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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [Sept. 



Prince's letters. They all again 

 stood over for the iTrench coast, 

 and were off Dieppe, close in with 

 the land, early on Friday morning; 

 where communication being hud, 

 the yacht and squadron cruised 

 across tiie Channel again, and 

 reached Brighton at one o'clock 

 on Saturday, when the Prince 

 landed, regretting that, his pre- 

 sence being required in town, he 

 was obliged to disembark. His 

 Royal Highness slept on board 

 three nights. He was gratified 

 beyond description, and enjoyed 

 the highest state of health and 

 spirits during the whole of the 

 excursion. 



\Ve have the painful duty to 

 announce the following lament- 

 able intelligence: — Mr. (Jharles 

 Joseph Hellicar, Demi of Mag- 

 dalen College, 0.\Ford, eldest son 

 of Mr. Joseph Hellicar, of this city, 

 and Mr. George Gresley S. \\"nit- 

 church, student of Buliol College, 

 youngest son of the late Mr. S. 

 \Vhitchurch, during the present 

 vav.-auon were at Guernsey, and 

 Vvishing to vKh France, sailed oil 

 the afiernoon of the I'ith of Au- 

 gust for Cherburg. Soine few 

 hours afterwards tiie wind changed 

 tirid became violent, and it is be- 

 lie'veid the fury oi" the gale trict 

 their vessel whilst passing the 

 Race of Alderuey, and that they 

 there pei"islied. No account of 

 fhe vessel having i'eached aiiy 

 trpnch port, and more than a 

 luonth having ela'ised without in- 

 telligence to any of the parties 

 coiinected with the suffcrer.% cither 

 in Guernsey or England, the mc- 

 laricholy inference is too obvious. 

 Mr. tiellicar was in his 22d year ; 

 at a very early age he had received 

 the highest classical honours of 

 the University, and Had lately 



taken his degree of Master of 

 Arts : his friend (a year younger) 

 felt emulous of his example, and 

 gave marks of the highest promise 

 — but they are no more. — Bridol 

 Journal, Sept. 13. 



15. In the middle of last De- 

 cember, a respectable farmer 

 named Howard, whose age on 

 the day of his death was 90, was 

 murdered in his own house, within 

 tluee miles of Uxbridge. The si- 

 tuation of the house is peculiarly 

 solitary, being surrounded with 

 trees and fi'onted by a large lake, 

 where now and then a fishing-boat 

 was to be seen. The family, which 

 were almost the only inhabitants 

 within a very extensive circuit, 

 consisted of the venerable farmer, 

 ids grandson, and an aged female 

 servant. Tlic fondness of Mr. 

 Howard for his grandson, Bond, 

 received no interruption from the 

 moment of the birth of the latter, 

 who was taught to look upon the 

 property of his grandfather as his 

 iidieritance. The old man had 

 stock in the Bank of England, and 

 took much pleasure in the journey 

 to London to receive his dividends, 

 wjiich amounted to 30/. qiiarterly. 

 A few days before the murder, he 

 had been upon one of those jour- 

 neys, and oh his return, jieing 

 we-iry, he. fetiied to rest. He 

 nevej: ro;?e again. Upon the re- 

 turn of Bond from some occupa- 

 tion at six o'clock in the evening, 

 lie found hiis grandfather d?ad. 

 Near him lay a laige crab-stick, 

 upon which was a quantity of 

 blood. The body was dreadfully 

 disfigijied, and the front of tlie 

 liead was not distinguishable from 

 the back. The old housekeeper 

 was lying senseless on the ground. 

 Bond immediately ran to the la- 

 bourers employed in Uie adjacent 



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