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ability, is beyond all encomium.  Lieute- 
nants Hili and Crouch, and Mr. Fair the 
master, (whose admirable exertions, parti- 
cularly at the close of the action, when the 
enemy wason fire, the boarders employed, 
and the ship had suddenly made two fect wa- 
fer, surmounted all difficulties), are happily 
preserved to add lustre to his Majesty’s ser- 
Incidents and Marriages in and near London.  [Dec. }, 
vice. In justice to Monsieur Dede, the sur- 
Viving commander of La Thetis, 1 must ob- 
serve, he acted with singular firmness, and 
was the only Frenchman on the quarter-deck 
when we boarded her. +. 1 
T have the honour to be, &c. 
(Signed) MicHaEL Seymour. 
SS 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, ayy DEATHS, tn anp near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs ofadistinguished Characters recently deceased. 
Te 
New Theatre will be erected with all pos- 
sible expedition, by Robert Smirke, jun. 
on the site of the late Theatre Royal, in Co- 
vent Garden, and of the houses adjoin- 
ing. Wn order to defray, in part, the great 
expence attached to this undertaking, it is 
proposed to raise the sum of 50,0001. by sub- 
scription, in shares of 5001. each, under the 
immediate patronage of his Most Gracious 
Majesty the King —Each of the subscribers is 
toreceive, clear of the property tax, and all 
other charges 2nd out-goings whatsoever, an 
annuity of twenty-five pounds, to commence 
from the opening of the new Theatre, 
and to continue for the term of 85 years, 
(being the remaining term of the lease, and 
of all the premises), with the addition of an 
anhual transferrable Free Admission to any 
part of the Theatre before the curtain (private 
boxes excepted), for which the subscribers 
‘will be secured by the patent, and the new 
Vheatre; with the scenery, machinery, and 
all other property therein contained. 
The new bridge at Vauxhall is contraéted 
for, and two years the time stipulated for its 
completion; it is to -face Horseferry-road, 
Weftminiter, where a new ftreet is to be 
built, to lead-into Tothil!l-fields. 
The general half- yearly meeting of the 
Sunday School Society was held on the 12th 
of October. The committee reported, that 
since their Jaft meeting they,had tssued 8,100 
Spelling books, 1,485 TeXaments, and 145 
Bibles, for the use of 77 schools, containing 
upwards of 5,000 children. Since the com- 
mencement of their infitution, they have 
diftributed about 558,000 Spelling-oooks, 
57,000 Teftaments, and 7,500 Bibles,to about 
300 schools, containing 251,000 children, 
besides the sum of 4,170]. for the payment of 
teachers. In consequence of urgent applica- 
.tions-from the Isles of Man and Guernsey, 
the society hasengaged to extend its charitable 
aid to those islands, as well as to Jersey, Al- 
derney, Sark, and Scilly. Great moral bene- 
fit was ftated to have resulted to the inhabi- 
bitaats of North Wales from the Society’s 
‘exertions ; and its attentiun was now directed 
to the southern division of that principality. 
‘ An pursuance of-this object, 10,000 copies of 
_ the Spelling-book in Welsh had been printed 
Jor diftribution. 
$y 
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‘late R. Caster, 
MARRIED. 
At Hampton Court, George Vernon, esq. 
of Clontarf Castle, county of Dublin, ta 
Henrietta youngest daughter of Wilson Brad~ 
dyll, esq. of Coltishead Priory, Lancashire. 
At East Ham, Charles Sayer, esq. of 
Bread-ftreet, to Miss ‘Greenhill, daughter of 
Wm. G. esq. of Plashet House, East Ham. 
At St. George’s, Hanover-square, the Hon. 
Fitzroy Stanhope, to Miss Caroline Wynd- 
ham.—M, Price, esq. of Lambeth, to Miss 
Susannah Charlotte Sheldrick, of Mary-fe- 
bonne-{treet.—-D. Browne, esq. of Somerset 
House, to Miss Shee.—G. Moss, esq. to Miss 
Cunningham, of Davies-street, Berkeley- 
square. ‘ 
At Lambeth, Thomas Manners, esq. son 
of the Hon. Wm. Manners, to Miss A. 
Gates, of Newington. Cipieg 
At Ealing, Captain J. H. Godby, R. N, 
to Miss Bell, of New Grove House. pt 
At Queen square Church, the Rev. Ed- 
ward Peter, of Great Wigbcrough, Essex, to 
Miss M‘ Allam, of Blackfriars-road. 
John Fearnjtesq of Sloane-ftreet, to War- 
riet, second daughter of Philip William Tho~ 
mas, esq. of Highbury Grove. 
At St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. 
Joseph Benson, of Albemarle House, Houn- 
slow, to Miss Chiles, of Woburn-place, 
Russell-square. P 
At Hackney, Captain Hopkins, of the 24 
Life Guards, to Miss Chamberlaine, daughter 
of the late George C.esq. of Devonshire-places 
At St. John’s, Wapping, James Brown, esq. 
of St. Catharine’s, Tower, to Miss Eliz. 
Dudman, youngeft daughter of John D. esq. 
of Hermitaye. 
At St. Catharine’s, Coleman-ftreet, Ben- 
jamin @ushell, esq. of Clive House, Kent, 
to Miss ‘Tomlin, of Fenchurch-fireet. — 
At Clapham, Mr. L. G. Kier, of Bridge- 
fireet, to Miss Bellamy, elder daughter of 
Joha B. esq. of the House of Commons. 
At Mary-le-bonne, the Rev. James Stuart 
Freeman, D. D. of St. John’s, Oxford, Pre- 
vendary of Lichford, Hants, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Mr. Jolin Augustus Richter, of 
Newman-street.—I. Carter, esq. son of the 
esq. of Gloucefter-place, 
New Road, to Miss Muckamore, daughter of 
Mr, M. of ‘Southwark.—J. Brown, esq. of 
eres a. Wppes 
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