tance from the place, were overwhelmed in the torrent, and drowned before affifiance could be procured; as were two horses in a team on the Martley road, in confequence of their being forced by the current into a deep ditch. In Yorkshire the floods were at tended by a form, which greatly contributed to the damage they occafioned. The canal at Hudderf field has been confiderably injured, and feveral mills and houfes near Holmfirth, and other places in the Weft Riding, have been entirely fwept away, by the overflowing of different ftreams. The rivers Oufe and Tees rofe unufually high. In Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, and in fact in almost every county in the kingdom, the inundations have been extenfive and greatly injurious. The aqueduct bridge for the duke of Bridgewater's canal over Chorlion brook, at Stratford, has given way; as has the aqueduct for the Afliton canal, near Ashton. On the Cheadle road two horfes in a poft chaife, were drowned, and the driver narrowly escaped by ftanding on the top of the carriage. About Sheffield, the rivers Dunn and Sheaf were fwollen to an unufual heighth, overflowed their banks, inundating the houses and country adjoining. Many parts of the Carlile road were, for fome time, impaffable; the bridges, however, on that line have refifted the torrent. Many hundred acres of grafs, ready for the fcythe, have been laid under water, and materially injured, by the overflowing of the river Derwent, and a confiderable quantity of new hay has been carried away. Markeaton brook, which runs 2 through Derby, has likewife done much damage. The rife of the Trent, on Monday, was almoft inftantaneous; hundreds of perfons were employed on its banks during the morning making hay; and in the courfe of the evening, thousands of acres were totally inundated, and many tons of hay carried down the ftream. Near Sawley, a great number of fheep were loft; and at Catton, a fine boy, twelve years of age, was drowned. The lower part of the town of Afhbourn was inundated to fuch extent, that the inhabitants were driven to the upper apartments. The Manchefter heavy coach, in pafling Hanging bridge, was nearly loft, the water wathed over the bridge, and for a fpace of nearly 300 yards, poured in a torrent across the road; the carriage, for a confiderable diftance, was lifted from the road, while the horses fwam, till, by extraordinary and fortunate exertion, they regained the road: two hundred perfons were collected, expecting every inftant to fee the coach daflied down a precipice of confiderable height, but without being able to afford the leaft affiftance. On other parts of the road the water was so high, that the horses were up to their necks, and the body of the coach in the water; the trees were their only guide, the hedges being in general washed away. The road about Cardiff has been impassable. Two bridges near Congleton, one near Stone, and another near Newcastle, have been demolished. DIED. At Annonny, in his 52d year, Stephen Montgolfier, celebrated for his invention of airballoons. balloons. He was a paper-maker, and extremely well verfed in mechanics and chymiftry. The paper which he manufactured equalled the Dutch paper, and contributed confiderably to the celebrity of French printing. He was the firft who made vellum paper in France. 29th. At Valence, in France, after having reigned 24 years,6 months, and 14 days, aged 81 years and 8 months, Pope Pius VI. formerly Cardinal John Angelo Brafchi. He was born at Cefena, Dec. 27, 1717; was created cardinal by his predeceffor, Clement XIV. in April, 1773; elected pope, Feb. 15, crowned the 22d of the fame month, and took poffeffion at St. John Lateran's, Nov. 30, in the fame year, 1775. SEPTEMBER. 8th. The rain fell this day in fuch torrents, that the flood next morning at Melbourn, in the county of Leicester, was by far the highest ever remembered by the oldeft perfon, though fome of the natives are near 90 years of age. In a few hours the rivulet there rofe 10 or 12 feet perpendicular; and feveral houfes were much inundated, in which formerly the water in the highest floods were never known to enter. A bed of large gravel and stones, containing about 60 or 70 loads, was brought down by the rapidity of the ftream, and lay together in an oblong heap in the town ftreet; and in fome places the brook has changed its courfe, and entirely formed a new bed. These uncommonly heavy rains are the more alarming, as the greatest part of the wheat and barley are ftand ; ing in the fields; and in this neighbourhood much now is not inned, fome not cut. The beans are nearly all mowed, but none carried circumftances which the oldeft perfon cannot remember. A fmall brook, alfo between Rothwell and Defborough, in the county of Northampton, at the fame time rose 14 feet perpendicular. Turin. Yesterday our univerfity was fhut, and the colleges fealed, by order of the king. This morning 70 priests, who were hitherto confined