mildeft fentence of the law might be inflicted upon him, as he had already fuffered along imprisonment. The court under thefe circumftances fined him one fhilling, and ordered him to be discharged.

Ld. Rawden's Infolvent Bill was rejected in the House of Lords.

It is thought that a bill will be introduced in its ftead, agreeable to the idea of the Earl of Abingdon, by which the enormous expences of the lower clafs of attorneys will receive a fevere check.

Mr. Crefpigny, fon of the member of that name, in paffing through the city, met a body of the guards with fixed bayonets, and, not readily giving way, was, on fome words arifing, ftabbed through the cheekbone; fince which he has been under the care of a phyfician and two furgeons.

Monday 26.

This morning the Blues took poffeffion of the Horfe-guards, and mounted in form, the Life-guards and Horfe grenadier companies having on Saturday night bid adieu to the life of foldiers, not one of them having entered in what they call the inferior corpfe. They receive with their difcharge the money they gave on enlifting, viz. 100 guineas, with fome fmall deduction. (See p. 268.)

The grandeur of the decorations and illuminations of the Pantheon this evening, for the new-elected knights Ball, furpaffed all defcription; and fuch was the demand for tickets, that 18 guineas were offered and refufed. It is faid 30 guineas were given, probably by thofe only who repaid themselves with intereft for their money; the Marchio nefs of Blandford lost her purfe, the Duke of Orleans his watch, and Col'Arabin was obliged to turn a lady out, who ufed her hands fo manlike as left no doubt of her fex.

Friday 30.

The account in the London Gazette of the progress of the war differs in nothing material from that in the ordinary papers.

Certain advice has been received, that Mr. Eder, the new British ambaffador, arrived at Madrid the 3d inftant.

By a letter from Madrid, dated May 5, the Ruffian Minifter, at the Court of Spain, having announced the entrance of a fleet of his nation into the Mediterranean, and asked permiflion for it to enter the ports of Spain in cafe of neceffity, the fame was granted, on the ufual conditions, that only a certain ftated number fhould enter at a time. This flatly contradicts former reports.

Petitions against the flave trade have been prefented from Rippon, Colchefter, Cambridge, Falmouth, Lancashire, Staf. ord, Northampton, Scarborough, Stamford, Rotheram, Heltone, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Warwick, Hertford, Chesterfield, Warrington, Lincoln, Bristol, Chamber of Commerce at Edinburgh. New Windfor, Chipping Wicomb, Hallifax, and th

Borough of Southwark. Alfo from Bridge water, Bridgnorth, Nottingham, Bradford, Leedes, Sheffield, Grantham, Chefter, Co. ventry, Redruth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bridport, Devifes, and Cambridge Univerfity, York, Bedford, Hull, Maidstone, the body of Quakers, the University of Cambridge, Salisbury, and Carlisle, and fome other places.

The inhabitants of Edmonton having received a fubfcription to add 2 bells to their former fet, they were put up in the course of last month, and the joyful event celebrated by crowning the feeple with garlands and boughs, and ringing the bells for the greater part of the day.

In the course of this month, the frame or trough in which the New River run near Bush-hill Edmonton, as defcribed in our Vol. LIV, pp. 643, 773, was completely removed, the water having continued near 12 months in its new bed of earth and clay. The old lead, amounting to near 50 tons, was fold at 18's. per ton to five plumbers; the boarding at bottom was found in many places fo completely decayed, that nothing but lead fuftained the weight of water, and confe quently many leaks were occafioned in the trough.

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It is commonly reported that in a courfe 33 miles this river has but 33i fall; whereas at Buth-hill its fall is 2 feet,, and at Highbury barn 3 feet.

The general confternation which feized the mercantile part of the city of London at the beginning of the prefent month has gra dually affected the whole kingdom in the progrefs of it. Not thofe only, who are engaged in the cotton and linen manufactories, have been fufferers; bet the whole community dependant upon trade, rich and poor; not a few moneyed men, who, from a laudable motive of forwarding and fupporting a growing manufactory, had advanced large fums at common intereft, are reduced from affluence to a feanty maintenance, to the ruin of their families and their own difquiet; while many hundreds, deprived of work, are deftitute of bread. Yet it is pretended, that this is no national lofs. Things are not annihilated, though they are deranged; and a thort time will reflore to order what now appears to be all confufion; but he muft have a callous heart who does not feel for prefent mifery. What if the million appropriated to the payment of the National Debt, of which this generation will never have the benefit, were for one year remitted, and properly applied to relieve this temporary diftrefs!

