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rizontally round its axis, and pro- 

 duces every 24 hours a sufficient 

 quantity of gas to light 1,600 

 lamps. The purification of the 

 crude gas is eftected in its nascent 

 state by chlorine, instead of quick- 

 lime, and all the inlet and outlet 

 mains and branch pipes are made 

 to open and shut by self-acting 

 mercurial valves. The quantity of 

 gas daily made, and consumed by 

 the burners and lamps, is recorded 

 in the absence of the observer by 

 a machine, impelled and kept in 

 motion by the elasticity of the 

 gas. The effect of the numerous 

 lights scattered upon so extensive 

 a scale, over the beautiful ma- 

 chinery of the coining processes, 

 is uncommonly striking j and the 

 New Mint now exhibits the mo^t 

 elegant establishment of the kind 

 in the world. 



8. Petemburgh. 



-Intelligence has 



been received from General Yer- 

 maloii', the Russian ambassador 

 to Persia. He has been treated 

 with the greatest distinction since 

 he passed the Persian frontiers. 

 He found at several post-stages, 

 for his use, white horses from the 

 royal stud, which are ordinarily 

 employed only by the King and 

 his family. Besides his general 

 mission to maintaiii a good un- 

 derstanding between Russia and 

 Persia, he has also private instruc- 

 tions, embracing objects relating 

 to commerce and the sciences. Se- 

 veral officers will quit the Lega- 

 tion at Ispahan to proceed to the 

 ports of the princes whose states 

 are situated between Persia and 

 the British possessions in the East 

 Indies. These states are more or 

 less towaids the south of Russia 



in Asia, ttDd \\ is tli^r^forc wi8he<l 



to establish commercial relations 

 with them. 



9. Louth. — In the night of 

 Tuesday, the 7th instant, Thomas 

 Hall, aged about 70, and Mary 

 Grant, his housekeeper, of about 

 the same age, who had many 

 yeai s resided by themselves in a 

 very lonely cottage in Theddle- 

 thorpe, about 1*2 miles from 

 Louth, in Lincolnshire, were most 

 inhumanly murdered by some 

 diabolical monster or monsters in 

 human shape, who entered the 

 back wall of the house by a breach 

 made therein for the bloody pur- 

 pose. The dead bodies of these 

 unfortimate victims were first dis- 

 covered about three o'clock in the 

 afternoon of Wednesday the 8th 

 instant, by some labourers, who 

 expected Hall to meet them, at 

 a previous hour, to assist in some 

 work at a drain, near his house, 

 and who, after waiting beyond the 

 time appointed for his attendance, 

 proceeded to ascertain the cause 

 of his absence, by calling upon 

 him, when, after observing large 

 quantities of blood, which had 

 streamed through the tloors of the 

 upper rooms upon the floors and 

 furniture of tliose below, they 

 advanced up stairs into the two 

 bed-chambers, in one of which 

 they beheld the appalling specta- 

 cle of the mangled corpse of the 

 housekeeper, placed in a sitting 

 posture upon the floor, with her 

 back against the wall, having on 

 her stays and imder petticoat, an<I, 

 in the otiier, the still more tenific 

 object of her dead master, lying 

 with his face upon the floor, and 

 having on no apparel but his 

 shirt. 



Ujjon the aiii\;il of the coroner 



and 



