rection, whilst it was incumbent on government to procure every proper evidence for corroborating and substantiating the proofs of his guilt. The superintendent magistrate, in searching the place where the abovementioned paper was printed (the house, No. 62, Abbey-street), seized a quantity of seditious papers in manuscript, with some ball cartridges, which a woman was endeavouring to convey out of the house while this magistrate was doing his duty. Some of the workmen of the above newspaper were taken into custody, but afterwards discharged. Among the persons in the house where The Press was printed, were found lord Edward Fitzgerald, counsellor Sampson, and Mr. Swift, sen. whose punishment of imprisonment, in the New Gaol for a libel against certain of the fellows of Trinity-College, some time ago, had been humanely remitted by government, and whom it was supposed then acted as director of that paper. None of these leaders were detained that night, having pledged themselves to be forthcoming, in the morning, to answer any charge that might be alledged against them. Sunday night a dreadful affray took place in Holborn between a large party of Irishmen, who were attending a funeral, in which several of them were so desperately wounded, that three of them died yesterday morning, and a fourth is not expected to survive the bruises he received. The weapons, with which they fought, were sticks; and the contest, we understand, arose from a dispute relative to the corpse, which was that of a female; the contending parties each insisting on having the superintendance of its interment. No parlimentary regulation is, for the present, to be had recourse to for the better observance of the Sabbath; but the following declaration has been drawn up by several eminent and pious gentlemen, to which all descriptions of people are to be invited to subscribe their names. Form of the Declaration: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being deeply sensible of the great importance of the religious observance of the Lord's Day, to the interests of Christianity and civil society, do declare, that we hold it highly improper, on that day, to give, or accept, invitations to entertainments, or assemblies, or (except in cases of urgency, or for pur poses of charity) to travel, or to ex ercise our worldly occupations, of to employ our domestics, or depend ants, in any thing interfering with their public or private religious di ties. And, as an example, anda pub lic declaration of the principles of our own conduct, more peculiarly at this time, may tend to influence the conduct of others, we do hereby declare our resolution to adhere, as far as may be practicable, to the due observance of the Lord's Day, ac cording to the preceding delaration. 10th. A warrant having been is sued, for the apprehension of Mr. Barrett, a wholesale dealer in the Manchester line in Cheapside, o a charge of having forged several bills on the house of Mr. Stanfield, in Watling-street, who is also in the Manchester line, he was examined at the Mansion-house, and some im portant discoveries were made, re specting some forgeries on the bank, in which Messrs. Adamson, Wil kinson, and Kavanna, are involed. Mr. Stanfield Mr. Stanfield attended his examination, and the bill was produced on which the prosecution was brought, the amount of which was 54. Is. and which bore the indorsement of Mr. Barrett, from whom Mr. Stanfield swore he received it. The bill purported to be drawn at Bristol, in America. by Andrew Moxam, on Richard Griffin, No. 24, Old 'Change, in favour of Samuel Ross and son; proper inquiry had been made, but no such person could be found. Mr. Stanfield farther deposed, that he was the holder of two other bills which had been shewn to Mr. Barrett, who informed him they would not be honoured, as they were all fictitious names. He also gave information of a circumstance which was acknowleged by the son of Mr. Barrett, that he drew several bills which were not filled up by any names. The prisoner was ordered to be again brought up on Tuesday. Two of ficers each took hold of an arm, till they arrived at the gate of the Compter, when the turnkey went forward to open it, and left the prisoner with his partner. Mr. Barrett availed himself of the moment, made a sudden spring from under his arm, and effected his escape. The cry of stop thief resounded from every quarter, but the prisoner's voice was among the loudest. He directed his course down Walbrook, but such a confusion ensued, and no one laying hold of the right person, (though many were stopped) he got clear off. He is between fifty and sixty years of age, and has always borne a respectable character in the neighbourhood. On searching his house, several letters were found, which had been received from houses in diffe rentparts of the country, threatening him with immediate apprehension, if their bills were not taken up, as they had some suspicions they were forgeries. This appeared from a billbook which was also produced, and had the desired effect, as it proved they had been paid. From the following circumstances, there is some reason to suppose that Mr. Barrett, was taken into custody after his escape from the