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holding at the top of a lofty tree, and the balloon playing to and fro over us, holding almoft too fevere a contest for my arms. It took exactly twenty-eight minutes to let out air enough to relieve the balloon without injury. We foon heard the wood furrounded by footmen, horfemen, &c. and received every poffible affiftance from them. I was foon well mounted, and had a fine gallop of feven miles. We were invited to the chateau of M. de Sandrouin, where we received every attention and refreshment, and at nine were fent away in a chariot and fix, but under a promife that we would call at the chateau of M. Brounot at Ardingham, where we stayed an hour, and then fet off for Calais, where we arrived between one and two this morning. The guards had orders to let us pafs, the commandant having fat up for us. We visited him, and were very politely received; but the attentions of M. Mouron and his family exceeded all defcription. This morning the mayor, governor, commandant, and officers, in a body, the king's attorney-general, &c. have been to pay us a congratulatory vifit, and we have been complimented as they compliment the king alone, by fending us the wine of the city. A patent is now making out to make my captain a citizen of Calais."-A column was ordered to be erected, on the spot where the aëronauts alighted, to perpetuate the event; and the French king has granted to Mr. Blanchard a bounty of 12,000 livres (5251.) and an annuity of 1200 Livres (521. 10s.)

Extract of a letter from Dublin, Jan. 1.

Thursday lait, Johrs Masterfon was brought before George Lowther, efq. of Kilrue, in the county

of Meath, for attempting to break open the dwelling-houfe of John Wilfon, efq. of Rufh, in whofe neighbourhood he, with his accomplices, had lately committed various robberies. During the examination of one of Mr. Wilfon's fervants, the prifoner feized a charged gun, which the fervant had left carelessly near him, and instantly shot one James Mahon, herd to Mr. Wilfon, who, with several others, was left to guard him; the gun being fo near Mahon as to drive into his body his fhirt, clothes, and wadding, of which wound he languifhed four hours, and died in the greatest ago. nies. So hardened was the villain who perpetrated this horrid murder, as to declare, that he would have killed without reluctance twenty men who would oppose him,' and that he had now committed an act worthy of being fent to gaol for. He was escorted to Trim under a ftrong guard.

15. Thursday the coroner's inqueft fat on the body of a young woman, aged 21, fervant to Mr. White, furgeon, in St. Paul's' Church-yard, who was accidentally poifoned by about half a wine-glafs of laudanum, given instead of tincture of jalap, for a fore throat. The fatal dofe was taken about ten at night, when he was in bed. Her fellow-fervant, who lay with her, did not go to bed till one, at which time fhe only complained of her throat, and paffed a quiet night till between five and fix in the morn ing, when the became ftupid, and unable to speak. She continued in that ftate till near ten; the girl thinking fhe was in a natural fleep; at which time, upon an attempt being made to give her fome tea, the was found unable to fwallow. Upon this the miftrefs of the house went to her, but he died in a few mi

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nutes afterwards. The accident was not discovered till fome hours after her death; at which time Dr. Sims and Dr. Hawes were fent for, and tried the ufual remedies, but in vain. The body was afterwards opened by Mr. Whately, in the Oid Jewry, and a quantity of laudanum found in her ftomach. The jury brought in their verdict, Accidental Death.

Extract of a better from Barbadoes,

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Oct. 16.

On Monday laft, the inhabitants part of St. Jofeph's parish, called Crab Hole, just under Hackleton's Cliff, were alarmed by the appearance of feveral fiffures in the earth, and the finking of one or two tenements a little below the furface. On Tuesday the cracks increafing, fome of them began to prepare for flight, by removing their effects to places of greater fafety. In the evening, Mr. Phillips, manager of the plantation formerly belonging to Mr. Walcott, but now to the reprefentative of the late fir William Baker, was informed that the land above him was making extraordinary advances towards the house, which, in a few hours, induced him to quit it, and take fhelter, with his family, in one of the negro huts for the remainder of the night; in the courfe of which, the kitchen and stock-houfe fell down, and a range of bog-fties adjoining to them funk into a deep chafm, which was prefently filled up by a heap of mould from the ground above them. At day-light next morning the neighbourhood in general took the alarm, and affembling near the fpot, were witneffes to a fcene affecting and terrible beyond defcription. The country, from Crab Hole down to the plantation, looked as if it had been torn and shattered by an earth

