workshops, utenfils, and fundry articles, were destroyed; the lofs, in property, is fuppofed to be above zaool. The pro

prietors are infured both in goods and building, yet they will be confiderable fufferers, an account of the lofs of time during the reBuilding and fitting up their works, &c.

FEBRUARY 22,

Eaft week arrived the Royal Charlotte Guineaman, after a most fuccessful voyage for the owners, who are faid to have cleared onel, though the veffel has been out only

months. The matter of the ship died er his paffage, and before he expired, he whimfically defired that his body thould be preferved in one of his puncheons of rum,

l landed in England-which was strictly complied with; for, as foon as dead, a punheon of rum was hoifted on deck, the Bead knocked out, and the body immerfed, Oh the arrival of the veffel, the corpfe was Brought on shore, and interred.

The Marquis of Townshend, laft Saturday, alighted from his carriage a fhort dif #nce from the House of Peers, and, obServing himselfclofely befet by pick-pockets, pulled his watch out, and holding it up to view, faid peremptorily to the perfons he fpected, who had furrounded himGentlemen, it is unworthy your notice, being only a pinch-beck watch,"

The protraction of civil fuits, in confequence of the trial by impeachment, myst perate very feverely against those who are parties to tranfitory actions, as many witneffes who have come a confiderable way from the country will have a fecond or third journey to make.

The ivory chairs landed from India, are the remainder of the chamber furniture to which the bed prefented to her Majefty beJanged: as appendages, they will, of course, follow their principal.

Mr. Chaplin.

Mr. Philimore,

Mrs. Siddons.

FABLE.

Cleombrotus and Leonidas jointly held the throne of Sparta, but the fecret machinations of Amphares, an afpiring courtier, produces a divifion between these monarchs, and at the opening of the tragedy Cleombrotus, fupported by an army of Thracians, is befieging the walls of Sparta, with a view of driving his rival from the feat of empire, in order to obtain the exclufive poffeffion of it. Cleombrotus is married to Chelonice, the daughter of Leonidas, and the motive which induced Amphares to foment divifions between the rival potentates according to his confeffion, is the effect of disappointment, as he himself entertained the ambitious hope of obtaining the hand of Chelonice, and of fucceeding to the dominion of Sparta. The interested malevolence of Amphares induces him to try his utmost to keep the two monarchs at variance, but his brother, Nicrates, ani.. mated by the nobleft impulfes of honour and humanity, is determined to watch, and if poffible counteract the infidious fchemes of Amphares. While Leonidas is waiting in apprehenfion of feeing the walls of Sparta razed by the victorious arms of Cleombrotus, Chelonice, anxious to allay the terrors of her father, and to preferve her country, repairs fecretly to the camp of her husband, and, under the difguife of a Priestefs, endeavours to perfuade him to relinquish his hoftile intentions. The spirit of Cleombrotus, however, is determined against all her arguments; but when the difcovers herfelf, the tenderness of the hufband prevails, and he confents to stop his defigns for one day, till he shall find whether any overtures of peace are offered by her father. The vifit of Chelonice is difcovered, and on her return to the court of her father, the is brought before him to the feat of juftice, and charged with intentions to betray her country to her enemy. Chelonice foleranly afferts her innocence, and declares the real motives of her abfence; but when her father proposes that the fhall agree to seduce her husband within the walls, in order that he may be made a facrifice to the national fafety, the horror fhe expreffes in

duces Leonidas to distrust the avowed cause of her vifit, and to fend her as a traitress into confinement. Defirous of crushing his formidable rival at once, Leonidas founds the principles of Amphares, and gives him a promife of the hand of his daughter, and the reverfion of the crown, if he will deftroy Cleombrotus. Amphares readily undertakes the employment, and vifits the tent of Cleombrotus, whofe jealoufy he endeavours

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deavours to excite by falfe accufations agunt the honour of Chelonice. Cleombratus, however, is fo firmly perfuaded of

wife's affection and fidelity, that he treats these infinuations with the utmost kadiguation; but, in justice to her honour, be determines to clear it from the lightest fafpicion, and therefore liftens to the narrata of Amphares, who informs him that Chelonice is that evening to meet her gallant in a grove of Sparta. Cleombrotus is bewildered between his confidence in the veracity of Amphares, and his reliance on the virtue of his wife, but refolves on journeying to the grove, in order to fatisfy his mind one way or other.

