CHRONiCLE. 



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bered the city when the high forest 

 trees stood in Walnut-street, from 

 Fourth-street to the river. 



OCTOBER, 



1st. This afternoon, about four 

 o'clock, a man in an outrageous pa- 

 roxysm of insanity, went into the 

 Goat public-house, near Vauxhall, 

 and entering a room, he there gave 

 himself several wounds with a small 

 knife, he next sallied forth in a 

 frightful bloody condition, and en- 

 tered the bar, where he foiind a 

 young woman, a servant of the 

 house, alone, whom he instantly 

 stabbed tv/icc in the throat, and 

 knocked down ; on her attempting 

 to rise, he plunged the knife into 

 her shoulder. On quitting the bar, 

 he seized an old man in the tap-room 

 and struck him several times, but 

 the knife falling from his hand, the 

 poor man escaped without any ma- 

 terial injury ; going out of the door 

 to depart, he made an attempt to 

 stab the landlady, and struck a per- 

 son in conversation with her; but 

 they both providentially escaped. 

 One Joyce, in attempting to secure 

 the maniac, was stabbed by him in 

 the shoulder and compelled to quit 

 his hold ; the disordered man, 

 still at liberty, ranged about the 

 road, endeavouring to wound every 

 person that came in his way, till at 

 length he was secured by stratagem. 

 His name is M'Kay, a surgeoa's- 

 matc in the navy. He was sent to 

 St. Thomas's Hospital, with little 

 hopes of his recovery. 



2d. Dorchester barracks were 

 nearly destroyed by lire, in conse- 

 quence of some of the German Le- 



gion falling asleep, while smoking 

 their pipes. 



Two gentlemen shot a badger ia 

 a hedge-bottom, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sex's-Hill, Leicestershire ; 

 it weighed upwards of 40lb. and was 

 remarkably fat : the skin was so 

 thick and loose as to resist many of 

 the .shot, and was found only in- 

 dented, and they were obliged to 

 lire three times before it was de- 

 stroyed. 



3d. Advices from lord Keith, of 

 this datCi brought the unpleasant in- 

 telligence of the total failure of a 

 project: (to be executed under his 

 lordship's direcfion) for destroying 

 the Boulogne flotilla. This under- 

 taking, commonly known by the 

 appellation oi' t'iie CatamarA-V ex- 

 pedition, was to have been eifected 

 by navigating certain vessels, filled 

 with combustibles, beneath or level 

 with the surface of the water, into 

 the midst ol the enemy's c-aft, and 

 there exploded. Great expectations 

 were raised in consequence of its 

 being known that the minister and 

 the tirst lord of the Admiralty had 

 fully approved, and had the utmost 

 contidence in the success of the ex~ 

 pcdition ; but it is diihcult to deter- 

 mine whether the Stone project of 

 the last year, or the Catamaran of 

 the present, has been mqst unsuc- 

 cessful, or produced most disap- 

 pointment to the public*. 



The French papers state that sir 

 James Crawford, who had leave to 

 drink the waters of Aix la Chapelle, 

 for two months, havin^g broken his 

 parole, that privilege has been taken 

 from all British firisoners. Their 

 confinement at Verdun is conse- 

 quently much more strict than it used 

 to be : they tare very narrowly , 



* Vide Lord Keith's Letter in the Appendix to -the Chronicle. 



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