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Yorkshire, through the heart of the 

 country and the whole southern dis- 

 trict of Kottingliamshh'e, are ob- 

 vious. 



DiEn. Sd. At Dublin, the ho- 

 nourable Richard Power, LL.D. se- 

 cond baron of his majesty's court of 

 Exchequer in Ireland ; he was 

 drowned near the Pigeon-house, 

 Dublin. Tiie jury sat upon the 

 body, and returned a verdict, ac- 

 cilent.il death. The baroa's property 

 in the English funds was estimated 

 at upwirdb of 60,0001. The baron 

 was uslier and accountant-general 

 of the court of Chancery. V>y vir- 

 tue of the latter office, all moneys 

 pending on suits in that court were 

 lodged with him. A cause of the 

 Chandosfamily, having been twenty 

 years in that court, lately came to a 

 decision ; and, by virtue of a law, 

 the claimant of the property de- 

 manded the interest which accrued 

 upon t!ie principal ; this the baron 

 rf^fused, alleging that the principal 

 only was adjudged. The party 

 complained to the chancellor, and his 

 lordship ordered the baron to appear 

 personally in court to answer the 

 complaint. This the baron's pride 

 revolted at, having been a judge of 

 many years standing, even when the 

 chancellor was a barrister 5 but he 

 was ready to account to the claim- 

 ant, under his lordship's decree. The 

 chancellor was inflexible, and allow- 

 ed him five days to appear. On the 

 third, the baron (after making his 

 will, and leaving his papers in a re- 

 gular manner) put a period to his 

 existence, by drowni.ig himself at 

 the above place. 



Liverpool, Feb. 11th. All the 

 bells of this town are now ringing, 

 to celebrte the capture uf seven 

 (ail of French West Indiamen 

 brouglil in here by only two oi our 



privateers : they could have taken 

 two others, but from a deficiency 

 of hands to put on board them. 

 Five of the above ships are from 

 St. Domingo. Tliey are all fine 

 and richly laden. 



28ih. J. B. V. Guillotine, M.D. 

 formerly of Lyons, was among the 

 multitude of persons who have late- 

 ly been executed there. He was 

 charged with having corresponded 

 with persons at Turin. It is an ex- 

 traordinary thing that he should die 

 by an instrumei.t of hisown inven- 

 tion. He died with great reluc- 

 tance, and declared, that, when he 

 produced his intrument to the vvorld, 

 it was from motives of humanity 

 alone. 



MARCH. 



lit. Copenliagen. On Wednesday 

 evening, about five o'clock, a dread- 

 ful fire broke out in the royal palace 

 of Christianbourg, which commu- 

 nicating from thehertdiiary prince's 

 apartments, where it began, to the 

 rest of the building, in the space of 

 seven or eight hours reduced the 

 whole to a heap of ashes. The royal 

 family have happily cicaped without 

 accident, but the greater p rt of 

 their valuable effects have been a 

 prey to the flames. It is not yet 

 known what number of Tnes have 

 been lost, but it is to be hoped, con- 

 sidering the rapidity of the confFa- 

 gration, which was increased by a 

 very strong wind, that the number 

 is not great. 1 his palace, one of 

 the mott commodious and most 

 sumptuously furnished in Europe, 

 was built in the reign of Christian 

 the sixth, and is said to have cost, in 

 buildingonly, considerably above a 

 million sterling ; it seems therefore 

 a 4 not 



