intentions of embarking immediately for Europe. Lord Macartney has, it is faid, during the fhort ftay he made in India, accumulated 42,000l. fterling. With this fum he is content; and to fhew that he has gained it fairly, he has given to the Court of Directors, upon oath, a full and clear ftatement of the fame. The Swallow packet left Bengal the 16th of Auguft. The only paffengers on board were Lord Macartney, Mr. Moore, and Capt. Church of the 102d regiment. She brings the agreeable news of all the Company's China fhips having arrived fafe at Madras, and failed for China. By the Swallow we have the following authentic intelligence: The British inhabitants of Calcutta, at a public meeting convened by the High Sheriff at the request of the Grand Jury, to take into confideration Mr. Pitt's India Regulation Bill, came to feveral refolutions, the principal and fubitance of which were, 1. That the claufe which compels the Company's fervants to deliver on oath an inventory of their property, on their return home, is grievous and oppreffive. 2. That the erection of a new tribunal for trial of offences, and depriving them of the right of trial by jury, are violations of the great charter of our liberties; and that the fending British fubje&ts refiding in India to be tried in England for offences committed there, is highly dangerous to the fecurity of their perfons and fortunes. 3. That it is injurious to the Company's fervants to be difmiffed or recalled at the pleafure of the Crown, which is (in other words) at the will of the Minister. 4. That the admitting as evidence by the Commiflioners, all writings tranfmitted from the East-Indies to the Court of Directors, is fubverfive of the established rules of evidence, and dangerous to his Majesty's fubjects returning from India. That therefore they will endeavour by all legal and conftitutional means to obtain a repeal of the claufes in the faid A&t which impofe thefe and other hardthips upon them: And that the preparing fuch petition and all other neceffary meafures to be taken be left to a Select Committee of fifteen chofen by the Meeting. 10. Jaines Murray, for forging the probate of a feaman's will; Thomas Harris, for theep-ftealing; George Wilfon and Jofeph Leonard, for houfe-breaking; Thomas Shipley, for ftealing property out of Dr. Warren's dwelling-houfe; Michael Druit, for forgery; and Charles Seymour, for robbing his master of a bank bill for 481. were executed oppofite the debtors door at Newgate, according to their fentence. An Act against and for the punishment of Adul- and Reprefentatives in General Court affen bled, and by the authority of the fame, Th whofoever shall commit adultery with a mai ried woman, and be thereof convicted befor the fuperior Court, both of them shall b feverely punished, by whipping on the na ked body, and ftigmatized or burnt on the forehead with the letter A. on a hot iron and each fhall wear an halter about thei neck on the outside of their garments durin their abode in this State, that it may be vi fible: and as often as either of them fhall b found without halters worn as aforefaid they fhall, upon information and proof c the fame, made before an affiftant or Juftic of the Peace, be by him ordered to be whipt not exceeding thirty ftripes." 13. By a late account from Lyons it France, we have information of a robbery. of a moft extenfive nature having been com mitted on the night of the 30th of Decem ber last, in the houfe of Meffrs. Finguerlin and Scherer. It confifted all of fpecie, and amounted to the value of 16,000l. Bille have been induftriously circulated through the various adjoining countries, in order to detect the offenders. 14. A new fpecies of fraud has been com mitted upon the Bank. A perfon had paid ten pounds in cafh to the cafhier, and received as ufual a fquare bit of paper, with the number, date. and words, ten pounds. This document ought to have been carried immediately to the clerk to make out the note; inftead of which he took it home, and curiously altered it to one hundred, and returning, obtained the note for that fum. Extract of a Letter from York, Jan. 13. "During the fitting of the General Quarter Seffion of the Peace at New Malton on Tuelday laft, a moft alarming accident hap pened by a center beam, which fupported the floor, giving way, and part of the floor fell in; the court being much crouded, it is fuppofed, three hundred people fell into the arca upwards of twelve feet. We are happy to inform the public, that no lives were loft, but feveral people were much bruifed, and ten perfons received fractures of their legs and arms. Moit providentially