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them, afhamed at the injuftice they do the favage, who all his life, quite the reverfe of what is fuppofed, fhews an example of continence and chastity, which the pureft and moft refined European, with all the advantages of education, cannot pretend to imitate.

"It is not the men that seek to avail themselves of the liberty they have by their usages of marrying as often and as many wives as they pleafe. Hemmed in on every fide by active and powerful enemies, who confider them as a fpecies of wild beafts, and hunt them precifely as they do the elephant and rhinoceros; placed in a fmall territory, where they never are removed above twenty miles from thefe powerful invaders, furnished with horfes and firearms, to both of which they are frangers; they live for part of the fair feafon in continual apprehenfion. The other part of the feafon, when the Abyffinian armies are all collected and abroad with

the king, thefe unhappy favages are conftantly employed in a moft laborious hunting of large animals, fuch as the rhinoceros, the elephant, and giraffa; and afterwards, in the no lefs laborious preparation of the flesh of thefe quadrupeds, which is to ferve them for food during the fix months rains, when each family retires to its feparate cave in the mountain, and has no intercourse with any of its neighbours, but leaves the country below immerfed in a continual deluge of rain. In none of these circumftances, one fhould imagine, the favage, full of apprehenfion and care, could have much defire to multiply a race of fuch wretched beings as he feels him to be. It is the wife, not the man, that is the caufe of this polygamy! and this is furely a ftrong prefumption against what is commonly faid of the violence of their inclinations."

In our next, we fhall conclude Mr. Bruce's account of the Shangalla.

REMARKABLE DOMESTIC EVENTS.

AUGUST, 1790.

FUNERAL HONOURS. N the 21ft ult. the commonO council of Paris paid to Dr. Franklin an extraordinary tribute of homage. The rotunda in the new market was chofen for the ceremony. It was hung in black, and illuminated with a row of lamps round the cornice, and with chandeliers suspended at the pillars. A pulpit was erected with fuitable ornaments; and in full view rofe a farcophagus in antique form, with the following infcription

Eripuit cælo fulmen, fceptrumque tyrannis. The bolt of heaven he grafps with ftrong command,

And wrefts the fceptre from the tyrant's hand.

On the farcophagus was placed the buft of the Patriot, with cypreffes carelefsly fcattered round it. The abbé Fauchet pronounced the panegyric. The exordium promifed much; and, to the fpeaker's honour, the expectations of his auditory were not difappointed.

DISCOVERY.

The actual place of interment of our immortal Milton was discovered the

beginning of this month. The workmen employed in the repairs of Cripplegate church dug up a coffin, from the infcription on which there is undoubted proof that the remains of that fublime bard were there depofited; a circumftance much fought for, but hi therto unknown to the world.

MATRIMONY.

On a tombstone in Farlington churchyard in Hants, is the following inscrip tion

"By the munificence of Peter Taylor, efq. lord of this manor, and patron of this church, this stone was fet up in memory of William Hooker and Mary his wife, who lived together in a mar riage ftate feventy-five years. He was buried here the 18th of December 1755 aged ninety-feven years. She died of the fmall-pox, and was buried here the 15th of June 1757, in the hundredth year of her age.'

FORGERY.

The 3d, Francis Fenton, one of the clerks in the Three per Cent. Bank Annuity Office at the Bank of England, was taken before William Addington,

elq.

efq. at the Public Office in Bow-ftreet,
and underwent a long examination. He
was charged on the oaths of William
Edwards, efq. accomptant general of
the Bank, John Beard, and Robert
Hands, for knowingly and wilfully
uttering, forging, and counterfeiting
the name of William Baker, as the
proprietor of a fum of five hundred and
fifty pounds, in the Three per Cent.
Annuity, and thereby transferring the
faid fum of five hundred and fifty pounds,
and receiving, or endeavouring to re-
ceive, the fame, as his own property,
with an intent to cheat and defraud
of the Bank
company
governor
of England. The fact being clearly
proved, he was fully committed to New
Prifon, Clerkenwell, for trial, and the
parties bound over to profecute. He
has been a clerk in the Bank near
twenty years, and bore the best of cha-
racters.

