1 back, trumpeters, &c. Then came 24 young handfomes women, belonging to the different cotton-mills, dreffed in a uniform of peculiar beauty and fimplicity. The gentlemen, to the number of 400, walked in pairs, preceded by the Earl of Derby and Mr. Eifkine. They paraded through the principal streets, and proceeded to the church. After divine fervice, Mr. Grimfhaw, the Mayor, entertained the gentle men with a fumptuous dinner On Tuesday was the ladies proceffion. The young women, as before, led the van, and were followed by the Mayorefs, the Countess of Derby, and nearly 400 of the moft diftinguished ladies in this and the neighbouring counties. This fpectacle was by far the most brilliant of the whole feftival. The Mayorofs entertained the ladies on this day. The races began on Wednefday, which were most numero fly attended. This Guild is, by charter, celebrated every 21 years, in default of which the elective franchifcs of the inhabitants, in fending Members to Parliament, and their rights as burgeiles, would be forfeited. was inftituted in the reign of Henry III. and this is the eighteenth which has been held, under twelve monarchs. The first was in the 2d year of Edward III. His prefent Majefty is the only Sovereign, during whofe reign three of thefe feftivals have been celebrated. It эс 08.25. Mr. Agus, of Portfea, his wife and child, going to vifit a friend Winchester, in a gig; when they came to the turnpike just out of Fareham, Mr. A. got out, his wife going on the mean while; and the horfe mending his p.ce alarmed Mrs. A. fo much that the fcreamed out; upon which a w ggoner, who was a Ittle on before, cracked his whip, and the animal fuddenly turning out of the road into a ditch, threw Mrs. A. and the child out, by which accident her neck was difJocated, and the child's thigh broken. Mrs. A. died almost immediately; but the child is in a fair way of recovery, Neath, Oct. 26. On Thurfday night laft, about a quarter after eight o'clock, a smart fhock of an earthquake was experienced at Carmarthen. There was dreadful apprehenfion that an old reputed prophecy was about to be verified "That Carmarthen would be swallowed by an enthquake!' At Landillo and Llandebia, in Carmarther thire, the fame fenfation was felt; and likewife at Nurbeath in Fembrokeshire. Nov. 6. One of the trows belonging to Mr. Phillips, of Brofely, going up the Severn, a few days fince, a violent form came on just after it had left Glocefter, which carried away the yard and part of the rigging from the matt; when the wreck, in falling, knocked Mr. Philips's fon and a man overboard. The youth with much difficulty fwam to the thore; but the poor man was supposed to be stunned with the blow he received, as he never role af. terwards; and although immediate fearch was made, the body could not be found. Stamford, Nov. 1p. The 5th of Novem her was observed here in the ufual manner it has been for many years paft; that is, about 11 of the clock in the afternoon a poor innocent boll was dragged into the town, amidst the shouts of an applauding multitude: it was taken to the Castle-hill, tied to an iron ring with ropes, and then torn and worried by dogs. The animal ap peared to poffefs great ftrength; and torture adding thereto, he foon broke loose, and ran down the hill into the city, to the no fmail terror of the country people, for it was market-day; feveral women, with butter, geefe, &c. ran into St. Peter's church during divine fervice. To efcape his puifers, men and dogs, he attempted to cross the Witham, but failed, on account of the high banks. After remaining in the water for more than 20 minutes, he was dragged again to the place of torture on the Caffle-hill, and from thence to a ring near the Witham. Here the unhappy vićtim, a horrid fpectacle, was batted, lacerated, and harraffed until four o'clock, when, to the great difappointment of his inhuman mafiers, he fell down at the flake, and died in a moment!!!-"Surely diverfions of this fort, if we may give them fuch an appellation, are not only a reproach to human nature, but a difgrace to every Chrif tian country." Nov. 19. A melancholy instance of the effects of charcoal, burnt in a room where there is no chimney, occurred at Wolverley, in Worcestershire, where a man, his wife, and a daughter, about 11 years of age, all fell victimas to the foffocation arifing from it. Nov. 24 An inquifition was taken on the body of Sarah Brandon, 77 years of age, an inhabitant of St. Mary's, Norwich, whofe clothes accidentally caught fire as fhe was paffing by a lighted candle at the feet of her bed, by which fhe was fo dreadfully burnt that the foon after expired.-At the fame time an inquifition was taken, and the ufual verdict returned, on the body of Ann Parkerfon, of St. Clement's, aged 74, who was found dead in her bed. Nov. 29. The body of a mafon named Crols was this day found in the river near Tone Bridge. He was returning home on Saturday night in a state of inebriety, and is fuppofed to have fallen over the bridge. A tmall dog which he had with him went home on Sunday; and Monday, his wife, alarmed at his ftay, proceeded to TauxioN for the purpose of inquiring the caufe. She took the dog with her; and, on her reaching the bridge, the animal began howling, leaped on the parapet, and could not he removed from the spot. This induced a fearch, and the body was found a thort distance 1 1802. Intelligence from various Parts of the Country. 