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eate, Mr. Erskine, they were not 

 called upon. 



A fatal accident lately happened 

 in the family of G. E. Stanley, of 

 Ponsonby-hall, Esq. near Whiteha- 

 ven. A boy who was frequently at 

 Ponsonby-hall, had gone into the 

 servant's hail with two o\ Mr. Stan- 

 ley's daughters (the eldest between 

 eight and nine years of age), and 

 stepping upon a box, took, down a 

 loaded musket, to shew the young 

 ladies how well " he could go 

 through his exercise," and which he 

 had been in t le habit of doing. The 

 piece went off; and the principal 

 part of its contents striking the 

 eldest sister, killed her on the spot, 

 and the younger was most severely 

 Mounded. 



Parliament has settled 1.2001. per 

 annum on the widow of the late 

 Lord Kilwarden, chief justice of the 

 court of kind's bench in Ireland, 

 who was murdered in the streets of 

 Dublin, and on her ladyship's de- 

 ceaNC, 8001. per annum on her son, 

 and 4001. a year on her two daugh- 

 ters. 



30th. The old houses which 

 ehoaked up the passage from Palace- 

 yard to the church-yard of West- 

 minster, and prevented the view of 

 the north side of Henry the Vllth's. 

 chapel, are taken down, and the 

 space they occupied is to be railed 

 in, which will add very considerably 

 to the grandeur of that ancient and 

 most interesting edifice. 



A boy purloined a throstle's nest, 

 near Rocklilie, and exultingly bore 

 away his prize to Carlisle, where he 

 lived. The dam, who had recently 

 quitted her young, was not ignorant 

 of the theft, but, with unceasing so- 

 licitude, pursued them step by step. 

 The boy and his companion, per. 

 ceiving tliis, repeatedly put down 



the nest, which she as constantly 

 dropped into, and maintained posses- 

 sion until almost grasped with the 

 hand. Thus they travelled on to- 

 gether until the boy reached home, 

 when he deposited the nest within 

 the house. The disconsolate dam, 

 watching an opportunity, sprung in 

 at the window with as much alacrity 

 as another would have flew out ; 

 again she clainiL'd her progeny, and 

 could hardly be driven away ! 



Died. — 1st. At Egglestone Ab- 

 bey, after a short illness, possessing 

 her faculties to hei* death, Esther 

 Laine, aged 105, servant in the 

 families of Sir Thomas Robinson 

 and Colonel Morrett, of Rokeby. 



17th. In his 100th year, which 

 he had attained without experienc- 

 ing a day's illness, Mr. Benjamin 

 Overton, weaver, of Stamford, co. 

 Lincoln. 



JULY. 



2ud. This morning a cobler, 

 corner of Wim pole-street and 

 Queen Anne-street West, fastened 

 himself in his stall, and cut his throat 

 in so dreadful a manner, as to place 

 all hopes of his recovery out of the 

 question. 



This day a fine boy, seven years 

 of age, belonging to Mr. Kennedy, 

 of Edgeware-road, unfortunately 

 got entangled between a dray and a 

 coach. The hind wheel of the coach 

 went over his loins, and killed 

 him. 



The Middlesex election committee 

 reported, that Sir Francis Burdett 

 was not duly cletted ; that Mr. 

 Mainwaring was duly elected ; but 

 that he committed a6ts of treating, 

 whereby he was incapacitated to 

 serve in Parliament upon such elec- 

 1 tioa. 



