© -HIR/OON FT CLE E. 
an Almighty God with the greatest 
fervency. He was a man advanced 
in years, of a gentlemanly appear- 
ance, and possessed of a handsome 
property. Yates (a young man) 
ran up the scaffold steps, and seemed 
little affected ; Lockard and Hig- 
gins (young men) appeared greatly 
dejected. Hitchen and Fox are 
respited. 
26th. The waters about Keswick 
rese up to an unusual height, from 
the excessively-heavyy rains which 
fell the preceding night, and much 
damage hasbeen done. The water- 
wear, at Forge, is washed down, 
which will occasion a stop in the 
_ totton-works, and carding and ful- 
ling-mills. The carding-mill at Stair 
is also washed down. Considerable 
damage has been donenear Brough- 
ton in Furness, Conistone, and 
ether’ places in that part of the 
country, by the washing down of 
bridges, &c.—The lightning struck 
four pit-men, who had taken shelter 
in a new building at St. Helcn’s, 
Lancashire, the windows ef which 
were not glazed. One of them, 
who had just stepped forward to 
look at the appearance of the sky, 
was killed on the spot, and two of 
them were so debilitated, that they 
were obliged te be put to bed. The 
watch and chain, belonging to the 
man who was killed, were complete- 
ly melted. ; 
_ We have to record another in- 
stance of the violence and atrocity 
of Buonaparte. A bookseller, M. 
Palm, residing at Nugemberg, for- 
merly an imperial town, and under 
the special protection of Prussia, has 
been dragged from his house to the 
fortress of Brannan, and there tried, 
and shot by the sentence ofa’French - 
military commission, for no greater 
erime than yending, in the way of 
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his trade, a book respecting the 
government of France under Napo- 
leon. He was a man of the highest 
integrity, and his unhappy fate is 
universally lamented. ‘This atro- 
cious aét, placed beyond a doubt by 
private letters, is only slightly al- 
luded to in the German papers. The 
fact is, that there is not one journal- 
ist within three days journey of the 
French army, who has not the fate 
of the Nuremberg bookseller con- 
tinually before his eyes. 
The fatecf M. Palm, has excited 
in Germany an interest that does the 
greatest honour to the feelings of hu- 
manity. He was 40 years of age, 
and born at Schondorf. 
His conduct, when sentenced to 
death by the French commission at 
Brannan, was so heroic, that it de- 
serves to be generally known. 
—This brave man was offered his 
pardon, upon condition that he gave 
up the author of the work; which 
he refused to do even at the place of 
execution, exclaiming, ‘* that he 
would rather die than betray the 
author.”’ 3 
To intimidate others, Buonaparte 
ordered 6000 copies of the sentence 
of the mock tribunal to be circulated 
all over the continent. Some patriots 
at Berlin, in return, subscribed for 
the publication and distribution of ° 
60,000 copies of the inclosed letter 
which he wrote to his wife some 
hours before his execution, The 
general indignation this murder has 
excited every where in Germany is 
excessive. The pity of his fate is 
only surpassed by the abhorrencé of 
the tyrant who commanded and di- 
rected the assassins who perpetrated 
this atrocious deed. hide 
“6 In the Dungeon of the Military 
Prison of Brannau, August 26, 
Ff 4 1806. 
