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One of the unfortunate sufferers was carried by the violence of the explosion to a distance of 80 yards, and lived several hours after he was taken up. Three of the men who have been killed have left families; the fourth was a stranger who came from Low Moor iron-works to inspect the engine, and had not been more than an hour on the premises when the dreadful occurrence took place.

22. A meeting of from 20,000 to 30,000 Radicals was held on Monday at Burnley, in Lancashire. A number of them were, it is said, armed with pikes and pistols. Among the resolutions passed, one was, that an address should be presented to the Prince Regent by Hunt and Johnson in person; another, that if parliament should propose any measures to curtail their liberty of meeting, such a step should be considered a signal for a general meeting.

25. On Saturday last, a party of officers in Paisley were sent to execute a warrant for apprehending a person accused of seditious practices, and for searching his possession for papers. When they had completed their search, and proceeded to the street with their prisoner and papers, they were assailed by a mob, who knocked one of them down, and so severely hurt another with stones, which were unmercifully pelted upon them, that they were obliged to abandon their prisoner, and in the best way they could, effect their escape. Yesterday, one of the magistrates, with a party of officers, accompanied by some

infantry and cavalry, proceeded to apprehend some of the rioters, when they were mobbed and assailed in the same manner. The same day, another party of officers, along with the sheriff-substitute, were grossly insulted in seizing some concealed arms, in one of the most public streets of Paisley, and they found it not safe to carry them off without the protection of the military, and a party was accordingly sent for to escort the officers with the arms so seized. On this duty the soldiers were hooted and insulted, and one of them severely struck by a stone from the mob, in presence of the sheriff, and all this without any retaliation.

27. On Thursday evening, soon after six o'clock, as Mr. Edward Blake and Mr. Thomas Dray, two riding officers in his Majesty's customs, stationed at Lydd, in the district of Dover, were proceeding on duty, they discovered at sea, in the Midriffs, between Dover and Romney, a large quantity of tea, spirits and tobacco, which they seized, together with a large galley, called Le Marcheron, of Boulogne, being in the act of illegal importation. Having succeeded in getting the boat, and cargo on shore, they were attacked by a numerous gang of upwards of fifty smugglers, armed with pistols, bludgeons and other offensive weapons, one of whom struck Mr. Blake a violent blow on the head, which brought him to the ground, where he remained a considerable time insensible, and great fears are entertained for his life. Mr. Dray was also dreadfully ill-treated. They, how

ever, succeeded in giving an alarm. Assistance came, and these desperadoes made off without carrying into effect their intentions of rescuing the contraband property, which was safely lodged in the customs' stores at Dover. A reward is offered for the ruffian that attempted the life of Mr. Blake, his person being known.

29. On Friday a privy-council was held at Dublin-castle, when the baronies of Ballymoe, Downamore, Killyan, and Tyaquin, in the county of Galway, were, under the act of the 54th of the king, declared in a state of disturbance. An extraordinary establishment of police will accordingly be formed in those baronies.

30. A fishing bank has within these few years been discovered, which is supposed to extend about 150 miles in a south-western direction from the Shetland

islands. It joins the fishing banks on the western side of the Orkney-islands, and is believed to bend westward as far as Cape Wrath in Sutherlandshire, and the Lewis-isles. This great bank has already become an object of some notoriety with the Dutch and French fishermen, who are to fish upon it next season. One French vessel, said to belong to St. Maloes, fished two cargoes of fine cod upon it in so short a period in the summer of 1819, that she returned to France with her second cargo in the month of July. A number of decked boats, or small vessels, manned with eight hands each, belonging to the Shetland-islands, rendezvoused last summer in Scelloway and the other bays on the western side of Shetland, were also extremely successful, having actually caught, for several months together, at the rate of 1,000 fish per week for each boat.

BIRTHS.

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The Countess of Errol, a dau.
The Countess of Euston, a son.
The Countess of Abingdon, a

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Lady Ogilby, a son.

At the South parade, Cork, Lady Audley, a son.

At Edinburgh, the lady of Sir Alex. Mackenzie, a son.

At Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs.

At Lisbon, Lady Buchan, a Dundas, a son and heir.

son.

September.

The lady of the Lord Justice Clerk, a son.

At Paris, the Duchess of
Berry, a daughter.

Lady Elizabeth Smyth, a dau.
Lady of Sir John Bourke, Bart.

a son.

Lady of Sir Frederic Gustavus Fowke, Bart. a son.

October.

At Dublin, Countess Talbot, a

son.

Lady of Rear Admiral Sir John Talbot, a son and heir.

Countess of Jersey, a son. Lady William Russell, a son and heir.

Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, a son.

Lady of Capt. Sir James Dunbar, R. N. a son and heir.

Lady of Sir C. Wolseley, Bart.

a son.

The Countess of Lieven, a son.

November.

The Marchioness of Downshire, a son.

The Hon. Mrs. Peter De Blaquiere, a son.

The Right Hon. Lady Bagot, a daughter.

The wife of Henry Brougham, Esq. M. P. a daughter.

The wife of Thos. Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. M. P. a daughter.

At Braham Castle, the Hon. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie.

Viscountess Ranelagh, a dau. The Right Hon. the Countess of Brownlow, a daughter.

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The Earl of Uxbridge, eldest son of the Marquis of Anglesea, to Eleanora, second daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield-having been previously married on the 5th of August last at Altyre in Scotland, the seat of Sir W. G. Cumming, Bart. Mr. Sergeant Copley, Chief Justice of Chester, to the widow of the late Lieut.-col. Thomas.

Hon. James Sinclair, second son of the Earl of Caithness, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of G. Tritton, Esq.

Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. to Georgiana Caroline, youngest daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart.

The Hon. F. Lumley, second brother of the Earl of Scarborough, to Jane, second daughter of the late Adm. Bradley.

The Earl of Dundonald, to Anne Maria, eldest daughter of Francis Plowden, Esq.

April.

Lady Frances Anne Vane Tempest, to Lord Stewart, second son to the Marquis of Londonderry.

At Dublin, the Hon. and Rev.

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Capt. White Melville of the Royal Lancers, to Lady Catherine Osborne, only daughter of the Duchess Dowager of Leeds.

The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, to Lady Augusta Charteris, youngest sister of the Earl of Wemyss and March.

The Hon. H. F. C. Cavendish, M. P. son to Lord G. Cavendish,

to Frances Susan, widow of the

Hon. F. Howard.

I. Freeland, Esq. M. P. to Mrs. Mary Palmer.

Hon. Robert Henry Clive, M. P. second son of Earl Powis, to Lady Harriet Windsor, daughter of the late and sister of the present, Earl of Plymouth.

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