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was expected to die of a 

 wouad in the leg, the ampu- 

 tation of which had been too 

 long delayed. Sidy - Ivluley- 

 Silama, another brother, who 

 had retired to a sanctuary 

 near Tetuan, was looked to 

 as the future emperor. 



Domestic. 

 On the 9th xlpril John Kim- 

 ber,of the Recovery slave fliip, 

 (whose conduct in the Afri- 

 can slave trade was the sub- 

 ject of much animadversion in 

 the house ot commons, and pret- 

 ty general conversation out or 

 it,) was brought before the sit- 

 ting magistrate at Bow-street, 

 charged with the murder of two 

 negro women on their pafsagc 

 from Africa. After a long ex- 

 amination, he was fully com- 

 mitted to take his trial at 

 the Old Bailey. 



The Providence frigate, with 

 the afsistant tender, left the 

 Cape fif Good Hope the last 

 week in December, to proceed 

 on his voyage to Gtaheite. 

 Captain Bligh was then perfect- 

 ly recovered ; but two of his 

 crew, a seaman and marine 

 were left ill at this Cape. 



The 'mutual expLinatlons 

 which have pafsed between 

 the courts of London and 

 Paris, on the subject of the 

 engagement between tlie fri- 

 gates in the East Indies, have 

 settled the subject aiiiicably 

 and i^icnourably. 



The wise and provident di- 

 rectors of the Sierra Leona 

 company, have engaged Mr 

 Aszelius, demonstrator of bo- 

 tany at Upsal, to reside at Sier- 

 ra Lecaa for two years, for the 

 purpose of collecting new and 

 extraordinary plantsj whereby 

 not only the colony, but this 

 country also, may hope to reap 

 very considerable improve- 

 ments and additions to tlie 

 present stock of useful and 

 agreeable knowledge. 



Orders are sent down froni 

 the Admiralty olPice to Ply- 

 mouth, to prepare a slip for 

 laying the keel of a new first 

 rate, of a hundred and twelve 

 guns, in the iroyai dock yard 

 at that place. 



The three f ne libraries of 

 the late earl of Bute go into 

 different hands, I'hat at Lu- 

 ton Hoo, one cf the most 

 magnificent in the kingdom, 

 is tlie present earl's ; those at 

 High Cliff, and at the house 

 in South Audely-street, are 

 left to two younger sous. 



The vefsel carrying the 

 mail from Copenhagen to 

 Hambuigli, has been sunk by 

 the ice in the Great Belt. 



1 iiirty thousand rix dollars 

 partly belonging to the king, 

 ar,d partly to the merchants, 

 have been lost in her. 



The salmon (ilheries on the 

 coast of Northumberland and 

 Yorklhire, have been greater 

 this year tlian ever before 

 ki;r; .vii. Dujing the last fuit- 



