Oglou, and another rebellious Pacha, of the name of Giorgi Ofman, are ravaging the neighbourhood of Adrianople. It is fulpected, and certainly not without reason, that these fyftematic rebellions are fomented by fome European Courts. It is not unlikely, that they may have been the fubject of much of the royal conference at Memel. The plan of partition is probably already decided upon; and it is much apprehended, that the alLance of France is to be bought by a furrender of Egypt, to the Chief Conful. GERMANY. A fcene of frantic violence took place at Munich, about the beginning of June. Some of the tumultuous fcenes, ufual on the pilgrimage, which used to be annually exhibited, having been attempted to be fuppreffed by the magiftrates, the journeymen employed on thefe occafions made a riot, but, by the exertions of the military, order was restored. Authentic intelligence has been received, by way of Holland, about the middle of July, that the elector of May. ence, is to have Ratifbon for his refidence. He will alfo have the bifhopric of that city, feveral small prelatures, and the Bailliage of Afchaffenburgh, befides a million and a half of florins, annually, from the other states of the empire. According to fome accounts, the government of Hanover has offered to exchange the bishopric of Ofnaburgh for the bhopric of Hildesheim, which has been allotted as an indemnity to Pruffia, This propofition however, is attended with great difficulties. It is likewife afferted, that Pruffia will receive the Ab. bies of Werden and Herverden. HELVETIC REPUBLIC. For the acceptance of the new Helvetic conftitution, there are in all 240,000 voices, and for its rejection 70,000. The cantons of Uri, Schweitz, and Underwalden, have unanimously rejected it. WEST INDIES. Notwithstanding the treaty between General Leclerc and General Touffunt, the Negro Chief has been lent to France, as a prifoner, with all his family. General Leclerc, in a letter, dated May 12, fays, that Touffaint, ever fince his furrender, has been inceffantly confpiring to regain his influence in the colony, when he was under the neceffity of having him atrefted. How far this accufation is true, or whether it has only been a pretence to get rid of a man, whofe influence was fo great in the colony, we pretend not to fay, Leclerc fpeaks of his perfidy in ftrong terms; and announces that his departure caused a general joy at the Cape. GREAT BRITAIN. We begin now to have an indiftinct glance of the features of the enfoing Par. liament from the returns, and have as yet no reason to regret the change. That the power of the Minifter will fufficiently prevail to enable him, be he who he may, to pursue whatever courfe he may decide. upon, without fear of ferious oppofition, we ftill perceive very obviously; but the Whig intereft has in general triumphed, when expoted to a conteft; a fact which fpeaks favourably as to the virtue of the people of England, and may be the means of roufing them once more to a state of watchfulness and activity, without which the nation must eventually be ruined and enflaved. If the people, through the medium of their reprefentatives, do not be come their own guardians-do not reject COURT CANDIDATES, elect MEN OF THE PEOPLE, and keep a watchful eye over their own conftitutional rights, it is not to be expected that the Servants of the Crown will do it for them; and if doctrines deftructive of the very effence of our free conftitution, because deftructive of the first principles of the reprefentative fyftem, are fuffered to be maintained and boafted of by three of the Reprefentatives of the first commercial city in the worldthat the reprefentative is not to be regarded as the delegate or inftrument of his confituents-and that he ought not, and in the instance alluded to, will not undertake to fubfcribe to the general voice, but retain himself at liberty to oppose it whenever he chufes, how is it to be fuppofed, that thofe Reprefentatives will do more juttice to the people,than the peop'e do for themfelves? But that Court Candidates fhould be cholen to reprefent London, is no fault of the Livery, because the majority is averfe to them; the difgrace appertains to the clafs of wealthy and independent men who do not offer themselves as candidates, and who, when they have offered have not adopted the determined and energetic mode which would always fecure their election. Such, however, has been the refiftance of the people to thofe COURT CANDIDATES, Who, while notoriouЛy the creatures of the Crown, have had the effrontery to offer themselves as reprefentatives of the people, that in almost every cafe in which a respectable candidate of popular and independent principles, has offered