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the Boat, and the oldest public-house keeper at Stamford, co. Lincoln.

At Barnes, Surrey, the wife of Mr. Jofeph Berger.

21. At the advanced age of 84, Johanna Sophia Kettnerin, a native of the capital of Eichstadt. Difguifed in men's clothes, the enlifted at the age of 20 in the Auftrian fervice, where the ferved three whole years as a common foldier, and two and a half as a corporal, in the foot regiment of Hagenbach. She behaved herself as became a valiant foldier in a'l the campaigns of that war, which Maria Therefa, at the commencement of her reign, carried on against the Bavarians and French.

She did her duty in the moft foldier-like manner, on marches and on guard, at stormings, attacks, and battles, and won the univerfal admiration of her fellow-foldiers. A fevere diforder baving attacked her was the means of difcovering her fex; and the matter was reported to the High Council of War. By an order of that Council he was called to Vienna, and brought before the emprefs, who, upon examining into the affair, heftowed upon this female heroine a pension of eight guilders a month. To her latest age the preferved that heroic look, ftep, and gefture, which he had acquired in her military capacity. She was able to fhew feveral wounds on her head and arms. General Stoffel, who happened to be at Eichstadt, at that time, on the recruiting fervice, attended her body to the grave with his party, and faw the German Amazon honourably interred.

Suddenly, at Sock with, near Gainfborough, aged 69, Mr. Daniel Tong.

At her house in Oxford-buildings, Mrs. Bampfylde, filter of the late Coplestone Warre B. efq. of Heftercombe, Somerset.

At Lancaster, the widow of the late Rev. Francis Lee.

Jahn Murdoch Campbell, efq. fecond fon of John C. fen. efq, merchant, of Glasgow. 22. Lieut..col. George Dicre, late of the Hampshire fencible cavalry.

In Queen Anne-ftreet Weft, John Willes, efq. of Attorp houfe, co. Northampton.

At his houfé in Queen-freet, Cheapfide, Mr. Robert Henderson, merchant.

Mrs. Grithio, proprietor of the Exchequer coffee house, Westminster-hall.

In Lant-treet, Southwark, Duncan M'Andrew, efq. late of the Cuftom-house. Aged 74, Major Brereton, of the Tything adjoining Worcester, brother to W. B. efq. of Bath.

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At Ammerdown, co. Somerfet, to the unfpeakable lofs of her family, and fincerely and defervedly lamented by her friends and acquaintance, Mis. Jolliffe, wife of Thomas Samuel J. efq.

At Wortley, co. Lincoln, the Rev. T. Thwaites, B. D. rector of Seagrave, co. Lecetter, and formerly fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge.

At Greenock, John Wright, efq. collec tor of excife.

23. At Bedgbury, near Goudhurst in Kert, in his 69th year, John Cartier, efq, late governor of Bengal. He went to Bengal, as a writer in the fervice of the Eaft India Company, in 1749-50; and, foon after his arrival, was appointed an aflitant to the factory of Dacca; where he refided until the expulfion of the English from Calcutta, and the rest of their factories, by the Nabob, Surajah Dowíah, in 1756, when he joined the rest of his countrymen at Fulta; to which place they had retired from all quarters, and remained, until the arrival of Admiral Watson and Colonel Chive from Madras, to revenge the unprovoked aggreffion of the Nabob, and to reinstate the Company in their factories. At that period of diftrefs to the British interefts in India, Mr. C. came forward as a volunteer with many of the civil fervants of the Company, and the remaining European inliabitants of Calcutta. He was engag d. under Colouel Clive, at the battle of the Bungaloe, and at Hoogly alfo, which terminated in the defeat of the Nabob's army, and a temporary peace, by which the company recovered their former factories and poffeflions. During the interval between this period and 1767, Mr. C. fucccfively and worthily filled the different civil appointments at Dacca, of which he became chief in 1761. With the exception of one vifit to Calcutta, in 1763, whither he was fummoned to attend a general council, his refidence at Dacca was uninterrupted. In 1767, he became fecond in the council of Calcutta; and in the beginning of 1770, on the departure of Mr. Verelit, took charge of the Bengal government by the previous appointment of the Court of Directors. In that high office he was fucceeded by Mr. Haftings, in April, 1772, and returned to England in January following. The eulogium of the late Mr. Burke on Mr. Cartier's conduct, during his fuperintendance at Bengal, was not the refult of perfonal acquaintance, for never was there any connexion between them; nor from an invidious contraft between him and Me. Haftings; but proceeded from a fenfe of his real merits. In this teftimony, all the contemporaries of Mr. C. cordially concurred; for no instance can be produced of any deviation from the strictuft integrity. In the antumn o 1774, he married his fecond wife, Stephena, daughter of Stephen Law, efq. of Broxbouro, Herts, formerly governor of Bombay, and fifter of Dr. L. archdeacon of Rochester. Near the end of the fame year, he fettled at Bedgbury, which eftate he purchased in 1784, where he conftantly refided until his death, extending his liberality to many indigent neighbours, and rendering this liberality more improlive

