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Lordship was presented with a very valnable diamond ring, as a mark of his Imperial Majesty's favour and approbation.

The Emperor Alexander has, it is faid, ordered that the lofs fuftained by British subjects, through the embargo laid on their fhips by the Emperor Paul, fhall be made good. According to the determination of the Commiflion of Liquidation, the whole fum amounts to 700,000.roubles.

The editor of the Hamburgh Gazette has been requested to contradict the reports, fpread on the Continent, of a correfpondence having paffed between the Emperor of Ruffia and the King of Sweden, on the fubject of the Count de Panin.

PORTUGAL.

General Lafnes, the French Minister at the Court of Portugal, departed very abruply on the morning of the roth Auguit; and the following article appeared in the Official Gazette on the 14th:

Lifan, Aug. 14. "General Lafnes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, left this Court in the morning of the 10th inftant; a meafure which he took from his own proper will, and which is the more unexpected, a the civilities and attentions paid to him by this Court, in demonstration of the friendship, perfe&t harmony, and good understanding fubfifting between this Monarchy and the French Republic, have been conftant and repeated, and as there does not exist any actual object of difcuffion between the two Governments, which can alter, in the flightest degree, the happy relations of this country with France, relations which this Con't defires efficaciously to promote, and even to render more intimate."

very unfavourable reception on his return; for, instead of having his fuppefed wrongs redreffed by Bonaparte, he has been exiled to bis country-feat in Normandy!

TURKEY.

By the Definitive Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris on the 25th of June, between the French Republic and the Ottoman Porte, the relations formerly fubfifting between the two countries are renewed. The free navigation of the Black Sea is conceded to France; and the Contracting Parties agree to take vigorous measures to clear from all pirates the feas navigated by the veifels of both States. The French Republic and the Sublime Porte mutually guarantee the integrity of their respective poffeffions. It is declared by the treaty to be exprefly understood, that each State grants to the other all the advantages which have been or thall be granted by either to any other Powers, in the fame manner as if they were exprefly ftipulated by the treaty. The Porte affents to all that was ftipulated with refpect to it in the Treaty of Amiens, all the articles of which, having any relation to Turkey, are formally renewed.-The publication of this treaty at Conftantinople was received with uncommon marks of exultation: and the cannon were fired three times every day, for thres days, from all the caftles on the canal.

Gen. Brune, who lately commanded in Holland, is named as Amballador to the Ottoman Court.

Paliwan Oglou has at length made his peace with the Porte. It is alfo affected, in letters from Conftantinople, that the British troops have completely evacurated the territory of Egypt. The Beys in Upper Egypt, however, till oppofe the Turks in a very determined manner. AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.

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In the Houfe of Affembly of Jamaica, a demand has been made by the Government of the ifland, that the colony fhould provide for the maintenance of 5000 troops intended for its defence. This propofal the Alfembly has negatived by a majority of 24 to 6.

The conclufion of peace between Morocco and the United States of America has been officially announced.

The follo ving is faid to be the true canfe of General Lafnes quitting Portugal: Two fhips from France, configned to a Mr. W. de R-, merchant of Lisbon, had twothirds of their cargo prohibited goods in cafes, which were all patfed as the French Ambaffator's haggage; but on the arrival of the third veffel, Don Manique, the Intendant of Lisbon, thought there was fout play, and had fome of the casks opened; and, inften of private effects, they were filled with piece-goods. Notice of this proceeding was fent to Laínes, who fent his aid-de-camp to the Cultom-house. A violent altercation enfoed hetween the par- July 5. A foldier, who had been abfent ties, which terminated in blows; the aid nine years, returned to Birmingham, and de-camp was taken to the guard-houfe, found his wife cohabiting with another' but liberated next day. The general wait-man; he demanded her, and the went ed immediately on the Portuguefe Minitter for Foreign Affairs, and in a rough manner told him, "the Prince, his matter, was a

; that there was no government; that all was anarchy; and that they were faves to the English," &c. &c. He inЯed upon patfports, and off he went. General Lafnes, it appeas, met with a

COUNTRY NEWS.

with him; but, having 1-ft fome things in the hands of her paramour, the went to fetch them, when the wretch fit cut her throat, and then his own.

