who had taken too much liquor. She said, "Palmer what are you tipsy-if you cannot undress your self, I will undress you."-The prisouer made no reply, but went on to effect his purpose, which he completed, and then left the bed and went behind the bed-curtains. Still supposing it was her husband, she said to him, "Palmer, you are not going down again." The prisoner, in a feigned voice, which was an attempt to imitate her husband's voice, replied, "Yes, the company are not all gone, I must see things set to rights." She immediately recognised the prisoner, and jumping out of bed, she seized him by the collar, and cried out for assistance. He attempted to get away, and before any body came he broke loose from her grasp and escaped. T. Palmer, the husband, stated, that hearing the cries of his wife he ran to her assistance; and as he reached the house door, he met the prisoner running away. He pursued him, and got the shortest way to his lodgings, where he arrived be. fore the prisoner. The next morning he caused him to be apprehcuded. He asked him "how he could have committed so vile an act as to debauch his wife?" The prisoner replied, he did not know that he had done it; but that he would make him any recompence, and leave the town. The witness said, nothing could be a recompence to him, and he would put him in the power of the law. The servant girl corroborated the statement of her mistress's screaming out, and saw the prisoner rup down stairs. The learned judge (sir James Mansfield) said, this could not amount to a rape, although the pri soner had certainly committed a most atrocious outrage. The woman, by her own evidence, was consenting to the act, although her consent was fraudulently obtained, as she acted under the impression that it was her husband who was in bed with her. He consequently directed the jury to acquit the prisoner of the capital charge, which they did. The prisoner was afterwards indicted, and found guilty of an assault. Edinburgh, Aug. 13.-No event has occurred for many years in Edinburgh which more deeply interested the inhabitants at the time, than the murder and robbery of the unfortunate Begbie, the porter of the British Linen Company's bank, in November last. The prompt and dreadful dexterity with which the act was perpetrated, the almost immediate discovery of the dead body, and the escape of the murderer through a street crowded with people before it was dark, formed together a combina. tion of circumstances unprecedented. Nine months have now elapsed since the crime was committed; after the strictest search, no clue has been found that could lead to detection; and the transaction, however deep its impression at first, was hastening into oblivion. On Saturday last a journeyman mason, in company with two other men, in passing through the grounds of Bellevue, between the customhouse and Broughton toll, found, at the side of a hedge, a parcel, containing a quantity of bank-notes, which, on examination, proved to be those of which Begbie was robbed. The persons who found the notes carried them to the sheriff's office. They appear to be large notes only, but, from the damage many of them have sustained by their long expo. sure, sure, the exact sum is not yet ascertained; it is said to be above 30001. The sum of which Begbie was robbed was 37001. in 20, 10, and 5 pound notes, 240 guinea notes, and 440 one pound notes; the small notes were not in the parcel. ties of peace have changed the aspect of the political relations of Earope. The house of Branden. burg, which was the first to combine against our independence, iz indebted for still being permitted to reign, to the sincere friendship with which the powerful emperor of the north has inspired me. A French prince shall reign on the Elbe. He will know how to make the interests of his new subjects form the first and most sacred of his duties.-The house of Saxony has recovered the independence which it lost fifty years ago.The people of the dukedom of Warsaw and of the town of Dantzig are again in possession of their country, and have obtained their rights.-All the nations concur in rejoicing, that the pernicious influence which England exercised over the continent is for ever destroyed. France is united by the laws of the confederacy of the Rhine with the people of Germany, and by our federative system with the people of Spain, Hol land, Switzerland, and Italy. Our new relations with Russia are founded upon the reciprocal respect of two great nations. In every thing I have done, I have only had the happiness of my people in view, 16. As some workmen were digging for the foundation of a house near the mount, without Micklegate bar, they broke into a vault about four feet from the surface, built of stone, and arched over with Roman bricks, with a small door of entrance at the north end; the length of the vault was eight feet, the height six feet, and the breadth five feet; in this was discovered a coffin of coarse ragstone grit, covered with a flag of blue stone, about seven feet long, three feet two inches wide, four inches thick, and one foot nine inches deep, containing a human skeleton entire, with the teeth complete, supposed to be the remains of a Roman lady, and to have been deposited there from 1400 to 1700 years. Near the skull lay a small glass phial or lachrymatory, with fragments of another phial, the in. side of which appeared to have been silvered. At a little distance from the vault was also found an urn, of a red colour, in which was deposited the ashes and bones, partly burnt, of a human body.