lick-hill, in which business he fail- of Aylesbury, in the north riding ed, and afterwards embarked in the linen-trade. Mifs Jones, towards the latter end of 1793, performed the character of Imogen at Coventgarden theatre for one night only. I ft. SEPTEMBER. Scarborough. On Sunday laft, three gentlemen from Horsforth, in the weft-riding, went on the water in a pleasure-boat, rowed by a man named Laycock; and, in returning, the ftrength of the wind, and violence of the waves, driving them amongst the breakers, threw them ten yards from the veffel; and, unable to regain either the boat or fhore, they all perished in fight of a great multitude of fpectators, who exerted themfelves in vain for their relief. The bodies of the three former have been found; the latter has left a wife and child. At Cheveley, near Newzd. market, one of the duke of Rutland's feats, a boy, named Tweed, employed in keeping birds off a field of corn, placed his gun against a poft with the muzzle upwards, which unhappily went off, and, lodging its contents in the boy's throat, inftantly killed him. of the county of York. The flames broke out at the workhouse, in the middle of the day, when most of the inhabitants were in the fields reaping. The buildings being chiefly covered with thatch, and the wind ftrong at S. W. the fire burnt with fuch irrefiftible fury as in the course of a few hours totally ruined near a dozen families, burning fixteen dwelling-houses and out-buildings, with a large quantity of corn and farming-utenfils, all of which were uninfured. 16th. This day John Sellers, William Footner, and Elizabeth Jones, were put to the bar at the Old Bailey; the former upon the charge of having wilfully and maliciously wounded Mr. Thomas Yates, with a piftol ball, of which wound he died, and the two latter for aiding and abetting in the faid murder. The evidence of the fervant, Mary. Thompfon, va ried from her former depofition before the magiftrates, before whom the fwore that Mr. Yates pushed away the piftol with his hand when prefented by Sellers; but contradicted herself in this particular on the trial, that Mr. Yates did not touch the piftol, nor was it poffible for him to reach it, though on her A large box, containing a firft examination fhe had worn that 4th. quantity of rope, of the thick- Mr. Yates had hold of it, and was nefs of two inches, fpun by the struggling with it at the moment convicts, has been brought to the it went off. It came out in evifecretary of state's office from Bo-dence that Mr. Yates bahaved in tany Bay, being the first proof of a vindictive quarrel fome manner in their manufacture and production; the houfe having threatened Mifs it is as white as flax, and its fine- Jones with perfonal violence. Sel nefs cannot be be excelled by the lers in his defence, denied all inpinners in this country. tention of killing Mr. Yates, but faid that the piftol went off, owing to Yates taking hold of it; and that he had defired to be furnifhed with D 2 A dreadful fire happened 16th. at a fmall village called Eaft Whitton, on the eftate of the earl the the piftols for his perfonal defence, as Mr. Yates had repeatedly threatened to bring in feveral perfons to turn them out by force. He had only been shut out for the purpose of keeping him out till the attorney, who had been fent for, fhould arrive, and that his taking the piftol was the impulfe of the moment, and was only intended to have intimidated him; and that Mr. Yates himself feized hold of the pistol to wreft it from him. Mifs Jones in her defence, went into the particulars of her first engagement with the late Mr. Richard Yates, and of her performing at the Birmingham Theatre; of the will in her favour, and of the turbulent behaviour of the deceased; difclaiming all idea of his murder, and that the would have willingly refigned every fhilling of the property to have faved Mr. Yates's life. Footner faid little more than accounting for his being in the house in the way Sellers had previously related, merely calling as an acquaintance of Sellers. Evidence to character was only called in favour of Sellers; feveral perfons proved him a quiet, humane, inoffenfive man. The learned judge, Rooke, then proceeded to fum up The evidence, and to point out the noft ftriking parts to the jury. He thought Mifs Jones and Mr. Footner ought clearly to be acquitted of wilful murder, as they did not know that Sellers had the piftol, and it was not intended to keep Mr. Yates out by violence. With regard to Sellers, the jury fhould confider whether he fired he piftol wilfully; if he did, he was guilty of murder; if the piftol went off by accident it was