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touched. Her hat and one of her shoes were found upon the house. The different reports agree in saying that Madame Blanchard, commonly so courageous, was agitated by sinister presentiments. At the moment of her ascent she said to a person near her-"I know not why, but I am not tranquil to-day." The body of this unfortunate lady was carried yesterday from Tivoli to her house. They have found among her papers a will, by which she has left her property, amounting to 50,000 francs, to the daughter of one of her friends, aged about eight years. She had herself no children. The collection made for her heirs will now erect a monument. Her remains have been interred in the Cemetery of Father La Chaise; she being of the Protestant religion,

NETHERLANDS.

Several persons have been killed in the Netherlands, during the recent thunder storms; and an article from Brussels, giving an account of a hurricane at Antwerp, during which the waters of the Scheldt rose to a great height, states the stormy weather to have been announced by the appearance of marine animals of large size, in that river.

A Belgian Journal says, that we may expect, in the year 1835, the very Comet which appeared in the year of the nativity of our Saviour.

ITALY.

Extract of a private letter from Florence, dated June 20, 1819.-"The Princess of Wales has grown extremely large and corpulent. She has recovered from the shock of her incomparable daughter's death; but it affected her powerfully at the time. Apart from political considerations, the circumstances under which she received the news were enough to produce the most painful effect on her feelings.

"On the arrival of the courier, there was no confidential person near her who understood the English language; and, in the hope of finding very different information, she herself opened the letter which conveyed the fatal intelligence. She fainted, and was ill for a length of time afterward. At present she resides at Pesaro, a small town not far from Ancona. Her suite and establishment are not on the greatest scale. Young Austin, the boy whom the Princess adopted, is grown a fine handsome young man. The Princess has now taken a fancy to another child, the son of a peasant, of whom she is said to be equally fond. He goes with her every where. Her chief amusement is the opera, which she almost entirely supports.

"The residence of the Princess is not far from the sea, but there is no view of it, owing to a hill or small mountain which rises between. She has been visited by

several of the German and Italian Prince s, and one of the Archdukes paid her a visit lately.

"Lord Byron still continues to reside at Venice. Few persons, whether Venetians or his own countrymen, are suffered to enter his house. His usual plan of see. ing company is in his box at the opera, to which he resorts every evening. - He passes his time in great indolence, except as to riding. He rises very late, breakfasts, rides till dusk, dines, goes to the opera, returns home, and goes to bed. This plan is seldom broken in upon, but when interrupted by a favoured visitorsuch as the bookseller, who is particularly honoured; and deservedly so, for he is a man of letters. He is an excellent scholar, well acquainted with modern languages, and particularly with Eoglish literature. As usual, his Lordship is much reserved to the world; when otherwise, to a favoured friend, he is perhaps too communicative, that is, of his private affairs and private feelings. He seems not to regret the severity of his poetical attacks. He hardly knows when he writes; and when he does, it is offhand. The original copy goes to the press, and sometimes without any erasure. At this moment he has no mannscript of his last poem Mazeppa. sent the only one to England."

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According to letters from Naples of the 4th, accounts had been received there by telegraph of a terrible eruption of Ætna, which began on the 1st of June. Catania, built at the foot of the mountain, was in the greatest danger. Vesuvius has also thrown out a strong eruption, in which the lava directed itself towards Pompeii. Violent shocks of an earthquake have been felt at Viterbo. GERMANY.

Another dreadful attempt at assassination took place on the 2d ult. at Schwalbach, in the Duchy of Nassau; and by another German Student. A young man, named Lehning, son of a physician at Idstein, in the same duchy, and a Student at Heidelberg, took it into his head that he should be rendering a particular service to his country by ridding it of M. Ibel, President of the Regency of Wisbad (who enjoys the confidence of the Duke), and determined to assassinate him. this purpose, he went to him at Schwalbach, and attempted to stab him with a dagger; which, however, only cut through the clothes of M. Ibel, but did not wound him. The latter, being a powerful man, soon disarmed the assassin, and prevented him from using two loaded pistols which he had in his pockets. The assassin was instantly interrogated, and committed to prison.

