410 
Jord Lauderdale, fowr,—Against it, 
eighteen. 
21st. A few daysago, the dairy- 
maid at Bayham Abbey, in Sussex, 
the seat of lord Camden, threw her- 
self into the moat, and was drowned. 
Verdict, lunacy. 
The long coach, which conveys 
passengers from the mail coach of- 
ficein Dublin, to the packets at the 
Pigeon-house, was stopped this night 
about ten o'clock, by ten men 
armed with swords and pistols, who 
vobbed eight passengers, near to the 
canal bridge. The villains obliged 
the passengers to come out of the 
carriage one by one; amongst them 
were lord Cahir and Mr. George 
Latouche, whom they robbed of 
near 5001. 
ProvipenTiAL Escapr.—As capt. 
Jones, of the royal Flintshire mi- 
litia, quartered at Hythe, who had 
that morning accompanied the regi- 
ment to field-exercise, on the heights 
near Folkstone, was standing with 
several officers, near the edge of the 
cliffs, the earth suddenly gave way 
under him; in consequence of which 
he was instantly precipitated to the 
distance of 28 yards, in an oblique 
direction from the top; but was 
most proyidentially stopped in his 
fall, by a small abutment on the 
surface of the rock, against which 
his foot accidentally struck. In this 
dreadful situation he Jay suspended 
near a guarter of an hour, without 
daring to move, before any effectual 
assistance could be rendered him. 
Searcely, however, had this dis- 
tressing circumstance occurred,when 
Thomas Roberts, a private in the 
regiment, alarmed at the truly peri- 
lous condition of his officer, endea- 
voured, at the obvious risk of his 
own life, to extricate him ; but, un- 
fortunatdy, in the attempt, literally 
any material injury. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
fell from the top to the bottom of 
_this tremendous precipice, being a 
distance of 549 feet (of which 261 
fect were quite perpendicular.) Pro- 
videntially, the latter in his fall did 
not touch the captain, who, anxious 
to save him, had already extended 
his hand to him for that purpose. 
During this interval, 4 rope was ex- 
peditiously procured from the sig- 
nal-house ; and a noose being made 
atoneend, it was lowered to the 
spot where captain J. lay ; when 
he, with much difficulty, succeeded 
in fastening it round his body ; and 
was thes gradually drawn up by thé 
spectators, who still for some time 
doubted the possibility of rescuing 
him ; however, at length he happily 
escaped without having sustained 
The soldier, 
though terribly cut and bruised in 
the head and various parts of his 
body) was taken up alive, and with- 
out asingle bone being fractured, on 
the beach, near a storie-quarry, and 
immediately conveyed to the regi- 
mental hospital at Hythe ; where, to 
the utter astonishment of every one, 
he is now able to walk about, and 
is declared by the surgeon of the 
regiment out of all immediate dan- 
ger. The height of the cliff, having 
siuce been accurately taken by an 
officer of the regiment, is found by 
actual admeasurement as follows : 
Yards. Feet. 
Oblique distance of cap. 
Jones’s fall 
Perpendicular height 
from the above point 
downwards 
Remainder (again obli- 
que) to the base — 
28 or 84 
87 or 261. 
68 or 204 
183 or 549 
29d. The chancellor’s prizes in 
the university of Oxford for the pre- 
sent 
