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hopes of a well spent honourable 

 life, and bring (hem to an untime- 

 ly and disgraceful death : and let 

 those who are to obey, learn from 

 the conduct of the Serjeant, the 

 fatal effects which may result from 

 contempt and insolent conduct 

 towards their superiors. By re- 

 peated insolence, the serjeant over- 

 came the kind and gentle disposi- 

 tion of lieut. Gamage, and by 

 irritating and inflaming his pas- 

 sions, occasioned his own death. 



" The commander in chief hopes 

 that this afflicting lesson may not 

 be offered in vain ; but, seriously 

 contemplating the awful example 

 before them, every otficer and 

 every man -wrill learn from it, never 

 to suffer himself to be driven by 

 ill-governed passion to treat with 

 cruelty or violence thoseoverwhom 

 he is to command, nor by disobe- 

 dience or disrespect to rouse the 

 passions of those whom it is his 

 duty to obey and respect. 



(Signed) Thomas Foley.'' 

 *' To the respective captains and 

 commanders of his majesty's 

 ships and vessels in the Downs.'' 

 The body was brought on shore 

 for interment at two o'clock, and 

 was received at landing by the 

 Governor of the Naval Hospital, 

 who, with a number of naval 

 and military officers, attended the 

 remains to the burial-ground at the 

 rear of the Naval Hospital where 

 they were deposited. Captain 

 Trollope, and the officers of the 

 Griffon, with several of the crew, 

 were present, and bore ample tes- 

 timony, by their appearance, to 

 the regret they felt at his untimely 

 fate. 



The crime for which this unfor- 

 tunate young man suffered arose 

 from an arbitrary coran\and which 

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he gave to the serjeant of marines, 

 to walk the quarter-deck with a 

 musket on his shoulder like a pri- 

 vate ; which the serjeant refusing 

 to obey, with some irritating lan- 

 guage, Lieut. Gamage went down 

 for his dirk, and coming up again, 

 in his passion ran the man through 

 the body, who expired on the spot. 

 A court-martial brought in this 

 offence ivilful murder ; and though 

 great intercession was made to save 

 him, the discipline of the navy 

 was thought to demand his execu- 

 tion, especially as a sailor Iiad 

 lately been executed for assaulting 

 his officer. 



24. On Wednesday a whale, 

 supposed to measure above 80 feet, 

 was seen off Rye Bay, going up 

 Channel. About one o'clock in 

 the afternoon of the same daj', two 

 whales, of the above description, 

 were discovered b}' the Dcver 

 fishermen, in Dover Roads, which 

 60 alarmed them, that they all 

 made for the shore ; the fishermen 

 say, that a large sloop was along- 

 side of the fish, going up Channel, 

 when one of them spouted up sucl 

 a quantity of water as to preclucle 

 them from the least sight of the 

 vessel. 



Sophia Edwards and Mary Nest, 

 two female servants of tiie Rev 

 John Gibbons, of Brgsted, Kent, 

 (one aged 22, and the other 19 

 years), were found drowned in a 

 pond in the garden belonging to 

 the parsonage-house of that place ; 

 and tiie same day an inquest was 

 taken on their bodies, when the 

 following circumstances were dis- 

 closed: — Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons 

 had been from home several weeks, 

 leaving their house to the care of 

 these females, who, during th-? 

 absence of their master and mis.- 



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