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nent artist's collection, for 200/. — 

 St. John preaching in the Wilder- 

 ness, by Raphael, fetched Q5 gui- 

 neas. A beautiful painting, by- 

 Gainsborough, of an Italian villa, 

 90 guineas. The archduke Leo- 

 pold's gallery, by Teniers, 210 

 guineas. Four paintings of a battle, 

 by Cassanovi, which cost his grace 

 1000/. were sold for 60 guineas. 

 A most beautiful landscape, by 

 Cuype, for 200 guineas. Two 

 beautiful bronze figures, Venus de 

 Medicis and Antinous, 20 guineas ; 

 and Venus couchant, from the an- 

 tique, 20 guineas. Another of the 

 pictures was the duel between 

 lord Mahon and the duke of Ha- 

 milton. The week after, were sold 

 the double rows of lime-trees in 

 the garden, valued, one at 90/- the 

 other at 80/.; which are now all 

 taken down, and the site of a new 

 square, of nearly the dimensions of 

 Lincoln' s-inn Fields,and to be called 

 Russell-square, has been laid out. 

 The famous statue of Apollo, which 

 was in the hall at Bedford-house, 

 has been removed to Woburn- 

 abbey, and is to be placed on an 

 eminence in the square between 

 the abbey and the tennis-court and 

 riding-house. It originally cost a 

 thousand guineas. 



An accident of a remarkable na- 

 ture lately happened in the environs 

 of Beziers, in Languedoc. A la- 

 bouring man coming home found a 

 kite perched on the cradle of his 

 child, and devouring it so greedily, 

 that the father took the bird with- 

 out any difficulty; but tl)e child 

 was so much injured as to be past 

 recovery. 



11th. This night, about nine 

 o'clock, — — Meadows, esq. of 

 Kippis-Hall, near Pontefract, sud- 

 denly called Mrs. Meadows's maid 



into the drawing room, and threat- 

 ened to stab her with his sword. 

 By the earnest entreaty of his lady, 

 however, he was diverted from the 

 purpose, and the servant was per- 

 mitted to leave the room. But she 

 had scarcely v/ithdrawn, when he 

 attacked Mrs. Meadows with the 

 most savage ferocity, gave her three 

 stabs in the body, and cut her 

 throat in so dreadful a manner as 

 nearly to sever her head from her 

 body. The servants were first 

 alarmed by one of their children, 

 who ran down stairs exclaiming 

 that her papa had killed her 

 mamma. As the murderer was 

 ai-med with two or three brace of 

 pistols, besides his sword, they were 

 obliged to send for a party of the 

 Pontefract volunteers, who immedi- 

 ately secured him, and carried him 

 off to York-castle. His lady was a 

 dutiful wife and tender mother; 

 and the conduct of Mr. Meadows 

 can be attributed only to insanity. 

 15th. A circumstance occurred 

 this morning in Hyde Park, which 

 caused a considerable sensation 

 through the town, in the course of 

 the forenoon. His majesty was 

 attending the field exercises of the 

 grenadier battalion of the guards, 

 when, during one of the vollies, a 

 ball cartridge was fired from the 

 musket of one of the soldiers, which 

 struck Mr. Ongley, a clerk in the 

 allotment department of the navy- 

 office, who was standing only twen- 

 ty-three feet distance from the king. 

 I'he ball entered the fleshy part of 

 the thigh in front, and passed 

 straight through. Mr. Ongley was 

 dressed on the ground : had the 

 wound been an inch higher, it must 

 have proved fatal. An examination 

 took place of the cartouch boxes of 

 the soldiers, but no individual could 



