and sciences, the example and admiration of the world or whether it thall become an obfequious tributary, an enslaved, a plundered, and degraded department of a foreign nation.

II. That, to give more effect and energy to the meafures adopted by Government for the defence, of our liberties, our lives and property-to add weight to those per fonal exertions we are all readily difpofed to contribute, it Behoves us to hold out every encouragement to our fellow-fubjects, who may be in any way inftrumental in repelling or annoying our implacable foe, and to prove to them that we are ready to drain both our purfes and our veins in the great caufe which imperiously calls on us to unite the duties of loyalty and patriotism, with the ftrongest efforts of zealous exertion

III. That, to animate the efforts of our defenders, by fea and land, it is expedient to raise, by the patriotifm of the community at large, a fuitable fand for their comfort and relief-for the purpose of affuaging their wounds, or palliating in fome degree the more weighty misfortune of the lofs of limbs of alleviating the diftreffes of the widow and orphan-of fmoothing the brow of forrow for the fall of their dearest relatives, the props of unhappy indigence or helplefs age and of granting pecuniary rewards, or honourable badges of diftinction, for fuccefsful exertions of valer

or merit.

IV. That a fubfcription, embracing all

equally the liberties and lives of perfons of every description.

VIII. That the Thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair.

Sunday, July 24.

This morning, toon after 2 o'clock, fire broke out at Mr. Solomon's, broker and appraifer, Caftle ftreet, Broker-row, Long-acre, which burnt with great fury for upwards of an hour, and entirely confumed the house, before any water could be procured; but, being furrounded by ftrong party walls, in all probability prevented the flames, communicating to the adjoining extenfive timber-yard and manufactory of Meffrs. Godfal and Co.

This afternoon another fire also broke out at Mr. Walker's, baker, Wardourftreet, Soho, which, in a fhort time, communicated to the adjoining bouses of Mr. Lyons, cabinet maker, and Mr. Smith, chair-maker, and burned with irresistible. fury, for upwards of an hour, before any water could be procured, and then not in fufficient quantity to ftop the progrefs of the flames, as the workshops and backbuildings have been entirely destroyed. Providentially, about 6 o'clock, a fufficient fupply of water was obtained; and, about 7, the flames were entirely got under, without doing farther damage. Great praife is due to the St. James's Volunteers, who contributed much to the fafety and prefervation of the property of the inhabiWhen the fire firft broke out, Mr.

now opened; and, to fet an example to the public bodies throughout the United Kingdom and its dependencies, and to our felJow fubjects of every clafs and denomination, that, independently of our individual contributions, the fum of 20,000l. three per cent. Confolidated Annuities, part of the funded property of this Society, fhall be appropriated to this purpose.

V. That on Friday the 29th inftant, at 12 o'clock precitely, a general meeting of the Subfcribers to this fund be held at this Houfe, for the purpose of appointing their Committee; and that the Committee of the House he requested to become, and they arereby conflitated a Committee, ad interim, for the receipt and management of the fubfcriptions, and other purpotes exprelfed in these resolutions.

the door of the houfe was obliged to be broke open.

Tuesday, July 26.

We have the pleafing talk of recording a difplay of British feeling and patriotifm, which the world and pofterity must contemplate with admiration. A meeting was this day held, upon the Royal Exchange, of the merchants, bankers, fhip-owners, traders, and other inhabitants of this metropolis, for the purpofe of expreffing their fentiments in fnpport of their King and Conftitution, and the honour and independ、 ence of their country. At one o'clock, between 4 and 5,000 of the moft opulent and refpectable of the mercantile intereft filled the area of the Royal Exchange; while thofe who were more immediately inftrumental in forwarding the meeting occupied a temporary bootb, erected within the walk, upon the Eaft fide.. Among them

and that fuch part of the fund as thall not be used for the purpufes now intended, be returned in proportion to the fums fubfcribed. VII. That all fun, however fmall, which fhall be offered by the patriotifm of the poorer claffes of our fellow-fabjects, fhall be accepted the caufe affecting

of London for character and wealth; men whole breath could, in an instant, raise millions of money, fhould the fervice of their country require it. Jacob Bofanquet, efq. was unanimously called to the chair, and peals of applaufe ratified the choice. Mr. D'Almeida, the Secretary of the Eaft India Company, read the advertisement

under

ander which the meeting had been con vened; when the Chairman, in a manly and energetic manner, and in a fpeech truly worthy of a Briton, entered more at large into the caufe which had occafioned the affembly being called, and propofed to them the following "Declaration:"

"We, the Merchants, Bankers, Traders and other Inhabitants of London and its Neighbourhood, deem it our bounden duty, at the prefent momentous period, to make public our unanimous determination to ftand or fall with our King and Country. "The independence and existence of the British Empire the fafety, the liberty, the life of every man is at ftake. The events, perhaps, of a few months, certainly of a few years, are to determine whether we and our children are to continue freemen and members of the most flourishing community in the world, or whether we are to be the flaves of our most implacable enemies them felves the flaves of a Foreign Uforper?

