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A messenger sent by Astarbe, concubine of King Pygmalion of Tyre, tells Narbal, the protector of Telemachus, to flee the country for Cyprus, and that she has had Malachon arrested in place of Telemachus. Engraving by T. Cook, 1775, after C. Monnet after F. de La Mothe-Fénelon.

An account of the trial of Watson against Carr : at the Newcastle Assizes, August 2nd, 1823 before the Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt.

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False arrest

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A messenger sent by Astarbe, concubine of King Pygmalion of Tyre, tells Narbal, the protector of Telemachus, to flee the country for Cyprus, and that she has had Malachon arrested in place of Telemachus. Engraving by T. Cook, 1775, after C. Monnet after F. de La Mothe-Fénelon.

An account of the trial of Watson against Carr : at the Newcastle Assizes, August 2nd, 1823 before the Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt.