neighbourhood, the fury of which was beyond any thing of the kind ever before remembered; the piazza and corner of the theatre were swept away; houses unroofed, and the showers of bricks and slates that were flying in all directions, made it extremely dangerous for the inhabitants to approach the streets; a stack of chimneys was blown down at the Royal Oak Inn, in Guinea-strect, which broke through the roof into the upper story, where a woman was at work; and with the accumulated weight of the roof and bricks, falling with such velocity, the flooring gave way, and the woman was precipitated, with the rubbish, through the second floor, but was dug from the ruins without any material injury. A man named Humphreys, a musician in the band belonging to the Montgomery militia, who was seated in an apartment on the ground floor, was crushed to death. 31. An inquisition was taken at Shepperton, before G. Hodgson, esq. coroner for Middlesex, on the body of Fletcher Read, esq. the patron of boxers, who was found dead in his bed on Thursday morning. Ver. dict-Died by the visitation of God. Particulars of the dreadful catastrophe at Vellore, in India, from an officer in the company's service. Madras, July 28, 1806. Perhaps, ere you receive this letter, the account of the melancholy catastrophe which has occurred at Vellore will have reached you. I will, however, give you a short sketch of it. The troops which, at this time, garrisoned Vellore, were six com. panies of the ist battalion 1st regiment. No. 1, and 2d battalion of the 23d regiment, and four complete companies of his majesty's 69th regiment. "On the morning of the 10th instant, about two o'clock, when the moon had just risen, the Europeau barracks at Vellore were surrounded, and at every wind ›w and door, a heavy fire from muske. try, and a six-pounder, were pour. ed in on the poor defenceless soldiers. At that instant, the European sentries, and the soldie.s at the main guard, and the sick in the hospital, were put to death; and the Sepoys then proceeded to the officers' houses, and put to death all whom they could find. Colonel M'Kerras, who commanded one of the battalions, was shot while ha ranguig his men on the parade ground. Colonel Fancourt, the commandant of the fort, was shot upon proceeding towards the main guard; and all were butchered where-ever they could be found. Lieutenant Eley, of the 69th, with his little son in his arms, were both barbarously bayoneted, in the presence of his wife! This scene of carnage continued until about se. ven o'clock in the morning, when two officers and a surgeon. whose quarters were near to the European barracks, contrived to get in, and then took the command of the remains of the four companies. "They made a sally from the barracks, got possession of the sixpounder, and fought their way to the gateway, which a serjeant Brody, with his European guard, had most gallantly defended against all the insurgents. At the instant, about half after seven o'clock in the morning, they reached the gate, Colonel Gillespie, with about a troop of the 19th dragoons, had reached the gate from Arcot, having left that place about six o'clock. He was hauled up by a гора Hope by serjeant Brody's party, and had taken the command, when he intended to have charged the insurgents with the bayonet, but at this moment the gallopper guns of the 19th arrived. The gate was then blown open, and the 19th admitted. "The Sepoys were encouraged by their native officers to make a stand, but all were very soon cut to pieces by the 19th; about 600 were cut down, and about 200, subsequently taken from hidingplaces, were shot. About 500 made their escape, it is supposed, through the sally-port, but many of them have been since taken. "The cause of this dreadful affair is now investigating by seven commissioners, who are sitting at Vellore. The 2d battalion of the 23d had been raised in the south. ward, and was composed chiety of Collories; their officers were indu. ted by offers of great reward from one of the princes, to be bribed from their duty, and had sufficient influence over their men to make them join in the plan, which was to get possession of the fort, and which they calculated on keeping for a few days, when they were to be joined by 50,000 men from Mysore. The standard of Tippoo was hoisted on the palace soon after the firing commenced; and if it had not been for the entreaties of lieutenant-colonel Marriot, who declared the princes were innocent, solonel Gillespie would have delivered up the whole of the palace to the enraged soldiery. The cause is also to be attributed to a code of new regulations, which has occasion. ed general dissatisfaction through the army. These regulations have introduced a new turban for the 3 . Sepoys, similar to a drummer's cap; have ordered the distinguishing marks of cast in the forehead to be taken off, and to shave their upper lip, &c. The Mysore princes doubtless availed themselves of this dissatisfaction; young's corps had been removed from thence to Madras, a few weeks before, for refu sing to wear the turban. Lord-William Bentinck, wisely, immediately issued a general order, doing away those regulations. I inclose a list of the killed and wounded. Major Armstrong was killed in his palanquin, by a volley from the ramparts, when passing along about break of day, being on his way to Madras.” Killed. Col. Fancourt, commanding the garrison; lieut.