This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...animation in them was tried unsuccessfully, their bodies having remained from one to three hours under water. Saturday evening, about 8 o'clock, a poor woman, with a child in her arms, fell into the Clyde, at the Brooinielaw. By the active exertions of the people belonging to the John packet, of Ayr, the child was got out alive, almost immediately; but the body of its more unfortunate mother was not found till next morning, at nine o'clock, when it was conveyed to the poor-house, and the child delivered over to the charge of that useful institution. The following melancholy event took place on Friday last, at Hassendeanbum, Berwickshire: --Two of Mr Dickson's servants went out to shoot hares, when the gun which one of them carried accidentally went off, and so severely wounded the other, that he died in about half an hour thereafter. The deceased has left a wife and two children to lament his untimely fate. We do not hear that the survivor has been punished for poaching, which he ought to have been. 2Sth.--Information having been received, that a gang of robbers intended attacking the Cork mail-coach, on its way to Dublin, a party of soldiers were stationed near the spot where the attack was intended to take place, and about one o'clock, a party of 10 armed ruffians appeared about two miles beyond Urlingford; several shots were exchanged; three of the robbers were killed on the spot, one was made prisoner, and the rest escaped. A soldier was severely wounded. From the report of the commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of education in Ireland, it appears, that in 17 dioceses, out of the 22 that are in Ireland, there are 3,737 schoolmasters, who educate 162,367 pupils. Of the masters, 1,271 are protcstants, 2,465 catholics--of their pupils the pro...