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lives, not to tell his name: it foon appeared, however, that it was general Watson.

Not the leaft incivility or provocation was given to the general before he ftruck the blow, nor any return made to him of his own language by the plaintiff, fuch as fcoundrel, rafcal, &c. and after the general made the first attempt, unfuccefsfully, to ftrike Mr. Dowding, and after he was riding up to his fifter to help her, and to try to difpel her fears, the general turned his horfe round, and was going to ftrike with the fmall end of his ftick, but he changed its pofition, and laid hold of the small, and ftruck with the club end of the stick.

The defendant's cafe was fupported by the evidence of three of the foldiers, who had acted in the fcene under his command, but to their evidence the jury paid no credit, as they gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 2501.

11th. A woman drawing water from a well at Surlingham, in Norfolk, was, by the breaking of the rope, precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 42 feet; the water was not more than 5 feet high; and in this condition fhe remained for fome hours, till, her long abfence from home inducing fearch, fhe was difcovered, and, a cord being lowered, the tied it round her waift, and was drawn up much bruifed, and nearly exhausted.

12th. Eight gentlemen belonging to the Walton affociation, formed a party to go to Hounflow, to fee Haines, the highwayman; on their way home, they ftopped at the Flower Pot, at Sunbury, till ten at night; and, being flushed with what they had drank, in crolling the Thames at Walton, fome of them

joftled the boat fo violently, that it overturned; by which accident three of the gentlemen were drowned.

15th. This morning were executed, pursuant to their fentence, in the Old Bailey, the following malefactors, viz. James Turnbull, for robbing the Mint, and Hugh Campbell, William Harper, and Jofeph Walker, for forgery. Their beha viour was ftrictly becoming their unhappy fituation.

16th. In an action for an affault, brought by a Mr. Humphries, againft lord Camelford, committed by the latter, in a very violent and unprovoked manner, at Drury-lane theatre; a jury this day gave the plaintiff 5001. damages.

29th. This morning a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Mofes Haman, in Cob-court, Petticoat-lane, which confumed the infide, with a great part of the furniture. A child, about three years of age, was burned fo fhockingly, as to be taken to the London infirmary without hopes of recovery.

30th. At half past ten this morning, Mr. Wakefield was brought up before the Court of King's Bench to receive judgement, when Mr. juftice Grofe, after an appropriate fpeech, pronounced the following fentence: "The court, having fully confidered the whole of your cafe, do order and adjudge, that you be committed to Dorchefter goal for the term of two years; that at the end of this term you give fecurity for your good behaviour for five years, yourself in 5007. and two fureties in 2501. each; and that you continue in the faid gaol until you have given fuch fecurity." The prifoner bowed, and withdrew.

At the fame time the attorneygeneral prayed judgement of the court on Mr. John Perry, the editor; John Vint, the printer; and George Rofs, the publifher; of the Courier newspaper, for a paragraph which appeared in that paper, ftating "the emperor of Ruffia to be a tyrant among his own fubjects, and ridiculous to the rest of Europe."Mr. juftice Grofe pronounced the judgement of the court, which was, "That Mr. John Perry do pay the fum of 1007. and be imprifoned in the King's Bench prifon for fix calendar months, and enter into fecurity for his good behaviour for five years, himself in 500l. and two fureties in 2501. each; and that John Vint and George Rofs be imprisoned in the fame prifon each for one calendar month."

DIED. 26th. At Edinburgh, in his 85th year, James Burnet, of Monboddo, efq. commonly called lord Monboddo, one of the senators of the college of juftice; promoted to the bench in 1767. His firft publication was "A Differtation on the Origin and Progrefs of Language, 1773," 6 vol. 8vo; 2d edit. 1774; afcribing the invention of alphabe tical writing to the Egyptians, When he was fo near the fountainhead, he might as well have fuppofed it an immediate communication from the Deity. He published also a work in 5 vol. 4to. just completed in a 6th, intituled, "Ancient Metaphyfics;" a performance remarkable for a furprifing mixture of penetration and genius with the moft abfurd whim and conceit. He ftrenuoufly maintains, that the Ourang Outan is a class of the human fpecies, and that his want of fpeech is merely accidental. We remember it was faid, that Maupertuis

died juft as he was going to make monkeys talk. Lord Monboddo alfo endeavours to establish the real existence of fea nymphs or mermaids.

JUNE.

