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Monthly Chronicle.
"had left it ) was the cause of her committing this rash , deed , to the great concern of a worthy honest father , who has borne testimony to her duty and filial affection from her childhood : in Mr . S . Browne ' s family she had also been a faithful and excellent servant near seven years . DEATH 0 ? THE HORSE AND HIS MASTER .
Salisbury , Dec . 10 . On Monday se'nnight died the Rev . Charles Wager Allix , of Mere , in this county . The death of the above gentleman was attended with the following extraordinary circumstance : he had been out coursing on the Wednesday preceding , and , approaching heme , enquired the hour of his servant ; on being informed , he remarked that there was time for a short ride before dinner , turned his horse about , took a circuit , and again arrived within about a mile of his own house , when
the servant observed him to he gradually falling from his horse , pointing at the same time to the ground . The servant got up in time to catch his master in his arms , and having laid him on the ground , a game-keeper , who was passing by , staid with Mr . Allix until the servant went to the house for assistance . He soon after returned on a valuable horse worth seventy guineas . On the approach of the animal , he smelt to his master ( apparently a lifeless corpse ) , snorted , ran back a few paces , fell on his side , and died instantly 1 Though Mr . Allix languished till the Monday following , he neither spoke nor shewed any symptoms of
sensibility in the interval . Lord Harcourt is giving an example well worthy of being followed by others of the Nobility ancl owners of large inclosures . He is ploughing up a great part of his park to raise grain .
HARE AND STAG CIIACE . Thursclav se'nnight the harriers of Edward Clarke , Esq . of Chipley , near Wellington , Somerset , started a hare , which they ran very hard for an hour and twenty minutes ; when being called off , with intent to try for another , they roused a forest stag , in Cross's Leigh Brake , in the parish of Milverton , which they killed in a meadow adjoining the river Tone , after a chace of between thirty and forty miles through an inclosed country , where the leaps were very severe , though covered in capita ) stile by all the horses out ; the horsemen who rode the chace , which
lasted three hours and forty minutes , and were in at the death , were Mr . Webber , Mr . Carige of Wilscombe , Mr . Manly , and the huntsman and whipper-in . A publican in Chester has caused the following elegant composition to be put up over the fire-place in his club room : — " No Politic language is here the sort , " He that begins it forfeits a quart ; "" King George's right let us maintain , " Ancl Love and Friendship long remain . 11 He that refuses is la blame . "
It has lately been remarked by an Irish Gentleman , that the House of Industry in Dublin is filled with persons who are all past their labour . Several persons have already left off snuff-taking , in consequence of the additional duty on tobacco , observing that they have no idea of paying through the nose for the expence of the war . The Fishmongers are apprehensive , under the new Bills , whether it is safe to sell pikes .
BREAD . The Committee appointed by the House of Commons to examine the several laws now in being relative to the assize of bread , have come to the following resolutions : " That it is the opinion of this Committee , that if the magistrates were by law permitted ( when and where they shall think fit to set an assize of bread ) to introduce again , under certain regulations and restrictions , the old standard bread made VOL . V . 3 I
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
"had left it ) was the cause of her committing this rash , deed , to the great concern of a worthy honest father , who has borne testimony to her duty and filial affection from her childhood : in Mr . S . Browne ' s family she had also been a faithful and excellent servant near seven years . DEATH 0 ? THE HORSE AND HIS MASTER .
Salisbury , Dec . 10 . On Monday se'nnight died the Rev . Charles Wager Allix , of Mere , in this county . The death of the above gentleman was attended with the following extraordinary circumstance : he had been out coursing on the Wednesday preceding , and , approaching heme , enquired the hour of his servant ; on being informed , he remarked that there was time for a short ride before dinner , turned his horse about , took a circuit , and again arrived within about a mile of his own house , when
the servant observed him to he gradually falling from his horse , pointing at the same time to the ground . The servant got up in time to catch his master in his arms , and having laid him on the ground , a game-keeper , who was passing by , staid with Mr . Allix until the servant went to the house for assistance . He soon after returned on a valuable horse worth seventy guineas . On the approach of the animal , he smelt to his master ( apparently a lifeless corpse ) , snorted , ran back a few paces , fell on his side , and died instantly 1 Though Mr . Allix languished till the Monday following , he neither spoke nor shewed any symptoms of
sensibility in the interval . Lord Harcourt is giving an example well worthy of being followed by others of the Nobility ancl owners of large inclosures . He is ploughing up a great part of his park to raise grain .
HARE AND STAG CIIACE . Thursclav se'nnight the harriers of Edward Clarke , Esq . of Chipley , near Wellington , Somerset , started a hare , which they ran very hard for an hour and twenty minutes ; when being called off , with intent to try for another , they roused a forest stag , in Cross's Leigh Brake , in the parish of Milverton , which they killed in a meadow adjoining the river Tone , after a chace of between thirty and forty miles through an inclosed country , where the leaps were very severe , though covered in capita ) stile by all the horses out ; the horsemen who rode the chace , which
lasted three hours and forty minutes , and were in at the death , were Mr . Webber , Mr . Carige of Wilscombe , Mr . Manly , and the huntsman and whipper-in . A publican in Chester has caused the following elegant composition to be put up over the fire-place in his club room : — " No Politic language is here the sort , " He that begins it forfeits a quart ; "" King George's right let us maintain , " Ancl Love and Friendship long remain . 11 He that refuses is la blame . "
It has lately been remarked by an Irish Gentleman , that the House of Industry in Dublin is filled with persons who are all past their labour . Several persons have already left off snuff-taking , in consequence of the additional duty on tobacco , observing that they have no idea of paying through the nose for the expence of the war . The Fishmongers are apprehensive , under the new Bills , whether it is safe to sell pikes .
BREAD . The Committee appointed by the House of Commons to examine the several laws now in being relative to the assize of bread , have come to the following resolutions : " That it is the opinion of this Committee , that if the magistrates were by law permitted ( when and where they shall think fit to set an assize of bread ) to introduce again , under certain regulations and restrictions , the old standard bread made VOL . V . 3 I