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■what it would have been had Mr. 

 Patch made nse of the privy, who 

 complained of having a pain in his 

 bowels, and was seen by the ser- 

 Tant-maid coming thence, apparent. 

 ly in great confusion, a few mo- 

 ments after the pistol was fired. — 

 The coroner's jury returned a' ver- 

 dict of " wilful murder by some 

 person unknown;" and Mr. B.'s 

 remains were interred in Deptford 

 church-yard on the 29th. Mr. 

 Graham, one of the magistrates of 

 the Bow-sfreet police-office, anxi- 

 ous to investigate the mysterious 

 manner in which Mr. B. came by 

 his death, and, if possible, to, bring 

 the murderer to justice, went to 

 inspect the premises, and to examine 

 Mr. Patch and the servant-maid, 

 both of whom he caused to be 

 taken into custody, and brought to 

 Bow-street, whence, after undergo- 

 ing several examinations, the former 

 was fully committed for trial at the 

 next Surrey assizes, and the latter 

 ■was discharged on condition of ap- 

 pearing to give evidence. 



22d. A few days since, at Red- 

 bourne, near Derby, during the ab- 

 sence of the parents, who left three 

 small children at home, a fire broke 

 out, which was got under, but the 

 three children Mere burnt to ashes. 



24th. At Parley, Christchurch, 

 Hants, Martin Dean, aged 19, hav- 

 ing eaten of some mushrooms, liked 

 them so much, that he determined 

 to procure sortie : accordingly he 

 got a quantity of toad-stools, and 

 carried them home ; when his mo- 

 ther, being also ignorant of the 

 mistake, prepared them lor dinner, 

 and, with her husband, went to 

 Ringwood. Martin Dean dressed 

 the supposed mushrooms, and, with 

 his five brothers and sisters, partook 

 of them. The whole family were 



soon in the greatest agonies , Ste« 

 phen, one of them, died the day 

 following ; and Hannah and Martin 

 the next. The other three continue 

 in a dangerous state. — [The follow- 

 ing remedy for the pernicious ef- 

 fects of toad-stools, &c. is practised 

 in France, with success. Excite 

 vomiting ; employ laxatives and 

 clysters : after the first evacuations 

 administer one dram of vitriolic 

 (sulphuric) ether in a glass of water 

 of mallows. If the symptoms are 

 alarming, give a clyster madc^tith a 

 decoction of tobacco.] 



26th. As the driver of the Cam- 

 bridge waggon was coming, asleep 

 on the shafts, through the open 

 gate at Waltham-cross turnpike, his 

 legs were so dreadfully crushed as 

 to require amputation, Mhich was 

 followed by a convulsive hiccough, 

 and death. 



This day being appointed for 

 hearing (at the police-office at 

 Worship-street) the cases of infor- 

 mations against a great number of 

 printers, to recover penalties, for 

 their having omitted to affix their 

 names to the title-pages of books, 

 as required bj' the act of parliament, 

 the parties attended about 12. In 

 one of the cases, Mr. Lawes Mas 

 employed on the part of the prose- 

 cution, and Mr. Gurncy and Mr. 

 Const for the several defendants. 



The first case taken was an in- 

 formation laid by John Bell, of 

 Knightsbridgc, clerk to Mr. Shep- 

 herd, attorney, of llydc-street, 

 Bloomsbury, ygainst Mr. Reynell, 

 bookseller, of Piccadilly, for hav- 

 ing, on the 1 7th of June last, 

 printed, on one side of a sheet of 

 paper, the title-page of a book, in.t 

 titulcd, " Poetical Amusements, at 

 a Villa near Bath," Mithout affixing 

 his name to it, There were nine of 



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