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water, and the shark upon his back, 
with his jaws once more extended 
to make a finish of his prey, when a 
lad from the boat struck him with 
the boat-hook, and by the same in- 
strument laid hold of the boy, and 
brought him on board. ‘The boy 
had lost a vast deal of blood, the 
stump was dreadfully lacerated, and 
the bone splintered near an inch and 
a half, which required an amputa- 
tion of the thigh close to the hip 
joint. Under all these untoward 
circumstances, the boy has recover- 
ed, quite well, within three months 
from the date of the operation. ‘The 
flect, as it was an extraordinary case, 
have subscribed upwards of 280l. 
for him.” 
31st. A report haying been in- 
dustriously propagated, that depo- 
sits of fire arms and ammunition had 
been frequently made in the night, 
in the English nunnery at Marnhal, 
county of Dorset, to favour the 
views of the I*rench, should they 
make good their landing, and that a 
brother of Bonaparte’s was hid there, 
the reverend Mr. Blackburne, one 
of the justices of the peace for the 
eounty, with the laudable resolution 
of ascertaining the truth or falsity of 
the report, made a visit to the nun- 
nery, in company with several gen- 
tlemen, and one of the principal in- 
habitants of the parish, and narrow- 
ly inspected every room, closet, cel- 
lar, and out-house, belonging to the 
premises, but the only warlike in- 
struments found there, were the 
SHIELD OF FAITH, THE BREAST PLATE 
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, and the HELMET 
OF SALVATION. On the strictest ex- 
amination throughout the parish, not 
a person could give the least colour 
ef probability to the report. It 
would be injustice to the ladies, not 
to say, they received their visitors 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
with the greatest politeness and good 
humour. The venerable lady abbess 
said, ‘* We were not more surpris- 
ed, when, in the beginning of the 
reign of tyranny in France, a domi- 
ciliary visit had been paid us at our 
convent, under the idea that Mr. 
Pitt, the English minister, was se- 
creted there.” Who the authors of 
the calumny are, cannot be traced, 
but it is impossible, for an instant, 
to believe, that women, with Eng- 
lish blood flowing in their veins, 
connected with Kngland by the 
strongest ties of blood and grati- 
tude, who, by the cruelty and op- 
pression of the French, were de- 
prived of all their possessions, 
could, for a moment, give counte- 
nance or support to the mad and 
ambitious schemes of such mon- 
sters ! 
The sum raised by voluntary 
subscription, at the end of this 
month, for the purposes of reward- 
ing individuals, who distinguish 
themselves in the defence of their 
country, and of relieving the rela- 
tions of those who fall, exceeded 
150,0001. ! 
Nicholas Martin, esq. a gen- 
tleman of the county of Galway, 
in Ireland, of an estate amounting 
to 4000]. per annum, was, last 
week, at Dublin, indicted for wil- 
ful and corrupt perjury, in swearing 
to an aflidavit advanced on a chan- 
cery cause, relative to a subpoena 
served on him the 11th of May, 
1782. ‘The law-suit was concern- 
ing an annuity that he had engaged 
to pay to his wife, from whom he is 
separated. The jury found him 
guilty, and the court sentenced him 
to one year’s imprisonment, and to 
stand four times in the pillory. 
A reward has been. offered by the | 
Irish goverment of 5001. for disco- 
vering 
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