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The Bishop of Liege has published a paftoral letter, in which he entitles Bonaparte" the return of their prayers; another Cyrus; the hero of Europe to restore the ruins of Jerufalem; and the Solomon of the age."

An Ukafe has lately paffed in Ruffia, by the exprefs defire of the Emperor, by which the Nobility of that Empire are fully empowered to carry on Wholefale and Maritime Commerce, without forfeiting thereby their titles, or rights. A letter from Conftantinople, dated the 24th of December, fays, "Sidky Effendi, who has left us with a particular commiflion for London, is faid to be the bearer of different infignia of the Order of the Moon, of Medals, &c. to be given to the Officers who diftinguished themselves in the campaign of Egypt.

Destruction of a Fleet of Pirates.A letter from Bombay itates, that on the 29th of July, the Swift was ordered to proceed to the relief of an out-port, called Amoorang, near Amboyna, which was infetted by the Magindanao pirates, who had a fleet of forty large proas, and had landed 12co men, with twelve pieces of brafs ordnance. On the 1ft of Auguft, in the afternoon, the Swift came up with the pirates, and opened a cannonade upon them, which continued till half paft nine. The Swift was furrounded with islands, and upon a dangerous reef: the, however, cap. tured two: one the paffed over, and cut in two; feventeen others were ran afhore; and about fix hundred of the enemy are fuppofed to have perished during the conflict. The Company's fettlements upon the Celebes, as well as granaries completely stored, have thus been protected by the difperfion of thefe pirates, who had overrun the whole of the Sangir iflands; reduced the capital Tairoon to afhes, and carried

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200 female captives, befides males, many of whom perifhed by the attack; one only of the former was faved by the Swift, and only one of the pirates from the wreck of the proa, which had been run down. Each of the enemy's vellels carried from fixty to cighty men, one fix or eight-pounder brals gap for ward, befides many finaller ones, with mutkets, lances, &c.

AMERICA.

American papers to the 17th Dec. ftate, that Congrefs affembled on the 15th, when the President fent a long

meffage to both Houfes. This paper exhibits a ftriking view of the political and commercial Itate of that country; particularly, as far as relates to the ceffion of Louifiana to France, which meafure is evidently viewed with alarm by the American Government. The Prefident fpeaks of it as effecting a material change in the afpect of their foreign relations; and it is expected to become the fubject of very ferious difcuffions. It is fatisfactory to know that a perfect understanding prevails between America and Great Britain; as the meffage fpeaks in high terms of the fpirit of juftice by which our Minifters have been actuated, in the abolition of the duties, and countervailing duties permitted by the Treaty of 1794.

A mail from Jamaica has brought advices relative to St. Domingo; but they only relate to the tranfactions previous to the death of Leclerc :they ftate, that he difarmed the whole of the fixth regiment of men of colour for cowardice, and attempting to join the Brigands, and with their wives and families, had them conveyed on board an old tranfport, which was fcuttled and funk. The whole harbour was foon covered with dead bodies; the poisonous tench arifing from their putrid ftate, and the heat of the weather, occafioned a dreadful mortality both afloat and on shore. In one French frigate lying in the harbour, out of 270 men, 200 died in fix weeks. Every day boats full of dead bodies were seen drawing towards the fhore; the letter fays, the French Officers publickly declare the affair of the conquest of St. Domingo is fimilar to the bufinefs of Quiberon with the Emigrants, in 1795.

A letter from Cape Francois, of the 29th of November ftates, that about three weeks before, the Brigands were nearly in poffeffion of the town, but an engagement had fubfequently taken place, which terminated to the advantage of the French troops. No lefs than 2,000 of the Blacks were taken prifoners, who, after being tied hands and legs together, were thrown into the fea at a finall diftance from the town. Another letter, dated about the 11th of November, speaks of a scene much more atrocious: on one day no lefs than 6,000 Blacks were first bayoneted, and then thrown overboard without ceremony. A garrifon, confifting of 900 Blacks, are reprefented to have been carried off by poifon, administered

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by the agents of the French General. Some letters mention, that the French employed particular veffels, called fiflers, into which multitudes of the Blacks are thrown indifcriminately, and deltroyed by means of burning brimtone. It is to be hoped, that these reports will prove exaggerations.

By the American papers to the 12th Jan. it appears that the Americans expect to be deprived of the navigation of the Mililippi, as foon as the French hall have taken poffellion of Louifiana.

