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closed, and several evidences being called into Court, were examined. The Court having deliberated on the same, unanimously acquitted Captain Blackwood, his Officers, and crew.

A similar honourable acquittal was pronounced by the Members of a Court Martial held off Cadiz, by order of Lord Collingwood.

A duel was fought on Saturday the 2d of May, between Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull, in Coombe Wood, near Kingston. The parties assembled at the same house, but no intercourse whatever took place between them, and at the hour appointed, seven in the morning, they were both upon the ground. Sir Francis was attended by Mr. Bellenden Ker Gawler, as his second, and Mr. Paull by Mr. Cooper. No attempt at accommodation or explanation was previously made upon the ground, the dispute having been carried to too great a length to admit of an amicable adjustment. Every necessary preparation having been made, the parties received their pistols from their seconds, and took their ground. They both fired at the same time, but without any other effect than the loss of Sir part of Mr. Paull's left curl. Francis's second then asked whether Mr. Paull was satisfied ? and was answered "No." Upon which they fired again, and both fell. The ball had struck the left leg of Mr. Paull, near the front, a little below the knee, The ball from splintering the bone. Mr. Paull's pistol wounded his adversary in the right thigh. It passed through about the middle, on the inside, near to the part called the pope's eye, but without injuring any leading vein or artery. They were now reconciled and put into Mr. Paull's coach, in which, as soon as they were seated, they shook hands, and expressed the greatest concern for each other. The dispute originated in an advertisement from Mr. Paull, which stated that Sir Francis would take the chair at a dinner, which was to be held at the Crown and Anchor, when the baronet had given no authority for such an use of his name. Mr. Paull alledged on the contrary, that he did; and as the other persevered in the denial, a hostile meeting was the result. Since this event Sir Francis has been UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VII.

elected member of parliament for
Westminster, without any solicita-
tion of his own; and, on his being de-
clared representative for that city,
has published one of the most inflam-
matory, seditious, and revolutionary
addresses to the electors that ever dis-
graced the pen of an Englishman; be-
ing worthy of the horrible days of
Robespierrian tyranny.

Married.] At Messina, in Sicily,
Lieut.-Col. Bunbury, Quarter-master
General to the British army in that
island, to Miss Louisa Fox, eldest
daughter of General Fox, and niece
of the late Right Hon. Charles James
Fox.-By special licence, at the house
of William Adam, esq. M.P. Blooms-
bury-square, John Anstruther Thom-
son, esq. of Charlton, in the County
of Fife, to Miss Adam, only daughter
of William Adam, esq.-At Gretna
Green, William Green, esq. Proctor
of Doctors Commons, to Miss Mary
Brewster, eldest daughter of John
Brewster, esq. of Brandon, Suffolk.-
At St. Martin's in the Fields, Robert
Heathcote, esq. to Miss Searle, late
of the Theatre Royal, Covent Gar-
den.-Capt. John Alex. Paul Mac
Gregor, of the Bengal Infantry, to
Miss Jane Ness, of Baker-street, Port-
man-square. Att.George's Church
George Warwick Bamfyide, esq. only
son of Sir Charles W. Bamfylde, to
Miss Sneyd, only daughter of the rev.
Ralph Sneyd, precentor of St. Asaph.

At the same church, the Honourable Colonel Crewe, only son of Lord Crewe, to Miss Hungerford, of Cavendish-square. --Capt. John Croft, of the Royal Navy, to Miss Buckworth, of Finsbury-square.-At Mary la bonne Church, Major General the Hon. Charles Hope, to Miss Finch Hatton, eldest daughter of George Finch Hatton, esq. of Eastwell Park, Kent.-At St. George's Church, Lord Chartley, eldest son of the Earl of Leicester, to Miss Gardner, daughter of W. D. Gardner, esq. of Lower Grosvenor-street.

Died.] In the Fever Institution, Gray's Inn Lane, on the 18th of April, Robert Heron, author of the History He was of Scotland, Tour to the Highlands, and several works of merit, a native of Scotland, and bred to the church, and being a young man of promising abilities, was patronized

