their part, of only 127 killed, and 68 wounded. A Gottenburgh Mail has brought Papers to the 11th, containing official intelligence, that the French had not only raised the siege of Stralsund, but had evacuated Swedish Po merania. The raising of the siege of Stralsund, though certainly intended in the course of a few days on the part of the French, was precipitated by a vigorous attack from the garrison on the 4th instant; making, at the same time, two officers and 150 men prisoners, and taking eighty baggage waggons, and considerable magazines. Buonaparté, it is said, directed Mortier to * raise the siege of Stralsund, and join him * immediately, if he could not carry the place in 48 hours. 3 t The most important intelligence of the month is, the hostile appearance of our fleet before Constantinople, and forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. Soine dispatches from Sir John Tho. Duckworth were coming home by the Crafty schooner; but this vessel was captured by the enemy, and carried to Ceuta, on the 9th ult. Dispatches have been since received from Lord Collingwood; and the following, in consequence, was transmitted to the Lord Mayor "Admiralty Office, April 14, 1807. "Dispatches from Lord Collingwood, dated off Cadiz, March 28, received this morning by his Majesty's stoop Imogen, arrived at Plymouth, contained intelligence, that ViceAdmiral Sir J. T. Duckworth finding, on his arrival at Tenedos, that his Majesty's Ambassador had left Constantinople on the 29th of January, proceeded, with the squadron under his command, to that City, passing the Dardanelles against all opposition, on the 19th of February. His subsequent operations were not known to his Lordship, but from the Spider schoquer, in the afternoon of that day, and the report of the inhabitants of Tenedos, there is reason to believe that the Turkish Marine is destroyed. "On the 14th of February his Majesty's ship Ajax caught fire, and was burnt; the Hon, Captain Blackwood, and about 400 of ficers and men, were saved," The Gibraltar Chronicle of March 21, says, "Wrecked on the 9th instaut, in the neighbourhood of Cadiz, the English transport Mary, of London; had on board the Countess of Strasoldo and Mrs. Spencer Smith, who arrived here on the 19th, in a flag of truce from Algeziras." An article, dated from off Cadiz, March 31, says, I am sorry to say we have been full of misfortune here last night we received the melancholy account of the destruction of the Ajax, by fire-she was burnt, and a considerable part of her crew were victims to the flames. The Nautilus sloop is also lost, she was wreeked on a barren rock, and many of Furop. Mog Val. L1, April 1807. the crew were starved to death. The sure vivors were for the most part on board the Ajax, at the time of her misfortune, and thus ended their niseries and their lives. The Captain of the Ajax is saved, but, the late Commander of the Nautilus is lost." To the foregoing we add the following extract of a letter from Falmouth, dated the 15th of April: "Arrived this day, the Princess Augusta Packet, Captain St. Aubyn, with mails from Malta, Sicily, and Gibraltar, eleven days from the latter place; she brings the account of the loss of his Majesty's ship Ajax, of 74 guns, which vessel caught fire in the cock pit, and in twenty minutes blew up; two hundred and fifty of her crew (among whom were the Master, two Lieutenants, the Sure geon, Captain of Marines, and eight Midshipinen) lost their lives; she was lying at anchor in the mouth of the Dardanelles, with Sir John Duckworth's squadron. "The loss of his Majesty's ship Nautilus has been attended with the most unfortunate circumstances. She was driven on shore on an unhabited island, where no food of any kind could be procured. About one half of the crew took to the boats, and were fortunately picked up by a Russian frigate, and carried to Corfn; the remainder (among whom was Capt. Palmer) were literally starved to death." The three sons of Tippoo, confined at Veilore, have been removed to Calcutta. On the eldest appearing before Lord Edw. Bentinck and the Council, at Madras, he denied all knowledge or concern in the massacre at Vellore; but charged his young brother with not only being engaged in that foni conspiracy, but with a design also to assassinate him, his elder brother. The elder brother, at the same time, begged to be permitted to go and strike his younger brother's head off! The Hamburgh Paper of the 14th contains an account of the occurrences which have happened at Constantinople, and of the. warlike preparations made to