* The fame has fince been formally confirmed to the vellels of Great Britain and her dependencies. (See p. 867.)

July

July 21. The cloathing factory belong. ing to Mr. Nafh, of Trowbridge, was fet on fire, and burnt to the ground. It feems the woollen-manufacturers are incenfed at the introduction of new machinery, which deprives them of a part of their employ.

July 23. The cloathing-mills at Clifford were fet on fire, and entirely confumed.

Aug 5. The powder-mills at Cork blew up this day with a tremendous explosion; by which accident 7 men loft their lives.

Aug. 10. A violent ftorm of rain fell in the grounds of Mrs. Blayny, of Abberley, Worcestershire, attended with thunder and lightning. An oak tree, containing about three tons of timber, was perfectly barked, and broke off about three feet from the ground, one part being carried over a hedge to the distance of 10 or 15 yards; part of it was shivered into lath. The boughs and bark were scattered in every direction, fo as to cover near a quarter of an acre.The fame afternoon, between 4 and 5, Newbold-upon-Avon, Churchover, Great Harborough, and part of Monks-kirby, in Warwickihire, were vifited by a tremendous ftorm. It advanced in a direction from S. W. to N. E. and defcended with an impetuofity which carried all before it. Its range was not extenfive, not exceeding a mile in breadth. The number of windows demolished in Churchover was very great: in one houfe only, above 200 were broken.

10 Cefterfever grounds, and in Street-fields, the devaitation in this particular was still greater. Thefe injuries, however, were Imall in comparison to the damage done to the crops. Many fields of corn were completely laid waste, and the hopes of the year in a few minutes blafted. It purfued, its courfe over Leiceste there, by Bittejwell, Claybrook, and Leir, where it did confiderable damage. In many fields, the corn was cut by the hail ftones as if with a fcythe. A períon in the liberty of Bittefwell has fulta ned near 2001. damage. Aug. 24. This week there were fome, very heavy forms in different parts of the country. At Barrow, in Lincolnshire, about 3 in the afternoon, a violent ftorm of wind and rain commenced from the South-West, and in five minutes it bore down feverul elm trees of 25 years' growth,, near to G. Uppleby's, efq.; alfo a garden wall, 12 feet high and 45 yards long, and a vineyard and green-houfe, 42 feet long, were entirely demolished. The vine trees were in full bearing, and nearly torn up, by the roots. The village is fituate at the North-East extremity of a valley, along which the fury of the ftorm feemed to be dnected, as no material damage was fuftained within a quarter of a mile of either fide of the valley. Nearly all the houfes, &c. in its way have tuftamed damage. a perfon was forking hay from a waggon to a stack, a gust of wind overturned both flack and weggon, and hurled the man, with the bay, into aditch at fome diftance.

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Confiderable damage was done in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.-Near Alnwick two women were killed by the lightning. At Adwick-upon-Dearne, the roots the roots of large trees were torn up, part of the church was unroofed, and several barns were destroyed.-At Whitting bam and Thrungen, about 3. in the afternoon, the hemifphere became dark, and feveral -vivid fl fhes of lightning, with tremendous claps of thunder, inftantaneously followed. A fhower of large hail stones followed, that feemed as pieces of ice, by which many windows of the village are broken. A torrent of rain afterwards defcended. A man mowing in a field near Whittingham was truck down by the lightning, but foon recovered. A farmer's wife at Thrunton, who had with her child gone to bed to con- . ceal herfelf, as the imagined, was ftruck. apparently dead; and her husband, found her on the floor motionlefs. She was reftored; but her face, back, and arms, are much hurt. The lightning did confiderable damage to the roof, and penetrated into the ground floor, making a hole through a brick, as if it had heen a gun ball.-The. Eightning at Yarmouth, was truly awful. The tempeft was off at fe, and at fome, diftince. It began in the S. and finished in the N. E. Large bodies of the cleric fire, in fpiral and other forms, buried themfelves in the fea.

