fubfifted between the prifoner and the deceased, which the brother difapproving, defired Suffolk to difcontinue his vifits. Upon this, a violent difpute arofe, in which Suffolk declared to the brother, that he fhould fee a great alteration before night. Accordingly, meeting with the deceased unfortunately in the course of the day (Feb. 3.) on the common near North Waltham, Suffolk with a large ftick attacked her, and repeated his blows till he left her for dead. In this ftate fhe was discovered, and had only ftrength to declare that Suffolk was her murderer; who, on being taken into cuftody, and foon after being informed by the conftable that she was not then dead, declared that if he thought he could have stirred hand or foot, he would have beaten her till this time. His body is hung in chains near the fpot where the murder was committed. A moft fhocking murder was lately committed in Ireland on the body or Dr. Hamilton of TrinityCollege, Dublin; the particulars of which are as follew: Dr. Hamilton had a living in the north, near the banks of Loch Swilly; and having dined a few days fince at the houfe of a Mr. Waller, in his neighbourhood, the house was furrounded by. a banditti of armed ruffians, about ten o'clock at night, who broke into the house while the family was at fupper, calling loudly for Dr. Hamilton, and threatening death to the whole family. Mrs. Waller implored mercy for her husband, a feeble poor gentleman, who having loft the ufe of his limbs, was unable to fly from their fury. She threw herself over him to protect him from affaffination, when the VOL. XXXIX, mifcreants fired three fhots thro' her body, and killed her instantly. They then threatened to raze the houfe and put all its inhabitants to death, if Dr. Hamilton was not produced; and the fervants, to fave their own lives, dragged him from the wine-cellar to the door. He endeavoured to cling by the staple of the hall door lock, but the villains burnt his hand to force him to quit his hold, and then dragged him a fhort distance from the house, where they, in a moft barbarous manner murdered him. He has left a wife and nine children wholly unprovided for. His being an active magiftrate against the defenders, determined them upon the horrid act. Mr. Browne mentioned the matter in the Irish house of commons, in order to institute fome public provifion for this help lefs family. A very melancholy affair has lately taken place at Smyrna. The circumftances are briefly these :-A ́ party of ftrolling German ropedancers had arrived, and were exhibiting their feats on the tight rope to a numerous audience. As is the cuftom of that place, four janiffaries were placed as centinels. at the door of the theatre, to preferve the peace. After the performance had commenced, a number of Sclavonians entered the doors, one of whom infulted the janiffaries, who refented his conduct. A fcuffle enfued, which terminated in the death of one of the janiffaries, who was shot by a Sclavonian. An enquiry was inftantly fet on foot, and a demand fent to the theatre to give up the affaffin: he, however, from the fidelity of his comrades, could not be difcovered. Time was allowed for the difcovery, B discovery, but to no effect; and it was at length determined to destroy the theatre, unless he was given up. They ftill perfifted in their filence, which induced the janiffaries to fet fire to the theatre; and it was completely deftroyed. The Turks proceeded to fet fire to all the Englith and other Chriftian factories, deftroyed property to the amount of nearly 100,000l. killed between 12 and 1300 people, and threatened to deftroy all the Chriftians in the place. his Majefty for the removal of minifters, and the confequent reftoration of peace. DIED at her house in Halfmoonftreet, Piccadilly, after having been for fome weeks confined to her bed by a very severe illness, Mrs. Pope, the celebrated actress. She was one of the laft of the legitimate School of Garrick; and had for years maintained, both as a tragic and comic performer in the London theatres, the most refpectable fituation. Her merits and talents, after nearly 30 years experience, are too well known to need any comment; they were univerfally 31ft. About four o'clock, a moft dreadful fire broke out at the old family manfion of the Duke of St. Albans, at Hanworth Park, near acknowledged and admired: and, Hampton, which, in the course of three hours, deftroyed every part of the building, and all the beautiful gallery of paintings, which were in heirloom with the house. Very little of the furniture was faved. The fire broke out at the back of the house, near the library, and was occafioned by a girl belonging to a farm-yard lighting her fire too near the windows. Owing to the high wind, the flames caught the fhutters, and the conflagration fpread through the mansion before any affiftance could be obtained. A boat belonging to a brig, lying in Winchelsea Nook, in its paffage from the fhore to the veffel, with the captain and two men on board, was, by a fudden fquall of wind, overfet. The captain faved his life by swimming to fhore; but the two men, being unable to swim, were drowned. It is faid the unfortunate men belonged to New. haven; but of this we