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by Dr. Blair, who appointed him his in his family and commercial estaassistant, in which capacity he offi- blishment, which proved the estimaciated for some time. He was a man tion in which he was held by those of multifarious erudition, and during his residence in Scotland, wrote, translated, and compiled, several reputable works in various branches of literatue. His views of church preferment not answering his expectations, he abandoned his native country, and came to London, where his talents soon procured him the countenance of some eminent booksellers, as well as the friendship of literary men. Soon after his arrival in London, two newspapers, The British Press and The Globe, were established under the patronage of the booksellers, and of these he was for some time the editor. Last year he commenced a weekly newspaper called "Fame," which, not succeeding, involved him in pecuniary difficulties, that probably induced the fever, which terminated his existence. After a lingering illness, John Charnock, esq. F.S.A. late captain in First Regiment Royal Tower Hamlets Militia. A biographical account of the life and writings of this gentleman in our next. In child-bed, Mrs. Ebers, wife of Mr. John Ebers, librarian and stationer, Old Bond-street, who, with three children, have deeply to lament their irreparable loss.-In Wimpolestreet, aged 55, Colonel Henry Fane, member of parliament for Lyme Regis, and a near relation of the Earl of Westmoreland. He was aid-decamp to the king.-Of an inflammation in the bowels, on the 6th of May, John Peter Hankey, esq. Alderman of the Ward of Candlewick, and one of the candidates to represent the city of London in parliament. The first symptoms of his complaint appeared about eight on the preceding evening, when he complained of great fatigue and extreme thirst. He preferred wine and water to tea, which had been recommended to him, and felt himself so refreshed for the moment that he proposed to proceed on his canvass in the neighbourhood, but that proved only a momentary design, which he found himself unable to execute. His disorder now increased with an uncommon rapidity, and he expired about six o'clock in the following evening. This catastrophe occasioned a scene of distress

who were most intimately connected with him, while the regard which had been shewn him by his fellow-citizens, and the honour that seemed to await him, are no slight proofs of his public virtues. He was elected alderman in the beginning of 1806, and was also one of the managers of the London Institution.-On the 24th of April, at an advanced age, Mrs. Kemble, relict of the late Roger Kemble, esq. and mother of Mrs. Siddons and Messrs. Kemble. This venerable lady was the daughter of Mr. Ward, who was contemporary with Booth, Quin, &c. on the London stage, and who, after he quitted the metropolis, was the manager of a respectable provin cial company for many years. Mr. Ward was esteemed a very good actor in that style which prevailed be fore the appearance of Garrick. Mr. Roger Kemble was an actor in Mr. Ward's company, and married Miss Ward carly in life, The late Mrs. Kemble possessed a sound understanding, was well acquainted with the world, and a very judicious ac tress, but never appeared on the London boards.-In Kingsgate-street, Mr. Frodsham, aged 79, 64 of which he followed his profession as a watchmaker, &c.; he was one of the commissioners appointed by act of parliament, in the year 1763, to inspect the principles of the time-keeper of Mr. John Harrison. In the Adelphi, Benjamin Booth, esq. for many years a Director of the East India Company. -At Draper's Hall, aged 72, the Rev. George Walker, F.R.S. and President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.-On the 20th of April, the Right Hon. Lawrence-Har man Parsons, Earl of Ross, 1806, Viscount (1795) and Baron Oxmantown, 1792; and one of the Representative Peers of Ireland in the British Parlia ment. His lordship married Lady Jane King, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Kingston, by whom he has left one daughter, who is married to Lord Erris, the nephew of the Coun tess of Ross, and who now inherits the immense fortune, real and personal, of her late father. The title devolves to Sir Lawrence Parsons, bart. the

Earl's nephew, who is now Earl of chapel, in the Castle-yard, Dublin. Ross. The deceased nobleman will In a cavity of the stone were depositbe long regretted by his family, te- ed coins of the present year of his manantry, and friends. He was of a re- jesty's reign, and a plate with the foltired disposition, and a great agri- lowing inscription: "Hanc Edem cultural improver, and lived in the Deo optimo maximo olim dicatam most princely stile of hospitality in vetustate penitus dirutam denuo exIreland; his equipage, horses, and li- strui jussit Joannes Bedfordiæ dux veries, being always most magnifi- Hiberniæ pro Rex ipseque fundamicent. Ilis lordship had only just ar- na posuit. Anno a Christo nato

country, for the last year, are greater than have ever been known. In the town and neighbourhood of Waterford alone, no less than 50,000 hogs have been killed and salted for bacon, for exportation to England, in addition to the large quantity annually taken for the army and navy. The exports from Cork have been proportionably large.

