376 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



declared his readiness to afford the 

 establishment every other possible 

 mark ot his protection and good 

 wishes. 



The bovs belongins to Christ's 

 hospital went in procession through 

 the Mansion house, before the lord- 

 mayor and aldermen, and received 

 the usual annual presents of a new 

 axpencc, two buns, and a glass of 

 Mine each. Tlie lord -may or, she- 

 riffs, &c. afterwards went in proces- 

 sion to Christ-church, where a ser- 

 mon was preached by the rcT. G. 

 ll. Glasse. The lord-mayor, fearing 

 he should not be able to undergo 

 the fatigue, alderman Le Mesurier 

 acted as his representa.tive at the 

 dinner at the Mansion-house. Mrs. 

 Wijiter, his lordship's daughter, of- 

 ficiated as lady-mayoress. The 

 company was numerous at the din- 

 ner, and crowded beyond example 

 at the bail in the evening. 



Dth. This morning a young wo- 

 man was killed in Little Britain. — 

 She was serving miik ; and a cart 

 having drawn up close to the pave- 

 ment, to make way for a loaded 

 waggon, the wheel of the latter 

 came in contact with the otf-wheel 

 of the cart, and threw it on th* 

 pavement, by which means she was 

 crushed between the tail-board of 

 the cart and the house. The mo- 

 ment the cart righted, she fell, and 

 her death was instantaneous. The 

 deceased was a fine young -woman, 

 about 19, and had been from the 

 country but three weeks. 



11th. Last Saturday, Monday, 

 Tuesday, and this day, the Lascars 

 of (he Mahommedan persuasion, at 

 the east end of the town, had a grand 

 religious festival. The first day they 

 went in slow procession along the 

 ■\Vw-roail. St. George's in the east. 



Cannon-street, Ratcliff-hfghway, 

 Shadwell, and other streets, with 

 drums and tambourines. Fart of 

 them were selected, performing pan- 

 toniimical dances, witii drawn 

 swords, cutting the air in various 

 directions; then followed four 

 blacks, in long white robes, holding 

 emblematical figures in their hands. 

 Another held a vase, in wliich was 

 a fire ; and a man in a white vest- 

 ment, treading backwards, threw 

 incense into it ; another, with a 

 handkerchief, fanning their faces ; 

 when, at every turn of the streets, a 

 groupe of the same people lifted up 

 their hands and heads to the canopy 

 of Heaven, h}mning some passages 

 out of the koran. They conducted 

 themselves with great propriety, al- 

 though a mnltitude of people fol- 

 lowed them. On Monday and 

 Tuesday they made a visit in solemn 

 procession the same way ; and on 

 Thursday another succeeded, which 

 closed their religious revelry, back 

 to their place in Ratcliff-highway. 

 We understand this was a kind of 

 jubilee in honour of the commence- 

 ment of their new year, and of the 

 translation of Mahommed into Pa- 

 radise, and imploring him to give 

 peace to the sufl'ering world, and 

 them a safe return to their own 

 country. 



12th. Lieutenant J. E. Baker, 

 who had lately been appointed to 

 the Winchelsea, at the Nore, en- 

 deavouring to join his ship, from 

 New South-end, Essex, tliis morn- 

 ing, about two A. M. was unfortu- 

 nately upset in a jolly-boat belong- 

 ing to the 'J'crror, Crcpeating signal 

 ship) when himself, Mr. Day, gun- 

 ner, E. Hughes, 11. Oakley, R. M. 

 Mr. Grikand, T. Ralph, seamen, all 

 belonging to the Terror, and a per- 

 son 



