give the ship that assistance she required to keep the sea. As soon as the persons reached the shore who were preserved from the wreck, they were thrown into prison; but the next day, the merchants, and other inhabitants of the place, sent and supplied them with clothing and food, so that they were not destitute of any comfort their unfortunate situation would admit of. On Sunday last, Buonaparte's order arrived for the free and unconditional liberation of the crew of the Elizabeth, in consequence of their previous sufferings; the restoration of an equal number of French prisoners being left to the option of our government. (There can be no doubt of our fulfilling our corresponding duty.) A melancholy circumstance happened within these few days at Newark. On Friday, the 17th instant, the passengers by the Highflyer coach from the north dined as usual. A bottle of wine was ordered, on tasting which, a gentleman, one of the passengers, observed that it had an unpleasant flavour, and begged that it might be changed. In compliance with this wish the waiter took away the bottle; but thought he had met with one of those travellers who are more nice than wise, and whom nothing can please at an inn; he therefore poured into a fresh decanter half the wine which had been objected to, and added sufficient from .another bottle to make up the usual quantity. This he took into the room, and the greatest part of it was drank by the passengers. But when the coach proceeded on to Grantley, the passengers who had partaken of the wine experienced a loathing and disagreeable sickness, which, with one gentleman in particular, who had taken more of the wine than the others, increased to an alarming degree. The more melancholy part of the story remains to be told: the half of the bottle which the waiter kept in the decanter was put aside, for the purpose of mixing negus. In the evening Mr. Bland, an attorney, of Newark, and a man much respected, went into the same house, and drank a glass or two of wine and water. He returned home at his usual hour, but was taken so ill in the night, that Mrs. Bland sent for his brother, an apothecary in the town; before he arrived, however, the sufferer was dead. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, and the jury, after the fullest inquiry, and the strictest examination of the surgeons by whom the body was opened, returned a verdict of-Died by poison. It is stated in a Dublin paper, that since the duty on whiskey has been reduced, no less than 60,000 gallons of that spirit, retailed in upwards of 1200 licensed dram-shops, are consumed every week in that city. 2. Paris, Jan. 22.-The Bulletin of the Allier contains the following letter, addressed on the 14th instant, by the Sub-prefect of Gannat, to the Prefect of the department of the Allier: "M. Prefect-I know not how to give you the narrative of a frightful crime, committed on the 15th ult. in the Commune of Biozat, My pen seems to recoil at tracing details so horrible. A young woman, twenty-three years. of age, has just murdered her father, father, her mother, her brother, and two sisters! "On the 13th December, Amable Albert, of the Commune of Biozart, a respectable man, poor, and with a large family, was obliged, by the bad state of his affairs, to sell a small part of his property. His daughter, Madelaine Albert, of a violent character, of suspected morals, and unfortunately accustomed to abuse her father and mother, reproached her father in language the most violent on account of this sale, and ended by imperiously demanding a part of the sum which he had received. The father refused, mentioning to her at the same time the state of his affairs; she insisted, and abused him outrageously. The father vexed, and affronted at the insolence of his daughter, gave her several blows on the shoulders, and ordered her to go to bed. She obeyed, and went to bed. A quarter of an hour after she seized an axe, and advanced without ncise towards the fire-side, where her father, mother, and three brothers, and sisters were warming themselves. "She aimed a blow with the axe at her father's head, laid open his skull, and in spite of the cries of her family, she repeated her blows. He was killed by the first stroke; any one of the wounds would have been sufficient to deprive this unfortunate man of life. They were so deep, that the monster must have been possessed of extraordinary strength to produce them. She then threw herself on her mother, without being softened by her prayers and sighs, struck her five times with the hatchet, and laid her at her feet. Her two young sisters, one éleven, the other three years old, met with no greater mercy. She struck the eldest both on the head and neck, but did not kill her, because the poor creature crept under the bed. "These numerous crimes did not satiate