cart, and, accompanied by the hooting of the mob, conducted to the river, where she was publickly ducked, in conformity with the sentence of the court.  Should this punishment be awarded Mary Cammell, we hope, however, it may be attended with a more salutary effect than in the case we have just alluded to—­the unruly subject of which, each time as she arose from the watery element, impiously exclaimed, with a ludicrous gravity of countenance, “glory to G—­d.”

    Boston Palladium, 1819.

      [1] She must have been an extraordinary scold to have disturbed
          a large county, where the houses are perhaps a half mile
          apart.

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Criminals after a whipping sent to the Castle to make nails.  From “Salem Mercury,” Nov. 25, 1786.

Four convicts, doomed by the Superiour Court, at their late session here, to the useful branch of nail making at the Castle, yesterday morning took their departure hence, to enter on their new employment, having, with others, previously received the discipline of the post.

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A REVEREND FORGER.

The “Providence Gazette” is our authority for the following obituary notice:—­

Died in March, 1805, in Wayne County, N.C., Rev. Thomas Hines, an itinerant preacher.  A Newbern paper says:  “In the saddle-bags of this servant of God and Mammon were found his Bible and a complete apparatus for the stamping and milling of Dollars.”

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THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT

Was held at Ipswich on Tuesday last.  At this Court the noted Josiah Abbot was found guilty of knowingly passing a forged and altered State Note, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 40l. in 20 days; if not then paid, to be set in the pillory.—­[The penalty of such an offence against the United States is DEATH.]

The same person was found guilty of a fraud, in stealing a summons, after it had been left by an officer, by reason of which he recovered a judgment by default, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 15l. in 20 days; if not then paid, to be whipped.

    Salem Gazette, June 25, 1793.

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In a paper of 1819 is mentioned the singular case of a man literally condemned “to eat his own words.”

    INCREDIBLE PUNISHMENT.

“A great book is a great evil,” said an ancient writer,—­an axiom which an unfortunate Russian author felt to his cost.  “Whilst I was at Moscow,” says a pleasant traveller, “a quarto volume was published in favor of the liberties of the people,—­a singular subject when we consider the place where the book was printed.  In this work the iniquitous venality of the public functionaries, and even the conduct of the sovereign, was scrutinized and censured with great freedom.  Such a book,