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FUNDS. 
Stock-Exchange, Nov. 26, 1796. 
HE ‘ufperfe if which the public remains, 
‘ refpecting the nature and extent of the 
loans that the minifter will require for the cn- 
fuing. yeary fo far affects the funds, that little 
bufinefs ‘sas been tranfacted dwing the month. 
The market is flat, and Stocks are lower than 
they were this day month, by 3 per cent. 
"Bank Srock, on the 27th of laft month, 
was at 1461; fell, on the 3d of the prefent, to 
144; and was yetterday, 25th, at 143. 
-§ PER CENT. ANN. Were, on the 27th of laft 
month, at $75; fell, on the 3d prefent, to $45 
and were yefterday, 25th, at $53. 
_4 PER CENT. CONS. were, on the 27th of latt 
month, at 75; fell, on the 3d of the prefent, 
to 72; and were yeiterday, the asth, at 722. 
3 PER CENT. CONS. were, on the 27th of 
laft month, at 57; fell, on the 3d of the préfent, 
to 56; rofe againg on the rath, to 573; and were 
yefterday at’ 563. 
EncLis# Lettrery Tiexets are from 
42)... 7 1s. to YZE. 12s. 
Irisa do. at 64. 128. 
NB. Navy and Wreruatttne Brits, 
dated from the xft of Oétober, 1795, to 31ft Oc- 
tober, 1796, are fundable, 
The Transfer Books for 3 per cent. confols. fhut. 
on 2d December, and open on zoth January, 
17973 and forthe 5 percent. on the 7th of De- 
cember, and open ca 23d January, 1797.- 

DOMESTIC IN 
*[ HE gth, being Lord Mayor’s day, the 
new Lord Mavor, Brook Watson, efq. 
was fworn ins the afival proceffions, &c. were 
much inferier. in fyle-dour to thofe of former 
‘years. \ 
by the populace to the late Lord Mayor (Mv. 
Curtis) -2nd to Mr, Pitt, whofe carriage was 
hreken, and covered with mud.—The Duke of 
York, Prince Erneft,, Mr. Fox, and the Aldex- 
~ynen Skinner’ and Combe, had their horfes 
taken from their carsiages, and were drawn _by 
an immen(e. multitude, amidft the moft ar- 
Gent acclamations. 
~ On Monday, the 14th, a riot took place in 
Broad-fireet, St. Giles’s, oxiginating from’ a 
number of Inifamen, &c. wherein feveral per- 
fons were defocratciy wounded. 
A fimilar afray happened a few nights be- 
fore, among a number of perfons of the farne 
defcription, at Cow-crofs, in Smithfreid, in 
which. befides many being wounded, a peace 
efficer loft bis hfe. 
_ Qn the zsth,.a bey, only eight years of 
ace, was charged betore Mr. Forp, the magif- 
trate, with a deliberate burglary, in which he 
himfelf was the caly party co:cerned. Being 
too young an ohje& for profécution, he was 
eommmitted to the care of that very uieful infti- 
“tution, the fociety for phi‘anthropic reform, > 
On Wedaeiday, the 16th, the nomination of 
a candidate to. reprefent the borough of Seuth- 
werk, tcok place—Mr. PurLttuson, who 
had been before returned, -having been fet 
afide by a eommittee of the Houle of Com- 
mons, for violating the aét of William iff, re- 
‘lative to entertaining the eleétors. nthe 
“prefent nomination, Mr, THELLUSON was 
propoted again by Mr. R. C. Smits, and 
Mr TrIeRNEY, the nnfuccefsful candidate in 
the laft conte, was prapofed by Mr. Arcock. 
‘On Friday the poll commenced, and o: ‘that 
#23, atthe clofu, the 'ntmbersftood, for 
MroDierngy --) = 8989 
ie by ~ . 
BILE Gus. Thelen = gagis 
fuch indignant refentment was fhown - 
TE. 1d be ee 
On Saturday, at the clofe, the numbers were, 
for Mr. Tiemey - = 823 
Mr. Thellufon = 829 
And en Monday,, for 
Mi, Tierney = = -to4g 
Mr. Thellufen’ =. aa 56 
When Mr. Thellufon swas rcturned—Mr. 
Tierney having declined continue the poil, 
as he confidered Mr, Fhelluf or inc ligible, after 
the late decifion of the H wufe of Commons. 
On Thuifday, the r7th, two more powder- 
roills blew up at Whitin, on Hountlow-heath, 
by Which fix perfons loft their lives. - ‘This is 
the third aecident of the kind that has occurred. 
on that fpot in the prefent year. 
On the roth, 2 new epera, intitled, Abroad 
and at Home, from the pen of Mr. HoumAn, 
was performed with applaufe, at Covent-Garden 
thectre. 
On Monday, the 21ft, Mr. Jospru BurKs, 
a bookfeller, of Sun-ftre t, Moor-tields, was. 
brought up to receive the judgment of the- 
cou t of King’s-bench, for vending a pamphlet, 
fiace proved to be a like’, intitled, «¢ The Dus. 
ties of C:tizenthip, &c.’” Mr. Justice Asi- 
HURsT pronounced the judgment of the court 
mS That he be kzt to hard labour in the heufe, 
of correction, at Ci.rkenwell, for the term of twe 
years, and that at the expiration of that time, he 
a9 enter into a recogrixamee of Scols for himfsf, 
for his good behaviour for feven years,” 
Anexperiment was lately made, in Hyde- 
park, before the Duke .of York, &c. of a 
carriagey on anew conftiuGion, for the con-. 
veyance of troops, &c. froma place torplace. It 
is a li:ht waggon, drawn by fix hories abreatt, 
eharaeffed as for a coach, and ridden by two 
poftiliions, This machine is fo contrived, as te: 
be able to carry 50 men, accommo. ated with 
feats, one higher than- the other, who may fit 
with eafe, while the arias and bagea.e are des 
pofited -in a narrow cheft-in ‘the ‘centre, “It 
will travel nearly as. fat as a flage-coach; and. 
attorded entire fatisfaclion in ihe expe: iment. 
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