to fhew the other, you are perfectJy at liberty fo to do. I am, &c. "To Adam, Efq." fonal attack upon my character?" Upon which Mr. Fox faid, this was no place for apologies, and defired him to go on. Mr. Adam "Chesterfield-freet, half paft 3, fired his fecond piftol without ef"Sunday, Nov. 28. "SIR, "As you must be fenfible that the fpeech printed in the newfpapers reflects upon me perfonally, and as it is from that only that the public can have their information, it is evident, that, unless that is contradicted by your authority, in as public a manner as it was given, my character muft be injured. Your refufal to do this entitles me to prefume that you approve of the manner in which that fpeech has been given to the pub lic, and juftifies me in demanding the only fatisfaction that such an injury will admit of. "Major Humberston is empowered to fettle all particulars; and the fooner this affair is brought to a conclufion, the more agreeable to me. I have the honour to be, &c. "To Hon. Charles James Fox." In confequence of the above, the parties met, according to agreement, at eight o'clock in the morning. After the ground was measured out at the distance of fourteen paces, Mr. Adam defired Mr. Fox to fire, to which Mr. Fox replied, "Sir, I have no quarrel with you; do you fire." Mr. Adam then fired, and wounded Mr. Fox, which we believe was not at all perceived by Mr. Adam, as it was not diftinctly feen by either of ourselves. Mr. Fox fired without effect; we then interfered, afking Mr. Adam if he was fatis fed; Mr. Adam replied, "Will Mr. Fox declare he meant no per fect; Mr. Fox fired his remaining piftol in the air, and then faying, as the affair was ended, he had no difficulty in declaring he meant no more perfonal affront to Mr. Adam than he did to either of the other gentlemen prefent.Mr. Adam replied, "Sir, you have behaved like a man of honour." Mr. Fox then mentioned, that he believed himself wounded, and, upon his opening his waistcoat, it was found it was fo, but, to all appearance, flightly. The parties then feparated, and Mr. Fox's wound was, on examination, found not likely to produce any dangerous confequence. Richard Fitzpatrick, Second to Mr. Fox. T. Mackenzie Humberflon, Second to Mr. Adam. A Court of Aldermen was held, principally for the purpofe of declaring. Mr. Wilkes duly elected Chamberlain, and to receive his propofal of fecurities; when Mr. Wilkes propofed Geo. Hayley and John Sawbridge, Efqrs. Aldermen, Thomas Scott, and Rene Payne, Efqrs. to be fureties in the penalty of 40,000l. for the due performance of the office of Chamberlain, which the Court unanimoufly approved of. Peterburgh, Nov. 5. The Senate has received, from the inhabitants of Kamtfchatka, advice, that, laft year, about the time that the leaves, though ftill green, began to fall from the trees, two large veffels arrived on their coaft coaft, one of three, and the other of two masts; that they landed some men, and behaved with great courtesy to the inhabitants, giving them prefents; that the inhabitants in return offered them fome whales flesh, which they refused, after smelling to it; that they could not understand any thing they faid; that thefe veffels afterwards failed towards the North, and touched at different parts of Kamtschatka, where the fame occurrences happened as before mentioned; that they failed out of fight towards the North, but in fome days returned, and failed to the South, fince which they have not been feen. We do not know what veffels thefe can have been, unless they are Capt. Cook's, who failed from England three years ago to make difcoveries, and who has not been heard of fince he was at the Cape of Good Hope. Stockholm, Nov. 15. The grand bafon which has been formed at Carlfcroon is reckoned one of the finest performances of the age. It contains 24 places, in which fhips may not only be kept dry, but may be taken out by letting in water at any time, which may be done into any one of those places feparately. The engineer who had the direction of this work is Mr. Tunberg, and he has acquired great reputation by it. He has alfo invented a fort of fpyingglafs, with which one may difcover the nature of the foils under water. DIED. At Rumfey, in Hants, James Cordelon, a native of France, aged 108 years. At Barbadoes, Mrs. Mary Pollard, aged 115 years. She was in perfect health till within a few days of her death; could read the smallest print without fpectacles, and retained her fenfes to the last minute. At Hammersmith, Mrs. Bonnel, wife of Bonnel, Efq. It is remarkable of this lady, that she was a mother at 16, a grandmother at 35, and had 17 children in the courfe of 11 years and a half. DECEMBER. 4th. Mary Howard, a hawker of ballads, went voluntarily before the mayor of Kingston, and made oath, that she and one Ifaac Jones, a pedlar, were the perfons who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Cheney on the 11th of December 1762, for the difcovery of which murder 100l. reward was offered by the inhabitants of Hungerford, and the fame by his Majefty. She faid fhe was driven by the remorfe of her own confcience to make the discovery, not from malice to the man. 6th. John Staples, for extorting money from Tho. Harris Crosby, by threatening to charge him with an abominable crime; Timothy Fitzpatrick, for stealing money; and John Taylor, for ftealing a letter, in which was a bill of exchange for gol. were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence. The feffion ended at the 10th. Old Bailey, when the following prifoners received fentence of death, viz. John Howell, for ftealing 352 filk handkerchiefs, and other goods to a confiderable amount, in the dwelling-houfe of Mr. Mr. Davidfon, pawn-broker, in Bifhopfgate-ftrect; William Kent, for robbing Henry Otto, one of his Majefty's meffengers, of his watch and money, on the highway, near Gunnersbury-lane; Hugh Mulvey, Benjamin Fetter, John Wiley, and John Woolmore, for a burglary in the dwelling. houfe of Mr. Farley, in Coldbathfields, and ftealing fome wearing apparel, &c.; nine were ordered to be kept to hard labour for the benefit of the navigation of the river Thames, four to be kept to hard labour in the Houfe of Correction, and 13 difcharged by proclamation. 