charge of having accepted of a prefent of 120,000l. Sterling from a fingle donor. On the 15th of June, an action was tried before Lord Kenyon in the Court of King's Bench, at the inftance of Mr Morefom, merchant in Whitby, a MrEdward John Hollond has has given in his bail for 400,000!. The gentlemen who have ftep-gainft Mr Clarke, a gentleman ped forward on this occafion are Mr Francis Fowke, of Wimpole-street, and Mr William Holland, late of Bengal. Accounts are received by Government, that Tippoo Saib has made proposals to Earl Cornwallis for a pacification, The terms are understood to be moft eminently advantageous to the welfare of this country. The mother, brother, and fifter of the Duke of Orleans arrived at London the 17th ult. The falary, including perquifites, &c. of Principal Secretary of State, is computed at 8000l. a-year. Befides this, he has apartments in all the Royal Houfes, as well for his own accommodation, as for that of those who attend upon him; he has likewise the appointment of two Under-Secretaries and Clerks, whofe places are of confiderable profit. Before the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Secretary of State (there being but one at that time) did not fit in the Privy Council; he only prepared bufinefs for the Board in an adjoining room, and then produced his papers standing. of property in the fame town, for feducing and carrying off the wife of the former, when the jury gave a verdict, 3500l. damages. The defendant is 50 years of age, and has a wife and family. Not long fince, Lady Auckland was delivered of a fon at the Hague; and, what is not a little fingular, her ladyship can now produce fix children born in as many different kingdoms. A new coinage of guineas and half-guineas, from dies of the present year, is now going on at the tower to a very large amount, by an order from the treasury; but no orders have been given, nor are there any preparations for a filver or copper coinage. The celebrated republican hiftorian, Mrs Catharine Macaulay Graham, died on the 22d of June, at her house in Windfor Foreft. A plan has been submitted to the confideration of Government, for raifing a perma nent fund for the support of the widows and children of clergymen in Ireland. One of The employment of a King's the principal parts of the plan meffenger was once very mode- is, the appropriation of one rate in eftimation and profit. year's revenue of every bishopSince we are become the weigh-ric that may become vacant by mafters of the balance of Eu-decease_or_translation, to this rope, it has increased very con- very ufeful purpose, until the fiderably in both refpects, and fund arifing from these accumuis now little lefs valuable than latedfums amount to 100,000!. that of a Colonel in the army.and the intereft to be difpofed of in annuities to the widows quence is, that many thousand of clergymen not having been acres of march land are renderpoffeffed before their death of ed ufelefs; and the poor farlivings or cures to the amount mers obliged to fell their stock of rool. per annum; the quan- at any price, their cattle not tum of this penfion to be pro- being able to exift, on account portioned to the number of of the ditches being filled with children. A plan fomewhat fi-falt water. Since the blowing milar to this was propofed fome of a north-eaft wind, the breachtime ago by the Rev. Sir H.es are growing deeper and widMoncrieffe, for increafing the er every day. ftipends of the Scots clergy. An Efquire, as alfo his eldeft fon, and all who rank above Eiquires, are qualified by law to kill game. In the court of King's Bench, therefore, it was laft week decided, that the eldeft son of a Doctor is qualified; because Doctors, whether of law, phyfic, or divinity, rank above Esquires. In confequence of the late regulations refpecting the vending of fpiritous liquors in Ireland, no less than 2000 whisky houfes have been fhut up, fince the 25th of March last. Lord Uxbridge's celebrated failing yacht, Mona, is preparing in the river for an expected vifit from their Majefties: She has a fuperb fuite of ftaterooms, decorated with two changes of elegant linen furniture, and is in all otherre fpects the most perfect veffel that ever fwam; her prime coft, out of the builder's hands, was 14,000 guineas. There has been another alarming breach of the fea, near Winterton, in Suffolk. The former breach, made in February laft, when a large dwellinghoufe was carried away, was only 30 yards wide, but is now increased to 120. The confe The following is a very remarkable inftance of quick failing: The Bridget, Capt. Platt, failed from the coaft of Africa to Dominica in twenty-one days. In the laft fix days of the paffage fhe failed, as appears by her log-book, one thousand three hundred and twenty-two miles, which, on an average, is more than 220 miles a day. ་ On the 28th ult. at Newcal tle, a match for 500 guineas each, one four-mile heat, was run for by the Earl of Lauderdale's bay horfe Oftrich, and Sir Hedworth Williamfon's bay horfe Whitelegs, which was won by the former. On Sunday the 22d May a charity fermon was preached in St Mary's Church, Dublin, for the fupport of the poor children of the parish of St. Nicholas Without, by the Rev. Walter Blake Kirwan, at which was collected the fum of four hundred and ten pounds! The Sub-Treaturer and Steward of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, has lately abfconded to America, with no lefs a fun than 14,000l. belonging to the Society, and a