378 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



to point out the emigrants in the 

 town, of whom 15 were immediately 

 arrested. Besides the duke D'En. 

 ghien, it is said that two Englishmen 

 of distinction were taken ; but this 

 report is not credited. Every exer- 

 tion is made by the French to con- 

 Tince the inhabitants, whose terri- 

 tory they have violated, that the per- 

 sons apprehended were in the pay of 

 England, and that one of their ob- 

 jects was to gain possession of the 

 citadel, and turn the artillery against 

 the people. — No resistance was made 

 to this irruption by the elector of 

 Baden ; but an account of the out- 

 rage was dispatched to his son-in- 

 law, the emperor of Russia. — It is 

 said, that as soon as the news of the 

 duke being in custody reached Paris, 

 orders Mere received by the tele- 

 graph that he should be immediately 

 conveyed thither. The distance is 

 400 miles; and he was chained hand 

 and foot the whole way. 



Letters from Paris describe, in 

 the strongest terms, the disgust and 

 indignation of the people at the late 

 inhuman murder of the duke D'En- 

 ghien. Bonaparte has appeared once 

 since at the theatre ; but the moment 

 he entered, half the audience with- 

 drew. 



2d. Nearly 40 sail of the British 

 outward bound West India fleet, and 

 their convoy, the Apollo frigate, were 

 lost upon the coast of Portugal, in 

 the morning before day-break, be- 

 tween cape Mondego and Aveiro. 

 The Apollo sailed from the cove of 

 Cork on the 26th of March, in com- 

 pany with the Carysfort frigate, 

 whose original destination was to the 

 Madeiras. Among the persons who 

 have perished are the captain, the 

 third lieutenant, and about 100 of 

 the crew of the Apollo. The crews 

 and cargoes of many of the vessels 



were saved ; and the rest of the fleet 

 proceeded with the Carysfort for 

 their original destination. 



Two nests of coiners have been 

 discovered at Birmingham. At one 

 place the constables were obliged to 

 shoot a large mastilf, before they 

 could approach to the house; but 

 this act so intimidated the fellows 

 within, that they permitted them- 

 selves to be taken without resistance, 

 except throwing some bags of base 

 metal out of the window upon the 

 party, to prevent them from being 

 found upon the premises. As many 

 implements however were discovered 

 as filled a cart; and a quantity of 

 finished coin was found between the 

 beds and sacking 



A melancholy circumstance oc- 

 curred at Docking. Thomas Callaby, 

 who had been only a few days dis- 

 charged from Bethel-hospital in Nor- 

 wich (and who appeared to have re- 

 covered his senses), went to bed on 

 Saturday the 7th inst. apparently 

 composed and easy; but about 2 

 o'clock in the morning he arose from 

 his bed, under pretence of being 

 thirsty, when he secured a case- 

 knife which he had hid in his shoe, 

 and about 4 o'clock the same morn- 

 ing stabbed his wife in a dreadful 

 manner ; cut the throat of his grand- 

 child, about 3 years of age; and 

 also stabbed his daughter, .the mo- 

 ther of the child. The maniac was 

 at length confined by his neighbours, 

 to whom the alarm was given by the 

 son, who escaped from the house, 

 or the event might have been much 

 more dreadful. The child is since 

 dead, but the wife and daughter are 

 likely to recover. 



5th. The lightning struck a house 

 at the Five Ways, near Birmingham, 

 entering down the chimney, and out 

 of the fire-place in a vivid flash, 



which 



