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the wife of a miner at Wanlock- 

 liead, and prevailed on her to taste 

 it. These two women were soon 

 after both seized with such alarm- 

 ing pains, that Messrs. Meikle and 

 Rankine, surgeons in Douglas, 

 were called in to their aid. Mar- 

 garet Hamilton died in great agony 

 at the end of three hours, leaving 

 behind her a helpless infant, born 

 only three weeks ago; some of 

 the porridge being given to a dog, 

 the animal died instantly ; and the 

 meal being analyzed by the medi- 

 cal gentlemen, was found to con- 

 tain a larjije portion of arsenic. 



A warrant has been issued for 

 the apprehension of the husband of 

 the deceased. 



The new comet, which was dis- 

 covered at Marseilles, by M. Pons, 

 and afterwards at Paris by M. 

 Bouvard, according to the calcula- 

 tions of these astronomers, passed 

 its perihelion on the 15th of Sep- 

 tember, when its distance from the 

 8un, taking that of the earth at 

 unity, was 0.77835. Its inclina- 

 tion to the ecliptic is 74'''20'. In 

 a very clear night, and in the ab- 

 sence of the moon, it is just visible 

 to the naked eye. 



16. A daring outrage was com- 

 mitted in the town of Adare. The 

 sheriff of the county of Limerick 

 having seized under execution, a 

 quantity of cattle belonging to 

 James Pursell, of Kildimo, a fac- 

 tion, consisting of about 300 in 

 number, assembled with stones to 

 rescue them ; which the sheriff per- 

 ceiving, succeeded in carrying off 

 the cattle, when he was shortly 

 pursued by John Pursell, Patrick 

 Burns, and twelve others, mounted, 

 and armed with pistols, swords, 

 and blunderbusses, by one road, 

 while the roads to Limerick and 



Rathkeale were surrounded by 

 others in hundreds. The horse- 

 men took the road to Rathkeale, 

 conceiving the cattle had been 

 taken there ; nor did they discover 

 their error until they had gone a 

 considerable distance; but the she- 

 riff, conceiving he would be pur- 

 sued, took a different road, and 

 reached the town of Adare, when, 

 in a few minutes after his arrival 

 there, the factious mob on horse- 

 back entered the town, where a 

 detachment of the Monaghan regi- 

 ment are stationed. On their en- 

 tering the town, Lieut. Hanna, 

 commanding the military, instantly 

 seized Burns, who was armed with 

 a pistol, which he made two efforts 

 to discharge at Lieut. Hanna, but 

 without effect ; but Lieut. Hanna 

 succeeded in securing the fellow ; 

 when immediately John Pursell 

 went up to the sheriff, and de- 

 manded the cattle, which he re- 

 fused to give, and Pursell, alight- 

 ing from his horse, took a pistol 

 from under his coat, and was in the 

 act of cocking it, when it was per- 

 ceived by the serjeant, who imme- 

 diately wrested it from him. The 

 rest then fled. Pursell and Burns 

 were immediately taken to the 

 county gaol. 



18. A shocking occurrence took 

 place at Radstock. Corporal Green, 

 who had been for some time in 

 Bath, with a recruiting party of 

 marines, went over to the above 

 place, with the alleged purpose of 

 apprehending a deserter; but called 

 on a respectable young woman of 

 the name of Smith, to renew his 

 addresses, whichhad formerly been 

 rejected by her parents. They 

 walked out together in the neigh- 

 bouring lane, when the villain, in 

 a fit of desperation, took out a 



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