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nioMths since. They are situated 

 in the middle of Holborn, oppo- 

 site Great Turn-stile. The whole 

 of the interior is destroyed : no- 

 thing- but the walls are left stand- 

 ing. The xipper stories of the ad- 

 joining house, occupied by Mr. 

 Smith as wine-vaults, which 

 narrowly escaped before, are 

 greatly damaged. By the timely 

 arrival of the engines, and a plen- 

 tiful supply of water, the dwell- 

 ing-house was saved. It was not 

 ascertained how this calamity took 

 place. The premises were unin- 

 habited. 



21. Rome. — One hundred and 

 seventy-three subjects of the Papal 

 States, delivered from slavery at 

 Algiers by the arms of his Bri- 

 tannic Majesty, have arrived in 

 the capital. Messrs. Hely, a Cap- 

 tain, and Aylmer, Captain of the 

 Severn frigate, have had the ho- 

 nour to be piesented to his Holi- 

 ness, who received them with the 

 greatest aifability, and testified to 

 them his gratitude for the signal 

 service done to his States by the 

 English forces in the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



Extract of a Letter from 

 Cawnpore, East Indies: — " We 

 next visited a favorite residence 

 of the present Vizier, called Moo- 

 barrick-Miuizul, a small house on 

 the bank of the Goomty. An 

 officer having expressed a desire 

 to see an ele|)hant and crocodile 

 fight, which had been previously 

 talked of by the Vizier and his 

 courtiers, his Excellency had the 

 goodness to send to the river Go- 

 grat, and ordered several to be 

 caught and brought on hackeries 

 to the Goomty. We walked from 

 Moobarrick-Mimzul o\er a new 

 brid^'e of boats with wooden 



rowers, battlements, and embra- 

 zures for cannon upon it, to the 

 opposite side, and there was an 

 immense alligator and middle- 

 sized crocodile alive, with several 

 of the latter lying dead. The ele- 

 phants were brought i:p to the 

 crocodile, and one of them trod 

 upon it with his foot, so as almost 

 to crush it ; although the croco- 

 dile screamed with pain, it reco- 

 vered. The elephants could not 

 be made to attack the large alli- 

 gator, than which a more hideous 

 monster cannot be imagined, with 

 a prodigious long head and sharp 

 teeth ; the elephants approaching 

 near to it, carefully rolled up the 

 proboscis into the smallest pos- 

 sible circumference, and when- 

 ever one came near, the alligator 

 made a snap at the proboscis, or 

 one of the legs of the elephant ; 

 the jaws meeting withovit seizing 

 any part of the animal, gave a 

 smart sound, that might have 

 been heard at some distance. A 

 country dog was then brought 

 and tied near the alligator, who 

 got it completely in his mouth, 

 the dog at times escaping out, at- 

 tacking and biting the monster's 

 nose, or substance at the extremity 

 of the upper jaw, making it bleed 

 freely, altliough at one time the 

 dog's hind foot was in its mouth : 

 however, the alligator at last got 

 the dog again in his mouth, and 

 gave it so severe a crush between 

 its long and foimidable teeth, that 

 the dog appeared dead : water 

 was then thrown by bheestees 

 upon the alligator and dog, and 

 the latter liberated from the 

 mouth of the monster ; Avhen, to 

 our very great surprise and plea- 

 sure, up rose the dog, and ran 

 off; this occurred with two coun- 

 try 



