In the House of Commons, after Mr. Horner had put similar questions respecting the declaration of the allies, and had been answered in a similar manner by Lord Castlereagh, the latter moved the adjournment to March 1, on the ground that there was no public business before them to require re assembling before that period.

Sir James Mackintosh then rose and opposed the motion in an eloquent speech, the principal topics of which were the change of con

stitution in Holland, and the intended disallowance by the allies of the neutrality of Switzerland, on which subjects he displayed an extensive knowledge of history and national law. He concluded with moving the amendment of substituting January 24th to March 1st. After some other members had given their opinions on each side, the amendment was negatived without a division, and the propos ed adjournment was carried.

The sporting gentlemen of this station were, on the 22d December, informed that three lions had been discovered in a small jungle, two miles from Beereije. Immediate preparations were made to assemble a large party, and to proceed to chase them from thence. Intermediately, accounts were received that the size and ferocity of the animals had struck a panic into the adjacent villages-that six of the natives, who had unwarily approached their haunts, had been torn, and mangled, and left to expire in the greatest agonies; and that it was no longer safe for the inbabitants to proceed to the usual occupations of husbandry, or to turn out their cattle to pasture, as several of them had been hunted down and killed. These accounts only stimulated the British Nimrods; and a party of 16 gentlemen. having assembled on the 24th, proceeded to the scene of action, accompanied by a body of armed peons from the Adaulet and Revenue departments. The guides took them to the precise spot where the three lions were reposing in state. The party advanced with dne caution to within a few paces of the jungle, without disturbing VOL. LIV.

the residents. A momentary pause, big with expectation, succeeded. At that instant, three dogs which had joined the hunt, unconscious of danger, approached the very threshold of the presence, and were received with such a sepulchral groan, as for a moment → made the bravest hold his breath." One of the dogs was killed, the other two fled and were seen no more. Presently, a lioness was indistinctly observed at the mouth of the den: a few arrows were discharged with a view to irritate her, and induce her to make an attack on her assailants; but this did not succeed, as she broke cover in an opposite direction, with two cubs about two-thirds grown. The partv pursued the fugitives on foot as fast as the nature of the ground, newly ploughed, would admit; when suddenly one of the men who had been stationed in the trees, called out to the gentlemen to be on their guard. This arrested their progress. They turned on one side to some heights, when they descried an enormous lion, which was approaching them through an open field at an easy canter, and lashing his tail in a style of indescribable grandeur. The foremost of the party presented their pieces and fired, just as the animal had cleared, at one bound, a chasm which was between them of 12 feet broad. He

was apparently wounded in the shoulder; but nevertheless sprung on Mr. M. whose arm he lacerated dreadfully; and feeling at the same time a peon's lance, he relinquished his first hold, seized the poor man by the throat, and strangled him before the party dared fire, lest they should kill his victim. He was now at bay, but sheltered in such a manner as rendered it difficult to bring him down, when, suddenly, the man on the look-out gave another alarm, and the party almost immediately perceived a lioness which had broken cover, approaching their rear. The same instant their ears were assailed by the shrieks and yells of men, women, and children, occasioned by the animal crossing the road in the midst of the coolies that were carrying tiffin to the village. A woman and a child were almost immediately sacrificed to her fury. The woman was literally torn to pieces. This proved not the last calamity of this memorable hunt. The gentlemen, with the peons, left their former enemy, to attack the lioness, who threatened the village. The party, from the rapid manner in which the beast was followed, were not able to keep very compact; and, most unfortunately, four of the collector's peons advanced upon the place where the lioness had lain down. She immediately sprung upon the nearest, and brought him to the ground, and crushed his skull, and tore his face, so that no feature was discernible, and the skin literally hung in the wind. A companion who advanced to his assistance, she seized by the thigh; the man, in the agony of pain, caught the beast by the throat, when she quitted his thigh and

fastened on his arm and breast. At this moment the gentlemen advanced within 15 paces, and as she was still standing over her unfortunate victim, lodged 20 balls in her body. She retreated to the hedge, where some more shots terminated her existence. She had abundance of milk, which, from the novelty, most of the party tasted. Both of the peons died in a few hours. Mr. M. is recover. ing."

Description of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon. (From a Russian document.)-The figure short and compact; the hair black, flat, and short; the beard black and strong, shaved up towards the ear; the eyebrows strongly arched, but contracted towards the nose; the nose aquiline, with perpetual marks of snuff; the countenance gloomy and violent; the chin extremely projecting; always in a little uniform without ornament; generally wrapped in a little grey surtout, to avoid being remarked; and continually attended by a Mameluke.

A rape and murder were committed on the body of a young woman, named Hannah Leatham, in the service of Mr. Jackson, of Brignal, near Greta-bridge, on New Year's Day. She had been sent on an errand to Barnard-cas

tle, which place she left about five o'clock in the evening, on her way home. Her body was found next morning, about two miles from that town, on the road to the Highstreet (a road much frequented,) with her head nearly cut from her body. A coroner's inquest returned a verdict of rape and murder against some person or persons unknown. Several men have been taken up on suspicion.

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York, Friday, Jan. 3.-This morning John Eadon, aged 34, was tried for administering an unlawful oath to Richard Howells, at Barnsley, in the county of York, in the month of May last. The prisoner, as proved in evidence, had some conversation with Howells about the Luddites, and told Howells he could make any man one; and in the course of two or three days after, the prisoner renewed the conversation by asking Howells what he thought of what they had been talking about (Howells lodged in the house of, and worked with, the prisoner as a weaver at the time). Howells did not immediately recollect, and prisoner said it was about the Luddites, and asked Howells if he would be one? He said he would. Prisoner then put a Common Prayer Book into his right hand, and desired Howells to repeat after him. Prisoner gave him a paper, and told him to commit it to memory as soon as he could, and he did so accordingly. It purported to be the oath he had repeated to him, which was, that he was not to reveal any secrets of any brother or brothers, and that if any traitors were amongst them, they were to be punished with death. Howells kissed the book. The paper given by prisoner to Howells was signed by prisoner in his own hand-writing. This was supported by another prisoner called Thomas Broughton, who had received the paper from Howells, and not understanding its import, asked prisoner what the paper meant, and was informed by him that it was to form a regular organization in the county to overturn the tyrannical of government.

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Broughton was a weaver at Barnsley, and acquainted with Howells. The jury, after consulting in the box, aknost immediately returned a verdict of guilty.

4. A female, in man's apparel, was enlisted as a recruit in the 53d regiment, quartered in Shrewsbury. She shortly afterwards confessed her sex, and said, that her object was to have been enlisted into the 43d regiment, as in that corps she had a lover, who was now on fɔreign duty, and that she adopted this expedient from a wish to follow him. She was dressed in a blue jacket and trowsers; her father is a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of St. Asaph, Denbighshire.

A novel species of amusement took place in the Hundred House meadow, Witley, on the 5th. Five wild rabbits were singly turned off at an assigned distance before a dog-fox trained by Mr. Tearne, of Stockton, Worcestershire, and after an excellent course of about 400 yards, were severally killed by Reynard.

On the night of the 5th of Jan. about 11 o'clock, the brig Charles, Capt. Graham, bound to the coast of Africa, struck on a reef of the Tongui Rocks, about five miles from the shore, and 20 miles south of the river Gambia. The natives, a tribe of Mandingoes, attacked the wreck in great numbers, considering her as lawful prize. The captain and one of the passengers were killed. The Rev. Leopold Butscher, missionary of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, was on board with his wife, and seven other persons attached to the mission. Notwithstanding every exertion of the crew

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