tic, advanced to Bidnore, and by the accounts brought to Tellicherry and Anjengo, General Mathews, with his force, confifting of feveral detachments from three of the king's regiments and the Company's troops, making in all 6co Europeans and 1600 fepoys, were fituated in the province of Bidnore, and are faid to have furrendered, on condition of marching out of the garrifon, with all the honours of war, and retiring to Mangalore. This capitulation was fhamefully broken by Tippoo Saib.

The Mahratta peace was proclaimed at Bombay the 8th of April, Colonels Macleod and Humberstone were attacked a few days after they left Bombay, on the 5th of April, in the Ranger floop of 10 four pounders, by the Mahratta fleet, and carried into Gehe riah, after a very obftinate engagement, in which five men belonging to the Ranger were killed, and 25 wounded. Colonel Humberstone unfortunately died of his wounds.

The Fairford was burnt at Bombay, and the Duke of Athol unfortunately blown up at Madras.

Mr. Secretary Fox having brought in his bill for investing the affairs of the East India Company, into the hands of certain commiffioners for the benefit of the proprietors and the public, it was read the first time on Thurfday the 20th inftant, in the Houfe of Commons, which occafioned a very long debate; after which it was ordered to be read a fecond time the Thurfday following.There were many able fpeakers oppofed this bill reprefenting it as a violation of the chartered rights of the company, and an extraordinary effort of power. The Eat India Company have prefented a petition against the above bill to the house.

The conduct of every member of adminiftration, as well as Lord John Cavendith, deferves the highest public encomium in regard to the funds. They have taken up the bufinefs with a determined refolution to retore credit to the ftocks, by proving the refources of wealth with which this country abounds, and properly applying them in fupport of the national faith, by which this Country has fo long flourished.

The following proclamation does the highest honour to the feelings of the king of Pruffia, who therein pays the most commendable regard to the dignity of man:

"Whereas his majesty the king of Pruffia, &c. our moft gracious fovereign, will not permit that any of his fubjects delivering into his hand petitions or addreffes thould kneel to his majesty (an honour due to the divinity, but which is no ways neceffary when his faid fubjects have any thing to deliver to him); his majefty is therefore graciously pleafed to order by this prefent, that the Confiftory of Breflau fhail caufe this refcript to be read from the pulpits of all

Some time ago Sir James Lowther, Bart. (in confideration of the fcarcity and dearnefs of provifions) folicited his majesty to permit the hundred guineas given annually to the races at Carlile, to be (this year) applied to the relief of the poor of that city, offering to add the like fum to this charitable difpofition of the money. The request was complied with; and on Tuefday laft, the firft diftribution was made, amongit a great number of neceffitous perfons, who have found a very feasonable affiftance in a refource, which, from its nature, was very unexpected. This is an act of charity, which muft be generally approved and the mover of it (who alfo contributed one half towards it) must receive due praife from all whofe breasts can feel for the diftreffes of the r fellow creatures,

About a quarter after one o'clock on Wednefday morning the 4th inft. a fire broke out in the workshops behind the dwelling-houfe of Mr. Seddon, in Alderfgate-street; it was half an hour before the engines could work, and there was not a plenty of water for a full half hour more. The flames fpreadTM with aftonishing and dreadful rapidity, proceeding quite into Bartholomew-clofe, and entirely destroyed Queen-fquare. It is computed that at least 30 houfes are confumed, and about 20 damaged, The lofs in effects is immenfe; but Mr. Seddon where the fire began fortunately faved his books of accounts.

Among the unfortunate fufferers are Mr. Seddon's journeymen, near 300 in number, each of whom, according to the custom of the trade, found his own tools, and all thofe belonging to Mr. Seddon's workmen are destroyed.

In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday laft, a man was offered to justify bail, whofe property and character were not dif puted; but it was afferted in objection and admitted on his part, that he fometimes rifqued his money at the E O table; though it was not infinuated that he was an unfair or common player. The Court rejected his fecurity upon the ground, that a perfon addicted to gaming might be poffeffed of opulence in the morning, and reduced to indigence before night.

This decifion does the highest honour to the Court who made it, and must give the greatest fatisfaction to those who with to

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fee the baneful effects of gambling abolished. They reduce our traders to beggary; they feduce our clerks in public offices from the paths of fidelity and duty; they tempt our fervants to treachery and difhonefty; and they crowd the fatal tree with miferable victims. Whatever therefore, and whoever in a judicial or other capacity contributes to check an evil fo alarming and increasing, merits the highest approbation. The laws against gaming, like thofe to prevent duelling, have been found ineffectual, but shame, and the idea of being held in contempt, and confidered as inferior characters, may perhaps, and we hope will, bring about that to which pains and penalties were inadequate.

