required, efpecially in these times of warfare and exertion, that they fhould be marked by a punishment which may be feverely felt and be long remembered by thofe mifguided perfons who have been guilty of the atrocious acts of difobedience, which have brought this indelible ftigma on the corps, and may ferve as an example to all others, as well of the confequences of fuch feditious and outrageous proceedings, as of his majesty's firm determination to maintain fubordination and discipline in his army, and to fupport the authority of his ofcers in the execution of their duty.

It is on these grounds his majesty's royal determination, that the 5th, or royal Irish regiment of dragoons, fhall be forthwith disbanded; which you will pleafe to communicate to the corps, and carry it into immediate effect. At the fame time that the king judges it requifite, for the good of the fervice, to make thefe fevere examples, his majefty has graciously condefcended to direct that general lord Rofmore fhall be affured, that his majefty is perfuaded of the concern which, as a foldier, his lordthip would feel at fuch a circumftance occurring in any part of the army; and is fenfi ble of the particular mortification he muft experience in the prefent inftance; from the event of which, however, his lordfhip cannot, in the fmalleft degree, fuffer in his majefty's eftimation. His majefty has been pleafed farther to direct, that you do exprefs his perfuafion, that there are many valuable officers in his regiment who have used their beft endeavours to reflore the order and preferve the credit of the corps; and though in this meafure of indifpenfible feverity it was impofi

ble to make any exceptions, the majority being clearly implicated in the mifconduct in which the whole are fuffering, yet his majesty will hereafter make the most pointed difcrimination, and those of any rank who are deferving of the royal favour may rely on his majefty's difpofition to reward their merit, and to avail himself of their future fervices.

In confideration of the expense to which the officers of the 5th, or royal Irish regiment, have been unavoidably expofed, his majefty has been gracioufly pleafed to direct that their full pay fhall be continued to them to the 24th of December next, at which period they will be placed on half-pay.

I have the honour to be,
(Signed)

Henry Calvert. Adjutant-general. 20th. Thelluffon v. Woodford, and Woodford v. Thelluffon. Thefe caufes were inftituted in the court of chancery for the purpose of taking its opinion upon the will of the late Mr. Thellufion. The one bill being filed to pray that the will might be declared void, as containing deviles contrary to law; the other, to pray that the purpofes of the will might be carried into effect.

The cafe having been opened long ago before the lord chancellor, his lordship defired the affiftance of the judges; accordingly, the mafter of the rolls, Mr. justice Buller, and Mr. juftice Lawrence, attended with the lord chancellor, before whom the cafe was argued, and this day the court delivered judgement.

Mr. juftice Lawrence commenced with opening the two bills; he then read the claufe in the will upon which the queftion turned. He then took a view of the whole

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fands near Poole, in a heavy gale of wind at Eaft. There was a tremendous fea running, and a very heavy fnow falling, which rendered it extremely difficult, as well as hazardous, to afford any affiftance to the crew. The boats from his majefty's gun-veffel the Tickler, and feveral other boats, attempted it without fuccefs, and the poor fellows, after cutting away the mafts, and doing all they could to relieve the veffel, were left, without hope, to the horrid expectation that every coming fea would overwhelm them, or to the ftill more dreadful one, that they must fhortly perifh by the inclemency of the weather. They remained in this fhocking fituation till the middle of the day, when Charles Sturt, efq. of Brownfeacaftle, happily fucceeded in refcung them from the very jaws of death, and brought them to his hofpitable mansion, where every refreshment and comfort was adminittered to them, which their exhaufted state required. Mr. Sturt, on this occafion, merits the warmeft thanks of every friend of humanity; regardlefs of his perfonal fafety, which was endangered in an imminent degree, to his active exertions and perfeverance alone are thefe poor people indebted for their lives. The fea was tremendous beyond defcription, and the fhoals on which the vessel lay extremely dangerous to approach. Mr. Sturt's boat was feveral times filled by the fers, and himself and people once or twice abfolutely thrown out of her into the breakers.

24. Dublin. Laft night a melancholy accident occurred, during a dreadful storm, in this bay. Three Scottish outward-bound Weft Indianten were wrecked on the bar, and

every foul of their respective crews and paffengers, to the number of 60, unhappily perifhed.

