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did not elapse before the bells, 

 beams, and upper floor fell to the 

 bottom of the tower; and their 

 escape would have been impossi- 

 ble, had not the belfry been upon 

 the ground-floor. 



12. At Paris, on the 17th ult. a 

 senatus-consultum passed, for unit- 

 ing Rome to the French empire. 



23. Mr. Waithman, at a court 

 of common council, brought for- 

 ward a motion for a petition to 

 parliament, against granting a 

 pension to lord Wellington, for 

 his services, which, after two divi- 

 sions, was carried by a majority of 

 seven ; and a petition to the house 

 of commons agreed to according- 

 ly. The sheriffs, attended by the 

 remembrancer, directed to pre- 

 sent the same. 



24'. Mr. Perry, proprietor of the 

 Morning Chronicle, tried and ac- 

 quitted, in the Court of King's 

 Bench. He conducted his own de- 

 fence, on the charge of having 

 published a libel in that paper, 

 copied from the Examiner, re- 

 flecting on his majesty's character. 



28. The general fast. 



MAPtCH. 



1 . The body of the Hon. Frede- 

 ric Eden was found off Mill-bank, 

 by a bargeman : it was conveyed 

 to a publican's house on the bank ; 

 and, on a coroner's inquest being 

 held, the jury returned the follow- 

 ing verdict : — " Found drowned in 

 the river ; but, by what means it 

 name there, there was no evidence 

 before the jury." 



Eugene Hcauharnois appointed 

 successor to the Prince Primate, 

 in the Grand Duchy of Frankfort. 



The Old Bailey sessions closed, 

 when sixteen prisoners received 

 gentence of death ; two wereorder- 



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ed to be transported for fourteen 

 years, twenty-four forsevenyears, 

 and twenty-six to be fined and 

 imprisoned. 



3. The king held a chapter of 

 the most noble order of the garter 

 at Windsor, when the marquis 

 Wellesley was installed a knight, 

 in place of the late duke of Port- 

 land. 



6 — 8. A violent tempest at Ca- 

 diz, which caused great destruction 

 among the shipping, and drove a 

 prison-ship ashore, when the 

 French prisoners effected their 

 escape. 



11. Bonaparte was married, by 

 prox}', at Vienna, to the arch- 

 duchess Maria Louisa daughter 

 of Francis H. emperor of Austria. 



16. Treaty concluded between 

 France and Holland. 



18. Hanover formally annexed, 

 by Bonaparte, to Westphalia. 



21. Eliab Harvey, whohadbeen 

 broken for disrespect to Admiral 

 Lord Gambier, was restored to his 

 former rank of rear-admiral. 



APRIL. 



1. Bonaparte married, at Paris, 

 to the arch-duchess Maria Louisa. 



6. After sir Francis Burdett had 

 intimated his intention of resisting 

 the executionof the speaker'swar- 

 rant for arresting, a tumultuous 

 mob assembled in Piccadilly, near 

 and around the baronet's house, 

 with the apparent design of pro- 

 tecting him and his family. They 

 committed great outrages in the 

 neighbourhood. — For an account 

 of the resolutions, &c. connected 

 with this affair, see the Parlia- 

 mentary History, and Appendix to 

 this Clironicle. 



7. The mob continued their vio- 

 lent proceedings; themilitarywere 



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