-It is sup--that has always been in my eyes posed that the urn must have lain there near 2000 years, as the Romans discontinued the practice of burning their dead prior to that period. Buonaparte to the legislative body, Ang. 17. Gentlemen, the deputies of the legislative body; gentlemen, the members of the tribunate, and of my council of state, Since your last meeting, new wars, new triumphs, and new trea far dearer to me than my own renown. I wish for peace by sea. No irritation shall ever have any influence on my decisions with respect to that object. I cannot be irriated against a nation which is the sport and the victim of the parties that devour it, and which is misled, as well with respect to its own affairs as to those of its neighbours. But, whatever may be the termination which provi dence dence has decreed the maritime war shall have, my people will always find me the same, and I shall always find them worthy of me. Frenchmen, your conduct in these times towards your emperor, who was more than 500 leagues distant from you, has increased my respect, and the idea I had formed of your character. I have felt myself proud to be the first among you. The proofs of attachment which you have given me, while, during ten months of absence and danger, I was ever present to your thoughts, have constantly awakened in me the liveliest sensations. All my solicitudes,-all that related even to the safety of my person was only interesting to me on account of the part you took in them, and the important influence which they might produce on your future destiny:-you are a good and a great people. I have contrived various means for simplifying and perfecting our institutions. The nation has experienced the happiest effects from the establishment of the legion of honour. I have distributed various imperial titles, in order to give a new lustre to the most distinguished of my subjects, to honour extraordinary services by extraordinary rewards, and at once to prevent the return of all feudal titles, which are incompatible with our constitution. The accounts of my ministers of finance, and of the public treasury, will make known to you the prosperous state of our finances. My people will see the contributions upon landed property considerably diminished. My minister of the interior will give you an account of the public works which are begun or finished; but those which may 3 still be expected are much more considerable, since it is my determination, that in all parts of the empire, even in the smallest ham. let, the comforts of the citizens, and the value of the lands, shall be increased by the developement of that universal system of improvement which I have formed. Gentlemen, deputies of the legislative body, your assistance in the ac complishment of that great object will be necessary to me, and I have a right to reckon upon that assist. ance with confidence. 18. The sports of Camberwell fair began, and were continued till Thursday the 20th, with more animation than usual. An unlucky accident happened on Wednesday to a black magician, who professed to be acquainted with the secrets of nature, to be descended from the magi of Persia, and to profess the highest veneration for the Greubes, or worshippers of fire. In addi tion to his legerdemain, he exhibi ted a puppet-show, in the last scene of which, a battle was introduced between Lucifer and Buonaparte. As the infernal king was conveying the effigy of the Corsican to the regions of fire, an unlucky boy blew up a sausage-pan in the rear of the magician's booth, and Buonaparte's ca tastrophe was attended by real firc; for the flames, in consequence of the explosion, caught the hangings of the booth, and the disciple of Zoroaster found himself inclosed by the element he so much admired. In. vain he summoned water to his aid, none could he obtained, and he was compelled to bury the Devil, &c. in ruins, by pulling down the booth. Fortunately, the flames did not communicate to the adjoining shows; but the magician was neces sitated sitated to begin his incantations de novo. 20. The renewed combat [See p. 465.] between the younger Belcher and Dutch Sam (between whose friends there had been much dispute respecting the stakes, as contended for by these pugilists in the late battle), took place on Howfield common, two miles from Crawley, in Sussex. The 31st round decided the event of the battle, although Belcher stood up five more rounds. Sam hit him, in this round, several tremendous face and body blows, and fol. lowed him to all parts of the ring; when Belcher fell, but kept his body erect, as if for the last trial at the foul blow. Until the 36th round, Sam could only be compared to a ferocious bull dog attacking his prey; and Jem Belcher took his brother from the ring, after he had received the most severe beating possible to conceive. He was put into a gentleman's chariot, in a helpless state. The beating was chiefly on the left side, from the kidneys to the crown