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houfe to attend his bufinefs (and who in
two or three minutes would have loft the
opportunity of affording any aflistance), on
bearing the crash, ran up stairs; but, what
was his horror, when he beheld the apart-
ment pearly filled with rubbish, the roof
open to the sky, and only one bed to be
feen! The other, in which two of his
children had been put to repose the prece-
ding evening, was totally covered with the
fragments of the chimney, &c.; nor could
be hear any found, but the howling of the
wind through the shattered roof. Prompted
by thofe feelings which impart a strength
unknown, except in moments of extreme
alarm, he inftantly proceeded to remove
the rubbish. One of the children began to
cry; the other was filent for fome time.
At length he had the fatisfaction to know
that they were both alive (thele were a boy
of fix, and a girl of four years); and, in a
fhort time afterwards, he was enabled to
extricate them from their most perilous
and awful fituation, which, without infiant
relief, muft of itself have proved fatal. Both
of them were confiderably bruised; the
Jittle girl had alío received a wound in the
forehead, which, at the time Mr. Brock-
bank difcovered her, had nearly covered
her face with blood; but it is not appre-
hended that the injury received by either
is fuch as to occafion any ferious confe-
quences. None of the fragments had
touched the bed in which were the other
two children; but, a large portion of the
cieling, attached by one end, hung dread-
fully fufpended between them! Great
part of the pavement of the Old Quay was
torn up, and feveral large ftones wahed
from the different piers, and carried, by
the force of the water, to a confiderable
distance. Marks of its violence are to be
feen all through the neighbourhood. One
of the windmills near this town was un-
roofed; trees were blown down in teveral
places. Instances of this kind are too nu-
merous to mention; but it does not appear
to have extended far from the fea-coatt.
A great deal of damage was done in Egre-
ront, and its vicinity. At Yarmouth, the brig
Newcastle, Thomas Dixon, matter, from
Sunderland, bound to London, Liden with
coals and goods, went ahore in Hajely Bay;
after being there fome little time, the
drifted off again, and it is feared has fuck
in deep water. The matter and people
have been faved. Many veffels put tu here
with the lof of anchors and cables. The
Idury, W. Hopkins, m.fler, from
Sields, boud to Liverpool, with glais
bottles, his heen also brought in here, after
being abandoned by her crew. The True
Friend of Lynn, after having ran on thore
on Southwould, caught fire and buret cown
to the water's edge; the crew are faved.
Several popes of wine, part of the cargo of
the Ro Doura, which foundered in the

Roads, have been taken up. The Frances-
Ann, Harrison, from Belfast to Liverpool,
is loft near the latter port. The Anna Ma
ria, W tkins, from St. Croix, and three
other velfels, are driven on fhore in King
Road, Brittol Channel. The Indefatigable
and fix other velfels are on fhore at Park-
gate. Their cargoes mult he landed. The
Diana, Mafter, from St. Croix to Cork,
was wrecked in St. Bride's Bay. The So-
vereign, Maddocks, from Dublin to St.
Vincent's, drove on fhore in M lford Har-
hour, but fince got off with dimage. The
New Century, from Boston, is on

fhore at Hoylake -
-1200 trees were blown
down, or fo broken as to require to be
r-moved, in the park and grounds of Lord
Newark, at Thorefby.-There was not a
houfe in Drogeda that did not sustain fome
damage; a garden wall, 12 feet high, 50
in length, and two thick, was blown down
in a mass, without a brick being diflodged.

Porifmouth, Jan 22. A Court Martial was held this morning on-board his Majefty's fhip G diator, Sir A. Mitchell, Prefident, on Captain Sir Edward Hamilton, Commander of the Trent, of 40 guns, for tying up in the throads the gunner and four of his crew. The Court having heard evi dence on the part of the profecution, and what he had to fay in his defence, were of opinion that the charges had been proved, and fentenced him to be difmiffed his Majesty's fervice.

