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ij. An iiKiucst was taken at 

 the GuiliUuill, Newport, Isle of 

 Wight, before Thomas Sewell, 

 esq. coroner of the island, and a 

 respectable jury, on the body of 

 Charles Cavendish, serjeantof the 

 75th regiment. It appeared in 

 evidence, that the soldiers of the 

 75th, quartered in Newport .agreed 

 to dine together w ith their wives 

 and families at the Castle-inn, on 

 Nevv-yeiir's day : they made a sub- 

 scription for the purpose, and 

 engaged a room to themselves, 

 where tliey all, to the number of 

 25, assembled at dinner at four 

 o'clock : about half-past nine, a 

 man of the 36th, named James 

 M'Kean, opened the door and in- 

 truded himself into the room, 

 and said he w anted beer ; he was 

 civilly told, that if he wanted beer 

 he must go to the tap-room, and 

 Serjeant Grant put him gently 

 into the passage, saying he would 

 show him to the tap-room. — 

 M'Kean immediately drew his 

 bayonet, stabbed serjeant Grant, 

 and then ran away. Serjeant 

 Cavendish was coming out of the 

 kitchen as INI'Kcan ran by ; he 

 caught at him, but instantly fell 

 back, ciying " 1 am murdered." 

 —M'Kean liad at this instant liis 

 bayonet uplifted, as if in the act 

 of stabbing. (Javendisli expired 

 in a few minutes. M'Kean was 

 pursued and taken about a quarter 

 of a mile from Ncw))cut, on tiie 

 ('arisbmokc road, with liis Iwyonet 

 drawn, with which he attempted 

 to stab his jmrsucr.^. The jvuy re- 

 turned .1 Turihct of JViIJhI Murder 

 against M'Kean, who was imme- 

 diately conmiittcd to take his trial 

 at the fuelling a.ssizcs. M'Kean 

 i*, further (h-tained, under Lord 

 Kllenborougli's Act, on a charge 



of maliciously stabbing serjeant 

 Donald Grant, who, it is hopedt 

 will recover. 



3. The Venus de Medicis has 

 made its solemn re-entiy into 

 Florence ; it arrived on this day, 

 preceded by a brilliant suite ; the 

 principal pictures of the Italian 

 school, the chef d'oeuvres of Ra- 

 phael, Michael Angelo, fauido, 

 Salvator Rosa, Andrea del Sarto, 

 and Julio Romano, served for tiie 

 escort. All the popidation went 

 out to meet it. 



Mr. Dumbreck, supervisor of 

 excise, accompanied by several 

 officers, discovered near Tum- 

 bowis, in the parish of New Kil- 

 patrick, Scotland, an illicit dis- 

 tillei'y of great extent. The house 

 was of rude constiviction, consist- 

 ing of branches of trees inter- 

 woven with leaves and straw, 

 supported partly by a steep bank 

 and partly by some line elm trees 

 which formed its walls. The 

 working utensils, however, were 

 of a superior kind. They con- 

 sisted of a still and boiler, placed 

 upon con\enient furnaces capable 

 of containing the one TO, and the 

 other 300 gallons, a new wooden 

 mash tun and cooler, ten fer- 

 menting tun.s, and varif)us other 

 smaller utensils, amounting in all 

 to more than twenty vessels. At 

 the time of the tliscovcry, tlic 

 smugglers were actively employ- 

 ed ; one masli of malt had been 

 linishcd during thf night and a 

 second was in opeiation, eight of 

 tl>c fermenting tmis were filled 

 Avith worts, and a hogshcnd with 

 some smaller casks Mcrc filled 

 with low wines newly- distilled. 

 An establishment such as thii., on 

 a moderate ralculiUion, would 

 pref)are more than fifty gallons 



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