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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



stances attending the melancholy 

 event was observable in the anxiety 

 expressed by several gentlemen 

 who were drawn to the spot to 

 prevent any noise among the 

 crowd, that the persons who were 

 employed in clearing away the 

 rubbish, might, in pursuing their 

 work, direct their ears to the 

 ground, in order to discover whe- 

 ther any of their victims were 

 calling for assistance. The cau- 

 tion and humanity with which the 

 labourers proceeded in their dis- 

 tressing task excited a strong in- 

 terest, and deserve warm appro- 

 bation. 



18. Vienna. — The fete given 

 to-day on the occasion of the 

 anniversary of the battle of Leipsic 

 was the finest that has been yet 

 seen. Twenty thousand men were 

 assembled in the morning on the 

 Prater. At eleven in the fore- 

 noon the Emperors, the Kings, 

 and Allied Sovereigns, the Era- 

 presses and Queens, came upon 

 the ground with a very numerous 

 and brilliant suite. The troops 

 having formed an immense square, 

 Te Deum was chaunted ; after 

 which the troops defiled in pre- 

 sence of their Majesties. The 

 Archduke Constantine was at the 

 head of the regiment of curas- 

 siers which bears his name. Dinner 

 was served up at the same time to 

 the Sovereigns, the Officers, and 

 the troops. The repast even of 

 the troops was sumptuous : the 

 Sovereigns dined in the Villa, at 

 one end of the Prater, and the 

 troops on the field, while more 

 than 100,000 spectators were mov- 

 ing about in every direction. 

 Their Majesties several times ap- 

 peared at the balcony which com- 

 mands the plain as well as the 



islands of the Danube, and wer<r 

 saluted by uninterrupted acclama- 

 tions. The Emperor of Russia 

 twice drank to the health of the 

 troops and the spectators. The 

 soldiers in the garrison of Vienna 

 receive double pay, and the Offi- 

 cers a present of 200 florins a 

 month. The expenses of the 

 kitchen and cellars of the Palace 

 are about one hundred thousand 

 florins a day. 



19. The Ro5'al East India brigade 

 paraded for the purpose of re- 

 ceiving the official thanks of both 

 Houses of Parliament; after which 

 the three battalions were marched 

 to the India House, to deposit 

 their colours on being disbanded, 

 on which occasion each man re- 

 ceived 20*. and his regimentals. 



24. A horrid murder was com- 

 mitted near Altagh Wood, in the 

 Barony of West Muskerry, Cork. 

 A farmer named Gallavan and his 

 son, returning from the wood, 

 where they had purchased a horse- 

 load of timber, were attacked by 

 five persons who crossed them 

 in the high road, and who appeared 

 to have lain in waiting for them, 

 three of whom were armed with 

 scythes, set in handles, like 

 swords : two of them knocked the 

 old man down, and gave him 

 several severe wounds with these 

 murderous weapons, and also with 

 large stones ; and the other three 

 most barbarously butchered the 

 son, who died on' the following 

 day. An inquest was held on the 

 body, and one Hogan, a carpenter, 

 has been identified by old Galla- 

 van, as one of the perpetrators, 

 and is in custody. 



A singular accident took place 

 at Sutton Bonnington, Notts. It 

 being wake time, a number of 