"We look on this great crifis without difmay. We have the moft firm reliance on the fpirit and virtue of the people of this country. We believe that there exifts a firmer as well as nobler courage than any which Rapine can infpire; and we cannot entertain fuch gloomy and unworthy ap prehenfions of the moral order of the world, as to think that fo admirable a quality can be the exclufive attribute of freebooters or flaves. We fight for our laws and liberties-to defend the deareft hopes of our children-to maintain the un Spotted glory which we have inherited from our ancestors--to guard from outrage and fhame thofe whom Nature has entrusted to our protection-to preferve the honour and existence of the country that gave us birth. We fight for that Conftitution and fyftem of Society, which is at once the nobleft monument and the firmeft bulwark of civilization I-We fight to preferve the whole earth from the barbarous yoke of Military Defpotifm I-We fight for the independence of all Nations, even of thofe who are the most indifferent to our fate, or the most blindly jealous of our profperity!

"In fo glorious a caufe-in defence of thefe dearest and facred objects, we truft that the God of our Fathers will infpire us with a valour which will be more than equal to the daring ferocity of those who are lured, by the hope of plunder, to fight the battle of Ambition.

His Majefty is about to call upon his people to arm in their own defence. We truft, and we believe, that he will not call on them in vain-that the Freemen of this land, going forth in the righteous caufe of their country, under the bleffing of Almighty God, will inflict the moft fignal GENT. MAG. July, 1803.

chaffifement on thofe who have dared to threaten our deftruction-a chaftifement, of which the memory will long guard the fhores of this Ifland, and which may not only vindicate the honour, and establish the fafety of the Empire, but may alfo, to the lateft pofterity, ferve as an example to ftrike terror into tyrants, and to give courage and hope to infulted and oppreffed nations.

"For the attainment of thefe great ends, it is neceffary that we fhould not only all be an unanimous, but a zealous, an ardent, aid unconquerable people that we fhould confider the public fafety as the chief inte rest of every individual-that every man fhould deem the facrifice of his fortune. and his life to his country as nothing more than his duty-that no man fhould murmur at any exertions or privations which this awful crifis may impofe upon himthat we fhould regard faintnefs ar langour in the common caufe as the bafeft treachery-that we fhould go into the field with an unfhaken refolution to conquer or to die--and that we thould look upon nothing as a calamity compared with the fubjugation of our country.

"We have the moft facred duties to perform we have most invaluable bleffings to preferve we have to gain glory and fafety, or to incur indelible difgrace, and to fall into irretrievable ruin. Upon our efforts will depend the triumph of Liberty over Defpotifm-of national independence over projects of univerfal empire--and, finally, of civilization itself, over barbarifm.

"At fuch a moment we deem it our duty folemnly to bind ourselves to each other, and to our countrymen, in the most facred manner, that we will employ all our exer tions to roufe the fpirit, and to affift the refources, of the kingdom-that we will be ready with our fervices of every fort, and on every occafion, in its defence-and that we will rather perifh together, than live to fee the honour of the British Name tarnifhed, or that noble inheritance of Greatnefs, Glory, and Liberty deftroyed, which has defcended to us from our forefathers, and which we are determined to tranfmit to our pofterity."

The motion having been moft ably fe condled by Edward Forfter, efq. the Decla ration was agreed to without a diffentient voice.

"God fave the King," and "Rule Brj tannia," were called for; and the whole effembly having given thrice three cheers, the meeting diffolved. Such an expreffion of zeal, loyalty, and patriotifm, as was exhibited in the whole conduct of the meeting, was, perhaps, never paralleled at the most glorious æra of the hiftories of Greece or Rome, or any other nation under the canopy of Heaven.

Wednes

Wednesday, July 27.