quake. The curing-houfe was down; part of the manfion was still ftanding, but flanked by a mound of earth higher than the top of it: the ground was interfected by a number of fiffures, and in many places fwelled into monftrous tumours. Between fix and seven the remainder of the house came down with a tremendous crafh. The mill, boiling-houfe, and ftable, had received fo many cracks, that every moment appeared to be equally critical with them; though the for mer ftood till about half an hour after twelve, when the wall went off in two or three immense flakes, and the timbers followed it with fuch violence, as to bury an arm in the earth up to the neck of the fhaft. The wreck was foon univerfal; and long before the clofe of day many of the buildings had funk fo low, that no traces of them were, at fome distance, difcernible. The face of the country had undergone fo total a change, that the neighbours were frequently unable to determine where many objects, familiar to their remembrance, had ftood before. A large piece of edoes above the house had foon occupied the feite of the manfion, and brought with it a long flip of the common road, as entire as if nothing had happened to it. Another flip of canes, on a chalky foil, with two cocoa-nut trees at the end of it, ftill appears to have kept its ground, though every thing else had been in motion round it. The cocoa-nut trees which grew about the houfe have been gradually carried with the mafs of ruin fome hundred feet, if not yards, from their original fituation. The mill itfelf has gone with the fliding mound, though little more than an arm or a piece of the tail-tree is vifible at prefent. The calamity is

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ftill extending. A corn-piece to the northward of the building towards the fea (for the motion has been from north to fouth, with little or no variation) is now the theatre of this furprifing fpectacle. It has uniformly proceeded towards the fea, which it will, in all probability, reach in a day or two, as it has now got to the foot of an eminence at no great distance from it, the two fides of which go floping downwards, and form, with the oppofite ridges, an cafy paffage to it. 17. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when eleven capital convicts received fentence of death, viz. Edward Payne, for being concerned with fome others in robbing the hip Elbe, Joel Goddard, mafter, lying in the Thames, and bound to Hamburgh, of two cafks and two packages, containing 10,000 dollars; Jofeph Fitzpatrick, John Brice, Jofeph Jeffs, James alias William Balding, and Thomas Till, for burglaries; Thomas Brown and William Hurt for highway robberies; Ann Read and Samuel Davis, for ftreet robberies; John Mills, formerly a letter carrier, for ftealing a fhare of a ticket out of a letter.

Extract of a letter from Bury,

Jan. 19.

The following is an account of the death of the fon of admiral Rowley, who was educated at Weftminfter fchool. He went to fee a lady in Jermyn-ftreet, London, who kept a little dog, which being interrupted by the child while it was feeding, flew at him, and bit his lip. His friends having fome fufpicion that the dog was mad, went to Dr. Hunter, who recommended them to an eminent furgeon, who put a caustic to the lip, and applied fuch medical treatment as was thought neceflary. A few days af

ter the child went on a vifit to fome friends at Boxford, in this county, where he complained of illnefs and pain; a phyfician in the neighbourhood was fent for, but to no effect; he was feized with the hydropho bia, and died in twenty-four hours.

20. The feffions of the Irish parliament opened by a fpeech from the duke of Rutland, and loyal addreffes voted to him by both houses. See Public Papers.

22. A loyal addrefs to his majefty, in the Gazette of this day, from the gentlemen, clergy, freemen, and freeholders of the county of Dublin, figned by twenty-one peers, and 1,113 commoners, gentlemen, freeholders, and others, declaring their attachment to the government and conftitution, and their utter abhorrence, &c. of every attempt to create unjust and danger ous difcontents, tending to fubvert the constitution in church and state. They reject, with indignation, the interference of any body of men unknown to the laws or conftitution. They rely upon the continuance of his majesty's paternal regard for the welfare of that kingdom, feeling the warmest and most grateful confidence in his majefty's late gracious declaration, and in the equity and wifdom of the refpective legiflatures of Great Bri tain and Ireland, that fuch regulations upon the important objects of trade and commerce will be eftablifhed, as fhall be found best calculated to promote the wealth and profperity of all parts of his ma jefty's empire. They cherish a firm and unchangeable attachment to the connection with their fifter kingdom, as the great band of mutual ftrength and fafety. And they will fuffer no affumed authority to dictate to the legiflature of the land. Surrey

22. On Saturday came on, at

Surrey quarter-feffions, in Southwark, the trial of a waterman, on two indictments, for contracting with, and enticing journeymen curriers to go out of this kingdom into Sweden, to follow their trade, and thereby to carry the art and manufacture of currying leather into foreign parts, contrary to the ftatutes, and to the great detriment of the manufacture of this kingdom; when the prifoner being fully fenfible of his guilt, and of the ftrong evidence against him, and alfo of the humanity of the profecutions, in their being carried on upon an act of parliament which fubjects the offender to a much milder punifh ment than another act of parliament does, pleaded guilty: whereupon fir Jofeph Mawbey, the chairman, pointed out to the prifoner the heinoufnefs of his offence, and the bad effects the continuance of fuch practices must be to this country, and the arts and manufactures thereof; and after having expatiated on the lenity of the profecution in proceeding against the prifoner on the mildest act of parliament, delivered the judgment of the court, which was, that the prifoner be fined 100l. and imprisoned in the county gaol for the fpace of three calendar months on each indictment, and until the refpective fines are paid.

