Wilbarfton, under the command of major Cartwright, attended by the officers of the two troops, and by the reverend Mr. Griffin, one of the magiftrates of the county, and having under their efcort a waggon loaded with pofts and rails, for fencing out the above allotment. On approaching the parifh they found a mob of about 300 perfons, who had lighted a bon-fire in the middle of the road, in order to obstruct the paffage of the waggon, which they would not allow to proceed. On which the magiftrate read the riotact; and, after waiting an hour, the troops were ordered to advance and escort the waggon to the spot, which was immediately done and one or two of the most active of the mob were taken into cuftody, and compelled to affift in setting down the pofts and rails. After waiting 2 or 3 hours, the greatest part of the crowd difperfed; when the yeomanry returned, and the workmen were left in quiet poffeffion of the field.

DIED. 23d. At Caiftor, near Norwich, Sayer, a butcher, aged 110 years. He followed his vocation, and retained his faculties, till the day of his death.

Lately, Mrs. Gatford, of Horfham, Suffex. She had not paffed the threshold of her manfion for more than 20 years before her death. In confequence of which, her carriage was fuffered, for want of ufe, to drop to pieces in the coach-house, and her horfes to range uninterruptedly in fields of the richeft paftures. She poffeffed a good fortune; and though, during her life-time, was not known to apply any part of it to charitable ufes, yet her will proved, that at her demife fhe was not totally unmind

ful of the poor in her neighbourhood; to whom the bequeathed a confiderable fum to be diftributed in bread, and included other poor objects in the number of her lega tees. The most fingular of her bequefts is 151. per annum, to her cats and dogs, for their mainte nance.. The directions of her will, with refpect to her interment, were, that her body should not be remov ed from her chamber until a month after her death; that, to prevent her becoming offenfive, it fhould every night be bathed with fpirits; and that her remains fhould be buri ed in four coffins, the outer one to be of marble, and fixed in the vault; which directions were duly obfer. ved at her burial on the 13th of Auguft.

AUGUST.

1ft. The king, queen, and prin ceffes Augufta and Elizabeth, accompanied by the countess of Harrington, fet off in two carriages, at half paft five o'clock, from Kew Palace, for lord Romney's feat in the Moat Park, Maidstone. The royal party stopped to breakfaft at earl Camden's feat at Riverhead, where they were met by the prince of Wales, duke of Cumberland, and numbers of the nobility, and the king's equerries in waiting. The royal family reached the ground at twelve o'clock, on which above 5000 of the volunteers of the county of Kent were drawn up, under the command of their different of ficers, and his royal highnefs the duke of York. Earl Camden gave the word of command to his own corps of cavalry, and lord Romney to the infantry corps. The regiments

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went through their exercise in a manner highly fatisfactory to his majefty, who expreffed the great pleasure he experienced in viewing To fine a body of men. After the review, marquees were erected on the lawn for their majefties and the nobility to dine, and tables in view of the royal tents were laid out for the volunteers. The entertainment, to which 6,500 perfons fat down, confifted of every delicacy of the season. It was not till fix o'clock that their majefties and the princeffes took leave of their noble hoft, on their return to Kew. The town of Maidstone was brilliantly illuminated in the evening, and a grand ball was given at the town-hall. The ftrength of the different associations of the county of Kent at the late royal infpection, according to a return, amounted to 5,721. To give an idea of the dinner provided for the companies of volunteers, there

roner's jury held their inqueft on the body; and, it being proved that the had appeared in a difponding way for fome days before, they returned a verdict of lunacy.

The late rains have been more general and more fevere than perhaps was ever experienced in this country. Letters from all quarters are replete with the most diarelling accounts of their effects.

The mail which should have reached Birmingham at two o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, did not arrive there till feven in the evening. The paffengers, &c. were forwarded over the flooded places in boats, the coach being necellarily left behind.

The devastation in Lancashire has been extenfive and confiderable; almost all the bridges on the Merfey, the Tame, the Wedlock, the Irk, the Irwell, &c. have been deftroyed, as well as numerous mills on their banks; the aqueducts and banks of fome of the canals have given way, and all the adjoining country has been laid under water. Some dye-houfes on the Irwell, &c. have been demolished, and immenfe quantities of cloth carried away; one house is stated to have loft 800 pieces.