- colonel M'Kerras, capt. Willison, lieut, Winship, lieut. Jolly, 2d batt. 23d reg. Native infantry Native infantry; capt. Miller, lieutenants O'Reilly, Smart, and Tichborne, 1st batt. 1st reg. native infantry; lieutenants Eley and Popham, his Majesty's 69th reg., Mr. S. S. Smith, military paymaster; Mr. Mann, deputy commissary of store; major Armstrong, 1st batt. 16th reg. native infantry; Mr. Gill, conductor of ordnance. Wounded.-Capt. Barrow, capt. M'Lachlan, lieut. Mitchell, all se verely, his majesty's 69th reg. Of the insurgent Sepoys, there are from 500 to 600 killed.. An Estimate of the charge of the office of ordnance for Great Britain, for the year 1807; and also of the said charge in Ireland for the said year," laid before par liament, is briefly as follows:LAND SERVICE. Expences not pro vided for, on ac- Ordinary, for 1807, 734,462, 10 8 Extraordinaries, 1,943,734 10 2 Total for Great Britain, parish with the deceased, were sus. pected, in consequence of the unfortunate man (who was constable) having discovered the retreat of 3,241,969 19 6 their father, after he had effected his escape from justice, on a charge Expences for Ireland Deduct for previous charge (as explained in the paper) Total for the uni of sheep-stealing. They are both 524,246 19 6 lodged in Brecon jail, under the charge of wilful murder. 2. As John Pickles, farrier in 45,000 o the 11th dragoons, near Ipswich, was shooting wild-fowl by the side of the river, some birds having fallen ted kingdoms, £.3,721,216 4 3 therein, he waded after them; when, FEBRUARY. 1. The following is an instance of barbarity scarcely to be paralleled in the annals of cruelty :-William Williams, of Fentwyn, in the parish of Crickhowell, a small farmer and shepherd, who had been accustomed to attend daily to his flock, left his cottage on the morn. ing of Saturday se'nnight, accompanied by his dog. In the afternoon the dog returned home without his master, and howled so much as to create great alarm in the family. Night coming on, and the deceased not appearing, his friends became much distressedand, on the following morning, his wife and children, with some neighbours, went in search of him-the faithful and sagacious dog accompanied them, repeating his howling, and expressing signs of great agitation-he led the parties to a small coppice, where his master was found murdered, his head having been split with an axe. The unfortunate man has left a wife and seven children to bewail his fate. Two brothers, named Timothy and John Powell, who resided in the same it is supposed, the cold bennmbed him so much, that he could not recover himself, and was unfortunately drowned. His footsteps were tra. ced from his clothes, on which his dog and gun were discovered. The body was taken up after several hours search, and interred with military honours on Tuesday. It is somewhat singular, that his widow had been formerly married to a sailor, who was drowned in nearly the same place. The result of a course of experiments was laid before the Hereford Agricultural Society by T. A. Knight, esq. by which it appeared, that the strength of the juice of any cider apple was in exact proportion to its weight. Thus the juices of the inferior apples were light when compared with the juices of the old and approved sorts. The forest stire outweighed every other, until it was put in competition with the new variety produced by Mr. Knight, from the Siberian crab and the Lulham pearmain; nor could any other juice be found equal in weight to the latter. King's Bench. In the case of Clavering v. Dean, Mr. justice Lawrence made the following remark, which is necessary to be remembered by by all watchmen and officers of the night: Where is the law, that the constable is bound to take a charge given by a man who himself is accused of a violent breach of the peace? The watch can only interfere when a breach of the peace is actually committed. They have no power to delay a man to make good his charge, because they must interfere while the affray is passing or recent. The evidence of a man accused must be taken under great suspicion; and I do not know who is to be expected to bring a charge against any one, if he is to do it at the hazard of being himself impri. soned." 3. As the lord chancellor was passing through Holborn on foot, he observed a number of men and boys hunting and beating on the head a little dog with sticks, under the idea of his being mad. The lord chancellor, with great humanity, observing not the least symptom of madness, rushed into the crowd, seized the poor animal from the hands of its destroyers, and carried it some distance, till he met a boy, whom he hired to carry it home with him to his lordship's house in Lincolns-inn-fields; when he gave it into the care of a servant, to be taken to his lordship's stables. 