Accounts were received 25th. this morning at the Admiralty, by the Daphne man of war, from Jamaica, which place fhe left Sept. 10, that a dreadful in furrection had taken place at St. Domingo, among the negroes and free people, and that they were in arms to the number of from 35,000 to 40,000 men, and were fuppofed to have in their poffeffion about 5000 ftand of arms, had destroyed about 200 fugar plantations, and a number of coffee, &c. and had killed and destroyed all the white people that fell in their way, it is fuppofed to a great amount. The reafon affigned for the revolt of these people is, the late decree paffed in the National Aflembly. It appears that the revolt was confined to the French diftrict; but it was imagined it would become general through the island.

By other information we learn, that the white people at St. Domingo had difpatched a fhip to America, praying for affiftance: that the news of the infurrection being received at Jamaica, Lord Effingham had collected all the troops together, to be ready on the firft alarm; and it was expected that martial law would be proclaimed. We are happy to fay, that no ferious confequence is apprehended among our own iflands: and the military at Jamaica is on the most refpectable footing, and very nu

merous.

This evening, about feven 27th. o'clock, Count de Verteillac made his escape from the Fleet prifon, in a manner fo unfufpected by the keepers, that the firft intelligence leading to a difcovery was given by the master of the Bell-Savage inn, through which he was

found to have paffed. He is the perfon who fome time fince was imprifoned in the King's Bench, and endeavoured to make his escape from thence. The debt for which he was detained is faid to amount to 5000l.

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The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when judgment of death was paffed upon 18 capital convicts; one was fentenced to be tranfported for 14 years, 28 for seven years, four to be imprisoned in Newgate, and nine in Clerkenwell Bridewell; 11 were publicly and two privately whipped; one judgment refpited, on condition of his enlifting as an Eaft India foldier; one (viz. Spence Broughton) for robbing the Mail, ordered to be fent to Cambridge, five to be sent to Surrey, and 34 were difcharged by proclamation.

This evening. about feven o' clock, it was discovered that Oxley, one of the men imprifoned upon a charge of being concerned in fome of the mail robberies, had made his efcape from Clerkenwell prifon Some bricklayers had been employed during the day in repairing the outhoufes in the yard, and their ladder, by a ftrange neglect, was left there after it was dark. This man was a prisoner in a place called the Lodge, where the confinement is lefs ftrict than in fome other parts of the prifon, and had been indulged with very light irons. He afcended the ladder without discovery or fufpicion, and was prefently beyond the walls of the prifon. In paffing over fome leads belonging to an adjoining houfe, he threw down an earthen pan placed there for the reception of birds, which circumftance firft discovered his escape by the noife of the falling pieces. In

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formation was given to the prifonkeepers that fome perfon had been paffing over thofe leads, and he was immediately purfued, but has not yet been taken.

The most dreadful riots have lately happened at Avignon, in which feveral people loft their lives. One man, the companion of Jourdain, furnamed Cut-threat, was affaffinated in a church, at the foot of the aitar. Above fifty others have become miferable victims to popular fury.

DIED, at his apartments in Milfom-ftreet, Bath, of a total decay, in his 64th year, Bamber Gascoyne, Efq. receiver-general of his majefty's cuftoms, one of the lords commiffioners of the admiralty, verdurer of Waltham foreft, Effex, formerly M. P. for Liverpool, and only fon of Sir Crifp Gafcoyne, knt. lord-mayor of London in 1753, and who died in 1761.

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NOVEMBER.

The following melancholy accident occurred in the houfe of Mrs. Clitherow, fireworkmaker, near Halfmoon-alley, Bihopfgate-street:

Mrs. Clitherow, with two journeymen, her fon, and eldeft daugh, ter, being at work in her fhop, to complete fome orders against Friday, about half paft one o'clock in the morning fome tea was propofed as a refreshment; while this was drinking, fome of the materials upon which they had been at work, by unknown means took fire, when Mrs. Clitherow's eldeft daughter ran up stairs to alarm her three fifters, who were in bed. Her fifters prefling her as to the fafety of her mother, he came down

