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Ireland....French Merchants Loan.

care; unless you have a pledge for a reform, as your fecurity for the good which you intend, you are venturing into a country where men ofyour frankness are not a match for the infidious arts which will be practifed against you. You are invited only for the purpofe of putting an end to the war, in order that the fyftem which you stifle for the moment, may be re-established." After making cogent arguments on the Bill, he concluded with drawing an affect. ing picture of the state of Ireland.

Mr. Pitt replied to Mr. Fox and the other members of oppofition. On the queftion that the Bill be now read a third time being put, the Houfe divided,

Ayes 196-Noes, 71-Majority 125. The Bill was then fent to the Lords, where it was paffed, and received the Royal affent by Commiflion a few days afterwards.

On the 11th of January, Mr. Dundas prefented a meffage from the King, purporting that his Majefty had received various advices of preparation made in France, in purfuance of the defign repeatedly profeffed, of attempting the invafion of thefe kingdoms, that he was firmly perfuaded that by the zeal, courage, and exertion of his fubjects, ftruggling for whatever was moft dear to them, fuch an enter prife, if attempted, would terminate in the ruin and confufion of thofe who might be engaged in it; but that he in anxious concern for the welfare of his people, felt it incumbent upon him to omit no fuitable precaution which might contribute to their defence. His Majefty, therefore, in pursuance of the Act paffed for providing for the augmentation of the Militia, thought it right to make this communication to the Commons, to the end that the faid Militia might be drawn out and embodied, and to march as occasion should require. The Houfe of Commons on the 12th of January, adjourned to the 8th of the following month.

IRELAND.

The melancholy detail of the fufferings of Ireland has often been dwelt upon, and we believe generally for the laudable purpose of rendering the deplorable fituation of that country as public as poffible, in order that perfons in England, who have it in their power to relieve its misfortunes, might have no opportunity of pleading ignorance of their existence.

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Some affidavits have been made refpecting the trial of the late Mr. Orr. Arthur Johnfon and Archibald Thompfon, two of the Jury, who were impanelled to try the deceased, have fworn that fpirituous liquors were introduced into the Jury room, while they were confidering the verdict, with which feveral of the Jury were intoxicated; that the deponent, Thompfon, was fo intimidated by one of the Jurors by threats, &c. as to be induced to concur in a verdict contrary to his opinion. Another of the Jurors depofed, that had he known that the confequence of returning a verdict of guilty upon that occafion, would have been followed by the death of the accufed, he fhould not have agreed to fuch verdict.

FRANCE.

In a public fitting of the Directory on the 21st of December, a deputation from the principal Bankers and Merchants of Paris, prefented an address, in which they intreated the Directory to fend a meffage to the legislative body, inviting them to open a loan for the purpose of procuring a speedy and effectual means for making a defcent upon England. The Directory com plied with the intreaties of the depu tation, and fent a meffage the fame day to the Council of Five Hundred, requesting them to adopt measures for raifing a loan for the defired purpose. After the addrefs and meffage were ordered to be printed, Jean de Brie rofe, and asked "Who was the citizen that did not burn to revenge the wrongs done to France by the government who created La Vendee, the Chouans, and the Chauffers, and who alone had prolonged the evils of war? Yes! faid he, we will verify the opinion of the Member of the English Parliament, who faid that the obftinate resistance of Pitt to peace, had only tended to confolidate the Republic. Let England that has fo frequently disturbed the tranquility of our country, tremble in its turn for its own fafety!"

The Council referred the meffage to a Committee, and ordered a report to be made as foon as poffible.

This project of invading England, and of ruining it by every poffible means, was in the month of January the order of the day in France, and appeared to acquire new energy at every ftep; donations were pouring in from every quarter, to defray the exK 2

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pence of the propofed defcent. The addreffes with which these gifts were accompanied, were marked with the fame degree of extravagance as the meffages of the Directory to the Legiflative Body upon this fubject. The Central Bureau of Paris, however, furpaffed all competition in the violence of its invective. It accufed our Government of having enflaved and reduced the people of England to the condition of brutes; and it compared the agents of the government to wolves feeding upon human fleth. The principal motive for the popular fury, which prevailed in thefe addreffes, was derived from the calumnious ftatement of the Directory, which accufed us of refufing the means of fubfiftence to 20,000 French prifoners of war now in England.