From official accounts, it appears that the finances of the United States are now richer by the fum of 8,085,517 dollars, than they were eighteen months fince.

A difpute lately took place in America between Mr. Rutledge, of SouthCarolina, and a Mr. Ellery, of Rhode Ifland, on public affairs. Mr. R. challenged Mr. E. who declined; but Mr. R. having met him at an inn, beat him with a cane, pulled him by the note, &c. A motion has been made by Mr. Gray, in the Houfe of Reprefentatives, that any perfon who fights a duel fhall be rendered incapable of holding any public ftation in the United States.

Captain Spear, of the Baltimore,

which arrived at New York on the 7th January, from Balleterre, reports that the Government forces the American veffels to take from the island all their convicts. He was detained two days. and they put three on board his veílel -they informed him that they would fend off fome in all the American veffels, till they got rid of them.Captain S. further adds, that the Blacks were nearly fubdued; that ten days before he failed, the Black General, Palermo, was surprifed in his camp by a company of Huffars, and put to flight, fixteen Blacks were killed, and nine taken prisoners. Their whole force did not amount to more than

fixty or feventy; that the frigates that were at New York, with the Negroes, had returned, and that they had been landed on one of the Saints, where they were undergoing their laft examination. It is fuppofed they will be hanged or burned.

Three hundred houfes, compriting nearly a quarter of the town of Portimouth, in America, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 26th of December. The lots is estimated at upwards of 500,00 dollars, and almoft every English goods Merchant has been burnt out.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Army. A PLAN, formed by the Duke of York for the benefit of Officers in the Army has lately been promulgated. Its object is, that on felling a commiffion, the Officer whofe property it is fhall fend in his refignation to the Commander in Chief, who will offer it, at the regulation-price, to the oldest Officer of next inferior rank to the perfon retiring. Should he not have it in his power to purchase, it will then be offered to the reft downwards; and want of means can never be a detriment to any Officer but at that immediate, time, as the fame offer will be made on every fubfequent occafion.

It is in contemplation to make the ftipend of Half-pay Officers payable without expence, in their own districts. By the regulation intended, a Half-pay Oficer will have but to tranfinit his certificate, properly attefted, to the War Office, and he will receive an

order on the nearest collector of taxes for his money.

JAN. 26. This evening W. Colquhoun, Efq. of Eliton Lodge,near Bedford, put an end to his exittence in the Portland Coffee houfe, by cutting his throat almoft from ear to ear, and wounding himfelf in the belly, and both his arms

He was in a room by himfelf, and the horrid fpectacle was dif covered by the waiter.

30. An immenfe crowd of perfons aflembled on the Serpentine River for the amufement of fkaiting; when an accident happened, which was nearly attended with ferious confequences: the ice giving way, two ladies, two gentlemen, and a young girl funk oppofite the houfe eftablished by the Humane Society, and were with dunculty extricated, without further injury than what arofe from the fright. They proved to be Mr. and Mrs Simplon, of New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, a Mr.

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Mr. Nalder has been elected Under City Marthal, in the room of Mr. Canner, deceased.

FEB. 1. This evening a fire broke out in the timber-yard of Meffrs. Hall and Laxton, Tottenham Court Road; which confumed their workshop, and a large stock of deals adjoining.

A few evenings ago, a horrid murder was committed in Greenwich Hospital, by one penfioner upon another. The perpetrator had been guilty of a breach of duty in the College; for which, on the charge of a fellow-penfioner, he was deprived of two months pocket-money, and reprimanded. Exafperated at this circumftance, he went at midnight into the deceased's apartment, and with a poker, beat out his brains at a fingle blow. The murderer then examined the next room, where an old penfioner lay, intending he should share a fimilar fate if he appeared awake, left he might have heard what had paffed. The man had heard the blow; but pretending to be asleep, the murderer left him and retired to his own cabin-the man got up, alarmed the guard, and fecured him. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder.

3. Early in the morning a fire broke out at the house and offices of Mr. Hamilton, printer, in Falcon court, Fleettreet; by which the whole of the premifes were deftroyed, and feveral adjoining houfes much damaged. The property confumed is estimated at 11,000l. and an infurance was effected to the amount of 3000l. only. No lives were loft. This unfortunate conflagration arofe from the careleffness of an apprentice boy.

