eleven more than thofe with one arm. Next morning the match was played out, and the men with one leg beat the one arms by 103 runnings. After the match was finished, the eleven one-legged mcn run a fweepstakes of one hundred yards diftance, for twenty guineas, and the three firft had prizes.

On Wednesday morning, 10th. about eleven o'clock, one of the Dartford powder mills, about half a mile diftant from the place, blew up with a dreadful explofion. Four perfons loft their lives.

11th.

This afternoon, a gentleman going down Gray'-innlane in a whitkey, the horfe took fright and fet off full fpeed; his fervant, feeing his mafter in fuch a fituation, unfortunately for him, came up to the horfe, and feized the bridle, but was not capable of ftopping him. The beat turned up a narrow paffage by Chads Wells; the fervant ftill running and holding. In turning round the paffage the near fhaft caught the man in the body, which it clearly run through, and was ftopt by the wall. The gentleman was thrown violently from the carriage, but not much hurt. The fervant was killed. 12th. A dreadful earthquake has

nearly deftroyed the city of Lattaique in Syria. The firft fhock was May 16th, which lafted about eighty-fix feconds. Upwards of three thousand perfons were buried in the ruins of the houses. A great part of the mofques are deftroyed. The fmall town of Gibellet is alfo totally deftroyed, and feveral houfes thrown down at Tortofa and Tripoli.

tween Mr. William Carpenter and Mr. John Pride, both Americans, in which Mr. Carpenter received his antagonist's ball in the fide, which penetrated nearly through his body; and, notwithitanding it was immediately extracted, he died' on Monday morning. The coroner's jury fat on the body, and brought in their verdict wilful murder.

Nantz. A fire took place

27th. in our fuperb theatre during the third act of Zemire et Azor; which caught the tranfparency in the apartments of Zemire, at the moment when the mechanift and his affiftants were bufy repairing the buft of Azor, which had met with an accident in coming up a trap not fufliciently open. The flames fpread with fuch aftonithing rapidity, that in five minutes the whole theatre was in flames, and this fuperb monument of the decorative talents of Cruci, the town architect, was foon a heap of deplorable ruins. The walls alone remain. The wardrobe and other decorations were totally confumed, and fome perfous loft their lives. Among the audience, however, a few bruises, inevitable from the confufion, were all the damage, except a pregnant woman, who is ftated to have been borne down by the crowd, and fhockingly trampled upon. Thofe behind the scenes were in a dreadful condition. Three perfons much burnt, have been drawn out from the flames. The tocfin was founding at the moment of the account departing, the interior part ftill burning, and the fight of new victims was perpetually feared.

This morning about four o'clock, fome villains got into a house in Fludyer ftreet, occupied by fir Rich

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ard Glode, who was out of town, and had packed up every article of value that was portable. The theriff's drefs clothes, liveries, &c. were ready for removal; when the thieves were fortunately heard by Mrs. Johnfon, the proprietor of the houfe; who, with great fpirit, went up ftairs, where he met one of them. She gave an alarm; but no watchman or patrole was to be found. At length fhe fucceeded in getting down stairs, in fpite of the oppofition made by the thief, and opened the street door. Part of the neighbours were by this time alarmed and at the door; they had found out a patrole and watchman, to whom Mrs. Johnfon delivered her prifoner. A number of picklock keys were found, and every lock in the house had been opened. On attending at the Public-office, Queen-fquare, to profecute, the prifoner was of courfe called for; but the watchman and patrole had been overpowered by him, in fome way or other, and he had escaped.

DIED.-Thomas Yates, efq. a lieutenant in the navy (to which rank he was admitted June 24, 1782) and an artift of fome merit, having published prints from drawings by himself of two celebrated naval actions. He was great nephew to the late celebrated comedian, but by whom he had for fome years been unaccountably neglect ed; and he has now loft his life in confequence of a difpute with Mifs Jones relative to the poffeftion of the theatrical veteran's house in Stafford-row, which Mifs Jones confidered to be her property; and in which, for fome little time, they both refided. On the 18th of Auguft, Mr. John Sellers was brought

into the house, to protect Mifs Jones and her property; and, on the 21ft, Richard Footner was introduced for the fame purpose. On the 228, the wife of Mr. Yates being abfent, he dined alone about three o'clock; and, walked after dinner into the garden at the back of the house. On his return, the door being faftened, his fervant, Mary Thompfon, attempted to get him in at the kitchen window. One of the perfons who had faftened him out, finding that he was likely to gain admittance, fired a piftol, the ball from which entered the right fide of Mr. Yates. The noise giving an alarm, fome neighbours climbed over the garden-wall, where they found Mr. Yates bleeding. Dr. Cruikshanks attended him twice the fame evening, and had great hopes; but next morning, at nine, pronouncing the wound mortal, Mr. Yates made his will, and expired about noon, leaving five chil dren, and a widow pregnant with a fixth. (Mrs. Yates is very elegant in her person, and made her appearance laft feafon at Coventgarden theatre, in the character of the Grecian daughter.) In confequence of the coroner's inqueft, Sellers, Footner, and Elizabeth Jones, after a regular examination at the public-office in Bow-ftreet, have been committed on a charge of wilful murder. Two gentlemen of great refpectability, who had never before feen Mifs Jones, offered bail for her to any amount; which the magistrates refused. On a fecond examination, August 29, the idea of premeditated guilt was in a great degree removed; but the prifoners were again fully committed. Mr. Sellers formerly kept a Staffordshire warehoufe on Gar

lick-hill, in which bufinefs he failed, and afterwards embarked in the linen-trade. Mifs Jones, towards the latter end of 1793, performed the character of Imogen at Coventgarden theatre for one night only.

