"

-This may be madness; but there's mcthod in't "

Harry Lee has again challenged Mendoza -Mendoza, in answer, says, he fights no more. The challenge and answer were given, in all due form, in the Daily Papers. Mendoza, by his epistle, kills two birds with one stone; he tells Lee he will never fight another pitched battle-but, at the same time, that he teaches Gentlemen the art of selfdefence.

20. This evening, as Mr. Hampton, in company with two friends, who reside in the neighbourhood of Epping, were returning home from London in a single-horse cart, over Epping Forest, they were attacked by four footpads in a most daring manner. After robbing them of their property, they discharged three pistols at them. One of Mr. Hampton's companions had a joint of a finger shot off. Mr. Hampton had a violent personal encounter with one of the villains on the ground; and when he got clear of the villain, in escaping he ran into a gravel pit, which was so full of water that he had nearly heen drowned.

24. This night, as the Duke of Leeds's earth-stopper was going to stop fox-holes in Denaby Wood, Yorkshire, he was seized by some men, who tied his hands behind him, put him on his horse, with his face to the tail, and fixed his candle and lantern to the animal's nose; the man not being able to extricate himself, the horse took the road which leads to Gonisborough, where he arrived in safety; when the earth-stopper, having alarmed the inhabitants, was liberated from his perilous situation.

An Inquisition was taken at Binfield Grove, near Sunning Hill, on the body of Miss Supple, a young lady, 25 years of age, who was shot by a young man, incautiously amusing himself with a loaded gun. The deceased, who was on a visit at the house of a friend where the sad accident befel her, was at needle-work in a parlour adjoining a kitchen where fire-arms were kept. The young gentlemen, who belonged to the house, took a loaded piece off a rack, and one of them jocosely pointed it at the deceased; when by some means it went off, and mortally wounded her.-Verdict, Accidental Death.

26. A Shropshire man, of the name of Glanville, started this morning, at seven o'clock, at the 14th mile-stole, on the Bath road, to go to the 85th, and back to the 14th, a distance of 142 miles, in 30 hours. He was backed for 80 guineas, and the odds were two to one against him. He went off ara brisk wall, and for two miles together broke into a shuding walk, at the rate of six miles an hour. His first stoppage was at Twyford, at which place he arrived, and took a bason of soup prepared for him, at five minutes past ten o'clock. He stopped about five minutes at this place, 34 intles from town, and refreshed again at Marlbo

rough, and arrived at the 85th mile-stone at ten minutes past eight o'clock in the evening. This half of his journey was performed at something less than five miles and a half an hour. The pedestrian returned a few miles on his way back, and refreshed himself on a bed between two blankets for about an hour and a half, and arrived at Reading a quarter past six o'clock on Satur day morning. He had now twenty-five unles to perform in five hours and three quarters, and appeared a good deal fatigued. After reclining in a chair for about twenty minutes, and drinking half a pint of mulled wine, he renewed his laborious task, and arrived at his journey's end at a quarter before one o'clock, and won, with difficulty, by a quar ter of an hour. He was attended the whole of the way by two horsemen.

The inhabitants of Henley and its environs have presented Thomas Chap.nan, only 13 years of age, son of Mr. Chapinan, stationer, of Heniey, with a pair of silver-cups, value 15. guineas, and a watch, with gold seals, &c. value 91. 5s. as a reward for his intrepidity in saving William Russell, a chuid of eight or nine years of age, from being drowned, on the 10th of May, 1806. He had ail his clothes on, and leaped from a height of seven feet from the water, which was rom 12 to 16 feet deep, and close to the side of that part of the stream called the Mill-Tail. The child, who had also his clothes on, had. sunk twice, but was saved by the intrepid youth's taking hold of him as he was sinking a third tune, and swimming out with him."

26. In consequence of the high spring tide in London, the Thames overdowed its > banks, and the lower apartments in several honses in Westminster, in the vicinity of the river, were inundated.