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9th. The mail-guards, who arrived in town, declare they never experienced fo fevere a night as that of February 8. The ftorm of hail was fo driven against their faces, as to benumb and swell them. A gentleman, who should have arrived by the Chefter mail, relates, that from Northampton, which he left on Friday night, he got on tolerably well, notwithstanding the violence of the driving fnow, to Broughtonfield, whence the guard, for two miles, explored a paffage for the horfes, which could with difficulty be made to face the ftorm. length, arriving at Hockliff, he found, among other coaches, the Manchester mail; and was told, by perfons who had returned with the heavy Coventry and Chefter coaches, that they and their paffengers were ftuck faft in the fnow on Chalk-hill. The dawn having, by this time, broken, he, with one of the fuperintendants of the Poft-office and the guard, set off on horfes to Dunftable; and, taking a chaise with fix horfes from thence, they arrived with the mail at the General Poft-office at half past twelve, on Sunday. The mail-coach from Shrewsbury, on Saturday morning, ftuck in, the fnow in Tilworth-field, whence the guard carried the mail fome way, and then obtained a chaife, in which being unable to get forward, he proceeded with the mails on horseback to London: nor was the Worcester mail-coach more fortunate. The paffages which had been cut through the former fnow, upon that and other roads, having been filled by the heavy drifts of Friday night, the guard was obliged

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to leave the coach blocked up at Nettlebed, from whence he proceeded, occafionally walking and riding, to London, where he arrived in tolerable time. The fecond fall of fnow fo completely blocked up the Newmarket-road, that three paffengers, coming to town by the Norwich-mail, could not proceed any farther than Bourn-bridge. One of the fuperintendants of the Poft-office proceeded with the guard, on two of the horses, and, by great exertion and rifk, arrived with the mails, in London, though too late for Saturday's delivery.

12th. Plymouth. Yefterday was experienced the moft fevere hurricane ever remembered here, at N. W. and W. N. W. At four P. M. the Naiad frigate broke from her moorings, and got afhore on the wet mud; but, the tide flowing, she was floated off without damage. The Bon Ordre, privateer, in Catwater broke adrift, and got afhore on the Cat-down fide, where the now lies; the New Church partly unroofed, several stacks of chimneys blown down, the flates and roofs blown to a great diftance. At fix P. M. a large ftack of chimneys at Ladywell-school, at the east end of the town, broke in upon the roof of the houfe, forced through into the children's bed-room, carried away the beams, flooring, and beds, accompanied by near ten tons, down into the first floor, where ncar thirty children were working. By the beams refting for a few moments, the miftrefs and twenty-feven of the children efcaped; but the cries of three children were heard under the ruins, and Mr. Rentfree, the mafter, with great exertions, dug them out, almoft fuffocated, and much bruifed. By the interference of Provi

dence, every perfon was miraculoufly faved from apparent and inevitable deftruction.

At night, a man walking home miftook his road, near Catdownroad, (the hedge having fallen in,) walked over a precipice 200 feet high, and was damned to pieces.

An awful phenomenon occurred in the Ifle of Wight: a large tract of land, containing 130 acres, with a dwelling-houfe and other edifices upon it, occupied by farmer Hervey, was fuddenly feparated from the adjoining ground, and propelled forwards towards the fea; leaving in the place which it before occupied a flupendous gulph or chafin that inftantly filled with water. The eftate in question was fituated on the fouthern coaft of the island, a wild romantic tract of country, which wears every appearance of having heretofore experienced many fimilar lapfes or land-flips."

Much injury was fuflained on the river by the tremendous form of laft night. Several veffels, parti

cularly fuch whofe cables had been hurt by the floating ice, were driven from their moorings, and, by getting foul of each other, they received confiderable injury in their rigging, as well as in feveral other refpects. Among the fmall craft there is great havock, both below and above bridge, great numbers of them being dafhed to pieces, funk, or driven away. By the overflow of the river, at Weybridge, confiderable tracts of the adjacent meadows and corn-lands are laid under water.

Mr. Johnfon and Mr. Jordan, the bookfellers, convicted of a libel, in publifhing the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield's "Addrefs to the Bifhop of Llandaff," were brought up to re

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ceive judgement. The former was ordered to be confined fix months, in the King's-Bench prifon, and pay a fine of 501. the latter to be imprifoned one year, in the houfe of correction, in Cold-Bath-fieids.

18th. Bath. The rapid thaw, accompanied, on Sunday, by a heavy rain, produced the greateft flood on our river that has been experienced fince 1774; Monday night, when at the highest, it was more than ten feet above its ufual level. A moft diftreffing feene prefented itself in Horfe-freet, Avon-ftreet, and on the quay; the kitchens, cellars, &c. in thofe places, were nearly fall to the ceilings; and in the loweft part of Horfe-freet the inhabitants were driven for fhelter to the upper flories. The road to Priftol was fearcely paflable, the water being in many places as high as the bellies of the horfes. Accounts from the country flate, that fimilar inundations have almoft generally taken place, and much damage has been fuftained by hay-ricks, timber, &c. having been carried away.

