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of gratitude due to the brave men 

 whose names will be handed down 

 to an admiring posterity, is, we are 

 happy to say, in the course of pay- 

 ment. — A general subscription is be- 

 gun in the island, and is of that 

 amount already, as sufficiently to 

 mark the gratitude of those, who, 

 by the individual heroism of these 

 gallant men, were saved from in- 

 , stant death or total ruin. But the 

 committee who are in the manage- 

 ment of the patriotic fund, view this 

 deliverance also as a matter of na- 

 tional importance. It has saved many 

 Taluable lives ; it has preserved one 

 of our principal depots of strength 

 in the important island of Jersey ; it 

 is honourable to the national cha- 

 ra6tcr, and worthy of the most dis- 

 tinguished notice, as an example to 

 posterity ; therefore well entitled to 

 liberal reward from such a fund as 

 that which they have the honour 

 to diredl. They have accordingly 

 voted to Lieutenant Lys, for him- 

 self and large family, five hundred 

 pounds ; to Edward Touzel, a young 

 man, who has a mother, and is ris- 

 ing in his business as a carpenter 

 in St. Ilelicr, three hundred pounds ; 

 and at the request of William Pon- 

 teney, a private soldier, (to whom 

 his officers have vo(ed a gold medal) 

 a life annuity of twenty pounds, as 

 he has determined that he will con- 

 tinue through life to serve his king 

 and country as a soldier. 



This afternoon, as Lieut.-Col. 

 Hawker, with a party of the 14th 

 light dragoons, was fishing with a 

 drag-net, near Littlestone, in Row- 

 jiey-bay, on the ebbing side, four 

 of the men who held the ends of the 

 net farthest in the sea, instanta- 

 neously sunk, and though all good 

 swimmers, did not rise again. It 

 is supposed they must have been 



drawn into a hole, and swallowed 

 up by the sand. 



Dr. De Caro, now at Vienna, 

 has received letttrs. which state, that 

 the vaccine has met with the greatest 

 success in Persia Dr. Milne and 

 M. Jukes, his correspondents at 

 Basso ra, one of the most commer- 

 cial cities of the empire, state, that 

 all the Persians were desirous to 

 have their children inoculated with 

 the vaccine matter. The Uospodar 

 of Moldavia has sent Dr. De Caro a 

 magnificent Indian shawl, and a 

 very obliging letter, with an account 

 of the efficacious measures he had 

 adopted for its propagation. 



There is now m the barracks 

 at Woodbridge, occupied by the 

 royal Ijancashire militia, a cat which 

 has brought up two young chickens. 

 The circumstances were as follows : 

 — Some days back a hen was ob- 

 served sitting upon two eggs, and 

 was frequently visited by one of the 

 soldiers, till the hen was missing, 

 supposed to have been killed by a 

 dog. He immediately took the eggs 

 and laid them under a cat with three 

 small kittens, and to the surprise 

 and admiration of a number of peo- 

 ple, four days after, two chickens 

 made their appearance, one of which 

 has five claws on each foot, and the 

 other four. The wiiole have lived 

 in the greatest harmony for this 

 fortnight past ; — when the chickens 

 wander from the cat, she brings 

 them back in her mouth, and is as 

 fond of them as she is of the kittens; 

 1.3th. The recorder made a re- 

 port to his majesty of the following 

 18 prisoners under sentence of death 

 in Newgate, viz. George Smith, 

 Mary Anderson, George Donohon, 

 James Heath, John Smith (alias, 

 Lacey), Richard Anderson, John 

 Kemp, James Draper, Jeremiah 



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