indemnities; and the Pruffian troops have taken poffeffion without the leaft thew of oppofition. The Emperor intimates, that he expects the fame facility will be afforded to his occupation of the indemnities which he is to receive as Head of the Empire.

The Elector of Mentz has not lived to fee the arrangements refpecting the indemnities completed. He died unexpectedly at his palace of Aichaffenhourg, on the 24th July. [See our Obituary, p 782.] The Pruffian troops entered Monster on the 3d mant (the anniversary of the King of Pruffia's birth-day). On the fame day a Pruffian detachment took poffeffion of Werden, Elfen, Nordhaufen, Muhthaufen, Hildesheim, and of all the other territories that are to be given to Profia as indemoities. The Pruffian arms, and other emblems of Pruffian dominion, are fixing up in all public places. Even the Hildeifheim Gazette is now printed with the privilege of bis Pruffian Majefty.

Prince Henry of Pruffia, brother to Frederick the Great, who has recently died, was born in 1726, and nfed to be often at Court, and much confulted, till the Treaty of Pilnitz in 1791. As he was in politics inclined to the principles of the Conftituent Affembly, he was not viewed with very favourable eyes at Court these last 10 years. Frederick the Great used to fay of him, that he had not committed a fingle fault throughout the whole feven years war. RUSSIA.

Ruffia furnished troops to Georgia, to enable that country to maintain an entire independance of Perfia. Baba Khan, the new King of Perfra, indignant at the meafores adopted by Ruffia, and the diftarbances which he had excited in the province of Ghilan, compelled the Ruffians to retreat to Traback. A Ruffin army was then embarked at Aftracan, and, landing at Derbent, entered the province of Ghilan. Baba Khan has advanced with a numerous force to meet this Ruffian army. WEST INDIES.

Some differences of a very ferions nature have arifen between the Government of Jamaica and the House of Affembly. The Lieutenant-Governor, by command of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Hobart, fent on the 17th June a meffage to the Affembly, to engage it to undertake, at the expence of the island, the maintenance of 5000 white troops; the black regimens having been, in confequence of the strong averfion to them among the proprietors and planters, withdrawn. The Affembly in its answer arged, that the ifland, contributing its full proportion to the general expences of the empire, is entitled to the fervices of fuch a number of men as may be neceffary for its defence, without charging itself exclufively with their pay: this argument is fupported by reference to numerous precedents. The Lieutenant-Governor at the fame time fent a meffage defiring the establishment of a black corps of artificers, and for himfe the entire controul of the barrack depart ment. The confideration of these measures is deferred till the next feffion; and the only point in which the Affembly coincided with the meffage is in agreeing, that the militia of the island should be put on the most respectable footing. These anfwers were carried by a large majority.

We have seen a number of proclamations of the French General Richepanse iza Guadaloupe, calculated for the restoration of tranquillity in the island; but they are interefting only fo far as they fhew, the the Negroes committed the most dreadful excelfes during the fhort period that the ftruggle lafted, and that their ravages are not likely to be speedily repaired. Here, as in St. Domingo, the French have their feverelt labours to begin: hitherto they have only put down rebellion in the field. They have now to create industry and fubordination among men who, defeated, retain all their former animosity, and are indifpoled to active and regular labour.

COUNTRY NEWS.

July 22. One of the coaches which runs from Maidstone to London, after changing horses, being left without coachman or horfe-keeper, the horses took fright, and overfet the coach; whereby

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three gentlemen within-fide were greatly injured, and one of them, an aged member of Morden College, who with another of the focie y was going to vote at the county election, being undermoft, was fo much hurt, that he languished till the next day; and when his party returned, they found him dead at Foot's Cray, where the accident happened.

Woolwich, Aug. 5. Several of the convicts who are to be tranfported to New South Wales formed a plan for an escape, which they endeavoured to carry into execution this day. They were all on fhore, to the number of about 170, and were confined within a building near to the waterfide, where they are acoustomed to work, and which is fenced round with a high wall. On a fudden they rushed out and feized fome of their keepers, and others they knocked down. The ringleader had armed himself with a large knife, and on finding that the convicts had fecured the keepers, proceeded to the outer gate, where a centinel was placed. To him the armed convict, with feveral others, addreffed himself, and infifted upon the gate being opened, or he would inftantly run him through. The foldier fell back a few paces, and fhot the ringleader through the head. At the inftant he faw the centinel about to fire, he turned away his head, but the ball entered the back part of it, and he died immediately. Another of the convicts was attempting to scale the wall, and was thot by at other foldier.-It was their intention to have feized thofe boats which are generally in waiting to take the convicts on-board the hulks; when many of them would have got clear off.

