in the proceffion, attended by the officers of his establishment. The drefs of his Royal Highness was a fky-blue, richly embroidered down the feams, and decorated with a diamond star and epaulette. The Princess of Wales, in a filver tiffue train, with purple, lilac, and green trimmings, followed her royal husband, conducted by the Earl of Cholmondeley. The Duke of York, in a full drefs fuit of regimentals, and his royal Duchefs in an elegant drefs, the body and train of lilac filver tiffue, and the petticoat magnificently embroidered, next appeared, and were followed by the Princeffes, in white, according to their feniority. The Duke of Gloucefter, and Prince William, were in full uniforms, and the Princefs Sophia difplayed a neat and elegant drefs. The maids of honour, the Peereffes of the royal households, followed by four Yeomen of the Guard, clofed the proceffion. Upon entering the chapel, all the perfons that were in the proceffion retired to the feveral places appointed for them. The King and Queen were feated in chairs of state on the right and left of the altar. The Prince of Wales fat next to his Majefty; the Princefs of Wales was on the left of the Queen; and the Princeffes occupied feats arranged on each fide for their accommodation. The royal family having taken their feats, the marriage-ceremony commenced. It was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, affifted by the Archbishop of York; at the conclufion of which the bride and bridegroom retired to their feats, when the anthem was per formed. The proceffion then returned to the drawing-room in the fame order in which it entered the chapel, the band playing the march in Scipio. The Prince received the hand of his amiable Princess from his Majefty. Her Royal Highness was perfectly collected and unembarraffed during the performance of the ceremony, while the Princeffes, her fifters, fhed tears of fenfibility and affection on the occafion. Their Majefties also discovered an excefs of parental feelings. The whole of the ceremony exhibited a fcene highly awful and impreffive. The heat, owing to the immenfe crowd, was fo intenfe, that several ladies were overcome by it; and it was with much difficulty that one of the bride-maids was prevented from fainting away. The Stadtholder, the Princefs of Orange, and their attendants, were accommodated in the centre of the King's gallery, facing the altar; the other parts of which were occupied by the Duchefs of Leeds, Duchess of Rutland, and her two daughters, Lady Buckingham, Lady Stopford, and feveral other females of diftinction. The orchestra was much better contrived on this occafion than on that of the marriage with the Prince of Wales, the organ being placed directly over the altar. After the folemnization of the marriage, the queen held a drawingroom, which was attended by the whole of the royal family, the foreign minifters, great officers of ftate, and a numerous and brilliant affemblage of the nobility of both fexes, who paid their respects to their Serene Highnesses the Prince and and Princess of Wirtemberg, on the occafion of their union. The court closed at half past five, when their Majefties and the Princeffes Augufta and Elizabeth in one carriage, the Prince and Princess of Wirtemberg in a travelling poftchaife, and the other princeffes in a third, all left town, with their attendants, for Windsor Lodge to dinner. The coronation of the emperor Paul I. was performed at Moscow on the 16th ultimo. His imperial majefty was to leave that city on the 14th instant to make a journey to Aftracan. The emprefs will return to Petersburg, where the emperor will also return on the day of St. Peter and Paul. After the ceremony was completed, his Majefty with his own hand threw money among the people. 45,000 pieces of filver money, each of the value of twenty-five copecs, were coined for this occafion. The following are the rentals of Irish estates belonging to noblemen who generally refide in England, viz. "the Commander in Chief's com"mand, that the military do act, "without waiting for directions "from the civil magiftrate, in dif"perfing any tumultuous affem"blies, or perfons threatening the "peace of the realm, and the fafety of the lives and properties of "his Majefty's loyal fubjects what"foever." With fuch method is the mutiny carried on at Sheerness, that there is in every fhip a committee, confifting of twelve men, who determine not only all affairs relative to the internal management of the veffel, but decide on the merits of their refpective delegates; against whom, if any charge can be fubftantiated, they inflict a fevere punishment. Thefe delegates go regularly every day to Sheernefs, where they hold their conferences. They then parade the streets and ramparts of the garrifon, with a degree of triumph. ant infolence, and hold up the bloody flag of defiance as a mark of fcorn to the military. At the head of these men marches that perfon who is confidered the admiral of their fleet. No officer has any command or authority what ever. A Board of Admiralty went to Spithead, to inveftigate the nature of the demands of the mutinous feamen belonging to the Channel-fleet. 