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Levy was on his return from Con- 

 stantinople, whither he had been 

 dispatched by sir Robert Wilson, 

 at the critical period of the retreat 

 of the French from Moscow. The 

 count had also been the bearer of 

 dispatches to the same quarter. In 

 their anxiety to rejoin sir Robert 

 Wilson, they could not be induced 

 to postpone their passage till the 

 weather moderated, and met their 

 fate near Varna, after being many 

 days at sea. Besides his i'riends, 

 dragoons, and servants, sir Robert 

 Wilson must have lost much va- 

 luable and curious property on this 

 melancholy occasion. 



The ravage of the plague had 

 been dreadful : 250,000 are com- 

 puted to have perished by this 

 scourge. It had, at the date of 

 these advices, entirely ceased. 



MAY. 



1. Christiana Jensdatter, of Hoi- 

 kerup, in Zealand, was lately con- 

 victed before the Danish supreme 

 court of justice, of having poi- 

 soned her father. Her sentence 

 was, that she should be conveyed 

 from her father's residence to the 

 place of execution, and during the 

 procession tortured five times with 

 red-hot pincers, then to have both 

 her hands strucic off, and after- 

 wards to be beheaded. Eilert Han 

 sen, convicted of being accessary 

 to the atrocious deed, was, at the 

 same time, sentenced to lose his 

 head. 



2. The Prince Regent received 

 an account from Windsor, of the 

 queen's being indisposed, in con- 

 sequence of an attack from a fe- 

 male domestic, who was seized 

 with a violent fit of insanity. The 



prince ordered a special messenger 

 to be sent to Windsor, to inquire 

 after the health of his royal mo- 

 ther, and the full particulars of 

 the attack. On the return of the 

 messenger, the prince sent off sir 

 Henry Halford, at seven o'clock 

 in the evening, to attend her ma- 

 jesty. The circumstances 'of the 

 attack are stated as follows : — The 

 unfortunate female who caused 

 the alarm is named Davenport, 

 and held the situation of assistant 

 mistress of the wardrobe to Miss 

 Rice. Her mother has been em- 

 ployed a number of years about 

 the royal family ; she was origin- 

 ally engaged as a rocker to the 

 princesses: and after filling a va- 

 riety of situations very respectably 

 she was appointed housekeeper at 

 the lower lodge, Windsor. Her 

 daughter, the subject of this arti- 

 cle, was born in the queen's pa- 

 lace : she is now upwards of 30 

 years of age, and has lived con- 

 stantly with her mother, under the 

 royal protection. When she was a 

 girl she was attacked with a fit of 

 insanity, but was considered per- 

 fectly cured : however, she has 

 frequently been seized with fits of 

 melancholy, crying and being very 

 desponding, without any known 

 cause. Her mind ^had been more 

 affected since the death of the 

 princess Amelia. She was present 

 at the delivery of the funeral ser- 

 mon which was preached at Wind- 

 sor on the melancholy occasion, 

 and which had such an effect on 

 her mind, that she became ena- 

 moured of the clergyman who 

 delivered it, and report assigns 

 love to be the cause of the violent 

 mental derangement with which 

 she was seized on Sunday morn- 

 ing. She slept in the tower over the 

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