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piece would be hissed ; in conse- 

 quence of which the police distri- 

 buted sixty of their officers in the 

 pit dressed like citizens. Scarcely 

 had the curtain risen, when univer- 

 sal hisses burst forth, with shouts 

 damning the play ; but the police 

 officers arrested seventeen of the 

 most turbulent, and the piece was 

 concluded without interruption. 



As some workmen were lately 

 digging a road from Burford, in 

 Oxfordshire, to Barrington, they 

 discovered near the surface of the 

 earth, a stone coffin of an immense 

 size, and extremely irregular, 

 weighing nearly three tons, which, 

 on examination, was found to con- 

 tain the perfect skeleton of a man, 

 of middle stature, having his teeth 

 entire ; also a great number of 

 short nails, completely oxydated 

 and matted together in pieces of 

 hide, of which materials it is pro- 

 bable a shield was formed. From 

 the size and appearance of this cof- 

 fin, and from the circumstance of 

 its being found near to a place 

 known by the name of Battle-edge, 

 it may be presumed to have been 

 deposited there after the battle re- 

 corded by many of our early histo- 

 rians to have been fought near 

 Burford, about the middle of the 

 eighth century ,between Ethehvald, 

 king of Mercia, and the West 

 Saxon king, Cuthred, or Cuthbert. 

 This curious relie is deposited in an 

 aisle called Sylvester's, in Burford 

 church, foi the inspection of the 

 curious. 



23. Weymouth. — This week 

 we have experienced one of the 

 most tiemendous gales of wind 

 ever known at this port. A great 

 number of deals and other wreck 

 have been driven on shore at Port- 

 land, and being burnt in many 

 parts plainly indicate to have been 



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part of a cargo in a vessel set fire 

 to by the enemy ; the latter with 

 her bottom vipperruost, was also 

 descried this morning, in the road 

 of Portland. Several pilot boats 

 have put to sea with a view of 

 towing it into port. 



On Wednesday evening the gale 

 increased most violently, when at 

 nine o'clock, the French brig 

 L'Amitie, from Havre de Grace 

 to the isle of Bourbon, of 300 tons 

 burthen, laden with various mer- 

 chandise, came ashore on Portland 

 Sands, having cut away all her 

 masts. In consequence of firing 

 guns of distress, and hoisting sig- 

 nal lights, the Portland men, at 

 the most imminent danger of their 

 lives, got onboard, and the vessel's 

 head was brought towards the 

 shore, and prevented from going to 

 pieces. During this critical period, 

 the captain and crew were prepar- 

 ing a raft for conveying themselves 

 and the passengers to the shore ; 

 but by the timely and fortunate ar- 

 rival of the Dutch Consul at this 

 port (who also underwent extreme 

 peril in getting aboard) he with 

 much difficultypersuiided the whole 

 to remain till next morning, when 

 upwards of 20 ladies and children, 

 with other passengers and crew, 

 amountingtoupwardsof fifty souls, 

 were let down by ropes into the 

 boats, and safely landed (although 

 the sea was running tremendously 

 high), and conducted to the hotel, 

 in that island. The vessel and car- 

 go, it is supposed, will be saved. 



Cashel. — This day, at noon, 

 Hardj', a tithe farmer, was mur- 

 dered at the gate of Monagee, 

 about one mile from this city. 

 Hardy, after enforcing the pay- 

 ment of some tithes, left Cashel on 

 his return to Newport, accompa- 

 nied by two other proctors, who had 



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