through his ears. The next day he felt a crash in each ear, and ever since his hearing has been perfectly restored

On Thursday se'nnight a blind man undertook, for a small wager, to run against the mail coach, between Halifax and Bradford, a distance of near eight miles: he ar rived at Bradford twelve minutes before the coach, having been allowed to set off five minutes before it. On his arrival at Bradford, a byestander would have it that he could see.

In order to convince hin that he was totally blind, he gave leave for his eyes to be covered with a plaister, and said he would run the other man back again to Halifax, but he refused the blind man's challenge.

13th. The fall of snow was so heavy in Kent, that the Dover coach was yesterday greatly retarded in its progress to town. On its arrival at Barham Downs a complete stop took place, the snow being there of the amazing depth of ten feet. The mail was taken out of the coach, and forwarded by a messenger, on horseback, to town, where it did not arrive till two o'clock. A great number of men were collected on Barham Downs, who cut a passage through the snow for the coach, and enabled it to continue its journey. It did not arrive in London till six at night.

14th. A poney, the property of Mr. J. Moore, of Mildenhall, in Suffolk, for a trifling wager, galloped from the above place to Bury, and back again, (a distance of 25 miles,) in 1 hour and 29 minutes. He was allowed two hours, but performed it 31 minutes within the time. The weight of the poney is only 25 stone,

its height under 13 hands, and the rider weighed 11 stone.

16th. The parish church of St. Peter, at St. Alban's, which had been a long time under repair, for the re-building the centre tower, and contracting the chancel, was opened with two appropriate sermons, by the vicar, Mr. Roberts; that in the morning from Eph. iv. 4. that in the evening from Matthew xxviii. 20.

19th. This morning between one and two, a large mass of the venerable remains of the ancient wall of Rochester castle gave way with a dreadful crash, and falling on a shed occupied by Mr. Butcher, coachmaker, entirely destroyed the same, and damaged several chaises, &c. which were standing under, and near it. The mass which fell was thirty feet high, and above twenty in width, and it is supposed to have been occasioned by the moisture sapping the foundation of it.

20th. Joseph Gardam, an old man, aged 70 years, was, by a strong gust of wind, blown into a tub of boiling glew, at Hull, by which he was so severely scalded that he died,

A brawn (a cross of the Berkshire and Hampshire breed) was killed a few days since by Mr. Jones, of Brymbo, near Wrexham, which weighed, after cleaning, 760 pounds, and the fat on the back was five inches thick. The sire of this ani mal was killed about two years ago, which weighed 21 score.

21st. A person who worked at the brewery in East Smithfield, late the king's brewhouse, having come into the possession of some property, a friend called on him to congratulate him, and they adjourned to a

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The same day, at Charing Cross, as the mother of an infant, about nine months old, was handing it out of a stage-coach to another person, it dropped between them, the horses at the instant moving, the near hind wheel went over the child's head, and killed it on the spot.

A second Roman pavement has lately been discovered in the metro. polis, of which a coloured print will be published.

22d. A duel was fought on Galleywood Common, near Chelmsford, Essex, between lieutenant Turrens, and Mr. Fisher, surgeon, both of the 6th regiment of foot, in barracks there. The parties, with their seconds, arrived on the spot appointed for the encounter, at day-break, when the preliminaries having been settied, they took a short distance, and turning round, fired at the same instant. The lieutenant received his antagonist's ball in the groin, and immediately fell; on which Mr. Fisher went up and took him by the hand, expressing much regret at the lamentable consequence that had ensued; as, from the nature of the wound, he was apprehensive it would prove mortal. Assistance having been procured, the wounded gentleman was removed to a windmill, at a short distance, and as soon

his apartments in the barracks, where every attention was rendered that his unfortunate situation could require. The ball having lodged on the side opposite to which it entered, was extracted by Dr. Welch, at four o'clock the same afternoon, but he expired between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morning. An inquisition was taken before J. O. Parker, junior, esq. coroner, view of the body, on Monday, and verdict returned of wilful murder against Mr. Fisher and the two seconds, one of whom is under arrest: Mr. Fisher and the other have absconded.

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A WOMAN TO LET!-There is a custom, which most likely is peculiar to a small district in the western part of Cumberland. A few days ago, a gentleman from the neighbourhood of Whitehaven, calling upon a person at his house in Ulpha, was informed that he was not within; he was gone to church; there was "a woman to let !" On enquiry as to the meaning of this singular expression, it was thus explained :-When any single woman, belonging to the parish, had the misfortune to prove with child, a meeting of the parishioners is called, for the purpose of providing her a maintenance in some family, at so much per week, from that time to a limited time after delivery; and this meeting, (to give it the greater sanc tion) is uniformly holden in the church, where the lowest bidder has the bargain! And on such occasions, previous notice is given, that on such a day there will be " a woman to let!"