for the magiftrates, a beam fupported that part of the court near the bench; but the attornies, fuitors, &c. who fat at the table, with their backs to the bar, went down. The Counfel, Clerk of the Peace, his depu ty, and attornies who fat on the oppofite lide of the table, under the bench, efcaped; but remained in fufpence, when they were obliged to be taken out of the windows by ladders. The building was looked upon as an exceeding strong one, not having been built above tnty years, and was one of the beft court-houfes in the North Riding. On examination it appears that the beam which gave way, though of oak, was quite decayed.It moft providentially happened, that though there was a great concourfe of of people about the court-house, no person, was under when it fell in " 15. The accounts which were received from the Continent by the mails of Saturday are equally fhocking with thofe that our own coafts afforded by the late ftorms. Several vellels were loft between Dunkirk and Havre, but the coaft of Holland has been more fatal to many Dutch; the coaft being literally Brewed with wrecks. 16. The feffion ended at the Old Bailey, when fentence of death was paffed on feven convicts: 24 were ordered to be transported; 14 to be imprifoned and kept to hard labour in the house of correction; fix to be whipped; two imprifoned in Newgate; and 16 difcharged by proclamation. Amongst the prifoners capitally convicted at this feffion was John Hogan, a mulatto, from the Madeiras, for the wilful murder of Ana Hunt, a fervant to Mr. Orrell, in Char latte-treet, near Portland Chapel, on Sunday the 26th of June last, in a most shocking manner, by cutting her throat in three different places, quite through the windpipe, ftabbing her in the breaft, breaking one of her arms, fracturing her fkull, beating in one of her eyes, and other mortal wounds and bruifes, of which the languished a thort time, and died. It appeared on the trial, that the prifoner was a porter to a Chairmaker of whom Mr. Orrell had bought fome chairs, and fent them by him; that be got acquainted with the deceafed by the print of a ribbon, and often vifited her on a Sunday during the abfence of the family; that on the day he committed the fact, as he acknowledged to a woman with whom he cohabited, and who, about a fortnight fince, was d:fcovered providentially by a cloak of Mr. Orrell's, which by the defire of the prifoner the had pawned in the Borough, he had attempted to force the deceased to fubmit to his unchafte defires, which fhe refifting, he therefore perpretated the horrid murder. And This morning John Hogan was taken from Newgate in a cart, and executed on a gibbet erected oppofite Mr. Orrell's house. Jat before being turned off, the prifoner bowed four times to the populace, and, in an audible voice, confeffed himself guilty of the murder, for which, he faid, he had been justly condemned to die. was ridges, who was appointed in it executor and refiduary legatee. On his cross examination by Mr. Erfkine he varied in many particulars, as did fome other of the witneffes of the profecution, and it was proved, that he had fworn directly contrary to the evidence he now gave in a caufe depending in Doctors Commons, to try the validity of the will; feveral other witnesses however were called in confirmation of his evidence, and about half paft ten at night the profecutor finished his cafe. The prifoners counfel then began their defence, which lafted till paft four Sunday morning, when the evidence given by the attorney and some others were flatly contradicted in certain very material circumstances, and feveral witneffes were examined as to the relationship and affection between the deceafed and the wife of Mr. Nathaniel Goodridge, and a great number of refpectable perfons teftified the univerfal good character of the prisoners. The Judge, notwithstanding his great fatigue, fully fummned up the evidence, with observations on it, and the Jury in about five minutes after, and without going out of court, pronounced a verdict of Not Guilty. At the above feflion alfo came on the trial of Meff. Goodridge and Evans, on an indictment for forging the will of Mr. Thomas Sawtell, formerly of Saffron-hill, tallowchandler, with intent to defraud Mr. Daniel Slark, of Newgate-street. The cafe opened by Sir Thomas Davenport, counfel for the profecution, and continued upwards of two hours. Witneffes were then called to fupport the charge. The chief of thefe was an attorney, who proved, that at the inftigation of the prifoners he made the will in favour of one of the Good The capital convicts whofe executions have been refpited, have further received his Majefty's mercy on the following condition of tranfportation, viz. five to Africa for feven years; thirty-nine to parts beyond feas, as his Majefty fhall think it fit, for feven years, and fix for their natural lives; and five women on condition of being kept to hard labour in the house of correction, three of them for twelve months, and two for fix months. 