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cupieil during the whole day with 

 similar complaints, and similar 

 measures were resorted to in 

 order to tranquillize the populace. 



23. An inquisition was taken 

 at the Bedford-arms public-house, 

 Camden-town, before Mr. Stirl- 

 ing, coroner, upon the body of 

 Riciiard Ayton, a child only nine 

 weeks old, who died in conse- 

 quence of being suffocated unin- 

 tentially by its mother. 



Elizabeth Brown, of No. 12, 

 Grove-place, Camden-town, de- 

 posed, that Mrs. Ayton and her- 

 self went to town on Saturday 

 last, with the deceased ; as they 

 were returning home, Mrs. Ayton 

 suckled the child ; wiien they got 

 home she received the child from 

 Mrs. Ayton to hold, while she 

 took off her clothes ; she thought 

 the child was asleep, but found it 

 was dead, and .she immediately 

 informed Mrs. Ayton what she 

 thought of the child, who was 

 very much distressed. She and 

 her husband had lived for four 

 years in her house ; they were 

 very fond of the child. 



Nathaniel Poynter, 9, Warren- 

 place, Camden-town, surgeon, 

 sworn, said, that on Saturday 

 evening he was called in to at- 

 tend the deceased ; he found him 

 quite dead, but warm; he used 

 different methods to recover the 

 child, by inflating its lungs, &c. 

 and he was clearly of opinion that 

 the child died in consequence of 

 being pressed too close to its mo- 

 ther's breast, which j)roduced suf- 

 focation. 



.After examining the b«dy of the 

 infant, the jury returned the fol- 

 lowing verdict — Died hy suffoca- 

 tion, from the anxious care of the 

 mother, by pressing it too cU)se to 

 htr breast. 



24. A few weeks since, as a 

 man was digging among the ruins 

 of Burgh-castle (the Garianonum 

 of the Romans), he turned up a 

 small vessel of pure gold ; it is 

 in the form of a porringer or 

 small salt-cellar, on three feet, 

 and is supposed to have been used 

 as a censer for burning frankin- 

 cense. He was ofiered, but re- 

 fused, ten guineas for it. 



24. To the Editor of the Glasgow 

 Courier. — Sir, — About 7h. 40m. 

 on the evening of the 24th, a 

 stream of light aiose from the 

 east, whichat first sent off branches 

 in several directions ; but veiy 

 soon extended itself to the oppo- 

 site point of the horizon, in the 

 form of a bow ; at that instant 

 passed nearly through the zenith 

 of Glasgow. The phenomenon 

 was immediately observed to 

 move towards the south, but the 

 motion of its extremities was 

 much less perceptible than that 

 of the part which occupied the 

 middle of the heavens. At 8h. 8m. 

 it passed through the laigest stars 

 in the Lyra and Swan ; at 8h. 29m. 

 through 60 Ophiuchi and 75 of 

 the Swan ; at 8h. 53m. through 

 the largest of Andromeda and 50 

 of the Eagle ; at 9h. 47m. it 

 passed by the preceding foot of 

 Antinous and Markab ; and fOh. 

 it became imperceptible. Its ge- 

 neral breadth was 4 or 5 degrees. 

 During the time of its appearance 

 it varied considerably both in 

 brightness and in form. Some- 

 times aftei" it could scarcely be 

 perceived, it shone forth again with 

 renewed splendour ; and at times 

 the meteor seemed to consist of 

 several disjoined and irregular 

 portions. 



The north-west quarter of the 



L 9 sky 