12th. Laft week a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, to re-confider the order of the committee appointed to confider what mark of refpect is moft fit to perpetuate the memory of the late Earl of Chatham; when after fome debate it was agreed to erot a ftatue in Guildhall, over the Huftings. facing Alderman Beckford's; and it is to be executed by Mr. Bacon, at an expence not exceeding 3000l. The thanks of the Court were alfo voted to feveral peers for their fteady behaviour and fpirited conduct in the House upon all occafions for the good of their country. One evening laft month, a carpenter going accidentally through the tranfept of Ely cathedral, faw the chamber adjoining to the lantern on fire; he got affiftance, and they tore up the flaming boards, and threw them down into the octagon; and thus faved that beautiful part of the building, the lantern, and poffibly the whole church. The fire is fuppofed to have been occafioned by the ufual careleffnefs of plumbers who had been repairing the lead. On Wednesday morning, the 15th, a barbarous murder was committed, in a copfe at Goodwood, in Suffex, the feat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, on the body of Thomas Hewitt, one of his Grace's groom, by one Burnett, a poacher, in company with three others, who on the fame morning had been destroying game in the above copfe, and who, on meeting with the deceafed and two of his Grace's park-keepers, immediately fell upon them, and, befides killing the above unfortunate man, they fo unmercifully beat one of the keepers, that his life was in danger for feveral days. Hewitt, we are informed, had thrown Burnett feveral fucceffive times, and it is believed would have fecured him (as Burnett hath fince acknowledged), had he not unfortunately in the fcuffle fallen backward over a wheeltrack, in which fituation his inhuman antagonist feized him fast by the throat, and never quitted his hold till he had killed him; when the murderers immediately fled, leaving behind them fome of their hats, and a bag containing three brace of pheafants. The Coroner's Inqueft fat on the. body of the unfortunate Hewitt, and brought in their verdi& Wilful Murder; in confequence of which two of the criminals, James Burnett and George Dilloway, who were foon afterwards apprehended and taken, were committed to Horsham gaol, to take their trial at the next affizes for the faid murder. The other two offenders, Charles Dilloway and and Daniel Shepherd, are ftill at large. 20th. This day came on before Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, Westminfter, a trial on an information, ordered by the Houfe of Commons, in the course of laft feffion, againft Meffrs. Stratton, Brook, Floyer, and Mackey, for the arreft and imprisonment of Lord Pigot, when The cafe governor of Madras. was ably and pathetically opened by Mr. Wedderburne in fupport of the charge, and as ably anfwered by Mr. Dunning in favour of the defendants. After the Judge had delivered his charge, the Jury found the defendants guilty. See Appendix. His Majefty gave the royal 23d. affent to the following bills, viz. for granting a free trade to Ireland; for preventing the clandeftine conveyance of fugar, &c. from America into Great Britain; for indemnifying officers of the militia who have not qualified themselves, &c.; and two private bills. The Houfe of Peers adjourned to the 27th of January, and the Houfe of Commons to the 24th of the fame month. Bristol, Dec. 25. The want of a fupply of American tar has given us a difcovery of the utmoft utility, and which will be a great faving to this country; fome gentlemen of Bristol having fet up works for extracting the oil out of pitcoal, ufed for making lampblack: this oil is alfo boiled down to the confiftence of tar, which it exactly refembles in colour and quality, and is with difficulty diftinguished from real tar: feveral fhips in this port have had their bottoms payed with it, and though it is found to be a more excellent prefervative against the worms, it has the happy advantage of being rendered at nearly half the price of real tar; it may also be used with fuccefs in every cafe in which tar is employed. The oil is alfo boiled down to the confiftence of pitch, which it is also used for, and is found an excellent fuccedaneum for that article. After the oil is extracted from the coal, the refiduum is a very good coke. In the account given last year of the number of fhips cleared at the Cuftom Houfe in the year 1777, it is to be understood of fhips cleared at the Cuftom Houfe, Newcastle. -We have been favoured with the following Lift from an obliging correfpondent at that place, to whom we are alfo indebted for the above-mentioned correction. Thefe numbers differ a little from thofe in the Regifter of 1778, which may arife from the different terminations of the year;-these are from 5 Jan. to 5 Jan.and thefe may have been taken from 25 Dec. to 25 Dec. DIED. The Princefs of Afturias, of an Infanta, at the Pardo, Madrid. The Princefs Louifa Henrietta Carolina, fpoufe of his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Heffe Darmstadt, of a Princefs. February. The Lady of Sir James Langham, Bart. of a fon. The Countess of Rofeberry, of a daughter. 23d. This morning, between three and four o'clock, the Queen was happily delivered of a Prince. March. The Right Hon. Lady Melbourne, of a fon. April. The Lady of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. of a daughter. The Right Hon. the Countess of Warwick, of a fon. The Right Hon, Lady Boston, 1038 of a fon. 413 The Lady of Sir J. Smith, Bart. 69 of a daughter. July. The Right Hon. Lady Amelia Byron, of a daughter. Right Hon. Countess of Cowper, of a fon, at Florence. Auguft. Right Hon. Countefs of Suffolk, of a fon and heir. Lady of Sir Ch. Douglafs, of a. fon. Right Hon. Lady Algernon Percy, of a daughter. 1 Right Hon. Lady Brownlow, of a fon. |