officer in the Poultry, but soon liberated, on account of the officers being ignorant of that affair. Between seven and eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening, an elderly man, of very genteel appearance, ran into a public-house near the end of Gray's-inn lane, apparently much agitated, and endeavoured to conceal himself from his pursuers, by hiding behind the parlour-door; but one of the Bow-street officers being in the house, and understanding from a man, who seemed most active in the pursuit, that a thief had taken refuge there, took him into custody, and inquired what the charge was against him; this, however, no one could tell; the man who first accused him only saying that he heard the cry of stop thief, in Holborn, and, seeing the prisoner run, pursued him. The Bow-street officer, thinking the real accuser might come forward, took him to the Police-Office, Hatton Garden, as being the nearest place of justice, where it being said that a robbery had been committed in Gray's-inn, the prisoner was detained till inquiry was made, which proving untrue, he was dismissed, after being interrogated by the magistrate, as to his name, which he said was Barrett, and that he was a man of respectability, though he did not account, in a satisfactory way, for the extraordinary situation in which he C 2 was was found. He had eight or nine the sea, upwards of three miles in guineas in his pocket, and a letter, directed to France. It is supposed that the alarm, occasioned by his escape from the constable in the city, had by some means followed him to Holborn, though none could tell for what, and he, being the guilty party, of course endeavoured to escape. 13th. A hair-dresser, named Emanuel Gusman, of Newport, Monmouthshire, eat and drank to such excess, as to occasion his death. A coroner's jury, after a long investigation, found a verdict felo de se, and the remains of the glutton were, on Saturday, to have been buried in the public road, near to the place where he died. The receipts arising from the performances at the King's Theatre on Thursday evening, in aid of the contributions for the defence of the country, amounted to detween seven and eight hundred pounds. Letters arrived from Bencoolen, Taponooly, and Padang, of the 5th and 7th of March, 1797, by the schooner, Providence, captain Weatherall, arrived at Calcutta, some days previous to the late fleet from thence, give the following relation of an earthquake that happened on the west coast of Sumatra, on the 20th of February. The vibratory shocks of this earthquake are stated on competent authority, to have continued for three minutes, and to have recurred, at intervals, during a space of three hours, from its beginning, till the shocks had completely ceased. At Padang, the houses of the inhabitants are almost totally destroyed, and the public works much damaged, The snow Padang, lying at anchor in the river, was thrown, by the sudden rise of shore, where she still remains. The number of lives lost, at Padang, on this melancholy occasion, exceeded three hundred. Of these, some were crushed under the ruins of falling houses, some were literally entombed alive, by the earth closing upon them, and others were drowned by the sudden irruption of the waters of the ocean. At Natal, the residence of a subordinate of Bencoolen, very considerable damage was sustained, and several houses thrown down, but no lives were lost. It is, however, much to be feared, that, when the particulars are collected from the different quarters on the west coast, where the earthquake was felt, the sum, both of lives and property destroyed, will be much greater than yet apprehended. Dublin. A horrid murder was committed on Sunday night: apar ty of those barbarous insurgents, who have been deluded by wicked incendiaries to think murder is no erime, assassinated a farming man in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, in the county of Dublin. They mangled him in a most dreadful manner, it is said, and cut up his body in four quarters, which they laid before his weeping children; a horrid spectacle of blood-thirsty atrocity and revenge. This unfor tunate man, we hear, was to have been evidence against some insurgents at Naas assizes, to prevent which he was butchered by those murderers. Last week, Miss Ellin Mitchell, daughter, of H. Mitchell, esq. of Mitchelsfort, county of Cork, (who was confined to her bed by sick ness, at the time of the outrage) was forcibly dragged, and feloniously carried carried away from her father's house 25th. Came on the annual election of president of the board of agriculture, when an opposition was started against sir John Sinclair, by the nomination of lord Somerville, one of the sixteen Scotch peers. A ballot succeeded, and, at the close, the numbers stood, For lord Somerville -sir John Sinclair 13 12 Majority in favour of 1-1 lord Somerville whereupon his lordship was declared, by Arthur Young, esq. the secretary, to be duly elected. The total amount of the St. Jago Spanish prize, was 555,000l. out of which adiniral Gell and the other flag-officers shared 52,000/. cach, the several captains 26,000. and the subaltern officers in proportion: the law expences