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ANNUAL REGISTER, IS04. 



tiimecl mows of corn, a furze-rick, 

 apple trees and whatever else stood 

 in its way : and in the neiglibour- 

 hood of Penzance many windows 

 were broken by Iiail stones of an 

 enormous size. 



Died.— 5th. At the acje of 104 

 years, ]\Irs. Lovelin, relict of the 

 lute ^^'illiam Lovelin. 



6th. Mr. Thomas Whittingham, 

 of Ilillingdon, at the very advanced 

 age of 104. lie retained all his fa- 

 culties to the very last hour, as well 

 as he ever did at any other period 

 of his life, and could walk a distance 

 of two or three miles with perfe6t 

 case. lie was born in the reign of 

 king AVilJiam, and had a most per- 

 fect rccolle<5tion of the person of Q. 

 Anne, of Mhom he often spoke. In 

 tJie rebellion of fifteen he was em- 

 ployed in cove} in^^" troops and bag- 

 gage from U abridge to London. 



NOVEMBER. 



1st. Monsieur, brother to Louis 

 XVIII. accompanied by his suite, 

 returned to Yarmouth, from Swe- 

 den, whither he had gone to meet 

 feis royal brother, between wliom 

 and him a most afleciing interview 

 took place at Calmar on the 7th of 

 last month. 



Advices were received by govern- 

 ment of a most extraordinary and 

 atrocious violation of the law of na- 

 tions, In the seizing and carrying otf Sir 

 George Rumbold, the British charge 

 d'affaires, to the Hans Towns, and 

 the states of the circle of Lower 

 Saxony, on the night of tlie 2.5th 

 ultimo, by a detachment of French 

 troops. The particulars are as fol- 

 low : — On the night of the 25th of 

 October, a detachment of French 

 troops, consisting of 250 men. land- 



ed from three boats, on the Ham. 

 burgh territory. They had embark- 

 ed at Ilarburgh, a small town on 

 the left bank of the Elbe, in the 

 electorate of Hanover, and about a 

 mile distant front the city of Ham- 

 burgh. They landed between the 

 cities of Hamburgh and Altona. A 

 part of the detachment to theamount 

 of somen, proceeded under the con- 

 dufl of two guides to Grindel, 

 where Sir George had resided for 

 some time. Grindel is a village 

 composed of a small number of coun- 

 try liouses, not far removed from 

 tlic Hamburgh gate, which is called 

 the Dannnthor, a few hundred paces 

 only distant. The detachment hav- 

 ing arrived at Grindel, commenced 

 its operations by surrounding the 

 house of the English minister at 

 about one in the morning. Sir 

 George Rumbold hearing a knock 

 at the door, jumped out of bed to 

 see what was the matter, and on 

 looking out of the window, saw the 

 house surrounded with soldiers, who 

 told him they had dispatches for 

 him. But on his refusing them ad. 

 mission, they instantly broke open 

 the doors, rushed into every apart- 

 ment, and pillaged the house of 

 whatever was portable. They then 

 seized Sir George, and conducted 

 him in a carriage to the banks of 

 the Elbe, across which river he was 

 transported a close prisoner to Ilar- 

 burgh: thence he was carried closely 

 guarded to Hanover ; from which 

 city he was removed to Paris, and 

 confined there in the Temple!! ! 



The news from Gibraltar brought 

 by dispatches received this day is of 

 a most calamitous nature: it states 

 that a malignant and pestilential fe- 

 ver had broken out in the garrison 

 of that important place about the 

 middle of September, and still conti- 

 nued 