1155 diftance below, whither the current had carried it, and in the actual direction of the fpot from whence the dog had fo diftinctly manifefted that he had fallen. This night, a merchantman, of about 160 tons burthen, was wrecked between Rye and Haftings. She had failed from Malaga, and was bound to Rotterdam, laden with a cargo of wines, lemons, oranges, raifins, and black lead. The Captain and five of the crew are faved; three men and a boy loft. The beach near Rye, for the space of half a mile, appeared a perfect yellow, from the number of lemons and oranges driven on thore, . Many of the poor inhabitants of Rye have picked up great quantities of the fruit undamaged, and the finest of lemons may be bought there at three pence per dozen. One man and the buy were driven on thore on Wednefday night. Two pipes of the wine have been found, with a number of other articles. They are under the care of the Cuftom houfe officer, and will be restored to the owner. Νου. 30. As Mary Wills, a little girl of 11 years of age, was working a fpinning jenny at a woollen manufactory, Plymouth, a fpike of the devil accidentally caught a finger of her right hand; and, before it could be stopped, the velocity of its motion had, by the other fpikes, tore off all the fingers, the finews, and mufcles of her right arm to the elbow, and broke the bones. A furgeon immediately amputated her arm; and the poor child is likely to do well. Nov. 31. As Sherratt's waggon, heavily laden, on its return from Shrewsbury, was coming down the hill at Tettenball, near Wolverhampton, the fore horfestook fright at the top of the hill; this circumftance rendering it impoflible for the waggoner to lock the wheels, the waggon was forced forward with the greatest rapidity, and the horses finding the turnpike gate (which ftands immediately at the bottom of the hill) clofed, fuddenly turned round and overfet the waggon; by which accident two women paffengers were very much hurt, and two children, one about nine months, and the other two years old, killed. Dec. 1. A melancholy accident happened in a poor man's family at Breage, Dorfet. The father, in the morning, had emptied his pockets, and placed fome gunpowder on the fhelves in the kitchen. He and his wife went away, leaving two of his own children, and two of his neighbour's (the eldest not exceeding 7 years), in his houfe. In the forenoon the children found the powder, and unfortunately threw it (about half a pound) into the fire. The explofion was very great. One of the children in the inner corner of the large fire, efcaped unhurt; one received a fhock in his forehead; another is dreadfully burnt, and very little hopes enter tained of his recovery. The other, which was the eldest, and who threw the pow der into the fire, had his clothes fet on fire (they were a jacket and trowfers made of plush velvet). These cloaths, no doubt, retained the fire a great while; for it appeared he ran out of the house in a blaze, went to the distance of two fields, over two hedges, having attempted to extinguish the fire by wallowing, but to no effect; for when he was found, all his clothes were burnt off his body, except the wrift of his fhirt and his garter, which were then burning, and the miferable infant was not only in existence, but fenfible, and able to relate the above facts. He was carried home, lived for an hour af terwards, and then died. An offler, belonging to an inn at Doncaffer, washing the Sheffield coach-hories in the river Chefwold, the current carried them out, and the man falling off, was drowned: the horfes regained the thore. Dec 7. This night the following dreadful affair happened at Stone Pound. The excifeman of Horft, and a person whom he hired to affift him in the execution of his duty, of the name of Bignall, were on horfeback, for the purpose of detecting licit traders, near the above place; when three men on horfeback likewife, whom the excifeman conceived were fmuggiers, appearing on the road, he inftantly crofled and defired them to halt. The foremost of the three, probably mistaking him for a highwayman, inquired if it was his intention to rob him, and immediately raifed a ftick to strike him, when Bignall dif charged his pistol. The ball entered the ftranger's body a little above the hip, on the left fide, went directly through him, and lodged in the fkirt of his coat on the right. He dropped, and the excifeman and Bignall, leaving him to the care of his aftonifhed friends, made off, and the next morning early gave an account of their proceedings to the fupervifor, at Lewes, who mott feverely reprimanded them for their fanguinary conduct. The excifeman and Bignall were directly taken into cuftody, as the wounded perion (who had no connexion with faggling) is not likely to live. Dec. 8. The part of the Battle powdermills in which the ingredients were pulve rized, blew up with a very loud explosion, but providentially no life was loft, nor any very material damage done, except to tha immediate premifes in which the combuftibles exploded. As fome perfons were taking down the pine end of the dwelling-houfe belonging to Mr. Crofs, at Machen, in Monmouthshire, they difcovered about 250 live fnakes with a large basket full of their eggs, all of which they immediately burnt. Course of two months before, about go were caught and killed; and in general In the · they were found in the children's clothes, fortune is such as to require the aid of a pawhilft in bed in the night. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Saturday, October 26. Capt. W. Codlin and J. Reed were tried at the Admiralty Seffions, for finking the brig Adventure (fee p. 866); and G. Eafterby and A. M'Farlane were charged on the fame indictment for procuring the other prifoners to commit the fame felony. The Jury found all the prifoners guilty, except Reed. Sentence of death was immediately paffed upon Codlin; the others wait for the opinion of the Judges, upon Mr. Erfkine's objection, that the Admiralty Court is not authorized to take cognizance of any crime committed by a perfon who never went out to fea. Capt. Codlin fuffered Nov. 27. He was a remarkably fine man, one of the best seamen in the North coaft trade, and after his condemnation, and during his execution, conducted himself with fingular firmness and propriety. Wednesday, November 3. This moming the celebrated Engraver Bartolozzi left our metropolis, in order to proceed to Portugal. It is much to be regretted, that an artift of fuch eminence, and whole talents have fo long done honour to this country, fhould have been compelled, in the decline of his life, to have fought an afylum in any other-yet we have nothing with which to reproach ourfelves on his account; the efforts of his genius have been rewarded with the liberality which uniformly diftinguifbes the English Nation; and, if imprudence has lavifhed what generofity has bestowed, it is a subject of regret, that fplendid talents fhould be unaccompanied by common prudence :-the fact is Mr. Bartolozzi has fuffered himself to be too much impofed upon by his own countrymen, who have taken advantage of his eafiness of temper, and his careleffnefs with regard to his affairs. Thus, although he has acquired what might have been an independent fortune, he has neglected to preserve it; and to fecure tranquillity and comfort to his latter days, he has accepted the offer of the Government of Portugal, and has confented to pafs the remainder of his days there, upon what in this country would be deemed a very moderate penfion. We understand that a National Academy of Arts is to be eftablished at Lisbon, of which Mr. Bir tolozzi is to have the fuperintendance. He is to be attended by two pupils from this country. An handsome suite of ap rtments are to be affigned him; and every thing elfe provided for him at Lisbon, independent of his falary, which is little more than zool. fterling a year. He purpoles, before his final departure, to país a few days at Bath. We cannot avoid obferving, that, if the state of Mr. Bartolozzi's tronizing government, it would be a gratification to every Englishman, that be fhould have been indebted for that affiftance folely to the country of which he has fo many years been an ornament. Monday, November 29. It may be recollected, that about four years ago, Johnson, the notorious smuggler, and another were apprehended for obstruct ing and ill ufing fome revenue officers en the Suffex coaft, and were committed to the New Goal in the Borough to take their trial, but effected their escape in the moft daring way, and remained at large, notwithstanding 5ool. reward was offered for their apprehenfion. The first time fohnfon was heard of, after his escape, was at the time the expedition to the Helder was meditated by Government, when he made an offer of his fervices to accompany the expedition, as, from his fmuggling connections, he had gained a complete knowledge of the Dutch coaft: Government accepted of his fervices, and granted him a full parden, on his promife never to be again concerned in the fmuggling trade. Johnson acquitted himself in this undertaking fo much to the fatisfaction of his employers, that he became a great favourite with feveral of the ex-minifters, and with the late Sir Ralph Abercromby in particular. He afterwards contracted debts to the amount of 11,000l. was arrested, and lodged in the Fleet prifon, nearly fix months ago, where he remained. It appears, before he became an inhabitant of the Fleet, that, in his pecuniary difficulties, he again had recourse to smuggling, and he was capitally indicted, on very strong grounds. Johnson, aware of these circumstances, turned his thoughts once more to making his escape, which he effected this morning, notwithstanding he was confined in a ftrong room, with two doors, or rather a double door, fuch as are generally fixed to the chambers in Inns of Court. At the top of each door was a pannel inftead of glass. It was by forcing out these two pannels, and creeping through the hoes of them, that Johnfon was enabled to reach the gallery, and from thence the high wall that furrounds the prifon; which it was impoflible for him to have done, without