Effects of the late Storms.-The Pier at Scarborough has been materially injured; and the waves were at times fo violent, as to carry away the immenfe tones of which it is compofed.

Such a quantity of fea weed was thrown on the thore at Barnftun, the citate of Sir F. Boynton, that there was 15,000 load of this manure. There were daily to be feen from go to 70 carts and waggons carrying it into the country; and it is imagined there will be a quantity fufficient to manure the eltate for two years. The benefit the tenants is eftimated at 1200l.

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Along the whole of the Eaft Riding coat of Yorkshire, are to be seen wrecks of veffels, and the dead bodies

of men who have perished. The Ame rican Conful, his wife and child, were with difficulty faved at Bridlington Quay, and were brought on shore nearly naked in an open boat.

9. Captain Chilcot, of the Navy, was found dead at his lodgings in Bath: he had arrived there from Windfor the preceding evening, in apparent health

A woman named Gwillim, died laft week at Leigh, in Worcestershire, aged 110, and who, at the day of her death, faw and heard as well as at any period of her life.

The following fingular circumftance was recorded as a fact in the Bath Herald:- Laft week a porter took a heavy fack to the door of a lady at Clifton, demanded half a crown for the carriage, and delivered a letter to the fervant, requesting it might be immediately given to the lady; but on the fervant returning, the meffenger had decamped, and left the fack behind him. On examining its contents, to their great aftonishment, they found upwards of 400 guineas! It appears, that during the late rebellion in Ireland, the manfion of the lady had been plundered to a very confiderable amount, and by the letter it appeared that this was part of the fpoil, which fome punctilios of confcience had caused to be restored to the owner; the letter alfo contained a promise that meafures fhould be taken to regain as much as poffible of the remaining property, and which fhould as faithfully be restored."

Lord St. Vincent was prefented laft week with a fnuff-box, having the picture of the Prince of Brazil, richly fet with diamonds, on the cover, as a mark of his esteem for his Lordship's fervices, during the time he commanded the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, and on the coaft of Portugal.

Badini, a foreigner, who for fome time paft has regularly defended all the measures of the French Govern ment in a Sunday Newlpaper (and which Paper was the only one fuffered to be circulated in France) Iras been fent out of this country under the Alien A&.

Aboo Talib Khan, who was lately in this city, in December laft palled through Conftantinople, on his way to India. He has prefented to the Turkish Government the manufcript of a fa

mous Arabian Dictionary tranflated into Perfian.-See a Portrait and Memoir of him in our XLth Vol. p. 163.

14. The Guildhall Seffions opened before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen; when Ann Brown was indicted for twenty-three affaults on Ann Harris, a child of 11 years old, her apprentice to pin-head making. The profecution was brought on by the overfeers of Bishopfgate parish; but in confequence of the coroner's verdict, the prifoner had been acquitted of the capital part of the offence. It appeared that the prifoner had repeatedly given the deceafed child fourteen ftrokes at a time with a cane; that she used to knock her head againit a leaden weight, and that, though her health was impaired, an hour-glafs continually ftood by her, and her mistress expected her to produce fix ounces of manufactured pins in an hour, in default of which, pins were run into her arms and body till the blood flowed from the wounds. At one time two steel files were broken by beating her over the head; and at another, the prifoner placed her on the hob of the grate, with a log of wood fufpended from her feet, and her arm extended up the chimney, holding a brick-bat for two hours. The prifoner was fentenced to three years imprisonment in Newgate. Her hufband, who had been indicted with her, lately died in prison.

T. Robinson, a printer's apprentice, was convicted of biting the faces of two girls whom he met in the street and pretended to kifs. The prifoner made no defence, and was fentenced to a year's imprisonment in Newgate.

15. A lad, of Caftor, Lincolnshire, who had been witnefs to the execution of Pidgeon, at Peterborough, was explaining to his younger brother the manner in which the culprit made his exit; and, to make his reprefentation the more striking, he faftened a rope over a beam in the barn, got on a ladder, and placed a noofe round his neck ; when his foot flipped, and before the family could be alarmed he was dead.

Court of King's Bench, Saturday, Feb. 19.-One Bertazzi, an Italian, was profecuted by the Society for the Suppreffion of Vice, on two feveral indictments, for having published a book and prints of an immoral tendency, and having gone to different female boarding-fchools, for the purpofe of

vending them to the young ladies. Mr. Garrow conducted the profecution; and a person named Gray, whose evidence the prifoner's Couníel ineffectually attempted to difcredit, proved the offence, and the Jury found him Guilty.