amounted to 28,000l. and 148,000l. were left, after all, in the agents hand, to defray any other contingent de There has been a considerable disturbance at Manchester, among the cotton-spinners. Some misunderstanding between them and their masters have taken place, respecting wages; the latter employed others, who agreed to work at a less price; when the men assembled, in a very riotous manner, and broke the windows of the manufactory. No farther serious consequences, however, had occurred when the last accounts came away. A newspaper, intituled, The Eagle, printed at Hanover, in New Hampshire, America, states, that an extraordinary distemper had afflicted the geese of that vicinity, and had occasioned considerable mortality. Some were seized with a delirium, during which they would fly at people, cattle, &c. and retain their hold until they were killed. Others would die with stupor. Some years previous, a similar dis ease was productive of like effects. 28th. Early in the morning, the Watchman, going his rounds, near Whitfield'sTabernacle, Tottenhamcourt-road, perceived a hackneycoach waiting near the gate of the burying-ground, and, concluding that some of the resurrection-men were at work, gave notice to one of the patrole, who, going to the spot, saw three men in conversation with the coachman, who, at his approach, made off; he, however, 26. About one o'clock a dreadfui secured the coachman, and, searchfire broke out in an empty barn, being the coach, discovered the body longing to Mr. Williams, opposite of a male child, wrapped up in a the four-mile stone on the Croydon cloth: he then went to examine road which raged with great violence, the burying-ground, and finding and, communicating to a stable and several graves open, knocked at the other out-buildings adjoining, set door of the sexton's house, which fire to a large granary filled with corn adjoins the ground, but was a conand an oat-rick; all of which were siderable time before he obtained intirely consumed. any answer, which was, at last, given mands. by a woman, who informed him that the sexton was gone to sleep in Westminster. At day-light, a farther search took place, when, eight more bodies (four women, three children, and one man) were found, tied up in sacks, in a ditch, not far from the Tabernacle, and which had been interred the "preceding evening. Yesterday, the coachman, whose name is John Peake, was brought before N. Bond, esq. at the public-office, Bow-street, when all the parties attended; and after those claiming the dead had identified the respective bodies, the magistrate proceeded to examine the prisoner, who said, in his defence, that, about three o'clock yesterday morning he was called off the stand, near the end of Hatton-street, Holborn, by three men, who ordered him to drive to Pitt-street, Tottenhamcourt-road, and, there getting out, desired him to wait for them near the Tabernacle; that one of them continued by the coach the whole time; but denied seeing any thing put into his coach, or even that the doors were opened after the men first got out. The sexton was also interrogated, but nothing could be collected from him, he having slept from home on Thursday night. The coachman was committed for farther examination. One man claimed two bodies, his wife and child, who had been deposited in the same grave the preceding evening: the child was the same that had been found in the coach. 30th. Between six and seven in the evening, as the boy was bringing the mail from Selby to York, he wasstopped about half-way between Selby and Riccall, by a stout-made man on foot, who took the bridle off the horse's head, and robbed the boy of the mail. George Jay was executed on Monday, for piracy, at Executiofdock, pursuant to his sentence at the last Admiralty-sessions held attit Old Bailey. This unfortunate man was upwards of sixty years of age. Dublin. Tuesday se'nnight, abort eight o'clock, a gang of villains get into Mr. Doolan's house of Baveth, between birr and Roscrea, in the King's county, just as he was at tea; his family were about him, and an infaut child on his knee: the barbarous ruffians ordered him to lay down the child; which he having done, they blew out his brains. No discovery has yet been made of this inhuman deed, but it is supposed his servants were privy to it. He was a gentleman possessed of 1000l. a-year. The celebrated Didot, the French printer, with a German, named Herman, have announced a new discovery in printing, which they term stereotype. The process seems more nearly allied to engraving, as they speak of its being done on solid plates (des planches solides). The inventors dwell on its elegance, and it certainly has the merit of cheapness. The works of Virgil, making four hundred pages, and illustrated with a map and vignettes, is to be sold in sheets for fifteen sous, or seven pence halfpenny. Saturday se'nnight the largest vessel ever built at Southwick, near Sunderland, was launched in the presence, it is supposed, of fifteen thousand spectators This beauti ful ship is named the Lord Duncan. She was built in Mr. Havelock's yard, measures nine hundred and thirty tons, and is completely adapted for the East-India trade. Henry |