formed a friendly connection with the present Quarter Master General Brownrigge, then adjutant of that corps. About the year 1787, he and General B-, both then but Lieutenants, married two daughters of Mr Lewis, late the Chief Clerk of the War Office. Quick promotion was the natural consequence of so fortuInate an union. He soon became a Field Officer; and on the commencement of the war in 1793, he was promoted to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 13th foot, in which he served a considerable time in the West Indies. General Whitelocke returned to England in 1794, and from his matrimonial connections, was soon appointed to the Home Staff. Soon after this he obtained the rank of Brigadier-General, and progressively rose to that of Major and Lieutenant General, and to the command of the 89th regiment of foot. In 1797 he was second in command at Portsmouth; and here he had many opportunities of displaying his parade talents, which are so differently appreciated. In 1806 he was removed from this situation, and appointed to the command of the depot at Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight; and in 1807 he became Commander in Chief of an Expedition destined for the recapture of Buenos Ayres, from whence he returned unsuccessful in September last; and on the 9th of November he was put under an arrest, and is now on his trial.

The heavy fall of snow on Friday has, in many parts, rendered the roads wholly impassable, and so generally impeded the progress of travelling, that the letter carriers were delayed on Saturday, nearly five hours after their usual time of being dispatched, and at that time the

Worcester, Gloucester, Norwich, Ipswich, and all the northern coaches, hid not arrived.

The Exeter mail coach was unabe to proceed beyond Overton, where the passengers stopped. The guard, with great difficulty, came forvard with the mails over fields, &c.

The Gloucester and Worcester mail coaches were stopped beyond Benson, the snow being drifted in parts of the road to the depth of ten feet. The guards brought forward the mails on horseback.

The Bristol mail was twice dug out of the snow.

The Liverpool guard reached town about five o'clock, with the letter-bags on horseback; the coach being unable to come on at Chalk-hill, the snow lay in drifts 10 and 12 feet deep, and the road in other parts was impassable by a carriage. The heavy Liverpool coach, which left London early on Friday morning, did not reach Oxford till eleven at night.

The fall of snow on the north road was particularly heavy, and in many places it was forty or fifty feet deep. In the vicinity of Biggleswade the Newcastle coach, and other coaches, were stopped, and so completely involved in snow, that a great number of hands were necessary to extricate them. The gale was not so severely felt to the westward.---The Portsmouth coach lost its way on Friday, and was nearly overturned. Two female passengers were frozen to death on the outside. We fear we shall have to record a numerous list of afflicting events in consequence of the violence of the storm.

Extract of a Letter.

MARGATE, Feb. 11th. It is with extreme concern I have

to inform you of another tremendous gale of wind, which came on this morning about six o'clock (then low water) at N. N. E.; a great number of vessels being in these roads, a heavy sea soon made, and shortly after the Lord Keith cutter come on shore, and now lies close up to Little Westbrook cottage. The Governor Deane, one of the Margate corn hoys, soon after broke from her moorings, and drove on shore in Margate bay, where she now lies above high-water mark, on a common tide. The Maida, of Bristol, which was on shore in the last gale of the 15th ult. laden with oats, from Cork to London, broke from her headmoorings, and now lies drifted out of the harbour, but her stern hawser still holds. A very large brig, with a figure head, ascertained to be one of his majesty's gun-brigs, drove so near the rocks above the town, that it was every minute expected she

would be on shore. About ten o'clock she cut away her mainmast, by which the foretop-mast went, and she rode easier, but in the very trough of a heavy sea.

A schooner-rigged vessel is just gone on shore in March bay, about half a mile above the town; her mainmast gone, and up at high-water mark. I hear she is bilged; crew saved. Cannot learn her name, but one of our Margate boats boarded her last eve, and says she is from Africa for London.

A ship just discovered between the snow-squalls, with her main and mizen-mast gone; another near her, a mere hulk, except part of the bowsprit; however, 1 observe there are many yet ride safe, although several above Birchington have drifted very near the shore.

18th. The Sessions commenced

this day before Mr Justice le Blanc, Mr Justice Heath, Mr Baron Thompson, the Lord Mayor and several magistrates.