The measure upon which the Directory feemed to place more reliance than upon its projected plan of invafion, was that of annoying our commerce in all its points of communication with the Continent. This measure was the fubject of a meffage dated the fame day as the news was received in Paris of the taking possession of Mentz by the Republican troops.

After having caufed all the Englifh goods and merchandize, with which all the magazines and warehoufes throughout the Republic were ftocked, to be feized in one day, the French government proceeded to defire, that a law fhould be enacted, declaring, that veffels belonging to every foreign country, laden with English merchandize, or having goods on board, either as the whole or part of the cargo, fhould be deemed legal prizes; and that no foreign fhip, which in profecution of her voyage, fhould have entered an English port, fhould be admitted into the ports of France, unless in cafes of diftrefs.

The French have divided the countries on the left bank of the Rhine into fix departments; namely, the Department of the Roer, chief town, Crevelt; the Department of the Liffel, chief town Coblentz; the Depart ment of the Rhine and the Mofelle, chief town, Bonn; the Department of the Rhine and the Nahe, chief town; Mentz; the Department of the Sambre and the Mofelle, chief town DeuxPonts; the Department of Mount Tonnerre; chief town, Worms.

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ITALY.

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We shall now proceed to give the outline of an extraordinary event which took place at Rome on the 27th of December.

The brother of the Conqueror of Italy; Citizen Buonaparte, Ambaffa. dor from the Republic of France to the Court of Rome, has written a very long letter to the Minifter of foreign affairs, giving the particulars of an infurrection which took place there on the 27th of December.

The leaders in this affair called repeatedly upon the Ambaffador, Buonaparte, requesting him to protect this popular movement. This he opposed with all his power, and was foon convinced of the real views of the infurgents; his palace was affailed by the multitude, and by the troops of the government, who, on the other hand, kept up a conftant fire upon the former. The Ambaffador, Buonaparte, went out accompanied by General Duphot, and the Adjutant-general Sherlock, with the hopes of appeafing the dif turbance, and of inducing the infurgents to quit the French jurisdiction; he foon, he fays, had reafon to be convinced that they had a defign upon his life. General Duphot was fhot by the papal foldiery, and the Ambassador was obliged to have recourfe to flight for fafety. Fourteen hours after this affaffination, and notwithstanding the Ambaffador's frequent meffage to the Secretary of State, no perfon was sent by the Roman Government to enquire into the ftate of things. The Ambaffador filled with indignation, as he fays, against a weak and murderous government, refolved to quit Rome, and folicited palports for that pur pofe, and went immediately to Flo rence, whence he wrote to Paris. The Ambaffador fpeaks in the warmest terms of the attention he received from the Tuscan and Spanish Ambassadors, who braving all dangers, came to vifit him in his palace.

PUBLIC FUNDS.

Stock Exchange, January 27, 1798. Stocks yesterday experienced a rife of nearly one per cent. previous to which they had gradually funk. Confols, which were done for the opening at 49 3-4ths, opened at 47 3-4ths, material depreffion will take place till after the ex. div. The prevailing opinion is, that no bargain for the loan.

5 PER CENT. ANN, opened on the 22d of this month, at 70.

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Marriages and Deaths in and near London.

4 PER CENT. CONS. were, on the 29th of last month, at 59 1-4th, and continued without much variation till yesterday, when they rofe to 59 3-4ths.

3 PER CENT. CONS. opened on the 19th of January at 47 3-4ths, and with little variation continued till yesterday, when they rose to 48 3-4ths.

LOTTERY TICKETS are on the rife Prefent price in the market 111. 15s. a 175.

Dividends are now paying on 3 per Cent. Confols, 1726-5 per Cents-India StockSouth Sea Stock--Imperial Annuities-and 1751.

Marriages and Deaths in and near London. Married.] At St. Botolph, Aldgate, Mr. Thomas Everett, of Horningham, Wilts, to Mifs Mary Eustace, of the Tower.

Mr. Benjamin Broomhead, of King-street, to Mifs Eaton, of London-wall.

At St. Martin's in the Fields, Mr. James Welfo d, of King-street, to Mifs Grove, of Salisbury-street.

Mr. Brown, jun. Helborn, to Mifs Sarah Rawlinson.

At St. Martin's Church, Mr. Weatherbey, of Newmarket, to Mifs Hill.

In London, Charles Lutwidge, efq. Captain in the Royal Lancashire Militia, to Mifs Dodgson, daughter of the late Bishop of London.

