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died, to whom they were related, 

 &c. He was noted for keeping 

 of poultry, in which he greatly 

 excelled ; his hens, owing to his 

 superior management, laid their 

 eggs in the winter : he knew them 

 from each other, and could tell 

 the name, colour, &c. as soon as 

 he got them in his hand. Al- 

 though he descended from poor 

 parents, and had but a small pit- 

 tance, called the blind's bounty, 

 the benevolence of a few charita- 

 ble individuals, the profits arising 

 from his poultry, &c. enabled 

 him to realize 200l. 



A letter from Naples, dated 

 June 30, says — " We feel plea- 

 siu'e in reporting to you the offi- 

 cial intellgence of the plague be- 

 ing considered at an end : the 

 total mortality amounts to 77 1 

 persons." 



JULY. 



1. Diving Bell. — The beneficial 

 effects of this curious machine 

 begin to display themselves in a 

 piominent manner, as was strik- 

 ingly evinced in Plymouth Sound 

 on Thursday se'nnight, and "n 

 Tuesday last. On the former day 

 Fisher,, the diver, brought up 

 with Jiini, after 15 niinutes ab- 

 sence, a stone weighing 200lb., 

 though nearly buried in shelly 

 sand. On the latter day, the an- 

 chorage of the Sound ha\ing been 

 swe[)t for a mass of rock lost from 

 one of the Breakwater vessels in 

 May 1813, and the same being 

 foimd, the hell-vessel was placed 

 over tiic sj)ot, and tlie bell lower- 

 ed, witii Fisher and two other 

 men, and proper implements for 

 boring, in 33 feet of water, who 



succeeded in boring tlie stone, 

 securing a lewiss, and making 

 fast a purchase for heaving it upj 

 all whici) was safely effected in 

 about two hours and a half from 

 the time of descending. The rock, 

 thu:? recovered, weighs four tons, 

 and an entire sununer had been 

 spent in trying to get it up, but 

 ineffectually, owing to it 5 peculiar 

 form, which evaded sweeping. 

 The rock has been landed at the 

 King's-quarry, Oreston, for fu- 

 ture conveyance to the Break- 

 water. — Plymouth Paper. 



1. This being the day ajjpointed 

 for closing the session of parlia- 

 ment, the Pi ince Regent went in 

 state to the House of Lords with 

 tiieu.sual ceremonies. Four state- 

 carriages and six, in which were 

 the attendants and chief officers of 

 the Prince Regent's household, 

 preceded his Royal Highness s 

 state-coach, which was drawn by 

 eight cream-coloured horses, and 

 followed by a numeious detach- 

 ment of horse-guards Parties of 

 the same corps lined Parliament- 

 street for the purpose of preserv- 

 ing ordei' ; and it was remarked 

 that they seemed entirely under 

 the direction of the police of West- 

 minster. The day being extremely 

 fine, a large concomse of spec- 

 tators was atti'acted on the occa- 

 sion. The Duke of Wellingtcm, 

 while proceeding to the House of 

 Lords in his carriage, was recog- 

 nized by the people, and received 

 with hearty shouts of congiatu- 

 lation, 



3. The following melancholy 

 event occurred at Betlicrsden in 

 Kent : — About six in the moi'n- 

 ing, as Mr. Richard Else, of Frid- 

 farm, late landlord of the Bull- 

 inn at that place, was tying up a 



bull 