4th. Being his majesty's birth-day, the feveral affociations of the metropolis and its neighbourhood, confisting of fixty-five well-equipped corps, and amounting to upwards of 8000 effective men, affembled in Hyde-Park, where they were reviewed by the king. The Temple affociation, commanded by captain Graham, was the firft that entered the Park: it arrived at seven o'clock, during a heavy fhower of rain, which continued inceffantly from the time it left the Temple-gardens. Several other corps followed foon after; and at half paft eight the whole were on the ground. The neceffary difpofitions, agreeable to the official regu lations were then made, and about ten minutes past nine his majesty appeared, attended by the prince of Wales, the dukes of York, Kent, Cumberland, and Gloucester, a number of general officers, and a formidable detachment of the life guards. The line being formed, a cannon was fired, to announce the approach of the king: on which all the corps immediately fhouldered in perfect order, and the artillery then fired a royal falute of twenty-one guns. A fecond gun was fired on his majefty's arrival in front of the line, and each corps immediately prefented arms, with drums beating and mufic playing. A third cannon was fired, as the fignal for fhouldering, which was promptly obeyed. His majefty having paffed along the line, and returned by a central point

in front, a fourth cannon was fired, as a fignal to load; and upon the fifth gun being fired, the different corps began to fire vollies in fucceffion from right to left. The fame loading and firing were repeated, upon the fixth and seventh cannons being fired: in all fifty-nine rounds. On the eighth cannon being fired, three cheers were given, and the mufic played, "God fave the King." The corps then paffed his majefty in grand divifions, in a moft excellent manner, under the direction of general Dundas, who headed them on horfeback; after which they filed off to the ftations refpectively allotted for them. The whole of the evolutions pointed out to them in the general orders having been performed, and another royal falute of twenty-one guns fired, his majefty, after expreffing the higheft fatisfaction at the martial appearance and excellent conduct of this loyal and patriotic army, departed from the ground at a quarter before one, amidst the joyous fhouts and affectionate greetings of the people, who affembled on the occafion to the amount of upwards of 100,000, including all the beauty and fashion of the metropolis. The fight was truly grand and highly gratifying; and, notwithstanding the evolutions were confiderably impeded by the high wind and fome rain, the whole were performed in a manner that reflects much credit upon every corps prefent, whofe conduct fully entitles them to the very handfome compliment of his royal highnefs, the commander-in-chief, paid them by order of his majefty, in the Gazette of that evening. The ground was kept clear by the London and Westminfter, and Southwark volunteer corps of cavalry, who preferved

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the lines from being infringed by the immenfe multitude who crowded the Park.

10th. Lord Thanet and Mr. Ferguffon, accompanied by the duke of Bedford, lord Derby, &c. being brought into the court of King's Bench.

The attorney-general faid, he had received his majesty's commands to enter a nolle profequi with refpect to the first, fecond, and third counts.

Mr. juftice Grofe then addreffed the defendants in a speech of confiderable length. After commenting upon the impartiality of the trial, and the juftice of the conviction, he observed, that the rank and fituation of the defendants were fuch as ought to have made them the last men in the world to have been guilty of fuch conduct. He then proceeded to pass the fentence of the court upon lord Thanet, which was, that he fhould be imprisoned for one year in the Tower of London; that he fhould pay a fine of 10007.; that at the expiration of his imprisonment he fhould give fecurity for his good behaviour for feven years, himself in 10,000l. and two fureties in 5,000l. each; and that he fhould be further imprifoned till the faid fecurity was given and the fine paid.

The fentence upon Mr. Ferguffon was, that he flould pay a fine of 1007.; that he should be imprisoned for one year in the King's Bench prifon; that at the expiration of his imprisonment he fhould give fecurity for his good behaviour for feven years, himself in 500l. and two fureties in 2501. each; and that he fhould be imprifoned till the faid fecurity was given and the fine paid.

On the fame day, about three o'clock, the duke de Sorentino, a Sicilian nobleman, who, has refided

in this country fome years, went into Lowthorp's coffee-houfe, St. George's Fields, and fent the waiter with a note to count De Lambert, in Lambeth-road. He then defired to have a private room, and was fhewn into one up ftairs. A fhort time had only elapfed when the mistress thought he heard the report of a piftol; but, not being certain, fhe waited the arrival of the fervant before the fent up ftairs, who, on entering the room, found the duke, in an arm-chair, dead, and the piftol with which he had fhot himfelf laying at his feet. Count De Lambert arrived foon after, and obferved, that he had faved his life twice, at a former period, when he had attempted a fimilar act. The count made particular inquiry after a pocket-book, which he was certain would be found about the deceased, as it contained fome fecret matter that he would never difclofe either to his wife or friend; but it could not be found. The duke refided in Charles-ftreet, Fitzroyfquare, and had been married to a refpectable English lady a few months. A coroner's inqueft was held on his body, which brought in a verdict of lunacy.

