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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



14th. Ann Barker, 33 years of 

 age, and well dressed, was found 

 this morninj]; in the New River, at 

 Islington, drowned. The surgeon 

 called in, declared her past all hopes 

 of recovery. 



15th. Mrs. Hayes, about eighty 

 years of age, in Pall-Mail court, 

 ret.red to her chamber about ten 

 o'clock, her usual hour of rest : 

 her chamber was on the attic 

 story for the benefit of the air. — 

 About 11 o'clock, the servants 

 hoard a most dreadful crash, and 

 a groan. On running out, they 

 found their mistress in her night- 

 gown, fastened (by the spikes hav, 

 ing entered her thighs two inches 

 above the knees) to the railing, her 

 back broke, and her skull fractured 

 in two places. On being carried 

 into the house she expired. 



It appears that she had for somo 

 months been in a state of childhood, 

 and it is supposed that something, 

 as she slept, alarming her, she open- 

 ed the window and threw herself 

 out. 



16th. Claudius Stephen Hunter, 

 esq. Mas sworn into office as alder- 

 man of Bassishaw ward, vice Ro- 

 bert Clarke, esq. resigned. 



A singular escape from the most 

 impending danger, happened to 

 James Crow, esq. of Lakenham, 

 JVorfoIk. As he drove himself 

 through Catton, in his one horse 

 carriaige, he passed under a tree at 

 that time felling ; the tree fell upon 

 the horse in the chaise, and instan- 

 taneously killed it, without Mr. 

 Crow's receiving, any, the slightest 

 injury ! 



I7th. This morning between 7 

 and 8 o'clock, a young lady gen- 

 teelly dressed, threw herself into a 

 canal near Liverpool, and was un- 

 fortunately drowned. The body has 



not been owned. A hamlkerrhief 

 found upon her had the initials E.J. 



A Roman sepulchre has lately 

 been discovered atAshby-Puerorum 

 in Lincolnshire. It was found by 

 a labourer who was cutting a ditch, 

 and consists of a stone chest, which 

 lay three t'cet below the surface of 

 the earth. The chest is of free-stone, 

 of the kind found in abundance on 

 Lincoln heath. The urn is made of 

 strong glass, well manufactured, 

 but of a greenish hue. Th^ glass is 

 perfect in all respects, and the sur- 

 face is as smooth as if just taken 

 out of the fire. This receptacle of 

 the ashes was nearly filled with 

 small pieces of bone, many of which 

 from the efi'e6ts of ignition, Avere 

 white through their whole substance. 

 Among the fragments was discover- 

 ed a small lacrymatory. 



18th. This evening an atrocious 

 robbery was committed on a female, 

 as amiable, as good, and as valuable, 

 as any society can boast. At about 

 a quarter past seven the right hon. 

 Dowager Lady Dacre was taking 

 her usual solitary walk near her 

 house at Lee, between Lewishani 

 and Eltham in Kent; when a ruffian 

 came up near the church, presented 

 a pistol, and, with Iiorrid impreca- 

 tions, demanded her watch. She 

 told him, if he would take the pis- 

 tol away, she would give ,it him. 

 As soon as he got the watch, he put 

 the pistol again to her ladyship's 

 breast, and demanded her purse. 

 This she also gave: it contained six 

 guineas, with which he departed. 

 Ever since the death of the late Lord 

 Dacre, his amiable widow has made 

 it an invariable practice to visit his 

 tomb at a certain hour in the even- 

 ing. No company, no engngement^ 

 no inclemency of weather, neither 

 storms flor hurricanes, have ever 



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