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ficulty reached the summit. Five 
men are missing, and no doubt they 
are drowned. ‘The loss to the ad- 
venturers in these mines is estimated 
at nearly 6,000/. 
DREADFUL MURDER AND kOR- 
BERY.—A. most barbarous murder 
‘was committed at Edinburgh :—At 
five o’clock, William Begbie, a por- 
ter to the British linen company at 
Leith, was stabbed and murdered, 
in Tweedale’s Close,: leading to the 
British linen company’s office, at 
Edinburgh, and robbed of a sealed 
parcel, in a yellow canvass bag, 
containing the following particulars: 
viz. 
1300/. of sir William Forbes and 
- €o,’s notes, in notes of 20/. cach. 
10007. in notes of Lieth banking 
company, of 20/. each, 
1400/. in notes of different banks, ° 
of 20/7. 102. and 352. 
210 Guinea notes of 
banks. 
410 Twenty shilling notes of dif- 
ferent banks. 
The weapon with which the mur- 
der was committed was found upon 
the spot.—Every exertion has been 
made, and is still making, to disco- 
ver the perpetrator of the above 
different 
murder, but hitherto without effect., 
The notes to the yalue of 300/. have 
been since found, 1807, 
' A young lady, daughter of a 
noble Jord, was united in wedlock 
toa gardener, a few days since. The 
bride was at a seminary for young 
ladies, in the New Road, Mary-le- 
bone; and, in taking her daily 
walks, she used to pass the nursery 
in which the bridegroom pursued his 
daily labour. She became enamour- 
ed of his person, and a match was 
speedily formed. The young lady is 
considerably under age. 
Opp mArniace. — At Stroud, 
ANNUAL (REGPS TER, 
1806. 
Gloucestershire, Samuel Holder,aged 
70, and who has lost both his legs 
many years, to the widow of Isaac 
Wildry, who was drowned in the 
Stroud canal a short time since. The 
novelty of the match brought to- 
gether a large concourse of specta- 
tors ; at the head of whom was one 
of the old veteran’s daughters, who 
expressed her disapprobation of the | 
alliance, by ringing a sheep-bell, 
beating a cannister, and other noisy 
implements, which were suspended 
to different parts of her body. The 
old gentleman was conycyed to and 
from church on the shoulders of a 
friend, who was occasionally re- 
lieved, in this arduous task, by the 
willing efforts of the bride herself! 
The king has been pleased to 
grant a pension of 100/. to the widow 
of Mr. Scott, secretary to lord Nel- 
sou, who was killed in the celebrated 
battle of Trafalgar, during her life; 
and 25/. a year to her three sons, till 
they become of age. Considerable 
difficultles arose at the admiralty in 
sanctioning the application, in con. 
sequence of there being no prece- 
dent for granting a pension to a se- 
cretary’s widow. 
14th. A fire broke out, at nine 
o'clock at night, at Flamsted’s End, 
Cheshunt, at Mr. Godfrey’s, japan- 
ner, formerly a considerable tinman 
in Fabernacle Row, Moorfields. It 
was occasioned by over-heating the 
stoves for drying new-invented tea- 
tables composed of various layers of 
rags and paper pounded ina method 
superior to Clay’s of Birmingham, 
and in three hours destroyed the 
dwelling-house, a large -malting- 
house, and buildings adjoining, 
forming a kind of square. Mr. G, 
his wife, and four children, and the 
furniture, were saved 3. but a sow 
and six pigs perished in the. flames. 
The 