rived in town from Ireland to attend M,D,CCC,VII." The plan is by his parliamentary duties.-In Broad Mr. Francis Johnstone, architect and Court, Bow-street, Mr. Mark Supple. inspector of public buildings. He was a native of the South of Ire- Parliament has recently granted land, and upwards of twenty-five years one thousand pounds for defraying a Reporter of Debates in Parliament. the expences of his majesty's gold -Sir James Winter Lake, bart. a Fel- mine at Creaghan, in the county of low of the Royal Society, and much Wicklow, for the year 1807; and known in the literary world.-In Rus- 21,600l. for promoting and encousell-street, Mrs. Egan, many years raging the linen and hempen manuwardrobe-keeper, and principal dress- factures. maker to the Theatre Royal, Covent The exports of provisions from this Garden. Mr. Fellowes, printer of the Morning Advertiser, a daily newspaper, in Catherine-street.—In Charter House Square, Thomas Harvey, esq. one of the Directors of the South Sea Company. At his house, in Old Broad-street, Dr. William Hamilton, one of the Physicians to the London Hospital.-Charles Dilly, esq. aged 67, formerly an eminent bookseller in the Poultry, at whose hospitable table There are now 200 artificers emDr. Johnson, and the literary men of ployed by his Grace the Duke of Dethe day, so often assembled. He went vonshire, in Dungarvan, in the conto Ramsgate, on a visit to a distin- struction of a magnificent street and guished literary friend, and died sud- quay, adjoining which it is intended denly. It is said he has left property to erect a hand ome bridge, over the to the amount of 150,000l.-In Berners-street, John Buller, esq. Member of Parliament for East Looe, in Cornwall, being the second Parliament in which he sat, and was also recorder of that borough. He held a commission in the Cornish militia. April 11, Mrs. Beard, wife of John Beard, esq. of Charter House Square, after a very painful and livgering disorder, which she supported for upwards of two years with the most christian fortitude and resignation, her amiable disposition, made her very justly beloved in the circle of her numerous acquaintance.

IRELAND.

On Saturday, the 4th of April, the Duke of Bedford laid the first stope of the foundation of a new vice-regal

much admired Dungarvan Prospect. A temporary chapel, erected at Killyman, for the accommodation of the Roman Catholics of that parish, has been set on fire, and burnt to ashes.

It has been resolved by a meeting of the Catholics in Dublin, that a petition for a repeal of the various statutes still in force against Catholics, should be transmitted to Mr. Grattan, for the purpose of being laid before parliament this session.

The parish church of St. Andrew, in Dublin, was opened on the 8th of March, after a lapse of nearly fifteen years, during which time that church had been closed for the purposes of re-building and undergoing the decorations which are now so beautifully displayed in that place of worship.

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FOREIGN EVENTS.

America.

Aaron Burr, Ex-Vice President of the United States, has been arrested, and is now a state prisoner, at New York. He was apprehended in Tombighee country, in the beginning of March, on the frontiers of the Spanish territory. He was conducted to New York to undergo an examination before Chief Justice Marshall, several circumstances concurring to recommend the choice of that tribunal.

The president has again suspended the act for prohibiting the importation of certain merchandize from Great Britain, till the second Monday of next December. This is done to give time for the necessary explanations on the part of both the American and British Governments, with respect to the late treaty entered into between the two nations, previously to its ratification.

GAZETTE LETTERS.

The Gazette of April 14, contains two letters from Admiral Ducres, at Port Royal, Jamaica; the one from Captain Briggs, of his majesty's ship Orpheus, relating the capture of a Spanish schooner; and the other from Captain Inglefield, of his majesty's gloop Hunter, announcing the capture of a Spanish schooner privateer. This gazette also contains two letters from Admiral Cochrane, at Barbadoes, inclosing one from Captain Sayer, of his majesty's ship Galatea, mentioning his having taken the French Imperial corvette, Le Lynx, of 16 guns and 161 men; and another from Captain Cochrane, of the Jason, stating the capture of La Favourite, late in his Majesty's service, of 29 guns, and 150 men.

The Gazette of April 21, gives the Swedish official account of the raising of the siege of Stralsund, and the subsequent expulsion of the French forces from Swedish Pomerania, which was transmitted by the Baron Rehausen, the king of Sweden's minister at London, to Mr. Secretary Canning.

The Gazette of April 25, contains a notification from the King of Sweden's minister, that his Swedish Ma

jesty had established the most strict
and rigorous blockade at the mouth
of the river Oder.

This Gazette also contains a letter
from Captain Maitland, of the Eme-
rald, to Lord St. Vincent, stating his
having captured the French priva-
teer Austerlitz of Nantz, of 14 guns
and 96 men.

Admiral Dacres incloses two letters from Jamaica, from Captain Dacres of the Bacchante, stating his hav ing taken the French national schoon. er, Dauphin. He also mentions his having, in conjunction with Captain Wise, of the Mediator, destroyed the forts of Samana, a celebrated resort of French privateers.

A letter from Captain Matson, of the Venus, to Admiral Cochrane, at Barbadoes, dated Feb. 22, announces the capture of the French privateer, L'Etoile, of 6 guns and 54 men.

The Gazette of May 5, contains a letter from Lord Collingwood, inclosing three from Sir John Duckworth, dated without the Dardanelles, March 6, of which the following are copies:

MY LORD,

Together with this letter, I transmit to 28th ult. the former of which will have your lordship two letters of the 21st and informed you of my arrival with the squa dron near Constantinople, and the latter of the unlucky attempt, in which the marines and boats' crews of the Canopus, Royal George, Windsor Castle, and Standard, had been engaged.

