constable of the settlement, and administers justice with a most impartial hand. There is no severity that will operate to the prevention of the natives stealing one another's cabbages. One of the convicts has built a comfortable house, and has cultivated his share of ground to great advantage. His time has expired, but he refuses to return to England, and actually gives his share of the government provision to his neighbours, as he is able to live with his family on his own farm. 22. This night, at 10 o'clock, general Dumourier sailed from Dover, in the Express packet, with the mail for Ostend; an armed cutter accompanied the packet as a convoy: on his landing at Ostend, and with the shock threw his rider to a considerable distance, without falling himself. Upon examining the horse it was discovered that both his fore legs were broken, and that he had galloped near eighteen yards on the stumps, when he made a dead stop. The accident can be accounted for in no other way, than that, it is supposed, the hardness of the ground dislocated the fetlock joint of the off-leg, and in running with full speed, the nearleg just above that same joint was completely broken. The rider very fortunately escaped unhurt. Distances between the principal sea-ports in France, and sea-ports in Ireland and Great Britain. he was put under arrest by order of From Brest to Galway 23d. Early this morning a dreadful affray took place in Oxfordbuildings, near Oxford-road, where a large party of labouring persons of both sexes, chiefly Irish, had been collected at the house of one of them, upon occasion of a child's death. The watchmen were beaten, and the captain of the patroles was so severely wounded that he is since dead. A party of the foot guards, who arrived about three in the morning, were assailed by brickbats, &c.; but they seized fifty-six of the rioters, of whom sixteen have been since committed to Newgate, and a number of others to Tothill-fields bridewell. At Ascot races a very remarkable accident happened to Mr. Anderton's horse in running the third heat. After the horse had gained the summit of the hill, near the king's stand, he suddenly faultered, Leagues. 180 Cork 100 Plymouth 60 Torbay ΤΟ Portsmouth 100 The Downs 132 Cherbourg to Portsmouth 26 Calais to Dover Margate 26 22 7 15 25th. The number of bankruptcies from the 25th of December, 1792 to this day, amounts to 800a number not to be paralleled in the annals of the commercial history of the kingdom. 26th. At a general court of the East India house, an annuity of 50001. was granted to lord Cornwallis and his assignees, for twenty years certain. 27th. A dreadful fire broke out about the middle of the day at Stanton St. John's, about four miles from Oxford, which entirely destroyed twenty-one dwelling houses, five barns, and divers out buildingsborne er vi ti og eis i DIED, at Grenier's hotel, in Jermyn-street, about 6 o'clock in the evening, the duke de Sicignano, lately arrived here as ambassador from Naples. A paper which was found on the table, in the duke's hand-writing, declared, "that the act was his own free choice; that no one was to be blamed; nor was any one privy to it." He had said to his secretary, about an hour before, that from the want of some dish at his hotel, he should dine that day at the Imperial ambassador's; and he then expressed a wish, that whenever he did not immediately answer to a knock at his door, no person should repeat the knocking, or endeavour to come in. The secretary had occasion to call upon him in the evening, and, according to his wish, went away upon receiving no answer to his first rap. After a second and a third unsuccessful attempt he was alarmed, and the door being locked, was burst open by the servants. The duke was not in the drawing room, where they perceived a smell of gunpowder, nor in his own sittingroom or bed-room. It was in the water-closet that he was at length found, and still moving; but, as the surgeons declared, merely by the convulsions of death. The ball had passed entirely through his head, and he died in a few minutes afterwards. The motive for this vio lence against himself cannot be discovered. Bills of credit for 5000l. were found in his escrutoire. He was not thirty years of age; of a very favourable appearance, and of a disposition evenly, and even powerfully cheerful, He did not expose himself to serious losses at play. His habits of general gallantry contradict the generally received opinion, that some affair of love depressed his mind. In short, nothing can at present be said for the fact, but that it was the result of a momentary madness. He had lodged at Grenier's since his arrival at London; was a very temperate and punctual man, going to bed generally every night