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GRAND MAGAZINE IN HYDE PARK. This building, which is in great forwardness, is upon an entirely new eonstruaion, and promises to be very beautiful. It is situate upon the right hand bank of the:Serpentine River, within a few yards of the wall ,of Kensiogton Garden. It will consist of two solid arched vaults, the walls of which are four feet thick. The mortar is a new sort of cement, called stopping mortar. Each arch is seventeen feet in the clear, and fourteen feet high ; the square of the two arches will be fifty•two feet by dirty-finir. The building will be surrounded by a yard 14 feet wide, with a strong exterior wall. There are to be two offices, a cooperage, and a guard room, divided by a screen of stone columns, with a stone front thirty feet in height. The floor of the Magazine eiil be oak planks, dove-tailed, without nails.— One hundred and fifty men are daily employed upon this work. The builders are Messrs. Adams and Robertson, who built the docks and ware houses for the West-India Company. Lord MOIRA is on a visit to the Duke of ATHOL, at Blair. Lord CASTLEREAGH gave a grand dinner on Saturday, to a large party of fashionables, at his villa, at East Sheen. Lord MELVILLE is on a visit to Mr. Purr at Walmer-Castle. We have authority to contradiet the paragraph, which has appeared in several papers, of the mar riage of Lord EARDLEY to Miss CHI IDERQ. The Dover correspondent of an eveeting piper will lower the price of coals, as he can supply plenty of firing. The Countess of UXBRIDGE left town on Sa turday, to visit her daughter, Lady Gsitsies, at her brentiful seat in Sussex. The Hon. Mr. Dv r r sported yesterday, in Hyde Park, his curious Arabian hunter. It is spotted like a leopard upon a dark cream coloured ground. Lord and Lady IIasELAGH are expt :led in town this day from Grange, where they have been since their nuptials. Countess CONYNGH AM will leave town to-mor row to join her husband, the Earl CO, YNGHANI. at Mount Charles, in the county of Donegal in Ireland. Sir H. MILDX A Y has given up his elegant town house in Stanhope-street. General LUMLEY is locum tenens for the Earl of ScAssosotGH, in his Lordship's elegant house in Park-lane. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gust:ernes will set off in a few days from Weymouth, to visit his son, Prince WILLI A st, now in Lancashire. Mr. C raIRF of the Circus will have reason to be in ;on, humour with his benefit, which is patronises.' by the Duchess of DLVONSHIRE. The Frerch sailors are great thierev. We hear constantly of "their tiozeing a:1 along shore." In the alphabet their are only four r;verv, viz, the Wye, the Ex, the Dee, and the Ems, and yet they are not all liquids. The remains of Mrs. Armee were removed, on Saturday, for interment, in the family vault at Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire. H a Royal highness Prince WILLIAM of Gi.ou eceise horoured the Liverpool Theatre with his presence, last Wednesday. to see T4e Coweiorea Lo wers, and Rfloe;itg the End. Mr. Lcwis's Tom, and Jerry Diddkr, and Mrs. GLOVER'S Phials, were inimitable performances. Mrs. MOUNTAIN performs her Lyric NJeel;ll at Sheffield, this night, for the benefit of Mr. LANZA, junursr. This night week Mr. M'Cseaoy promises to ex hibit the fefast Roscius, at the Sheffield Theatre. The Worcester Manager has nut been so fortunate; his promise is for next season. EMesY's benefit at the Liverpool Theatre was on Friday night last ; BAR ET MORE'S will be this night ; and Mrs. Gcovce's on Wednesday. Pizarro must appear to great advantage upon so grand a scene as the Opera House, which the taste and judgment of Mr. BLLISTON have seleCted fo:. its representation. The Hon. E. PAGET is row on a visit at Gin-ban:- bury, the seat of Lord Viscount GRIM:4I'ON, wink his intended bride, the Hon. Miss GRIMSrON But: Pi , is hourly expeCted. The Countess of CHARLIESIONT arrived in town yesterday, at her house in Berkley -square. The Bishop of KILDARE arrived in town on Saturday, at the house of his si ster , L a dy Anise Bteetano, in Berkley-square, from whence he set out yesterday, for 'Winipole Hall, the scat of the Earl of HARDWICKE, in Cambridgeshire. Lord G. L. Gowen left town on Saturday, to pay a farewell visit to the Duke of Besuroax, at Blandford P..rk, near Woodstock. The lion. Mrs. LiNDIAT gave yesterday an ele gant dinner, : t her beautiful villa at Hendon, to a Torge patty, incruding Colonel Go SOON Lady M. Po - nyrt, ecc. In half (lieu, it is very elegant style at Paris to wear ear-rings of a small gold ring, or per.dents son,isting of three large brilliants in a string. Has a Parisian etvgante a silk robe of hortexsia colour? Very set II; but Madame is not complete, tiniess it he trimmed all round with a