The Household, or Brown Bread, commenced felling exclusively: the aflize of which is as follows: Avoirdupois Weight. lb. oz. dr. The Half-peck Loaf To be sold for. to 7 3 to 10 13 1. d. 17 6 O 8 11 4 5 2 2 12 5 94 The Quartern Loaf large Roman W. and every mixed Loaf M. And it is further ordered that Six'penny Loaves are not to be made. 3. The question, whether the inquiry into the alledged abufe of India patronage fhould proceed, was nega tived by a ballot of the proprietors, the numbers being 350 to 411. Mrs. Smith lately died at Stafford of the wounds inflicted by her husband, as mentioned in our lait. : 9. An opulent and aged farmer, named Elfden, in Cambridgeshire, went to view a thrashing machine, and falling in a fit on one of the fhafts, was fo much bruifed as to occasion his death. Before he left his houfe in the morning, he informed his houfekeeper of the different applications of his property, that in the event of his fudden death, the might give the neceffary information on the fubject to his heirs. 13. The Faft Day was observed throughout the country with appro priate folemnity; in many places collections were made at the feveral places of divine worship for the relief of the poor. A veffel valuably freighted, belonging to Oxford, was laft week upfet in the Thames, at Boveney Point, between Maidenhead and Windfor, by a fudden guft of wind, which at the fame time agitated the water to fuch extent, that a wave palled over the bow, and contributed to fink her, notwithstanding thirteen horfes were at the line and five men on board. very 14. A meeting took place between Lieutenant Miniter, of the Marines, belonging to his Majefty's fhip Monarch, and Lieutenant Chriftian Lafchen, of the Latona frigate, at Queenborough, near Sheernefs, when the and the latter through the body, with former was thot dead through the head; Marine Officer lies dead at an Inn in little hope of his recovery. The Queenborough for the Coroner's inqueft, and the Lieut. of the Navy is fent on board the Spanker hofpital hip at Sheerness. They were attended in this unfortunate bufinefs by a Marine Officer and a Surgeon's Mate as feconds, both of whom have abfconded. The parties fought at twelve paces distance, and fired at the fame inftant. Both fell the firft fhot. The caufe of this unfortunate affair originated a few months fince, when they both belonged to the Latona frigate, at Elfineur. Some words paffed which occafioned a blow; but Captain between them when playing at cards, Southern, of that fhip, by his welltimed authority, prevented the matter going farther, and made them promife while in his fhip they would be quiet, *Five drachms more in weight than Fine Bread. Ten drachms more than Fine Bread. Fifteen drachins more than Fine Bread, and threatened to bring them both to a Court Martial if they did not keep the peace. Since the arrival of the Latona at the Nore, the Marine Officer effected a change with an Officer in the Monarch, which was no fooner done than he received and accepted the Navy Lieutenant's challenge, which was attended with the confequences already ftated. Extract of a Letter from Salisbury, date Seven p.m. Saturday, Feb, 14. "This day came on the election for a Member to ferve in Parliament for Old Sarum, when John Horne Tooke, Efq. was elected in the room of Sir George Younge, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The bells are now ringing on the occafion, and an elegant entertainment was provided at the King's Arms, which was attended by a felect party of Lord Camelford's friends: his Lordship's health, together with that of John Horne Tooke, Efq. the new Member, was drank with repeated plaudits, and the day was fpent with the greateft conviviality and harmony." 