HEREFORDSHIRE. Cirencester, and other places in this on Tuesday night, at the hour already and the adjoining counties. stated, he made his way into the farmyard, and from thence into the stone Died.] Lately, at the Laysters, yard. Elizabeth Harris, on seeing near Tenbury, aged 62, Thomas Free- him approach, retired into the scul man, Esq. much regretted. At the lery, and shut the door against him. Vineyard, near Hereford, Mr. David He demanded admittance, which she Powel.-At Leominster, Mr. Barra, refused; high words accordingly arose, Surgeon.-At Wellington, aged 75, and he plunged his hand, armed with after a long and painful illness, the a knife, through a window lattice, at Rev. Thomas Wellington, vicar of her, but missed his aim.. Mrs. HumHope-under-Dunmore. merstone was the first to come forward in consequence of this alarm, in hope Died.] Near Market Street, on his of being able to intimidate and send way to London, in the Northampton away the disturber; but just as she stage-coach, James Wilson, Esq. of reached the back door, Simmons Kendal, one of his Majesty's Justices met her, and with his knife stabbed of the Peace for the counties of West- her in the jugular artery, and, pulling morland and Cumberland. HERTFORDSHIRE. the knife forward, laid open her throat Jealousy, cruel as the grave, it on the left side. She ran forward, as seems has produced the dreadful event is supposed, for the purpose of alarm which occurred on Tuesday night the ing the neighbourhood, but fell, and 20th inst.-Mr. Boreham, a respect- rose no more. The murderer pur able member of the Society of Friends, sued his sanguinary purpose, rushing who has been many years a resident on into the parlour, and without giving the declivity of the hill, about 200 yards Mrs. Warner time to rise from her from the market-house, at Hoddesdon, chair, gave her so many stabs in the had four daughters, one of whom was jugular vein, and about her neck and the wife of Mr. Warner, brass-founder, breast, that she fell down, covered of the Crescent, Kingsland-road, and with blood, and expired. Fortunately, also of the Crescent, Jewin-street. Miss Ann Boreham had been up stairs Mrs. Warner had been on a visit to immediately previous to the com* her parents for several days; and on mencement of this horrid business; Tuesday evening, a Mrs. Hummer- and her sisters Elizabeth and Sarah, stone, who superintended, as house- terrified at the horrors they saw, ran keeper, the business of the Black Lion up stairs too for safety. The villain Inn, at Hoddesdon, was at Mr. Bore- next attacked the aged Mrs. Boteliam, ham's house, in consequence of an in- by a similar aim at her jugular arter vitation to spend the evening with the but missed the point, and wounded family. The company assembled her deep in the neck, though not mor were, Mr. Boreham, a very old gentle tally. The poor old gentleman was man, afHicted with the palsy, his making his way towards the kitchen, wife, his four daughters, Anne, Eliza where the servant maid was, and the beth, Sarah, and Mrs. Warner. About miscreant, in endeavouring to reach a quarter past nine, they were alarm- the same place, overset him, and then ed by a noise at the back of the house, endeavoured to stab the servant in the between Elizabeth Harris the servant, throat; she struggled with him, and Thomas Simmons, a young man caught at the knife, and was wounded about twenty, who had been a servant in the hand. The knife fell, and she in the family, till he had been dismiss got out at the back door into the ed, and was employed in the brewery street, where, by her screams of murof Messrs. Christie and Co. at Hod- der, she alarmed the neighbourhood. desdon. While in the family he paid The poor people, residing near te his addresses to Elizabeth Harris, but house, were all in their beds; but the since his dismission, as he knew that whole town was soon in alarm. The the maid received the addresses of a man named Deighton, he had vowed vengeance against the servant and the eldest Miss Boreham, and even declared he would do for them all; and UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII. murderer sought to conceal himself; and, after some search, was discovered in a cow-crib; he was immediately made prisoner, and brought to the Bell ale-house. When taken before ЗА the magistrate he confessed the whole, pieces, and the colliers that were excepting that he did not mean to hauled high on the shore, being renurder any one but Elizabeth Harris. paired, were set afloat, and destroyed Mrs. Boreham, it is thought, may several houses by being dashed against recover. KENT. them. The inhabitants with difficulty escaped with their lives. Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, and Sandwich shared the same fate. SHAKSPEARE'S CLIFF.-The commanding Engineer at Dover has it in contemplation to pull down the Cliff Married.] At. St. John's-church, to the southward of the town, called Margate, Mr. Wilmot Wells, ManaHay Cliff, but more generally known ger of the Theatre Royal there. Mr. by the title of Shakspeare's Cliff, so Wilmot Wells was married to the distinguished from the allusion made same lady about ten years ago; but, to it by our immortal bard, in the play in consequence of some informality, of King Lear. The plan is as follows, the marriage has been considered ilviz. the Cliff is to be lowered about legal, and would have deprived Mr. 50 or 60 feet, so as to leave a level Wilmot Wells of a considerable prospace, in order that a battery of 20 perty on the death of his wife's uncle. guns may be erected, under the idea The wary manager has, however, that the guns of the castle and heights taken care to disappoint some anxious are not able to take the coast to the expectants, who foolishly declared eastward of the castle, and to the west- their intention to take advantage of ward towards Folkestone. The per- the above circumstance. pendicular height of the Cliff is Died.] At Maidstone, Mrs. Mackett, thought to be now 350 feet, and has in the 58th year of her age, after a for centuries past excited the admira- long and painful illness. At the age tion of every beholder, and is the of 23 she was considered the principal common topic of conversation with equestrian performer at Astley's, and travellers who visit the town. was the first person who rode three The royal military canal from horses in hand at one time, and Shorncliff, through Romney Marsh jumped over the garter while the to Cliff End, Sussex, is nearly com- horses were at full speed. She marpleted. It runs a course of nearly 30 ried John Crips, esq. of Loose, who miles with only two locks. At every was fascinated on seeing her perform. angle in the line, about 40 in number, After his decease she was alternately at distances about half a mile from the sport of good and bad fortune, each, it is intended to mount about 80 sometimes enjoying the splendor of pieces of cannon. affluence, at others suffering under LANCASHIRE. The celebrated and beautiful ma- the pressure of poverty, and at last rine residence of the first Lord Hol- died dependant on the kind offices of land, at Kingsgate, in the Isle of well-disposed persons who knew her, Thanet, at which Charles II. and his and who did every thing in their brother James, Duke of York, landed, power to tranquillize the last moments on the Restoration, from Holland, is of her existence. purchased, with its plantations and demesne of downs, by Mr. Froggett, The following extraordinary inthe solicitor, for 3,000 guineas, and is stances of longevity at present are now pulling down, in order to convert to be found at Liverpool; a gentlethe scite into appropriate erections man in Lancashire has made it his for sea-bathing visitants. The Hol- business to see and converse with all land family expended on this once the persons concerned. favorite spot more than 100,000l. William Watson, aged 95, born at sterling. Ayr, in Scotland, brought up a linenThe tide rose so high in the night weaver in Ireland, whither he went at preceding the first of October, upon five years of age, and has been emthe Kentish coast, that at Whitstable ployed in scraping ships till within houses, trees, and walls were carried the last four years. He now can away by the devouring element. The bleed and draw teeth, resides in Livervessels in the harbour drove ashore in pool, and can read small print with the marshes, the boats were dashed to out spectacles. He has been the fa ther of nine children, three of whom they are now all living. This venera(all daughters) are now living. His ble couple are in good health, and mother's name was Mary Gibson, never received any parochial relief, born at Ayr; and his father's Archi- The husband is still an active and bald Watson. useful assistant at funerals, which he David almon, aged 104 years, born is regularly in the habit of attending, in Gloucester County, Virginia, his and his arrangements are received father's name James Salmon, his mo- with deference. As an additional vather's Jane Stewart, from Argyleshire, luable trait in this respectable characin Scotland. Previous to the acces- ter, he has long made it a practice, on sion of George the First, he was on hearing of family dissentions, to inter board the Trial sloop of war, com- pose his good offices