trimming in imitatirn of fur, made of cotton, half white, and half rose colour. This is an entirely new invention. The fashionable colour for the body of a carriage at Paris is American gre, n, or rent d'eas (water ,grren) and creamed collie. In figure it is a globe. Among the Toasts drank at the entertainment given on Wednesday se'noight at Belfast, by the Corporation of that town, to the Earl of HARD WICK E, were, Th^ Ching Merchantmen, and the DANCI they 'hewed the French. Ntly ti7cne who cannot dipit a Kind, be obliged to swallow ant•lrev•.i. On Thursday se'nnight Sir Joists Nawroar, Bart. was elegantly entertained in Dungarvon, by the principal inhabitants and Elesftors of that bo rough. Matlock is at present a scene of great gaiety ; etyma seventy Gentlemen and Ladies dine daily at tashionable ordinary, where there is a profusion of Come. it is said that Mr. 11:.:er, the antagonist of Lord sw.roan, was on board one of the packets, wi:ich svas lately captured, after a short engage ment with a l'rench privateer, in the West Indies. It is rep: rtelf that Mr. 11. was killed in the action. imiirAL WLYMOUTR, SEPT. 8. London was never in more hustle when His MA JESTY reviewed the Volunteers in Hyde Park, than we were this morning fur the grand review and sham fight between all the regiments stationed here, which tuok place in the presence of His NIAJEir y, and it being generally reported that it would be the grandest military spectacle that ever was seen in this part of the country, great numbers of all descriptions were attracted for upwards of twenty miies round. Early in the morning His MAJESTY took his usual ride on horseback, and returned to the Lodge to breakfast, after which His M s.icsr v mounted his charge!, accompanied by the Dukes of Cum ELK L•N D, CA se !is 11)(4E, and GUM:CIA L'E it, attended by Lord Ris• Efts, Generals CARTWRIGOT , FITZRO V, (;ART It, &c. followed by Her MAJ EST Y, the PaiNc essi.s, Princess Sor NIA. of Gloucester t and their attendants followed in all the Royal Carriages that are here, and also by a number of Royal grooms, with led saddle horses, and the whole formed a very grand cavalcade. They proceeded in this style to Binicomb Downs, where the review was to take place. On His MAJESTY'S entrance on the Downs, he WA. joined by the Earls CAMDEN, Uxe a oca, Rosst.v w, Lord Rot. I- c, and a number of other persons of distioclion. His MAJESTY was received at the head of each regiment, by their dif ferent Commanding Office' His MAJESTY passed each regiment, which bad f.errned lines in open of der, while their several bands ware playing G.d ::aor the King, and their colours flying. His MAJESTY rode in his usual style of condescension, with his hat off. After this ceremony, the review commenced, which the Downs are extiemely well calculaec.t to display. The sham fight was kept up with very g , e,i• .pirif, which, as usual, finished, as we hope it always will in reality, in conepfei ing the enemy. The sv,•ather being remarkably fine ten dm :A the scene truly uelight(uL . The grcatest crowd Jeer remembered :a this coua*y were present ; car riages of all descriptions, horsemen, and persons on foot innumerable, were preseat, we did not hear of any accident. lifter the review was ever, din,ser for upwards of 290iper3ons was orc , ..r.:i .t: the etoy,tl I lotel. In the evening the ROYAL FAMILY honoured the theatre with their presence, to see Tie Aferrhant of Venice. Shglick, Mr. SANDYOAD, and Portia, Min 1)e CA Mr. The farce was The Poor Soldier. Patrick, Miss Da CAMP. This is the last night but three nt this lady's engagement, being obliged to be in London to). in the Toll call of New Drury. this morning early, the Dukes of CANSRIDGI and Gtoucsstan bathed. DONCASTER, Sart. 7. Lord Eardley has presented this Corporation with an elegant portrait of His '•lajesty, painted by Woodforde, which is to be put up in the Mansion. House. It is a copy of an original portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the year 1778, and placed in the Council-Chamber of the Royal Academy ; and which has always been considered as the most proper portrait of His Majesty to be copied for our Ambassadors to take with them to fore *n courts. His Majesty is represented in the prime of life, and the likeness of him is known to have been excellent at that time. He is sitting in the ancient coronation chair, and cloathed in his Royal Robes, bcc. so as to produce the most splendid and dignified effea. Mr. Woodforde has been very successful in the above painting, which will long remain a testimony of thd great ability of the artist ; and we presume to add, that his Lordship's munificence could not have been more happily dileaed, us a mark of his respea to the Mayor and Corporation (4 which he is a Mem ber), and to the town in