> sTrabalX, 
> 
ite a 
Se ee a a OD 
-— 
~ 
CHRONICLE. 
was outlawed, in consequence of not 
appearing to receive judgment, was 
this day apprehended by Rivett, one 
of the Bew-street officers, and lodg- 
ed in the custody of the sheriff of 
London. i 
5th. As one of the armed vessels 
lying in the river at Harwich, was 
celebrating the anniversary of the 
gunpowder-plot, she discharged one 
of her guns, loaded with grape shot, 
at the camp of the third royal Lan- 
caster militia, on the opposite side 
of the river, near Landguard fort. 
The balls marked the ground in se- 
veral places within the lines of the 
encampment, and both officers and 
men had a most miraculous escape. 
One of the balls passed between two 
of the officers who were walking on 
the parade, and another of them 
flew up the oflicer’s street, grazing 
the ground in several places ; others 
took different dire¢iions through the 
encampment, where there was nearly 
eleven hundred men, but, provi- 
dentially, without hurting any of 
them. Eight of the balls were soon 
after picked up, some at the distance 
of half a mile beyond the camp, and 
each of them weighed upwards of a 
pound; of course the shot was fired 
entirely by mistake ; but as acci- 
dents often occur from firing on days 
of aejoicing, too much attention 
cannot be paid, that no balls be in 
the guns previous to their being fired 
on such occasions. 
7th. This morning the London 
coach, on its return to town from 
Tunbridge-wells, with four inside, 
and four outside passengers, by the 
breaking of the axle-tree, was over- 
turned near Southborough, two miles 
from the Wells ; when Mr. Wheatly, 
a seal-engraver, in Bond-street, was 
thrown from the roof, and had his 
skull dreadfully fractured : he was 
body. 
455 
conveyed to a neighbouring cottage, 
where he died in the space of two 
hours, in the greatest agony. His 
nephew, and four other passengers, 
were also much bruised by the fall. 
A lady, and Mr. Dryden of York- 
shire, were the only persons who 
escaped unhurt. The coachman, is 
so severely hurt, that his life is 
despaired of. ‘ 
10th. 
was given to his excellency Elfi Bey, 
and a number of other distinguished 
visitors, by his royal highness the 
prince of Wales. ‘The conyersation 
turning upon the very excellent 
equestrian powers of the mamelukes 
and Turks, the prince: said, “ I 
have now in my stud an Egyptian 
horse, so wild and ungovernable, 
that he will dismount the best horse- 
man in Elfi Bey’s retinue.’ The 
Bey-replied, in Italian, to the prince, 
¢ 1 shall gratify: your royal. high- 
néss’s curiosity to-morrow.” An 
appointment consequently took place 
next day, at two o’clock, in the 
prince of Wales’s riding-house, Pall 
Mail. When the Bey, in company 
with colonel Moore, his interpreter, 
and Mahomet Aga, his principal 
officer, a young man of apparently 
great agility, entered the riding- 
house, where the prince and his 
royal brothers waited, attended by 
several noblemen, to witness the 
management of the horse, which 
never before could be ridden by any 
One of the mameluke’s sad- 
dles being fixed by the grooms, the 
animal was led out of the stable into 
the riding-house, in so rampant 
and unmanageable a state,, that 
every one present concluded no one 
would ever attempt to mount him. 
There never was a greater model of 
beauty. He is spotted like a leo- 
pard, and his eyes were so fiery and 
Gg4 enraged, 
A. grand entertainment 