accompl ces, as the pannel of the outer door, it appears, had been forced ro without. On his coming to that part of the wall next to Fleet-market, he found a rope ladder, which his friends on the outfide had provided for him, and placed there agreeable to their plin. la the evening he arrived in a chaife and four on the coaft near Brighton, where a lugger was in waiting for him, in which he embarked, and arrived at Calais, on his way to Flushing, after landing at Dieppe. He had a fevere wound in the thigh, which he related to have received in in the following manner: He had got on the top of the laft wall that feparated him from the street, 70 feet from the ground: a lamp was placed in the wall, at fome diftance beneath the place where he was. He let himfelf down the wall exactly over the iron bar, and when he was forced to give up his hold, he ftretched his legs fo as to fall aftride. He had taken every precantion, and fell across the bar without overturning or hurting himself; but, as he could not guard against an additional piece of iron, it caught his thigh above the knee, and ripped it up almoft to the top. At this moment he heard the watchman crying the hour; and had so much fortitude, as to remain aftride in that fituation, bleeding most abundantly, till the watchman had gone his round, without perceiving him; having, in all probability, been prevented from feeing him by the dazzling light of the lamp on the iron work. Immediately after, he had the refolution to let himfelf down, at all hazards, and crawled to fome diftance, where a poft chaife and four had been stationed for feveral evenings before, in expectation of his escape. Sunday, December 5. The Sir Richard Ford, before whom, and other magiftrates, he was examined this day a Bow-street. The Solicitor for the prifoner's bankruptcy attended, and identified his perfon. Mr. Parkin, te Solicitor to the Poft-office, produced a warrant from Sir Frederick Vane, Bart. a magistrate for the county of Cumberland, against the prifoner, by the name of the Hon. Auguftus Hope, charging him with felony. There are other charges against him for forgery and bigamy, which were explained to him, but not entered into; and he was committed to Tothill-fields Bridewell for further examination. He conducted himself with the greatest decorum during his journey to town, and on his examination; hut faid nothing more than anfwering a few queftions put to him by Sir Richard Ford and the Solicitors. He was dreffed in a black coat and waistcoat, fuftian breeches, and boots, and wore his hair tied behind, without powder: his appearance was se fpe&abie, though quite in deshabille. Friday, December 10. The Stewards and Judges of the Smithfield Cattle and Sheep Society met this morning, at Wootton's Livery-table-yard, Smithheld, and minutely examined the feveral oxen, cows, sheep, and hogs, which had been fent in from diff rent parts of England. On Saturday and Monday the fhew of cattle continued; and on each day, about 120 perfons fat down to dinner, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who was unanimously elected Prefident, in the Chair. Among the other well-known feeders of cattle, and encouragers of agriculture, were prefent, Lord Somerville, Lord W. Rutfell, Mr. Arthur Young, Mr. Weftcar, Mr. Elman, &c. This evening, about 5, 2 fire broke out at Meffrs. Varley's indigo manufactory in Allhallows-lane, London-bridge. The fire was first discovered by a fost paffenger, who was paffing at the inftant the flames burst out through the windows of the first Aoor. An alarm was immediately given in the neighbourhood: the warehouse bell was repeatedly rung, but no one appeared. Notice was fent to the fire-offices. flames in the interim extended their ravages to the roof of the premises; and in a fhort time after burnt fo furiously, as to fet fire to the adjoining houfe. The utmost terror prevailed among the inhabitants before the arrival of the engines, each fearing that his habitation would be destroyed, as none of the houses have party-walls; and the lane is fo narrow as to admit only" one engine at a time. About 6 the firemen belonging to the San fire-office arrived, and foon after thofe of the Phoenix, the British, and the Royal Exchange Affurance. A plentiful fupply of water being Ipeedily procured, the engines were brought into play, and in less than two hours the flames were got under, without extending their ravages beyond the premifes adjoining to thofe where the fire commenced. A fireman of the Phenix, imprudently riding on the fhafts of the engine down Tooley ftreet, by a fudden jerk, was thrown under the wheel, and killed on the spot. He has left a wife and five children. Monday, December 27. John Hatfield this day went through a fourth examination at Bow-ftreet; in the courfe of which the following letter from Mary of Buttermere" was read by Mc. Reeves: "The man whom I had the misfortens to marry, and who has ruined me and my aged and unhappy parents, always told me that he was the Hon. Col. Hope, the next brother to the Earl of Hopetoun. "Your grateful and unfortunate "fervant, MARY ROBINSON."