... CURIOUS STORY. jFrcrr. a r>;-sl ...

... AN AFFECTING STORY. ?? year 1662, (when Paris was afflicted A with a long and fevere famine) M. de Sailo, returning from afummer's evening walk, with only a little foot-boy, was accofted by a man, who prefented his piftol, and in a manner far from the ...

... An INTERESTING STORY. SOME Time fince, a venerable old Man, who had pafled ali the Offices, in one of the chief Towns in Holland, with Honour and Reputation, •nd had gained great Riches without Reproach, had fome Thoughts of retiring for the reft of his ...

... AEFECTING STORY OF MR. HALL. From Campbell's journey overland te India. ALTHOUGH you are now, my dear friend ** a witnefs to my being the moft perfectly wretched of all created beings, yet the time is not long paft, when fortune fmilegl upon and gave ...

... The STORY of Sir THOMAS ERPINGHAM. SI R Thomas Erpingham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a Jtnightboth of Fame and Memory, and whofe Name is ft^ll upon Record, being eminent of note with- fiehfy ■V. and per- fonal with him in all the Wars of France ...

... A F.»?*lar Story of Mr. STANLEY. C>APTAIN James Stanley, who had been an j Officer in the King's Army during the Civil Wa.'S which began in the Year 1641, and had loft by the Sequeftration fucceeding them the largeft Part of his Eftate, retired to fpend ...

... MM ARK ABU STORY OP A CAS ADA GOOSE. TTHE following (lory is extremely well attefted, x and furnifhes a very curious anecdote in Natural Hiftory. It was drawn up by Mr. F. W. Sharpe, and inferted in his copy of Willoughby . Ornithology : The following ...

... The fallowing true, and ajfeeling Story, is taken from Lieutenant- General Burgoyne' s State of tbe Expedition from Canada. *» Lady Harriet Ackland had accompanied her Hufband to Canada in the Beginning of the Year 1776. In the courfe of that Campaign ...

... having heard a Story which in- volved his Name, and which had been thought of furficient Importance to attraa the Attention of that Houfe, took the earlieft Opportunity of de- firing an Explanation of it. He recapitulated the Outlines of the Story, and, (looking ...

... Lsttsks.] IMAGINE a Building of two Stories, one un- der Ground, and tbe other but little above it, equally divided length ways by a narrow Gallery s on the right and left are fmall Cells where the Eggs are put ; the upper Story is vaulted with an Ox-eye Aperture ...

... CViu- rnittee. and ...

... LONDON, (Friday) April 14. The Story of a Sharper perfonating the Marquis of Car- marthen is without Foundation.' No fuch Perfon ever'ap- peared, and the Story took its Rife from the Ravings of a poor delirious Woman, lately a Servant in the Houfe of ...