when, the arrangements having been made for the disposal of the two vacant red ribbons, Major-General's Moore and Ludlow were introduced, and with the usual forms, were elected knights of the bath. After which his majesty received the recorder's report in council, when Prentice and Webb for horse-stealing, and J. Lloyd, for uttering a forged bank note, were ordered for execution. Mr. Astlet, with other convicts, were respited during pleasure. This day came on at Holyroodhouse, the election of one of the sixteen peers of Scotland, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Tweedale. The Earls of Kellie and Lauderdale were the candidates: the former was elected. The workmen at Messrs. Lloyds forge, near Burton-upon-Trent, having had the misfortune to break the large hammer anvil steady, were about to blow up that part which is fixed in the ground; and as Samuel Bamford (though repeatedly warned of his danger) was driving iron wedges to further the operation, a spark communicated to the gunpowder, which exploded, blew off his head, and otherwise mangled his body in a shocking manner. 15th. The following melancholy accident happened at Southburne, near Great Driffield :-three or four warreners having been their rounds in the rabbet-warrens adjoining, on their return deposited their loaded pieces in the house of one of the party. Shortly afterwards one of the guns was taken up by a boy of eleven years of age, who levelled it at the servant girl, aged fifteen, and shot her through the head. She died in great agonies. 16th. Part of Mr. Hazledine's iron foundery, Coleham, Cumber land, was discovered to be on fire this morning, which had been burning for some time. The roof soon after fell in. It was got under between three and four o'clock. The night was fortunately calm; and a quantity of salt, added to the water in the engines, was observed to have very great efficacy in extinguishing the fire. The damage is estimated at near 15001. One of the Leeds coaches broke down near Sheffield, when one of the passengers (the housekeeper of Edward Abney, esq. of King's Newton, near Derby) was crushed to death by the coach. William Chivers, a collier, was killed at the Rock Coal-work, near Nettlebridge, by a chain of enormous length, and upwards of a ton weight, having broke by the force. of the fire-engine, and fallen upon him. Almost every bone in his body was broken, just as if he had suffered on the rack. Part of the chain was so entagled round his neck, that it became necessary to cut through the links with chissels. This poor fellow's life had been a series of deplorable accidents. When a youth, his eye was struck out by a stick in a scuflle. His bo. dy was disabled seven years ago by a quantity of rubbish falling on him. He narrowly escaped being killed by the falling of a piece of timber three weeks ago. Since then he escaped death by a great piece of coal falling near him. The Earl of Carlisle has presented to the dean and chapter of York, for the embellishment of the minster, a window of beautiful painted glass, purchased during the late troubles in France from the church of St. Nicholas, at Rouen. The subject is the visitation of the Virgin Mary; the figures as large as life, admirably drawn, and always considered to have been designed either by Sebastian de Piombino, or Michael Angelo. John Harris, a private in the royal waggon train, quartered at the White Hart at Moulsham, in Chelmsford, picked up a pocketbook in the inn yard, containing bank notes to the amount of 941. which he instantly deposited with the landlord of the house, telling him to deliver it to the owner when enquired for. About three hours after, a rich old farmer, who puts up at that house, missed his book and notes, and upon enquiry of the landlord, had it, with the property, safely delivered to him; when he generously gave the soldier, who has a wife and four children, a one pound note as a reward for his honesty! 18th. To the great surprise of the public, Sir George Rumbold (late minister at Hamburgh, and whose atrocious seizure in his functions we have already mentioned in its place,*) arrived in London from France. It appears, that on his arrival at Paris he was immediately carried to the Temple, and conveyed to a miserable apartment, where he was treated with much rudeness. The keepers having directions to keep out of the way all instruments of destruction, it was with much difficulty be could prevail upon them to lend him a knife to cut up a fowl which he had for supper. He was then conveyed to a wretched flock bed, with dirty sheets and blankets; and in this situation he remained till the following evening, when he was waited upon by an officer of the police, who VOL. XLVI. 433 informed him that there was no charge against him personally; that the French government were satisfied with the possession of all his pakeep; and that he must leave Paris pers, which they were resolved to at a late hour that evening.