ject of this curious narrative, and whose age was no more than 18, on the 6th of June last, was removed from the gaol in which he then was, to the parish of Bickenhall, a small village, seven miles from Taunton. His parents residing at that place, but being unable to receive him in their own habitation, Adams was lodged in the poor-house, a small cottage adjoining the church-yard. In this situation he continued to lie without exhibiting the least evidence of an improving condition. When any of his limbs were raised, they fell with the leaden weight of total inanimation; his eyes were closed, and his countenance evinced the paleness of death, though divested of any of the concomitant symptoms of approaching dissolution. His respiration continued free, and his pulse maintained its character of a healthful tone. The sustenance he received was entirely that of eggs diluted with wine, and Occasionally with tea, which he sucked in through his teeth: all attempts, forcible as some of them were, to compel him to open his mouth having been repeatedly tried in vain and various experiments were again made to excite sensation without effect, particularly that of thrusting pins under his finger-nails.

In this hopeless condition, he was visited by Mr. Welch, surgeon, of Taunton, who suggested the propriety of performing the opera tion of scalping the patient, with a view to ascertain whether the fall, to which the illness was attributed, might not have produced a depression of the brain. The proposal was communicated to the

parents of Adams, who expressed their willingness that the experi ment should be made. Accordingly, at the time appointed, the surgeon accompanied Adams's father to the bed-side of his son, and there, in the presence of several respectable persons, described to both the young man's parents the nature and precise course of operation about to be performed. Old Adams then shaved his son's head. The incisions were made, the scalp drawn up, and the head examined, during all which time the young man manifested no audible symptom of pain, or sensibility of suffering whatever, until the application of an instrument, with which the head was scraped in a particular part, and then, and once only, he uttered a groan.

No beneficial result appearing from this experiment, and as his case seemed absolutely remediless, application was made to his regiment for his discharge.

On Tuesday, August 20th, the discharge arrived, and was taken over to Bickenhall by the serjeant. On the Tuesday following, the 27th, old Adams brought his son down stairs in his arms; and on the 28th, he again brought him down, the son still remaining insensible. Next night (the 29th) he was seen sitting in the poorhouse, with a gun in his hand, conversing with his father; and on Friday, the 30th (our readers will participate with us in the complete astonishment excited by the fact) he was at Mr. Palmer's, a farmer, at Thurlbear, two miles from Bickenhall, cutting spars, carrying reed up a ladder, and assisting his father in thatching a rick! On the

next day, the 31st, he was in the barn of Mr. Cozens, of Bickenhall, with a dick in his hand, killing mice; and on Sunday, the 1st instant, Mr. Cozens himself met him in a neighbouring copse, gathering

nuts.

On the morning of Friday, the 30th, young Adams walked into the cottage of Martha Cozens, who lives next door, and adjoining to the poor house. She expressed great surprise at the suddenness of his recovery, and asked him, how he was able to undergo so much suffering? To which he answered, that he had no recollection of having experienced any. She then asked him, if he did not recollect feeling any pain when the surgeon was scraping his head? To which he replied, that he perfectly recollected that."

The extraordinary rapidity of this young man's recovery, after obtaining his discharge from his regiment, having excited, in combination with the other circumstances which we formerly stated, an opinion that imposition had been practised, some of the neigh bours reported that a press-gang was coming for him. This, it is supposed, having reached his ears, he absconded, and not a syllable has been heard of him since.

Old Adams was himself formerly in the military service, and effected his discharge by counterfeiting illness, though not of that description which has been assumed by his son. The opinion is very general, that he has assisted his son in his artifice, and that food has been secretly conveyed to him. Under this impression, however, it is necessary to state, that

the father was denied all access to him for several days while he was in gaol. Taunton Courier.

