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much tar as is sufficient for her out- 

 fit. 



The fire ship which was sup- 

 posed to have blown up by accident, 

 during the late attack of the Ame- 

 ricans on Tripoli, now appears to 

 have been set on fire by the crew, 

 to avoid their falling into the hands 

 of the enemy. By the explosion 

 they destroyed two Tripolian gun- 

 vessels which had approached, and 

 ahout 100 men who had boarded, as 

 well as themselves. 



The fever at Gibraltar* had en- 

 tirely ceased on the 21st January. 

 Part of the troops under general 

 Fox had landed, but there were a 

 great number remaining on board 

 the transports in the bay. On the 

 30th, at night, there was a tremen- 

 dous storm, which drove about 20 

 ships on shore : 3 of them, which 

 were English, were dismasted ; and 

 many others lost their anchors and 

 cables. 



MARCH. 



1st. Came on the election of clerk 

 for the Bridewell and Bethlem hos- 

 pitals ; when Mr. Poynder had 

 nearly a majority of 100 above 7 

 competitors. He was accordingly 

 declared duly elected. 



The following appointments are 

 made for Prince of Wales Island : — 

 if. II. Oliphant, esq. first in council 

 and warehouse keeper ; H.S.Pearson, 

 tsq. secretary to government; J. P. 

 Hobson, esq. accountant ; W. Rob- 

 inson, esq. assistant ; Q. D. Thomp- 

 8on, esq. .sub-warehouse keeper and 

 paymaster ; W. E. Phillips, esq. 

 (ollector of customs and land re- 

 venue ; J. Erskinc, esq. assistant to 

 the siiperintendantand storekeeper ; 

 the rev. A. Luke chaplain. 



2d. The hon, captain Gardner, 

 son of lord Gardner, obtained a 

 verdict, with lOOOl. damages, in 

 the court of king's bench, against 

 a Mr. JadiSj for crim. con. with his 

 lady. 



3d. His highness prince Baratin- 

 .ski passed through Bury, in his 

 way from Holkham to Bradfield,the 

 seat of A. Young, esq. Attached to 

 this Russian nobleman's estate in the 

 Ukraine are 25,000 male peasants; 

 and, allowing for as many women, 

 and only two children to each 

 couple, there are 100,000souls, like 

 the cattle on the grouml, the abso- 

 lute property af a single indivi- 

 dual. , ^ 



4th. The foundation stone of the 

 East India docks, now construct- 

 ing, at Blackwall, was laid by cap- 

 tain Joseph Huddart, (in the ab- 

 sence of the chairman, Joseph Cot- 

 ton, esq. who was confined by ill- 

 ness,) and John Woolmore, esq, 

 the deputy chairman, with some 

 others of the directors, amidst a nu- 

 merous concourse of people. These 

 docks, though not so large as either 

 the London or West India docks, 

 will be capable of admitting ships 

 of larger burthen, by having deeper 

 water, and locks of larger dimen- 

 sions. They consist of two docks 

 and an entrance basin, that for dis- 

 charging inwards will cover 18 acres 

 — rthat for outward-bound vessels 

 9 acres. The entrance basin will be 

 about 3 acres. 



A court martial was held on board 

 the fleet at Torbay, on captain 

 Bligh, of the Warrior, on charges of 

 tyranny preferred against him by 

 one of his lieutenants (who was 

 tried some time since for disobe- 

 dience of crdcrs and acquitted.) 

 After a trial which lasted the whole 

 of the day, captain B. was re- 



• Vide Chronicle, Vol. XLVI. 

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