Jan. 27. Mr. H fley, one of the lay clerks of the Cathedral at Canterbury, was this evening run over by one of the night coaches, in St. Peter (treet, and fo feverely bruted as to furvive but a few hours.

Feb. 1.
An elderly woman and two
children were last week burned to death at
Kendal, by their cloths catching fire.

Feb. 1.
This day the officers of the
Stockport Volanteer Corps of Infantry pre-
feated Major Watfon with a large and very
e egant filver cup, lined with gold, and
richly ornamented. On one fide the ma-
jor's arms, fupported by trophies of war;
and, on the other, the following infeription:

"This cup was prefented, on the rit day of February, 1802, to Holland Watson elq. Major Commandant of the Stockport Loyal Volunteers, by the officers of that corps, as a tribute of their efteem, and to convey the high fenfe they entertain of his Loyal y and Panotify, d his Zeal in promoting the interefts of the Corps as Commander, fince its eftabliment in 1794."

Margite, Feb. 10. Repeated as Lave been the awful vifitations with which this town and neighbourhood has been afflicted during this winter*, that which occurred

* Tw.ve of our fithermen and neighhours having been drowned at three differ-. without

ent times.

within these few days has, in every distressing point of view, alarmingly exceeded them all. The hoy Margate, of Margate, John Gondhorn Captain, Mr. John Sacket owner, very deeply laden with cora for the London market, having a crew of 4 men, with 28 patfengers, failed from the harbour in moderate weather, at three on Saturday afternoon, and came to an anchor in the Roads till near 9 in the evening, when they again got under fail, and foon after the weather began to be very tempestuous; but they continued working against the wind till they had arrived, about midnight, nearly off Reculver, with the intention of going to anchor under the hook of Margite find; bur, on making their laft tack towards the land, the strap of the founding-lead broke, and, though the vellel was put about, yet, before another lead could be fited, the Aruck, it was fuppofed, on the tal of the Reculver fand: they then let go the anchor, and the water flowing, the vesel fwung off and rode clear. They then got up the anchor, and, fetting the fails, fhe was drawing off the land, when the gib-rackle broke, which made it impoffible to get her head from the wind; the Captain then lafhed down the tiller, and went forward to fet another gib-fail, when, by the veffel's Ariking the ground, the taler was rent in two, and, before it could he replaced, the rudder was beaten off; and thereby the vellel was rendered totally unmanageable. They then let go their anchor a fecond time, but the boy continuing to heat on the ground in a moft alarming manner, and apprehending the had fprung a leak, and finding the pumps were choaked, they were forced to let flip the cable, and let her drive in to fhore, on which the was beaten, about a mile and a half from the village of Reculver. The scene then he came truly horrible, as a most dreadful fea was breaking over the vellel every moment, and the women and chidren uttering the most lamentable cries. In the midst of thus diftrefs, Mr. Bone, paffenger, and local Preacher in the connexion of the late Rev. John Welley, like the true Chriftian and faithful Divine, with great refignation, exhorted and prayed with his fellow-fufferers, and was heard by the furvivors to the very laft, lifting his voice in fupplitations and praifes to his Redeemer. Five of the paffengers, and four of the crew, having taken to the shrouds, were faved by continuing there till the water was fo lowered that they could get on fhore about 5 in the morning. One other pallenger, Mr. Jefe Carroway, of Margate, was fwept off te deck, but most providentia 1, after kitle exertion, was thrown on the beach by the waves, and escaped; and fuppofes, that very foon after the cabin was filled with water, and 7 paffengers who remained therein drowned, and the remaining 15 and

the Captain, who were on the deck, were then swept away by the merciless waves; as, while he lay on the beach, he heard a general fcream of diftrefs, and then all was ftil!-The fcene which the morning prefented to the affed fpectators, which, by to o'clock, were fome hundreds from Margate and the neighbouring' villages, it is impoffible to defcribe; as, within the length of a mile and an half, 15 men and women lay dead on the fhore, and very foon after 7 other paffengers were taken in the fame ftare from the cabin, making in the whole 23 perfons as follows:

Drowned. Of Margate.

I Mr. John Goodborn, Captain.
2 Mr. George Bone, aged 42 years.
Mr. Henry Thornton, Carpenter.

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4 Sarah Thornton, his wife.