Bath, Sept. 8. Yesterday afternoon, about half-past 5, M. Garnerin and Mr. Glafsfurd afcended. The weather was propitious, and the afcent very grand. The wind being moderate, and the atmofphere clear, M. Garnerin hovered over. Bath for fome time, and was diftinctly feen waving his flags at a great height, by the thousands affembled in the city, on the neighbouring hills, and on the roads from, Bath for many miles. He then steered a South-Eatt course, and about half-pat 7 landed at Mells park, a diftance of 16 miles.

Liverpool, Sept. 14. About ten this evening, a fmoke was obferved to iffue from a room in the warehoutes belonging to Thomas France, Eiq. at Goree, whofe fpacious and lofty front has long attracted the admiration of strangers. In a few hours this immenfe pile, together with that large and commodious range of warehouses which was erected in front, at the distance of 16 yards, as well as that which extends from it, in a line to Water-street, was a heap of ruins; and a great proportion of all that rich and various produce, with which every apartment of thefe buildings had been stored and crowded, was confumed. The following is a pretty correct Ratement of the lofs. France's Warehoufes Dawfon's ditto

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Great part of the damage was in foreign confignments, and one at Dantzig will lof 60,000l.-A meeting of the principal fufferers was convened on Thursday morning, when a committee was appointed to fuperintend the removal of the rubbish with all potlible expedition, in order to recover the property which it is fuppofed is now buried in the ruins in very confiderable quantities. A great number of men have already been fet to work, but confiderable difficulty is experienced in taking down fuch of the walls as are yet left ftanding.We are forry to have to add to the above account, that in taking down a part of the ruins on Saturday the 18th, Mr. Phillips, in the employ of Mr. Fofter, was fo dreadfully crushed, that he died in a few hours.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

Tuesday, Aug. 31.

was crowded by every defcription of per243,000 fons. About half-paft 5, a fmall pilot balloon was launched, to afcertain the cur£29500 rent of air, which proved to be very light from the Southward and Westward, with a clear horizon. The parachute confifted, of a cafe or bag of white canvas, or failcloth, formed by 32 gores into a hemifpherical form, 23 feet diameter, at the top of which was a truck, or round piece of wood, 10 inches in diameter, with a hole in its centre, fastened to the canvas by 32 fhort pieces of tape. At about 4 feet from the top of the canvas, a wooden hoop about 8 feet in diameter was put on and tied by a ftringfrom each feam; so that, when the balloon afcended, the parachute hung like a curtain from this hoop, between the balloon and a cyli drical basket (covered with canvas, about four feet high, and two feet and a quarter diameter), in which M. Gar nerin afcended. He exerted himself much in attaching the apparatus of his parachute to the net of the balloon. At about 5 minutes before 6 he entered his machine; and, amidst the plaudits of an immense multitude, the balloon afcended in a majeftic manner, Garnerin wa ing the tricoloured flag. Every eye was fixed, in expectation of the parachute being feparated from the balloon; which in 10 minutes attained an immenfe height, when M. Garnerin cut the rope. The rapidity of the defcent for the first 30 feconds was astonishing. The machine was at that time completely expanded, and for about a minure came down fteadily; it then began to fwing violently, Ike the pendulum of a clock, which increafed to fuch a degree, that the basket appeared frequently on a line with the parachute, while the cotton feemed fallen-in on the other fide. The defcent occupied rather more than 10 minutes. The parachute alighted in a field at the back of St. Pancras church-yard, about 100 yards Eft of the road; where near 5000 people and 50 horsemen foon collected. M. Garnerin, on horseback, preceded by feveral gentlemen, was then conducted home in fafety; though not without much inconvenience from the preffure of the mob.-The balloon defcended in fafety the nex day at Mr. Harding's, near Farnham Mill, Survey.