again, but not till the flames had got to fuch an height, that, every attempt to get out of the front door proving abortive, fhe, with one of the men, got into the yard. She there first perceived that her clothes were on fire, which the man had fcarcely extinguifhed, by affifting her to get into the water-tub, before a beam fell, with the explosion of the roof, and broke his arm. At the fame time, both the roof and the gable end of the next house, Mr. Gibbs's, was forced into the ftreet, by which a perfon, who lodged in the garret, was thrown out of his bed upon the ground at feveral yards diftance; this man's thighs were broke, and he is otherwife much hurt. It was not till fome time after the principal explofion, that the two unhappy people in Mrs. Clitherow's yard were found by the populace almost intombed in the fmoking ruins: the young woman was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's hofpital, and the two men to St. Thomas's; two of whom are fince dead. It is fuppofed that her mother and the other journeyman fell a facrifice to an attempt to extinguish the flames in the fhop below, as the principal part of the powder, which was depofited in the garret, was a confiderable time before it took fire. Happily only fix lives were loft, viz. thofe of Mrs. Clitherow, one journeyman, her fon, and three daughters; nor were any other perions hurt than thofe above mentioned. Mrs. Clitherow's houfe is entirely confumed, but the two adjacent are only confiderably damaged, as were the windows and tiling of almost all the houses as far off the fpot as Broad-street buildings.

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It is remarkable, that the late husband of Mrs. Clitherow had a fimilar accident on the fame fpot about thirty years fince, when feveral lives were loft.

A few days fince Mr. Kirk's 3d. cotton-mills, at Barnford, in the county of Derby, were detroyed by fire; which was fo rapid, that only the walls of that great work were left standing, The damage is computed at 8,000l. and a confiderable number of men, women, and children, are for a time deprived of the means of getting their bread.

As fome men were lately 4th. employed in drawing a pond at Hinton Abbey, they found a human fkeleton, in a fitting pofture, the skull not above fix inches covered with mud. It is fuppofed to be the remains of Walter Robinfon, Efq. uncle to the late Stocker Robinfon, Efq. He was drinking at a public-houfe in the neighbourhood about fifty-two years fince, and was fuppofed to have been murdered in his way home, as he had not been seen or heard of fince. The fum of a thousand pounds, with intereft, is among the unclaimed dividends at the bank in his name. A pair of high-heeled fhoes were found whole, a fmall diftance off. The bones were carefully buried in the church-yard. 7th. Birmingham. Between ten

and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, the family (after they were gone to bed) at the Bull's Head public-houfe, in Erdington, being difturbed by a violent knocking at the door, Mr. Gorton, the mafter of the house, got up to his chamber window, and leaning out of it, he obferved three men, one of whom, upon his enquiring what

they wanted, fired a piftol at him, the contents of which lodged in his body, and he expired in great agony yesterday morning.

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Edinburgh. On Tuesday morning, about twenty minutes after nine, a newly-finished glafs-houfe at Dumbarton, fuppofed to be the largest in Great Britain, the cone being 120 feet in height, fuddenly fell down. At this time there were twelve men in the infide, employed in removing the fcaffolding, all of whom were buried in the ruins. The greatest exertions were made to remove the rubbish, and fix of the men were got out alive, but two of them are fince dead: fo that eight out of the twelve have loft their lives, and the other four are not out of danger. The hour of break faft was unfortunately altered the day before from nine till ten o'clock.

This day came on, in the 11th. court of king's-bench, a long depending caufe on behalf of the feamen of the late commodore Johnstone's fquadron, and the troops on board that fquadron, under the command of general Medows. The queftion had been argued fix times. It originated from a meditated attack upon the Cape of Good Hope in the late war, and the capture of a Dutch veffel in Saldanha Bay, which the lords and commiffioners of appeal had determined to be good and lawful prize to the king,' and which the court of king's-bench. affirmed.

Stockholm. A Mr. d'Aiken, a phyfician of Orebo, has invented a powder, which, being infufed in water, will extinguith the most dreadful fires. A number of experiments have already been made with great fuccefs, and he is to repeat them, in

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prefence of his majefty, at Drot ningholm, where a number of houses have already been built for that purpose.

John Portfmouth, for ftealing a bay gelding, of the price of 10l. the property of Patrick Smeeth, and a black gelding, of the price of 10l. the property of Thomas Wood; William Triftram and John Berry, for ftealing a gelding of the price of 51. the property of John Cull; Thomas Eaftop, for ftealing and driving away eight sheep, of the price of 81. the property of Jofeph Sellon; and Robert Clark, for affaulting William Dawson in a field near the high-way, and robbing him of a metal watch, nine guineas, and a black leather pocket book, value 111. 45. 5d. and a bank note value Iol. his property, were executed before Newgate.

