you, and reimburse you what you paid for it." "No Sir; for three years I have enjoyed the revenue of your estate; therefore, according to strict justice, I shall remain in your debt." This generous man was afterwards guillotined.

ATROCIOUS MURDERERS.-On the 6th of March a gentleman was ac costed, in the street St. Martin, at Paris, by a beautiful little girl, about six years of age. She was covered with rags, and told him her mother was dying for want, in the fifth floor of a house in the same street, and that, for herself, she had not eat a morsel for forty-eight hours. Touched with compassion, the gentleman said he would follow her home, and if he found her story true, relieve her and her mother. On entering the room, he saw a woman lying on a bed, on some straw, instead of a mattrass. Her looks and voice seemed to confirm the story of the child. In taking his purse from his pocket, it fell by accident on the floor: stooping to take it up, he saw clearly a man under the bed.Alarmed, but without losing his presence of mind, he said—“ Good woman, here are four crowns, I have no more about me, but let your child accompany me home, and I will give her twenty more." Instead of returning to his lodgings, he took the child to a police commissary, where, after some examination, she acknowledged that the person under the bed was her father, and that, within the last fortnight, during which they had lodged in the street St. Martin, six persons had been stabbed by him, plundered and stripped; that two corpses had been carried out by him, after dark, some nights before, and thrown into the river, but that four corpses yet remained in the closet behind the bed. The police commissary, with the gentleman, and some Gen d'Armes, went immediately to the house, but they found nothing but the four corpses in the closet. The man and woman were gone, and have not since been heard of. In consequence of the discovery made by the child, six former lodgings of this cruel couple have been traced, where, according to her report, and several other circumstances within the knowledge of the police, during the last winter, no less than twenty-two persons of both sexes have been murdered by them. It was the custom of the woman, as from gratitude, to take hold of her benefactor's hands, and draw them to her lips, as she lay in bed, when the man stole behind, and stabbed them through their backs. Mad. Murat has taken the child under her protection, and pays for her education.

MARRIED,

Mr. G. Ashley, Leader of the Oratorio Band, to Miss Chandler. At Gibraltar, Capt. Gardner, to Miss E. Fyers.

At Montreal, the Hon. W. Pitt Amherst. At Bath, Lord Dormer. Lord Viscount Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Abbimach. Sir Francis Sykes, Bart. Lieut. General Horneck. General Shireff. Lady Peachey, of Westdean.— At Totnes, in Devon, Rear-Admiral Epsworth; he was at the taking of the Havannah. At Elberfield, in Germany, Lady Sykes, of Besaldon Park. At Bath, James Hare, Esq. M. P. for Knaresborough. The Earl of Kinnoul.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

MAY, 1804.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Portrait of the veteran JEFFERSON in our next.

The following communications have been received:

Four Articles by VARGAS, viz.

The Wanderers.

The Friendly Theft.

Barney Mac Lather and Norah Mac Shane.

And You and I.

Delia's Grave; a canzonette by CACAMBO.

Concealment, addressed to Miss W**G, by S*****.

Spectacles; or Helps to read, by J. BRITTON, Junr.

The Wish, by a FEMALE BOOK-WORM.

To Alice, by W. MILLER.

We have a very high sense of the merits of the lady alluded to in a letter from Gloucester Street, and, at a convenient moment, shall, perhaps, notice her in the manner our correspondent wishes.

VERITAS'S Account of the Edinburgh Theatricals in our next.

We acknowledge the receipt of a second letter from Edinburgh, by P. P. which shall be attended to next month.

The interesting and well written essay transmitted by E. D. (Norwich) appears in the present number. The plan he proposes is perfectly agreeable to us, and we solicit its prosecution.

Further Remarks respecting the visibility of the Ghost of Banquo are postponed till next month.

An Essay by Davbpwwos, entitled "No man can become great by ano

ther's merit," shall be inserted in our next.

ERRATUM.

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