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has been already arranged by our 

 government for the division ot Hol- 

 kar's territory between the Peishwa, 

 Scindia, and the BorgeLs. 



12th. This afternoon about 3 

 o'clock a most calamitous accident 

 occurred at Mr. Hoffmaa's, confec- 

 tioner, in Bishopgate-street. — One 

 of the servants in his employ went 

 into the ice-house for the purpose 

 of preparing ice for a next day's en- 

 tertainment, when some straw caught 

 fire : another man immediately fol- 

 lowed, when they were both suffo- 

 cated. A third made an attempt to 

 go to the assistance of the others, 

 but being unable to proceed was 

 taken out and saved. — The two first 

 died almost immediately. 



This morning about two o'clock, 

 a young lady, of great personal ac- 

 complishments, and daughter of a 

 respettable merchant in the city of 

 London, in a fit of despair threw 

 herself out of a two pair of stairs 

 window at her father's house,and was 

 literally dashed to pieces. On the 

 fatal news being communicated to 

 her family, her mother, with whom 

 she had ever been a favourite, in- 

 stantly snatched up a knife which 

 lay near, and, horrid to relate, 

 stabbed herself in such a manner 

 that her life is despaired of; and 

 the unfortunate father lays under 

 the influence of mental derange-, 

 nient. 



This day at high water, a young 

 man in a sailor's dress, while walk- 

 ing over the craft at Billingsgate, 

 fell between two vessels, and imme- 

 diately disappeared. The body was 

 soon found, but past all hopes of 

 recovery. 



In the evening a young man threw 

 himself into the Thames, near Bat- 

 tcrsea, in the presence of several 

 people: it was some tiiqc before the 



body was taken out, and too late 

 to be restored to life. 



13th. This afternoon a most a- 

 larming riot took place amongst the 

 labourers at Poplar, who were prin- 

 cipally Irishmen. The dispute ori- 

 ginated in which was the best pro- 

 vince, and produced the best men, 

 Connaught or Munster. From words 

 they proceeded to blows ; and there 

 being several hundreds of them arm- 

 ed with bludgeons, it became a 

 measure of safety to call in the civil 

 power, who took two of the princi- 

 pal rioters into custody, and the 

 rest dispersed. When brought be- 

 fore the magistrates, they expressed 

 much contrition for the error they 

 had been led into, and made pro- 

 mises of future good conduct ; upon 

 which, the magistrate, after giving 

 them some proper admonitions, dis- 

 charged them, 



I4th. This day as a cart, laden with 

 sand, was coming up the lane from 

 the Bell Sand Wharf, in Upper- 

 Thames-street, (which is so narrow 

 that, except in a Space where a ware, 

 house door is fixed, the wheels 

 graze the walls,) a young man, a 

 lighterman, met it as he was going 

 down. The carman warned him of 

 his danger, and requested him to 

 go back, which he refused, but ran 

 on, hoping to gain the door-way; 

 unfortunately his head and the wheel 

 came in contact with the Mall, 

 the poor young man's head was 

 crushed entirely flat, and he was 

 left a shapeles and nearly head- 

 less corpse. 



In consequence of the intelligence 

 received at the India house on the 

 8th instant, of a most brilliant ac- 

 tion having taken place between the 

 homeward-bound East India fleet, 

 under the command of Capt. Dance, 

 of the company's service, as senior 



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