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Monthly Chronicle.
of Birmingham , who owned the beautiful romantic villa at Camp-hill , near that town , with eight of his relations , and above one hundred other families of Birmingham , have also taken their departure for America . ^ A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE . — A few days since , as Mr . Chatterton , plumber , of Bath , was at the bottom of a well , full 50 feet deep , by some accident a large stone rolled from the surface into the well , which being perceived by a labourer , he immediately called out . to Mr . Chattertonwho had the presence of mind to
, place both his hands over his head , on which the stone fell , with no other injury , than merely grazing his hand and the side of his face . — The stone weighs 4 61 b . and is preserved by Mr . C . who has caused an inscription to be placed upon it , to record his providential deliverance . Two workmen unhappily lost their lives in putting up the cornice of the magnificent new church now erecting at Banbury ; where , from the tackle giving waya stone of prodigious weight slipped from the walland broke clown part of
, , the scaffolding ; , by which the foreman of the works was killed on the spot ; a second died without being able to utter a word ; and a third person most miraculously saved his life by clinging to the cornice for some time , and afterwards , by a wonderful effort , springing from thence to one of the scaffold poles , at the distance of about four feet .
SILENCE . A gentleman who resides in the city of Exeter has imposed a seven years' silence upon himself . He determined upon this peculiar vow , it is said , in consequence of his uttering some unguarded expressions , and has absolutely abided firm to his resolution now three years ; he often rides on horseback about the streets of Exeter , and behaves perfectly genteel to any person who may accost him , but profoundly dumb . Perhaps so strange and singular a vow , in its consequences , is not to be met with in the records of history . It is said that Government is about to establish an Office of Prize-Money , for
our brave English tars ,. whereby the ) ' will receive the whole of their proportions , free from all expence , and without any delay in the payment . In the City of London and its environs , including the Borough of Soufhwark , and the surrounding towns and villages in Middlesex ,- Surry , Kent , and Essex , within ten miles of the Capital , it is computed that there are about 6000 licensed ale-houses , and the average upon the whole is supposed to be . about-26 ^ rniafc . houses to one public-house , taking in on the scale 156 , 000 inhabited houses in and near the metropolis . In the above limits it is calculated , that including inmates and lodgers , there are about 222 , 000 families , who are , more or less , customers to ale-houses , and upon this data , the proportion is one public-house to every 37 families .
It has been generally understood , that about 60 families are necessary to support a creditable and newly-established ale-house ; and as a great proportion of the unfortunate persons discharged under the late Insolvent Act were publicans ; it should seem that many of them have been ruined for want of that proper portion of trade necessary to their support . The Dog and Duck , so long known in St . George ' s Fields as the resort of the Cyprian corps , took its leave of the public a few days since . Its declining state for some time past threatened its speedy dissolution , and the prescription of the . Justices at the
Quarter-Sessions , for its abstaining from the use of spirituous liquors , put a final end to its existence ! At ihe same time died , the Apollo Gardens , a well-known rival in the above neighbourhood . From the 4 th to the 20 th days of August last , were billetted upon thc Crown-Inn , at the village of Everly , in the county of Wilts , seven hundred and ei ghty-seven soldiers , all of whom were entertained by the landlord as they halted at his house upon their respective marches . A person at Horningshcathin Suffolkbeing drawn to serve in the Militia
, , , went to Bury and procured a substitute , who , when sworn in , was asked what family he had ( the act specifying , that no person having more than one child born in wedlock shall be taken as a substitute ) upon which he replied , that he had a wife and one child al home , and three in the church-yard ; whereupon the magistrate ( naturally concluding that the three children were dead ) swore him
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Monthly Chronicle.
of Birmingham , who owned the beautiful romantic villa at Camp-hill , near that town , with eight of his relations , and above one hundred other families of Birmingham , have also taken their departure for America . ^ A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE . — A few days since , as Mr . Chatterton , plumber , of Bath , was at the bottom of a well , full 50 feet deep , by some accident a large stone rolled from the surface into the well , which being perceived by a labourer , he immediately called out . to Mr . Chattertonwho had the presence of mind to
, place both his hands over his head , on which the stone fell , with no other injury , than merely grazing his hand and the side of his face . — The stone weighs 4 61 b . and is preserved by Mr . C . who has caused an inscription to be placed upon it , to record his providential deliverance . Two workmen unhappily lost their lives in putting up the cornice of the magnificent new church now erecting at Banbury ; where , from the tackle giving waya stone of prodigious weight slipped from the walland broke clown part of
, , the scaffolding ; , by which the foreman of the works was killed on the spot ; a second died without being able to utter a word ; and a third person most miraculously saved his life by clinging to the cornice for some time , and afterwards , by a wonderful effort , springing from thence to one of the scaffold poles , at the distance of about four feet .
SILENCE . A gentleman who resides in the city of Exeter has imposed a seven years' silence upon himself . He determined upon this peculiar vow , it is said , in consequence of his uttering some unguarded expressions , and has absolutely abided firm to his resolution now three years ; he often rides on horseback about the streets of Exeter , and behaves perfectly genteel to any person who may accost him , but profoundly dumb . Perhaps so strange and singular a vow , in its consequences , is not to be met with in the records of history . It is said that Government is about to establish an Office of Prize-Money , for
our brave English tars ,. whereby the ) ' will receive the whole of their proportions , free from all expence , and without any delay in the payment . In the City of London and its environs , including the Borough of Soufhwark , and the surrounding towns and villages in Middlesex ,- Surry , Kent , and Essex , within ten miles of the Capital , it is computed that there are about 6000 licensed ale-houses , and the average upon the whole is supposed to be . about-26 ^ rniafc . houses to one public-house , taking in on the scale 156 , 000 inhabited houses in and near the metropolis . In the above limits it is calculated , that including inmates and lodgers , there are about 222 , 000 families , who are , more or less , customers to ale-houses , and upon this data , the proportion is one public-house to every 37 families .
It has been generally understood , that about 60 families are necessary to support a creditable and newly-established ale-house ; and as a great proportion of the unfortunate persons discharged under the late Insolvent Act were publicans ; it should seem that many of them have been ruined for want of that proper portion of trade necessary to their support . The Dog and Duck , so long known in St . George ' s Fields as the resort of the Cyprian corps , took its leave of the public a few days since . Its declining state for some time past threatened its speedy dissolution , and the prescription of the . Justices at the
Quarter-Sessions , for its abstaining from the use of spirituous liquors , put a final end to its existence ! At ihe same time died , the Apollo Gardens , a well-known rival in the above neighbourhood . From the 4 th to the 20 th days of August last , were billetted upon thc Crown-Inn , at the village of Everly , in the county of Wilts , seven hundred and ei ghty-seven soldiers , all of whom were entertained by the landlord as they halted at his house upon their respective marches . A person at Horningshcathin Suffolkbeing drawn to serve in the Militia
, , , went to Bury and procured a substitute , who , when sworn in , was asked what family he had ( the act specifying , that no person having more than one child born in wedlock shall be taken as a substitute ) upon which he replied , that he had a wife and one child al home , and three in the church-yard ; whereupon the magistrate ( naturally concluding that the three children were dead ) swore him