dozen found English kicks, and carried him prifoner to the guardhoufe. The dragoons are obliged to be cautious; and do not go out fingly or without arms, as they run a risk of being affaffinated. Inquiry is making by our court to difcover the ringleaders; and every body acquits the English from the smallest degree of blame."

DIED at Botany Bay, March 16, 1796, where he had in fome degree rendered his fituation comfortable, and habituated himself to the exile into which he had been fo cruelly fent by his inhuman perfecutors, Jofeph Gerald. He lived in a small houfe, with a garden attached to it, at a distance from the town of Sydney, to which he retired with a fixed and deep decline, which brought him to his grave in lefs than two months. He received the most liberal attention from governor Hunter; and his body, at his own defre, expreffed two days before his death, was buried in his own garden. Three days after Mr. Gerald (viz. on the 19th of March, 1796) Mr. Skirving died of a dy fentery. He had bought a fmall farm already cleared, and fet himfelf to the improvement of it with indefatigable induftry. In getting in his harvest he caught this complaint, which is very common, and fell a victim to it.

5th. At Afton, in Yorkshire, of a mortification, occafioned by breaking his fhin in ftepping out of his carriage two days before, the Rev. William Mafon, precentor and one of the refidentiaries of York cathedral, prebendary at Drimeld, and rector of Afton; author of "Elfrida," "Caraftacus," "The English Garden," "Tranflation of Frefnoy's Art of Painting," and several

other celebrated poems, "The Life of Gray," &c. He was the fon of a clergyman who had the living of Hull; but it is not easy to fix the precife time of his birth. He was admitted of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1745; and whence he removed to Pembroke-hall, of which fociety he was elected a fellow 1747, and took the degree of M. A. 1749. In 1754 he entered into holy orders, and was patronized by the then Earl of Holdernesse, who obtained for him the appointment of chaplain to his Majesty, and gave him the valuable rectory of Afton. Mr. Mafon was an acknowledged fcholar, and poffeffed high claims to a confiderable degree of poetical reputation. All that could be gathered from the Greek and Roman ftores, certainly contributed to embellifh his mind; but it may be reafonably queftioned whether it was enriched by any great share of original genius; though it must be admitted that his "Caractacus' and "Elfrida" abound in paffages marked by energy and fpirit. The memorable "Heroic Epiftle to Sir William Chambers" has been often attributed to this gentleman; and if he were the author of it, he cer tainly poffeffed no small portion of fatirical humour, as well as poetical ftrength: but the work is fo different from the general character of his productions, that it is hardly to be confidered as the offfpring of his mind. It is certain that he never acknowledged it. In private life his character, though with fomething in his manners beyond the mere dignity of confcious talents and literature, was diftinguifhed by philanthropy and fervid friendship. For the latter quality

we

we have only to obferve his conduct in relation to Gray, whofe genius he estimated with a zeal of enthusiasm (to borrow an expreffion of old Theobald)" amounting to idolatry." Upon the whole, he is to be viewed as a man who may be ranked with the fupporters of British literature and morals. The appointment of the four canonsrefidentiaries of York cathedral is in the gift of the Dean, who is obliged, by statute, to give the vacant canonry to the first man he fees after the vacancy, capable of taking it. Mr. Markham was his firft fight on the death of Mr. Mafon. He married Mary, daughter of William Shermon, of Kingiton upon Hull, Efq. who died, March 24th, 1767, in her 28th year, at Bristol; in the north aile of which cathedral he erected to her memory a neat monument of white marble, with the well-known lines.

At Laufanne, in Switzerland, S. A. D. Tiflot, M. D. who, for near half a century, enjoyed a very extenfive reputation as a phyfician and medical writer. He was one of the earliest, ableft, and most zealous vindicators of the practice of inoculation on the continent of Europe. His treatise on this fubject," L'Inoculation juftifice," was published in 1754; but the works which rendered him the most popular were, his "Avis au Peuple," and his treatifes on the health of literary men, and of people of

fashion.

MAY.

