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ECHOES OF THE PAST. | I INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM THE | | CAMBRIAN," OF SS06. | £ fc MOCK SCOTTISH DUEL.. » F S T I PISTOLS CHARGED WITH PAPER PELLETS I ft At Gleu-ester Assizes last week Iwo pis. |- oners roccivcd sentence of death, but were reprieved; one waa ordered to be trans- ported lor seven years, and eight to t e im- prisoned for various periods, amongst which the latter was an apprenLice, for -^listing and receiving ihe bounty, who was sen- tenced to be kept to hard labour for six months. Two rranch prisoners of war, charged with forging the one-pound notes of Saverv, Towgood and Co., of Bristol, were itcquitU'd; uiey wa ved the privilege of being tried by a jury composed of halt their ortvn countrymen, relying on the justice oi twelve natives of this country: and af- terwards by their interpreter admitted their deen eense of the candid, liberal and impar- tial manner in which the laws are adminis- tered .n Kiigiand. Lord Nelson, having left legacies to the amount of 50,000i., and not more than 12,0001. to pay them, Government have res- cinded the resolution by which his executors were excluded ftom his lordship's share of 500,0-201., voted as an indemnity for the ships eapt-ur-d at Trafalgar, but afterwards lost, his lordship's family being considered already provida(t for. Government have ac- cordingly paid upwards of 18,COOL to fulfil I the purposes of his lordship s will. Trie congregation of a < hurch in the city was on Sunday thrown into a scale of titter- ing little short of laughter by a -ingu-.ar blunder: A clergyman had been nvited to preach a charity sermon for a "girls" school; but the pious Divine overlooks the latter circumstance, and gave his hearers hi,v, tiha-t, bv 1,heir libera-hty, ^nui^ of theiT children nlight come to be Lord Mayer, or even Archbishop of Canterbury. Dtuel prevented.—Two Bow-street officers took into custody on Monday morning, ir. a field near Chalk Farm, Francis Jsiteries, Esq.. of Edinburgh, and T. Moore, Esq., of Bury-street, &t. James, together with their seconds. Thev were all conveyed to the Public Office, and admitted to oail, the principals in 4001. each, and two sureties of 2001. and as a check to the present ridi- culous and dangerous rage for duelling, the magistrate also committed the seconds to bail in 2001. After the parties were dis- charged and gone (.says some oi the Londan ] paper?), on examining the pistols previous to drawing the charges, that which be- ] longed to Mr. Jeffries was discovered not to be loaded with ball: That of his antagoniki contained a paper pelletSo that if the police not appeared the duel would have turned out r.ot to be more than a pup-gun. A few days ago a gentleman travelling through Berkshire, Iwid his attention attrac- ted by a smart country lass: and dismounting for the stake of more familiar oonvoreaAion, he tied his hon>e to a stake in the hedge; in the meantime a fellow who had rot bean j nouced. mounted the hor.se, galloped off winh it and the saddlebags, and has not since been i hear of. 1 In June last a sow befortgmg to James Waiii*, "i Wiasiow. nerir Bromyard, flore- > toad, brought tour pigs, one of thorn a bear with éx legs ,two of which grow out between his hind legs from his back bone, ajxl his hinder pS/i-tt. in every respect resemble two pigs. It feeds well and grows fast. At Lew«=is A £ ssjxs, a chemist and druggist ( of Brighton, nadnod GoLktrd, wa& indicted foor wantonly ill-treating a dog hekwiging to Mr. Thomas Hicks, a respectable stable -per. It appeared in ev.dence that Mr. Goliard had some time a.go attracted' the dog of Mr. Hicks into his backyard,, by of. tow ait the end of ai&iek, which he dipped into a. lkfuid. rubbed spi ritif of vitriol about the dogs 10.11: etc., and then turned him into the surest. Tiie poor creaifcurie, burning alive, and maddened with pain, continued, to how' uls ouifering-s and darted from one place to another, until his bowels wera nearly dropping through his skin; atfid, in his agon.ee, having partly licked the vitriol from his body witn his tongue, that became 6weiled to a prodigious size, and hung several inches below hie jaws. In this piteous state, humanity eom.p?ded lus master to put aiD end to bis sufferings by ts,h noting him. At the conclusion of the examination of witawsses the Judge (Ba**>ti Ma*cl.k>naid) observed tltat- his feelings had tJeen ."J) deeply lacerated by what he had heard tlkat he should net recapi- tulate the evidence. Such an act of wanU>n wickedness and cruelty, he said, he had never heard of before, and he hoped that he never should again. He regretted that the law wOltci-l not permit h:1I to punish snoh a miscreant as he deserved; buj, ad- vised the jury tr. give tho roafet ample dam- ageti the law wottid allow. The damages* only laid at five guineas, the value of the dog, cooisequentiy tt!