and his shirt was scorched almost to tinder.

26. Moses Gomez Carvalho, a jew, born in Portugal in 1706, and who emigrated from thence in 1720, on account of his religion, died lately at Amsterdam, aged 107 years. He was twice married, and had many children, of whom the eldest died when 78 years of age, and the youngest is only 22 years. His second wife was delivered in 1798 of a son, who died shortly after. In 1804, he had seen his fifth generation, in the person of a great great grandson. The deceased enjoyed all his faculties until the moment of his death, never having lost a tooth, and never having worn spectacles. His drink was milk and water, and he took every day a very small glass of brandy.

27. This morning, between two and 3 o'clock, the Bath mail-coach was overturned on its way from town, between Reading and New bury, in consequence of the horses taking fright and bolting from the road into a gravel-pit. The coach man was thrown from the box. among the horses, and received ɛeveral contusions from being trod upon. The guard, and a foreigner who was on the top, were precipitated by the shock to such a distance, and with such violence, as would probably have proved fatal to them, had not the earth and gravel on which they lighted been saturated with the rain which fell in the course of the day; and to the same cause may be a-cribed the trifling injury done to the horses and the coach. In a few misutes after the accident took place, a bath coach came up. The

passengers rendered every assist ance in their power, and with some difficulty succeeded in extricating the inside passengers from the mail. Among them was a naval officer, who was going to join his ship at Plymouth; but he had suffered so much, from the concus→ sion, that he was speechless and unable to move. He was conveyed to a small cottage on the road side. A young lady who was also in the coach, and asleep at the time the accident happened, did not receive the slightest injury, and proceeded on her journey. A farther account is said to state, that the officer, a lieutenant in the navy, died in the course of Wednesday night. The accident, it is said, happened in consequence of the keeper, or hostler, quitting the horses' heads, after changing, before the coachman got seated on the box.. He had one foot on the splinter-bar, and the reins loosely in his hand, when the person in front suddenly left his post, on which the horses set off full speed, and dashed into a gravel-pit.

27. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a shocking murder was committed on the body of a poor labouring mao, in a field, between Lucas-street and the FoundJing-hospital. It is supposed the deceased had been attacked by some villains, and making resistance, they resolved to murder him, which horrid deed being perpe trated, they threw the body into a gravel-pit near the place where the murder was committed. The body was discovered about four o'clock, by two labourers. The head of the deceased was much lacerated, and marks were found

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on parts of it supposed to be done by an iron crow, or some such instrument. The precise spot on which this barbarous act was commitied was literally covered with the brains of the unfortunate man. The body when found was still warm, but life was quite extinct. The two who first discovered it, collected together the fragments of the scull, which, with the body, they conveyed to an adjoining public-house. Three half-pence was all the money found in the pockets of the deceased. The body was soon owned. The friends of the deceased state, that he was an Irishman, and intended shortly to proceed to his own country; and in order to defray the expenses of his journey, he had been for some time making little savings from his weekly wages. It was this small booty, it is supposed, which attracted the villains, and occasioned his death.

. This unfortunate man's name proved to be Edward Clifford; and suspicion of the murder falling upon one James Leary, his countryman, a very long series of inquiry and examination took place, which excited an extraordinary degree of public interest. At length Leary was convicted and executed, having confessed that he was present at the murder, but denying that he was the actual perpetrator.

The Prince Regent held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, at Carleton-house, for the purpose of electing his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, a member of the Order. Soon after three o'clock, his Royal Highness proceeded from his private apartments, and entered his closet in his tall robes of the Or

der; Garter King of Arms was in readiness to receive his Royal Highness, and proceeded to call over the names of the members of the Order, when the following knights walked in procession through the state rooms, in their full robes:

The Marquis Wellesley, as the junior knight present; the Marquis of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke; the Earl of Winchelsea; the Earl of Westmorland; the Earl of Chatham; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla rence; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Usher of the Black Rod, Sir Isaac Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Reverend Dr. Legg, Dean of Windsor, Registrar of the Order; the Bishop of Salisbury, Chancellor of ditto; the Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of ditto; his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as representing the Sovereign.

