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curred in stattng, that the keepers 

 were in no Avay blameable, and 

 attributed their disaster to their 

 own indiscretion and imprudence. 

 Several of tire keeper's party 

 were so much beat as to be now 

 confined to their beds. The two 

 parties are aaid to be total stran- 

 gers to each other, consequently 

 no malice prepense could have 

 existed between them ; and as it 

 appeared to the jury, after a most 

 minute and deliberate investii^a- 

 tion, that the confusion during 

 the nffray was so great, that the 

 deceased was as likely to be struck 

 by some one of his own party as 

 by the keeper's, they returned a 

 verdict of — Moiislai(gliti:r against 

 some pei'son or persons unknown. 



15. The principal bell of the 

 chiuch of Notre Dame, at Ver- 

 sailles, was baptized according to 

 ancient usage ; it received the 

 names of the Duke and Duchess 

 of Angouleme, who were repre- 

 sented by the Prince de Foix, 

 Governor of the Palace of Ver- 

 sailles, and the Duchess de Damas. 



17. Ini!'ernfss. The winter has 

 commenced with a severity al- 

 most beyond example : frost, rain, 

 and snow, have been incessant 

 during tlie last week ; and the 

 greater iwoportion of corn still 

 uncut, or in stooks, has suffered 

 material injury. We regret to 

 say, tha,t several Vnes have been 

 lost. Tr.o days ago the todies 

 of two women and a child were 

 found buried in the snow, about 

 two hundred yards from the great 

 road near Dalmagari^ ; the bo- 

 dies of two men have been found 

 in the hillsof Aber^rder, and two 

 more are missing. A post-boy 

 of liennet's, coming from the 

 South, Avas obliged to leave his 



chaise on the road, and wotild 

 have been lost, but for the lights 

 shown from tlie windows of Moy- 

 hall, which he reached nearly in 

 a frozen state. The obvious ad- 

 vantage of keeping lights, in 

 stormy nights, in the windows of 

 houses in the country, has thus 

 been illustrated in the salvation 

 of a life, by the provident care of 

 Sir iEneas and Lady Mackintosh; 

 the circumstance sufficiently in- 

 structs the imitation. The seve- 

 rity of the present AVCather was 

 the less expected, because, al- 

 thoiigh oiu- spring and the latter 

 part of our winter are more 

 stormy, the early part of it to 

 (Jluistmas is considered much 

 milder in this coimtry than in the 

 south. — Inverness Journal. 



18. A yoirng man named Po- 

 cock, apprentice to Mr. Gundry, 

 grocer, of Devizes, going in the 

 evening- into a wareroom above 

 the shop, with a candle in his 

 hand, wjtliout the necessary pre- 

 caution of putting it into a lan- 

 tern, a sp;irk comnumicated to 

 two tubs of gunpowder depo.'^ited 

 there, weigliing about 15lbs.each, 

 and the explosion was tremendous : 

 it carried away the front of the 

 upper part of the house, and 

 nearly the whole of the roof. 

 Tlie poor youtli was precipitated 

 down two pair of stairs into the 

 shop, his face and the uppej' part 

 of his body scorched to a cinder". 

 He died on the followinp; 'i hurs- 

 day. — 



Murder of Colonel Nevmian. — 

 On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 

 19th and 20th inst. D. Tuckey, 

 Esq. coroner for this county, with 

 the assistance of the Rev. J. Lom- 

 bard, the Rev. J. Chester and 

 Richard Tooker, Esq. magistrates 



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