to heal the manded by Captain Sanders, after- breach, and has often been successful. wards the renowned Admiral Sanders. Died.] Captain Robert Freers, late He was educated at a Presbyterian of the ship Fortitude, of Liverpool.school in a village in Virginia, on East The severe wounds he received in his River, at a place called Mobsick Bay, gallant but fruitless attempt to preand served an apprenticeship to Ro- serve his ship from the grasp of the bert Tomkyns, sail-maker, of Ports- enemy, (two French privateers of mouth, in that province. Salmon superior force) off St. Domingo, on served in the British navy more than the 14th of May last, brought on a sixty years, and received, at different fatal illness, which has at length tertimes, upwards of seven thousand minated his existence, and left his pounds prize-money, although he is family to lament his loss. now a dependant on the parish of Liverpool for the humble pittance of Norwich Castle having lately been two shillings and sixpence per week. presented to the county by the King, He is the only survivor of the crew of it has been determined to make consithe Centurion, commanded by Lord derable improvements in the Castle. Anson, with whom he sailed round the world. In the early part of his life he was a great somnambulist, or sleep-walker. NORFOLK. and upon the Castle Hill; the expense to be defrayed by a county-rate, which will not exceed 81. in the richest hundred. The rooms in the Shire Hall Mary Ralphson, aged 109 years, will be considerably enlarged, as will born at Lochaber, in Scotland, Jan. also the Courts of Justice, the En1, 1698, and is now living, in good trance Court, those of the Clerks of the health, in a cellar in Kent-street, Li- Assize and the Peace; the Nisi Prius verpool, where she has resided up- and Crown Courts, the Evidence and wards of fifty years. She has lived in Jury-rooms. The prison is now well THREE CENTURIES, and enjoyed an supplied in every part by water from uninterrupted state of good health the New Mills Company, and a large during five successive reigns, viz. reservoir formed in case of fire. The King William, Queen Anne, and three old paling, and the gardens that hid Georges. She was an active partaker a part of the Castle are removed; and in the great battles of Dettingen, Fon- the earth round the area being lower tency, Preston Pans, Falkirk, Cullo- ed four feet, will give a view of the den, &c. and followed the army of Castle from its extreme foundation William, Duke of Cumberland, in all above the surface, to the top of the their toils, both at home and abroad. battlements; and an elegant iron railN.B. All the above persons enjoy ing elevated on a stone base and detheir faculties. David Salmon hav- corated with patent lamps will ening only lost two or three of his teeth. circle the edge of the hill. The Another correspondent says "John tenants holding the gardens sloping and Elizabeth Lather, of Woodford, down the eminence, it is said are to in the parish of Prestbury, whose unit- be indemnified for their expences, ed agus amount to 173 years, have and several improvements made. They been married 63 years. They have are afterwards to be inclosed by a had eleven children, which, with their grand iron pallisading, while six iron grand children, and their great grand gates between columns of freestone, Cildren, making 146 persons; and give admittance to the occupies of these pleasure-grounds, with lamps vered at Wellow, near Bristol. It cent, Bath, Mrs. Maltby, relict of NORTHUMBERLAND. WESTMORELAND. Died.] At Gams-Gill, in Preston- Some workmen lately digging in Richard Breaks; and on the follow- Newcastle, discovered a portion of the interred in one coffin in the Friends' NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. days. WILTSHIRE, which time they had not been known to have had a dispute.--At CrawsliaBooth, near Burnley, aged 22, Mrs, Mary Binns, wife of Mr. Joseph Binns, grand-daughter to the above R. and E. Breaks, and daughter of Died.] Mrs. Barnodale, relict of Wm. and Esther Labray, late of Mr. B. at the Trent Bridge. Her Scotforth, near Lancaster. Thus corpse was followed to the grave by have three persons out of one family eight of her own children, and a num- been taken off in the course of four ber of frends. A more publie character, as a woman of business, perhaps seldom appears. She was a prin- Died.] At his seat, Alderbury, near cipal in the concern of the Notting- Salisbury, G. Y. Fort, esq. in the ham Boat Company, and took an 54th year of his age. He was an active part in the management of it alderman of that corporation, and a upwards of half a century. She lived magistrate for the county of Wilts.to see all her children, ten in num- Athis house, in Wotton-Bassett, John ber, grow up to years of maturity, Ralph, esq.one of his Majesty's justices the youngest that followed her to the for the county, and an alderman and grave being 37 years of age. She justice for the borough of Wottonprofessed religion while living, and Basset.