at eleven o'clock, and paying his bills week? ly. He had transacted business with lord Grenville on the same morning. As soon as the event became known, the prince Castelcicala, and some other foreign noblemen, went to Grenier's to view the body, and the prince took charge of his effects. Next morning Mr. Burgess one of his Majesties under secretaries of state, at the request of lord Grenville, went to the hotel to make the necessary enquiries concerning the suicide, and to give orders for the removal and interment of the corpse, and an express was sent off to Naples with the melancholy news. duke was a young nobleman of one of the first families in Italy, of very amiable manners, and much be loved by those who knew him. A lovely sister is dangerously ill, from the melancholy event having been communicated to her in too sudden a manner," The 11th. At Edinburgh, the celebrated historian, Dr. Williaın Robertson, principal of the university of Edinburgh, and historiographer to his Majesty for Scotland. He was born in the year 1721, licensed in 1743, placed in the parish of Glansmuir, in 1744, from thence, in 1758, he was translated to Lady Yester's 1 Extract of a letter from a gentle man to his friend at Calcutta, dated on board the ship Shaw Adasier, off Saugur island, December 23, 1792. "To describe the awful and la mentable accident I have been an eye-witness of is impossible. Yesterday morning, Mr. Downey, of the company's troops, lieut. Pyefinch, Mr. Monro (son of sir Hector), and myself, went on shore on Saugur island to shoot deer. We saw innumerable tracks of tigers and deer, but still we were induced to pursue our sport, and did the whole day. About half past three we sat down on the edge of a jungle, to eat some cold meat sent us from the ship, and had just commenced our meal, when Mr. Pyefinch, and a black servant, told us there was a fine deer within six yards of us. Mr. Downey and myself immediately jumped up to take our guns; mine was the nearest, and I had just laid hold of it, when I heard a roar like thunder, and saw an immiese royal tiger spring on the unfortunate Monro, who was sitting down. In a moment his head was in the beast's mouth, and he rushed into the jungle, with him with as much ease as I could lift a kitten, tearing him through the thickest hedges and trees, every thing yielding to his monstrous force. The agonies of, horror, regret, and fear, rushed on me at once. The only effort I could make was, to fire at him; . though the poor youth was s tll in his mouth. 1fired a musket, gaw the tiger stagger, and agitated, and cried out so immediately. Mr. Downey then fired two shots, and I one more, we retired from the Mr. Monro came up to us all over jungle, and a few minutes after, blood, and fell. We took him on our backs to the boat, and got every medical assistance for him from the Valentine East Indiaman, which lay at anchor near the island, but in vain. He lived twenty-four hours after, but in the extreme of torture; his head and skull were torn and broke to pieces, and he was wounded by the claws all over the neck and shoulders; but it was better to take him away, though irrecoverable, than leave him to be devoured limb-hy limb, We have just read the funeral service over him, and committed him to the deep. He was an amiable and promising youth. I must observe, there was a large fire blazing close to us, composed of ten or a dozen whole trees; I made it myself, on purpose to keep the tigers off, as I had always heard it would. There were eight or ten of the natives about us, many shots had been fired at the place, and much noise and laughing at the time; but this ferocious animal disregarded all. The human mind cannot form an idea of the scene; it turned my very soul within me. The beast was about four and a half feet high and nine long. His head appeared as large as an ox's, his eyes darting fire, and his roar, when he first seized his prey, will never be out of my recollection. We had scarcely pushed our boats from that cursed shore, when a tigress made her appearance, almost raging mad, and and remained on the sand as long as the distance would allow me to see her. JULY. 2d. Oxford, on this and some days past, was a very busy scene; people pouring in from every road to see the installation of the new chancellor, the duke of Portland. The streets were filled the greater part of Monday, in expectation of his arrival. He came about nine in the evening, and drove immediately to the vice-chancellor's, Dr. Willis, Warden of Wadham. At twelve o'clock, on Tuesday morning, the duke came in procession from Wadham college to St. Mary's church. Divine service was performed, and a sermon was preached by Dr. Percy, bishop of Dromore, from the 13th chapter of