in front, a fourth cannon was fired, as a fignal to load; and upon the fifth gun being fired, the different corps began to fire vollies in fucceffion from right to left. The fame loading and firing were repeated, upon the fixth and feventh cannons being fired: in all fifty-nine rounds. On the eighth cannon being fired, three cheers were given, and the mufic played, God fave the King." The corps then pafled his majefty in grand divifions, in a moft excellent manner, under the direction of general Dundas, who headed them on horfeback; after which they filed off to the stations refpectively allotted for them. The whole of the evolutions pointed out to them in the general orders having been performed, and another royal falute of twenty-one guns fired, his majefty, after expreffing the highest fatisfaction at the martial appear ance and excellent conduct of this loyal and patriotic army, departed from the ground at a quarter before one, amid the joyous fhouts and affectionate greetings of the people, who affembled on the occafion to the amount of upwards of 100,000, including all the beauty and fashion of the metropolis. The fight was truly grand and highly gratifying; and, notwithstanding the evolutions were confiderably impeded by the high wind and fome rain, the whole were performed in a manner that reflects much credit upon every corps prefent, whofe conduct fully entitles them to the very handfome compliment of his royal highnefs, the commander-in-chief, paid them by order of his majefty, in the Gazette of that evening. The ground was kept clear by the London and Weftinfter, and Southwark volunteer corps of cavalry, who preferved the lines from being infringed by the immenfe multitude who crowded the Park. 10th. Lord Thanet and Mr. Ferguffon, accompanied by the duke of Bedford, lord Derby, &c. being brought into the court of King's Bench. The attorney-general faid, he had received his majesty's commands to enter a nolle profequi with respect to the firft, fecond, and third counts. Mr. juftice Grofe then addressed the defendants in a fpeech of confiderable length. After commenting upon the impartiality of the trial, and the juftice of the conviction, he obferved, that the rank and fituation of the defendants were fuch as ought to have made them the last men in the world to have been guilty of fuch conduct. He then proceeded to pafs the fentence of the court upon lord Thanet, which was, that be fhould be imprisoned for one year in the Tower of London; that he should pay a fine of 1000.; that at the expiration of his imprisonment he fhould give fecurity for his good behaviour for feven years, himfelf in 10,000l. and two fureties in 5,0001. each; and that he should be further imprifoned till the faid fecurity was given and the fine paid. The fentence upon Mr. Fergullon was, that he fhould pay a fine of 1007.; that he should be imprifoned for one year in the King's Bench prifon; that at the expiration of his imprisonment he fhould give fecurity for his good behaviour for feven years, himself in 500. and two fureties in 2501. each; and that he fhould be imprifoned till the faid fecurity was given and the fine paid. On the fame day, about three o'clock, the duke de Sorentino, a Sicilian nobleman, who has refided in this country fome years, went into Lowthorp's coffee-houfe, St. George's Fields, and fent the waiter with a note to count De Lambert, in Lambeth-road. He then defired to have a private room, and was fhewn into one up ftairs. A fhort time had only elapfed when the miftrefs thought fhe heard the report of a piftol; but, not being certain, fhe waited the arrival of the fervant before fhe fent up stairs, who, on entering the room, found the duke, in an arm-chair, dead, and the piftol with which he had hot himfelf laying at his feet. Count De Lambert arrived foon after, and obferved, that he had faved his life twice, at a former period, when he had attempted a fimilar act. The count made particular inquiry after a pocket-book, which he was certain would be found about the deceased, as it contained fome fecret matter that he would never disclofe either to his wife or friend; but it could not be found. The duke refided in Charles-ftreet, Fitzroyfquare, and had been married to a refpectable English lady a few months. A coroner's inqueft was held on his body, which brought in a verdict of lunacy. 15th. This night, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the Horfe and Groom, public-houfe, in Curtain-row, Shoreditch; by which accident, the flames caught fire to Mrs. Tomlinfon's clothes, and the was burned in fo fhocking a manner as to cause her immediate death. 