It is faid that 108 dockets have been ftruck in the Bankrupt Office fince the first explofion; 29 commiffions were fealed Tuesday 20; and that the amount of paper, now in ci cu lation, from one houfe that has ftoped, is .362,000.

P. 277. A capital Collection of Mr. LudJam's Models, Machines, Inftruments, Aftronomical, Optical, Philofophical, and Mathematical, were fold by auction, by Mr. Her ring, at the Globe Tavern in Fleet-street, on the 6th of May, 1788; a collection, faid to be comprehenfive in its compafs, and of fuperior excellence in many of its particulars. Whatever parts of it were purchased in the fhops were felected with all that care and judgement for which Mr. Ludlam was diftinguished; and many articles were fuch as could no where elfe be found: they were the fruits of his own invention, and made by his own hands; for it will be well recollected that, to the deepest penetration, and the cleareft views in abstract science, he joined the highest powers of fancy and invention, and the manual dexterity of the ableft workman. It is not wonderful then that truth, ufefulness, and elegance fhould be found in all his productions: and it was his conftant maxim never to make what could be purchafed. As the parts of this collection were often closely related, although not neceffarily connected with each other, a great number of lenfes, cells, &c. were put up in feparate lots, though they did not properly belong to any one optical inftrument, but were applicable to them all. This was done for the fake of variety and experiment. Mr. L's large Collection of Curious Tools were fold by private contract. For Mr. Ludlam's Report to the Board of Longitude fee our vol. XXXV. p. 412.

P. 319, col. 2, 1. 19, r. "ever probable." P. 333. The quotation as from a work of the laft Lord Lyttelton, we are defired to fay, is from a production well known not to be written by that Nobleman, but a forgery by the well-known Author of "The Diabohjad," who has attempted the fame impofition (and fometimes with equal fuccefs) in other cafes. We allude particularly to fome Letters juft publifhed under the name of Mr. Sterne, which, we are affured, are by the fame author as the pretended "Letters of the late Lord Lyttelton."

P. 363. The account of Lady Vane (by mistake called Lady Vifcountefs Fane) being erroneous, two perfons being confounded, fomewhat fimilar indeed in title*, but exceedingly oppofite in qualities; we are obliged to a correfpondent for the following correc

* The names have been before not unfrequently confounded. Even in a monumental infcription placed by the family of ane at Shipborne in Kent, in memory of an amiable lady, we find the fame error:

"Here lies the body of the Lady Frances Vane, of Fairlane, wife to the Right Honourable Sir Henry Vane the elder, who lived with much modefty, prudence, and vertue all her dayes, and died with great Chriftian piety the 2d of August, 1663, in the 7-d year of her age."

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tions." Sufannah Lady Viscountess Fane whofe alliances are accurately defcribed from line 34 to 45, is still living.-The Lady Vane was the daughter of Francis Hawes, efq. of Purley Hall, near Reading, one of the South Sea directors in 1720; and married, about the beginning of 1732, at a very early age, to Lord William Hamilton (brother to the Dake of that title); who dying July 11, 1734, the married, May 19, 1735, the Lord Vifcount Vane of the kingdom of Ireland, ftill living; though, in the Irish Peerage, published in 1784, the title is faid to be extinct, a circumftance which contributed to mislead us in confounding the names. The mifunderstandings, elopements, and various difgraceful fituations to which the expofed herself during part of her life, are too well known to be concealed (fevera of them being recorded in the Legal Reports), but may now, with no impropriety, be buried in oblivion. She certainly communicated the materials for her Life to Dr. Smollet; but we were mistaken in supposing there was any reference to her in the infa mous publication alluded to in our laft. We were equally mistaken in supposing her to be the perfon mentioned by Dr. Johnson in "The Vanity of Human Wishes." That Lady was a different perfon, whose death is recorded vol. VI. p. 168."

