the aged and infirm who are unable to procure a subsistence. They write from Gibraltar, that feveral Corfican families, with their effects, were arrived there in their way to Minorca, where they are going to fettle, they not chufing to continue under the oppreffion of French tyranny in their native country. Holland Fen, in Lincolnshire, being to be inclofed by act of parliament, fome defperate perfons have been fo incensed at what they called their right being taken from them, that in the dead of night they fhot into the windows of feveral gentlemen whom they thought active in procuring the act for inclofure; but happily no perfon has been killed. 18th. They write from Bristol, that, pursuant to an advertifement for that purpose, the free and independent citizens met at Guildhall, to confider of the petition to their gracious fovereign, for redrefs of grievances; for which they were fo unanimous, that there was but one diffenting voice; and the petition being produced, and read, it was universally approved of. A fine large marble tomb-stone, elegantly finished, was erected over the grave of Mr. Allen, junior, in Newington church yard, Surry. On the fides ate the following infcriptions: NORTH SIDE. Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM ALLEN, An Englishman of unfpotted life and amiable difpofition, Who was inhumanly inurdered, near St. George's-fields, the 10th day of May, 1768, by Scottish detachments from the army. Iis difconfolate parents, inhabi tants of this parish, caused this tomb to be erected to an only fon, loft to them and to the world in his twentieth year, as a monument of his virtues and their affection. SOUTH SIDE. O difembody'd foul! moft rudely driven From this low orb (our finful feat) to Heaven ! While filial piety can please the ear, no more, ftore; No kind returning fpring can thee reThy lofs thy hapless countrymen' deplore. EAST SIDE. "O earth! cover not thou my blood." Job xvi. 18. WEST SIDE. "Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be eftablished in righteousness." Prov. xxiii. 5. On the fame monument is the following infcription: Here alfo lies interred, The remains of SARAH NEWSHAM, The only remaining child of WILLIAM ALLEN. Who furvived a few months the cruel death of her beloved bro timber; Mr. Lyne's, confectioner; befides damaging a number of houfes on each fide, and three which lay backwards, with a quantity of goods. In Sherrard-ftreet, it has destroyed Ruftat's coffee-houfe; Mr. Schooler's, a filk-dyer; and Mr. Hole's, a taylor; with four others that are greatly damaged.---It was faid to be occafioned by the carelesness of a boy, in melting fome rofin for whip-handles. The fcarcity of water for upwards of an hour was amazing; not more than one engine could play, with any effect, til half an hour after nine o'clock. About eleven it was got fo far under, as to prevent any farther fear of its increase. A party of the guards attended, to keep off the populace. Thomas Mellor, alias Brooks, for a rape; William Dunk, for returning from tranfportation: and Robert Merry and Richard Belchier, for a robbery, were conveyed in two carts from Newgate to Tyburn, where they were executed, pursuant to their fentence; they feemed extremely penitent, and behaved with great devotion. Mellor died with great refolution. Three of them were very perfonable young men, and very decently dreffed. A new gallows, of an uncommon conftruction, was erected upon the oc cafion. Extract of a letter from Canterbury, July 26. "On Friday laft, a few minutes before twelve o'clock at noon, Sufannah Lott and Benjamin Bufs were taken from the gaol, in order to be executed, purfuant to their fentence, for the murder of Mr. Lott, by poifon. Bufs, dreffed in black, was carried in a waggon drawn by four horfes, and attended by two or three fheriff's officers. Mrs. Lott, dreffed in a fuit of mourning the had for her husband, immediately followed on a hurdle drawn by four horfes. In this manner they proceeded till they came to the place of execution; when Bufs, after joining in prayer with the clergyman, was hanged on a gallows about one hundred yards from the place where Mrs. Lott was to be executed. When he had hung about fifteen minutes, the officers thus proceeded to execute fentence on Mrs. Lott, who was particularly defirous that he fhould fuffer before her: A poft, about feven feet high, was fixed in the ground; it had a peg near the top, to which Mrs. Lott, ftanding on a ftool, was faftened by the neck; when the ftool was taken away, fhe hung about a quarter of an hour, till he was quite dead: a chain was then turned round her body, and properly faltened by staples to the poit, when a large quantity of faggots being placed round her, and fet on fire, the body was confumed to afhes. She was very fenfible of her crime, and died entirely penitent. The man did not betray any remarkable concern for his approaching end. It is computed there