the lord president of his majesty's council, the duke of Leeds, the duke of Devonshire, the earl of Cholmondeley (lord chamberlain), and the earl of Jersy (master of the horse to the prince of Wales), lord Thurlow, and the ladies of her royal highness's bedchamber, were present. Her royal highness and the young princess were in perfect health. 14th.

Between eight and nine o'clock this day, the pow der mills belonging to Mr. Hill, at Hounslow, owing to the wheels of the mill not being properly supplied with oil, took fire, and blew up with a dreadful explosion, which not only terrified the inhabitants of the place, but alarmed the cities of London and Westminster, and the houses of the people several miles round the metropolis experienced the effects of its powerful concussion; three men, who were at work in the manufactory, have lost their lives, and the flames from the mill communicating to a punt in the mill river, in which were 30 barrels of gunpowder, set fire to the whole, and blew up with a terrible explosion; the man who had the care of the vessel being shattered to pieces, and the boat being blown out of the water.

Not a vestige of the mill is left standing, and Hounslow heath is covered with bricks and tiles, and the mangled limbs of the unfortunate sufferers. The houses in Hounslow, Isleworth, and even Brentford, have suffered considerably; the Crown Inn at Hounslow, and the King's Head at Brentford, have not a whole pane of glass in the windows; and the inhabitants were so terrified near the spot, that they not only forsook

their dwellings, but a number of women, with their children, through fear, appeared half naked in the streets, expecting every moment that their houses would fall and bury them in the ruins. The scattered limbs of the unfortunate victims, who for the most part have left large families to lament their loss by this unforeseen event, were, by order of the magistrates, collected together and deposited in the church-yard. The loss of this va luable manufactory is estimated at near 20,0001. The shock was felt as far north of London as the extre mities of Enfield parish, and South beyond Croydon. A similar disaster happened to the same concern about 20 years ago.

16th.

Vienna. The princess royal of France, Maria Theresa, arrived here on the 9th, a little after six o'clock in the evening, amidst the loudest acclamations of crowds of people, who accompanied her carriage as far as the Burg, where his Imperial majesty had caused a residence to be prepared for her. Count Colloredo, cabinet minister to the emperor, accompanied her to the place of her residence from Burkersdorff, whither he went to welcome her, in the name of his Imperial majesty, as soon as information of her arrival was received. Prince Stahremberg, the principal lord of the bedchamber, on the 10th, went to the residence of the princess, and presented to prince Gavre all the future household servants, &c. destined for her use.-The first who received the French princess royal of France in this capital, were the archdukes and archduchesses. The emperor and empress honoured her with a visit soon after her arrival,

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and received her with open arms. In her own place of residence the princess wept most bitterly. She has since paid a visit to the archduchess Christine, who is indisposed. A grand and brilliant courtday is expected to-morrow, which will be the first day on which her Imperial majesty will make her public appearance after her lyingin. It is expected also that the French princess royal will be intro duced, with proper ceremony, to the higher class of the nobility and foreign ambassadors. Countess Chanclos, formerly governess to the archduchess Elizabeth, first consort of the emperor, has been appointed to the same dignity with the French princess royal. Prince Gavre is appointed governor to her royal highDess. The only article preserved by the French princess, from the effects which were put into her carriage at Paris, is said to be a small parcel, which, besides a small quantity of linen, contained three miniature pictures, and some hair of her father, mother, and the princess Elizabeth her aunt ; also a pair of garters knit by her late unfortunate mother, out of the threads of an old piece of tapestry which she, found in her prison.

18th.

When the royal standard was flying at the Tower, being the queen's birth-day, a tricoloured silk flag, three yards wide and of length in proportion, was hoisted over the rampart on a staff of seven feet long, and continued hoisted for three hours before it was discovered in the garrison. On the discovery, the major of the Tower, colonel Smith, went himself to strike it, when making into a wrong part, it disappeared before he reached the spot, but was traced into the de

puty chaplain's house, and found stripped from the staff, under his son's bed, a young man of 15, at present a pupil in a public school.

20th.

Portsmouth. In conse

quence of a dreadful gale of wind, a great number of ships at Spithead were this day obliged to cut their cables, and run for the harbour, several of which got foul of each other. Signals of distress were seen flying on board many vessels, but the weather was so extremely bad as to prevent any boats going to their assistance. A man of war's boat was driven out of the harbour with the tide this afternoon, and overset near South-Sea Beach; the whole of the crew got safe on shore except one man, who was unfortunately drowned. The tide was many feet higher this day than has been known for upwards of 30 years; several houses on the point having been washed down, and a number of people removed their goods up into the town; for if the wind had not abated, the tide would have been full as high in the morning, and many more houses conse quently damaged.

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Edinburgh. The weather, for three days past, has been very

very tempestuous. On Saturday afternoon it blew a perfect hurricane from the S. W. In the new town, and other exposed situations, many persons were carried off their feet, and thrown down; several carriages were overturned, and in some houses the windows were broken and forced in. The streets were strewed with chimney pans, by the falling of which several persons were hurt, though we have not heard of any being dangerously so. On Sunday morning the storm was equally violent. The gale was from a quarter that is seldom dangerous on this coast; but, if it was equally violent on the West coast, the consequences

are to be feared.

26th. Glasgow. By a sudden inundation yesterday at Greenock and Port Glasgow, the tobacco-cellars at the latter place were laid under water from six to nine inches on the floors, by which means a good deal of tobacco is injured, but to what amount we cannot say. The loss on sugar at Greenock will be very great, probably not less than 30,000l. In some of the cellars on the West Quay, the water was up from eighteen to twenty inches on the lower tier of sugar. The storm was also severely felt here; a stack of chimnies was blown down in the High-street, and several trees in the neighbourhood have been torn up by the roots. A telegraph was this day 28th. erected over the admiralty, which is to be the point of communication with all the different sea-ports in the kingdom. The nearest telegraph to London has hitherto been in St. George's Fields; and to such perfection has this ingenious and useful contrivance been

29th.