In London, Capt. Lowndes, of the Buckinghamshire Militia, to Mifs James, daughter of Robert James, efq. of Corbyn's Hall, near Stourbridge.

At St. Mary's Abchurch, Canon-street, Charles Stayner, efq. Governor of Churchhill Factory, Hudion's Bay, to Mifs S. E. Baylefs, of Wood-ftreet, Spital-fields.

Mr. Wm. Reeve, law-ftationer, of Lyon'sinn, to the fecond daughter of Mr. Bingley, Bookfeller, of Red Lion-paffage, Fleet-Areet. Thomas Seward Beachcroft, Efq. to Mifs Charlotte Lewis, of Frederick's-place.

At St. George's Church, Hanover-fquare, Major Hutchinfon, to Mifs King, daughter of the late Dr. King.

At. St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, Lieutenant-Colonel Rattray, of Craighall, in the county of Perth, to Mifs Julia Simpfon, daughter of James Simpfon, efq. Chancery lane.

In London, Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Fergufon, to Mifs Munro, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Hector Munro, K. B.

Mr. Wm. Murray, of Laurence PoultneyLane, to Mrs. Devenish, of Gower-street.

At St. James's, Clerkenwell, Mr. Wm. Scott, attorney, of Pentonville, to Mifs Bellemy.

Mr. Haywood, of Tooley-ftreet, to Mifs Crawley, of Welvyn, Hants.

Mr. Bingley, of Red Lion-paffage, Fleetfreet, to Mrs. Baffett, widow of the late Capt. Baflett, in the Eaft India trade.

At St. George's Hanover-fquare Mr. Pope, to Mrs. Spencer, both of Covent-garden.

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Mr. Henry Hal, of Watling-street, to Mifs Livett, of Albermarle-street.

Mr. Thomas Jones, of Little Meor-fields, to Mifs Seward, of Fofter-lane.

Died.] In Grofvenor- fquare, John Wilkes,
Chamberlain of the City of London.-
For a particular account of whom fee the
former Part of this Number."

At his houfe in Chatham-place, Blackfriar's Bridge, Samuel Brooke, efq.

In London,, Sir Ralph Milbanke, bart. father to Lady Melbourne.

In Newgate-ftreet, Mr. Andrew Lawfon, flour-merchant.

In his 78th year, Mr. Thomas Edgerton, of Giltfpur-ftreet, Weft Smithfield.

At his houfe in little Ruffel-ft:tet, Bloomfbury, Thomas Waken, efq. of Eastcot.

In Warwick-treet, Charing-cross, whilft on a visit from the country, Mifs Margaret Griffith, of Caernarvon.

At his houfe in Nottingham-ftreet, of a fcarlet fever, John Webb, efq. aged 39; and four days after, likewife of a scarlet fever, Mr. John Webb, his fon, aged 16.

Mr. Martin, attorney, who defended the caufe of Williams for publishing Paine's Age of Reafon.

In Cheapfide, Mr. Robert Hillcock, fen. chinaman.

In an apoplectic fit, Francis Kemble, efq. of Swithin's-lane.

Wm. Stone, efq. of Robert-ftreet, Adelphi. In an advanced age, Mr. Prefton, musicalinftrument maker, and mufic-feller, in the Strand. He was allowed to be the best guitarmaker in the kingdom, and the original inventor of tuning that inftrument with a watchkey.

At Hackney, Mifs Eliz. Beach.

In London, Mr. T. Breary, a yeoman of the guards.

in London, Mrs. Ballachey.

At her house in Upper Grofvenor-street, Dowager Lady Beauchamp Proctor, widow of the late Sir Wn. Beauchamp Proctor, of Langley Park, in Norfolk.

In Fenchurch-ftreet, aged 74, Mrs. Han nah Lewis.

In Tower-ftreet, Mr. Horton Crippen. In John's-ftreet, St. George's in the Eaft, aged 87, Mr. J. Pinchbeck.

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At his houfe, Edgware-road, W. Mawhood,

At the houfe of Sir Hugh Pallifer Walters, bart. Mifs Ann Gates, fecond daughter of the late John Gates, efq. of Dedham, and filter to Lady Walters. Her death was occafioned by a cancer in her left breaft, which had baffled the skill of the most eminent phyficians and furgeons for nearly two years.

After a lingering illness, Mrs. Keyfall, wife of the rev. John Keyfall, of Millman-ftreet, Bedford-row.