This night, about 12 o'clock, a fire broke out in the cellar of Mr. Davis, oilman, oppofite the East-India-house, which communicated to Mr Swift's, trunk-maker, Mr. Ward's, the Ship tavern, and Mr. Park's Geneva warehoufe. It was at length got } under, but not until it had confumed the above premifes, with the top part of Mr. Tinkler's houfe, and the back part of the King's Arms, and damaged fome other buildings. Mr. Swift, who is 8+ years of age, was got out fafe with great difficulty.

Monday, September 6.

The Lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle," for proving the Christian religion against infidels," is appointed to be preached at the church of St. Marly lebow, London, by the Rev. William Van Mildert, M. A. rector of the said church. The course will confist of 24 lectures, to be preached (according to Mr. Boyle's will) on the firit Monday in the refpective months of January, February, March, April, May, September, October, and November. The first began this day.

Tuesday, September 21.

Perhaps no fpectacle ever more eagerly engaged the public attention than Mr. Garnerin's promife of a descent by a parachute. The experiment was in this country nou, velle, and by many bel eved impracticable, with fafety to the perfon of the aeronaut. As early this day as 12 o'clock, the treets and avenues leading to North Audley Areet began to be attended by a number of spectators; and long before 4, the top of every houfe that could command a view of the ground whence the ball on was to afcend, GENT. MAG. September, 1802.

Wednesday, September 29.

After an impreffive difcourte by Mr. Hotchins at St. Lawrence's church, on the imp rtance of the choice of a chief magiltrate, and the arduous refponsibilities of that elevated office: the Livery of London returned Metirs. Price and Perring to the Court of Aldermen; who, agreeabl, to antient cuftom, proce ded to a fcrutiny; and Charles Price, efq. Alderman of Farringdon Without, was declared duly elected, to the univerfal fatisfaction of the Hall.

Vol.

Vol. LXX. p. 183. Prince Ferdinand, as Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerufalem, has raised a monument to the memory of Count Finkenstein, who died fenior of the Commandery of Brandenburgh. It is a buft, by the masterly hand of Schadow, of Carrarian marble, in an antique habit, to which the celebrated Gedike has, by order of his Royal Highnefs, made the following infeription: To the Memory of CHARLES-WILLIAM

Count of FINKENSTEIN, Counsellor to Three Kings, the Nettor of the Order of St. John, both in Years and Wisdom, the Grand Master,

FERDINAND,

Brother to King FREDERICK,
erected this Monument,
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Vol. LXXII. p. 189. A correfpondent in Cripplegate has enabled us to improve the article of Archdeacon Hand. He was not 60; if he had lived till the 8th of April Jaft, he would only have completed his 53d year, being born Mar. 28, 1749, O. S. at Mavelyn-Ridware, co. Stafford. Mrs. Hand certainly died in the bloom of life; bet he left three children, which are all living: 1. Newton Dickenfon (taking the names of both his grandfathers) is now a Atudent in the Temple; 2. William, married, and in trade with a very capital frith linen-factor in the city; and, 3. MaryAnne, about 19 years of age, now with her guardian, a very refpe&table gentleman, in Staffordshire. He did not erect a monument in Weftminler abbey; but placed a very neat one in his own church at Cripplegate (ex scuted either by Bicon or Banks), on the defign of that of Mus. Nightingale, in Westminster abbey, and built a vault for her, in which he alfo hes interred. He never married a fecond wife.

P. 584, b. The Rev. Daniel Batwell refigned the lectureship of St. Bend't Fink, Threadneedle (out Gracechurch) street, many yes fince, and went to America. At the time of his death he was curate of

St. James's, Duke's place; and had a penfiou from Government as an American Loyant.