himfelf, he has fucceeded; and in the few cafes in which COURT CANDIDATES K2 have have been fuccessful, their fuccefs may be ascribed either to fome exception to the perfonal character of their rival, or to the want of vigour and precision in the conduct of his election. There is, indeed, no doubt, that if a fufficient number of independent candidates had started, a majority of the new Parliament would have been friendly to the free principles of the conftitution, and the nation might have obtained fome fatisfaction for the abridgment of its liberties, and for the other mifchiefs perpetrated by the Pitt Administration. The contested elections in which the greatest number of fuffrages were given, and thole of the most prominent political importance, were for Middlefex, Norfolk, Kent, and Norwich, In all thefe places the Candidates fupported by the Servants of the Crown were defeated, and men of popular principles were chofen. Never were contefts carried on with more fervour on each fide,and never was popularity more unequivocal, nor victory more complete. Theelection for the County of Middlefex, forms an epocha in the annals of British liberty. Mr. Mainwaring the Cour: Candidate, as Chairman of the Quarter Seffions, and as the Reprefentative of the County in the three preceding Parlia ments, poffeffed every advantage of connection and influence. His cause became indeed that of the Government jtfelf; backed by all the efforts of the Tory Party. Sir Francis Burdett, with few or no connections in the county, offered himielf as the Man of the People, and as the determined opponent of the defervedly obnoxious prison, commonly called the Baftile, and upon these pretenfions folely, he obtained a final and large majority of votes. The fruggle was, indeed, moft arduous. Mr. Mainwaring, till the 12th day, had a majority of nearly 500 votes; but on the 13th day, the inclinations of the people were gratified, by a majority upon that day's poll of 74; the following day was diftinguished by a further majority of 385 upon the day's poll; and the 15th and last day was crowned by a glorious majority, upon the whole poll, of 271 votes. The numbers at the clofe were, for Mr. BYNG 3848 Sir FRANCIS BURDETT 3207 Mr. MAINWARING 2936 The enthusiasm of the populace, and indeed of all ranks of independent peo knew no ple, during this election, DECISIVE ISSUE. ITS GLORIOUS AND Among the other proud triumphs of the popular fentiment, may be reckoned the ejections of Mr. WINDHAM from his feat for Norwich, and of Mr. BAKER from the county of Hertford, It deferves alfo to be recorded that Mr. HONEYWOOD ftood at the head of the poll for Kent; Mr. COKE at that for Norfolk ; Mr. Fox at that for Westminster; and Mr. ALDERMAN COMBE at that for the city of London, all of whom are the well-known champions of the free principles of the British conftitution. On Monday the 28th of June his Majefty went to the Houfe of Lords to pafs fuch bills as were ready, and to make a fpeech from the throne. We perceive no thing very prominent in the fpeech: its complete juftification of every measure of the old Parliament, however felf-inconfiftent and contradictory, is what we had every reafon to expect. Mr. Pitt, Mr. Windham, and Mr. Addington, come in equally for their fhare of praise; both to and the war and the peace appear them to have been very good things in their turn. "As I think it expedient (faid the Royal Speaker) that the election of a new Parliament fhould take place without delay, it is my intention forthwith to give directions for diffolving the prefent, and for calling a newParliament." The next day the prelent Parliament was diffolved by proclamation. It has been faid of the Parliament just dismissed, by one of its boldest but bestinformed Members, that if, inftead of excluding him from the House, and divelting him, at the clofe of his life, of the common rights of a man and a citizen, in confequence of a discovery, that something miraculous and fupernatural was operated upon him nearly half a century ago-if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had propoled to hang him immediately in the lobby, he, or any other Chancellor of the Exchequer, would have been followed by the fanie majority." INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON. With Bi graphical Memoirs of diftinguifbed Characters recently deceased. A LEVEL has been lately taken to prove the practicability of making a canal, which may effect a junction between Padding ton and the Weft-India Docks. This canal is intended to be brought in a direct line from Paddington to the field below the New River Road; then to proceed across the City Road, and skirt Shoreditch and Spital-field parishes, through