MURDER.

A failor belonging to the Impreg mable at Plymouth, a few Sundays fince, had the marriage banns published between himself and one of the Liberty freet girls; but being informed, that the kind fair one had an amour with a young man belonging to the corps of artificers, he early next morning went o her apartment armed with a loaded piftol, and finding the unfortunate ob ject of his jealoufy afleep in his intended wife's arms, he immediately fhot him through the head, and he instantly expired. The murderer was fecured, and committed to Exeter gaol for trial.

MATRIMONY.

Lately was married at Portsmouth, John Millar, an old foldier, who was

The 13th fell the ponderous and maffy rock in Charnwood Forest, known by the name of the Hanging Stone, which has food for ages the wonder of spectators.

A melancholy accident lately happened at Woolalton, in Gloucestershire : Two men were felling a tree; one of them having faftened a rope to it, in order to pull it down, it entangled with the branches of another tree; a little boy being near was called to affilt, when fuddenly the tree fell on them both, and killed the boy on the spot ; the man did not furvive him above an hour,

An over-drove ox this month toffed a woman and child in Spitalfields, by which accident the child was killed on the fpot, and the woman fo dangerously bruifed, that her life is despaired of.

A fingular and melancholy affair happened lately at Margate:-A young man who was fick in bed was attended by two nurses, who fat up in his bedthe fervant of the houfe wondering that room during the night; one morning the nurses did not come down to break faft, went into the room, and found all the three quite dead, as fuppofed, from the vapour of charcoal, or fomething in the fire which had fuffocated them.

BOXING.

Snailum and Hales, two celebrated feveral times, in which the latter has boxers in the west, who have fought always been victor, had another renBristol, on the 17th. Big Ben, whọ contre on Marshfield Downs, near has fome time been refiding at Kingf wood, his place of nativity, inftructed the fight, and was fo confident of his Snailum during fix weeks previous to pupil's fuccefs, that he betted a conbattle commenced, in a large ring enfiderable fum of money on him. The circled with ropes, at two o'clock, and As both the combatants are very big, lafted one hour and forty-four minutes. powerful men, the blows were as hardly and as vigorously dealt, as ever was witneffed on fuch an occafion. Victory at last declared for Hales, who was

carried

carried off the field triumphantly in a poft-chaife. Snailum was quite blinded, and was obliged to be bled on the ground.

TRIALS.

A remarkable cause has been tried at Rome, in which prince Chigi was accused of having attempted to poifon the cardinal Carandini. The decree of the court was, "That the prince, in cafe of his return to Rome, fhall be imprifoned for life in one of the ftate for treffes; that Sigifmund Boldini, an accomplice, fhall be confined to the gallies; and that John Sebastian, an apothecary, by whom the poison was prepared, shall be imprisoned for three years."

On a trial at the late Hereford affizes, it appeared that a parish officer had paid different fums of money to poor men from other parishes, to induce them to marry fuch unhappy women as were burthenfome, or likely to be fo, to his own. The rewards had been proportioned with much nicety to the degree of infirmity in body or mind, by which the unfortunate objects were diftinguifhed. The judge most severely reprobated this inhuman perverfion of a facred ceremony; and, after fining the overfeer in the fum of ten pounds, ordered him to be confined one month in the common goal.

BIGAMY.

After a very long trial at the last Bury affizes, Moreland was found guilty of bigamy, in marrying Mrs. Hardcastle, of Ipfwich, and Mifs Lambeth, near Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was fentenced to be burnt in the hand, which was done before he left court, and to be imprifoned twelve months in the Ipfwich gaol, during

which time his head is to be shaved, he is to wear the habit of the prifon, which is a very difagreeable one, confifting of wooden clogs, &c. and is to be allow ed only two hours each day from close confinement.

JUSTICE.

A man, upwards of fixty years of age, has lately been hanged at Limerick, for feducing his mafter's daughter, a child only eleven years old.

The following prifoners were, on the 15th, capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, viz. Edward Pritchard, for the wilful murder of Martha his wife, by unmercifully beating and bruifing her on the head, and divers parts of her body, with a ftick; and Charles Taylor, for the wilful murder of Winifred his wife, by cutting her in the belly, arms, thighs, and other parts of her body with a razor; both of them received, judgment to be hanged, and afterwards their bodies to be diffected and anatomifed: on the 18th the fentence was put in execution. For the particulars of thefe horrid murders, fee our laft, page 105.

DEATHS.

The laft letters from Paris brough a confirmation of the death of M. Mirabeau on the 2d inft. at half past eight o'clock, after an illness violent and fhort, in the first part of which he was frequently delirious, and throughout in great pain.

