The evidence of the servants, respecting the conduct of their lordships, was similar to the above. A pistol was found unloaded in the carriage, which appeared to have been just fired. The pistol which had put an end to the life of lord Charles had been placed in his mouth, and loaded with two slugs or balls, one of which perforated the skull, and the other was extracted from the mouth. Neither the teeth nor tongue were injured, so that it is evident that no violence had been used in the introduction of the fatal instrument, and the death of lord Charles might not improbably be an act of his own, committed in a paroxysm of phrenzy. Last night the coroner's in quest sat on the body; when, after a long examination, the jury brought in a verdict-"That the deceased had been killed by a pistol-ball, but from whose hands unknown." Yesterday and this day 30th. there was a very heavy gale of wind from the south west, which blew in gusts with uncommon violence. Much damage was sustained in many parts of the metropolis by the blowing down of chimneys, unuling houses, and in some of the environs of the town many trees were torn up by the roots. In Deau's yard, Westminster, part of the old ruinous buildings came down by the violence of the wind with a great crash. Luckily it had been some time since railed and paled in, so hat no person was near enough to receive any damage. In St. James's Park more than a dozen large trees were torn up by the roots, and the foliage of others were scattered in every direction. The passage to Spring Gardens was as thickly strewed with leaves as any orchard in autumn. A part of one of the stands, erected in Covent-Garden for the accommodation of the spectators of the election, was blown down: there were, however, no persons on it at the time, as from its elevation it was not considered safe. Part of the roof of a bouse at the corner of College-hill, Dow gate, was thrown down; which, falling upon a poor woman passing at the time, bruised her so severely, that she was carried to St. Barthelomew's hospital, without hopes of recovery. Several buildings in the neighbourhood of Houns ditch, Bishop-gate-street, &c. were also unrooted, and some trees in the quarter of Moorfields were torn up by the roots. In Lambeth-marsh, an empty house, condemned by the commissioners of the road, was blown down; as were the roofs from some of the buildings in the same quarter. such a direction, that he instantly Between 11 and 12 in the forenoon a fire broke out in the hay loft over the oil-mill of Messrs. Watts and Parsons in Turners bill, Marsh-lane, Chesunt; which in a short time consumed the whole premises, with fifty loads of oil ready to remove, not without suspicion of wilful mischief, the mill having been on fire a week before. 13th. bers At the close of the poll for Westminster, the numfor assembled to extinguish the devouring flames, till Tuesday morning, when a considerable part of the city was laid in ashes. Those acquainted with the city will conceive the damage done, on being told, that every house in Queenstreet, from the bay to the corner of Church-street; all Union-street continued-two-thirds of Unionstreet-Church-street, from Broadstreet, to St. Phillip's church, with only two exceptions-Chalmers's & Beresford's alleys- Kinloch's court -and the north side of Broad-street, were, from the state house of Mr. Jacks's, Mr. Fox 5160 four doors below Church-street; Admiral Gardner 4814 and five houses on the Bay, from Mr. Horne Tooke 2819 the corner of Queen-street, were Andrew Robinson Bowes, who burnt to the ground. The públic was committed for an assault upon buildings destroyed, are the French lady Strathmore, and who has been church, and several adjoining buildin prison eleven years, was brought ings. Phillip's church was on up, and in consequence of the sign fire at different times, and ultimanual produced in court, con- mately must have been destroyed, taining his majesty's most gracious if a spirited negro man had not pardon, was discharged upon his ascended to the top of the cupola, own recogni zance. next to the vane, and tore off the shingles. The private buildings destroyed, and the property they contained, are of immense amount. Five hundred chimnies, it is said, have been counted, from which the buildings are burnt; and 150,000k. sterling, is supposed to be a sum far short of the value of those buildings. The goods and furniture destroyed are probably nearly equal to this sum. Lord Kenyon, in summing up to the jury on a little wretched play debt, said, it is to be lamented, that gaming is so prevalent among the highest ranks of society, which have set the example to their inferiors, and who, it seems, are too great for the law. I wish they could be punished. "If any prosecutions are fairly brought before me, and the parties are justly convicted, whatever may be their rank