tinued to make a rapid and destructive progress,, street; and most of the notes of which these sums

downwards, and at three o'clock, when the engines arrived, the whole building, with the exception of the eastern wing, and the houses of the Physician and Surgeon, was one entire furnace. The iron bedsteads, red-hot with the surrounding fire, gave a kind of deepened colour to the flame, which threw a steady equal light over the whole horizon. The illuminated appearance of the Reighbouring extensive buildings, the reflected glare from the Thames, the range of shipping rendered visible to an immense distance by the brilliant element, are described to us as a nightscene the most sublimely picturesque; while the dangerous situation of those who assisted in extinguishing the fire, and the wretched appearance of the poor veterans who had just escaped its fury, must have had the interest of real tragedy, and excited every emotion of terror and pity. The fire was got under about nine o'clock.

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION.-At a late

fire in St. Giles's, the following most remarkable and providential preservation occurred, of the lives of a mother and four children, who resided in the upper part of the house.-The flames were raging upwards to her apartments, and there was little or no chance of escaping; but being encouraged by the people in the street, who were prepared with beds, she threw out three of her children, one at a time, who were all safely caught, without receiving any injury; the youngest she tied to her back, and jumped out, and, extraordinary to relate, they were also caught without receiving any injury.

TAVERN DEPREDATOR. John Truissior, a foreigner, whose daring depredations in various taverns and inns in the city has excited particular || notice, was examined at the Mansion-House on the 16th ult. As his case is somewhat singular, on account of the daring perseverance which he evinced in the commission of these robberies, the Lord Mayor's Court was crowded to excess by those who were led there, either by curiosity, or from an anxiety to discover whether the individual at the bar was the person by whom they had been robbed. The head waiters at the principal coffee-houses and taverns in Londou, also attended, in order to ascertain whether he had lodged at their houses. The offences with which he stood charged were those of having robbed Capt. George, of the Lord Cochrane West Indiaman, of £60, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Aldgate; and also a Mr. Piper, a brewer, of Norwich, of £25, at the Green Dragon Inn, Bishopsgate

were composed, were identified, and proved to have been found in the prisoner's trunk.—Mr. J. Piper stated, that he had lalely come to town from Norwich, and had taken up his quarters at the Green Dragon; on the 12th ult. he went to bed about twelve o'clock; his room and the prisoner's were on the same floor. About three o'clock in the morning he was awoke by some noise near the window of his room, which opened towards the gallery, and at the same time heard what he thought was the sound of money dropping on the floor. Upon this he got up to ascertain the cause of the disturbance; but it being then quite dark, he could not distinguish any thing, and upon listening, he heard no noise, except the mewing of a cat, in the gallery. Thinking it was a false alarm, and that he had been merely dreaming, he again lay down, and when he could compose himself, fell fast asleep, and continued so till he rose at eight o'clock in the morning. As soon as be awoke he was astonished to see the curtains blow

ing about by the wind, and discovered that the window towards the gallery was open. He immediately was convinced that the noise he had heard in the night was not visionary, but real, and that some person must have entered his room by that open window, as he was certain it was shut when he went to bed. Upon examining his clothes, he found that they were not lying in the order in which he had placed them the night before; and soon discovered, that although his pocket-book still remained, there were £25 taken out of it.-Mr. Nalder, the City Marshal, stated, that since the prisoner had been committed to the Poultry Compter, he (the prisoner) had dispatched an old woman with a letter to the head waiter at the Spread Eagle Inn, Gracechurch-street, desiring him to break open a trunk which he had had there a fortnight, and to send him £100 in bank-notes which he would find in it. The waiter had accordingly done so, but having learnt from whence the woman came, he suspected that all was not right, and therefore gave Mr. Nalder information of that circumstance. He accordingly searched the prisoner, and only found £30 in notes upon his person; but upon searching in and about the prison, however, he found £70 in larger notes concealed in the privy which was adjacent to it. These notes being produced and shewn to Mr. Piper, he was enabled to identify some of them, as being those that had been taken from his pocket-book, from his having marked on the back of them the names of the persons from whom he received them, and also the days on

which they were received. This being positive || been pawned, and the duplicates found on the proof of the prisoner's guilt, the Lord Mayor prisoner. One of these watches was identified asked him what he had to say for himself? To as having been stolen from Mr. Lane, watchwhich he answered, that he knew nothing at all maker, in Leadenhall-street.—In order to give about the matter. Mr. Nalder also produced the injured parties an opportunity of coming for. forty doubloons, which were worth four Guineas ward to identify the prisoner and their property, and a half each, and also two watches that had he was remanded for a future day.

