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to rest there, had returned, and 

 delivered himself up to take his 

 trial. 



17. On St. Patrick's-day, a riot 

 took place at Portsmouth between 

 the North Cork militia stationed 

 at Gosport, and some watermen, 

 who insulted the soldiers. The 

 Irishmen attacked the watermen, 

 who procured the aid of their 

 countrymen, and in a short time 

 the beach was thronged with com- 

 batants. All the shops were shut 

 up, and a regiment was ordered 

 out to quell the disturbance, which 

 with difficulty they accomplished, 

 but not till one boy was killed, 

 and about twenty men and a boy 

 wounded, some of them danger- 

 ously. The following night the 

 streeJs were patrolled by parties of 

 soldiers. 



A very sudden and fatal acci- 

 dent occurred on Sunday se'n- 

 night, at the distillery of Messrs. 

 Hewit and Co. on the water- 

 course, Cork. The iron hoops 

 of a large worm cooler, which 

 contained nearly sixty thousand 

 gallons of water, suddenly burst, 

 and this vast body, which in a mo- 

 ment became unconfined, impe- 

 tuously spread and overwhelmed 

 every thing which presented any 

 resistance to it. A wall which 

 was immediately between this 

 large vessel and the street, was 

 forced from its position, and two 

 females who were passing, killed, 

 and one so dreadfully bruised as to 

 render the amputation of both legs 

 necessary to preserve life. 



19. Corporal Lennie, of the Fife- 

 shire militia, was found at seven 

 o'clock on this morning, on the 

 road between Stonehaven and Ber- 

 vie, nearly covered with snow, and 

 with life almost expended. He 



had been left in Aberdeen on Wed- 

 nesday, in charge of the barracks, 

 to deliver them over to the 21st 

 regiment ; and set out with some 

 of his comrades, at four o'clock in 

 the afternoon, for Stonehaven, 

 which he reached about eight. 

 He soon after left; that place alone, 

 and as he had only got to the dis- 

 tance of three miles from it, he 

 must have remained among the 

 snow for upwards of nine hours, 

 during a very intense frost. Un- 

 der an unremitting application of 

 the means for restoring suspended 

 animation, he continued in insen- 

 sibility until five in the afternoon. 

 When first discovered, he was 

 taken to Uras, where he recovered. 

 He had no recollection of any thing 

 after leaving Aberdeen, v»'hen, he 

 said, he was excessively fatigued. 

 It is probable, that the covering of 

 snow protected him considerably 

 from the effects of the frost, other- 

 wise he must have fallen a victim 

 to the cold. 



Maidstone, BJarch '20. — The 

 following instance of passionate 

 cruelty deserves record. 



Thomas Burton, a farmer at 

 Kingsnorth, near Ashford, was in- 

 dicted for the murder of John 

 Manley, a drummer-boy of the 

 73rd regiment. It appeared, that 

 the deceased, with four others, 

 went from Ashford, to gather wild 

 plums on the hedges, on the 5th 

 of September last. They tres- 

 passed in the pi-isoner's orchard, at 

 Kingsnorth ; and while there, the 

 prisoner and his man came up. 

 The soldier lads, on seeing them, 

 endeavoured to make their escape, 

 but the prisoner overtook the de- 

 ceased as he was getting over a 

 fence, and gave him a violent blow 

 on the head with a stake which he 

 D 2 held 



