ting in the front row of the two shilling gallery, in the bend on the king's side. He was seized, the people in the pit and boxes rising up, and considerable agitation prevailing. The fellow, who was drunk, held by the iron railing, that goes round the front of the gallery, and refused to retire this provoked the resentment againsthim still more, and the cries of vengeance were loud and general. Three or four laid hold of him, and seemed as if they would drag rail and all away; at last, they succeeded in taking him out of the theatre.

30th. Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Old Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, were alarmed by frequent shrieks of a female voice, apparently issuing from the back part of the countess of Pembroke's house, in Cavendish Square, and soon after an alarming fire broke out, through the roof, from one of the attics, which in a short time spread to the front of the house, and communicated with the shutters of the two pair floor. Every assistance was immediately given by the spectators, and in less than half an hour the pictures, and most of the valuable furniture, were removed into the court yard of a nobleman's house opposite. The engines arrived soon after; but a want of water occasioned some delay: however before five o'clock the Sun, the Westminster, and the Phoenix, were brought into play. The flames had, by this time, consumed the back part of the house, and were making rapid advances to the destruction of the front. About six o'clock the main beams of the second floor gave way; they fell end ways with a horrid crash upon the floor of the

drawing room, where they burnt furiously. It was seven o'clock before the engines had any effect on the fire, by which hour the upper part of the house was entirely destroyed; the roof having fallen in some time previous. It was owing, in a great degree, to the difficulty of breaking the windows to come at the fire, that a stop was not sooner put to the conflagration. This difficulty was at last surmounted, by carrying a pipe to the top of the adjoining house, and playing from the parapet. Still the flames adhered to the staircase, and the first floor window shutters, where it had effected a lodgment, and also on the main beams which supported the house. No other remedy remained than that of introducing the pipe through the hall, and playing from the staircase on the fire immediately over head, pieces of the burning timbers falling continually. One of the firemen had the temerity to expose himself in that situation. perseverance and indefatigable industry, the farther progress of the flames was put a stop to by eight o'clock. The damage done is not known. The lower part of the house, viz. the parlours, the hall, and the kitchens, escaped the general destruction: The cause of the accident is said to have arisen from the airing of the beds, as the family was expected in town from Gloucestershire this morning. Two house maids were in the house, and it is said that one of them left the pan of coals in the back garret bed, having gone down stairs in a hurry and forgot it. When she recollected herself, she ran up stairs, but found the bed on fire: alarmed at the cir cumstances, she went into fits, and

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when she recovered, endeavoured by her screams to alarm her fellow-servant, who, frightened, ran out into the streets to call for assistance. During this time the fire made rapid strides, and burst out in the manner already described. Happily no lives were lost, nor did any other accident happen.

DIED 26th. Mr. Rush the surgeon, aged 50: his death was occasioned by an obstruction which settled on the kidneys, and introduced a mortification in the bowels. Mr. Rush stood high in the opinion of the world as a professional man his private character was very amiable. During the American war he, by his skill and attention to the officers and men in the West Indies and America, saved may valuable lives. This conduct so endeared him to the army, that on his return home he was much noticed by the commanding officers, and in 1798 was promoted to be inspector-general of regimental hospitals. Mr. Rush has left a good fortune behind him.

Lady of W. Baker,

M. P., a daughter. Lady of G. H. Rose, esq., M. P.,

a son.

Lady Caroline Stuart Wortley, a

son.

Lady of Viscount Belgrave, a son. Lady of the right hon. George Canning, M. P., a son.

Lady Lucy Bridgeman, a son and daughter.

Lady of sir J. Lawson, bart., a son. 18th. The empress of Germany, a princess.

Lady of B. Hobhouse, esq., M. P., a daughter.

25th. Lady Elizabeth Palk, a son. Lady of sir Charles Oakley, bart.,

a son.

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Lady Dunboyne, a son and heir. Lady of sir Charles Cotton, bart.,

a son.

25th. Lady Charlotte Greville, a

son.

28th. Lady George Cavendish,

a son.

Nov. Sth. Lady of sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, a daughter. 10th. Lady of sir John Payne, bart., a daughter.

Electress Palatine of Bavaria, two princesses.

ter.

Sir John Coxe Hippesley, bart. to Mrs. Hippesley Coxe.

March 5th. Lieut-col. Erskine, to lady Louisa Paget, third daughter of the earl of Uxbridge.

13th. John Joseph Henry, esq. to lady Emily Fitzgerald, seconddaughter of the duke of Leinster.

