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a man recollecting there was a long 

 pole with a hook, at a nciglibour's, 

 went for it, and, after some time, 

 brought up both woman and child, 

 to all appearance dead. The means 

 directed by the gratuitous delivery 

 of the Royal Humane Society's 

 ' plan was here providentially employ- 

 ed with success. An only child, in 

 about half an hour, was restored to 

 its fond parents ; and the young wo- 

 man, who had been deprived of life in 

 her humane efforts to preserve an un- 

 known child, was ruost happily re- 

 suscitated, to the great joy of the 

 Spectators and her numerous family. 

 This morning a young woman, 

 who lived servant at a butcher's in 

 St. James's-street, put an end to 

 her existence, by throwing herself 

 into the bason in the Green-park. 

 It appeared that she Avas seduced 

 from her place by a gentleman's scr- 

 yant, who took lodgings for her, 

 and afterwards deserted her. She 

 was turned out of doors by her 

 friends the night previous to her 

 fate. 



17th. In a garden at Swire, iu 

 Ilolderness, in the occupation of a 

 Mr. Hesseltine, a few ancient silver 

 and copper coins were lately found, 

 turned up by the gardener with his 

 spade, one of which is precisely of 

 the same kind as the one figured in 

 the cuts of Roman coins in Cam- 

 den's Britannia, (page 95. No. 18.) 

 and to which he alludes in his notes 

 upon them, (p. 104.) in the follow- 

 ing words : " xviii flavivs con- 



STANTINVS MAXIMVS AVGVSTVS. The 



great ornament in Britain stamped 

 this coin in Constantinople, as we 

 are taught by these characters un- 

 derneath, COINS with this gj-oria 

 EXERCiTvs, that is, the glory of the 

 finny^ to curry favour with the sol- 

 diers, in whose choice in those days, 



and not at the disposal of t^e em- 

 peror, was the sovereign rule and 

 government." It should be observ- 

 ed, that the figures representing the 

 head of Flavins on one side, and 

 two men in armour, witii bows and 

 spears in their hands, standing on each 

 side, with t\\ o banners on the other 

 side, are remarkably legible, con- 

 sidering the very great antiquity of 

 the coin, which is upwards of 1350 

 years old. There was formerly an 

 abbey at Swire, a circumstance 

 wliich may, probably, account for 

 the discovery there of ancient coins. 

 As some workmen were lately 

 digging over the foundation of the 

 Roman wall, at Tarraby, about two 

 miles N. E. of Carlisle, they found 

 an altar one foot six inches high, 

 and seven inches broad, with the 

 following inscription upon it. 



MAR. T COCM 



\,\.Q. II AVG 



SANCTANA 



SF.CVNDIM 



DSOL. SVBCT 



RA. AELIAnIC 



J 

 CVRA. OPPIT 



1 



FELIX, orro 

 Which is thus interpreted : " The 

 second sacred Augustan legion, un- 

 der the charge of if''lianus, com- 

 mander in chief of the second le- 

 gion, Oppius Felix being his deputy 

 lieutenant, dedicates this altar to 

 Mars the great local deity, and 

 took care to have it set up." 



Every admirer of antique archi- 

 teftural grandeur will lament the 

 necessity there exists of immediatelj' 

 taking dowji the truly venerable tow- 

 er, transept and chancel of the an- 

 cient church at Kirton on the Hill, 

 in Lincolnshire ; its condition no 

 longer admitting of its existing wit)» 



safctyl 