5 Henry Thornton, their fun, aged 13 years.

6 Mrs. Crow, widow.

7 Thomas Edmunds, fon of Mr. Thomas E. White Hart Hotel, aged 9 years. From Margate.

8 Mifs Smith Agnes Nefbit, No. 5, Hollis ftreet, Clare-market, London, aged

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covered from the fea, and fuch of the bodies as were not owned by their friends, were decently buried at Birchinton. The hoy being unladen floated, and was foon after brought into our pier.

It is 171 years fince a Margate hoy was loft; and then, being Nov. 3, 1631, the Rev. Humphrey Wheatley, A native of Leicestershure, and vicar of Margate, his parith-clerk, and fome other pallengers, were drowned.

"Diftrous Day! what ruin halt thou bred!
What agony to the living and the dead!
How has thou left the widow all forlorn,
And ever doom'd the orphan-child to
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Can facred justice thefe events or dam?
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Where Reafon, loft in endless error. Atrays!
As through this thorny vale of life we run,
Great CAUSE of all effects, Thy quill be
done." FALCONER'S Shipwreck.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Tuesday, Jan. 19.

This afternoon, about half past 5, a ter rible fire broke out in the large range of warehouses, chiefly ufed as a depot for coffe and cotton, belonging to Mr. Pugh, in Thames street, the corner of Dowgate hill; occafioned by the fnuff of a candle being imprudently thrown on the ground near one of the hog fheads. It began in the lower part of the premilfes, and was dif covered by the strong smell of the burning cffee, with which the warehouses were filled. Notwithstanding the contignity of the premilks to the Thames, a speedy and ample tupply of water, and the early attendance of the fire-engines, the whole infide of thele extensive buildings was burnt, together with all the produce in them, which cannot yet be effimated. The flames, being continually fed from within, could not be extinguifhed for many hours; but the ftrong party-walls, and there being but Jittle wind, prevented the extenfion of the mischief.

Thufday, fan. 21.

This day, during the dreadful form, the wall of Mr. Pugh's warehouse on Dowgate hill, being unsupported, fell against an adjoning bonfe, and nearly demolithed it-In the height of this hurricane, as a hear fe was going out of the yard of the Flying Horfe, Lambeth-ftreet, Whitechapel, to receive the corpfe of a Jew in the neighbourhood of that place, the wind that was confined in the yard, by the opening of the gate, forced the hoofs and carriage to the upposite fide of te street, befides tearing the gite to pieces, and freng the panties from feveral par ́s of the house and Habling. Satu day, Feb. 6.

about 30 years of age, and extremely well dreffed, was observed to throw herself off the wall of Kensington-Garden into the Serpentine River, from which he was foon afterwards taken out, and every means immediately used to restore her to life, but without effect, as she had been fuffocated by her head sticking in the mud, the water being very thallow in that part of the river. Tuesday, Feb. 9.

The Houfe of Commons having met at 4 o'clock this day, Mr. Ley, the Principal Clerk, obferved, it was his duty to inform the House that he had, in the courfe of the morning, received a letter from the Right Hon. Sir John Mitford, Knt. their Speaker, the contents of which he was defired to communicate to the Houfe. With their permillion, he would read the letter. [general cry of Read, Real.]

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Old Palace-Yard, Feb. 9. "His Majesty having heen graciously pleafed to exprefs his intention of appointing me to the office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, I have to intreat you will communicate the fame to the Houfe at its meeting this day; and I have to request you will at the fame time exprefs to the Houfe, the deep regret I experies ce at quitting the high fituation to which its approbation has raised me; and my gratitude for the fupport with which it has feconded my feeble efforts to discharge the duties of so important a trust. I have the honour to remain, &c.

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John Ley, efq.

JOHN MITFORD."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Houfe, I am fure, will feel that the prefent is not the proper occafion for expreting thofe fentiments, which I am perfuaded are univerfally felt towards the Hon. Gentleman who lately prefided in the Chair, however inclined I might be to exprefs thofe feelings by which, from every confideration of private friendship, duty, and gratitude, as a public character and a Member of this Houfe, I muft neceffarily be actuated. Under the reftraint which circumftances impofe upon me, I have only to ftate, that his Majetty has given leave to this Houfe to proceed to the choice of a new Speaker, and has been pleafed to order that the object of its choice fhall be prefented to him on Thursday next, at two o'clock, for his Royal approbation. I now move that this Houfe do adjourn till to-morrow, at 10 o'clock.-The Honfe adjourned. Saturday, Feb. 27.