or siation in the country, though they be the first ladies in the land, they shall certainly exhibit themselves in the pillory." Charlestown. On the 13th of June a most alarming fire broke out in Lodge-alley, which baffled all the exertions of a numerous concourse of citizens, who speedily 23d. The new college at Hack ney, with 18 acres of land, was this day knocked down at 57001. whether to a real or fictiti❤ ous bidder we have not heard. The adjoining house, inhabited by Dr. Rees, as president of the col lege, was bought by him, or in his name, for 10501. The fate of this building, on which the proprietors C4 pected to recognize, in every indi vidual who was brought in, a rela tive or a friend. The landlord of one of the hou ses, it is reported, received notice of the insecurity of his house two days ago, but did not apprise the lodgers of their danger for fear of losing them. 28th. prietors acknowledge immense sums have been expended in building, and for which more than twice the sum it now fetched had been refused, and the fate of the institution itself, affords a striking proof that the people of this country are not disposed to encourage the modern philosophers in their attempts to undermine the constitution. That at seminary was instituted under the most favourable auspices. The most wealthy and respectable part of the dissenters were disposed to support the institution; but, that support having been with drawn, the building is brought to the hammer. Whether it shall be converted into barracks, being noted near the neck; it was extracted farther from the east than those in Hyde-park from the western extremity of the capital, or into a country settlement of any capital public and more constitutional school in London, or serve as a supplement to Bedlam, already crowded to receive more inhabitants, time must shew. 100 The following melancholy 27th. accident happened yesterday morning in Houghton-street, Clare-market-Two houses suddenly gave way, and buried in their ruins sixteen unfortunate inhabitants. At noon, thirteen were got out and conveyed to the parish workhouse in Portugal-street. Of these, three had been dug out, shockingly mangled, without the least symptoms of life: two children, apparently dead, were restor. ed to life by the means prescribed by the humane society in cases of suffocation; the rest received some of them slight and others severe contusions. But what rendered their situation the more deplorable as that they recognized, or ex A duel was fought in a field within three miles of Hamburgh, between lord Valentia and Henry Gawler, esq. They left England with their seconds and surgeons for the express purpose of fighting. They fired together. Mr. Gawler's ball took place; it entered his lordship's breast-bone, and lodg on the field, and he is considered to be out of danger. Lord Valentia's ball passed through Mr. Gawler's hat. The affair between Mr. Gawler and lady Valentia was the subject of the dispute. His fa DIED. At Bedwell-park, Ilerts, in his 76th year, Samuel Whit bread, esq.; whose abilities, integrity, benevolence, and public spirit, will transmit his character with respect to posterity. ther was a yeoman of Bedfordshire, who lived at the Barns at Cardington, in that county, on an estate of about 2001. per annum, which devolved to his eldest son, who much improved it by building, and spent much of his time at it after he purchased Bedwell-park. He is said to have died worth a million at least; the bulk of which he has bequeathed to his son. He was half-brother to Ive Whitbread, esq. hardwareman, of Cannon - street, and sheriff of London with Mr. Beckford, in 1755. By his first wife, Harriet, daughter of Haytor, an eminent attorney, of Lon don, } don, whom he married in 1757, and who died in 1764, he has left issue a son, Samuel, gentlemancommoner of Christ church, Oxford, and representative of the town of Bedford in several parliaments after his father gave it up, and two daughters; the eldest married, in 1789, to James Gordon, jun. esq. of More-park, Herts; the younger Emina, to Henry Beauchamp lord St. John of Bletso, 1780. Mr. Whitbread, married to his second wife, 1769, lady Mary, youngest daughter of the late earl, and sister to the present marquis Cornwall:s, who died in 1770, in childbed of an only daughter, married, in June, 1795, to capt. George Grey, late of the Boyne man of war, of 98 guns, third son of sir Charles Grey, K. B. and nephew of sir Harry Grey, bart. whose sister was married in 1788 to the present Mr. Whitbread, and by whom he has several children, His extensive establishments in the brewery were long unrivalled, and perhaps, to a certain point, remain so still, and excited the envy even poet (Dr. Walcot) who spares not royalty, though in this instance of his satire, he has perpetuated a compliment to the sovereign and the man of malt