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Mr. John Kitchen, house sur- 

 geon at St. George's Hospital. — 

 The deceased was brought to the 

 hospital on Friday evening a 

 little past 8 o'clock ; she was in 

 excruciating pain. She had a 

 wound on the right side of" the 

 abdomen about 6 inches in length, 

 apparently inflicted with a sharp 

 instrument. The greater part of 

 the bowels and part of the stomach 

 protruded. The bowels were cut 

 through. She lingered until 5 

 o'clock the following morning. 

 The bowels had been wounded 

 in four different places. 



The jury instantly returned a 

 verdict of wilful and deliberate 

 murder against Francis Losch, 

 the deceased's husband, who is 

 in custody. 



On Thursday the fifteenth, 

 Mr. Fisher, an officer belonging 

 to the Dorothea, Capt. Btichan, 

 arrived at the Admiralty with 

 dispatches, announcing the return 

 of that ship and her consort, the 

 Trent sloop, from the North Pole. 

 It appears that the highest lati- 

 tude the ships ever attained was 

 about 80" 30', longitude 12 east. 

 They attempted proceeding to 

 the westward, but, as in the case 

 of Captain Phipps, in the Race- 

 horse, in 1773, they found an 

 impenetrable barrier of ice. The 

 ships proceeded nearly over the 

 same space as Captain Phipps 

 did, and met with similar impedi- 

 ments as experienced by that 

 officer. The Dorothea and the 

 Trent are on their way to Dept- 

 ford. 



22. Claiisthal in the Hartz. — 

 Yesterday afternoon a powder- 

 magazine, containing 20 cwt. of 

 funpowder, unhappily blew up. 

 >j this explofiion, the cause of 



which it is not easy to discover, 

 two overseers, who were just 

 delivering out powder, 18 miners, 

 one woman, and three children, 

 were blown to pieces and burnt, 

 and four miners and one child 

 mortally wounded, at least so that 

 their recovery is despaired of. 

 The unhappy persons have most 

 of them left families unprovided 

 for. 



A Coroner's inquest was held on 

 Oct. 27th, before Roger Callaway, 

 Esq. Coroner, of Portsmouth, on 

 the body of Thomas Huntingford, 

 aged 71, a shipwright in this 

 dock-yard, who was found dead 

 in his bed, covered with blood, 

 early on the morning of Saturday 

 last, at his lodgings in Orange- 

 street, Portsea. A verdict of 

 imlful murder was returned against 

 his wife, Sarah Huntingford, 

 aged about 60, who has been 

 consequently committed for trial. 



Huntingford and his wife re- 

 tired to their bed-room, being 

 the front garret, at their usual 

 hour on Friday night ; it did not 

 appear that either of them was 

 intoxicated. About three o'clock 

 on Saturday morning, Samuel 

 Bately, a superannuated ship- 

 wright, who occupies the back 

 part of the same house, was 

 awoke by the steps of some person 

 coming doAvn stairs, which per- 

 son he heard go out at the back 

 door. He immediately threw 

 open his window, when he dis- 

 covered a female in the yard 

 walking to and fro, with some 

 garment wrapped round her head. 

 He called but received no answer; 

 he saw the person return into the 

 house. He put on part of his 

 clothes, and opened his door, 

 when he discovered Mrs. Hun- 

 tingford 