Dick Jarrett, called the miser, at Rye, lately died possessed of property to the amount of nine or ten C c 2 thousand

thousand pounds; he was never married, but lived by himself, performing all the business of the house, &c. and his dress corresponded with his disposition. Not long since, he complained of the hardness of the times. Formerly it cost him to live on, only 5 of 6l. per annum, but his last year's expenditure was 131. He would lend his money out where he could get good security. Under a brick, since taken up, in the premises where he resided, have been found near 300 guineas. This eccentric character had beer by him, which had been brewed forty years ago, and some had been kept ever since his christening (but by whom first provided, for the purpose, we cannot say,) to be drank at his funeral, above seventy years old. How he has disposed of his money we have not heard.

CORONER'S INQUEST.-An inquest was held on the body of Elizabeth Trout, a young woman of Little Sheffield, Yorkshire, who, in a fit of despair, drowned herself in a pond on Sunday week. The deli. berate manner in which she put an end to her existence is somewhat extraordinary; the pond being frozen over, she broke a hole in the ice, just to admit her head, which she put into the water, and her body remained quite dry,

23d. Letters from the society for the suppression of vice to the ladies who patronize the Sunday concerts under the direction of Salomon, after an apology, for their interference with what was done in the private houses of persons of the exalted rank of those ladies, expatiate against the impious conduct of the ladies who patronize the playing of music in their own houses on the Lord's Day. They complain of the

exorbitant salaries paid to the Ita lians for their entertainments, and rail severely at the rude conduct of the servants about the doors of persons of distinction.

The French Charlatan of a cer tain venerable duke was most awkwardly treated a few evenings since by some ladies of pleasure, in the neighbourhood of St. James's, for keeping too large a poundage out of his master's bounty. Two of them, tore the skirts off his coat, pretending to contend for the possession of his person, while a third had nearly poisoned him by emptying the contents of his own phials upon his head. In this plight he was turned into the street, and compelled to seek refuge in a hackney coach that was previously waiting for him.

25th. Bow STREET. An information against Russell came on, to recover the penalty of 2001. under an act of parliament, for keeping a house where an unlawful game of chance was played, formerly known by the name of the Little Go, but now distinguished, to avoid the penalty, by the name of Ivory.

Mr. Const appeared as counsel on the part of the defendant, and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Mr. H, the informant, stated to the sitting magistrates the mode of practising this system of robbery. The game was a species of lottery; several tickets, made of ivory, with numbers upon them, were put into a box by the master of the table, and the poor persons fixed on the numbers they were to insure. It was usual for the common people to fix on low numbers, always under 100, not to overburthen their minds with a complication of figures; this was well known by the persons who

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kept the game, and they took care never to put any, or at least very few, numbers under 100, into the box; of course, it was seldom or never that any of the poor wretches gained a prize. Against the present defendant, he said, he did not intend to produce any evidence, as he was not the object that he wished the arm of justice to be raised against. -There was a man of the name of H whom he wished to fasten himself on; this man was the main spring by which the defendant and many others were set in motion. They acted as his servants, and he received the greater part of the profits. By these means, this Mr. H had squeezed from the pockets of the lower order of the peo. ple in the city of Westminster, in the course of a very short time, no less a sum than 50,0001. At present, he had evidence against him which must convict him; and, by having the present defendant acquitted, he meant to bring him forward as a witness, to supply a link in the chain, which he thought was wanting.

As there was no evidence produced, the present defendant was acquitted.

Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, the celebrated translator of Epictetus, died this month at the advanced age of 89 years. She very early in life discovered the superior cultivation which her mind had received from the superintendance of her worthy father; and her only brother, Henry, received his classical education from her before he went to Canterbury school; from which he was admitted of Corpus Christi College, Cam

bridge. Mrs. C. has published all the works of Epictetus which are now extant. The learning and ability which the authoress has displayed in the execution of this task are well known, and have received that applause which is so justly their due; the work may with justice be pro

ounced to do honour to her sex and to her country. Besides this production which forms the chief of her literary labours, she has pub lished a volume of poems, which are celebrated in the works of lord Lyttelton, who had perused them in manuscript, and at whose particular request they were offered to the world. As compositions, their merit and beauty cannot be too highly applauded. Sublime simplicity of sentiment, melodious sweetness of expression, and morality the most amiable, grace them in every page.