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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



this city yesterday for Dublin. — At 

 about twelve o'clock, as the coach 

 was proceeding up a slight ascent, 

 leading to a place called Rockwell, 

 in the barony of Middlethird, and 

 within about three miles of Cashel, 

 it was discovered that the road was 

 blocked up, cars being placed at 

 each side, and a large tree resting 

 upon both. The coach had scarcely 

 arrived at this spot, when two 

 shots were fired, both of which un- 

 happily took eifect ; one upon the 

 coachman, who received the ball 

 in his breast; and the other on a 

 gentleman, the assistant surgeon of 

 the 38th regiment, who sat imme- 

 diately behind him, and who was 

 shot in the head. Notwithstanding 

 the wounded state of the coach- 

 man, he, with great presence of 

 mind, held his horses in hand, and 

 though the road was very narrow, 

 dexterously turned them round, 

 and drove back to the last stage he 

 had left. In the mean time one of 

 the guards descended from his seat, 

 and ran to the place whence the 

 shots proceeded, but the miscreants 

 could not be discerned, and all that 

 remained for him was to fire in 

 that direction, which he did. 



2. An interestmg female pre- 

 sented herself for relief to the Ger- 

 man committee at Baker's Coffee- 

 house, in consequence of wounds 

 she received in the late battles 

 fought in the cause of Europe 

 against France. She gave un- 

 doubted proofs of her havingfought 

 in the ranks in the hard contested 

 actions in the vicinity of Leipsic, 

 where she received several wounds. 

 She was taken to the hospital at 

 Leipsic, where her sex was disco- 

 vered. This Amazonian warrior is 

 a German of about twenty-five 

 years of age : she served five years 

 in the army. 



8. The Prince Regent went in 

 state to open the session of Parlia- 

 ment. At a quarter past one, his 

 Royal Highness proceeded to St, 

 James's Palace, dressed in purple 

 and gold, with various orders. 

 The procession moved through the 

 state rooms, and the Prince enter- 

 ed the state coach at half past one, 

 accompanied by the master of the 

 horse and the lord in waiting. The 

 attendants went in four carriages 

 with six horses, preceded by six 

 trumpetersand a kettle-drum. The 

 procession was followed by the fo- 

 reign ambassadors. His Royal 

 Highness's entrance into the House 

 of Peers was announced by a dis- 

 charge of cannon from the Lam- 

 beth shore. 



The Prince Regent has fulfilled 

 the promise made by him to the 

 university of Gottingen : he has 

 sent to it a copy of every English 

 work of importance that has ap- 

 peared during the last ten years. 

 The fi ne library of Gottingen is now 

 in possession of this rich present. 



10. A School of Physic has been 

 established in Dublin. It com- 

 prises six professors, viz. for ana- 

 tomy, chemistry, and botany, in 

 the foundation of Trinity College, 

 called University Professors; and 

 for the theory and practice of me- 

 dicine and the materia raedica, 

 called King's Professors, each of 

 whom acts in succession for six 

 months, as clinical lecturer and 

 physician. Sir Patrick Dun has 

 endowed a clinical hospital and 

 a medical library. Students ma- 

 triculated at Trinity College, and 

 certified bj' the six professors, ob- 

 tain in three years a diploma, on a 

 footing with those granted at Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow : and another 

 class, after longer terms and other 

 grades, obtain diplomas corre- 



