34. ANNUAL REGISTER; 1797 
Fryer, Efq.. in;the .parifh of St. 
Mary, Iflington. The platform 
accidentally dropped before the 
= were pulled over the faces 
the criminals ;_ in. confequence 
ef which a moft fhocking fpeétacle . 
prefented itfelf to the multitude 
for feveral minutes. “ 
_ Four naval officers went up the 
Medway on Wednefday night in 
a boat to Rochefter. They had 
all been ducked, which is a curious 
ceremony, on board the Sandwich. 
— They tie the unfortunate vic- 
tims feet together, and their hands 
together, and put their bed at their 
back, making it faft round them, 
at the fame time adding an eighteen 
pounder bar-fhot to bring them 
down. They afterwards make them 
faft to a tackle fufpended from the 
yard-arm ; and hoifting them nearly 
up to the block, all at once let go, 
and drop them foufe into the fea, 
where they remain a minute, and 
then are again hoifted and let 
down alternately, till there are. 
fcarce any figns of life remaining. 
After this they hoift, them up by. 
the heels, for the purpofe of get- 
ting the water out of their fto- 
machs, and ufually put them into 
their hammocks. In this inftance, 
however, they put them on board 
the boat, and ordered the matter 
to convey them fafe on fhore, or 
his life fhould anfwer for it. 
An Extraordinary Gazette was 
publithed this evening, containing 
his Majefty’s proclamation, for- 
bidding all intercourfe. with the 
crews of the fhips declared to be 
ina ftate of rebellion, either per- 
fonally, by letter, or otherwife, on 
pain of death. — Fortunately, this 
ftrong incafure has reftored tran- 
quillity. 
The Duke of Wirtemberg’s por- 
tion of 80,0001. which he received 
with our Princefs Royal, was in- 
vefted laft week in the 3 per cents, 
where it now ftands as ftock, value’ 
165,000l. ‘The truftees, in. whofe 
hands the: dowry of the Princefs of 
_ Wirtemberg is vefted, are the Lord 
Chancellor, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Coxe 
Hippefley, and Mr. Coutts. » 
12th. Thisevening Capt. Hearne, 
of the Prince of Wales packet, arriv- 
ed at the Admiralty, with an ac- 
count of the fafe arrival at Cuxha- . 
ven, on Monday night, at nine 
o’clock,. of their Serene Highnefles 
the Prince and Princefs of Wirtem- 
berg, in good health and fpirits. 
A monument in Weftminfter- 
Abbey, executed at the coft of Al- 
bany Wallis, fq. was this day 
opened to public view. .Garrick 
is reprefented at full length, in an 
animated pofition, throwing afide 
a curtain, which difcovers the me- 
dallion of the great Poet whom he 
has illuftrated ; while Tragedy and 
Comedy, adorned with their refpec- 
tive.emblems, and half feated on 
a pedeftal, feem to approve the 
tribute. ‘The infcription, by Mr. 
Pratt, is as follows: © 9.) » 
To the Memory of «David. Garrick, 
» who died in the Year 1779, 
_ at the Age of 63... 
To paint fair vature,, by divine command, 
Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, 
A Shakefpeare rofe—Then, to expand his 
\ fame } ; 
Wide o’er this breathing world, a Garrick 
came. : aig 
Though funk in death the forms the Poct 
drew, — j ‘ 
The aétor’s genius bade them breathe anew, 
Though, like the Bard himfelf, in night: 
they lay, : 1 
Tmmortal Garrick call’d them back to day, 
And till Eternity, with pow‘r fublime, 
all mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, 
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