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upper part of his forehead by a 
ball, supposed to have been fired 
from a horse pistol on the opposite 
side of the street, which was about 
25 yards wide. The ball took an 
oblique direction, and made a sin- 
gular wound of three inches long, 
without penetrating the skull; no 
surgeon being immediately at hand, 
one of the gentlemen of his suite 
eut off the hair, and applied the 
first thing he met with in order to 
stop the bleeding. The confusion 
was great, by which means the per- 
petrator of this inhumaz deed made 
his escape ; he is supposed to be a 
Frenchman from the Republican 
army, bribed for this purpose, and 
connected with others who facili- 
tated his escape. The town. has 
a wall round it, but perhaps not 
more than four feet high in many 
places. ‘This assassin must have 
been particularly acquainted with 
the king’s person, as the duke de 
Fleurs was standing close by him 
at the time, in a narrow window, 
and is nearly as corpulent in his 
person. ‘The ball was found on 
thefloor, flattened by having struck 
the wall afterwards. ‘The king 
was not materially hurt, and in 
three days afterwards pursued his 
journey to Ingoldstadt, in his way 
to Saxony. 
Ath. Karly this HIGEDIE an el- 
erly man, decently dressed, 
blew his brains out in a field be- 
tween Brompton and Chelsea, with 
a large horse-pistol, the muzzle of 
which, it is thought, he had put 
into his mouth,.as a large piece of 
the back part of hisskull was found 
at several yards distance from. the 
body. “He had no money about 
him, nor any thing which could 
lead to discover who he was. A 
letter was found in his pocket un- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
finished, 
as to his circumstances and bodily 
afflictions. 
perienced when asleep, he says, 
cannot be equalled by any human — 
distress ; at such times he was a prey — 
to the most frightful apprehensions, — 
‘To lull his disordered senses, he had 
daily taken a large dose of lauda~ — 
num, which at length turning his — 
brain, occasioned his exit. 
At Stafford, assizes an extraordi- 
nary incident took place: One of 
the prisoners (Wm. Cottrell) was 
indicted fora burglary and robbery 
in the house of Mr. Forman, of 
Handsworth, to which he pleaded — 
guilty ; nor could he be persuaded 
to offer any Other plea, until the 
Judge threatened, in case he per- 
sisted, to order him for a speedy © 
execution—He then pleaded not — 
guity, and his trial proceeded. 
However, sufficient evidence not 
appearing to convict him, he was, 
of course (though very unexpect- 
edly), acquitted. 
9th A cricket-match was played 
“by eleven Greenwich pensi- 
oners with one leg, against eleven 
with one arm, for one thousand 
guineas, at thenew cricket ground, 
Montpellier’ gardens, Walworth. 
About nine o’clock the men arrived 
in three Greenwich stages; about 
twelve the wickets were pitched, © 
andthe mateh commenced. Those 
with but one leg had the first’ in- 
nings, and got ninety three runs ; 
those with one arm got but forty- 
two runs during their innings, 
The one-legs commenced theii se- 
cond innings, and six were bowled 
out after they got sixty runs, so 
that they left off one hundred and 
eleven 
The horrors he ex- — 
¥ 
in which he: addresses — 
himself toa Mr. Graham, painting, | 
in the most pathetic language, the”™ 
distress that he laboured under, both — 