The other attendants upon his Royal Highness were,

The Marquis of Winchester, as Groom of the Stole; Lord Petersham, the Lord in Waiting; the Earl of Harrington, Gold Stick; the Lord Chamberlain; Lord Charles Bentinck, Treasurer of the Household; Lord George Beresford, Comptroller of the Household; and Major-general Bayley, Equerry in Waiting.

The procession having arrived in the Throne or Council-room, and the Prince Regent, as representnig the Sovereign, having taken his seat in a chair opposite the Throne, the knights and offcers of the Order made their re verences. The former took their

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seats on each side the Prince, according to their seniority; and the latter took their appinted stations. On the left of the Prince Re gent was Count Lieven, the Rus sian ambassador. The Chancellor of the Order then addressed the Chapter, and said he had in command from the Prince Regent, in the name of his Majesty, to recite the last statute of the Order, which directed that, besides the Sovereign, it should consist of 25 knights, exclusive of the Prince of Wales, and of the other princes of the blood. It was recommended to the Chapter to pass a new statute for the express purpose of electing his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, a member of the Order, notwithstanding any former statute to the contrary. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador stood close to the Chancellor, and appeared to feel extremely, the compliments paid to his august

master.

The Chancellor proceeded to take the opinions of the knights present, on the propriety of passing the statute, and, on receiving them, in writing, declared his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias duly elected a member of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Garter King of Arms then retired to an adjoining room, and introduced Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald, in consequence of indisposition preventing him from undertaking the voyage to Russia, and proposed that Mr. Townsend should go in his room. Mr. Townsend was then introduced to the Prince, and was sworn in Garter King of Arms, for the special purpose of investing the Em

peror with the insignia of the Or der. The Chapter then closed.

28. The Prince Regent having been pleased to signify to Sir Eve rard Home, his wish to visit the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in Lincoln's-ion-fields, this day was fixed upon for that purpose, and every necessary pres paration was made at the College! This edifice has lately been rebuilt in consequence of a parliamentary grant, and forms a fine ornament to the square. The entrance to the College was covered with red baize, and the passages matted for the occasion. His Royal Highness arrived at half-past two o'clock in his carriage, attended by Colonel Bloomfield and Sir Thomas Tyre whitt, and was received by Sir Everard Home, bart. the master, and Sir William Blizard, and Mr. Cline, the Governors of the Col lege. The Prince Regent remained in the Museum about an hour and an half, viewing the various arti cles in the collection, and, upon his departure, expressed the high gratification he had experienced,

This night between eleven and twelve, as Mr. Robert Nelson, builder, of Deptford, and his son, were returning from Somerset-place by water, to their residence at Deptford, the boat swamped under London-bridge, by which accident Mr. Nelson, his son, and one waterman, were unfortunately drowned; the other waterman es caped with much difficulty, and is not expected to survive. Mr. Nelson was a zealous servant of the public, an affectionate father, and a worthy man: his loss will be long regretted both in his public and private capacity; he wasy brother to Mr. Nelson, secretary

to the navy board. The surviving waterman is in St. Thomas's Hospital, in a dreadful state, from the bruises he received.

30. A shocking accident oceurred on Friday, at the Regent's Canal, close to Chalk Farm. A few minutes before eleven o'clock, as the workmen were preparing to load some waggons, twelve men who were lately taken, not being aware of the danger, ventured too close in undermining the bank, at a depth of 25 feet, when suddenly the bank fell in, and completely buried them; eight of them were dug out alive, but four with their legs and arms broke, and the other four much bruised; six of the eight are in such a state, that their recovery is not expected. After a length of time, four more were dug up quite dead, and their bodies removed to the Canteen for the coroner's inquest.

