at which were prefent, the lord-mayor,, 12 aldermen, and near 150 commoners. The court agreed to a memorial to the lords of the treafury, against the merchants' application for wet docks, &c. which was ordered to be prefented, together with the city's plans for improving the port of London; and alfo to open a negotiation for purchasing the mooring chains.

This day the lord-mayor attended the council at lord Hawkesbury's; and from the information which his lordthip has received of several thousand quarters of wheat being now on their paffage from Hamburgh, we have the pleafure to premile, that a confiderable reduction in the price of this necellary article of life will, in the courfe of a few days, take place.

A grand council was held yesterday at lord Hawkesbury's office, Whitehall, which commenced at half paft twelve o'clock, and was not over till half past three. His grace the duke of Portland, lord chancellor, lord Grenville, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Wyndham, with other commiffioners of the board of trade, affifted, to deliberate and devife regulations for lowering the high price of bread; the refult of the confultation was fent off to his majefly at Windfor.

4. The following new fhips of war are juft contracted for, to be built in the private dock-yards: Renown, of 74 guns; Endymion, of 50 guns; Deucalion and Syrius, of 38 guns each; Termagant and Bittern floops.

4. This day intelligence was received at the India Houle of the death of the nabob of Arcot. He was fucceeded without any difficulty by his eldeft fon.

By the fame channel, the directors have received an account of the capture of three very important Dutch fettlements, in the Eaft Indies, namely, Cochin, a fea-port of Travancore, in the Peninfula of Hindoftan; Malacca, a town on the Peninfula, which extends fouth of the kingdom of Siam; and Jafferapatam, a place, the third in point of importance, in the island of Ceylon. This intelligence was announced to the general court of proprietors. What renders it ftill more agreeable is, that we understand the capture was effected by our forces with very confiderable lofs. It was expected that Batavia would next fall into our hands.

We alfo learn that the Barwell,

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Welladvice; Princefs Amelia, Millet; and Lanfdown, Grant, are arrived at Bombay; and alfo the Francis, Burrows, at Madras.

5. Government are bending their umoit attention to the improvement of our hips of war, with refpect to the mode and plan of building. The French have long furpaffed us in this respect, though we fortunately have always surpassed them in the mode of taking fhips.

Admiral Harvey's destination is off Cape Clear, in Ireland, there to await the Dutch fleet, fhould it, as conjectured, be going north about.

A council was held at the council office, Whitehall, to inveftigate further into the high price of wheat. The duke of Portland, lord Chatham, Mr. Pitt, the right hon. the lord mayor, affifled at this meeting, which lafted two hours and a half.

The duke of York, it is faid, has given orders that no commiffion fhall be held by perfons under the age of fixteen; and that, except for fome fignal fervice, no officer fhall be promoted to a company, who has not been at least two years a fubaltern.

The model of the fmall hand machine, for the purpofe of grinding corn for household confumption, laid on Tuesday laft upon the table of the house of commons, was brought from India by colonel Ironfide, who has presented patterns of the same to the Bath agricultural fociety, to fome gentlemen in the administration, and to several gentlemen of landed property.

A French refugee artificer from the yard of Toulon is to have the immediate conftruction of five new ships of the line and two frigates:-he is introduced under the patronage of the new fhipping board, who have laid his models before earl Spencer, which his lordship has approved of.

7. This day in the houfe of lords the royal affent was given by commiffion to the Vote of Credit Bill, the Newfoundland Judicature Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Exchequer Bills Bill, and further Exchequer Bills Bill, and to thirty-three others of a public and private nature.

The commiflioners were, the lord chancellor, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the duke of Dorfet.

7. A monument to the memory of the

the late earl of Mansfield is preparing for Westminster Abbey, under the will of a perfon unknown to that learned lord, or any part of his family; the fum bequeathed for this purpose is 2,500l. A cartel is now going on for the exchange of the British prifoners lately arrived at Rochelle from Guadaloupe. Captain Stovin, of the 17th regiment, who diftinguished himself so much when the British camp at Berville was attacked, is just arrived with letters from brigadier general, Graham. He left Rochelle the 23 of February, and left at that place the following British officers, all well.

Brigadier general Graham.

cer of the 40th, Thompson of the 43d, and Garfline of the 65th regiments of foot.

dragoons.

Lieutenants-Carft of the 15th, Keating of the 330, Strickland of the 35th, Barkley of the 38th, Dale of the 39th, Holewell of the 40th, Cameron and Tidy of the 43d, Phillips and Miller of 44th, Dixon and Hamilton of the 55th, Barkley and Johnstone, of the 56th, Bullock, Bates, and Symes, of the 65th regiments of foot.

Enfigns-Holmes of the 35th, Delifle and Defhon of the 43d, and Paris of the 65th regiments of foot.

Lieutenant-colonel Magan of the 39th, captain Cameron of the 43d, and lieutenant Durnford of the engineers, are arrived with captain Stovin, toge ther with 248 prifoners.