OnTuefday the 28th ult. John Burton and John Pilkington, for burglaries; James Neale alias Nowlan, for ftealing a quantity of plate; John Booker alias Brooker, for a highway robbery; Thomas Smith and John Starkey, for stealing a box containing a bank bill, and fome wearing apparel; John Anderfon, Mathew Daniel, and John Francis, for forging feamens wills; and William Moore, for coining thillings, were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence. They all behaved very penitently.

The judges have met, and determined against the capital convict Gascoigne, tried laft feffions for robbing a woman in a coach, in the way to New Prifon. Gascoigne was a runner to a Middlefex juftice, and, in the ufual way, had handcuffed the profecutrix like a felon, though charged only with an affault, and becaufe the could not inftantly raife means to fatisfy the fees of office, fhe was hurried to prifon. Judge Nares, in his charge to the jury, obferved upon the inhuman and trading practice of many Middlesex juftices fending their myrmydons to drag the lower clafs of people like flaves through the streets. He hoped foon to fee a new commiffion, cutting off thofe harpies known as trading justices, who were a difgrace not only to magistracy, but to civil fociety. No justice, much lefs a runner, had a right to chain or handcuff for an affault, but he was informed that it was very customary to extort money by thefe means.

On Sunday evening Mr. Holmes, of Peter's-lane, Cow-crofs, Mr. Sewell of Bunhill row, and another gentleman, were at. tacked in the path leading between the two ditches from the Shepherd and Shepherdefs towards Frog-lane, by three fellows, one of whom firuck Mr. Sewell with a cutlafs twice, and wounded him on the arin and fhoulder, but did not rob him; they then attacked Mr. Holmes, and after he had received feveral dreadful wounds on his head and different parts of his body, the unhapy man fell backwards into the ditch, and hile he lay there the villains rifled his ockets of a guinea, 7s. in filver and a

filver watch. After this the barbarous villains again ftruck him feveral times with their cutlaffes, but upon his calling upon them to fhew mercy, through pity to his wife and children, one of them cried out, "Don't kill him, he has got enough of it," upon which they made off. During this tranfaction the friend of Meffrs. Holmes and Sewell was wounded on the hand by one of the villains in fuch a manner, that two of his fingers were yesterday obliged to be amputated. After being with difficulty conveyed home, Mr. Holmes's wounds were dreffed by a furgeon, who pronounced his life in imminent danger.

On the 14th inft. in the afternoon, about four o'clock, a moft daring robbery was committed by two highwaymen, at the feven mile ftone, Hendon, on Mrs. and Mifs Bond, as they were returning from London in their carriage: the robbers held a piftol loaded to each of the ladies' breafts, and demanded their purfes, which being delivered, they infifted on their watches. What makes it more extraordinary, the ladies were within a ftone's throw of their own houfe, and within twenty yards of feveral others. Mr. Bond's fervants immediately pursued them to Hampstead, but they turned off into the weft road.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS. ift. reg. foot guards. James Buchannan Riddell, lieutenaut. 3d reg. foot. Blair, lieutenant. roth reg. foot. William Dick, Captain of a company, John Strother Ker, Lieut. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS." The Rev. Dr. Kaye, fub-almoner, to the deanery of Lincoln, in the room of Dr. Cuft, deceased.

The Rev. Henry Woodcock to hold by difpenfation the rectory of Coffington with the vicarage of Bothley, both in the county of Leicester, and diocefe of Lincoln.

The Rev. David Hughes, to the living of Betfeltleigh in Berkshire.

The Rev. Erafmus Druery, to the rectory of Mundefley in Norfolk.

The Rev. James Bannerman to the church of Cargill in the prefbytery of

Perth.

The Rev. John Simpfon to the rectory of Roofs in Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Sir Mark Sykes, Bart.

The Rev. John Robert Holmes, A. M. elected profeffor of poetry in the univerfity of Oxford.

The Rev. John Hewett, M. A. to hold by difpenfation the vicarage of Royston, with the vicarage of Feltham, Middlefex.

The Rev. Nathaniel Bridges, B. D. tq hold the rectory of Waddenhoe, with the rectory of Orlingbury, Northapmton/hire. The Rev. Mr. Hutton, chaplain of Guy's hofpital, on the refignation of the Rev. Dr. Finch.

BIRTHS.

MARRIAGES.

Captain Wilfon, of the royal artillery, to Mifs Shucknell, only daughter of the late Michael Shucknell, Efq. of Hertfordshire.

The Rev. Dr. Davis, of Eton fchool, to Mifs Harrington of Eton.

Millefon Edgar, Efq. of the Red House, Suffolk, to Mifs Edgar of Ipfwich.

The Rev. Jacob Mountain, A. M. fellow of Caius college, Cambridge, to Mifs Eliza Kentish, of Bardfield hall.