the tigress. She seized her youngest sister, who held her mother's body, took her in hei arms, and threw her alive as she was into a well. "Of all this family, a brother thirteen years old survived by a kind of miracle. He was so fortunate as to creep behind a trunk, to open the door, and to make his escape, calling for assistance. Madelaine Albert added to so much atrocity the refinement of hypocrisy. She called to her brother, requested him to return, and promised to do him no harm. In a voice the most mild and calm she endeavoured to prevail on the boy to return to the house; but he was too much terrified; he ran away, and took shelter in the house of a man of the name of Richard. In consequence of his story, several of the inhabitants went to assist the family. They found Madelaine Albert walking with great agitation in the house, with a large knife in her hand, with which she threatened to kill any one that should approach her. The darkness of the night, and the terror inspired by so dreadful a sight, paralyzed the courage of these men; they durst not advance and seize her. In their presence Madelaine Albert took from her mother's pocket the key of a cupboard, opened it, took out the money that was in it, and went out of the house, without any of the spectators having the courage to seize her or to follow her. It is supposed that she is gone to wards Riom or Clermont; the gens'darmerie are in pursuit of her." 5. This being the day appointed for swearing in the Prince of Wales as Regent, about twelve o'clock a party of the flank companies of the grenadiers, with their colours and the band of the 1st regiment, marched into the courtyard of Carlton-house, where the colours were pitched in the centre of the grand entrance. The band struck up "God save the King," and continued playing that piece, alternately with martial airs, till near five o'clock." At a quarter before two o'clock, the Duke of Montrose arrived, being the first of the Privy Counsellors who attended; he was followed by all the Royal Dukes, and a very numerous assemblage of Privy Counsellors, who had all arrived by a quarter before three o'clock. The whole of the magnificent suite of state apartments were thrown open, which for taste and splendour surpass any thing of the kind in this country. About half-past two o'clock, the Lord President of the Council obtained a private audience of the Prince, to prepare his Royal Highness for the business that was about to be proceeded upon, in the same manner as the proceedings of a Council about to be held are laid before the King: which being done, the President retired to the state or levee-room, were the noble personages assembled were so extremely numerous, that many retired to the anti-room. Soon after three o'clock the approach of the Prince to the state room was announced, and immediately after his Royal Highness entered, attended by Lord Keith, Colonels Bloomfield and Macmahon, and two other attendants. His Royal Highness was dressed in full regimentals, and appeared in excellent spirits. He took his stand under the throne, when those assembled made their obeisance to him; afterwards the Prince went round the room, and spoke to those assembled with his usual condescension. The levee being over, the Prince signified his readiness to attend the council, when the procession to the grand saloon, appointed for holding the council, began to move in the following order: The Great Chamberlain of England (Lord Gwydir) with his wand of office. The Vice-Chamberlain (Lord John Thynne) with his wand of office. The Duke of Montrose, Master of the Horse. The Lord Steward of the Household (Earl of Aylesford) with his wand of office. rately laid at the head of the table, written on vellum. His Royal Highness took his seat at the head of the table, the Lord President on his right, and the Lord Chancellor • on his left hand: the other Privy Counsellors being seated, the Lord President briefly stated the indisposition and incapacity of the King, and the proceedings that had taken place in Parliament to appoint a Regent; and then read the oaths required by the act for the Prince to take, to enable him to fill that high office; and his Royal Highness signifying his wil lingness to take them, the Lord President proceeded to administer the oaths, and the Prince signed the different pieces of vellum upon which they were inscribed, in the presence of the following Privy Counsellors, who signed as witnesses to the Prince's signature: Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, Cambridge, and Gloucester. The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Lord President of the Council. The Duke of Montrose. Marquisses Douglass, Buckingham, Stafford, Lansdowne, Wellesley, and Hertford. Earls-Moira, Liverpool, Aylesford, Mount