The inhabitants of Lambeth, among other fenfible and fpirited refolutions, this day declared, "That it appears to this Meet ing, the First Conful of France, having en flaved the People whom he undertook to fet free, and plundered and fubjugated all orders of the Inhabitants, rich and poor, of Holland, Switzerland, and Italy, under the moft folemn affurances of fraternity and friendship, is now determined on the inva fion of this United Kingdom, and is making the most formidable preparations for that purpofe. That, although this Meeting agrees with Bonaparte himself, that the fuccefs of fuch an undertaking is highly improbable, and that he muft facrifice army after army if he perfeveres in the attempt; yet the threat having been denounced, nothing can fuftain the honour of our Country, but the most energetic and univerfal exertion It is not enough for our reputation that his fuccefs fhould be improbable it ought, by the numbers and gallantry of our Volunteers, under the bletting of Divine Providence, to be rendered impoffible. By fuch a conduct only can this Nation continue to enjoy tranquillity, and have a dif-, pofeable force in the hands of Government for offenfive operations; and fhare the glory of avenging the wrongs of Europe against the deftroyer of its Liberty, its Hap pinefs, and its Honour. That this Meeting, in thus calling upon its Fellow Citizens to arm, hope they shall be excufed for reminding them, they are invited to come forward in defence of the happieft and wifest Constitution ever known to the world. in defence of a Sovereign, who, for a period of more than forty years, has fhewn himfelf to be the Father of all thofe who have the happiness to live under the British Government. In defending objects thus facred and dear, we deplore that our Country is called upon to encounter a people with whom England wifhes to live' in amity; but who, unhappily for themfelves and the civilifed world, have fubmitted to the degradation of being made fubfervient to the aggrandifement and ambition of One Man-an obfcure Corfican, who began his murderous career with turning his artillery upon the Citizens of Paris-who boasted, in his public letter from Pavia, to have thot the whole Municipality-who put the help lefs, innocent, and unoffending inhabitants of Alexandria, man, woman, and child, to the fword, till Slaughter was tired of its work-who, against all the laws of War, put near 4000 Turks to death in cold blood, after their furrender who poifoned his own Hofpitals in order to deftroy his own Comrades, when difabled by wounds or fickness, from furthering the plan of pillage which carried him to St. Jean D'Acre who, having thus ftained the profeffion of Arms, and folemnly and publicly re

nounced the Religion of Chriftendom, and embraced Mahometanifm, again pretended to embrace the Chriftian Religion-who, in his return to France, defroyed the Reprefentative Syftem-who, after feducing the Polish Legion into the fervice of his pretended Republic, transferred it treacherously to St. Domingo, where it has perished to a man, either by difeafe, or the fword: And who, finally, as it were to fill the meafure of his arrogance, has dared to attack what is moft dear and most useful to ci vilifed Society-the Freedom of the Prefs, and the Freedom of Speech; by propofing to restrict the British Prefs, and the deli berations of the Britith Senate. Such is the Tyrant we are called upon to oppose; and fuch is the fate which awaits England, fhould we fuffer him and his degraded Slaves to pollute our foil. With these fentiments this Meeting refolves unanimously that they will use their utmost endeavours to carry into its fullest effect the Bill now depending in Parliament for the better de fence of the Country."

Thursday, July 28.

The attention of Parliament was this day called to an object of the most ferious importance, by the following most gracious communication from our beloved Sovereigns

"His Majesty feels the deepest regret in acquainting the House of Commons, that a treasonable and rebellious fpirit of Infurrection has manifefted itself in Ireland, which has been marked by circumstances of peculiar atrocity in the city of Dublin. His Majefty relies, with perfect confidence, on the wifdom of his Parliament, that fuch measures will be forthwith adopted as are beft calculated to afford protection and fe curity to his Majesty's loyal fubjects, in thát part of the United Kingdom, and to restore and preferve general tranquillity. G. R.” This Meffage having been read by the Speaker ;

