CEREMONIAL OF THE DUKE or

YORK'S MARRIAGE.

Berlin, 08. 1. The day before yesterday, in the evening, the wedding of Princefs Frederica was confummated with the Duke of York.

About fix o'clock, all perfons who were of Princely Blood atfembled in gala in the apartments of the Dowager Queen, where the diamond crown was put on the head of Princess Frederica. The Generals, Minifters, Amballadors, and the High Nobility, affembled in the White Hall.

Immediately after it ftruck feven o'clock, the Duke of York led the Princefs his fpufe, whofe train was carried by four Dimes de la Cour, preceded by the Gentle men of the Chamber, and the Court Officers of State, through all the parade apartments, into the White Hall. After them went the King, with the Queen Dowager; Prince Lewis of Pruffia, with the reigning Queen (the Crown Prince was ablent, by indifpofition); the Hereditary Prince of Orange, with Princess Wilhelmina; Prince Henry, third fon of the King, with the Hereditary Stadtholderefs, his aunt; Prince Wilhelm of Pruffia, with Princefs Augufta, the Duke of Weimar, with the spouse of Prince Henry of Pruffia; the reigning Duke of Mecklenborg Strelitz, with the Herediary Princefs of Brunswick.

In the White Hall, a canopy was erected of crimson velvet, and also a crimpfon velvet fopha for the marriage ceremony.

When the young couple had placed them felves under the canopy, before the fopha, and the Royal Family stood round them, the Upper Counsellor of the Confiftory, Mr. Sack, made a fpeech in German. This be ing over, rings were exchanged; and the illuftrious couple, kneeling on the fopha, were married according to the rites of the Reformed Church. The whole ended with a prayer; and twelve guns placed in the garden firing three rounds, the benediction was given. After which, the new-married coupie received the congratulations of the Royal Family, and they returned in the fame manner to the apartments, where the Royal Family, and all perfons prefent, fat down to card-tables; after which, the whole Court, the High Nobility, and the Ambalfadors, fat down to fupper.

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The fupper was ferved at fix tables. firft was placed under a canopy of crimson velvet, and the victuals ferved in, gold dishes and plates. Lieutenant-General Bornstedt and Count Bruh! had the honour to carve, without being feated.

were-At the firft, Prince Sacker, Minifter of State-At the fecond, General Mollendorf-At the third, Count Jinckenstein, Minister of State-At the fourth, Count Schulemburg, Lieutenant-General and Minifter of State-At the fifth, Major-General Bifchoffswerder.

During fupper, mufick continued playing in the galleries of the first Hall, which immediately began when the company entered the Hall.

At the defert, the Royal table was ferved with a beautiful fet of china, made in the Berlin manufactory.

Supper being over, the whole affembly repaired to the White Hall, where the trumpet, timbrel, and other mufick, were playing; the Flambeau Dance was begun, at which the Minifters of State carried the torches. With this ended the feftivity.

The new couple were attended to their apartment by the reigning Queen and the Queen Dowager.

The Duke of York wore on this day the English uniform; and the Princess Frederica was dreffed in a fuit of drap d'argent, ornamented with diamonds.

The Palace of the Margrave of Anspach was illuminated. CEREMONIAL of the RE-MARRIAGE. London, Nov. 23.. At feven o'clock in the evening, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Bishop of London, came to the Queen's house; the Archbishop attended by two pages and his train bearer; and the Lord Chancellor in his full robes, with the Great Seal of England carried before him, and his train borne.

At half past eight o'clock, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchefs of York, and the Duke of Clarence, entered the Queen's houfe, and were immediately conducted to her Majefty's drawing-room.

The Bishops and the Chancellor were in a feparate room for near three quarters of an hour, preparing the form of the register.

At nine o'clock, the Bishops and the Lord Chancellor having intimated that they were ready, they were admitted into her Majesty's drawing-room; upon which the proceffion, attended by the Officers of the Chapel Royal, proceeded to the Grand Saloon Books of the marriage ceremony were delivered to all the Royal Family by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

At the request of the Archbishop, a table was directed to be placed in the Saloon, which was formed as an altar, and was narrow enough for the Archbishop to reach across, and join the hands of the Royal Pair.

At half paft nine the ceremony was per formed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, affifted by the Bishop of London; his Majesty standing at one end of the altar, and her Majefty at the other extremity; the Duke

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thrown out of his bed upon the ground at feveral yards diftance: this man's thighs were broken, and he was otherwife much hurt. It was not till fome time after the principal explosion, that the two unhappy people in Mrs. C's yard were found by the populace, almost intombed in the fmoking ruins. The young woman was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, and the two men to St. Thomas's.It is fuppofed, that the mother, and the other journeyman, fell a facrifice to an attempt to extinguish the flames in the fhop below, as the principal part of the powder, which was depofited in the garret, was a confiderable time before it took fire. Five lives were loft: Mrs. Clitherow, her three daughters, and one journeyman; and no perfons were hurt befides thofe abovementioned. Mrs. C's houfe is entirely confumed, but the two adjoining are only confiderably damaged; as were the windows and tiling of almost all the houses as far off the fpot as Broad-street-buildings. The explosions were very audible, fo far off as Fleet-ftreet, and was at first supposed to have been an earthquake, and the flash feen as of lightning in Alderfgate-street.-Among the fhocking remains of the fufferers difcovered in the following day, were the three children's fkeletons, and one of Mrs. C's arms, which was known only by two rings upon the fingers. It is remarkable, that the late hufband of Mrs. C. had a fimilar accident, on the fame fpot, about thirty years fince, when feveral lives were loft.— -Her eldest daughter died on the 14th instant, in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Her eldest fon was not prefent when the accident happened; but (we are forry to add) a fon of his, who was apprentice to a lighterman, fell over the fide of a lighter on the Wednesday following, and was drowned in the Thames.