P. 587. The fum of 10,000l. was depo, fited with the gentleman who was to bild' the ship. The work was begun; but Sir James haraffed the builder fo perpetually, that he defired to return the money, and take any lofs on Limtelf which might happen from the work which had been done. Sir James was with difficulty prevaled on to accept it without intereit being paid to hun.--P. 83. He allo fought a duel with a learned Serjeant who had made free wus character in his fpeech on a trial of one of is caufes. In this Quel the Serjeant is faid to have shot his own toe.-

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The county of Westmoreland eonid not be an object of conteß; he always returned the members. In Carlile he once poffeffed an influence; but lost it, with the county of Cumberland, after his d.fpute with the Duke of Portland q be cry he often attempted to reg in, but never could fucceed; in the county he has fucceeded as to one of the members. He purchafed the borough of Haslemere, in Surrey, in 178... Nothing is faid about Col. Lowther, the legacy to whom is far fhort of what might have heer realonly a expected. He kept his estate at Li ham, in Middlefex, unoccupied for many years, that the rector might not receive tithes

P. 686. Lieut. col. Monfell was defcended from the antient family of that name in the county of Limerick. He entered into the fervice as an enlign in the 26th or Cameronian regiment of foot, on the 3d of March, 1760; and, on the 13th of February, 1762, was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 29th regiment; a corps which, from its first entrance into the forvice, has been diftinguished for difcipline, interior œconomy, and gallantry. With that regiment he went to North America in 1765. Sept. 13, 1769, he purchased a company in it, and returned with the corps to England, in 1773. Vigorous measures being decided on against the American Colonies, Capt. Monfell em-. barked with his regiment for Quebec, in February, 1776, and landed in May following. During the whole of that wat, Capt. M. (who was the fecond fenior captain) was actively employed; and, from his philanthropy of mind and generous difpofition, he was of important fervice to the Royal caute in conciliating and reftoring numbers of the deluded Americans which the fortune of war put into the hards of the British army, many of whom are now well fettled in the province of Quebec, under the mild government of Britain. In November, 1780, Capt. M. was promoted to the rank of major. After the prace of 1783, the 29th regiment was ordered to grifon Niagara, Kingfton, &c. Being fecond in command of the regiment, he was fent to the last-mentioned place, where he acted not only as military commandant, but alfo as civil governor of the infant fettlement. In this fituation, by his amiable manners and innate love of juftice, during a period of above two years, he reconciled all differences, formed useful regulations, promoted improvements, and, finally, rifed the new town to fuch a fate as to induce his Majefty's Ministers, when it was intended to eftablish a feat of government in that part of the extenfive province of Quebec, to pitch upon it for that purpofe. In November, 1797, he returned to England. with the regiment. On the brevet promotion

motion appearing in the Gazette, in November, 1790, he got the rank of heutenin-colonel; and, on the 24th of August, 1792, while on Windfor duty, he fuccee led his friend, Lieut -col. Campbell, as m jor of the 29th. His health being impaired, from long and act ve fervice, he formed the refolution of retiring, which he did on the 13th of November, 1793, and was fecceeded by Capt. Harvey Afton, who, fome time ago, feli a victim to the barbarous cuftom of duelling in the Eaft Indies (tee our vol. LXIX. p. 527). Col. Monfell, for fome time after this, refided in the neighbourhood of London; but, about four years ago. he removed, with his family, to Manchefter, where he died on the 2d of June laft, after an illness of fix days, and was interred in the collegiate church of that place. The corpfe was carried to the grave by fix ferjeants of the regiment of dragoons quartered there, who offered then felves as volunteers to pay this mark of respect to a brave old veteran and moft worthy man. A few felect friends attended on this folemn occafion. Col. M. will be long regretted in that town, by all ranks of people, for his urbanity and focial virtues. He has left a widow and one fon, a beutenant in the corps of Royal Invalids, to lament the lofs of one of the best of men.