18. An arret has paffed the feal of France, in virtue of which all foreigners, of any religion whatever, will be enabled to fettle in France, and purchase land, &c. as natives. This is done with a view to encourage foreign manufactories, and will certainly be the means of improving the kingdom. The Droit d'Aubaine is entirely given up by the French Monarch. His most Christian Majesty in Council has alfo iffued out another arret, by which all toreign artifts and manufacturers are invited to come and fettle in his dominions, and bring with them as many hands as they pleafe, alfo their tools, &c. allowing them great privileges, among thofe an exemption for three years from all perfonal taxes; they are not fubject to the militia law, nor at any time to have foldiers billeted on thein. They are allowed to import ftock they have by them at a reduced duty, &c. 20. The Judges heard the further arguments of Counfel on the cafe of George Coombes, who was tried about two years fince for the wilful murder of one Allen, referred to them at the laft Admiralty feflions by Mr. Juftice Nares. The cafe was part heard laft Michaelmas term in the Court of Exchequer, and adjourned, Mr. Mr. Garrow infifted that the prifoner, at the time he pulled the trigger of the gun, which gave the deceafed his mortal wound, was locally ftanding upon the ground, and not in the jurifdiction of the Court of Admiralty; and that therefore the offence fhould have been tried within the body of the county. Dr. Scott in reply maintained, that the mind went along with the offence, which was completed when the deceased received the wound, and not before. Next morning at the Admiralty Seffions, the Judges gave their opinion, and he was executed on Monday following. 24. From the late returns made to the Taxoffice, it appears that England and Wales contain houfes and cottages which are exempted from the Window-Tax, on account of poverty, to the amount of 284.454; and the number of houfes which pay the Window-Tax amounts to 714,916; which together make 999:370 houles in the king dom. The public prints from different parts of the kingdom give accounts of no fewer than forty fudden deaths fince the commencement of the prefent year. Death is cominon-but fo many momentary diffolutions in such a fhort time is hardly on record! Extract of a Letter from Dublin, Jan. 25. This day his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, opened the Seflions of Parliament with the following fpeech. My Lords and Gentlemen, "IT is with great fausfaction that in obedience to His Majetty's commands, I meet you again in Parliament. You will, 1 am perfuaded, give your utmost attention to the various objects of public concern which require your confideration. Your natural folicitude for the welfare of Ireland, and a juft fense of her real interefts, will direct all your deliberations, and point out to you the line of conduct which may be most conducive to the public advantage, and to that lasting connection between the fifter kingdoms, so effential to the prosperity of both. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I have ordered the Public Accounts and other neceffary papers to be laid before you. The principle which you have fo wifely esta blished, of preventing the accumulation of the national debt, will, I hope, appear already to have proved fuccessful; and I entertain no doubt that your wifdom will perfevere in measures which in their operation promife fuch beneficial effects. His Majefty relies with confidence upon your grant of such supplies as are neceffary for the public fervice, and for the honourable fupport of his Go vernment. My Lords and Gentlemen, "A fyftematic improvement of the Police, and a vigorous execution of the laws are effential, not only to the due collection o the public revenue, but to the security of private property, and indeed to the protection of fociety. The frequent outrages which have been committed in fome parts of the kingdom, will particularly call your attention to this important object. "It is unneceffary for me to recommend the Proteftant Charter Schools to your protection, or to enumerate the happy effects which may be derived from your continued attention to the linen or other