ANECDOTE OF THE CELEBRATED MIRABEAU-Mirabeau, whose tigure and countenance were ugly even to deformity, was accused and tried for seduction. He was his own counsel, and addressing the Court, said, "Gentlemen, bave the goodness to put my portrait to the bar, and then decide upou my innocence or guilt." Notwithstanding his plainness, however, a lady of distinction was so madly in love with him, that having vowed never to survive the loss of his affection, she was true to her oath, and perished by the fumes of charcoal, which she purposely inhaled, || upon the desertion of her faithless lover.

half of white sugar, and an equal quantity of syrup. The residue serves for rum or aqua vitæ, and after having extracted all the saccharine and spirituous matter it contains, there still remains a refuse most excellent for feeding cows. Beet besides has leaves of a very large size, which are in much request for cattle.

SINGULAR CALCULATION-The National Debt, funded and unfunded on the 5th of January, 1810, was £811,898,081, which are equal to 773,236,267 guineas, which, at 5 dwts. 8grs. each guinea, weigh 6312 tons, 7 cwt. 2 qrs. 17 lbs. 7 oz. 7,0486 drs. or exactly 17193028,169312 lbs. avoirdupoise.-Now, supposing a waggon and five horses to extend in length 20 yards, and to carry 21 tous of the said guineas, the number of teams necessary to carry the whole, would extend in length 28 miles, 23 yards nearly. To count the debt in shillings, at the rate of 30 shillings in a minute, for 10 hours a day, aud 6 days in a week, would take 2469 years, 306 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes nearly.-Its height in guineas, supposing 20 guineas in thickness an inch, would be 610 miles, 339 yards, 9 inches; and supposing each guinea an inch in diameter, they would extend in a right liue 12,203 miles, 150 yards, 7 inches. Moreover, the said guineas would cover 348 acres, 2 roods, 202 yards

in diameter, would cover 7919 acres, I rood, 349 yards!

INTERESTING ANECDOTE.-Extract of a letter from an Officer on board the Barfleur, now stationed off Lisbon :-"I cannot conclude this letter (says the Officer) without mentioning an extraordinary circumstance which happened here the other morning. A sailor of ours on watch, by some accident fell over board; the sea running very high at the time, prevented the poor fellow from catching any of the ropes which were thrown to him, and upset two boats which put off to his assistance; every body was now on deck, the man sinking, and nobody able to afford him the least relief; when a comrade of his, struck by the supplicating countenance of the miserable man now on the brink of destruction, cried out suddenly-" by heavens, Tom, Inearly-And lastly, in shillings, each au inch can't hear that look; I'll save you or go with you!" All eyes were directed to the man who spoke; but what was our astonishment when we beheld bim plunge into the merciless waves, gain his comrade, and seize him with his left arm, while, with his right, he supported both himself and the man through the buffettings of the high running sea, and thus gave time for another and more fortunate boat to rescue them both from the extended jaws of an timely death."-Mr. Dibdia has made this interesting anecdote the subject for the Song introduc ed into this Number of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. SUGAR M. de Granvog!, of Munich, has established at Augsburg a manufactory of GROG.-An old British publication contains, sugar, from beet root, which succeeds extremely the following anecdote of Admiral Vernon : well, and promises the most important results.which, if true, was the origin of the word grog. He manufactured during last year 20,000 pounds of sugar, and the quantity this year will be five times as much. The price of this sugar is 20 per cent. lower than that of the sugars from cane, and at the same time is superior to it in quality and sweetness. A pound of sugar from beet root is equal to two pounds and a quarter of sugar from grapes. It is besides much less expensive, because an acre may produce from 300 to 600 quintals of beet root, and each quintal twenty pounds of juice, which will produce three pounds and a

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STRAMONIUM—Several extraordinary instances of the good effects of stramonium (thorn apple) in relieving persons severely afflicted with asthmatic complaints, has tended to raise both the reputation and price of the plant in all the markets of the metropolis. It is the root ouly and lower part of the stem which possess the anti-asthmatic virtue; these should be cut into small pieces and put into a common tobacco pipe and the smoke, as well as the saliva, swallowed together. The patient will find relief on smoking the first pipe.