by coupling them together. Mr. Whitbread's liberal charity will be witnessed by every parish where he had property, and in the distribution of his private benevolence, which is said to have exceeded 30001. per annum; for no proper application met with a repulse; and to his honour let it here be recorded that, several years before his death, he settled on St. Luke's hospital for lunaticks a perpetual rent-charge of one hundred guineas, payable out of his extenfive premises in Chiswell-street, of a 1st. JULY. At the Old Bailey, Mary Nott was capitally convicted, for the wilful murder of M. le Marquis de Gripier de Moncroe de Laval, a French emigrant nobleman, on the 29th of May last, at his lodgings in Monmouth-court, Whitcomb-street, of which house she had the care; and received sentence to be executed on Monday. Richard Ludman, Ann 24. Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and Mary Baker, were tried for the murder of George Hebner. This murder was committed in Kingstreet, East Smithfield, in one of those obscure receptacles of debauchery with which this metropolis abounds. The body of the deceased was found on the morning of Sunday the 22d of May, suspended by the neck from a bed-post, in a room on the second floor, with his hands tied behind his back, This unfortunate man was a taylor, and had, it seems, been in very distressed circumstances, which produced a propensity to intoxication: when much in liquor, his widow said, he slept so sound, that it was almost impossible to wake him. It was proved that the four prisoners were in the house (which belonged to Eleanor Hughes) on the evening of Saturday the 21st,and next morning. They were seen, and some of their conversation heard, by two women who lived in an adjoining house; this house was separated from that in which the body was found by only a lath partition, perforated in several places, and the holes and crevices affording a distinct view of almost all the apart. ments of the latter. The manner in which the hands of the deceased were were bound with a piece of tape was described in court. The knot that had been used was what seamen call a timber hitch, and it was obviously such as could not be done by himself. There was no direct and positive proof as to the guilt of the prisoners; but there was a chain of most suspicious circumstances pointing against Ludman and Hughes. The lord chief baron of the exchequer summed up the evidence with great precision, candour, and humanity. It was on the expressions used by the prisoners that the proof chiefly rested, and his lordship nicely discriminated be tween those that seemed to arise from surprise, on the discovery of the situation of the deceased, and those which could only be supposed to proceed from a knowledge of the murder. The jury retired for about an hour, and returned with a verdict, finding Richard Ludman and Eleanor Hughes guilty.-Anu Rhodes and Mary Baker not guilty. Sentence of death was immediately pronounced on Ludman and Hughes, by the recorder. 4th. Mary Nott, Richard Ludman, and Eleanor Hughes were executed before Newgate. 6th. This morning Henry Weston for forgery, and John Roberts, alias Colin Reculist, also for forgery, were executed pursuant to their sentence, opposite the debtors' door, in the Old Bai ply "cunning and craft, which would soon be in disrepute in this country:" "a niggard" to mean, "a king who had defrauded his subjects of nine millions of money. -Öb! Mr. Guelph, where do you expect to go when you die?" and that the guillotine should be introduced into this country, as a more merciful mode of punishing kings and queens than by the ax, &c. Lord Kenyon concluded his charge to the jury with observing, that the king was entitled to the same protection of the laws with other men; and they would consider whether any part of the king's conduct called for such observations as those which had been read to them from the book published by the defendant. His lordship thought his majesty, like the judge of Israel (Samuel), might appeal to the ju. Ty and say, "Whose ox have I taken? Whose ass have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed?" The jury, after 15 minutes consideration, returned a verdict-guilty. A cause was tried in the 9th. court of king's bench, Guildhall, between the proprietors of a newspaper called the Telegraph, plaintiffs, and the proprietors of the Morning Post, defendants. It was proved, that in the month of February last, the defendants had contrived to forward to the office of the Telegraph, from Canterbury, a spurious French newspaper, containing a pretended renewal of the ar mistice, and preliminaries of peace between the emperor and the French republic. The proprietors of the Telegraph being thus imposed on to give as true a translati on of this false frabricated intelligence, and thereby sustaining much 3 discredit |