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similar complimentary parties by the 

 other generals, who frequently walk 

 with their general en chef. Their 

 appearance to a stranger is somewhat 

 singular, being a half-military un- 

 dress, consisting of blue riding- 

 frocks, military pantaloons, boots, 

 spurs, round hats, and a band of 

 tri-coloured ribbon, and cockade of 

 the same colour, of the size of a 

 half-crown piece. Gen. Rocham- 

 beau has solicited to be indulged 

 with a horse, fearing, by the depri- 

 vation of the accustomed exercise, 

 to add to the injuries his health has 

 already received by his fatigues and 

 iardships while in St. Domingo, 

 which appear, if one may attach 

 credence to his relation, to have 

 been dreadful in the extreme. 

 *' Pressed almost to death by the 

 effects of absolute famine, and after 

 having, for some time, wretchedly 

 appeased the wasting calls of hun- 

 ger, by feeding on our horses, mules, 

 asses, and even dogs, we had no way 

 to escape the poniards of the en- 

 raged negroes, but by trusting our 

 fate to the sea, on which we were 

 taken by the English phti/ei:" 

 These are the captured general's 

 words, the last of m hich seems to be 

 a most ungracious term of acknow- 

 ledgment to the brave commanders 

 of those vessels, who, though as 

 prisoners, bore him and his suite 

 with full swelled sails from the fury 

 of the most terrible and powerful 

 of enemies!" 



25th. This morning a. fire broke 

 out at Messrs. Wild and Barring- 

 ton's, cheesemongers, Charing- 

 cross, in consequence, as is suppos- 

 ed, of a light having been left un- 

 extinguished in the .'^hop. The flames 

 communicated to the house of Mr. 

 Thomas Bntther, which they also 

 consumed. The houses of Mr. Four- 



drlnier. Place, and Tapster's baths, 

 were considerably damaged. A maid 

 servant perished in the flames. 



28th. The public mind was still 

 farther assured in the probability of 

 his majesty's convalescence by the 

 bulletin of this day, which stated 

 the opinion of the physicians in these 

 words : 



" We have the same favourable 

 opinion of his majesty's progressive 

 amendment as we had yesterday." 



And by the declaration of the mi- 

 nister (Mr. Addington) in his place 

 in the house of commons, " that 

 there is not at this time a necessary 

 suspension of the exercise of the 

 royal authority." 



At Carlisle, some eminently va» 

 luable and curious Roman sacrificial 

 vases have been discovered in Sewell's- 

 Lane, Scotch-Street, which, both 

 from their rarity, and from the ele- 

 gance of the workmanship, must 

 be extremely precious in the eyes of 

 the antiquary. The name that the 

 vase is generally distinguished by is 

 prcef'criciilitm, and it is understood 

 to have been appropriated to hold- 

 ing the incense, &c. used in the sa- 

 crifice. Many of these have been 

 brought from Greece and Sicily, and 

 have been highly estimated by the 

 curious, for the elegance of the 

 workmanship, and the beauty of the 

 relief in the ornaments. But the 

 Grecian vessels are principally of 

 fine clay, or bronze. These vases 

 we are speaking of, we believe, are 

 the first which have been discovered 

 in Britain; and the sculpture of 

 such a vessel but once appears 

 among all the altars found in this 

 country: it is on a beautiful Ro- 

 man altar, discovered at Ellenbo- 

 rorgh, which was removed to Flat- 

 hall, at Whitehaven, and is now in 

 ths possession of Lord Viscount 



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