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of the crew eseaped in their boat. 
A considerable seizure of smuggled 
goods took place at Preston, near 
North Shields, a few days since. 
The reverend Rowland Hill has 
travelled through Kent ; he preached 
on Sunday week to 700 of the 
children who attend the Sunday 
schools ; aud on Wednesday morn- 
ing following vaccinated as many as 
applied to him before nine o’clock, 
at Chatham. 
4th. An accident of a serious na- 
ture happened last week, at Mrs. 
Ash’s, of Linton, Kent.—The fa- 
mily had been somewhat alarmed 
by the appearance of persons lurk- 
ing about the house for some nights, 
and there having been several rob- 
beries in the neighbourhood lately, 
they thought they would be pre- 
pared ; accordingly, a brace of pis- 
tols was removed [rom a place where 
they had laid several years, and were 
supposed not to be loaded. The 
maid-servant accordingly. snapped 
one of them, which did not flash, 
and afterwards snapped it. several 
times; Miss Ash took the same 
pistol from the servant, and pointing, 
it close to her sister, snapped it— 
when, to their utter astonishment, 
it went off, and the ball penetrated 
her chest, close to the collar-bune. 
The ball was not immediately ex- 
tracted, but favourable hopes were 
entertained of her recovery. Yet, 
it must be considered. particularly 
fortunate that the pistol did not go 
’ off in the servant’s hand ; for once, 
‘ while she snapped it, she held it 
close to the man servant’s head. 
An extraordinary change of for- 
tune happened toa poor old woman, 
who resides at Rothsay, in Scotland. 
J. Mitchel, esq. who died at St. 
Vincent’s, proved to be her -only 
brother, of whom she had not heard 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
for many years, and left her pro- 
perty to the amount of 50,000I. 
The following melancholy cir 
cumstance happened lately in the 
north of Scotland:—A gentleman 
and his wife went to bed in perfect 
health, and were found .quite dead 
in the morning, being suffocated by 
a fire of peats in the roomin which 
they slept. There had been no fire 
in the room for some time, and it is 
supposed the chimney had been 
stopped up. Slecping with fires in 
bed-chambers is a dangerous prac- 
tice. 
6th. The following very singular 
circumstance took place at Hove, 
on Saturday last: —As Mr. Wichels, 
senior, a gentleman much and de- 
servedly esteemed, and who was for- 
merly a resident ‘of Brighton, was 
entertaining a few select friends at — 
his hospitable marine villa~at Hove, 
a hare, sans ceremonie, paid them a 
visit, and instantly crouched down 
against one of the legs of the ban- 
quetting table. Poor puss was soon © 
made a captive, which task was 
scarcely performed, when Mr. 
Bridger’s pack of harriers, in full — 
cry, surrounded the house. The © 
hare, it seems, had afforded the © 
pack an excellent chace ; from the © 
severity of which she had suddenly | 
withdrawn as above described, and 
was now, in better hAcalth than spis— 
rits, presented to Mr. Bridger, who © 
accompanied his dogs, and by whose — 
order the timid animal was ulti- 
mately permitted, without farther — 
interruption, to range at large. 
A woman of the name of Eliz. 
Brown, after travelling 13 miles, | 
was delivered of a child at the Globe © 
Inn, in Carlisle, though she had not 
arrived an hour before. And on 
Blonday se’nnight, Jane Irving, 
about eleven at night, walked. to the 
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