by one of these boats, without fuftaining any injury. His Lordship then ordered the men in the beat to fire over the pirates; Upon which they fled, and the party were not difturbed during the remainder of their journey. The Turks and the lamelukes, in Upper Egypt, having had feveral fevere thirmithes, and being extremely barraffed, they mutually agreed upon an armuftice for fome days. In this interval, the perfidious Turks, difregarding the folemn engagement they had entered into, formed the defign of fui prizing the camp of the Mamelukes by night, and putting every man of them to the fword. In the mean time, the Mamelukes were informed of the whole plan by an Arab; and as foon as the night appointed for this work of treachery arrived, they filently retired from their camp, and formed an ambuftade. When the Turks arrived, and found the camp deferted, they immediately began to plunder. During that fcene of diforder and confu• fion which foldiers fo employed must neceffarily be in, they were fuddenly attacked by the Mamelukes, and not a foul of them efcaped. There were not twenty of the affailants killed. The Turks acknowledge the lofs of 2 coo; but it is thought that this falls very far fhort of the real number deftroyed on the occafion. Eight thousand Albanians and Turks, who were fent to Fiume against the Mamelukes, have deferted to them. On the 9th of October, the Cornille, a French fhip of 44 guns, and a brig, arrived in the harbour of Alexandria. M. Sebaftiani, a French Envoy, was in the thip. The French Plenipotentiary at Conftantinople, Ruffin, has been informed that Colonel Sebastiani, fent out by the Firit Conful, has been commiffioned to view all the strong places and the coafts in the Levant, and to tranfmit to the Fift Conful an account of the flate and condition of the fame. the river begins to life; precifely at which time the earth that has been preferved from wafte and moisture becomes more ponderous, and its eight will be daily found to increafe, till the river bas attaned its height. This fears to be accafioned by the whole body of the arin ta neighbourhood of the Nile becoming more condensed; and it has been remarked, that on the very day when the river begins to rfe, the most inveterate plagues have been found to break out fuddenly in Cairo. In Egypt they prepare and clary the water of the Nile, by firring it about in large ftorie jars with a few bruifed almonds; fome lule time after which it is drawn off for afe. Perlaps fame method of this kind might have the effect of clarifying beer and other liquors. The Peys having conceived the project of breaking the line of the Ottoman army, in order to form a junction with the English troops at Alexandria, attempted twice to execute their defigns; but the Pacha of Cairo took fuch measures that they were each time repulfed. England has refufed to render the icat affiftance to the revolted Eeys: but the demands that the Porte fhould accede to the alliance which the proposes, and which the fays has only for is object to guarantee Egypt from any further invafion. The earth in the neighbourhood of the tiver Nile is found to have a remark able quality. If kept for months, no alteration will be perceived in its weight, however variable the state of the atmofphere, even if repeatedly weighed the fame day, until the middle of June, when EAST INDIES. On the CALCUTTA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Fort William, Aug. 11, 1802. 9th inft. his Majesty's frigate La Chiffoune, Captain Stuart, arrived in the river from Bombay, with difpatches from that Prefidency to his Excellency the rooft noble the Governor-General in Council, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of his Excellency Haujee Khuleel Khaun, Ambassador to the British Government on the part of his Majesty the King of Perfia. In the afternoon of the 20th ult, a dif pute unfortunately arofe heteen the Perfian fervants of the Ambafador, and the Sepoys of the corps of Bengal Volunteers, compofing his Excellency's honorary guard, at the heafe aligned for his refidence near Magong. An affay enfued, and both parties reforted to arms. At the commencement of the difturbance, his Excellency the Ambaffador, with his nephew Aga Hooffain, and his attendants, defcended into the court, for the purpote of quelling the tumult; and while his Excellency was exerting his endeavours with the utmost degree of humanity and firmnefs for that purpofe, he received a wound from a mufket, which inftantly proved mortal. His Excellency's nephew was feverely wounded in feveral places. Four of the Ambafiador's fervants were killed, and five more wounded. Tranquillity, however, was peedily reftored, and medica! affiftance was immediately procured for the relief of the furviving fufferers. The most active and judicious exertions were fuccessfully employed by the acting Prefident at Bombay, J. H. Cherry, Efq. and by the civil and military officers under his authority, for the purpose of restoring order, and of tranquillizing the minds of the attendants and followers of the deceafed Ambaffador, as well as fecuring the means of bringing to juftice the perpetrators of this atrocious act. A Court of