few individuals who had entrusted him with fums of money. He had re On the 16th ult. the paffen ceived the rents of the Society the others with difficulty escapto the latest date, and had bored the fame fate. rowed money wherever he could raise it. He had previ-gers in the mail coach from oufly deftroyed the books of Glasgow to Carlifle had a very the Society, and fold every ar- narrow and moft wonderful ticle of his own furniture. He efcape from deftruction, at had been abfent fome time be- Kirtlebridge, near Ecclefechan. fore his elopement was dif- By the negligence of the driver covered, under pretence of go- converfing with the guard, who ing to Margate for his health. had imprudently fhifted from Mr Whitbread, who for his feat to the coach-roof, the many years has offered a pre-reins flackened, the fore horfes fent of ten thoufand pounds flew over the bridge, and the to any perfon purchafing his coach falling at least ten feet brewery at a fair eftimation, upfide down, was dafhed to has at length found cuftomers pieces! Of three paffengers, for it. A company of perfons only one, a gentleman from have bought it, at the price of Glasgow, received any personal four hundred and fifty thou-injury. One of the fore horfes fand pounds. was killed on the fpot, and the pole of the carriage fhivered to atoms! The following fingular circumftance lately happened at Everdon, in Northamptonshire: On the 20th of June, came The house of Mr Warr, a far- on before the Court of Juftici-.. mer of that place, has been ary at Edinburgh, the trial of greatly infefted with rats; Mrs John Paul, James Stewart, and Warr, in clearing away the Alexander Ballantine, for robbearth they had fcratched from ing a gentleman in Nicolfon's the foundation of a pantry un-Street, on the night of the 3d der a ftair cafe, difcovered fe- of May laft, of his watch, hat, veral guineas; and upon fur-and twelve fhillings in money, ther fearch, found a large tea- when they were all found guilty, pot with upwards of 250 gui-and fentenced to be executed neas more in it. at Edinburgh on the 27th July. burgh, muflins to the value of 2001. He pled guilty, and was fentenced to tranfportation for life, to fuffer death if he return. On the 16th ult. a veffel on On the 27th of June, Thoher way to Scotland from Lon-mas Wilfon was brought bedon, being wind-bound in Yar-fore the fame Court, for ftealmouth Roads, fome of the paf-ing from a haberdasher in Edinfengers, amongst whom was a lady, finding themselves fea fick, requested to be fet on thore, which being complied with, the boat had just got within a few On the 21ft ult. an extract of yards of the fhore, when a the will of Baron Vryhouven breaker, dafhing against the was received by the Scciety for boat, overfet it, and the lady Propagating Chriftian Knowwas unfortunately drowned; ledge in the Highlands and Inlands of Scotland, by which it appears that he has left 20,000l. in the 3 per cent. confols, for the purposes of the Society. The above donation is diftinct from the 10,000l. lately given to the Society by a perfon who wishes to remain unknown. the called her difciples together, and exhorted them to continue ftefaft and unanimous in their adherence to the doctrine which they had received from her. She told them fhe had ftill one fecret to communicate to them, which was, that he was the Virgin Mary, the real mother of our Lord; that he was the fame woman mentioned in the Revelation as being cloathed with the fun, &c. who was that she had been wandering in the world ever fince our Saviour's days, and for fome Eftates in Scotland ftill continue to fell at very high prices -One eftate, let indeed upon an old rental, was lately fold at eighty years purchase! O-driven into the wilderness; ther eftates have lately fold at from thirty to forty years purchafe. At the fale of the late Gene-time paft fhe had fojournral Watfon's ftock, a few days ago, at Aberdour, who kept a moft excellent breed of cattle, one cow was fold at 481. another above 351. and a calf, not many months old, at 131. 138. Such prices are feldom obtained in this country. On the 24th of June the Magiftrates of Edinburgh lowered the price of bread a full affize, or 2d. in the peck loaf. On the 24th of June, the Univerfity of Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine on 14 gentlemen, after the ufual trials. Mrs Buchan, the leader of a few deluded people, and who for a time refided in the neighbourhood of Thornhill, near Dumfries, died about the beginning of May laft. Her followers were greatly reduced in number; but Mr White, once a relief minster, continued till her laft. Finding fhe was going the way of all the earth, in Scotland; that though the here appeared to die, they needed not to be difcouraged, for fhe would only fleep a little, and in a fhort time would again vifit them, and conduct them to the New Jerufalem. After fhe died, it was a long time before her enthufiaftic votaries would ftraight or drefs the corpfe; nor did they coffin her untill they were obliged thereto by the fmell; and after that, they would not bury her, but built up the coffin in a corner of the barn, always expecting that she would rife again from the dead, according to her promife, to conduct them to Jernfalem. At laft the people in the country around, fhocked with thefe proceedings, interfered, went to a juftice of peace, and got an order that the fhould be buried. So that the famous Mrs Buchan of the weft, is now lodged in the house appointed for all living. |