The flames were very fierce, and threw the whole neighbourhood into the greateft confternation; providentially the damage was confined to Mr. Parker's premises. 28th. The following are fome circumstances attending a late marriage between a branch of the royal family and a daughter of a northern earl. About eighteen months fince, lady Dunmore, whofe hufband is now governor of the Bahama Iflands, went with her two daughters into Italy, where they refided till very lately. His royal highness prince Auguftus, being at Rome, met with thofe ladies, and very naturally courted their agreeable fociety: the confequence of which was, a mutual attachment between his royal highnefs and lady Augufta Murray, and they were there married. Lady Murray became pregnant, and returned to England. His royal highnefs did the fame: and, at the inftance of the lady and her friends, a fecond marriage took place. The parties were regularly afked in the church of St. George, Hanoverfquare, in the month of November laft, and on the 5th of December they were again united, according to the ceremonies of the church of England, under the names of Auguftus Frederick and Augufta Murray. The circumftances having come to the king's knowledge, his majefty inftituted a fuit of nullity in his own name, in the Arches Court of Canterbury, to fet afide the validity of this marriage, on the ground of an act of parliament paffed early in the reign of his prefent majefty, for the prevention of the marriage of any inale branch of the royal family, without the previous confent of parliament. On the 8th inftant Mr. Hefeltine, the king's proctor, ferved a citation on lady Murray to anfwer the charges of the fuit. The privy-council has been occupied, for two days, in the inveftigation of the circumftances attending the late marriage of his royal highnefs prince Auguftus Frederick and lady Augufta Murray. The perfons who have been examined on this bufinefs are, lady Dunmore, lady E. Murray, a coalmerchant and his wife who live in South Molton-street, where the lodgings were taken, to complete the refidence of one month in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square; the clergyman who married the parties; and a gentleman who refides at Twickenham. Lady Aug. Murray was brought to bed of a fon on the 13th inftant, which is likely to do well. 30th. Dublin. Came on the trial in the court of King's Bench of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, efq. on an information ex officio for publifhing, on 16th December, 1792, a feditious libel, purporting to be an addrefs from the United Irishmen of Dublin to the volunteers of Ireland. Mr. Curran made an admirable defence for the prifoner, but the evidence was fo conclufive against him that the jury, in three minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. 10th. DIED. After a lingering illnefs, aged 84, Sir Clifton Wintringham, bart. M. D. fellow of the royal colleges of phyficians in London and Paris, F. R. S. phyficiangeneral to the army, and phyfician in ordinary to his majefty; much esteemed by all who knew him as a man of amiable manners and extenfive knowledge. 11th. Aged 65, Dr. Hinchcliff, biflop of Peterborough and dean of Durham. This learned prelate, and cloquent orator, was born in 1731. His father kept a liveryftable in Swallow-ftreet. The fon, after paffing through the forms of Westminster School, went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had fcarcely taken a degree before he was chofen to be companion of the duke of Grafion during a tour of Europe. He attended the duke of Devonshire alfo on his travels, and afterwards attended Mr. Crewe, of Crew-hall, Chefhire, whofe fifter he married. The duke of Grafton, during his adminiftration, conferred on him the valuable vicarage of Greenwich, and by the fame minifterial influence he obtained, in 1769, the bishopric of Peterborough. In 1788, he was promoted to the va luable deanery of Durham. 16th. In his 57th year, EdwardGibbon, efq. the celebrated historian. down; while those who followed immediately were, by the fame irre fiftible impulfe, hurried over them. The fcene that enfued may be easier conceived than defcribed; the fhouts and fcreams of the dying and the maimed were truly fhocking; while thofe who were literally trampling their fellow-creatures to death, had it not in their power to avoid the mifchief they were doing. Seven bodies, completely lifelefs, were carried into Mr. Wynch's, the druggist, next door to the theatre, fome to the fhops of other gentlemen, and the remainder to St. Martin's bonehoufe, to be owned. Medical aid was called in, and every thing done to restore animation, if it was only fufpended; but we are forry that fuccefs attended the process in one cafe only, which was that of Mr. Brandram, of Tooley-street. The following is a lift of the perfons who were trampled to death: Mrs. Fisher, fifter-in-law to Mr. Brandram of 3d. This evening a melancholy Tooley-ftreet. Mifs Brandram, niece accident happened at the Haymarket of Mr. Brandram. Mr. Brandram, theatre, at which their majesties had his nephew. Mr. Brandram himself commanded" My