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most marked attention was paid 

 to him by the functionaries of 

 the English government stationed 

 on his route. The cavalcade 

 reached Etawah on the 27th of 

 January, and on the 1st of Fe- 

 bruary arrived at the bathing- 

 place at Siograrapoor, on the 

 Ganges, where he was received 

 by an honorary escort. The 

 crowd of pilgrims assembled at 

 Singrarapoor on this occasion a- 

 mounted to 25,000. The ghauts 

 and banks of the river were abso- 

 lutely covered with people while 

 the eclipse lasted : and from that 

 day to the 10th, Scindea bathed 

 twice daily in the river. Both 

 himself and his consort expended 

 very large sums in charity. Ac- 

 cording to custom, they were 

 weighed against a heap of gold 

 and jewels, &c. which were distri- 

 buted among the attending Brah- 

 mins. Scindea is reported to have 

 been impressed with strong feel- 

 ings of surprise at the fine aspect 

 of cultivation which pervades our 

 provinces, and at the compara- 

 tively happy state of the people. 



Henry Langridge, a tenant of 

 Mr. Sex, and living very near him, 

 in the parish of Penshurst,inKent, 

 was a day-labourer on the estate 

 of Baden Powel, esq. at Lanking- 

 ton-green, near Penshurst, not far 

 from Tunbridge-wells. Having 

 left his work on Monday evening, 

 the 1st of February, with his son, 

 a boy about nine years old, be- 

 tween five and six o'clock, and 

 proceeding homeward, they stop- 

 ped to rest in a field called Sand- 

 fieUl, about a quarter of a mile 

 from home, having first cut a 

 bundle of sticks and laid them 

 across the foot-patii. Mr. Sex, af- 



terwards coming in to the same field 

 in his way home, stumbled over 

 the sticks, and seeing Langridge 

 close by, asked him what he meant 

 by laying those things across the 

 road, to throw people down? Some 

 words followed, and even some 

 sparring. The boy, who appears 

 to be very ingenuous, says, that Mr. 

 Sex attempted to knock his father 

 down, but could not accomplish 

 it; and then his father ordered 

 him to go homewards, saying he 

 would kill Sex that night, or else 

 he would transport him to-morrow. 

 After the boy had got the distance 

 of another field, he distinctly heard 

 the cry of " murder'' several times 

 repeated. It appears, Langridge 

 had a thick ashen club, cut sharp 

 at the bottom, wherewith he beat 

 Mr. Sex so dreadfully as to frac- 

 ture his skull, break both his arms, 

 and force out of the socket one of 

 his eyes : he also thrust the point- 

 ed end between the chin and wind- 

 pipe, into the mouth and through 

 the tongue of the object of his 

 fury; and afterglutting his revengs, 

 left him to welter in his blood, 

 and proceeded after the boy, whom 

 he overtook before he got home, 

 and strictly charged him to tell no 

 person what had happened. When 

 at home, Langridge cut the instru- 

 ment of his barbarity into three or 

 four pieces, and laid them on the 

 fire, but with the bloody side to- 

 wards the flames, that his wife 

 might make no observations upon 

 it. Next morning, as if nothing 

 had happened, he proceeded on to 

 his work again, and sent the boy 

 forward to see if Sex was re- 

 moved : when he heard that the 

 body was still lying there and 

 alive, he took another road ; and 



