common stockade work; this place Your affectionate brother, LONGEVITY. The following is a list of persons who died in Great Britain and its dependencies, at very extraordinary ages, during the last year : At the age of 100.-Ann Dixon, of Fenwick Hall; Margaret Barrow, of Holker; Mr. Hornidge, of Gloucester; J. Bell, of Moorhouse; Mrs. Battle, of Throstle. nest; May Gregory, of Bristol; Mrs. Crisp, of Loddon, Norfolk ; Mary Evens, of Oswestry; Samuel Griffiths, of Kennarth; and Andrew Fraser, of the Isle of Sky. Aged 101.-Margaret Sherwin, of Kirkby; T. Willy, of Buckland St. Mary; Margaret Tate, of South Shields; J. Moore, of Newcastle; Mrs. Galey, of Norwich; and Mrs. Hammond, of Horndean. At the age of 102.-Mrs. Chase, of Polman; and Ann John, of Llandolog. Aged 103.-Sarah Fisher, of Nutsford; Mary Lazell, of Colchester; Mrs. Hunt, of Limerick ; G. Thomas, of Capel Crieg, and J. Turner, of Eventhorpe. Aged 104.-Maria Twist, of Birmingham; J. Potts, of Edlingham; and S. Anstey, of Coleshill. Aged 105.-Eliz. Spencer, of Fareham; Mrs. Lawrence, of Lincoln; Janet Camack, of Whitehall, Scotland; Mary Biggs, of Thornbury; and R. Sheriffs, of Udny. Aged 106.-Ann Griffiths, of Hereford; J. Hunter, of Esh; and J. Shortall, in Ireland. Aged 107.-J. Benbow, of Nortliwood; Susan Payman, of Great Glenham; J. Freeman, of Reading, America; J. Stubbings, of Beccles; W. Marchant, of Liverpool; and Sarah Parris, of Ja maica. Aged 111.-Ann Strounge, of Eltham. Sunderland. Aged 113.-Mrs. Roope, of Thurston. Aged 114.-J. Blakeney, of Skibbereen.-120. Sarah O'Leary, of Ireland.-125. Mr. Creek, of Thurlow,-131. J. Tucker, of Itchen Ferry; and 134. Catharine Lopez, of Jamaica. Of the above 48 persons, 19 were males, and 29 females. Only 16 are recorded as persons who had been married, though it is probable many more had been so; and 10 are mentioned as having enjoyed all their faculties to the last. (A4) 4. Jamerson 4. Jamerson Rogers, a prophetess, was indicted on the vagrant act, for retailing divination to the credulous. It appeared by the testimony of miss H. Hall, a young lady under twenty, that she had gone to the house of the sibyl, in Williamnstreet, Westminster, to detect the prisoner, in consequence of her having previously contaminated the mind of one of her relatives. She was ushered into the apartments of the seducer by a chairwoman, and a pack of cards, a religious book, &c. were placed on the table, by which the prophetess made her researches. Miss Hall was informed that she had many enemies of her own sex, but all men were friendly towards her, and she would soon be married to the best of good men; for which information she paid one shilling. Frances Hughes, an interesting girl of 16 years of age, had also sought information at the hands of the prophetess. She was more admired than miss Hall; for the only enemy she had was a dark woman, who would strive to injure her, but she would ere she was 20 years age be united in wedlock to a man who would revenge her wrongs. of Mr. Alley undertook, on behalf of the defendant, to tell her for tune. He could inform her she was born under a better planet than her philosophy had informed her of. The learned counsel objected to the form of the conviction before the magistrates, the word and being substituted instead of or. This objection proved fatal to the cause of justice, and the prisoner was discharged. POLICE. FINAL EXAMINATION OF THE SWISS VALET. 6. Marlborough-street. John Lewis Baptista Barrillet on Tuesday underwent a final examination at this office. Lord Caledon appeared for the first time since the prisoner had been in custody. His lordship stated the prisoner acted as valet, and not as butler; and to him he left the care of his house whilst he went to Ireland. Thirty-two packages were packed in a parcel, and sent to a waggon-inn for conveyance to Portsmouth, previous to his lordship's leaving town, he having at that time been given to understand that he should embark for the Cape of Good Hope in a few days. In consequence of the confused manner in which the packages had been packed, lord C. could not speak with any degree of certainty to what extent he had been robbed, nor could he particu larize, at that moment, any deficiency, excepting, as he supposed, about twenty dozen of madeira, champaigne, claret, and other wines, which he had left in his wine-cellar, and which, on examination, contained not more than two or three bottles. The prisoner had no command over the winecellar, the keys of which were deposited in an unlocked drawer.