a band of fix hundred performers to pre- Extract of a Letter from Paris, dated "The Cardinal's examination and enJargement being a matter that not only interetts Paris, but all Europe, I thould be to blame were I to neglect giving a circumftantial detail of what took place on the occafion. "On the 29th of May, at eleven o'clock at night, Madame de la Motte and Mademeifelle Oliva were transferred from the Baftile to the public prifon; Vilette was alfo brought thither, loaded with irons. The day following, at four in the morning, Sergent and Regnaut, tipftaffs, went to the Baftile for the immortal Comte de Caglioftro; they put him into a hackney-coach, and brought him to the Court-houfe le Palais. Caglioftro was in green, embroidered with gold, his hair dreffed a la charalois hung down on his fhoulders, and was tied at the end with an enormous bunch of party-coloured ribbon; he wore very little powder. The Comte feemed perfectly compofed; he was even feen laughing with the myrmidons of the law. He is a fhort, well-fet man, about five feet three inches high. The Cardinal came in the Governor's carriage at fix o'clock, the blinds were up; the King's Lieutenant got out first; M. de Lunai followed him; they both handed his Eminence out of the couch. The Prelate was dreffed in a pur ple caflock and cloke, lined with red, a cap and stockings of the.fame colour; he wore the enfign of the order of the Holy Ghost; he looked very feeble, and leaned very much on his cane; he faluted the few people, about forty, that were in the Court. Horror was depicted in his coukkaance, and his eyes, full of tears, were ready to The "The Cardinal is fully acquitted. The Comteffe 832 Comteffe De la Motte to be whipped in four different parts of the capital, and at the last to be branded on both fhoulders with the letter V. Volenfe (thief), then her head to be fhaved, and herself imprisoned for life in the hofpital, or house of correction; her hufband, by default, condemned to the gallies. Vilette to perpetual banishmentOliva, who was brought to bed in the Baftile of a chopping-boy, the bandy-work, it is faid, of a Parifian Alderman, enlarged———— Cagliostro and his wife unconditionally fet at liberty. Thus had the Parliament difpofed of all the perfons concerned in this grand affair; but just as the populace were huzzaing on the Cardinal's acquittal, a meifenger from Verfailles came with an order from Court to fufpend the execution of the fentence: whether it is a further effort of the enmity of Baron De Breteuil, whofe feat in the Cabinet will, in all likelihood, be fhaken by any circumftance favourable to Prince Louis; or whether Madame De la Motte, having formerly been publicly acknowledged at Court a defcendant of the royal Valois family, the intention of his Majesty be to foften the rigour of the fentence awarded against her, is left to the fpeculation of the multitude. Certain it is, that the Parifian populace threatened a refcue, if any fevere preceeding had been held against the Cardinal." : JUNE 9. DUEL between LORD MACARTNEY and GENERAL STUART. Yesterday morning, a duel was fought near Kenfington, between Lord Macartney and Major General Stuart, of which the following is an authentic account, as given by the feconds, Colonel Fullarton and Colonel Gordon; the former accompanying Lord Macartney, and the latter Major General Stuart. The place and time of meeting having been previously fixed, the parties arrived about half paft four o'clock in the moreing, and took their ground at the distance of twelve fhort paces, meafured off by the feconds, who delivered to each one piftol, keeping poffeffion of the remaining arms. General Stuart told Lord Macartney, he doubted, as his Lordship was thort-fighted, he would not be able to fee him; his Lordfhip replied, "he did, perfectly well." When the feconds had retired a little on one fide, and as the parties were about to level, General Stuart obferved to Lord Macartney, that his piftol was not cocked, his Lordship thanked him, and cocked. When they had levelled, General Stuart faid he was ready; his Lordship anfwered he was likewife ready; and they both fired within a few inftants of each other. The Seconds obferving Lord Macartney wounded, tepped up to him, and