horfes, to meet his holinefs, as a prefent to him, in token of their devotion to his intereft. Thefe were gifts the more agreeable, as both the papal palaces at Rome, ftalls, ftables, and all, had been completely ranfacked and emptied. A part of the quirinal had been fitted up and furnifhed in hafte for the reception of his holinefs. At night the whole city was illuminated, and feveral triumphal arches. 12th. This day was laid the firft ftone of the intended new wet dock, near the Ifle of Dogs. A grand aquatic proceflion took place, and a number of perfons of confiderable diftinction were present. The privy council have decided, that it hould be recommended to his majefty to grant a charter for the incorporation of Downing-college, in every refpect conformable to the fcheme approved by the trustees and the court of chancery. Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw, who died lately at Pontefract, in Yorkshire, bequeathed the principal part of her property, amounting to 15,000l. to her hof-maid, named Mary Watfon. The heir at law difputed the validity of the will, at the laft affizes, and endeavoured to prove, that the deceased wes in a complete ftate of intoxication when the executed the deed. This allegation, however, was not fubftantiated; and the fortunate houfe-maid will of courfe receive the full amount of the above legacy. The duke of Northumberland, in a letter to a gentleman in Dublin, tates the expenfe of the life-boat prefented to the town of NorthShields, at 1607. and that it has already faved nearly 1000 feamen and paffengers, befides feveral thips and their cargoes. The grand junction canal has lately been opened from the Thames, at Brentford, to Fenny Stratford, in Buckinghamshire, from which place onward, through Bedfordfhire, to Tring in Hertfordshire, it was before navigable. Mr. Dodd, the engineer, has begun to ftake out the line of the Thames and Medway canal, which promifes to be of great local and public utility, and, though but eight miles and a half in length, will fuperfede the neceflity of going 47 miles about by fea, between London and Rochefter. Mr. Yates, the mafter and proprietor of a canal-barge at CoalbrookDale, lately went all the way, which is upwards of 400 miles by water, from that navigation, to Hambro' Wharf, near LondonBridge, in 14 days. He touched at Worcester, Gloucefter, and other towns, with part of his cargo. This is the firft barge that ever made the entire pallage. 17th. This day an inqueft was taken before Mr. White, one of the coroners for Lincolnshire, at the Bull, Witham-Common, on the bodies of Thomas Gilling and John Barnes, who were overturned from the Newcastle-coach the preceding day, between Stamford and Grantham, and crushed to death by the coach falling upon them. It ap pearing from the examination of the witnefles, that the coach was overloaded with the knowledge of one of the proprietors, the jury declared it to be forfeited as a deodand. Three girls were killed laft week, and a fourth feverely wounded, by the falling of an old houfe at Colgrove, in Northampton fhire. 21. This night, about eleven, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Mr. Edward May, at Hopgate, the murder, and hanged at GlouMinehead, which raged with un- cefter. He was about fixty-four common fury for feveral hours, years of age, and for feveral years when nearly the whole of the dwel in his youth worked in the coalling-houte, offices, e tentive barns, mines at Bitton; in this employ he tables, linneys, &c. were confum- faved fome money, and purchased ed, together with a quantity of land at Sifton, in the fame parish, wheat in the barns, farming uten- where, by his parfimonious con-, fils, a mare and colt, fome fheep, duct, he amafled confiderable pro&c. Most of the household furniperty. In perfon he was of low ture was faved, though much injured. ftature, and of a very mean conNot long fince, a veilel was fcuttled temptible appearance; his drefs in and funk in Minehead quay, laden general very flabby. Avarice had with corn, for Wales, part of engrolled his very foul, and deadwhich belonged to Mr. May, who ened every fenfation of humanity; is a confiderable dealer in corn; at indeed, he appeared quite infenfithe fame time incendiary hand-bills ble of emotion to the pathetic adwere stuck up, threatening to burn drefs of the judge, who very huthe houfes of all who fhould conti- manely directed, that his property nue to fhip wheat and flour at that fhould be divided among his numeplace, and Mr. May was particu- rous poor relations; as he had moft larifed. obftinately refufed to difpofe of any part of it, before his trial, and afterwards appeared equally inattentive to the welfare of those who were to furvive him; in short, a more ignorant, ftupid, fordid wretch, perhaps never exifted. He had lived to an old age, wholly unbeloved or esteemed; and juftly fell a victim to the offended laws of God and man, unpitied, unlamen ted. 22d. This morning the following melancholy circumftance happened in the parish of Sifton, Gloucefterfhire: Samuel Fuffell, of the Crown Inn, Warmly, collector of the taxes for the faid parish, attended by the conftable and other perfons, went to take a distress of fome hay, at the houfe of Edward Wilmot, of SiftonHill (an old man of very confiderable property), for fome arrears