LON 
March, for the purpofe of the coroner’s inqueft. The 
furgeon who examined the body dated, that the child was 
perfefHy formed, except his head, which was deficient in 
the fuperior part an inch and a half: any preffure upon 
it mud have produced dangerous confequences; and he 
did not think it podible that the child could have fur- 
vived more than a few hours. The prifoners ufed no 
concealment; and it was clear that they acted under mif- 
taken apprehenfions as to the law, and thought they were 
judified in what they did. Several ladies gave them a 
mod excellent character for humanity. The evidence 
having been gone through, his lordfhip, in his addrefs to 
the jury, faid, “ I think this profecution may be of great 
life to the public, in removing an erroneous opinion, that 
the law allows the right of deliberately taking away the 
life of a human being under any circumdances whatever. 
It is therefore highly necefiary that the contrary diould 
be known.” The jury found the prifoners guilty, but 
recommended them to mercy, on account of the midaken 
notion under which they acted. His lorddiip faid he 
diould not pafs fentence upon the prifoners, but diould 
write by that night’s pod to the fecretary of date, to make 
a reprefentation of the cafe to the prince-regent.—They 
were pardoned. 
Another new comet was difcovered on the 20th of 
July by M. Pons, at Marfeilles, and on the id of Augud 
following by M. Bouvaid at Paris. According to the 
calculations of thefe aftronomers, it paffed its perihelion 
on the 15th of September, at 32' 27" pad one in the morn¬ 
ing, when its didance from the fun, taking that of the 
earth at unity, was 0T7835. In a very clear night, and 
in the abfence of the moon, it was jud vifible to the naked 
eye. The following remarks upon it are extracted from 
a paper read to the French Inditute on the 31 d of Au- 
g U ft : —“ The motion of the comet is direft : in addition 
to its flow motion, it affords a remarkable uniformity in 
longitude and latitude—and thefe two circumdances have 
rendered the calculations more difficult of execution. It 
approaches the earth very dowly. There are fome days 
when we know its place in the heavens, and when the ab¬ 
fence of the moon admits of our obferving it, on which 
it may be feen with the naked eye: its tail is nearly two 
degrees long. It may appear driking to thofe who diall 
be able to choofe a convenient time and place for obferv¬ 
ing it; but, whatever may be the favourable circumdances 
under which it prefents itfeif to our vifion in France, it 
is far from being fo luminous as the comet of lad year. 
But this is of little confequence to adronomers, who do 
not found their obfervations upon the fugitive characters 
which attend thefe phenomena. The comet in quedion 
was at fird feen and calculated upon without a tail, and 
might have difappeared in that date without caufing the 
lead regret among adronomers. If they now puriue its 
progrefs until it difappears, it will only be to perfeCt its 
elements, and to afcertain if their feries' of obfervations 
furnidies any index on the fubjedt of its revolution. At 
prefent 
The longitude of its afcending node is 253 0 18' 50" 
That of the perihelion on the orbit - - 91 58 30 
Its inclination on the ecliptic - - - 74 20 30 
The ceremony of depofiting in Whitehall-chapel the 
eagles and colours heroically W'reded from the French in 
Spain, took place on the 30th of September. Soon after 
nine in the morning, the fird regiment of guards, who 
were to do the duty of the day, formed on the parade 
facing the Horfe-guards, with their right reding on the 
wall of the Treafury. On their left the fecond regiment 
formed, with fide-arms only, their left terminating near 
the great gun. The third regiment, alfo, with fide-arms 
only, formed with the Admiralty-garden in their rear. 
On their left were ftationed, with fixed bayonets, thirty 
rank and file of grenadiers of the fird regiment, thirty of 
the fecond, and thirty of the third, and nine ferjeants, 
who were to carry the eagles and colours. The line was 
continued to the Horfe-guards 5 and confided of the horfe 
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and foot artillery dationed in the metropolis, with the 
feveral recruiting-parties belonging to the cavalry and in¬ 
fantry. In the rear of the drd iine, facing the Horfe- 
guards, were formed the two regiments of life-guards, 
with their full bands, their left extending to the wall of 
Carlton-houfe. About half-pad nine, general fir Harry 
Burrard arrived, and afiumed the command, when the 
bands belonging to the three regiments, in their full drefs, 
took their dations, each in the centre of its regiment. 
