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thousand pounds; he was never 
married, but lived by himself, per- 
forming all the business of the house, 
&c. and his dress corresponded with 
his disposition. Not long since, he 
complained of the hardness of the 
times. Formerly it cost him to live 
on, only 5 of 6/. per annum, but his 
Jast year’s expenditure was 13/. He 
would lend his money out where he 
could get good security. Under a 
brick, since taken up, in the pre 
mises where he resided, have been 
found near 300 guineas, This eccen- 
tric character had beer by him, 
which had been brewed forty years 
ago, and some had been kept ever 
since his christening (but by whom 
first provided, for the purpose, we 
cannot say,) to be drank at his fu- 
neral. aboveseventy years old. How 
he has disposed of his money we have 
not heard. 
Coronen’s [nquest.—An inqnest 
was held on the body of Elizabeth 
Trout, a young woman of Little 
Sheffield, Yorkshire, who, ina fit 
of despair, drowned herself in a 
pond on Sunday week. ‘The deli. 
berate manner in which she put an 
end to her existence is somewhat ex- 
traordinary ; the pond heing frozen 
over, she broke a hole in the ice, 
just to admit her head, which she 
‘put into the water, and her body re- 
mained quite dry. 
‘23d. Letters from the society far 
the suppression of vice to the ladies 
who patronize the Sunday concerts 
under the direction of Salomon, 
after an apology for their inter. 
ference with what was done in the 
private houses of persons of the 
exalted rank of those ladies, expa- 
tiate against the impious’ conduct of 
the ladies who patronize the playing 
of music in their own houses on the 
Lord’s Day, They complain of the 
ANNUAL. REGISTER, 1806. 
exorbitant salaries paid to the Itae- 
lians for their entertainments, and 
rail severely at the rude conduct of 
the servants about the doors of per- 
sons of distinction. 
The French Charlatan of a cer- 
tain venerable duke was most awk. 
wardly treated a few evenings since 
by some ladies of pleasure, in the 
neighbourhood of St. James’s, for 
keeping too large a poundage out of 
his master’s bounty. Two of them 
tore the skirts off his coat, pretend- 
ing to contend for the possession 
of his person, while a third had near. 
Jy poisoned him by emptying the 
contents of his own phials upon his 
head. In this plight he was turned 
into the street, aud compelled to 
seek refuge in a hackney coach that 
was previously waiting for him. 
25th. Bow Srreet.— An infor- 
mation against Russell came 
on, to recover the penalty of 2001. 
under an act of parliament, for 
keeping a house where an unlawful: 
game of chance was played, for. 
merly known by the name of the 
Little Go, but now distinguished, 
to avoid the penalty, by the name of 
Irory. 
_ Mr. Canst appeared as counsel © 
on the part of the defendant, aad 
pleaded not guilty to the charge. 
Ar. H , the informant, stated 
to the sitting magistrates the mode 
of practising this system of robbery. 
The game was a species of lottery ; 
several tickets, made of ivory, with 
‘numbers upon them, were put into 
a box by the master of the table, 
and the poor persons fixed on the 
numbers they were to insure. It 
was usual for the common people to 
fix on low numbers, always under 
100, not to overburthen their minds 
with a complication of figures; thig 
was well known by the persons who, 
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