left no doubt of his having been murdered. The two domesticks were again apprehended, confessed their crime, and expiated it by an ignominious death.

The following account of a Literary Prodigy is extracted from the Moniteur of the 28th of May last, under the head of Kingdom of Westphalia, Gottingen, May 20:

"For these eight months we have had among the students of our University, a boy 10 years old, who is a real phanomenon. The name of this young sçavant is Charles Witte. He understands the languages, history, geography, and literature, as well antient as modern at the age of eight years he possessed, besides his mother-tongue, Greek, Latin, French, English, and Italian, to such a degree of perfection, that he could not only translate, currently, the Eneid of Virgil and the Iliad of Homer, but could, besides, speak, with an astonishing facility, all the living languages which have been just mentioned. Of this, he last year gave such satisfactory proofs in a public examination, which he underwent at the University of Leipsic, that that Body honoured him with the following diploma :

"Almæ Universitatis Lipsiensis Rectore Carolo Gottlob Kuhnio, &c. &c. Carolus Witte Lochaviensis puer IX annorum, propter præmaturam eximiamque in iis quibus non puerilis, sed adolescentum ætas imbui solet, solertiam; potissimùm verò linguarum antiquarum Græcæ ac Latinæ, item recentiorum Franco-gallicæ, Anglicæ, Etruscæ, notitiam haud vulgarem, quam à nemine nisi à patre Carolo Henrico Godofrego unico et solo præceptore accepit. Exemplo plane singulari non modo albo Philyria (Leipsic) insertus, verùm etiam datâ fide, civibus Academiæ nostræ ádscriptus est."

Till his arrival at Gottingen, this child had no other instructor than his father, the Clergyman Witte. His Majesty the King of Wesphalia, desirous that he should continue to direct the studies of his son to their termination, has granted him a pension, which has enabled him to quit his pastoral functions, and to accompany his pupil to our University. The young Witte is now studying philosophy: he is engaged in a course of mathematicks, physicks, and metaphysicks, and shows the most happy disposition for all the sciences.”

SWEDEN.

The Swedish Baron D'Armfeldt has entered the Russian service, and been

appointed Capt.-Lieutenant in the fleet in the Black Sea. His Lady has been ordered to quit the Swedish territories.

RUSSIA.

The following remarkable instances tality for the whole extent of the Rusof longevity occur in the Bills of Morsian Empire, during the year 1809:Died, 307 persons between the age of 95 and 100; 188 between 100 and 105; 86 between 105 and 110; 36 between 110 and 115; 23 between 115 and 120; 8 between 120 and 125; 5 between 125 and 130; 1 between 130 and 135; 1 between 135 and 140; 1 between 145 and 150; and 1 between 155 and 160.

A tiger of the largest size was discovered in February last in the environs of Buckturma, in Siberia, and killed by a cossack. The memory of the oldest inhabitant cannot furnish another instance of this animal being seen wild in those frozen regions.

The only son of Suwarrow was drowned in the river Rimmer, on the 24th of able fatality, from a stream which was April; meeting his death by a remarkone of the scenes of his father's glory, and gave him one of his titles, that of Riminsky.

TURKEY.

Seiman Aga, one of the chiefs, and greatest protector of the Janissaries, was lately strangled at Constantinople, on suspicion of meditating the restoration to authority of that corps. Forty of his followers shared his fate.

In Turkey, horse-chesnuts are ground and mixed with the provender for horses, particularly for such as are brokenwinded, or troubled with coughs. After being boiled a little to take off the bit

terness, bruised and mixed with a small

quantity of barley-meal, they are good food for rearing and fattening poultry.

EAST INDIES.

Just as the last packet sailed from India, Admiral Drury, with a considerable naval force, and 15,000 troops, had gone against the Island of Java.

The art of curing beef has been brought to great perfection in the East Indies. Messrs. Gammidge and Fruta, of Calcutta, opened last year some barrels; and though the beef had been in salt six years, it was in excellent pickle, good preservation, and without taint.

AMERICA, AND THE WEST INDIES. On the 19th ult. 100 houses were destroyed at New York by fire.

Gen. Moreau, it is said, has declared his intention of becoming a Citizen of the United States. Some.

Some of the late West India Journals contain extravagant praises of the Alcornoque tree, the inner bark of which, infused in a glass of liquor, and taken morning and night, is said to have acquired the reputation of a specific in all complaints of the liver and lungs.

Christophe has been proclaimed King, at St. Domingo, by the title of Henry I. A letter, dated Cayenne, March 18, states, that that colony had been thrown into the greatest confusion, by the discovery of a plot excited by French emissaries. The following is an extract:

"Cayenne, March 18.