In London, in his 68th year, Mr. John Lewis Baumgartner, merchant.

At his houfe in the Crefcent, Minories, Mr. Wm. Midford, furgeon.

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At her brother's houfe at Hounslow, Mrs. Allen, wife of Ralph Knight Allen, efq. of New Houfe, in Effex.

In Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, Edward Hall, efq. a gentleman who, from the first inftitution of the Whig Club of England, filled the important office of Secretary with the univerfal and conftant approbation of the Society. The integrity and consistency of his political life, and the native urbanity of his manners, will long endear his memory to his friends, and to all the lovers of political liberty. In Upper Harley-ftreet, in an apoplectic fit, J. Kingstone, efq.

in Pall-Mall, Mrs. Phillips, wife of Wm. Phillips, efq.

At Knightsbridge, Mrs. Elizabeth Macdonald, eldest daughter of Major Macdonald.

In Queen Ann-street, Weit, Mrs. Blackwood, wife of Capt. Blackwood.

At her houfe, in her 81ft year, Mrs. Guinard.

At Homerton, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Liddiard.

At Pimlico, Mr. Yeates, fen.

At St. George's in the Eaft, aged 65, Mrs. Pemberton.

At her houfe in Curzon-ftreet, May-fair, in her 82d year, Mrs. Whitten.

In Earl-ftreet; Blackfriars, Mr. John Crozier Hart, fon of the late Alderman Hart.

On the 21ft of November, 1797. died, in Gravel-lane, Southwark, John Macquire, aged 65, whofe eventful life might furnish materials for an interefting history, if the humble annals of the poor could lay claim to public attention.

He was originally bred a gardener, but from circumftances became a feaman, in which capacity he ferved his country on board the Medway man of war, when that ship, under the command of Commodore John Bladen Tinker, efq. affifted at the fiege of Pondicherry, in the old French war; and fhared in the bounty of the Nabob of Arcot, on that occafion.

Returning on the conclufion of peace to the ⚫ccupation of a day labourer, he worked occafionally at a foundry in Southwark, till the time of the American war, when his active fpirit again prompting him to the fervice of his country, he entered on board the Mary Letter of Marque, of London, commanded by Capt. Robert Beatly, in which ship he made a voyage to the Weft Indies.

On his return, being taken into the navy, he ferved on board the Acteon man of war, in a voyage to Africa and the West Indies, whence he was transferred to the Grampus ftore hip, bound to England.

From this fhip, difmafted, water-logged, and foundering, he was almoft miraculously faved by his old commander Captain Beatly, who fortunately came in fight, when the Grampus was in the greatest distress.

He was now again conveyed to the Weft Indies, and having become an invalid, was tent home in a Transport.

After traverfing the Atlantic in fafety, the veffel foundered in fight of land. He was once more faved, and got on fhore near Plymouth in 1780, from whence, coming to London, he was admitted into Greenwich Hofpital. Marrying afterwards, and becoming an out-penfioner, he fettled near Portsmouth, his wife having a penfion from the TrinityHoufe. On the fmall income thus arifing, about 81. 16s. per annum, and the produce of their joint labour, they maintained themselves and their child, now an orphan, of 11 years old, and totally deftitute, his mother dying in Auguft laft, and leaving no relative capable of giving him fupport.

On Monday, the 15th, at her fon-in-law's, Mr. Jofeph Weald, Blackman-ft. Southwark. In the 76th year of her age, Mrs. Ex. perience Noble, relict of the rev. Daniel Noble, who was for many years. the refpectable Paftor of a general Baptist Church in Barbican (now meeting in Worship-street) and of a Sabbatarian congregation in Mill-yard, Goodman's-fields. This worthy woman, after a long life of activity and usefulness, suffered a gradual decay of body and mind. For a fhort peeiod previous to her diffolution, she lay in a state of infenfibility, and at last became unable to receive her accustomed nourishment. Such is the humiliating condition to which our frail nature is fubject, but this imbecility will be amply recompenced at the refurrection of the juft.

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At Spanish Town, Jamaica, Henry Munro, efq. furgeon, of St. Thomas in the Vale.

On his paffage from the West Indies to America, Robert Mafters, M. D. Physician to the British forces at St. Domingo, and late of Great Pultney-street, Bath.

At Tobago, Lieut. J. M. Hardey, of the Cyane floop, only fon of Charles Maddocks Hardey, efq. of Charlotte-street, Portland place.