— Nine packages, it appeared, had been brought away from the waggon.inn. Colonel Alexander identified part of his property, which had been offered for sale by the prisoner. And it was proved by other persons who were left in the house, that the prisoner had frequently taken wine from the cellar, and carried it out of the house. He had, had, it appeared, distributed the whole stock of wines amongst about a dozen dashing belles at different times, two of whom proved having received part of it; and in particularizing the marks on the corks, &c. it appeared to be part of what the servants saw the prisoner take from the cellar. The several ladies with whom the prisoner had, by his assumption of title, birth, &c. become acquainted, gave a sportive description of the conduct of the self-created noble whilst acting the man of fashion. He insisted on miss C. who had expressed her intention of leaving her house, accepting of his (meaning lord Caledon's) whilst he was at the Cape, as he should have no occasion for it. This offer was made when the lady breakfasted with the prisoner, who excited her suspicions, as he had no servants at command. The prisoner was fully committed for trial on three indictments; two for robbing lord Caledon and colonel Alexander, and one for a fraud on Messrs. Kundle and Bridge, jewellers, Ludgate-hill, where he had a snuff-box mounted in gold in the name of his master. THE LATE DREADFUL OCCURRENCE Further particulars of the dreadful Madras, July 28, 1806. Perhaps, ere you receive this letter, the account of the melancholy catastrophe which has occurred at Vellore will have reached you. I will, however, give you a short sketch of it. The troops which, at this time, garrisoned Vellore, were six companies of the 1st battalion 1st regiment, No. 1, and 2d battalion of the 23d regi ment, and four complete companies of his majesty's 69th regiment. On the morning of the 10th instant, about two o'clock, when the moon had just risen, the European barracks at Vellore were surrounded; and, at every window and door, a heavy fire from musketry and a six-pounder was poured in on the poor defenceless soldiers. At that instant, the European sentries, and the soldiers at the main guard, and the sick in the hospital, were put to death; and the sepoys then proceeded to the officers' houses, and put to death all whom they could find. Colonel M Kerras, who commanded one of the battalions, was shot while haranguing his men on the parade-ground. Colonel Fancourt, the commandant of the fort, was shot upon proceeding towards the main guard; and all were butchered wherever they could be found. Lieutenant Ely, of the 69th, with his little son in his arms, were both barbarously bayoneted in the presence of his wife! This scene of carnage continued till about seven o'clock in the morning, when two officers and a surgeon, whose quarters were near to the European barracks, contrived to get in, and then took the command of the remains of the four companies. They made a sally from the barracks, and got possession of the six-pounder, and fought their way to the gateway, which a serjeant Brody, with his European guard, had most gallantly defended against all the insurgents. At the instant, about half after seven o'clock in the morning, they reached the gate, colonel Gillespie, with about a troop of the 19th dragoons, had reached the gate from Arcot, having left that place about. six o'clock. He was hauled up by a rope by serjeant Brody's party, and had taken the command, when he intended to have charged the insurgents with the bayonet, but at this moment the galloper guns of the 19th arrived. The gate was then blown open, and the 19th admitted. The sepoys were encouraged by their native officers to make a stand, but all were very soon cut to pieces by the 19th; about 600 were cut down, and about 200, subsequently taken from hidingplaces, were shot. About 500 made their escape, it is supposed, through the sally-port, but many of them have been since taken. The cause of this dreadful affair is now investigating by seven commissioners, who are sitting at Vellore. The 2d battalion of the 23d had been raised in the southward, and was composed chiefly of Collories; their officers were induced, by offers of great reward from one of the princes, to be bribed from their duty, and had sufficient influence over their men to make them join in the plan, which was to get possession of the fort, and which they calculated on keeping for a few days, when they were to be joined by 50,000 men from Mysore. The standard of Tippoo was hoisted on the palace, soon after the firing commenced; and if it had not been for the entreaties of lieutenant-colonel Marriot, who declared the princes were innocent, colonel Gillespie would have delivered up the whole of the palace to the enraged soldiery. The cause is also to be attributed to a code of new regulations, which has occasioned general dissatisfaction through the army.