only manflaughter; fhort of that it could not be. The jury retired for a few minutes, and brought in their verdict, John Sellers, not guilty of the murder, but guilty of manflaughter; Elizabeth Jones and Richard Footner not guilty. Sellers was fentenced to pay a fine of one fhilling, and be imprifoned fix months. There are five wills, or teftamentary papers, each of which are uniformly in favour of Mits Jones, one a regular drawn will in 1789. Liverpool. This morning, 17th. a little before one o'clock, a most dreadful fire broke out in a large warehouse, belonging to Mr. Hervey in Cheapfide; which, notwithstanding every poffible exertion, could not be got under till the whole warehouse, with all its valuable contents, were consumed. The top part was occupied by Mr. Middleton, as a cotton manufactory, when the fire broke out, occafioned, as is fuppofed, by the friction of one of the wheels employed in the works. In the lower part were eleven thousand mea fures of wheat, belonging to Meirs. Corrie, Gladstone and co. which, with a large quantity of hides, rum, brandy and other spirits, were entirely destroyed. About three o'clock, the front part of the warehouse fell into the ftreet, directly upon one of the fireengines that was then working, which occafioned a fcene of horror impoffible to be defcribed; three men were crushed to pieces on the fpot; ten more were carried to the infirmary in a dreadful fituation, two of whom died immediately; and it is thought that many will be found among the ruins. 19th. of the Newmarket mail, was indicted for wilful murder. It appeared that the prifoner was driving the mail coach at a very furious rate along Bifhopfgate street, where he ran over a boy and killed him on the fpot. The prifoner drove on not knowing of the accident, but was foon afterwards ftopped. He alledged in his defence, that his employers were under contract to perform the journey within a certain period, and therefore he thought it his duty to drive fo fast. The judge, in fumming up the evidence, obferved, "no contract could juftify a man for driving in fuch a manner as to endanger the lives of others." The jury retired, and were abfent two hours; when they returned, and found the prifoner, not guilty. William Clark, the driver her fide, himself bleeding at the forehead, from the effects of a blow he received from one of the forks. the had been madly hurling about the room. For a few days prior to this, the family had difcovered fome fymptoms of lunacy in her, which had fo much increased on the Wednefday evening, that her brother, early the next morning, went in queft of Dr Pitcairn; had that gentleman been providentially met with the fatal catastrophe had, probably, been prevented. She had once before, in the earlier part of her life, been deranged, from the harraffing fatigues of too much business. As her carriage towards her mother had been ever affectionate in the extreme, it is believed, that to her increased attentiveness to her, as her infirmities called for it, is to be afcribed the lofs of her reafon at this time. The jury without hefitation, brought in their verdict,Lunacy. This afternoon the co23d. roner's jury fat on the body of a lady in the neighbourhood of Holborn, who died in con fequence of a wound from her daughter, the preceding day. While the family were preparing for dinner, the young lady, in a fit of infanity, feized a cafe knife lying on the table, and in a menacing manner purfued a little girl, her apprentice, round the room. On the eager calls of her helpless infirm mother, to forbear, the renounced her first object, and, with loud fhrieks, approached her parent. The child, by her cries, quickly brought up the landlord of the houfe, but too late; the dreadful scene prefented to him the mother lifelefs on a chair, pierced to the heart; her daughter yet wildly ftanding over her with the fatal knife; and the venerable old man, her father, weeping by The melancholy account 24th. of the blowing up of the Amphion frigate, at Plymouth, was received at the Admiralty from Sir Richard King, by which it appears that Captain Pellew, the first lieutenant, and fifteen of the crew, out of 220, are the only furvivors left to relate the difma catastrophe; Captain Swaffield o the Dutch prize, is among the unfortunate victims. The accident happened at a quarter past four on Thurfday afternoon, while the Captain and his friends were at dinner. Mr. Pellew is dangerously wounded. Every exertion that could be used was rendered by the fhips boats in the harbour. 