Enquiry has accordingly been inftituted at Bombay, for the purpose of Investigating, with due deliberation and folemnity, all the circumstances of the cafe. The Governor General in Council has adopted me fures for affording to the reJarions and followers of the late Ambuífador, all the relief and confolation which can be administered to them under the preffure of this fevere calamity. As a teftimony of the public regret for the death of the late Amballador, and of a deep fenfe of forrow for the calamitous event which occafioned it; as a mark of public refpe&t for the high ftation of the deceased Amballador, and for the Sovereign whom he reprefented; his Excellency the Governor General in Council has been pleafed to direct, that minute guns be fired on this melancholy occafion, at five o'clock this afternoon, from the ramparts of Fort William. By command of his Excellency the most noble the Governor-Gen. in Council. N. B. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to Govt. Sec. Pol. & For. Depts. Lord Wellesley has ordered medals to be diftributed amongst the native officers and privates of the three battalions of Bengal Volunteers, recently returned from Egypt. Mornes. The expected reinforcemen's had not arrived on the 9th November, at which time the mortality that had long prevaled among the troops began to abate. Gengral Dugna is among its victims. The hofpitals were filled with the fi k. We tre to ¿, that la the action about the middle of September, near the town, the French loft a General Officer, that a great number of their Whites were killed, and the a brigade of the Blacks went over and joined their brethren. Among those taken and executed, were feen many marks of the most undaunted courage, contempt of death, and averfion to their executioners. One gentleman tells us, that, hearing of their behaviour, he was todnced to attend fome of the ex-cutions at one of them, five fillows were ordered to be thot; on the way to the place of execu tion, they danced, fang, and drank, as if, they were going on a party of pleature; and when they arrived near the line that Was drawn for tliem, they moved to it with bold intrepid Rep, kneeled, down, ft etched their bodies, and, with head erect, cried, "Fire away, you murdering wretches !"Another day, out informant went to fee an old Negro hung; when he Came to the ground, he looked up, and AND BAY OF HONDURAS. faid to the Officer of the Guard, "So, Cap The American paper contain the most tain, you have honoured me with a new difaftrous intelligence relative to St. Do-gihbet," he afcended the ladder with great minga; from which it appears, that the Iflands will probably be abandoned to the Negroes. Many respectable families, who, during the late war, had fought an afyluni in the United States, allured by the flattering accounts of the French operations, returned to St. Domingo and Guadaloupe. Their fate, however, is dreadful; for what they had been able to fave is likely to be totally diffipated, and themselves to be maffacred by the enraged Blacks. Thofe White inhabitants, who retired into the towns and ports on the fea-coaft, have been obliged to feek refuge in the fortified places. AMERICA, THE WEST-INDIES, A barge on its paffage from St. Marc to Port Republican, loaded with women and children, was boarded by a party of 48 Negroes, who, after taking poffeffion of her, matfacred every perfon on board. They were afterwards captured by a French Frigate; 16 of them were killed, and the remaining two, on being brought to Port Republican, were torn to pieces by the inhabitants. Chriftophe and Deffalines have abandoned the French standard, and repaired to the infurgents, who, as foon as they heard of the death of General Leclerc, became infpired with fresh courage, and advanced with horrible yells. They were, however, Speedily repulfed; a kind of general engagement afterwards took place; and the Blacks, being defeated and pursued, evacuated the plaius, and retired to the decifion; and when the rope was made faft, he fprang from the ladder, with as much feeming eafe as if he was diving into the river for amufement. Captain Buntain, of the Friendship fchooner, arrived at Newhary port from Guadaloupe, reports, that early in November, when he failed from Point Peire, the Inland was in the grea cft poffible confufion; and that, if fresh troops did not fhortly arrive there, it would be wholly in poffeffion of the Blacks. All the White inhabitants of St. Anne's, without diftinction of fex or age, had been matfcred. One hundred and fifty Blacks were executed at one time at Balfe erre, shortly be fore Captain Buntain failed: he reports, that the fever is still making its ravages there, not only among the French, but the Americans, &c. A fevere shock of an Earthquake was experienced at Cumana, in South Ame rica, on the 15th of Auguit. The whole country was agitated as well as the fea; the inhabitants filed from their houfes in terror, and ran out into the open fields, where they fell down on their knees to implore the protection of Heaven. The bed of the river Oroonoko rolę to an uncommon height; on the whole right fide of the river new land has appeared, while in another