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tlie estate as the child oF one of 

 the white mechanics, and when six 

 years old was sent to France, where 

 it is said he is now living, and must 

 be one year older than his brother 

 Prince Eugene. Madame la Pa- 

 gerie died about two years ago at 

 Martinique, leaving a very good 

 character behind her. She was 

 strongly solicited to go to Paris, 

 but her daughterhaving mentioned, 

 in one of her letters, that Buona- 

 parte was determined to compel 

 the Pope to marry his mother, and 

 that he had it also in contemplation 

 to marry her to Cardinal Fesch, the 

 old lady was determined never to 

 quit the island. 



19. The wife of a tailor at York 

 last week took up a large toad in 

 her hand, through curiosity, and 

 held it for some minutes : soon 

 after she felt a slight pain, accom- 

 panied with swelling, which in- 

 creased, and she has since been 

 obliged to have her thumb and two 

 fingers amputated. 



Longevity in Lincolnshire. — 

 When the famous Turketul, who 

 had been chancellor of England, 

 and one of thegreatest warriors and 

 statesmen of his time, retired from 

 the world and became abbot of 

 Croyland, he found five very aged 

 monks in a monastery, to whom he 

 paid particular attention. Father 

 Clarenbald, the oldest of these 

 monks, died A.D. 973, after he had 

 completed the 168th year of his 

 age. The second, who was named 

 Swarling, died the same year at the 

 age of 1^2. The third, who was 

 called Father Turgar, died the year 

 after, in the 115th year of his age. 

 The two other monks, Brune and 

 Ajo, died about the same time, 

 whose ages are not exactly known, 

 though they must have been very 



old, as they both remembered the 

 old abbey of Croyland, which had 

 been destroyed by the Danes in 

 the year 870. These facts are re- 

 lated with much confidence by In- 

 gulphus, who was abbot of Croy- 

 land, and wrote from the historical 

 register of that abbey. When we 

 recollect also the very recent in- 

 stance of longevity in Elizabeth 

 Shaw's case, who died at Keal 

 Cotes, aged 117, we think the' 

 Lincolnshire fens are not so un- 

 healthy as generally reputed. 



The hill called Standedge, on the 

 line of the Huddersfield Canal, is 

 now perforated, forming a tunnel 

 of nearly three miles in length, 

 through a rocky mountain. It is 

 worthy of remark, that the York- 

 shire hills, which were with diffi- 

 culty passed a century ago, on 

 horseback, are now crossed by three 

 navigable canals, on which not less 

 than a million of money hath been 

 expended. 



22. Court of Common Pleas. — 

 Collins V. Sir Richard Phillips, 

 Knt. and Christopher Smith, Esq. 

 late Sheriffs. — This was an action 

 of trespass brought by the plaintiff, 

 a glass-manufacturer in the Strand, 

 against the defendants, as sheriffs 

 of Middlesex, for the seizure of a 

 number of articles in cut-glass, the 

 property of the plaintiff, and in his 

 house, under an allegement that 

 they were the property of his royal 

 highness the duke of Sussex. The 

 point to be decided then was, whe- 

 ther or not the glass in question 

 belonged to his royal highness. 



To ascertain the fact, the royal 

 duke was sworn and examined ; 

 and his royal highness stated, that 

 as he had not at that time (nor we 

 believe eversince) an establishment 

 of his own, he had ordered, upon 

 a particular 