In Worcestershire the inundations, occafioned by the overflow of the Severn, Team, and in fact all the ftreams and rivulets in the county, have been greatly deftructive to the farmers of hay, corn, fheep, &c. The rain here has prevailed three weeks almoft without intermiffion, and travelling during the laft week was nearly fufpended. The head of a mill-pond on the Ludlow road fome days fince gave way, owing to the unusual preffure of the water. Five horfes in a coal team, fome dif

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tance from the place, were over whelmed in the torrent, and drowned before aflistance could be procured; as were two horses in a team on the Martley road, in confequence of their being forced by the current into a deep ditch.

In Yorkshire the floods were at tended by a form, which greatly contributed to the damage they occafioned. The canal at Hudderf field has been confiderably injured, and several mills and houfes near Holmfirth, and other places in the Weft Riding, have been entirely fwept away, by the overflowing of different streams. The rivers Oufe and Tees rofe unufually high.

In Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, and in fact in almost every county in the kingdom, the inundations have been extenfive and greatly injurious.

The aqueduct bridge for the duke of Bridgewater's canal over Chorlion brook, at Stratford, has given way; as has the aqueduct for the Afhton canal, near Afhton.

On the Cheadle road two horfes in a poft chaife, were drowned, and the driver narrowly escaped by ftanding on the top of the carriage. About Sheffield, the rivers Dunn and Sheaf were fwollen to an unufual heighth, overflowed their banks, inundating the houfes and country adjoining.

Many parts of the Carlile road were, for fome time, impaflable; the bridges, however, on that line have refifted the torrent.

Many hundred acres of grafs, ready for the fcythe, have been laid under water, and materially injured, by the overflowing of the river Derwent, and a confiderable quantity of new hay has been carried away. Markeaton brook, which runs

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through Derby, has likewife dons much damage.

The rife of the Trent, on Monday, was almost instantaneous; hundreds of perfons were employed on its banks during the morning making hay; and in the courfe of the evening, thousands of acres were totally inundated, and many tons of hay carried down the ftream. Near Sawley, a great number of fheep were loft; and at Catton, a fine boy, twelve years of age, was drowned.

The lower part of the town of Afhbourn was inundated to fuch extent, that the inhabitants were driven to the upper apartments.

The Manchefter heavy coach, in pafting Hanging bridge, was nearly loft, the water washed over the bridge, and for a fpace of nearly 300 yards, poured in a torrent 2crofs the road: the carriage, for a confiderable difiance, was lifted from the road, while the horses fwam, till, by extraordinary and fortunate exertion, they regained the road: two hundred perfor were collected, expecting every inftant to fee the coach dashed down a precipice of confiderable height, but without being able to afford the leaft affiftance. On other parts o the road the water was fo high, that the horfes were up to their necks, and the body of the coach in the water; the trees were their only guide, the hedges being in general washed away.

The road about Cardiff has been impaffable. Two bridges near Congleton, one near Stone, and another near Newcastle, have bec demolished.

DIED. At Annonny, in his 521 year, Stephen Montgolfier, celc brated for his invention of airballoca

Balloons. He was a paper-maker, and extremely well verfed in mechanics and chymiftry. The paper which he manufactured equalled the Dutch paper, and contributed confiderably to the celebrity of French printing. He was the firft who made vellum paper in France. 29th. At Valence, in France, after having reigned 24 years,6 months, and 14 days, aged 81 years and 8 months, Pope Pius VI. formerly Cardinal John Angelo Braschi. He was born at Celena, Dec. 27, 1717; was created cardinal by his prede ceffor, Clement XIV. in April, 1775; elected pope, Feb. 15, crowned the 22d of the fame month, and took poffeflion at St. John Lateran's, Nov. 30, in the fame year,

1775.

SEPTEMBER.

