historical chronicle 

 yet arrived j that it will arrive 

 in rime is scarcely to be doubt- 

 ed j and at that period, the 

 minister of the day may boast 

 of the ample revenues that his 

 administration has obtained. 

 Miscellaneous articles. 



On Monday evening Jan. 30. 

 Mr Sutherland, son of the late 

 Capt. Sutherland, who inot him- 

 self last year as his Majesty was 

 pafsing through St. James's park 

 to the house of peers, stabbed 

 himself in two places, at his lod- 

 gings m Rufsel-street, Blooms- 

 bury. Dr Hunter was called 

 in to see him, and declared 

 the wounds to be mortal. — A 

 degree of insanity is thought 

 to pervade the male branches 

 of this unfortunate family. 



January 31. his Majesty, at- 

 tended by his usual state, open- 

 ed the Sfefsiun of Parliament, by 

 a speech jrom the throne. 



The Dnrhels of York, was 

 yesterday in the house of peers, 

 while his raajesty read his speech. 



There were yesterday with- 

 in the bur of the house of peers, 

 'near 150 Ladies of the first di- 

 stinction. 



Feb. 3. The unfortunate 



Captain S d is declared by 



his Surgeons to be out of dan- 

 ger from the desperate wounds 

 he gsvi- himself in a fit of ue- 

 spai-. at his Jodgings in Great 

 Kulsel-stject. 



By accounts received with 

 the Swallow, we are liappy to 

 infr)rm the friends of the parties, 

 that Mr Drake a midrtiipman, 



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and three seamen belonghig to 

 the Hannibal, a seaman K,.long- 

 ing to the Foititude, and one 

 belonging to the Chaser, all of 

 whom were taken last war, have 

 escaped from Chitteldroog to a 

 Mahratta fort, and were ex- 

 pected daily to join the Bom- 

 bay detachment. 



During the last year 109 Hull 

 ftiips cleared out at Peterlhurgh. 



In the year i79i there en- 

 tered at the port of Liverpool, 

 403J vefsels, which paid dock 

 duties to the amount of L. 1 1 ,645 

 6 s. 6 d. Ks\ increase in tlie 

 last ten years of upwards of 

 L. 7000. 



The Morgan Rattler, smugg- 

 ling vefsel, that frequents the 

 Irith channel, and so barbarous- 

 ly and piratically treated one 

 of the Excise cutters on that 

 station, is now at Dunkirk, her 

 captain not being able to pre- 

 vail upon the crew to put to 

 sea in her, for fear of the out- 

 lawry that now hangs over them. 

 She is the fastest sailing lugger 

 in the world, and mounts 32 

 six pounders. 



Feb. 14. The hop planters 

 are to have a meeting this week, 

 in order to resist the increased 

 demand of tithes which has been 

 set up in some parts ot the coun- 

 try, A difterence between the 

 impropriator of tithes, and the 

 hop planters of the pariih of 

 Farnham, in Surrey, is to be 

 the ostensible cause of thi? 

 meeting ; 20 s. per acre has hi- 

 therto been paid ut that plac« 



