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and his shirt was scorched almost 

 to tinder. 



26. Moses Gomez Carvalho, a 

 jewr, born in Portugal in 1706, 

 and who emigrated from thence in 

 1720, on account of In's religion, 

 died lately at Amsterdam, aged 

 107 years. He was twice married, 

 and had many children, of whom 

 the eldest died when 78 years of 

 age, and the youngest is only 22 

 years. His second wife was de- 

 livered in 1798 of a son, who died 

 fihortlv after. In 1804, he had 

 seen his fifth generation, in the 

 person of a great great grandson. 

 The deceased enjoyed all his facul- 

 ties until the moment of his death, 

 never having lost a tooth, and never 

 having worn spectacles. His drink 

 was milk and water, and he took 

 every day a very small glass of 

 brandy. 



27. This morning, between two 

 and 3 o'clock, the Bath mail-coach 

 was overturned on its way from 

 town, between Reading and New- 

 bury, in consequence of the horses 

 taking fright and bolting from tlie 

 road into a gravel-pit. The coach- 

 man was thrown from the box 

 among the horses, and received se- 

 veral contusions from being trod 

 upon. The guard, and a foreigner 

 who was on the top, were precipi- 

 tated by the shock to such a dis- 

 tatice, and with such violence, as 

 would probably have proved fatal 

 to them, had not the earth and 

 gravel on which they lighted been 

 saturated with the rain which fell 

 in the course of the day ; and to 

 the same cause may be ascribed 

 the trifling injury done to the 

 horses and the coach. In a few 

 minutes after the accident took 

 place, a Cath coach came up. The 



passengers rendered every assist- 

 ance in their power, and with some 

 difficulty succeeded in extricating 

 the inside passengers from the 

 mail. Among them was a haval 

 officer, who was going to join his 

 ship at Plymouth ; but he had suf- 

 fered so much from the concus- 

 sion, that he was speechless and 

 unable to move. He was conveyed 

 to a small cottage on the road side. 

 A young lady who was also in the 

 coach, and asleep at the time the 

 accident happened, did not receivfe 

 the slightest injury, and proceeded 

 on her journey. A further account 

 is said to state, that the officer, a 

 lieutenant in the navy, died in the 

 course oF Wednesday night. The 

 accident, it is said, happened in 

 consequence of the keeper, 6r 

 hostler, quitting the horses' heads, 

 after changing, before the coach- 

 man got seated on the box. He 

 had one foot on the splinter-bar, 

 and the reins loosely in his hand, 

 when the person in front suddenly 

 left his post, on which the horses 

 set off full speed, and dashed into 

 a gravel-pit. 



27. Yesterday morning, about 

 two o'clock, a shocking murder 

 was committed on the body of a 

 poor labouring man, in a field be- 

 tween Lucas-street and the Found- 

 ling-hospital. It is supposed the 

 deceased had been attacked by 

 some villains, and, making resist- 

 ance, they resolved to murder him, 

 which horrid deed being perpe- 

 trated, they threw the body into a 

 gravel-pit near the place where 

 the murder was committed. The 

 body was discovered about four 

 o'clock, by two labourers. The 

 head of the deceased was much 

 lacerated, and tfiarks were found 



