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DOMESTIC 
> [July, 
INCIDENTS, 
In Great-Britain and Ireland. 
R. CarMm. Smitu’s mode of preventing, 
or ftopping contagious difeaies on fhip- 
board, by nitrous fumigation, is now generally 
adopted throughout the Britif’ navy. This 
difcovery has been alfo-taken up lately by the 
court of Spain, which has ordered the tranfla- 
tion of the Doétor’s treatife into the Bie 
language, and direéted a fimilar procefs to be 
obferved in the Spanith marine. 
It has been lately decided, in the Court of 
King’s Bench, that anaffignment of canal thases, 
by an original fub{criber, to another perfon, dif- 
charges the former from all future refponfibt- 
lity, Sc. 
A plen for an armed affociation of houfe- 
keepers has been fent by Government to every 
parifh in the kingdom. 
The number of newfpapers fent thr ugh the 
General Poft-office, on Monday, July 3, was 
24,700 3; and on the Monday following, only 
16,800—a falling-of of nearly one THIRD! 
The petition of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, 
and its vicinity, for the difmiffion of minifters, 
was fubfcribed by nearly 11,000 inhabitants, 
Sir J. Buaquiere afferted lately in the 
Houle of Commons of Ireland, that, on an 
average of fix years, 22,000 infants had -been 
admitted into the Foundling Hofpital at Dublin; 
of which number, 19.600 had been unaccount~ 
ed for. He added, that he had xeafon to believe, 
that the children died in great numbers, from 
want of food and other neccffaries One woman 
had conteffed herfelf to be THE MURDERER 
(OF TEN! 
Mr. D. Dace, proprietor of the extenfive 
cotton-mills, at Lanerk (Scotland) deferves to 
pe noticed in this Mifcellany, as one’ of the 
moft valuable members of fociety in the age in 
which he lives. His whole agabhihenent con- 
fifis of 5000 ee Oe and ev uee who 
all depend on his. philanthropy for their daily 
fupport. They live together in one fociety, 
organized by his wifdom and humanity 5 and 
under his patronage have been bern and edu- 
cated in the principles of induftry and good mo- 
rals, all the rifing generation of the fraternity, 
to the number of feveral hundreds. 
The number of privates appointed to ferve 
in the new Scotch militia Is not to exceed fix. 
thoufand: 
- A number of gentlemen engaged in the bu- 
finefs of bleaching, in the counties of Renfrew 
and Lanerk' (Scotland) prefented lately to Mr. 
“OW. Coweer, furgeon, of Glafgow, an elegant 
fervice of plate, worth one hundred guineas, as 
‘<¢ a teftimony of their gratitude, for communi- 
cating fome ufeful improvements in preparing 
the oxygenated bleaching Jiquor.”” 
Forty-nine Reading-Societies, furnifhed with 
libraries, have lately becn eftablithed in ciierent 
‘paris of Scotland. 
PUBLIC FUNDS. 
Stock- Exchan ge, Fuly 26, 1797- 
There has been little fluétuation ‘in the price 
of ftocks fince our laft. The unceitainty of 
fuccefs in the pending negociation keeps the 
funds nearly ftationary : and (except by holders 
of fcrip, to make good their payments) very 
little ftock has been brought to market. 
Banx Stock, on the 3oth lait month, was 
at 12623 rofe on 7th July to 128; td was 
yeheraiy, july 25, at 132. 
5 PER CENT. ANN, were, on the 7th of 
July at 763 ; roleon the 18th to 783 5 and 
were yefterday, the 25th, at 774. 
4 PER CENT. CONS. were, on the 3oth laft 
month, at 6433 rofe on 7th july to 6543 and 
were yefterday, 25th, at 653.*: : 
3. PER CENT. cons. were, on goth lait 
-month, at 543; fell on July nd pas and 
were yefterday, 26th, at 527. 
Lovaity Loan is at Difeo n 
The NEw Omnium at a Prez 


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Marriages in and near London. 
N. Peirfe, efquire, of Southampton-ftreet, 
Bloomibury, to Mifs Hamilton, of Lincoln’s- 
Inn-Fields. 
Wenceflaus, Count of the Holy Roman 
Empire, to Mifs. Cranftoun. 
T. Goodchild, efq. of Walton-upon-Thames, 
to Mifs Morgan, of Clapton. - 
B. Hart, efq. of the Middle Temple, to Mifs 
Thorol, of Harmftone-Haill, Lincoln 
At Riku, Lord Holland” te Lady 
Vafial. 
At Windfor, Mr. Meadows to Mifs Snow- 
don. 
Mr. D. Lloyd, of Drury-lane, to Mifs Mor- 
gan, of Short’s-Gardens. 
At Chelfea, R. North, efq. late ee to 
the Britifh forces on the continent, to Mifs 
Phillips, of Pimlico. \ 
Mr. Railton, of Ely-Place, to Mifs Pearce, 
of Stamford-ftreet, Blackfriars- Bridge. 
Mr. Lees, of the ordnance-office, Tower, to. 
Mifs Angell, of Camberwell. 
C, St. Hunter, efg. of Lincoln’s-Inn, to Mifs 
Free, of Broad- ftreet. 
W. A. Latham, efq. of Lincoln’s-Inn, to 
Mifs Miller. 
At St. Margaret’s, Wefiminfler, B. Wood- 
houle, efq. to Milfs S. White, of Park-Row, 
Knightfbridge. 
. Mr. Cooke, of Southampton-freet, Covent- 
Garden, to Mifs Coumbe, of Chandos-ffreet. 
At St. Margaret’s, Wefimintter, J. Pycroft, 
efq.. banker, of Burton. upon-Trent, to: Mrs, 
- Beaufoy, of Great George-ftreet. 
Mr. S. Robinfon, of Princes-itreet, to Mifs 
Waldegtave, of Bury St. Edmund’s, vs 
J. Webb, 
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