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Two detainers are lodged against him for fimilar offences.

His method of defrauding those who employed him to buy stock was, when they figned the books, to make them fign the books to fell, instead of to buy, and he gave them a forged receipt.

SUICIDE.

The ift of this month a female fervant of the dowager lady Salisbury put an end to her existence, at her ladyship's feat at Brands, near Kilburn, by cutting her throat from ear to ear. The Coroner's Inqueft fat on the body on the 3d, and brought in their verdict Lunacy. She had the knife clasped in her hand till forced away by one of the jury.

Saturday the 4th, a poor man, with his throat flightly cut, was found hanging on a tree in a garden near the New Wells road, Bath, to which there was a train of blood from the diftance of thirty feet. The Coroner's Inqueft fat on the body the next day; Jury's verdict, Lunacy. The unhappy man is fuppofed first to have cut his throat, and then hanged himself.

The 16th, one Thomas Daniel, who lived in Southwell-ftreet, Bristol, and jet horfes out to hire, fhot himself in a field near the Fort, on St. Michael's Hill, with a fowling-piece. He placed the butt-end of the gun on the ground against fome rails, because it should not

flip, holding the muzzle to his body, and leaned forward, and touched the trigger with a fhort walking-stick which he had with him--when the piece went off, and the whole charge of fhot and wadding entered his left breast, went through his body, and out at his back, which caufed his death in a few minutes.

MURDER.

The 5th, one Yarnley was taken before the juftices at Union-hall, Southwark, on a charge of having perpetrated an inhuman murder. Mofes Davis, a travelling Jew, was, a few days before, croffing a bridge over the Thames, about twelve miles from town, at Walton, where an halfpenny toll is paid. The gate is kept by an old man, and his fon-in-law, the prifoner. The former received the toll from Davis, who went through, but foon after ftopping to bargain for fome fruit, Yarnley ran after him, and very brutishly infifted on having the halfpenny; but the other replying he had already paid it, Yarnley ftruck him with the key of the gate fo violently under the eye, as to lay it open; next knocked down the unfortunate victim, and repeating his blow, funk the key into the poor man's skull. Davis, at length, difcovering fymptoms of life, was taken to a public-house at Walton, kept there for two days, and then, at his request, moved to his own houfe, where he expired.

Thursday the Coroner's Inqueft fat on his body, when the wound being examined by furgeons Blizard, Brown, and Wenoven, they all concurred in afferting, that it was the caufe of his death. But a furgeon from Sunbury attended the inquest, and swore, that the murderer had been under his care about a year ago for a fore leg, and had then difcovered fymptoms of madness. This induced the Coroner's Jury to afcribe the act in their verdict to Lunacy.

Davis has left a widow in a state of

pregnancy, and two young children.

DUELLING.

The 11th, a duel was fought in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, between Meff, Cazalés and Barnave, deputies of the National Affembly. The circumstances of the difpute, and its confequences, are thus related, M, Cazales, incenfed

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ot taking place on his adverfary's terred. mple, brought him to the ground, ad he was carried home in a dangeras fituation.

JUSTICE.

The 3d, at half past seven o'clock, ohn Dyer, for forgery, was brought ut of Newgate; and, after the ufual -lemnities, was executed before the ebtors Gate, in the Old Bailey, pur ant to his fentence. He was only wenty-two years of age, and was -ought up at Westminster school.

William Jones, and Sufannah Rugg, r administering arfenic to the wife of e former, and thereby occafioning her ath, were convicted, and received fennce of death, at the laft Hereford Tizes. On examining the body of the fortunate woman, a quantity of both ellow and white arfenic was found in er ftomach; and the apothecary, of hom the poison was proved to be purmafed by the prisoners, pofitively fwore, at at the time of felling it, he particurly noticed, that the divifion between is arfenic of each colour had accidently moved from its place, and occaoned a mixture of the yellow and white ■the quantity fold.

