tle, induced a like experiment upon oysters, and an extensive dealer in Kent lately imported several tons of Carlingford and other celebrated Irish oysters, which he laid down in the beds of the best English natives, about Milton, Faversham, and Whitstaple; the effect of this union has greatly exceeded his expectation, the produce being greater than heretofore, and of considerably improved flavour.

Kotzebue, whose history of the most important year in his own life has certainly conferred no great honour on the memory of the monarch Paul I, from whom it had acquired its consequence, amongst other anecdotes of that emperor, says, that Paul had built a most magnificent palace, in which he had collected a great number of pictures and statues, which he had ordered to be purchased in France and Italy: the expence of the whole amounted to 18,000,000 of roubles. The palace was built in a most unwholesome situation, and his physicians requested him not to reside there, but in vain. He employed M. Kotzebue to draw up a detailed description of the palace, which, the latter says, would have been one of the dullest books ever composed. The death of Paul, however, put an end to the work, and all the valuable articles were taken from the palace, which is now completely deserted. Paul was determined that none of his daughters should be married contrary to their inclination. When the archduchess Alexandria was about to depart, he displayed the most violent affliction; he returned several times to the carriage in which she was, and wept while he embraced her. A few days before his death, he made the empress a present, which he prefaced by saying, that he knew it would give her pleasure. It proved to be a pair of embroidered stockings, worked by some young ladies in a seminary of her majesty's foundation.

When the Russian prisons were opened, after the death of the emperor Paul, many very affecting scenes (says Kotzebue) were witnessed by those who were charged with that office. Among others, an old colonel had just been put in prison, and his son, a gallant young officer, covered with wounds, having in vain applied for his release, desired to be shut up with his father. His request was partly complied with, for he was put in prison, but not with his father, who never knew of this noble conduct of his son until the latter came to annouce to him their common liberty. The first person who appeared in a round hat in Petersburgh, after Paul's death, was followed by crowds, and people ran to their windows to look at him.

A discovery has lately been made in Newcastle, which promises not only gratification to the curious, but vast utility to chymical science. The discovery consists in the combustion of the oxygen and hydrogen gasses, by means of a blow-pipe. The gasses are conducted in due proportions, by tubes, from their respective reservoirs, and made to terminate in concentric circles, where a flame, the most rapid, takes place, causing a heat of such intenseness, as till now has baffled the efforts of chymistry to produce.

Dumourier is living at Hamburgh, on the pension granted him by the prince of Hesse; where he is said to be occupied in literary labours.

The lords of the Treasury have approved a plan proposed by the postmaster general, to guard such of the principal mails of the kingdom which are conveyed

on horseback by night. This is in all respects a national and important measure, and has been long and anxiously desired by the public.

The hop duty is now found to be £. 208,000 for the present year.

Mr. Goodhall has succeeded Dr. Heath, as head master of Eton school.

Among the several vessels lost in the North Seas in the late storm, a letter from Copenhagen mentions a ship at Flensburgh, the crew of which, as it was sinking in the port, endeavoured to save themselves on the mast. A merchant, who was present, offered a reward for saving the crew. A carrier of Elsineur, immediately put off with his people, and saved all but a cabin boy, but refused the reward, alledging that he did not save the lives of men for money. The merchants of the city had a medal struck by subscription for this friend of humanity.

On Friday the 11th December about seven o'clock in the evening a véry melancholy circumstance happened at Gloucester-lodge, in Hamptoncourt Park. Mr. Dallon, who had lived as page in the Duke of Gloucester's family near forty years, was discovered by the maid servant, on entering his room, in the act of holding his arm over a bason, and bleeding profusely, having with great deliberation cut all the asteries of it. The girl, shocked at the discovery, ran out of the room for assistance; when the unfortunate gentleman took advantage of her absence, cut his throat from ear to ear, and soon after died. verdict lunacy.

