great the poor. ty-two only of the whole number the (eighty) being now left in this wicked world. His Majefty, God bless him, has but two phyficians, who have been able to help themselves; only one fourth of his chaplains, and not one priest in ordinary. Of thefe, fome, I believe, have been removed to a better fate! extracted from the rags of "If to the City fped, what waits us Of Aldermen I find only five able to eat out the remainder of life, and of the whole number of Common Councilmen, namely two hundred and thirty-four, I fay it to the glory of our markets, and the But what fhall I fay of the Navy praife of our kitchens, in spite of One Admiral only is, left to tell of the advance upon every fpecies of. the early glories of this reign-provifions, the confufions in our Lord Howe. The Elder Brethren turtle colonies, and the capture of of the Trinity House, fympathizing, our Weft Indiamen-out of all this as in duty bound. have left only number, twenty-eight still remain to three of their whol: number. record the feats of former days. Fatal as thefe twenty years have been to the navy, the army has been a much greater fufferer.-Alas! Alexander himfelf would weep, in our cafe, to think that there remaineth not one Field Marshal, General, Lieutenant-General, MajorGeneral, or Colonel, who were on the lift in 1778, and only feven Lieutenant-Colonels, and eleven Majors, moftly fuperannuated. But death is the very life of a foldier, as an Irish Chaplain once faid, and we muft not regret the lofs of thofe who "labour in their vocation." Of Judges I find four, whom death has not yet tried for their lives. Placemen-O! what a thought is there! Placemen must die! Only two Commiffioners of Customs are living, and not one of the Excife, which I greatly lament. These inftances, are, I hope, fufficient to create ferious thoughts in the minds of your readers on the inftability of all human greatness. Thefe amount, you perceive, to a complete revolution of perfons in all departments of ftate. Why then this anxiety for cheefe-parings and candle-ends, fince in fo fhort a fpace as twenty years, we may ourfelves be food to the very vermin we now rob? One only inftance more let me mention-with gravity, if poffible, that all the Trustees for insuring lives are dead! I remain, Sir, your humble fervant, very MEDITATOR. MUTINY ON BOARD THE LADY Y the laft Lisbon Mail, the BY I fhall be brief with the Clergy, Rev. John Black, of Woodbecause they fet their minds on bridge, Suffolk, received a packet another world. Six Deans, howe- from his fon, who was one of the ver, may be found lingering here, furviving Officers of that unfortuand twenty-five of the eighty Lon-nate hip the Lady Shore, dated don Clergy. Oxford has fix heads Rio Janeiro, Jan. 18, 1798, conof houfes, and four profeffors, and taining an authentic narrative of Cambridge has two heads and five the mutiny, and of his fubfequent Captain profeffors. perils and adventures. Wilcocks did not die till the third day after the mutiny, when he exEvery pired without a groan, honour was fhewn to his remains. Will money avert the rude hand of death? Alas, no. There are only four Bank and two India Directors, who have lived to fee the wealth of Major Major Semple had no concern in the mutiny; he was, the first to acquaint Captain Wilcocks of the mutinous state of the foldiers before they left England. Mr. Black has fent a lift of the perfons who landed at Rio Grande, thirty-two in number. The officers were received by the General at the head of his garrifon, and entertained in the most hofpitable and fplendid manner. The furgeon of the ship, an amiable young man of abilities in his profeffion, was forcibly detained by the mutineers, which made him very miferable. Mr. Black wrote to him from Rio Grande. There is no doubt but the Governor of Montevideo will treat him in the most honourable manner. Before Mr. Black left Rio Grande, the Governor of that place had received a letter from the Governor of Montevideo, requefting a lift of the mutineers, which was accordingly fent. CEREMONY OF PRESENTING CO- T HURSDAY, October 25, the Brentford Armed Affociation had their colours confecrated by the Rev. Mr. Glaffe, Chaplain to the corps, in the parish church of Ealing, after which an excellent fermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Carr, the vicar. The fervice was performed in a ftile of dignity and folemnity fuited to the occafion, and the whole of the arrangements were fo well conducted as to render it one of the most impreffive, and most interefting fcenes ever witneffed. The extreme badnefs' of the weather made it impoffible for the ladies to go to Ealing Common, where great preparations were made for the prefentation, and where the Loyal