It is now my duty to acquaint your lordship with the result of the resolution which, for the reasons I have already detailed, 1 had adopted of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. My letter of the 21st is dated at anchor eight miles from Connearer approach; but the Endymion, stantinople, the wind not admitting of a which had been sent a-head with a flag of truce, at the request of the ambassador,

was enabled to anchor within 4 miles. Had it been then in our power, we should have taken our station off the town immediately; but as that could not be done from the ra pidity of the current, I was rather pleased than otherwise, with the position we had been forced to take; for in the conferences between his Majesty's minister, Mr Arbuthlars of which your lordship is in possession, not, and the Captain Pacha, of the particueven when the squadron had arrived before it was promised by Mr. Arbuthnot, that Constantinople, the door to pacification should remain open, and that he would be

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willing to negociate on terms of equality I derive consolation from the reflection that and justice. In consideration of this pro- no effort has been wanting on the part of mise, and as it would convince the Porte of Mr. Arbuthnot, and myseif, to obtain such his Majesty's earnest desire to preserve a resu't, which was soon seen, from the peace, as well as possess her ministers with state of the preparations at Constantinople, a confidence of the sincerity of our profes- could be effected by negociation only, as sions, it was the opinion of Mr. Arbuthnot, the strength of the current from the Bosin which I concurred, that it was fortunate phorus, with the circuitous eddies of the we had anchored at a little distance from port, rendered it impracticable to place the capital, as a nearer approach might ships for an attack, without a commanding have given cause for suspicion and alarm, breeze; which, during the ten days I was and have cut off the prospect of an amica- off the town, it was not my good fortune to ble adjustment of the differences which meet with. had arisen.

At noon of the 21st, Ysak Bey, a minister of the Porte, came off; from whose expressions Mr. Arbuthnot thought it impossible not to believe, that in the head of the government (for in the present instance, every circumstance proved that, between him and the armed populace, a great distinction is to be made) there really existed a sincere desire for peace; and the negociation was carried on, as will appear by the documents transmitted to your lordship, till the 27th; but from the moment of our anchorage, till we weighed, ou the morning of the 1st of March, such was the unfortunate state of the weather, that it was not at any time in our power to have occupied a situation which would have enabled the squadron to commence offensive operations against Constantinople. On Sunday the 22d alone, for a few hours, the breeze was sufficient to have stemmed the current where we were placed; but such was the rapidity on shore where the Endymion was at anchor, that Captain Capel thought it very doubtful whether the squadron could have obtained an anchorage, though it had been held in preparative readiness, by signal, from day-break; but the peculiarly unsettled state of the weather, and the minister's desire that I should give a few hours for an answer to his letter, through Ysak Bey, prevented me from trying.-Before five o'clock, P.M. it was nearly calm; and in the evening the wind was entirely from the eastward, and continued light airs or calm till the evening of the 28th, when it blew fresh from the N.E. and rendered it impossible to change our position.

I now come to the point of explaining to your lordship, the motives which fixed me to decide in repassing the channel of the Dardanelles, and relinquishing every idea of attacking the capital; and I feel confident it will require no argument to convince your lordship of the utter impracticability of our force having made any impression, as at this time the whole fine of coast presented a chain of batteries; that twelve Turkish line of battle ships, two of them 3-deckers, with nine frigates, were with their sails bent, and apparently in readiness, filled with troops; add to this, near two hundred thousand were said to be in Constantinople, to march against the Russians; besides, there was an innumerable quantity of small craft, with boats; and fire vessels had been prepared to act against us. With the batteries alone we might have coped, or with the ships, could we have got them out of their strong hold; but your lordship will be well aware, that after combating the opposition which the resources of an empire had been many weeks employed in preparing, we should have been in no state to have defended ourselves against them as described, and then repass the Dardanelles. I know it was my duty, in obedience to your lordship's orders, to attempt every thing (governed by the opinion of the ambassador) that appeared within the compass of possibility; but when the unavoidable sacrifice of the squadron committed to my charge (which must have arisen, had I waited for a wind to have enabled me to cannonade the town, unattended by the remotest chance of obtaining any advantage for his Majesty's service) must have been the consequence of pursuing that object, it at once became my positive duty, however wounded in pride and ambition, to relinquish it; and if I had

Two days after our arrival near Constantinople, the ambassador found himself indisposed, and has been ever since confined with a fit of illness, so severe as to prevent him from attending to business. Under not been already satisfied on the subject, these circumstances he had delivered in on the 22d, to the Turkish ministers, a project, as the basis on which peace might be preserved, and at his desire the subsequent part of the negociation was carried on in my name, with his advice and assistance; and while I lament most deeply, that it has not ended in the re-establishinent of peace,

the increased opposition in the Dardanelles would have convinced me I had done right, when I resolved on the measure as indispensably necessary. I therefore weighed with the squadron on the morning of the 1st; and as it had been reported, that the Turkish fleet designed to make an effort against us, I gave them an opportunity, if

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