27. The Thames again rose considerably higher than on the preceding day, at Rotherhithe, Lambe.h, and Millbank, as well as at the newly-embanked cut at the Isle of Dogs where serious injury was occasioned by the inundation. Near Lambeth Horseferry, a sow and 12 pigs were drowned.

At Hampton, Sunbury, Chertsey, and similar plaçes, near the Banks of the Thames, the whole of the country was under water; and Kingston and Putney Bridges were, for a time, nearly impassable.

The whole of the Scotch coast has suffered much during the last and preceding week, from the unusual height of the tide, both of the sea and the rivers.-The river Sunchar, at the town of Balliae, rose to a prodigious height, and overflowed the highway for nearly two hundred yards. About eleven o'clock, white the troop of the 1st Dragoons on their route from Hamilton for Ireland, attempted to pass the water, five of the horses, with their riders, were borne down by the rapidity of the current. The inen, from the weight of their accoutrements, were some time before they could disengage the.n

selves from the animals. The inhabitants, who in great numbers witnessed the accident, plunged in to their assistance, and, at the risk of their own lives, succeded in saving those of the soldiers. One of the latter was beyond the reach of their aid; but being suddenly thrown upon an elevated spot, he contrived to stand twenty minutes up to the stomach in water, till a boat was brought to his assistance.

At Rothesay, the tide lately rose so high, that both the quays were covered wish water, and many barrels of herrings were washed over. The water in the houses at this port was 48 inches deep.

Many villages about Litchfield were entirely under water, and the distresses of the poor were very great in consequence of

it. The road between Litchfield and Stone was in many places filled with water for 500 yards together, and all the way up to the bellies of the horses that were travelling through it.

The tide was so very high at Fpswich, that most of the streets in the lower part of the town were inundated. The water was two feet deep near St. Peter's Church, and the Common Quay was completely overflowed.

28. A most disgraceful mobbing took place at St. Matthew's-church, Bethnalgreen, to witness a man, of the name of Curtain, du penance for using opprobrious epithets to a Mrs. Jennings. After all, the moltitude was disappointed, as the offender made his confession, &e., in the vestryroom; he was like wise exempted from walk. ng in his regulia (a white sheet) round the

church.

JAN. 1. We are to congratulate our commercial readers on the adjustment of the differences between Great Britain and Amepica. A letter, of which the following is a copy, was, with due attention to the mercantile interest of the country, transmitted to Philip Sansom, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of American Merchants, and by him sent to Lloyd's and the American coffeehouses.

SIR,

"Downing-street, Jan. 1, 1807.

I have the honour of acquainting you, for the information of the Merchants conéerned in the trade with America,, that the Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce, between his Majesty and the United States of America, was yesterday signed by the Commissioners respectively appointed for the purpose by the two Governments. The Treaty will be immediately transmitted to America: but until the ratifications on both sides shall have been exchanged, it cannot be made public.

I have the honour to be, &c.

the Telegraph coach from Nantwich to Eccleshall, was found on the road about three miles from the latter place, quite dead. It is supposed he had fallen off the box in a fit, as the passengers never missed him until their arrival at the horse-keeper's at Eccleshall, instead of the Inn!

14. At the Old Bailey, R. Hartford, Wm. Bridge, J. Fordham, and J. Harvey, were capitally convicted of a burglary in the house of James Spencer, at Ponder's End. The evidence against the prisoners was that of Enoch Roberts, an accomplice, which was also confirmed by finding several articles of the stolen property upon each of them.--It appeared that six of them, about eleven at night, knocked at the door of Mr. Spencer; which being opened, they all rushed in. One of then stood guard over Mr. Spencer, while the others ransacked the house, and carried their detection was singular: one of them off every thing they could. The manner of search was making after them, wrote to ano. being on the spot, and hearing that strict ther in town, and desired him to get certain articles of the stolen property oat of the way, as their lodgings would probably be searched. This letter he put into the postoffice, without either seal or wafer. It was then opened, which led to the discovery.

the most unparalleled atrocity took place, [During the above trial, a circumstance of which marks the depravity of the above gang. Hartford, while standing at the bar, actually picked the pocket of the Turnkey of his handkerchief; and Mr. Newman, the Keeper, having detected him, made him take it from his pocket and restore it; which he did with the most careless indifference. The Court was struck with horror.]

