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distance from Maguire's bridge; in the month of August last, Maguire told Harpur that he was going the following day to pay his rent, but was deficient in the. and required a few guineas. Harpur desired him to call upon him in his way, and he would give him the sum he wanted; upon Maguire's calling and getting the money, Harpur observed, that he, Maguire, wanted shaving, and advised him not to go in so dirty a manner to his landlord, and Harpur proposed to shave him; he accordingly brought Maguire up stairs, and while in the act of shaving him cut his throat, and, with the back of a hatchet battered his head in such a manner that he instantly expired. Harpur conveyed him out, and buried him in the front of a ditch in a corner of his garden, likely to escape observation, where there was a bramble bush. On Maguire's being missed, he was traced to Harpur's, and every part of the garden and fields where ground had been dug up was searched for the body, but in vain; a man afterwards, in coming out of the garden, jumped by chance upon the spot where it was: the bank broke, and the body tumbled out into the ditch: there were innumerable evidences produced to establish the fact. Harpur was ordered for execution on the following Thursday,

ROYAL TIGER.-Extract of a letter from an officer on survey, dated at Buckenkera, near Seringapatam, August 11, 1803.-" I had fixed the Theodolite, and was taking an observation on the high hill, seen N. W. from Seringapatam, and the few country people along with me, were sitting some distance below me, on the right, when a royal tiger, having come very near to me on the left, unperceived among the rocks, watching his opportunity, had actually commenced his spring, when turning round at that instant, and having nothing else at hand, I threw my hat in his face, which being unexpected, startled him, by which he alighted about three yards short of me, on the stone on which I was standing, and seemingly ashamed of his ill success, he gave an hideous roar, and disappeared among the rocks; the people on hearing (although few of them saw him) became almost petrified. I immediately armed, and followed him a little way, but without success. I then, after finishing my observation, took a loaded musket, with bayonet, and a brace of pistols, and went down half way to the bottom of the hill, almost alone, as few of the people would venture with me, and gave directions for them to make a noise at the top, and throw stones down among the craggs; this, however, through fear, they did very clumsily, and without effect; when I happening to throw a stone into a bush immediately be

fore me, the savage animal came out with a dreadful howl, open-mouthed. At

that critical instant, I discharged the piece, and with such fortunate effect that he fell on the spot; on his first appearance, the few that had come down with me, fled precipitately, except a sepoy and a half-cast boy; having no means of re-, treat, in the situation I was, in case of accident, and fearing the effects of the blow might be only a stun, I instantly rushed on the monster, and lodged the contents of a brace of horse pistols in his breast, which I also transpierced with the bayonet at the same time; this finished his struggle, and his skin is now stuffed in my possession, as a trophy. He measured ten feet three inches, from the point of his tail to his nose; and his tusks were three inches long. He was, I imagine, an old offender, as the bones of a human hand were found almost entire in his stomach."

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ENGLISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE.-The following is an extract of a letter, dated Valenciennes, April 4, from a young gentleman detained a prisoner at that place. He writes thus to his friends: "It is in vain I pleaded that my age (under eighteen) exempted me from the Consular decree; I was told that circumstances required I should be kept a prisoner with the rest of the English at this place. This part of the country is extremely unhealthy; an epidemic fever has raged for a considerable time past, and has proved fatal to a degree.-Fifteen or sixteen of the inhabitants are carried off daily, and upon the average, eight or ten in a week of the poor English prisoners. There are two hundred and thirtysix prisoners ill in the hospital, though the fever, thank God, has subsided in a great degree. There are between seven and eight hundred of us in this town, most of them are in a sickly state. We daily fumigate our rooms with tobacco, and have hitherto found the custom extremely beneficial in repelling the contagion. Lord Barrington has been extremely kind and benevolent to his indigent countrymen, some of whom, bereft of money and of friends, have expired in the streets, unable to procure medical aid, and chusing to perish, rather than submit to the treatment of a French hospital. God knows what is to become of us; I fear I shall never see my dear friends and native country again."

A letter received from Germany, states that Dr. Olbers has discovered a planet, which, from its immense size, he has called Hercules. It is three times the size of Jupiter, and goes round the Sun in the space of 211 years, because it is supposed to be 3,047,000,000 of miles from the Sun; it looks, to the naked eye, like a star of the sixth magnitude, and is now in the sign Gemini. Dr. Olbers observed, on the 8th of December last, that it moved, and on the 6th of February, that it was a planet, attended by seven satellites, one of which is twice the size of the earth. It is inclined to the plane of the ecliptic, in an angle of 30 degrees. It is in 13 degrees North amplitude; its eccentricity is 1100, and the Sun, to an inhabitant of the earth placed in it, with our powers of vision, would appear no larger than the smallest of the fixed stars.

The Prince de Condé has written a circular letter of thanks to the emigrants who assisted at the high mass lately celebrated in compliment to the memory of the murdered Duke d'Enghein, in which his Highness says:-"We feel it as much our duty, as it is our anxious wish, to make known to them our entire gratitude. The number of those worthy persons to whom our thanks are due, being too great to permit us to address ourselves to each in particular, we have requested the minister of the King, who is the head of the Bourbons, to express, as perfectly as it is possible, to those emigrants so worthy of the cause they support, how sensible we are of the generous and distinguished manner in which they. have mingled their regrets with ours, in this august and mournful ceremony."