repel the attack of the English, &c. But we wait for better information. An Americau Paper has brought us a mes sage of the President of the United States, respecting Colonel Burr's Conspiracy; as well as some letters from one of his Associates in the Plot, to General Wilkinson. It appears that Burr's enterprize was by no means well devised or formidable in its nature. Congress has passed the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by a majority of 4. The numbers being Ayes 73, Noes 49. Another revolution, in St. Domingo, took place on the 11th of February, whereby much blood was shed. Christophe fell in the general carnage, He was succeeded in his honours and command by General Pichon. By late advices from America, the Commercial Treaty, signed by Mr. Munro with our Court, has been rejected by the President. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. NEW MINISTERS, &c. CABINET. First Lord of the Treasury, D. of Portland. BOARD-Right Hon. S. Perceval, Marq. of Tichfield, Hon, W. Elliot, W. S. Lord Chancellor, Lord Eldon. War and Colonial, Lord Castlereagh. SUBORDINATF. Treasurer of Navy, Rt. Hon. G. Rose. Secretary at War, Sir J. M. Pulteney, Bt. Pres. Bd. Control, Rt. Hon. R. S. Dundas. Stipendiary Commis- 5 Rt. Hon, T. Wallace. sioners of ditto. {G. Johnstone, Esq. Pres. Bd. of Trade. Earl Bathurst. S Lord C. Somerset, MARCH 15. The GRAND SURRY CANAL BASON, Rotherhith, filled with Water from the RIVER THAMES, in the presence of several of its PROPRIETORS, and a great many respectable LADIES and GENTLEMEN. At ten o'clock the tide began to flow, and about four, the vessels named below* en tered the lock, and were warped into the bason, accompanied by the congratulating cheers of a vast concourse of people, a discharge of cannon, and an excellent band of music playing God Save the King, Rale Britannia, and many selected Martial Airs. At high water (about five o'clock) the lock gates were shut, and soon after the important CRISIS, the UTILITY of the BRANCHES of this VALUABLE SHEET OF WATER became apparent for the FIRST TIME to all the spectators; for the water in the river receded into the ocean, but the water in the bason remained at its full height, where there was depth. and surface sufficient to float a great many vessels of a moderate size. Having given our readers this information, it may not be improper to state, that this undertaking was projected by Mr. Ralph Dodd, in the year 1800, who having been supported by Messrs. Esdailes and Company, bankers, and John Wilkinson, esq, of Bradford, with a great many respectable subscribers, an application was made to Par liament; and by the attention and perse verance of Edward Edwards, esq., ViceAdmiral of the Blue; John Haminet, esq., M. George Jeffreys, Thomas Hall, Willia Old, James Phillips, John Fenteman, and C. Jones, esqrs., with the particular assistance of their Solicitor, Richard Wilson, esq., an Act was obtained in May, 1801. This Act of Parliament gave the Proprie tors a power to make an Entrance Bason, and a Canal from Rotherhith towards the Victualling-Office, and King's Yard at Deptford; and from thence towards Peckham, Camberwell, and Kennington, to Vauxhall; also from Kennington Common, to Brixton, Tooting, and Mitcham, in Surry: when the Canal is completed to this distance, it is the intention of the Proprietors to apply for an Act to continue it towards Guilford, Southampton, and Portsmouth. Should this be ever effected, the Grand Surry Canal will be the most valuable inland navigation in the kingdom, as the Deptford and Portsmouth Docks will communicate with each other. 23. This morning, about nine o'clock, J. Maycock was executed on the top of the New Gaol, Horsemonger-lane, in the Borough, pursuant to his sentence, for the murder of Mrs. Pooley. His conduct at the holm; Cumberland Yacht, Taylor; British These Tar, Forrest; Nautilus, Graham. vessels were decorated with several flags of different nations, and made a fine appear ance. The Grand Surry Canal will supply the Croydon Canal with Thames water, at its The Argo, Capt. Hall; Equity, Shight junction near New Cross, Deptford. fatal spot was perfectly consistent with his behaviour at the time of trial, when he exhibited the most hardened depravity. 