-At the hour appointed for his departure, he the least idea of his destination, was was put into a coach, and, without conveyed to Cherbourg, where he arrived on the 16th, and was immediately sent on board a French cutter, which sailed with a flag of truce for England. The cutter soon fell in with the Niobe frigate, which received Sir George, and conveyed him to Portsmouth. exists, but that his prompt and most Not a doubt unexpected deliverance was owing to the immediate and spirited demand made by Prussia in his behalf: his papers however have all been detained. a fine ship, left Yarmouth with bulThis day the Romney of 50 guns, locks for the Texel fleet, and carried following morning at nine, she was out letters for the officers; on the wrecked on the South Haak Sand, next the Texel, and on the 20th, most of the officers and crew quitted her on rafts and in the boats. They were made prisoners by the boats of the Dutch fleet, and the ship soon after went to pieces. This unfortunate accident originated in the Romney mistaking three American ships, wrecked the night before Texel fleet at anchor. on the Haak Sands, for part of our gratitude is due to the admiral, offiA tribute of cers and crew of the Dutch men of launches with a flag of truce, to the war in the Texel, who sent out five wreck; at the hazard of their lives, they approached the Romney, and by their humane exertions, the lives of 300 British seamen were saved. Captain Colville of the Romney, and all his officers, have since arrived at Yarmouth. They were discharged upon their parole, by the Dutch admiral Kilkkert, who behaved to them in the most humane manner. The following instance of intrepid humanity in a British naval officer at Plymouth, among many other similar occurrences, deserves to be recorded:--Benjamin Nelson, a seaman of the Colossus of 74 guns, lying in Cawsand Bay, had been on shore on liberty, and coming aboard much intoxicated, fell out of the boat alongside the ship. Lieutenant Lothian, walking near the gang way, saw the accident, pulled off his coat, and with great intrepidity jumped from the starboard mainchains into the water: after swimming a little time, he caught Nelson by the hair, but in struggling to bring him to the boat, Nelson being a powerful man, sunk, dragging the lieutenant with him:-lieut. Lothian, by dint of superior swimming, soon rose again, grasping him firmly by the hair; they were then taken on board the ship's cutter, but on taking Nelson to the lower-gun deck, although every means were taken to restore his life, he breathed his last, more owing to suffocation from his drunkenness, than from his immersion in the water. Lieutenant Lothian was some time before he recovered from the effects which the fatigue and anxiety of his humane exertions had occasioned. The coroner's jury return ed a verdict of-Accidental death. A pumpkin of most extraordinary size and weight, and beautifully laced like the finest Cantaloupe me lon, was cut in a garden, this day, at Bathwick, belonging to Mr. Gra ham, fruiterer, of Bath. It weighs 112lbs. the girt round is two yards, and it measures two yards and a half in length. The seed of this extraordinary production was given to the gardener by a French cook who was at Bath last winter, and who highly extolled its excellence for culinary purposes. 20th. Mrs. Sowerby, the wife of a pawnbroker, in Cannon-Row, Whitechapel, threw herself into the bason in the Green-park. She was taken out alive, and confessed that she had just before drank a quantity of aqua-fortis out of a phial; being carried to Mount-street work-house, she there expired in the evening! She has left three children. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of lunacy A poor woman of Cottingham, Yorkshire, having left a child a few months old, in the cradle, alone, while she went out upon some occasion; and omitting to shut the door, on her return found the child lying on the floor, with both its hands nearly eaten off by a sow, which had found her way into the house. 21st. Lord Eardley, on passing through Windsor, saw a crowd collected; and, on enquiring the cause, found that it proceeded from a poor clergyman's goods being seized for a debt of 471. which sum his lordship immediately disbursed, and thus relieved the fortunate object of his bounty from irreparable ruin. 24th. This evening, the signal being made at Torbay for the whole fleet to proceed to sea, the ships were standing out of the bay, when the Venerable, captain Hunter, in endeavouring to weather one of the ships near her, missed stays, and went on shore on some rocks, where she beat violently. Signals of distress were immediately hoisted, and guns constantly fired. The crew, consisting of 555 souls, were all saved except eight, by the boats of the Impetueux and Goliah. The captain and officers remained on board till the last, with scarcely a hope of saving their lives; and when the surf was breaking tremendously over them, this scene of courage and magnanimity is thus described by one of the officers on board : "In this state, the officers persuaded their good and still undaunted captain to think of saving his life, and with it their own, as they had resolved, one and all, to share his fate. After some time he consent ed, on condition that the officers should go first. This point being concluded, the hope of life, long dismissed from our minds, began to revive, when another difficulty arose, which of the officers was to lead the way? The extinction of this new reviving hope was, indeed, dreadful, and the pause had nearly been fatal to us all! At length, one of the junior lieutenants, long known to the crew, and as brave a