*e jury cowld give no more. Five guineas there tore were awaardod. The 76th Highland Regiment, which has been in India, neanly 18 years, :8 about to return iumie. (.inJy GO of tne men who weait oat with it in 1788 are now alive and some have been abiottd upwiutis of 50 years, hav- ing been drafted into it from other carps in f-oi-eign pttfts. Wednesday night, the weather being re- niarkibh" hazy, he brig Hope of Liverp&oi, ifiggiufc, ixuustei, bound from Oporto bo Vub- tin, laden with wme, struck on a re-of of recka off the point of Greenore, about ten ktigu^e- troni Vv aterlord Harbour, and knnae- daately foundered. The crew were t>aved mid a smi'll pait- ri the cargo, rigging, and her twO boate. Hhortiy after the vessel Mailed from < Jjwrto, "H.e was captaied ey a French piivat-eor, who took out a.1i lver haiwis, except the captain and one man, and, leav- ing the prize in charge of six Frenchmen, the privateer th-en bore away, iue captain gave them ptenly of wine to diiizik, when they bscaiae to much mto-xæated as to reav der them quite helpk.v.. When in- thic state, the Captain and hdi-; a^tstant, secured the arnift, and coahned four of the ta.Jors in the hoid; the i«em<tiJnng two they tutiered to continue on the quarter deck until s^oer, and then compelled them to work the vessel until they arrived in an English port; when thev were c-ent to prl:-Ul1. Having c<wnpJe<t/t-d his ompleuient of hands, the Captain was P;016 j^hng nn hitt voyage when he met with toe above disat&er. j he Pi-mce of W^le. birthday vrsui oeih- brated last week at Brighton with much g^iiet^ and splendour. A great number of Mobility and gentry were pr^esent. 'J'ho Lord Chanceilor was in such higti "Kpirite" that bis Lord.fh.vp If) actually stated to have darced a reel on the occasion. \Ve have reaeon to believe the mln.K'H>rs have determined to his Majesty to calli Parli hment tcgothcr for the despatch 01 bU--i- Bess in tho month of Gctober next, probublv to meet on tii" a bout 1 uesciay, the 28th of that month. Whatever may be the result of th»" ltogotialion at Paris, it is the drutv of a "and pro vident- Govamirseot u> be prepared: and we have no doubt but. that. a tsystem of action will be adopted_by which the efficient power and energies of this em- pire will be displayed not merely for" t'he security of Or63.t Britain (lor, i.sou&'h Pron- «Len<ie and our ancestorf., the .-se.V> tiiat sur- round us, and the oonstitwtion '+• by giving os libeitv has given 11/ strength, protect u., individually .safe) for the rest-oration <>■ Eurojxi. —"Morning Chronicle." Swans^it, Friday, August 29th. C'n Mondiiy last a gentleman loeJt his g¡g:- horee at Briton Ferry-, near Neath, in the following numner: -After erasing Hi? ieny in the boat, the animal was harnet-se-d to the vehicle, and the gentleman, ettcmptiiig to drive him u,p the steep precipice, the horse backe'J into the water, and jMmlied before assist an-:e couid be procured, The owner saved hiimeif by quitting the seat in tirfte, but the boatman, who endeavoured to aasiet the horete by pushing at the back p't of the gig, narrowly escaped drowning. We are much gratified to learn that the vaccine inoculation is making rapid program in Wales, "ihe doubts which formcrlv ex- isted of the efficacy of this '.alua.blo di&- eoveiry have now been removed ancl the poor people submit their children withoa^ re- actance to the opera-fckm. Mr. J. C. CoI- tMW.* surgeon of Swar.wa, has morula.tied pear 3,000 with the greatest ftucoefis, abixit Dol vlwm rookie in ce par»b-af in testimony or which, aa old and much- raspect-ed inhabitant o-f tha-t pu-ish lias direc- J tid a p.ece of to be prepared as a pre- j •-ant to Mr. Collms, with the following in- ciciiption :— "A gift from George Pecgree, Esq., to his friend John Charles Co Dint, surgeon, for in- nocuhding th-e parish of Loaghor with the G>w-pock." -Nc,t,e.An ancestor of the C,:pto..in MIHT- head Coilirs, H.N.. of Australia, who. oeived a K.C.M.G. in the Bi.rtiid.iy Honeys a few weeks ago. v MhtseH, comjcled of siwtmg at and wotmdinar Twyfc-rd. the Birmingham watch- man, wafi executed in that town on Friday last, amidst a eonco-uree of 40.0CO -spectators-. When the devotions were finished, ho was tied up. and a hiuidkepchMf bound over hi6 eTI:O,: being a.sk ed to g: ve a signal when ready, he imrnediiiitoly erxokumt^d "Here at the same time endeavemring to til row a pocket ha ndkerchief he carried 'n Ilia hard into the a.ir, and was inMtantly launched into eternity. THH following p&rsen being a PRISONER for DEBT in the Goal or Pihxm hereafter mentioned, and not being char*d in custody on the first- day of February-. 1806. with anv dt bt or debt. sum "r simri of money which did not in the whole, on the said first day otf February, 1806. at any time or timas einoe, amount to a. greiater som than Soo, li=ereby gives this public notice that he in- tends to take the bjenefit of on act passed in the 43t.ii vear of hi« presend: Majesty's reign, entitled ."An Act for the Relief of Certain Insolvent Debtors," In the Gaü1 or Prison at HwaJieea, within the Liberty of Gower, in the City of ala- morgan. I THIRD NOTICE. 1 HENRY PYKE. of the town of Swansea- ( in the eItv oi Glamorgan. Watch ( I

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