have received no affurance. In the course of this month, most of the counties, cities, and towns of the kingdom, petitioned while fhe is lamented as a great public lofs, thofe who knew her domeftic worth, will feel alfo, in the death of fo eftimable a woman, a fource of much private affliction. In a wide range of characters, in tragedy and comedy, and in the humorous as well as the fashionable walk of the latter, she has been uniformly diftinguifhed vth applaufe. Mrs. Pope was defcended from a good family, of the name of Younge, who left her little befide her education: fhe had her fituation in life to make at a period when moft girls are occupied by no other ideas than their pleasure. In the courfe of her education, the had acquainted herself with the beft English dramatic writers. It was a ftyle of reading the always relished so much, that the now be gan, ferioufly, to think of putting it into practice; and, procuring a letter of recommendation to Mr. Garrick, he was fo well pleafed with her first essay, that he took the pains of attending her at feveral private rehearsals, when every trial gave fresh proofs of her abilities, At At the end of three months (in the winter of 1768) fhe came out in Imogen, in Cymbeline: a part, however, hazardous, from the variety of its difficulties; yet, fo strongly was the poffeffed of the fpirit of the author, and fo powerfully affifted by her addrefs, and other stage accomplishments, that fhe obtained univerfal applaufe. At Drury-lane theatre this admira ble actress continued till the year 1779. She then engaged with Mr. Harris, patentee of Coventgarden theatre, from which fhe has fince been absent but one season. In 1784, during a profeffional excurfion in Ireland, fhe faw Mr. Pope perform at Cork, and approved fo much of his powers, that the recommended him to Mr. Harris; and at Covent-garden theatre his fuccefs juftified her opinion of his talents. A mutual affection arofe from this circumftance, and in a feafon or two afterwards, they were married. Her remains were, on the 22d, conveyed from her house to Westminster-abbey, in a hearfe and fix, followed by seven mourning coaches and her own carriage. In the firft were fome particular friends of the deceafed; thefe were followed by the School of Garrick (of which refpectable fociety fhe was an honorary member) and by the principal performers of Covent-garden theatre. The body was interred in the cloifters on the fouth fide, near the remains of Sir Richard Jebb, and on the right of Dr. Dupuis. The funeral fervice was read by the Rev. Weldon Champnefs. Mrs. Pope was born in the year of the rebellion, 1745. The ftone that is placed over her remains is infcribed "In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Pope, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, who died on the 15th of March, 1797, aged 52 years." In Bloomsbury fquare, in a fit of apoplexy, John Boniot de Mainaduc, Efq. M. D. and Member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London. He died after his return from the funeral of Mr. Eyre, of Cecil-ftreet. Thefe two gentlemen were married to two fifters. His "Lectures" are announced to be" publifhed as foon as his papers can be arranged; which, from his fudden and unexpected death, may require fome time." 5. At Tiverton, Devon, aged 52, Capt. J. G. Stedman. He entered in the navy, but relinquished it on the laft peace, and accepted an enfign's commiffion in one of the Scots Brigade regiments paid by the Dutch. He had attained the rank of Lieutenant when the measure of fending a military force against the rebel negroes on the river Cottica, in Surinam, the most important, and now the only remaining, Dutch poffeffion on the coaft of Africa, was projected. Impelled by a defire of exploring a part of the world not generally known, and the hope of preferment in fuch a dangerous fervice, he obtained admiffion into the corps of 500 volunteers, formed into feven companies, embodied as a regiment of marines, and intended for Surinam, and was advanced by the Prince of Orange to the rank of captain, by brevet, under Colonel Tourgeoud, a Swifs, commander in chief. He quitted the Texel on Christmas day, 1772, and anchored in Surinam river Feb. 2, 1773. He foon formed an attachment with a beautiful negrogirl of 15, one of the natural children of a Dutch planter, whose B 2 good goodnels of heart, and faithful attachment to him, were ftill more endearing than all her perfonal attractions; but, by the laws of the fettlement, fhe could not be redeemed from flavery, or brought home to Europe, but died of poifon, a victim to jealoufy, before the captain quitted her. After undergoing a variety of fatigues, and witneffing the most horrid cruelties, as well as moft extravagant diffipation, in the colony of Surinam, he returned to his native country; and, a little before his death, publifhed an interefting narrative of the expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in two volumes, 4to, illuftrated with eighty elegant engravings from drawings made by himself. He has left a widow and five children. APRIL. 