CHRONICLE. A 
tolles, and afterwards a member of 
the National. Convention, has 
found the means of multiplying, 
by a fingle alliance (not indeed a 
very common one) his kindred 
and family connexions.—He mar- 
ried, as his firft wife, the female 
» Citizen Bribot, widow of Rofe, by 
ivhom fhe had a daughter, now 
living, named Mary Ann Rofe. 
The Prefident Finot thad, by this 
widow, another daughter, who is 
alfo now living. His wife died, 
and, on the 14th of January laft, 
he married his daughter-in-law, 
Mary Ann Rofe. The confequence 
of this marriage is, that the prefi- 
dent becomes the fon-in-law’ of 
his firft wife, the father-in-law of 
his fecond wife, and brother-in-law 
of his. own daughter. Madame 
Finot becomes the mother-in-law 
of her fifter. If Madame Finot 
contributes any little Finots to the 
Republic, Monfieur Finot will be 
both their father and grandfather ; 
and the firft Mifs Finot will be 
their aunt and fifter. - 
_ The following ftatement of the 
American finances has lately been 
officially made to the Houfe of Re- 
prefentatives: 
” Dollars. 
Amount of the debt 76,096,468 
dhe iotereft of which is 351433753 
Fhe annual amount of the taxes 6,552,300 
‘The annual expenditure 5,681,843 
Surplus of the revenue, after de- 
ducting allexpences - - 870,457 
; The Emperor «f China, many 
years. ago, lignified to his fubjeds, 
that if he thould live to reign 
fifty years, he would relinquifh 
his crown. Having extended his 
#eign So that period, he has aétually 
refigned his fovereignty in favour 
- pt his fifteenth fon. 
11. About noon, a melancholy 
accident happened in Liverpool- 
harbour. As Mr. Slack, deputy 
conftable, was conveying a party 
of volunteers, raifed in Mancheftér 
and the adjacent parithes, for the 
navy, the boat in which they were 
ene to the tender overfet, 
by which fatal accident twenty-five 
erfons loft their lives. A 
BRITISH NAVAL FORCE 
AT PRESENT IN COMMISSION. 
Ships of the Line, — 124 
of fifty Guns — 18 
Frigates — 180 
Sloops _ 184 
Total 506 
At prefent building,—Twenty- 
two fhips of the line, three fifties, 
and nine frigates. The receiving- 
fhips, — thofe ferviceable and re- 
pairing for fervice, with thofe in 
ordinary, amount to twenty - fix 
fhips of the line, three fifties, thirty 
frigates, and fifty-fix floops. This 
ftatement is exclufive of the hired 
armed veffels. 
Some of the fingle Plays of 
Shakefpeare, belonging to the late 
Mr. Dodd the actor, were fold at 
the following prices: ; 
The fecond part of Henry IV. 
printed by Andrew Wife and Wil- 
liam Afpley, 1606, 31. 8s.— Tlie 
Midfummer Night’s Dream, 1]. 18s. 
—kKing John, printed by Valentine 
Sims, for Helme, 1611, 1. 16s,— 
Richard II. printed by Purfoot and 
Law, 1621, 11. 13s.—Richard IH, 
printed by Matthew Law, 1615, Il, 
—Abraham Frances’s Countefle of 
Pembroke’s Yuychurch, 1591, 41 7s. 
— Some of the mott curious were 
purchafed by Mr. Nicol, for the 
King; among the reft, acomedy, en 
titled, “ Gammer Gurton's Fro- 
licks,” printed in’ 1485, fourteen 
*#A2 years 