16. A girl fifteen years of age was, a few days fince, committed to Bodmin goal, charged by the Coroners Inquet with the murder of her brother, a boy ten years old. They went from the neighbourhood of Heltone into the country, begging; but on their return home, quarrelled about the divifion of what they had collected, when, in the heat of anger, the girl twilted a finall piece of ftring round the boy's neck and ftrangled him in an initant. The Diligence brig, of 15 guns, was lately loft on a ridge of rocks off the N. W. fide of Cuba; the officers and crew escaped from the wreck to a final ifland, where, with wretched accommodation, they remained three days, when the Thunderer, of 74 guns, hove in fight and picked them up-previoudly to this, however, the Spaniards, who had witneffed their condition, fent an armed veffel for the purpofe of making Capt. Rofs and his people prifoners, but the boats of the Thunderer fortu nately fell in with, and captured her. The Dictator, of Liverpool, a new fhip of 24 guns, has been wrecked on the coaft of Kerry, when 57 out of 60 perfons, were unfortunately it. The late High Sheriff of the county, Mr. Marshall, faved part of the valuable . cargo, coming from Demerara, together with 20,000l. in Bank of England and other notes: Some American veffels have recently been detained by out cruizers, bound &c. packed in calks, and labelled "Into Guadaloupe, &c with gun powder, dian Me 1." The Underwriters have most creditably fettied the demands on them fo the British hips detained in Rullia. The retirement of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Dundas, Lord Grenville, Lord Spencer, Lord Camden, &c. from office, is faid to have originated in the question for the emancipation of the Catholics. The Ex-Minifters are tited to have autho-. rifed the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to pledge himself to the Catholic Com mittee in Dublin, that the Teft Law. fhould be repealed, and it is added, that by this promife he induced their concurrence to the Legislative Union, and was thereby enabled to carry the projest. Mr. Pitt, with thofe who had fanctioned the tipulation, regarded themselves pledged to the meafure, and wifhed to introduce the fubject into the Speech from the Throne on the opening of the Imperial Parliament; but his Majelly, it is itated, confidering the conceifion to be inconfiftent with his Coronation Oath, refiited the advice of the majority of his Miniiters, and rendered it neceffary that they thould retire. Rufia, Sweden and Denmark, jealous of the greatness of England, would doubtlefs rejoice in our numiliation by the agency of others; they may lofe much by the war, but from the preponderating power of France and her dependencies, even in the event of fuccefs, they cannot hope to be effential gainers by it. They complain of the tyranny of Great Britain, without adducing any thing in fupport of the alle gation, and fee to forget the frauds and oppreflion of France. How has the refpected their flag-let them recur to the inftructions to the privateers and cruizers of the Republic previous to Lord Duncan's victory. Did France acknowledge their pretenfions of free thips making free goods?-No-decidedly, unequivocally, no; -for it is a fact established by the fentences of her Admiralty Courts, that the finalleit article of British merchandize, though not specified in the bill of lading, has on feve X.2 1. ral ral occafions been fufficient to condemn, as lawful prize, neutral hip and cargo-and to fuch extent was this principle carried by republican activity, that a grofs of buttons purposely droped on board a Danish vessel by fome of the crew of a Trench privateer, while in the act of examining her papers, was made the occafion of her condemnation. The Treaty of Commerce concluded between Great Britain and Ruffia, fhortly after the acceffion of the Emperor Paul to the throne, contains the following article:-"If, which God forbid, the Peace between the two High Contracting Parties fhould be broken, the perfons, the fhips, and the merchandize belonging to their refpective fubjects, fhall neither be ftopped nor confifcated, but at least one year fhall be granted to them to fell, difpofe, or carry away their effects, and to retire themfelves wherever they think proper (which is equally to be understood of thofe who are either in the land or fea fervice;) and it fhall be permitted to them alfo, before, or on their departure, to confign, or make over, fuch effects as they have not fold, as well as the debts which they may have to demand, to fuch perfons as they judge proper, to be difnoted of at their will, and for their profit; which debts the debtors thall be obliged to pay, in the fame manner as if the rupture had not taken place." may During the last war between Ruffia and Sweden, when the enlightened Guftavus, aware of the inordinate ambition of Ruffia, fought our aid to check her coloffal power, Sir Sidney Smith is stated to have taken the foundings, and to have made