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ANNUAL REGISTER, 181S, 



servant woman said she always 

 dreaded some such mischief would 

 one day or other happen : in about 

 four minutes they heard a shot in 

 the parlour, which he supposed 

 was fired at his master ; determin- 

 ed to return to the parlour at all 

 hazards, he left the kitchen, heard 

 his master groan, and met him in 

 the passage. Mr. S. said, " I am 

 a dead man ;" and almost instantly 

 fell and verified his words. On in- 

 vestigation neitlier money nor 

 watch were found upon him, al- 

 though he was seldom without 

 money, and had on that day, and 

 on the preceding, received large 

 sums. The ruffians, immediately 

 after firing, left the house, went off 

 through Ballyianeen ; and were 

 not afterwards heard of. On going 

 they met some villagers at the door 

 laughing, and practising the usual 

 mummeries of All-hallow-eve (31st 

 Oct.) They joined in the laugh, 

 and appeared anxious to outdo 

 them in noisy merriment. 



The following bulletin was ex*- 

 hibited at St. Janies's-palace : — 

 Windsor Castle, Nov. 6. 



" His majesty has continued un- 

 remittingly under the full influence 

 of his disorder for many months 

 past : he has, since the last report, 

 had a transient increase of it : but 

 this has again subsided into its 

 former state. His majesty's bodily 

 health shows no appearance of 

 decay, and his spirits are generally 

 in a comfortable state." 



9; Between three and four 

 o'clock in the morning, Brighton 

 was visited by a st(;rm of wind and 

 rain, accompanied by verj' loud 

 thunder and vivid flashes of light- 

 ning. The latter did considerable 

 damage in the town and neigh- 

 botirhood ; but providentially no 



lives were lost. A house situate 

 in Oxford-place, the property of 

 Mr. Marshall, was literally torn to 

 pieces by the electric fluid ; and 

 although Mr. Marshall and his ser- 

 vant were in the premises, they es- 

 caped unhurt. A great part of the 

 roof was forced in, the whole of 

 the ceiling demolished, the timbers 

 of the partitions nearly bent double, 

 the headposts of the bedstead in 

 which the servant lay, destroyed, 

 and the curtains of the bed burnt 

 to a cinder; the casement of the 

 window cast upwards of thirty 

 yards from the premises, the door 

 removed to a considerable distance, 

 and the pavement of the wash- 

 house thrown up. The same flash 

 also destroyed a great part of Cop- 

 peras Gap Mill, about three miles 

 to the westward of the town, and 

 a young man of the name of Hag- 

 gett was severely burnt. 



On the 6th inst. died-, at An- 

 dover, where he was a prisoner of 

 war on parole, Michael Marie Coie, 

 a French marine officer. The 2nd 

 battalion of the 5th regiment of 

 foot happening to be on their 

 march through the town on the 

 9th, their commanding officer. 

 Captain Boyle, volunteered to 

 attend at his funeral. The pro- 

 cession commenced with a select 

 body of the military, accompanied 

 by their band playing the dead 

 march in Saul, preceding the 

 corpse, which was followed by the 

 whole of the French officers there 

 on parole, as chief mourners, at- 

 tended by the remaining part of 

 the battalion, closing with their 

 officersL The attention paid to the 

 remains of this gentleman appear- 

 ed to be most gratefully felt by 

 the French oflScers. 



12. The miserable wretch, Wil- 



