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commenced with fo good effect, in 1795. Mr. W. Forfter entered largely into the benefits that had refulted from that fub!cription, and stated, that in the months ending the 27th of laft April, 40,000 perfons had been relieved by 750,918 meals from the foup-fhops, at`an aggregate expenfe of 3,4761.8s. 10d. and concluded by moving refolutions to extend the meritorious establishment. A fubfcription then took place, and a committee of 35 perfons was appointed to conduct the fame.

12th. Waterford. On Saturday night the most tremendous fire, we have ever had the mortification of being witnefs to, broke out in the fugar-houfe of Meffrs. Perriers, which, notwithstanding the moft extraordinary exertions of the mayor and fheriffs, of gen. Myers, the officers and privates of the garrifon, and of the gentlemen, and other inhabitants, who attended, the entire fabric, with an amazing quantity of fugars, the utenfils, &c. were reduced to afhes.

14th. The fword which has been voted to earl St. Vincent, by the corporation of London, was this day delivered to his lordship, by Richard Clark, efq. the prefent chamberlain.

22d. The footman who was with earl Scarborough, when his carriage was overlet near Fitzroy-square, died of his wounds, and was this day buried.

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fport. He was accompanied in the cart by a Romish priest, to whom he paid great attention, being_penitently refigned to his fate. The body, after hanging the ufual time, was brought back for diffection.

24th. Early this morning, a terrible fire broke out at the premises of Meffrs. Lucas and Martin, fugarbakers, in Oborne-street, Whitechapel, which confumed the fame. The caufe is not known, but it is generally fuppofed to have been from accident. On the preceding evening, about eight, Mr. Martin went over the premises to fee if all was fafe, as was his ufual custom, previous to returning home. About the hour first mentioned, the people in a warehouse oppofite were made fenfible of an approaching conflagration by the exceffive heat arifing from the flames, and on going into the street (which was totally enveloped in fire and fmoke), fortunately recollected the imminent danger in which the two porters were placed, who flept over the fugar warerooms; upon which they, with difficulty, found their way to the principal gate, where they endeavoured to force an entrance: in this, however, they could not fucceed; but, happily, the noife which they made with fledge-hammers fo far anfwered their purpose, as to awaken and preferve the lives of the men, one of whom escaped over the roof; the other, in his fhirt, ventured down ftairs, and jumped from the lower windows into the ftreet, without fuftaining any other injury than being fcorched by the fire. The premises were built in the fummer of 1798, at upwards of 5,000%. expenfe; and the whole property was infured much under its real value.

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30th. The confuls of the French republic confidering that for fix months paft, the body of Pius VI. has been lying in the city of Valence without having had the honours of burial granted to it, have published a decree, reciting,-that, though this old man, refpectable by his misfortunes, was for a moment the enemy of France, it was only when feduced by the councils of men who furrounded his old age;

that it becomes the dignity of the French nation, and is conformable to the fenfibility of the national character, to beftow marks of coнfideration upon a man who occupied one of the higheft ranks upon earth and therefore, " 1ft. The minifter of the interior fhall give orders that the body of Pius VI. be buried with the honours due to thofe of his rank. 2d. That a fimple monument be raifed to him, on the place of his burial, expreffing the dignity which he bore."

The light-houfe erected on the ifland of Anbolt, being 112 feet above the furface of the water, fo that the fire on it, on account of its extraordinary height, often misleads mariners in point of diftance; meafures have been taken for placing a lanthorn, at about half the height above-mentioned, on the eaft fide of the light-houfe, facing the flat and point of Knoben, which may alfo be feen from a fouthern and northern direction; but to fhips coming from a western direction it will not be visible, being covered by the light-houfe. This lanthornfire will be lighted, for the firft time, on the Ht of January, 1800, from which time it will be continued every night, in addition to the usual fire.

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DIED. Of an apoplexy, at Abbeville, in the department of the Lower Seine, where he had for feveral years lived in great retirement, in a state bordering upon want, in his 79th year, Marmontel, author of "Belifarius." When, three years ago, he was nominated to the legiflature, he went to the electoral affembly; and, thanking his fellow-citizens for this mark of refpect, faid to them, " You behold, my friends, a body enfeebled by age; but the heart of an honest man never grows old." He was ill only a few hours before he died. He has left a wife and two children in very indifferent circumstances.

BIRTHS in the Year 1799.

Jan. 3d. The lady of fir J. Kennaway, bart. a daughter.

22d. The lady of fir Francis Linley Wood, hart. a fon and heir. The lady of fir John Harrington, bart. a daughter.

29th. Lady Margaret M'Lean, a fon.

Feb. 16. Countefs Conyngham, a daughter.

Duchefs of Athol, a fon.

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April 3d. Lady Bruce, a daugh,

5th. Lady Brownlow, a dangh

8th. Lady Elizabeth Lowther, a daughter.

