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effect upon her that ahe has been 

 much indisposed since, and was 

 confined yesterday. 



At the conclusion of the farce, 

 several voices called for Mr. Rae, 

 when that gentleman appeared, 

 and said — " Lfadies and Gentle- 

 men, the young man who fired 

 the pistol has been taken to the 

 public office. Bow-street, and in- 

 terrogated by Mr. Birnie, the 

 magistrate ; and, from the wild 

 and incoherent manner in which 

 he conducted himself, there is 

 very little doubt of his insanity.' ' 



The scenes that were on at the 

 time the j)i3tol was fired were 

 then put u}) again and examined, 

 when it was ascertained that se- 

 veral shots had peiforated througii 

 the left back scene, &c. and also 

 had struck the back of the orches- 

 tra ; but it not being a musical 

 farce, fortunately none of the 

 performers were in their places, 

 or probably they would have been 

 struck. 



19. The Sufferers in the Heaton 

 Coal-Pit. — About twelve months 

 ago, between 70 and SO men and 

 boys lost their lives in the Heaton 

 coal-pit, near Newcastlc-upon- 

 Tync, by what is called a blast of 

 the pit, and its fiUmg in conse- 

 quence with water. It was not 

 until the 19th instant, that the 

 bodies of the greater part of the 

 sufferers were come at, when 5,") 

 of them were ibiuid in what is 

 called the far v.orkings of (he pit. 

 It has been clearly asceitaincd 

 that Uiese luifortunate men and 

 boys all jjerished by starvation. 

 They had got into a part of the 

 pit wlierc the water did not reach 

 them, and had been many weeks 

 employed in endeavouring to worli 

 tUeir way into an old pit, by which 



t!iey might have escaped. They 

 are supposed to have failed in their 

 attempt by the want of food to 

 support them, as every horse in 

 the pit was eaten to the bone. 

 The unfortunate men had a water- 

 mark fixed up, that they might 

 observe if it fell. One man, who 

 is supposed to have been set to 

 watch it, was found dead at his 

 post. 



^0. The Directors of the Ame- 

 rican Company at St. Petersburgh 

 have recently comnumicated to 

 the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 the subjoined extract from the 

 journal of the Lieutenant of Ma- 

 rine Lasarew, relating to the dis- 

 covery of the Suwarrow Islands : 

 — " The Suwarrow, a ship of the 

 Russian American Company, com- 

 manded by Lieut. Lasarew, sailed 

 on thC^Otii Oct. 1813, from Cron- 

 stadt. After having touched at 

 England, the Brazils, and New 

 Holland, he sailed from Port 

 Jackson for the Russian settle- 

 ments in Ameiica. On the 27th 

 of September 1S14, his ship was 

 surrounded by a great number of 

 birds, which increased toAvards 

 sunset. These bird ; were so tame, 

 that they began to sus|)ect they 

 were approaching an Island. The 

 Suwarrow, having slackened sail, 

 steered to the N. N. E., and about 

 1 1 at night a low island was per- 

 ceived to the south and east : al- 

 though the breakers were heard 

 at a distance, the ship continued 

 (hiving on, as at the depth of 100 

 fathoms no ground could be found. 

 On tiic approach of daylight, four 

 other low islands were disco\cred. 

 At the difitance of three miles from 

 tlie shore, the sea was more than 

 100 fatiioms deep: when they 

 reached the beach, they founil 



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