the centre of the parith of Bethnal Green; and then to pafs to Whitechapel paruh at the Mount, and to communicate with the commercial road; and likewife with the London Docks, in the parish of St. George in the Ealt. On Saturday, June 26th, the firft ftone of that great national undertaking, the New London Docks and Warehoufes, was laid in Wapping, by Mr. Addington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hawketbury,Sir Richard Neave, Edward Fofter, efq. and a number of other gentlemen, refpectable merchants, &c. When the tone was laid, two giafs bottles, containing the gold, ulver, and copper coins of the prefent reign, with a medal of the king's recovery, were depofited in a hole made in the ftone, and over them a tin plate, contaming an appropriate infeription. Dr. Gordon has lately prefented a memorial to the Court of Common Council, which ftates at large, the circumftance of his having difcovered the art of making flour from a certain ubftance which abounds in great plenty in this country; the cultivation of which may be eafily improved, fo as to fupply, at all times, the utmoft demand, at one fourth the ufual prices of wheaten flour, with which it is equally nutricious and palateable, and will keep its qualities many years. The above memorial has been referred to the Provision Committee, to examine and report their opinion thereon to the court. The foundation of a new school for that excellent feminary of learning, the Charter Houfe, was lately laid, in prefence of Dr. Ramiden, Dr. Rain, the fiftant mafters, and the principal part of the scholars. The whole of the building is to be on a very improved feale. It will be confiderably larger than the prefent fchool, and will, in other reipects, be much more convenient. The dimenfions are 70 feet long, and 35 feet wide. The governors of Chrift's Hofpital have it in contemplation to rebuild one of the wings of that ancient edifice, in the courfe of the next year. At the final clofe of the poll for the city of London, July 14, the numbers ftood as follows: Mr. Ald. Combe 3377 | Mr. Travers 1371 Mr. Ald. Price 3276 Sir W. Lewes 652 Mr. Ald. Curtis 2989 Mr.Lufhington 113 Sir W. Anderson 2287 "The four former were of courfe duly elected. Mr. John Graham, an auctioneer, started as a candidate for the city of Westminster; the other, and fuccefsful candidates, were Mr. Fox, and Admiral Lord Gardner. By an address to the electors, it appears that Mr. Horne Tooke had intended to offer himfelf again as a candidate for the city of Weftmintter, if he had not been declared ineligible by Act of Parliament. Mr. Thornton and Mr. Tierney were the two fuccefsful candidates for the borough of Southwark. The truly noble and public fpirited example which the electors of the firft commercial borough in the kingdom have fet, in returning their reprefentatives free from even the finalleft expence, well deferves to be followed and imitated throughout the empire. Sir Thomas Turton was the unfuccefsiul candidate. At the election for the county of Hertford, the Hon. P. Lambe, on the independent intereft, fucceeded in being returned as member, againft Mr. Baker. Mr. Plumer was the other fuccefsful candidate. The produce of the Confolidated Fund for the year ending July 5, exceeds that of the preceeding year by more than one million and a halt. The last quarter, which has been a period of peace, has been peculiarly productive. The Surrey Iron Railway is now compleated over the high road through Wandfworth town. On Wednesday, Jane 8, leveral carriages, of all defcriptions, paffed over the iron rails, without meeting with the leaft obitacle. Among thefe, the Poftfmouth waggon, drawn by eight horfes, and weighing from eight to ten tons, paffed over the rails, and did not appear to make the flightest impreflion on them. The road will be immediately opened for traffick up to Mitcham, as there only remains the iron to lay down, which is confidered to be a very expeditious procets. The Import Dock in the Isle of Dogs, which is full 30 acres in extent, and the largest excavation of the kind ever made in this country, is now entirely walled in and, compleated. Three of the aumente warehoufes with which this dock is intended to be furrounded, are covered in, chiefly with copper; and three others are nearly in a ftate of equal forwardness. Among the grants lately voted by the Legislature, was one of a fingular kind, viz 17001. for the expence of copying manufcripts found at Herculaneum and Pompeiæ, in the kingdom of Naples. A few thoufand pounds judicioully employed in objects of this ufeful and intereiting nature, would indeed reflect honour upon the nation, and ferve the caule of humanity in general. Account of the number of the cargoes of fish brought to the port of London, and fold 78 Incidents, Marriages, and Deaths in and near London. [Aug. 1, in Billingfgate market, as lately laid before, the Houfe of Commons:-From 25th March, 1792, to 25th March, 1799, 1407 cargoes. -From 25th March, 1799, to 25th March, 1800, 1623 cargoes.