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.

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The mails for the continent, except those 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 Tuesday 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 pass 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 usefulness 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, whose poffeffions conSfted chiefly of a small entailed eflate, and defcended to the eldest 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 chaste style of decoration, and the correctness aud judgment with which all his works were exe

artists for the most 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 past she has exported them to a very great annual amount, the whole of which is drawn from the earth, and from the industry of the inhabitants; while the national taste has been improved, and its reputation raised in foreign countries. His inventions have prodigiously increased the number of perfons employed in the potteries; and in the traffic and transport of their materials from diftant parts of the kingdom; and this class of manufacturers is also 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, show a mind enlightened by science, and contributed to procure him the esteem of scientific men at home, and throughout Europe. At an early period of his life, feeing the impoffibillity of extending confiderably the manufactory he was engaged in, on the spot which gave him birth, without the advantages of inland navigation, he was the proposer of the Grand Trunk canal, and the chief agent in obtaining the act of parliament for making it, against the prejudices of the landed interest, which at that time stood very high, and but just before had been with great difficulty overcome in another quarter by

all the powerful influence of a noble Duke, whose canal was at that time the only one that had been constructed in this kingdom. The Grand Trunk canal is 90 miles in length; uniting the rivers Trent and Mersey; and branches have fince been made from it to the Severn, to Oxford, and to many other parts, and it will also have a communication with the Grand Junction canal from Braunfton to Brentford.

25th. Of an asthmatical and dropfical complaint, to which he had been long subject, 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; presented, on the death of Dr. Halifax, bishop of St. Afaph, to the rectory of Warsop, county of Nottingham, worth 400l. per ann. July 1790, by his friend JohnGally Knight, esquire, to whose father, the learned Dr. Gally, he had been many years curate; appointed afsistant librarian at the British Mufeum, under Joseph Planta, esq. 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, most 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 pogress in it (for fome progress he had made) was retarded by his diffidence. His knowledge of books was good; and he was employed by the trustees of the Britith Museum in making purchases

of many curious articles. -A repórt was in circulation that his death had been occafioned by having been ill-treated by fome poor Irishmen, disgusted 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.

FEBRUARY.

This night the St.Jago Spa4th. nifh register prize cause was finally decided in favour of the captors. The precise value of this ship, 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 squadron, 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 share of the St. Jago Spanith register ship. His Excellency the Turkish 5th. Ambaffador made his so long delayed public entry. The Ambaffador and his fuite, after breakfafting with Sir G. Howard, at Chelsea Hospital, 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 horses were fix in number, very richly caparifoned; four of them were those sent as a present to the King from the Grand Seignor; the other two having died on their patfage, were supplied by two from the King's ftud. The Ambassador wore a green robe,

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and turban nearly of the fame colour, ftudded with jewels. The concourse 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 dear 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 Ambassador addreffed himself to the King in the language of his country, which was tranflated by Mr. Perfiani, the Dragoman; and the fame ceremony was repeated to the Queen; after which the drawing-roon commenced, and the business of the Court proceeded as usual. The presents brought over by the Ambatfador were delivered at St. James's. They confift of, to the King, a pair of gold pistols, the stocks and barrels folid gold; four Arabian horfes, with gold bridles and saddles, trimmed with gold; and a gold dagger, with belt ornamented with pearls and diamonds. To the Queen and Princesses, a chest of filks, embroidered with gold; a plume of feathers for the head-dress, tupported 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.

The earl of Abingdon was brought into the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment for a libel on Mr. Sermon, Previoufly to fentence being paffed, his lordthip requested leave to say a few words. He apologized for his intemperate language to Mr. Erskine and the Bar on the day when he was last brought up. Mr.

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

The following are the particulars of the reception of the hostage 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 easy marches, and paid a vifit of ceremony at Colar, the tomb of their grandfather, Hyder Ally, on the 28th 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 distances, were placed, according to their several 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 tented himself with coldly placing a hand on the neck of each, and on the inftant the princes arofe, and respectfully retired. It is a remarkable fact, that not a fyllable

was exchanged at thisextraordinary interview. Captain Doveten was next presented, and placed on the right hand of the fovereign, who conversed 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 service of gold plate. The Sultan, during the interview, did not rife from his feat, which was a square cushion, covered with crimson velvet, flightly embroidered with gold-on bis fide was placed a fword and fome papers, and on them a gold fnuffbox, apparently of European manufacture. Tippoo has a very majeftic deportment, and is of the middle ftature, with a countenance very expreffive. His eye particularly animated and fcrutinizing, his note large, with oblique dilated noftrils; his mouth small with thick lips, and an eminence towards the centre of the upper lip, which projects, but is by no means unhandfome. 24th. His Majefty has conferred penfions of 500l. per ann. on Admiral Lord Graves, and the Rear-Admirals Sir George Bowyer, and Sir Thomas Paifley, in confequence of the wounds received by these gallant officers on the first of June. Mr. Ibetfon, who retires from the second Secretaryship of the Admiralty, will likewife receive a penfion of bool. per annum, in recompence of his long fervices in that office.

This being the day ap27th. pointed for the general faft, it was obferved with due folemnity. Stanislaus, King of Po28th. land, has taken leave of bis 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 Bleffings, an Argument for Reformation; a 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. Differtations on Subjects relating to the Genius and Evidence of Chriftianity, 8vo. 1766: 6. An Effay on Genius, 8vo. 1774: 7. Liberty the Cloak of Malicioufness, 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, Johu Sawbridge, efq. Alderman and Representative 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 lose within about two months city of London; and, being a widower, Miss Stevenson did the honours of the table as lady mayoress. By this lady, who is still living, Mr. Sawbridge had three fons and a daughter. The eldest fon died fome years fince at Caen in Normandy; the second, who fucceeds to the family eftate, continues, highly to his honour, to serve as major in the Eatt Kent regiment of militia, of which his father was many years colonel; the youngest is at present at Westminster school, 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 social and domestic duties, or in the more animated scenes of public patriotifm. As a husband, father, brother, friend, master of servants, he displayed the purest pattern of moTal excellence. In his neighbourhood in the country, where he refided during the fummer months, Lis memory will be long held in the highest esteem and veneration; for he not only rendered himself respectable by the splendid 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 justice, for which he was to highly celebrated after he fucceeded to the municipal character of an alderman of the city of Lon

consequence 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 aristocratical interest. 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 Middlesex; a county, in which Mr. Sawbridge poffefsed confiderable property. It was an ufurpation of the people's rights, which our highspirited baron, whose breaft glowed with the purest flame of civil liberty, could ill brook and endure. He so manfully refifted this act of ministerial 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, sheriff of London. He foon afterwards became an alderman of Langbourn ward; and in due course of time, he was called to the dignity of lord mayor of London, an office which Mr. Sawbridge filled with no less honour to himself 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 representative of the metropolis of the British empire. That he well and faithfully discharged the high important duty of an English senator is well known, and will ever be had in grateful memory by his fellow citizens.