Sir Andrew Lauder, of Fountain hall, Bart. to Mifs Brown, of Johnstonbourn,

The Rev. Mr. O'Beirne, fecretary to the first lord of the treafury, to Mifs Stuart, niece to the earl of Moray.

The Rev. Luke Tucknall rector of Dalby, Leicestershire, to Mifs Relph, of CareyStreet.

Mr. Moody of King-street, to Mifs Brinley, of Fulham.

DEATH S.

In Abbey street, Dublin, the Right Rev. Dr. James Trail, lord bithop of Down and Connor.

At Bath, after a long illnefs, the Right Hon, earl Spencer, vifcount Spencer of Althorpe and Baron Spencer of Althorpe in the county of Northampton.-He married the eldest daughter of Stephen Poyntz, Esq. by whom he had iffue George John, vifcount Althorpe, member for the county of Surry, by whom he is fucceeded in title and eftate and three daughters-the duchefs of Devonshire, lady Duncannon, and lady Charlotte.

At Dublin, the Right Hon. Jofeph Leefon, earl of Miltown.

The Rev. Bond Spindler, rector of Eaton Haflings, Berks.

Sir Charles Turner, Bart. member of parliament for the city of York.

Sir Walden Hanmer, Bart. fenior bencher' of Lincoln's Inn.

Jofeph Hughes, Efq. one of the deputy auditors of the imprefs.

James Wallace, Efq. his majefty's attorney-general, and member of parliament for Horfham in Suffex.

In Sackville-ftreet, Dublin, the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Oborn, Bart, one of his majesty's most Hon privy-council.

At Halfton in Shropshire, John Mytton, Efq.

The Hon. Mifs Howe, fifter of the late and aunt to the prefent lord Chedworth.

The Rev. Mr. Jeffs, reader to the Hon. focieties of the Temple.

Charles Craffe, Efq. coroner for the county of York.

At Exeter, Auguftus Seabright, Efq. At Bristol Hotwells, the Right Hon. Alexander lord Blantyre.

The Rev. Richard King, rector of Kingston, Berkshire, lecturer of St. George's in the East, and chaplain to the clothworker's company.

The Rev. Evan Evans, rector of Whitton, vicar of Langulo in Wales, and chaplain to the fociety of antient Britons.

BANKRUPTS.

Samuel Butler, of the parish of St. Cle ment Danes, Middlesex, dealer in wines and fpirituous liquors.

William Hartley, of Newgate-ftreet, London, cabinet maker.

Samuel Beale, of Wribbenhall, in the pa

rith of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, trow aud barge-master.

Thomas Miller, of Kirkby, Kendal, Weftmoreland, iron-monger.

James Gowan, of Sunderland, Durham, grocer.

John Lane, of Sittingburne, Kent, apo. thecary.

Robert Taylor, of the Borough of Southwark, Surry, dealer in horfes.

Lawrence Lee, of the Minories, London, pin-maker.

William Miller and Charles Silburn, of Miles's-lane, London, wine-coopers and partners.

Daniel Fitch, late of Kilburn, Middlefex, jeweller.

Robert Mather and Anthony Mather, of Wooler, Northumberland, linen-drapers, and haberdashers, and copartners.

James Tozer the younger, of Kentisbear, Devonshire, dealer and chapman.

Robert Andrews, of Bristol, innholder and stable-keeper.

Thomas Skey, of the city of Bristol, cyder

merchant.

Henry Burtenfhaw, of Lewes, Suffex, money-fcrivener.

Thomas Ibbetson, of Skircoat, in the pa

rifh of Halifax, Yorkshire, merchant. John Tittenfor, and Ralph Tittenfor, of Readsng, Berks, copartners, dealers and chapmen.

William Dibley, of the parish of St. Mary,
Lambeth, Surry, fadler.
Edward Thorp, late of Lombard-street,
London, watch-maker.

William Suffolk, late of Princes street, Soho,
Middlefex, carpenter,

Ralph Jack fon, of Snow-hill, London, linen-draper.

John Fielding, of Paternoster-row, London, book feller.

George Sympfon, of the Minories, London, cordwainer.

Jofeph Burnett, of the parish of Chriftchurch, Surry, dealer in corn and coals. Thomas Plimpton, of the Strand, Middlefex, hofier.

Samuel Handafyde, late of Snow-hill, London, hardwareman.

Stephen Grant and John Patterson, of Downs

street, Piccadilly, Middlesex, bricklayers and plaifterers.

John Bradburn, of Tavistock row, Coventgarden, Middlefex, taylor.

Thomas Bramfton, of Ugley, Effex, dealer

and chapman, (by the name and defcription of "Thomas Bramfton, of Ugley, Effex, victualler.)

Charles Calcutt, late of Poulton, Wilts, merchant.

Francis Cofta, late of the city of Exeter, itarch-manufacturer, but now of Lambeth, Surry.