place a piece of land forty feet in breadth, formerly cultivated, has been clanged into a pool of water. Several houfes houses har e been destroyed, and trees torn to by the ponying At eight in the evening a third flock va felt, bar the lift was mit fo vident as the fr 50. The devas. foe, however, ntal, and few houfes have efcaped without camge. An intimation, hated in private accounts from our Settlement in the Bay of Hendoras, to have been given to the fettlers by the Spaniards, to evacuate that Colony, has been much wifreprefented. We have been favopred, with the perofil of feveral Jerters from that quarter, which differ very ruch in the decails, though they coincide in the main circumstance. There ha certainly been not only an intimation, bot a pofitive req: fiion, on the part of the Governor of the province of Honduras, clljug upon cam fethers, not, as has been exaggerated, to evacaste the whole Settlement, but merely fuch parts and districts of it as have been acquired either by conquit or encroachment during the war. This de,mand is by no means calculated to excite arm; for it is Arictly conformable to the Treaty of Amiens, which requires the contracting powers to give up all the territories they have conquered, or occupeid, during the late conteft. Notwithstanding the execution of this part of the Treaty the British Colony, in the Bay of Hondu ras, will continue to enjoy all its former poffeffions and privileges. COUNTRY Nrws. Jan. 9. This afternoon, a boat belooging to the Neptune, with eight perlons in it, five belonging to the boat, and three paflengers (two of them young gentlemen of Golport, who were going to the Neptune, at Spithead, to fee their brother), was ipfet, in a gust of wird, near the hofpital, and all drowned, except three of the bostmen. Four dead bones were immediately picked up; two of them the young gentlemen aforem ntioned, who had held by the boat until exh-ufted, and driving on the fhore, were beat off, and perthed. Margate, Jan. 10. This ere sig, about 6, the Active, of Greenock, Cot fornby, n fine new Weit Invia Bip, or 250 tons burthen, laden with 300 heghicans of fugar, &c. bound to Greenock, daried from her anchor in the roads, and came athers within half a mile of the pizr-head, where the foon funk. After the fea had made a cdimple.e braach on her weatherfide, the drove in thore, with her fire and mizen-mafts ftanding, upon the Nayland Rock, at three o'clock in the morning; by which forminate circumillano, may be a uibuted the fafety of part of the paffengers and crew, who, had the remed where the fict detek, woul', in all prohim, have pr hel. They confifted of 19 perfors; as, tum latin, the miles In the sh: tdi, tp ƯUì cá the fg were faved. Five perished in the main-top hy the falling of the maft; one laj W s wathed overboard, and three were taken from the rigging, who perthed by the fpr y of the fea, and from the inclemency of the weather. Every means of refufutation on the.n was ufed by Mr. Ster, a furgeon of this place, without fuccels. Among the farvivors are the Captain, Mate, and Pilot-A Dutch hoy, laden with 1200 bags of wheat, bound from Amferdani to Lisbon, parted from her anchors, and came athore under the cliffs, off Birchinton; the crew and cargo faved, and the vellel likely to be got off-A Hattings or Rye hoy, in bail, alfo shared the fame fate, and lies very near the Durchman. Her crew faved themfelves by taking to their boa". This might, during the heavy gale' of wind from the Eastward, the Hoffar, of 38 guns, commanded by Captain Wilkinfon, lying at Blackflakes, caught fire, by accident, in the gunner'cftǝrt-room, clofe to the magazine; and, from the explofion of fome combuflible matter, the thi,'s company rushed on the quarter-deck, and thece into a boat, which was hanging in the tackles aftern; and, from too great a number geung into her for the purpoft of fiving themfelves, the davit by which the was hauled up-gave way, and threw the whole of them overboard; by which unfortunate accident two M.ler's Mates, one Midshipman, 14 men, and ore woman, were drowned. By the ex-raons of the Capram, officers, and remaining part of the thip's company, the fire was food got under, without any damage to the ship. Mague. Faz. 14. A few mules bef re four o'clock this morning, during the very fevere gale, the Hindoftan East diaman, Copain Edward Badton, "parted with all her anchors, drove on those off the Culvers, and shortly after went to pietis. One gentleman, of the name of Clarke, a Cadet for Madies, and a paffenger op board thes fhip, with 16 of the crew, unfor unately perished. Every polfible exertion was made to fave the ship, but the fuy of the gile baffled every effort. The cargo was effimated at 100,000l. She had a va quantity of private filver bullion on-boate, on freight; but we learn, the Eaft India Company had not a single dollar on-board. The Hindoman was a tie thip, of the largest dimensions, being of the bur then of 1 248 tons, and was proceeding on her fourth voyage. Soon after the ship got on thore, the filed with water. Her dreadful futeat on was immediately obferved upon land; bouls put off to her affiftauce, and fortunately fucceeded in faving