tacked, and wounded by several ruffians. They consulted among themselves whether they should put him to death, or carry him off, but in the mean time they kept him in custody. At half an hour after sunset, when Lucien's family were about to sit down to dinner, Monseignor Cuneo was missing, and servants with lighted torches were sent in search of him. They went towards Tusculum, and called loudly his name. In the meantime the robbers rushed towards the house, and seized Lucien's Secretary, M. Chatillon, together with two servants (mistaking probably the Secretary for the master), and carried him off. Monseignor Cuneo had the good fortune to make his escape during the tumult. A report has spread this morning, that the noted robber Barbone, of Velletri, perpetrated this violence with twentyseven of his banditti; but from the declarations of some of Lucien's people, there were only six men engaged in it, who were dressed in the garb of boors, without shoes, and wearing only a species of sandal tied on their feet, (called ciovie,) like the poorest of the people.

Horrid Murders at Godalming.— Early on Tuesday morning the 11th, a man who had ordered some shoes to be made at Mr. Channel's, shoemaker, at Godalming, called for the purpose of ascertaining if they were done. On opening the door, the first object that caught his eye, was the body of Mr. Channel's housekeeper stretched on the floor, with her throat cut in a shocking manner. He was terrified at the sight, and called in some of the neighbours they found the floor

covered with blood, and the old woman quite dead and cold. They proceeded up stairs, and were horror-struck at the sight of Mr. Channel lying on the ground, with his head nearly severed from the body. His body was bruised in various parts, as if very recently done, from which it may be inferred that he must have had a severe struggle with the murderers: he was quite cold, which circumstance led the parties to suppose that the diabolical attack and inhuman murders were committed on the preceding night. Upon a further examination of the body of the housekeeper, it was found that her skull was fractured; a hammer that was found on the ground, which Mr. Channel used in his business, appeared to have been the instrument with which the blow was given, as the face of it exactly corresponded with the mark upon the skull. Immediate information was given to the Magistrates in the neighbourhood of the dreadful transaction, and they with great promptness caused an immediate investigation for the purpose of discovering the perpetrator or perpetrators of the murders. Lord Middleton, who is a Magistrate for the county, was indefatigable in his exertions to acquire information. He summoned every person whose evidence could afford the least clue to the discovery of the offenders. The son of Mr. Channel, who is married and lived at some distance from his father, was apprehended on suspicion of being concerned, and underwent an examination; when it appeared by the evidence, that on Monday night he was drinking at a public-house a short distance from his father's, and

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that between 9 and 10 o'clock he left the public-house for a short time, and returned, and remained there drinking a considerable time. He solemnly denies all knowledge of the affair, and no other evidence has transpired to implicate him than the circumstance of his being absent from the public-house, as above stated, on the evening when the murders are supposed to have been committed. It appeared, that his habits of living have been rather dissolute, and occasioned great uneasiness to his parent. The deceased was well known to possess considerable property, and that is supposed to have been the object of those who committed the murder; but whether any property has been taken from the house, has not yet been ascertained. The prisoner was remanded.

Leeds Mercury of Nov. 15 In our last paper we stated, that on Monday, the 3d inst., four persons were found dead in a poor cottage, at a place called Dean house, in the parish of Stainland; that three weeks before they had lost a daughter, who had died of a malignant fever, in consequence of which the neighbours had been afraid to visit them; and that the overseer of Deanhead, in the neigh bourhood of Halifax, to which place this unfortunate family be longed, had neglected to afford them either relief or assistance, and that it was generally believed that they all perished of famine and disease. Since that time we have received another letter from our correspondent, in answer to certain inquiries we addressed to him, in which the following further particulars, at the perusal of which the blood curdles in our

veins, are communicated:When Joseph Tweed, the head of the family, was found, says our correspondent, he was laid upon his bed in a miserable chamber, with an infant child two years old, who, like himself, was a lifeless corpse, clasped in his arms. His wife lay dead in the lower room upon the hearth, having divested her. self of every article of clothing, with one of her grand-children, who was still alive, stretched upon her body. The daughter of these wretched parents, who was 12 years of age, roused probably from the stupor into which want and sickness had plunged her by the dying groans of her mother, appears to have attempted to make her way down stairs; but her enfeebled limbs refusing to perform their office, she had fallen, and when found, her corpse was laid stretched upon the stairs with her head downwards, and one of her feet locked against the stairs and the wall. Two days after this horrible discovery, four coffins, provided by the overseer, were sent to the house, and the bodies of the deceased being placed in them, they were put into a hearse and cart, and conveyed to Deanhead chapel, where they were interred without any inquest being held over them, and without any investigation whatever having taken place into the circumstances of their death." We have felt it to be our duty to lay these heartrending facts before the public, and we now call upon the magistracy and the coroner of the distriet to discharge theirs.

