The evidence of the fervants, respecting the conduct of their lord fhips, was fimilar to the above. A piftol was found unloaded in the carriage, which appeared to have been just fired. The piftol which had put an end to the life of lord Charles had been placed in his mouth, and loaded with two flugs or balls, one of which perforated the fkull, and the other was extracted from the mouth. Neither the teeth nor tongue were injured, fo that it is evident that no violence had been used in the introduction of the fatal inftrument, and the death of lord Charles might not improbably be an act of his own, committed in a paroxyfm of phrenzy. Laft night the coroner's inqueft fat on the body; when, after along examination, the jury brought in a verdict-" That the deceated had been killed by piftol-ball, but from whofe hands unknown." Yefterday and this day 30th. there was a very heavy gale of wind from the fouth-weft, which blew in gufts with uncommon violence. Much damage was fuftained in many parts of the metropolis by the blowing down of chimneys, untiling houfes; and in fome of the environs of the town many trees were 'torn up by the roots. In Dean's yard, Wefiminfter, part of the old ruinous buildings came down by the violence of the wind with a great crash. Luckily it had been fome time fince railed and paled in, fo that no perfon was near enough to receive any damage. In St. James's Park more than a dozen large trees were torn up by the roots, and the foliage of others were fcattered in every direction. The paffage to Spring Gardens was as thickly ftrewed with leaves as any orchard in autumn. A part of one of the ftands, erected in Covent-Garden for the accommodation of the spectators of the election, was blown down: there were, however, no perfons on it at the time, as from its elevation it was not confidered fafe. Part of the roof of a house at the corner of College-hill, Dowgate, was thrown down; which, falling upon a poor woman paffing at the time, bruifed her fo feverely, that he was carried to St. Bartholomew's hofpital, without hopes of recovery. Several buildings in the neighbourhood of Houndɗditch, Bishopfgate-ftreet, &c. were also unroofed, and fome trees in the quarter of Moorfields were torn up by the roots. In Lambeth-marth, an empty houfe, condemned by the commiflioners of the road, was blown down; as were the roofs from fome of the buildings in the fame quarter. fuch a direction, that he inftantly Between 11 and 12 in the forenoon a fire broke out in the hay loft over the oil-mill of Meffrs. Watts and Parfons in Turners-hill, Marth-lane, Chefunt; which in a fhort time conlumed the whole premifes, with fifty loads of oil ready to remove, not without fufpicion of wilful mifchief, the mill having been on fire a week before. 13th. affembled to extinguish the devouring flames, till Tuesday morning, when a confiderable part of the city was laid in afhes. Thofe acquainted with the city will conceive the damage done, on being told, that every honfe in Queenftreet, from the bay to the corner of Church-ftreet: all Union ftreet continued two-thirds of Unionftreet-Church-ftreet, from Broadftreet, to St. Phillip's church, with only two exceptions-Chalmers's & Beresford's alieys-Kinloch's court At the clofe of the poll for Westminster, the num--and the north fide of Broad-ftreet, bers were, for Mr. Fox Admiral Gardner 5160 4814 Mr. Horne Tooke 2819 Andrew Robinson Bowes, who was committed for an affault upon lady Strathmore, and who has been in prifon eleven years, was brought up, and in confequence of the fign manual produced in court, containing his majefty's most gracious pardon, was ditcharged upon his own recognizance. Lord Kenyon, in fumming up to the jury on a little wretched play debt, faid, it is to be lamented, that gaming is fo prevalent among the highest ranks of fociety, which have fet the example to their inferiors, and who, it feems, are too great for the law. I wish they could be punished. "If any profecutions are fairly brought before me and the parties are justly convicted, whatever may be their rank or ftation in the country, though they be the first ladies in the land, they thall certainly exhibit themfelves in the pillory.” Charlestown. On the 13th of June a molt alarming fire broke out in Lodge-alley, which baffled all the exertions of a numerous concourte of citizens, who fpeedily from the ftate house to Mr. Jacks's, four doors below Church-street; and five houfes on the Bay, from the corner of Queen-ftreet, were burnt to the ground. The public buildings deftroyed, are the French church, and feveral adjoining buildings. Phillip's church was on fire at different times, and ultimately must have been destroyed, if a fpirited negro man had uot afcended to the top