At Pifa, in Italy, Ralph Lambton, efq. Member for Durham.

At the fame place, in his 20th year, Mr. Charles Lubbock, youngest fon of William Lubbock, efg. of Lammas, in Norfolk.

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Communications (POST PAID) to this Department of the Monthly Magazine, particularly of biographical Memoirs of eminent and remarkable Characters, will always be received and noticed with Gratitude.

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM.

At Norton, near Stockton upon Teese, Mr.

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towards fupporting and extending the humane inftitution of the Cork or Life Boat, at South Shields, of which circumftantial mention is made in our last month's Magazine.

Charles John Brandling, efq. has been elected Reprefentative in Parliament, for the town of Newcastle, in the room of his father, who has refigned his feat.

Married.] At Newcastle, Mr. John Dotchin, to Mifs Dorothy Mackay. Mr. Timothy Dobfon, of the Star and Garter inn, to Mifs Watfon. Captain Wm. Rutherford, of Oufeburn Bridge, to Mifs Hannah Bedlington, of Byker-Hill, near Newcastle.

Mr. Thomas Elliot, furgeon in Newcastle, to Mifs Curry, daughter of Robert Curry, efq. of Bishop-Oak, county of Durham.

At Bolden, Mr. Wm. Jowfey, of North Shields, to Mifs Roberts, daughter of the late Jofeph Roberts, cfq. of Morpeth.

At Stockton, Mr. Pincher, of Newfam, near Yarm, to Mifs Vipond, of the former place.

At Alnwick, Mr. Peter Charlton, of Newcaftle, to Mifs Upfal, of the former place.

Died.] At Newcastle, in her 67th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Mounfey. Mr. Richard Dobfon, attorney. Aged 72, Mrs. Tabitha Smith. Mr. Jacob Hall. Aged 60, Mr. Wm. Tickle, fen. clock and watch maker. Mr. John Spooner, of the customs.

Likewife, Mr. J. Weatherhead, flater: He was employed in packing flates at Spencer's Quay, near the Javel-groupe, when he unfortunately fell into the River, and was drowned.

At Yarın, after a tedious illness, Mr. Wm. Dowson, merchant.

At Stockton, aged 77, Mr. Wm. Wilkinfon, rope-maker.

At his fon's house, near Sunnifide, aged 91, Mr. John Forster.

At Netherton, after a fhort illness, Mr. J. Potts, steward to the earl of Carlisle.

At Sunderland, in his 57th year, Mr. Thomas Hayton.

At Rothbury, Mifs Catharine Wilkie.

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND.

A corn market, to be held weekly, every Friday, under the fanction of the Earl of Egremont, will be opened at Heiket New Market, on the 2d day of February. The great distance of any other market gives ground to hope, that in point of time, trouble and expence, both buyers and fellers will reap effential benefit from this establishment.

A fow, kept at Hollowmire, near Ulverston, which was only four years old last September, has farrowed 229 pigs, which, on an average, is 57 per year; and, except the first time, always brought up 13. Within 19 weeks and three days, the farrowed twice. This affords a plain proof, that, as foon as the pigs are taken off, the fow will breed again directly. The animal in question went to the male the very next day, and the young were taken away, at three weeks old, which is contrary to the generally received notion. The owner of this pig has cleared 40 pounds by her, within these four years. The last year but one, he cleared 131. 148. Such fuccefs ought to encourage farmers in the breed of pigs, which might be rendered a great national and individual benefit.

Henry Fisher, of High Bark-Houfe, in the parish of Setmurthy, lately put an end to his own existence, by hanging. He had frequently given intimations of his defign to his wife, whe not only was particularly vigilant herself to defeat his purpofe, but engaged Leveral of the neighbours to watch him in his folitary walks. One day, however, whilst fome boys were playing near his barn, he entered it, locked the door after him, and thrust the key under it, fo as to be eafily obferved. From the general complexion of the circumftances, it appears, that his intentions were rather to create an alarm, than actually to deftroy himself. upon the door being unlocked, the unhappy man was found dead. He had hung himself, and the rope breaking, he fell over a cart, by which accident he broke his back.

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Married.] At Carlifle, Walter Scott, efq. advocate, to Mifs Margaret Charlotte Carpenter, daughter of the late John Carpenter, fq. of the city of Lyons. Mr. Anthony

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