fands near Poole, in a heavy gale of wind at Eaft. There was a tremendous fea running, and a very heavy fnow falling, which rendered it extremely difficult, as well as hazardous, to afford any affiftance to the crew. The boats from his majesty's gun-vessel the Tickler, and feveral other boats, attempted it without fuccefs, and the poor fellows, after cutting away the mafts, and doing all they could to relieve the veffel, were left, without hope, to the horrid expectation that every coming fea would overwhelm them, or to the still more dreadful one, that they must shortly perish by the inclemency of the weather. They remained in this fhocking fituation till the middle of the day, when Charles Sturt, efq. of Brownfeacaftle, happily fucceeded in refcuing them from the very jaws of death, and brought them to his hofpitable manfion, where every refreshment and comfort was adminiftered to them, which their exhaufted ftate required. Mr. Sturt, on this occafion, merits the warmeft thanks of every friend of humanity; regardless of his perfonal fafety, which was endangered in an imminent degree, to his active exertions and perfeverance alone are thefe poor people indebted for their lives. The fea was tremendous beyond defcription, and the fhoals on which the veffel lay extremely dangerous to approach. Mr. Sturt's boat was feveral times filled by the feas, and himfelf and people once or twice abfolutely thrown out of her into the breakers. 24. Dublin. Last night a melancholy accident occurred, during a dreadful form, in this bay. Three Scottifh outward-bound Weft Indiamen were wrecked on the bar, and every foul of their respective crews and paffengers, to the number of 60, unhappily perified. At 9th. The mail-guards, who arrived in town, declare they never experienced fo fevere a night as that of February 8. The ftorm of hail was fo driven against their faces, as to benumb and fwell them. A gentleman, who should have arrived by the Chefter mail, relates, that from Northampton, which he left on Friday night, he got on tolerably well, notwithstanding the violence of the driving fnow, to Broughtonfield, whence the guard, for two miles, explored a paffage for the horfes, which could with difficulty be made to face the storm. length, arriving at Hockliff, he found, among other coaches, the Manchester mail; and was told, by perfons who had returned with the heavy Coventry and Chester coaches, that they and their paffengers were ftuck faft in the fnow on Chalk-hill. The dawn having, by this time, broken, he, with one of the fuperintendants of the Poft-office and the guard, fet off on horfes to Dunftable; and, taking a chaise with fix horfes from thence, they arrived with the mail at the General Poft-office at half paft twelve, on Sunday. The mail-coach from Shrewsbury, on Saturday morning, ftuck in the fnow in Tilworth-field, whence the guard carried the mail fome way, and then obtained a chaife, in which being unable to get forward, he proceeded with the mails on horfehack to London: nor was the Worcester mail-coach more fortunate. The paffages which had been cut through the former fnow, upon that and other roads, having been filled by the heavy drifts of Friday night, the guard was obliged to leave the coach blocked up at Nettlebed, from whence he proceeded, occafionally walking and riding, to London, where he arrived in tolerable time. The fecond fall of fnow fo completely blocked up the Newmarket-road, that three passengers, coming to town by the Norwich-mail, could not proceed any farther than Bourn-bridge. One of the fuperintendants of the Poft-office proceeded with the guard, on two of the horfes, and, by great exertion and rifk, arrived with the mails, in London, though too late for Saturday's delivery. 12th. Plymouth. Yefterday was experienced the most severe hurricane ever remembered here, at N. W, and W. N. W. At four P. M. the Naiad frigate broke from her moorings, and got afhore on the wet mud; but, the tide flowing, fhe was floated off without damage. The Bon Ordre, privateer, in Catwater broke adrift, and got afhore on the Cat-down fide, where the now lies; the New Church partly unroofed, several stacks of chimneys blown down, the flates and roofs blown to a great distance. At fix P. M. a large ftack of chimneys at Ladywell-school, at the east end of the town, broke in upon the roof of the houfe, forced through into the child ren's bed-room, carried away the beams, flooring, and beds, accompanied by near ten tons, down into the first floor, where near thirty children were working. By the beams refting for a few moments, the miftrefs and twenty-feven of the children escaped; but the cries of three children were heard under the ruins, and Mr. Rentfree, the