general, than in the pre sentation of a portrait of " The Father of his Pee -I,lc, our beloved Sovereign." The enlargement of our Grand Stand, by a con siderable addition erected at each end, renders it, we believe, one of the first strualres of the kind in the kingdom. It exceeds York Stand in extent in front, and will accommodate nearly double the num ber of pec.ple which it would have before contained. The style of architeaure is much admired, and dis plays great taste and genius. The Weymouth Mail did not arrive in London till past one o'clock on Saturday, instead of nine. The delay was occasioned by the Mail being overturned about nine miles beyond Salisbury, and three miles from any house. Mr. EAST, the Messenger, and Mr. BAR CLII, the Proprietor if the Panorama, were passengers in it. Mr. EAST received severe bruises on his head and neck, and Mr. BARK Ea in his hands and head. The Mail was so much injured that it could not proceed till it was repaired, which induced Mr. Ex,r, after getting his wounds dressed, to purstv his journey to town in a post-chaise, with the dispatches horn His MAC EST Y to Ministets; but, owing to the exhausted state of the post horses, on account of the crowds that are flocking to Wey mouth, the MO overtook him when he got to Eg ham, which induced him to get into the Mall again. Mr. EAST was so extremely ill when he arrived in London, that hewas obliged to be conveyed home in a hackney coach. 'The accident was occasioned by the mail running upon a beak. The number of Marine Officers who, after many years of service, ceasing to be effea:ve, were per mitted to retire on full pay, was, by the Lords of the Admiralty, on Friday augmented by four Cap. tains and three I ientenants. The Naval Administration, by an order dated last Friday, established a Marine Artillery ; from which we confidently prela vinsequences the most im pnnantly beneficial. Three companies of ninety two men each, cotr.prising a Captain, three First and five Second *.icuttnants, arc to be immediately trained at Woolwich: the Ent Company being af terwards to be stationed at Chatham, thi: Second at Portsmouth, and the 1 bird at Plyin iath, for the nurpobecf progressively instrutling the whok Corps in regular Gunnery; by our Naval skill and valour will be rendered still more effestive, and, in the event of debarkation, we shall always have a numerous body ready to contend with the enemy in the only science is which tuey have heretofore ex celled us. J.4.114TCA. • • • etesdit'ot; JULY 14.. Seven cartel , . viz, the Aferia,• Ng'Maw, Sri Nymph, From ;; tt t Irmonals, Arcade and Pagv, sailed from Port Royal f or F rance on t h e 11th, with loners of of war. The Desiree, Aftgawine; and Vici arrived at Port Royal on the 9th, from a mice, with a small frigate belonging to the Blvicht. A private of the 4th battalion, 60. th regiment, named Barcne, was shut on the sth, for frequent desertion. The Raaq sloop, and her convoy, hairJ , arrived, and the Honduras ships have proceeded to their place of destination. A wanton murder was committed on the 7th inst. in the parish of St. Mary. A negro fellow named Scipin, belonging to Haywood-hall, whose wife had left him, and gone to reside in a house with some others, be tween the hours of ten and eleven at night, went and set fire to the thatch, but it being damp, it was discovered and got under. He then went to a corn-piece, where three watchmen were stationed at different places, armed with a bayonet on a stick, and, after aw.er—iing the first, and having some conversation, he watched an opportunity when the old man's back was. to him, and stab bed him twice near the shoulder ; the poor man had strength left to wrest the .bayonet from him ; but from loss 0 blood, fainted, and when he recovered, found him gone. He then went to the second, as is supposed, and ran him through the breast. as he was found alive, but speechless, and espied in a few hours after he was brought home. He then went to the third, and after tak ing out a bottle of rum and a cup from his wallet, proposed the watchman should drink with him, but, stispefling the other only wanted to get him drunk and then rob him, lie declined it, when the fellow stabbed him twice in the back, and then made off. After being missing some days, he was found hang ing to a me adjianing the canes. The Coroner ordered his body to he burnt, and his head to be put on the top of the millhause, which was done. The two watchmen, it is to be hoped, will recover, al though both very ill. DUBLIN, STMR 5. The camp at the Curragn was to have broken up last night or this morning. Lady Hardwicke has arrived at Phoenix I..