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place: to give greater weight to 
their infernal machinations, a bullet 
was enclosed in the letter. 
Mr. Sainsbury, of Weston, has 
obtained the astonishing number of 
2000 grains of Egyptian wheat from 
two ears, sown in his own garden, 
The board of agriculture has this 
year offered various premiums tor 
the promotion of that useful sci- 
ence; among which are the three 
following ; viz. 
1. ** To the person whe shall pro- 
duce to the board, a model of the 
best and cheapest cottage, on a 
scale of one inch to a foot; with es- 
timates of the expence of erecting 
it—from five to ten guineas, accord- 
ing to merit. 
2. **It having been represented 
to the board, that there are roads 
in some parts of the kingdom, where 
much carriers’ work is regularly 
dene with one-horse carts; and as, 
in such cases, it is conceived that it 
might be easy for such carriers to 
substitute oxen, or spayed heifers, 
in some of their carts for compari-' 
son, the board will give to the car- 
rier, or other person, who shall 
make the experiment in the most sa- 
tisfactory manner, during one year, 
and report the result to the board— 
fifty guineas. 
*¢ ft is required that the oxen be 
fed in the same manner as the horses, 
and not to be under five years old. 
3. *¢ To the person who shall dis- 
cover aprinciple, which may lighten 
the draught of oxen to carriages— 
twenty guineas; being the amount 
of a legacy left by the late colonel 
Goate, of Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, for 
this specific purpose.” 
§. As Mr. W. King, of Adder- 
bury, Oxon, was going to church to 
be married to a Miss Williams, of 
Banbury, the constables met hin 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
within a few yards of the church. 
doer, and took him away (for leave. 
ing a former family ehargeable to 
Adderbury), to the great grief and 
alarm of the intended bride, who had 
just entered the church. 
8th. Some gentlemen shooting in 
a wood on Kingsdown, near Bath, 
discovered @ man lying motionless. 
Finding some symptoms of life still 
remaining, they had him conveyed 
to a house. His tame is John 
Lockyer, and he is well known in’ 
Bath. Being on his way home on 
Tuesday evening the 19th of August, 
during the tremendous thunder- 
storm, he was struck senseless by 
the lightning ; how long he remain- 
ed in that state he has no conception, 
but on recovering his recolleétion 
he was incapable of standing. That 
a human being should exist 20 days 
without any subsistence, but the lit- 
tle rain-water he was able to catch 
in his shaving cup, and by chewing 
the surrounding grass, will appear 
incredible, but it is a faét, and will 
be clearly substantiated. His senses 
appear to have recovered much 
sooner than his powers of speech, or 
the use of Tris limbs. He was con- 
scious of his situation long before 
he had the ability to speak, or the 
inclination to move. ‘The medical 
men who attend him expeét he 
will recover the partial use of his 
limbs. The following are the me- 
moranda he minuted on the slate 
leaves of a black letter case; and 
which book is bent and cockled up, 
evidently appearing to have becn 
soaked through by the wet: “¢ T am’ 
just able to pencil! this—I belicve the 
fatal thunder-storm(to me) was on- 
the 18th of August (It was on the 
19th). [should not have known how 
the,time went on only by hearing the 
guns go off for partridge shooting 
the 
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