-At Wanborough, Mr. Anenjoyed its consolations in her last thouy Hatt, a parsimonious character; moments, he is known to have secreted 13 or YORKSHIRE. WALES. ber of parliament for the borough of The great fair for horses at Howden, East Retford, in the county of Notin Yorkshire, is just over, where tingham. His title descends to his good horses of all descriptions, whe- grand on, William Ingleby, esq. M. P. ther for harness, hunting, or the for Retford, son of Sir John Ingleby, road, sold at high prices. Good Bart. of Ripley, in this county. Colts were scarce, and sold well. Horses adapted for cavalry and artil- Several gentlemen of landed prolery services were in great demand, perty have determined to examine and the prices for those of that de- certain chains of mountains, in the scription experienced a considerable principality of Wales, with regard advance. This, which is indisputably to the beds of minerals that may be the largest fair for horses in the king- deposited in them, the veins of medom, commences annually on the 25th tallic ores that intersect them, and of September, and continues till the the distinct strata of which they are 3d of October, being attended by all composed The investigation, which the principal dealers from London, is conducted under the direction of Edinburgh, and from several of the Mr. Accum, has already proved suc great towns in the different counties cessful beyond expectation. of England. During every night small part of the prescribed range of the time above-mentioned, there of mineralogical examination, seveare not less than two thousand horses in the stables of the respective Innkeepers, and those sent out to grass. The stables of the public-houses in the adjacent villages to the extent of ten miles round Howden, are also completely full, so that it may fairly be estimated, that not less than four thousand horses are every day exposed to sale; and supposing that this numher is renewed only four times during those ten days, which is a very moderate calculation, it follows that about sixteen thousand horses are disposed of at this fair, worth together not less than two hundred thousand pounds. In a ral rich veins of copper ore have been disclosed, and an extensive vein of lead ore has been traced across a valley near Linfair, in Merionethshire, pursuing a course not less than 200 feet, under a strata of rock not more than two feet in thickness. Died.] At Blane-Ivoy, near Caerphilly, aged 87, the Rev. Lewis James, upwards of 50 years pastor of the Baptist church at Cevan Hengoed, Glamorganshire.-The Rev. Thomas Browne, Rector of Maesmynis and Llanynis, Breconshire. SCOTLAND. mination of Clyde-street. An inscription is intended, but as yet the committee are undetermined. The monument erected to the meConsiderable additions have been mory of Lord Nelson by the city of made to the Citadel at Hull; the Glasgow, was finished on Friday armoury is completely fitted up, and Aug. 7th, when it was decorated by contains a supply sufficient for 15,000 four flags. This monument, an obecavalry, and 20,000 infantry. The old lisk 145 feet in height, stands on block-house for a naval store-house, the High Green, and is to be the teifor a constant supply of stores for six sail of the line and twelve frigates. Died.] Mrs. Bowser, who for many years had been afHicted with the The old steeple of Dumferline has dropsy. She had been tapped 100 fallen down, and buried in the ruins times, when, at each operation, up- a stable with part of a barn. Three wards of five gallons of water were horses were killed, and three escaped. taken from her, making in the whole Had it taken place in the day time, the astonishing quantity of more than the consequences might have been 500 gallons. At Kilvington, near very fatal, the area below being a geThirsk, aged 70, the Rev. Francis neral resort for children. The steeple Henson, B. D. 31 years Rector of was about eighty feet high, and was that place, and formerly Fellow of part of the abbey founded by Malcolm Sidney College, Cambridge.-At Canmore.-It had long been consiScarborough, Sir Wharton Amcotts, dered in a dangerous state. of Kettlethorpe, in the county of A gentleman who was educated at Lincoln, Bart. and three times mem- King's College, Aberdeen, has re |