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firmary ; another man who was 

 with him at the time of the 

 explosion escaped unhurt, by in- 

 stantly laying himself at full length 

 with his face towards the ground. 



26. A beautiful, substantial, pa- 

 tent Steam Packet, of two hundred 

 tons, is now building on the 

 Thames, which will be launched 

 in a few weeks. She is intended 

 to go between London and Calais, 

 and is constructed to carry from 

 four to five hundred passengers ; 

 she will be fitted up in the most 

 elegant and commodius manner. 

 From her peculiar mode of con- 

 struction and machinery, she is cal- 

 culated to be impelled through the 

 water at the rate of twelve miles 

 an hour, against wind and tide. 



30. Last week, William Coil 

 and Elizabeth Roberts his wife, 

 stood in the pillory at the Cross of 

 Glasgow, for wilful perjury. Dur- 

 ing the whole of the exposure they 

 were assailed with filth and stones. 

 The man, who seemed at first tc 

 treat his punishment as a joke, was 

 particularly aimed at, and must 

 have received much hurt. The 

 woman did not wholly escape ; she 

 seemed to have been wounded on 

 the head. The stones were thrown 

 chiefly by lads. When the hour 

 elapsed, the disgraceful business 

 did not terminate ; the mob thought 

 the sport far too fine to be given up 

 so soon. The man was, according 

 to their jargon, " put through the 

 mill." He was cuffed and kicked, 

 and knocked down and raised up, 

 at the pleasure of the bye-standers. 

 In the Candleriggs-street, to which 

 the mob moved, he was thrown 

 into a cart, whose driver for some 

 time drove him along, humouring 

 the amusement ; but finding tlwt 

 neither himself nor his horse escap- 

 ed the punishment meant for the 



old man, he loosed his cart, and 

 tumbled him out on the street, la 

 the course of the fray he was re- 

 peatedly raised shoulder high, and 

 exhibited in his gray hairs, torn 

 garments, and swollen features, a 

 most pitiable spectacle. At length 

 he was rescued by the police, and 

 taken to the office in Albion-street. 



A Heidelberg paper of the 30th 

 of November contains the follow- 

 ing account of a German literary 

 prodigy : " We have now at our 

 university, the youngest doctor in 

 philosophy probably ever created, 

 Carl Witte, of Lochau. His di- 

 ploma, which was given him by 

 the university of Giessen, is dated 

 the 13th of April last, when he was 

 only in his 13th year. He studied 

 mathematics, physics, chemistry, 

 natural history, mineralogy, his- 

 tory, philology, and philosophy, 

 for four years at Gottenburg, to the 

 universal satisfaction of his profes- 

 sors. The first production of his 

 pen was a treatise, intituled, " Con- 

 choidis Nicomedese jequatio et in- 

 doles;" and he has just published 

 another called, " A Manual of 

 Common and Analytical Plane 

 Trigonometry." His father, who 

 was his only instructor till he went 

 to the university, accompanies hira 

 here ; they have both a pension 

 from the king of Prussia. 



31. The transport, Quebec Pac- 

 ket, Williams master, from Hali- 

 fax, put into Falmouth. On the 

 14th of December, in the Western 

 Ocean, they perceived a boat full 

 of people, and though there was a 

 tremendous sea running, they lay 

 to, in order that it might come 

 alongside. This was effected, and 

 the persons on board, consisting of 

 eighteen men, and a child five years 

 old, were got into the vessel. They 

 proved to be the passengers and 



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