were 5000 perfons attending the execution." Extract of a letter from Exeter, July 19. "Laft Tuesday arrived here his grace the D. of B. He was ushered into Guildhall by a gentleman, to receive the freedom of this city, with hiffing all the way: on his return, he was faluted in the fame manner with the found of Wilkes and Liberty' joined to it; and, in all probability, would have been worfe treated, had not the mayor, with the fword and staff-officers, in[13] terposed, terpofed, and conducted him fafe to Bamfylde-houte. In the afternoon he went to St. Peter's, to receive the compliment of being fung into church by the choir; the bishop, &c. attending in proceffion. As foon as the coach stopped at the church-door, the mob furrounded it, and faluted him as in the morning, continuing their fhouts of Wilkes and Liberty'all through the body of the church to the gates of the choir. The church was fo crowded, and the people fo noify, that it was difagreeable and dangerous to be in it. The populace expected his grace's return, but were difappointed, he having gone through the church to the palace, His chief business here is faid to be to promote an address; but his grace has declared he had no fuch intention, nor did he know that it was the affize week. A paper was fixed up on Heavytree gallows with the following words : pected here to-day," 66 is ex Vienna, June 28. Yesterday being the day fixed for the marriage of the archduchefs Amelia with the infant duke of Parma, the court went to the church of the Auguftines of this city, by the gallery which leads from the palace. Near the grand altar a canopy was erected, beneath which were a chair of state, and an oratory for her majetty.. At a finall distance from this canopy, and upon the fame line, were placed two other chairs of state for the imperial family, facing the altar; aud upon a raifed part of the floor, two other chairs of flate, and as many oratories, for his royal highnefs the archduke Ferdinand, who flood proxy for the infant on this occafan. The emprets queen, attended by the captain of her guards, and great officers, led her auguft daughter to the altar, dreffed in a fuit of filver, and having her train borne up by the countess of Wildinftein, as grand-miftrefs. The archduchelles immediately followed her majefty; and the ladies of the court and the city finished the proceffion, which was clofed by a detachment of foot guards. After the nuptial ceremony, the court returned to the palace in the fame order as they went, her majesty all the way leading the new duchefs of Parma. In the evening a fplendid entertainment was given at court, with a grand illumination at the chancery, which is oppofite to the palace. This illumination confifted of upwards of 200,000 lamps, or pots de feu, difpofed according to the orders of architecture; and four choirs of mufick, placed at the four corners of the court of the palace, made the air refound with their pleafing fymphonies. About ten fome falvoes of cannon from the ramparts and mufquetry were fired, which terminated the rejoicings of the day. Hanover, June 30. His royal highnefs the duke of Gloucester arrived here on Tuesday lait, with a fplendid equipage. The princes of Mecklenburg, and feveral other perfons of rank, received him at the palace of Monbrillant. In paffing near Haflenbeck, his highness exa: mined, with great attention, the field of battle where the French and allied armies fought in the year 1757. Yesterday the prince of Bruntwick arrived here, to request his highness to ftand godfather to the young prince of Brunfwick. The duke will go from Brunfwick to Lubeck, where three Danish men of war are to convey him to Copenhagen, at which city great preparations are making to entertain him. Copen Copenhagen, July 8. His majefty is going to build an hofpital, in the manner of that at Chelfea near London, for the fupport of fuperannuated foldiers, and alfo to form an establishment for foldiers widows and children. The fmall pox rages here at prefent in a very fatal manner. St. Petersburgh, May 27. Major general count Tottleben, who was in the fervice of her imperial majefty til the year 1761, and afterwards degraded and banished, prefented a moft humble petition to her imperial majefty, in the following words: "The moft gracious permiffion to return into your imperial majefty's empire, and your capital city, reftores to me, the most unhappy of all wretches a life, which I could hardly fupport for eight years, as I found myself, during that whole time, in the very abyfs of mifery and affliction, and in a fituation truly worthy of compaffion. But, wretched as I was, I conftantly declined all proposals made to me, from different parts, to enter into fervice, as I flattered myself, that your imperial majefty's merciful heart, upon fight of my most humble petition, would permit me to devote my life, and fpill the very laft drop of my blood, in that of your imperial