of the cupola, next to the vane, and tore off the fhingles. The private buildings deftroyed, and the property they contained, are of immenfe amount. Five hundred chimnies, it is faid, have been counted, from which the buildings are burnt; and 150,000l. terling, is fuppofed to be a fum far fhort of the value of those buildings. The goods and furni ture destroyed, are probably nearly equal to this fum. prietors acknowledge immenfe fums have been expended in building, and for which more than twice the fum it now fetched had been refused, and the fate of the inftitution itself, affords a ftriking proof that the people of this country are not difpofed to encourage the modern philofophers in their attempts to undermine the conftitution. That feminary was inftituted under the moft favourable aufpices. The moft wealthy and refpectable part of the diffenters were difpofed to fupport the inftitution; but, that fupport having been withdrawn, the building is brought to the hammer. Whether it fhall be converted into barracks, being not farther from the caft than thofe in Hyde-park from the western extretremity of the capital, or into a country fettlement of any capital public and more conftitutional fchool in London, or ferve as a fupplement to Bedlam, already too crowded to receive more inhabitants, time muft fhew. The following melancho27th. ly accident happened yef terday morning in Houghton-ftreet, Clare-market-Two houfes fuddenly gave way, and buried in their ruins fixteen unfortunate inhabitants. At noon, thirteen were got out and conveyed to the parith work houfe in Portugal-ftreet. Of thefe, three had been dug out, thockingly mangled, without the leaft fymptoms of life: two children apparently dead, were reftored to life by the means prefcribed by the humane fociety in cafes of fuffocation; the reft received fome of them flight and others fevere contufions. But what rendered their fituation the more deplorable was that they recognized, or ex pected to recognize, in every individual who was brought in, a relative or a friend. The landlord of one of the houfes, it is reported, received notice of the infecurity of his house two days ago, but did not apprise the lodgers of their danger for fear of lofing them. A duel was fought in a 28th. field within three miles of Hamburgh, between lord Valentia and Henry Gawler, efq. They left England with their feconds and furgeons for the exprefs purpose of fighting. They fired together. Mr. Gawler's ball took place; it entered his lord fhip's breast-bone, and lodg ed near the neck; it was extracted on the field, and he is confidered to be out of danger. Lord Valentia's ball paffed through Mr. Gawler's hat. The affair between Mr. Gawler and lady Valentia was the fubje&t of the difpute. DIED.-At Bedwell-park, Herts, in his 76th year, Samuel Whitbread, efq.; whofe abilities, integrity, benevolence, and public fpirit, will tranfmit his character with respect to pofterity. Ilis father was a yeoman of Bedfordshire, who lived at the Barns at Cardington, in that country, on an estate of about 2col. per annum, which devolved to his eldest fon, who much improved it by building, and spent much of his time at it after he purchafed Bedwell-park. He is faid to have died worth a million at leaft; the bulk of which he has bequeathed to his fon. He was half-brother to Ive Whitbread, efq. hardwareman, of Cannon-fireet, and fheriff of London with Mr. Beckford, in 1755. By his first wife, Harriet, daughter of Haytor, an eminent attorney, of Lon don, don, whom he married in 1757, and who died in 1764, he has left ifue a fon, Samuel, gentlemancommoner of Chrift church, Oxford, and reprefentative of the town of Bedford in feveral parliaments after his father gave it up, and two daughters; the eldest married, in 179, to James Gordon, jun. efq. of More-park, Herts; the younger, Emma, to Henry Beauchamp lord St. John of Bletfo, 1780. Mr. Whitbread, married to his fecond wife, 1769, lady Mary, youngest daughter of the late earl, and fitter to the prefent marquis Cornwallis, who died in 1770, in childbed of an only daughter, married, in June, 1795, to capt. George Grey, late of the Boyne man of war, of 98 guns, third fon of fir Charles Grey, K. B. and nephew of fir Harry Grey, bart. whofe fifter was married in 1788 to the prefent Mr. Whitbread, and by whom he has feveral children. His extenfive establishments in the brewery were long unrivalled, and perhaps, to a certain point, remain fo fill, and excited the envy even of a poet (Dr. Walcot) who fpares not royalty, though in this inftance of his fatire, he has perpetuated a compliment to the fovereign and the man of malt by coupling them together. Mr. Whitbread's liberal charity will be witneffed by every parith where he had