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seen at a public-house, seemingly 

 sober, drinking a pot of beer. 



A hair-dresser, atBrussels,having 

 lately quarrelled with a woman to 

 whom he was attached, shot her 

 through the head with a pistol, and, 

 findinfjthat she still gave some signs 

 of life, he killed her with the butt- 

 end of a musket. When the guards 

 entered the place, he threw himself 

 on the dead body, and before he 

 could be seized he blew out his 

 brains with the musket. An inn- 

 keeper, returningfrom taking a walk 

 with his wife, was so affected at the 

 spectacle as to drop down to all ap- 

 pearance dead ; the medical persons 

 who were called in declared liim to 

 be lifeless. The next day he was in- 

 closed in an oak coffin, and deposit- 

 ed in a chapel till the funeral was to 

 take place. Some of the neighbours 

 hearing a noise in the chapel, ran to 

 the place, and found the poor man 

 bathed in his blood, and really dead, 

 having, as it appeared, made most 

 violent but ineffectual efforts to 

 break his coffin. 



4th. Last week, the whole of the 

 property of Bognor, in Sussex, was 

 putupto sale atthatplace. Itwasdi- 

 vided into lots, Sir Rich. Hotham's 

 residence, called Chapel-house, with 

 upwards of thirty-nine acres attach- 

 ed to it, was purchased by colonel 

 Scott, at SGSOf. Bognor-lodge, 

 with upwards of thirty-five acres 

 attached to it, was purchased by 

 Mr. Cook, at 3.500/. Northampton- 

 place, consisting of seven houses, 

 was bought by Mr. Hurst, at 4400/. 

 East-row, containing six handsome 

 houses, was bought by Mr. Met- 

 calf, the I'.ast- India director, at 

 3100/. Tlie Lawn-cottage was 

 purchased by Mr. Middleton, at 

 560/. Colonel Scott is the cliief 

 purchaser. Besides sir Richard's 



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fine residence, he has purchased 

 various lots of ground, to the 

 amount of upwards of 120 acres, 

 some of which sold very high. The 

 colonel gave likewise 300 guineas 

 fofthe manorial rights of Southwick. 

 Mr. Metcalf has likewise made seve- 

 ral purchases of land ; so have sir 

 Lionel Darell, alderman Newnham, 

 &c. The whole has yielded but 

 about 64,000/. for what cost more 

 than 160,000/. 



A letter from Xeres, In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cadiz, states, that 1 8.57 

 persons had died in Cadiz in seven- 

 teen days; that 30,000 had deserted 

 that city, and that 3000 were sick. 

 The population is about 80,000. 

 Five days generally terminates the 

 disease; two days of which the 

 patient is seized with a delirium and 

 black vomit, and, if a copious per- 

 spiration does not succeed, death is 

 the consequence : sometimes the}'' 

 recover, but a relapse is fatal. There 

 had been no rain for seventy days, 

 which occasioned a great foulness in 

 their shores and streets. Some per- 

 sons are of opinion that the disease 

 has been imported from Tangiers ; 

 others, from America. 



Pius Vn. has begun the reforma- 

 tion of the ecclesiastical state in his 

 own household, by reducing the ex- 

 penses of it to 86,000 dollars, which 

 formerly amounted to 150,000 — 

 The papal chamber has a debt of 

 fifty millions, the payment of which 

 requires the strictest economy. 



1 4th. This evening notice was 

 given to the magistrates, that two 

 bills of a most inflammatory kind 

 had been posted on the monument. 

 They were in writing, and both 

 apparently in the same hand; and 

 their contents as follow: 

 "bread avill be 

 sixpence the quartern, 

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