28th, This morning a convocation was held at St. Paul's Cathedral. This is a ceremony which which takes place upon the meeting of every new parliament. His grace the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, the bishop of Rochester, and several other dignitaries of the church, aflifted. The proceffion confifted, first, of the chorifters and gentlemen of the cathedral, the archbishop and bifhops, the judges and civilians, of Doctors Commons, with the proctors in their full robes. The whole was conducted with great folemnity. Prayers (according to the ufual cuftom) were read in Latin, by bp. Horley, and a Latin fermon was preached by doctor Radcliffe. Two anthems were performed in English. The ceremony lafted about two hours, and was attended by a numerous and elegant company: OCTOBER. 6th. The cotton mills at Hunflet, near Leeds, belonging to Meffrs. Beverley, Crofs, and co. were discovered to be on fire, which raged with fuch fury as to deftroy the works and buildings in little more than 40 minutes. The damage is estimated at £100,000. The premises and ftock were infured in the Sun and London insuṛance offices, for only 8000l. Plymouth. The court mar 10th. tial which was held laft Sa turday on board the admiral's fhip Cambridge, to enquire into the caufe of the lofs of his majesty's fhip Amphion, which blew up on the 22d of last month, in this harbour, after an examination of all the furviving crew, very honourably acquitted both the captain and othicers of every idea of remiffness or neglect upon that occafion. It his pocket, but had for feveral Reid, D. D. profeffor of moral phidays in vain folicited relief or lodg- lofophy at the univerfity of Glasing in the town and neighbourhood gow. He was a wonderful exam-. for want of money to pay for them. ple of early proficiency in matheHe was difmiffed with an order to matics, fince he was mafter of fir quit the parith; and the conftable Ifaac Newton's Principia at the age having in vain applied for a lodging of twenty. He wrote fome papers at the public houfes, inftead of in the philofophical tranfactions on lodging him at the watch-houfe or mathematical fubjects, which do work-house for the night, left him him much honour, But his fame to fhift for himself, and find his chiefly refts on his metaphyfical way in the dark to Barnet over the writings, in which he maintains the Chace, where he was next morning doctrine of common fense against found hanging on a tree, and hard- fceptics, and feverely arraigns the ly cold. About three weeks before, philofophy of Locke, whom he conthere had been found in a wood fiders as the great promoter, though behind Bowes Farm, in Edmonton unintentionally, of modern fceptiparish, another unfortunate wretch cifm. His works are: 1. An enhanging by his ftockings on a tree, quiry into the human mind, on the but in fo putrid a ftate that his principles of common fenfe. 8vo.. head and feet feparated from his 1764. 2. Effays on the intellectual body. He had on a good great powers of man. 4to. 1785. coat and a kerfyemere waistcoat, and in his pocket only fixpence and fome halfpence, The university of Oxford has lately printed, at its own expence, to be diftributed gratis among the French clergy who have taken refuge in Great Britain, ad ufum Cleri Gallicani in Angliæ exulantis, as the title ftates), 2000 copies of the vulgate and of the new 'Teftament. The marquis of Buckingham, diftinguished for his munificence towards the clergy, has likewife caused to be printed, at his expence, 2000 copies at the fame prefs and for the fame ufe. The univerfity of Oxford has fent its copies to the venerable bishop of St. Pol de Leoa for diftribution, accompanied by a letter, analogous to the generous fentiments which dictate this honourable mark of efteem for the French clergy, who are fully fenfible of the value o fthe gift. DIED-In his 87th year, Tho. 16. At Turin, in his 70th year, and 23d of his reign, Victor Amadeus Maria, of Savoy, king of Sardinia. He was born June 26, 1726; and married Maria Antoinetta Ferdinanda, of Spain, fifter to the prefent emperor, who died 1785.On the night of the 13th his majefty was feized with an apoplectic fit, which for fome time deprived him of his fpeech. The immediate application of blifters and bleeding brought his majefty to his fenfes the next morning, and his speech, though imperfectly, was recovered. During this interval the facraments were administered. Towards the evening alarming fymptoms returned, and recourfe was had to a third bleeding in the foot; which not proving efficacious, the extreme unction was adminiftered. His majefty lay fpeechlefs, and with one fide wholly palfied, during the night. At five in the morning of the 15th he was pronounced to be á l'agonie, |