Grandmother," was carried out apparently dead, but "No Song no Supper," and "The was recovered; he is fince dead. Prize." It was occafioned in the Benjamin Pingo, efq. York herald, following manner: In the crowd of the heralds' college. J. C. Brooke, one of the deceased was thrown down; the people kept pushing forward, others were thrown down over him, and all were trampled upon by the crowd, who patied over their bodies into the houfe. The pit lies lower than the threshold of the door leading into it; thofe therefore who go in muft go down fteps. Here it was that the mifchief happened; for the people who were the unfortunate fufferers, either not knowing any thing of the steps, or being hurried on by the preffure of the crowd behind, fell FEBRUARY. efq. Somerfet herald, of ditto. Mrs. and mafter Willis, wife and fon of Mr. Willis, attorney, of Gray's Inn. Mr. Garbutt, late mafter of the Three Sifters, of Whitby. Mrs. Gwatkin, wife of Mr. Gwatkin, dancing-mafter, Bartlett's Buildings, Mrs. Spencer, St. James's Market. Mifs Williams, Pall-mall, daughter of Mr. Williams, of Shoe-lane. Mr. Robinfon, of Coleman-ftreet, and Clerkenwell, farrier. Mifs Bushnel, niece of Mr. Norton, of Berner's ftreet. Mrs. Edgar and fon, of Pallmall. In all fifteen persons. B 3 The The inqueft of the coroner is local. That of St. Martin's parifh have returned a verdict of—“ Accidental death by fuffocation, and being trampled upon at the pit-door of the Haymarket theatre." Exclufive of thefe lamented victims, who were all refpectable perfons, near twenty others fuffered material injuries, in bruifes, broken legs, and arms, fome of whom are fince dead. 5th. This morning were executed before Newgate, pursuant to their fentence, John Rabbitts and William Brown (alias Bartlett), two very old offenders. They confefled feveral robberies, amongft which was that and the murder of Mr. Eaton in Berwick-fireet, Soho; of Mr.Woodcock, who was knocked down and robbed of his watch in Bedford-row, &c. &c. 7th. This night, at eight o'clock, the duke of York arrived at Whitehall from the continent. His royal highnes came paffenger in the Veftal frigate, which conveyed the prince Adolphus to Oflend, and landed at Ramfgate, after a fhort paffage of fourteen hours. The duke of York, immediately upon his arrival in town, fet off for Oatlands, where his duchefs was. His royal highnels was accompanied on his journey to England by colonel Hew gill, of the guards, and captain Crawford, his royal highness's aides du-camp. 9th. On Wednesday morning the arrival of the Swallow packet at Torbay, with the moft noble marquis Cornwallis and part of his fuite, was announced at the Indiahoufe. The Swallow left Madras the 10th of October, when all the prefidencies and poffeflions of the company were in an unexampled ftate of profperity, 10th. This morning Meffrs Muir, Margarot, Skirving, and Palmer, were removed from Newgate, in a poft-coach and four, attended by two king's meffengers. We learn that they were taken on board veffels bound to Botany Bay. By the court of King's Bench, in Ireland, it has been decided, that Mr. A. H. Rowan fhall not have a new trial and judgement has been pronounced, that he fhall be impri, foned for two years, pay a fine of 500l. and find fecurities for his good behaviour, under a penalty of 4000l, for feven years. 11th. A fire this night broke out at the floor-cloth manufactory, in Knightsbridge. By it no lefs than 20,000l. worth of property, with the buildings, was deftroyed, and not a farthing of either infured. The above fire, it is faid, was occafioned by the neglect of a boy, who, in heating fone colour, fuffered it to boil over. 13th. Cardiff. The canal from Merthir Tidvil to this place being completed, a fleet of canal boats arrived from Merthir, laden with the produce of the iron-works there, to the great exultation of the town. This canal is 25 miles in length. 14th. This day was determined, in the court of King's Bench, an action of crim. con. Howard against Bingham, attended with circumftan, ces lo peculiar, that we fhall give a fuller account of it in the appendix to the chronicle than we could do here. 22d. Leicester. Last night a boat belonging to Meffrs. Ella, Douglas, and Poynton, arrived at their wharf, in the Friers, freighted with merchandize from Gainsborough. The advantages of an immediate communication by water from this place to the coafts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Yorkshire, through the heart of the country and the whole fouthern diftrict of Nottinghamshire, are ob vious. DIED. 3d. At Dublin, the honourable Richard Power, LL. D. fecond baron of his majefty's court of Exchequer in Ireland, was drowned near the Pigeon-house, Dublin. The jury fat upon the body, and returned a verdict, accidental death. The baron's property in the English funds was eftimated at upwards of 60,000l. The baron was ufher and accountant-general of the court of Chancery. By virtue of the latter office, all moneys pending on fuits in that court were lodged with him. A caufe of the Chandos family, having been twenty years in that court, lately came to a decifion; and, by