Nicrates having difcovered the artifice and inhuman defign of his brother, flies to the prifon and acquaints Chelonice of the danger of her husband. Then alone the is fenfible of the miferies of confinement, and in extreme agony intreats Nicrates to apprize the devoted Cleombrotus of the danger that threatens him. Nicrates waits in the grove to inform Cleombrotus of the plot against his life, but is mistaken by Amphares for the object of his enmity, and receives from him a mortal wound; but he furvives it long enough to tell Cleombrotus of his brother's villainy, and thereby enables him to efcape in fafety. During the abfence of Cleombrotus, the Thracians under his command invade Sparta from the hopes of plunder; but Cleombrotus, in order to perform his promife to Chelonice of a fufpenfion of hostilities, repulfes his own troops; after which, feeing the perfidious Amphares, he attempts to deftroy him, but failing, he is obliged to feek a fhelter in the Temple of Minerva. Leonidas finding that his enemy is in his power, breaks into the Temple, refolved to render him immediately the victim of his vengeance, regardless of the facred fanctuary; but his foldiers refusing to comply with his commands, he meditates the deftruction of Clembrotus by his own hand, and the latter feizes the facred knife on the altar, defends "humfelf, and a contest enfues between the zival kings, which is fuddenly interrupted by the arrival of Chelonice, who in vain conjures them to amicable views; and the vindictive Leonidas orders his rival to immediate death, decreeing his daughter his partner in dominion, and placing himself the crown upon her head. Chelonice, however, is more influenced by love than ambition; and as he had induced her father to mitigate the doom of her husband into banishment, the refolves to accompany him into exile, and pafs the remainder of her life in peaceful obfeurity and conjugal endearment. Her father difdaining her for thofe ignoble notions, leaves the temple in sage and contempt; but before the faithful

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pair depart, a groan is heard, and the King who has been juft ftabbed by Amphares, s led in accompanied by his affaffin Cle ombrotus fnatches the fword from the dying monarch, and affaults Amphares, who is killed, and Leonidas expires foon after, be queathing the Crown of Sparta as a reward for the tenderness and virtue of Chelonice and her husband.

REMARKS.

There is not one fentiment in this pre which has not been hackneyed a thousand and a thousand times; and the imagery in fo ridiculously mythological, that notwith tanding the laudable exertions of the performers, we were in conftant expectation of a general laugh.

In pity to a lady, we should have been happy to have made a more favourable port of this tragedy; but that we could wak do, without impofing upon our readers, and acting in total defiance of truth, tafte, wid common fenfe, and of courfe in oppofitione to equitable criticifm, which fhould Tur no tender bias to interfere in cafes like t prefent, left the praife fhould produce a de luge of nonfenfe, that would continually difappoint the expectation, and weary e patience of the public.

The fate of this piece was not decihelly pronounced last night, owing to the agre able and fpirited manner in which s Siddons delivered a deprecating Epilogues but if it did not die fuddenly, it's end in certainly only protracted for a thort time.

BIRTHS.

BIRTHS.

The Lady of the Hon. John Byng, brother to Viscount Torrington, of a daughter.

The Lady of John Ellis, Efq. of a fon and heir, at his houfe in Berkely-ftreet, Portman-square.

MARRIAGES.

Alexander Davifon, Efq. of Lincoln'sInn, to Mifs Gofling, daughter of Robert Golling, Efq. of Lincoln's-Inn - Fields, banker.

At Walthamstow, Stephen Wilfon, Efq. to Mifs Jane Maion.