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The papers of Stutgardt are filled with

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frightful pictures of the progress of pauperism and depopulation throughout the kingdom of Wurtemberg. The proceedings of the approaching Diet are looked forward to with the greatest anxiety.

The Emperor of Austria has ordered a superb service of porcelain for the Duke of Wellingtou. The subjects of the paintings are to be the Duke's principal victories.

The Princess Maria Josephine of Saxony, to whom the King of Spain is to be mairied, will not be 16 till the 6th of October next. Ferdinand the Beloved is in

his 34th year.

The want of rain throughout Saxouv is so great, that the farmers are compelled to fodder their cattle on straw.

SWEDEN AND DENMARK. Sweden and Denmark, we are told, are at length reconciled, under the mediation of England: the Norwegian debts due to Denmark are to be defrayed by instalments. The King and his son voluntarily give, for ten years, the Civil List revenue assigned them by the States of Norway towards paying the debt.

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RUSSIA.

Extract of a Letter from Riga, June 14: Ap event, not unparalleled indeed, but very rare, has lately occurred here. During a strong north-west wind, an immense quantity of young caterpillars fell upon the great meadows on the South side of the Duna, and devoured the grass, with the roots, upon a very extensive tract. As soon as this was perceived, the people employed all the means they could think of, to destroy them: they dug ditches, swept the insects together in heaps, and crushed them, &c. but without much diminishing their numbers. On the fourth day they crept into the earth, and changed into chrysallisses; so that we have the bad prospect of seeing them return as butterflies, and propagate their species among us."

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pension of specie payments has taken place at several Banks, and there is a general cry for “ a liberal issue of paper." The taxes are with great difficulty wrung both from agricultural and trading persons; and even the engine of the law has been found inefficient. Many have demanded an early meeting of Congress, to obtain an act which shall stay the lawproceedings for the recovery of debts.

The following is an extract of a private letter from New Jersey :-" We have now sad times among us, owing to the stagnation of commerce; but the evil is felt chiefly by our merchants. In the country there is abundance of food for mau and beast, health and plenty, few taxes, room for thousands, a fertile country requiring labour and skill to any extent, and calculated to supply the wants of all the labouring poor of Europe, could we but transfer thein here,"

An order.was recently issued by an American Colonel, in Florida, to shoot deserters, without trial or hearing; aud one man was shot in obedience to the order!-The military appear to care little for the laws in that country.

There is a steam-boat in America of 2,200 tons burden. The engine is of 1000 horse power. It is called The Fulton the First.

The Americans have applied the power of steam to supersede that of horses in propelling stage-coaches. In the State of Kentucky, a stage coach is now established, with a steam-engine, which travels at the rate of twelve miles an hour; it can be stopped instantly, and set again in motion with its former velocity; and is so constructed, that the passengers sit within two feet of the ground. The velocity depends on the size of the wheels.

A letter dated the 17th ult. at Aux Cayes, states "We are all on the qui vive here, on account of an atrocious massacre that occurred the night before last, about two leagues from town. Six persons left in a barge for Alquisso, a little town to windward, were assailed during the night by five armed men in a small open boat. The men were literally cut to pieces by these ruffians; two women escaped. Their object was, 600 dollars in specie, which were on board the barge. No discovery has yet taken place."

A disagreeable affair took place early in March at St. Luis de la Panta, the place of depôt for Spanish Royalist prisoners of war. A considerable party of them attempted a rising, and had nearly succeeded in murdering the Governor. Seventy of them were executed for this offence; among whom was General Ordonnez, taken prisoner at the battle of Maipo.

DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS

PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. June 30. A fine new brig was launched from the yard of Mr. Ramsay, jun. of Boston, Lincolnshire. It is supposed that upwards of 150 persons were on board at the time. The vessel went off in grand style; but not being properly trimmed, she un fortunately upset, and nearly the whole of the persons on board were precipitated into the river! Great and praiseworthy exertions were immediately made, and sanguine expectations are entertained that no lives are lost; but the alarm and confusion that followed the accident can hardly be imagined. The vessel was got up again without much damage.