21. In the court of King's Bench, this day, Mr. Cuthell, the original publisher of Mr. Wakefield's addrefs was tried before a fpecial jury; and, after calling feveral refpectable perfons to his character, who all concurred in itating "that he dealt in old hiftorical, philofophical and other learned books, and not at all in political or other pamphlets, and that he was a man of excellent moral character," was found guilty.

Mr. Wakefield was alfo tried, as the au hor of the work; which, having been proved in evidence, he defended himfelf, and read a written fpeech upwards of two hours long, full of invectives against his majef

ty's minifters, and particularly a gainft the attorney-general, who did not condefcend to make any reply to it. The fing'e queftion, which the attorney-general put to the jury, was, whether M;. C. Wakefield was to be governed by one law, and all his majefty's fubjects by another law? Lord Kenyou treated Mr. W. with great tendernefs and humanity; and the jury found the defendant guilty. Bail was immediately given for hisappearance to receive judgement, himself in a 10001. and Mr. J. T. Rutt, merchant, in Thames-fireet, and Mr. Samuel Lewin, in 500 each.

25th. James Turnbull was tried upen the capital charge of putting Thomas Finch in fear, and ftealing from his majefty's mint the fum of 2380 guineas. By the evidence of T. ich, it appeared that, on the 20th of December, Turnbull and Dalton, and two of the Tower Hamlets militia, were employed to work at a prefs ufed in the mint; at nine o'clock Finch told them to go to breakfaft; they all went out, leaving him and a Mr. Chambers in the room; in about a minute Turnball and Dalton returned, and the latter flopped at the door while the former prefented a pifiol, forced the keys of a cheft from Mr. F. and then locked him in an inter room; he afterwards fiole 2380 guineas, and then efcaped.

Turnbull, in his defence, went into all the particulars, which he faid, though it would injure himfelf, was due to the innocent. He laid, being all ordered to go out, on the morning of the rebbery, he went out laff, and found Dalton waiting for him at the door, to whom, without giving the finsik intimation of

his intention, he faid, "You come in." Dalton afked for what? To which he replied, "Never mind, but come in." That when he prefented the piftol to Mr. Finch, Dal ton called out to him two or three times, "What are you about?" and then went from the door and gave the alarm, which he certainly would not have done had he been concerned.

The jury pronounced him guilty; but his counfel was allowed to make any legal objections to the indictment, which is to be decided by the twelve judges.

William Bryce and Peter Pollard were both found guilty of affifting his efcape: this Turnbull alfo de

nied.

28th. This day were executed John Haines, for fhooting at Henry Edwards, a police officer, and James Blakeley, alias Patrick Blake, for forging a feaman's will. Haines has been hung in chains on Hounflow-heath, between the two roads; the gibbet ftrongly plated with iron. It is laid, that near 300 journeymen curriers attended the fcaffold to refcue Haines (who was a currier), but that they were prevented making the attempt by the vigilance

of the fheriff's officers.

DIED At Paris, Thomas Muir, the celebrated Scottish advocate, tranfported to Betany-bay, for fedition, but who efcaped thence. A wound he received on board the Spanish frigate in which he returned to Europe, it is faid, never was cured, and to that his death is af cribed.

2d. In his 82d year, Mr. Thomas Payne, for more than 40 years a a bookfeller of the firft reputation at the Mews-gate. He was a native

of Brackley, in Northamptonshire; and began his career in Roundcourt, in the Strand, oppofite Yorkbuildings, where, after being fome years an affiftant to his elder brother, Olive Payne (with whom the idea and practice of printing catalogues is faid to have originated), he commenced bookfeller on his own account, and iffued "A Catalogue of curious Books in Divinity, Hiftory, Claffics, Medicine, Voyages, Natural Hiftory, &c. Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, in excellent Condition, and moftly gilt and lettered," dated Feb. 29, 1740, being almoft the firft of the catalogifts, except Daniel Brown, at the Black Swan, without Temple-bar, and the fhort-lived Mears and Noorthouck. From this fituation he removed to the Mews-gate, in 1750, when he married Elizabeth Taylor, and fucceeded her brother in the fhop and houfe, which he built, whence he iffued an almost annual fucceffion of catalogues, beginning 1755, and, in the years 1760 and 1761, two catalogues during the year. This he continued to do till 1790, when he refigned the bufinefs to his eldeft fon, who had for more than 20 years been his partner, and who opened a new literary channel, by a correfpondence with Paris, from whence he brought, in 1793, the library of the celebrated chancellor, Lamoignon. The little fhop, in the shape of an L, was the firft that obtained the name of a literary coffee-house, in London, from the knot of literati that reforted to it; and, fince the difplay of new books on the counter has been adopted from the Oxford and Cambridge bookfellers, other London fhops have their followers.

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