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goodnefs of heart, and faithful at- 
tachment to him, were ftill more 
endearing than all her perfonal at- 
tractions; but, by the laws of the 
fettlement, fhe could not be re- 
deemed from flavery, or brought 
home to Europe, but died of poi- 
fon, a viétim to jealoufy, before 
the captain quitted her. After 
undergoing a variety of fatigues, 
and witnefling the moft horrid cru- 
elties, as well as moft extravagant 
diffipation, in the colony of S-ri- 
nam, he returned to his native, 
country; and, a little before his 
death, publifhed an interefting nar- 
rative of the expedition againit the 
revolted negroes of Surinam, in 
two volumes, 4to, illuftrated with 
eighty ‘elegant engravings from 
drawings made by himfelf. He has 
left a widow and five children. 
APRIL. 
1. Ata common hall, the Lord 
Mayor laid before the livery of 
London the following letter, which 
he had received from the theriffs : 
“© My Lord, In compliance with 
the refolution of the common 
hall, we waited on his Majefty at 
the levee yetterday, to know when 
he would be pleafed to receive the 
Petition of the Lord Mayor, Alder- 
men, and Livery. We were in- 
formed by the Duke of Portland, 
that his Majefty would receive it 
on Wednefday next at the levee, 
or any other levee-day ; but would 
not receive the petition on. the 
throne, as it does not come from 
the city of London in its corporate 
capacity. 
“S$. Lanoston, W.STAINEs.” 
- The Livery then refolved, ‘¢ That 
the theriffs of London had an ac 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1797: 
knowledged right to an audience 
of the King, and are in duty bound 
to demand the fame;?’ and di- 
reéted the fheriffs, attended by the 
remembrancer, to demand a per- 
fonal audience of his Majefty, to 
know his royal will and pleafure, 
when he will be pleafed to receive 
upon the throne the faid dutiful 
and loyal addrefs and petition. 
3. This evening a moft alarming 
fire was difcovered in the fuperb 
manfion-houfe of Yefter, belonging 
to the Marquis of Tweedale, which, 
by the wonderful activity of the 
fervants and workmen belonging to 
the place, aided by a numerous 
body of the inhabitants from the | 
village of Gifford, together with 
the Haddington engine, brought 
thence by abeut one hundred of 
the Durham rangers now ftationed 
there, who attended, accompanied 
by their officers, on the firft alarm, 
happily faved the principal part of 
the houfe; only one of the wings 
was burnt, and a great part of the 
furniture deftroyed. The fire was 
occafioned by a wooden joift being 
placed too near one of the vents, 
which had been burning fome time 
before burfting forth. 
The late accounts from New 
South Wales are particularly fa- 
vourable. The fettlement, of 
Broken Bay was in a flourifhing 
condition, as, indeed, were the 
other diffricts. The harveft of 
1795-6 (our winter) had proved 
abundantly produétive. “ad 
‘According to the return of 
aliens within the cities of Lon- 
don, Weftminfter, and the Borough 
of Southwark, lately prefented to 
the Houfe of Commons, the 
whole number of thofe perfons 
amounts only to 7041 
10, About 900 French prifoners 
from 