On Wednesday last it was discovered by a female servant to her Majesty, that the several presses in Buckingham-house, which contained her Majesty's court and other most valuable dresses, had been opened, and the contents, amounting in value to 2,000l. had been stolen therefrom. Her Majesty's wardrobe had been kept in St. James's palace previously to the late fire, at which time it was removed to Buckingham-house. It was usual for the female domestic who had the care of the contents of the presses to inspect them once a year; but from the King's illness they had not been wanted, and consequently they were not opened until last Wednesday, when it was found the dresses were goue; but the papers which con-' tained them were left, and a baize which covers the whole was carefully placed over the papers, &c.

Suspicion had not attached itself to any person until Thursday afternoon, when the husband of the female who was intrusted with the care of the presses. was in the room, and heard a gentle tap at the door; and on opening it, a man, who had formerly been employed to keep the locks, &c. about Buckingham-house in repair, presented himself with a key half hidden by the palm of his hand, and said he was looking for a bell-hanger. The man was challenged with having a key in his hand, which he denied; but afterwards pulled one out of his pocket, which the witness believed to be

much

much larger in size than the one he had in his hand.

It appeared, that there had been no injury done to the locks on the several presses; and that no one could have committed the robbery without being well acquainted with the premises. According to the statenient of Mr. Hanson, locksmith to the Royal Family, the locks could have been opened only by a duplicate or a skeleton key, and a duplicate key could not have been made without taking off the lock. In either case none but a skilful locksman could have opened the locks, as they were of the best kind. Mr. Hanson also stated, that the prisoner had been about eight months in his employ, and he discharged him as an indolent drunken man, some time since. When in Mr. Hanson's service, the prisoner was constantly employed in Buckingham-house; but since he had been discharged, he had no pretence for going there.

According to the statement of Sir William Parsons, half a dozen men could not have have carried away the stolen property. The prisoner was remanded and a warrant was issued to search his premises; a warrant was also issued against another man suspected, who had been discharged from Mr. Hanson's service about the same time as the prisoner, and who had been seen about the house.

patronage of the government, published lately some fragments of a Latin poem upon the war between Mark Antony and Augustus, and a considerable part of the second book of Epicurus upon Nature: the above gentlemen do not despair even yet of finding the whole treatise of this author. There has also been committed to the press a moral work of Pisistratus, the celebrated disciple of Epicurus; likewise some fragments of Colote upon the Lycidas of Plato, and of Caniscus upon friendship. The entire work of Philodemus upon Rhetoric is at this moment in a state of forwardness."

17. An alarming disturbance took place at Ratcliff-highway, near the London docks, amongst the sailors of different nations employed there. For some time past great jealousies have existed among them, and particularly the American and Portuguese sailors, re ative to the rate of wages at which they should work. It appears that most of the Portuguese have agreed of late to give their services on board of merchant vessels for their victuals, without requiring any wages, a circumstance which has irritated the Americans and other sailors belonging to vessels now in the docks, to the highest pitch; and they accordingly met early in the morning, and planned a formidable attack upon the Portuguese. They seized every bludgeon and stick they could procure. Every chair, table, stool, and ladder, also, they could lay their hands upon, were broken to pieces; and with these they bestowed many a violent blow upon their opponents, who being totally unprovided for

such

such an attack, suffered very se. verely. The poor Portuguese sailors were forced to make a precipitate retreat, and seek refuge in the houses and shops, by which the whole neighbourbood of Ratcliff-highway was in an uproar, and the inhabitants were under the necessity of shuting up shop. The Portuguese used every endeavour to procure offensive weapons; but so few could be obtained, that they were totally unable to combat with their assailants, many of whom, although personating Americans, proved to be Irishmen. By the timely interference of a body of police-officers, and many individuals whom they had called to their aid, the affray was at last terminated.

A Bombay paper of March 2, contains the following paragraph

"The sixth drawing was held on Monday last, when No. 1170 came up to a prize of Sicca rupees one hundred thousand. This fortunate number belongs to a Hindoo, of the name of Pulwan Sing, who for many years earned a precarious livelihood by providing groups of dancing girls for the opulent Bengalese, during the Doorgah Poojah and other festivals Pulwan Sing is the sole proprietor of the ticket: he bore the sudden stroke of good fortune, by which he was raised in an instant from indigence to a state of affluence beyond his most sanguine dreams, with all the composure of a practical philosopher."

