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during the two preceding days, 

 that it was thought scarcely pos- 

 sible to defile the army. The 

 Dukes of Kent and Cambridge 

 were received by the Duke of 

 Wellington at the head of the 

 troops, who continued to ma- 

 noeuvre until five in the evening. 

 After a grand dinner given by 

 the Duke of Wellington, there 

 was a ball, at which the two 

 English Princes, remarkable for 

 their affability, were seen sur- 

 rounded by the principal officers 

 of the armies of occupation, and 

 the most distinguished ladies of 

 their nation. 



In the plain of Denain there is 

 a monument erected in memory 

 of the \'ictory that Marshal \^il- 

 lars gained over the Allies in 1712. 

 The Duke of V/ellington, says 

 the Journal de la Belgique, has 

 ordered that this monument be 

 scrupulo\isly respected at the time 

 of the review. 



S-l. A wild boar, hunted in the 

 forest of Limanton, department 

 of Nievre, after iiaving iim six 

 leagues from the place of attack, 

 pressed by the hunters and dogs, 

 and finding himself stopped by a 

 garden fence, dasiied into a house 

 which was kept by an inn-keeper, 

 and took shelter in a room where 

 a traveller was quietly changing 

 his shirt. The fright into which 

 such a visit must have thrown him 

 may easily be conceived ; the house 

 and the whole village were raised 

 by the cries of the unfortunate 

 traveller. The hunters, armed 

 with guns, learning the retreat of 

 the animal, came to the relief of 

 the stranger, and, after an obsti- 

 .nate combat . the boar was killed, 

 without any accident to the hu- 

 man, party. 



25. An inquest was taken at 

 the Red Lion inn, Hampton, be- 

 fore Mr. Stirling, Coroner for 

 Middlese.v, upon tlie view of the 

 body of John Curtis (a groom), 

 who died on Tuesday evening, the 

 22d inst. at the Red Lion, in con- 

 sequence of receiving some violent 

 blows on the same day in a pitched 

 battle with Edward Turner, a 

 leather-cleaner by trade. After 

 examining witnesses, the Coroner 

 addressed the juiy at considerable 

 length, and pointed out to them 

 that it was their duty by their 

 verdict to prevent, as much as 

 possible, a recurrence of such an 

 unlawful and disgraceful practice. 

 \'erdict — Manslaughter against Ed- 

 ward Turner. 



The Hon. Charles Noel, of Bnr- 

 ham-court, in Kent, was lately 

 convicted, on the information of 

 the Earl of Romney, of the sin- 

 gular offence of having admitted 

 persons in the neighbourhood, to 

 the number of more than twenty, 

 to attend divine service in his 

 house with his family and do- 

 mestics. The Act of Parhament 

 for this offence is imperative, and 

 Mr. Noel immediately paid the 

 penalty, one half of which, after 

 discharging the expenses of the 

 prosecution, goes to the poor of 

 the parish, and the other moiety 

 to the informer ! — Evening paper. 



2G. Edinburgh. — A very great 

 number of people assembled on 

 Sunday last at the parisli church 

 of Dysart, to hear the farewel 

 sermon of the Rev. George Muir- 

 head, now removetl to Cramond. 

 Long before the hour of ser^'ice 

 in tlie afternoon, the church was 

 crowded, and a number, of p.^- 

 rishioners found it impossible to 

 get into their seats. In the strug- 

 gle 



