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fterity with the regret of all his contemporaries.

MARCH.

Ift. Rome. We learn, that the beautiful church of the Vatican, which has been robbed of its trea fures by the French, is at prefent receiving prefents from different quarters, confifting of golden chalices, pictures, &c. The nobility, clergy, and merchants, are raifing a loan of 150,000 dollars, for purchafing corn in Naples. On the 27th ult. a perfon of the name of Genoves, who had robbed feveral churches, was hanged here, his head and hands afterwards fixed on poles, the body burnt, and the afhes committed to the air.

The stone arch, which formed the floor of the white tower, over the eaft gate, at Lynn, fuddenly fell, while the rope-makers, who drefs hemp under it, were gone to dinner: to prevent farther danger, it is thought advifeable to take down this ornament of the town.

11th. A fociety, under the title of "The Royal Inftitution of Great Britain," and under the patronage of his majefty, commenced its fittings, for the first time, this day. Its profeffed object is to direct the public attention to the arts, by an eftablishment for diffufing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of ufeful mechanical inventions and improvements.

In France, as in England, there have been difputes about the commencement of the 18th century. The aftronomer Lalande thus determines the queftion; which, he fays, was equally agitated at the end of the laft century; he having, in his

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library, a pamphlet published on the fubject. Many perfons," fays he, "imagine that, because, after having counted 17, they commence 18, that the century must be changed, but this is a mistake; for, when 100 years are to be counted, we must pafs from 99, and we arrive at 100; we have changed the 10 before we have finished the 100. Whatever calculation is to be made, we com. mence by 1, and finifli by 100; nobody has ever thought of commencing at 0, and finithing by 99." Thus, he concludes that the present year 1800 inconteftibly belongs to the 18th century.

17th. Lieutenant Rotherly, of his majefty's fhip Repulfe, of 64 guns, captain Alms, arrived at the admiralty, with the unpleasant intelli gence of the lofs of that ship, a few days fince, on the French coast. She ftruck on a rock near Ufhant, in a violent gale of wind, and, notwithstanding the utmost exertions were used, by the captain and offi❤ cers, to fave the men, ten brave failors unfortunately perished. Capt. Alms, and the remainder of the crew, were made prifoners by the people on fhore, from whom, we underftand, they received all poffible affiftance in the hour of distress. Lieuteant Rotherfy came home in the long boat, in which he happily effected his escape from the wreck.

27th. With great concern we have to notice a mutiny on board his majefty's fhip Danae, which has been carried into Breft by the villains who obtained poffeffion of her. The purfer of the hip arrived at the admiralty this day with the tidings.

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close of these affizes: John Taylor Cambridge
had been arraigned and tried on
the charge of uttering a forged
note, in the name of Bartholomew
Browne, for 8201. 10s. with an
intent to defraud the bank of
Cricket and Co. at Colchester, of Lincoln
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but just as baron Hotham was Devon
about to put on his black cap, and Salop
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prifoner, one of the barrifters, not
retained on the trial, happening to
turn over the forged note, faw it
figned Bartw. Browne; and throw- Durham
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and stated the variance as fatal to
the indictment; in which the judge
concurred, and difcharged the pri-
foner; but, as he was ftill liable to
a new indi&ment, and immediately
arrefted for debt, his friends paid
the latter to fave him from the
former.

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DIED. At his houfe on Scotland-green, Enfield, in his 95th year, William Fuller, efq. banker, of Lombard-street, London. was fon of William Fuller, who kept an academy in Founder's Court, Lothbury, to which, on his death, his fon fucceeded, and having, by qualifying in writing and accounts many now eminent merchants of London, befides many others, who ferved the Eat-India company both at home and abroad, accumulated the fum of 30,000%. he engaged in a banking-houfe, in which he had before placed his fon, who dying, in 1796, left to his father a fum not lels than 80,000. Mr. Fuller was a native of Hertfordfhire, and married a perfon of the name of Flower, by whom he had one fon, deceased, and three daugh20 ters, one, lately deceafed, married 20 to Mr. Ellis, who was a tanner, 20 and now holds certain mills at St.