16. Jean Baptiste Louis Barriellet, a Swiss Valet to Lord Caledon, was tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of stealing 24 dozen of wine, several damask table-cloths, and other articles, the property of his master. While Lord Caledon was gone to Ireland, previous to his departure for his Government at the Cape of Good Hope, this Swiss Valet had it in trust to pack a number of boxes and other packages, and send them to an Inn to go by waggon to Portsmouth; this was done by the prisoner, assisted by Lord Caledon's coachman-himself and the prisoner being the only servants left in his Lordship's house. in Stratton-street. After the packages were deposited at the Inn, the prisoner got part of them back, and applied the contents to his own use.-Lord Caledon attended, and swore to some of the property; whose evidence was confirmed by other witnesses. As it might be possible that the prisoner did not take the property all at one time, and as the getting it back from the Inn could not be deemed stealing in a dwelling-house, the Jury, under the direction of the Judge, found the pri soner guilty of stealing, but not in the dwel ling-house; he is to be transported for seven years.

The Princess of Wales has been for several days past confined to her chamber with the measles, at her house at Blackheath; but her Royal Highness is in a fair way of perfect recovery.

The following note was sent from Lord Howick's Office, to different departments of Government, and the intelligence was quickly spread over the town:

"BULLETIN, JAN. 24, 1807. "Lord Howick has just received intelligence, of the truth of which he has not the least doubt, that an action was fought between the Russians and French, on the 27th of December last, which continued three successive days; and on the last of which the French retreated, with the loss of 40,000 slain, and 80 pieces of cannon. The scene of action was at Osterneske, sixty or seventy niles from Warsaw. The enemy made their retreat to within eight miles of that place, and were also entrenching themselves at Merienburgh."

25. The following communication was made to the Lord Mayor.

Admiralty-Office, January 25, 1 o'clock, A. M.

"MY LORD,

"I have the honour to inform your Lordship. that Dispatches are received from Sir Home Popham, dated Rio de la Plata, the 30th of October; by which it appears, that the town of Buenos Ayres had been recaptured on the 12th of August. It further

The Third Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, which has just been printed, comprises, with the Appendix, 111 folio pages. It chiefly relates to the conduct of the Barrack Department, respecting stores and supplies provided for the barracks in Great Britain, by order of the late and. present Barrack Masters General. From some letters of Major-General Delancey and Mr. Alexander Davison, contained in this report, the commissioners draw the inference, "that the management of this important concern was, at one time, left very much. to Mr. Davison's discretion; and we cannot find that the Barrack Office made use of any check to ascertam the reasonableness of the prices of the articles provided by him."

A Bankrupt Linen-draper, named Davey, who lately lived in Russell-court, Drury-" lane, has been advertised for secreting his effects. The posting-bills state further, that he was capitally convicted by his own dame, Stephenson, for robbing his master, and was tried in the year 1795, but respited and transported to Botany Bay for seven years.

THE Rev, P. L. Story, of Larkington Hall, Leicestershire, to Miss L., daughter of Sir F. Baring, of Stratton-park, Hents. Captain Boys, of the royal navy, to the eldest daughter of Mr. Vulliamy, of Kensington-gravel-pits.

Harry Ashby, esq., of St. Andrew's-court, to Miss Bell, of Colebrooke Terrace.

S. W. Hodges, esq., of Dudley, to the daughter of the late T. Underhill, esq., of Hanstead.

William Darley, esq., of Dublin, to the eldest daughter of Mr. Farren, cousin of the Countess of Derby.