Middlefex Light Horfe Volunteers, with the Iñeworth, Chifwick, and Kew Affociation, attended to keep the ground; the colours were therefore Mr. Black and Major Semple fet out to go by land from Rio Grande to Rio Janeiro; the General fur-prefented in the Church by Mrs. nifhed them with horfes, two fer- Smith and Mifs Harrington, the vants, two dragoons for guides, and latter of whom addreffed the Capan Indian to take care of the lug-tain Commandant in a neat, apgage horfe, and letters of recommendation to the different places through which they were to pass. When they had arrived at a Whale Fifhery, about eleven leagues to the Southward of the Ifle of St. Catherine, they embarked in a whale boat for that place. They were kindly received by the Governor, and had feparate apartments allotted them in the Palace. Here they laid till the 9th of November, when they embarked on board a Portugueze Fleet for Rio Janeiro; Major Semple on board the Admiral's fhip, and Mr. Black on board a line of battle fhip, commanded by Captain Thompfon, an Englishman, at whofe requeft he was placed there, and from whom he received the greatest kindness. propriate fpeech, delivered with the utmoft propriety and elegance; to which Captain Harrington made a fuitable reply. The Church was extremely crowded, as, in addition to the neighbourhood, the refpec-' tive corps appointed to keep the ground, attended the prefentation of the colours. At the conclufion, the Brentford Armed Affociation marched to Brentford Butts, where they fired three vollies, and afterwards dined together at the Three Pigeons Inn, fpending the evening in loyalty and harmony. It ought to be recorded to the honour of Mr. Smith, one of its most respect. able members, that before the news of Admiral Nelfon's engagement arrived, he faid he would treat his friends with a haunch of venison tor To the EDITORS of the SPORTING GENTLEMEN, This for every fhip of the line that was who, from gratitude and attachtaken, and fix if Buonaparte himself ment, accompanied me every was captured. He accordingly where, promifed, if I would follow gave eleven haunches to the Brent- his advice, and hunt after the Kora. ford Affociation, nine of which gua manner, to afford me an opwere brought to table, each deco-portunity of killing, without quitrated with the French flag, and ing the fpot, more game than the name of the fhips, with the would be fufficient for all my comEnglish colours on a flag ftaff, fly-pany during a whole moon. ing over it. The two haunches extraordinary promife appeared to which reprefented the two fhips me exaggeration, but it was eafy for funk had only the French colours, me to afcertain the truth of it; and and the name of each fhip, on a as it afforded me the hopes of broken flag-ftaff. Such patriotifm learning fomething, perhaps, that I and liberality ought not to pass undid not know, I confented to make noticed. a trial. Next morning, as foon as it was day, the Chief fent out fifty men to track on the hills and eminences, fituated on the fouth fide of the horde. About noon, one of them returned to give notice, that they had driven feveral flocks of Antelopes together, that they now formed an immenfe body moving towards the plain, fo that they would not fail foon to make their appearance. I immediately fet out with Haripa, who pofted me in a During the laft month, being out defile of the plain, through which, afhooting near Burlington, in Yorkas he conjectured, from the direcfhire, I flushed a covey of birds, tion purfued by the trackers, the which I marked down; keeping Antelopes muft neceffarily pass; my eye fixed on the place, I faw and indeed we had not long rean uncommonly large hawk, ho-mained in this polition, when we vering over them, which foon made faw, rifing from the fides of the a pounce upon them, and caught hills, clouds of duft, which feemed one in his talons. I got within fhot of him, and broke his wing; after I had killed him, I found an infcription on a piece of brafs, faftened to his leg, to this purpose: "Belonging to the Governor of Belonging to the Governor of "New Halifax, America, A. D. 1762." EING one of your conftant Dreaders of that excellent publication, the Sporting Magazine, I think it worth my while to infert the following curious circumftance, which, I hope, will meet your candid approbation. Your's, &c. ANTELOPE HUNTING. [With an Etching by Mr. Howit.]. HILE under this embarrassment, Haripa, who thought himfelf much indebted to me for the prefents I had given him, and every moment to extend themfelves and to become larger. He then defired me to lay down on my belly, with my face towards the ground, and, in this pofture, which appeared to me very little proper for hunting, I waited the event in filence. |