mafter, with great exertions, dug them out, almoft fuffocated, and much bruifed. By the interference of Provi dence, every person was miraculoufly faved from apparent and inevitable deftruction." At night, a man walking home mistook his road, near Catdownroad, (the hedge having fallen in,) walked over a precipice 200 feet high, and was dashed to pieces. An awful phenomenon occurred in the Ifle of Wight: a large tract of land, containing 130 acres, with a dwelling-house and other edifices upon it, occupied by farmer Hervey, was fuddenly feparated from the adjoining ground, and propelled forwards towards the fea; leaving in the place which it before occupied a ftupendous gulph or chaẩm that inftantly filled with water. The eftate in queftion was fituated on the fouthern coaft of the island, a wild romantic tract of country, which wears every appearance of having heretofore experienced many fimilar lapfes or land-flips. Much injury was fuftained on the river by the tremendous ftorm of last night. Several veffels, particularly fuch whofe cables had been hurt by the floating ice, were driven from their moorings, and, by getting foul of each other, they received confiderable injury in their rigging, as well as in feveral other refpects. Among the fmall craft there is great havock, both below and above bridge, great numbers of them being dafhed to pieces, funk, or driven away. By the overflow of the river, at Weybridge, confiderable tracts of the adjacent meadows and corn-lands are laid under water. Mr. Johnfon and Mr. Jordan, the bookfellers, convicted of a libel, in publifhing the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield's "Addrefs to the Bishop of Llandaff," were brought up to re B 4 ceive ceive judgement. The former was ordered to be confined fix months, in the King's-Bench prison, and pay a fine of 507. the latter to be imprifoned one year, in the house of correction, in Cold-Bath-fields. 18th. Bath. The rapid thaw, accompanied, on Sunday, by a heavy rain, produced the greatest flood on our river that has been experienced fince 1774; Monday night, when at the higheft, it was more than ten feet above its ufual level. A moft diftreffing scene prefented itfelf in Horfe-ftreet, Avon-ftreet, and on the quay; the kitchens, cellars, &c. in thofe places, were nearly full to the ceilings; and in the lowest part of Horse-street the inhabitants were driven for shelter to the upper ftories. The road to Briftol was fcarcely paflable, the water being in many places as high as the bellies of the horfes. Accounts from the country ftate, that fimilar inundations have almost generally taken place, and much damage has been fuftained by hay-ricks, timber, &c. having been carried away. 21ft. In the court of King's Bench, this day, Mr. Cuthell, the original publifher of Mr. Wakefield's addrefs was tried before a fpecial jury; and, after calling feveral refpectable perfons to his character, who all concurred in ftating" that he dealt in old hiftorical, philofophical and other learned books, and not at all in political or other pamphlets, and that he was a man of excellent moral character," was found guilty. Mr. Wakefield was alfo tried, as the au hor of the work; which, having been proved in evidence, he defended himself, and read a written fpeech upwards of two hours long, full of invectives against his majef ty's minifters, and particularly againft the attorney-general, who, did not condescend to make any reply to it. The fingle queftion, which the attorney-general put to the jury, was, whether Mr. G. Wakefield was to be governed by one law, and all his majefty's fubjects by another law? Lord Kenyon treated Mr. W. with great tenderness and humanity; and the jury found the defendant guilty. Bail was immediately given for his appearance to receive judgement, himself in a 1000l. and Mr. J. T. Rutt, merchant, in Thames-fireet, and Mr. Samuel Lewin, in 500. each. 25th. James Turnbull was tried upon the capital charge of putting Thomas Finch in fear, and flealing from his majesty's mint the fum of 2380 guineas. By the evidence of T. Finch, it appeared that, on the 20th of December, Turnbull and Dalton, and two of the Tower Hamlets militia, were employed to work at a prefs ufed in the mint; at nine o'clock Finch told them to go to breakfaft; they all went out, leaving him and a Mr. Chambers in the room; in about a minute Turnbull and Dalton returned, and the latter flopped at the door, while the former prefented a piftol, forced the keys of a cheft from Mr. F. and then locked him in an inner room; he afterwards fiole 2380 guineas, and then efcaped. Turnbull, in his defence, went into all the particulars, which he faid, though it would injure himself, was