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not attested by any witnesses. To 

 his two daughters he has left the 

 whole of his immense property, with 

 the exception of a few very trifling 

 legacies. His old clerks, to one of 

 whom (and Avho is said to have 

 been his usher, when he kept the 

 academy) he had made great pro- 

 mises, are equally forgotten. 



APRIL. 



5th. Yesterday forenoon arrived 

 at the Admiralty, a foreign messen- 

 ger, from I-eghorn, with dispatches 

 from lord Keith, commander-in- 

 chief in the Mediterranean. He 

 brought the very unpleasant tidings 

 of the loss of the Queen Charlotte, 

 of 1 10 guns, his lordship's flag-ship, 

 which took fire just before day- 

 break, on the morning of the 17th 

 of March, while luider an easy saU, 

 between the island of Gorgona and 

 Leghorn. The accident was occa- 

 sioned by the fire of a match, which 

 was kept lighted, for the purpose 

 of firing signal-guns, and commu- 

 nicated to some hay which lay on 

 the half deck. The fire spread very 

 rapidly, and bursting through the 

 port-holes and the hatchway of the 

 ship, soon caught the shrouds ; and, 

 notwithstanding every exertion, 

 she burnt to the water's edge, and 

 then blew up. 



Upwards of seven hundred lives 

 arc lost ; as the boats of the ship 

 could not contain one-fourth of 

 the complement of men. Lord 

 Keith was himself on shore, at Leg- 

 horn. 



7th. The lords of the Admiralty 

 have given L^O guineas, as a re- 

 ward to the humane and intrepid 

 exertions of some fishermen, at 

 Winterton, in JSTorfolk, who, at 



the risk of their lives, saved up- 

 wards of 30 of the crew of the 

 Mastiff gun-vessel, wrecked near 

 the Cockle-Sands last January. 

 Abel King and William Pile have 

 received 25 guineas each for their 

 first volunteering in this service of 

 danger and humanity. 



Sth. A very serious accident be- 

 fel the duke of York, whilst riding 

 for an airing along the King's Road, 

 towards Fulham. At Parson's 

 Green, a dog belonging to a drover, 

 crossed, barking in front of his 

 horse, a spirited animal, which 

 rearing up on his hind legs, fell 

 backwards with the duke under 

 him. His royal highness's foot 

 was unfortunately entangled in the 

 stirrup, and the horse rising, 

 dragged him along, doing him stUl 

 more injury. Two of the duke's 

 ribs are broken : he has received a 

 contusion on the back of his head, 

 his face is bruised, and one of his 

 legs and arms are also bruised. 



9th. A very handsome pump has 

 been erected in the front of the 

 Royal Exchange, over the well 

 lately discovered in Cornhill. The 

 case is of iron, and forms a lofty 

 and very handsome obelisk. It is 

 elegantly painted, and decorated 

 with emblematic figures, among 

 which is the plan of a house of cor- 

 rection, Avhich was built on the 

 ground adjoining the pump in 128^, 

 by Henry Wallis, esq. then lord 

 mayor of London. One side of the 

 pump bears this inscription : " This 

 WeU was discovered, much en- 

 larged, and this Pump erected in 

 the year 1 79,0, by the contributions 

 of the Bank of England, the East- 

 India Company, the neighbouring 

 Firc-offices,together with the Bank- 

 ers and Traders of the Ward of 

 Cornhill." On the reverse, these 