From the first appearance of his indifpofition, it was known to be danger ous, and bulletins, announcing his fituation, were published hourly; notwith ftanding which, the populace waited at his gate in great numbers, anxious, through affection and curiofity, to obtain the earliest intelligence of his fate.

The buzz of the crowd, and even the voices of the hawkers who cried these bulletins, were audible in his chamber.

A few hours before his death, one of

his friends remarked to him this inftance of the estimation in which he was held by his countrymen-" Ah! (faid e) I perceive that it must be acceptable his diforder, his hope of recovery was to die for them." In the beginning of great; but his courage, in the fubfedeliberately made his will, and recolquent ftages of it, was not lefs. He lecting that a law relating to teftaments was then before the National Affembly, he faid to the abbé de Taleyrand, the late bishop of Autun-" The National Affembly is now engaged upon a law relating to teftaments, and they will not think it unfuitable, that a man, who has juft made one, fhould offer them his opinion upon the question, as his laft homage. I entrust this paper to your care, to be read to the affembly."

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He died in the 42d year of his age, leaving many of his intended plans unfinifhed; but at a time, when his reputation had attained an height which it probably would not have exceeded.

His character was of that complex fort which cannot be haftily or concifely developed, and which we fhall not attempt to defcribe. One truth may perhaps be fhortly told as to the worth of his intentions-that his principles were bad, and that the good which he did was accidental, or done only, because he happened to believe it to be the most expedient. We fay happened; for, notwithstanding his talents, he could not often see the homely but irrefiftible truth, "That honefty is the beft policy." His abilities alone rendered him what he was; and he was undoubtedly the firft man in France, as to perfonal power and confequence.

The directory of Paris have decreed a public mourning of eight days for his death, and the municipal body have appointed a deputation of twelve members to be prefent at his funeral.

On the night before his death, his fecretary, who was fufpected of being at times infane, was found weltering in his blood, from feveral wounds which he had given himself. M. de Mirabeau had frequently fent to him for the key of his bureau; and, at length, no anfwer being returned, the door of his chamber was broke open, and he was difcovered upon the floor. In his own bureau, which contained the key of that belonging to M. de Mirabeau, were found two packets of affignats, upon one of which of twenty-two thoufand livres, was written" This is M. Mirabeau's:" upon another of eight hundred-"This is mine. He is out of danger."

The body of M. de Mirabeau was opened under a tent in his garden, in the prefence of the judges of the tribunal, four municipal officers, and feveral furgeons, amongst whom, thofe belonging to the feveral battalions of the national guard were very properly invited. No fymptom that he had been poisoned was difcovered.

All the places of public amusement in Paris were hut on the day of his death.

The National Affembly has decreed, that the new edifice of Genevieve fhall be appropriated to receive the afhes of great men; that M. de Mirabeau's afhes fhall be depofited there; and that over the door fhall be engraved," Aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaiffante."

The latter end of March, at his houfe in Upper Grofvenor-street, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with the utmoft fortitude, fir Archibald Campbell, K. B. late go, vernor and commander in chief on the coaft of Coromandel; colonel of his majesty's 74th regiment of foot, and member for the boroughs of Inverkeithing, &c. &c. &c.

Sir Archibald difcovered, when at college, a genius for mathematics and mechanics, and was fent by his father, who was a commissary in the Western Iflands, to the Royal Academy, Wool. wich, where his abilities became fo confpicuous, that he was foon appointed an engineer; and in 1757 he ferved upon three expeditions on the coaft of France.

At the clofe of 1758, he went as engineer to Guadaloupe, and on the reduction of the island he was appointed chief engineer to Guadaloupe; he served afterwards on feveral other expeditions fo much to the fatisfaction of our commanders, that on his return to England in 1761, he was ftrongly recommended to the minifter by general Monckton and admiral Rodney.

During the laft war, he ferved in a variety of expeditions, and distinguished himself by his bravery, his humanity, and his knowledge. The India Company appointed him governor of Madras, to which place he went in 1786, and his majesty honoured him with a red ribband.

A few days ago, at Little Onn in Staffordshire, Catharine Harvey, aged 104. This venerable perfon has a fifter in the fame parish, aged 102, who is now in good health.

The 19th, in the parish of St. Giles,* in the fuburbs of Oxford, Mrs. Sarah Gunfton, aged upwards of 103 years. She had been a widow above half a century, and enjoyed her faculties to the laft, though the had been bedridden › for the last fix years.

SKETCH

to nine. This done, he reads pe

OF DENMARK.

