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his coachman, to order him to drive the carriage as close as possible to the windows of the room in which he was to keep on his box-the step was to be ready let down, and the two footmen placed up behind. All this the clerk had done, according to direction. Mr. L. then ordered Mr. Peacock to open the parlour windows, and at this moment a waiter, unapprized of the transaction, entering the room, he fired a pistol at him, loaded with three balls, which lodged in the wall; then, throwing some wine, and the contents of a butter-boat, in Mr. P.'s face, he jumped out of the window into his carriage, which drove fu. riously off, and he has not since been heard of. A commission of lunacy against him has been taken out.

The Termagant, which arrived at Portsmouth this day, brought the melancholy intelligence of the total loss of the Athenienne, of 64 guns, on her passage to Malta, by striking on the Esquerries rocks, near Tunis, in a gale, on the 20th of October last. The following are the names of the persons, above the rank of sailors, who lost their lives: Capt. Rainsford; lieutenants Swinburne, M'Millan, and Salter; capt. Stains, and lieutenants Moss and Minden, of the marines; Mr. Griffin, surgeon; the boatswain, carpenter, and gunner; Messrs. Hennell, Rome, Morrison, Newman, Fitzgerald, and Blackburn, midshipmen. Passengers: Lieutenant Barker, of the Melpomene; ensign Banker, of the 37th regiment; aud the carpenter of La Bergere sloop. Persons saved: Liutenants John and James Little, and Pym; Mr Goodwin, purser; Messrs. Man. ning and Francis, midshipmen; Mr.

Parker, master; Mr. Cannon, master's mate. Passengers: Brigadier general Campbell; Mr. Byron, surgeon of the Endymion; Mr. Dyer, to join the Juno; Messrs. G. Thorn, J. M'Lean, and S. Wells, of La Bergere. Seamen saved, 121; women, ditto, 2-123. Officers and seamen lost, 347.-The conduct of captain Rainsford is spoken of in the highest terms. When the ship struck, he declared he would be the last to quit her. It was owing to his presence of mind, and the autho rity he employed, that so many lives were saved. The ship had on-board 10,0001. in specie.

19th. A widow woman, of Southwick, near Oundle, had three horses poisoned a few days ago, in consequence of their eating the fibres of a yew tree.

20th. This morning about ten, a violent storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and hail, came on at Alnewick. The hail-stones, which were driven by the gust with uncommon force, consisted of pieces of complete ice, three quarters of an inch square. Very great damage was done to the windows and glass. work, at Alnewick; and at Swansfield, Mr. Sealey had 260 squares of glass broken; and others sustained similar losses. The skirts of the storm reached Newcastle. It was very severe to the westward. The flag-staff, on the new quay at Whitehaven, was shattered by the lightning, and several panes of the light-house were broken. In Liverpool, between twelve and one, the wind was so tremendous, as to blow down a new built house in Nile-street, unroof several houses, and upset a boat on the river, in which there were three men return

ing from a vessel lying at the Rock, who were all drowned.

A notice appeared in the Gazette of this evening, for carrying into effect the act for abolishing all fees and holidays in the Custom-house department; excepting only the following holidays, viz. Sundays, Christmas-day, Good Friday, the anniversaries of the restoration of king Charles the second, of the coronation of the king, and of the birth-days of their majesties, and the prince of Wales

A gentleman who had lost 301. to a fashionable lady at play, presented the amount in Bank notes. This drew from the lady an affected remark," that at the great houses she frequented, nothing but gold was used."" In the little houses I frequent, madam," replied the gen. tleman," nothing but paper is used."- Honi soit, &c.

It was decided lately in the court of king's bench, in a cause, The King v. Wilson, that all foreign letters to English merchants, although brought by their own ships, must go through the Post-office.

Last week a malster of Wherwell, near Andover, Hants, was fined in the penalty of 2001. for making a quantity of malt in an unentered room. And an inhabitant of Chilbolton, in the same neigh bourhood, was informed against, for having in his possession a supply of malt, the duty on which had not been paid.

John Tasker, ostler at the George Inn, at Spilsby, and Rebecca Smith, of that place, lately went on foot 240 miles together, to Gretna Green, to be married. Having made this experiment of their fitness to tug through the rugged road of life together, to their mutual satis

faction, the Vulcan of the Borders riveted them into one, and, turning their faces homewards, they re-trod their steps-whether with the same harmony as they went, "this deponent saith not."