The behaviour of the prifoners after ondemnation was perfectly penitent nd refigned: they acknowledged the uftice of their fate; that the poifon as bought with the knowledge and oncurrence of each, for the exprefs urpose of deftroying the wife of Jones; nd that it was administered in a bafon f broth by the husband!

He was twenty-feven years of age; ad led a very diffolute life; and has eft two young children, to whom, revious to his trial, he made over roperty to the amount of about forty ounds per annum.

LAW.

At the laft Guildford aflizes was tried a cause of confiderable importance to the leather trade in general, and to fhoemakers in particular. It was brought on the firft ftatute of James the Firft, cap. 22. to compel the tanners to bring their leather to open market, instead of felling it in their own yards. After a full and impartial hearing of three hours, the learned judge (Mr. Baron Eyre) in his charge to the jury, obferved, that the act of parlia him to lay down very falutary rules for ment, though an old one, appeared to the trade, and as the cafe was fully proved, he directed the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff, which they did accordingly.

BUILDING.

A new armoury is building in the Gun Wharf at Portsmouth, capable of containing one hundred thousand stand of arms. The entrance of this edifice is to be adorned with the arms and crown of Spain, carved in stone, and of exquifite workmanship, taken from the gate of the Moro Cafile, at the Havannah. This noble trophy of war was brought home in 1762, and has been cafed in cedar wood ever fince; it weighs near three tons, and is to be placed under the British arms and

crown.

MALE TYGER.

A beautiful young male tyger, of the age of twelve months, and about the fize of a maftiff dog, is now on board the Pitt Eaft-Indiaman, captain Manning, just arrived in the river from China. This animal exhibits a remarkable inftance of the poffibility of taming wild beafts, a tyger being generally fuppofed to be one of the most ferocious

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accustomed him to be familiar with them on the deck. The gambols and tricks he played in the courfe of the voyage with the feamen, carpenter, purfer, and an old woman, would be Incredible, if not fully attested.

CAGLIOSTRO.

The famous Caglioftro is dangeroufly ill in his prifon at Rome, of a flux and fever, and has been bled frequently they use the utmost precaution to prevent his falling a victim to his diforder.

DEATHS.

The 4th, at his house in Henriettafreet, Cavendish-fquare, the right honourable Francis earl of Guildford. His lordship's death was a gradual decay of nature. About a fortnight ago he was first affected, whilft returning from Hyde Park in his carriage, and this illness confined him to his bed antil his deceafe. He was born on April 13, 1704; was chofen a member for the borough of Banbury in Oxfordfhire, in the firft parliament called by George the Second; and after fucceeding his father, was, in October 1730, appointed one of the gentlemen of the bed-chamber to his royal highness the prince of Wales. On October 31, 1734, he fucceeded to the title of lord North, by the death of William lord North and Grey, whofe heir he was. His lordship, on June 17, 1757, being then one of the lords of the bed-chamber to his royal highness Frederic prince of Wales, tood proxy at the baptifm of his royal highnefs's fifth fon prince William Frederic, for his ferene highnefs prince William of Saxe-Gotha, and was that year appointed governor to the prefent king. At the funeral of the aforefaid Frederic prince of Wales, on April 13, 1751, his lordship attended as one of the lords of his bedchamber. He was advanced to the dignity of an earl of Great Britain by the ftile and title of earl of Guildford, by letters patent, bearing date April 8, $752; and on December 29; 1773, his lordthip was appointed treasurer and receiver-general to her majefty. He was alfo high steward of Banbury; one of the vice-prefidents of St. George's hofpital; lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum for the county of Somerset 3 recorder of

Gloucester and Taunton; one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House; prefident of the Foundling Hofpital and the Afylum; and governor of the Turkey Company and the Charter House..