about 120 of the people. On the thp frking the fhore, the baker and boafwain flew to the Thrones for fafety; but this hafty expedient unfortunately proved their deftruction; thy both perished in figlit of the furvivors, who 1 who could afford them no relief. The Handoftan was deftine 1 to Conft and China. Her lofs is to be attributed flely to the feverity of the gade, which bathed every effort that could be used. The complement of men on-board w.s 1:2. Being on of the largest days, the tal on-hond go guns; was completely fored for te, and proceeding for de Downs to take on-board her paffengers, when the terrible gale drove her on fore. When the ship truck, and no hopes of getting her off were left, The then being 12 miles from shore, two rafts were made, and feveral of the crew, paffengers, &c. committed themfelves to them, in hopes of floating on shore. These rafts, by the violence of the waves, were dafhed against each other, and most of the perfons on them were drowned or killed. Jan. 13. At Stafford feffions, the while of this day was taken up by an appeal of Earl Ferrers against the poor's rate of the parish of Stowe. wherein the whole of his demefne at Clartley was rated. His Lordfhip claimed an exemption for upwards of 1700 acres of this, which was called Indemefne; and infifted that the part called Out-demelne only was liable to the rate, the In-demefne having been an antient park, and extra-parochial. After a variety of evidence and counfel were heard on each fide, the Bench determined that the part called In-demefne was extra-parochial, and directed (by confent of both parties) that the rate thould he amended accordingly. An aufwer of Washington Earl Ferrers (uncle to the prefent Eail) to a bill in Chancery, filed by Mr. Fuzgerald, in 1982, was produced on the part of the refpondents: in which his Lordthip ftated his demefre (generally) to be in the parish of Stowe, and they wished a cafe to be granted for the option of the Court of King's Bench, on the question, "Whether this answer was not conclufive evidence again't the prefent Earl, that the whole of his demefne was within the parish?" But the Magiftrates were of opinion it could not be granted. Earl Washington, at the time of putting in the above-mentioned anfwer, had recently returned from his comraand in the naval fervice, to take poffeffion of the Chartley estates, to which he had fucceeded little more then a year when the anfwer was made; and that being done by perfons in town, as ignorant of the tenures of his Staffordshire eftates as it must naturally be fuppofed he was, the proper diftinction between the Out demefne and the Indemefne might-poffibly not be made; but the prefent Earl Feireis, who tried the late appeal, has been indefatigable in making himself minutely acquainted with the tenures of every eftate he poffeffes, and by the aflistance of able perfons, and old and honeft witneffes, obtained a con- firmation of thofe rights which were always inherent to the Chartley pitites. Jan. 18. This morning the fervant of a farmer, refiding a little Ealward of Lewes, was found dead on the Downs; furposed to bare parithed through intoxicition, and the inclemency of the night. Creave Hall, long the acknowledged feat of English hofpitality, has this Chom s been the frene of unrivalled feftivity. On Wednesday, Ja. 4, there were a fplendid ball and fupper; to the latter of which near too perfons fat down.. On Thọ (day, a dinner was given to a felect party, and in the evening all the visitors of that and the preceding day were gratified with theatrical amufements; the picture gallery having been prepared for the occafion, and fitted up in a very commodious #tyle, The performance commenced with a Prelogue from “ Midfummer Night's Dream," but altered and made applicable to the occafion. Midis then followed, and went off with the happieft effect; and the reiterated burfts of applaufe amply.fpoke the merits of the feveral performers. Midas was plaved with the moft fuccefsful humour. Myfis was animated and judicious, while Nyfa would have infared commendation from the proudest affemblage of Lordon criticks. The foene of the celestials was well managed; and Hebe, Venus, and Juno, appeared to influence the hearts of all their mortal g zers. Midas was followed by a new piece written for the occafion, entitled "One Bird in the Hand worth Two in the Bufh." It was meyit merely as a vehicle for mufic; the idea, however, is ingenious, and replete with comic effect. The private theatricals at Dalby Houfe, in Leicestershire, that have for feveral fuccellive fummers been objects of the greatest attraction and admiration to the lovers of . the drama, have been revived during the Christmas holidays, with all their former elegance and fplendour. "The Stranger," with "Three Weeks after Marriage," were the peces reprefented. The hofpitality and polite attention of the lady of the manfion, the Hon. Mrs. Hartopp, fhone. as confpicuous on this as on former oc cafions. vour be registered in his College of Arms. GAZETTE. Monday, Jan. 10. This evening, about 7, when the wind blew exceffively hard, fome premifes at the back of Mr. Keen's houfe, facing Paddington