The Rev. H. Woodcock, rector of Michelmersh, to the youngest daughter of

the late T. Staunton, esq., of Stilton Park, Suffolk.

At Bombay, Major-General Jones, commander in chief, to Miss E. S., second daughter of the Rev. Mr. Williamson,of Thakham, Surry.

Lieutenant Colonel Conway, to Miss E., eldest daughter of J. M'Arthar, esq., of York-place, Portman-square.

At Cork, Sir T. Roberts, to the daughter of T. Walton, esq., of Walton-court.

J. Nicholl, esq., of Doctors'-commons, to the 2d daughter of II. H. Oddie, esq., of Carey-street.

L. Bidwell, esq., of Thetford, to Miss Clarke, of Clapton.

DECEMBER 2.

AT the house of her son-in-law, Robert Newton Lee, esq., Mrs. Warton, aged 65, relict of the late Dr. Warton, and daughter of William Nicholas, esq, of Froyle, Hants.

7. At Tradegar, in Wales, Sir Charles Gould Morgan, bart., in the 85th year of his age. He was many years military judge advocate to the King.

Lately, at Southampton, Captain Wood

gate. He was wounded in Egypt: but his death was occasioned by the breaking of a blood-vessel.

9. Aged 59, the reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg.

At his house in St. Thomas's Hospital, in the 824 year of his age, and 57th of ins services, Mr. Richard Leeson, steward of the institution.

12. At his seat at Pound, near Tavistock, Devonshire, aged 80, John Lloyd, esq., late clerk of the cheque of his Majesty's dockyard, Plymouth, and one of the justices of the peace for the county of Devon.

15. Suddenly, at his house in Crown-street, Thomas Marsh, esq.

Lately, in St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, Mrs. Holbrook, widow, aged 70. She has left 201. to the poor of St. Dunstan's, and 1001. to the Kent and Canterbury hospitals.

Lately, at Kilcooley, in Ireland, aged 106, John Shortal, who has left a widow in her 102d year.

17. At Charterhouse, in Somersetshire, aged 92, Mrs. Rogers, relict of the Rev. J. Rogers, and last surviving sister of the late Dr. Squire, Bishop of St. David's.

19. Mrs. Towry, wife of Captain Towry, of the royal navy.

At Plaistow, Essex, Jacob Bell, esq. Lately, Stephen Cazalet, esq., aged 76. 20. Samuel Newton, esq., of Portlandplace.

23. Mr. Patrick, formerly of Bloomsbury-place, surgeon.

Lately, at Stamford, Mr. Alderman Elger, aged 48. He served the office' of mayor

in 1805.

25. In his 82d year, the Rev. J. Edwards, 54 years vicar of Llandeirlog and Llangendeirn, Carmarthenshire.

26. At Exeter, the Rev. Richard Buller, vicar of Colyton, Devon, and son of the late Dr. Buller, bishop of Exeter.

At Exminster, near Exeter, in the 83th year of his age, Henry Sawbridge, esq., of East Haddon, Northamptonshire.

27. In the 59th year of his age, Edward Whitaker Gray, M.D., secretary of the Royal Society, and keeper of the department of natural history in the British Museum.

ter.

Richard Jenkins, esq., alderman of Exe

Mrs. Harper, wife of Mr. Alexander Harper, of the Jerusalem coffee-house, CornZill.

28. Suddenly, Mrs. Bremeyer, of Windsor Castle, who succeeded Madame Schwellenberg as keeper of the robes to the Queen, Lately, at Vale Place, Hammersmith, Mr. Thomas Wiffin, formerly one of his Majesty's

nity, Mr. Cowslade, one of the proprietors of the Reading Mercury.

Aged 35, the Hon. George Bowes, brother to the Earl of Strathmore.

At his house, in Kingston, Surrey, Abraham Goodwin, esq.

31. At his seat at Castleton, near Rochdale, Thomas Smith, esq.

In his 69th year, Mr. Richard Nicholson, of Coleman-street.