June 30. A cow belonging to farmer Evans, of West Harptree, Somerset, having been ill for a few days, attacked him, and threw him over a heap of stones; very fortunately he made his escape. Another man, going to see her soon after, was also attacked in a more violent manner; and, had not the farmer's son been present, she would, no doubt, have killed him on the spot. In the course of an hour after, the beast was taken in a stupor and fell down dead.

July 4. This afternoon, a considerable district of the county of Norfolk was visited by one of the most tremendous thunder-storms, accompanied by a hur ricane of rain and hail, ever recorded. The storm displayed itself in terrific forms at Mattishall, East Dereham, Reepham, Aylsham, and adjoining villages. Pieces

of ice fell at Hackford and Whitwell, some of which measured two inches long, an inch wide, and an inch thick.—At Hevingham several trees were blown down, houses partly unroofed, and windows broken by the hail. Mr. Bircham, of Booton, had at least 50%. worth of damage done by the hail-stones breaking the glass of his greenhouses, &c.

July 6. At night, an alarming fire broke out at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, which totally destroyed the White Horse Inn. A poor fellow of the name of Pleasance, wheelwright, of Mildenhall, perished in the flames.

July 8. A combat unparalleled in the brutal annals of boxing, took place this evening, at Luton, near Chatham, between two young men, named Lovell and Andrews, in consequence of a dispute which had taken place on a preceding evening in a skittle-ground; and after a most determined contest of three hours and three quarters, in which both were severely punished, they were separated, unsubdued.

July 12. This day was opened, near the entrance of Cashiobury Park, Herts, a

school, on an extensive scale, and on the improved plan of the Madras system, founded and endowed at the sole expense of the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex. Nearly 200 children of the poor are already admitted, who may be said to have hitherto existed in a state of ignorance bordering on barbarisin, and, but for this laudable institution, must have remained so. They will now be brought up in the habits of religion, morality, and industry; and we may look forward with a pleasing hope of their becoming useful members in the community. Too much praise cannot be given to the munificence and liberality of the Noble Earl, whose example is worthy the imitation of every great and good man, and will hand down to posterity a monument more durable than the marble bust, or the most eloquent inscription on the tomb.

A Meeting was held on New Hall-hill, Birmingham, on this day, which is said to have been attended by not fewer than 15,000 people. Mr. Edmonds, a schoolmaster, proposed, that Sir Charles Wolseley should be sent to Parliament, in the novel character of "Legislatoria! Attorney and Representative of Birmingham." He stated, that the issuing of a writ being compulsory, they had not awaited the form of the mandate, but anticipated the right. The privilege constitutionally belonged to them; and they were fulfilling their duty as good subjects, in proceeding to advise the Sovereign by their representative. If they had not been commanded so to do, the eiror rested with others! The Baronet was then nominated pro forma, and declared duly elected. A remonstrance to Parliament was read, which the new-elected Member was to present to the house, and demand of the Speaker his place in the Commons Assembly. deputation was proposed to wait on Sir Charles Wolseley, and give him the necessary instructions of his constituents. Sir Charles had previously promised them to go and claim his seat in the House, if they elected him.

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The Grand Jury, at the Quarter Sessions, the next day, found true bills of indictment against Sir Charles Wolseley, bart. and Joseph Harrison, a Dissenting Minister of Stockport, for turbulent and seditious speeches made by them on the 26th June, at Stockport, with intent to excite tumult and insurrection within this realm.

Extract from a letter, dated Holyhead, July 15.--"The Talbot steam vessel, which arrived here this morning from Howth, took fire while lying close to the pier; but by great exertions of the persons then pre

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sent, she was saved from total destruction: a considerable part of her deck, however, has been cut away to prevent the fire spreading. A poor fellow who was employed in this work, had his finger chopped off in the hurry and confusion inseparable from so alarming an accident. The vessel has, fortunately, in this instance been saved, as it was perfectly calm; had there been a breeze, she must have burned down to the water's edge. She has just now been hauled out into the middle of the harbour, to prevent the crowd of spectators witnessing the extent of the damage sustained by the accident; which, had it happened earlier in the day, when she was a few miles distant from the land, unavoidable destruction must have ensued to her and all on board."

