presence, Madelaine Albert took from her mother's pocket the key of a cupboard, opened it, took out the money that was in it, and went out of the house, with out any of the spectators having the courage to seize her or follow her. It is supposed that she is gone towards Riom or Clermont; the gens-d'armerie are in pursuit of her. I have the honour to be, &c. "SARTICES.'

23d. The Regency Bill finally passed the House of Commons this day, was carried up to the House of Lords, and read a first time.

THE GRETNA-GREEN PARSON.Thursday se'nnight died, at Gretnagreen, aged 79, Joseph Paisley, the Gretna-green parson. He was born at Kirkandrew-upon-Esk, in Cumberland, and early in life was bound an apprentice to a tobacconist; which avocation requiring sobriety and attention, ill accorded with the lax disposition of Paisley. He soon left this trade, to follow the employment of a fisherman, and he was allowed by his contemporaries, from his uncommon strength and agility, to be the most expert man in the use of the litter, for the destruction of salmon, and he endured every kind of fatigue better than any other

with complacency on a celebrated achievement, of which he shared the glory of a great brother drinker: they consumed, without any assistance whatever, no less than ten gallons of brandy This man could never in three days. have gained celebrity, had it not been for the culpable facility with which marriages are celebrated in Scotland; for a more unpolished and rough being in his manners never existed.

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.-Yesterday the sessions for the trial of offences committed on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, commenced before Sir Wil liam Scott, Lord Chief Baron Sir A. Macdonald, and Sir Simon Le Blanc.

Giuseppi Maini was indicted for the wilful murder of Luigi Ferrari, on the 16th of July, 1810.

Several witnesses were examined, the purport of whose evidence was as follows:-The prisoner, the deceased, and several other persons, Italians by birth, being taken prisoners of war in the French service, left Gibraltar on the 15th of July last, on board the transport the Kingston packet, for England. On the 16th of July, in the afternoon, the ship being then at sea, the prisoner and some of his comrades were making soup on deck, in which occupation they were disturbed by the ship's cook, who threw some water on the fire and put it out, forbidding them at the same time from having fire at that late hour. This occasioned considerable discontent amongst the prisoners, and drew from Maini, in particular, strong expressions of displeasure. The deceased, who previous to this was below deck, came up, and reproached the prisoner with being a very quarrelsome, riotous fellow, and that there was no pleasing him; upon which an altercation ensued between them, aggravating words produced blows, and a furious conflict took place, in which the prisoner bit

the side of the deceased with his teeth, and the latter seized the other with the same weapons by the cheek, which he held for some time, until he produced blood. The prisoner before he was released said to the deceased, that if he would but let go his cheek, they should be brothers, and he would beat him, the deceased, no more; their mutual friends interfered and separated them, and they all went below, the quarrel between them being apparently settled. As soon, however, as they got below, the prisoner went to his bed, and seized a clasped knife which had been lying thereon the whole morning, opened it behind his back, and in two, three, four, or five minutes, as the witnesses severally described the transaction, advanced two or three paces towards the deceased, and stabbed him on the right breast immediately under the nipple. The deceased groaned aloud, staggered about ten feet, and fell lifeless into the arms of his companions.

The prisoner put in a written de fence in English, and denied any malicious intentions towards the deceased, alleging, that having been eating his dinner when the scuffle commenced, he had his knife in one hand; and that when he was thrown down by the deceased, the latter fell upon his knife, and thus the accident was produced. He called a witness, who had been a fellow soldier and a countryman of his in the French service, to prove that he was of a quiet, peaceable temper, and that the deceased was quite of a contrary disposition.

The jury retired for about half an hour, and found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter only; and the court sentenced him to pay a fine of one shilling to the king, and to be imprisoned 12 calender months in Newgate.

24th.-The Duke of Queensberry's will only received the seal this day.

The will is dated the 16th of Janu

ary, 1809. His grace devised all his freehold and copyhold estates to Lord and Lady Yarmouth for their lives, and the life of the survivor of them, and after their death to Frances, daughter of the said Lady Yarmouth, then of the age of eleven years, or thereabouts, and the children of the said Lady Yarmouth, born or to be born, and their heirs for ever; and he appointed Sir James Montgomery, Bart., Edward Bullock Douglas, Esq., and William Murray, Esq., executors. He directed all legacies to be paid within three months after his decease, and all annuities to be paid half-yearly; and he directed his executors, out of his personal estate, to invest in their names as much stock as would be sufficient for the payment of the annuities. The will is witnessed by Mr Marrofield, the duke's solicitor, and two of his clerks.

The probate stamp, the highest on the scale, is 60001. This is independent of the legacy tax of ten per cent., which will attach upon the whole, both of the legacies and the annuities; and the amount of which may be estimated by the following statement of his codicils, which were thirty-five in number.

BEQUESTS BY THE CODICILS.