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deserter was situated in the front of 

 the cannon. His guards then di- 

 vided ; three retiring on one side, 

 and three on the other, and he v,as 

 tei't standing by himsflf. Another 

 fcird was immediately produced; 

 and a lighted matcii being put into 

 one of its claws, he hopped boldly 

 on the other to the tail of the can- 

 non, and, applying the match to 

 the priming, discharged the piece 

 ■without the least a))pcarance of fear 

 or agitation. The moment the ex- 

 plosion took place, the desc-.-ter fell 

 down, and lay apparently motion- 

 less, like a dead bird; but, at the 

 command of his tutor, he rose again. 

 The cages being brought, the fea- 

 thered soldiers were stripped of their 

 ornaments, and turned into them in 

 perfect order. — After he had quit- 

 ted Breslaw, his next performance 

 consisted in counterfeiting the notes 

 <)f all kinds of singing-birds ; when 

 he assumed the name of Kossignol 

 (Anglicc, nightingale), and appear- 

 ed on the stage at Covent-garden 

 theatre, where, in addition to his 

 imitation of the birds, he executed 

 3 concerto on a fiddle without 

 strings ; that is, he made the notes 

 in a wonderful manner with his 

 Toice, ar.d represented the bowing 

 by drawing a small truncheon back- 

 wards and forwards over a stiitig- 

 less violin. Mis performance was 

 received with great applause, and 

 the success he met with produced 

 many competitors, but none of 

 them e(j«alled him. It was, how- 

 ever, discovered, that the sounds 

 were produced by an instrument, 

 concealed in the mouth ; and then 

 the trick lost all its reputafion. 

 He died in a state of great penury. 

 At Erightheim.stoue, the second 

 daughter of J. M. Lloyd, esq. 

 M. l\ 



At St. Kew, CO. Cornwall, frotn 

 the pernicious eflTects of an oint. 

 ment with which a qnack-doctor 

 rubbed some ulcers in his legs, 

 Henry Lollard, lately a strong hale 

 man. It is suspected that it con- 

 tained arsenic, he being seizctl, 

 soon after it was applied, with vio- 

 lent vomiting, whicli speedily put a 

 period to his life. 



In consequence, as is supposed, 

 of SMaiiowing a halfpenny some tiu>e 

 ago, it being found, on opening his 

 body, in a black and rusly state, a 

 young man, son of Mr. Read of 

 Canterbury. 



At his liousc in Crown-street, 

 IJishojisgate street, aged 33, Mr. 

 Joseph Badman, cheesemonger. 

 His loss, so severely felt by his 

 v.idow, was increased by the loss of 

 her elder child on the day of her 

 husband's funeral ; and, ou the fu- 

 neral of her eldest, she lost her only 

 remaining child. 



Majj 2d. Suddenly, at lord Acck- 

 land's apartments in Greenwich 

 hospital, Tho. Eden, esq. bro- 

 ther to his lordship, leaving a 

 widow and eight children. 



Burnt to death, by a spark set- 

 ting lire to her cloaths. Mrs. Esther 

 Tanner, of Paddington, an infirm 

 old lady, who had been confined to 

 her room several years, and, having 

 been placed in an arm-chair, as 

 tisual, the people of the house were 

 alarmed by a cry of fire from the 

 street, and, on entering the room, 

 found the furniture ou fire, and Mrs. 

 T. dead. 



4th. At Malta, Mr. Grantham, 

 assistant surgeon of the 27th foot. 

 He vyas killed on the spot in a duel 

 with lieutenant Fairclough, of the 

 same regiment. 



5lh. At her fathej's in Arlington., 



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