"The Portuguese troops of the garrison have for some time exhibited symptoms of extreme insubordination. They at length concerted a plan to set fire to the town, and massacre the inhabitants, including the officers of the fort, which luckily was discovered in time to prevent its being carried into execution. Twelve of the ringleaders have been tried and shot-others have escaped, and fled to the woods. All trade has been suspended."

A safe and commodious harbour has lately been discovered about seventy miles North-West of Kangaroo Island, on the West Coast of New Holland. It is represented as capable of containing and completely sheltering any number of ships of the largest size,

COUNTRY News.

April 23. This day a Court-martial assembled on board the Gladiator, at Portsmouth, to try Lieut. Joseph Tullidge, the surviving Officers, and ship's company, of his Majesty's ship Africaine, which was captured off the Isle of France. The Court having examined into the circumstances attending her capture, agreed, "that his Majesty's ship Africaine was captured by a very superior force of the Enemy, after an action which was commenced by the order of her deceased Commander, the late Captain Robert Corbet, in a very brave and spirited manner; and after he was disabled by the loss of his right leg, by the second broadside of the Enemy, was continued by the said Lieutenant Joseph Tullidge in the most gallant and determined manner, although he had received four severe wounds during the action, as long as there was the least chance of preserving her from the Enemy; and did adjudge the said Lieut. Tullidge, bis surviving Officers and Ship's company, to be most honorably acquitted." Cambridge, May 6. A grand entertainment was given this day at St. John's College, to commemorate the completion of the third century since the foun

dation of that Society. An appropriate speech was delivered in the Chapel by Mr. Hughes, a junior fellow.

A cause arising out of the inclosure of Charnwood Forest, excited an unusual degree of interest at the late Leicester Assizes, from the known respectability and high character of the parties (Earl of Stamford v. Wyatt and others). Mr. Babington, one of the members for the Borough of Leicester, was the real Defendant; but, in order to comply with the legal forms, it was necessary to bring the action against the Commissioners of the inclosure-it was the object and wish of both parties that complete justice should be done, and it had been agreed that the cause should be decided upon its real merits, and that neither party would avail themselves of any legal informality or inaccuracy that might occur in the pleadings, by which, most unfortunately, the ends of justice are frequently not attained. The question to be tried was, whether Rothley Plain (commonly so called) was in the Parish of Rothley, or in Newtown Linford. On the part of the Plaintiff it was proved that the Warrener's house on Rothley Plain, which was the only one, had uniformly been assessed to the landtax, and to all parochial taxes, as in the parish of Newtown Linford, and that some of the occupiers of that house had received relief from the parish of Newtown Linford; a number of old documents describing this house and the owners of it as belonging to Newtown Linford, and also the parish books of Newtown Linford, in which the occupiers of the Warren-house had been assessed to, and had paid taxes to that parish, were read, and a vast number of old witnesses (one of them of the age of 90 years) were examined, to prove that Rothley Plain had always been reputed to be within the parish of Newtown Linford. On the part of the Defendant, Mr. Babington, an extract from Domes day book was read, and also some proceedings in a cause in the year 1660, or 1661, between the ancestors of the present Plaintiff and Defendant, to prove that the Plain was within the parish of Rothley; and very many old witnesses "whose heads were silvered o'er with age," and whose furrowed cheek spake many a toilsome day, averred that they had again and again perambulated the bounds of the parish, and that the plain Ed always been included in the parish of Rothley. The "round unvarnished tale" of these "rude forefathers of the hamlet" excited no small degree, if not of Spartan-like reverence, at least of admiration from a crowded court; while

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the apparently strong possession of their faculties, and the firmness of their memories, too tenacious even to be overset by the brow-beatings of cross-examination, evinced the truth of the Poet's fine description of a green old age:

meeting, a ballot commenced. At 3 the Chairman declared Mr. Ashley duly elected by a considerable majority. Tuesday, June 4.

The Eleventh Anniversaryof the Society for Missions to Africa and the East was

lusty,

For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors to my blood;
Nor did I with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly."

After a long summing up from the learned Judge, who stated the weight of evidence on both sides to be so strong that he was unable to say on which side it preponderated, the jury retired, and after more than an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the Plaintiff.

June 9. A fishing-boat of Hastings was lost this day in a gale of wind, by which J. White, aged 27, R. Finning, aged 23, G. Goble, aged 22, and W. Page, aged 17 years, were drowned. Shortly after, a second boat, with her crew, consisting of R. White (brother of the above), three men and a boy, was consigned to the same fate. These events took place seven miles off Dungeness.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

Monday, April 22.