in the archbishop's feminary, were embarked on the Po, to be tranfported. Among the provifors of our univerfity were feveral jacobins. Our city has prefented field-marfhal Suvarroff with a beautiful gold-hilted fword, as a token of gratitude for their delivery. He graciously received this prefent, and invited the deputies who delivered it to dine with him. "Deo re At Mantua the feaft of the reconqueft of that city was celebrated with great folemnity. Before the cathedral the following beautiful infcription was exhibited : demptori quod Mantva filiciter expugnata, et a clementiffimo D. N. Imp. Francifco II. Semp. Aug. iterum in fidem recepta, Italiam a triennali captivitate liberaverit : plavo orbis Chriftiani vniverfo gratiarum folemnia." Drefden. On Friday laft the princefs of Hohenlohe, and fuite, arrived here, and alighted at the Hotel de Pologne. This morning the doors of her apartment were found open; the bed of the princefs, and the floor of her bed-room, ftained with blood; and neither she nor her jewels, money, clothes, and other effects, to be found. None of her fervants or equipage are milling. Horsemen Horsemen have been difpatched in different directions; and every body is anxious to unriddle this myfterious circumftance. Accounts from Sweden mention the accidental drowing of a woman of the name of Olufson, at the age of 96. The father of the woman was found dead in a street in Stockholm; her mother stabbed herself: of three hufbands, to whom she had been married, the firft was hanged for killing her own brother; the fecond was blown up by a mine, at the fiege of Schiveindtz; and the third, with whom the lived near 20 years, was fuffocated by the fumes of a laboratory. Her youngest fon was drowned, and her eldest tranfported; her daughter, at the age of 20, disappeared, and was fince heard of. In fine, the misfortunes of this family feemed to extend to the relatives of thofe concerned with it, as a fon and daughter of her first hufband's alfo came to an untimely death, foon after his marriage. never The following is a lift of claimants in Ireland, who fuffered in the rebellion, fummer 1798. (Thefe claims were put in before the commiffioners appointed, by act of parliament, for the relief of fuffering loyalists), in the following counties: £ S. d. 17,662 7 10 856 911 12,062 24,712 0 11 4,093 9 Before the count d'Artois left Edinburgh, he tranfmitted the following letter to the lord provost and magiftrates: Circumftances relative to the good of the service of the king, my brother, making it requifite that I fhould leave this city, where, during my refidence, I have conftantly received the most diftinguished marks of attention and regard; I fhould reproach myself, were I to depart, without expreffing to its refpectable magiftrates, and through them to the inhabitants at large, the grateful fenfe with which my heart is penetrated for the noble manner, in which they have feconded the generous hofpitality of his Britannic majefty. I hope I fhall one day have it in my power to make known, in happier moments, my feelings on this occafion, and exprefs to you more fully the fentiments with which you have infpired me; the fincere affurance of which, time only permits me to offer you at prefent.". 15th. A large and brilliant meteor was observed about half past 93,223 6 3 eight this evening. The fky was 27,812 7 10 2,494 9 10 Kildare, Kilkenny, King's, Leitrim, 2,316 19 5 tolerably clear, and it pafled in a direction from the N. W. to the S. E. at a confiderable elevation in the atmosphere. It had the ap pearance pearance of a beautifully blazing ball, rapidly paffing along, with a gently tremulous motion, but without noife; and, just before it became extinct, a few red fparks detached themselves from it, as is the cafe when a rocket is falling. Though, probably, like other meteors, it was produced by inflammable air, kindled by an electric fpark, the light was much more vivid than inflammable air usually exhibits when burning, refembling rather the white light in fire-works, which is produced by filings of zinc. Its real altitude, and exact course, could only be afcertained by thofe accustomed to aftronomical obfervations, if any fuch were fortunate enough to be in a good fituation for a view of it; but, as it was certainly pretty high, it muft have been visible over a large furface of the earth. The day had been very rainy; in the afternoon there had been a little thunder; and, about ten minutes before the meteor appeared, there were fome corrufcations of lightning towards the east. 21ft. Jeremiah Beck, a young man of fair character, was indicted for felonioufly affaulting Jane Gibbs, in Kenfington-gardens, on the 20th of June laft, and taking from her perfon a red leather pocket-book, ten guineas in gold, a half guinea, and two feven fhilling pieces. Jane Gibbs having given her evidence to the above effect, with the particulars of her following the prifoner, and procuring a gentleman's