Church, occupied by Mr. Blofeld, an attorney, as a country cottage, we.e newly demolished. The premises confisted of a (malt room and a kitchen, built of wood, having a chimney carried to a great height, to prevent fmoke. During the violence of the galt, the chimney was thrown on the roof of the upper room, in which Mrs. Blofield and five of her chile dren were fitting; and the weight of the brick-work brought the whole of the tiles, timber, and rubbish, into the room, and enveloped then in the ruins. One of the children found means to extricate herself, and with great presence of mind dirult her hand through the window, calling loudly, for allistance to some men who were work oufly pleased, in confuler.tion of the fignal fervices performed to his Majelty, and to his Ally the Ottoman Emperor, ' y Sir WalJam Sidney Smith, Kuight, Coinmauder and Grand Crois of the Royal Swedith Military Order of the Sword, a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Reprefentative for the city of Rochefer in the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and to evince the fenfe which his Majefty entertains of the great ability and heroic perfeverance mant felted by him the faid Sir William Sidney Smith upon divers occafions, and more expecially of his able and highly diftigguithed conduct in the defence of the town of St. John d'Acre, in Syria, in de year 1799; his Royal Lice ce and Authorry, tilat he may bear the following honourable augmentations to the armorial enfigns bpine by his family, viz. on the chever on a Wreath of Laurel, accompanied by Two Creffes Calvary; and, on a Chief of Auge mentation, the Interior of an ancient Fortif £ation, in perfpe&ive; in the Angie a Breaching in a shop across the yard. They imand, on the noes of the fo breach, the Standard of the Ottoman Empire, and the Union Flag of Great Britain, as then difplayed: And for crett, the Imperial Ottoman Chelengk, or Plume of Triumph, upon a Turpan; in allufion to the highly-monourable and diftinguthed decoration tranfmitted by his faid Imperil Majelly to Sir William Sidney Smith, in teftimony of his efteem, and in acknowledgement of his meritorious exert ons in the aforefaid defence: and the family creit, viz. a Leopard's Head, collared and fined, iffuant out of an Oriental Crown; the faid aims and crets to be borne by him the faid Sir Wiliam Sidney Smith, and by his illue, together with the motto "COEUR DE LION." And although the privilege of bearng Supporters be limited to the Peers of the Redm, the Knights of his Majefty's Orders, and the Proxies of Princes of the Blood Royal at Installations, except in fuch cafes wherein, under particular circumstances, his Mas jetty has heen pleafed to grant his e pecial Licence for the ute thereof; yet, in order to give a further teftimony of his Majefty's particular approbation of the fervices of the fand Sir William Sidney Smith, he has been graciously pleafed to allow him to bear, for Supporters to his Arms, a Tiger guardunt, navally crowned, in the mouth a Paim Branch, being the tyblof Victory, fupporting the Union Flag of Great Britain, with the infeription “JERUSALEM, 1790" upon the Crifs of St. George; and a Lamb, murally crowned; in the mouth on Olive Branch, being the fymbol of Peace, fupporting the Banner of Jerufalem: The laid armortal entigns being fit duly exempl "fied according to the Laws of Arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office. And alfo to order that this his Majesty's fand coucemion and efpecial mark of his Royal Fa mediately attended, but it was not without difficulty they could get to the room where the mischief, had happened; for, the fert vant being out upon an errand, and the doors all fartened, they were obliged to force their way through the kitchen window: they fucceeded, howe.ei, in reliev ing the unfortunate fufferers from their perilous Gruation. One of the children was under the rubbish nearly if an hour; but, when extricated, and a rule reage vered from her fright, did not appear to have received any material injury. Monday, Jan 17. This morning George Folter, who was convicted on Friday left of having murdered his wife and child, by throwing theat into the canal at Paddington, was executed purfpant to his fentence. Till yesterday morning, he continued to affert that his wife had by accident fallen into the Canai; and, the water heing deep, he was fearful of attempting to lend any. afliftance, left he might be drawn in alto. A fhort time,. however, before his execution, be confotled to Doctor Ford, that he actually did puth her in o the water, and then came away, and left her to perifh. He acknowledged the justice of his fentence. When he appeared on the fcaifold, he was fo much overcome with the fente of his unhappy fituation, that he fainted, and was obliged to be fupported while the cord was applied to his neck. About ten minutes past eight he was launched into eternity. Thursday, Jan. 20. At o'clock the Special Commission, was opened at the New Sellions' Houfe, Borough, for the purpose of proceding to the trial of Edward Marcus Defpard, and others, charged with High Treafon; the particulars of which we purposely referve fill par next Number, |