In consideration of the distinguished services of his Majesty's 87th (or Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment, upon various occasions, and more recently in the brilliant action at Barrosa, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, was graciously pleased to approve of that Regiment being in future styled, The 87th, or Prince of Wales's Own Irish Regiment; and of its bearing upon the regimental Colours and Appointments, as a badge of honour, an Eagle, with a wreath of Laurel above the Harp, in addition to the arms of his R. Highness.

Serjeant Masterson, of the 87th Regiment, who took the French Eagle at the battle of 'Barrosa, has been promoted to an ensigncy in the York light infantry Volunteers.

Thursday, May 2.

A General Meeting of the Members of the Royal Society of Musicians, was held this day at their Rooms in Lisle Street, Leicester Square, for the election of a Secretary in the place of the late Mr. William Foster. The Candidates were Mr. Charles-James Ashley (proposed by Sir William Parsons and Dr. Smith), Mr. Macintosh, Mr. Leffler, and Mr. Samuel Taylor. After the candidates had severally addressed the

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by the Rev. Melville Horne, late Chaplain at Sierra Leone: the Collection amounted to 2751. The Preacher pleaded the cause with great energy and eloquence. His especial aim was to rouse the Clergy of the Established Church to také a personal share in propagating the Gospel through the Heathen World. To that respectable body this Sermon is, therefore, earnestly recommended: and it is hoped it will prove the means of calling forth some of them to participate in this noble design. The Annual Meeting of the Society was afterwards held, William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. in the Chair. From the Report it appears, that upwards of fifty persons, adults and children, are dependant on the Society, at its settlement on the Ric Pongas in Africa; that the Schools of native Children in that quarter are in a very flourishing state; and that the Missionaries are invited to extend their labours, both Southward to the Dembia, and Northward to the Rio Nunci: in which stations large schools are offered to them by friendly Chiefs. These proposals will be embraced as soon as several Missionaries shall arrive at their destination. The Society has also granted 250l. a year to its Corresponding Committee at Calcutta to establish readers of the Scriptures in the Market-places of the principal towns in India. The Report likewise contains communications from the Rev. Samuel Marsden respecting New Zealand, and the best means of diffusing the light of the Gospel through the Islands of the Southern Ocean.

Thursday, June 27.

The Governors of the Charter-house met last week to elect a new Governor in the room of Lord Melville. There were two candidates -the Archbishop of York and the Earl of Harrowby. The Votes were equal, seven and seven ; in which case, by the statutes, the nomination devolved on the Prince Regent, in behalf of his Majesty. His Royal Highness, not choosing to give a preference to either of the two distinguished persons, has nominated his own personal friend, the Earl of Moira.

The principal damage occasioned by the pressure at Carlton-house (see page 587) was the loss of shoes, shawls, and fragments of female attire; no personal injury of any very material consequence, we are happy to state, having occurred.

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of 4th foot; G. Airey, 8th foot; R. S. Donkin, Quarter-Master-General in the Mediterranean; Hon. E. Stopford, 3d foot guards; G. Cooke, 1st foot guards; T. J. Backhouse, 47th foot; J. Wilson, 4th Ceylon regiment; W. Eden, 84th foot; F. G. V. Lake, 60th foot; G. T. Walker, 50th foot; J. A. Vesey, on half-pay of 29th foot; R. Stovin, 17th foot; K. Mackenzie, on half-pay of 15th foot; Sir J. Dalrymple, bart. 3d foot guards; F. J. Wilder, 35th foot; Hon. G. de Grey, Aidde-Camp to the King; S. Hawker, ditto; to be MAJOR-GENERALS in the Army.