man as ever trod a quarter-deck, agreed to lead, the rest solemnly promising to follow. One after another we now descended from over the stern, (the only part above water) by single ropes, cold, benumbed, and wet through, and in this condition gained the boats, themselves in perilous attendance beneath. In this manner was it, that the poor old Venerable was abandoned to her fate; and about six o'clock we reached the Impetueux, where, it is needless to say, that we were treated with every attention and kindness, that one ship's officers could shew to another in distress." The Venerable soon after went to pieces, and next day there was nothing to be seen of her, but her bows; she was a very fine ship, built in 1784, and bore lord Duncan's flag in the ever memorable fight of Camperdown. A corporal and a private belonging to the 81st regiment of foot, being part of the escort which arrived at Exeter with Mr. Russell's waggons on the Wednesday preceding, laden with treasure, were committed, the former to high-gaol, and the latter to the county bridewell, for breaking open one of the chests upon the road, and stealing thereout a quantity of dollars, which they sold. The serjeant of the party, on their return to Plymouth, observing them to be in possession of cash and bank notes, immediately had them apprehended, when one of them made a full confession of the fact. They are fully committed for trial. In a parish, not 100 miles from North Elmham, is a person whose various professions and occupations may be arranged as under:-shoemaker; blacksmith; whitesmith; gun-smith; lock-smith; bell-hanger; turner in wood, brass, and iron; teacher of music; constable of the parish; auctioneer and appraiser; dealer in old cloaths; armourer to the Elmham volunteers, and corporal to the same; watch and clockmaker; parish cook; small pox and vaccine inoculator; inspector of weights and balances for the hundred of Launditch; collector and assessor of the king's taxes; sheriff's officer and bailiff; shaver and hairdresser; surveyor of land, and teacher of mensuration; leader of Ff2 the the choir at church; quondam justice of the peace; and heir apparent to the clerkship of the parish. As a person from Little Hayfield, Derbyshire, was returning home from Manchester, his horse took fright and threw him off; in a violent rage, he drew a strong stake from the side of a gate, with which he beat the poor animal so unmercifully upon the head, as to occasion instant death! after stripping it of the saddle and bridle, he then walked home, a distance of seven miles, very properly substituting himself for the poor beast, although punished much too slightly for his barbarity. 25th. On this day, at noon, the pope arrived at Fontainbleau, for the purpose of officiating at the coronation of the new emperor of the French, which took place in the following month. The emperor, who was enjoying the chace, (it was on a Sunday) at the moment of his arrival, being informed of the approach of his holiness, met him at La Croix de Saint Herem. The emperor and the pope alighted, and embraced each other. Six of his majesty's carriages then came up, into one of which the emperor first entered, and placed his holiness upon the right. They arrived at the castle through two lines of troops and the thunder of artillery. Cardinal Caprara, and the great officers of the househould, received them at the bottom of the stair-case. The emperor and the pope proceeded together by the gilt stair-case, as far as the place which separated their apartments: his holiness having there quitted the emperor, was conducted by the grand chamberlain, the grand marshal of the palace, and the grand master of the ceremo 1 nies, to the apartment prepared for him: having rested some time, his holiness paid a visit to the emperor; and immediately afterwards to the empress. Her majesty re-conducted the pope as far as the second room of her apartments. The pope having returned to his own apartment, the minister and great officers of the empire were presented to his holiness. At four o'clock the emperor sent notice to the pope that he intended to pay him a visit, and repaired to the closet of his holiness. The same ceremonies were observed as on the visit of the pope to the emperor; at each they remained alone together, for about half an hour. 29th. A bird of the hawk or eagle kind, was shot at Stockfield-park, near Wetherby, by Mr. Cummins, game-keeper to the countess of Aberdeen, in the grounds near the house, of such enormous size and strength, as to receive the shot of three discharges before it was secured, and it then defended itself so powerfully, as to elude every device Mr. Cummins could exercise to seize it, till he offered the muzzle of his gun, which it seized with 'such avidity, as to hang in that position whilst he carried it home to the house. At this date it was alive, and measured nine feet four inches between the extremities of the wings; and its beak, legs, and talons, indicate astonishing strength. DIED.-5th. At Acton, Middlesex, aged 105, John Thomas, farrier. 22d. At Gloves, near Athunry, Ireland, after a short illness, Mr. Denis Coorobee of Ballendangin, aged 117. He retained his faculties to the last, and until two days previously to his death, he never remembered to have any complaint or sickness |