Baker John Sellon, Efq. of Figtree-court, Temple, LL. B. and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, to Mifs Dickinson, of Great Ruffel-ftreet, Bloomsbury.

At Briftol, Anthony Henderfon, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn, and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, to Mifs Sophia Bull, youngest daughter of the late John Bull, Efq. of that city.

Sir John Rous, Bart. one of the Members for the county of Suffolk, to Mifs Wilfon, of the Grove, near Yoxford, in that county.

At St. Peter le Poor, Broad-street. Mr. William Hammond, of Southgate, to Mifs Mary Catharine Whitehead, of Newingtongreen.

Mifs Miller, of Newington-green, to Mr. Duff, of Ilington.

At Dover, the Hon. Henry Pomeroy, Member in the Irith Parliament, to Mifs Mary Grady, daughter of the late Nicholas Grady, Efq. of the courty of Limerick.

At Chrift Church, Newgate-itrect, Thomas Sterens, of Chichester-rents, to Mifs Hand, of Windfor.

By special licence, at Fallodon, in Northumberland, Samuel Whitbread, Esq. jun. to Mifs Grey, daughter of Sir Charles Grey, K. B.

At St. James's, Westminster, by the Rev. Mr. Peach, Major Darby, of the Royal Fufiliers, to Mifs White, of Percy-street, Bedford-ftreet.

At St. Michael, Wood-treet, Mr. John Browne, of Wefterham Court Lodge, in Kent, to Mifs Mary Berry, of Foster-lane, Cheapfide.

John Reynolds, Esq. Admiral of the Blue. At Chelsea, Mrs. Mary Warder, aged 100 years; he had been married to three huf bands, the last of whom was a penfioner in that College; fhe had 21 children, 15 of whom are alive, and all married; the number of her children, grand children, and great grand children, amounted to 72.

At Bungay, Charles Cooking, Gent. one of the Coroners for the county of Suffolk. Mrs. Matkall, wife of Mr. Maskall, of Milk-street, Cheapfide.

The Rev. Thomas Stevens, D. D. Rec tor of Beenham, in Berks, of Swincombe, in Oxfordshire, and of Sutton, in Gloucester. fhire.

At his feat in Nottinghamshire, in the 61st year of his age, Anthony Eyre, Efq. Member in the two lat Parliaments for Boroughbridge.

At Kew, the Rev. Daniel Bellamy, Minifler of Kew and Petersham.

Mr. Henry Wichells, grocer, in Loth bury, one of the Common Council of the Ward of Broad-street.

At Carshalton, in Surrey, the Rev. John Francis Delaporte, in the 90th year of his

age.

Richard Doidge, of Elfordleigh, near Plympton, in Devonshire, Efq. who ferved the office of High Sheriff of that county in the year 1771.

At Bruffels, Lady Catherine Belafyfe, eldest daughter of the late Earl of Fauconberg, and fifter to the prefent Earl.

In Wimpole-ftreet, Mrs. Wagan, widow of the late John Wagan, Efq. of Gaudy Hall, Norfolk.

At Brompton, William Gerard, Efq. of Midtrath.

Near Colehill, in the county of Longford, in Ireland, the Rev. Dr. Brady, many years titular Bishop of that diocefe.

At Canterbury, John Bax, Efq, of Ramf gate.

At his fon's houfe in Buckingham, Jo nathan Simpfon, Efq. aged 113 years.

At Great Catworth, in Huntingdonshire, the Rev. Matthew Maddock, many years Rector of that parish, and alfo Rector of Holywell with Needingworth, in the fame county.

At Barming, near Maidstone, John Amherft, Efq. of Rochester.

The Rev. Mr. Fawconer, Minister of Poole, Dorfetfhire.

At Galway, Patrick Connolly, aged 114 years.

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In King-street, Soho, Lieut. Col. Hardy, late Quarter-Mafter General at Gibraltar, and Governor of Dartmouth,