1. At a common hall, the Lord Mayor laid before the livery of London the following letter, which he had received from the fheriffs: "My Lord, In compliance with the refolution of the common hall, we waited on his Majefty at the levee yesterday, to know when he would be pleafed to receive the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery. We were informed by the Duke of Portland, that his Majefty would receive it on Wednesday next at the levee, or any other levee-day; but would not receive the petition on the throne, as it does not come from the city of London in its corporate capacity. S. LANGSTON, W. STAINES." The Livery then refolved, "That the fheriffs of London had an ac knowledged right to an audience of the King, and are in duty bound to demand the fame;" and directed the fheriffs, attended by the remembrancer, to demand a perfonal audience of his Majefty, to know his royal will and pleasure, when he will be pleased to receive upon the throne the faid dutiful and loyal address and petition. 3. This evening a moft alarming fire was difcovered in the fuperb manfion-house of Yefter, belonging to the Marquis of Tweedale, which, by the wonderful activity of the fervants and workmen belonging to the place, aided by a numerous body of the inhabitants from the village of Gifford, together with the Haddington engine, brought thence by about one hundred of the Durham rangers now ftationed there, who attended, accompanied by their officers, on the firft alarm, happily faved the principal part of the house; only one of the wings was burnt, and a great part of the furniture deftroyed. The fire was occafioned by a wooden joift being placed too near one of the vents, which had been burning fome time before bursting forth. The late accounts from New South Wales are particularly favourable. The fettlement of Broken Bay was in a flourishing condition, as, indeed, were the other diftricts. The harvest of 1795-6 (our winter) had proved abundantly productive. According to the return of aliens within the cities of London, Weftminster, and the Borough of Southwark, lately prefented to the House of Commons, the whole number of thofe perfons amounts only to 7041 10. About 900 French prisoners from from Porchefter Castle were landed at Meffrs. Squire's wharf, Peterborough, whence they were escorted to Yaxley barracks under a strong guard of light-horse. The proceffion was truly awful. The barracks are entirely new, and set on a moft healthful fpot at Norman Crofs, near Stilton in Huntingdonshire. That excellent actress Mifs Farren performed this night for the laft time, previous to her marriage with the Earl of Derby. The play the chose was the School for Scandal. The different avenues leading to the theatre were crowded with all ranks and defcriptions at a very early hour, and in a few minutes after the opening of the doors every bench in the house, and every paffage in the theatre, even to the feveral doors, was completely occupied. Never was fuch an audience feen at this or any other theatre. On her first entrance fhe was greeted in the most flattering manner; and the audience appeared to be animated with a principle of emulation, in bestowing their liberal plaudits throughout the whole of her performance, At the conclufion of the play, Mr. Wroughton immediately came forward, and addressed the audience as follows: But ah! this night, adieu the mirthful mien, mic scene! Startled Thalia would affent refuse, Mufe. Aw'd by fenfations it could ill exprefs, Though mute the tongue, the bofom feels not lefs; Her speech your kind indulgence oft has known. Be to her filence now that kindness fhewn: Ne'er from her mind th' endear'd record 21 terrupted by general and reiterated This addrefs was repeatedly inplaudits from all parts of the house. Mifs Farren appeared much affected at the generous conduct of the audience. After the torrent of applaufe had fubfided, Mifs Farren came to the front of the ftage, with her final farewell of her patrons. graceful and diffident fteps, to take In a manner the most elegant and impreffive fhe made her courtesy, first to the right, next to the left, amidft the univerfal, reiterated, and and laftly to the front of the house, rapturous plaudits of the audience, many of whom accompanied their tokens of refpect with tears of fenfibility. (Meffrs. Langfton and Staines) ac5th. The fheriffs of London, companied by the city remembrancer, attended at St. James's tions of the last common hall, to yesterday, pursuant to the instruchave a perfonal interview with the King, on the fubject of the petition lately agreed to by the Liverymen. Majefty, the fheriffs explained to On being introduced to his ceived the citizens of London pofhim the privilege which they confeffed of prefenting their addreffes to his Majefty upon the throne; and informed him that, in the prefent inftance, they could not deliver their petition in any ner. other man His Majefty replied, that he their addreffes or petitions at the fhould always be ready to receive levee, but that he could not receive any petition upon the throne from the rate capacity. With this answer the city of London, except in its corpofheriffs and remembrancer retired, 9th. The trial of Jones, the deleBut live the proudeft feeling of a grateful Society, came on at Warwick on gate of the London Correfponding will part, heart. B 3, |