(Ndge, where the Loid lieutenant is expeeted this evening. Friday, Gen. I.)yott sailed for England, in con sequence of orders sent to Waterford by express, re. immediate attendance at Weymouth on the psi son of His Majesty. His Staff remains the same a, before his departure. Atiout eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, up wards of twenty prisoners confined in the Provost, escaped from thence, by means that it was impo.si ble for human foresight to guard against. Sonie time since, two persons sent for a Magistrate, by permission of Major Sandys, on pretence of giving information, in which, however, the Magistrate pea ceived they were not sincere, and di.tnissed them. In a short time after, they applied to the Deputy Provost Nlaishal, requesting he would permit them to reside it the condemned cell, to avoui the other prisoners, as they threatened their lives for having given information. The Marshal, not knowing, as they did, the weakness of the cells, which ought to have been the strongest part of the prison, granted their request ; the consequence of which was the escape of Sunday. Parties of cavalry and infantry were immediately sent by Sir Charles Asgill, under the direihion of Justice Bail, in pursuit of them, hut for the present they have escaped. There were in formations against most of these persom for aftual rebel:ion. Patrick Farrell, who was lately apprehended at the Curragh, in an attempt to circulate counterfeit Bank of Ireland Tokens, was convicted on Sa'urdav last, before Samuel .'Montgomery, Eiq. a magistrate of the county of Kildare, for having ten such coun terfeits in his possession,withunt being able to assign a satisfaCtory reason for the custody of them; Ilse case being most clearly established, he witi adjudged to pay. a fine of 501. being a: the rate of five pounds for each of the ten counterfeits, agreeably to the Ad of Parliament recently passed for the protedion of the Bank Token currency.—Not being able to pay the fine, an imprisonment for three calendar months, was, in conformity with the provisions of the alt, substituted in place of the penalty. He was accordingly forthwith committed to the common gaol of Naas, there to be kept to hard labour dur mg the period of his imprisonment. A Letter from Bussotah, by the late Mail, states, that it 11317/. WECHAI had been attacked near Gedda by the PacliA, and, after a desperate crinfli3, routed with immense slaughter. 'I he insurgents retreated in great confusion, and the desart, for a considerable distance, was strewed with the killed and wounded; most of the latter were left to perish. In consequence of this event, a :etyma ceremonial took place at Gedda, to celebrate the victory of the Faithful over the enemies of the Noy's sr, and the news diffw.e.l joy throughout the Turkish Empire. Several of the Chieftains of the Mahratta confe deracy have disbanded their forces, and obtained permission to retire to Poenah, where they are to en joy certain stipends from the revenues of the Pcisrt %ea. Esser ROA, HUI vet;ST ROA, RAGAN ATLI and BALLS, lately in confederacy with the Prastrwa, have retired into their respedive distrids. The British Government has deposed the trouble some Zemindar of 1i )4 ssoonv, and appointed his son to succeed him. On Monday last, accounts were received in Dub lin, from Enniskillen, announcing the death off" the Hon. and Rev. W. Moseoomiav Cott, third ton of the late Earl of ENNISKILL tR, and brother to the present Earl. He was a young centlernan, of the most amiable qualities, and h id been recently ap pointed by his E‘ceilency, Earl HARDWICK', the congen;al patron of talents and virtue, to the Dea nery of Waterford, vacant by the promotion of the Right Rev. Dr. 131.• rsost. He went to bed perfealy well on Saturday night, and was found dead next morning. He was in his 31st year. Average Prices of British Corn, in England and Wales. from the Returns received in tne week, ended the lst September.—Wheat, 665. .sd. lice, 40s. parley. 3 Ls. 101 O,tts, 475. 5.1. &ins, 41s. 7d. Pease, 495. Bd. Oatmeal, 445. 91. Beer or B•g, 13.1. Sill RIFF': COURT, SEPT. T. FONSACRE V. ortiri , vits. The Plaintiff i. a widow woman, and deal toys ; the Defendant a law writer. It appe4 that the laver had bespoke a rncking•horse fvr inn, and the price agreed on was three guineas. was to'have an additional stirrup, with a shoe at end, and also a-temporary peg ta, e.s in on the r side the saddle, that his da Aghter migut occasion use it. The horse was sent home; but Miss Co: not keep in the temporary peg, and every canter took, brought her to the ground. When the P 1 tiff sent in her bill, the fault was explained, with additional intimation, that if it could nrt be medied, she might take back her ill-constru poney. The Plaintiff, thinking the objeflion an cute tor non-payment, called upon the Defend and abused him with extreme grossness. The fendant told her he would have no noise In his ho and, if the persisted in her scurrility, he would i her out. Mn. P. grew more violent, 4nd ued opprobrioni language; upon which the Defenc turned her from his passage, and shirt the duo her-fiee. This war, the Alleged assault; hut these did not appear to h..ve been more farce I by the Plaintiff than was necessary to put her or his house, the Jury found only a firrt ,, ,:,, , r Llama The three guineas for the rocking-bona were the day after the assault. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. Saturday, Robert and .fritet Prorre were clia before the LORD MAYOR, on supicion of ste 501. in notes, from the house of Vere and Luc bankers. Mr. Holdsworth, the City Marshal, duccd a 401. bank note, wh:ch he said he faun consequence of a diredion of the prisoner RI Pearce, who, he said,had lived as an under at this house, and hid access to the desk where money was, and Mr. Foster, one of the young tlemen whose desk it was, found it had been open, and robbed at different times of 501. in notes ; that, having reason to suppose it m • done by some one in the house, he set a watch detected the prisoner in the act. One of the o who had the prisoners in custody gave in evi that Robert confessed his taking all the notes, told him where to find the 401. note ; and th had changed a 51. and three IL notes. Mr. proved the 401. note to be his property. prisoner said nothing in his defence, but wa mantled for further examivation. There bein proof against the oth .r, he was discharged. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Lately, as a young man of the nam- of bison, a fa:mer, at Denl - am, near Dab: WAS driving his team down Denham I Dill, Ise the usual precaution of locking the hiad wa prevent the cart running down too rapidly. halt horse, however, being young and mettle. began to plunge, and frightened the fore 1 when they both set off on a gallop. The y man ran forward to stop them, but unfo, to 1.11 across the mad at the head of the fore hors► c trt went over him; onewheel broke his 1 gs. oth:r severed his head from his body. A ptm r with three children, at the bn•:om of the hill. . the horses approaching, endeavoured to ge children out of the way, but she had not The two eldest were crushed to death, an was thrown with the youngest, an zi,fant i arms. into the ditch. They were both bruised, bat are likely to recover. The young was to have been married is a few days, to Watts, of Denham. This day the City Sessions will be held at hall, and on Wednesday the Old Bailey ia commence. There ate for trial at the i prisoners, many of whom are for capi:al off r Daring the late review at Coxheath, a p of Cap.. DEWAR'S Rifle Company of the York Militia, I..aniiir on ;he muzzle of his rif piece by some accident exploded, and !nein; off one hand at the wrist, and the other a the elbow : part of the shattered stumps were wards amputated, and the poor fellow bore th ration without a gream His Captain pops subscription for his wife and children, to wt.i officers of the regiment immediately coatr one hundred guineas, and the privates firty gu most of the other tegiments of tile enciou have been equally liberal. Friday evening one of the Park keepers di,c a woman floating in the Serpentine River; it her to the bank, but she was lifeless. Th WAS owned yerrerday, and the deceased pr, have been an elderly widow, who resided at f too, and who has left a large family. Ai one of the servants of the Earl of LUC was riding, on Friday, twards Richmond, hii stumbled over some rubbish upon the road ar by which accident tlserider hadone 41)4 legsk pn Monday evening T. Pic leo, of Pock Cheshire, was wounded in a shocking mane same villain, supposed to be poachers, *1 charged a g'.n through the windowowith to kill J. &law, game-keeper to Sir f. M who was siteng in the apartment. A mushroom was lately found in a m called the llardlands, acijoiiiii,g to Marquis seawn's Park, at Rainhsm, oft eifo!lowing e Binary dimensions, viz, one foot one inch in ter, and three feet four inches in cireumferir weighed one pound ten ounces without the and was underneath of the true pink colour, excehent flavour. A gentleman of Dublin has been offere thugs...aid gqi WCIB. Sy wir pirral, for a cro p acres of Egypt**, wheat, which is, or was r standing. The present Grand State Lottery Schein rise t the following circumstance :—A yen who used frequently to declare his dislike venturing in the Lottery, was seen by a trim ing out of an Office on Cornhill, wi Is some' and Shares in his liarkl, who was rath.•r um: him, for changing his opinion, and demand, reason induced him so to do ? lie replied b ducing the Scheme, which he declared irret from the novelty of having more Capital Pri. less Tickets. It is hardly necessary to obser friend immediately followed his example.