tinued sound of firing, arrived at Whitehall Watergate, whence he proceeded to CarletonHouse.

To give every particular of the scene is impossible; suffice it to say, that whatever could render it agreeable, or interesting, was there in abundance; and standards, cannon, barges, and the remnant of our laurelled army graced the entertainment of Waterloo Fair.

GENERAL OCCURRENCES. LIVERPOOL, June 4: The boat belonging to the Bang-up Coach, when on its way from this place to Rock Ferry, with seven passengets, the coaebman, and two boatmen on board, was overset by the violence of the wind. A female passenger, and the coachman, were drowned, seven of the survivors were saved by the exertions of the boatmen, with the boat of the Royal Alexander Coach, and the tenth, a Mr Jones of Liverpool, swam safely on shore, though the accident happened at the distance of two miles.

New mode of pedestrianism. A rope-maker has engaged for a considerable wager, to walk backwards, at the rate of 38 miles per Day, till he has completed a thousand miles. The match is to take place very soon at Wormwood Scrubbs.

DERBY, June 4. About half past eleven at night, a fire was discovered in a large building in Bridge-street, Nun's Green; the lower part occupied by Mr. E. Smith, bleacher, as a trimming shop, warehouse, &c.; the upper, as school rooms, on the system of Dr. Bell. On the alarm being given by the watchmen, and by the bells of the churches, the inhabitants assembled with great promptitude, but before any asistance could be given, the high wind had carried the flames to an adjoining silk mill, belonging to, or occupied by, Mrs. Davenport. Clouds of smoke first arose from the roof, then an immense volume of flame burst forth from the upper story; and the fire descending from one floor to another, with an inconceivable rapidity, soon reduced the building to a shell. A thatched cottage, only separated from the mill by a narrow passage, was preserved from catching fire by a continued stream of water from the engines. The heat emitted by the burning pile was such, as to shrivel and char the door and window frames on the opposite side of the street, and even to set some of them on fire.

The loss to the sufferers is very great. Mr. Smith's is estimated at about £1,600, no part of which is insured. Mrs. Davenport's is, all Der machinery, and stock; the school, the whole of its furniture, books, &c. This however may be soon made up by a public subscription; but the two individuals must, (if it do not reduce them to beggary) long struggle with the dire. ful effects of so overwhelming a calamity.

INGLEBY, DERBYSHIRE, June 8. During a thunder storm, the lightning struck an oak tree in a field, and killed eight fine sheep and a lamb, which had taken shelter underneath its branches. The electric fluid was conducted down one of the upper branches to the bole of the tree, and formed in its course a gutter in the solid timber, about five inches wide, and three deep, as perfect as if it had been worked with a tool.

DERBYSHIRE and NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, June 4. This morning great numbers of people assembled in Alfreton, and some of the neighbouring villages, as at Ripley, South Wingfield, Codnor, &c. from whence they proceeded towards Nottingham, forcing every person whom they met with to join them. At Langley, the first village they came to in Nottinghamshire, they compelled a very respectable inhabitant to accompany them; but he found means to escape on their arrival at Eastwood, which place they reached about seven o'clock in the morning of the 10th; and here they publicly declared they expected to be joined by a very great number of persons. They were at this period about two hundred strong; and being armed with guus, pikes, hay-forks, &c. and well provided with powder and ball, which some of them carried in bags, presented an appearance both ludicrous and terrific. Finding their hopes of reinforcement fail, they gradually declined in strength, and on their arrival at Kimberley, about half after eight, they seem to have been reduced to about a score. Here, as this remnant of a ragamuffin crew sat under the hedges to regale themselves, their heads supported by their muskets or their pikes, they presented a picture of disappointment and remorse. Stung by reflection, they arose from their meal, threw away their arms, and dispersing endeavoured by a retracing of their route to reach their homes. About ten o'cloek a body of hussars, under the direction of a magistrate, arrived at Kimberley, but found no foe to cope with; another party, headed also by a magistrate, searched the houses at Eastwood; and they jointly scoured the fields and villages around. Many were taken in their flight, and almost entirely without resistance. After an examination by the same magistrates, at the Sun Inn, Eastwood, the unfortunate men were tied together with ropes, and sent off to Nottingham in a waggon and a cart, escorted by the hussars, and a large party of constables; the two magistrates, LAUNCELOT ROLLESTON and C. G. MUNDY, Esquires, headed the procession, which before it entered Nottinghami was joined by other gentlemen, particularly by the Rev. Dr. WYLDE, who accompanied them to the delivery of the distressed wretches into the county gaol.

