Dutch Ambaffador. Hampton Court Palace is fitting up, by order of the King, for the refidence of the Stadtholder and his family, till the completion of which they are to refide at the Palace of Kew. jit.

The mails for the continent, except thofe to Spain and Portugal, are in future to be conveyed from Yarmouth to the Elbe; they are to be carried in a frigate; and the Poft-office Agent has orders to proceed with the mails of Tuefday next to Cruxhaveh, on the Elbe, to render the neceffary arrangements for their furtherance. The poft will branch off from Cruxhaven in two directions; the one, having the letters for Holland, Francfort, Switwerland, and Italy, will go by the way of Bremen ; the other mail, containing letters for Germany, and the north of Europe, will pafs through Hamburgh. The packet which carries out the first mails will fail from Parwich, and be conveyed to the Elbe by a floop of war; but afterwards the packets will fail from Yarmouth. DIED-3d. Mr. Jofiah Wedgwood, at his feat in Staffordshire. The public ufefulness and private virtues of this gentleman entitle him to particular notice. He was the younger fon of a potter, but derived little or no property from his father, whofe poffeflions confed chiefly of a fmall entailed eftate, and defcended to the eldeft fen. He was the maker then of his own fortune, and his country has been benefitted in a proportion not to be calculated. His many difcoveries of new fpecies of earthen wares and porcelains, his ftudied forms and chafte ftyle of decoration, and the correctnefs aud judgment with which all his works were exe

cuted under his own eye, and by artifts for the moft part of his own forming, have turned the current in this branch of commerce; for, before his time, England imported the finer earthen wares; but for more than twenty years paft the has exported them to a very great annual amount, the whole of which is drawn from the earth, and from the induftry of the inhabitants; while the national tafte has been improved, and its reputation raised in foreign countries. His inventions have prodigiously increased the number of perfons employed in the potterics; and in the traffic and tranfport of their materials from diftant parts of the kingdom; and this clafs of manufacturers is alfo indebted to him for much mechanical contrivance and arrangement in their operations; his private manufactory having had, for thirty years and upwards, all the efficacy of a public work of experiment. Neither was he unknown in the walks of philofophy. His communications to the Royal Society, of which he was a member, fhow a mind enlightened by science, and contributed to procure him the efteem of fcientific men at home, and throughout Europe. At an early period of his life, feeing the impoffibility of extending confiderably the manufactory he was engaged in, on the fpot which gave him birth, without the advantages of inland navigation, he was the propofer of the Grand Trunk caual, and the chief agent in obtaining the act of parliament for making it, against the prejudices of the landed intereft, which at that time stood very high, and but just before had been with great difficulty overcome in another quarter by

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25th. Of an asthmatical and dropfical complaint, to which he had been long fubject, the Rev. Rich. Southgate. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1749; but took no farther degree; elected F. A. S. 1794; prefented, on the death of Dr. Halifax, bishop of St. Afaph, to the rectory of Warfop, county of Nottingham, worth 400l. per ann. July 1790, by his friend JohnGally Knight, efquire, to whofe father, the learned Dr. Gally, he had been many years curate; appointed affiftant librarian at the British Mufeum, under Jofeph Planta, efq. 1785; and curate at St. Giles's in the Fields, where his affiduity in the reformation of the manners of its parithioners of the lowest, moft wretched, and moft abandoned characters, will long be gratefully remembered. In numifmatic knowledge he stood almoft unrivaled; and the profeffors of that branch of virtû have to regret that he did -not live to finish his noble design of illuftrating the Saxon coinage; or that his progrefs in it (for fome progrefs he had made) was retarded by his diffidence. His knowledge of books was good; and he was employed by the truftees of the Bri

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of many curious articles.-A report was in circulation that his death had been occafioned by having been ill-treated by fome poor Irishmen, difgufted at not having partaken of charity diftributed by him at St. Giles's church, and even a Grubean elegy, alluding to it, cried about the streets; but, on enquiry, we find this to have been erroneous.

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This night the St.Jago Spanish register prize caule was finally decided in favour of the captors. The precife value of this fhip, retaken in April 1793 from the French, is 935,000l. The perfons interested in this decifion are, Rear Admiral John Gell, efq. who commanded the fquadron, and the captains, officers, and crews of the St. George, of 98 guns, Egmont, Edgar, and Ganges, of 74, and Phaeton frigate, of 18 guns, which laft conveyed her fafe to Portímouth. Admiral Lord Hood gets. fifty thousand pounds as his thare of the St.Jago Spanish register fhip.

