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time impossible, his majesty, in 
order to obviate all further delay, 
has therefore been pleased to di- 
Tect them to be forwarded in this 
manner. Allow me to express the 
great satisfacuon I feel in being 
made the channel of communisa- 
ting to your lordship so distin- 
guished a mark of his majesty’S 
‘approbation. I have the honour 
to be, my lord, (orsir, : 
Your lordship’s most obedient 
humble servant, ‘‘ SPENCER.” 
Admiralty, 30th Nov. 1796. 
[The admirals to wear the me- 
dal suspended by a ribband round 
their necks. The captains to wear 
the medals suspended to a ribband, 
but fastened through the third and 
fourth button hole, on the left 
side. The colour of the ribband 
blue and white. ] 
Zoth. Inlord Grenville’s grounds 
at. Dropmore, Bucks, some 
labourers, in digging for a fish 
pond, have found a great number : 
of oaks buried in the earth, twelve 
or fourteen feet deep ; they are un- 
commonly large, some of them 
fifty feet long, and the greater part 
perfectly sound, They were all 
Jaid close together, and nearly in 
one direction. If they have been 
deposited there by some great in- 
undation, which is the general con- 
jecture, it is rather singular ; for 
the place where they have been 
found is by far the highest spot in 
Buckinghamsbire. 
DIED, 17.—Catharine Tl. em- 
press of all the Russias. She had 
been indisposed several days pre- 
vious to the 16th, but on the morn- 
ing of that day was very cheerful, 
and took her cofiee as usual to 
breakfast. She afterwards went to 
the water closet, where she already 
aad been twice in the course of the 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796, 
morning, and as she stayed an un- 
usual time, her attendants became 
extremely alarmed. At length 
one of ber pages went to the door 
to listen, and not hearing the least 
motion, called one of her’princie 
paj female attendants, who opened 
the door, and found the empress 
extended on her back, with her 
feet towards the door, in an apo- 
plectic fit. Medical assistance 
was instantly sent for; but three 
quarters of an hour elapsed before 
her chief physician, Dr. Rogerson, 
arrived. She was then bled twee, 
and appeared to be much relieved, 
but never spoke afterwards. She 
remained in this state till the fol- 
lowing evening, The pulsation of 
the heart was perceptible till nine 
o’clock ; but a quarter before ten 
the physicians pronounced her 
dead, When opened, two stones 
were found in the gall bladder, 
one of which weighed an ounce, 
and the other half an ounce, Rus- 
sian weight, which is one third 
Jess than the English weight. The 
empress was daughter of Christian 
Augustus, prince of Anhalt Zerbst, 
born May 2, 1729, married Sept. 
1, 1745, to Peter III. grandson 
of Peter the Great, who being de- 
posed July 9, 1762, she was pro- 
claimed sole empress of all the Rus- 
sias. In 1768, she established a new 
code of laws torough her dominions ; 
and the same year she submitted to 
the hazard of innoculation for the 
benefit of her dominions, where it 
was unknown; and the experiment, 
under Baron Dimsdale, succeeded 
perfectly, and was commemorated 
by an annual thanksgiving. The 
first war in which she enguged was 
with the Turks in,1769, which 
continued five years ; and July 21, 
1774, peace was signed, a ccm 
the 