declared the matter must rest here. General Stuart faid, "This is no fatisfaction," and asked if his Lordship was not able to fire another piftol? His Lordship replied, "he would try with pleasure;" and urged Colonel Fullarton to permit him to proceed. The Seconds, however, declared, that it was impoffible, and they would on no account allow it. General Stuart faid, "Then I mutt defer it till another occafion." On which his Lordship answered, "If that is the cafe, we had better proceed now; I am here in confequence of a meffage from General Stuart, who called upon me ta give him fatisfaction in my private capacity for offence taken at my public conduct; and to evince that perfonal fafety is no confideration with me, I have nothing perfonal; the General will proceed as he thinks fit." General Stuart faid, "It was his Lordship's perfonal conduct to him that he refented." The Seconds then put a stop to all further conversation between the parties, neither of whom had quitted their grounds, and General Stuart, in confequence of his fituation, having been under the neceffity, from the firft, of putting his back to a tree. The furgeons, Mr. Hunter and Mr. Home, who were attending at a little dif tance, were brought up by Col. Fullarton; Col. Gordon in the mean time affisted his Lordship in taking off his coat, and requefted him to fit down, apprehending he might be faint through lofs of blood. Col. Gordon then left the ground in company with General Stuart, and an eafy carriage was provided to convey his Lordship home. The Seconds cannot help expreffing, that no two perfons ever met on a fimilar occafion, who fhewed more firmnefs and composure; and they are happy to add, that the ball is extracted, which was Jodged in Lord Macartney's right shoulder, and that there is every reason to hope for his recovery. (Signed) W. FULLARTON. A. GORDON. JUNE 16. Laft night an exprefs came from Ireland with the following particulars of the proceedings of Lord Chief Baron Yelverton, and other Judges appointed by fpecial commiffion, to try George Robert Fitzgerald, Efq. and others, for the murder of M'Donnell, Efq. and Mr. Hipfon. On the 8th inft. the Judges opened their commiffion at Caftlebar, the fhire town of the county of Mayo; and then a special Jury, confiiting of the following gentlemen, were fworn: James Jones, Efq. Foreman. Luke Franklin, Efq, Of twenty-one prifoners, all indicted for Such has been the fate of Mr. Fitzgerald, a gentleman fprung from, and connected with, the firft families both in England and Ireland: he is the fon of the amiable 'Lady Mary Fitzgerald, one of the Ladies of Honour to the Princefs Amelia, nephew to the Earl of Bristol, coufin-german to Lord Mulgrave, and brother-in-law to the Right Hon. Thomas Conolly, the first Commoner of Ireland, to the Countefs of Buck inghamshire, and the Lady of Sir W. Howe. He was poffeffed of one eitate worth upwards of 3000l. a year, the poffeffion of which he had got only a fhort time ago, by the death of his father: his perfonal accom plishments were fuch, that few men could fo foon ingratiate himself with strangers. He was polite, affable, agreeable, with all the air of what he really was, a man of fashion and fo little could he, from his appearance, be fufpected of being of a cruel, barbarous, or vindictive difpofition, that he feemed to be gentleness and meekness it felf; but under this impofing appearance, he concealed qualities the most dangerous to fociety; irafcible and easily provoked, he would quarrel for the mereft trifle; implacable in his refentments, he could not forgive a real or fuppofed injury; and, as we may now fay, after the verdict that has been given against him, nothing but the blood of his enemies could fatiate his fpirit of revenge. He was a bad brother, and a worfe fon; but one of the beit of fathers to a lovely girl, whom he had by his first wife, filter to Lady Buckinghamshire, whom he tenderly loved, and who could foothe and foften his favage temper, after reafon and humanity had failed to produce a like effect. This lovely child is now likely to be involved not only in the difgrace which fe will thare in common with all her father's relations, but alfo in ruin, by the forfeiture of an ample eftate, to which the was