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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [Stpt. 



The Bank were not iille upon 

 hearing of the murder. The num- 

 bers of the notes ■« hich were paid 

 to Mr. Howard when he went to 

 receive his dividend had been 

 taken, and the necessary order for 

 stopping theni issued. Those very 

 notes for 20/. and for 10/. were 

 the notes which had been taken 

 out of Mr. Howard's bureau. The 

 Directors of the Bank, with all 

 that alacrity so laudable upon the 

 occasion, traced the notes through 

 about thirty hancis, and at last 

 came wltliin three miles of Ux- 

 bridge, and found them in the 

 hands of Bond. The grandson 

 was immediately conveyed to town. 

 By the ad\ice of an experienced 

 barrister, the bill for the robbery 

 was yesterday presented to the 

 grand jury at Clerkenwell. After 

 the examination of thirty-five 

 witnesses, it was found a true bill. 



Liverpool. — Wc are very sorry to 

 find, that a severe ej)idemic fever, 

 of the typhus kind, is now raging 

 among the lower classes of the peo- 

 ple in this town. We understand 

 that the large and well arranged 

 Fever Hospital belonging to the 

 town is actually overflowing, and 

 that a number of patients are neces- 

 sarily provided with accommoda- 

 tions elsewhere."LuTr/)oo/ Courier. 



Frankfort. — All the Protestant 

 universities of Germany have been 

 invited to send, by the end of 

 October, deputations to the cha- 

 teau of Warburg, near Eisenach, 

 in the Grand Duchy of Saxe- 

 AV'eimar, where a grand fete is to 

 be celebrated., in honour of the 

 Reformation, it was in this cha- 

 teau that Luther resided for several 

 years, under the protection of the 

 Dukes of Saxe, when ordered io 

 be arrested by Charles V. 



17. A most melancholy accident 

 happened in the family of Sir John 

 Thomas Stanley, 15art. Three of 

 the maids had the chaige of bath- 

 ing Sir John's youngest daugliter, 

 and at the time of high water they 

 repaired to the bathing-place, 

 where it seems they all stripped 

 to bathe, and, shocking to relate, 

 the four were found drowned. 

 Every means to restore life were 

 tried inellectuaUy for four or five 

 hours, by Dr. Parry, of Holyhead, 

 and Dr. Roberts, of Carnarvon. 

 Lady Maria was from home when 

 the accident happened, and it is 

 easier to conceive than to describe 

 the distress that was visible at her 

 first interview with Sir John (who 

 had been a witness to all the ex- 

 periments tried on the bodies). 

 'J'he sufferers were Alice Witcher, 

 aged 33 ; Elizabeth Jackson, aged 

 21 5 Charlotte Andrews, aged 20; 

 all from Northwich : and Miss El- 

 frida Susannah Stanley, aged three 

 ye.-^rs and eight months. 



IS. This day a General Court 

 of Proprietors was held at the 

 Bank of England to consider of a 

 dividend. The meeting was also 

 one of the Quarterly General 

 Courts appointed by the charter. 



About 12 o'clock, Mr. Harman, 

 the Governor, took the chair, and 

 after stating the object of the 

 meeting, moved to declare that a 

 dividend should be made of 51. 

 per cent, interest and profit for the 

 half year ending on the 10th day 

 of October next. 



The Hon Mr. Bouverie moved 

 an amendment, consisting of the 

 resolutions to the following effect: 



l.That by the 12th by-law of 

 this corporation, this Court is call- 

 ii cji to considi-T the state and 



