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fomieil in Vienna, and the festivi- 

 ties were kept up near three weeks. 

 On certain days the guests took 

 the diversion of hunting, for which 

 purpose about fifty of the largest 

 wolves that could be procured 

 were purchased at an expense of 

 80/. each. 



NOVEMBER. 



1. The Russian circumnavigator, 

 Krusenstern, in the relation of his 

 voyage round the world ( recently 

 published in Russ and German), 

 gives a faithful account of the failure 

 of the principal objectofhisexpedi- 

 tion, which was to establish commer- 

 cial relations between Japan and 

 Russia. •' The Emperor of Japan 

 (he says) causedit to be notified to 

 the commissioners whom I carried, 

 that his subjects traded only with 

 the Dutch and Chinese. As to 

 the Russians, he begged them to 

 return to their own country, and, 

 if they valued their lives, never to 

 come back." The two vessels in 

 which captain Krusenstern per- 

 formed his voyage were called the 

 Neva and Nadessa (Hope): they 

 were English built, aad all the 

 equipments of his sailors were pur- 

 chased in this country. 



A letter from Madras states, 

 that the following melancholy 

 spectacle was lately witnessed 

 there : — " A young Gentoo wi- 

 dow, about 21 years of age, came 

 to the commanding officer, asking 

 permisiion to burn herself with 

 her deceased husband ; he used 

 every argument to dissuade her 

 from it, but in vain ; her family, 

 and even her own mother, abused 

 lier for hesitating, by going to the 

 commanding ollicer. They were 



very poor, and did not provide suf- 

 ficient wood and oil: horrid to re- 

 late, the poor creature was iieard 

 repeatedly to cry out, " more fire ! 

 more fire !" and shriek with agony, 

 until the noise of the instruments 

 drowned her cries. 



On the 2nd a writ of inquiry was 

 executed before the sheriff of the 

 county of Hertford, in a cause in 

 which the Earl of Essex was plain- 

 tiff, and Mr. Richard Taylor of 

 Bull's Lands, near Rickraansworth, 

 was defendant. The attorney for 

 Lord Essex stated to the jury, that 

 this action had been brought by 

 his lordship to recover damages for 

 a trespass committed by the de- 

 fendant at Cashiobury, while hunt- 

 ing with the Berkeley hounds : 

 that though his lordship had 

 brought penal actions against 

 different members of the hunt, in 

 some of which he had consent- 

 ed to take nominal damages, 

 and though he had, by every 

 means in his power, notified that 

 he would not permit any per- 

 son who was following the hounds 

 to trespass upon his lands, still that 

 he was subject to frequent depre- 

 dations, and that his lordship was 

 determined to take such steps as 

 would effectually prevent a repeti- 

 tion of these offences. Two wit- 

 nesses were called, who proved 

 that they saw the defendant ride 

 over a field of clover which is in 

 his lordship's occupation, after he 

 had been warned not to do so. 

 The defendant's attorney, in ad- 

 dressing the jury, admitted the 

 trespass ; but stated, that the de- 

 fendant had inadvertently gone 

 over his lordship's field ; that he 

 was, indeed, ignorant of the lands 

 which his lordship occupied : and 

 he trusted, that as no actual da- 

 mage 