21ft. This day, between eight and nine o'clock, his majesty, mounted on a beautiful white charger, and followed by the male branches of the royal family, a crowd of general-officers, &c. went from Buckinghamhouse to inspect all the volunteer corps in different streets of the metropolis. He paffed over Westminsterbridge, and proceeded by the Obelifk to Blackfriars-bridge, on the centre of which he was met by the lordmayor and aldermen, who afterwards rode before him, the lordmayor carrying the fword of ftate. His majefty proceeded through Bridge-ftreet, St. Paul's fquare, Cornhill, &c. in front of the dif ferent affociations, making a circle to the artillery-ground, where the prince of Wales, as colonel, appeared at the head of the artillerycompany, and thence to the lordchancellor's, in Upper Guilfordftreet, where all the royal family breakfafted; the king then review. ed the Bloomsbury and other corps in that neighbourhood, and, about fix o'clock, returned home. The number of volunteers vifited by the king were 12,200; and no fovereign ever experienced greater proofs of the loyalty of his fubjects than did his majefly on this day of parade and rejoicing. JULY. 4th. His majefty reviewed, on Wimbledon-common, the different volunteer-corps of the county of Surrey. The line, which was very extenfive, confifted of 12 cavalrycorps and 24 of infantry; the ef ective strength of the whole, 2300. 9th. As a waggon full of coals, with fix horses, was paffing over the bridge at Emfcole, near Warwick, one of the arches gave way, and waggon and horfes were preci pitated into the river, where one of them was killed, and the reft fo injured that they were not expected to recover. 13th. This afternoon, about three, one of the largest powder-mills, on Twickenham-common, not far from Hanworth, blew up, with a moft violent explofion, attended by circumftances of the most melancholy nature. Four men, employed in corning the powder, were blown to atoms in the air, and many of the timbers of the building thrown to a distance of half a mile. It was only on the Thurfday preceding that a fmaller mill, belonging to the fame proprietors, blew up, but no lives were loft. The explofion of this day broke many panes of glass, at the distance of one and two miles. Calcutta, Jan. 21. It is with much concern we ftate the lofs of the company's armed fchooner, the Ganges, commanded by captain Wade, the particulars of which are as follow: the Ganges came to an anchor, on the evening of the 11th, to the eastward of Lacam's channel. The Laurel was then about four leagues farther in the offing, in a fouth-easterly direction. About eight o'clock at night, while captain Wade and his officers were on deck, a difagreeable fmell of burning oil and Imoke came from the cabin. On going below, the fmoke appeared to be coming from aft. The gun-room was immediately cleared, and, on opening the fcuttle of the after gun-room, the smoke rushed out, and plainly indicated that to be the quarter where the mischief lay. Captain Wade directed all the powder that was in the gun-room and cabin to be quickly removed; while himself, his officers, and his people, were employed in throwing water into the after gun-room. Their efforts were greatly impeded by the fuffo cating vapours, which compelled captain Wade, and those with him, to make their way upon deck. The fire was bursting forth from the cabin-windows; but captain Wade ftill indulged the hope of being able to get it under, and continued to employ every exertion for that purpofe; but, at the fame time, as a measure of prudence, he directed his officers to get the boat out, and to keep her clear a little a-head of the fchooner. This was no fooner done than thirty or forty people leaped on board, and the officers found it indifpenfably neceffary to put off, in order to prevent the boat from being furcharged. Captain Wade and those who had remained with the fchooner persevered in the moft fpirited exertions to extinguish the fire; but it gained ground in fpite of all their efforts. The people, every moment in dread of the veflel blowing up, crowded forward upon her bows, bowfprits, jibboom, &c. In this alarming fituation, captain Wade, with great compofure, proceeded to prepare rafts. He, his two boatswains, and fome others, were stepping aft to cut away the main-maft, that it might ferve as a spar; at this inftant, the fire communicated to the maga zine, which exploded with great violence, tearing up the deck from the tafferel to feveral feet before the main-maft. By this accident eight men were killed; the fecond boatswain had his leg broken, and captain Wade was thrown feveral feet forwards. At length recovering himself, he found that the flames had nearly ceafed, moft of the parts that were on fire having been blown up with the magazine; he was encouraged, therefore, to renew his efforts to fave the remains of the fchooner fchooner; but, unfortunately, a part of the burning materials had been carried up, by the explosion, into the maintop; and, this communicating to the rigging, fet the whole on fire, which, falling down from time to time, rekindled the flame in various parts of the hull; and, most of the water-buckets and and other implements having been blown overboard, no hope remain ed of being able to fave any part of the wreck that might ferve as a raft for those who remained. The flames extending over nearly the whole of the wreck, left no time to deliberate, and but little for a laft exertion. Whatever things I could be met with to answer the purpose were haftily lafhed together, and put overboard as a raft, to which all the men on board, amounting to fifty-nine, were obliged to commit their safety. The poor boatswain, who, from his broken leg, was almoft unable to move, was affifted to the raft; and, all hands having got hold, it was pufed from alongfide; but, immediately before leaving the fchooner,captain Wade had ordered the cable to be cut, that, as it was cbb-tide, the