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litary uftiform ; he was accom- 

 panied by the duke of Montrose 

 (master of tlie horse), and lord 

 John Murray (lord in waiting). 

 The procession was escorted by a 

 party of the life guards, and ar- 

 rived at St. James's at half past 

 three. Earl Cholraondeley (lord 

 Steward), and the earl of Maccles- 

 field, and other officers of state, 

 waited at the bottom of the grand 

 staircase for the Prince Regent, 

 and conducted hisRoyalHighness to 

 the grand council-chamber, where 

 his Royal Highness paid his respects 

 to his royal mother. He remained 

 in the drawing-room half an hour. 

 Their royal highnesses the princess 

 of Wales, the duchess of York, 

 the dukes of York, Clarence, 

 Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge, and 

 Sussex, their highnesses the duke 

 of Gloucester, and the princess So- 

 phia of Gloucester, and his serene 

 highness the duke of Brunswick, 

 were also present. 



The wife of a respectable far- 

 mer, at a village in the neighbour- 

 hood of Liverpool, died a few days 

 ago under melancholy circum- 

 stances. About two years ago, 

 having had a quarrel with a female 

 servant, the young woman, nffer 

 leaving the house, propagated a re- 

 port, that an improper connection 

 laad for- some time subsisted be- 

 tween her late mistress and a man 

 in the neighbourhood. This ru- 

 mour reached the ears of the hus- 

 band, who took it so much to heart 

 that he quitted his home, and ne- 

 ver returned till a few weeks 

 since. His wife was so aSected by 

 his desertion, and the cause of it, 

 that she fell into a decline, and on 

 her husband's return, was past re- 

 covery. She earnestly solicited an 

 interview, which, having obtained. 



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she assured him, on the word of a 

 dying person, that she was entirely 

 innocent. He believed her, and a 

 reconciliation took place, but too 

 late, as she died a few days after- 

 wards. The young woman being 

 threatened with a prosecution, con- 

 fessed her guilt, and attested the 

 innocence of her mistress, and has 

 in consequence been excommuni- 

 cated in iheneighbouring churches. 



Descrij>tion of the eruj)tion of the 

 SoTiff'rier mountain, on Thursday 

 night, the 30th of April, 1812, in 

 the island of St. Vincent. — The 

 Souffrier Mountain, the most 

 northerly of the lofty chain run- 

 ning through the centre of this is- 

 land, and the highest of the whole, 

 as computed by the most accurate 

 survey that has been taken, had for 

 some time past indicated much 

 disquietude ; and from the extraor- 

 dinary frequency and violence of 

 earthquakes, which are calculated 

 to have exceeded two hundred 

 within thelastyear, portendedsome 

 great movement or eruption. The 

 apprehension, however, was not so 

 immediate, as to restrain curiosity, 

 or to prevent repeated visits to the 

 crater, which of late had been 

 more numerous than at any former 

 period, even up to Sunday last, the 

 26th of April, when some gentle- 

 men ascended it and remained 

 there for some time. Nothing un- 

 usual was then remarked, or any 

 external difference observed, ex- 

 cept rather a stronger emission of 

 smoke from the interstices of the 

 conical hill, at the bottom of the 

 crater. To those who liave not 

 visited this romantic and wonderful 

 spot, a slight description of it, as it 

 lately stood, is previously necessary 

 and indispensable to form any con- 

 ception of it, and to the better un- 



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