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Earl Selkirk, upon his heing appointed lord lieutenant of Kirkcudbright Stewarty.

The ministers had audience of his majesty, when he delivered to them the seals of office.

After the levee his majesty held a privy council, which sat till five o'clock.

March 27. Mr. Perceval received the seals of office yesterday, as chancellor of the exchequer, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster-the latter office during his majesty's pleasure. He kissed hands on the occasion, as did also the following noblemen and gentle men, on receiving their several appointments:

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Earl Camden, president of the coun

Lord Mulgrave, first lord of the admiralty.

Mr. R. S. Dundas, president of the board of controul.

Earl Chichester, one of the postmasters general.

Earl Bathurst, president of the board of trade, and master of the mint.

Lord Charles Somerset and Mr. Long, joint paymasters of the forces.

Marquis of Titchfield, one of the lords of the treasury.

Lord Lovaine, a member of the board of controul.

His majesty afterwards gave audiences to the duke of Portland, lords Camden and Hawkesbury, and Mr. Perceval, chancello of the exchequer. At five o'clock his majesty left town.

Mr. Hammond and lord Fitzharris are appointed under secretaries of state in the foreign department; and Mr. Cooke and the hon. colonel Stewart in the war and colonial department; Mr. Dacre Adams, who filled the office of private secretary to Mr. Pitt, has been appointed to the same situation by his grace the duke of Portland.

March 28. An inquisition was taken on Thursday, at the Mitre, on the Paddington canal, before G. Hodgson, esq. coroner, on the body of John Taylor, who was found drowned in the canal on the preceding day-The deceased had originally been a clerk in some very repurable houses, in St. James's, but he

had, for nearly two years past, been unfortunately in a dejected state of mind, and incapable of following his industrious pursuits. The unfortunate man had a wife in Audley-street, and he had also a comfortable home arising from her industry. On the morning of Wednesday, the deceased informed his wife that he should arise and take a walk; but being gone longer than was expected, his wife arose also, and on going into her sitting room, she saw a letter of her husband's hand-writing, which had been left by him to inform her that he was gone to the canal to drown himself, being tired of his life. The letter exhorted the wife not to grieve, as she would meet her husband again in heaven. The wife, on reading the letter, hasted to the canal, and having been informed by the bargemen of the course her husband had taken, she hasted to-wards the Mitre, when she beheld a body floating on the water. The poor woman, in a frantic state, rushed into the current, and brought the body on shore, but the spark of life was extinct. The landlord of the Mitre took the body in, and used every effort, but in vain, to restore life. Verdict-Insanity.

March 31. Yesterday morning, Richard Nettlefield was taken at an early hour from his cell to the chapel of the new gaol, Horsemonger-lane, in the borough, where having passed some time in prayer with the rev. Mr. Mann, the chaplain, he was conducted to the fatal platform, and was in a few minutes launched into eternity. His behaviour was as pious and resigned on the scaffold, as it was at the condemned sermon the preceding day :-it was observed that the deceased and Duncan, the gardener, who was in the chapel with him on Sunday, were two of the most pious and resigned men that have ever been seen there together.The deceased, who was a resident at Putney, suffered under the operation of lord Ellenborough's act, for cutting and maiming a watchman, who had him in custody at Putney under a charge of felony, and has left a wife and five small children, the youngest only six weeks old.

-April . On Saturday last, as the lady of Mr. Williams was going from Mill-hill to Hendon, in her chariot, accompanied by two of her children and a gentleman, the coachman drove against a cart on the road; the shock was so violent that it threw him from the box: the horses being much frightened, soon disentangled the carriage, and went off at full speed. The road along which the vehicle had to pass was so extremely narrow, that at any time it required great caution to drive with security; notwithstanding which, the carriage was not overturned. The horses having to pass another cart, they had the sagacity, though they were going at the rate of twenty miles an hour, to pass on one side of it, but so near that the handle of the chariot door was struck off by a collision with the wheel. Mr. Williams was at a friend's house on the road when his chariot passed, and almost fainted on seeing his wife and children in so perilous a situation. Mrs. Williams shrieked for assistance to no purpose. The gentleman in the carriage contrived to open the door and jump out, by which means he escaped unhurt. The horses still continued their pace; the flapping of the door tended to increase their speed, until they came to a narrow part of the road, when pravidentially the door of the chariot became entangled in the hedge, which stopped for a moment the career of the animals, but they soon ran off again with great rapidity.They broke all the traces, leaving the carriage behind; and fortunately Mrs. Williams and her children received no injury whatever. They suffered much, however, from the alarm. The coachman was taken up with three ribs broken, and so violent a contussion in his head that his recovery is despaired of.