Benjamin Thornhill was capitally indicted for privately stealing, in the house of Mr Henry Burton, several peices of cotton sheets, table cloths, two pair of uniform breeches, seven shirts, and various other articles of wearing apparel, the property of George Allen Rose, Esq. an officer in the navy. The jury found him guilty of stealing to the value of 39s. Mary Wilson was found guilty of stealing to the value of 39s. Samuel Horton of petty larceny.

Lucy Kennis, an interesting looking girl, of the age of 16, was capitally indicted for privately stealing, in the dwelling house of Timothy Hurly, four 11. notes and, one 21. note, of the Bank of England, the property of John Collins. The prisoner had made a confession of having taken the notes, at the Policeoffice, and that she had bought an umbrella, calico, stockings, and other wearing apparel, with the money.

The jury being of opinion that she was induced to make the confession by persuasions, acquitted her. Mr Justice Le Blanc ordered the articles she had bought, and which were produced in court, to be given to the prosecutor.

The following is a true copy of an interesting communication transmitted from the Transport Office, in reply to all applications now made by French officers, prisoners of war in Britain, for passports to enable them to return to France :

Transport Office.

"SIR-The Commissioners for his Majesty's transport service, and for the care and custody of prisoners of war, have received your letter of

the

; and in return, I am directed to acquaint you, that it is the determination of his majesty's government not to allow any more French officers to go from this country to France, until the French government shall make some return for the very great number of French officers already sent, or shall agree to a cartel of exchange upon the fair principle of man for man, and rank for rank, according to the usual plan of civilized nations, and as repeatedly proposed by the commissioners without effect. I am, however, to acquaint you, that if the French government will send over to this country a British prisoner of equal rank to effect your exchange, or will officially certify to the commissioners, that upon your arrival in France such British prisoner shall be released, orders will immediately, on receipt of such certificate, be given for your liberation.

You will under these circumstances clearly perceive, that your detention here is entirely owing to your own government, to which any application you may think proper to make on the subject, will of course be duly forwarded.

As it is probable, that you may not be sufficiently acquainted with the English language, to understand perfectly this letter, a translation of it into French, is given on the other side hereof,

I am, &c.

(Signed) By the Secretary. 19th. A piece of wreck has been driven on shore near Margate. There were, when it was first observed, six seamen upon it; but, within one hundred yards of the shore, a heavy sea upset them, and they all perished. The spectators on the shore could not afford them any aid. Two luggers belonging to that place, in

standing out of harbour in the evening, for the purpose of announcing signals of distress, ran foul of each other, by means of which one of them sunk, and two of the crew were drowned. The remains of the pier at that place, present a most mournful spectacle; that which once afforded security and protection to the town, encouraged its commercial interests, and was regarded as one of its brightest ornaments, is now reduced to a pile of ruins.

A report has been published by the royal Jennerian Society, on the supposed failures of vaccination at Ringwood in Hampshire. The inquiry was intrusted to John Ring, Esq. vice president, Wm. Blair, Esq. director, and Dr. J. S. Knowles, the resident inoculator. After these gentlemen had agreed on their report, it was submitted to Dr Fowler, an eminent physician of Salisbury, who expressed his approbation of its contents. It was also approved of by George Rose, William Mill, S. Trunks, Esqrs. and by Messrs Westcott and Macilmain, surgeons.

The following is a copy of the report:

The small-pox appeared at Ringwood about the middle of September, and rapidly spread through the town and neighbourhood, partly by means of inoculation, and partly by natural infection.

Vaccine inoculation did not commence until the 22d of October; it is therefore evident, that all those persons who were vaccinated had been previously exposed to the contagion of the small-pox.

Some of these persons had the small-pox at the same time with the cow-pock, in consequence of previous infection. In others, vaccine inoculation did not take effect; and consequently they were not render

ed insusceptible of the infection of the small-pox.

In various instances, dry cow-pock matter,received from several quarters, was dissolved in water almost boiling, previous to insertion; and it is probable, that on this account it frequently failed to produce any effect. Above two hundred persons, however, were successfully vaccinated; and have been protected from the small-pox, though much exposed to its infection in different ways.

It was asserted, that the smallpox was more fatal at Ringwood and the neighbouring villages, to those inoculated for the cow-pox, persons than to others. This report appear ed to be totally destitute of foundation. The mortality was indeed considerable, owing in some instances to want of air and cleanliness, and in others to the immoderate use of spirituous liquors, particularly at the time of the eruption, which had been recommended by a Thresher, who inoculates for the small-pox.