Dover, March 8. A cartel from Dunkirk is just arrived, and has landed about fifty prifoners, amongst whom are feven captains of veifels; one belonging to the Roxburgh packet, who is overjoyed to find his veffel here before him.

9. The inhabitants of Yarmouth are preparing their harbour for the reception of all kind of naval flores from the Baltic, for the ufe of Great Britain and foreign countries. For this ufeful purFofe, the harbour is to be deepened, and the bar removed by fome powerful operation of feam engines. This will make it the beft fea-port in England.

11. Intelligence was received at the Admiralty, from Deal, by means of the telegraph, that admiral Duncan, with

fhips of the line and a frigate, for the North Sea. The wind having been favourable ever fince, there can be no doubt of his having been joined, off Yarmouth, by admiral Pringle, with the fhips under his command; and as the Dutch fleet, we now find, have never ventured far from the coaft of Holland, there is every reason to hope, that he will be able to bring them to action; in which cafe, from the fuperiority of his force, the most complete fuccefs may be expected.

By a letter from Yarmouth, dated Sunday, we learn that admiral Pringle got under weigh, and flood out to meet admiral Duncan, who, by a letter from, Harwich yesterday, paffed that port, ftanding to the northward, to form a junction with the former.

17. We understand that the court of Madrid has yielded to the remonfrances made by the noble lord, and has removed the fufpicions entertained of its political conduct. The Spanish miniftry have fent orders to difmantle 20 fail of the line, lying in that port; and a French privateer which was at Alicant, and had taken fome of our veffels, has been ordered from thence to Toulon.'

Out of forty-three fhips, taken up by the directors for the enfuing feafon, eleven have cleared out at the customhoufe, the commanders of which have already taken leave of the court, and are on the point of being dispatched.

BIRTHS.

BIRTH S.

Feb. 23. The lady of capt. Home Popham, of Margaret-freet, Cavendifh-fquare, of a daughter.

26. The right hon. lady Margaret Cameron, of a fon.

The lady of Jofeph Shawe, efq. brother to the member for Prefton, of a daughter.

The lady of George Lovibond, of Somerfet-ftreet, efq. of a fon.

28. The lady of Thomas Pitt, of Wimpole-fireet, efq. of a son.

March 9. The lady of fir J. B. Burges, of Dartmouth-ftreet, bart. of a fon.

The lady of lord Kilmaine, of a daughter.

16. The lady of John Brady, of Crafton-hall, Kent, efq. of a daughter. The lady of William Bofanquet, of Upper Harley ftreet, efq. of a daugh

1er.

MARRIAGES.

The earl of Powerfcourt, to mifs Brownlow.

Thomas Biggs, of Dover, efq. ftorekeeper of the ordnance at that port, to mifs Bradley, daughter of admiral Bradley.

Felix Ladbroke, of

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to mifs Mary Ann Shubrick, of St. Anne's Soho.

Alexander Hamilton, of Hampton, in Ireland, efq. M. P. for Carrickfergus, to mifs Catharine Bligh, fecond daughter of the late Robert Bligh, efq.

22. Lieutenant colonel Bennet, of the guards, to mifs King, daughter of admiral fir Richard King, bart.

John White, efq. of the navy, to mifs Lofack, only daughter of Richard H. Lofack, of the Ifland of St. Kitt's, efq. and lieutenant general of the Leeward Islands.

28. The earl of Guilford, to miss Coutts, eldest daughter of Thomas Coutts, of the Strand, efq.

The rev. Dr. Knox, on to lord Northland, to mifs Anna Hesketh, grand-daughter to fir Robet Juxon, of Rufford-Hall, Laneafhire, bart.

Thomas Tring, of Vauxhail, efq. to mifs Taylor, of Halfmoon-ftreet, Piccadilly.

March 1. Ralph Montague, jun. of Park-ftreet, Briftol, efq. to mils Bernard, eldest daughter of William Rhodes Bernard, of Great Pultneyfreet, Bath, efq.

Samuel Powell, of Walcot, efq. to mifs Richmond, daughter of Dr. Richmond, M. D.

Charles Samuel Milward, of Bromley, Middlefex, efq. to 'mifs Sufannah Maria Bond, daughter of John Bond, of Hendon, efq.

DEATH S.

Feb. 23. Thomas Corbett, efq. high bailiff of Westminster.

Mrs. Gibl-on, of the Belvidere, Bath, mother of the celebrated hiftorian.

Thomas Stratton, of the Grove, Hackney, efq.

The rev. Samuel Pegge, of Whittington, Derbyshire, LL. D.

The rev. St. John Stone, rector of Slimbridge, Gloucefterfhire.

John Wright, of Hatfield Priory, Effex, efq.

Mar. 1. James M'Pherfon, of Balville, in Badenoch, Inverness- fhire, M. P. for Camelford.

The rev. Michael Baxter, vicar of Tamworth, Warwickshire.

Mrs. Dodgfon, of Bath, relict of the bishop of Elphin.

Thomas Lloyd, of Clente, near Stonebridge, efq.

efq.