wreck of the fchooner and the raft might be drifted together towards the Laurel, that the fight of the burning wreck might guide the boats from that fhip in the track to And them; for, as they had fired guns of diftrefs on the breaking out of the fire, and as they knew the light must be feen from the Laurel, they confided in her coming to their affittance. The raft and wreck continued drifting with the ebb tide, within piftol fhot of each other, for about two hours, when the wreck fuddenly went down; a circumftance that rendered their situation more difmal, as the difappearance of the light letlened the chance of the expected boats falling in with them. Captain Wade propofed that they fhould now and then raife a general fhout, as the boats might perhaps be within hearing, though they might not be able to difcern them. This expedient was readily adopted. After the lapfe of fix hours in the water, pafled under an awful anxiety, the found of the pulling of oars infpired them with unfpeakable joy, and in the courie of half an hour they were taken up by the Laurel's boat, and fafely carried on board, where they were received with the kindnefs due to their misfortunes. The cause of the fire on board the Ganges is afcribed to the fpontaneous conbuftion of a small quantity of woodoil, contained in a dubber, or leathern jar, which was flowed in the after gun-room. A fire originating from a like caufe occurred in the arfenal in Fort William, about five years ago, 13th. The North weft wing of the King's Bench prifon was about 9 this evening difcovered to be on fire. The flames burst forth with incredible fury, and were driven by the wind towards the centre of the building. The confternation which immediately took place is hardly to be exprelled, not only within the prifon but without. Many of the prifoners wives and relatives who refided in the rules, alarmed at fo dreadful a conflagration, appeared under the walls fhrieking, and demanding the releafe of those whom their fears reprefented in fuch imminent danger, but, at the very first intimation of the accident, St. George's, the Bermondfey, St. Saviour's, Lambeth, Chr Chrift Church, and Newington, volunteers, with a party of the Surrey cavalry, attended and prevented the populace in general from taking that ftep, which, perhaps, the beft feelings of human nature had, upon the fpur of the moment dictated. Within the prifon, we are happy to learn, not the flighteft endeavour was made on the part of any one to escape beyond its walls; all were engaged in affifting thofe who were more immediately within the reach of danger. Above an hour had elapfed before the engines arrived and began to work, by which time the flames had arrived at an ungovernable height. They raged with fach violence, that it was with difficulty a small part of the prifoners furniture and effects were faved. Many wretched and indigent farailies, whofe whole property was Contained in their rooms, were compelled to leave it a prey to the devouring element. How the fre was occafioned no one can with certainty tel. It broke out at No. 10, in an upper room, in the farther corner of that part of he building where the tap is, uft at the entrance of the prifon. There was no fire in the room, nor was there even a fire-place. The perfon who occupied it was an old an, of the name of Adams, who at the time of the accident was drinking at the Brace, a public om at the farther end of the ifon. The ftory he relates is, that fon had called upon him early n the evening, and had left him wo 107. notes, which he was to all for again on Monday morning; For the better fecurity of these notes e put them in his trunk, and he ppofes, at the time he did fo, a fpark from the candle fell into the trunk. The part where the fire commenced is called the Old Building, and the upper rooms are not vaulted, confequently the whole was confumed; the flames then fpread through the two upper ftories, as far as the chapel, confuming near the whole of them, both in front of the parade and in the back part of the prifon. Here the firemen prevented it extending farther by forcing off the div fion No. 6 adjoining, at the back of which it ended, by confuming the apartment occupied by lady Murray, at No. 1, in divifion 15. There are between 80 and 100 rooms deftroyed. When this building was erected, the floor of the upper ftory was not vaulted; had it been fo, the prefent accident would have been comparatively trifling. The fecond ftory was vaulted, otherwife the whole fabrick must have been deftroyed. There. are a few rooms which were vaulted, and are preferved, though they were furrounded by flames. It was not till one in the morning that the fire was fubdued, and it was near 4 before it was finally extinguifhed. 25th In confequence of fome obftructions which the commiffioners for dividing and inclofing the open fields of Wilbarfton, Northampton, had met with from a number of perfons claiming right of common in the faid fields; who not only. avowed their determination to refift the fencing out of a piece of land allotted them in lieu of the common right, but had even fet the civil power at defiance; the Northampton and Althorp troops of yeomanry were ordered to affemble at Harborough yefterday evening, and this morning they fet out thence for Wilbarston, |