Lieutenant-Colonels-Sir C. Imhoff, knt. 4th garrison battalion; G. Gordon, on half pay of 4th foot; D. Macdonald, 57th foot; Arch. Stewart, 1st foot; Alex. Adams, 78th foot; J. C. Halkett, on halfpay of 55th foot; Hon. G. Macdonald, 1st foot guards; T. N. Powlet, on halfpay of 95th foot; Sir E. G. Butler, knt. 87th foot; S. Need, 24th light dragoons; M. E. Jacob, on half-pay of 68th foot; T. L'Estrange, inspecting Field-officer; Sir T. Brooke Pechell, bart. of the late horse grenadier guards; W. Latham, 7th dragoon guards; D. Dewar, on half-pay of unattached Officers; G. Kinnaird Dana, 6th garrison battalion; J. Moore, 23d light dragoons; E. Baynes, Nova Scotia fencibles; N. Levitt Peacocke, 71st foot; J. Stirling, 42d foot; T. Steele, 90th foot; P. Maxwell, 7th dragoon guards; R. Young, Sth foot; B. Leighton, 4th dragoons; Henry M. Mervin Vavasour, of the late horse grenadier guards; E. Vicars, 21st fight dragoons; J. Meller, invalid artillery; H. R. Knight, 4th garrison battalion; R. Douglas, 55th foot; S. V. Hinde, 32d foot; B. Glegg, on half-pay of the 91st foot; Hon. J. Ramsay, 2d foot; L. Mosheim, of the depôt at Lymington; F. Streicher, York light infantry volunteers; C. Grant, Aid-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent; J. Lyon, 97th foot; W. Gifford, 43d foot; A. Gore, 33d foot; J. Orde, 99th foot; J. Baron de Sonnenberg, De Roll's regiment; C. B. Egerton, 44th foot; T. S. Beckwith, 95th foot; to be COLONELS in the Army.

Majors-J. Campbell, on half-pay 68th foot; H. Shadforth, on half-pay Queen's rangers; J. B. Haffey, 18th foot; A. Hamilton, 30th foot; M. W. Lee, 96th foot; J. French, on half-pay 121st foot; R. Lucas, on half-pay York rangers; A. Lloyd, 98th foot; J. M. Hamerton, 44th foot; A. Chaplin, 2d Ceylon regiment; J. Pringle, 6th garrison battalion; A. Light, 25th foot; J. Wood, 32d foot; D. Campbell, 9th foot; G. A. Tonyn, 31st foot; Henry Thornton, 40th foot; Andrew Davidson, 15th foot; Tho. Chamberlain, 24th foot; J. Hicks, 32d foot; E. Faunce, 4th foot; F. Muller, 1st foot; F. Barclay, 56th foot;

P. J. Parry, on half-pay Steele's late recruiting corps; D. Ximenes, 62d foot; W. Spearman, 2d dragoon guards; T. Weston, on half pay of 14th garrison battalion; W. C. Spring, 57th foot; D. Colquhoun, on half-pay late 7th garrison battalion; B. H. Young, 58th foot; W. B. Neynoe, 27th foot; T. Carnie, 6th foot; J. Ross, 28th foot; J. K. Money, on half-pay Armstrong's recruiting corps; T. Lyster, Cape regiment; A. Henry, 58th foot; P. T. Roberton, 8th foot; S. Higgins, on halfpay 12th West India regiment ; D. Jones, 6th foot; G. Gray, 30th foot; T. Pearson, 23d foot; A. Meade, on half-pay of regiment of Malta; R. Nixon, 28th foot; W. F. Spicer, 78th foot; R. M'Nab, 91st foot; R. Payne, 46th foot; J. Stafford, 634 foot; to be LIEUT.-COLONELS in the Army. BREVET.

To be LIEUTENANT-COLONELS in the Army—Major D. L. Gilmour, 95th foot & Major J. R. Coghlan, 61st foot; Major A. Petrie, 79th foot; Major W. Woodgate, 60th foot; Major G. H. B. Way, 29th foot; Major O. Macintosh, 85th foot; Major C. C. Patrickson, 43d foot; Major G. G. C. L'Estrange, 31st foot; Major R. Arbuth not (unattached).

To be MAJORS in the Army-Captain M. Mackenzie, 71st foot; Captain A. Brown, 79th foot; Captain P. Crueber, 1st light dragoons of King's German legion, with temporary rank only; Captain G. T. Napier, 52d foot; Captain G. Krauchenberg, 1st light dragoons of King's German legion, with temporary rank only; Captain G. Scovell, 57th foot; Captain W. F. P. Napier, 43d foot; Captain M. Shawe, 74th foot; Captain J. Cameron, 95th foot; Captain H. Balneavis, 27th foot; Captain Hon. E. C. Cocks, 16th light dragoons; Captain S. R. Chapman, royal engineers. Captain R. Armstrong, to be Major in Portugal only.

Dr. Waller, Physician to the garrison of Portsmouth, vice Meik, deceased.

War-office, June 11. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Orange, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.

Whitehall, June 12. Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Sir Richard Bickerton, bart, viceadmiral of the blue, James Buller, esq., William Domett, esq. vice-admiral of the white, Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, kut. Hon. Frederick Robinson, and Horatio Walpole, esq. commonly called Lord Walpole, Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS. FREDERICK Edgcumbe, esq. a Commissioner of the Victualling Board, vice Boscawen, deceased.

G. Bridges, esq. elected Alderman of Lime-street Ward, vice Jacob, resigned.' ECCLESIASTICAL