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Iina;onng for soma time, notwith- 

 standing every medical a'isistance, 

 was at last relieved from his excru- 

 ciating agonies by the friendly inter- 

 position of death ! 



Mr. Raines, of Hull, returning 

 from Hesle in a gig, with his wife, 

 and two children, it caught with a 

 stage coach near Anlaby, by whicb 

 it was overturned ; when the young- 

 est child, a girl about 7 months old, 

 was killed in the arms of its mother, 

 by the coach wheel passing over it, 

 which also went over Mr. R. and 

 the other child under him, but with- 

 out doing them material injury. 



16th. A young whale, about 50 

 feet in length, was driven upon Tri- 

 nity Sand, in the mouth of theJIum- 

 bcr. It has been taken into Grims- 

 by, having been purchased by the 

 captain of the Bernie grcenlandman. 

 18th. This morning, a butcher in 

 Whitechapel, for a wager of 17 

 guineas, being all he had, engaged 

 to go 60 miles in 12 hours, on foot. 

 lie started from Whitechapel turn- 

 pike, walked 30 miles and back 

 again to the starting place. He 

 performed the journey in 3 quarters 

 of an hour less than the time al- 

 lowed : several hundreds of pounds 

 were depending on the event. 



A striking instance of remorse of 

 conscience, which exemplifies the 

 avenging hand of God against mur- 

 der, has just added to the many si- 

 milar impressive lessons, in the vo- 

 luntary surrender of a woman, who 

 this day appeared before a magis- 

 trate of the hundred of Longtree in 

 Gloucestershire, and confessed, that 

 8 years ago she had murdered her 

 ' bastard child, by cutting its throat 

 I and throwing it into a brook. She 

 declared, that such was the intoler- 

 able misery of her mind till she had 

 divulged the dreadful secret, that 

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she was inevitably compelled to 

 consign herself over to the sentence 

 of the law, to answer for the hor- 

 rid deed which embittered every mo- 

 ment of her existence. 



20th. At a general court of tha 

 proprietors of bank stock, a reso- 

 lution was agreed on to grant the 

 holders of bank stock a bonus of 5 

 per cent, on the stock they hold ; and 

 the court also agreed to pay the pro- 

 perty tax in addition, which toge- 

 ther makes the bonus 51. 5s. per cent. 

 It was at the same time carried u- 

 nanimously, that the salary of the 

 bank directors should be raised from 

 1501. per annum to 3001. 



Vipers have been unusually nu- 

 merous in the corn fields of Sussex, 

 during the present harvest. A few 

 days since, a young woman received 

 a bite from one of those reptiles, on 

 the ancle, while labouring in a bar. 

 ley field near Beeding ; and notwith- 

 standing surgical assistance was ob- 

 tained, soon after the accident, she 

 died on the second day. 



Mr. Thomas Allen, of Eddentine, 

 in the parish of Colwali, Hereford- 

 shire, who had thrown together a 

 large quantity of furze and fern in 

 the corner of a field, to rot for ma- 

 nure, during the late warm weather, 

 killed 1-5 or 16 old snakes near the 

 spot. This circumstance led him to 

 suspect that there were many more 

 sheltered in the mixture, which in- 

 duced him to remove it, when, to 

 his great astonishment, he discover- 

 ed a number of young ones, and a 

 great quantity of eggs, and by a vi- 

 gilant exertion he killed 150 young 

 snakes ! 



21st. The following melancholy 

 event took place : — James VVarre, 

 esq. and family, who were engaged 

 in a tour through the country, took 

 their departure from. Koss^ in Here- 



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