Coroner's

A grey eagle was taken alive, some days ago, in a trap, on Lord Mountrath's estate, in Norfolk. It measures 7 feet 8 inches between the extremities of the wings, and 4 feet from the beak to the tail.

Some time ago, as a child of about a month old lay asleep in a bureau-bed, near Halifax, its grandfather entered the room, and, not seeing the child, turned up the bed, by which the little innocent was smothered, and quite dead before the accident was discovered.

A theatre was lately opened at Cape-town, and the profits arising from the first six nights' performance were applied to the fund of the Lying-in Hospital for soldiers' wives.

The Bank has advanced half a million on the new Exchequer bills lately issued.

The present Emperor of China, says a letter from Canton, has suspended some arrangements intended to be made for the benefit of the empire. It is a custom of the Chinese, that no decision of a deceased Emperor shall be altered by his successor, until the expiration of three years after his death. The Emperor, therefore, has not yet removed or changed any mandarin or officer from the post in which his father placed him, except the minister Ho-xen, who was deprived of his office, and executed, for peculation.

An extraordinary instance of skaiting took place in 1760, from Montreal to Quebec, by two couriers, sent by General Amherst to General Murray, who, in the space of eighteen hours, went over a surface of ice extending 190 miles.

The Pope has, through the medium of Dr. Douglas, titular bishop of London, addressed a letter to such of the French bishops, resident here, as have given in their resignations; and another to those who have refused to do so. It is singu

lar enough, that although the former have ceased to be bishops, his Holiness addresses each of them by the style of " venerable brother :" and having, as the only remuneration in his power, bestowed on them his apostolical benediction, he gratuitously presents the same to those bishops who have not complied with his wish, and whom he exhorts to re-consider their resolution.

A matter worthy of the most serious investigation, though long since of public notoriety, has come officially forward in the trial of the officers of the Kent Indiaman, for the loss of that ship. It appears that the cutlasses with which the crew were provided had originally cost but 3s. 6d. each, and were cut through at the first blow given by the French. Of the muskets, most went off at the first fire, but scarcely any even at the second, and the crew had recourse to the hopeless expedient of rather trusting for their safety to the former weapons. The captain's pistol missed fire from the badness of the lock, and, according to his decided opinion, upon oath, (an opinion agreed in by the Maritime Committee of Inquiry, and the Marine Board at Bengal) owing to the badness af the arms, the ship was captured." It now appears that the number of passengers and crew killed and wounded on this occasion was between 50 and 60. The ballot at the India-house, for the purpose of determining on the conduct of the officers, was determined in their favour, by a majority of 325 to 10.

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Early in the ensuing summer, a commission, it is said, will be appointed, consisting of the first mineralogists in England, to proceed on an experimental examination of the several mines in Ireland, especially those of iron or stone ore; so that they may, if found productive, be fully wrought; a national object on the largest scale.

The number of bankers in 1740 were twenty-eight; in 1770, thirty-eight; in 1782, forty-seven; in 1802, seventy-two; and until about 1697, or 8, there were only Child and Co. and Denne and Co.

The Mahomedan religion, notwithstanding the zeal of its votaries to propagate it, seems to lose ground in the East, the intolerant spirit of the late Sultaun Tippoo, who was anxious for its extension, having rather excited disgust than adoption. It is now estimated, that in Hindostan there are at least nine Gentoos to one Mahomedan,

Mr. Jefferson, President of the United States, has been elected, by the National Institute, an Associate for the class of Moral and Political Science, The other candidates were Major Rennel and Count Rumford. M. (Sir Joseph) Banks was elected an Associate for the department of Physics and Mathematics; and Haydn has carried his election against Mr. Sheridan, for that of Literature and the Fine Arts.

BIRTHS.

