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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 



whether any communication took 

 place between her and the defend- 

 ant, their friends, or agents, rela- 

 tive to the action of divorce, pre- 

 vious to or since resident in Scot- 

 land." 



This day, about ten o'clock, the 

 side wall of Mr. Barton's flour- 

 warehouse, in London-road, Li- 

 verpool, fell with a dreadful crash. 

 Every floor broke down, destroy- 

 ing all the property on the pre- 

 mises. The persons in the house 

 were Mr. and Mrs. Barton, and 

 one daughter, who had retired to 

 bed. They slept on the first floor, 

 and were precipitated into the cel- 

 lar. The neighbours immediately 

 crowded to the spot, and on forc- 

 ing the front door, discovered 

 Mrs. Barton clinging to a wooden 

 prop, having miraculously escaped 

 unhurt. It was nearly two hours, 

 however, before they discovered 

 the daughter, a girl of 13, who 

 was considerably injured, but not 

 dangerously; and about a quarter 

 of an hour afterwards the body of 

 Mr. Barton was got out of the 

 ruins, lifeless. The principal room 

 in the warehouse had been gene- 

 rally used for exhibitions, at the 

 time of the fairs held in that 

 neighbourhood, and we understand 

 was engaged for a similar purpose, 

 yesterday, when the consequences 

 might have been still more calami- 

 tous. 



14. A duel was fought by two 

 -of the French prisoners on board 

 the Samson prison-ship, lying in 

 Gillingham Reach, when one of 

 them, in consequence, was killed. 

 Not having any s'vords, they at- 

 tached to the end of two sticks a 

 pair of scissars each. The deceased 

 received the mortal wound in the 

 abdomen ; his bowels protruded, 



and yet he continued to parry with 

 his antagonist while his strength 

 would admit. Afterwards an ap- 

 plication was made to the surgeon 

 of the ship, who replaced the in* _ 

 testines and sewed up the wound, ■ 

 but he survived but a short time. 

 The transaction took place below, 

 in the prison, unknown to the 

 ship's company. 



15. A Grace passed in the se- 

 nate at Cambridge, to apply the 

 surplus money ( upwards of 1 ,000/. ) 

 arising from the subscriptions re- 

 ceived for a statue of the late Wil- 

 liam Pitt, now placed in the senate 

 house, towards establishing a scho- 

 larship, to be called Pitt's Univer- 

 sity Scholarship. 



1 7. Mr Cameron ascended from 

 Glasgow with a balloon, which 

 had been for some time in prepa- 

 ration. The balloon went up in a 

 fine style, took a south easterly di- 

 rection, and descended at Falnash, 

 in the county of Roxburgh, ten 

 miles west of Hawick, having tra- 

 velled seventy-four miles in one 

 hour and twenty minutes. The 

 money collected on this occasion 

 did not cover the aeronaut's ex- 

 penses. 



20. A most destructive fire broke 

 out at the King's Arms public- 

 house, on the Quaj-, at Poole, 

 which was quickly consumed, to- 

 gether with the whole range of 

 buildings, consisting of a drug- 

 gist's shop, several small tene- 

 ments, the Custom-house, and two 

 large store-houses facing the har- 

 bour, with the whole of their valu- 

 able contents. The Custom-house 

 being the most remote, the greater 

 part of the stores were saved. The 

 conflagration was occasioned by a 

 servant-girl belonging to the King's 

 Arms going into a fuel-house with 



