[Feb. 1, 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, rw axp nzar LONDON ¢ 
With Biographical Memoirs 
of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
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THE following is the Annual Report of the 
_ Christenings and Burials in the Metro- 
polis, from December 12, 1809, to Decem- 
DELMAS ASI MOP cheer re jens 
-Christened in the 97 parishes within the 
Walls, 1,004,—Buried, 1,388. 
«Christeried in the 17 parishes without the 
Walls, 4,258.—Buried, 4,129. 
Christened in the 23 out-parishés in Mid- 
dlesex and Sufrey, 10,503,—Buried, 9,535: 
Christened in:the 10 parishes. in the City 
and Liberties of Westminster, 4,165.—Bu- 
) ried, 4,841. oy 
Christened, males, 10,181); females, 9,742 5 
in all, 19,923. 
Buried, males, 10,411; females, 9,482; 
: in all, 19,893. 
Whereof have died, under two years of 
age, 5853; between two and five, 2450; 
five and ten, 850; ten and twenty, 695; 
twenty and thirty, 1218; thirty and forty, 
1788 ; forty and fifty, 2018 ; fifty and sixty, 
J645 5 Sixty and seventy, 1587; seventy and 
eighty, 1262; ‘eighty and ninety, 473; 
ninety and a hundred, 705 an hundred and 
five, 1.-—Increased in. the burials this year, 
3213. . There have been executed in the city 
of Londonyand county of Surry, 105 of which 
number, 6 only have been reported to be bu- 
ried (as such) within the Bills of Mortality. 
“In the night of Saturday, December 22, 
St. Paul's cathedral was tobbed of the church 
services of plate, consisting’ of a large waiter, 
of singular workmanship, weighing 128 oz.5 
the back ‘of a large bible and prayer-book, 
(silver,) 200 oz, 3 two silver salvers, nearly 
0 oz. 3 other’ waiters, and tworlarge silver 
candlesticks, 330 oz. ; two other candlesticks, 
200.02. ; four flaggons, 400 oz.5 two chalices, 
&c. 112 0z.5 two smaller, 30 0z.; in the 
whole 1760 ounces. These articles, or most 
of'them, were used the preceding day, ata 
private ordination, at which .the Bishop of 
Lincoln presided ; and afterwards locked up 
in the plate-room immediately over the ves- 
tfy, in iron chests for the purpose, which had 
on them padlocks as well as others. There 
wete two doors tothe room, an inner and an 
outer one: the former was entirely iron, and 
the gther plated, and made as strong as pos- 
sible. To these principal doors there are se- 
eral passages, all of which have doors, al- 
ways locked, through which persons must 
pass: before they can reach the plate-rooms, 
and it is only kAowh to few to what apart- 
ments they lead, All these doors remained 
locked, and it was not until Sunday morn- 
ing that the plate'was wanted for the church 
service, that the robbery was-discovered. The 
person who. had the plate under his, care, 
opened the passage-doors with the keys be- 
Jonging to them, as usual; but the lock of the 
main door he could not open until he had pro« 
cured the master-key. He then found the 
chest, containing:the plate, had been broken 
open with an iron crow, or some such instru- 
ment, ‘after -having opened the padlocks in” 
the usual way. An attempt to steal the plate 
from this cathedral was made twenty-seven 
years since. - The robbers then got as farasa 
closet where the keys were kept; but whether 
they were prevented from proceeding by being 
alarmed, or by their light going out, was » 
never ascertained. . : 
On Thursday, December 27, Mr. Milton, 
a horse-dealer, performed the: extraordinary 
equestrian trial, (upon which hé had backed 
himself in a wager of 3001. against 5001.) of 
riding 86 miles in five hours. He started from 
the end of Dover-street, Piccadilly, at two 
minutes past eight in the morning, ahd tode 
the tequired distance in three quarters of an 
hour less than the given time, arriving at 
Stamford at 17 minutes past twelve at hoon. 
The person who has performed this amazing 
journey, weighs not less than 14 stone. He 
used ten:borses; but, in consequence of an_ 
error in the arrangement of the relays, was 
obliged to tide one of them 15 miles 3 and 
another knocked up before he had. gone’ four 
miles. These circumstances considered, this 
feat-may ‘be set down as one of the most 
wonderful “in the annals of horsemanship. 
Mir. Milton appeared very little fatigued when 
he arrived at the George and. Angel inn at 
Stamford ; and, onalighting, went to bed for a 
few hours. He set off again for London in 
the evening, ia a post-chaise. Stamford, by 
the usual route, is 90 miles from London ; 
but Mr: Milton took the lower road, by Ware, 
Arrington, and Huntingdon; which reduces 
the distance to about 86 miles. Before he 
set out to accomplish this arduous task, he 
offered a friend, who expressed some doubts 
of his success, to bet 1000 guineas to 500, 
that he would in the five hours -go ten miles 
farther than the stipulated distance, which it 
is proved he could easily have done, — 
The late King of Sweden has arrived in 
London under the title of Comte de Gottorp,’ 
and lives in great retirement at present. 
A minister plenipotentiary has arrived from 
the Dey of Algiers; he is a well-looking 
sage, seventy years of age, with along white 
beard, and reputed to possess abilities. He 
brought with him a numefous retinue, rich 
presents, anda menagerie of lions, tigers, 
ostriches, é&c. &¢. with some capital Arabian 
horses. 
MARRIED. 
At St, James's, William. Gordon, ‘esq. of 
Oxford, to Mrs. Leukfield, ‘of Tottenham 
street, and Mill-hill. 
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