oe 
. mitting this rafh ac, he called for - 
50 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
-was buried in the 
a little diftance ae the clofet- 
window. The bones were entire, 
and, from the place where the fkull 
was lying to the down end of the 
thank - bone, meafured about fix 
feet. They were carefully gathered 
up, put into a box, and depofited 
nearly where they were found. 
3d. The Bank of England cailed 
in the ftamped dollars. 
China. An infurrection of a fe- 
rious nature has lately been foment- 
ed in feveral of the provinces, par- 
ticularly in -that of Hou-quang, 
which has confiderably advanced 
the price of cotton, the princi- 
pal commodity of that province. 
The caufe of thefe difturbances 
is afcribed to the Enipéror Kien 
Long having abdicated his throne, 
at the age of eighty-feven, in fa- 
vour of Ka Hing, his fifteenth fon. 
Inftead, however, of retiring, like 
Charles V. into folitude, and re- 
mouncing altogether the care of 
‘government, the aged. Emperor 
{till manifefted an inclination to 
dabble in ftate affairs. In this he 
-was feconded by Co Law, an an- 
-cientmandarin, Jealoufies had then 
arifen between-the old and new 
yminifters, which have {pread like 
wildfire through:the provinces, the 
Mandarins fiding, as intereft or at- 
‘tachment predominated, with the 
leading parties at court. 
6th. Mr. Bruifter, of Dean-ftreet, 
Soho, fhot himfelf through the head 
with a piftol. Previouily to com- 
arden, and but 
_aglals of wine and water, and, had 
- a fecond piftol grafped in. his hand 
to complete his death. *He furviv- 
-ed the fatal fhot a few minutes. 
* 
Mr. Foot, and other gentlemen of 
the faculty were called in, but their 
aflifiance was wfelefs. No caufe 
et ; 
has yet been affigned for this fhack 
Oe omen Mr, Bruifter was 
a bachelor, and led a very folitary 
life. He was a man of excellent 
character, and much efteemed a- 
mong his friends, but of a gloomy 
difpofition. He was very infirm, 
and had juft recovered from a fe- 
vere illnefs. The property he has 
left is immenfe. 
9th. A general mutiny broke out 
on board the Britith fleet at the Cape 
of Good Hope, which terminated } 
on the 12th, in confequence of a — 
communication that the demands 
of the feamen at Spithead had been 
complied with. 
The American newfpapers down 
to the 11th, bring intelligence of 
the horrid ravages lately made by 
the yellow fever in Philadelphia, 
Baltimore, New Providence, &c. 
&c. The returns daily made of 
the burials, amounted, in Philadel- 
phia, in the month ending with 
September, to 590 adults, and up- 
wards of 300 children. In Balti- 
more the numbers were much fmal- 
ler; but many had fallen victims to 
the diforder both there and in 
Rhode Ifland. Mr. Bedford, the 
governor of the Delaware, is dead 
with the fever. We are: happy, 
however, to ftate, thatthe approach 
of cold weather had confiderably 
abated the ravages of the diforder ; 
the returns of the burials decreafin 
daily. beye im 
Italy. 12th. General Buonaparte 
has “written a flattering letter to the 
Archbifhop of Genea, in confe- ff 
quence of the paftoral letter ad- 
drefled by that prelate to his clergy. 
It is to this purport :— 
“ Citizen, When I received and 
perufed your paftoral letter, I 
thought I was reading an epiftle 
from one of the twelve apoftles. 
. Such 
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