SEPTEMBER.

t. Scarborough. On Sunday laft, three gentlemen from Horsforth, in the weft-riding, went on the water in a pleasure-boat, rowed by a man named Laycock; and, in returning, the ftrength of the wind, and violence of the waves, driving them amongst the breakers, threw them ten yards from the veffel; and, unable to regain either the boat or fhore, they all perished in fight of a great multitude of fpectators, who exerted themselves in vain for their relief. The bodies of the three former have been found; the latter has left a wife and child.

zd. At Cheveley, near Newmarket, one of the duke of Rutland's feats, a boy, named Tweed, employed in keeping birds off a field of corn, placed his gun against a poft with the muzzle upwards, which unhappily went off, and, lodging its contents in the boy's throat, inftantly killed him. 4th. A large box, containing

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quantity of rope, of the thicknefs of two inches, fpun by the convicts, has been brought to the fecretary of ftate's office from Botany Bay, being the first proof of their manufacture and production; it is as white as flax, and its finenefs cannot be be excelled by the fpinners in this country.

16th.

A dreadful fire happened at a small village called Eaft Whitton, on the eftate of the earl

of Aylesbury, in the north riding. of the county of York. The flames broke out at the workhouse, in the middle of the day, when moft of the inhabitants were in the fields reaping. The buildings being chiefly covered with thatch, and the wind ftrong at S. W. the fire burnt with fuch irrefiftible fury as in the courfe of a few hours totally ruined near a dozen families, burning fixteen dwelling-houfes and out-buildings, with a large quantity of corn and farming-utenfils, all of which were uninsured.

16th.

This day John Sellers, William Footner, and Eli zabeth Jones, were put to the bar at the Old Bailey; the former upon the charge of having wilfully and maliciously wounded Mr. Thomas Yates, with a piftol ball, of which wound he died, and the two latter for aiding and abetting in the faid murder. The evidence of the fervant, Mary Thompson, varied from her former depofition before the magiftrates, before whom the fwore that Mr. Yates pushed away the piftol with his hand when prefented by Sellers; but contradicted herself in this particular on the trial, that Mr. Yates did not touch the piftol, nor was it poffible for him to reach it, though on her firft examination fhe had fworn that Mr. Yates had hold of it, and was ftruggling with it at the moment it went off. It came out in evidence that Mr. Yates bahaved in a vindictive quarrel fome manner in the houfe having threatened Mifs Jones with perfonal violence. Sellers in his defence, denied all intention of killing Mr. Yates, but faid that the piftol went off, owing to Yates taking hold of it; and that he had defired to be furnished with

the piftols for his perfonal defence, as Mr. Yates had repeatedly threatened to bring in feveral perfons to turn them out by force. He had only been shut out for the purpose of keeping him out till the attorney, who had been fent for, fhould arrive, and that his taking the pittol was the impulfe of the moment, and was only intended to have intimidated him; and that Mr. Yates himself feized hold of the pistol to wreft it from him. Mifs Jones in her defence, went into the particulars of her firft engagement with the late Mr. Richard Yates, and of her performing at the Birmingham Theatre; of the will in her favour, and of the turbulent behaviour of the deceased; difclaiming all idea of his murder, and that the would have willingly refigned every fhilling of the property to have faved Mr. Yates's life. Footner faid little more than accounting for his being in the house in the way Sellers had previously related, merely calling as an acquaintance of Sellers. Evidence to character was only called in favour of Sellers; feveral perfons proved him a quiet, humane, inoffenfive man. The learned judge, Rooke, then proceeded to fuin up the evidence, and to point out the moft ftriking parts to the jury. He thought Mifs Jones and Mr. Footner ought clearly to be acquitted of wilful murder, as they did not know that ellers had the piftol, and it was not intended to keep Mr. Yates out by violence. With regard to Sellers, the jury fhould confider whether he fired the piftol wilfully; if he did, he was guilty of murder; if the piftol went off by accident it was only

manslaughter; fhort of that it could not be. The jury retired for a few minutes, and brought in their verdict, John Sellers, not guilty of the murder, but guilty of manflaughter; Elizabeth Jones and Richard Footner not guilty. Sellers was fentenced to pay a fine of one fhilling, and be imprifoned fix months. There are five wills, or teftamentary papers, each of which are uniformly in favour of Mits Jones, one a regular drawn will in 1789.

17th.

Liverpool. This morning, a little before one o'clock, a moft dreadful fire broke out in a large warehouse, belonging to Mr. Hervey in Cheapfide; which, notwithstanding every poffible exertion, could not be got under till the whole warehoufe, with all its va luable contents, were confumed. The top part was occupied by Mr. Middleton, as a cotton manufactory, when the fire broke out, occafioned, as is fuppofed, by the friction of one of the wheels employed in the works. In the lower part were eleven thousand measures of wheat, belonging to Meflrs. Corrie, Gladstone and co. which, with a large quantity of hides, rum, brandy and other fpirits, were entirely deftroyed. three o'clock, the front part of the warehouse fell into the fireet, directly upon one of the fireengines that was then working, which occafioned a scene of horror impoffible to be defcribed; three men were crushed to pieces on the fpat; ten more were carried to the infirmary in a dreadful fituation, two of whom died immediately; and it is thought that many will be found among the ruins.

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