A woman named Aiken (whose hufband is now fuffering the fentence of the law for felling obicene prints) was convicted of the like offence. There are two other indictments against her.

21. This morning were executed, on the top of the New Prifon, in the Borough, the following Traitors: Edward Marcus Defpard, Thomas Broughton, John Francis, Arthur Graham, John McNamara, John Wood, and James Sedgwick Wrattan. (See Page 135.)

Newman, Tyndal, and Lander, who were recommended to mercy by their Jurors, have been refpited during pleafure.

By order of his Majefty, the cutting out of the heart of the malefactor, quartering, &c. was difpenfed with.-They were drawn on hurdles, hanged, and their heads cut off.-(Some Parti culars in our next.)

Laft week, the gamekeeper to G. Shiffner, Efq. of Comb-place, near Lewes, difcovered in the river, a small distance above Barcomb-mill, jammed between a willow Itump and the thore, a dead pike, of an extraordinary fize. It measured in length, from eye to fork, four feet, was one foot thick across the back, and weighed, in its wafted state, 40lbs. Its confined fitua tion is attributed to the rapidity of the current, during the late flood, when it is fuppofed this enormous fish fought a lodgement, from which it could not extricate itfelf, and confequently was tarved to death.

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A few days fince, the body of Mr. J. E. Carpenter, fchool-maiter, Cheddingly, Suflex, was found lifelefs on the highway. He is fupposed to have died through fatigue and the inelemency of the weather.

Accidents by Fire.-Mifs Warren, of Falmouth, fome mornings fince, reaching for fomething on the chimneypiece, her clothes caught fire, when, having ineffectually endeavoured to extinguith the flames, the ran into the ftreet with intent to leap into the fea, which is close to her houfe. A boatman fecing her danger, ran and wrapped a large fea coat round her, and preferved her life.

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A melancholy accident occurred a few days fince, at the house of Mr. Holmes, of Scalford, near Leicester.-The houfe having been repaired, a chafing-difh, with ignated charcoal, was put into the female fervants' room, with a ftrict injunction to remove it to an adjoining room on going to bed, and to leave their door open; instead of which, they kept it in their room, and fhut the door. In the morning they were found in a state of fuffocation, and one of them expired in the course of the day.

Laft week the infant fon of Mr. Aylmerton, near Cromer, in Norfolk, while standing by the fire, pulled a kettle of boiling water over his face and neck, by which he was fo dreadfully fcalded that he expired on the following day.

A child was burnt to death at Froom laft week, in confequence of playing with a lighted tick.

A fine girl, two years of age, at Wid. comb, near Bath, fome days fince playing with the fire in the absence of her mother, was burnt to death. The brother of the little fufferer, a year older, narrowly escaped the fame fate.

London Bridge is to be taken down, and a new and moft magnificent one is to be erected. The centre arch of the new bridge is to be 64 feet above the furface of the water; fo that it will admit fhips of almost any burden under full fail.

The object of the Petitions prefented

from the Brewers to the House of Commons is ftated to be, to obtain an A& to prevent private families from brewing their own beer; or, what is tantamount, that every private house shall be laid open to the vifits of the Excileman, who is to gauge the barrels and ascertain the ftrength of their contents!

Yellow Fever.-A Gentleman lately returned from Martinique communicates a fimple remedy which he has known to have given relief and cure to many perfons afflicted with Yellow Fever, and which might be efficacious to perfons fuffering any kind of eruptive fever in this country.-On the first symptoms of ficknefs, take a small tumbler full of water, ftrongly impregnated with camomile and magnefia, adding a table spoonful of Citron Narbonne honey; repeat this three or four times a day, and it will effectually carry off the diforder. The fame ingredients, prepared as a dietdrink, have furprising effects on weak, debilitated conftitutions, even when incapable of taking either food or exercise.

New Method of purifying corrupt Water. -To a puncheon of foul water and half an ounce of alum previously diffolved in a pint of warm water, which will render the former, in forty-eight hours, as clear as that of the finelt spring.

White-wafb.-A few handfuls of feafalt, mixed with about one cwt. of lime, to be used in white-wah, will make it adhere to the wall and deftroy infe&s.

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