Plymouth, April 1. The Contest gunbrig, lieut. Gregory, some days since on a cruise near the enemy's coast near Rochefort, observed a battery which might have annoyed them, had they been forced to anchor: he therefore sent his boats manned and armed to at tack it. The boats crew stormed the battery, spiked all the guns, and drove off the people. Our seamen having

effected this service, embarked again, and returned to the Contest gun-brig without any loss.

There are now in commission 711 ships, of different descriptions; of which 145 are of the line, 20 from so to 44 guns each, 166 frigates, 207 sloops, and 172 vessels of a smaller description.

April 2. A remarkable instance of sagacity and love for the human species in a dog, occurred on Monday se'nnight in Romney Marsh.-A female child, about four years old, the daughter of a looker, at Belgar, between Romney and Lydd, having been left by its mother alone in a room where there was a fire, whilst she went abroad upon. some business, the clothes of the child caught the flames, and she ran terrified, with the garments burning, into an adjoining apartment, where a dog was tied up. The animal, it appears, as soon as the child came within his reach, threw her on the grounu, and tore every article of her clothes off, in which situation she crawled to a bed, and wrapped herself in a coverlet. On the return of the mother, she discovered some ashes and remnants of the child's clothes beside the dog, and on approaching the bed, found the poor infant, with one of her arms burnt, and her side so miserably scorched, that her heart was nearly perceptible; she had, however, power to tell her parent, that Shepherd, the dog's name, had taken her burning clothes off. She survived about an hour after her being discovered, and then expired.

April 4. On Wednesday afternoon, as a miss Thompson, in Bishopsgatestreet, was standing too near the fire, her train accidentally caught the flames, and although they were in the space of a minute extinguished, and medical assistance instantly procured, yet she was so much burnt as to languish till the following afternoon, when she died.

April 6. On Friday the new members of the board of trade, consisting of earl Bathurst, Mr. Rose, the duke of Montrose, sir Joseph Banks, and Mr. Long, met for the first time since ther appointments, at the office in the Trea. sury, and proceeded to business.

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is expected that on Thursday next he will take his final leave of his majesty, and that on Saturday he will leave town for Dublin, according to his appointment as lord lieutenant of Ireland.

- Deal, April 8. A considerable firing was heard here last evening in the direction of Boulogne, but we are at present ignorant of the cause. From the circumstance, however, of there being hardly a breath of wind, it is probable some of cur ships got becalmed under the French batteries. Vice-admiral Rowley is expected here this evening, to assume the command in the Downs, on the departure of vice-admirai Holloway for Newfoundland.-The flag it is supposed will be shifted to-morrow morning. A considerable naval force seems imperceptibly accumulating here, and upwards of twenty north sea pilots are ordered to the Downs. A strong squadron will certainly be sent into the Baltic as early as possible. The Namur and Orion have already left the Downs for Yarmouth, which I understand is the appointed rendezvous for the fleet to assemble. If any credit may be attached to the reports made by the captains of neutral ships, that are almost daily arriving in the Downs, a general action between the Russian and Prussian combined forces and the French army, has certainly taken place, in which the latter were most signally defeated.

BIRTHS.

March 21. At Manchester, the lady of major James Erskine, of the 48th regiment, of a son.

25. At Malshshanger, near Basingstoke, Hants, the lady of colonel Cunynghame, of a son.

At his lordship's house in Spring garden, viscountess Fitz-Harris of a

son.

At his house in Hunter-street, the lady of Henry Hobhouse, esq. of a daughter.

At Roxton, in Bedfordshire, the lady of major-general Onslow, of a daughter. Lady Francis Spencer, of a son, at Blenheim, Oxford.

April 2. Mrs. C. Kemble, of a son, at her house in Newman-street.

3. Lady Andover, wife of captain Digby, of a daughter.

At Bath, the lady of captain Purvis, of the first (or royal) dragoons, of a

son.

4. At Hean Castle, Pembrokeshire, the lady of Thomas Stokes, esq. of ■ son and heir.

The lady of Edwin Martin Atkins, esq. of Kingston Lisle, Berks, of a daughter.

7. In Upper Gower-street, Mrs. John Shedden, of a daughter.

At h's house in Poland-street, the lady of the hon. Wm. Herbert, of a son.

At Kenyon House, the lady of col.. Thornton, of Thornville Royal, of a

son.

MARRIAGES.

