ter reading the proclamation here by Richmond Herald, the procesion moved on to the Royal Exchange, where the proclamation was read for the last time by Rouge Croix Pursuivant. An inquisition was lately taken, at the town of Ponte pool, on the body of John Saunders, blacksmith of that place, when, dreadful to relate! the jury, after a minute investigation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against W. Saunders, the father of the deceased, who is committed to Monmouth jail, to take his trial at the next assize. His death was occasioned by the firing of a gun at him, loaded with powder and shot, on the preceding Saturday night, about nine o'clock, as he was returning home from market, within a few yards of his father's door, where he was found on the ground in the agonies of death, in a few minutes after, the whole having penetrated one side of his chest and lungs: the report of the gun being heard all through the town, caused universal alarm. It appeared that they had lived in enmity for some time, and that the father had kept a gun loaded in his house for the diabolical purpose for near a fortnight past, which was soon after, on search, found above stairs newly discharged. REPARTEE. The son of a Scots Marquis, who has seen much service on the continent, was lately accosted by a friend in Bond-street, who facetiously desired, "that, as hostilities were over, his whiskers might be put upon a peace establishment."-"To that I have no objection," was the answer; "but I desire that, at the same time, your tongue may be put on the civil list.” The amount of Lord Kenyon's acquired property proves to have been full £400,000-his paternal estate did not exceed £700 per ann. Buonaparte is become the patron of Maria Cosway, and often attends her in the Louvre, to see her give the finishing touches to her copy of the chef d'œuvre of Paul Veronese. Carleton-House, May 10, 1802.-The Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint William Adam, Esq. one of his Majesty's council, to be his Royal Highness's solicitor general. His majesty has been graciously pleased to signify his commands that, in consideration of the very meritorious services of the marines during the late War, the corps shall in future be styled the royal marines. By command of their Lordships. EVAN NEPEAN. CLERGY NON-RESIDENCE BILL.-The bill brought in by Sir W. Scott exonerates the clergy from penalties incurred for non-residence, and enables them to take legal steps to discontinue actions that have been brought. Such contracts as they may have entered into previous to the passing of this act, and agreeable to its spirit, are declared good. Spiritual persons holding any benefice, parsonage, &c. are declared capable of taking lands, and buying and selling cattle for profit, provided they do not do so in person in public market. They are likewise capable of farming lands, &c. in their parishes, and out of them, by permission of the Bishop. The penalties for non-residence are altered. Persons (having only one thing) absent without leave for three months (to be reckoned at different times within the year), is to be one fourth of the value of the living, and so on in proportion for longer periods, to three fourths; one third, with costs, to go to the informer, the rest to Queen Anne's bounty. Bishops may grant licences for causes shown, illness, want of a fit residence, &c. and if the bishop refuses, an appeal lies to the archbishop. All licences to be regis tered and open to inspection. Licences may be plead in bar actions for penalties. Bishops are enabled to issue monitions to clergymen holding livings, to reside upon them, and perform the duties thereof, to which returns are upon oath to be made within thirty days. In case of non-compliance, if required, the profits of the living to be sequestered until the motions are complied with, or sufficient reasons for non-residence stated and proved. Appeals to the archbishop of the province are allowed. It is provided that if any clerk shall continue under such sequestration for the space of three years, the parsonage, &c. in relation whereto the said non-residence shall have committed, shall become ipso facto void, and the patron shall present another clerk thereto.-It is provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to extend, to alter, or affect his majesty's royal prerogative in the granting of dispensations for non-residence upon benefices, as the same exists by law at present. At the last Westminster sessions, William Webb, a blacksmith, was tried on an indictment for throwing a quart bottle from the gallery at Covent-Garden theatre, upon the stage, which struck Mr. Betterton, while he was performing, for which he was found guilty, and sentenced to three months imprisonment in bridewell. We hope this will be a caution to all persons how they commit similar offences, as the chairman, in his address to the prisoner, gave him to under stand, that if the bottle had struck Mr. Betterton on the head, it might have killed him, and, in that case, the prisoner would have been found guilty of murder, and might have been executed. The treasury of Drury-lane theatre was robbed on Tuesday night, April 20th. The plunder was effected by breaking open the desk of Mr. Peake, the treasurer. Fortunately, no greater sum than 50 guineas was found. An enquiry has been set on foot, but no discovery has resulted from it. A very unfortunate accident happened lately in Kingroad, by which the eight following persons lost their lives, viz. Mr. James, sadler, on St. Michael's Hill, Bristol; his brother, Mr. James, truss-maker, Redcliff-street; and two other of their brothers: also, Mr. Price, sworn measurer, and Mr. Henry Stockham, baker, Redcliff-street; together with two children, one belonging to Mr. James, and the other to Mr. Stockham. They had set off in a boat in the morning (it being a holiday) to amuse themselves on the water, and having got into Kingroad, were sent about a mile and a half from Portishead Fort, steering towards the Welch coast, near which place are some very dangerous sand banks, and it is supposed that the boat struck on one of them, and immediately overset, as she was afterwards discovered with her keel uppermost; but we do not find there were any witnesses to the accident, the whole of the party being drowned. It is truly melancholy to consider that this awful circumstance has deprived three women of their husbands, and fourteen children of their fathers; six of whom belonging to Mr. Stockhain, who buried his wife within these four months, are become orphans. It has been accurately ascertained, that potatoes being washed, and afterwards cut into slices in a mill, or by any other mechanical mode, and