manufacturesto the agriculture, and to the fisheries of this kingdom; and to fuch meafures as may animate the industry, extend the education, and improve the morals of the people. "It will ever be my ambition to promote the real interefts of Ireland, and to contribute by all means in my power towards eftablifhing its future profperity on the fureft and moft lafting foundation." PREFERMENTS, JANUARY 1786. DEC. 30. fier of his Majesty's Royal Court in the Ifle HE dignity of a Viscount of the king- of Guernsey. Tom of Fieland to the Right Hon. Ed mund Sexten Pery, by the name ftile and title of Viscount Pery, of Newtown-Pery, near his majesty's city of Limerick. The Honourable Richard Annelley to be one of the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Revenue in Ireland. Edward Cooke, Efq. private Secretary to Mr. Orde, appointed Clerk of the House of Commons of Ireland, in the room of Thomas Ellis, Efq. George Baldwin, Efq. to be his Majesty's Conful-General in Egypt. Joshua Goffelin, Jun. Efq, (upon the refignation of lus Father) to be Clerk or Gref 34th Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant Col. Charles Haftings, from the Half-pay of the 720 Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Robert Hoyes. Mifs Gunning to be Maid of Honour to her Royal Highness Princefs Augufta. Robert Adair, Efq. to be Surgeon-General to his Majesty's Forces, vice David Middle ton. Surgeon John Hunter from Half-pay, to be Afliftant Surgeon-General. The Rev. Mr. Blackhall, B. D. Senior Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Loughborough, Leicetterthure, worth gool. per Annum. MARRIAGES, JANUARY 1786. THE Hon. Mr. Pratt, only fon of Lord Whitehaven, and one of his Majefty's Juftices Camden, to Mifs Molefworth, fole daughter and heirefs of the late William Mole(worth, Efq. and niece to Lady Lucan. At Mount Denfon, in Nova Scotia, Capt. Dalrymple of the 42d regiment, to Mifs Martha Willet Miller. Capt. James Robertfon, of the late 86th regiment, to Mifs Rebecca Elifabeth Wraxall, fifter to Nathaniel Wraxall, Efq. Member of Parliament for Luggershall. Charles Lamb, Efq. of Rye, in Suffex, to Mifs Boys, of Hawkhurst, in Kent. John Thomas Ellis, Efq. of Wyddiall Hall, Hertfordshire, to Mifs Heaton, only daughter of John Heaton, Efq. of Old Burlington-street. At King's Langley, Herts, the Rev. Edward Burn, of Birmingham, to Mifs Charlotte Wingfield, of King's Langley. The Rev. Mr. Tarn, rector of Dean, near for Cumberland, to Mifs Grace Peele, of Pap-cattle. Lt. Francis Loveday, of the navy, to Mifs Drake, of Lillingftone-Lovell, Oxfordshire. Mr. Wm. De-la Cour, of Walbrook, merchant, to Mrs. Power, of Crutched Friars. Henry Isherwood, of Windfor, Efq. to Mifs Style of Eton. John Crofton, Efq. Captain of a company of Invalids in Guernfey, to Mifs Elizabeth Wadsworth, daughter of Mr. Chriftopher Wadfworth. The Rev. H. Hawes, Fellow of Now College, to Mifs. E. Brown, daughter of Edward Brown, Efq. of Walcot in Lincoln shire. At Chudleigh, P. G. Glubb, Efq. undersheriff of Cornwall, to Mifs Matthew. MONTHLY OBITUARY, JANUARY 1786. DEC. 17. N the South of France, Lady Louisa VerBon, only daughter of Lord Vernon. 18. At Naples, Capt. William Merrick of the navy. 20. At Thornbrook, in the parish of Maybole, Catherine M'Kutchfon, aged 104. 25. At Oswestry, in Shropshire, Mr. Thomas Vernon, an eminent Land-Surveyor, and Agent to feveral families in that neighbourhood. 29. David Middleton, Efq. Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty, and Surgeon-General to the Army, in the 81ft year of his age. At Hanover, in the 74th year of his age, William Beft, Efq. late of King-ftreet, St. James's, many years Secretary in his Majefty's German office. 39. At South Stoke near Grantham, the Rev. John Harrifon, aged 86. 31. In Queen-ftreet, Dr. Blittenberg, M. D. Mrs. Amphlett, wife of the Rev. Mr. John Amphlett, of Droitwich. In the 84th year of her age, Mrs. Stur, relict of the Rev. Mr. Sturges, Prebend and Chancellor of Winchester, and filter of the prefent Bishop of London. At the Lunatic Afylum, York, Mr. Samuel Redah, formerly of Drury Lane Theatre. Jan... Mr. Richard Payne, aged 97; he ad been Clerk in the Bank 73 years. EUROP, MAG. Sir Clement Trafford, late of Dunton Hall, in the county of Lincoln. 2. Gerrard Goebell, Efq. aged 63, formerly a fugar refiner. David Levy Solomons, a Jewish Rabbi, in the roift year of his age. At Slindon in Sulfex, the Right Hon. James Bartholomew Ratclyffe, Earl of Newburgh. 