15th. This night, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the Horse and Groom, public-house, in Curtain-row, Shoreditch; by which accident, the flames caught fire to Mrs. Tomlinfon's clothes, and the was burned in fo fhocking a manner as to cause her immediate death.

21ft. This day, between eight and nine o'clock, his majefty, mounted on a beautiful white charger, and followed by the male branches of the royal family, a crowd of general-officers, &c. went from Buckinghamhouse to inspect all the volunteer

corps in different ftreets of the metropolis. He paffed over Westminsterbridge, and proceeded by the Obelifk to Blackfriars-bridge, on the centre of which he was met by the lordmayor and aldermen, who afterwards rode before him, the lordmayor carrying the sword of state. His majefty proceeded through Bridge-ftreet, St. Paul's fquare, Cornhill, &c. in front of the different affociations, making a circle to the artillery-ground, where the prince of Wales, as colonel, appeared at the head of the artillerycompany, and thence to the lordchancellor's, in Upper Guilfordftreet, where all the royal family breakfafted; the king then reviewed the Bloomsbury and other corps in that neighbourhood, and, about fix o'clock, returned home.

The number of volunteers vifited by the king were 12,200; and no fovereign ever experienced greater proofs of the loyalty of his fubjes than did his majefty on this day of parade and rejoicing.

JULY.

4th. His majefty reviewed, on Wimbledon-common, the different volunteer-corps of the county of Surrey. The line, which was very extenfive, confifted of 12 cavalrycorps and 24 of infantry; the efective ftrength of the whole, 2300.'

9th. As a waggon full of coals, with fix horses, was paffing over the bridge at Emfcole, near Warwick, one of the arches gave way, and waggon and horfes were precipitated into the river, where one of them was killed, and the reft fo injured that they were not expected to recover.

13th. This afternoon, about three, one of the largest powder-mills, on Twickenham-common, not far from Hanworth, blew up, with a moft violent explofion, attended by circumftances of the moft melancholy nature. Four men, employed in corning the powder, were blown to atoms in the air, and many of the timbers of the building thrown to a distance of half a mile. It was only on the Thurfday preceding that a smaller mill, belonging to the fame proprietors, blew up, but no lives were loft. The explofion of this day broke many panes of glass, at the distance of one and

two miles.

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Calcutta, Jan. 21. It is with much concern we state the lofs of the company's armed fchooner, the Ganges, commanded by captain Wade, the particulars of which are as follow: the Ganges came to an anchor, on the evening of the 11th, to the eastward of Lacam's channel. The Laurel was then about four leagues farther in the offing, in a fouth-eafterly direction. About eight o'clock at night, while captain Wade and his officers were on deck, a difagreeable fmell of burning oil and Imoke came from the cabin. On going below, the fmoke appeared to be coming from aft. The gun-room was immediately cleared, and, on opening the fcuttle of the after gun-room, the fmoke afhed out, and plainly indicated that to be the quarter where the mischief lay. Captain Wade directed all the powder that was in the gun-room and cabin to be quickly removed; while himself, his officers, and his people, were employed in throwing water into the after gun-room. Their efforts were greatly impeded by the fuffo

cating vapours, which compelled captain Wade, and those with him, to make their way upon deck. The fire was bursting forth from the cabin-windows; but captain Wade ftill indulged the hope of being able to get it under, and continued to employ every exertion for that purpofe; but, at the fame time, as a measure of prudence, he directed his officers to get the boat out, and to keep her clear a little a-head of the fchooner. This was no fooner done than thirty or forty people leaped on board, and the officers found it indifpenfably neceffary to put off, in order to prevent the boat from being furtharged. Captain Wade and those who had remained with the schooner persevered in the most spirited exertions to extinguish the fire; but it gained ground in fpite of all their efforts. The people, every moment in dread of the veffel blowing up, crowded forward upon her bows, bowfprits, jibboom, &c. In this alarming fitua tion, captain Wade, with great compofure, proceeded to prepare rafts. He, his two boatswains, and fome others, were stepping aft to cut away the main-maft, that it might ferve as a spar; at this inftant, the fire communicated to the magazine, which exploded with great violence, tearing up the deck from the tafferel to feveral feet before the main-maft. By this accident eight men were killed; the fecond boatfwain had his leg broken, and captainWade was thrown feveral feet forwards. At length recovering himfelf, he found that the flames had nearly ceafed, moft of the parts that were on fire having been blown up with the magazine; he was encouraged, therefore, to renew his efforts to fave the remains of the

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