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to undertake this journey bare- 

 footed ; the hardships and priva- 

 tions which they were enduring 

 were so excessively great. On 

 the 13th, in the evening, the ma- 

 jor part of the survivors (assisted 

 by the inhabitants, who during 

 the journey carried the weak and 

 feeble upon their backs), arrived 

 at Trepassy, where they were 

 billeted by" order of the Magis- 

 trate, proportionably upon each 

 house. 



" There still remained at St. 

 Shotts, the wife of a sergeant of 

 the \'eteran Battalion, who was 

 delivered on the top of the rooks 

 shortly after she Avas saved ; the 

 child and herself rye doing well. 

 A private whose leg was broke, 

 and a woman severely bruised by 

 the wreck, were also necessarily 

 left there. 



" Inimedkitcly after the arrival 

 at Trepassy, measures were adopt- 

 ed for the comfort and refresh- 

 ment of the detachments. Boats 

 were provided for their removal 

 to St. John's. This being effect- 

 ed, his Excellency, Admiral Pick- 

 more, the Governor, Major King, 

 commanding the ti oops, the mer- 

 chants, and gentlemen of St. 

 John's, most promptly and gene- 

 rously came forward in the most 

 handsome manrter to the relief of 

 the surviving sufferers. After 

 remaining ten days at St. John's, 

 refitting the distressed with clo- 

 thing and necessaries, liis Excel- 

 lency the Admiral chartered the 

 Mercury, of Poole, to bring them 

 to Portsmouth. On this n^elan- 

 choly circumstance it is but jus- 

 tice to mention, that ^Ir. Joseph 

 Bryant, master, Mr. Atkin-.on, 

 mate> and the seamen of the Har- 

 pooiier, deserve gieat credit for 



their unceasing exertions : to their 

 labour those that came on shoi-e 

 by the rope in a great measure 

 owe their safety." 



20. The Archduke Nicholas, 

 brother of the Emperor of Russia, 

 arrived in London at St. Albans- 

 house, with his suite in eight 

 carriages. They had landed at 

 Deal, whence the Ai-chdukc pro- 

 ceeded to Dover, where he visited 

 the castle with all the fortitica- 

 tions. His arrival was formally 

 announced to the Prince Regent, 

 who commanded that every at- 

 tention should be paid him during 

 his residence in England. He is 

 said in countenance much to re- 

 semble the emperor. 



A second instance of death oc- 

 casioned by taking through mis- 

 take a quantity of the oxalic acid, 

 appeared at an incjviest upon the 

 body of the wife of Thomas Fage 

 on Tower-hill, a man of imex- 

 ceptiouable character, under the 

 following extraordinaiy circum- 

 stances. The account given by 

 her husband Avas, that he v\-as 

 walking with his wife on Satur- 

 day evening in the Borough-road, 

 when he kicked before him, on 

 the foot pavement, a small packet 

 wrapped in pl-.iin blue paper, and 

 tied round with string, which he 

 picked up ; but, supposing it 

 diopped as a trick, he was al)out 

 throwing it down again, when 

 his wife took it out of his 

 hand, and urged liim to look at 

 the contents: on opening the 

 ])aper, his wife said if. A\as fine 

 Epsom salts, and just what she 

 wanted, and she took it home. 

 She communicated what h.er hus- 

 band had found to a felltAV-lodger, 

 but neither she nor the husband 

 remonstrated against her usmg 



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