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self a partner in the banking-house 

 of Foster and Lubbock. 



24th. Assassinated, while walking 

 on the terrace of his garden, near 

 the head-quarters, at Cairo, giving 

 orders to a builder, general Kleber, 

 commander-in-chief of the French 

 anny in Egypt ; to which he suc- 

 ceeded on the departure of Buona- 

 parte, and in which he is succeeded 

 by general Menou. The murder, 

 it seems, was committed by Souley- 

 man, a native of Aleppo. The as- 

 sassin, who confessed the fact, was 

 sentenced to have his right liand 

 burned off, to be impaled alive in 

 the presence of the army, and there 

 to remain till devoured by birds of 

 prey. Three sheiks, who were ac- 

 quainted with his intentions, and 

 did not impart them, were also sen- 

 tenced to suffer death by decapita- 

 tion. General Kleber was interred, 

 on the 27 th, in the entrenched 

 camp, called after the name of 

 Ibrahim Bey, with the greatest mi- 

 litary honours, and a funeral ora- 

 tion was delivered by citizen Fau- 

 rier, the French commissary to the 

 Divan. It is a remarkable coinci- 

 dence, that Kleber's death, and that 

 of Dessaix at the battle of Marengo, 

 took place, in Egypt and Italj'-, on 

 the same day, and at the same hour. 

 Klel)er commanded in Lower and 

 Dessaix in Upper Egypt, while 

 Buonaparte was there ; and the 

 French Government have ordered 

 a monument to be erected to their 

 joint memories in the Place de Vic- 

 toire at Paris. 



JULY. 



2d. This afternoon liis majesty 

 went in state to the house of peers, 



and gave the royal assent to the 

 Union-biD. 



4lh. This day one Mr. Rushy 

 was tried, in the court of king's 

 bench, on an indictment against 

 him, as an eminent cornfactor, for 

 having purchased, by sample, on 

 the 8th of November last, in the 

 corn-market, Mark-lane, 90 quar- 

 ters of oats, at 4'ls. per quarter, 

 and' sold 30 of them again in the 

 same market, on the same day, at 

 44*. The most material testimony 

 on the part of the crown was given 

 by Thomas Smith, a partner of the 

 defendant's. After the evidence 

 had been gone through, lord Ken- 

 yon made an address to the jury, 

 who almost instantly found the de- 

 fendant guilty. Lord Kenyon. — 

 " You have conferred by your ver- 

 dict, almost the greatest benefit on 

 your country that ever was confer- 

 red by any jury," Another indict- 

 ment against the defendant, for 

 engrossing, stands over. 



Several other iirdictments for the 

 same alleged crimes were tried dur- 

 ing this year, which we fear tended 

 to aggravate the evils of scarcity 

 they were meant to obviate, and no 

 doubt contributed to excite popular 

 tumults, by rendering a very useful 

 body of men odious in the eyes of 

 the mob. 



9th. Ro^ne. The pope arrived 

 yesterday in this city, and was re- 

 ceived with incredible acclamations- 

 He immediately repaired to St. 

 Peter's where a solemn Tc Deum 

 was performed, at which an im- 

 mense concourse of people attended. 

 Such a jubilee has not been held at 

 Rome for several centuries. The 

 great families of Colonna and Doria 

 Pamfili sent two sumptuous car- 

 riages, drawn by six beautiful 



