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persons came forward to identify the deceased, and among the rest

Gottingen was greatly increased; it amounts already to 1,152; of these only 386 are natives of Hanover, 566 are from other German States, and 180 foreigners; of the latter, 36 are Russians, 17 Swiss, 63 Danes, 10 English, 6 French, 25 Hungarians, 4 Americans, 2 from the Greek isle of Chios.

On Thursday, the 2d inst. the body of a woman was found tied to a boat near the landing-place of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, on which an inquest was held on the following Saturday, before Joseph Carttar, Esq. one of the coroners for Kent. The evidence being very vague, the coroner said he should not then close the inquest, but adjourn till the Tuesday following, in order that every exertion might be made to procure better information, as there was much suspicion in the case, and it was but seldom that a woman was found dead without somebody being able to give an account of her death. He also directed, that the body should be examined by a surgeon, that his opinion might be given on certain external marks which appeared on it. The jury accordingly met again on Tuesday, when several VOL. LIX.

that she was the wife of Israel Friday, an out-pensioner of Greenwich College. He then went into a long account of a quarrel which took place between Friday and his wife, on Wednesday the 1st of January, and of their fighting in his house with a knife and a hatchet, which fight he with difficulty suppressed; and that soon afterwards both parties left his house, and he had not been able to hear of either of them since, except that he now believed the deceased to be his daughter, and that she had been murdered by somebody, and laid on the spot where the body was found. Other witnesses also swore to the deceased being the daughter of the old man. The surgeons proved that there were marks of violence on the head, &c. of the deceased, but not sufficient to be deemed mortal. This evidence, however, induced the coroner to adjourn a second time; and he directed the constables to make diligent search after Friday, the husband, and bring him before the jury on the 10th instant, to account for his wife's death, if possible. The jury accordingly met again on the 10th instant, when the constables reported that they had not been able

to find Friday, but that they had found his wife alive and hearty; whereupon the father was sent for, and the other witnesses, all of whom were greatly but agreeably surprised at the sight of the woman, and acknowledged their error in having sworn to the deceased. The coroner reprimanded the witnesses severely for their want of discrimination; but every one allowed, that the great likeness there was between the living woman and the deceased might have deceived better judges than the witnesses seemed to be, particularly as both the women had similar private marks on each arm. Under these circumstances further proclamation was made for evidence to identify the deceased, and discover how she came by her death; but none appearing, the jury returned a verdict of "Found dead, under suspicious circumstances, and with strong marks of violence on her person; but whether inflicted by accident or by design, they could not ascertain."

A letter from Lochgoilhead, dated the 3d of January, 1817, to a gentleman in Glasgow, says "On Monday last a boat left this, in order to go to Greenock; when sailing down Lochgoil, they were hailed by a person that wanted to cross; they condescended, and, being upon the lee-shore, gave the boat the two sails, which before had but one: half way over, opposite the Waninan, came on a squall, and run the boat down by not relieving the sheets. Eight persons were on board; those that were drowned are, Archibald Campbell, Dugald Weir, Archibald Walker, Thomas Thomson's wife, the ploughman to Archibald

Campbell, Esq., Drumsaynie, a daughter of Archibald Smith, Lochgoilhead.-Saved, John Campbell, Duncan Smith, Duncan M'Glashan." Another letter says, that Duncan M'Glashan died after being got on shore.

7. We observe, with pleasure, that the condition of the numerous body of nailmakers in Staffordshire is improved by a meeting of their employers, held at West Bromwich, when it was unanimously agreed to restore their rate of wages, which had been, from the depression of that trade, partially and considerably reduced. -Birmingham Gazette.

8. For several hours this morning, the fog throughout the whole of the metropolis was so intense, that candles were used in every shop and counting-house.

11. From the crowded state of the foreign seamen in the Helder, lying off the Tower, Government has given directions for another vessel to be prepared for their reception. The Helder was calculated to be capable of containing nearly 300; but as more than that number have been sent on board, sickness has made its appearance, from the crowded state of the miserable objects.

On Monday week, Dennis Murphy, of Limerick, sawyer, assisting a constable in executing a sessions decree at Rathmore castle, in that county, was attacked by a number of fellows, who in the most savage manner beat him, and inflicted several wounds on his body, of which he died on Wednesday. Thursday an inquest was held on the corpse, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against the perpetrators. Two men

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charged with this outrage, Thomas Stubbins and Darby Fennell, are lodged in gaol by David Roche, Esq.-Waterford Mirror.

From the Westmeath Journal.— On Saturday the 11th instant, at six o'clock in the evening, the house of the Rev. Mr. Serjeant, curate of the parish of Castlerahan, and an active magistrate of the county of Cavan, was entered by a party of ten persons, who tied the servants, and collected all the property worth carrying away; after which they deliberately boiled the tea-kettle, and passed the evening in drinking tea and punch, waiting the arrival of Mr. Serjeant. On Mr. S. returning he heard a noise, and on asking, "who is there?" two men immediately fired at him, which he attempted to return, but his pistol missed fire. Fortunately the arms of the robbers were so injudiciously loaded, that five slugs which hit him in the body, and perforated his two coats, waistcoat, and shirt, did him very little injury. On Mr. S. falling, the fellows supposed he was killed, and immediately joined their party in the dwelling-house, and carried off all the clothes, house linen, and 301. in money. The same party then proceeded about three miles to the deer-park of Lord Farnham, and entered so quietly through the thatch of the house of Robert Morrow, permanent sergeant of the 1st Ballyjamesduff corps of yeomanry, as to be at his bedside before he was apprized of their being in the house. He then seized a firelock which was near his bed, and knocked down two of the party, and his wife gallantly tumbled another, when he

received a shot which broke his left arm near the wrist, and the same moment it was broken above the elbow by a blow with a firelock; he also received a shot in the other arm that quite disabled him. Both he and his wife were then so dreadfully beaten as to be left for dead; when the villains proceeded to plunder the house, and decamped, after having robbed him of more than 80l. in gold, besides much other property.