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"No man of a feeling heart," observes an eye-witness of this procession, "could be"hold the lank countenances of the chief "characters in this mournful cavalcade, "without sentiments of pity for their delu"ded prisoners, who exhibited he picture "of despair and wretchedness, none of them "seeming to be above the rank of labourers, "or working mechanics."

While seeking for rioters, the magistrates and their attendants, found a variety of arms and ammunition, in the various fields near Kimberley and Eastwood; part of these, about thirty pikes, and nearly a score of guns were taken along with the eight and twenty prisoners to Nottingham.

The town of Nottingham had been in a state of alarm the whole of these two days, from the accounts they were continually bearing of the riot, and which report had magnified into an insurrection, but no disposition to partake in these proceedings appears to have been manifested by the inhabitants; the town magistrates were on the alert, and with the commitment of the prisoners, all consternation naturally died

away.

While the Nottinghamshire magistrates were thus employed, those of Derbyshire were not inactive. In the villages where the assembling first commenced, thirty persons were seized, and sent to Derby Gaol, and on the following day, Wednesday 11th. eleven others, one of whom is a very suspicious character.

Upwards of sixty persons are now in Jail in Nottingham and Derby, on account of these riots, but the arch villain who acted the commander in this tragedy, (for it is fearful its end must, like its beginning, be in blood) who was the instigator of these proceedings, who forged intelligence to delude a number of starving labourers, who was a stranger among them, was well dressed and well supplied with money, who headed them to Eastwood, and who, with his courier, chose that moment to decamp, has not been taken.

Thus are a number of deluded men suffering the horrors of imprisonment, under the piercing reflections of having violated the laws of their country, of having increased the misery of their natural connections, and of having added murder to their crimes: the victims of their own credulity, to the wiles of an insidious incendiary.

The murder alluded to, was perpetrated on the evening of the 9th, when a Robert Walter, a servant of Mr Hepworth, of Wingfield Park, was shot in his Master's house, because he refused to deliver up to the rioters his master's fire-arms.

BEESTON, Notts. June 16. The Brethren of the Philanthropic Lodge of Odd Fellows, attended by a numerous and respectable deputation from the Lodges in the surrounding country, held their annual meeting at the house of Brother Surplice, the New Inn, whence they marched in procession to the parish church.

The Rev, Mr Thomas Bigsby, vicar of Beeston, delivered a very pointed and appropriate discourse in which (to the honour of Odd Fellowship) he observed, that "although the ignorant and the vicious, held it up to ridicule and contempt, he hesitated not to declare, in that sacred place, (after a careful perusal of the laws and regulations) that it was one of the best regulated societies in the kingdom; and that its benevolent principles required only to be known, to be universally adopted." motto of the order is, "Unity, Friendship, and Benevolence," and while its members act up to this declaration, such a society must meet with the approbation of mankind.

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LOUGHBOROUGH. The same day, the third anniversary of the Loughborough branch of the Sunday School Union Society, was held at the Methodist Chapel, when it appeared, that the cause encreased in prosperity, there being in the forty Schools under their government, 5650 scholars, and 800 gratuitous teachers.

NOTTINGHAM, June 27. A cricket match for 500 guineas,between twenty-two from the Nottingham Club, and eleven selected from all England, commenced on Monday the 23d, on the Nottingham Cricket Ground,} and terminated this day.

Perhaps a greater degree of skill in that manly game, has never been exhibited than in this contest. One party, amateurs of fortune and of rank, emulous for fame, and devoting all their time to this athletic exercise, engaging, at a most frightful odds; the other, a company of mechanics, determined on victory, if it could be obtained by skilful contest; the whole of the exertions of each party would be brought into competition, and the sight of the progress of the game would be highly gratifying to the interested spectator.

After much vaccilation, the palm of victory rested with Nottingham, the state of the game being as follows:

Nottingham.