In a late report made to the Central Vaccine Committee, at Paris, it is stated, that by the exer. tions made throughout France, for propagating the vaccine inoculation, the number of individuals who underwent the operation in the 42 departments, during the last twelve months, amounts to 125,992, which gives a total of near 400,000 for all France; and by supposing, as in the last year, that number to be 1,088,157, it will appear, that onethird of the infants born last year, have been vaccinated. From a number of experiments which have lately been made in France, it has uniformly resulted, that the small pox has never had any effect upon those who have regularly gone through the vaccine infection.

22d. A fire broke out in the Dock-yard, at Portsmouth, which threatened alarming consequences. Between four and five o'clock the flames were seen to burst from the house in which the rope is baked, and the twine tarred, for the use of the sail-makers. The wind was high, and blew directly towards the rigging and sail lofts, between which and the fire was a quantity of light dry timber. Lieutenant Smith of the Audacious, hastened on shore with a party of sailors, to assist in extinguishing it; but no buckets were at hand: a supply was immediately procured from the Audacious; and, by the exertions of the seamen, the fire was prevented from spreading farther.

The same night the following dreadful

26th. The tide rose to such a height in Ipswich, that most of the streets were inundated. The water was two feet deep, near St. Peter's church, and the common quay was nearly overflowed. At Hampton, Sunbury, Chertsey, and similar places, near the banks of the Thames, the whole of the country was under water; and Kingston and Putney bridges were for a time nearly impassable.

dreadful accident happened to thef ur arches, over the river Crae, at driver of the mail coach from Newton Stewart, was carried away Bristol to Birmingham, within a few by the floods. miles of Thornbury: The coach was going at a brisk rate, when the guard observed the driver to fall off his seat, between the horses; he got down, and endeavoured to stop them, but in vain. He then succeeded in regaining his seat behind the coach, till the animals slackened their pace, when he drove the coach in safety to Thornbury, where he procured a horse, and returned to the man, whom he conveyed back. Surgical assistance was instantly procured; but it was fruitless, as one of the wheels had passed over his neck, and, it is supposed, killed him on the spot. He has left a wife and two children.

25th. Nine dwellings, with numerous out-houses, corn stacks, &c. were destroyed by accidental fire at Acomb, near Hexham.

In consequence of a heavy swell in the river Conway, the boat which carried the Irish mail was unfortunately lost, with the following persons on board: Peter Allison, of Liverpool; John Godwin, of Cowbridge; John Hunt, esq. his address at J. Heard's, Ballast office, Dublin; Thomas Tipton, the guard; Carpenter, a son of the guard of that name, coming from school from Yorkshire; Richard Edwards, smith, Holyhead; Charles Harrison, Limerick, not yet found-his trunk picked up; Francis Rouse, Conway; Thomas Hughes, Thomas Roberts, Owen Jones, and John Reynold's, boatmen, Conway. Roberts, tanner, Holyhead, by the assistance of the mail bag, and a boatman, by the assistance of a trunk, were saved.

The same day a stone bridge of

The whole of the Scotch coast has suffered much during the last and preceding week, from the unu sual height of the tide, both of the sea and rivers. On the 20th inst. the river Stinchar, at the town of Ballantrae, rose to a prodigious height, and overflowed the highway for nearly 200 yards. About eleven, while the 9th troop of the 1st dragoons, on their route from Hamil. ton for Ireland, attempted to pass the water, five of the horses, with their riders, were borne down by the rapidity of the current. The men, from the weight of their accoutrements, were some time before they could disengage themselves from the animals. The inhabitants plunged in to their assistance, and, at the risk of their own lives, succeeded in saving those of the soldiers.-At Rothsay, the tide lately rose so high, that both the quays were covered with water, and many barrels of herrings washed over. The water in the houses at this port was 48 inches deep.

This afternoon, about half past one, was one of the highest tides ever remembered. Boats were rowed into Palace and Little Scotland Yards; and the water filled

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most of the cellars about the Horseguards and Parliament-street. number of wharfs, cellars, and warehouses, from the top of Upper Thames-street to the bottom of Lower Thames-street, and in Bridge. street, Blackfriars, were completely inundated; and also the Lower apartments of several houses in Horsleydown. The injury sustained is considerable. The moon was at full, but the wind was fortunately westerly. Fifteen years have elapsed since those quarters experienced such a visitation.

27th. This day the Thames again rose considerably higher than on the preceding day, at Rotherhithe, Lambeth, and Milbank, as well as at the newly embanked cut at the Isle of Dogs, where serious injury was occasioned by the inundation. Near Lambeth horse-ferry a sow and 12 pigs were drowned.