Soon after ten o’clock, the duchefs of York arrived ; her 
majedy and the princeffes, in two carriages, foon followed, 
and were received by the troops with prefented arms, the 
different bands playing “ God lave the king.” They then 
took their dation in the levee-room of the Horfe-guards, 
which commands a view of the parade. The prince- 
regent, on a white charger, came from Carlton-houfe at 
half-pad ten, accompanied by the duke of York on foot, 
the duke of Kent, colonels Bloomfield, Congreve, and 
Torrens, and feveral other officers, on horfeback. His 
royal highnefs, on reaching the parade, was received with 
the ufual honours, and took his dation in front. The 
prince-regent then proceeded to the right of the line, ac¬ 
companied by his royal brothers, their aides-de-camp, 
&c. and paffed down the whole, the duke of York on- 
foot at his right hand, and again refumed his dation. The 
ufual ceremony of the parade commenced ; the bands be¬ 
longing to the fecond and third regiments proceeding to 
troop the colours. This being gone through, the fubdi- 
viiions of grenadiers dationed on the left of the line were 
ordered to wheel on the right, and, preceded by the band 
of the fird regiment, marched round the fquare, and halt¬ 
ed facing the Tilt-yard. At this indant the bands of the 
horfe and foot regiments began playing; and the eagles, 
five in number, were brought out and given to the fer¬ 
jeants, who marched in the rear of the fird fubdivifion. 
Three dandards, and one regimental colour, were next 
brought, and given to the remaining ferjeants, who 
marched in the rear of the fecond fubdivifion. The band 
of the fird regiment began the Grenadiers March, and 
they proceeded round the fquare. On reaching the da¬ 
tion of the prince-regent and the royal family, the eagles 
and colours were lowered amid the acclamations of thou- 
fands of fpeftators. The three fubdivifions then halted, 
and advanced their arms, and in ordinary time paraded 
round. On reaching the colours of the fird regiment, the 
whole of the trophies were lowered to the ground. They 
again paffed the royal family, the eagles and colours be= 
ing dropped, and marched through the Horfe-guards to 
Whitehall-chapel. The remainder of the infantry were 
ordered to wheel on their left backwards, and, in open 
order, paffed the prince-regent to the chapel, with the 
exception of the guard for the day : the life-guards fol¬ 
lowed in the fame manner, and occupied their original 
ground. The prince-regent, dukes of York and Kent, 
See. proceeded to Whitehall to hear divine fervice. The 
concourfe of people sffembled on the occafion was i.n- 
menfe; and the lpeftacie altogether was of the moff grati¬ 
fying defeription. It was irnpoffible to view, without 
feelings of exultation, thefe trophies which bore witnefis 
to the prowefs of Lritifit foldiers, and which were won 
from no defpicable enemy, but from troops whofe mili¬ 
tary reputation ftands fo high in Europe. The eagles 
*were five in number. Two of them, taken at the battle 
of Salamanca, were very much mutilated; two others, 
taken at Madrid, were in a more perfect ftate; and the 
fifth, we underhand, was found in the channel of a fiream 
near Ciudad Rodrigo, into which it was thrown when 
the rear of Maffena’s army was clofely preffed by the Bri- 
tilh cavalry, on its retreat from Portugal. There were 
alfo four ftandards : but they were in fuch a tattered lfate, 
that there was not a device or letter legible. The garri- 
fon-fiag of Badajoz was like a fieve, and great part of it 
quite red with human blood. 
Di ury-Lane Theatre opened on Saturday the ioih of 
Oitober, with Hamlet, to aa immenfe audience. The 
public 
