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his sword, and brought off the 

 bayonet. The Frenchmen even 

 bared their breasts to the troops, 

 and seemed regardless of danger. 

 The number of prisoners is about 

 7,500 ; and so menacing was their 

 conduct, that an express was sent 

 off to Plymouth Dock, at eleven 

 o'clock on Sunday night, soliciting 

 immediate assistance. Three pieces 

 of artillery were in consequence 

 sent off early on Monday morning ; 

 and on their arrival at the prin- 

 cipal gate, the bars of which, of 

 immense size, had been previously 

 broken by stones hurled against 

 them bv the insurgents, they were 

 placed in such directions as com- 

 pletely to command the whole of 

 the circle which the prison de- 

 scribes. This had the desired 

 effect, and order was restored. It 

 is to be noticed that the allowance 

 of bread at which these men have 

 so indignantly spurned, is precise- 

 ly the same as that which is served 

 out to our own sailors and marines, 

 A horrid murder was committed 

 on Tuesday, the 9th instant, in the 

 neighbourhood of Tre-Madoc, 

 Caernarvonshire. A man named 

 Thomas Davies, who lodged at the 

 house of a small farmer, robbed the 

 cottage of his host, while the fa- 

 mily were occupied in harvest- 

 work at a short distance. Before 

 he had completed his plunder, the 

 daughter came home for the pur- 

 pose of carrying provisions to her 

 father ; Davies immediately seized 

 the young woman, and ' with a 

 pair of shears, stabbed her seven 

 or eight times, and finally cut her 

 throat with them. The girl not 

 returning in due ti.ne, the brother 

 was dispatched to ascertain the 

 cause of her delay ; as he ap- 

 proached the house, he saw the 



murderer washing his fade, which 

 he said he had cut by falling down 

 a rock. From this and other cir- 

 cumstances of his guilt, he was 

 apprehended ; but while being 

 conveyed before a magistrate, he 

 effected his escape, and fled to the 

 mountains ; he was, however, again 

 apprehended next day, and the 

 property stolen from the cottage 

 (which he had previously secreted 

 in a field) was then found in his 

 possession. He is committed to 

 Dolgelly gaol for trial. The crimi- 

 nal is 68 years of age, and six feet 

 two inches high ; he had worked at 

 Paris Mountain, in Anglesey, 14 

 years, and from his astonishing 

 muscular power, was called " The 

 Kingof the Mountains." Theuncle 

 of the murdered girl, when search- 

 ing after the villain, accidentallyfell 

 from a precipice, and was killed. 



11. Several violent shocks of an 

 earthquake were felt at Florence. 

 The only damage done, was the 

 almost entire demolition of the 

 church of St. Quirino. 



12. Leeds. — On Monday morn- 

 ing, about one o'clock, the woollen 

 manufactory of Messrs. Richard 

 Lindsey and Sons, of Gildersorae, 

 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 

 was attacked by a number of men, 

 who, after breaking open the doors, 

 destroyed 17 pair of shears, of the 

 best kind, and greatly injured the 

 machinery used in raising and 

 dressing the cloih. This depreda- 

 tion was completed without lights, \ 

 and the time occupied in its perpe- 1 

 tration did not exceed 12 minutes. | 



The depredation at Southowram, 

 on Thursday the 3rd instant, 

 was committed on the mill of 

 Messrs. Waterhouse. On this oc- 

 casion no shears were broken ; but 

 two gig mills were destroyed with 



their 