Belfast, July 31.-On Monday last a fital affray took place at Garvagh, county of Derry. It was the fair-day, and a large body of those deluded men, styling themselves Ribbon men, assembled in that town, some letters say to the amount of 1,500, with a determination to take summary vengeance on a peaceable inhabitant, (one Davidson, a publican), who occasionally gives admission to freemasons and orangemen. Two lodges of the latter, and one of the former, were in the habit of periodically meeting there. None of these, however, were present on this occasion; the meditated vengeance was, therefore, likely to fall upon the house and its owner, and upon the various insignia deposited there, as characteristic of

the associations they represented. Fortunately, the landlord of the house got some previous intimation of the visit intended him; a few friends were privately introduced, who were prepared to assist in the entertainment of so many guests, and, if necessary, to give them a warm reception The assailants, being individually decorated with the distinguishing badge of a white hankerchief tied round the middle of the body, were not slack in their approaches, little dreaming, it would appear, of the preparations that awaited them. On the attack coinmencing, several shots were fired over their heads, the contents of which whistled among the trees behind them, whose fugitive branches indicated that they were not blank cartridges. As usual, however, this forbearance only. tended to exasperate the mob The pieces were then levelled to do execution. Several then im mediately fell, and a general fight and pursuit commenced. It is said three persons were killed on the spot, and several others have since died of their wounds. Next. day a large body of Orangemen and Freemasons assembled rom the adjacent country and villages, and triumphantly paraded the streets of Garvagh without the shadow of opposition. Such is the account we have received of this disgraceful outrage upon the laws of the country, and upon the peace and good order of society. When will poor Ireland be free from the madness of faction?

At two o'clock in the morning the house of Mr. Dadderige, buttonmaker, Gutter-lane, was discovered. to be on fire. The family were

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out of fown, and only a young man, who conducted the business, remained in the house. Alarmed by the smoke which came from the lower part of the premises, he went down stairs to escape by thẻ street-door, but found his way completely barred by fire. then endeavoured to save his master's books and papers in the shop, where the fire is supposed fo have broke out; but in that attempt he found himself enveloped in flame. By great exertion he got through the blaze to the staircase, dreadfully scorched, and then reached a trap-door at the top of the house, and was taken off the roof by the people of the adjoining house. They conveyed him immediately to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he lingered seven Hours and expired. The house is entirely consumed.

31. Mr. Aiken, the pedestrian, started from the Surrey-side of Westminster-bridge at 12 o'clock at noon to go to spot near Ashford, Kent, and return, the distance being 108 miles in 24 hours, for two hundred guineas. The pedes frian did 13 miles in the first two hours, and arrived at Wrothamheath, 25 miles, in four, where he took refreshment of cold chicken and wine. He went on at a slower rate, and did half his journey in less than ten hours. The pedestrian halted three quarters of an hour, and then went back to Larkfield, (24 miles,) at the rate of less than five miles an hour. On his arrival near Farningham, 18 miles from his journey's end, he had more than four hours to spare. but he was much fatigued, and did only three miles the next hour;

he recovered, however, and wen the match by nine minutes. It is as great a task as any on pedestrian record, considering the ground was not chosen, but hilly.

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1. This morning, between three and four o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at Mr. Barton's patent engine manufactory, in Tufton-street, Westminster. burnt with great fury to the coachyard in Marsham-street, and threatened devastation to the whole neighbourhood. The valuable steam engine, which, it is supposed, occasioned the catastrophe, was destroyed. The damage sustained is estimated at 20007.

2. A fire broke out at a grocer's, the corner of Holles and Stanhopestreet, near Clare-market. It was discovered about nine o'clock at night, and for a considerable time it raged with uncommon fury, The houses opposite were more than once on fire, and those im mediately adjoining it at one time it seemed impossible to save, and the inhabitants were seen removing their goods in all directions in the greatest hurry and alarm. It was a spacious and lofty house, and the immense volume of flame which burst from its large bow windows below, and from the windows on each side in the two streets, of which it was the corner, presented a spectacle equally terri ficand magnificent. The arrival of numerous engines happily arrested the calamity. For some time their exertions had little effect, but before 11 o'clock the violence of the flames considerably abated, and

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