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poiirt-martlal to receive 300 lashes, 

 which Mere immediately indicted 

 with the utmost severity. 



This day the French senatits con- 

 sitltum decreed the title of emperor 

 on Buonaparte, with different modi- 

 fications of the imperial dignity to 

 his consort, and the other branches 

 of his family !!! 



A young man, named Joseph Sla- 

 ter, late of Welbourn, near WcUin- 

 gore, Lincoln, aged 11, in attempt- 

 ing to leap from the shafts of a stage 

 waggon, of which he had the care, 

 entangled his clothes with some of 

 the tackle, and being thrown under 

 the wheels, was crushed in so dread- 

 ful a manner as to occasion his death 

 the same night. 



20th. A letter from Lord Keith 

 to the admiralty of this date, an- 

 nounces a vigorous, but unsuccessful 

 attack upon the French flotilla, by 

 Commodore Sir Sidney Smith.* 



Captain Wright, of the Vincengo 

 gun-brig, was lately captured near 

 Morbihan, by some French gun- 

 boats, which surrounded him during 

 a calm ; and was conveyed to his 

 old prison, the Temple, at Paris, 

 where he formerly shared the cap- 

 tivity of Sir Sidney Smith. He was 

 accused before the criminal court at 

 Paris of having landed most of the 

 conspirators against Buonaparte, in 

 France. He replied, that being a 

 prisoner of war, he was not compe- 

 tent to make any deposition ; and, 

 as an English subject, he could not 

 answer any questions. 



22nd. A notice appeared in this 

 night's Gazette, from the governor 

 and company of the bank of Eng- 

 land, stating, that, with the appro- 

 bation of his majesty's most honour- 

 able privy council, they have caused 



dollars to be stamped at Mr. Bol- 

 ton's manufactory, Soho, near Bir- 

 mingham, with his majesty's head and 

 inscription, " Georgiuslil. DeiGra- 

 tia Rex," on the obverse; and Bri- 

 tannia, with the words " Five Shil- 

 lings Dollar, Bank of England, , 

 1S04," on the reverse; which they 

 propose to issue instead of the dol- 

 lars lately stamped at his majesty's 

 mint at the Tower ; the latter of 

 which, now in circulation, will not 

 be current, nor will be received at 

 tlie bank at the rate of 5s. each after 

 the 2nd. day of June. In the mean 

 time peniiission was given to ex- 

 change them for the dollars w ith the 

 new stamp, or for bank notes, after 

 the rate of 5s. for each dollar. 



A beautiful coinage of half gui- 

 neas has been delivered from the 

 mint. In this impression the head 

 of his majesty is somewhat smaller 

 than in others, and the wreath is 

 twined round it more in the Roman 

 form. The reverse is that of the 

 last coinage; the legend, " Fidei 

 Defensor, Britanniarum Rex." 



24th. This afternoon a fire broke 

 out at Darnford oil-mills, near Sta- 

 pleford, Norfolk, in the occupa- 

 tion of Mr. Charles Marsindale, 

 which raged Avith such fory, that the 

 whole premises were totally destroy, 

 ed in about an hour and a half; the 

 loss is supposed to be between 8 and 

 9,0001. 



25th. This day was, by procla- 

 mation, observed as a general fasr 

 throughout England, " for humbling 

 ourselves before Almighty God, in 

 order to obtain pardon of our sins, 

 and in the most devout and solemn 

 manner to send up our prayers and 

 supplications to the Divine Majesty, 

 for averting tJiose heavy jadgments 



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