The Berlin Gazette contains the following notice of the death of a very distinguished animal:-" On the night of April the 17th, died, of an atrophy, in a good old age of 40 years, the favourite horse of his late Majesty Frederick the Great. It was called Condé, and was kept in the Royal Veterinary School." An elegy has already appeared on the death of this favourite of Frederick the Great, which reached an age which that quadruped is seldom known to have attained. His memory has also been preserved by drawings and engravings. This famous horse had been purchased in England in 1770, He was always

There is now little doubt that Bonaparte will assume the title of Emperor of the French, or the Gauls. Private letters state that this event has already taken place; and a neutral vessel arrived in the river, has brought the additional intelligence, that he has annexed to the title that of King of Lombardy. That a considerable progress has been made in this Imperial arrangement, which we think is no good omen for the Corsican and his family, is obvious from the following extract of a letter from Rouen, of the sixth instant:

"In the sitting of the 3rd instant, the Tribunate, after having heard the report of the Special Commission, appointed to consider of the proposition madeby Citizen Curee, have resolved

"I. That Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, shall be proclaimed Emperor of the French, and in that quality be charged with the government of France. "II. That the title of Emperor, together with the Imperial power, shall be hereditary in his family, in the male line, and in the order of primogeniture.

"III. The Constituted Authorities, in forming the necessary regulations for the establishment of the hereditary powers, shall make all due provisions for preserving equality, liberty, and the rights of the people.

"IV. The present vote shall be carried to the senate by a deputation of six members, who are to explain to it the motives which have induced the Tribunate to take this resolution."

BIRTHS.

Ín Wey

At Littleton, the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Wood, of a son. mouth Street, the Right Hon. Lady H. Gill, of a son. At Winchester, the Right Hon. Lady L. Atherly, of a son. At the Duke's house, Stable Yard, St. James's, the Duchess of Bedford, of a son. In Duke Street, the Lady of B. Hobhouse, Esq. of a son. In Welbeck Street, the Lady of Sir T. M. Wilson, of a son. In Pall Mall, Mrs. Montague, of a son. The Right Hon. Lady C. Duncombe, of a son. At Tilchurst, the Lady of Lieut. Col Taylor, of a son. At South-hill Park, the Lady of the Right Hon. G. Canning, of a daughter. At Paddington, the Lady of Lord Folkestone, of a daughter.

MARRIED,

At Bath, Sir J. Keane, Bart. to Mrs. Crespigny. Charles Godfrey, Esq.

to Miss Thurlow.

DEATHS.

At his seat, Dupplin Castle, in the county of Perth, Robert, Earl of Kinnoul!, Viscount Dupplin, Baron Hay. Mr. C. Bennett, upwards of 40 years organist of Truro church. In Portugal Street, the Lady of Major General Brownrigg. In Dover Street, the Hon. Mrs. P. Marsham. In Privy Gardens, Henry, Marquis of Exeter, Lord Burleigh, Joint Herditary Grand Almoner to the King in Fee, and Recorder of Stamford. Sir George Russel, Bart. of the Checquers, Bucks. On the night of the 21st of April, his Serene Highness, the reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha. The celebrated M. Neckar, formerly Minister of Finance in France on the 9th April, at Geneva, at an advanced age. Mrs. Chapman, of the Liverpool theatre, and late of Covent-Garden.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

JUNE, 1804.

Embellished with

A PORTRAIT OF THE CELEBRATED LE KAIN, THE FRENCH TRAGEDIAN, ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING

PRINTED, FOR THE PROPRIETORS,

By J. Wright, No. 38, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

And published by Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry;

Sold, also, by all the Booksellers in

the United Kingdom.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Portrait of the Veteran JEFFERSON, in our next.

The Memoirs of LE KAIN, of whom a fine Portrait is given in the present Number, will be found in our twelfth Volume, Page 112. Some further Account of him shall appear next month.

We beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following favours:

Communications from G. B. (Northampton).

Melancholy Hours, No. VII. by W.

The Wife-a Fragment-by Vargas.

On the Love of Wealth, by Orpri.

Impromptu, by the Author of the Patriotic Clarion.

England in Arms, a Song, by E. B.

Prologue, written for the Sailor's Daughter.

We shall consider of the plan proposed by G. P.

Further Remarks on the Exhibition at the Royal Academy in our next.

-Ministerial Changes, or the bad and the worse, are not calculated for this work...

The greater part of our poetical correspondents, solicit an immediate insertion of their favours. It must be obvious that, with our limited space, we cannot oblige them all. We trust no individual will feel offended at delays which are so unavoidable in publications of this nature.

J. A.'s two Packets arrived too late to find a situation in the proper depart ment. We have contrived, however, to introduce one of the articles into the present number.

On re-perusing Peter P's letter, we do not think it either prudent or just to admit, upon anonymous authority, such serious charges against a writer, whose name and person are both known to us.