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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



estate, as the heiresses of tlieir 

 biotliers. 



A letter from Serampore, dated 

 March 12th, gives an account of 

 a fire wliich broke out in the 

 printing-office, at the Mission- 

 house, on the evening of the 11th 

 of March, destroying 2,000 reams 

 of English paper, worth 5,000/. 

 and founts of type in fourteen lan- 

 guages, besides English. The loss 

 could not be less than 12,000/. 

 and all the literary labours of the 

 missionaries were interrupted at 

 once. 



Hamburgh, March 12. — The 

 following notice has been pub- 

 lished here: — 



*• The undersigned, inspector of 

 printing and bookselling, hastens 

 to inform the public, ihatmaj.-gene- 

 ral baron Pommereul, counsellor 

 of state, director-general of print- 

 ing and bookselling, has authorized 

 the following journals to be dis- 

 patched and received, without any 

 special permission on his part, 

 throughout the whole of the 32nd 

 military division. [Mere follow^s 

 a list of these journals, which are 

 all of them German periodical pub- 

 h'cations, on medicine, agriculture, 

 natural history, &c.] In order to 

 procure these journals, recourse 

 may be had to the different book- 

 sellers and post-offices in the 32nd 

 military division, who will point 

 out the forms to be observed. 



*' It is to be hoped that the edi- 

 tors and authors of these journals 

 will know how to appreciate this 

 beneficent permission. It will be 

 for their interest to abstain from 

 every dissertation or reflection of a 

 political nature. The right of 

 publishing articles on subjects con- 

 nected with politics belongs to go- 

 vernments alone. Every scientific 



journal, therefore, which shall per- 

 mit their insertion, will become 

 liable to suppression, in addition to 

 the prosecutions which the editor 

 and author will thus draw upon 

 themselves. On the other hand, 

 by strictly confining themselves 

 within the sphere of the sciences 

 and arts, to which their journals 

 are appropriated, they may rest 

 assured of the favour and approba- 

 tion of a wise government, which 

 protects the sciences and arts that 

 arc truly useful, and every thing 

 that contributes to improve them. 

 (Signed) "JOHANNOT, 

 Inspector of Printing, &c. 

 " Hamburgh, IMarch C" 



16. At the Lincoln assizes, John 

 Fieldsend, late of Driby, who vo- 

 luntarily surrendered himself into 

 custody, on the 9th of March 

 instant, was tried for feloniously 

 killing Joseph Faulkinder, on the 

 7th of May, 1810. The deceased, 

 it appeared, was a youth about 9 

 years of age, in the service of the 

 prisoner's father. For some of- 

 fence, the prisoner severely whipped 

 the lad, who, however, went home, 

 ate his supper heartily, and made 

 no complaint ; but in the night 

 complained of one of his knees, 

 grew drowsy, and died, with- 

 out being suspected to be very 

 ill, in two days. On examining 

 the body, it was found much 

 bruised and discoloured about the 

 loins and thighs; and, on being 

 opened by two surgeons, the}' gave 

 it their opinion that he had died 

 from the absorption into the system 

 of extravasated and mortified 

 blood. The jury, however, from 

 the peculiar circumstances of the 

 case, acquitted the prisoner, who, 

 it is to be observed, had at first 

 gone to America ; but, as if unable 



to 