fervant to affift her in taking him; and the fervant and another man (Thomas Winter) delivering their teftimony likewife, of all they faw and knew of the tranfaction; the prifoner was called on for h's defence: when he ftated, that the charge made against VOL XLI. him was wholly unfounded, and that he had taken nothing from the woman; he added a variety of circumftances relating to his apprehenfion, and concluded by protefting his innocence. A number of perfons were then called, to prove that the faid Jane Gibbs (an illfavoured, difgufting figure) had been in the habit of ftopping, speaking to, and afterwards charging gentlemen with robbing her. One of thefe gentlemen that had been fo treated by her was Dr. Ford, the ordinary of Newgate; two of the jury alfo faid fhe had acted in a fimilar manner towards them.-The iflue was, the acquittal of the prifoner, and the hiffing and hooting the woman out of court. 28th. At a common hall this day for the election of lord mayor, the return was in favour of aldermen Combe and Skinner, but a poll was demanded for fir William Staines. DIED. At Vienna (an example of the good effects of induftry and parfimony), Charles Abraham Wetzlar, baron of Blankenberg, a baptized Jew, who began his career by performing flight-of-hand tricks, afterwards became an undercommiffary in the feven years war, and ended it in the 85th year of his age as a baron. He has left three fons and five daughters, three of whom are married to barons Aughlbergh, Lezency, and Lowenbrunn, and two to counts Teftetics and Clary. His fortune is estimated at five millions of florins, about 500,000l. fterling. 7th. At Bowood-park (the feat of the marquis of Lanfdown), Jolin Ingenhoufz, M. D. phyfician to his Imperial majefty, fellow of the royal fociety of London, and of feveral other learned focieties; a man of D great great fimplicity of manners and be nevolence of difpofition; to whom the public are indebted for feveral curious and useful difcoveries, particularly in the application of pneumatic chymistry and natural philofophy to the purpofes of medical and agricultural improvements. His "Experiments upon Vegetables, difcovering their great Power of purifying the common Air in Sunhine, and of injuring it in the Shade and at Night," first publified in 8vo. 1779, have fince been extended and improved, and republifhed lately on the continent, in collections of his works, in French and German editions, which include his papers in the Philofophical Tranfactions." Prefixed to thefe editions is a portrait of the author. He was a native of Breda, and for fome time practifed phyfic in his native country. He came to England about the year 1767, to acquire information concerning the Suttonian method of inoculating the fmall-pox; and in 1768, (on the recommendation of the late fir John Pringle, who very highly efteemed him) he was engaged to go to Vienna to inoculate the archduchefs TherefaElizabeth (the only daughter of the emperor Jofeph II.) and the archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian, brothers of the emperor. the Spring of the following year he went to Italy, and inoculated the grand duke of Tufcany. The rewards of thefe fervices were the rank of body physician and counsel lor of ftate to their imperial majefties, with a penfion for life of about 6001. fterling per annum. For feveral years paft he has refided in this country, to which, from his firft acquaintance with it, he has always been much attached, and where he paffed his time almost un ceafingly in fcientific purfuits. În Philofophical Tranfactions," vol. LXV. are his experiments on the torpedo; LXVI. eafy methods of meafuring the diminution of bulk taking place on the mixture of common and nitrous air, with experiments on platina; LXVIII. a ready way of lighting a candle by a very fmall electrical fpark; ibid 1027, electrical experiments to explain how far the phænomena of the electrophorus may be accounted for by Dr. Franklin's theory of pofitive and negative electricity; LXIX. account of a new kind of inflammable air or gas; ibid. 537, fome new methods of fufpending magnetical needles; ibid. 661, improvements in electricity; LXX. on the degree of falubrity of the common air at fea, compared with that of the fea-fhore, and that of places removed from the fea; LXXII. fome farther confiderations on the influence of the vegetable kingdom on. the animal creation. OCTOBER. Ift. Lewes. The rains which fell yesterday were, in the eastern part of the county, heavy to an extent almoft beyond conception. The damage done by the high and rapid flowings of the water to bridges, mills, roads, hop-gardens, and cornfields, is immenfe. Many families, whofe habitations were fituated nigh to rivers and streams, and on low ground, were obliged to fly to the upper apartments for the fafety of their lives, and there remain until this extraordinary flood had fubfided. At our bridge, and at a va riety of other places, the water rose to: |