then dried on a malt-kiln till all the moisture be exhausted, may be certainly preserved for many years, and be as fit for use afterwards as before they were dried. They have also been peeled, and then sliced and dried hard enough to bear grinding in a common grist-mill, from whence the flour has been barrelled and sent to the West Indies, and returned to this country, the whole process taking up four years; when both the potatoes, slices, and meal, were as good and free from mould, or any bad flour, as when they were first manufactured. The celebrated doctor Franklin recommends bread treated after the same process, as the best for a sea-store. It is first sliced and then baked. This, he says, was the original biscuit, pain biscuit-twice baked. It is calculated, by Mr. Jackson of Highgate, that without the expenditure of any thing which would not otherwise go to waste, ten millions of dunghill fowls might be constantly kept in Great Britain and Ireland; these might supply twelve millions of chickens and old fowls for the table, at the average value of fifteen pence each; in the whole £.750,000 sterling. They would afford also for the table, twenty-four millions of eggs, worth, at one halfpenny each, £. 50,000 sterling. Thus, the annual produce of our dunghill fowls alone, might raise provisions to the value of £. 800,000, from a capital stock of the same value, entirely without the expence of labour or food that does not otherwise go to waste. FRANCE. The class of moral and political science of the French Institute has resolved that a gold medal, of five hectograins, shall be given to the author of the best essay on the following question, to be delivered in before the 5th of April, 1803 :-What has been the influence of the reformation of Luther, on the political situation of the different states of Europe, and on the progress of knowledge?" The Class of Literature and fine Arts has proposed this question :-" What is the influence of painting on the arts of commercial industry? What advantage does the state derive from this influence, and what may be still farther expected from it?" The same class has also proposed the following subject:-" A critical examination of the Greek and Latin authors who have written upon Egypt, from the earliest times to the period of the Crusades," The prizes for the best essays upon these two questions are to be of the same value as that given by the Class of Moral and Political Science. The question proposed by the Mathematical and Physical Class is" What are the characters which distinguish in vegetable and animal matters, those which excite from those which destroy fermentation." The prizes will be adjudged at the sitting of the Institute, on the 4th of July, 1803. It may not be amiss to mention, for the sake of those who intend going to France, that at Dover it is necessary to present the passport to the collector of the customs for his signature, and send the baggage to the Custom-house to be inspected, without which it is impossible for any captain of a vessel to receive any one on board. When the company have all assembled in the packet, a Customhouse officer inspects each person's passport, and unless it has been duly authenticated in the manner stated, no one can be allowed to quit the country. This is all the ceremony requisite on this side of the water, When the packet arrives at Calais, a Custom house officer comes on board, and takes the passports to be inspected at the Commissary General's office; and till permission is received from the Commissary General's office, strangers are not allowed to enter the town.La Visite de Personne, to which persons are subject on landing, is a mere ceremony; the officer civilly passing his hands over the pockets, both of ladies and gentlemen. The object is to prevent the introduction of contraband. People going abroad should be aware that gold and silver coin is liable to be seized. The Prince of Wale's claims are to be heard by petition in Chancery. A very curious occurrence took place during the preparations made at the house of M. Otto for the general illumination, which daily attracted immense crowds to view them. Over his door was pat, in coloured lamps, the word, "Concord." A party of sailors going by the house, observed the characters, but read the word as conquered, upon which they began to make a row, and determined to have an alteration, swearing that the British navy had never been conquered. M. Otto came out to explain the word, but nothing would beat it out of the conception of the mob, that the meaning was, that the English are conquered by the French. Mr. Otto, finding his attempts at explanation fruitless, very good-naturedly ordered the offensive words to be removed, and that of Amity was substituted in its place. BIRTHS. The Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Grey, of a son and heir, at Little Aston Hall, in Staffordshire.-Lady Georgina Morpeth, of a son and heir. DIED. At her seat, at Wentworth Castle, Mrs. Hatfield Kaye, sister of the last Earl of Strafford. At Hambledon, in the county of Bucks, in the 76th year of her age, Mrs. Surtees, relict of Aubone Surtees, Esq. of Benwell, Northumberland, and mother-in-law of the Lord Chancellor. At Bath, the Rev. Mr. Nelson, Rector of Burnham Thorpe, in Norfolk, and father of the gallant Lord Nelson, in the 19th year of his age. At Warminster, T. Warren, Esq. aged 85. He had in his house £10,000. in cash at his death. At Bath, Mrs. Williams, wife of C. Williams, Esq. and youngest daughter of the late Sir John Gibbons, Bart. and Knight of the Bath. Lately, at Strabane, Sir John Stewart Hamilton, Bart. many years representative in Parliament for that town. At Brighthelmstone, in 67th year of his age, Mr. Peter Elmsley, formerly a bookseller in the Strand.On Monday se'nnight, Sir Robert Smith, formerly member for Colchester, and lately a Banker at Paris. Andrew Layton, Esq, merchant of Throgmorton street. At Bath, General Adeane, Colonel of the 45th regiment, Member for Cambridgeshire, and one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Bedchamber. In Bedford-Square, Job Mathew, Esq. of Woodford, Essex, Governor of the Bank. At Menlough, in Ireland, Sir Walter Blake, Bart. aged 65 years.Also, on the same day, Lady Blake, aged 80 years. They had been married upwards of 60 years. MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR JUNE, 1802. Embellished with A PORTRAIT OF CAPEL LOFFT, ESQ ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE. PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, By J. Uright, No. 20, Denmark-Court, Strand, And published by VERNOR and HOOD in the Poultry; Sold, also, by all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom. |