CHRONICLE. 
Majesty.is firmly persuaded she is in 
hell ; and says that a skilful physi- 
cian may sometimes cure madness, 
but never can reverse the decrees 
of fate. The Queen’s disorder was 
first occasioned by a plan contrived 
by some monks and waiting-ladies 
for reversing the bloody decree re- 
specting the families of D’Averia 
and Tavora. This plan state rea- 
sons rendered abortive; and her 
Majesty believes that she herself, as 
well as her royal father, are irrevo- 
cably doomed to eternal punishment 
for the cruel vengeance inflicted 
on those unhappy families. 
The gratuity given by Lord Corn- 
wallis to the officers and soldiers of 
his army, and equal to six months’ 
batta, is as follows: 
. Pagodas, Sterling. | 
A colonel 1080 - 432 
A Lieut.-Colonel, 900 - 360 . 
A Major, 720 - 288 
A Captain, 288 - 115 4 
A Lieutenant, 192 - 76 16 
An Ensign, 144 - 47 12 
The above estimate is made at 
the rate of eight shillings to a pago- 
da, the sum at which it is always is- 
sued, The non-commissioned offi- 
‘cers and privates receive actual 
batta, or ratios, consisting of arrack, 
rice, salt or fresh beef. The gra- 
tuity to them is about 51. sterling. 
15th. The following shocking 
circumstance lately occurred at Chi- 
chester :—John Upton, a labour- 
ing man, who for some time past had 
shewn symptoms of insanity, and 
whose mind had been previously 
worked up with a religious frenzy, 
conceived a resolution of destroying 
himself and family, which he un- 
happily perpetrated ; for in the 
morning of Wednesday, a neigh- 
bour, on going out early into the 
yard, discovered the wife dead on 
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the steps, her head and body 
shockingly beaten... On further 
search, their son, a youth, was 
found under a table in the kitchen, 
his head beaten quite to a mummy; 
and in a garret was found, suspend- 
ed by a rope, this miserable wretch, 
who had attempted to put a period 
to his existence with a knife, but 
not having resolution to cut his 
throat effectually, he finished his 
existence by hanging himself. The 
jury, on Thursday, sat on their bo- 
dies, and found a verdict Lunacy. 
They were in the evening all bu- 
ried in one grave. 
A packet arrived from Sierras 
Leone, which. brings the most me- 
lancholy accounts from this new 
settlement. So dreadful a mortality 
has prevailed, that upwards of 200 
white persons have died since the 
last accounts. were received. Num- 
bers of the blacks have also fallen 
sacrifices to the inclemency of the 
climate. The natives, although not 
at open war with the settlement, 
are far from being friendly to it;— 
they never omit. an opportunity to 
plunder, and have in many instances 
committed daring outrages. 
We hear from Leeds, that about 
midnight two fishermen belonging 
to Hull being employed near the 
Spurn, one of them (Samuel Sallies} 
having both his hands employed in 
drawing the net, caught the head 
of a soal, which endeavoured to es- 
cape through a mesh in the net, be- 
tween his teeth (a practice very 
common amongst fishermen). The 
soal, making an effort, sprung inte 
the man’s throat, who being there- 
by rendered incapable of calling out 
to his companion; went towards 
him, and made him sensible, by 
signs, of his melancholy situation. 
His comrade instantly laid hold of 
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