18. Letter from Stockholm--A discharged officer of a good family, of the name of Drake, has ex

cited general indignation by a very wicked action :-Having been employed to superintend the workmen who were repairing the Ritterholms Church, which is used only for the interment of the Royal family, and of the Knights of the Seraphin, as well as to preserve the tropies of Swedish valour, he broke into what is called the Caroline vault, disturbed the ashes of our great King Charles X., and of a Duchess of Holstein, took from the former the crown, swordhilt, and sceptre, and from the latter a diadem and necklace, all of gold, and in part richly set, but has betrayed himself by his boasting. He had even had a waistcoat made out of the velvet on one of the coffins, and plundered many other monuments in the church. But as there was found in his pocket, when he was arrested, an exact list of the stolen articles, and an account of what had been done with them, the whole have been recovered.

Destructive Fire in Newfoundland.-Painful and difficult is the task which devolves upon us of recording the truly distressing fire with which this ill-fated town was again visited on Friday night, the 7th instant. The flames were first discovered about half-past ten o'clock, issuing from an uninhabited house about forty yards from the Royal Gazette office, in front of Mr. William B. Thomas's dwelling, and in ten minutes communicated to the surrounding buildings by this time the inhabitants had assembled, but the engines, with their united efforts, seemed of little use in checking this all-devouring element, which now began to assume an appear

ance that struck every beholder with terror and dismay. In the centre of the town, between two streets not exceeding 20 feet in width, all exertion was unavailing to stem the current of conflagration: the flames spread in every direction with the rapidity of lightning, until about six o'clock on Saturday morning, when the exertions of the more respectable part of the community, aided by the army and navy, succeeded in arresting its progress at the King's Wharf. To give an adequate description of the awful, we had almost said terrible grandeur of the scene, we confess our inability. The glaring splendour of the flames dissipated the darkness of the night, and discovered the misery in which we were placed. Immense volumes of smoke rising majestically above the buildings, at once obscured the dazzling blaze of light, and reflected it back again on the earth. When the morning dawned, such a scene of desolation presented itself as perhaps very few of the spectators ever before witnessed, and such as we sincerely hope they never may behold again: a space of ground extending nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and three hundred yards in breadth, was cleared of the houses which stood thereon. From the Dissenting Meeting house to the church-yard, on the west side; all the buildings from the Court-house to the north-east boundary of Crawford's premises (both inclusive) on the east side of Duckworth-street; from the corner of Church-hill to W. Findlay's on the upper side, and from J. and R. Brine's shop to the King's wharf on the lower side of Water

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street, including the stores and wharfs, were reduced to ashes, and with them the greater part of a very large stock of provisions with which they were stored.

What rendered the scene the more truly distressing is, that most of those who suffered so severely in the fire of the 11th of February, 1816, are again involved in the distress which we now attempt to describe in that calamity, many respectable individuals lost their all, and are again reduced to a similar situation, without shelter or covering, at this advanced season of the year. Winter is approaching-a long, dreary, Newfoundland winter-and the prospects before us are gloomy in the extreme: but we will not distress our readers by dwelling longer on this melancholy topic. We do, however, most sincerely hope that efficient measures will be speedily devised, and promptly executed, to save us from a repetition of the scenes of last winter.

So far as we have been able to ascertain, 13 mercantile establishments, and among them the extensive concerns of Hart, Robinson, and Co.; Hunters and Co.; Peter Henderson (late James Macbraire and Co.); Bulleys, Job, and Cross; Parker, Creever, and Co.; Wm. B. Thomas; Attwood and Haynes; Peter le Mesurier, and at least 135 dwelling houses, occupied by not less than 1,100 persons, have been consumed; and it is calculated that the amount of property destroyed cannot be less than from 4 to 500,000l.

To those who were not spectators, we despair of giving any thing like an accurate conception. We have not had a fire, but a confla,

gration!-a dreadful, and, considering our peculiarly distressing circumstances, we should scarcely be wrong in adding, an unheardof conflagration. In consequence of a Proclamation issued by his Excellency the Governor, all vessels and boats are prevented from leaving this port till the quantity of provisions in the town be ascertained: this, we are in hopes, will have the good effect of securing to the community whatever may be yet remaining; but that itself, with the addition of what is expected, will not, we apprehend, be near sufficient to supply our wants till our navigation opens in the spring of the year. In addition, owing to the quantity of fuel consumed, there is a scarcity of that valuable article. The major part of our printing materials having been destroyed, the proprietor of the Mercantile Journal has with great kindness offered us the use of his types, &c.—From the Royal Gazette.

21. Another calamitous and distressing Fire.-About half-past three o'clock this morning, just as we were about to put our paper to press, we were alarmed by a signal for fire, and we have now the painful task to record, after so short a lapse of time, another extensive and distressing conflagration.

It appeared that the fire was observed in the premises of Messrs. Hale, Reed, and Co. in Waterstreet, and soon extended its rarages to the westward, as far as the house of Mr. Benj. Bowring, on the upper side, and the store of Mr. Robert Nevis on the lower side, where, by very powerful exertions, it was stopped in its wes

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