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WONDERFUL ESCAPE.
At the beginning of 1798, Joseph Jones, a seaman who
belonged to the Russel, one of the ships of Lord Duncan’s
fleet in the engagement with the Dutch, having been dis-
abled on that occasion, applied to the commissioners of
the Navy for a pension. On his examination it appeared
that he had received two musket balls through his right
leg, and while sitting forward to drink a little water
before he was carried down to the cock-pit, another ball
and splinter took off his right breast. He had before
received in the action between the Revolutionnaire and
La Pomone four musket balls through other parts of his
body; one fractured his skull and took off the top of his
right ear, another went through his right collar bone,
and two more through his right arm, which is entirely
crippled. The commissioners who examined him de-
clared that they had never seen an instance of escape with
life from so many desperate wounds ; in consideration of
his misfortunes they generously increased the annual pen-
sion from 61. to 81. and presented him with five guineas
to bear his expences to a village near Bath, where his
friends resided.
Zz/e and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly
called Mother Ross.
J[ HE extraordinary adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies,
who was for a considerable time exposed to all the dan-
gers and hardships incident to a military life, while serv-
ing as a private soldier in the English army, would
appear scarcely credible, had we not in our own times
instances of female courage, resolution, and intrepidity,
equally honorable and surprising.
Mrs. Davies, of whose maiden name we are not in-
formed, was born at Dublin, in the year 1667. Her father,
a maltster
WONDERFUL ESCAPE.
At the beginning of 1798, Joseph Jones, a seaman who
belonged to the Russel, one of the ships of Lord Duncan’s
fleet in the engagement with the Dutch, having been dis-
abled on that occasion, applied to the commissioners of
the Navy for a pension. On his examination it appeared
that he had received two musket balls through his right
leg, and while sitting forward to drink a little water
before he was carried down to the cock-pit, another ball
and splinter took off his right breast. He had before
received in the action between the Revolutionnaire and
La Pomone four musket balls through other parts of his
body; one fractured his skull and took off the top of his
right ear, another went through his right collar bone,
and two more through his right arm, which is entirely
crippled. The commissioners who examined him de-
clared that they had never seen an instance of escape with
life from so many desperate wounds ; in consideration of
his misfortunes they generously increased the annual pen-
sion from 61. to 81. and presented him with five guineas
to bear his expences to a village near Bath, where his
friends resided.
Zz/e and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly
called Mother Ross.
J[ HE extraordinary adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies,
who was for a considerable time exposed to all the dan-
gers and hardships incident to a military life, while serv-
ing as a private soldier in the English army, would
appear scarcely credible, had we not in our own times
instances of female courage, resolution, and intrepidity,
equally honorable and surprising.
Mrs. Davies, of whose maiden name we are not in-
formed, was born at Dublin, in the year 1667. Her father,
a maltster