2 The Recorder paffed fentence of death on Elizabeth O'Connor, for privately ftealing in a fhop; James

Andrews, for returning from transportation; William Noah, James Barrow, Henry Butler, John Tull, William Ward, and William Smith, for houfe-breaking; Samuel Chefter and Thomas Perry, for a highway robbery; Jarvis, for privately ftealing a quantity of wine; and Thomas Bennet, for forgery.-The feffions was then adjourned to the 31ft of May.

5th. A melancholy accident happened this evening at Plymouth. Two young ladies, daughters of Mr. Shephard, furgeon, of the dockyard, and another lady of the name of Gregg, were playing on one of the fhip's yards, which was at the maft-houfe to be repaired; when it gave way on a fudden, and the ladies not being able to extricate themfelves, rolled over them, which occafioned the immediate death of the two first, who were most shockingly mangled; and the other had her leg broken. The eldeft of the two fifters was about the age of fifteen; and the other only in her twelfth year.

7th. The mutiny was renewed at Spithead. The Channel fleet refufed to put to fea, under the pretext that government did not mean to fulfil the promifes held out by them to the failors; the delegates re-affembled, and fent a deputation to the London, Admiral Colpoys' fhip, at Portfmouth, whom the Admiral refufed to admit on board, and enforced his authority by ordering the marines to fire into the boat. This conduct was resented by the crew of the London, who immediately depofed the Admiral, ftruck his flag, and hoifted the enfign of defiance.

This evening, between eight and nine o'clock, Mr. Fryer, of South

ampton

ampton-buildings, Holborn, clerk to an attorney, accompanied by a young lady, his coufin, and of his own name, to whom he was foon to be married, was attacked in the fields, near White-Conduit Houfe, by three footpads, who fhot him through the head, and robbed him of his watch and money. The Bow-ftreet patrol, who were within a short distance at the time, on hearing the report of the piftol, made to the spot, where they found Mr.Fryer weltering in his blood, and who in a few moments after expired. A ftick with a sword in it, and with which it is thought he made fome refiftance, was lying by him.

The following is the answer returned by the Lord Mayor to the requifition made to him to call a common hall:

"Gentlemen,

"Having duly confidered the requifition figned by a number of the livery of London, dated on the 29th ult. and delivered to me by you on the 3d inftant, wherein they request of me "to call a common hall on an early day, to take into confideration the report of the fheriffs, communicated to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery, in common hall affembled, on Wednefday the 12th of April the grievances brought on you by a corrupt fyftem of undue influence, and the incapacity of his Majefty's minifters to fubmit several refolutions expreffive of the fentiments contained in the petition of the livery (refolved almost unanimoufly) to be prefented to the King on the throne; and of a motion that your reprefentatives in parliament be inftructed to move in the Houfe of Commons, or fupport fuch motion, that an humble addrefs be

prefented to his Majesty, praying him to difmifs from his prefence and councils his prefent weak and wicked minifters, as the most likely means of obtaining a speedy and permanent peace;" I request of you, Gentlemen, to inform those who figned the requifition, that I will immediately direct the ufual precepts to be iffued for convening a common hall of the liverymen of this city, on Thursday next, the 11th inftant, for the following purpofes:-to take into confideration the report of the theriffs, communicated to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery, in common hall affembled, on Wednesday, the 12th of April - To confider of feveral refolutions, expreffive of the fentiments contained in the petition of the livery (refolved almoft unanimoufly) to be prefented to the King on the throne; and to confider a motion, That the reprefentatives of this city in parliament be inftructed to move or fupport fuch motion, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, praying him to difmifs from his presence and councils his prefent weak and wicked minifters, as the moft likely means of obtaining a speedy and permanent peace.'

"BROOK WATSON, Mayor. "To Me. T. Reeve, John Elfee, S. Miller."