He is fucceeded in the titles of earl of Guildford and lord North of Guildford, by his eldeft fon Frederic, commonly called lord North, who will, in of Peers, and a new writ for another confequence, be called up to the House member for Banbury will be iffued at the meeting of parliament.

On the 9th, Mr. Godfrey Lee Far rant, at Bromley in Kent. He has left one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in cash, befides an estate of near three thousand pounds per annum to his fifter, who is upwards of eighty-fix years of age. To a nephew he left five thousand pounds. To his gardener he left one thoufand pounds, and all his live ftock. To the gardener's fon he left five hundred pounds to bind him apprentice, and one thou fand pounds at the expiration of his bondage. To a clerk who had faithfully ferved him about nine years, he generously left fifty pounds; and to his own and only daughter, who married against his confent, he left nothing!

His place of principal register to the High Court of Admiralty in England, brought him in twelve thoufand pounds per annum in time of war. Three names were always joined in the patent for this place to fucceed each other: lord Egremont is now the laft name, and consequently obtains it.

Mr. Farrant was alfo principal clerk of the feals for granting difpenfations, and fenior proctor of Doctor's Com mons. At the time of his death, there was fixteen thousand pounds intereft of his money due at the Bank.

Mr. John Stalker, of the Half-Moon public houfe, Piccadilly. He was a native of Scotland, which he left at an early period. To a life of many oddities, he, dying, exhibited a remarkable inftance of that amor patriæ, which is the characteristic of his countrymen; being, by express defire, buried in a full fuit of the Highland uniform, excepting the plaid, which is referved for his wife's winding sheet !

For SEPTEMBER, 1790.

NUMBER XXIII.

FRAGMENTS.

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Madam,

UPON

PON that which has come to my knowledge, of the laft confpiracies executed in Scotland against my poor child, having reafon to fear the confequence of it, from the example of myfelf; I mutt employ the very small remainder of my life and Strength, before my death, to difcharge my heart to you fully of my just and melancholy complaints; of which I defire that this letter may ferve you, as long as you live after me, for a perpetual teftimony and engraving upon your confcience; as much for my difcharge to pofterity, as to the flame and confufion of all thofe, who, under your approbation, have fo cruelly and unworthily treated me to this time, and reduced me to the extremity in which I am. But as their defigns, practices, actions, and proceedings, though as deteftable as they could have been, have always prevailed with you against my very juft remonftrances and fincere deportment;

*This Letter is rendered curious, not only from its contents, but from the circumftance of its never having been given to the public, in its complete fate, except by Blackwood, who inferted it in his Hiftory, in 1587, and by the learned and ingenious Mr. Whitaker, in his excellent Vindication of Mary. The late Dr. Stuart, who has given an Abridgment of it in his Hiftory of VOL. II.

and as the power, which you have in your hands, has always been a reafon for you among mankind; I will have recourfe to the living God, our only judge, who has established us equally and immediately under him, for the government of his people. I will invoke him to the end of this my very preffing af fliction, that he will return to you and to me (as he will do in his laft judgment) the fhare of our merits and demerits one towards the other. And remember, Madam, that to him we fhall not be able to difguife any thing, by the paint and policy of the world; though mine enemies, under you, have been able, for a time, to cover their fubtle inventions to men, perhaps to you.

In his name, and as before him fitting between you and me, I will remind you; that by the agents, fpies, and fecret meffengers, fent in your name into Scotland, while I was there, my fubjects were corrupted, and encouraged to rebel against me, to make attempts upon my perfon, and, in one word, to fpeak, do, enterprize, and execute that, which has come to the faid country Scotland, juftly remarks that its ability and vigour are uncommon, and give it a title to furvive in the Hiftory of the Scottish Nation"-And, let us add, of the English too; fince, while it difplays the heroic virtue of the oppreffed, and murdered Mary, it ftrips her wicked rival, Elizabeth, of her borrowed plumes, and expofes her to the merited indignation of pofterity. Rr

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