418 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



fordshirc, on the above date, in one 

 of the pleasure boats in an excursion 

 down the Wye, and had proceeded 

 as far as Coldwell, the usual place 

 of stopping to take some refresh- 

 ment. 



After dinner, the two sons ex- 

 pressed a wish to bathe, Avhich was 

 not objected to by their father, 

 as both could swim : before they 

 liad been long in the water, the 

 eldest, a fine youth of 17, called 

 aloud for help, when one of the 

 boatmen instantly plunged in to his 

 assistance, and becoming entangled 

 together, they both sunk to the bot- 

 tom, in deep water. The waterman, 

 disengaging himself, rose to the sur- 

 face, and being much exhausted, 

 with difficulty reached the shore, 

 but every ellbrt to save Warre prov- 

 ed inclfc6lual, and he was drowned 

 in the presence of his disconsolate 

 parents ! 



At Gateshead a young woman died 

 in consequence of taking poison. 

 She had always declined giving any 

 account of herself; but it appears 

 she was seduced from her parents, 

 who reside at Grantham, by a per- 

 son belonging to one of the stage- 

 coaches travelling south, who kept 

 her at Gateshead. Coroner's verdict 

 —Limaci/. 



• 27th. His grace the duke of Port- 

 land, as visitor to Pembroke Col- 

 lego, Oxford, has given in his final 

 decision as to the vacant Guernsey 

 and Jersey fellowships. After hav- 

 ing maturely weighed and consider- 

 ed the pretensions of the two islands, 

 and examined the statutes relative to 

 the foundations of the fellowships, 

 and their order of succession, he has 

 decided that the turn of nomination 

 i^^^Ionged to Jersey; but as by the 



express tenor of the statutes, the 

 three fellowsliips could not bo held 

 by three gentlemen of one island, 

 and Messrs. Hue and Dupre, both 

 Jersey men, occupied the other two. 

 The vacant fellowship of Pembroke 

 is to be filled up by a native of 

 Guernsey. 



This morning, as W. Ash, T. Ash 

 (father and son), W. Arnold, and 

 J. Foviler, shipwrights, were at 

 work in the magazine of the Belle- 

 rophon, lying in dock at Portsmouth, 

 a candle, (the place being secluded 

 from light) communicated itself to 

 some loose powder, and they were 

 in an instant rendered the most 

 shocking spectacles by the effect of 

 the explosion. 



^lOih. A. grand naval fcle was 

 given to their majesties on board the 

 yachts at Weymouth, attended by 

 more than 260 of the nobility. Af- 

 ter dinner, a Dutch fair was held, 

 and several of the principal perform- 

 ers from the London theatres per- 

 formed parts in an interlude com- 

 posed for the occasion. 



A common-hall was held for the 

 election of a lord-mayor ; previous 

 to which, the aldermen attended at 

 the church of St. Lawrence JeMry, 

 where an appropriate sermon was 

 preached by the lord-mayor's chap- 

 lain. The following aldermen were 

 announced as eligible: Peter Per- 

 chard,esq. James Shan, esq. Charles 

 Flower, esq. and Sir Wm. Leighton, 

 knt. The shew of hands was greatly 

 in favour of aldermen Pcrchard and 

 J'lower : on which the friends of 

 alderman Shaw demanded a poll. 



Died. — At Philadelphia, at the 

 house of Samuel Wheeler, esq. in the 

 100th year of her age, Ruth Wood, 

 a native of that place. She remem- 

 bered 



