fubfifted between the prifoner and the deceased, which the brother difapproving, defired Suffolk to difcontinue his vifits. Upon this, a violent difpute arofe, in which Suffolk declared to the brother, that he fhould fee a great alteration before night. Accordingly, meeting with the deceased unfortunately in the course of the day (Feb. 3.) on the common near North Waltham, Suffolk with a large ftick attacked her, and repeated his blows till he left her for dead. In this ftate fhe was discovered, and had only strength to declare that Suffolk was her murderer; who, on being taken into cuftody, and foon after being informed by the conftable that she was not then dead, declared that if he thought the could have stirred hand or foot, he would have beaten her till this time. His body is hung in chains near the fpot where the murder was committed.

A moft fhocking murder was lately committed in Ireland on the body of Dr. Hamilton of TrinityCollege, Dublin; the particulars of which are as follow: Dr. Hamilton had a living in the north, near the banks of Loch Swilly; and having dined a few days fince at the houfe of a Mr. Waller, in his neighbourhood, the house was surrounded by a banditti of armed ruffians, about ten o'clock at night, who broke into the house while the family was at fupper, calling loudly for Dr. Hamilton, and threatening death to the whole family. Mrs. Waller implored mercy for her husband, a feeble poor gentleman, who having loft the use of his limbs, was unable to fly from their fury. She threw herself over him to protect Ein from affaffination, when the VOL. XXXIX.

miscreants fired three shots thro' her body, and killed her instantly. They then threatened to raze the houfe and put all its inhabitants to death, if Dr. Hamilton was not produced; and the fervants, to fave their own lives, dragged him from the wine-cellar to the door. He endeavoured to cling by the staple of the hall door lock, but the villains burnt his hand to force him to quit his hold, and then dragged him a fhort distance from the house, where they, in a moft barbarous manner murdered him. He has left a wife and nine children wholly unprovided for. His being an active magiftrate against the defenders, determined them upon the horrid act. Mr. Browne mentioned the matter in the Irish house of commons, in order to inftitute fome public provifion for this helplefs family.

A very melancholy affair has lately taken place at Smyrna. The circumftances are briefly these :-A party of ftrolling German ropedancers had arrived, and were exhibiting their feats on the tight rope to a numerous audience. As is the cuftom of that place, four janiffaries were placed as centinels at the door of the theatre, to preferve the peace. After the performance had commenced, a number of Sclavonians entered the doors, one of whom infulted the janiffaries, who refented his conduct. A fcuffle enfued, which terminated in the death of one of the janiflaries, who was fhot by a Sclavonian. An enquiry was inftantly fet on foot, and a demand fent to the theatre to give up the affaffin he, however, from the fidelity of his comrades, could not be difcovered. Time was allowed for the

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31ft. About four o'clock, a moft dreadful fire broke out at the old family manfion of the Duke of St. Albans, at Hanworth Park, near Hampton, which, in the course of three hours, deftroyed every part of the building, and all the beautiful gallery of paintings, which were in heirloom with the house. Very little of the furniture was faved. The fire broke out at the back of the house, near the library, and was occafioned by a girl belonging to a farm-yard lighting her fire too near the windows. Owing to the high wind, the flames caught the fhutters, and the conflagration fpread through the manfion before any affiftance could be obtained.

A boat belonging to a brig, lying in Winchelsea Nook, in its paffage from the shore to the veffel, with the captain and two men on board, was, by a fudden fquall of wind, overfet. The captain faved his life by fwimming to fhore; but the two men, being unable to fwim, were drowned. It is faid the unfortunate men belonged to New haven; but of this we have received no affurance.

In the courfe of this month, moft of the counties, cities, and towns of the kingdom, petitioned

DIED at her house in Halfmoonftreet, Piccadilly, after having been for fome weeks confined to her bed by a very fevere illness, Mrs. Pope, the celebrated actress. She was one of the laft of the legitimate School of Garrick; and had for years maintained, both as a tragic

don theatres, the most refpectable fituation. Her merits and talents, after nearly 30 years experience, are too well known to need any comment; they were univerfally acknowledged and admired: and, while fhe is lamented as a great public lofs, those who knew her domeftic worth, will feel also, in the death of fo estimable a woman, a fource of much private affliction. In a wide range of characters, in tragedy and comedy, and in the humorous as well as the fafhionable walk of the latter, she has been uniformly diftinguished with applaufe. Mrs. Pope was defcended from a good family, of the name of Younge, who left her little befide her education: fhe had her fituation in life to make at a period when moft girls are occupied by no other ideas than their pleasure. In the course of her education, she had acquainted herself with the beft English dramatic writers. It was a ftyle of reading fhe always relifhed fo much, that the now began, ferioufly, to think of putting it into practice; and, procuring a letter of recommendation to Mr. Garrick, he was fo well pleafed with her firft effay, that he took the pains of attending her at feveral private rehearsals, when every trial gave fresh proofs of her abilities.