PROVINCIALS,

INCLUDING REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, &c. IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

CARNARVONSHIRE.

ACCIDENT BY LIGHTNING.-In a severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied with excessive rain, a melancholy, and in its partial effects, a most wonderful catastrophe lately occurred. As Mr. H. Hughes, a farmer, of Tyddyn Whiskyn, was returning from Carnarvon, with his daughter behind him on horseback, she and the horse were struck by the lightning, and expired on the spot. He received no other injury than a slight hurt in his leg by the fall of his horse. DEVONSHIRE.

moments were unremitting, sat with him three hours, endeavouring to allay his sorrows, which had all the characteristics of the most bitter agony. About a quarter before five, Mr. R. expressed considerable anxiety respecting some papers, and Captain Bruff having sent a servant to look for them in the adjoining room, was induced by Mr. Rockett's increasing anxiety to see the papers, to go thither also himself for the same purpose. Captain Bruff was not absent from Mr. Rockett more than a minute and a half; but when he returned, it was to find his friend in the act of destroying himself. Urged to rescue his friend, if it were yet possible, Captain Bruff sized on the arm which had inflicted the deadly blow on his throat, but it was too late, for the mortal blow was given; and Mr. Rockett, tearing the scissars away, threw the weapon, with furious des

minutes he expired. He was in the price of life, of manhood, and of health. The Coroner held an Inquest on the body, and after a strict and careful investigation, the Jury found their verdict-Lunacy.

GLAMORGANSHIRE.

SUICIDE. On Wednesday, October 2, about five o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Joshua Rockett, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals in the Western District, after having laboured for some time under a heavy mental depression, which drove him, at length, to the verge of despair, put a period to his life with a pair of scissars, which he had pur-peration, to a considerable distance, and in five posely, but unknown to any one, concealed about him. The unfortunate gentleman had been subject to several fits of delirium, previous to the commission of this rash act; and one in parti- || cular occurred to him about a week subsequently to his arrival by the coach, at the Prince George Inn, Plymouth, from Exeter. When the passengers quitted the coach, he went into the yard, and remained there absorbed in gloomy thoughts for more than an hour; and when he had been pretrailed on to walk into a parlour, he was soon afterwards observed to be sitting in the deepest distress with a razor in his hand; but by some entreaties he was prevailed on to surrender this, as well as the case of instruments, and a bottle of laudanum, which were found in his pockets. From this period he was closely watched; and on the following day, having a lucid interval, he sent for a solicitor to make his will, which he duly executed, and instructions for which he gave in the most rational manner. On the day above-mentioned, an intimate acquaintance of Mr. Rockett, Captain Bruff, whose attentions to his friend during his uneasy

UNFORTUNATE CATASTROPHE.-Mrs. Kenmore, wife of Mr. John Kenmore, ship owner at Cardiff, had most unaccountably conceived a sudden idea, that her children were to be poisoned by some persons whom she thought were in league with her servants; and after having, with the greatest emotion and anguish, represented her fears to her mother and husband, rushed out for her father's house in a paroxysm of distress and momentary derangement, under the impression of saving her children; but not knowing where she was going, fell over a bank twenty feet high, into the river Taff, which is not more than fifty yards from her father's house, and which being much swollen by a land flood, she was carried down by the rapidity of the current, and lost to her afflicted family for ever. Her distressed husband, who saw her fall, jumped after her, and nearly shared

a similar fate, but was miraculously preserved to deplore the loss of a most amiable wife and tender friend.

HAMPSHIRE.

A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE lately occurred in the neighbourhood of Winchester, near the junction of the old and new river. The attention of a gentleman bathing was drawn to a part of the stream by a vast fluctuation of the water, together with a faint noise as if it were from an animal; when he came to the spot be distinctly perceived a close combat between a young otter and an enormous pike; it appeared that the animal had seized the fish on the back part of his bead, and its immense tail caused the irregular motion and noise of the water. By the strong exertion of this vertebral power, which naturalists inform us is prodigious, the fish relieved itself from the bite of the animal, and in return seized its opponent by the throat, which drew from the amphibious creature a faint but shrill moaning, when snd. denly the mother appeared, and put an end to the contest, by bearing triumphantly away to its

retreat this fresh water shark.

EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.-A woman of

the name of Hobbs, wife of a chimney-sweeper in Pond's-lane, Portsea, was about twelve months ago delivered of a child, seven days after she was delivered of a second, both of which died. On the 19th of September she was again delivered of two children, and what is extraordinary, on the 27th she was delivered of another, all of which are since dead.

CURIOUS ROBBERY.-The house of a widow woman, at Coulton Common, near Whitkirk, was lately entered by day, while she and all the family were in the field cutting beans, and robbed to the amount of £8 in notes, and 7s. 6d. in silver. On her return home, and discovering the theft, she proclaimed aloud through the village her intention of applying to a neighbouring caster, or conjuror, in order to mark the offender in the cheek with the figure of the devil. The terrified wretch,|| dreading the effects of a dish of infernal pickles, returned all the notes, and Gs. of the silver, in the night, and placed it on a short post before the door, where the poor woman found it in the morning, to her great satisfaction.

ENRAGED BULL-A farmer's boy near Gosport, was lately attacked by an enraged bull on a common, and finding no means of escape, threw bimself flat on the ground. The bull tried to toss him, but could never catch hold of him with his horns; the boy firmly remained in the same position, and drew from his pocket a knife with

which he usually ate his victuals, and taking a deliberate aim, thrust it into the animal's eye. The bull took to flight, and the boy escaped with only a few bruises.

ROBBERY AT THE CROWN INN, PORTSMOUTH. On Monday, Oct. 17, the bed-rooms of three gentlemen, who were staying at the Crown Inn, were entered while they were asleep, and. robbed. Mr. Hopley, Purser of the Regulus, lost his watch and seals; Lieut. Browne, of the Hamadryad, his watch and seals; and Mr. Bradbury of Astley's Theatre, his gold snuff-box, made in the shape of a watch, with the appendages of a chain and seals. No suspicion was attached to any particlar person at the Inn. It was, however, at length determined that Rivett, the Bowstreet Officer, should be sent for from London, to ascertain, if possible, whether any suspicious persons were in the town. Soon after his arrival, it was suggested by Mr. Bradbury, that a party of six gentlemen, who had supped together in the coffee-room of the Inn, and were up late on the night preceding the robbery, should be searched. This being communicated to them,. none objected; but Hamilton Crofton, Esq. instantly said, "Come then, begin with me." Mr. C. appearing to possess the accomplishments of a. gentleman, his proposal was instantly agreed to, on the supposition that search commencing with him would dissipate any objections the other gentlemen, of less imposing appearance, might feel. Mr. Crofton was acordingly taken to his. room, when, to the surprise of every one in the house, and of all who had been intimate with him, in his possession was found the whole of the || property that had been lost. When the surprise had allayed, and he was questioned as to the money which had been missed, he referred them to a pocket-book in his trunk. When Rivett was proceeding to search the trunk, the infatuated. man took up a razor, and cut his throat under the left jaw. He was immediately secured, but attempted to tear the wound open with his fingers. Medical assistance was procured, and it appeared he had not wounded himself so deeply as to deprive him of life; he appears to be recovering. The parties have been bound over to prosecute him for the crime at the next Session. We cannot close this account without lamenting the transaction. Mr. Crofton is a Lieutenant in the army, a young married man, and most respectably connected, and was staying at the Crown Inn, until the Africaine should sail, in which ship he had been promised a passage to the Cape, by the Hon. Captain Rodney,

HORRID MURDER AND ROBBERY.-On Wednesday evening, October 2, about seven o'clock,|| as Mr. Wylde, a farmer, of Sunderidge-place, was returning from Croydon fair, in a one-horse chaise, accompanied by his son and grandson, they were stopped near the top of Westerhamhill, by a single footpad, who demanded their money; Mr. Wylde replied, "My friend, you are too late, as I have paid all my money away in the purchase of oxen at the fair." The robber presented a pistol at the time he stopped them. Mr. Wylde, however, gave him all the money he had at the time, which was only a few shillings, with which the villain expressed himself much dissatisfied; he insisted upon having more from them, and said he was sure it was not all they had got. The villain kept his pistol presented at Mr. Wylde's head, Mr. Wylde turned it from his head with his whip; but while he was doing this, the robber, without any threat or notice, im mediately discharged it, and the contents lodged in Mr. Wylde's breast and head, and caused in

stant death. He expired in his son's arms without a groan. There were seven slugs in the pistol; two of them lodged in his head, and five in his side and breast. The grief and distress of the deceased's son aud grandson is more easily conceived than described; they remained, without assistance, with their murdered father till some travellers came up.-The murderer has been taken and committed for trial.