25. Was executed, opposite the Debtors' door of Newgate, Patrick Pendergast, convicted in January Sessions for robbing the house of Mr. Bell, in the Edgware Road. The son and daughter of the malefactor witnessed the melancholy end of their father; and on his being launched into eternity, became almost frantic, and were conveyed from the scene in a state of insensibility. A Quarterly General Court was held at the East India House; when the Resolutions of the Court of Directors, fully acquitting the Commanders and Owners of the Lady Bargess, Warren Hastings, and Earl of Abergavenny, from all imputation of neglect or misconduct, in the loss of those slaps, were laid before the Court, and unanimously confirmed. 30. This morning was executed, on the top of the Lodge of the County Gaol of Surrey, Richard Nettlefield, late a fisherman at Putney, for a felony, accompanied with cutting and maining the persons who had taken him into custody for the offence. George Allen, convicted at the Stafford Assizes of the Wilful Murder of his children, at Upper Mayfield, on the 12th of Jan, underwent the awful punishment so justly annexed to the horrid crime of murder. He appeared sensible of his dreadful situation, and earnestly entreated the spectators to take warning by his fate. Accidents by Fire.-Several dreadful accidents have lately occurred to ladics, by their dresses taking fire. The dress of Mrs. Clerne, a respectable lady residing near Copperas-gap, Brighton, took fire, by which she was so miserably barnt that she expired in a few hours. space APRIL 1. As a Miss Thompson, in Bishopsgate street, was standing too near the fire, her train accidentally caught the flames; and although they were in the of a minute extinguished, and medical assistance instantly procured, yet she was so much burut as to occasion her death.-A few days since, as Miss Brown, daughter of a picture dealer, in Crown-street, Seven Dials, was attending an infirm relation, her cloaths caught fire, and she was burnt m such a dreadful manner, that she continued in the most excruciating torture for a few hours, when she expired. 3. A sharper went into a chandler's shop in Dury-lane, and presented a shop-bill the form of a bank-note, having "Fire" engraved upon it. Change for a five pound note being given to him, he decamped bebefore the fraud was discovered. Extraordinary Mail Robbery.-At night a number of persons were assembled at the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, as is customary, to see the Mail coaches set off, which run the Western road. Just as the Bristol Mail was about to start, without any inside passengers, two men, genteellydressed, called out to the coachiman and guard, to know if they had any room; and being answered in the affirmative, they said they wanted a cast to Maidenhead; the Guard immediately let them in. They got out at the Saracen's Head Inn, in Maidenhead, where the Mail horses are watered, and in a few minutes after the Mail drove off again. On going up the hill the other side of Maidenhead, the two men who had just got out became the subject of conversation between the guard and coachman, on account of the guard observing, that he did not see either of their faces on getting in or out of the coach, and that they appeared designedly to con ceal tiremselves: this induced the coachman to suggest the propriety of examining the Mail, to see that all the property was right, which was agreed to by the guard. They found all the bags right, and the parcels in the boot; but, on examining the seats in the inside of the coach, they found several parcels missing, which they supposed to be of considerable value. The guard, in consequence, took one of the leading horses, and rode back to the Saracen's Head Inn, where he had left the two men. As soon as he had got to the house, he called out for George, meaning the landlord, in great haste. The two men were then just about sitting down to supper, but hearing the horse ride up to the house in great haste, one of them went out to see what was the matter, and observ ing the guard, called to his companion by the name of James. He came out, and they both ran off; the guard and landlord pursued them, and called out "stop thief," when the watchman in the town took the alarm, and turned one of them in his course up a Court, which the landlord knew was not a thoroughfare; they therefore pursued him, and found him concealed in a corner. lying flat on the ground, with Bank notes to the amount of 901. loose near him, on the mud, supposed to have been the contents of a parcel taken from the Mait; and two parcels unopened. The other villain made his escape. The one taken proved to be James Remnant, one of a gang of notorious pickpockets and hustlers. Government, some years ago, complimented him with a voyage to New South Wales; on bis return from whence, he kept a house of all fame in the neighbourhood of St. Martin's-lane. We are sorry to state the loss of the Blanche frigate, near Brest, on the might of the 4th instant. The Captain, Sir Thomas Lavie, with the whole of the officers and crew, except about 30 of the latter, were fortmately saved. Lord Gardner has been appointed to the command of the Channel Fleet, in the room of Lord St. Vincent. 