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the deceased lay there from be- 

 tween seven and eight o'clock the 

 preceding evening till nine in the 

 morning, before he was discovered; 

 he lived till the Sunday following 

 without being able to articulate. 

 When Langridge came home on 

 the Tuesday evening, his wife told 

 him what had happened to Mr. 

 Sex, and hoped he had no concern 

 in it ; to which he answered by 

 asking if she wanted such a dose. 

 He took his supper, and went out 

 of the door, saying, " Mary, I shall 

 never more see you alive.'' The 

 coroner's inquest sat upon the 

 bod)', and found a verdict of fVil- 

 Jul Murder against Henry Lang- 

 ridge. 



2. A shoemaker, who was 

 collector of the income tax in the 

 -parish of Christchurch, Surry, has 

 lately become a defalcator to the 

 amount of 3,700/. The manner 

 in which he obtained so important 

 an office was this : he had been 

 for several years a constant attend- 

 ant at Mr. Rowland Hill's chapel, 

 and by the fervour ot his devotion, 

 attracted the notice, and at last 

 gained the friendship of thiit gen- 

 tleman, by whose assistance he was 

 soon enabled to remove from a 

 place little better than a cobbler's 

 stall, and take a large conspicu- 

 ous shop. He also got from his 

 patron a situation in the chapel 

 worth one hundred pounds-a-year. 

 He was at last, through the same 

 generous interest, appointed col- 

 lector of the property-tax, on which 

 occasion two gentlemen became 

 his sureties, one in 1000/. and the 

 other in 2000/. the whole of which 

 sums they will now have to pay. 



6. The following prize sub- 

 jects have been given out at Cam- 



bridge, for sir William Browne's 

 medals : — For the Greek Ode — 

 Victoria Salnmanticce parta. — P'or 

 the Latin Ode — Mosqua Jlnmmis 

 tradita et Gallis erepta. — For the 

 Epigrams — Napoleon ah exercitu 

 iuofugiens. 



In the court of King's Bench, 

 in Ireland, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 

 came on the trial at bar, on an in- 

 formation ex officio, by the attor- 

 ney-general, of Hugh Fitzpatrick, 

 printer, for a libel, contained in a 

 work, entitled, " A Statement of 

 the Penal Laws which aggrieve the 

 Catholics of Ireland." The mat- 

 ter charged as a libel stated, that 

 "at the Summer Assizes of Kilken- 

 ny, one Barry, a respectable Catho- 

 lic farmer, had been convicted and 

 executed, after his innocence was 

 clearly established: and that the 

 duke of Richmond's government 

 would probably be called to ac- 

 count for the fact in parliament.'' 

 The jury brought in a verdict of 

 Guilty. 



On the evening of the 8th, the 

 house of Miss Bakewell, at Swep- 

 slone, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch,- 

 was attacked by a gang of five 

 most desperate robbers. They en- 

 tered it about a quarter past eight 

 o'clock. Three of them secured 

 two female servants, and proceeded 

 to plunder the house: the footman 

 was unfortunately out. Two of the 

 robbers entered the dining-room, 

 where Miss Bakewell was sitting 

 alone, reading; one of them pre* 

 sented a pistol at her head, threat- 

 ened to blow her brains out if she 

 made the least noiste or resistance, 

 and demanded her money, plate, 

 &c. She replied, she had very 

 little money, but what she had 

 they should have.; and j^e and- 



