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that the influence of the persons 

 who hold the Gard in oppression 

 is extended at pleasure beyond its 

 limits. The government, in order 

 to withdraw great criminals from 

 that fatal and deplorable influence, 

 had transferred the trial of some 

 offences to the Assize Court of the 

 department of the Drome, and the 

 following was the result of that 

 proceeding : — Two unfortunate 

 women (Protestants) were assassi- 

 nated in their houses at Nismes. 

 Several witnesses saw the crime 

 committed, and recognized the 

 perpetrators. The new Prefect, 

 M. d' Argout, whose conduct merits 

 the highest praise, caused them to 

 be arrested, and the witnesses, in 

 spite of menaces and intrigues, 

 had the courage to declare the 

 truth. The prisoners were how- 

 ever scandalously acquitted. One 

 indeed was detained on another 

 charge ; the other and the wit- 

 nesses for the defence arrived here 

 in a sort of triumphal state, in 

 carriages decorated with branches 

 of trees. 



This evening, soon after seven 

 o'clock, a fire broke out at the 

 house of Mr. Salisbury, a dealer 

 in clothes near Holborn-bridge, 

 in Fleet-market. His extensive 

 premises were soon entirely de- 

 stroyed, and those of his neigh- 

 bours on both sides were much 

 damaged. The speedy arrival of 

 the engines, and the extraordinary 

 activity with which they played 

 upon the parts affected, subdued 

 in a short time the violence of the 

 conflagration, and prevented its 

 further spread, except to a few 

 small buildings behind, which 

 were very much injured. A hack- 

 ney-coach which had passed the 

 premises while the fire was raging 

 was seen at a little distance from 



the spot to emit smoke. The 

 coachman sitting on his box, was 

 driung on towards Blackfriars- 

 bridge, unconscious of his danger 

 or the accident that had befallen 

 his coach, till the passengers in 

 the street apprised him of the cir- 

 cumstance, and stopped his hor- 

 ses. By this time tlie flames had 

 actually reached the hammercloth, 

 and the coachman was involved in 

 smoke. The singularity of the 

 accident drew a crowd of people 

 together, which prevented us from 

 learning the particulars ; but it 

 was supposed that a spark had 

 fallen from the houses, and kindled 

 some hay in the boot of the coach, 

 which was open. The passengera 

 within immediately alighted, with- 

 out any injury, and the fire waa 

 soon extinguished. 



One of those melancholy events, 

 which have too frequently occurred 

 in the neighbourhoodof the Lakes, 

 took place at Windermere on Fri- 

 day the 12th. Mr. Greaves, of 

 Bowness, and Lieutenant Satter- 

 thwaite, of Hawkeshead, accom- 

 panied by a young man of the 

 name of Fisher, were sailing for 

 a tiifling wager, when a gust of 

 wind suddenly arising, and the 

 Lieutenant's boat cajrying too 

 much sail, she was upset, and un- 

 fortunately he and his companiont 

 were drowned. 



His Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent visited the coast of France^ 

 from whence he was landed at 

 Brighton, in safety and in high spi- 

 rits,on Saturday afternoon the 13th, 

 at 1 o'clock, having been four days 

 and tiiree nights at sea ! On 

 Thursday piorning, the yacht and 

 ships of war stood off for the coast 

 of France, but the wind shifting 

 to the southward, a boat was des- 

 patched to the shore for tb'^ 



Q Prince's 