14. Richard Andrews, a swindler, was fully committed, from the Public Office, Queensquare, to take his trial upon seven different charges: one of which is for a capital offence. It appears that his depredations have extended from persons of rank and fashion down to a poor washer-woman, in whose house be took lodgings, borrowed money of ber, and even defrauded her of the articles that she received in the way of her occupation. The Duchess of Gordon, who has three daughters married to Dukes and one to a Marquis, will now be further gratified in having two of them successively Vice Queens. A large stone ring, said to have been taken from the finger of Tippoo Saib, was lately exhibited before the Antiquarian Society. It contains an Arabic inscription, which is thus translated: Dominion to God; he is the only-the victorious." MARRIAGES. DENNIS O'LEARY, esq., of Grosvenor place, to Miss E. Hutton, daughter of Di. Hutton, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. W. T. Williams, esq., of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, to Miss Crawshay, youngest daughter of R. Crawshay, esq., of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, and Sunbury, Middlesex. M. T. Harris, esq., second son of General Harris, of Belmont, Kent, to the youngest elaughter of the late W. Money, esq., of Walthamstow. D. Scott, esq., of Dunninald, to Miss Grindall, of Portland-place. H. Downer, esq., of Woburn-place, to the daughter of C. Oliphant, esq., of Weston, Middlesex. Sir T. S. Strange, chief justice of Madras, to Miss Burrough. Captain English, of the 66th regiment, to the fourth daughter of the late T. Wilkinson, mingham, to the eldest daughter of the late Dr. E. Darwin, of Derby. H. Rowles, esq., of Cadogan-place, to Miss Gourdez. R. Gordon, esq, late of Madras, to the daughter of W. Forbes, esq., of Echt. Captain Stuart, of the 16th light dragoons, to the sister of Viscount Anson. The Rev. J. W. Wicks, rector of Wardley cum Belton, Rutlandshire, to the second daughter of Mr. S. Leonard, of Conduit street. H. Hamilton, esq., M.P. for Dublin, to the daughter of H. H. Mitchell, esq. Captain Northey, of the royal navy, to Miss Whitby, daughter of the Rev. T. Whitby, of Cresswell Hall, Staffordshire. In Dublin, the Hon. George Ponsonby, fourth son of the late Lord Ponsonby, to Miss Gladston. Lieutenant-Colonel Reade, of the Bengal establishment, to Miss Reade, only daughter and heiress of the late T. Reade, esq., of Little Stoke, Oxford. Mr. Liston, of Covent Garden Theatre, to Miss Tyrer, of the same place. MONTHLY OBITUARY. LATELY, Mrs. Sarah Ayscough, aged 82, widow of Mr. William Ayscough, late of Windsor, Berks, Miss Elizabeth Brunn, of the Chapter cotice-house, Paternoster-row. In his 76th year, the Rev. George Moore, vicar of Heavitree, Devon, canon residentiary of St. Peter's, Exeter, and archdeacon of Cornwall. At Blackheath, Lieut. Col. Moorsom, of the royal marines. At Denton, Norfolk, at the age of upwards of 90, after a short confinement, the Rev. George Sandby, D.D. rector of that parish in 1750, and Chancellor of Norwich in 1768. He was formerly of Merton College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. in 1740. He was afterwards maste of Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he took his doctor's degree in 1760, and served the office of vice-chancellor of that university the same year. He was collated to Denton by archbishop Herring; that living being in the gift of the archbishop of Canterbury, who must collate one of the fellows, or one who has been fellow, of Merton College. With Dr. Sandby died the oral tradition of the expulsion from Merton College, Oxford, of six fellows, by James 1. in 1684, which was the cause of the revolution: he was ordained by Dr. Hough, bishop of Worcester, one of the said six tellows; the bishop died at the age of 9. At Chiton, Elizabeth, dowager countess of Mayo, relict of his grace the late archbishop of Tuam, and Earl of Mavo, At Ludford Park, near Ludlow, in his 24th year, N. L. Charlton, esq., colonel of the Worcestershire Militia. At Douglas Park, Gilbert Douglas, esq. William Vachell, esq., of Copttold Hall, aged 72. At Bath, in his 58th year, Herman Katen camp, esq. Aged 81, Mr. John Warrington, many years a whitesmith at Stamford, in Lincolnshire. He had amassed considerable property, which, by his will, he has ordered to be distributed in the following manner:--18001. 