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forming new fronts, executing every 

 movement with the utmost precision 

 and exactness ; above all they me- 

 rited every praise for the manner in. 

 which they charged. These evolu- 

 tions occupied them till near two 

 o'clock, when the line wheeled back- 

 wards into columns upon the left, 

 passed the general in review, and 

 quitted the ground in quick time. 

 Every regiment mustered extremely 

 well, and the whole amounted to near 

 3000. While they were retiring, 

 the three regiments of the hon. the 

 Ea"^t India companj- marched in thro' 

 the gate at the end of Oxford-road, 

 and occupied their ground. These, 

 amounting to nearly 3000, were 

 joined by the 3d loyal London, lieut. 

 col. Kensington, who mustered 580. 

 This formidable brigade marched 

 by companies into line, with 6 field 

 ])iLces in the centre. The earl of 

 Harrington reviewed them as he had 

 done the former brigade, and having 

 taken his station, attended by his 

 aids-de-camp, generals Grosvenor 

 and Burrard, lord Petersham, col. 

 Jenkinson, col. Gaitskill, and seve- 

 ral officers of volunteer corps, the 

 light troops were ordered forward 

 as before, and the line advanced. 

 Nothing could be more steady than 

 their march in ordinary time ; not 

 a file was out of his dre^^^sing, and 

 the whole preserved the utmost re- 

 gularity and order. They were or- 

 dered to commence independent fir- 

 ing, which was so rapid and well 

 kept up, that the brigade was in a 

 few minutes involved in smoke. The 

 artillery men loaded and fired thrice 

 in a minute. The brigade then per- 

 formed all those manoeuvres, which 

 the former had gone through. It 

 was near dusk when they passed the 

 reviewing general, and marched to- 

 wards the city. Upon the whole, 



such an army as appeared in the field, 

 in the course of the day, must be not 

 only a theme of exultation to the 

 inhabitants of the first city in the 

 world, but to the people in general 

 of the only free country in Europe. 

 There were tiiousands of spectators, 

 and among them many persons of 

 distinction. It was upon the whole 

 a most splendid scene, and exceeded 

 every thing of the kind since the 

 grand review before his majestj'. 



A singular discovery was lately 

 made at Orchardliegh house, Somer- 

 setshire. The servants having fre- 

 quently observed a large Muscovy 

 duck take wing from the lake below 

 the house, and hover round the 

 church which stands on an island 

 in the water, were led by curiosity 

 to watch its retreat, and, by a strict 

 search, discovered it to be in the 

 roof of the church, directly imder 

 the only bell it contains, in which 

 the bird now comfortably sits upon 

 17 eggs; its only retreat being thro* 

 a small aperture near the roof. 



A young lady possessed of 40001. 

 lately eloped from her father's house 

 in the neighbourhood of Gray's inn, 

 witli a young Hibernian, a painter 

 and glazier, residing in the vicinage 

 of Soho. The parties met at the 

 late Croydon fair, for the first time, 

 and, on the morning following, the 

 lady eloped. The father, after much 

 anxious search, discovered her re- 

 treat ; but she refused to return 

 home, and has since given her hand 

 to the painter. 



The court of directors of the East 

 India company, have come to a re- 

 solution to allow the passengers, who 

 were belonging to the navy on board 

 the Bombay Castle, capt. Hamilton; 

 and the Earl Camden, capt. Dance, 

 for their services in the action with 

 Linois, the same gratuity as those 



allowed 



