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ing one pounds. To this letter he 

 received an answer that the prisoner 

 was to be in town on a certain day. 

 It was then further concerted that 

 the officers should be in an adjoin- 

 ing room in waiting, from which 

 they could see through a hole in 

 the partition, and as soon as Alessi 

 had ascertained that the prisoner 

 had got the notes about him he was 

 to put on his hat, as a signal to the 

 officers. The prisoner arrived at 

 the Lemon Tree as appointed, and 

 Alessi met him in the club room. 

 Foy, the officer, and three of his 

 comrades, were planted in the ad- 

 joining room. Alessi and the pri- 

 soner entered into conversation, and 

 on the appointed signal the officers 

 rushed into the room and seized 

 the prisoner. They secured him, 

 and found 20 five pound notes, 24 

 of one ditto, and 4 of two, all of 

 which proved to be forged, and 

 from the same plate. The whole of 

 these facts were proved by Alessi, 

 and confirmed by the officers and 

 the other witnesses. 



The jury found the prisoner 

 guilty. 



Alessi was himself indicted, but 

 tl\e Bank offered no evidence 

 against him, for the purpose of 

 making him a witness against the 

 prisoner. 



17. Pursuant to a vote of the 

 House of Commons, passed in the 

 last session, a 7iational vaccine esta- 

 blishment is now formed, by direc- 

 tion of his Majesty, for tiie purpose 

 of promoting vaccination through- 

 out the United Kingdom; and is 

 under the management of a board, 

 consisting of the following mem- 

 bers: — Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. Pre- 

 sident of the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians in London ; Dr. Mayo, Dr. 

 Heberden, Dr. Satterlv, and Dr. 



Bancroft, Censors of the College, 

 George Chandler, Esq. Master, 

 Robert Keate,Esq. and Sir Charles 

 Blicke, Governors of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons in London. 

 Director, Edward Jenner, M. D. 

 F.R.S. Assistant Director, James 

 Moore, Esq. Registrar, Dr. Her- 

 vey. Principal Vaccinator, J. C. 

 Carpue, Esq. Vaccinators at the 

 stations: Charles R. Aikin, Thomas 

 Halls,UichardLane, Edward Leese, 

 S.Sawrey, and J. P. Vincent, Esqrs. 

 Secretary, Charles Murray, Esq. 



The house of the establishment 

 is at No. 21, Leicester-square. 



18. Scotland — Earthquake. — 

 On this day twelvemonth was felt, 

 at Dunning, in Perthshire, about 

 two o'clock A. M. a shock of an 

 earthquake. Mr. Peter Martin, 

 surgeon, in Dunning, gives the fol- 

 lowing account of it: — He was 

 coming home at the time on horse- 

 back, when his attention was sud- 

 denly attracted by a seemingly sub- 

 terraneous noise, and his horse im- 

 mediately stopping, he perceived 

 the sound to proceed from the north- 

 west. After continuing for about 

 the space of half a minute, it be- 

 came louder and louder, and ap- 

 parently nearer, when, all on a sud- 

 den, the earth gave a perpendicular 

 heave, and, with a tremulous wav- 

 ing motion, seemed to roll or move 

 in a south-east direction. The 

 noise was greater during the shock 

 than before it, and for some seconds 

 after it was so loud, that it made 

 the circumjacent mountains re-echo 

 with the sound, after which, in the 

 course of about half a minute, it 

 gradually died away. At this time 

 the atmosphere was calm, dense, 

 and cloudy, and for some hours 

 before and after there was not the 

 least motion in the air. Fahren- 

 heit's 