August 5. At Lancaster, Mifs Borwick was leaning out of a window, three ftory high, to wipe fomething off the glafs, and unfly tunately over-reached herfelf, and fell into the freet. She was taken up apparently in a lifelefs ftate, but by medical affiftance was brought to herself. She had both her arms broke, and one of her thighs, and was otherwife hruifed in a most thecking manner. The broken limbs were fet, and hopes were entertained of her recovery.

Bath, August 7. Mrs. Evans, a widow Jady, fitter to the Rev. Dr. Sheppard, of Andover, flopping at a houfe in Weftgate buildings, feated in a wheel chair, while the fervant went to deliver a mellage by her direction, the chair, running back, upfet, and this unfortunate lady was precipitated into the road-way: a coal-waggon paffing at this critical juncture, went over her head, and her almost immediate death followed. No blame whatever can be attached to any party in this lamentable affair.

Aug. 14 The partizans of Sir Francis Burdett, not fatisfied with having kept the county town and its neighbourhood in one uniform fcene of uproar and confufion for

a fortnight, invited him to a dinner at the King's Head inn at Enfield. Expectation was raised that he would make a public entry. A number of idle fellows went out on the London road to draw him in. He prudently declined the honour, and came another way at the hour appointed, in his private coach and four post-horfes. He was received with fhouts at the door of the inn, where every thing was conducted with as much order as could be expected, from a company of 200 perfons (many of them not freeholders), who paid 7s. a head for their dinner, and were handfomely treated with venifon. Strong heer and wine were diftributed to the company out of doors, till their fpirits were elevated to draw their representative (juftly alarmed at his hazardous fituation) along the town and chace fide; and the fcene clofed fatally to two of the men, who joined in the two tranfactions. One of them, a poor old journeyman carpenter, was pushed or fell down, overheated with liquor, and run over, and died the next morning, leaving a wife and family; the other a journeyman taylor, a younger man, was fo bruifed that his life was defpaired of. After the upper rank of company with-. drew, fome drunken fellows ruthed into the room, overthrew the tables, and broke all the glaffes and bowls.-Friends as we are to government and good order, we cannot but lament the party-zeal which occafions thefe exceffes; and as the mul titude are intoxicated at the whim of their leaders, the guilt of all crimes or fatal confequences of fuch exceffes must fall on the leaders, whatever be their rank. In the eye of impartial reafon, money or liquor given to a poor fellow, to degrade himself below a beast of burden, can ill compenfate the lofs of life or limb to himself and family-to fay nothing of the lofs of time in labour, at this critical and interefting season of a double harvest, when the hay and the corn crops prefs fo close on each other as to require a double proportion of hands-ner to infift on the wanton wafle of plenty, when the poor can hardly afford to purchafe neceffaries. How jully then must be reprobated that caufe which involves in it fo much mischief, and which fpeciously feduces even the well-meaning to act as the dupes of the ill judging. FREEDOM OF ELECTION! whither art thou transported?

Aug. 21. This afternoon, as a gentleman and his wife were coming from Windfor in a fingle horse chaife, the animal took fright, and ran against the stump of a tree, by which the chaife was overturned, and the lady killed on the spot. The gentleman was alfo greatly hurt, and was taken to the nearest houfe, where he lies with little hopes of recovery.

A male tiger, which broke loose in Effex a few days ago, has been killed; but not

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until he mangled a young child in a fhocking manner, and killed a fheep. He was fo gorged with his prey, that he was overcome with difficulty, in a fheep-fold near the fpot where he made his escape.

A fubfcription is forming in Worcester for the repair of the church of Malven; and to collect into one widow the stained glafs, esteemed the finest in England.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Monday, July 5.