St. John, ver. 34. In the evening, at the theatre, a selection was performed to near 3000 noblemen, gentlemen, and ladies. Thursday, at nine, the doors of the theatre were opened, and the ladies alone were admitted, and disposed in the galleries by the proproctors. The crowd at the gates became very impatient for admission. Near a thousand persons waited in Broad-street. At about half after ten some of the most active ventured to climb over the iron rails, to the great discomposure of their dresses and danger of their limbs. Above a hundred followed the daring impetuosity of these besiegers, and the gates were at length carried, when the crowd rushed into the theatre with such confusion, that the street was strewed with shoes, buckles, gowns, hats, caps, &c. Never did such a multitude enter that building. At eleven, the chancellor, followed by the noblemen and doctors, and in their proper dresses, walked in procession to their seats in the theatre, from the vice chancellor's, at Waddam college.-The convocation being opened by his grace, the following noblemen and gentlemen were honoured with the degree of D. C. L. Duke of Devonshire The bishop of Dromore, of Cambridge, was admitted Ad eundem. Applause, as usual, was bestowed on the new doctors. The prize compositions were then recited-Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage, in Latin verse, by Mr. Copplestone, of Corpus; and Popularity, an English essay, by Mr. Taunton, of Christchurch. These were followed by the Crewelian oration, by Dr. Holmes, professor of poetry. The installation ode, written by Dr. Holmes, and set to music by Dr. Hayes, was then introduced by Messrs. Webbe and Bartleman, Mrs. Billington, and the rest of the band. band. It was unfortunately interrupted in its course. The crowd in the area was so great that many of the gentlemen found themselves overpowered, and, notwithstanding the attention they received, serious consequences began to be apprehended. They were impelled in waves from one side to the other, nor was there any other part of the theatre which could give them In this state of general alarm the chancellor was intreated to dissolve the assembly, which he accordingly did. room. At three o'clock the chancellor, and all the noblemen and doctors, were elegantly entertained in the hall of Wadham college by the vice-chancellor. In the evening there was a concert, in which Mrs. Billington, by her angelic strains, proved herself worthy of the popularity she has obtained at Oxford. On Thursday, new arrangements having taken place, the members of the university and the company were accommodated in a satisfactory manner. At eleven, the chancellor having opened the convocation, the degree of D. C. L. and the hon. degree of M. A. was conferred on a great number of noblemen and gentlemen; after which the poetical exercises commenced. The concert, in the evening, was attended with a numerous company as before, and at eight there was an elegant though crowded ball in the Town-hall. The next day degrees were as before conferred on several persons, and in the afternoon the musical festival closed with the oratorio of the Messiah. At night there was a second ball for the ladies at the Town-hall, VOL. XXXV. where the company was very numerous. The weather proving favourable during the present week, the promenades were well attended at intervals; and the university has not been so much alive at any period since the installation of Lord North, in the year 1773. Sth. This morning about one o'clock, a fire broke out in the sail room of his Majesty's dockyard at Deptford, which consumed a great quantity of sails just finished, and some part of the building; the great supply of water prevented it from doing any farther damage. The fire was not completely got under until five o'clock. At Chelmsford, the notorious John Wilshire, alias Crowder, alias Burk, was tried for robbing H. Howarth, Esq. and Mr. Montolieu, on the 18th of April last, near Woodford Wells, on Eppingforest, of bank and other notes, and cash to the amount of upwards of 6001. The prisoner made no defence, and the jury in about five minutes brought him in guilty. William Hill, for a burglary, was also capitally convicted, and left for execution with Wilshire. 13th. A fire broke out in the rope and yarn manufactory of Mr. Wilkinson, at Stepney Causeway. The fire raged with incredible fury, and as the tide had ebbed there was a difficulty for the first four hours of procuring water. The whole manufactory was destroyed. The flames were so fierce that they were distinctly seen at the distance of several miles from London. No lives were lost. 14th. Paris. Marat was yesterday evening assassinated while in the bath, by a young woman of the D name |