First innings 50
Second do. 98

All England. First innings 53 Second do 65

The players on the part of All England,

were:

Lord Fred. Beauclerc-G Osbaldeston, Esq. M. P.-Bain, Esq.-Heward, -Thurngood,-Slate,- Robinson,--Bennet -Lambert,-and Beldhams.

Lord Frederick, on the last day of playing, had the misfortune to have one of his fingers broken with the ball, as he was attempting to stop it; yet he continued his play to the last, with his arm in a sling, and batting with great dexterity with his other hand.

Such was the interest excited by this match, that Nottingham was all the time filled with visitors, and the ground, during the hours of playing, surrounded with spec. lators of all ranks and descriptions.

YORKSHIRE.

THORNHILL LEES near DEWSBURY. June 6th. Ten persons supposed to be Delegates from various towns in Yorkshire were this day apprehended here, on suspicion of being concerned in treasonable and seditious practices. They were immediately sent off to Wakefield, in carriages, escorted by a detachment of Cavalry, and examined there before SIR FRANCIS LINDLEY WOOD, BART. B. DEALTRY, Esq. and other Magistrates. This affair which has created an uncommon degree of interest in Yorkshire, and of which Rumour has used the whole of her thousand tongues, to magnify the danger, and to intimidate the country with the prospect of a formidable insurrection, has, by the spirited exertions of MR. BAINES, Editor of the Leeds Mercury, been traced to its source, and this mountain, whose travail made all England tremble, has scarcely brought forth a mouse!

By a careful investigation of facts, and the concurring testimony of respectable individuals, with the strictest enquiry made on the spot, the history appears to be simply this.

For sometime there have been in Yorkshire, as well as other parts of the Kingdom, meetlags or clubs established, for considering of the best means of obtaining a parliamentary reform. By a late act of parliament, all these associations were suppressed. Some violent spirits, and such there always will be in every assembly, determined not to give up their object, and as they could not deliberate under the sanction of the law, continued to form or rather to hold clandestine meetings. To some of these a stranger of the name of OLIVER, contrived to be introduced. Of good address, and forward speech, he soon gained the confidence of these Ultra Reformers, giving himself out as a Deputy from London. He informed them that their friends in the metropolis were ripe for revolt, that every

thing was organized, and that it was abso lutely settled a rising should take place on the evening of the 8th. of June, the day preceding that fixed for the trial of the state prisoners; that the intent of this rising was, to take possession of all the public offices, seize all the constituted authorities, release the state prisoners, and secure the army. Thus he observed would a complete revolution be effected without bloodshed, if the country clubs would but come forward to act simultaneously with their London friends. It would therefore he continued be necessary, on the same night, Sunday the 8th. to secure all the military in their quarters, seize their arms, and arrest the magistrates, the gentry, and nobility, to be held as hostages for the safety of those of their own party, that should fall into the hands of government. Thus was a wicked plot proposed, and one too, apparently feasible, if a man could be found to Bell the Cat, and this man was, (as far as promises went ) OLIVER himself.

In this manner were the spirits of the members of the club worked upon at the place of meeting, but fearing, the ardour of the conspirators migt cool if left to themselves with time for reflection, OLIVER waited upon some of them at their own houses, introduced him self under a false designation to several respectable characters in the country around, pasticularly at Dewsbury, and used all his eloquence, to induce some of them to attend at a pretended meeting at Thornhill Lees; "My friends in London" says he "are almost heart broken to see the people in the country are so quiet," and that as it was evident Government would not listen to the petitions of the people, it had now become necessary, that they should be compelled to attend to their demands. These arguments, forcible as they were, had happily no other effect on his auditors, than putting them on their guard, being well aware that a boisterous reformer is one of the most dangerous characters in a state, and he received a direct refusal to his request. He however went himself to Thorn. hill Less, accompanied by a poor fellow, whom he had hired to shew him the way, where he found nine persons belonging to the clubs to which he had been introduced.

Scarcely however were they met, when the house was surrounded with Yeomanry Cavalry, and ten persons with OLIVER at their head, immediately made prisoners. These were the persons who, as before stated were sent for examination to Wakefield.