A Gentleman, who will not permit his name to be known, has, by a confidential friend, fent to Lord Hood, Governer of Greenwich Hofpital, the amount of the fale of 10, ool. In the Three per Cent. Confuls, for the use and benefit of the faid Hospital.

This truly benevolent Gentleman h.s alfo given the like fum to the Cheft of About one o'clock this day, a woman, Chatham.-Lordon Guzette,

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Chefbire. Lawrence Wright, of Mottram St. Andrew, ofq.

Cumberland. Edward Hafell, of Dalemain, efq. Derbyfb. Thos. Princep, of Croxall, efq. Devonbire. Poftponed.

Dorfet. Edmund Morton Pleydell, of Whatcombe, efq.

Effec. Robt, Raikes, of Great Ilford, efq. Gloucefterb. Jas. Mufgrave, of Barnfley Park. Herefordshire. Edward Bolton Clive, of Treville, efq.

Hertfordshire. Jacob Bofanquet, of Broxborn
Park, efq.

Kent. Thomas Godfrey, of Ah, efq.
Leicester fbire. Postponed.

Lincolnb. Henry Dalton, of Naith, efq.
Monmouthshire. Tho. Morgan, of the Hil, efq.
Norfolk. Robert Wilfon, of Didlington, efq.
Northamptonf. Robert Cary Elwes, of Great
Bellug, e'q.

Northumberland. Charles William Bigge, of Benton Houfe, efq.

Nottinghamshire. Robert Lowe, of Oxton, efq. Oxford/h. Thomas Toovey, of Nettlebell, efq. Rutlandsbire. Wm Gilfon, of Burleigh, efq. Stropfb. Win. Ferriday, of Dawla Parva, efq.

SPRING CIRCUIT.

1802.

Mon, Mar. 1

CIRCUITS OF

Somerfeth. Benjamin Greenhill, of Stone Easton, efq.

Stafford. Robert Parker, of Park-Hall, efq. Southampton. Sir EdwHulfe, of Breanore,bart. Suffolk. Thomas Cockledge, of Bury St. Edmund's, efq.

Surrey. Edward Peppin, of Walton-Lodge, efq. Suffex. Sir William Ashburnham, of Broomham, bart.

Warwickshire, Heneage Legg, of Afton, efq. Wilts.Su Andrew Bayntun,of Spye-Park,bart. Worcestershire. Thomas Newnham, of Broadwas, bart.

Yorkshire. Sir William Foulis, of Ingleby-Manor, bart. SOUTH WALES. Coermarthen. Thomas Owen, of Glaffoult, efq. Pembroke. Hugh Stokes, of Hubberton,efq. Cardiganfb. David Davies, of Glan-yr-Occas, efq.

Glamorganf. Richard Manfell Phillips, of Sketty Hall, efq.

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Brecon. Jofeph Sparkes, of Pennyworlod, efq.
Radnor. John Sherburne, of Llandrindod, efq.
NORTH WALES.
Caernarvon. Robert Wynne, of Llannerch, efq.
Anglesea. William Bulkeley Hughes, of
Brynnda, efq.

Merioneth. Jn. Meredith Moftyn, of Clegir, efq.
Montgomery. Pryce Jones, of Cofrond:dd, efq.
Denbigh. Daniel Leo, of Llannerch-Park, efq.
Flint. Sir Steph. Glynne, of Broad-lane, bart.
SHERIFF appointed by his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, in Council, for the Year 1802.
County of Cornwall. Thomas Carlyon, of Tre-
gerhan, eiq.

THE JUDGES.

NORTHERN. NORFOLK.MIDLAND.

HOME.

OXFORD.

WESTERN.

Ld. Kenyon Ld. Avanley L. C. Baron B. Hotham. B. Thomfon J. Lawrence
J. Rooke J. Grote B. Graham J. Heath J. Chambre J. Le Blanc

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Saturday 6 York & City Aylesbury Linc. & City

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Hertford

Monday 8

Wincheiter

Fuelday 9

Wednef. 10

Chelmsford Glou. & City

Thursday 11

Bedford

Saturday 13

Nott& Town
Huntingdon Derby

Monmouth Saram

Maiditone

Monday 15

Hereford

Tueday 16

Wednef. 17

Cambridge

Dorchester

Thursday 18

Leic. & Bor.

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