A THE LUCKY EXPEDIENT. YOUNG Swifs recruit, when his regimentals were making, had procured a round iron plate bordered with fmall holes, which he defired the taylor to faften on the infide of his coat, above his left breaft, to prevent his being fhot through the heart. The taylor, being a humourous fellow, faftened it in the feat of his breeches. The cloaths being fcarce on his back, when he was ordered to march into the field, he had no opportunity to get this aukward miftake rectified, before he found himself engaged in battle. Being obliged to flee before the enemy, on endeavouring to get over a thorn hedge in his way, he unfortunately fluck faft till he was overtaken by a foe, who, on his coming up, gave him a thrust in the breech with his bayonet. It luckily hit on the iron plate, and pushed the young foldier clear out of the hedge. This favourable circumftance made the Swiss honeftly confefs, that the taylor had more fenfe than himself, and knew better where his heart lay. ANECDOTE OF THE KING OF His majefty, who never was a friend 10 luxury, clearly evinced this difpofition ina recent inftance. A fhoe-maker, recommended to A correfpondent informs us, that fuch is the demand at this moment for playing cards, that the manufacturers of them work from feven in the morning till ten at night, and their customers from ten at night till seven in the morn. ing, The Duke of York was thrown from his horfe at Hounflow, on Wednesday, the 6th inftant, by which accident his Royal Highnefs received a flight wound on theright cheek,and a bruife on the fhoulder. boxing an unprofitable trade in Johnfon, the bruifer, finding Ireland, has lately become the proprietor of an E. O. table at Cork. Averylarge fish which ranafhore at Filey, on Saturday the 19th inft, was on Monday the 21ft exhibited in York. Its length was thirteen feet, its depth one foot and one inch,and its greatest thickness only three inches. It had no fcales, but had four ftripesftretching from end to end, rough with very fmall protuberances, and covered with a A few days fince an eel was tabright filvery film, like the fwimken just below Fulbridge, at Mal-ming bladder of a herring, the al ternate ternate ftripes being white, naked, and fmooth. The face, and infide of the mouth, which had no teeth, were black, and the tongue was very smooth and foft. The eye was one inch and three eights in diameter, and the iris of a filver white. The head, from its front, to the cover of the gills, inclufive, was only feven inches long. The gills were of fix rays; and the ventral fins, which had each but a fingle ray of a foot long, were red, and under thofe of the breast, which confifted of twelve,and were white. The anus was at the dif tance of five feet from the head, but there was no anul fin. The caudal fin when here was wanting, which was certainly due to accident as there was an obvious appearance of mutilation in the part. The dorfal fin, however, (having above three hundred rays, two inches long, extended the whole length of the animal, and was of a crimfon colour, like the fins of the perch; above the head rays were longer than elsewhere.The fide line defcended with an eafy curve from the head behind the pectoral fin towards the belly, to which it ran parallel, at the diftance of three inches, till near the tail, where it curved again very gently, and ended with the bone. The two fides were perfectly alike. The defcription is thus circumftantially given for the information of naturalifts, and in hopes of obtaining from them any communication they may have to make upon the fubject. A man was lately found dead in his bed at a village in Glamorganfhire: the Coroner's Jury brought in their verdic, after much confultation, "That he died for want of breath." INTREPIDITY OF A FRENCH ABBE. At the commencement of the French revolution, juft before the capture of the Baftile, a quantity of powder had been carried to the Hotel-de-ville,which the populace (for the moft unruly always collected round this central fpot) would probably have blown up in feizing, if a courageous elector had not, at the continual risk of his life, infifted on diftributing it regularly to the people.-This man, the Abbè Lefebure, remained all night, and the greateft part of the next day, ftanding over a barrel of gunpowder, perfifting to keep off the people, with undaunted courage, though feverat, to torment him, brought pipes to fmoke near it; and one actually fired a piftol close by, that fet fire to his hair. mained there, the bread, glaffes, &c. used to be drawn off the table while the old lady fat at dinner or fupper; and befides this, a fwine, which the maid wished to perfuade her was poffeffed by the devil, or the foul of her late mafter, ufed to come into the kitchen and other parts of the house,and destroy every thing before it. After this alarm had continued a fortnight, the magiftrates interfered, and fending proper perfons to examine into the affair, it was visible that the maid was the author of the nocturnal noifes, and that in moving the glaffes, &c. off the table, fhe had availed herself of her miftrefs's dimnefs of fight. The voracioufnefs of the fwine was caused by her wil. ful neglect to feed it; of courfe its rage was eafily allayed by the reftoration of its food, and the prin· cipal offender was delivered over to the civil power. LAW REPORT. April 13. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KING V. LORD FALKLAND. MR AND JOHN KING. then prepared to argue that queftion Mr. Mingay faid, he was not which would be decided when his learned friend fhewed cause against the rule. An award had been made ordering Lord Falkland and Mr. King to pay a certain fum of money, which they had not paid, and therefore he only moved for a rule to fhew cause why an attachment fhould not iffue against them, for a contempt of an order of that court. 慧 Lord Kenyon." I really do not know whether this cafe has ever happened. I remember the cafe of Earl Ferrers, which was before his prefent Majefty's acceffion to the throne; I was prefent when that cafe was argued in the house of Lords, which was for disobedience of the High Prerogative Writ of Habeas Corpus. "I recollect Lord Hardwicke faid, if the hereditary Sheriff for the county of Weftmoreland, who was a nobleman (the Earl of Thanet), were guilty of a contempt, an attachment would go against him. "LordFalkland is a Scotch peer, and though not one of the fixteen Scottish peers, yet, by the 23d article of the Union between the two nations, "All peers of Scotland, fhall be peers of Great Britain, and rank next after thofe of the fame R. Mingay, on the part of degree at the time of the Union, Mr. Phillips, moved for a and fhall have all the privileges of rule to fhew caufe why an attach-Parliament, except fitting in the ment fhould not iffue against the House of Lords, and voting on the two defendants, for difobedience to trial of a peer." an award; and why the fervice of that rule at their ufmal place of refidence, fhould not be deemed good fervice. Mr. Erskine, as counsel for the defendants, recommended it to his learned friend, before any expence was incurred, to confider whether the court could poffibly grant an attachment against Lord Falkland, who was a peer of the realm. Take a rule to fhew caufe. An ASTONISHING OCCURRENCE. Ludlow, Shropshire, April, 1796. FEW weeks ago, one of the Oxford Dragoon horfes,quartered at Leominster, in this neighbourhood, having got loofe in the ftable, had the curiofity to march up. EPPING HUNT. Eafter Monday: THE Cocknies attended this di Tver fon in tolerable numbers; but not being able to keep their faddles, their Sport confifted not in following the fag, but in endea vouring to overtake their affrighted hores. up a crooked ftair-cafe, into the hay-loft, with a view, no doubt, to examine his stock of provifions: it is fuppofed he must have been thereat least two hours, when his rider coming to the ftable, and miffing bis horfe, was thunderstruck,know ing he had the key in his pocket. The poor fellow, not having the leaft fufpicion of his horfe being up ftairs, run like a madman, to inform an officer of his lofs, but had fcarcely got twenty yards, when the animal (exulting in his station) put his head through the pitching hole, and neighed aloud. The afland-street, Mary-le-bone, were tonishment of the foldier, and the whole neighbourhood, can be better conceived than defcribed. Every ftratagem that could be devised, was made ufe of, to lead, or force him down the ftairs, but all in vain; he faw the danger, and was obfti nate. Among the casualties of that luckless day, may be arranged the following, as moft prominent, viz. A young haberdasher from Fleetstreet, with his impure, from Port overfet in their gig by a higler's cart, which was in full chafe of the ftag: the accident occurred near the Rein Deer; the gentleman's life was miraculously preferved, by being pitched head-foremost into a horfe pond, and the lady received no other damage, than having her drapery fullied in the fall; the delicacy of her character remained in ftatus quo. Deputy of Cornhill, was run away with by a chefnut gelding, at the commencement-of the fport, and, not confidering him as an expert rider, he made an excellent burst, by clinging faft to the mane, to the astonishment of the furround The horse ran a confiderable time, trotting, and fnorting about the loft, to the no fmall diverfion of the fpectators; at length, having wearied their efforts and patience, he accidentally trod upon the only vulnerable part of the floor, a trap door, which covered a hole for facking hops, 27 inches by 23, which being made of weaker boards chan the reft, gave way; and his hindering multitude; but being forfaken part going down through, till his feet touched the ground, he remained a few feconds in that pofi tion, and then difappeared, like Harlequin in a pantomine, or the Methodist parfon into the wafhing tub, and dropped into the very pofture and place in which he before ftood in his ftall, without any hurt except the lofs of a few hairs off one of his legs, and a piece of fkin the fize of a fhilling, off his whifkers. Many perfons have been to view the place, and cannot forbear expreffing their wonder, that the creature could fall through fo fmall a hole without greater injury. by his courage, or his guardian genius, he loft his hold in leaping through a quick fet hedge, and was left bawling in the middle: the evils of this amiable citizen were complicated, as he not only loft fome mock turtle and three cuftards, of his own preparing, but a manufcript copy of the nine last years of his life, which he had adroitly rendered into a farce, for the amusement of fociety. When he was taken up, it was difcovered, that a large thorn had perforated the glutes, but he was immediately carried to a furgeon at Romford, where the wounds a pofteriori were foon |