21st. Lord Morpeth, eldest son of the earl of Carlisle, to lady Geor gina Cavendish, eldest daughter of the duke of Devonshire.

April 6th. The hon. and rev.

earl of Clanwilliam to miss Elizabeth Percy, youngest daughter of the bishop of Dromore.

7th. Right hon. lord Whitworth, K. B., to her grace the duchess dowager of Dorset.

13. Sir Edward Knatchbull, bart., to miss Hawkins.

18th... Sir John Arundel to miss Sarah Anne Sharpe.

May 11th. Col. Orde to lady Louisa Jocelyn, sister to the earl of Roden.

18th. James Dupré, esq., M. P., to miss Maxwell, daughter of sir William Maxwell, bart.

25th. Col. Cunninghame to miss Mary Thurlow, youngest daughter of lord Thurlow.

26th. Sir Robort Harland, bart., to miss Vernon.

28th. Capt. Adam Drummond, to lady Charlotte Menzies, eldest daughter of the duke of Athol.

June 3. Hon. Francis Nathaniel Burton, M. P., to the hon. Velentia Lawless, sister of lord Cloncurry.

13th. Mr. serjeant Onslow to lady Drake.

14th. John Hammet, esq., M. P.,to miss Woodford.

June. Lord John Thynne, third son of the late marquis of Bath, to miss Mary Anne Master. Lord

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Lord Louvaine, to miss Louisa Wortley.

Joshua Edward Cooper, esq., M. P., to miss Elizabeth Lindsay.

Lord Ongley, to miss Burgoyne, only daughter of the late sir John Burgoyne, bart.

Lord Pelham, to lady Mary Osborne.

July Thomas Powell Symonds, esq., M. P., to miss Rootes.

Lord Aylmer, to miss Louisa Call, second daughter of the late sir John Call, bart.

August 1st. Sir Edmund Carrington, to miss Paulina Beth.

20th. Joseph Jekyll, esq., M. P., to miss Sloane.

Hon. sir Edward Crofton, bart., eldest son of the baroness Crofton, to the lady Charlotte Stewart, fifth daughter of the earl of Galloway, and sister to the marchioness of Blandford.

Sept. Brigadier-general Danne, to miss White, sister of lord Bantry.

Henry Parnell, esq., son of sir John Parnell, bart., to the hon. miss Dawson,sister to the earl of Portarlington.

The hon. J.Cavendish, second son of sir Henry Cavendish, bart., to lady A. Gore, third daughter of the earl of Arran.

J. H. Moore, esq., to dowager lady Dunboyne.

Sir Marcus Somerville, bart., to miss Marianne Merydith.,

Oct. Rev. sir John Head, bart., to miss Walker.

13th. Thomas Wynn, esq., to lady Charlotte Bellasyse, eldest daughter of the earl of Fauconberg.

Sir John Riggs Miller, bart., to miss Beauchamp.

Lieut.-col. Cockborn, to the hon. Mariana Devereux, eldest daughter of viscount Hereford.

Sir John Murray, bart, to miss Callander.

Hon. Montgomery Stewart, son of the earl of Galloway, to miss Catherine Honeyman, sister of lord Armadale.

Hon. George Irby, eldest son of lord Boston, to miss Drake.

Nov. 1st. William Glen Johnston, esq., to miss Harriet Mary Hough Richardson, sister of sir George Richardson, bart.

5th. The right hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, to miss Latouche.

10th. George Ellis, esq., M. P., to miss Parker, daughter of admiral sir Peter Parker.

12th. William Francis, count de l'Age Labrottellaire, to miss Sarah Palmer.

15th. Sir James Blackwood, bart., to the hon. miss Foster.

27th. Lord Francis Spencer, second son of the duke of Marlborough, to lady Frances Fitzroy, fifth daughter of the duke of Grafton.

Dec. 14th. Major Macleod, to lady Arabella Annesley, daughter of the earl of Mountnorris.

Lieut.-col. Wood, to lady Caroline Stewart, daughter of the earl of Londonderry.

24th. Robert Biddulph, esq., M.P., to miss Middleton, of Chirk Castle, whose name he assumes.

Earl of Meath, to lady Melasina Adelaide Meade, fourth daughter of the earl of Clanwilliam.

Sir Charles Burrell Blount,knight, of the imperial military order of Maria Theresa, to miss Elvira Blount, daughter of sir Charles William Blount, bart.

PROMOTIONS in the Year 1801.

January 1. Lieutenant-generals: Benjamin Gordon, George Ainslie, James Adeane, Edward Smith, Thomas Bland, Felix Buckley,