HE prince of Denmark rifes at

the petitions presented to him the preceding evening; rides out, reviews the garrifon, returns at twelve; and when dreffing, reads fuch papers, as may have been prefented in the forenoon. At two he dines with the royal family; and at four retires to his own apartinents in the palace of Chriftiansbourg, where perfons of all ranks and condition are admitted in their turn. The people promifcuously affemble in the anti-chamber, whence they are conducted one by one to the prince, to whom they prefent in writing the particulars of their complaint, request, &c. accompanied by a few words merely expreflive of the contents, to which his highness returns a fhort answer, but not till he has afked fuch questions as never fail to make him mafter of the subject; at the end of which he bows, which is the fign to withdraw.

The levee clofes at feven. The prince then drinks tea in his own clofet, the better to indulge the wifh, which he has fo frequently manifefted, of tranfacting public bufinefs. It is alfo on this account that the prince for fome time paft has denied himself the pleasure of converfing with his royal fifter, (of whom he is remarkably fond), exsept on Sunday evenings, from eight VOL. III.

vations on the margin; after which he claffes them according to the

manner they are fent to the fecretaries of ftate, whofe departments are calculated to meet these claffes. Supper is ready at nine, and at eleven all is quiet in the palace.

The attention of the prince to education, and to the erection and proper regulation of schools, is deferving the higheft applaufe. His courage and endurance of military fatigue, his benevolence, his affa bility, his annuities to literary per fons, and to young men of promifing talents, at home and abroad, his ordering moral and scientific pamphlets, printed at his own expence, to be difpofed among the poor, and laftly his domeftic happiness in his marriage, complete the tranfcendant character of the heir of Denmark.

if he performed it as faithfully as he pretended, muft have taken fome years to accomplish. Some make vows to keep their arms croffed over their breafts for the rest of their days, others to keep their hands for ever flut, and their nails are fometimes feen growing through the back of their hand; and fome are chained to a particular fpot, and others never lie down, but fleep leaning againft a tree.

There are frequent inflarees of devotees and penitents throwing themselves under the wheels of their chariots of Sheevah or Vifhnou, when the idol is drawn out to celebrate the feat of a temple, and being thereby crushed to death: and not long fince we faw an account of the aged father of a numerous offspring, who devoted himself to the flames to appeafe the wrath of a divinity, who, as he imagined, Had for fome time paft afflicted his family with a mortal epidemical disease.

DESCRIPTION

OF THE PAGODA AT SERINGHAM*. ABOUT a mile from the weftern extremity of the island of Seringham, and at a fmall diftance from the bank of the Coleroon, ftands the celebrated pagoda. It is compofed of feven fquare inclofures, one within the other, and ftanding at three hundred and fifty feet parallel diftance from each other. The walls are of ftone and mortar, and twenty-five feet high: every inclosure has four large gateways, with a high tower over them, one being in the centre of each fide, and oppofite to the four cardinal points. The outward gateway to the fouth is richly ornamented with pillars, fome of which are fingle ftones thirty-three feet long, and

*This defcription throws at a vast diftanze the most magnificent temples of

five in diameter, and thofe that form the roof of the gateway, which is flat, are ftill larger. The pagoda is confecrated to Vifhnou, and in the inner inclosure are the altars and the image of that deity. The brahmans who belong to the pagoda are very numerous, and with their families are said to amount to fome thousands of fouls.

During the ftruggles between the English and French nations for fuperiority in the Carnatic, and in fupport of the Mahomedan viceroys, whofe caufe they refpectively ef poufed, the repofe of the brahmans was disturbed, and their temple profaned; it was alternately taken poffeffion of by the French and English armies. When those rude intruders first attempted to enter it, a brahman who stood on the top of the outer gateway, after having in vain fupplicated them to defift, rather than be a witness of fuch pollution, threw himself on the pavement below, and dafhed out his brains. As the firft inclosure afforded room more than fufficient for their reception, at the intreaties of the brahmans they did not proceed any farther.

About half a mile eaft from this pagoda is another called Jumbookifhna. When the French, who, with their ally Chunda Saib, had been for fome time fhut up in thofe two pagodas, furrendered them to Mr. Laurence in June 1752, a thoufand Rajahpout feapoys refufed to march out of Seringham until affured that their conquerors would not pafs beyond the third inclosure, declaring they would die to a man in defending the paffage to it: but Mr. Laurence, admiring their courage, and refpecting their devotion, far from giving them offence, ordered that none fhould go beyond the fecond.

European structure, and indeed all others recorded in history,

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