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where lier Imperial Hia^luiess was 

 received by centinels placed at 

 the door. She was handed out 

 of the carriage by the Duke of 

 Clarence and Colonel Bloomfield, 

 who conducted her to the apart- 

 ments prepared for her. The 

 Duke of Clarence took his leave, 

 and proceeded to Carlton-house, 

 where he had an interview veith 

 the Prince Regent, and afterwards 

 returned to her Highness, to ex- 

 ])ress the Pince Regent's congra- 

 tulations on her safe arrival in 

 England. 



APRIL. 



2. A cause of considerable in- 

 terest to travellers was tried at the 

 Lancaster Assizes, in which Mr. 

 G. H. Drummond, M. P. for tlie 

 county of Kincardine, was plain- 

 tiff, and Michael Whitehead, land- 

 lord of the Bull inn, Preston, de- 

 fendant. It appeared from the 

 statement of Mr. Parke, that the 

 plaintiff, his lady, and family, 

 accompanied by two gentlemen, 

 stopped at defendant's hou^e, in 

 Preston, on their way to Scotland, 

 in July last. Defendant had then 

 no other horses at home but those 

 which had brought plaintiff's two 

 carriages from Chorley, and which 

 were so much knocked up as to 

 render it impossible for them to 

 proceed. Plaintiff was, in ccnt^e- 

 quence, obliged to order horses 

 from another inn, which defend- 

 ant thought proper to resist, say- 

 ing, that he should not leave his 

 house unless with his horses ; and 

 on being remonstrated with, pro- 

 ceeded by force to carry his ihreat 

 into effect, and by his outrageous 

 conduct, and abusive language, 

 collected a mob, and thus for se- 



veral hours, with force and vio- 

 lence, prevented the horses being 

 put to; audit was not till after 

 repeated applications to the Mayor, 

 nor till he had personally inter- 

 posed his authority, that plaintiff 

 was enabled to proceed. The case 

 was satisfactorily proved by the 

 gentlemen who were of the party, 

 and the plaintiil's servant. The 

 defendant called no witnesses, but 

 the Jury were addressed by Mr. 

 Topping in mitigation of damages, 

 on the ground of his being intoxi- 

 cated at the time, and the heavy 

 costs he would have to pay. The 

 Jury deliberated a few minutes, 

 and returned a verdict for the 

 plaintift" — Damages 50/. 



11, 12, 13. The late intelli- 

 gence from France, of the entry of 

 the allied powers into Paris, and 

 the abdication of Buonaparte was 

 celebrated in the metropolis by a 

 general and splendid illumination 

 for three successive nights, in 

 which the public joy at these de- 

 cisive events was testified by every 

 device that the taste and invention 

 of the exhibitors could supply. 



Two sheriff's officers went to 

 the house of Jacob Francis, at 

 Banham, near Launceston, to levy 

 an execution on his goods. On 

 stating their business, they were 

 violently assaulted by Francis (who 

 is an old man), his wife and fa- 

 mily, who, being armed with 

 sHcks, kni\es, &c. compelled the 

 officers to withdraw, after an ef- 

 fectual attempt to discharge their 

 duty, in which they were both 

 wounded. Having procured the 

 assistance of some constables of 

 Launceston, the officers again 

 repaired to the house, where they 

 found the door shut, and the 

 family armed, and were told that 