His Excellency the Turkish 5th. Ambaffador made his fo long delayed public entry. The Ambaffador and his fuite, after breakfafting with Sir G. Howard, at Chelfea Hofpital, came to town in grand proceffion; the coach in which he rode was that used by the King in going to St. Paul's cathedral; the ftate horfes were fix in number, very richly caparisoned; four of them were thote fent as a prefent to the King from the Grand Seignor; the other two having died on their patfage, were fupplied by two from the King's ftud. The Amballador wore a green robe,

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and turban nearly of the fame colour, ftudded with jewels. The concourfe of people on the occafion was fo great, that when they arrived at St. James's it was with difficulty the horse and foot guards who attended the proceffion could clear the way. Each of the carriages was drawn by fix horfes, decorated with ribbands, and attended by two or three fervants in their court liveries. The Ambaffador addreffed himself to the King in the language of his country, which was tranflated by Mr. Persiani, the Dragoman; and the fame ceremony was repeated to the Queen; after which the drawing-room commenced, and the bulinefs of the Court proceeded as ufual. The prefents brought over by the Ambatfador were delivered at St. James's. They confift of, to the King, a pair of gold piftols, the ftocks and barrels folid gold; four Arabian horfes, with gold bridles and faddles, trimmed with gold; and a gold dagger, with belt ornamented with pearls and diamonds. To the Queen and Princeffes, a cheft of filks, embroidered with gold; a plume of feathers for the head-drefs, fupported with a band of folid gold, and the top of the feathers ornamented with diamonds to the Prince of Wales, Duke of Portland, and Lord Grenville, chests of filks.

Erfkine expreffed his willingness to accept the apology, which he trusted would have a proper effect on the Court. His lordship was fentenced to three months imprifonment in the King's Bench, and a fine of col. and to find fecurity for his future good behaviour.

The following are the particulars of the reception of the hoftage princes, by their father, Tippoo Sultan, as contained in letters arrived from Madras. These illuftrious pledges arrived at Duonelly, about thirty miles from Bangalore, by eafy marches, and paid a vifit of ceremony at Colar, the tomb of their grandfather, Hyder Ally, on the 25th of May. At Duonelly, Tippoo Sultan, with 10,000 men, had been encamped from the 18th of March, anxiously expecting their approach. On the 29th at noon, the Princes, with their numerous fuite, accompanied by Capt. Doveton, proceeded on their vifit to the Sultan, who received them in a very fuperb pavilion, inclosed within a wall of a very extraordinary extent.

The Sultan was feated at one extremity, and on each fide, at fuitable diftances, were placed, according to their feveral ranks, about forty or fifty of his principal attendants. On their entrance into the pavilion, the young princes fprang forward to the throne where their royal father fat, and proftrated themselves before it. And here the etiquette of Afiatic courts put nature completely to flight-for the father, inftead of advancing to embrace his darling children contented himfelf with coldly placing a hand on the neck of each, and on the inftant the princes arofe, and refpectfully retired. It is a remarkable fact, that not a fyllable B 4

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was exchanged at this extraordinary interview. Captain Doveton was next prefented, and placed on the right hand of the fovereign, who converfed with him on Eropean topics for more than an hour and an half. He was afterwards regaled with beetle, cloves, and a variety of Afiatic dainties on a fervice of gold plate. The Sultan, during the interview, did not rife from his feat, which was a fquare cuthion, covered with crimfon velvet, flightly embroidered with gold-on bis fide was placed a fword and fome papers, and on them a gold inuffbox, apparently of European manufacture. Tippoo has a very majeftic deportment, and is of the middle ftature, with a countenance very expreflive. His eye particularly animated and ferutinizing, his note large, with oblique dilated noftrils; his mouth fmall with thick lips, and an eminence towards the centre of the upper lip, which projects, but is by no means unhand fome. His Majefly has conferred 24th. penfious of 500l. per ann. on Admiral Lord Graves, and the Rear-Admirals Sir George Bowyer, and Sir Thomas Paitley, in confequence of the wounds received by thefe gallant officers on the firft of June. Mr. Ibetion, who retires from the fecond Secretary fhip of the Admiralty, will likewife receive a pension of 6ool. per annum, in recompence of his long fervices in that office. 27th.