The British sailors had always been accustomed to drink their allowance of brandy or rum clear, till Admiral Vernon ordered those under his command to mix it with water. The innovation gave great offence to the sailors; and, for a time, rendered the Comniander very unpopular among them. The Admiral at that time wore a grogram coat; for which reason he was nicknamed old grog. And hence, by degrees, the mixed liquor he constrained them to drink, universally obtained among them the name of greg.

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OCCURRING IN AND NEAR LONDON, INTERESTING MARRIAGES, &c.

name of the gentleman forged upon, for his banker's book; requesting at the same time that it might be made up to the last moment, and contain all the checks which had been paid, as the gentleman (mentioning the name of the proprietor of the book) was about to leave town, and was desirous of seeing the state of his account. The request was complied with, and the swindler got possession of the forged draft, which no doubt he immediately destroyed, as the surest means of preserving his own life in the event of detection and apprehension.

DIED. In the 76th year of his age, his Grace the Duke of Grafton. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son George Henry, Earl of Euston.-The Right Hon. Charles Marsham, Earl of Romney. His Lordship was born in the year 1744, and in 1776 married Lady Frances Wyndham, daughter of the late Earl of Egremont, by whom he has left one son and three daughters.-Mr. Henry Hope; he has left behind him a property, in the funds and other secu rities, to the amount of nearly a million sterling, besides the most extensive collection of pictures in the possession of any individual in Europe. He was at the head of the firm of the house of Hope in Amsterdam, which he quitted at the com mencement of the French Revolution.

PROVINCIALS.

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

CORNWALL.

ACCIDENT.-A melancholy accident occurred lately in Carrick Roads, Falmouth :-A transport's boat was going off from the town to the Roads about nine o'clock, with the master of a transport, several seamen, five soldiers of the 11th regiment (some of whom had been saved from the wreck of the John and Jane transport, run down by the Franchise), in all, fifteen persons on board. In passing through the fleet, the boat went too near the head of one of the vessels, and was overset by the rising of the cable, occasioned by the motion of the vessel in a rolling sea. Before assistance could be afforded the whole were drowned.

LUNATIC. A short time since, Ann Prowse, a pauper of the parish of Burgan, in this county,

who had for some time been confined in a state of derangement, contrived to make her escape from the persons who had charge of her, and to set fire to two dwelling houses at Burgan, both of which were consumed; the unfortunate woman then hung herself. She was found handonffed, and the chains by which she had been fastened were on her person.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

woman of the name of Coveney, was led by a halter into one of the rooms, and sold to the highest bidder with her five children, a horse and cart, and all her household furniture. A man at Newington was the purchaser, for the sum of ten pounds!

FURIOUS BULL.-As some of the Cadets were playing at the back of the Cadet Barracks, at Woolwich, a short time since, one of them struck a bull, that had the day before been driven from Smithfield market, on its way to Chatham, and was possibly rendered furious by the cruel treatment which these poor animals are obliged to endure in being conveyed from one place to another. The blow so enraged him, that he ran after one of the Cadets some distance, who finding the animal gain upon him, threw himself flat upon the ground, which completely prevented the bull from goring him. Disappointed of his revenge, he immediately ran after another Cadet, of the name of Rogers, and coming up to him before he was aware of the animal, he gored the poor youth in the lower part of the back, and drove his horn nearly through the body, tossing him at the same time some height above the ground. The animal after this laid himself close down by poor Rogers, and the other Cadet im

CONJUGAL PUGILIST. At the late Glouces-mediately ran for assistance. A gun was soon

ter Quarter Sessions, Esther, Harding was found guilty of beating her husband, and sentenced to be imprisoned until she finds sureties to keep the peace.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-Lately, while Mr. Dowle, jun. of Oxenham, an Officer in the Local Militia, was out shooting, in passing through a' hedge, with the but-end of his gun advanced before him, something caught the trigger, when the piece exploded, and the whole of the charge entered his breast, some of it passing through the back part of his shoulder. Although so dreadfully injured, he contrived to walk home, where surgical assistance was procured, and he underwent a very painful operation for the extraction of the shot. He lingered, however, in excruciating pain for a few days, when he expired.

KENT.