The Chancellor of the Exchequer addreffed the House to the following purport: "I am fully perfuaded that there is, in the United Parliament, a full participation of thofe feelings expreffed by his Majefty; and am convinced that this Houfe poffeffes a difpofition and determination to justify and repay the confidence of his Majefty in fuch circumftances as the prefent. There was indeed reason to hope that contamination fo malignant would have been, by this time, completely eradicated; we might reafonably have flattered ourfelves, that the recollection of the calamities they had brought upon themfelves by their former lawless and treafonable proceedings; that a fenfe of the bleflings they fince fo eminently enjoyed, under a mild and paternal government; and, above all, that the experience exhibited to the world of all the hopes conceived from pretended and delufive reformations, ending, after the molt

bloody

Proclamation, by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, ftating "that divers perfons, engaged in a treasonable and daring infurrection again. his Majefty's Government, did, on the evening of yefi terday, the 23d of July inftant fuddenly af femble in the Liberties of Dublin, with firearms and pikes, and did there commit feveral outrages, and particularly in ThomasAtreet, in the parish of St. Catharine, within the faid liberties, did affault the carriages of the Right Honourable Arthur Lord Viscount Kilwarden, Chief Justice of his Majefty's Court of King's Bench, and one of his Majefty's moft Honourable Privy Council, and did drag the faid Arthur Lord Vafcount Kilwarden, together with his nephew, the Rev. Richard Wolfe, Clerk, from his faid carriage, and did there bafely and inhumanly murder the faid Arthur Lord Vifcount Kilwarden and Richard Wolfe, by ftabbing them refpectively with pikes in various parts of their bodies, of which wounds they both foon after died;" and offering, "in order to bring fuch enor mous offenders to condign punishment, that if any perfon or perfous thall, within fix calendar months from the date hereof, discover any of the perfon or perfons who committed the faid inhuman murders, or either of them, or who aided and affisted therein, or who advised, encouraged, ins ftigated, moved, ftimulated, or incited the perfons concerned therein to commit the fame, fuch perfon or pei fons fo difcovering fhall receive as a reward the fum of One Thoufand Pounds fterling for each and every of the first three perfons who fhall be apprehended and convicted thereof." Saturday, July 30.

bloody and afflicting fcenes, in the moft Complete military defpotifin, would have operated favourably on a deluded and mit guided multitude. But, unhappily, the event has fhewn, that all thefe warnings and examples, fo obvious to every eye, and fo plain to every understanding, have milerably failed of their effect. I remember an expreffion of a very great man, who, once faid, "I fhould pity the loyalty of that perfon, who would attempt to aggravate or inflame the crime of Treafon." But furely it would now be felt as an aggravation and a fhame, that at the moment when we, in this country, are roufing up all our exertions, and uniting for the defence of ourfelves, our Government, and our Conftitution, against an infolent and prefumptuous enemy, and while even, as I am well af fured and convinced, a majority of the people of ireland are actuated by the fame, noble and patriotic fpirit, a comparatively fmall part of the milled inhabitants of that country fhould be guilty of any thing which could have the effect of encouraging that inveterate enemy, which there is, in both countries, fo ardent, firong, and prevalent a difpofition to refift, 1. fhall not, at prefent, enter into the particulars of the information received by Government upon this diftreffing fubject; but, as foon as the prefent question fhall be difpofed of, it is my intention, frit, to lay before them the Proclamation, iffued by the Irish Government, upon that occafion, and afterwards offer fuch farther explanation as has hithertos reached his Majefty's Miniiters. The mind, Sir, recoils and fickens at the dreadful recital of the outrage committed, and feels oppreffed with thame, regret, and indignation, when it contemplates the ftation and character of the upright and worthy man, who fell a victim to murderous affaffins, after having, by a long feries of dignified and patriotic conduct, merited and obtained the refpect and esteem of all the good fubjects of the United Kingdom. I move, Sir, that an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, thanking hun for his moft gracious communication, expreffing our regret and in lignation at hearing that a treasonable fpiri: of infurrection and rebellion had manifested itself in Ireland, and was marked with circumftances of ps culiar atrocity in the city of Dublin; to affure his Majefty of our firm determination to take fuch measures as may feem beft calculated to afford protection to the loyal inhabitants of that part of the United Kingdom, and to preferve and reltore the general tranquillity."

Lord Caftlereagh feconded the motion, which was warmly fupported by feveral other members, particularly Mr. Sheridan.

The question having been carried; the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought up a

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The following account of deaths by Small-Pox, extracted from the Weekly Bills of Mortality, evinces a great decrease deaths in the Metropolis, fince the inftitation of the Royal Jennerian Society: Weekly Deaths. Weekly Deaths. 1802, Nov. 2 72 1803, Mar. 2 22

28. In Bloomsbury-square, the wife of John Fowden Hindle, efq. a daughter.

In Gloucefter-pla. Lady Cathcart, a fun. 29 In Great Cumberland-place, the lady of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, a fon and lieir. At Hertford, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, a fon.

