riod, or marked or ftamped with a lower duty, fhall not be pleaded or given in evidence in any court, or be available in law or equity. And any perfon counterfeiting the above ftamps is guilty of felony. Dover, 5th. Yefterday evening about half paft nine o'clock, their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs of Gloucester arrived at the Ship inn, where they fupped and flept, and this day at twelve o'clock embarked on board one of the paffage yachts for Calais. Their Royal Higneffes were faluted by the cannon at the caftle and forts. This day Lord John Cavendish refigned the office of chancellor of the exchequer, as likewife did Mr. Fox the office of fecretary of state. 6th. Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Allen furrendered himself at the Seffions-houfe, in the Old Bailey, when he and Robert Morris, Efq. were indicted for the wilful murder of Lloyd Dulany, Efq.-Mr. Juftice Buller, in his charge to the jury, obferved, that the cafe before them confifted of two parts-law and fat. As to the law, there is not, nor ever was a doubt, that where two perfons meet together deliberately to fight a duel, and one of them is killed, the other is guilty of murder, and his fecond likewife. In refpect to the facts, he ftated that the quarrel arofe from a circumftance of three years standing; a paragraph called "Characters of principal Men in Rebellion," publifhed in the Morning Poft, June 29, 1779, referred to the ift and 5th of July the fame year, and now recognifed by the prifoner Allen, in a letter proved to be his hand-writing, avowing himself the author of those characters, retorting the charge of liar and affaffin upon the deceafed, telling him he did not mean to difpute with, but to punish him; and if he (the deceafed) harboured any refentment or defire of revenge, the bearer (Morris) would put him in the way of putting it in immediate execution; this brought on fundry verbal meflages, and at laft, on the 18th of June, a meeting of Mr. Dulany, Mr. Delancey, his fecond, and Mr. Morris, from whence they went to a Mr. Wogden's, gun-maker, to get Mr. Allen's piftols charged; and about half paft nine in the evening, after meafuring eight yards, difcharged each their piftols, when the deceafed fell. Mr. Delancey faid, that Mr. Morris repeatedly urged deferring the duel to the next day. One Lydia Lepine depofed that the faw the prifoner Allen fhooting at a mark in a field near Blackfriars bridge, with piftols, between eleven and twelve on the 18th of June. Her master and his fon confirmed the fact, buf could not fwear pofitively to the perfon. His lordship concluded with obferving, that a miftaken point of honour was not to bias the judges and the jury in fuch a cafe. The jury withdrew about twenty minutes, and brought in a ver dict, Allen, Guilty of Manflaughter; Morris, Not Guilty. Mr. Recorder then, after a pa. thetic fpeech, pronounced fentence on Mr. Allen, of 1 s. fine, and to be imprisoned fix months in Newgate. Bamber Gafcoigne, fen. Efq. [0]3 and 1 and two ladies, proved an alibi as to the fhooting at a mark; and they, as well as the Lords Bateman, Mountmorres, and feveral other perfons, gave Allen an excellent character. Mr Morris brought no witnesses. This morning at nine o'clock, came on at the Seffions-houfe in the Old Bailey, the trials of George and Jofeph Wefton for the robbery of the Bristol mail, in Jan. 1780; when, after the examination of a number of witneffes, which lafted till half paft twelve o'clock, nothing appearing to prove their guilt, they were both acquitted of that fact, but tried immediately on another indi&ment for forging an indorfement, in the name of John Wood, on the back of a bank poft-bill, and putting it off at the Dun Horfe in the Borough; but nothing appearing alfo to criminate Jofeph in refpect to this matter, he was acquitted, and George capitally convicted. Jofeph was afterwards tried for hooting at a man with a piftol in Cock-lane, on Tuesday laft, as he was making his efcape; and being tried on the black act, was capitally convicted. permit Thomas Earl of Clarendon to accept the honour of bearing the Pruffian eagle as a mantle to his arms: an honour conferred on his lordship as a mark of his Pruffian Majefty's remembrance and esteem. DIED, on Monday, July 2, after a fhort illnefs, at his house at Wimbleton, the moft noble Charles. Watfon Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham, Earl of Malton, Vifcount Higham of Higham Ferrars, Baron Rockingham of Rockingham, Baron of Malton, and of Worth and Har rowden in England, and Earl and Baron of Malton in Ireland. The noble Marquis was born on the 13th of May 1730. He took his feat in the English parliament on the deceate of his father Thomas the first Marquis of Rockingham, on the 22d of May 1751; and on July 9 following, was conftituted lord-lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the north and west ridings of the county of York by the late king, to whom he was one of the lords of the bedchamber; in which pofts he was continued by his prefent Majefty, at whofe coronation, Sept. 22, 1761, as deputy to the Duke of Norfolk (lord of the manor of Worklop) he prefented him with a right-hand glove before his receiving the fceptre with the cross from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and afterwards occafionally fupported his Majesty's right hand. His lordship alfo, after the King was enthroned, and whilft he received the homage of the peers fpiritual and temporal, held, as deputy aforefaid, the faid fceptre with the crofs; and which having re-delivered, pronounced the words bruary 26, 1752, Mary, daughter and heir of Thomas Bright, of Badfworth, in com. Ebor. Efq. uncle to Lord Ravenfworth; but has left no iffue. The Marquis of Rockingham. having died without iffue, the title becomes extinct; the Earl of Fitzwilliam, his nephew, who is a lord of parliament, becomes heir to a great part of his lordfhip's fortune in England and 25th. mains of the Marquis of Laft Saturday the re words of the homage for all the The intrigues of that faction which were