4. At a private levee at the queen's palace, the following had the honour of being presented to his majesty: Earl Nelson, by lord Grenville, upon his receiving the grant of a pension and estate, and his majesty's permission to accept the title of duke of Bronté, in Sicily; and also viscount Trafalgar (eldest son of earl Nelson) upon bis assuming that title, instead of his former one of viscount Merton, His lordship, as a knight of the order of St. Joachim, wore the riband and star of the order which lately adorned his uncle, the immortal Nelson; and the sword presented by his majesty the king of Naples to that ever-to-be-lamented chief. We understand, that the diamonds in the mounting of the sword are of many thousand pounds value, and that it is the most bril. liant ever exhibited at this court, having been a present from his most catholic majesty the king of Spain, to his son the king of Naples. 5. The bill for the Abolition of the Slave-trade, in the house of lords, was carried by a majority (including proxies on both sides) of 100 to 36. At Tower, in Furness, in the county of Lancaster, died the rev. Mr. Bell, in his 95th year: and on the same day, and in the same house, his brother-in-law, Mr. William Fleming, in his 91st year. Mr. Bell had been curate of Tower upwards of 61 years; and about two years ago two of his predecessors, curates of Tower, were living, one at Scathwaite, in Furness, the other at Grayrigg, in Westmoreland. A short time ago a gentle man of the neighbourhood asked Mr. Bell what the curacy of Tower might be worth? On which he answered, that it was now a very good thing, viz. about 351. per annum, whereas at the time he came there, it was not worth more than 101. Although Mr. Bell had been blind for many years, yet he performed the occasional duty until a short time previous to his death. 8. The following unpleasant occur. rence lately took place at Bellamy's tavern, house of commons. Mr. A. S. having accused Mr. B. of being influenced in his duty by a noble duke, duke, the latter gave the lie direct, which was acknowledged by a se vere blow with a cane. The parties have been since bound over in 500l. each, to keep the peace, by Mr. Graham, of Bow-street. A more distressing accident from the imprudent use of fire-arms has not of late occurred than the following-On Thursday se'nnight a gun, without a lock, was sent to a gunsmith's shop in Chester, to get one put on; the gun, in that state, was put into a vice, and an apprentice was affixing a lock to it, when a girl about thirteen years of age, with the infant child of her master in her arms, came to ask a question of the apprentice, and stood near the muzzle; when the boy unfortunately trying the lock, it went off, and lodged the whole of the contents in her body, carrying with it part of the infant's clothes, which it set fire to! Immediate surgical assistance was procured, but in vain, as the girl only survived the accident three quarters of an hour. The infant was not hurt. In the parish of Newmarket lives a poor widow; the house in which she resides consists of two tenements; the person who occu pies the other part has a vine, one branch of which spreads to the tenement of the widow, and she en. joys the fruit of that branch for keeping it in proper pruning, &c. &c. It so happened one day, that, her neighbour directed a gardener to prune his branch;. and the widow, observing that, requested the gardener to prune her's also. At the end of a few months this poor widow was furnished with a surcharge for employing a gardener. When the day of appeal arrived, she had to travel nine miles at con siderable trouble and expence. On her arrival, after informing the commissioners of the fact, she withdrew with the gracious consent of those commissioners to dismiss the surcharge; the tax for keeping a gardener was however confirmed.(Bury Post.) It appears by the Jamaica papers, that the house of assembly had voted 3000 guineas for a service of plate to admiral sir J. T. Duckworth, for having captured a French squadron in the bay of St. Domingo; and that, an advertisement having appeared in several of the papers of the island, importing, that the public coffers were inadequate to compliance with the order, and censuring the assembly, the editori of the papers who had inserted such advertisements had been ordered before the assembly: some of them had been reprimanded, and others ordered into the custody of the serjeant at arms. 9. John Holloway and Owen Haggerty were publicly examined at the public office, Worship-street, for the first time (though this was the third examination,) on a charge of murdering Mr. Steele, on the 6th of November, 1802. There was a great body of evi dence adduced, none of which tended materially to criminate the pri soners, except that of Benjamin Hanfield, who was particeps criminis, and who, under the promise of pardon, had turned king's evidence. He stated, that the prisoner Holloway, about the month of October, 1802, came to him, and asked him if he had any inclination to earn a little money, in a manner that would cost him very little trouble. told him he knew of a man whe constantly passed Hounslow Heath He |