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upon the iron-work, which is in- 

 tended to form a hard foundation. 

 A vast number of spectators as- 

 sembled round this no^elty. 



19. A most daring outrage took 

 place at Desart, near Bandon, at- 

 tended with fatal conse([uences. 

 A farmer, whose daughter was to 

 have been married, had, it \^as 

 sujiposed, a quantity of money in 

 his liouse, which induced some 

 fellows to make an attack on it, 

 during which they attempted to 

 carry off the young woman, an i 

 in resisting them, the father was 

 run through, died almost imme- 

 diately, and the mother was se- 

 verely injured. We are happy to 

 learn, that the principal person 

 concerned in this outrage, a man 

 of the name of Slattery, has been 

 apprehended ; and we trust that 

 the rest of the party, for the detec- 

 tion of whom active exertions are 

 making, w-ill not long elude the 

 vigilance of the magistracy. — Cork 

 Paper. 



Antigua papers to the 20th of 

 September, state, that the yellow 

 fever had raged there with great 

 violence for several weeks, and 

 had caused a dreadful mortality 

 among those not seasoned to the 

 climate : among the natives and 

 those inured to it the effect of the 

 disease was but slight. The con- 

 tagion was brought to Antigua in 

 a vessel from Guadaloupe, where 

 it is said to have swept off nearly 

 one-third of the inhabitants. 



19. " St. Johns, Antigua. — The 

 storm of Monday last disposed us 

 to hope that the violence of the 

 fever, that has now so long pre- 

 vailed here, would have been abat- 

 ed. In this, however, we have 

 been painfully disappointed, as 

 ach succeeding day lias added one 



or more names to the list. With 

 some few exceptions the fever has 

 been confined to persons resident 

 here but a short time." 



20. Some spots on the sun's 

 disc have re-appeared. They are 

 more considerable, and in greater 

 numbers, than were remarked 

 during the month of July. They 

 form two irregular chaplets, of 

 which the first is very apparent, 

 and covers, longitiulinally, the 7th 

 part of the sun's diameter. Re- 

 ferring to the disc, considered in 

 its apparent extent of three feet 

 in circumference, the two prin- 

 cipal spots of the first chaplet are 

 equal in size to two large cherries, 

 which they also resemble in shape. 

 The space which separates them 

 is covered with 12 or 15 other 

 spots, more or less visible, some 

 as large as a pea, others as a 

 lentil. The second chaplet is com- 

 posed of seven or eight small 

 spots, of which the two most ap- 

 parent approach in size those 

 which appeared previously, So 

 says the Gazette de France; and 

 to illustrate the subject, it gives 

 a print of the sun, with its cheeks 

 all covered with spots, like the 

 patches on a fashionable English 

 lady one hundred yeais ago. 



About one o'clock in the morn- 

 ing the inhabitants of Holborn 

 were thrown into the greatest 

 alarm and confusion by a fire 

 wliich broke out in the premises 

 of Mr. Norris, carpet, bedding, 

 and upholstery warehouse. Tiie 

 flames were first perceived to 

 issue from the upper story, and 

 buint with the utmost impetuo- 

 sity. The premises are very ex- 

 tensive, and were undergoing a 

 complete repair, in consequence 

 of a similar occurrence about ten 



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