JANUARY.

When he arrived at the Star-inn, Andover, he took a bottle of wine;

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"SIR, Downing-street, Jan 1. "I have the honour of acquaint ing you, for the information of the merchants concerned in the trade with America, that the treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce, between his majesty and the United States, was yesterday signed by commissioners, respectively appointed for that purpose by both governments. The treaty will be immediately transmitted to America; but, until the ratification on both sides shall be exchanged, it cannot be made public..

"I have the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) "HOWICK. "Philip Sansom, Esq. Chairman to the Committee of American Merchants."

2. A curious wedding took place at Holyhead, where the bride was first churched, then married, and, thirdly, had her child christened!

3. About two o'clock, a gen. tleman came from Hungerford, in a post-chaise, to the Globe-inn, Newbury, where he ordered ano. ther chaise to take him to Andover. YOL. XLIX.

Catharine-wheel at that place, to wait, as he said, for the mail coach, and, in company with some other gentlemen, drank a glass of brandy and water. About eleven o'clock at night they were talking about children; the gentleman said, "He' had nine children, and no one knew what trouble they were but those who experienced it," and immediately left the room; within a minute the company were alarmed by the report of a pistol; they immediately went to the door, and discovered that the gentleman had shot himself in the right temple, and was quite dead.

In the Surrey calendar there is the following unusual entry: "Sarah Smither, committed the 3d of January, 1807, by the rev. W. Roberts, charged, on her own confession, with repeated acts of incontinency, for six months." - The frail fair-one is in Guildford house of correction, to hard labour."

The learned" Francis Moore, physician," in his "Vor Stellarum, or loyal almanack, for the year of human redemption, 1807," has the following notable remark :-April 27. Near this time the Turkish emperor dies; or, it may be, hides his head: his people are tumultuous; A a

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4. About 12 o'clock, one of the arches of Haydon bridge, Northumberland, 95 feet in span, fell in with a most tremendous crash, at the time that a number of people were going over it to church. One man sunk with the ruins to a depth of 40 feet; by which his thigh was fractured, and he was otherwise much bruised.

On Christmas-day, owing to a heavy swell in the river Conway, the boat conveying the Irish mail, with eight passengers, the coachman, guard, and a youth about fifteen years of age, (in all fifteen in number, including the boatman,) was upset, and only two persons were saved.

At Liverpool, on Saturday se'nnight between twelve and one o'clock at noon, as captain Alexander Grierson was walking arm in arm with a friend in Paradise-street, two carts going at a quicker rate than usual, in opposite directions, came in contact with each other at the corner of the street. Mr. Grier. son, who was close to one of them, attempted to spring from it, failed in his effort, and fell; when the cart passed over his head, and he expired in about ten minutes. The owner of one of the carts, riding in it at the time, was thrown out by the violence of the concussion, and the cart passed over his body.

The following dreadful accident happened to John Fishlock, coachman of the Bristol and Birmingham mail-coach, on Monday night last, within a few miles of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire: The coach was going at a brisk rate; when the guard observed the driver to fall off his seat between the horses,

He immediately got down and endeavoured to stop them, but in vain; but luckily succeeded in regaining his seat behind the coach, till the animals slackened their pace; when he drove the coach in safety to Thornbury, where he procured a horse, and immediately proceeded to the place where the unfortunate man fell, whom he took up and conveyed back; surgical assistance was instantly procured; but it was fruitless, as one of the wheels had passed over his neck, and it is supposed killed him on the spot.

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A middle-aged man of respectability," who resided in Orange. street, Leicester-square, put a period to his existence a few days since, under circumstances which rendered the act truly extraordinary. had for a length of time paid his addresses to a female of very respectable connections, and the weddingday was agreed on. He had been with the intended bride the night preceding the day fixed, and every preparation was made for the event. The intended bride repaired to St. Martin's church with her friends at the hour appointed, but no bridegroom appeared. After waiting a considerable time, they repaired to the house of the lover, and were informed that he had not been seen that day. On going into his apartment, however, the wretched man discovered with his throat cut, and quite dead.

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A short time since, a lady, on a visit to the Narcissus frigate, at Spithead, was safely delivered of a daughter before dinner by the sur. geon of the ship; premature labour having been brought on by seasickness. The child has since been named Narcissa.

A very extraordinary instance of the premature growth of the human body is at present exhibited at Ant. werp. A male child, born in the neighbourhood of that town, and the register of whose birth proves that he is only aged five years, measures about five French feet, has the voice of a man, and a beard, and can lift fifty pounds weight with each hand.

A splendid monument has been erected in the parish church of Han. mer, in the county of Flint, to the memory of the late right honourable lord chief-justice Kenyon.

7. A court of directors was held at the East India house; when the right hon. lord Minto was sworn in governor-general of Bengal; and lieut.-general Hewitt, second in council, and commanderin-chief of all the company's military forces in the East Indies.

Captain Larkin, of the ship Warren Hastings, has been presented with 500 guineas by the court of directors of the East-India company, for his gallant defence of that ship. The officers and crew have likewise been liberally rewarded, by having 2000 guineas distributed among them.

Mr. Edward Humphreys, jun. of Walcot, near Chirbury, Shropshire, shot a dog-otter on the river Cemblet, which weighed 221b. and measured from the head to the tail 4 feet. There are also now at Gun. ley, near Chirbury, two tame otters, taken when young from the said river; they are so tame, that they will follow the servants to the spout when washing, and one was SO Foracious as to seize a living toad and devour it immediately.

9. As Mr. Vyse, of Bentinck. street, was travelling in one of the

Bath coaches to Bath, accompanied by Miss Vyse, his daughter, he sud denly dropped from his seat, and was speechless. He was conveyed to a public-house near Colnbrook, and died in a very short time. The deceased was in high spirits, and conversing with the other passen. gers, at the time the catastrophe befel him.

12. At the Westminster sessions, Jamerson Rogers, a prophetess, was indicted, on the Vagrant act, for retailing divination to the credulous.

It appeared by the testimony of Miss H. Hall, a young lady under twenty, that she had gone to the house of the Sybil, in Williamstreet, Westminster, to detect the prisoner, in consequence of her having previously contaminated the mind of one of her relatives. She was ushered into the apartments of the seducer by a char-woman; and a pack of cards, a religious book, &c. were placed on the table, by which the prophetess made her researches. Miss Hall was informed, that she had many enemies of her own sex, but all men were friendly towards her, and she would soon be married to the best of good men ; for which information she paid one shilling.

Frances Hughes, an interesting girl of 16 years of age, had also sought information at the hands of the prophetess. She was more ad. mired than Miss Hall; for the only enemy she had was a dark woman, who would strive to injure her, but she would, ere she was 20 years of age, be united in wedlock to a man, who would revenge her wrongs.

Mr. Alley undertook, on behalf of the defendant, to tell her for. tune: he could inform her, that

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