the apparent heir. Though juftice calls for a victim for an atrocious murder, and ought to have blood for blood, would we could flatter the amiable Lady who is mo ther to this degraded gentleman, with a hope that royal mercy would fpare her ma ternal heart the fhock it must feel, fhould her only fon fuffer the judgment of the law to which he is doomed! But we fear that all hope of this nature is vain; for our ag count fays, that it was the general opinion at Castlebar, that Mr. Fitzgerald would be executed before the Judges left that town. The other nineteen prifoners were to be tried on the 9th, and it was expected that they would be acquitted. PRICES OF CORN. JUNE 19. MARRIAGES. Jarvis Holland, Efq. of Great St. Helen's, to Mifs Darvall, of the fame place. At Bolton, in Lancashire, Mr. Jonathan Peel, of Church, to Mifs Efther Bolton, of Bolton. At Clifton church, by the Rev. the Archdeacon of Bath, the Rev. William Leeves, Rector of Wrington, in Somersetshire, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Brudenell, to Mifs Wathen, youngest daughter of Dr. Wathen. At Kentish Town chapel, Mr. William Plumley, of Ludgate-hill, to Mifs Sarah Dawfon, fecond daughter of Peter Dawson, Efq. of Goodge-ftreet, Rathbone-place. At Bettwys, Montgomeryshire, Mr. Sturkey, of Highgate, to Mifs Owen, of Ty-mawr. Mr. R. Bickerton, of Ofweftry, to Mifs Martha Hilditch, of Bafon. Harry Wilfan, Efq. of Gower-ftreet, Bed ford-Square, to Mifs Kennett, of Dean. ftreet, youngest daughter of the late Brackley Kennett, Efq. At Plympton St. Mary, Devon, Sir Wm. Molefworth, Bart. to Mifs Ourry. John Fonblanque, Efq. to Mils Frances Caroline Fitzgerald, of Brook-street, Grofvenor-fquare. At Clapham, Mr. William Whittaker, of Manchester, to Mifs Buck, only daughter of the late John Buck, Efq. of Bradford, in Yorkshire. James Wickins, Efq. of Lyndhurst, in the New Foreft, Hants, to Mifs Peachy, of Golport. At Edinburgh, John Schaw Stuart, of Greenock, Efq. to Lady Maxwell, of Pallock. By a fpecial licence, Mifs Doig, of Suf folk-ftreet, Cavendifh-square, to Riddie, Efq. Martin Whifh, Efq. one of the Commiffioners of Excife, to Mifs Harriet Tyffen, of Park-street, Grosvenor-fquare. By fpecial licence, Gregor, Efq. of Lincoln's-Inn, to Mifs Cornwall, of Red Lion-fquare. By fpecial licence, the Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Malden, to Mrs. Edward Stephenfon, of Harley-freet. At Liverpool, George Palmer, Efq. Commander of the Perfeus frigate, to Mifs Smith, daughter of Richard Smith, Efq. of his Majesty's navy. Major James Law, late of Bengal, to Mils Eliza Hornby, daughter of William Hornby, Efq. late Governor of Bombay. At Malmesbury, Philip Thickneffe, Efq. jun. to Mifs Elizabeth Peacock, of Bath. At Elanidloes, in the county of Montgomery, Jolin Williams, of Caftle-Hill, in the county of Cardigan, Efq. to Mifs Jones, filter of Wythen Jones, Efq. of the former place. At Pitcomb, Thomas Millard, Efq. of Wells, to Mifs Hunt, of Pitcomb. DEATHS. At his houfe at Sion, in the 74th year of his age, the Moft Noble Hugh Duke and Earl of Northumberland, Earl Percy, Baron Warkworth and Lovain, Lord Liestenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the counties of Middlefex and Northumberland, and of the town and county of the town of Newcaftle upon Tyne, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Baronet, who, with a moft princely fortune, fuftained his exalted rank through life with the greatest dignity, generofity, and splendour, and will ever be confidered as one of the first characters of the age, of which he constituted fo diftinguifhed an ornament.