Sept.] 



CHRONICLE. 



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simple way, a lighterman sajing 

 on the quay at Liverpool, that 

 pepper and other colonial produc- 

 tions were landing at Runcorn, 

 and that he would wish to have 

 such a job. No lighter could be 

 traced to have left Liverpool. An 

 investigation immediately took 

 place, which has brought this fla- 

 gitious business to light. 



From the Loudon Gazette. 



In pursuance of the directions 

 of an act, passed in the 37 th year 

 of the reign of his present Majesty 

 King George III., intituled " An 

 Act for confirming and continuing 

 for a limited time, the restriction 

 containeil in the minute of Coun- 

 cil, of the 'ifith of February, 1797, 

 on payments of cash by the Bank ;" 

 and also of the several acts since 

 passed, for continuing and amend- 

 ing the same ; 



I do hereby direct, that there 

 be inserted forthwith in the Lon- 

 don Gazette, the following notice 

 from the Governor and Company 

 of the Bank of England, dated 

 18th September, 1S17, namely : — > 



" That, on and after the 1st 

 October next, the Bank will be 

 ready to pay cash for their notes 

 of every description, dated prior 

 to the 1st January, 1817." 



Charles Manners Sutton, 

 {speaker. 



September 22, 1817. 



25. Waterford Chronicle. — It 

 has becoipe our painful duty to 

 detail the particulars of an outrage 

 of the most cruel and sanguinary 

 barbarity, jierpeirated at Spring- 

 hill, in the county of Waterford, 

 adjoining the road to Passage, and 

 at the distance of three mile? from 

 (his city. On the night of Tues- 



day last, about the hour of nine. 

 Captain Johnson, late paymaster 

 of the Waterford militia, his fami- 

 ly, and Mr. Surridge, of Ross, 

 who had that day paid them a visit,, 

 were sitting in the parlour, some 

 of them amusing themselves with 

 cards, and others engaged in con- 

 versation. Mrs. Johnson had oc- 

 casion to leave the company on 

 some family-business, and she re- 

 quested her husband to take her 

 place at the card table. The par- 

 lour where the party were is low, 

 and the windows at a very short 

 distance from the ground. On 

 Mrs. Johnson's return, she went 

 to the window for the purpose of 

 locking at the state of tlie weather ; 

 on opening the upper shvUters, she 

 suddenly exclaimed, that she saw 

 a man under the window. Mr. 

 Johnson immediately opened all 

 the shutters, and threw up the 

 sash, when he beheld two pr three 

 men in front of the house. On 

 inquiring from them tlieir busi- 

 ness at that hour of the night, a 

 pistol, or blunderbuss, was in- 

 stantly presented, and fired in his 

 face. Part of the shot wounded 

 him above the left eye, and pro- 

 fuse bleeding followed, but this 

 wound was afterwards found not 

 to be of a serious nature. As 

 there were no arpis in the house, 

 the family retired up stairs to a 

 bed-room over the kitchen, and 

 locked the door ; they were fired 

 at in passing through the lobby. 

 The house consists of two wings ; 

 the bed-room is on the side oppo- 

 site to the parlour, and at no great 

 distance from the ground. Seve- 

 ral shots were then fired through 

 the bed-room window, some of 

 which shattered the frames tp 

 pieces, and lodged in the ceiling. 



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