Thursday 10.

Between twelve and one in the morning, a fire broke out in the fecond floor of the houfe of Mr. Wilkins, Blackwell-hall factor, near Cooper's-hall, Easinghall-street, fuppofed to have happened by the maid- fervant carrying a candle into a clofet. She had the prefence of mind to prevent a communication in the outer room, whereby the house was faved; though the whole floor, with all the wearing apparel, bedding, &c. were déftroyed. The family, returning from spending the day at Mr. Wheeler's, apothecary, on Ludgate-hill, were ftopped at the alarm of fire, and told it was in their own house.

attach them, as for a contempt; though perhaps it might be questionable whether the Quarter Selions have fuch an authority.-The Jurors, having been guilty of a misdemeanor, are alfo punishable by indictment; which, if any courfe were to be taken against them, would be more conftitutional than the procefs of attachment. But wife policy, in my humble apprehension, forbids any criminal animadverfions at all.

"The inftitution of Juries, like every hu man inftitution, has its defects., That of a compulfive union of fentiment and opinion is one of them: this effect of it feldom happens; and, happening fo feldom, is better paffed over, than, hy criminal process against Jurors, incurring the ruk of weakening, in the public mind, the reverence fo juitly due to the great palladium of our freedom.-Their crime, in the prefent inftance, does not appear to have been corruption; and, where no motive is alligned, one should fuppofe the beft. They potlibly might have heen guilty of the violence to escape corruption. Their verdict undoubtedly cannot now be received, neither can they be re-affembled: the trial must be de novo.

"J. Cox HIPPISLEY."

STATE OF AFFAIRS ABROAD. The Political State of European Affairs has received but little alteration fince our laft publication. The emigrations from France have indeed much increased by oppofition; and there is now no hope left of eftablishing the new Conftitution without bloodfhed."

It appears to be the with of the furrounding nations, that the antient form of the defpotic government of France may be reftored; and fome very extraordinary steps have been taken to get the King wholly into the hands of the Fugitives for that purpose: but thofe steps feem to have been taken by men who have more at heart the gratification of their own ambition, than either the life of the King, or the happiness of his peo ple. It is by no means poffible for a byftander to fathom the true motives by which his Swedish Majefty is governed on the prefent occafion. His conduct is paft finding out; and the Declaration of War against his fubjects by the Algerines is not more myfterious than his propofition for war against the French nation. Time, however, will foon develope these mysteries.

If we fee reafon to conclude, that neither the difafter that has befallen our troops in the Eaft, nor the infurrection fo fatal in the West Indies, is fo great as was firft reprefented, we hope not to be suspected of partiality in our reprefentations: we believe both to be much over-rated. The cry that has been fet on foot to raise the price of fugar is certainly a trick of trade. Were the whole inland to be funk in the fea, there would be fugar enough left to fupply the wants of the rest of the world.

At Bristol, Dr. Ludlow, to Mrs. Gibbs, relict of G. G. efq. of Heywood-house, Wilts.

19. At Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, Richard Bateman, efq. of Derby, to Mifs Keelinge, only child of Rev. Tho. K. of Uttoxeter.

20. Tho. Walton, efq. of the Temple, to Mifs Mary White, of Lambeth. Mr. Rob. Hillier, of Chandos-street, Covent-garden, to Mifs Anne White, fifter of the aforefaid.

23. Rich. Walker, efq. of Ecclefhall-hall, Staf. to Mifs Charlotte Peake, of Offley-park. 24. At Prestbury, near Cheltenham, Rev. Jof. White, D. D. rector of Melton, Suffolk, Archbp. Land's profeffor of Arabic at Oxford, and prebendary of Gloucester, to Miss Turner, of Gloucester.

25. Roh. Bloxham, efq. M.D. to Mifs Caroline Heydon, both of Guildford.

At Corwen, Rev. Thomas Roberts, M. A. mafter of Ruthin fchool, co. Denbigh, to Mifs Eleanor Jones, of Cefn-Rug, co. Merioneth.

27. Rev. James Wiggett, to Mifs Lyde, daught of Sam. L. efq. of Ayot St. Laurence, Herts, and niece to the late Sir Lionel L. bart.

At Leicester, Rev. Wenman-Henry Langton, B.A. rector of Warham, co. Norfolk, to Mifs Arnold, eldest daughter of Dr. A. phyGician, of Leicester.

