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told the trivial offence was en- 
tirely accidental. A crowd was 
soon collected to the spot, and 
‘ ereated some confusion, in the 
course of which Mr. Keen unhap- 
pily received a wound in his left 
side from a cane sword, Soon 
after it was inflicted, a person in 
plain clothes was observed brand- 
ishing such a weapon, exclaiming 
at the same time—‘‘ Je suis un 
officier Francais!” and it is very 
probable that this was the person 
who inflicted the wound. He is 
supposed not to be the same whose 
foot was trodden upon; he, how- 
ever, got away in the confusion, 
and has not as yet been heard of. 
Mr. Keen was very soon taken 
home, from which he was not 
absent a quarter of an hour alto- 
gether. Ono his arrival Dr. Tup- 
per was sent for, who immedi- 
ately declared the wound (though 
very small) to be of a most dan- 
gerous nature. Under all the 
existing circumstances, he sug- 
gested the propriety of calling in 
some other medical gentleman to 
act with him. This suggestion 
was of course immediately at- 
tended to, and Dr. T. sent for 
M. Dupertrie, a French surgeon 
of eminence, whose opinion cor- 
roborated that which the former 
gentleman had already pronounc- 
ed, and which was unfortunately 
but too well founded. Dr. Hume 
was afterwards also called in, but 
nothing more could be done than 
had already been attempted for 
the purpose of affording effectual 
relief, and Mr. Keen died about 
ten o'clock on Thursday morning. 
The Duke of Wellington has 
offered a considerable reward for 
the discovery of the murderer of 
Mr. Keen on the Boulevards. 
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The Gazette of St. Petersburgh, 
of the 8th of September, gives 
the state of Russian manufactures 
for 1815. In the different pro- 
vinces of this vast empire, there 
are enumerated 181 manufacto- 
ries of woollen-cloth, 150 of silk, 
370 of hats, 247 of tallow and 
wax candles, 64 for melting tal- 
low, 186 of linen, 275 of cotton, 
80 rope works, 1,348 tanneries, 
67 paper mills, 14 manufactories 
of potash, 5 of tobacco, 6 of snuff, 
48 sugar-refineries, 2 manufacto~ 
ries of powder and starch, 30 of 
vinegar and spirits, 25 of lace, 
25 of colours, 5 of sealing-wax, 
14 of vitriol and sulphur, 199 of 
needles and pins, 138 of glass 
and crystal, 16 of porcelain and 
china ware, 43 of copper and 
brass, 3 of pipes, in short 3,254 
altogether, In 1812 there were 
2,322, the number has thus in- 
creased 931 in two years. 
13.—Effects of Drinking.— Yes 
terday a Coroner’s inquest was 
held at the King’s Arms, Nottings 
ham-court, St. Giles’s, before G. 
Hodgson, esq. on the body of 
Mary Cook. It appeared that the 
deceased was a labouring woman, 
aged about 55, that she was much 
in the habit of drinking to excess, 
that she went home to her lodg- 
ings in Nottingham-court, on 
Saturday night dreadfully intoxi- 
cated, and that she was put to 
bed, out of which she fell, and 
was found dead in the morning. 
Verdict—Died from excess of 
drinking. 
On Monday an inquest was 
held before the same Coroner, at 
the Duke of York, York-street, 
Mary-le-bone, on the body of 
Eliza Creswell, a woman aged 54, 
who got her living by charing> 
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