charts of every part of the Baltic, whilft, in an open boat, navigating that dangerous fea during an entire winter. M. Fulton, who introduced the Panorama at Paris, has lately made fome experiments at Havre and at Breft, with his fifh-boat. This boat is conftructed nearly in the ufual manner, only that the fides fwell out more, and that the bottom is flat. The latter has an aperture in the middle for receiving a pump, by means of which the vettel is made to defcend to the bottom of the water. At one of the extremities there i another pump, by the help of which it afcends to the furface: and at the Hern it is furnished with a rudder, by which it is fteered when under the water. Over the boat, which it clofes like a box, ftands a kind of cone, or dome, which ferves as a hatchway for entering it. This cone is conftructed in the fame manner as thoie lanterns placed at the top of circular stairs, in order to admit the light, and is furnished with feveral panes of glafs, well cemented, that convey light to the interior of the boat, at the bottom of which is a glafs that reflects the objects. By thefe means, a perfon in the boat can fee every thing that paffes above him. M. Fulton, in the course of his experiments, remained feveral hours under the water without the neceffity of afcending to the furface. With this boat, he can fet fire to objects at a great diftance, without being feen. To prove the poffibility of producing this erfect, fafcines done over with pitch were fattened to the end of the Pier; the fish-boat then funk down, and at the end of half an hour, the fatcines were obferved to be in flames. Fulton fuffers nobody to enter this boat but himself. He has invented M. alfo a kind of arrows or darts, which he can fix in any veffel that he intends to fet on fire. Some days fince a man took a canvas bag with about 18 pounds of gun-powder, into a fmith's fhop at Holywell to have it weighed, and carelessly laid it down near the forge where the smith was at work, when fome fparks of the iron falling on the bag, the powder exploded, and tore and burnt the fmith, his apprentice, and the stranger in fuch of. The fmith's wife, far advanced in a manner, that their lives are defpaired her pregnancy, with four children, were in a room above, at breakfast; they were forced through the roof and thrown on a pig-ftye adjoining, excepting one of the children who fell amongst the ruins, and being miraculously covered by fome rafters from the falling walls, was dug from beneath the ruins with a flight contufion only on his forehead; although much bruifed and burnt, the poor woman and her children are likely to recover. A publican named Cooke, of Lowdhamn, Nottinghamshire, was lately thrown from an afs and killed;-he bad attained the 102d year of his age, retained his faculties to an unusual degree, and immediately previous to the accident which proved fatal to him, declared his life to be as good as any other in the country. A young A young lady of highly refpectable connexions, lately detected tealing trinkets from a Goldfinith's fhop, in Manchelter, was at the late Seffions fentenced to twelve months confinement in a folitary cell.-She fainted on the judgment being delivered, and has been in almost continued hyfterics ever fince. Some days fince, as a waggon with a ton of cheese was paffing over a temporary bridge of à canal, about two miles from Lyneham in Somerfet hire, the building gave way, when the waggon, horfes, and boy, who lay on the top of the cheefe, fell into the water, which was at the time very low; the waggon turned right over, the wheels being uppermoft, and the boy found himfelf on his hands and knees at the bottom of the canal ;-the goodness of Providence was manifefted in his prefervation; the cheese fell on each fide of him, and a hole in the bottom of the waggon was made by the shock, through which he was drawn unhurt. Two boys deferted from a veffel at Ipfwich in Auguft, and wandering about the woods and fields, fubfifted upon turnips and berries of various kinds, till the latter end of October, when they dug a cave in the cliff near Landguard Fort. During the high winds on the 9th of November the cliff fell in, and ftopped up the paffage to their drear abode; in this fituation they continued two days, when a dog belonging to a fportfinan was attracted to the fpot, and scratched and barked till