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cure sufficient funds for the pur- 

 pose, either by gift or loan : 40001. 

 have been already laid out upon it, 

 and it will require as much more to 

 fit it up. 



There are at present in America, 

 two labouring men, named Hoag 

 and Parker, so exactly alike, that 

 on one of them being lately tried on 

 a charge of bigamy, some of the 

 witnesses swore that they knew the 

 prisoner to be Thomas Hoag, while 

 others as positively testified that he 

 was Joseph Parker. Upon this 

 contradiftory testimony, the prisoner 

 was acquitted. 



A man of the name of Samuels, 

 ordered for execution at Botany- 

 Bay, for burglary, was thrice hung 

 up, by virtue of his sentence, and 

 each time the cord broke. On the 

 fourth attempt to carry the law into 

 effect, the provost ordered it to be 

 suspended, and hastened to the go- 

 vernor to communicate the particu- 

 lars of the extraordinary scene he 

 hud witnessed ; the consequence of 

 which Mas, a respite to the man, 

 who had so repeatedly trembled on 

 the very verge of eiernity, and for 

 the preservation of whose life so 

 many signal events had almost mira- 

 culously occurred. 



31st. His majesty went, with the 

 usual procession to the house of 

 peers, and closed the session of par- 

 liament with a speech from the 

 throne*. 



Died. — 7th. In St. James's-mar- 

 ket, aged 100, Mr. Smith, but- 

 cher. 



15th. Aged 102, Mrs. Mary 

 Bishop, of Newport-street, Wor- 

 cester. 



19th. Aged 102, Mr. Whinech, 

 father of the Iat» town-clerk of 

 LvuH. 



AUGUST. 



1st. This morning, about 10 

 o'clock, as one of the fife-boys be- 

 longing to the 4th loyal London vo- 

 lunteers, was sitting on the edge of 

 a boat in the Thames, he was acci- 

 dentally struck by the oar of ano- 

 ther boat, which knocked him into 

 the water, and he was drowned. 



By the late flood and hurricane 

 on the banks of the Aar in Germa- 

 ny, it appears that 65 persons were 

 drowned, 147 houses and 190 stacks 

 or granaries carried away ; 20 

 mills, 8 forges, and 50<bridges com- 

 pletely destroyed by the current ; 

 498 houses, and 239 out-houses so 

 much shattered that they must be 

 rebuilt. There are heaps of stones 

 and mud left on the surface of the 

 ground, 8, 10, and 20 feet high. In 

 some places hills were swept away, 

 and whole villages buried. 



East Indian intelligence, arrived 

 this day, informs us that at a public 

 meeting held at Calcutta, it was re- 

 solved to erect a marble statue to 

 Marquis Wcllesley ; and to present 

 a sword of the value of 1,5001. to 

 General Lake, and one of 1,0001. to 

 Major-General Wellesley, for their 

 glorious achievements against the 

 Mahratta powers. 



TheAmerican papers have brought 

 an account of a melancholy aftair of 

 honour between the Hon. Aaron 

 Burr (Vice President of the United 

 States) and General A. Hamilton, 

 who was appointed to succeed Mr. 

 Livingston, ambassador at Paris. 



The origin of the dispute was from 

 a pamphlet published by Dr.Cooper, 

 in which is the following passage: 

 " General Hamilton and Dr. Kent 

 say, that they consider Colouel Burr 



as 



Vide State-Papers, 