-These regulations introduced a new turban for the sepoys, similar to a drummer's cap, and ordered the distinguishing marks of the cast in the forehead to be taken off, and to shave their upper lip, &c. The Mysore princes doubtless availed themselves of this dissatisfaction; young's corps had been removed from thence to Madras, a few weeks before, for refusing to wear the turban. Lord William Bentinck, wisely, immediately issued a general order, doing away those regulations. I inclose a list of the killed and wounded. Major Armstrong was killed in his palanquin, by a volley from the ramparts when passing along, about break of day, being on his way to Madras. Killed.-Colonels Fancourt, M'Kerras, 23d battalion; lieute nants Winchope, Jolly, captain Milne, 1st battalion, 1st regiment; lieutenants O'Reilly, Fitchbenner, Ely, 69th regiment; Popham; paymaster Smith; Mann, commissary of stores; major Armstrong. Wounded.-Captain Barrow, 69th regiment; M'Lachlan. Insurgents, 500 or 600 killed; his ma jesty's 19th dragoons, one rank and file killed, three wounded; rank and file 88 wounded. Sunday the 4th, about 12 o'clock, one of the arches of Haydon bridge, Northumberland, 95 feet in span, fell in with a most tremendous crash, at the time that a number of people were going over it to church. A man sunk with the ruins to a depth of 40 feet, by which his thigh was fractured, and he was otherwise much bruised. The bridge had long been in a state of decay. OTTERS. On Wednesday the 7th Mr. Edward Humphreys, jun. of Walcot, near Chirbury, Shropshire, shot a dog otter on the river Cemblet, which weighed 221b. and measured from the head to the tail four four feet. There are also now at Gunley, near Chirbury, two tame otters, taken when young from the said river; they are so tame that they will follow the servants to the spout when washing, and one was so voracious as to seize a living toad and devour it immediately. On the 10th inst. about two o'clock, a gentleman came from Hungerford, in a post-chaise, to the Globe inn, Newbury, where he or dered another chaise to take him to Andover. When he arrived at the Star inn, Andover, he took a bottle of wine: in the evening he walked to the Catharine Wheel, at that place, to wait, as he said, for the mail coach, and, in company with some other gentlemen, drank a glass of brandy and water. About eleven o'clock at night they were talking about children;-the gentleman said," he had nine children, and no one knew what trouble they were but those who experienced it," and immediately left the room. Within a minute the company were alarmed by the report of a pistol; they immediately went to the door, and discovered that the gentleman had shot himself in the right temple, and was quite dead. Admiralty-office, Jan. 13. A letter from vice-admiral lord A letter from vice-admiral lord Collingwood, commander in chief of his majesty's ships and vessels. in the Mediterranean, to William Marsden, esq. dated on board the Ocean, off Cadiz, the 20th of December 1806, incloses the following copy of a letter from captain Pearce, commander of his majesty's sloop the Halcyon. His majesty's ship Halcyon, Gibraltar Bay, Dec. 18, 1806. My lord, I beg leave to inform your lordship, that on the 13th in: stant, at eight in the morning, Cape St. Martin's S.S.W. six leagues, I perceived three sail standing out from the land towards me. Being on contrary tacks, we closed fast when within four or five miles, I discovered they were vessels of war, (a ship, a brig, and a xebec,) and shortly after steered directly for me: seeing they were superior, and five settees, seen from the tops, coming from the same quarter, I judged it prudent (as they seemed determined to bring me to action) to close with them as soon as possible, and decide the contest before any assistance could be given from the other five. At half past ten (being nearly within musket-shot) they hoisted Spanish colours, and commenced action: as soon as I got a-breast of the second vessel, I got on the other tack, and brought them to closer action, which lasted till twelve o'clock, when their fire slackened. At half-past, being nearly a calm, the brick and rebec hauled away to the southward, assisted by their boats and sweeps, the ship then nearest us endeavouring to do the same to the northward: we swept after her, and in an hour got close alongside, when she struck her colours: she proved to be a Spanish polacre ship (privateer), the Neptuno Dios de los Mares, of fourteen guns and se venty-two men, from Denia, going on a cruize between Minorca and the coast of Africa, with the other to say, made their escape, but not two in company; who, I am sorry before their fire had been silenced. The five settees, when within three miles, seeing the ship deserted, returned to the shore, and went into traordinary, I am happy to say we the port of Denia. Though exhad none killed, and only three wounded,-lieutenant Briggs, my |