property, and in the diftribution of his private benevolence, which is faid to have exceeded 3000l. per annum; for no proper application met with a repulfe; and to his honour let it here be recorded, that, feveral years before his death, he fettled on St. Luke's hofpital for lunaticks a perpetual rent-charge of one hundred guineas, payable out of his extenfive premiles in Chifwell-ftreet. JULY. At the Old Bailey, Mary IA. Nott was capitally convicted, for the wilful murder of M. le Marquis de Gripier de Moncroe de Laval, a French emigrant nobleman, on the 29th of May laft, at his lodg ings in Monmouth-court, Whitcomb-ftreet, of which house the had the care; and received fentence to be executed on Monday. Richard Ludman, Ann 2d. Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and Mary Baker, were tried for the murder of George Hebaer.-This murder was committed in Kingftreet, Eaft Smithfield, in one of thofe obfcure receptacles of debauchery with which this metropolis abounds. The body of the deceafed was found on the morning of Sunday the 22d of May, fufpended by the neck from a bed-poft, in a room on the fecond floor, with his hands tied behind his back. This unfortunate man was a taylor, and had, it seems, been in very diftreffed circumstances, which pro duced a propenfity to intoxication: when much in liquor, his widow faid, he flept fo found, that it was almoft impoffible to wake him. It was proved that the four prisoners were in the houfe (which belonged to Eleanor Hughes) on the evening of Saturday the 21 ft, and next morning. They were feen, and fome of their converfation heard, by two women who lived in an adjoining houfe; this houfe was feparated from that in which the body was found by only a lath partition, perforated in feveral places, and the holes and crevices affording a diftinct view of almost all the apartments of the latter. The manner in which the hands of the deceafed were ply "cunning and craft, which would foon be in difrepute in this country:" "a niggard" to mean, "a king who had defrauded his fubjects of nine millions of money. expect to go when you die?" and that the guillotine fhould be introduced into this country, as a more merciful mode of punishing kings and queens than by the axe, &c. were bound with a piece of tape was defcribed in court. The knot that had been ufed was what feamen call a timber hitch, and it was obviously fuch as could not be done by himself. There was no di-Oh! Mr. Guelph, where do you rect and pofitive proof as to the guilt of the prifoners; but there was a chain of moft fufpicious circumftances pointing against Ludman and Hughes. The lord chief baron of the exchequer fummed up the evidence with great precifion, candour, and humanity. It was on the expreffions used by the prifoners that the proof chiefly refted, and his lordthip nicely difcriminated between those that feemed to arife from surprise, on the difcovery of the fituation of the deceased, and thofe hich could only be fuppofed to proceed from a knowledge of the murder. The jury retired for about an hour, and returned with a verdict, finding Richard Ludman and Eleanor Hughes guilty.-Ann Rhodes and Mary Baker not guilty. Sentence of death was immediately pronounced on Ludman and Hughes, by the recorder. Mary Nott, Richard Lud4th. man, and Eleanor Hughes were executed before Newgate. This morning Henry Wef6th. ton for forgery, and John Roberts, alias Colin Reculift, alfo for forgery, were executed purfuant to their fentence, oppofite the debtors' door, in the Old Bai Lord Kenyon concluded his charge to the jury with obferving, that the king was entitled to the fame protection of the laws with other men; and they would confider whether any part of the king's condu&t called for fuch obfervations as thofe which had been read to them from the book published by the defendant. His lord fhip thought his majefty, like the judge of Ifrael (Samuel), might appeal to the jury and fay, Whofe ox have I taken? Whofe afs have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppreffed?" The jury, after 15 minutes confideration, returned a verdict-guilty. A caufe was tried in the 9th. court of king's bench, Guildhall, between the proprietors of a newspaper called the Telegraph, plaintiffs, and the proprietors of the Morning Poft, defendants. It was proved, that in the month of February laft, the defendants had contrived to forward to the office of the Telegraph from Canterbury, a fpurious French newspaper, containing a pretended renewal of the armiftice, and preliminaries of peace between the emperor and the French republic. The proprietors of the Telegraph being thus impofed on to give as true a translati◄ on of this falfe fabricated intelligence, and thereby futaining much difcredit |