March 26. At St. Mary-le-bone church, captain Stuart, of the 16th light dragoons, to Miss Anson, youngest daughter of the late George Anson, esq. and sister to viscount Anson.

At St. Mary-le-bone church, the hon. Thomas Parker, to miss Eliza Wolstenholme, youngest daughter of Wil liam Wolstenholme, esq. of Holly-hill, Sussex.

27. At St. Mary-le-bone church, David Scott, esq. of Drumnald, in the county of Forfar, to miss Caroline Grindall, of Portland-place.

30. At St. James's church, Bath, Charles Arthur Tisdall, esq. of Charles Fort, county Meath, Ireland, to miss Vernon, eldest daughter of John Vernon, esq. of Clontarf castle, county Dublin.

31. At Greenwich, James Reid, esq. of the island of Jamaica, to miss Helena Reid, daughter of William Reid, esq.. of Greenwich.

At Exmouth, by the rev. Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Charles Freeman, son of John Freeman, esq. of Cornhill, London, to Eliza, second daughter of Edmund Burke, esq.

April 2. Mr. Charles Lestourgeon, of Edmonton, to miss Elizabeth Burbidge, daughter of J. Burbidge, esq. of Tottenham.

At Quatt church, Salop, Harriot, sixth daughter of William Whitmore, esq. of Dudmaston, to Elias Isaac, of Wor

cester.

In Dublin, Hans Hamilton, esq. M. P. for the county of Dublin, to miss Anne Mitchell, daughter of Hugh Henry Mitchell, esq.

At Beckenham, in Kent, Brownlow Matthew, of Clanville Lodge, Hants, sq. to miss Naylor.

At Stamford, Lincolnshire, Thomas Jones, of Brecon, South Wales, to miss Anne Sharpe, of Stamford.

Mr. Wm. Green, to miss Dance, of the Crown inn, Ludlow.

Hugh Gordon, esq. late of Madras, to miss Elizabeth Forbes, daughter of Wm. Forbes, esq. of Echt.

4. At West Malling, Berks, William Henry Douce, esq. third son of the late Thomas Augustus Douce, esq. to miss Jane Downman, third daughter of lieut. colonel Downman, of the royal artillery.

At Acton church, James Wolfe Mur. ray, of Cringlebe, esq. in Scotland, to miss Isabella Strange, eldest daughter of James Strange, esq. in the service of the honourable East-India company, on the Madras establishment.

At S. George's, Hanover-square, Mr. Francis Des' Anges, third son of William Des' Anges, esq. of Spital. fields, to miss Amelia Kuse, cldest daughter of George Kuse, esq. of Chichester.

At Edmonton, James Lonsdale, esq. artist, of Store-street, Bedford-square, to miss Thornton, of Southgate.

10. George Cooper, esq. of Lincoln's-inn, barrister at law, to miss Mary Justina Martha Lloyd, of Dealcastle, Pembrokeshire.

1. At St. George the Martyr, Queensquare, Mr. Wm. Baker, of Limeou e,

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March 19. At his chambers, in Lincoln's-inn, at an advanced age, Walter Long, esq. bencher of that honourable society, and senior judge of the sheriff's court of the city of London.

21. After a short illness, Anna Maria, third daughter of J. Nailer, esq. Queen-square, aged 19.

Mrs. Cuff, wife of Joseph Cuff, esq. Whitechapel.

At Chertsey, in Surrey, Mrs. Susannah Wapshott, aged 65, wife of Richard Wapshott, esq. of that place.

In Doughty-street, Mrs. Moore, widow of Mr. Philip Moore, of Doctor's Commons.

26. At Brenchley, after a long illness, Mrs. Katharine Foster, aged 66.

At the house of sir M. Cholmely, bart. Mrs. Harrison, the lady of John Harrison, esq. of Norton place, Lincolnshire, and mother to lady Cholmely.

April 3. In the 79th year of his age, at his seat at Santon Downham, Suffolk, Charles Sloane, earl Cadegan, viscount Chelsea, and a trustee of the British Museum. His lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, Charles Henry viscount Chelsea, now earl Cadogan.

At Pentonville, Mrs. Robinson, the widow of the late George Robinson, esq. of Paternoster-row.

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This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates:

1 The UNEXPECTED DECLARATION.

2 PORTRAIT of SIGNOR NALDI.

V3 LONDON Fashionable EVENING FULL DRESS.

4 An elegant new PATTERN for the BORDER of a VEIL.

LONDON:

Printed for G. ROBINSON, No. 25, Paternoster-Row; Where Favours from Correspondents continue to be received. *************************

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