ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



versation had ended. Monsieur and 

 the duke went into the drawing- 

 room-j where were assembled several 

 emigrants of the first distinction, be- 

 fore whom the duke of Orleans 

 begged leave also to make a recanta- 

 tion of his errors. He then ex- 

 pressed his wish to see his uncle, 

 the duke de Bourbon ; the intended 

 visit was soon after made, and a 

 reconciliation took place in the same 

 manner as with Monsieur. On 

 Friday, the duke of Orleans again 

 waited on Monsieur with the letter 

 to Louis XVIII. at Mittau, which 

 was forwarded on the same evening. 

 Monsieur recommended that ano- 

 ther should be written, signed by- 

 each of the three brothers, and in 

 still stronger terms, which the duke 

 promised to see executed, immedi- 

 ately, on their coming to town. 



The throne of Tippoo, worth 

 60,000 pagodas, has been broken 

 up. The sultan's private stud con- 

 sisted of 3,120 horses, 99 elephants, 

 and 175 camels. There were 650 

 women, including his wives, &c. 

 in the palace, which is said to have 

 been miserably furnished. Several 

 tigers, which had been kept in a 

 yard, were ordered to be shot, to 

 prevent accidents. The English, 

 who had been kept in captivity by 

 Tippoo, were, two days previous 

 to the assault, brought out, and or- 

 dered to work the guns against the 

 besiegers, which refusing to do, 

 their heads were struck off. 



19th. At anieetingof themayor, 

 aldermen, and liverymen of the city 

 of London, in common-hall assem- 

 bled, consistingof rpwardsof 2,000 

 persons, it was resolved, by a vast 

 majority, " That a petition be pre- 

 sented to the hon. the house of com- 

 mons, upon the present situation of 

 public affairs, praying them to take 



such measures as they may think 

 proper towardspromoting an imme- 

 diate negociation with the govern- 

 ment of France, for the purpose of 

 restoring to his majesty's subjects 

 the blessings of peace." And a pe- 

 tition being prepared agreeably to 

 the said resolution, was read and 

 agreed to ; and the representatives 

 of the city were instructed to sup- 

 port the same in the house of com- 

 mons. 



20th. Four convicts. Abbot, for 

 forgery on the bank; Chapman, 

 Jones, and Hall, for a burglary, in 

 the Minories, were executed before 

 the debtors' door, at Newgate, pur- 

 suant to their sentences. Abbot, 

 who appeared about I9 years of age, 

 behaved with becoming propriety. 

 Jones and Hall appeared penitent 

 and resigned to their fate : but 

 Chapman displayed instances of the 

 most abandoned depravity. On his 

 being brought out to mount the 

 scaffold, he leaped up the steps that 

 led to it, and then, instead of at- 

 tending to the clergyman, nodded 

 to the females that appeared in the 

 windows opposite; laughed at them 

 sometimes i mmoderately ; kicked off 

 his shoes, one to the right, and the 

 other to the left, amongst the crowd 

 that came to witness his disgraceful 

 end ; and, in short, did every thing 

 that he thought could prove his 

 contempt of death. 



Died. 5th. At Iddesley parson- 

 age, Devonshire, the rev. William 

 I'asker, author of An Ode to the 

 Warlike Genius of Great Britain ; 

 Elegy on the Death of Garrick ; 

 Poems, 4to, 1779 ; the Carmen Se- 

 ciilare of Horace translated ; Ode 

 to the Memory of the Bishop of So- 

 dor and Man; Odes of Horace 

 and Pindar translated, 8vo. 1 780 ; 

 Annus Mirabilis, or. the Eventful 