due to the innocent. He faid, being all ordered to go out, on the morning of the robbery, he went out laft, and found Dalton waiting for him at the door, to whom, without giving the fmalleft intimation of his intention, he faid, "You come in." Dalton afked for what? To which he replied, "Never mind, but come in." That when he prefented the piftol to Mr. Finch, Dal ton called out to him two or three times, What are you about?" and then went from the door and gave the alarm, which he certainly would not have done had he been concerned. The jury pronounced him guilty: but his counfel was allowed to make any legal objections to the indictment, which is to be decided by the twelve judges. William Bryce and Peter Pollard were both found guilty of affifting his efcape this Turnbull alfo denied. 28th. This day were executed John Haines, for fhooting at Henry Edwards, a police officer, and James Blakeley, alias Patrick Blake, for forging a feaman's will. Haines has been hung in chains or Hounflow-heath, between the two roads; the gibbet ftrongly plated with iron. It is laid, that near 300 journeymen curriers attended the fcaffold to rescue Haines (who was a currier), but that they were prevented making the attempt by the vigilance of the theriff's officers. DIED At Paris, Thomas Muir, the celebrated Scottish advocate, tranfported to Botany-bay, for fedition, but who escaped thence. A wound he received on board the Spanish frigate in which he returned to Europe, it is faid, never was cured, and to that his death is af cribed. 2d. In his 82d year, Mr. Thomas Payne, for more than 40 years a a bookfeller of the firft reputation at the Mews-gate. He was a native of Brackley, in Northamptonshire; MARCH. MARCH. 5th. The court of directors of the Eaft-India company has confented to the wifles of government, and given up the point of recruiting for its own fervice. This puts a period to a very long controverly. Chatham-barracks is to be the depot for Eaft-India recruits, who are, in future, to be engaged for a period of ten years, leaving it to their option to enlift, after the expiration thereof, for a farther term of five years. The company are to defray the expenfe of their paffage homie, after their discharge in India. 13th. A meeting of the trufees of the British-museum having been held, to take into confideration a plan lately prefented to them by Mr. Defenfans, which had for its object to convert Montague-houfe into galleries of pictures and ftatues; they have refolved that no alteration fhall take place in Montague-houfe. A fire broke out, on the 13th of March, in the fuburbs of Pera, at Conftantinople, and, notwithstanding every exertion to fupprefs it, nearly two-thirds of that quarter were burnt down. Among the buildings deftroyed are the houfes of the English ambaffador, the Auftrian internuncio, and of feveral other perfons of diftinction; the hotels of Spain and of Poland, the Roman catholic church, and the fione magazine, which contained all the riches of Pera, as it was thought a place of perfect fafety. The damage is eftimated at twenty millions of ferins. 16th. By the tinking of the pavement nearly oppofite the front gate of the Royal Exchange, a very large deep well, of great antiquity, has been difcovered. The water is of excellent quality, and the ward of Cornhill propofe erecting a pump near the fpot. Upon examining Stow's Hiftory of London, it ap pears to have been covered over more than fix hundred years; for he notices, as ftanding there, a conduit and a watch-houfe, together with a place of confinement for diforderly perfons, at the top of which was placed the pillory for their punishment; all which, he fays, were removed in the year 1380. What is remarkable, the top of the well was not fecured by either arch or brick-work, but only covered with planks. 21ft. The house of Mr. Bowering, fchool-master, near Taunton, was burnt to the ground. The premifes were infured, and happily no lives were loft. The fire was occafioned by a maid-servant throwing fome afhes in the yard, which communicated to fome out-houses, and deftroyed the whole building. Providentially it was in the day-time, or the confequences must have been dreadful; the whole being destroyed in a fhort time, and not a change of clothes left for the scholars. 22d. Plymouth. A melancholy accident happened yesterday evening at the gun-wharf in the dockyard at this place. Mr. Brace, with his fon, about 12 years old, G. Newman, R. Herden, and G. Searles, were employed in removing à quantity of bomb-fhells, landed from the different French prizes lately brought in here, and purchafed by Mr. Brace at public fale, when, by fome accident, one of the fhells tock fire, which communica ted |