Another correfpondent, who was well ac→ quainted with her Ladyfhip, informs us, that, at the age of 17, fhe married Lord William Hamilton, whom the accidentally met at Court, where their eyes and looks met too, and they were foon after married, and called by Queen Caroline, "The Handfome Beg gars; for they were rich only in per fonal charms. Lord William, within the year, was obliged to go to Scotland; and, in returning haftily to the arms of his beautiful wife, over-heated himfelf, which threw him into a fever, and killed him. This beautiful widow at 18 was addreffed by Lord Viscount Vane, and in fome meafure compelled by her father to give her band only to the noble Lord, who fettled 15ool. a year jointure upon her, and 400l. pin-money; with whom he lived, and parted; and parted, and lived; wonderful to relate! She was the finest minuet-dancer in England, and, in point of all other perional accomplishments, inferior to no woman who has appeared in the eighteenth century. She was faid to be handfone in spite of her teeth; not that her teeth were not found and white, but growing too clofe, were irregular.--Her Memoirs in "Peregrine Pickle" were given to Dr. Smollet from her own pen; but they were written by another celebrated Door. But what is most extraordinary in her life, and that is faying a great deal, is, fhe told the writer of this article, that, upon one of her returns to her Lord's houfe, the gave him thofe Memoirs to read!! My Lord read then, and shut up the book without opening hi

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Thus far we had added to our former narrative, when we were favoured with the following article from another correspondent:

"Mrs. Mary Delany, who died at her houfe in St. James's Place, April 15, 1788,

P. 372, col. 2, 1. 35, r. "Geo. Markham." Ibid. 1. 43, r. "Rev. Anthony Fountayne Eyre, M.A. canon refidentiary of York Cathedral, to Kildwick Percy V. co. YorkRev. John Eyre, M. A. to Apefthorp, prebendary in the cathedral, York."

BIRTHS.

ADY of William Lygon, efq. of

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May 2. Lady of James Templer, efq. a fon. 9. Lady of Sir David Carnegie, bart. a dau. 13. Lady of Lord John Ruffelf, a fon. 19. Lady of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Altamont, a fon and heir.

MARRIAGES.

of manners which the preferved to the laft. Married early, and retired into a remote county, she had the leifure and good fenfe to cultivate a naturally vigourous mind; and her letters and conversation eminently evinced the good ufe fhe made of the opportunity. She poffeffed, in an uncommon degree, that quick feeling of the elegant and beautiful which conftitutes tafte: fhe was peculiarly fitted, therefore, to fucceed in the fine arts. She made a great proficiency in mufic; but loved and excelled principally in painting, in which he has been equalled by few of her fex. When the failure of her eyes difabled her from purfuing the higher branches of the art, in her 78th year the invented a new one, that of imitating flowers in paper mofaic; and, till her 83d, when the dimnefs of her fight prevented her going on even with that, The completed 980 plants to a degree of per-fection and effect not eafily to be conceived but by those who have feen them. She preferved her warm affections and fine underftanding to the laft; and crowned a long and exemplary life by a calm, compofed, and cheerful death, rendered thus eafy by reflections on her well-fpent days, in hopes of a happy immortality, and confidence in the mercies of her Creator and Redeemer.Whatever concern the fhewed was for her friends, not for herself. Her latter years were not only adorned by the unfolicited munificence, but (what fhe valued infinitely more) were honoured by the kindeft, moft gracious, and most condescending notice of the first perfonages in that kingdom; a happinefs which few can deferve or hope to attain. But he was not (as has been mifreprefented in the News-papers) left in circumftances of pecuniary distress at the death of her loved and honoured friend the Duchefs-dowager of Portland. She poifeffed an income of above 6col. per annum, confifting principally in a jointure from her first hufband, and had near and dear relations who were able and anxious to have added to it, if her liberal and moderate fpirit would have permitted or thought. neceffary."

brother to the Lady of the Attorneygeneral of Ireland, to the Hon. Lady Anne Meade, daughter of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clanwilliam.

In Dublin, Mr. Eleazor Boulton, of Hackney, merchant, to Mifs Wilfon, of Mount Wilfon, in King's County, Ireland.