Of Sons:-Lady Mulgrave; in Dublin, Viscountess Corry; in Northamp tonshire, the Hon. Mrs. Gunning. Of Daughters :-The Countess of Poulch; in Dublin, Lady Anne Maxwell; in Harley-street, the Countess of Oxford. Princess Caroline, consort of Prince Maximilian, was delivered of a Prince, on the 13th ult. at Dresden, who has been christened John Nepomucenus, Maria, and eleven other names,

MARRIED,

R. Biddulph, Esq. M. P. to Miss Middleton, of Cheik Castle, Denbeighshire. R. T. Streatfield, Esq. of the Rocks, Sussex, to Miss Shuttleworth, eldest daughter of R. Shuttleworth, Esq. of Barton Lodge, Lancashire. Capt. Pearse, of the 14th Light Dragoons, to Miss M. St. Aubin, daughter of Sir John St. A. of Clowance, Cornwall, Bart. Lieut. Col. J. S. Maxwell, of the 23d Light Dragoons, to the only daughter of P. Heron, Esq. M. P. On the 15th ult. at Norton, near Stockton, Cutlibert Taylor, to Ann Hutchinson. The bride walked with a crutch, the bridegroom had but one arm, the bridegroom's man but one leg, and the bride's maid was blind. In Dublin, the Earl of Meath, to Lady M. A. Meade, fourth daughter of the Earl of Clanwilliam. At Wyke House, Sion Hill, T. Myers, Esq. of Park-place, St. James's to Lady M'Nevill. At Mary-le-bone church, Major Macleod, of the 4th Foot, to the Right Hon. Lady Arabella Annesly, daughter of the Earl of Mountmorris. At Dublin, Mr. Powell, Barrister, to the Countess Dowager of Aldborough.

DIED,

Lately, at Brussels, Sir John Buckworth, Bart. On George's Hill, the Rev. James Philip Mulkaile, R. C. V. G. of the Archdiocese of Dublin. At Vienna, Field Marshal Count Lacy. Mr. T. Aris Pearson, proprietor and printer of the Birmingham Gazette. The Rev. and celebrated Arthur O'Leary. In Henrietta street, Bath, aged 70, Lady Wright, wife of Sir J. Wright, Bart, of Hoyhouse, Essex, and only daughter of Sir W. Stapleton, Bart. of Gray's Court,* Oxfordshire. In Hereford street, May-fair, R. Udny, Esq. aged 72. At Armathwaite, near Keswick, aged 72, Lady Fletcher, relict of Sir P. W. V. Fletcher, Bart. of Hutton, Cumberland, and mother of Sir F. Vane. On his passage to America, T. M. Catton, Esq. one of the heirs to the great Thurstone's estates, of Norfolk and Suffolk, a distant relation of Lord Nelson. John Shoolbred, Esq. secretary to the African Committee. At Wadley House, Berks, Lord Viscount Ashbrook. At Annabella, near Mallow, Sir J. Hoare, Bart. father of the late Irish commons, in which he had sat as a member for 60 years. At Kingston, Surry, aged 83, Sir T. Kent, Bart. At Castlejordan, in Ireland, Sir D. Giffard, Bart. At Shrub Hill, near Dorking, Surrey, the Hon. Miss C. J. Leslie, youngest daughter of Lord Leslie. At Tarbert House, Scotland, Lady E. McKenzie. At Exmouth, the lady of Sir John Whiteford, Bart. At Southampton, B. Langton, Esq. the very disinterested friend of the celebrated Dr. Johnson, and successor to him in his Professorship of Polite Literature, in the R. Academy. At Bath, Lieut. Col. H. Flood. The Rev. H. Mayo, D.D. in his 82nd year, for 38 of which he was rector of St. George's, Middlesex. The Earl of Kirkcudbright. At Hadley, Middlesex, in her 75th year, the justly celebrated Mrs. Chapone. Captain Russel, of his Majesty's Ship Ceres. At Port Jackson, New South Wales, R. Dore, Esq. his Majesty's Judge Advocate for that settlement. At Buckland, the Rev. J. Hurdis, D. D. of Magdalen College, and Professor of Poetry.

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