... in a glance.—Monarchs ! risen from the mouldering tomb, where is your royal race ? The last who held the sceptre dyed the scaffold with his blood, and sleeps forgotten and unknown, without tomb or memorial of his name !—Rapid was the transition succeeding ...

... August. At the very time when he was gaining this place for the republic, the jacobins of Brest sent his aged father to the scaffold as an aristocrat, or a friend to the aristocrats. _ 'l'his old man, whom the people of Morlaix called the fither of the poor ...

... the unparalleled riots ?nd robberies which Jeein that city on the night of the Slst of 5 last, and in which two persons were kill- The rioters consisted almost entirely of fyonng myentices in the city, &c. Several of them apehended and brought to trial ...

... respect. ] : Wednesday a ducl was fought by two of the French prisonéis on board the Sampson prison-ship, when one. of them was killed, m;lot having any swords, they attached to the head of two sticks ¢ pair of scissars each. The deceased received the mortal ...

... Generals killed ang teken o an. enemy. Our loss is, alas! most severe; jt .- the me to the heart to enumerate the Dnameg of ⅇes roes who have fallen—Picton killed, » great jo. | Gordon and Canning, the Duke’s Aid.de_c‘m“! killed ; Delancy killed ; Lord ...

... The prisoners had becn previously convieted of feloay.~To be transported for ten years. * Killing Sheep.—William Crofts, an excise officer, was charged with killing five sheep, the poperty of Thomas Aduns, of Byfickl—Mr. Mildyard eonducted the prosceution ...

... The storm at Braunston, in the morning, wus very heavy ; as also st Crick, at which El'n Mr. Whitmel) had three fine sheep killed from its ef . 10 the eveninz, Daventry, Staverton and other places in the neighbourhood, felt its effects. It senrecly ever ...

... the window, and uttering a ery of despair, precipitaced himself headlong iuto the street, It was thought that the fali had killed ham, for he exlubited no signs of life, and he and his unfortunate landlord were re- | maved on shutters to the hospital, ...

... quibbling as to the ‘ cause of E»r- death. The question is not whether Cook was mur- | dered by ltr(cbn'u, but whether he was killed b{ youor not.” Palmer rejoined, “ Why, Lord Campbell summed up the case as one of murder by strychnine.” Mgflr Fulford again ...

... appear to shed a tear. She, on leaving her ee'll, sheok hands with the chicf warder and other officers. On her way to the scaffold her demeanour was extraordinary. The attendants on either side were entirely overcome, whilst she bore her awful position ...

... YORK. On Saturday, the prisoner William Dove expiated his offeuce (the murder of his wife by strychnine at Leeds) on the scaffold behind York Castle. Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made by some parties to save the life of this criminal, Sir George ...

... in manifest danger, and to kill him, caused the death of the said llifa Mun| sur, by inflicting, with a cutting and pointed instrument, two wounds, one slight, and the other grievous, in the thorax, which latter wound killed him on the spot. For which ...