It was reported that several persons at Ringwood, who were inoculated with the cow-pox some years ago, lately had the small-pox; but no satisfactory evidence was given to establish the fact, as it appeared either that their arms had not been inspected by the inoculator after vaccination, or that there was no proper scar left behind; or, on the other hand, when they were put to the test of varielous inoculation, ro other effect was produced than what is occasionally produced in those who have previously had the smallpox.

It was also insidiously reported, that two persons died of the cowpock (or, as it has been termed, the "Vaccine Ulcer :") but it is positively asserted by the surgeons who inoculated them, that ne vaccine nl

VOL. I. PART. II.

The Marquis of Donegall having taken the chair, rose, and observed, that, "as the proud Napoleon threatens to invade us, we ought to be firm and unanimous in our support of the best of kings, and the glorious constitution under which we live-and that one and all of us are determined to spill the last drop of our blood in defence of our king and country, and that the British empire will never submit to be the slave of an upstart tyrant."

After the Marquis had finished, Mr May, jun. (the town sovereign) addressed his lordship, in a speech of some length, and concluded by moving an address to his majesty, expressive of their affection for his majesty's person and family, and their attachment to the constitution,"convinced that his majesty will restore the blessings of peace, whenever peace can with safety and honour be obtained; they assure his majesty that they will use every exertion for the vigorous prosecution of the present war, and make every sacrifice in defence of the rights and commerce of the united kingdom. -They have the firmest reliance that his majesty will, in his wisdom, suggest and direct such arrangements, as shall tend to unite all his majesty's subjects in Ireland in loyal and dutiful attachment to his majesty's person and family, and to the consti

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tution under which we have the happiness to be placed."

Mr May, sen. seconded the motion. He took a view of the state of Europe, reduced, with the exception of those countries, to a state of vassalage by the power and machinations of Buonaparte. He approved of the address, because it combined no compliment to his majesty's present ministers-no praise or dispraise of their predecessors; it conveyed the affectionate and loyal sentiments of a free and independent town to its sovereign, and to the enemy it conveys a unanimous determination to meet him, should he attempt to disturb our tranquillity. It is expressive of that liberality of sentiment to our fellow-subjects which belongs to a well-informed and generous people; and it is neither framed nor intended to answer the views or interest of any private individual, by courting the favour of ministerial power.

The question was afterwards put from the chair, on the motion for the address, when it was adopted without one dissenting voice. It was then ordered, that the address be transmitted to the lord lieutenant, requesting his grace to forward the same to his majesty, which motion was also agreed to.

THE LATE STORM.-From the accounts which have been received, the fall of snow in Suffolk and Essex, and in all the northern counties, appears to have been much heavier than in the southern. Near Ipswich, Newmarket, and Bury, the roads in every direction were completely choaked. So great a fall of snow in one night has not been remembered these forty years. The mail coach from London, with the assistance of several farming horses, reached Bury about six o'clock on Friday evening, with much difficulty, after having been

nine hours coming from Newmarket (fourteen miles,) with four inside passengers. The coach which left London on Friday night, was stuck fast in the snow near Quendon-street, and the mails were forwarded to Bury on horseback; and the same mode was pursued with Saturday night's mail, except the first stage from town, to which it was brought in a post-chaise. The daily coaches to and from Bury have been stopped ever since Thursday last, as well as the old coaches to and from Norwich and Yarmouth, nor had any north, Cambridge, or Lynn mails, arrived there on Tuesday. The Ipswich mail coach has also been prevented from running since the above day, but the bags have been forwarded to and from that place on horseback.

24th. The following statement has been inserted in the London newspapers, by the authority of the Duke of Kent:

Although the Duke of Kent flatters himself that the officers of the British Army with whom he has had the good fortune of serving in the Mediterranean, America, and the West Indies, will do him the justice to believe, that his absence from Gibraltar at this time, when that fortress is menaced by a formidable attack of the enemy, is not owing to any backwardness on his part to repair to that station to which his duty calls him, or for want of his using his utmost exertions to be allowed to resume the actual command of his government, he feels, that he owes it to his own character, no less as a man, than as a soldier, to make known to them, to the whole army, and to his countrymen in general, the terms on which he felt it his duty to address his majesty upon this subject, immediately upon the arrival of the last accounts from Gibraltar, and trusts,