-From 25th March 1800, to 25th March 1801, 2167 cargoes.From 25th March, 1801, to 25th March, 1802, 2668 cargoes. By papers laid before the Houfe of Commous, it appears that the value of exports of British manufactures within the last year, amounted to the fum of 41,770,5541. and that within the laft 18 years, the amount of British exports has been doubled. Lieut. Grant has lately arrived in London, from Port Jackfon, New South Wales, with specimens of a kind of wood lately difcovered on the banks of Hunter's River, in that fettlement, in great plenty, well qualified for the mafting of fhipping. The topmafts, top-gallant maits, and yards of the veffel in which he came, the Ann Jofephin, a brig, were all made of this wood, and appear to have anfwered remarkably well. Mr. Grant has had particular opportunities of proving the excellent qualities of this wood, in confequence of the very heavy weather ufually met with in thofe feas. A non-defcript wood, relembling fuftic, has likewife been found there. We are turther informed by this conveyance, that the .colony of New South Wales is no longer in want of that ftaple commodity, coals; this article, of an excellent quality, being likewife found in great abundance in the vicinity of Hunter's River. Mr. Grant, on his arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, fold the coals, (the brig being laden with fpars for matts, and coals), at 36 rixdollars per ton, amounting to nearly 61. fterhag. Governor King has formed a fetHement at Hunter's River, for the purpose of working the coal, which is much of the fame nature with that at Newcastle. Mr. Grant proceeded up this river in the boat of the Lady Nelfon, to an extent of nearly 70 miles, without being able to difcover its fource. On his return, Mr. Grant, by order of Governor King, furveyed the coalt of Van Diemen's Straights, (and gave a very favourable report of the fane), from Wilfon's Promontory, to Weltern Port; which laft is a capacious and well-heltered harbour. There is a great abundance of wood eafy to be got, and plenty of water; though the Jatter is difficult to be procured, on account of the distance, and from feveral thoals lying in the way, which render it neceifary to take advantage of the tide. Married.] Mr. W. Hall, of Great Rider- At Chrift Church, Surrey, S. Teaft, efq. At Cobham, in Surrey, the Rev. H. J. T. Stackhoufe, efq. of Hatton Garden, to At St. George's Hanover-fquare, J. Mait- J. Scroder, efq. merchant, of Broad-ftreet, C. T. Hudfon, efq. eldeft fon of Sir C. At Hampstead, Mr. H. Siddons, to Mifa Died. Lately, at Charles-place, Cityroad, in his 22d year, of an inflammation, which came on the day before his deceate, Thomas Pick, late of Darlington. He poffeffed an excellent underftanding, the cultivation of which was with him an object of increafing folicitude. With a manly firmnefs, honour, and integrity, was blended an exquifite fenfibility. Towards his relations he evinced the moft tender affection-towards his friends a warm and fteady attachment: by thefe, and other amiable qualities, he endeared himfelf to them, and to a large circle of acquaintance. His premature death is fincerely lamented, and his memory will long be cherished and revered. At Idlington, Lewis Kekewich, efq. Cashier. In Welbeck-ftrect, the Hon. Mrs. Parker, At Chelfea, Mrs. Mofeley, widow of W. H. Capel, efq. of Felton-hill, Middlefex. At Highgate, in her 44th year, Mifs Garnett, of Scarboro'. In T In Henrietta-ftreet, Cavendish-fquare, G. F. Schutz, etq. of Shotover, in Oxon. At Hampstead, aged 51, Mrs. Hewetfon, wife of Mr. J. Hewetion, of Catherine-court, Tower-hill. In Little Ormond-street, in his 22d year, J. Lock Robinfon, efq. of Chadlington, Oxon. At Claphamn, in his 70th year, W. Feuilleteau, efq. Mrs. Clayton, of Tilney-street. At Hampstead, Mrs. Mills, wife of Captain Mills. This lady was formerly wellknown and much admired for her mufical powers, first as Mifs Birchill, and afterwards as Mrs. Vincent. She left the stage on marrying Captain Mills, and accompanied him to India. Captain Mills is the only furvivor of thofe truly unfortunate perfons who were in the Black Hole at Calcutta, and fignally difplayed his humanity in that scene of unexampled horror, by religning his place near the window, to the late Mr. Holwell. The latter was nearly dying for want of air, and had in vain implored of others the fame kindnefs; it