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the university to defray the expences 
incurred by the drill from the 10th 
of October. 
‘¢ Humphrey Sumner, Vice 
Chan. J. Barker, W. Cra- 
ven, W. Pearce, I’. Barnes, 
Isaac Milner, P. Douglas, 
R. °‘T. Cory, W. L. Man- 
sel.” 
The number of young men who 
have already come forward in de- 
fence of their alma mater is very 
considerable. ‘They wear a plain 
dress, consisting of a short blue 
jacket, pantaloons of a dark mix- 
ture, black gaiters, and handker- 
ehief. A sort of centurion is ap- 
pointed to each division, until he 
gets thoroughly versed in his duty, 
when he falls in among the ranks, 
and is succeeded by another young 
man ; so that every person, in his 
turn, is instructed in the duties of 
an officer and common soldier. The 
whole of this drill has given so much 
satisfaction to the tutors, that many 
of them have expressed a wish it 
might always continue as a part of 
the education of their students. 
30th. A large party, of near 300 
French prisoners, lying at Waltham 
Abbey, in their way from the south 
coast to Norman-cross barracks, one 
of them, an Italian, who had some 
friends or acquaintances at Epping, 
and had frequently attempted to es- 
cape, was fired at and killed, as he 
was running over the fields this even- 
ing, by lieut. Story, an officer of the 
detachment that guarded them. A 
coroner’s inquest was held on the 
body, Nov. 3, and the jury return- 
ed a verdict of justifiable homicide. 
Diev.—The duke of Modena, at 
Trevisa, in the 74th year of his age. 
He has left money and effects to the 
value of 6,000,000 ducats, and some 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
extensive estates in Hungary, pro- 
ducing 30,000 more annually. ‘The 
archduke Ferdinand is his heir. 
NOVEMBER. 
2d. A waggon, loaded with but- 
ter and cheese, from Cambridge, 
went backwards into a deep ditch 
near the fourteen mile stone at Turn- 
ford, beyond Cheshunt: so that the 
shaft horses were reared upright 
against the bank, while the other, 
breaking their chains, ran to the 
turnpike, at Theobalds, where they 
were stopped. ‘The women passen- 
gers were taken out unhurt. 
3d. <A fire broke out at Faw- 
ley-court, near Henley, the seat of 
8. Henley, Esq. occasioned by the 
negligence of workmen having a fire 
not properly secured, which con-. 
sumed stabling and four cart horses. 
While the Bromley ‘volunteers 
were this day going through the 
platoon firing, one of the muskets 
burst, and shattered to pieces the 
hand of one of the corps, since dead, 
and knocked down two other per- 
sons. The piece had, from the in- 
attention of its owner, six cart- 
ridges in it at the time it was dis- 
charged. 
4th. A man that had slipped 
from a barge into the river near 
Barcomb, Sussex, was taken out of . 
the water to all appearance dead; 
but, by a vigorous application of the 
means prescribed by the Royal Hu- 
mane Society, for the recovery of 
drowned persons, he was soon re- 
stored to animation. 
Daniel Isaac Eaton, formerly a 
bookseller in Newgate-street, con- 
victed, about three years since, of 
‘publishing a seditious libel, and who — 
was 