Earl Cholmondeley has informed the city remem brancer, that his royal highness, from being under the necessity of dismissing his establishment, is unable to receive their congratulatory compliments in a manner suitable to his rank and with that respect which is due to the city of London; and that the prince expresses much regret in not having it in his power to shew a proper regard for the good wishes of the city of London towards himself and the princess.

This morning about 10, Michael Blanch, a Spaniard, James Colley, an American, and Francis Cole, a Black, who were found guilty at the late admiralty sessions, of the wilful murder of William Little, the master and commander of an American vessel, were brought out of Newgate, and placed in a cart, and conveyed to Execution Dock, where they were executed according to their sentence. In the afternoon the three bodies were brought back to surgeons' hall, there to be dis sected pursuant to the sentence of

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the court of admiralty. been a case of piracy, they would have been hung in chains.

DIED. In Portugal, Dr. Loreira, author of the "Flora Cochi nensis. s." This celebrated botanist devoted 30 years of close application to the composition of this work. Sir Joseph Banks invited him to this country, for the purpose of publishing it here; but advanced age prevented him from accepting the invitation.

20. At Lancaster, in an advan▲ ced period of life, Mr. Alexander Stevens, architect t; who in the course of the last forty years, erected more stone bridges, and other buildings in water, than any man in these kingdoms. Among the many works of that kind may be mentioned the bridge over the Liffey at Dublin, and the locks and docks on the grand canal of Ireland. The north of England and Scotland exhibits numberless works of his execution. The aqueduct over the river Lune, at Lancaster, is one of the greatest undertakings he was ever concerned in; and, had he lived a few months longer, he would have had the satisfaction of seeing it completed.

18th. This day came on in the court of king's bench, the cause of Jeffreys versus Mr. Walker and others, commissioners appointed for liquidating the prince of Wales's debts, for the sum of 54,6851. for jewels furnished by the plaintiff for his royal highness. Messrs. Sharp, Elias, Levi, and Dugden, eminent diamond-merchants, were called on the part of the plaintiff, who proved the value of the articles to be, unset, 50,9971. 10s. ; while Messrs. Crisp, Duval, and Francillon, on the part of the defendants, gave it as their opinion, that, having examined the jewels, they were not worth more than 43,800. exclusive of the setting of a miniature picture of her highness. The jury, after a quarter of an hour's consideration, found a verdict for the plaintiff 50,9971. 10s.

Richard England was put 19th. to the bar at the old Bailey, charged with the wilful murder of Mr. Rowlls, brewer, of Kingston, in a duel at Cranford-bridge, June 18, 1794. Lord Derby, the first witness, gave in evidence, that he was present at Ascot races; when in the stand upon the race-course he heard Mr. England cautioning the gentlemen present not to bet with the deceased, as he neither paid what he lost or what he borrowed; on which Mr. Rowlls

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went up to him, called him rascal or scoundrel, and offered to strike him; when England bid him stand off, or he would be obliged to knock him down, saying, at the same time, "We have interrupted the company sufficiently here, and if you have any thing further to say to me, you know where I am to be found." A farther altercation ensued; but his lordship, being at the other end of the stand, did not distinct ly hear it, and then the parties re

tired.

Lord Dartry, now lord Cremorne, and his lady, with a gentleman, were at the inn at the time the duel was fought they went into the garden, and endeavoured to prevent the duel; there were several other persons collected in the garden. Mr. Rowlls desired his lordship and others not to interfere; and on a second attempt of his lordship to make peace, Mr. Rowlls said, if they did not retire, he must, though reluctantly, call them impertinent. Mr. England, at the same time, stepped forward, and took off his hat: he said, "gentlemen, I have been cruelly treated; I have been injured in my honour and character; let there be reparation made, and I am ready to have done this moment." Lady Dartry retired; his lordship stood in the bower of the garden, until he saw Mr. Rowlls fall. One or two witnesses were called, who proved nothing material. A paper containing the prisoner's defence being read, the earl of Derby, marquis of Hertford, Mr. Whitbread, jun. col. Bishopp, and other gentlemen, were called to his character. They all spoke of him as a man of decent, gentlemanly deportment, who, instead of seeking quarrels, was stu

dious to avoid them. He had been, friendly to Englishmen whilst abroad, and had rendered some services to the military at the siege of Newport. Mr. justice Rooke summed up the evidence, after which the jury retired for about three quarters of an hour, when they returned a verdict, guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner having fled from the laws of his country for twelve years, the court was disposed to shew no lenity. He was therefore sentenced to pay a fine of one shilling, and to be imprisoned in Newgate twelve months.

In the king's bench, came 20th. on the trial of Kyd Wake, indicted for a misdemeanour in hissing and hooting the king as his majesty was going to the parliament-house, on the first day of the present session, and likewise crying, ❝ down with George, no war," &c. Mr. Stockdale, the bookseller, and Mr. Walford, the linen draper, who acted as constables on the day, were examined, and fully proved the facts charged in the indictment; upon which the jury, without hesitation, found a verdict, guilty. A great number of persons attended on the part of the prisoner; but as they could only speak to his general character, and not to the case in point, Mr. Erskine, the prisoner's counsel, declined calling upon them, reserving their testimony to be offered in mitigation of punishment, on the first day of next term, when the prisoner will be brought up to the court of king's bench to receive judgment.

21st.

Hull. After the family were gone to bed, a very alarming fire broke out in the habitable part of Wressle Castle, which increased