SPORTING CASUALTY.-Lately, as Mr. W. a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Lewes, was out shooting partridges with a double-barrelled gun, and a brace of excellent pointers, his dogs stood, the covey rose, and he discharged both barrels, bringing down, in a very sportsman-like style, his birds both with the right and left; this done, and finding his dogs still stationary in the high stuff from whence the birds had arisen, he re-loaded, and on approaching the pointers, found, to his great regret, that by his first fire he had not only shot his partridge quite dead, but his two faithful dogs also! This sporting casualty, we understand, was occasioned by the pointers standing on a little eminence, and the birds going off nearly close to the lower ground, immediately in a line with them.

car first struck the earth till the balloon was finally secured, was carried above a mile and a half with Mr. Burcham alone. Mr. Sadler losing one of his shoes on his expulsion from the balloon, he made towards a mill, and begged an old one, which the inhuman boor refused under seven shillings, though not worth twopence. He was, however, recognized in the crowd, and forced to refund, amidst the execrations of all present.On Tuesday evening, October 8, at half past nine o'clock, Mr. Sadler and Mr. Burcham ar

IRELAND.

THE LATE BISHOP OF DROMORE.-The Right Rev. Doctor Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, died at the See House, on the 30th of August,

kin, of the Scots Greys, and afterwards to all good friends in Birmingham. At half past two the thermometer stood at 50, the barometer at 24; and successively varied to 14 minutes past three, when the thermometer was as low as 38, and the barometer at 18. When they arrived in the neighbourhood of Leicester, the wind shifted due east, and in that direction steered towards Market Deeping, in Lincolnshire, when the aeronauts were at their greatest elevation (about two miles and a half), from whence they saw the towns of Peterborough, Stamford, Wisbeach,rived in a post-chaise and four at Birmingham. Crowland, &c. Mr. Sadler perceived a current of air passing under him to the northward; he deemed it prudent to descend, in order to avoid being carried towards the sea. The balloon being now quite distended, it became necessary to let out some of the gas, which was done at intervals, till it descended into the current Mr. Sad-in the 83d year of his age. He was one of the ler had previously noticed; and the adventurers were carried directly northwards.-Spalding was now on their right, and Bourn on their left, when they threw out all their ballast, being so contiguous to the sea. The car first struck the earth to the southward of Heckington with extreme violence, the grappling-irons being ineffectually thrown out; and, on the second concussion, Mr. Sadler having hold of the valveline, was, by a sudden jerk, caused by the grapple taking hold for an instant, thrown violently out, and, unfortuuately, received several severe contusions on the head aud body; but, notwithstanding, had sufficient presence of mind to call out to Mr. Burcham not to quit his seat. The balloon immediately arose above one hundred yards; and, on again descending, the grappling-worth," a Northumberland ballad. In the class iron caught the ground, and the machine came in contact with a tree which stopped its progress, and Mr. Burcham was fortunately relieved from his perilous situation, and safely landed on terra firma with only a slight bruise. The aerial voyage was completed at forty minutes past three, being an hour and twenty minutes from the moment of ascension, having in that short space traversed a distance of at least one hundred and twelve miles. As the balloon made towards the earth, no assistance appeared at band to secure the splendid vehicle, which, unfortunately, was very much damaged; and from the place the

most amiable and reverend Prelates in private life, and, as a literary character, his Lordship was not unknown to the public. In 1761, he published "Haw Kion Choaan; or, The Pleasing History," a Chinese Romance, in four duodecimo volumes. This literary curiosity, is a translation from the Chinese language, which his Lordship had revised from a manuscript (dated 1719) found among the papers of a gentleman who had large concerns in the East India Company, and who occasionally resided much at Canton. In 1765, his Lordship presented the public with a very elegant and curious "Collection of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," published by Dodsley, in three duodecimo volumes; and six years afterwards he published "The Hermit of Wark

of divinity, we believe his Lordship has only printed a single sermon. For the curions anecdotes and literary information, to be found in the edition of "The Tatler, with Illustrations and Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical,” published in six octavo volumes, in the year 1786, the public is principally indebted to this Prelate, though it was finished and edited by another hand.-He was a descendant of the illustrious house of Percy, so distingushed in the annals of England, and was a Doctor in Civil Law, and the oldest Bishop on the Irish Bench, having been consecrated in 1782.

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