At a meeting of the Livery of London at Guildhall, to receive the report of the Committee on the petition for the repeal of the Income Tax, and to confider the qualifications of the candidates to reprefent the city of London in Parliament; Mr. Benjamin Travers begged permiffion to occupy the attention of the Livery for a fhort time, with a fubject of the highest and most serious importance. He had deemed it necessary, in conjunction with a few refpectable members of the Livery, to request the attendance of his fellow-citizens this day, for the vindication of their honour, and the affertion of their rights. They had been told they were not a deliberative body-he wished to give the lie to that infamous calumuy (burfts of applauf). -They had been told their deliberations were to be treated with contempt, and that their inftructions to their reprefentatives were unworthy of being attended to. He had ever conceived that the great outline of the character of a British fenator ought to be this-That he should be a man who had received a liberal education-a man of a large and comprehensive mind—a man who understood the principles of the British Conftitution, and the principles of liberty on which it was founded-a man firmly attached to the family of the Houfe of Brunfwick, and actuated by a fi cere love and regard for the perfon of his Sovereign (loud and reiterated plaudits) — -a man who was likewife a lover of peace (a general expreffion of approbation diffused itself throughout the ball at this fentiment); for, by peace alone could the National Debt, which had accumulated to fo tremendous a magnitude, he reduced, and the burdens which bowed down the people be leffened. He should be a man determined to act upon principles of justice; for, to ufe the words of the immortal Chatham-Juftice alone was real honour.-He thould be a man who detefted the flave-trade, that eternal difgrace to the British character, and the mild doctrines of Chriftianity-he thould be a man poffeffed of talents to enable him to deliver the fentiments of his conftituents in the great council of the nation, and to enforce them by folid arguments-he fhould be a man who would listen to their initractions; for otherwife how could they be faid to be reprefented. In fine, he should

be a man illuftrious for his wifdom and virtue; and if the Livery of London made choice of men of fuch chara&ers, they would exalt their own. Having drawn the picture of what a British Senator ought to be, he would contraft it with the merits and pretenfions of the prefent candidates. [With the perfonalities which followed we Should be forry to disgrace our pages]

Mr. Waithman feconded the refolutions. Mr. Alderman Curtis very man.fully defended his former parliamentary conduct; concluding, that many of the inftructions of his conftituents he should certainly follow, but he would never confider himself bound to obey them all in an unqualified manner.

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Mr. Roweroft faid, that as a plain man, unable to contend with others who posfeifed great talents, he muft declare that the principle of the refolution then moved, if meant to be carried to the extent it ftated, was in itfelf an abfurdity, a folecifm in politicks, and impracticable in the execution. If the House of Commons was a deliberative affembly, queftions coming before them must be fully and fairly argued; and members were to make up their minds, and agree to one fide or the other, according as the weight of evidence before them thould preponderate. how, he would afk, could the Houfe of Commons any longer remain a deliberative Affembly, if every man was to go into it with his tally in his pocket, directing him to fay only aye or no to every question that should come before him. He certainly thought that reprefentatives ought to respect the opinions of their conftituents, and do all they could to promote their intereft; and he fincerely hoped that the reprefentatives and the livery might always meet there unanimous in their fentiments. He would contend, however, that the reprefentatives were not bound to follow the inftructions of their conftituents; and in proof of that affetion, he would refer them to the admirable fpeech made by that great philofopher and statesman, Edmund Burke, to the electors of Bristol; which, however, was the cause of his lofing his election.

Sir John W. Anderson said, he had always confcientiously discharged his duty in Parliament; and if he thould be again honoured with their choice, he thould do the fame as he had done before.

Mr. Alderman Combe faid, it was his determination always to obey the instructions which his conftituents should give him. Tuesday, August 3.

This evening Mr. and Mrs. Garnerin, accompanied by Mr. Glafsford, afcended from Vauxhall in a balloon; which rofe about 7 o'clock, and was distinctly feen for 54 minutes, when it had attained an height of 6000 feet. M. Garnerin had taken a cat with him in a basket, which

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came down from this ftupendous height in a parachute with perfect fafety. The balJoon paffed over Westminster Abbey, the Green Park, Paddington, &c.; and the Aeronauts, alighting at Frogmore-place, near Hampstead, returned directly to Vauxhall

Wednesday, August 11.

Some boys from Swallow-ftreet made a party to go down to Lambeth to swim, when two of them proposed to swim for a wager; but unfortunately they both got into the current, from which their frength was not able to extricate them, and they were hurried along rapidly, when one of them funk beneath a barge, as it was nafsing under one of the centre arches of Wettinter-bridge. The bargeman faved one of the boys, whofe name is Thomas Bafley. The unhappy fufferer's name was Thomas Mardle, about 14 years of age. His father lives in Babmer's-mews.

