400 
when Bonaparte visited that place, 
have all been sent to Lisle. 
The English prisoners at Brussels 
have been ordered to — to Va- 
lenciennes. 
The great consul, like a politic 
Shepherd, continually removes the 
pen of his bleating English flock 
from spot to spot; well knowing 
that the soil will every where be en- 
riched by their temporary residence. 
How their wool will look when they 
return from their summer pasture is 
of little consequence ! 
Population of Bengal. An in- 
quiry, was lately instituted among 
the collectors of districts, as to the 
population of their respective juris- 
dictions ; when they gave an esti- 
mate amounting to 22, 000, OOO tor 
Bengal and Bahar ! 
The beautiful mausoleum, erected 
by Hyder Alley, at Seringapatam, 
has been repaired and beautified, at 
the expence of the british govern- 
ment. ‘The body of Jlyder is in the 
centre ; the mother of Tippoo on 
the right hand, and Tippoo on the 
left. 
The territory of Louisiana, which 
has been ceded to America by 
France, comprises 450,000 square 
miles, and this acquisition renders 
the whole extent of the United 
States, not less than 1,680,000 
Square miles, sixteen times larger 
than Great Britain and Ireland 
united. 
25th. Karly this morning, the Wis- 
beach mail, from London, coming 
down the hill between Buckland and 
Royston, in Herts, was overturned 
by the horses taking fright, by 
which accident one woman was kil- 
Jed, and the other passengers much 
bruised. 
As Mr. Thomas Roach, of Ford- 
ingbridge, was riding half a mile 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
from that place, he observed some- 
thing creep into a pond, which he 
afterwards caught, and it proved to 
be a land tortoise, about half grown. 
It is well known that the tortoise is 
not indigenous to this country ; and 
it is a circumstance of some curiosity 
to account for the mode by which 
this solitary animal was dropped, in 
a quarter where its species is scarcely 
known. The situation is at a great 
distance from any public road, or it 
might have been inferred that a pob- 
lie carrier had lost it. Every enqui- 
ry has been made to learn if one was 
kept in any garden im the neigh- 
bourhood, but this does not appear 
to have been the case. ‘It is now in 
the garden of Mr. Roach, at Ford- 
ingbridge, and is very lively. 
A letter from Montreal states, 
that a most destructive fire broke 
out there on the 6th ult. About. 
thirty buildings were burned down, 
among which were the episcopalian 
church, the jesuit’ s church, the col- 
lege, and the prison ; the loss is sup- 
posed to be &. 30,000. 
A man named William Withers, 
some time since, formed a project of 
robbing the South Carolina bank at 
Charlestown, and with this intent, de- 
scended into the common sewer, 
whence he cut a passage to the vaults 
of the bank, in which the cash was 
deposited. He was ninety days em- 
ployed in this work, during which 
period, he never took off his clothes ; 
breathed any other air, than what 
passed through the drains with the 
refuse water; saw no other light 
than what proceeded from his lamp ; 
or assumed any other than a prone 
position of his body: his food was | 
letdown at night by his accomplices ! 
He was, however, detected, and se- 
verely punished. 
26th. As Belcher, the famous pu- } 
gilist, | 