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July 16. Two donkeys were found in Joiner's Wood, Kent, belonging to Sir John Fagg, adjoining Chislett-park, tied with chaise-reins to the shrubs, completely starved to death, having devoured every edible substance within reach. posed that they were stolen and tied there by some villain or villains, who have been siuce apprehended, and have consequently left the wretched animals to perish thus miserably.

July 20. A dreadful circumstance took place at Brighton, in the Barrack-yard in Church-street, facing the royal stabling, this afternoon. At about half-past four o'clock the military, the 90th infantry, turned out there for the afternoon's parade. A private, who had been confined in the morning for being absent from duty, was released by the orderly ser jeant, Watson, to fall-in for the parade. The fellow, meditating revenge for the confinement he had endured, no sooner had his musket in his possession, than, as it seems, he charged it with a ball cartridge; and as Serjeant Watson descended from his room to the Barrack yard, he deliberately took aim at him, and shot him through the body. The ball entered on one side, near about the ribs, and came out of the other.-Surgical assistance was useless. He did not survive the fatal wound more than 20 minutes. The horrible deed was perpetrated in the midst of the soldiers mustering for the parade; many of them supposed the gun had been fired from the other side of the yard wall, and were in the act of scaling it to discover by whom; when the miscreant threw down his piece, and exclaimed, that he was the man, and that he had then had his revenge, and was in no wise sorry for what he had done. He was then secured. The deceased bore a very excellent character. He has left a wife and three children to deplore his loss.

The Cambridge Chronicle says: "We inserted some time ago an account of an

extraordinary number of miles performed by Joseph Meads, a mail-guard. We have now further to state, that the same individual has completed five years, viz. from Monday July 11, 1814, to Sunday July 11, 1819, betwixt Northampton and London, performing the distance of 66 miles every night, without halting one night; which, including the bissextile, amounts to 120,516 miles; being above forty times the computed length of Europe. The same individual has travelled with mail-coaches, as guard, 547,742 miles; which is above two-and-twenty times the computed circumference of the globe."

The following is quoted as a specimen of the distress of the times: 52 clothiers have, during the last 20 years, carried on business at a borough town in Wiltshire, and at their various manufactories afforded employment to a numerous population; but now, the inhabitants of the place are sunk into pauperism and wretchedness; for of their 52 employers, 9 are dead, 17 have failed, 24 have declined, and only 2 remain in business. Nor is this a singular case; for there are, within eight miles of the above place, four other manufacturing towns, in each of which the depression of trade has been equally

severe.

The Corporation of Guildford have unanimously elected Mr. Serjeant Onslow Recorder of that borough, vacant by the resignation of Sir W. Draper Best, Knight,

The following is a remarkable fact in the history of the apiary.-A hive of bees at Manse, of Dun, in the neighbourhood of Montrose, swarmed on the 15th of May, again on the 1st June, and again on the 3th instant.

A dreadful accident happened lately at New Mill, near Holmfirth, Berkshire, by which two persons lost their lives. While the servant of Mr. Micklethwaite, of that place, carpenter, was loading a cart with wood, the horse took fright; and the wheels passing over his body killed him on the spot. The master, seeing the accident, ran up to the horse, and attempted to arrest its furious progress; but while he was engaged in this effort, the cart came in contact with a wall, against which Mr. Micklethwaite was jammed, and so dreadfully bruised, that after languishing till the Monday following he expired, leaving a widow and a numerous family to lament his loss.

It is a melancholy fact, that no less than 140 deaths have taken place in Norwich during the last four weeks, by small-pox.

At Blackburn, near Manchester, a female reform society has been established; from which a circular has been issued to other districts, inviting the wives and daughters of the workmen in the different branches of the manufacture to form them

selves into similar societies. They are not only to co-operate with the different classes of workmen in seeking redress of their supposed grievances, but "to instil into the minds of their children, a deep and rooted hatred of the Government and Houses of Parliament," whom they are pleased to call "our tyrannical rulers."

