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day evening, he rang and asked 

 witness the hour, who rephed, 

 "half-past nine,'' and with a sig- 

 nificant stare, the deceased re- 

 joined, " What ! in the morning ?" 

 Witness considered him to have 

 been quite insane two days before 

 the suicide ; and in this he was 

 corroborated by a gentleman, a 

 friend of the deceased. No re- 

 port of the pistol was heard. The 

 jury returned a verdict of— In- 

 sanity. 



The deceased was brother of 

 sir George Brograve. He was 

 originally a captain in the second 

 dragoons, and for some years had 

 sported considerably on the turf. 

 He was originally, at least, of com- 

 petent, if not of splendid fortune ; 

 he was considerably minus at the 

 last Newmarket meeting ; and he 

 is known to have lost 10,000/. on 

 the Derby race, in backing the 

 field against Smolensko. He had, 

 it seems gone round to some of 

 his creditors, as it is supposed, to 

 solicit time ; but whether or not 

 he met any rebuff is not known. 

 Monday, the day of paying and 

 receiving at Tattersall's, was fast 

 approaching, and the deceased 

 could not sustain the shock of 

 meeting the demands against him, 

 without the means of discharging 

 them. 



13. This morning two lads of 

 the names of Eyre and Bishop 

 were found senseless on a brick- 

 kiln, near the New-cut, St. 

 George's-fields. The eldest of the 

 two was recovered from suffoca- 

 tion by medical assistance; but the 

 other was completely lifeless. It 

 is supposed that ihcy had resorted 

 to the kiln for the sake of warmth, 

 and having fallen asleep, they were 

 suflbcated by the fumes. 



14. Last week, Mr. Lowe, one 

 of the constables of Birmingham, 

 having ascertained that some pre- 

 mises in Freeman-street were in- 

 habited by people employed in 

 coining, and forging bank-notes, 

 proceeded with assistants to the 

 house, which they found most 

 strongly barricadoed. They, at 

 length succeeded in forcing their 

 way, when two men, who were 

 within, immediately threw into the 

 stoves a considerable quantity of 

 thin paper, blanks, dies, &c. The 

 officers took six persons into cus- 

 tody, with various materials for 

 coining and forging. 



22. Mr. Cowan and Mr. Coutts, 

 two masters of vessels, lately effect- 

 ed their escape from a French 

 prison, where they had been con- 

 fined more than nine years, and 

 were picked up at sea, in a boat 

 only fourteen feet long, by the 

 Andromache frigate, captainTobin, 

 while cruising on the coast of 

 France. They had been furnished 

 with bread and water, a compass, 

 quadrant, &c. by an American 

 captain, and were two days and 

 nights at sea, happily experiencing 

 fine weather all the time ; but 

 only a few hours after they were 

 picked up, a tremendous gale of 

 wind came on, with a heavy sea, 

 which continued more than forty- 

 eight hours; and had ihey not 

 been thus timely rescued, they 

 most unquestionably must have 

 been consigned to a watery grave. 

 The American captain who assis- 

 ted in their escape, has since been 

 taken prisoner, and is now at Ply- 

 mouth. 



28. An adjourned meeting of 

 the Catholic board was held in 

 Dublin, at which Mr. Mahon 

 moved a resolution for acquiescing 