of taxes due from him. Wilmot had before prepared a gun loaded with a ball, which he difcharged at Fuffell as he was paffing near his houfe. The ball entered at the eye, and went through the back part of the head, and he inftantly expired. Wilmot was obferved to recharge the gun, fo that it was fome time before any perfon ventured to go near him. When he was apprehended, a loaded piftol was found in his pocket. At the aflizes for Gloucefterfhire, Wilmot was tried and convicted of 29th. This day, his majefty went in ftate to the house of peers; where he clofed the feffion of parliament, by a fpeech from the throne. Came on, at Worcefter affizes, the trial of Samuel F. Waddington, on an information for foreftalling hops. The information contained a great many counts; and, after a . long trial, which lafted till the evening, the jury found Mr. Waddington guilty on all the counts in the information. DIED. In Clarges-ftreet, Piccadilly, John Skrimfhire Boothby Clop ton, 66 ton, efq. About nine o'clock in the morning he rung the bell; on the entrance of the fervant he was walking up and down the room, apparently in a difordered state of mind. Suddenly turning round, he faid, "Why do you look at me fo earn eftly? What do you do here?" The man faid, he attended his commands. Mr. B. always drank cold tea for breakfast, which the fervant neglect ed to make over night, and apologized. Mr. B. faid, It is of no confequence; I fhall drink no more this year." About two, he ordered his horfe to be got ready to ride in the park; his valet put on one of his boots; he did not like them, and faid, "You may have thole boots, I fhall not wear them any more.' When in the park, he was obferved to gallop furioufly, which he was never accustomed to do, but, on the contrary, always rode a canter; and in returning home kept up the fame pace over the floues. At the corner of Clarges-ftreet, in Curzon-ftreet, he got off, delivered the horfe to the groom, and walked home; it was then half past five. Entering the parlour, he defired his valet to attend to the ferving up of dinner at fix: a few minutes after, he went into a back room, placed his right foot on the bed, and a horfe-piftol in his mouth; the explosion blew off the upper jaw and the back part of the head: the ball went through the chimney-glafs, and lodged in the wainscot. Inftantaneous death enfued, and he fell with one foot on the bed, the other under it. The fervants in the kitchen heard a noite, which they conceived to be their mafter uncorking a bottle of fprucebeer; and, had it not been for the breaking of the glafs, they would the alarm. It was proved before the coroner's jury, that he had been for fome months in a state of melan choly derangement; they therefore returned a verdict of lunacy. He was a very refpectable gentleman, and during his lifetime in the habits of intimacy with the first noblemen in this country. The late duke of Rutland, earls of Carlifle and Derby, and Mr. Fox, were among the number of his particular friends and acquaintances. He was a great frequenter of the fubfcription-houses, and, from his eccentricity in drefs, was ftyled by his friends, prince Boothby, on coming to his estate at Swaffham, in Norfolk. Mr. B. was the perfon fuppofed to be alluded to by Mr. Foote in one of his farces, as diftinguished by his partiality to people of rank, and inclined to leave one acquaintance to walk with another of fuperior dignity. Hence arofe the denomination of prince Boothby. His chief peculiarity in drefs was in the form of his hat, which was uniformly of the fame hape for the last twenty years, though he mixed with the most fashionable circles, and was conftantly ridiculed by his friends for this whimsical propenfity. He was brother to the wife of the celebrated fox-hunter, Mr. Hugo Meynel; had been poffefled of three large eftates; the firft his own inheritance; the fecond from a diftant family alliance; and the third, from Mrs. Clopton Parthericke, whofe name he latterly affumed. The value of the laft property is faid to be nearly 70007. a year. AUGUST. 7th. A dreadful fire broke out not have attended immediately to this day at Balaffa, in Hungary, which burnt with fuch violence, was drawn up the ladder by the hair that in less than two hours 568 houfes, the Lutheran church, and the poft-house, were confumed; not more than 50 houses were left standing; two women, two children, and a Jew, loft their lives; and the whole damage is estimated at 900,000 flo rins. 14th. This evening, about eight, two apprentices in Fleet-ftreet, about fixteen years of age, went into the river to bathe from the fteps of Blackfriers bridge, on the city fide. The tide running very frong, they were carried away. One of them, on rifing, caught hold of a chain for fecuring barges, but the other was fucked under, and all attempts to fave him were of no effect. At nine o'clock, a gun was fired on board the Braakel, captain George Clarke, in Portfmouth-harbour, and the yellow flag hoifted, as a fignal for executing James Allen, who had been condemned by a court martial with John Watfon, as being concerned in the mutiny on board the Hermoine. The latter had been executed early the fame morning, on board the Puiffant theer-hulk, at Spithead, Armed boats from all the fhips in harbour attended the dreadful Icene. James Allen