Aged 102, at Fochabers, William Kelman. He was a millwright, and worked till within three weeks of his death.

JAN. 1. In his 77th year, John Moffatt, esq., one of the oldest directors of the Sun Fire Office.

Mr. John Thomas, solicitor, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.

2. Mrs. Palmer, wife of John Palmer, esq, M. P. for Bath.

Aged 71, Joseph Brooks, esq., alderman of Woodstock.

3. John Laird, esq., formerly chief surgeon, and president of the medical board on the Bengal establishment.

The Rev. William Gilbank, rector of St. Ethelburg, London.

Mrs. Anguish, mother of the Duchess Dowager of Leeds.

Lately, in Dublin, aged 81, John Allen, esq., a director of the Bank of Ireland from its first establishment.

5. At his chambers, in Staple-inn, Isaac Reed, esq., editor of the last edition of Shakspeare, in 21 vols., 8vo., &c., and eminently versed in old English literature.-Memoirs of this gentleman will be given in a future Number, accompanied by a PoRTRAIT.

In Great Ormond-street, Samuel Solly, esq,

Mrs. Smith, wife of Mr. Smith, auctioneer. at Windsor, aged 45.

6. In Sloane-square, Colonel Francis Robson, F.S.A., late lieutenant-governor of St. Helena, aged 70.

In Sloane-street, Mrs. Pownall, widow of the late Governor Pownall.

At Chislehurst, m Kent, of a typhus fever, Andrew Stone, esq., in his 20th year.

William Nwedick, esq, of Cheshunt. Lately, at his brother's house, at Cefn, Denbighshire, Thomas Kenyon, esq., of the Temple, London.

7. Peggen Hale, esq., banker, Bond

street.

8. Jane, the wife of Clement Wrintersley, esq., vice-lieutenant for the county of Lei-cester. She was eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Parkins, of Burney, in the county of Nottingham, and sister to the late Lord Radcliffe.

8. Mr. Samuel Chiffney, many years a well-known jockey on the turf, and author of a work called Gemus Genuine."

William Tennant, esq., of Stanmore, Middlesex.

10. Suddenly, in Dublin, aged 72, the Earl of Milltown.

12. At Ackworth, near Pontefract, Anthony Surtees, esq., many years lieutenantcolonel of the 2d West York militia.

Louis Balan, esq., aged 38, late his Prussian Majesty's counsellor of legation.

Edward Eyton, esq., of Eyton Hall, near Wrexham.

Sir Stephen Lushington, bart., many years a member of the East India Direction.

Mrs. Dolben, wife of John English Dolben, esq., at Pentonville.

At Blackheath, Robert Bell, esq., aged

24.

At Southampton, Major-General Stewart, of the royal artillery.

13. Ar Bush Hill, Edmonton, Stephen Briggs, esq.

Peter Harrison, esq., of Sandwich, Kent. The Earl of Gosford, governor of Armagh, Colonel W. R. Hepburn, of Rickerton, Kincardineshire.

Lady Hesketh, relict of Sir Thomas HesLeth, bart.

Lately, at Bath, Mrs. Dutton, relict of Ralph Dutton, esq.

Lately, Mr. Edmund Rogers, who for 46 years kept the boarding-school at Walshamle-Willows, in Suffolk.

Lately, in Dublin, Richard Paul Bonham,

Thomas Strettell, esq.

27. In Charles-square, Hoxton, Mrs. Lush, the wife of Charles Lush, esq. an eminent attorney, one of the clerks of the court of requests for the Tower Hamlets, and deputy lieutenant for the Tower Royalty. The death of this truly amiable and excellent woman was occasioned by an inflammation on the lungs, which was in its progress extremely rapid, as her sufferings terminated in a few days. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Justice Wilmot, and had been through every department of life EXEMPLARY. consideration will, we hope, in time, operate to repress the grief of her husband, mother, and six children, whose affliction can at present be easier conceived than expressed.

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