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return home, when a horse draw- 

 ing a gig took fright, and run- 

 ning with great fury, brought the 

 shaft of the vehicle in contact with 

 her head, and literally dashed it 

 to pieces. Tlic blood ilowed pro- 

 fusely, and she died ia a few mi- 

 nutes after. The lady was the 

 mother of three children. She 

 was about thirty-three years of 

 age, and extremely interesting. 

 Her remains were conveyed to her 

 residence, and the scene of afflic- 

 tion which they caused there to a 

 husband and to children who were 

 most fondly attached to her, can- 

 not be described. 



4. Philadelphia. — On Saturday 

 morning last, about seven o'clock, 

 two miles above Point Coussee, 

 the boiler of the steam-boat Con- 

 stitution burst, and destroyed all 

 the most respectable passengers, 

 amounting to eleven : although on 

 tlie morning of the same day, at 

 four o'clock, but five of those un- 

 fortunate gentlemen liad actually 

 expired, there could not exist a hojjc 

 that any one of the eleven could 

 sui'vive, being completely scalded 

 and skinned from head to foot, 

 and the nerves contracteil, and the 

 extremities destroyed. 



"22. The Barbarij Pirates. — 

 Frankfort. — On the IGth instant, 

 being the 35th meeting of tlie 

 Diet, was presented tiie following 

 representation respecting the pi- 

 racies of the Barbary corsairs : — 



The free cities of Liibeck, Frank- 

 fort, Bremen, and Hamburgh : — 

 The Minister of the said free cities 

 has received orders from the Se- 

 nates of the Hanse Towns to sub- 

 mit the following Memorial to tlie 

 Diet:— 



The Senates of the Hans Towns 

 of Lubcck, Bremen, and Ham- 



burgh, feel themselves bound to 

 call the attention of the Diet to an 

 object which is of the greatest im- 

 portance, not only directly to these 

 cities as well as to all other Ger- 

 man maritime states, but also to 

 the whole German federation. It 

 is already known, from the ac- 

 coimts in public jiapers, that piracy 

 is carried on in an unheard of man- 

 ner by Tunisian corsairs in the 

 North sea and even in the Channel. 

 It also appears from several offi- 

 cial repojts, transmitted by the 

 Charges d'Affaires and Consul of 

 the Hans Towns at Madrid and 

 Lisbon, that, according to formal 

 communications made to them by 

 the Minister of the King of the 

 Netherlands at the former, and by 

 the French Consul-General at the 

 latter Court, several armed Bar- 

 bury corsairs, among which are in 

 particular two Tunisians, had sailed 

 for the Atlantic, in order to cruise 

 againsttheshipsof the Hans Towns 

 and some other German States, 

 but avowedly against Prussian 

 ships ; and have expressly decl.ared 

 this design under the pretence that 

 they are in a state of war with 

 these States. 



On the IGth of last month the 

 Hamburgh ship Ocean, with a 

 cargo of great value, and the Chris- 

 tiana, from Lubeck, and still more 

 recently a Hambxirgh and an Ol- 

 denburgh sliip, both named Ca- 

 tharina, were taken by these 

 pirates. Fortunately, British ships 

 of war fell in with the robbers, and 

 carried both ihem and the vessels 

 they had cajitured into English 

 ports, whence tiie latter were pei'- 

 mittcd to jirosecute their respective 

 voyages ; mcan^^ hile the captain of 

 the ship Ocean, and five of his crew 

 who had been removed on board 



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