of the head. Sam dressed himself in the ring with great sungfroid; and his only injury was a severe blow under the eye, and a few simple marks. The fight lasted 33 minutes. About half-past eleven o'clock at night, a fire commenced from a chimney in the house of Mr. Swan, printer, in Crown-court, the corner of Salisbury square. No endeavour was made in the first instance, to extinguish the fire, through an erroneous supposition that the best way of cleaning the chimney, was to let it burn out. It was found, however, when it was too late for remedy, that the flames had communicated to some wood work contiguous to the chimney; and in a house, the interior divisions of which were of lath and plaister, dry deals, or old wainscot, and every room, more or less, filled with paper, plain or printed, when the fire got head, a general conflagration was scarcely avoidable. Not only the printing-rooms and warehouses of Mr. Swan, extending backwards towards Water-lane, but the printing and warehouses of Mr. Heney, his tenant; the premises and workshops of Mr. Birch, a paperhanging manufacturer, adjacent; those of Mr. Slee, a portable desk maker; of Mr. Euster, cabinet maker; the rears of seven or eight houses in Crown-court, leading to Fleet-street; and the upper part of the house of Mr. Cove, coal-merchant, next door to Mr. Swan, took fire. The flames raged from twelve o'clock till five in the morning, notwithstanding the deluges of water poured upon them by near 20 en. gines, actively plied during the time; and the fire was not got under until most of the premises above stated were reduced to a heap of ruins. Mr. Swan, who, but a year and a half since, narrowly escaped a simi. lar disaster, when the premises of his next door neighbour, Mr. Gillet, were destroyed by fire, had the misfortune to be now uninsured, and is a loser to the amount of above 2,000l. A similar calamity involves many industrious poor families who lived at the back of these premises. Dublin, Aug. 25.--A melancholy event took place on Tuesday se'nnight, in the house of Alexander Montgomery, tailor, at Carmoney meeting-house. Montgomery, it appears, had a COW ow which continued to give milk as usual; but of late no butter could be produced from the milk. An opinion, which has been too long entertained by many people in the country, was unfortunately instilled into the mind of Montgomery's wife, that whenever such circum. stance occurred, it was occasioned by the cow having been bewitched. In this opinion she was fortified by the concurrent testimony of every old woman in the parish, each of whom contributed her story of what she had seen and heard in for. mer times, when, as the poet expresses it, "Tibby kern'd, and yet nae butter came." Various spells, however, were pointed out, which would prove ef. fectual in discovering the witch, or at least in destroying her power over the cow. Among many others, the following was tried-twelve Women were brought to the house, who, after certain essential ceremonies, proceeded in a solemn manner to bless the cow. This, however, also failed of success, and the cow was nothing better. At length the family were informAt length the family were informed of a woman, named Mary Butters, who resided at Carrickfergus "The fellest fortune-teller e'er was seen, vice." They accordingly went to her, and, after due consultation, brought her to their house. On Tuesday forenoon, the sorceress got a quantity of the cow's milk, which she proceeded to chura. Her familiar, however, it appears, deceived her, The charm failed of success, and no butter was produced.-Three men who drank of the milk were soon afterwards seized with excessive sick. ness and violent vomiting; and it is supposed this was occasioned by some noxious ingredients which she had infused in the milk. The enchantress then informed the family, that after night-fall she would try another spell, which could not fail. Accordingly, about ten o'clock, she gave orders, for Montgomery and a young man, who was accidentally there, to go to the cowhouse, and turn their waistcoats inside out, and in that dress to stand close by the head of the cow until they heard from her. They immediately went out and did as she desired; while Montgomery's wife, his son, a lad about twenty years of age, and an old woman who was a lodger, remained in the house to witness the astrologer's operation. the chimney to be stopped, and She then caused the door to be shut, every crevice that could admit air to be closed up. What other measures she pursued are not known, but we proceed to state the dreadful result. Montgomery, the father, and the young man who went into the cow-house, remained there for several hours until it was day-light. The young door, but not receiving any answer, man then went and knocked at the he looked in through a window, and beheld the four persons withinside lying stretched on the floor. Alarmed by what he saw, he called to Montgomery, and they immediately broke open the door; when they found the mother and the son both dead, and the other two nearly so. They carried out the two former; but in doing so, the young man had nearly lost his life by the sulphureous vapour which filled the house. Having called upon some neighbours they obtained assistance, and |