EXTRAORDINARY SALE.-A few days since, the following extraordinary circumstance took plase at the White Hart, Sittingbourne :-A

procured, and the animal killed by firing twice at him. Rogers was then conveyed to the Cadet Hospital with very little hopes of life. He continued in great agony for some time, when a mortification came on, and he died the next day.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.A few days since, two fine young children, twins, sons of a cottager, named Richardson, residing at Ewerby, near Sleaford, in this county, were drowned in a pit near their father's dwelling. The poor children were remarkably attached to each other, and never happy when separated. It is supposed that one of them ventured upon some rotten ice which covered the pit, which gave way, when the other, in trying to save his brother, slipt in, and they both sunk together.

HONESTY-A poor widow woman, named Bonner, who lives in George-street, Stamford, discovered a leather purse, containing twentyfive guineas, a dollar, and a one-pound note, be

hind an old mat, in a room adjoining the one in which she slept. With a spirit of honesty which is not always evinced, she immediately set about finding the rightful owner of the discovered treasure; and on inquiry ascertained that it probably belonged to one Jordan, a porter, to whom she let the room in which the money was secreted about five years ago, and who ended his days there. Not having it in her power, therefore, to return it to its original possessor, she paid it to John Jordan, his son, who presented her with two guineas and a crown piece, as a small recompence for her conscientious behaviour.

MARRIED-At Lincoln, Mr. W. Monkly, a blind pensioner, aged 48, to Miss C. Hales, aged

sixteen.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

and three thousand. Thus augmented in strength, they shortly evinced a determination to adopt measures of violence, and parties proceeded to enter the houses and destroy the frames of seseveral of the manufacturers. The cause assigned for these afflicting outrages was the extreme distress suffered by themselves and families, in consequence of the stoppage of work. With any further particulars we are at present unacquainted, but we have to express our sincere hopes that these mistaken men must have been soon made sensible that by the destruction of the property of others, they not only could not alleviate their own misery, but that, on the contrary, they must materially increase it.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

CASUAL AND SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-A FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE ACCIDENT poor but industrious woman, Hannah Sawyer, AT NEWARK.-The following account has been met with an untimely death at the Burntwood published of the accident by which a gentleman || Colliery, near Hanley, in the Potteries; whilst of Newark was poisoned :-"As several state- in the act of assisting to lower into the pit the ments have gone abroad respecting the accident coal embers lamp, the boards or landing whereon which occasioned the death of Mr. Bland, of she stood, suddenly broke, and she was preciNewark, we are authorised to state, that several pitated to the bottom, a depth of seventy yards, gentlemen who lately partook of the same wine, and was instantly killed. This poor woman had in its unmixed state, and in a larger quantity than performed the work of a collier for some years, the previously debilitated sufferer, are in good and from her own labour sustained herself and a health. It was necessary to break the bottles in young family of three children, who are unfor order to ascertain in which particular bottle the in-tunately left to deplore the loss of an endear gredient was contained, and at the bottom of one ing mother.-Coroner's verdict, Casualty,

only was it found firmly attached; which bottle is supposed to have been brought from the country, in exchange for a bottle of port-The following is a copy of the Jury's verdict: That the said William Bland came by his death in consequence of drinking a certain quantity of port wine mixed with water, which said wine had, without the knowledge, consent, or contrivance of any person or persons whomsoever, become impregnated with some corrosive ingredients, by having been accidentally, casually, and by misfortune, put and kept in a bottle, to the bottom of which such corrosive ingredient had adhered."

SUFFOLK.

INTREPID ROBBER.-The conversation of Sudbury and the neighbourhood has for some time turned very much upon a man, who has for several years set the justice of the country at defiance. This man, whose real name is Thomas Harrison, but who has been long known by the appellation of Jingles Harris, worked for many years as a bargeman upon the river Stour; in this capacity he obtained the character of a shrewd active fellow. After he quitted this employment, he lived without any obvious means of support, yet had al ways money at command, and made himself a great favourite with people of his own walk in life, by treating them in public houses. Depredations to a considerable extent have for several years been committed in the night.— Such as stealing grain of different descriptions out of barns. Barley, in particular has been

ALARMING DISTURBANCES.-It is with the deepest regret we have to communicate the occurrence of alarining disturbances and outrageous excess in the neighbourhood of Nottingham. Letters from that place state, that on Tuesday, March 12, the workmen, to the number of one thousand, assembled in the market-stolen, and afterwards privately maited, and then place, and from thence proceeded in a body to Arnold, a distance of about five miles, when their numbers were increased to between two

sold at a price scarcely amounting to the duty. He had a cart and three horses, which were seldom employed but in the night. In 1806 he was