3. Mr. John Strother, an eminent Packer, in Old Broad-itreet, near the Royal-Exchange. At St. Alban's, in his way to London, the Rev. James Bond, D. D. Chaplain to the late Bishop of London. The Rev. Sackville Auftin, A. M. Rector of Weft-Wickham in Kent, and of HeritedKaines in Suffex. Mrs. Elizabeth Currit, in Duke-ftreet, Liverpool, aged 100 years. James Buchanan, Efq. one of the Commithioners of the Cuftoms in Scotland. In Clarendon-ftreet, Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Montgomery, fifter to the late and aunt to the prefent Duke of Argyle, and relict of William Montgomery, Esq. Mary Smyth, K Lady Fleetwood, relict of Sir John Fleetwood, of Marton-Sands, Cheshire, and mother of Sir Thomas Fleetwood. James Burleigh, Efq. Alderman at Cambridge, Lately, Mr. William Gates, Ironmonger, in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. 5 At Knightsbridge, Mrs. Weichfell, aged 41. She had been a capital finger at Vauxhall above 25 years. 6. Henry Hurt, Efq. formerly a filverfmith in St. Paul's Church-yard. John Tempest, Efq. Major in the horse. guards, in the 36th year of his age. 7. In Denmark- ftreet Holborn, Mr. Caleb Jeacocke, aged 80, formerly a baker in High-ftreet St. Giles's, and many years prefident of the firft difputing fociety, at the Robin Hood Temple-bar. He was one of the Directors of the Hand in Hand Fire office, and had retired from bafinefs fome years. In 1765 he published a pamphlet entitled, A vindication of the moral character of the Apostle Paul from the charge of infincerity and hypocrify brought against it by Lord Bolinbroke, Dr. Middleton, and others." $vo. At Huntingdon, Mr. Manina, a native of Italy, and for fome years principal performer on the violin at Cambridge. Mrs. Plumptre, wife of Dr. Ruffel Plumptre, King's Professor of Physic at Cambridge. The Rev. Thomas Gooch, Rector of Rifby in Suffolk. 8. At South Mailing, near Lewes, in confequence of a fall, Efther the wife of William Kemp, Efq. About this time at Wootton, near Woodftock, aged 73, the Rev. John Banks, Rector of that parish, and formerly of New Col. lege Oxford. 11. Mr. Vaughan, who many years kept the Royal-Oak almost adjoining to Weltminster-hall. Sir Timothy Waldo, Knight, at Clapham. Arthur Annefly, Efq. of Lincoln's Inn Fields. At Liverpool, Thomas Molyneux Seel, Efq. only fon and heir of Thomas Seel, Efq. At Bath, Dr. Kerr. Lately at Tottenham, Mr. Peter Pooley, efteemed the first tennis player in England. 12. Lady Brudenell, in Upper Grofvenor street. Mr. Mather, Plumber, one of the common councilmen of Cripplegate ward. Daniel York, Efq. attorney at law at Thrapfton, Northamptonshire. The Right Honourable Lord Dacre. John Luther, Efq. who reprefented the county of Effex in three Parliaments. At Bath, in the 26th year of his age, Murdock James, Efq. barrister at law. 13. Mr. Chriftopher Pridham, fergson, at Totneís. The Honourable Mrs. Hervey, relict of the Hon. Thomas Hervey, Efq. deceated. At Spartholt House, near Wantage, Berks, the Lady of General Gabbit, only daughter and heiress of the late Seymour Richmond, Efq. At Litchfield, aged 70, Mrs. Lucy Porter, daughter of the wife of Dr. Johnson. Lately at Dunton Baffet, Leicestershire, Lady Henrietta Hope, fifter to the Earl of William Wilday, in the 102d year of his Hojeton. Mrs. Clayton, of Tyler ftreet, Carnabymarket, relict of-Clayton, Efq. her death was occafioned by her shawi catching fire on Christmas-day. In the 76th year of his age, the Rev. Richard Eafton, Vicar of Grantham, Rector of Woolfthorpe, and Prebendary of Salisbury and Lincoln. 9. Mr. James Rudge, Attorney, of Cromhall, Gloucefterthire, one of the coroners of that county, and a Proctor of that diocese. At Cambridge, Mrs. Streaker, a maiden Jady, who in her youth had been celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments. At Stebbing, in Effex, Farmer Beach, aged 52 years; and next day his mother, aged 98. age. 14. At the Rev. Mr. Hemming's, in Gloucefter, Mrs. Gulliford, fifter of Robert Alfop, Efq. deceased. Mr. William Wailing, attorney at law, St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell. At South Lambeth, Mr. Michael Arre, an eminent compofer, only fon of the late Dr. Arne. For an account of him, fee oar Magazine Sept. 1784, page 231. Mr. Archer, of Fetter-lane, optical and mathematical inftrument maker. 15. Mr. Abraham Fernandez Nunez, formerly an eminent merchant. Lately at Cork in Ireland, the Rev. James Delacour, author of the Profpeft of Poetry, and other pieces. Lately in Hampshire, Lady Dorothy Child, aunt to Sir James Tilney Long, Bart. 16 Sir Hugh Owen, of Orielton, Bart. Lord Lieutenant, Cuftos Rotulorum and Reprefentative of the county of Pembroke. At Pari. M. Ele de Beaumont, well known for his litary talents, |