In Dublin, John-William Fofter, efq. of Rofy-park, co. Louth, M.P. for the borough of Dunlser in Ireland, to Mifs M'Clure, only daughter of Hamilton M'C. efq. of Sackvilleplace, Dublin.

At Violet-hill, co. Armagh, Ireland, Capt. Wm. Campbell, of the 24th regiment, to Mifs Kelly, of Arniagh.

Rev. Dr. Cleaver, first chaplain to the Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, to Mifs Wynne, daugh. of the Rt. Hon. Owen W.

At Edinburgh, Capt. Simon Baillie, in the F. India Company's fervice, to Mifs Allifon, dau. of the late Mr. And. A. merch. Edinb.

At Sheffield, Richard Hope Price, efq of Manchester, to Mifs Maria Smilter, Sheffield.

At St. Stephen's, Bristol, Rev. Meredith Jones, curate of Hawkesbury, to Mifs Mary Walker, of the fame place.

At Dover, Steph. Soames, efq. of the Excife, to Mifs Anne Sharpe, of Dover.

Rev. Tho. Hind, rector of Ardley, co Oxf. to Mifs Hamer, of Hamer-hall, near Rochdale. At lugareftone, Effex, Mr. Jn Brockway, of the Poultry, hofier, to Mifs Anne Eames, of Ingatestone.

Mr. Tolbut, of Stratford, Effex, to Mifs Henrietta Partridge, 2d daughter of the late Mr. Jof. P. of Fenchurch-street.

At Iflington, Rev. Tho. Scotman, M.A. chaplain to Lord Carteret, and vicar of Fanerton Delamer, Wilts, to Mifs Hand, young. daughter of the late Rev. Chrift. H. rector of Aller, co. Someriet.

Rich Vauglefq. of Mile-End, to Mrs. Hab Pheafaut, het of Mr. Jas. P. of Aldgate. Mr. Wm. Portheufe, of Fri tay-itres, to Mifs Tinkler, of Walcot-place, Lambeth. John Bulleel, jun. etq. to Mis Porring, daughter of Tho. P. efq.

Al 21. At Reading, Mr. James Cooper, bricklayer, to Mrs. Mcore, widow of the

late Mr. M. of Aldermaston, Berks. A few hours after the marriage, the bridegroom was feized with a fit, in which he continued, with fcarcely any intermiffion, or once recovering his reafon, till the 24th, when he died. 25. At Liverpool, Hen. Pickering, efq. of Thelwell, co. Chefter, to Mifs Phillips.

28. At Wakefield, Col. Strawbenzee, in the East India Company's fervice, to Mifs Cookfon, of Wakefield.

to Mifs R. Bailey, of Hackney.

Edw. Addifon, efq. of Surrey-str. to Mifs Jane Campbell, daughter of Major James C. M.P. and niece to Sir Archibald C. K.B. governor of Madras.

Geo. Evans, efq. of Southwark, to Mifs Frice, of Farnborough, Berks.

30. Mr. Wm. Whateley, attorney at Birmingham, to Mifs Welchman, of Kington.

May 1. In Dublin, by fpecial licence, Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurit, bart. to Mifs Harriet Latouche, dau. of Rt. Hon. David L. David Fell, efq. of Anversham Grove, co. Oxford, to Mifs Gardiner, of Reading.

At Romford, Effex, Rev. Matth. Wilson, M.A. fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambr. to Mifs Barwis, eldest daughter of Jackson B. efq. of Marshalls, near Romford.

Mr. Bradley, of Fludyer-street, Weftm. to Mifs Evans, of Margaret-ftreet, Westm.

Rev. Mr. Hayes, of Dean's Yard, Westm. to Mifs Farrar, of the fame place.

At Hilton, co. Cambr. Rev. Hen. Wilfon, rector of Kirby-Cane, co. Norfolk, to Mifs Sumpter, dau. of Tho. S. efq. of Hifton.

At North Cadbury, co. Somerfet, Rev. Jas. Rogers, of Rainfcombe, Wilts, to Mifs New man, dau. of Fra. N. efq. of Cadbury-house.

Mr. Alex. Wilson, furgeon to the Royal Artillery and Board of Ordnance, to Mrs. Anne Reid, of Gr. Ruffel-ftr. Bloomsbury.