3 per cent annuities to the poor in three callises; 1001. to the Blue-coat School; and 301. for the repairs of St. Michael's Church; all in that place:-To his sister, ho is blind and in a workhouse at Bath, he has bequeathed 1001.; and annuities of 801. a year to each of his two brothers, to whom he scarcely ever gave sixpence in his life-time, although one was in an alms-house at Liddington, in Rutland, and the other in a workhouse at Stamford; and, notwithstanding they are both very old men, each being nearly eighty years of age, be has especially provided, that, should either of them marry, their annuity should cease. the event of their deaths, the annuities devolve, in equal proportions, to five parishes; viz. Uffington, Tallington, and Market-Deeping, in Lincolnshire, and Ketton and Empingham, in Rutlandshire, for the benefit of ten of the oldest widows; but, in case there should not be so many, then to the Seemten oldest maidens in each parish ingly apprehensive that posterity might not duly appreciate his charitable disposition, some time before his death he bought a a marble monument for himself, and, having caused his embryo munine uce to be emblazoned upon it, daily feasted upon the conjectural manna of what men would say of him, who should herealter read of his extensive bounty! In Derby, NichoAt Bowbridge Fields, near las Nicholas, of that place, and of Boycot, Kent, esq. At an advanced age, Mrs. Kemble, mother of Mrs. Siddons, and of the Messrs. John, Stephen, and Charles Kemble. Lately, Robert Heron, exq, well known in the literary world as an author, compiler, and editor of periodical publications. In St. Alban's-street, Charles Lackington, esq. At Newry, Ireland, Hugh O'Hanion, esq., aged 94. At Kirkdale, in Lancashire, in the 91st year of his age, Win. Pendleton, a waterman, who had fought in the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Culloden. He has left be hind him a widow, aged 92, with whoin he lived upwards of 68 years; and what is remarkable, they never had more than one quarrel during the whole time. He supported himself and wife by his own industry, and never experienced any illness till the last, which confined him to his honse only one week, and to his bed but one day. At his house, Great Cumberland-place, aged 67, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, of BenHe was second son hall Lodge, Suffolk. of Admiral Sir H. Parker, bart., who was lost in the Cato in 1782; and brother to Sir Harry Parker, bart., of Long Melford, who was knighted for his gallant services in the American war. At Chichester, John Luggens, esq., banker. MAR. 5. At Corsham, near Bath, aged 73, the Res. Charles Page, rector of Littleton Drew, and Biddestone, both in the county of Wilts. 3. At Dunipace, David Spottiswoode, esq., writer to the signet. At Perth, the Rev. George Fraser, minister of Monede, in his 86th year. 9. Aged 71, John Kerridge, esq., banker, of Ipswich. 11. At Edinburgh, Vice Admiral John Inglis, of Auchindinny. He distinguished himself, in the command of the Belliqueux, of 74 guns, at the battle of Camperdown. 12. In his 75th year, Francis Newham, esa., of Mile-end-road. Mrs. Heurage, wife of George Heneage, esq., at Hamton Hall, Lincolnshire. 13. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Stirling, minister of Tillicoultry parish. 16. At Hall, aged 90. Mr. Richard Scarce, grandfather of Miss Smith, of the theatre royal of that place. 19. In Hanover-square, John Tirell Morin, esq. At Mullingar, Ireland, James Murray, esq., civil engineer of the royal canal, DubIm. 20. Edward Allen, esq.. principal of the hon. society of Clement's-inn. Mr. James Donaldson, jun., of Bloomsbury-square, surveyor, in his 23d year. In Lincoln's-inn, Walter Long, esq., senior judge of the sheriff's court of the City of London. Mrs. Forster, wife of the Rev. Dr. Fors. ter, master of the free school in Norwich, by her clothes taking fire. 21. Robert Catts, esq., late commissary of the Bengal establishment, aged 51. りり. William Fauntleroy, esq., banker, in Berners-street. 23. Aged 55, Charles Slater, esq., one of the magistrates of Westminster. William Chisholme, M. D., late provost of Inverness. 24. In Upper Seymour street, Lionel Colmore, est. Aged 69, Mr. Newland, surgeon, of Guildford. 25. In his 79th year, Mr. Frodsham, He had resided watch and clock maker. more than 50 years m Kingsgate-street, |