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in Tuscany, has discovered, that, by 
the addition of three ounces of pul- 
verized quick-lime to one pound of 
gunpowder, its force is augmented 
one third. No farther preparation 
is required but to boil the whole 
together, till the surface appears no 
longer white. 
A letter from Copenhagen, dated 
the 28th of February, mentions that 
there was then a woman in the hos- 
pital of that city, who had slept 11 
weeks without interruption. Some 
attempts have been made to awaken 
her from this trance, by violently 
shaking her. While the motion 
Jasts, it seems to revive her ; but as 
soon as it is discontinued, she imme- 
diately relapses into a profound and 
death-like sleep. During this pe- 
riod she has not received any food, 
notwithstanding which, there is not 
the least alteration in her appear- 
ance. She is only 23 years of age, 
but remarkably corpulent. 
A thief and murderer, who has 
confessed perpetrating 32 murders, 
among which were two of his own 
wives, and 180 burglaries, committed 
in conjunction with accomplices, was 
Jately guillotined at Cologne. 
Dizp.—At Vienna, aged 82, the 
poet Casti, a Florentine by birth, and 
successor of Metastasio in the place 
and title of poet laureat of the court 
of Vienna. 
14th. Mr. Thomas Trotter, en- 
graver, son of the Rev. Dr. T. of 
Swallow-street. He served an ap- 
prenticeship to a calico-printer, 
which requires a talent for drawing, 
and when he was out of his time he 
took to engraving, and soon pro- 
duced many excellent portraits in 
various works; also a very excel- 
lent head of the rev. Stephen Wilson, 
and another of lord Morpeth: his last 
principal performance was the por- 
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trait of Shakespeare, patronized by 
the late Mr. G. Steevens. A few 
years since he received a hurt in his 
eyes from the fall of a flower-pot 
from a chamber window, which pre- 
vented his following a profession he 
loved, and had adopted from choice ; 
and he had, lately, been principally 
employed in making drawings of 
churches and monuments, in various 
parts of the country, for Sir Richard 
Hoare and other gentlemen. 
16th. At Camsbarren, near Stir- 
ling, in Scotland, James Hosier. Tie 
was born in 1699, while his father, 
who belonged to the parish of Gar- 
gunnock, was butler in the house of 
Blair Drummond. He was about 
45 years old when he first married ; 
after which he served two years as a 
common soldier. During his life he 
had two wives, by whom he had 15 
children ; his second marriage was 
in 1772. He was 83 years old 
when he had his last child; and, 
though repeatedly exposed to the 
infection of small-pox, in his own 
family and otherwise, yet he was 
not affected till the age of 95, when 
he suffered under an uncommon load 
of small-pox: having recovered, he 
enjoyed a better state of health than 
he had done for some time before. 
Ile was naturally short-sighted ; but, 
in the 80th year of his age, his sight 
was so much renewed, that, though 
reading small print, he never had 
occasion to use glasses. At this 
period of his life, he, all at once, 
gave up drinking spirituous liquors, 
to which, for a long time, he had 
been so much addicted as to produce 
frequent intoxication. Ilis body 
was well made and stout; he was 
5 feet 5 inches high; and walked 
remarkably upright ; his chest was 
prominent, his neck thick and short, 
and his head of the ordinary size. He 
lived 
1803. 