In Wakefield OLIVER was observed to be recognised by the servant of GENERAL BYNG, (General of the District) who informed some gentlemen that were noticing the circumstance, that he had seen him at Camsall, and driven him in his master's tandem, a few

days before, from that place to the Red House, to meet the Coach. MR. TYLER the master of the Inn, the Strafford Arms in Wakefield, informed the gentlemen, that he was from London, had been at his house several times, and had letters directed to him there.

It therefore appears that the whole of the plot was a fabrication, for what purpose, is best known to the authors ofit; that OLIVER was an agent employed by some authority, to go about spreading treason and sedition, and when he found any persons weak, or wicked enough to echo his words and second his measures, to give information of them, have them secured, and decamp to some other place, to light up another fire, and in turn subject every town and village in the kingdom to a suspicion of being a nest of traitors.

HALIFAX, June 2. The twenty-first annual Conference of the Methodist New Connexion, and the first that had been held here, closed its deliberations this day. The lahours of the Ministers since their Conference last year, have been very successful. Several Chapels within that period have been rebuilt, others considerably enlarged, and six new ones erected. This Society has now in all 107 Chapels.

To the religious world, it may not be unacceptable to state, that the Founders of the New Methodist Connexion, did not voluntarily separate, but were forced to abandon a church with which they had before been united, because they claimed the right of joining their preachers in their annual deliberations, and because they insisted on satisfactory statements of the distributions of certain almost immense collections, with which their stewards were entrusted.

To both these claims they received an unqualified refusal. They therefore, now perhaps, upwards of twenty-twoyears ago, under the worthy Mr.Alexander Kilham,formed a new Society; agreeing in doctrine, but differing in discipline, particularly in the organization of their conferences. Those of the old Connexion being entirely composed of Ministers, while in their Conferences the people, and the Ministers are considered as having equal right, and their energies are united for the good of the whole body.

SHEFFIELD, June 10. Seven persons arrested here for High Treason, three weeks ago, were sent off this morning in the True Briton Coach, under a strong escort of dragoons, to be delivered into the custody of the Coustable of the Tower.

Under this head, it may not be improper

to mention, that about the time of Oliver's being in this part of Yorkshire, a stranger, well dressed, and fluent in discourse, called upon several respectable inhabitants of this town, in order to tamper with them concerning their opinions of government. Fortunately, he exposed his cloven-foot too

soon.

YORK. About half past eleven o'clock, this city experienced a most tremendous storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, which continued with unremitting violence more than half an hour, and created a most serious

alarm. A large house in Walm-gate was struck by the lightning, one of the chimney pipes shattered to pieces, and part of the roof stripped off, and thrown over the houses on the opposite side the street. Fortunately no person was within. A man working in an adjoining tan yard, was so visibly affected, as not to be able to stand. The arn of a great walnut, which was hollow from age, was set on fire, and presented an ap. pearance similar to the chimney of a blastfurnace, the limb was cut off to save the tree from total ruin.

ANSTON, June 26. Thursday as a person named Laycock, was bathing himself, his foot striking a stone, he was thrown down and drowned.

Suicides, &c. On Sunday the 22d, a man determined, while drunk, to plunge into the water, was drowned.-On Monday one woman cut her throat, and another hanged herself; ard on Friday, a poor old man, in a state of complete distress, hanged himself, but was discovered in time to be preserved. Besides these, rumour has propagated accounts of several others. Such is the chapter of accidents for this week in Sheffield, a sad one indeed, if we consider that four human beings have, in this short space endeavoured to plunge themselves into eternity,

BARTON ON HUMBER, June 25. In the severe storm of this day, about five o'clock, an Italian showman was struck by lightping, while sitting in the kitchen of the Waggon and Horses public house, in this town, which deprived him of life: The mistress and maid of the public house, were both thrown down, but soon recovered.-The lightning had been attracted by the chimney, down which it descended into the house, and was conducted by a bell-wire near to a seat, round the top of which an iron rod ran, and on which the sufferer was sitting, with a man on each side of him, neither of whom was hurt.

MARRIAGES.

On the 2d June, Mr. Benjamin Overton, Leeds, to Miss Nelson, Darlington.