Thecourt of King's Bench 15th. delivered their opinion on a fpecial verdict returned to them in the fittings after the last term on an action against the printer of a morning paper, for having published therein illegal schemes for the lottery; when their lordships unanimoufly determined that he had incurred the penalty.

The printer of a morning 16th. paper was brought up in the court of King's Bench, to receive judgment for a libel upon the lord lieutenant of Ireland and Lady Fitzgibbon. Mr. Juftice Afhhurt paffed fentence on the defendant, that he fhould be imprifoned in Newgate for 12 months, and at the end of that period enter into a recognizance for his good behaviour for three years.

A short time ago, a patent paffed the great feal to Mr. Hare, brewer,

of Lime-house, for his invention of an apparatus for effectually retaining and applying to use the effential oil of hops during the boiling of worts for beer, which was formerly loft in the air. By the fame apparatus, water in a veffel of any fize may be heated to boiling-heat, without the application of fire, quicker than it could be heated by actual fire.

Southampton. On Wed19th. nefday morning laft, about two o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at Bugle-hall, in this town, occafioned, it is fuppofed, by the fires which were daily kept in the house to dry it, it being then uninhabited, and undergoing great alterations. As the wind was remarkably high, the engines exceedingly out of repair, and there being a fcarcity of water, that large and antient building was foon reduced to afhes.

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Whitehall. On Friday the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Dover, and arrived the day following, between five and fix in the afternoon, at York House, in perfect health.

It is a fact, not generally known, that as the Duke of York was travelling through part of France, on his way home, a frantic mob affembled round his royal highness's carriage, and were with extreme difficulty prevented from defacing the Arms on the pannels!

The Bishops and the Chancellor were in a separate room for near three quarters of an hour, preparing the form of the register.

At nine o'clock, the bishops and the lord chancellor having intimated that they were ready, they were admitted into her majefty's drawingroom; upon which the proceffion, attended by the officers of the chapel royal, proceeded to the grand faloon. Books of the marriage ceremony were delivered to all the royal family by the archbishop of Canterbury.

At the request of the archbishop, a table was directed to be placed in the faloon, which was formed as an altar, and was narrow enough for the archbishop to reach acrofs, and join the hands of the royal pair.

At half paft nine, the ceremony was performed by the archbishop of Canterbury, affifted by the bishop of London: his majefty fstanding at one end of the altar, and her majefty at the other extremity; the duke and duchess of York in the centre; the archbishop oppofite to them, and the lord chancellor ftanding behind him; the prince of Wales next to the duchefs of York,

and the duke of Clarence next to the duke of York. The princeffes were feated on chairs at a distance from the altar, in the faloon.

As foon as the ceremony was finished, the duchess of York went to VOL. XXXIII,

his majefty, and attempted to kneel' which his majesty with fome difficulty prevented; and, raising her in his arms, affectionately embraced her.

The certificate of the marriage was then figned by their majefties, the prince of Wales, the duke of Clarence, and laftly by the lord chancellor. After which, the bifhops and the lord chancellor, retired, and immediately left the queen's house.

The royal family returned to the queen's drawing-room; and at a few minutes before eleven o'clock, the duke and duchess of York went to York-houfe; where they were accompanied by the prince of Wales and the duke of Clarence, an elegant fupper having been provided by direction of the duke of York.

The prince of Wales gave the duchefs away.

The duchefs was dreffed in white fatin, with taffels, and fringe of gold, and a number of diamonds; in her. head-drefs fhe wore feathers, and three brilliant pins prefented to her by the king at the royal vifit on Tuesday. The duke was in his regimentals-the prince was in a chocolate-coloured dreffed fuit, and the duke of Clarence in his full uniform.

Yesterday, was a fplendid 25th. drawing-room at St. James's, on account of the prefenting of the duchess of York at court. The duke and duchefs went in the fame coach, accompanied by lady Anne Fitzroy. Her royal highness was handed from the carriage by H. Bunbury, efq. by whom he was conducted to the private chamber, where she was met by lady Sydney, lady Mary Howe, and lady Caroline Waldegrave, who led her into the

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