virtue of a law, the claimant of the property demanded the intereft which accrued upon the principal; this the baron refufed, alleging that the principal only was adjudged. The party complained to the chancellor, and his lordship ordered the baron to appear perfonally in court to answer the complaint. This the baron's pride revolted at, having been a judge of many years standing, even when the chancellor was a barrifter; but he was ready to account to the claimant, under his lordship's decree. The chancellor was inflexible, and allowed him five days to appear. On the third, the baron (after making his will, and leaving his papers in a regular manner) put a period to his existence, by drowning himfelf at the above place, John Schweighaufer, profeflor of Greek and oriental literature in the university of Strafburg. This German critic, who published Appian with learned notes in 1775, at Strafburg, and Polybius in 6 vol. 1792, 1ft. Copenhagen. On Wednesday evening, about five o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the royal palace of Chriftianbourg, which, communicating from the hereditary prince's apartments, where it began, to the reft of the building, in the space of feven or eight hours reduced the whole to a heap of afhes. The royal family have happily escaped without accident, but the greater part of their valuable effects have been a prey to the flames. It is not yet known what number of lives have been loft, but it is to be hoped, confidering the rapidity of the conflagration, which was increased by a very ftrong wind, that the number is not great. This palace, one of the moft commodious and moft fumptuoufly furnished in Europe, was built in the reign of Chriftian the fixth, and is faid to have coft, in building only, confiderably above a million fterling; it feems, therefore, not an exorbitant calculation to fuppofe, that, with the lofs fuflained by the hundreds of individuals by whom it was inhabited, the whole damage may amount to two millions fterling. It is fome confolation, in fo great a difafter, that the royal library, confifting of between two and three hundred thousand volumes, which flood detached from the principal pile, has been fortunately faved. During the whole of this diftrefsful fcene, the garrifon and the citizens were under arms, and every effort was made, both by the military and the failors, to prevent diforder and pillage. His Danish majefty is lodged for the prefent in an apartment at count Bernftorff's, and the reft of the royal family are difperfed in different quarters of the town, where they will remain till houfes proper for their reception can be got ready. 4th. The right honourable W. B. Ponfonby introduced his promifed bill on the fubject of a parliamentary reform in the Irifh commons, on which a debate took place. At twelve the houfe divided, on the motion of fir Hercules Langrifle, that the bill be read the fecond time the 1ft of Auguft-Ayes 142-Noes 44-Majority against the bill 98. 10th. Edinburgh. This day came on the trial of Jofeph Gerald, efq. late of Bloomsbury-fquare, London. The accufation, at the inftance of the lord-advocate of Scotland, charged him with being a member of a feditious affociation, called "The British Convention," which met at Edinburgh in November and December laft; and that, on the 21st and 28th of November, he made addresses of a feditious nature to the members of the faid convention. The indi&tment also charged Mr. Gerald with being prefent in the convention when the magiftrates and fheriff went to difperfe the members.—— When the court met, before the libel was read over, Mr. Gerald objected to the lord juftice Clerk fitting on the bench, Upon this, his lordfhip role, and lord Henderland took the chair. Mr. Gerald then prefented a written minute, containing the fpecific objections to his lordship's fitting on the bench, and the facts which he offered to prove in fupport of thefe objections: they were, that his lordflip had prejudged his caufe, inafmuch as, fome time fince, when in the house of Mr. Rochead, of Inverleith, he said, "What would they think of fending Margarot to Botany-Bay, and giving him, a whipping alfo?". This minute he defired might be entered on the records of the court. Their lordships in general were of opinion that the objection was not well founded, for the words alluded to were merely part of a converfa, tion at table; and could any man fuppofe that fuch language could have any influence upon a judicial procedure? Would it be proper to give force to fuch a charge, founded on a few loose words, and not at all connected with the proceedings of the court, nor delivered in the capacity of a judge? If fuch objections were to be tolerated, they might be attended with the most dangerous confequences. It was throwing an indignity upon the court, and was intended as a foul afperfion upon the character of that refpectable and learned judge who was vice-prefident of the court, and who added honour to the bench. Suppofe that fuch words really had been fpoken, how could they tend to prejudice the cause of Mr. Gerald, when it remained with a jury to try him? One |