majesty's most august service! Deign to fuffer me, your fubject, to lay my most humble petition at the feet of your imperial majesty, with that natural goodness and generofity fo highly celebrated through the univerie; that paft offences may be forgotten, and I may be received again into the number of your most faithful fubjects. My duty, joined to my natural inclination, would your imperial majesty but deign to employ me on any fervice, might per haps give me an opportunity, by expoling my life against the enemics of your empire, of demonftrating my zeal for the fervice of your im perial majefty, as well as the infinite acknowledgement and gratitude I owe to fuch inexpreffible mercy to me. In purfuance of this petition, her inperial majefty was most graciously pleased to forgive him. Hamburgh, July 9. On Tuesday laft his royal highness the duke of Gloucefter, arrived at Harbourg from Brunfwick; a grand firework was immediately played off, and he was faluted by the cannon. Yefterday his highnefs embarked upon the Elbe, and was received in this city by the baron de Schimmelmann, treasurer to his Danifh Majefty. The duke fet out the fame day for Lubeck, and Travemunde, where two men of war and a frigate are waiting, to convey his highnefs to Copenhagen. 28th. The right hon. the earl of Hertford, prefident of the Magdalen hofpital, the vice-prefidents, and governors, went to Charlotte-ftreet chapel, where an excellent fermon was preached by the rev. William Dodd, LL.D. from Zechariah, chap. iv. the latter part of the 7th verie: 'He fhall bring forth the head-stone thereof, with fhoutings, crying, Grace, Grace, unto it.' After divine fervice they proceeded to St. George's-fields, where the noble prefident laid the first stone, at the altar of the chapel for the new Magdalen hofpital, under which was the following infcrip-` tion on a brafs plate, viz. On the 28th day of July, In the year of our LORD MDCCLXIX, And the ninth year of the reign of his moft facied Majesty, GEORGE [74] GEORGE III. King of Great Britain, Patronized by his royal confort QUEEN CHARLOTTE, THIS HOSPITAL, For the reception of PENITENT PROSTITUTES, Supported by voluntary contribution, Was begun to be erected, And the first STONE laid by FRANCIS Earl of HERTFORD, Knight of the most noble order of the garter, lord chamberlain of his majesty's houfhold, and one of his most hon. priviy council, the PRESIDENT. Joel Johnfon, Architect. The duke and dutchefs of Beau fort, travelling between Arlesford and Winchester, were thrown out of their phaeton, and much hurt; his grace had no bone broke, but the dutchefs had her leg fractured, and was otherwife inuch bruifed: it happened by the horses taking fright. The diftrefsful fituation of this noble family is truly pitiable; his grace confined to his bed from the bruifes he received; his fifter lady Harriot Wynne juft buried; one of his fons dead; the duchefs dangeroufly ill of her leg, broken in two places; and, what adds to the complicated calamity, news has lately been received of the death of the hon. Mr. Bofcawen, her grace's brother, at Jamai-. ca. The high court of jufticiary at Edinburgh finished the trial of Henry Hawkins, a corporal in the 23d regiment, for the murder of one Hindman, a butcher, who was killed in a riot at Glafgow, in which the mob, chiefly butchers, attacked the corporal and his guard, broke the door and windows of the guardroom, wounded the corporal him felf, and fell furiously on the foldiers who fupported him. Upon this provocation, the corporal, fnatching up his firelock with the bayonet fixed, ftabbed the deceafed first through the arm, and then through the heart. The jury, after hearing the proof, unanimously brought in their verdict, Not guilty. The court, in discharging the prifoner from the bar, recommended to him tenderness in the future execution of his duty; but with this exhortation, never to be intimidated from acting with spirit against a lawless mob; affuring him at the fame time, that while he continued. to defend his rights as a man, and did his duty as a foldier, he would always meet protection from the laws. The clothworkers company fold their eftate in Ireland for upwards of 28,000l. It was formerly let for 100l. per ann. but for fome years let at 6ool, per ann. Married lately, Mrs. Rachael Biffet, aged 72, who had acquired near 6000l. by keeping a pawnbroker's fhop near Rotherhithe, to a journeyman wheelwright near Peckham, about 23 years of age. Died lately, Mrs. Milton, a defcendant from the brother of Milton the great poet. She was housekeeper to Dr. Secker. Aged 101, at his house at Hampftead, Jacob Pierfon, gent, who was clerk of the indictments in the king's bench, in the time of lord chief juftice Raymond. Jofhua Bambridge, efq; of Hartftreet, aged 97. At Brompton, aged near 100, William Rivers, efq; formerly a captain in the navy. In St. Catherine's, Mr. John Peter Drewet, merchant, aged 101. He cd |