Drogheda, Jan. 18.-Our feelings are again outraged, in being under the painful necessity of recording a transaction of the most diabolical nature, which took place on Thursday evening near Ardee. The following particulars we have learned from a gentleman. Mr. J. Rath, a respectable and wealthy farmer, and an excellent member of society, returned on the above evening, from the quarter-sessions of Ardee, to his house at Irishtown, on the Dunkald road, and about a mile and a half from the former place. Having sat down in his parlour with two friends to dinner, the table lay in front of the window; one of his guests sat a little distance on his right, the other on his left; it was then between seven and eight o'clock, and the shutters were not closed. In this situation some hellish miscreant discharged the contents of a blunderbuss loaded with slugs, which carried off the upper part of his head, and scattered the brains of the unfortunate victim about the room; neither of the other persons, we understand, were injured. One of his friends shortly afterwards went to Ardee and informed the police, who, with the military, were in pursuit of B 2

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the murderer during the night, but unfortunately did not come up with him. Friday an inquest was held by Dr. Blackwell, one of the coroners of the county, and a verdict of wilful murder found against persons unknown.

15. Coroner's Inquest on the late John Harriott, Esq. of the Thames Police Office.-An inquest was held before J. W. Unwin, Esq. one of the coroners for Middlesex, on the body of this lamented and respected magistrate, of which the following are the leading facts and circumstances :

Mr. Harriot for nine months past had been afflicted with a disease in the bladder, which subjected him to continual paroxysms of excruciating pain, often attended with profuse hemorrhage. On Friday morning last, about four o'clock, his medical attendant (Mr. Holloway) was sent for, who found him in such exquisite pain, that the deceased requested this gentleman to relieve him at all events, even if the means should terminate in death. Mr. Harriott was then placed in a warm bath. At eight o'clock the same morning this gentleman was again sent for; he found Mr. Harriott bleeding from several self-inflicted wounds in different parts of his body. On the left temple was a slight wound, which had divided a branch of the temporal artery. In the left arm, below the elbow, was another wound, about two inches long, and about the fourth of an inch deep. The veins only of the arm were injured, and the artery untouched. The last, and most serious wound, was in the abdomen, over the stomach, through which a portion of the

intestines had protruded. This wound would have been mortal in most cases, from the subsequent inflammation, but was not considered so in the present instance, owing to the profuse discharge of blood. On dissection after death, by order of the coroner, the bladder was found highly ulcerated, and filled with coagulated blood, which, by the able practitioners who attended, was considered as the immediate cause of death.

It was proved, that during the last fortnight, the faculties of the deceased were greatly impaired, and his mind overcome by dejection, from a continued series of pain and suffering.

The coroner called the attention of the jury, in the first place, to the statement which had been given as to the situation of the deceased's mind and understanding, and left it to them to decide, whether he had contributed to his own death, or had come to his end by natural means from the effect of his complaint.-Verdict, Natural Death.

20. The number of vessels which entered the port of Hamburgh in the course of last year amounted to 1,615; of these 702 were from England, 84 from France, 3 from the East Indies, 37 from the West Indies, 40 from North America, 9 from South America, &c. The number of ships which passed the Sound during the same period was S,871; of these 1,848 were British: the Swedish were next in point of numbers, the French only 16, the Americans 169.

21. The elder Watson was put upon his trial at the Old Bailey, upon the charge of having stabbed Joseph

Joseph Rhodes with a sword concealed in a stick; when it appearing that Rhodes was not able to swear that the wound was inflicted by design, but rather in a nocturnal scuffle, Watson was brought in Not guilty.

The grand jury afterwards returned a true bill against James Watson the elder, John Hooper, Thomas Preston, and Thomas Cashman, on a charge of conspiracy and riot.

27. The following letter has been sent by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the Lords Lieutenants of several counties:

Whitehall, Jan. 11.

My Lord-It being deemed expedient, under present circumstances, that the civil power should be strengthened in the county under your grace's charge, I have to request that you will recommend it to the magistrates in the principal towns within the same (in which the measure is not already adopted), to encourage the enrolment of respectable householders, to act, as occasion may require, as special constables, for a fixed period of time, not less than three months; and I have further to request that your grace will communicate to the commanding officers of the several yeomanry corps within the county of Leicester, the wish of his Majesty's government, that they would hold themselves, and the corps under their respective commands, in a state of preparation to afford prompt assistance to the civil au. thorities, in case of necessity.

I have, &c. SIDMOUTH. The Lord Lieutenant of the county of Leicester.

Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, the Leicester cavalry, and a regiment of dragoons, were called out to quell a riot at Oadby, near Leicester. There were about 400 rioters, who dispersed themselves after three of the leaders were secured: these have since been sent to the gaol of the latter place. Several corn and haystacks were set on fire, but were extinguished by the military.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland having been for some time past in daily expectation of giving birth to a child, the two physicians, Sir Henry Halford and Dr. Clarke (the latter of whom is an eminent accoucheur) have been constant attendants upon her Royal Highness. In compliance also with the formality maintained at a royal birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London have remained in town, that they might, when called upon, be present at the shortest notice. The proper arrangements being thus settled, it was announced yesterday morning between nine and ten o'clock, that her Royal Highness was taken in labour. Summonses were presently forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers. The Duke of Cumberland sent his own chariot for the Lord Chancellor; and here some delay was occasioned by the coachman driving to Bedford-square, instead of the Court of Chancery, where the learned lord was of course sitting, it being term-time. In the meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had kept a carriage in readiness for the occasion, made such