then in oppofition, growing violent, the Marquis refigned his place of first lord of the treasury on August 1, 1766; and during the whole of the miniftry of the different men who refumed the measures of coercion, he acted a zealous and decifive part. The noble Marquis was, on the late important revolution, called again to the place of fift lord of the treafury; and, to the great and alarming misfortune of his country, they are thus fuddenly deprived of his fervices, when their confequence and value were just beginning to be felt. His lordship married on Fe Rockingham, after lying in great and folemn ftate at York, were interred in the minfter with his noble ancestors. The concourfe of the principal people from all parts of the country, to pay the laft tribute of affection to his manes, was immenfe beyond example. The great bell at the cathedral tolled every minute on Friday, both day and night. AUGUST. 1ft. fafe arrival of the fleet from Jamaica, under convoy of Sir Peter Parker, in the Sandwich of 90 guns; in which fhip came the Count de Graffe. A letter received from an officer on board the Namur, takes notice of the narrow efcape of that ship by the Merfey ftore-fhip taking fire, and then falling adrift among the ficet in Port-Royal harbour all in flames. She miraculously paffed them all except the Namur, which was fo entangled with her, as literally to finge her beard; her fails and rigging were on fire, and [0] 4 Advice was received of the every every boat in the fleet got out to fave the men; when by cutting fhe drove clear. zd. This day Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart. was chofen chairman of the Eaft India Company, in the room of Robert Gregory, Efq. who, to the regret of the whole body of proprietors, is dif qualified, on account of his bad ftate of health. Wednesday Count de Graffe 5th. with his fuite landed on South Sea Common, Portsmouth, where carriages had been procured by Vice Admiral Sir Peter Parker, who conducted them to the George, where a moft fumptuous dinner had been procured for him and his fuite by Sir Peter, who entertained him and his officers at his own expence until the Count had permiffion to go to London, which was not till Friday morning, when he fet off with his fuite, attended by the admiral, who had previQufly fent an exprefs to the George at Godalming, to prepare dinner and beds; and on Saturday morning they purfued their route to Mrs. Nugent's (the mother of Lady Parker) in Queen-fquare, Weftminster, where they arrived about three o'clock, from whence Count De Graffe walked up to the Royal Hotel in Pall-Mall. Count De Graffe is the first commander in chief of a French feet or army who has been prifouer in England fince the reign of Queen Anne, when Marfhal Tallard was taken by the Duke of Mariborough, and confined to the town and environs of Nottingham. Marthal De Belleifle, indeed, and his brother, the Chevalier, were prifoners with us the war before laft, and were confined in Windfor tower, but they were not in command when taken; they were merely as paffengers travelling through Hanover, on their way indeed to take a command, where they were ftopped, and fent prifoners to England. The two pirates, Ryan and 6th. M'Carthy, condemned in March laft, and who have been in prifon upwards of eighteen months, have received his Majefty's pardon. About four in the after9th. noon, a gentleman calling at Mrs. Fortefcue's at Tottenhamgreen, was furprifed on knocking at the door to find no admittance. Sufpecting fomething wrong, he procured a peace officer, and forced an entrance into the house, when he found the two maids tied, one to one bedstead, and the other to another bedstead in feparate rooms, and the house robbed of plate and effects to the value of 5001. Mrs. Fortefcue and her daughter were out on a tea-vifit. 10th. This day came on at Winchester, by special commiffion, before the Hon. Mr. Juftice Heath, the trial of David Tyrie, for high treafon, for holding correfpondence with the enemy. The principal witneffes against him were, 1. Maria Harvey, who having a packet of papers put into her care with a particular charge, had the curiofity to look into the con tents, and finding them of a dangerous nature, as the thought, took them to Mr. Page of Weftminfter, who carried them to the fecretary of ftate. The papers were produced; confifting of copies of papers called the Navy Progresjes, con containing lifts of the navy, with the fituation and state of repair of each fhip. Alfo a plan for a regular courfe of intelligence, and the terms on which fuch intelligence might be obtained from every public office and every public dock-yard. 2. Mr. Vowell, ftationer, of London, to whom he was clerk, went to prove his hand-writing. 3. Capt. James proved an agreement with him to go to Bologne for wines, at fifteen guineas a trip. He alfo produced letters which he was to deliver to the commandant of the port, and a pafiport from Bologne to Cherbourgh. Thefe contained intelligence of the failing of the East and West India fleets, and of other important matters. He had little to fay in his de- Advice was received at About two in the morn- 18th. Letters from Holland, 21ft. Hotham, with eight fail of the line, and two frigates, failed from Portímouth, as is fuppofed, for the North Seas, to convoy home the Baltic fleet. This day Mr. Bofanquet was chofen one of the directors of the Eaft India Company, in the room of Mr. Gregory, who is difqualified. 24th. This night's London Gazette, in an article from Conftantinople, gives a moft melancholy account of the ravages of But what agthe plague in that city and its neighbourhood. gravates that calamity, is a most dreadful fire that broke out there on the 29th of July, in the quarter As the wind was called the Balatta, moftly inhabited by Jews. rather high, the flames fpread with fuch rapidity, that, notwithstanding every effort, in about three hours the whole city was threatened with deftruction. It is impoffible to paint the horrid fcene exhibited by this alarming conflagration, which raged with equal violence |