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Alban's, and two furviving, fingle. Mrs. Ellis had one daughter, who has received no fhare of her grandfather's immenfe wealth, adequate to her profpects. Mr. Fuller, who never knew what illness was, and divided his time between his counting-houfe and his horfe, being regularly every day on the road, and having, only within a year or two of his death, confented to be attended by a fervant juft in fight, was fuddenly feized with fo much weakness, that he, for the firft time, felt himself obliged to apply to his fervant for affifiance, to keep him in the faddle; and, on reaching his house, was put into his bed, and quitted it only for his coffin, after a confinement of near a week, fenfible to the laft hour. What ever difpofition he had made of his property, he totally changed it by a new will, made a little before his death, to which he appointed three executors, with a fmall compenfation for their trouble, and by which he bequeathed his immenfe property to his two furviving daughters. Legacies to old and faithful clerks and fervants, who had all fared hard enough in his fervice, or to the poor of any clafs or rank, we hear not of. Inftances of good done by him, in his life, are not generally met with, except the endowment, in 1794, of fix alms-houles, in Hoxton, (to which, a few weeks only before he died, the foundation of fix others were added), for poor diffenting females of his own perfuafion, which was rigid calvinifm, and, to increase the incomes of poor clergy of the eftablishment and diffenting perfuafion, 10,000l. each. Hard' inveftigation may trace out partial relief in particular cafes. An adept

in the fcience of acquiring money, by the moft penurious economy, he is faid to have fuggefted feveral plans of finance to government, through the channel of the newf papers and anonymous letters. The pleasure of amaffing wealth reigned unrivalled in his foul; and, with the ftricteft profeffions of piety, and attendance on religious ordinances, we find ourfelves reduced to a painful concurrence, in that axiom of our divine inftructor, "How, hardly, fhall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" and with that fentiment of his emphatic apoftle, "Ye know that no covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Chrift and of God.” On March 19, his remains were depofited in Bunhill-fields burialground; but, previous to the interment, his body lay in ftate, at the banking-houfe in Lombard-ftreet, in his little parlour closely adjoining to it. The idle vanity of thus expofing, in ftate, the remains of a man who, through the courfe of a life of extraordinary length, was never known to allow himself the moft trifling indulgence, could not efcape the obfervation of the crowds, who witnefied the fcene. It was only by the moft fordid penurioufnels, that Mr. Fuller accumulated one of the largest properties in the kingdom. His executors are, Mr. Ebenezer Maitland, (bank-director), of King's-arms Yard; Mr. Stonard, of Savagegardens; and Mr. Thomas Hall, of Watling-fireet, apothecary. The property, which the late Mr. Fuller left behind him, is calculated at 400,000l. of which there is about 20001. a year in land. The will was in his own hand-writing, and

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not attefted by any witneffes. To his two fifters he has left the whole of his immenfe property, with the exception of a few very triflings legacies. His old clerks, to one of whom (and who is faid to have been his ufher-when he kept the academy) he had made great promifes, are equally forgotten.

APRIL.

5th. Yefterday forenoon arrived, at the Admiralty, a foreign meffenger from Leghorn, with dispatches from lord Keith, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. He brought the very unpleafant tidings of the lofs of the Queen Charlotte, of 110 guns, his lordfhip's flag fhip, which took fire juft before day-break, on the morning of the 17th of March, while under an easy fail, between the island of Gorgona and Leghorn. The accident was occafioned by the fire of a match, which was kept lighted, for the purpofe of firing fignal-guns, and communicated to fome hay which lay on the half deck. The fire fpread very rapidly, and burfing through the port holes and the hatchway of the hip, foon caught the fhrouds; and, notwithstanding every exertion, the burnt to the water's edge, and then

blew up.

Upwards of feven hundred lives are loft; as the boats of the fhip could not contain one-fourth of the complement of men. Lord Keith was himfelf on fhore, at Leghorn.

the risk of their lives, faved up-, wards of 30 of the crew of the Maftiff gun-veffel, wrecked near the Cockle-Sands laft January. Abel King and William Pile have received 25 guineas each for their firft volunteering in this fervice of danger and humanity.