28th. About twelve o'clock, one of the arches of Haydon-bridge, Northumberland, 95 feet in span, fell in, with a most tremendous crash, at the time that a number of people were going over it to church. One man sunk with the ruins to the depth of 40 feet, by which his thigh was fractured, and he was otherwise much bruised; but he is still alive. The bridge had long been in a state of decay.

BIRTHS in the Year 1800.

Jan. 1. At Laugharne castle, county of Caermarthen, the wife of major R. J. Starke, a son.

In the Royal Crescent, Brighthelmstone, the wife of Kean Osborn, esq. a daughter.

4th. In Green-street, Grosvenor

square, the wife of capt. Byng, R.N. a still-born son.

5th. The wife of Edward Rigby, esq. mayor of Norwich, a daughter. At Edinburgh, the wife of capt. Halkett, R. N. a daughter.

11th. At the Union Fire-office, Cornhill, the wife of Mr. Charles Philip Galabin, a son.

13th. In Baker-street, Portmansquare, the wife of J. Boddington, esq. a daughter.

14th. The wife of John Biddulph, esq. of Champion-hill, Surrey, a son. 16th. At the Rectory-house at Acton, Middlesex, the wife of the rev. Mr. Antrobus, a son.

19th. In Park-street, Grosvenorsquare, the countess of Banbury, a daughter.

21st. At the house of Hamilton Nisbett, esq. in Portman_square, the countess of Elgin, a daughter.

24th. At Little Bookham, in Surry, the wife of licut. general Manningham, a daughter.

Feb. 1. In Great George-street, Hanover-square, the wife of Thomas Sheridan, esq. (son of R. B, S. esq.)

a son.

2d. At Packington-hall, county of Warwick, the countess of Aylsford, a daughter.

3d. At Shroton cottage, county of Dorset, the wife of lieut. colonel Seymour, a son.

4th. At the Government-house, Guernsey, the wife of lieut. colonel Doyle, a daughter.

6th. At his seat in Lincolnshire, the lady of sir Thomas Whichcote, bart. a son.

The lady of sir W. Ramsay, bart.

a son.

At Glasgow, lady Janet Buchanan, a daughter.

8th. The wife of Richard Congreve, esq. of Linley-hall, Salop, a son. 9th. The

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13th. At Pimlico, the wife of lieut. colonel Elliot, a son.

14th. In Manchester street, Manchester-square, the wife of John Murray, esq. a daughter.

The wife of John Finch Simpson, esq. of Laund abbey, county of Leicester, a son.

The wife of Richard Topp, esq. of Whitton, Salop, a daughter.

17th. At Haughley-park, Norfolk, the wife of George Jerningham, esq. a son.

20th. At her house in Pall-Mall, lady Holland, a daughter.

21st. At her house in Portlandplace, the countess of Mansfield, a

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D. M. Erskine, M. P. for Portsmouth, a daughter.

March 7th. In Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, the wife of Samuel Bosanquet, junior, esq. a son. 9th. The wife of Mr. Crane, hatter, of Maidstone, three sons.

10th. In Devonshire-street, Portland-place, the wife of capt. Rolles,

a son.

16th. The lady of the honourable lieutenant general St. John, a daughter, who died in a few hours.

17th. At St. John's Wood-house, viscountess Mahon, a son.

At Rodmarton, county of Glou cester, the wife of the rev. Daniel Lyfons, a son.

18th. In Great Ormond-street, the wife of serjeant Best, M. P. a son.

22d. At Bath, lady Charlotte Drummond, a son.

24th. In Grafton-street, lady Charlotte Duncombe, a son.

31st. The wife of J. J. Smith, esq. alderman of Castle Baynard ward, a son,

April 2d. At the house of general Brownrigg, in Audley-square, the wife of Major Nesbitt, a son and

heir.

At Baldon house, Berks, the lady of sir Christopher Willoughby, bart. a daughter.

4th. At Moreton, co. of Dorset, lady Harriet Frampton, a daughter.

5th, 6th, and 7th. The wife of Mr. Joseph Nicholson, of Pennington, near Ulverston, farmer, two sons and a daughter.

6th. At the admiral's house, in Portugal-street, Grosvenor square, the hon. Mrs. Berkeley, a son.

8th. In Dover street, Piccadilly, the lady of the honourable John Bridgman Simpson, a daughter.

9th. At Wolhampton, near Ly. H h mington,

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