— His Grace's extenfive charities to the poor, his conftant encouragement of literature and the polite arts, and his generous patronage of every kind of merit, make his death truly a public lofs, and will cause it to be long and fincerely lamented. Mr. Mr. Stanley, Mafter of the King's Band of Muficians, a place which he held with great refpectability; and his lofs will be fincerely regretted by all who had the pleafure of his acquaintance. Mr. Stanley held for many years the fituation of compofer of the court odes; and, on the death of Mr. Weideman, had the place of composer of court minuets given to him, in addition to the other appointments. At his feat at Ridgley, in Hertfordshire, Charles Griffin Dartnal, Efq. formerly his Majesty's Envoy to the States of Switzerland. Mrs. Hay, in Queen-fquare, Weftminster. The Rev. Thomas Wintour, M. A. Rector of Westwell, in Oxfordfhire. At Hardwicke, in Oxfordshire, James Coulthard, Eq. formerly of Lincoln's-Inn. At his houfe in Manchester-buildings, Westminster, James M'Iraith, Efq. of Long-Ditton, Surrey. In Bruton-street, Lady Marg. Compton. At his houfe in the Bridge-yard, in the 77th year of his age, James Kettleby, Efq. the City's Juftice for the Borough of South wark. In the 93d year of his age, at his houfe in Tottenham-street, Mr. Levy Barsailles, upwards of 40 years Chief Rabbi of the Portuguefe fynagogue. At Bedwes, in Monmouthshire, Charles Price, Efq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Glamorgan. In Pimlico, Mrs. Yeats, wife of Mr. Yeats, Bookfeller and Stationer. At Haugh Hall, near Bolton, in Lancahire, Ann Smith, aged 86 years and five months. She was mother to 17 children, grandmother to 67, and great grandmother to 47, in all 131; they are all now living, and 82 of them attended her funeral. At Stoneleigh Abbey, in the county of Warwick, the Right Hon. Edward Lord Leigh, Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh, and Baronet. Mr. Williams, of Throgmorton-street. At Langley, in Kent, in her eighty-fixth year, Mrs. Anne Berkeley. After a long. life, cheerfully employed in the discharge of every Christian duty, this excellent woman, relict of the most excellent of men, the late George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, without feeling the mental terrors, or fuffering the corporeal pangs, that fo feldom fail to be the forerunners of the mortal diffolution, yielded up her devout spirit, with that bleffed ferenity of mind, which is the fure refult of a safe confcience and a lively faith. At his lodgings in Jermyn-ftreet, St. James's, in the 70th year of his age, Dillon, Efq. of Belgarth, near Dublin. At his houfe at Poplar, Captain Jamės Qaway, aged 98 years. The Rev. Mr. Bourdillon, of Churchftreet, Spitalfields. Mrs. Paterion, wife of John Paterson, Efq. of Burlington-freet. In child-bed, in Switzerland, Lady Mare garet Beckford, daughter of Lord Aboyne. Thomas Brown, Eiq. of Drayton-Green." At the houfe of George Chamberlain, Efq. at Merton, the Lady of Barwell Browne, Etq. of Woolverton, Hants. In Queen-fquare, Bloomsbury, Sir Richard Betenfon, Bart. At Bath, Mrs. Cox, widow of the late Rev. Archdeacon Cox, and daughter of General Parlow. At the fame place, Mifs Conftantia Dala ton, daughter of Robert Dalton, Efq. of Thurnham-hall, Lancashire. PROMOTIONS. Whiteball, June 6. The King has been pleafed to appoint the Right Honourable Richard Lord Milford, of the kingdom of Ireland, to be his Majesty's Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of Pembroke, in the room of Sir Hugh Owen, Bart, deceafed. Whitehall, June 10. The King has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the kingdom of Great-Britain to the feveral gentlemen under-mentioned, and the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz. John Macpherson, of Calcutta, in the province of Bengal, in the East-Indies, Efq. James Colquhoun, of Lufs, in the county of Dumbarton, Efq. Sir James Douglas, of Springwood Park, in the county of Roxburgh, Kt. Admiral of the white squadron of his Majesty's fleet. Thomas Shirley, of Oat-Hall, Wivelffield, in the county of Suffex, Efq. Gover nor in Chief of the Leeward Charibee Inlands, and Major-General in his Majesty's army. William Green, Efq. Major-General in his Majefty's army, and Chief Engineer at Gibraltar. Joshua Rowley, of Tendering-Hall, in the county of Suffolk, Efq. Rear Admiral of the red fquadron of his Majefty's fleet. Corbet Corbet, (late Davenant) of Stoke upon Torn and Adderley, in the county of Salop, Efq. grandfon and heir at law of Sir Robert Corbert, late of Stoke and Adderley aforefaid, Bart. deceased. Lyonel Wright Vane Fletcher, of Hutton, in the Forest, in the county of Cumber land, Efq. Richard Hoare, of Barn Elms, in the county of Surrey, Efq. James Hunter Blair, of Dunkey, in the County of Wigton, Elg. Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Wm |