At Hitchendon, Bucks, the wife of Major D'Urban, a fon.

of the 3d or Prince of Wales's dragoon. guards, a fon and heir.

16. At Trent-park, Mrs.Wigfton, a dan. 17. At the houfe of Vifcount Newark, in Portman-fquare, the Hon. Mrs. Bentinck, wife of Gov. B. a fon and heir.

At Forty-hill, Enfield, the wife of William-Arthur Gregory, efq. a fon.

18. Mrs. Snaith, of Manfion-bonfe-ftr. a daughter,

20. At Furzedown, Surrey, the wife of Charles Pole, efq, a fon."

21. In Portman freet, the lady of Sir Edward Knatchbull, bart, a daughter.

At Richmond, Surrey, the wife of William Corbett, efq. a daughter.

At Lythwood-hall, near Shrewsbury, the wife of James Beck, efq. a fon and dangh. 22, In Orchard-ftreet, the wife of Henry-Michael Goold, efq. a fon and heir. 23. The lady of Sir John Gordon, bart. a daughter.

26 In Gloucefter-place, the wife of the Rev. Cooper Willyams, a daughter.

27. Mrs. Ackerman, of Broad-streetplace, a daughter.

In Chandos-freet, the lady of Admiral Sir Charles Pole, bart. a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

of John Plumptree, esq. a son.

30. At Col. Calvert's houfe in Grofvenorplace, Mrs. H. Calvert, a daughter.

In Hereford-Atreet, the wife of Jofeph Smith, efq. a fon.

July 2. At Herdmanfton, in Scotland, Lady Sinclair, a fon

At Mark-hall, in Cleveland, the lady of the Hon. Lawrence Dundas, a daughter. In Manchefter fquare, the wife of James Lawrell, efq. a daughter.

5. At Woodstock, co. Oxford, Lady Vifcountefs Athbrook, a daughter.

6. In Mansfield-ftreet, Portland-place, the wife of Francis Plaistow Trapaud, efq. a daughter and a fon.

The wife of John Smith, efq. of Finfbury-fquare, a fon.

7 In Baker Street, Lady Charlotte Gould, a fon and heir.

At Foreft-hall, Effex, the wife of the Rev. T. Bramfton Stane, a fon and heir.

At Woodley-lodge, Berks, the wife of James Wheble, efq. a daughter.

9. In Charlotte-freet, Portland-place, Mrs. Gilbert Weft,

fon.

In Upper Grofvenor-ftreet, the wife of the Rev. W. Garnier, a fon.

10. In Goodge Street, the wife of T. Dibdin, efq. a daughter.

12. In College-freet, Westminster, the wife of D Llewellin, efq. a daughter.

In Somerset place, Lady Louila Rodney, a daughter.

At Edinburgh, the wife of Major Brooke,

garde, in the island of Martinique, the. Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jolinfon, fon of the late Earl of Dundonald, and fon-infaw of the Earl of Hopetoun, to Madame Amelia Conftance-Gertrude-Etiennette de Cugny, only child and fole heiress of the late Baron de C. governor of the inland of Guad loupe, and widow of Monfieur Raymond Godet, of the fame if ind.

April 25. At Sculcoates, Samuel Robinfon, efq. of London, merchant, to Mifs Anne Lambert, of Hull.

26. At Ore, the Rev. Henry Hodges, fon of the late Tho. Hallett H. elq. of HampRead place, Kent, to the eldest dau. of the late Gen. Jas. Murray, of Beau Port, Suifex.

27. John amey, efq. of Montague-fr. Roffell fquare, to the fecond daughter of Jofeph Glover, efq. of Worcester.

Rich. Barber, efq. to Mifs Sarah Jeune, of London-wall,

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May 4. Rev. Timothy Fish Foord, to the eldest daughter of Major Topham, of Wold cottage, co. Lincoln.

5. John Lockwood, efq. alderman of Beverley, deputy clerk of the peace for the Eaft riding of Yorkshire, &c. to Mifs Dickons, niece of Thomas D. efq. another of the aldermen of that town.

Rev. Silvefter Rawkins, of Eaft Rennard, co. Somerfet, to Sarah dau. of Alex. Hill Ofbaldefton, efq. of Wandsworth, Surr."

Jofeph Sladen, efq. of James ftreet, Bedford-row, to the fecond daughter of Wm. Mainwaring, efq. of the Crescent.

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