* The unaffected fimplicity of this letter, coming from one who, though wounded in the most feeling manner, abstained from the feverity of reproach; and though it breathed the foft murmur of complaint, yet was, throughout, remote from viru lence or abuse, excited in the breast of every perfon prefent the fympathetic emotion of pity and refpect for the unmerited forrows of a female, who has manifested a delicacy of fentiment, and nobleness of mind, infinitely beyond her sphere or education, Vol. LXX. p. 184. A neat and elegant monument has been juft erected at Streatham, Surrey, to the memory of Mr. Macnamara, by his lady, with this infcription: "DANIEL MACNAMARA, Efq. Born in the county of Clage, in the kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1720, Died at Streatham, the 20th of January, 18co. Stranger to faction, and the feuds of ftate, By Bedford patroniz'd, to Moira dear, Vol. LXXII. p. 790, a. Gen. Sir Robert Sloper died on the 19th of Auguft. He was always esteemed as a gond officer and worthy man. On the memorable court-martial of Lord George Sackville he gave a very pointed evidence against that nobleman. During the American war he went to the Eaft Indies, where he ferved for feme years with great credit. He was on the home-staff most of the late war. P. 1014, for "Beauties of Wiltfhire" r. "Beauties of England and Wales." P. 1018, b. l. 7, for ubi, r. uti; 1. 24, for "entablatures," r. "entablature." P. 1019, a. l. 1, for ubi, r. uti; 1. 4, for ❝ubi eft nemoris," r. "uti ett nemori." P. 1066. The funeral obfequies of the Jate Duke of Parma were celebrated with great pomp Nov. 21, in the church of the Annunciation, at Florence. The Apoftolic nuncio, M. Morozzo, chaunted a folemn mafs upon the occafion, affifted by a numerous clergy and four bifhops, in the prefence of all the officers of state and foreign minifters. P. 1077. By the evidence adduced before the coroner's jury, it appeared that the late unfortunate Mr. Steel had purchased a piece of the Felthams inclofure, on Hounflow heath, had built a houfe on it to retire to with his family, had laid out fome acres of plantation of lavender, and erected a diftil houfe, &c. for the purpose of carrying on his diftillery of lavender water. The day preceding the murder, the deceafed had gone down to prepare his house (which was nearly finished) for the reception of Mrs. Steel, who was to have gone down the enfuing week for the purpose of lying-in there of her fecond chikt. On the evening of the murder, the deccafed left his houfe to return to London, about feven o'clock, much against the perfuafion of all his domesticks, having borrowed a great coat, and taken with him his cale, with a fword in it, which he thought would protect him, and that there was no danger, as it was so very moonlight. In about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, it is fuppofed, the deceafed reached the fatal fpot; but nothing was heard refpecting him till the 9th, when, upon a relation going from town to enquire after him, as he had not returned home to London, and finding he had left his houfe for that purpose on the 6th in the evening, and upon a number of persons offering their fervice to examine the heath, the body was found near the fecond clump of trees planted on the heath, on the right-hand fide of the road going from Honnflow, nearly covered over with dirt; and the great coat he had borrowed was found in pit nearly oppofite to him, on the other fide of the road, covered over with grafs and heath. On examining the body of the deceased, it appeared he had received a violent blow in the face, which had much bruifed his mouth and nofe, and which, it is fuppofed, knocked him down, as his cloaths appeared much ditted with road fand. It is fuppofed he recovered from this, got up, and ran towards the barrack for affiance, as about forty yards from the road, in that direction, Sir Richard Ford (who, with other magiftrates, attended the coroner) difcovered a great quantity of blood, where it is believed the perfons overtook him, and knocked him down with a very heavy bludgeon found near the spot bloody, and with which, there is no doubt, the deceafed received the other dreadful blows on his head, which had laid the fkull bare, and fractured it in feveral places; and here, it is fuppofed, they left him for fome time, from an alarm, probably, of fome perfon appearing on the road; and from thence it was evident they afterwards dragged him to the fpot where the body was found buried, by the mark of the dirt on the grafs and heath which came off his cloaths. Previous to covering over the body, it appeared, his pockets were all boots, and fword-cane taken away.-Upon turned out, and his hat, flockings, halffurther examining the heath, it appeared that the bludgeon, found near the deceased, had been cut from the ftump of a birchtree, in a clump of trees ou the oppofite fide of the road to where the body was found, and which, from the chips and notches, had evidently been cut with a fmall knife, like a pen-knife, and must have taken a long time to divide, from the fize of the bludgeon, which, being compared with the ftump, exactly correfpond ed. The utmost diligence was used by Sir Richard in the examination of every person who could be found to have paffed the heath, |