7th. The lords of the Admiralty have given 150 guineas, as a reward to the humane and intrepid exertions of fome fishermen, at Winterton, in Norfolk, who, at

8th. A very ferious accident befel the duke of York, whilft riding for an airing along the King's Road, towards Fulham. At Parlon's Green, a dog belonging to a drover, croffed, barking in front of his horse, a spirited animal, which rearing up on his hind legs, fell backwards with the duke under him. His royal highnels's foot was unfortunately entangled in the firrup, and the horfe rifing, dragged him along, doing him ftill more injury. Two of the duke's ribs are broken: he has received a contufion on the back of his head, his face is bruifed, and one of his legs and arms are alfo bruifed.

9th. A very handsome pump has been erected in the front of the Royal Exchange, over the well lately difcovered in Cornhill. The cafe is of iron, and forms a lofty and very handfome obelifk. It is elegantly painted, and decorated with emblematic figures, among which is the plan of a houfe of correction, which was built on the ground adjoining the pump in 1282, by Henry Wallis, elq. then lord mayor of London. One fide of the pump bears this infeription: "This Well was difcovered, much enlarged, and this Pump erected in the year 1799, by the contributions of the Bank of England, the EaftIndia Company, the neighbouring Fire-offices, together with the Bankers and Traders of the Ward of Cornhill." On the reverfe, thefe

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words appear: "On this fpot a well was firft made, and a house of correction built, by Henry Wallis, mayor of London, in 1282."

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11th. This afternoon, as the Chatham and Rochefter coach came out of the gateway of the inn-yard of the Golden-Crols, Charing Crofs, a young woman, fitting on the top, threw her head back, to prevent her from ftriking against the beam: but, there being to much luggage on the roof of the coach as to hinder her laying herself fufficiently back, it caught her face, and tore the fleth up her forehead in a dreadful manShe was conveyed to an hofpital, where he died on the 19th. A coroner's inqueft was, on the 22d, held at the Wefiminfter-Infirmary on the body of the above young woman, who, it appears, was only 19 years of age; and brought in their verdict, accidental death; but, on account of apparent negligence in the coachman, they fined him five pounds. It appeared, that the deceased had come to town to vifit a lying-in fifter, and was on her return to Chatham, when the accident happened.

12th. This morning, about two o'clock, as the watchman was going his rounds in Great Queen-freet, Lincoln's-inn Fields, he was alarmed by a strong fmell of burning oil and pitch; following the fcent, he came to the oil and colour-fhop belonging to Mr. Baynham, the corner of Drury-lane and Great Queenftreet. The fire had not extended beyond the fhop; but, foon after he had fprung his rattle, and knocked at the private door, the whole of the lower premises were in flames. It was not till after repeated knocking, that he alarmed a gentleman lodging in the first floor, who had

no other alternative to preferve his life than jumping out of the window in his thirt; in this he fucceeded, without any other accident than a flight bruife. The rattles of the watchmen, and the knocking at the door, produced no effect on the fleepers; the dread and horror, which, in confequence, pervaded the affembled multitude, can more eafily be felt than described; for, by this time, the fire had extended from the hop to the fecond floor, and the flames were bursting through the windows: for the effect, produced from the oil, pitch, and other combuftibles, fo much exceeded the conflagration of a common fire, as to render all attempts to fave any one article ufelefs, Lives only were objects worthy of confideration, and all hopes of faving them were at one time given up. Sheets of burning oil were thrown up to a vaft height, and, in falling, fet fire to every thing inflammable on which they fell. The adjacent chimneys were all on fire, but, through the timely affiftance of buckets of water, no farther damage was fuftained. The engines before this time had arrived, but ftill a proper fupply of water could not be procured. Mr. Baynham appearing, now relieved the minds of the fpectators from all farther apprehenfion relative to the fafety of himfelf and family, they having had juft time to elcape over the tops of the houfes unhurt. The conflagration became fo great as to excite an univerfal alarm throughout the neighbourhood: moft of the houses being old, were as inflammable as touchwood, and the inhabitants knew not whether to bring out their goods into the ftreet, at the riftk of being plundered, or let them re

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