On the 4th of June, Henry, youngest son of Saml, Newbould, Esq. Bridgefield, Shefheld, to Mary, daughter of Wm. Williamson, Esq. of Bentingford, Herts.

8th. At Middleton, in Teesdale, Mark Sherlock, Esq. to Miss Walton.

10th. Mr. Bush of Newark, to Miss Green, of Hawksworth, Notts.

10th. In the cathedral church of Lichfield, H. D. Acland Esq, of St. Mary Hall, in the University of Oxford, to Ellen Jane, widow of the late Rev. Wm. Robinson, M. A. Rector of Swinnerton, Staffordshire.

10th. At Stariforth, near Bernard Castle, Mr. C. Addison to Miss F. Bowman. This lady has lately made her escape from Algiers, where she had long been confined in the Dey's Seraglio.

At Eyam, in Derbyshire, James Whicher, Esq. of Petersfield, Hants. to Maria Helena, second daughter of Major General Cookson. 12th. At Lambeth Church, Surry, Mr. J. T. Morley, of Doncaster, surgeon, to Miss Eliza Dockray,

16th. At Snaith, J. J. Swaby, Esq. son of the late Hon. J. J. Swaby, of Jamaica, to Miss Clark of Snaith.

17th. Captain Banks of Thorne, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Robert Denby, of Cowick, near Snaith.

18th. Mr. Thomas Rayner, Sheffield, to Miss Lydia Marsden, of Dore, Derbyshire.

19th. At St. George's Church, Hanoversquare, Samuel Crawley, Esq. to Theodosia Mary, eldest daughter of Lady Theodosia Vyner.

21st. The Right Hon. Lord George Wm. Russell, second son of the Duke of Bedford, to Miss E. A. Rawdon, only child of the late Hen. John Rawdon, and niece to the Marquis of Hastings.

221. Thomas Simpson, Esq. of Richmond, to Eliza, daughter of Leonard M'Nally, Esq. of Dublin.-At Halifax, Mr. Joseph Bankcroft to Mrs. Mary Moorhouse.--At Sheffield, Mr. Henry Holbert to Miss Emma Sorby.

25th. In London, Mr. Horsfall, of Ecclesfield, to Maria, daughter of Mr. Horn, formerly of Rob-Royd, in this county.-Mr. Wm. Robinson of Bramley, to Miss Hannah Atkinson, of Wyke, near Harewood.

At Sheffield, Mr. Joseph Gurney to Miss Sarah Gurney.

Mr. W. Brown to Miss Sarah Blagden.

25th. At Tong Church, near Leeds, the Rev. Hichard Grainger, to Miss Speight, of Dudley Hill, near Bradfield.

DEATHS.

June 1st. Mr. Spencer Dyson, formerly a respectable cloth merchant, of Carr House, Huddersfield, aged 48.

2d. In George Leigh-street, Manchester, Catharine Prescot, aged 108 years.-This venerable woman was a native of Denbigh, in Wales, which she left young, and passed the remainder of her long life in England. As a servant, she lived many years with the late Rev. Mr. Farringdon, vicar of Leigh, Cheshire, and also with the Rev. Dr. Masters, of Croston. At the age of 41, she married, and three or four years afterward had a daughter, who is now 64 years of age. This establishes the fact of her age, without the evidence of the parish register, which it seems is not to be obtained. She resided many years in Manchester, where she was a regular communicam at the Collegiate Church, till within these last two years, when increasing infirmities confined her to her room, till the period of her dissolution. -Perhaps it is not the least singular part of this poor woman's life, that she learned to read the Bible after she had attained the age of one hundred years. For this purpose she attended the Lancasterian School, and the Sunday School of St. Clement's; and so good was her sight, that she never, until the period of her being confined by illness, was under the necessity of using spectacles.-The St. Clement's Sunday School has a benefit society, supported by the scholars, for their relief in sickness; of this club she was a member, and to it she owed the whole of her maintenance, in her long period of illness, or rather of debility. She died in the full possession of her faculties; and, according to her request, was buried by the Rev. C. W. Ethelston, in St. Mark's church-yard, Cheetham Hill.

3d. Mr. J. Watson, of Tupton, Derbyshire,