- On Thursday came on, at Guildhall, the adjourned examination of meffrs. Toufe and Joy, drapers, of Lynn Regis, from the first inftant: when, after an examination of upwards of fix hours, they were, for refufing fatisfactorily to anfwer questions put to them by the commiffioners, committed to Newgate,

It is to be hoped that this (together with the late teftimonies of honeft zeal in the commiffioners of bankruptcy) will have a tendency

to correct that most enormous of all evils in a commercial country, fraudulent bankruptcies.

They write from Dover, that the Weazel floop of war being on a cruize off Dunkirk, fell in with a veffel under English colours, which they boarded to examine their cargo, as they feemed to be steering for France, when they found 150 live fheep, feveral calves, three bullocks, and fome bacon on board. They brought her into the pier, but on Tuefdav failed with her for Portsmouth. The commander will not fay from what part of the coast of England he came, and declared that he was driven on the coaft of France by contrary winds. Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Jan. 21.

Yefterday came on before the High Court of Jufticiary, the trial of lieut. George Storie, for the murder of Mr. Stuart, furgeon. He entered his fhop in Paifley, on the 14th of September laft; and, after quarrelling with Mr. Stuart for fpoiling his hat the evening preceding, took up a crystal bottle full of fome liquor, with which he ftruck the deceased on the head till it broke, and then did the fame with another bottle till it alfo broke; and afterwards beat and kicked the deceased in different parts of the body, who, after lingering for the space of five days, died on the 19th of the same month. Mr. Robert Cullen, counfel for the pannel, opened his defence upon the relevancy. After ftating the cause of the original quarrel between the parties, the provocations his client had received from the deceased on feveral occafions, by throwing upon his cloaths affa foetida, fome of which he poured upon his hat the evening before the melancholy accident happened; the cordial friendship which fubfift

ed between the parties, the deceafed being nephew to the pannel; and the general good character his client had univerfally fuftained, both as a foldier and a citizen; Mr. Cullen contended, there could not be the fhadow of reafon for fuppofing that murder was intended, malice not being fo much as libelled against the pannel; and that therefore, if their lordships allowed the libel to go at all to the knowledge of an affize, he hoped they would reftrict it to the crime of culpable homicide. only, which would infer an arbitrary punishment, and not death. Mr. folicitor-general Dundas, on the part of the profecutors, maintained, that the crime charged against the pannel could not be viewed in the light of culpable homicide only. Had the pannel, immediately on receiving the fuppofed affront, attacked the deceafed in the violent manner fet forth in the indictment, fome argument, in favour of the pannel, might have been fet up on that head. But, after four and twenty hours had been allowed to elapfe before he took his revenge, no fuch plea could be admitted. The injury could not be faid to be committed in a fudden gust of paffion, which was the only excufe the law could admit for the frailties of human nature. Mr. folicitor-ge neral was followed by the lord advocate, who defended the indictment in all its parts; at the fame time his lordship obferved, that if the proof came out, as the pannel's counfel had stated it would, he fhould certainly agree with him in thinking, that the pannel ought only to be found guilty of culpable homicide. His lordship admitted, that the cafe appeared to him a dif. ficult one. It therefore gave him great pleasure to fee gentlemen of fuch eminent abilities as counfel for

the pannel. Mr. Maclaurin made a fhort reply. He thought it unneceffary to enter fully into the bus finefs, after what had been stated by Mr. Cullen, and the very candid conceffion made by the lord ad> vocate of the difficulty of the cafe. The lords pronounced the ufual interlocution, finding the libel relevant to infer the pains of law; but al lowing the pannel a proof of all facts and circumstances which might tend either to exculpate him, or al leviate the guilt of the crime charg ed.

Previous to which the lord juftice clerk obferved to the court and jury, that though the above was the interlocution neceffary to be pronounced upon this occafion, yet, if the pannel proved the defence fet up for him by his counsel, the court, upou a verdict from the jury of guilty, would have it in their power of punishing the pannel arbitrarily, on account of his com million of culpable homicide. The jury after this was chofen, and the court proceeded to the examination of the witneffes on the part of the profecutors, which finifhed about eight o'clock, when the lord advo cate charged the jury very ably on the part of the crown, as did Mr. Maclaurin for the prifoner. The lord chief justice then fummed up the evidence with very great candour. The jury returned their verdict this day, at one o'clock, find. ing the pannel not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide. The court will pronounce sentence on Saturday." See Jan. 29.

25. This day his majelly went to the houfe of peers, and opened the fecond feffions of the fixteenth parliament of Great Britain, with a moft gracious fpecch. See Public Papers.

27. Yefterday Mr. Bearcroft moved the court of Exchequer for a rule

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