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Home assumed the name of Tooke ; 

 fi coldness, however, afterwards 

 took place between them, subse- 

 quent to which, colonel Harwood 

 and Horne Tooke entered into the 

 as;reement above-mentioned, to di- 

 vide whatever should be left to ei- 

 ther of them by Mr. Edward 

 Tooke. 



The following is recorded as a 

 fact in a country newspaper : — At 

 Cadoxtown, near Cardiff, a young 

 mother died within a few days after 

 child-bed. The child survived, but 

 there was no person to suckle it. — 

 Its grandmother, merely to still its 

 (jries, put it to her breast, and al- 

 though the aged nurse was 70 years 

 old, milk flowed upon the pressure 

 (jf the infant. 



She continues to suckle the child,' 

 and her breasts support a constant 

 supply of milk. 



Alexander Davidson, esq. the 

 opulent banker and contractor ; 

 John White Parsons, and Thomas 

 Hopping, gents, have been sen- 

 tenced, by the court of king's 

 bench, for gross bribery and cor- 

 ruption at the late Ilchester elec- 

 tion, to twelve months confinement 

 in the marshelsea prison. 



29th. This evening, about ten, 

 ^ young seaman, named Stoddart, 

 ■was pursuedby the press-gang down 

 the Broad Chace, in Newcastle, 

 when, 10 escape them, he jumped 

 into the Tyne, and attempted to 

 jwim across the river to Gatehead. 

 One of his pursuers threatening to 

 fire at him if he did not return, the 

 fright and exertion took away his 

 strength, and he was drowned ! 



30th. This morning, between 

 five and six o'clock, the neighbour- 

 hood of Maidstone was visited by a 

 tremendous thunder storm, attend- 

 fd by lightning and mucii rain. 



The lightning in the S. W. directioa 

 was apparently the most vivid ; 3 

 tree on Barming heath was shivered 

 to pieces by it, and several houses 

 in the adjoining villages much da-^ 

 maged. 



According to a recent enumera- 

 tion, it appears that in the metropolis 

 there are 346 places of public wor- 

 ship ; namely, 112 parish churches, 

 58 licensed chapels and chapels of 

 ease, 19 for foreign Protestants, 12 

 for Roman Catholics, 133 meeting- 

 houses and Methodist chapels of va- 

 rious sects, dissenting from the esta- 

 blished church, 6 Quaker's meet- 

 ing-houses, and six Jew's syna- 



gogues. 



Died. — At Gateshead, near New- 

 castle, Mrs. Anne Parkin, a^ed 

 104. 



MAY. 



1st. The following letter was re- 

 ceived at the admiralty from Capt. 

 Shipley, of his majesty's sloop of 

 >varHippomenes, dated 29th March. 

 Sir, 



I have the honour to acquaint 

 you with the capture of L'Egypti- 

 enne French privateer, (formerly a 

 republican frigate) mounting 36 

 guns, twelves and nines, command- 

 ed by M. Placiard, and having 240 

 men on board, on the evening of the 

 27th, after an arduous cliace of 54 

 hours, and a running fight of three 

 hours and twenty minutes, by his 

 majesty sloop under my command, 

 for she struck the moment we fairly . 

 got alongside of hor. I feel much 

 pleasure in saying the otlicers and 

 men behaved with that coolness and 

 intrepidity inherent in Englishmen. 



The slight resistance she made, I 

 can only attribute to the i'ear of be- 