was, however, a facrifice of felfprefervation, in fuch a dreadful fituation, which none could reasonably expect or hope to obtain. [In fpeaking of the character of the late Earl of Lonidale (whofe death was announced in our laft Number) impartiality finds little to praife, and cenfure to be juft ought to be more precife and circumftantial than the nature of a periodical publication permits. On the 7th of September, 1761, Sir James Lowther married Margaret daughter of the Earl of Bute, and as he afterwards obtained a grant from the Crown of part of an eitate which had been long held by the Duke of Portland's family, as an appendage to an eftate in the county of Cumberland, given to their anceftor by King William III. it was rafhly, and entruly, prefumed, that Lord Bute's inAuence was ufed in inducing the Lords of the Treasury to improve his fon-in-law's property, at the expence of the Duke of Portland, who was then in oppofition. A confiderable share of unpopularity attended this tranfaction, which Sir James greatly increaled, by multiplying litigations, and bring ing at once a great number of ejectments, for the purpofe of establishing his claim. A litigious difpofition, or rather a determination to opprefs, by means of wealth, and under colour of law, all who were obnoxious to him, has been frequently imputed to Lord Lonf dale; and the records of the counts, the books of reports, and the accounts of the alizes in different counties, have appeared for a long feries of years to afford foine balis to the imputation. In the year 1782, when it was generally underttood that the war could not be of much longer continuance, Sir James Lowther waited on Lord Sandwich, then at the head of the admiralty, and, atter deploring the ftate of his Majefty's navy, volaatarily offered to build and equip, at his own expence, a feventy-four-gun fhip. It this propofal was fincerely made, too much praife cannot be given to fuch difinterefted patriotitin, but if common fufpicion is well founded, it was merely a delulive attempt p acquire popularity, and infure diftinction, without the claim arifing from ačtení merit. The peace of 1783 made the building of a fhip at that time unneceffary; but although the country has fince been engaged in a more expentive contest, and attended with greater exertions than thofe which gave rite to the propotal of the donation, the offer was never repeated. In 1784, an ancient peera_e which belonged to the family, but had been for fome time extinct, was revived, and Sir James was called up to the House of Lords by the titles already enumerated. He was always anxious for the extenfion of his borough-intereft, but although the poffeffion of fuch influence is reckoned favourable to the views of ambition, he never occupied ang official fituation. He was in 1764 made Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of Cumberland. Of Lord Lonfdale's private life we have neither the means nor the inclination to make a difplay; he was fome years ago violently fatirifed by Peter Pindar, whom he profecuted for a libel, but on receiving a conceflion was induced to defiit; an inftance of placability which does him honour: and he evinced great perfonal courage in a duel fought in the year 1792, with Captain Cuthbert, which, we believe, was not the only tranfaction of the kind in which he had been engaged. On opening his Lordship's will it was found, that he had left to Sir William Lowther, now Lord Lowther, all his eftates in Weftmoreland and Cumberland, eftimated at 40,000l. per ann.-ToJohn Lowther, efq, the brother of Sir William, he has left his Yorkshire estate, worth 40001. per annum-To the Countefs of Lonidale, his lady, an addition to her jointure of 20001.; 50001. in money, and the villa which the now inhabits-To the Duchefs of Bolton and Mits Lowther, he two filters, he has left 70001. each in money, and his Barbadoes eftate worth 20001. a year His To Col. Lowther, whom he fo particularly profeffed to favour, he has left only 12,0001. in money and to the Earl of Darlington, his nephew and heir at law, who would have had the whole if no will had been found, he has cut off with a bequest of 5001. His eftate at Laleham, in Middlefex, the house upon which he left untenanted for years, on account of a difpute with the clergyman about tyraes, he has directed to be fold. Lordihip had 9000 guineas in his bureau, prepared for the enfuing election. Among his Lordship's whimsicalities was that of keeping, at leaft, 600 blood horfes and others, in his feveral parks, not one of which had ever been broke or even bitted. The following were his Lordship's titles -Earl of Loutdale, Vifcount Lowther, Baron Lowther, Baron of Kendal, and a Baronet.] PRO. |