9th. At Vienna, the empress of Germany, an archduke, baptized, by the name of Jofeph Francis Leopold.

23d. Lady of A. Allardyce, efq. M. P. a daughter.*

25th. Lady of. Inigo Freeman Thomas, M. P. a daughter. Lady Riverfdale, a son. The lady of fir Thomas Parkyns, bart. a daughter.

May 2d. Countess Camden, a fon and heir.

4th. Countess of Caffilis, a daugh

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10th. The right hon. lady Auckland, a fon.

11th. The duchefs of Manchester, a fon and heir.

15th. Viscountefs Deerhurst, a daughter.

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The lady of Sackville Gwynne, efq, a daughter.

16th. The duchefs of Montrose, a fon and heir.

18th. Right hon. lady Charlotte Nares, a fon

The countefs of Aylesford; two children

21ft. The right hon. lady Rous, a daughter.

Lady Mary Fludyer, a daughter. August 15th. Countefs of Aboyne, a daughter.

16th. Lady of the hon. Lawrence Dundas, a fon.

September 2d. The lady of fir James Saumarez, a fon.

6th. The lady of Edward Law, efq. a daughter.

14th. Lady Lucy Bridgeman, a daughter.

At Potfdam, the queen of Pruffia, a princess.

16th. The lady of alderman Perring, a daughter.

19th. Lady Harriet Sullivan, a

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31ft. Vifcounters Fielding, a roy, fecond son of the duke of Graf

ton, to lady Frances Stewart, eldest daughter

daughter of the earl of London- cond daughter of vice-admiralderry. Bligh.

14th. Sir Thomas Webb, bart. to the hon. Mifs Dillon, daughter of lord viscount Dillon. 28th. Captain Durham, of the. royal navy, to lady Charlotte Bruce.

The right hon. lord William Beauclerk, fecond fon to the duke of St. Alban's, to Mifs Nelthorpe.

30th. Lieutenant-colonel Stuart Worthy, to lady Caroline Creigh ton, youngest daughter of the earl of Erne.

The right hon. earl of Clanricarde, to Mifs Burke, daughter of fir Thomas Burke, bart.

April 16. Major-general fir Charles Rofs, bart. to lady Mary Fitzgerald, eldeft daughter of the duke of Leinster.

22d. The duke of Rutland, to lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the earl of Carlifle.'

26th. Sir Harry Vane Tempest, bart to the right hon. Anne, countels of Antrim.

May 1. The earl of Chesterfield, to lady H. Thynne.

14th. Viscount Southwell, to Mifs Jane Berkeley.

19th. Lord Wentworth, eldeft fon of the earl of Stafford, to Mifs Louifa Packington, eldeft daughter of fir John Packington, bart.

21. Captain Copley, of the guards, to lady Cecil Hamilton, late marchionefs of Abercorn.

23d. The hon. Jofeph Bourke, dean of Offory, to Mifs Gardiner.

Colonel vifcount de Bruges, a French nobleman, to Mifs Sarah Harvey, eldest daughter of the late colonel Stanhope Harvey.

30th. Lieutenant-colonel Driffield, of nis majefty's marine forces, to Mifs Anne Caroline Bligh, fe

Lord Bagot, to the hon. Mifs Fitzroy, fifler to lord Southamp

ton.

The right hon. Francis, earl of Llandaff, to Mifs Coghlan, fister to the countefs of Barrymore.

June 1. Lord Hobart, to the hon. Mifs Eleanor Agnes Eden, eldest. daughter of lord Auckland.

11th. Sir Robert Williams, bart, M. P. to Mifs Ann Hughes.

July 25. Colonel de Charmilly, to Mifs D. Blackwood, daughter of fir J. Blackwood, bart.

August 1. The hon. Richard Ryder, M. P. for Tiverton, fecond fon of lord Harrowby, tv Mifs Frederica Skinner, daughter of fir John Skinner, with a fortune of 100,0001.

4th. Vere Isham, efq. fecond · fon of fir Juftinian Ifham, bart. to Mifs Chambers.

6th. Francis Barlow, efq, to the right hon. lady Catharine Brabazon, fifth fifter of William, the late and ninth earl of Meath, and coufin to Edward, the prefent earl of Meath.

7th. Captain Carrington Smith, to the hon. Charlotte Juliana Butler, only daughter of Edmond, the late, and eleventh lord vifcount Mountgarret, and fifter of Edmund, prefent and firft earl of Kilkenny, and twelfth viscount of Mountgarret.

9th. Culling Smith, efq. to the right hon. lady Anne Fitzroy, daughter of Garret, late earl of Mornington, fifter to Richard, the prefent earl of Mornington, and relict of the hon. Henry Fitzroy, fourth fon of the late, and brother of the prefent, lord Southampton.

Lieutenant-colonel Houghton, of the royal artillery, to Mifs Thurlow,

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