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of this county — Thomas Paiiie, the infidel political 

 writer, author of " The Eights of Man ; " Eush, who 

 shot Mr. Jermy and his son, wounded Mrs. Jermy and 

 fired at the lady's maid, who fortunately escaped unhurt. 

 Eush w^as hung at Norwich. Thurtell, who had been 

 an officer in the militia, and was executed at Newgate 

 f(jr the murder of his friend Mr. Weare, was aLo a 

 native of Norfolk. 



Eecently on the estate of the Duke of Portland, the 

 Nottingham papers mention, a " great mortality prevails 

 among the partridges, and hundreds have been found 

 dead in all directions, without any reasonable or ap- 

 parent cause. AMien dissected, there is something in 

 the intestines similar to the tape worm ; but the breed 

 itself has not latterly been so numerous, supposed to 

 arise from their breeding ' in and in.' In consequence, 

 on many of the detached estates, as at Elksley and 

 other places, the keepers are netting all they possibly 

 can, in order that they may be set at liberty in the 

 preserves around Welbeck, which we hope may stay 

 the fm-ther progress of the mortality." 



