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him, and killed him on the spot. 

 The other officers were so intimi- 

 dated that he effected his escape. 

 He was, however, taken the next 

 day near Overtons, hut not tUl he 

 had bit off the top of a phial of 

 arsenic, intending to poison him- 

 self; a small quantity of which he 

 swallowed. The deceased has left 

 a wife and five small children. We 

 have since learned, that the hair- 

 dresser put an end to his life, by 

 poison, on the 20th instant ; and 

 that, in consequence of the coroner's 

 verdict, he was buried the same 

 night in the sand-hills on the road 

 leading to Derby. 



Water has been so scarce at 

 Edinburgh, from the failure of the 

 springs, that the magistrates have 

 found it necessary to put some re- 

 strictions on the public wells, 

 which are to be shut for several 

 hours every day. Private families 

 are to be served with water only 

 twice a week through the usual 

 pipes; and they are properly or- 

 dered to keep their cisterns in a 

 good state, that no waste of water 

 may take place whue this scarcity 

 shall continue. 



19th. This day, when about two 

 miles out of Colchester, one of the 

 carriages, conveying the attendants 

 of the Turkish ambassador, on his 

 way to Yarmouth, broke down ; 

 ■which circumstance being immedi- 

 ately communicated to the ambas- 

 sador, he ordered the whole of them 

 to stop, and, with his retinue, re- 

 tired into an adjoining wood for 

 nearly two hours, till the carriage 

 was repaired. A carpet being 

 spread, the postilions were ordered 

 to prepare fuel for a fire ; which 

 done, coffee was got ready, and 

 served to the ambasfsador, who was 



seated in the Turkish style, under a 

 canopy, affixed to some trees ; and 

 afterwards, his attendants par took of 

 the same. The ambassador was not 

 in the least discomposed at the acci- 

 dent, but seemed happy in the op- 

 portunity, thus afforded him, of 

 smoking his favourite pipe, with 

 his attendants, in this rural retreat. 

 Ludlow. A person who ownspart 

 of Radnor forest (that is a sheep- 

 walk) wanting to dig out some pit- 

 mar (that is coal), set fire to the 

 heath and moss to clear the top ; 

 but the fire burnt so rapid, as to be 

 out of his power to stop its fury ; 

 and it burnt for 30 miles in cir- 

 cumference, to the destruction of 

 thousands of sheep, and the distress 

 of many poor cottagers, whose huts 

 became a prey to the flames. There 

 being no water, and the fire having 

 burnt as low in the ground as 18 

 feet, no trench could be cut to 

 stop it. The people were fearful it 

 would reach to the wood ; if so, 

 the whole country would have been 

 ruined. After the fire had been 

 burning for more than eight days, 

 the flames had spread themselves, 

 in different directions, to an alarm- 

 ing extent. On that side the vale 

 adjoining sir W. W. Wynne's es- 

 tate, atWynstay, it was supposed to 

 extend from eight to ten miles, and, 

 on the opposite side, about four. 

 After having raged upwards of five 

 weeks, it was at length extinguished 

 by the late providential falls of rain, 

 after havingburned about four miles 

 in extent over several hundred acres 

 of land. The fire had raged with 

 great violence, during the above 

 period, and the flames were seen, at 

 night, from the hills in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ludlow, distant about 

 ] 7 miles, rising in columns to an 