11th. Another common hall was held at Guildhall on the fubject previoufly noticed, when several ftrong refolutions were entered into, declaratory of the rights of the livery; afferting, " that his Majefty's minifters have wantonly plunged this nation into an unjuft and unneceffary war, which has produced a feries of calamities unexampled in hiftory; an enormous

increase

increafe of public debt; an alarming diminution of our trade and manufactures; an abridgment of our rights and privileges; a fhameful profufion of our national wealth, by fubfidizing allies abroad, and fupporting a fyftem of corruption. at home, to the deftruction of public credit-thus evincing a difpofition to facrifice the blood, treafure, and liberties of the kingdom, in fupport of measures repugnant to the principles of the conftitution, derogatory to the dignity and fafety of the King, and inconfiftent with the happiness of the people;" directing their reprefentatives in parliament to move for an addrefs to the King, "to difmifs his prefent minifters, as the most likely means of obtaining a speedy and permanent peace;" and concluding with a cenfure on the Lord Mayor, who, "by diffolving the laft common hall on a frivolous and unfounded pretence of the irrelevance of the refolution which was moved to the occafion on which the hall was affembled, by refufing to convene another common hall, for all the purposes specified on a like frivolous and unfounded pretence of the livery of London, not being a deliberative body; and, by convening the prefent common hall for purpofes fhort of thofe which are fpecified in the requifition, has violated the rights of the livery, has fuffered his political attachments to warp his official conduct, and proved himself to be utterly undeferving of the confidence of his conftituents."

Thefe refolutions, having been carried by a large majority of the perfons prefent, were ordered to be published once in all the news papers in Great Britain.

13th. Tuesday laft, his Moft Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Wirtemberg came to the apartments prepared for the reception of his Moft Serene Highnefs at St. James's.

14th. A dreadful fire broke out yesterday morning, at three o'clock, at a tobacconist's fhop in the Highftreet, in the Borough, oppofite the Marfhalfea prifon, which raged with great fury for some hours, and was at length, by the exertions of the firemen, got under with the loss of the Black Bull public-house, a porkfhop, a pastry-cook's fhop, and a mercer's; befides doing confiderable mifchief to two rows of houses, one in Maypole-alley, the other in Redcrofs-alley, both immediately adjacent. Verily happily no lives were loft.

A fquadron under the command of Rear Admiral Curtis, arrived at St. Helen's, from Torbay, and the crews of feveral of the fhips immediately declared themselves in a ftate of mutiny, and fent feveral of their officers on fhore; but on being informed by the delegates of the Channel fleet that Government had complied with their demands, they returned to their duty thoroughly fatisfied.

By the report of the Secret Committee of the Irish Houfe of Lords, it appears that the first profcribed lift made out by the confpirators, contained the names of 30,000 perfons, most of whom were to be put to death; and that a traitorous correfpondence has been carried on between the leaders of the United Irifhmen and the French government.

The following article appears among the papers lately seized at Beifaft:

REPORTS

bury, and Colonel Fane-the organ playing Handel's Overture in Efther.

On his Serene Highness taking his feat, the Lord Chamberlain, &c. returned for the Bride's proceffion.

Her Royal Highnefs (fuperbly dreffed in white and filver, fcarlet mantle, crimson velvet coronet, with a broad band, and a large plume of diamonds, decorated with the order of Saint Catherine) was fupported by the Duke of Clarence, in a dark brown fuit, richly em

the Hanoverian uniform; her train borne by the bride - maids, Lady Frances Somerfet, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort; Lady Mary Bentinck, daughter of the Duke of Portland; Lady Caroline Damer, daughter of the Earl of Dorchefter; and Lady Mary Howe, daughter of Earl Howe, dreffed in white. Ladies Cathcart, C. Waldegrave, C. Finch, and F. Bruce, were the attendants. During the entrance of her Royal Highness's proceffion, Handel's Overture was played in like manner as when that of the Prince entered the chapel.

The next proceffion was that of the King.-His Majefty, dreffed in a dark brown fuit, richly embroidered, was attended by the Lords and other officers of his houfehold, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Prefident of the Council, Lord Chancellor, Duke of Portland, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of York, and the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England.

The Queen then entered, attended by the officers of her household. Her Majefty was dressed in white, with a profufion of diamonds.

The Prince of Wales was next

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