came in an armed boat on board the Bra kel, attended by Mr. Howell, chaplain of the Royal William, about half paft eight. The principal witness againft Allen was Parrot, late butcher on board the Hermione, who depofed, "That on the night the mutiny took place, he was feated on a cheft in the gunroom. He then obferved a band of murderers dragging the fecond lieutenant across the deck, who repeatedly ftretched out his hand, frying. "Mercy! Mercy!" He of his head, after receiving many wounds. Parrot declared, that at this moment he faw the fecond lieutenant's fervant, James Allen, with a tomahawk or hatchet in his hand, and that he exclaimed, "Let me have a cut at him:" on faying which, he dreadfully wounded his own mafter. On receiving this depofition from Parrot, a general groan of horror was heard in court. Every thing, however, that naval justice could devife, was exercifed on behalf of the prifoner; but the very witneffes called by him ultimately proved of difadvantage to him! Both Allen and Watfon came home to England in the Prince of Wales, but were not recognised till their arrival. Allen, to the laft, denied having ftruck his mafter. As to the particulars of the murder of captain Pigot, of the Hermione, it appeared, "That hearing a noife upon deck, he immediately ran out of his cabin, when, being badly and repeatedly wounded, he was at length obliged to return. He had reached his cabin, and was fitting on a couch, faint with the lofs of blood, when four men entered with bayonets fixed. Crawley headed them. Captain Pigot, weak as he was, held out his dirk, and kept them off. They feemed for a moment appalled at the fight of their commander, when Crawley exclaimed, “What, four against one, and yet afraid? Here goes then," and buried his bayonet in the body of captain Pigot. He was followed by the others, who with their bayonets thrust him through the port, and he was heard to speak as he went allern. 16th. About a fortnight ago, a refractory fpirit difcovered itfelf among the felons confined in the prifon in Cold-bath-fields. On Wednelday night laft it aflumed a more ferious afpect; for, on locking up the prifoners, many of them were heard to murmur very loudly, and even to threaten the keepers. The next day, as ufual, about fixty of them were liberated from their cells, and fuffered to take the air in the most open places in the prifon, but not without a strict eye being kept on their conduct; and they were obferved to whifper frequently among themfelves, which gave the governor fome concern left they fhould attempt any thing ferious. When the bell rung as the fignal for locking up, they muftered together inftead of feparating, and appeared to have fome plan to execute, but were afraid to begin their operations. However, after a trifling refiftance, and a great deal of grumbling, they all fuffered themfelves to be locked up in their different cells. It was then that they began to call, and encourage each other to cry out "Murder!"-" Starying," &c. They alfo abufed the magiftrates in the groffeft terms. Their noile was fo loud, as to collect round the prifon a large mob, who answered them in loud fhouts. When they heard the fhouting, they again called to the mob to force the gates and pull down the wails. This kind of conduct alarmed the governor; and he immediately fent for the high-conftable, who readily attended with a number of affifiant confiables; at the fame time the Clerkenwell affociation came to the prifon, but it was nearly twelve o'clock before they fucceeded in difperfing the populace, which confifted of five or fix thousand people. One man only was apprehended for riotous conduct on the outfide, and taken into the prifon. After the felons had become more filent, fome of them were heard to call to each other, that it would be beft to remain quiet for that night, left they fould not be let out the next day, which was the chapel morning, and that would be a good opportunity to knock down the keepers, and force the gates. This circumstance being communicated to Mr. Baker and other magiftrates, who had attended to give their advice, it was thought prudent not to let the prifoners out of their cells the next day, as ufual, a few excepted, who were not refractory. Mr. Baker, and three other magiftrates, attended the prifon a great part of yefterday, and infpected almoft every cell, for the purpose of alcertaining the caule of their complaint; but they either could or would not give any expla nation, except one perfon, who faid that he was ftarved; but, on examining a basket, in which he kept his bread, there was found a pound and a half, which he had faved from his daily allowance, and what his friends had been permitted to fend him, befides about two pounds of pudding. The Bloomfbury, St. Sepulchre's, St. Clements, and Clerkenwell affociations, all attended by turns to watch the prifon; and the Clerkenwell cavalry were parading round the outer gates laft night, to keep the mob off, who had again collected in great numbers, but the prifoners feemed to be quiet. A fhocking murder was committed this night at Nottingham. Three peace-officers attempted to apprehend a hair-dreiler, who flood charged with a robbery to a confiderable amount. As foon as the hair-dreller perceived who they were, he fired a horfe-piftol at the officer nearest |