esteemed a chef d'ouvre in' naval architecture, was launched from Messrs. Perry's at Blackwall, and named after the celebrated residence of the Percies, Alnwick Castle. 10. News arrived of the Preliminaries of Peace being exchanged beteen France and Great Britain. Great illuminations and rejoicings. 11. The wooden house on Tower-hill, called True Blue, and which was a rendezvous for volunteer seamen, was wilfully set on fire by some boys, and burnt down in two hours. Several engines attended, but were not suffered to play, the populace being incensed against it, saying it was a kidnapping house for sailors before they were taken on board the tender. 20. A great alarm is excited in St. James's Park from a bench being found besmeared with blood. It was supposed by some persons, that murder had been committed on the spot; but in a short time, and after a good deal of trouble, it was discovered that a butcher's lad had overturned some cows' heads, livers, &c. out of his basket! 22. Several of the swiftest sailing vessels were dispatched from Portsmouth for the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean, Newfoundland, and the coast of Guinea, with official intelligence to the respective Governors and Commanders in Chief in those parts, of the signing of the Preliminaries of Peace. 23. Intelligence arrives of the taking of Alexandria, Sept. 2d, by General Hutchinson. net. 25. A launch took place from the dock-yard at Woolwich, a new 74 gun ship called the PlantageIt is built upon a plan furnished by Admiral Gambier, when one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and is of a singularly fine mould, together with exquisite proportions. MONTHLY LIST OF BANKRUPTS, (From the London Gazette.) JOHN JOHN WEBB, Coventry, dyer. Richard Robert, William Tulford, and Benjamin Hanbury, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury, shoemakers. John Davidson, the elder, William Davidson, and John Davidson, the younger, and Joseph Davidson, Halifax, Yorkshire, dyers. Peter Aubur, East Place, Lambeth, flour-factor. Edward Bate, Westbromwich, Stafford, timber-merchant. Moffat Horne, Wiewsley, Middlesex, coalmerchant. William Williams and Edward Evans, Portsea, Hants, linen-drapers. William Paget, the younger, Womborn, Stafford, miller. Robert Ashdowne, Cliffe, Sussex, mercer. William West and Thomas Hughes, Paternoster Row, London, booksellers. Joseph Dennis, late of Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, broker. Edward Pride, late of Duke Street, Artillery Ground, dyer. Par menter Smith, Budge Row, wholesale draper. Thomas Mottram, late of Atherstone, Warwickshire, woolcomber. Robert Redhead, Mark Lane, wine and brandy merchant. Joseph Tansley, Great Mary-le-bone Street, glass seller. Mary Greenaway and Francis Greenaway, now or late of Calne, Wiltshire, collar-makers. William Middleton, Liverpool, merchant. Thomas Hellyer, Funtington, Sussex, timber-merchant. George M'Minn and Alexander M'Minn, Liverpool, merchants. George Betley, Liverpool, vinegar-maker. Thomas Dobson, Kendal, Westmorland, merchant. John Irwin, late of Aldgate, High Street, London, innkeeper. David Hopwood, Union Street, St. Mary-le-bone, grocer. Moss Dimmock, Winchester, bookseller. Anthony Thacker, Upwell, Isle of Ely, corn-merchant. Daniel Dakeyne, the elder, Daniel Dakeyne, the younger, Thomas Da keyne, and Joseph Dakeyne, all of Darley Dale, bankers and cotton spinners. Humphrey Davies, of the Bear Inn, Welchpool, Montgomery, innkeeper. John Crossley, Manchester, cotton-manufacturer. Joseph Higginbotham, Blackburn, Lancaster, cotton-spinner. Robert Owen and William Mardle, late of Houndsditch, coppersmiths. George Beal, Surrey Street, cheesemonger, John Last, Brighton, Sussex, builder. James Miller, Hammersmith, Middlesex, wheelwright. Wm. Else, Fleet Street, warehouseman. Thos. Tinson, Fenchurch Street, London, wine-merchant. John Serle, Shepton Mallett, Somersetshire, clothier. Thos. Hodgson, Liverpool, broker. Timothy Virtue, Hammersmith, Middlesex, carpenter. James Aitkin, Castle Street, Leicester Fields, print-seller. Henry Mitchell, Gosport, rope-maker. Edward Rowlands, Coalbrooke Dale, Salop, barge-owner. J. Pollard, Essex Street, taylor. R. Browne, Adam's Court, Broad Street, London, merchant. G. Bowker and J. Chapman, Manchester, corn dealers. J. Macklin, Cheapside, London, Stationer. S. Haigh, Manchester, merchant. G. Matson, Farleton, Lancashire, horse-dealer. S. Lewis, of the town and County of Southampton, victualler. To Correspondents. Many of our friends will find their favours attended to in the present number. Error in our last, p. 91, the four top lines should be read at the bottom of the page. |