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isleven men who were in her, fire 

 ■were drowned, within 100 yards of 

 the shore. The mother of one of 

 the unfortunate sufferers had come 

 6® miles to see him, and was on the 

 jetty when he was drowned! 



23d. A shoemaker, named Holds- 

 worth, and his wife, were committed 

 by the magistrates of Marlborough* 

 street for trial, charged with the most 

 shocking cruelty to two children of 

 the former, by a previous marriage. 

 Tlie account given of the treatment 

 to which these infants were sub- 

 jected was very afi'icting : they were 

 confined during the winter in a room 

 without a fire or a bed, nearly na- 

 ked, covered with sores from beat- 

 ing, ice. and almost without food. 

 They had been seen to pick up 

 bones in the street, and to eat pota- 

 toc-skins and other oft'als which had 

 been trodden on. The magistrates 

 ordered them to be taken rare of. 



A considerable reduction has just 

 taken place in the staff of this king- 

 tlom. Thirteen majors and briga- 

 dier-generals, employed on the vo- 

 lunteer duty, have been disconti- 

 nued, with their several majors of 

 brigade. 



26th. At night a fire broke out 

 in a range of new stables belonging 

 to the George-inn, at Cherlsey, 

 whicli entirely destroyed the same, 

 with four horses belonging to tra- 

 vellers, and damaged an adjoining 

 iiouse. 



The inquisitive antiquary nx)w 

 has an crjDportunity of gratifying 

 himself with the examination of the 

 traces of the tntrenchment thrown 

 up by prince Rupert, whcrt he laid 

 Kiege to Liverpool, in thi; year 

 1641, and described by liiifuld, in 

 bis history of that town. It is si(u- 

 ated about twenty yards from the 

 present Loudou-roadj and opposite 



the end of St. Ann's-street, on the 

 east side of a road, recently cut, 

 leading to Rodney-street. Here the . 

 rock has been evidently excavated, 

 and filled up again with loose earth. 

 Other traces are discernible in the 

 field above, as well as on the other 

 side of a lane' nearer the town, at 

 the top of a new street, (now 

 planned) to be called Gloucester- 

 street, and at the corner of another 

 intended street, to be denominated 

 Silver-street, all just below the 

 copperas-works, and on the site o£ 

 the old mill, blown down about ths 

 year 1795. There has likewise 

 been traced, and may now be seen,- 

 as the workmen are removing the 

 earth, the situation of the fort or 

 battery so accurately pointed out 

 by Enfield; and in the trench have 

 been found many bones, broken 

 glass, old bricks, remnants of a 

 wall, and leaden balls. The lower 

 trenches, mentioned by the same 

 writer, were discovered about sixty 

 years ago, when the infirmary was 

 dug; and in them were found gar- 

 devin bottles, cartouches, and other 

 articles left behind by the besiegers. 

 Died.— 14th. In her 100th year, 

 Mrs. Susannah Frank, of Loose, 

 near Maidstone, Kent. 



APRIL. 



4th. The members of the lite- 

 rary fund held their anniversary- 

 meeting at the Crown and Anchor ; 

 when a communication from the 

 prince of Wales was delivered by 

 the earl of Chichester, (chairman) 

 stating that his royal highness had 

 ordered his treasurer to pay towards 

 a house for transacting the business 

 of the society, the sum of 2001. per 

 annum. His royal highness also 



ii b 4 declared 