29. At Coventry, Mr. Jofeph Soden, to Mifs Sarah Vale, youngest daughter of the late Alderman V. of Coventry.

30. At Odiham, Hants, Wm. Powell, efq. captain in the royal navy, to Mifs Brett.

At Lifbon, by the Rev. Mr. Hill, his Serene Highness the Margrave of Anfpach and Bareith, to the widow of Lord Craven, and fifter of the Earl of Berkeley. The ceremony was performed before a number of refpectable witnesses; the ambassadors of Ruffia, Napies, Holland, Vienna, and all the English gentry that could be collected together. Capt. Dorfet officiated as father; and the whole company supped with their Highpeffes, after the ceremony, at the Prutian Minifter's hotel, where the Margrave had taken up his refidence.

31. At Radwell, Herts, Mr. J. L. Siordet, jun, merchant, of Great Winchefter-street, to Mifs Maria Sampfon, of Radwell.

Lately, at Oftend, the Chevalier le Sieur de Colleville, fon to the prefent Marchioness de Colleville, of Normandy, a French officer in the infantry, to Mifs M'Intofh, youngest daughter of Wm. M. efq. of Grenada.

Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cork, to Mifs Mapletoft, daugh. of the Hon. Mrs. M.

At Dublin, Wm. Thompson, efq. late high fheriff of that city, to Mifs Ifabella Ferguffon, of Dawfon-street.

At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Lord Grantley, to Mifs Midgley, eldest daughter of the Lie Jonathan M. efq. of Beverley, and niece to the late Lady Denison.

At Plymouth, Lieut. Henry St. John, only fon of the Hon. Henry St. J. late captain of the Torbay man of war, to Mifs Logie, daugh. of the late Capt. L.

By fpecial licence, Peter Everard Buckworth, efq. of Shackerly, in Chethire, captain in the 40th regiment, to Miss Blackall, only daughter and fole heirefs of Sir tho. B. of Dorset-street, Dublin.

Rev. Mr. Willis, to Mifs Sarraude, daugh. of Rev. Mr. S. of Sutton, near York.

Nov. 1. Robert Bufick, efq. of Epfom, to Mifs Parker, of Mitcham.

2. Francis Deuce, efq. of Gray's-inn, to Mrs. Price, widow of Rev. Henry P. late of Bellevue, in Ireland.

3. Chriftopher Hill Harris, efq. of Woolwich, Kent, to Mifs Boyfield, of Lee.

4. Geo. Wm. Ricketts, efq. of Bishop's Sutton, Hants, to Mifs Letitia Mildmay, you. dau. of Carew M. efq. of Shawford-house.

5. At Stoke Newington, Joha Freeman, efq. of Great Braxted, Effex, to Mifs Ellis, fifter of Tho. E efq. of the Palentine-houtes.

6. Mr. Oakley, attorney, of St. Martin'slane, Cannon-street, to Mifs Frances Swain, one of the daughters of the late Alderman S.

Mr. Charles Bowring, fuller, of St. Leonard's, near Exe'er, to Mifs Sarah Jane Anne Lane, eldeft daughter of the late Rev. Tho. L. of St. Ives.

7. Mr. Medley, bookseller, of Eaft Retford, to Mifs Barker, daugh. of Alderman B.

8. At Reading, Rich. Sheldon Collicott, efq. of Wefton, Somerfet, to Mifs French.

ro. Dan. Douglas, efq. of Folkingham, co. Lincoln, to Mifs Pinckney, of Peterborough.

1. Weftgarth Snaith, efq. of Manfionhoufe-ftreet, banker, to the eldest daughter of his partner, Tho. Sykes, efq.

Charles Wynch, efq. of Henley-castle, co. Worcester, fourth fon of the late Alex. W. efq. governor of Madras, to Mifs Folliet Augusta Perfect, eldest daughter of Dr. P. of Weft Malling, in Kent.

r2. At the feat of her father, at Mitchel'stown, in Ireland, the Hon. Mifs King, eldest daughter of Lord Kingthorough, to the Earl of Mount Cafhel, of Moor-park.

Mr. Charles Hague, of Cambridge, to Mifs Harriet Huffey, of Clapton.

17. Mr. Thomas James, jeweller, of St. Anne's lane, Alderfgate, to Mifs H. Thomas, of Doctors Commons.

18. Mark Giberne, efq. of New Broadstreet, to Miss Rebecca Sharpe, niece of Mr. Charles S. of Fleet-ftreet, perfumer.

19. Theophilus Collins, efq. M.D. F.R.S. to Mifs Eliz. Whittell, daughter of Henry W. efq. of Bermondsey.

21. Mr. Jofeph Daniell, of Winbourn, furgeon, to Mifs Spear, of Stepney.

Wm. Green, efq. of Friday-street, to Mifs Wilfon, of Bread-street, Cheapfide.

23. At Sturftock, co. Warwick, Charles Pack, jun. efq. of Prestwold, lieutenant-colonel of the Leicestershire militia, to Mifs Geast, dau. of Rd. G. efq. of Blythe-hall.

24. Alex. Fothringham, etq. to Mifs Juliette Garden, fecond daughter of the late Dr. Alex. of Charles-town, South Carolina.

DEATHS.