Sth. The rain fell this day in fuch torrents, that the flood next morning at Melbourn, in the county of Leicester, was by far the higheft ever remembered by the oldeft perfon, though fome of the natives are near 90 years of age. In a few hours the rivulet there rofe 10 or 12 feet perpendicular; and several houfes were much inundated, in which formerly the water in the highest floods were never known to enter. A bed of large gravel and ftones, containing about 60 or 70 loads, was brought down by the rapidity of the ftream, and lay tegether in an oblong heap in the town street; and in fome places the brook has changed its courfe, and entirely formed a new bed. These ncommonly heavy rains are the more alarming, as the greatest part of the wheat and barley are ftand

ing in the fields; and in this neighbourhood much now is not inned, fome not cut. The beans are nearly all mowed, but none carried; circumftances which the oldest perfon cannot remember. A fmall brook, alfo between Rothwell and Desborough, in the county of Northampton, at the fame time rofe 14 feet perpendicular.

Turin. Yefterday our univerfity was fhut, and the colleges fealed, by order of the king. This morning 70 priefts, who were hitherto confined in the archbifrop's feminary, were embarked on the Po, to be tranfported. Among the provifors of our univerfity were feveral jacobins. Our city has prefented field-nrarfhal Suvarroff with a beautiful gold-hilted fword, as a token of gratitude for their delivery. He graciously received this prefent, and invited the deputies who delivered it to dine with him.

At Mantua the feaft of the reconqueft of that city was celebrated with great folemnity. Before the cathedral the following beautiful infcription was exhibited: "Deo redemptori qvod Mantra filiciter expegnata, eta dementiffimo D. N. Imp. Francifco II. Semp. Aug. iterom in fidem recepta, Italiam a triennati captivitate liberaverit : plavo orbis Chriftiani vniverfo gratiarum felemnia."

Drefden. On Friday last the princefs of Hohenlohe, and fuite, arrived here, and alighted at the Hotel de Pologne. This morning the doors of her apartment were found open; the bed of the princefs, and the floor of her bed-room, ftained with blood; and neither she nor her jewels, money, clothes, and other effects, to be found. None of her fervants or equipage are mifling. Horsemen

Horsemen have been dispatched in different directions; and every budy is anxious to unriddle this myfterious circumftance.

Accounts from Sweden mention the accidental drowing of a woman of the name of Oloffon, at the age of 96. The father of the woman was found dead in a street in Stockholm; her mother stabbed herself: of three husbands, to whom she had been married, the first was hanged for killing her own brother; the fecond was blown up by a mine, at the fiege of Schiveindtz; and the third, with whom she lived near 20 years, was fuffocated by the fumes of a laboratory. Her youngest son was drowned, and her eldest tranfported; her daughter, at the age of 20, disappeared, and was never fince heard of. In fine, the misfortunes of this family feemed to extend to the relatives of those concerned with it, as a fon and daughter of her first husband's alfo came to an untimely death, foon after his marriage.

The following is a lift of claimants in Ireland, who fuffered in the rebellion, fummer 1798. (These claims were put in before the commiffioners appointed, by act of parliament, for the relief of fuffering loyalifts), in the following counties: £ s. d.

Antrim, Carlow, Clare, Corke, Downe, Dublin,

93,223 6 3

Kilkenny,

27,842 7 10

King's,

2,494 9 10

Leitrim,

Longford,

2,316 19 5 1,011 19 8

Before the count d'Artois lef Edinburgh, he tranfmitted the following letter to the lord provost and magiftrates:

Circumstances relative to the good of the fervice of the king, my brother, making it requifite that I should leave this city, where, during my refidence, I have conftantly received the most diftinguished marks of attention and regard; I fhould reproach myself, were I to depart, without expreffing to its refpectable magiftrates, and through them to the inhabitants at large, the grateful fenfe with which my heart is penetrated for the noble manner, in which they have feconded the generous hofpitality of his Britannic majefty. I hope I fhall one day have it in my power to make known, in happier moments, my feelings on this occafion, and exprefs to you more fully the fentiments with which you have infpired me; the fincere affurance of which, time only permits me to offer you at present."

15th. A large and brilliant meteor was obferved about half past eight this evening. The tky was tolerably clear, and it pafled in a direction from the N. W. to the S. E. at a confiderable elevation in the atmosphere. It had the appearance