Friday, August 13.

A Mr. Barrett having announced his inBention to afcend yesterday with a balloon, from Mr. Andrade's close, at Greenwich, an incalculable number of persons flocked

the neighbourhood; but Mr. Barrett, Capt. Sowden and others aflifting him, Being in no degree prepared, gave notice that the attempt could not then be made, But would take place on this day; when preparations, were again made, and the people attended equally numerous as yefterday. Afer a variety of efforts, it was found that the balloon could not he furficently filled with gas, or brought to bear, to take up the parties intending to make this aerial excurfion; and night coming on, all that then could be done to fatisfy the multitude was, to fix a cradle, instead of the car, to the balloon; in which ftate, no one being in the cradle, the ropes were cut, and the balloon afcended. About an hour after its afcenfion, information arrived at Mr. Andrade's, that it had fallen in foaie marthes near the river, about three miles from Greenwich, in a field called Bugby's Hole.

Sunday, Auguft: 5.

About 12 this day, a party of eight perfons took a boat at the Isle of Dogs, Blackwall, intending to land at Greenwich fars. They had not proceeded for when the boat unfortunately ran athwart the haufer of a thip at anchor in the river. The motion of the hip elevated the cable with a fudden jerk, and overfet the boat. All the boats within fight of this accident inftantly put off, and every effort was mode to refcue thefe unfortunate perfous from the death with which they were threatened. Seven were initantly picked up; but one, a very amiable young woman, penthed. She had been only one month married to a Mr. Coultman, one of the principal cle: ks in Mr. Perry's dock

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yard, who accompanied her on this aquatic excurfion. When this gentleman was taken out of the water, he looked round for his wife, and finding that the had not been taken up, plu ged into the river, as he faid, to fearch for her. He was refcued a fecond time, but with much difficulty. The fcene was extremely affecting to those who witnetfed it. Care was taken to prevent him from repeating the attempt; but he has been ever fince in a Date of delirium. The body of the young woman was found, and the Coroner' ! queft has returned a verdict of-Acci'ental Death.

Thursday, August 19.

This evening, as Mr. S. Collins, farmer, was driving down Yok freet towards Weftmintter, in a one-hofe chaife, the horfe took fright, by the appearance of a paper balloon, with which fome boys had been amufing themfelves. The horse starting fuddenly, threw Mr. Collins out with fuch violence as to diffocate his thoulder and thumb, and other wife much bruise him. The horse ran at full fpeed through the ftre ts, endangering the lives of many. Mr. C. w.sc ried home almost fenfeless. Saturday, Auguft 21.

This morning, between 1 and 2, the houfe of Meffrs. Jarman and Attwood, fhoe makers, between Argyle-street and Blenheim Steps, Oxford-street, fell-in, and deftroyed all the household furniture, shop, and all their whole fock. Providentially no lives were loft. A young man who lay in the attic ftory, hearing the cracking previous to this accident, had just sufficient time to take fome few articles of apparel with him, ran down ftairs, and alarmed the rest of the family; who, afraid of the circumstance, had abruptly retired in nearly a naked itate, when the houfe fell-in. The next houfe was pulled down fome time ago, and that which has now fallen was neglected to be propped up.

This afternoon, as a gentleman and lady, accompanied by two young children, were going through Broad-street, St. Giles's, in a fingle-horte chaife, it was run foul of by a brewer's dray, which nearly tore one of the wheels from the chaife. The fhock was fo great as to throw one of the chil dren out, which the lady providentially caught by the arm as it was falling, and preferved the infant's life at the hazard of her own; the being nearly half out of the chaife at the time. The lady bad her left thoulder and fide very much bruised by the wheels of the dray; the driver of which continued his journey without concern.

P. 592. Mr. Richard Sanfome, whofe age was 32, was a third brother, who was taken off in early life. William Sanfome died March 12, 1795, aged 23. Charles Sanfome died Nov. 9, 1799, aged 26. The eldest brother, Thomas, aged 35, and two fifters, now remain. Their father died fuddenly, July 24, 1793, aged 60.-The Sanfomes are a very antient yeomanry family; and for more than 200 years have (jointly with the Robinsons, another old family) held the manor of Hinckley in trust "to and for the difcharge, fuftentacion, and bearing of the charges and bufineffes impofed and happening to that town;" whence the head of each family has uniformly acquired the title of Lord Sanfome and Lord Robinson.