3. James-Peter Auriol, efq. of Stratford Place, to Mifs Emmeline Jelf, daught. of the Late Rich. J. efq. of Pend Hill, Surrey.

Sam. Crawley, efq. of Key foe, co. Bedford, to Mifs Rankin, of Ragnall-hall, Notts.

At Low Layton, Effex, Mr. John Hambrough, of Gould- fquare, Cratched Friars, to Mrs. Couper, of Laytonstone.

Mr. John Box, of Ludgate-ftr. jeweller, to Mifs Lycett, eldeit daughter of John L. efq. of Weeping Crofs, near Stafford.

} 5. Kich. Calvert, efq, of Lincoln's Inn, to Mrs. Edfall, of Boreham, Effex.

7. At Milborn Port, co. Somerset, the Rev. John Taylor, of Walmfley Chapel, co. Lancafter, to Mifs Scott, of Milborn Port, author of "The Female Advocate," and of the "Meffiah," a poem lately published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Eath.

John Mandell, efq. of Great Poland-street, Oxford-ftr. to Mr.. Rhodes, of Compton-tr. 8. At St. James's, Duke's Place, Stephen Ludlow, eiq. of Peney-Gored, co. Pembroke, to Mrs. Williamfon, of Duke-str. Aldgate.

Capt, Speedimal, of the East India Com

11. J. H. Browne, efq. of Badger, co. Salop, to Mifs Hay, daughter of the late Hon. Edw. H. governor of Barbadoes.

At Warminster, Wilts, Mr. Nath. Davies, of Lothbury, attorney, to Mifs Eliz. Wilton. 12. Tho. Kemp, efq. of the Custom-house, Lond. to Mrs. Spencer, of Thames-street.

At Cublington, Bucks, Rev. Cha. Afhfield, to Mifs Wodley, dau. of Rev. Mr. W. in the commiffion of peace for that county.

13. Sir Egerton Leigh, bart. to Mrs. Beauchamp, daughter of the late Sir Edw. Boughton, bart. of Lawford-hall, co. Warwick.

At Canterbury, Rev. Wm. Gregory, rector of St. Andrew's, and one of the fix preachers in that Cathedral, to Mifs Cather. Sayer, 2d da of late Geo. S. esq. of Pett, Kent.

14. At St. Martin's, Ludgate, Henry King, efq. of Lynn Regis, to Mifs Anne Southgate, of Ludgate-hill.

15. Wm. Rochfort, efq. nephew to the late Earl of Belvidere, to Mifs Sperling, dau. of Hen. S. efq. of Dynes, Effex.

Rob. Entwistle, efq. of Club-row, Bethnal-green, to Mifs Anne Manfell, of ditto.

16. John Mill, efq. of Walcot Place, Lambeth, to Mifs Hodge, of Stepney Causeway.

Sir Edm. Affleck, bart. rear-admiral of the Red, and M.P. for Colchester, to Mrs. Smithers, a widow lady from New York.

17. Mr. Edw. Windus, of Bifhopfgate-str. to Mifs Godfrey, of the fame place.

Frederick-John Pigou, efq. of Berner-str. to Mifs Louifa Minchin, daughter of Humphrey M. efq. M.P. for Oakhampton.

Henry Stretchy Amiel, efq. of Great Mary-la-Bonne-ftree, to Mifs Charlotte Court, of Cecil-street, daughter of the late Sam. C. efq. of Penninfborough, near Hertford.

Geo. Newland, efq. of the Temple, to Mifs Eliz. Brufen, of Putney.

19. Dr. Hodfon, of Hatton-ftreet, to Mifs Clarkson, of Market-ftr. St. James's.

20. At Sir James Tylney Long's, the Earl of Plymouth. to the Hon. Mifs Archer, one of the daughters of the late Lord A.

21. Henry Curfon, efq. of Waterperry, co. Oxford, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Roper, to Mifs Hawkins, daughter of Tho. H. efg. of Nath Court, Kent.

22. At Reading, Tho.Skeete,M.D. of Charter-houfe-fquare, to Mifs King, of Reading. At the chapel of Bridewell-hofpital, Wm. Thoyts, efq. of Sulfamited Abbots, Berks, to Mifs Jane Newnan, daught. of Abraham N.efq. of Fenchurch-street.