he induced the attention of his mafter, who hearing human voices within, procured affiftance, and dug the poor children out: the eldest died foon after, and the other, after lingering about fix weeks, expired fome days fince. The Rev. E. Thomas, of Llenguin, has been committed to Monmouth gaol, charged with the murder of his fervant boy, twelve years of age. Two perfons (a chimney fweeper and a gardener) who have frequently robbed the different Colleges at Cambridge of plate, &c. have been appre. hended, and most of the property found concealed in different parts of their houfes, which are now pulling down for the purpofe of fearch. Lady Pomfret exhibited articles of the peace against the Earl. Her affidavit itated, that he was married in 1793, and was allowed 2,000l. per annum pin-money, which fum was fecured upon part of her property, namely, 112,000l.in the three per cents.; that his Lordship, to obtain poffeflion of this money, and to force her to give up her annuity, had ufed her extremely ill; and that in confequence of threats of perfonal violence, the had, in 1797, been obliged to execute a deed which affected her property to a large amount; that he had inftituted a fuit in the Ecclefiaftical Court against the Earl for adultery and cruelty, had been obliged to leave his houfe and refide with her relations, and now prayed the protection of the Court. 12. The Earl of Pomfret appeared in Court, and gave recognizance, himfelf to the amount of gocol. and two fureties of 2,5ool. each, to keep the peace towards his wife, and to appear on the last day of Hilary Term 1802, to anfwer to the complaint preferred against him. MARRIAGES. THE MARRIAGES. HE Hon. Charles Wyndham, brother to Lord Egremont, to Lady Anne Lambton. Mr. Incledon, of Covent Garden Theatre, to Mils Howell, of Bath. Arthur French St. George, efq. of Tyrone, to Mifs Henrietta St. Lawrence, eldest daughter of Lord Viscount St. Lawrence. James Hammond, efq. to Mifs Gibbs, of St. George's-place, Canterbury. Captain Hill, of the royal horfe guards blue, to Mifs Lumley. Lieutenant-Colonel Jones to Mifs Stanley, daughter of Colonel Stanley. Captain Van Spengler, of his Majesty's Duich navy, to Mils Graham. Sir John Coxe Hippefley, bart. to Mrs. Hippeily Coxe. MR. MONTHLY OBITUARY. JANUARY 13. R. DAVID OLIPHANT, one of the tellers of the Bank of Scotland. W. Perkins, efq. in Francis-ftreet, Bedford-fquare, aged 52. 14. The Rev. Henry Wigley, of Penfham, in the county of Worcester, aged 72. 15. William Gafcoigne, efq. of the Admiralty, aged 38, 22. At Edinburgh, Patrick Rigg, of Downfield and Morton, eiq. Lately, the Rev. J. B. Leake, rector of Naughton, and Nettleftead, Suffolk. 23. At Exeter, Richard Rofe Drewe, efq. Mr. Richard Shaw, printer, in Silverfreet, White-friars. At Edge-hill, Liverpool, Thomas Riley, efq late of St. Anne's, in the inland of Jamaica. 24. At Belville, George Duncan, efq. comptroller of the fiamp duties for Scotland. Lately, at Donnington, the Rev. William Wynne, A. B. curate of Dennington and Saxted, Suffolk. 25. In Soho-iquare, Mr. James Fuhr, merchant. At Irvine, Scotland, Robert Smith, weaver there aged.101 years. 28 Mis. Walker, wife of Mr. Adam Walker, lecturer in philofophy, in Conduit-ftreet. Lately, at Stonehoufe, near Plymouth, the Rev. Mr. Davis, chaplain of the royal navy. he vas chaplain to Lord Howe on the Inf June 1794. 29 At Moffat. Seband, David Greig, efq. of Hallgreig. At Littleport, Cambridgefhire, Henry Torley, eiq, aged 74 cars. Lately, at Guy's Hofpital, the once celebrated LOUISA, or Lady of the HayStack, who, about eighteen years ago, was found to have taken up her refidence under that fhelter, in the parish of Bourton, near Bristol, in a ftate of melancholy derangement. She then appeared to be under twenty years of age. extraordinary woman. whole "tale of woe" was firit told by Mits annah More, has cealed, for a confiderable time patt, to intereft the general curiolity. She never would difciole the fecret of her family. This very 30. The Rev. George Sewell, rector of Byfleet, in Surry, in his 46th year. At Bishop's Auckland, Durham, N. Bowfer. Alexander John Rofs, captain lieutenant and adjutant of the Plymouth divifion of marines. 31. W. Markham, efq. brother to the archbishop of York. Alexander John Alexander, esq. of George-fquare, Edinburgh. James Murray, efq, late of Dullary, aged 80. FEB. |