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At the end of three months (in the winter of 1768) fhe came out in Imogen, in Cymbeline: a part, however, hazardous, from the variety of its difficulties; yet, fo ftrongly was fhe poffeffed of the fpirit of the author, and fo powerfully affifted by her addrefs, and other ftage accomplishments, that the obtained univerfal applaufe. At Drury-lane theatre this admirable actress continued till the year She then engaged with Mr. Harris, patentce of Coventgarden theatre, from which he has fince been abfent but one feafon. In 1784, during a profeffional excurfion in Ireland, fhe faw Mr. Pope perform at Cork, and approved fo much of his powers, that the recommended him to Mr. Harris; and at Covent-garden theatre his fuccefs juftified her opinion of his talents. A mutual affection arofe from this circumftance, and in a feafon or two afterwards, they were married. Her remains were, on the 22d, conveyed from her house to Westminster-abbey, in a hearfe and fix, followed by feven mourning coaches and her own carriage. In the first were fome particular friends of the deceafed; thefe were followed by the School of Garrick (of which refpectable fociety fhe was an honorary member) and by the principal performers of Covent-garden theatre. The body was interred in the cloisters on the fouth fide, near the remains of Sir Richard Jebb, and on the right of Dr. Dupuis. The funeral fervice was read by the Rev. Weldon Champnefs. Mrs. Pope was born in the year of the rebellion, 1745. The ftone that is placed over her remains is infcribed "In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Pope, of the

Theatre Royal, Covent - garden, who died on the 15th of March, 1797, aged 52 years."

In Bloomsbury fquare, in a fit of apoplexy, John Boniot de Mainaduc, Efq. M. D. and Member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London. He died after his return from the funeral of Mr. Eyre, of Cecil-ftrect. Thefe two gentlemen were married to two fifters. His "Lectures" are announced to be "publifhed as foon as his papers can be arranged; which, from his fudden and unexpected death, may require fome time."

5. At Tiverton, Devon, aged 52, Capt. J. G. Stedman. He entered in the navy, but relinquished it on the last peace, and accepted an enfign's commiffion in one of the Scots Brigade regiments paid by the Dutch. He had attained the rank of Lieutenant when the measure of fending a military force against the rebel negroes on the river Cottica, in Surinam, the most important, and now the only remaining, Dutch poffeffion on the coaft of Africa, was projected. Impelled by a defire of exploring a part of the world not generally known, and the hope of preferment in fuch a dangerous fervice, he obtained admiffien into the corps of 500 volunteers, formed into feven companies, embodied as a regiment of marines, and intended for Surinain, and was advanced by the Prince of Orange to the rank of captain, by brevet, under Colonel Tourgeoud, a Swifs, commander in chief. He quitted the Texel on Chriftmas day, 1772, and anchored in Surinam river Feb. 2, 1773. He focn formed an attachment with a beautiful negrogirl of 15, one of the natural children of a Dutch planter, whofe

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goodness of heart, and faithful attachment to him, were ftill more endearing than all her perfonal attractions; but, by the laws of the fettlement, fhe could not be redeemed from flavery, or brought home to Europe, but died of poifon, a victim to jealoufy, before the captain quitted her. After undergoing a variety of fatigues, and witneffing the most horrid cruelties, as well as most extravagant diffipation, in the colony of Surinam, he returned to his native country; and, a little before his death, publifhed an interefting narrative of the expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in two volumes, 4to, illuftrated with eighty elegant engravings from drawings made by himfelf. He has left a widow and five children.

APRIL.

1. At a common hall, the Lord Mayor laid before the livery of London the following letter, which he had received from the sheriffs:

"My Lord, In compliance with the refolution of the common hall, we waited on his Majefty at the levee yesterday, to know when he would be pleafed to receive the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery. We were informed by the Duke of Portland, that his Majefty would receive it on Wednesday next at the levee, or any other levee-day; but would not receive the petition on the throne, as it does not come from the city of London in its corporate capacity.

"S. LANGSTON, W. STAINES." The Livery then refolved, "That the fheriffs of London had an ac

knowledged right to an audience of the King, and are in duty bound to demand the fame;" and directed the sheriffs, attended by the remembrancer, to demand a perfonal audience of his Majefty, to know his royal will and pleasure, when he will be pleased to receive upon the throne the faid dutiful and loyal addrefs and petition.

3. This evening a moft alarming fire was difcovered in the fuperb manfion-houfe of Yefter, belonging to the Marquis of Tweedale, which, by the wonderful activity of the fervants and workmen belonging to the place, aided by a numerous body of the inhabitants from the village of Gifford, together with the Haddington engine, brought thence by about one hundred of the Durham rangers now ftationed there, who attended, accompanied by their officers, on the first alarm, happily faved the principal part of the houfe; only one of the wings was burnt, and a great part of the furniture deftroyed. The fire was occafioned by a wooden joift being placed too near one of the vents, which had been burning fome time before bursting forth.

The late accounts from New South Wales are particularly favourable. The fettlement of Broken Bay was in a flourishing condition, as, indeed, were the other diftricts. The harveft of 1795-6 (our winter) had proved abundantly productive.

According to the return of aliens within the cities of London, Weftminster, and the Borough of Southwark, lately prefented to the Houfe of Commons, the whole number of thofe perfons amounts only to 7041

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