Some wiseacres at Henley-upon-Arden, a few days ago, having rubbed a living rat over with spirits of turpentine, set it on fire, and let it loose in a barn overrun with those vermin, thinking it would drive the rest out. The plan succeeded, but in a different way from what they intended; the barn being burnt to the ground!

Four hundred and eleven lambs have this year been raised by Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. at Shardeloes, Bucks, from 277 South Down ewes.

We are happy to state, that apples promise so fine a crop in the Western counties, that cider continues to fall, and empty pipes and hogsheads rise in price.

The bankers of Edinburgh have unanimously resolved to give drafts on London at twenty days date, for money paid in there, instead of fifty days date as formerly.

At Tuam, in Ireland, the Catholic Archbishop has refused to confirm a young man, because he worked on Saints' days! of which the calendar contains about 50!

EXPLOSION OF A STEAM BOAг.-A serious accident of this nature happened on the 5th inst. at Grangemouth. The steamboat Stirling, Captain Sutherland, having undergone some repairs, was preparing to start from the harbour of Newhaven ; when, i consequence of the safety-valve not being opened sufficiently to allow the escape of the accumulating steam, the boiler exploded, and nine persons were more or less scalded, three of them severely; but akhough a number of passengers were on board, and many people on the wharf opposite as the time, providentially no lives were lost.

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Memorials

CUSTOM HOUSE OATHS. have been lately sent to the Lords of the Treasury, from many of the principal merchants of Liverpool and Hull, praying for a revision and correction of those statutes which enforce the taking of certain useless and unmeaning oaths in CustomHouse transactions, intended to secure the revenue from fraud; but which, in fact, cannot be taken without the commission of virtual perjury. The memorials having been favourably received, there is reason to hope that this practice, which has long been a proverbial disgrace to morality and religion, will soon be abolished.

GENT. MAG. July, 1819.

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ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE. July 3. At eight o'clock the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University, with the Princess Mary his Duchess, and the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, arrived in his Royal Highness's carriages, each with six horses; shortly after which, the Vice-Chanceller, the Hon, George Neville, Heads of Houses, &c. went in procession from Magdalen Lodge to Trinity, to congratulate their Royal Highnesses on their arrival.

July 4. Sermons were preached at Great St. Mary's Church by two Doctors; In the morning the Rev. J. B. Hollingsworth, of St. Peter's College, and in the afternoon the Rev. T. T. Walmsley, of St. John's College; before the distinguished visitors, who that day dined at Magdalen Lodge. The party consisted of about 80. After this the Royal Personages at tended service at Trinity College Chapel, and in the evening gratified the public by walking on Clare Hall Piece, amidst a great concourse of visitors and inhabitants of the town.--In the evening they supped with the Bishop of Bristol. July 5. After a Levee, at which the presentations were very numerous, the Chancellor went to the Senate in his full robes, accompanied by the Duchess and Princess, and followed in procession by the Earl of Hardwicke, High Steward of the University; Lord Erskine, Lord Hervey, and the Hon. B. O. Noel. The following Honorary Degrees were conferred:

The Right Hon. John Beckett, Trinity College, LL.D.-Lord Carrington, Mag. dalen College, LL.D.-Lord Braybrooke, Magdalen College, LL.D.-Marquess of Esckingham, Magdalen College, LL.D.— Earl of Rosebery, Pembroke Hall, LL.D.

-Sir Thomas B. Lennard, Bait. Downing College, M.A.-Hon. H. S. Stopford, Trinity College, M.A.-Sir F. Sykes, Bart. St. John's College, M.A.-Hon. R. J. Eden, Magdalen College, M.A. - Mr. George Nevill, Magdalen College, M.A.Sir H. Williamson, Bart, St. John's College, M.A.-Hon. E. G. Moore, St. John's College, M.A.-Hon. A. Cavendish, Magdalen College, M. A.-Hon. G. Spencer, Trinity College, M. A.-Sir W. W. Wyon, Bart, Magdalen College, M.A.-Hon. S.

E. Eardley,

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