P. 678. Mr. William Bough, the furveyor, has given the following circumftances, relative to the melancholy event at Blackwall, in a letter dated July 26: "I did not in the leaft doubt the ftability of the coffre-dam; I was my felf clofe upon the spot, within the diftance of three yards from my brother, who unfortunately fell, and was overwhelmed in an inftant. I never faw him in the water at all, but fully expected he had run after me. In the height of dread, however, he took the reverse road, in order to reach the run which was laid to wheel up; but the water inftantly took it away, and left him to the merciless torrent, where he ftill remains. With regard to the number loft, it is too many, but it does not exceed fix, five of whom were decently interred in Poplar chapel-yard yesterday."

P. 687. Lord Cullen left a fon, elder to the one married to a daughter of Serjeant Hill, who is the prefent Lord Cullen.

Ibid. b. 1. 42, for "Jack,” r. “Jack fon." P. 689. Mr. Butterworth Bayley, who died at the clofe of his 58th year, at Buxton, of a mortification in his bowels, June 24, was defcended, on his mother's fide, from the Duckenfields of Chefhire; and, after he had finished his ftudies under an excellent tutor in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, was nominated one of his Majefty's juftices of the peace for the county palatine of Lancaster, and foon appointed perpetual chairman of the quarter fellions; afterwards high fheriff and collector of the King's revenues under the chancellor of the duchy. In the difcharge of thele d'uties he acquitted himself with vigilance and firmnels. The erection of a commodious and well-ventilated gaol and penitentiaryhoufe at Manchester was accomplithed by him 1787, after much oppofition, and afterwards as much approved. Mr. Howard fpeaks of it in the higheft te ms; and, for the improvement in the courts of aflize and the county gaol at Lincader, the like prafe is due to Mr. B. who took an active GENT. MAG, Angel, 18.2,

part in the establishment of a board of health for the benefit of the great body of poor in the town and neighbourhood of Manchefter, 1796, and restrained the progrefs of a malignant fever in the cottonmanufactory. He was particularly confulted on the bill lately enacted for the well-ordering of apprentices, the claufes of which he in general approved, but confidered them as much too partial and limited in their operation; and he, as every friend to humanity and found policy mult be, was adverfe to the admiffion of ap、 prentices from a distance, who, being unknown, muft, in fome meafure, be unprotected. Indeed, the late proceedings at a manufactory fo near the metropolis as Watford, which coft the proprietor his life, mult make every one thudder at the idea of apprenticing out parish-children. Mr. B. encouraged the Manchester Literary and Philofophical Society, established about 25 years at Manchester, which has published five octavo volumes of Tranfactions. From this inftitution fprang, under his warmest patronage, another, intituled "The College of Arts and Sciences," which, by opposition, was foon abandoned. His leifure hours he employed in agricultural purfuits on his farm at Hope. He was appointed lieute nant-colonel commandant of the refpectable volunteer corps at Minchefter; but his temperate firmness and authority, mixed with conciliation, fuppreffed all riots without bloodthed. He marrie! Mary, only child of Mr. Vincent Leggatt, of London. He was cordially attached to the Church of England; and was, in polnicks, a Whig of the old fchool, devoted to the established principles of the British Conftitution; "in fupport of which he difplayed fuch zeal and activity, during the late eventful and turbulent period, as to receive the warmest approbation from his Majesty's ministers.

P. 690. Dr. Garnett was born near Kirkby-Lonidale, Weitmoreland, where his father occupied a fmall eftate of his own, and placed him under the care of Mr. Dawfon, at Sedbergh, well known. for his mathematical abilities, and lately deceafed. Thence he went to Edinburgh, and became a pupil of Dr. B own, and ftudied furgery at London, and pra lifed at Harrowgate, till he formed a d. fign of vifiting America, from which his trends diffuaded him, and he read lectures on chemistry and experimental philofophy at Liverpool and Manchester; afterwards obtained the lectureship of Anderfon's inftitution at Glasgow, and that of the Royal Inftitution, which laft he held t so feafeons, and, our his refignation, operel a lecture on his own account, in a loule which he purchafed in Great Marlborough-ftreet, t'll he died of a typhus fever, caught in the gratuitous exercite of his prefellion, and

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