A subsequent paper says, "Pulwan Sing, the proprietor of the fortunate ticket 1170, drawn a price of a lack of rupees, terminated this life on Sunday last, in

consequence of a fall from a horse, which he purchased a few days before, out of the proceeds of the lottery."

19. It is stated in a Westmorland paper, that a sister of the late Captain Cook has resided many years in Pack-horse-yard, Stramongate, Kendal. Her name is Agnes Harker; she is the widow of Simon Harker, and is now at the advanced age of 88. She displays a quick discernment, bas a good flow of spirits, and a retentive meinory. She has had 10 children, but they have all left her except the youngest daughter. Their manual employinent is spinning and knitting worsted stockings, which affords them but a scanty subsistence.

20. From the Abeille Du Nord of Aug. 27." The Editor of this paper, having imprudently inserted in the papers, Nos. 51, 60, and 67, an anecdote taken from works published a considerable time back, and which do not belong to the history of the present time, which is the object of this paper, makes known, that in consequence of this indiscretion, it it has been imposed as a punishment by the police, and enjoined by the supreme authority, that he must abstain from inserting auecdotes, drawn even from the history of times past, calculated to offend governments on friendly terms with that of Denmark." Such is the state of the press on the continent!

21. The following account of the state of the Irish labourer in England is copied from the Boston (Lincolnshire) Gazette:

"We have refrained for a fortnight

night from mentioning the two Irish labourers, part of a consi-, derable number brought before the magistrates at Boston, from Swineshead, some time ago, who were, on a re-hearing of their case, discharged from the house of correction to which they had been committed, and the charge against them dismissed by the magistrates. As most of the Irish labourers who come into this part of the United Kingdom for the harvest season have now left it on their return home, we no longer feel it necessary to repress our feelings on the subject of the broils in which they have been not unfrequently in volved in this neighbourhood. The hardy sons of the sister island, with a spirit of laborious industry that should excite a compassionate feeling towards them, come into the fens of England, particularly into this county (the yeomanry of which have for many years made a point of inviting them by public advertisement), to assist in gathering the harvest, which, by the favour of Providence, is generally more abundant than the particular population would be able to reap. By the greedy labourer, who desires to make excessive wages through the necessity of the farmer, and whom half a guinea a day, at the height of the season, will not satisfy, the Irish auxiliary is looked upon with jealousy. To taunt an Irishman is an easy way of creating a disturbance; and in a tumult wherein he who is distant from home knows no friends, the Irishman becomes in some chance blow or other, an aggressor, though in the beginning of the affair he was much more" sinned against

than sinning." He is, after a desperate resistance, apprehended; and against him many witnesses are found; whilst, on his part, as he knows not the name of any one person in the country, he can call nobody to give for him a favourable representation of the case. Such, we know too well, has been the situation of some unfortunate fellows who have been brought be fore the magistrates at Boston.

"The Irish labourers who migrate to this country on the faith of a public invitation, should, for the honour of the country, be received rather with partiality and favour, than with jealousy and prejudice; and we sincerely hope that in future every disposition will be shewn to make their situation comfortable, and to punish those whose dispositions would lead them to insult the stranger, and to disgrace their country, by violating the sacred obligations of hospitality."

A large dog, which in the course of his depredations for several weeks past, is supposed to have destroyed sheep upon the mountains of Ennerdale, in Cumberland, to the value of 2001. was shot on Friday last, about a mile below Ennerdale-bridge, after being pursued in a circuitous direction for three hours, by the hounds of Mr. Westray, of Eskat. This destructive animal, which is between a mastiff and a greyhound, measured, from the head to the tail end, five feet eight inches, and weighed six stone.

23. Ever since the appearance of the comet, a field preacher, well known in the neighbourhood of Paddington and the New-road for