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P. 712. Thomas Wale, who died July 29, 1796, is by mistake ftated to be the laft of the family. Gregory, the eldest fon, died in his father's life time, unmarried; but another fon, Charles, a colonel in the army, is now Iving, having married a daughter of Dr. Sherrard, of Huntingdon, by, whom he has two fons, both living. Thomas Wale, his father, left alfo two daughters: 1. Margare', noty living at Shelford, and unmarried; 2. Mary, married to the Rev. Mr. Pemberton, rector of a valuable living in Ireland, to which he was prelected by the Ma quis of Abercorn, P. 781. M De Verdion lodged at Mr. Allen's, No 38, Upper Charles-ftreet, Hatton-garden.

P. 782. The Rev. Charles Harward was appointed dean of Exeter on the tranflation of Dr. Buller to the desmiy of Ca terbury, and died at his family-feat, called Hayne houfe, in the parish of Plympton, Devon. Ralph B.roes was canon and chancellor of Exeter, archdeacon of Totnefs, vicar of Herberton, near Totnefs, of Up Ottery, and M. A. of Edmund-hall, Oxford, 1760.

P. 785. Mrs. Waller was the youngest of the eight daughters of Eldred Lancelot Lee, efq. of Coton, near Bridgnorth, co. Salop. Her husband died Dec. 13, 1786.

P. 786. Baron Herbert died on the 26th of March. His fon was prefented to the King Sept. 23; he is quite a young man, and attracted much notice by the peculiarity of his dress, being attired in a white fatin veit.

P. 789. Mr. Samuel Laurence died in his 71ft year, at his houfe in Cheapfide, where he had refided near 40 years; and was interred in Bunhill-fields. He was one of the numerous defcendants of the Rev. Philip Heory, a man whofe unaffected piety and primitive fimplicity were an honour to the age he lived in, and whose conduct, as a minifter of the Gofpel, exhibited a fair example to all thofe in the fame fituation.

Aug.

BIRTHS.

T Caffle Eden, the wife of Row

15. land Burdon, efq. a fon and heir. On the arrival of the intelligence at Sunderland, the mit lively demonftrations of joy were exhibited. The bells of the churches rung a merry peal at different intervals throughout the day; the iron bridge, the lafting monument of Mr. Burdon's public fpirit, was thrown open for all paffengers, without toll; and in the evening there was a brilliant illumination of the whole bridge; and, though a candle was placed on every fpike of that beautiful and extended arch, the ferenity of the evening was fuch that not one of them

was b.own out.

20. At the caftle of Hanau, the hereditary Princets of Heffe Catfel, filter to the King of Prutia, a prince.

2.4. At Dublin, the wife of Col. William Raymond, a daughter.

The wife of Henry Fearon Heath, efq. of South Shields, a fon and heir.

25. At Belmont, Bath, the wife of Capt. Wyke, a daughter.

26. The lay of the Bishop of Chester, a fon, being her thirteenth child.

29. At his Lordship's feat at Montreal, in Kent, Lady Amherst, a fon.

In Harley-treet, the wife of John Denifon, efq. M. P. a daughter.

Mrs. Taylor, of Hatton-street, a fon. 30. In Curzon ftreet, May-fair, the wife of doratio Towniend, eiq. a fon.

31. At her father's, Spark-brook-house, Barningham, the wife of Francis Longworth, juo, efq. of Cragan, co. Westmeath, in Ireland, a ion.

At Aboyne caftle, the Countess of Aboyne, a fon.

Lately, in Merrion-fquare, Dublin, Lady Catharine Brownlow, fitter to the Earl of Meah, a tou.

At St. John's, co. Wexford, the wife Charles Hul, efq, a fon and heir,

At Bocksten, co. Huntingdon, the wife of Robert Hunt, elq, a fon.

In Hanover buldings, Southampton, Mrs. Henry Drummond, a daughter.

On Epping forest, the wife of Thomas Bird, efq. of twins.

Sept 4. At Cannon-hall, co. York, the wife of Spencer Stanhope, eiq. a daughter. 5. At the abbey, Shrewsbury, the lady of Sir Charles Oakley, bart. a fon.

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