This being the day appointed for the general fait, it was obferved with due folemnity. Stanislaus, King of Po2 Sth. land, has taken leave of his capital, this day, probably for ever, The floods that prevailed during this feafon, have perhaps never

been equalled in the memory of man; the accounts of the ruinous effects from all parts of the country would fill more pages than can be spared by us.

DIED-20th. Dr. Alexander Gerard, Profeffor of Divinity in the University and King's College, Aberdeen, and one of his Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland. He was the author of-1.'An Effay on Taste, 8vo. 1759: 2. National Bleflings, an Argument for Reformation; fermon preached at Aberdeen,1760: 3. The Influence of the Paftoral Office on the Character Examined, with a View especially to Mr. Hume's Representation of the Spirit of that Office: a fermon preached at Aberdeen, April 8, 1760, 8vo: 4. The Influence of Piety on the Public Good; a fermon preached at the High Church, Edinburgh, May 31, 1761, 8vo. 5. Diflertations on Subjects relating to the Genius and Evidence of Chriftianity, 8vo. 1766: 6. An Effay on Genius, 8vo. 1774: 7. Liberty the Cloak of Malicioufnefs, both in the American Rebellion and in the Manners of the Times; a fermon preached at Old Aberdeen, Feb. 26, 1778, Svo.

8. Sermons, Vol. I. 8vo. 1780: 9. Sermons, Vol II. 8vo, 1782.

In the 63d year of his age, at his feat of Ollantigh, in Kent, John Sawbridge, efq. Alderman and Reprefentative of the city of London. He early in life fucceeded, by the death of his father, to a very princely fortune. In November 1763, foon after his father's decease, he intermarried with the only daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgman, Bart. with whom he had a large dowry; by this lady, whom he had the misfortune to lofe within about two

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months after their nuptials, he had no iffue. He afterwards married the fecond daughter of the opulent alderman Sir Willian Stevenfon. This gentleman had already ferved the high office of lord-mayor of the city of London; and, being a widower, Mifs Stevenfon did the honours of the table as lady mayorefs. By this lady, who is ftill living, Mr. Sawbridge had three fons and a daughter. The eldeft fon died fome years fince at Caen in Normandy; the fecond, who fucceeds to the family eftate, continues, highly to his bonour, to ferve as major in the Eaft Kent regiment, of militia, of which his father was many years colonel; the youngest is at prefent at Weminfter fchool. In attempting to draw a faithful portrait of the late Alderman Sawbridge, in private and public life, it would be only difficult to decide whether he was more truly eminent in the difcharge of the focial and domestic duties, or in the more animated fcenes of public patriotifm. As a husband, father, brother, friend, mafter of fervants, he displayed the pureft pattern of moral excellence. In his neighbourhood in the country, where he refided during the fummer months, his memory will be long held in the higheft efteem and veneration; for he not only rendered himself respectable by the fplendid hofpitality of his manfion, but by his great utility to that part of the county in which he lived, by confiantly acting in the commiffion of the peace, and rendering to all who came before him that equal and impartial juftice, for which he was fo highly celebrated after he fucceeded to the municipal character of an alderman of the city of Lon

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It has not been don. for a country gentleman to accept the gown of an alderman of London; in the cafe of Mr. Sawbridge, it was an event that took place in confequence of the politics of the times. His political career had commenced by gaining his election for the town and port of Hythe, against a strong ariftocratical intereft. It was during the period that he fat in parliament as a cinqueport baron, that the right of election in the perfon of Mr. Wilkes was violated in the county of Middiefex; a county, in which Mr. Sawbridge poffeffed confiderable property. It was an ufurpation of the people's rights, which our highfpirited baron, whofe breaft glowed with the purest flame of civil liberty, could ill brook and endure. He fo manfully refifted this act of minifterial tyranny, both in and out of parliament, as to render himfelf highly popular with the citizens of London; and, in confequence, was chofen, together with the late alderman Townshend, by the voluntary and unfolicited fuffrages of the livery, fheriff of London. He foon afterwards became an alderman of Langbourn ward; and in due courfe of time, he was called to the dignity of lord mayor of London, an office which Mr. Sawbridge filled with no lefs honour to himfelf than to the first city of the civilized world.

Mr. Sawbridge was afterwards chofen one of the city members, and fat during three parliaments as a reprefentative of the metropolis of the British empire. That he well and faithfully difcharged the high important duty of an English fenator is well known, and will ever be had in grateful memory by his fellow citizens.