Edgcumbe, Derby, Grosvenor, Bathurst, Chatham, Aylesbury, Pembroke, Spencer, Hardwicke, Winchelsea, Buckinghamshire, Chesterfield, Cholmon deley, Lauderdale, Temple, Carysfort, Harrowby, Chichester, Grey, and Powis. Cathcart, Morpeth, Sid Fiscounts mouth, and Castlereagh. Lords-Erskine, Grenville, Ellenborough, C. Somerset, Palmerston, Arden, G. & J. Thynne, Redesdale, Teignmouth, St. John, Walsingham, St. Helen's, and Mulgrave. The Bishop of London. Messrs-Ponsonby, Sheridan, Ryder, Corry, Canning, Yorke, T. Grenville, G. W. Elliot, C. M. Sutton, Arbuthnot, Rose, Wallace, Tierney, and Long. The proceedings upon swearing in the Prince Regent being ended, his Royal Highness retired, and commenced his office by transacting business with the Ministers of State. The cause between the Rev. Basil Wood, of Bath, rector of Thorpe Bassett, in the East Riding of the county of York, and his parishioners, respecting the tythes of that parish, was heard on Thursday last, when a decree was made in favour of the rector, establishing his right to tythes in kind; and the defendants were ordered to account with the rector for four years, the time of his incumbency, and to pay the costs of suit. The defence set up was, that awards for money payments, accompanied with allotments of land, made in 1695 and 1718, amounting to a composition real, sanctioned by the then Archbishop of York, the diocesan; the Earl of Carlisle, lord of the manor and patron; and the Rev. Bernard Lewis, the then rector; and confirmed by a Decree in the Court of Chancery in 1722, were binding on future rectors. By the present decree it is completely established, that no award or decree as to an existing rector, or any composition real, since the statute of the 13th Elizabeth, can deprive a future incumbent of his common right to tythes in kind. .Or On Tursday, the 24th ult. a fox was unkenneled at Ystradgunlais, in the county of Brecon, which was pursued by a number of men on foot to the extremity of the parish of Lloughot, in Glamorganshire, where Reynard became quite exhausted, and was killed. after a chase, which, in a direct line, was not less than 30 miles, but in the winding direction which the fox took is supposed to be nearly 50 miles. The pursuers were all in at the death, but could not muster a hat or shoe amongst them, so eagerly had they followed their game, and the dogs were completely knocked up. The hardy fellows, after taking some refreshment, set out on their return home. 6. A few days ago, as á dragoon was on his return from duty to his quarters, a small public house, called Barndean Hut, in the forest, near Petersfield, in Hampshire, his attention was arrested by the cries of some person in distress, which induced him to ride up to the spot from whence they proceeded, where his humanity was shocked on beholding a woman tied to a tree, with the tears which her situation and suffering had produced actually frozen to her cheeks, and, horrid to relate, quite naked, having been stripped and robbed of every article of dress by two villains, who afterwards left her in that deplorable condition. The dragoon instantly cut the cords that bound her hands and feet to the tree, and having in some measure restored her to the use of her limbs by rubbing them, wrapped her up in his cloak, placed her on his horse, and proceeded VOL. LIII. on to his quarters, where he soon after arrived; and as he was conducting the shivering object of his care into the house, she looked through a window that commanded a view of the kitchen, suddenly shrunk back, and in a faint voice exclaimed "there are the two men that robbed me of my all, and used me so cruelly." The soldier, in consequence, entered the kitchen, and secured the men, who were the next day taken before a magistrate, and after the necessary examination, fully committed to Winchester jail, for trial at the next assizes. 7. A few days ago, a notorious offender and most formidable ruffian was taken by Mr. Sheriff Bernard, accompanied by some of the peace officers of Cork, and a party of military. This daring villain, whose name is Laffan, had been for a long time a sort of Rugantino in Cork, exciting terror wherever be made his appearance. It was necessary to manage a man of this description with very great circumspection and stratagem, as his vigilance eluded every effort that had been made to arrest him. He was at length, however, so well watched as to have his haunt. discovered, which was so judiciously surrounded as to leave no possibility of his escape. Before he knew any thing of the Sheriff's arrangement for detecting him, the room in which he worked (at) brogue-making) was entered by Mr. Collis, one of the peace officers, whose zeal and exertions in this, as in many other instances, deserves every commendation. The ruffian immediately took a posture of resistance, and threw his C working |