27. The mutineers of Sheerness proceeding to very alarming acts of violence, blocked up the entrance of the Thames, hoifted enfigns of defiance, and compelled all the fhips of war, in the Medway, and at the Nore, to join the flag of revolt. 29. Lord Spencer offered a general pardon to the mutineers at Sheerhefs, provided they returned immedi immediately to their duty; which offer was rejected. 31. Several fhips belonging to Admiral Duncan's fleet, joined the mutineers at the Nore. The Duke of Wirtemberg has a library at Stutgard, of 100,000 volumes. His Serene Highness is a great collector of ancient books, or, as a French writer terms it, a la grand fureur des livres anciens. He has often travelled in purfuit of them, and gives liberal prices. His collection of Bibles is unique; they amount to nine thoufand, all different editions, and of all languages; and it is fuppofed that ftill three thousand more are yet wanting to render it complete. This library contains more than two thousand volumes printed before the year 1500, and a complete collection of the memoirs of all fovereign families and towns. 30. The gallant General Kofciufko arrived at the river Thames on board a Swedish veffel, attended by many Polish officers, who are going with him to America. He is incurably wounded in the head, has three bayonet-wounds in his back, and part of his thigh carried away by a cannon-fhot; and, with the excruciating torments those wounds occafion, as he cannot move himself, he amufes his hours with drawing landfcapes. He speaks with the moft lively gratitude of the prefent Emperor of Ruffia; but he makes great complaint that his wounds were long neglected after he was made prifoner. 21. DIED at his houfe in Serjeant's Inn, in his eighty-fifth year, Thomas Coventry, Efq. of North Cray-place, near Bexley, in Kent (which eftate, of the annual value of 14001. he had on the death of the Rev. William Hetherington) one of the benchers of the Inner Temple, and formerly, for many years, fub-governor of the South Sea Company. His eftates, which are confiderable, defcend to his kinfman, the Earl of Coventry.. He was fon of Thomas Coventry, Efq. a Ruffia merchant, and younger brother to William fifth Earl of Coventry, father of the prefent Lord; who, confequently, was his first coufin, and to whom and his family he has bequeathed a confiderable proportion of his property. The following is the fubftance of his will: To his great nephew 50,000l. three per cent. ftock, when he is twenty-four years old, and, if he dies under age, to be divided between the blind objects of Mr.. Hetherington's charity and Chrift's Hofpital; to Lord Deerhurst and his feven children 10,000l. each;. to Lord Coventry 10,0001; to his eldest fon by his prefent lady 10,000l. and his youngest fon by her, refiduary -legatee; to Mrs. Evans, of Queen-fquare, 5001; to her brother, Dr. Evans, prebendary of Worcester, 5001; to three ladies in Worcestershire, 5001. each. Mr. Coventry's remains were interred in the bencher's vault at the Temple church. He was a very amiable and beneficent character. When his friend, Mr. Hetherington, above mentioned, at his death left him his fortune, he faid, "Why has he done this? I did not want it," and he inftantly gave the legacies and benefactions to the purposes of the teftator, although he might have retained them for his life. 2. This JUNE. 2. This morning their Serene Highneffes fet out from St. James's for Harwich, on their way to Germany, efcorted by a party of light dragoons. The Prince and Princefs were in the King's travelling poft-chaife; General Garth and the Countess of Aylesbury, in one of the Queen's coaches, and the attendants in one of the private carriages. Their Serene Highneffes breakfafted at St. James's, and fet off from the Garden-gate. The Princefs was dreffed in a blue riding habit, with the ftar of the Ruffian Order of St. Catherine at her breaft, and wore a ftraw bonnet. She endeavoured to appear cheerful; but the faultering accents with which fhe bade her attendants and the furrounding multitude farewell, bespoke the agitation of her Serene Highness's mind. None of the Royal Family were prefent, as they had taken leave the preceding night at twelve o'clock. The Princefs Royal's bill for a grant of annuity of 5000l. per annum, paffed the Irish parliament. The mutineer Chef d'Efcadre, R. Parker, who was a little fhopkeeper in Scotland, came into the navy about two years ago, in the following manner: Being confined for debt in Perth gaol, he took the parochial bounty of 301. to enter as a volunteer, and with this fum he procured his deliverance. Being a bustling fellow, he very foon after became a petty officer; from which, however, he was degraded about three months fince, for mal-practices, and turned before the mast. He is a man of a fharp, faturnine vifage; of a mid-. die fize, neat figure, and about 35 VOL. XXXIX. years of age; and has profited by education far enough to become the dangerous member of the community we now behold him! 5. The Recorder paffed fentence upon those who had been convicted this feffions : That of death on John Harrifon and William Mackenzie, for forgery; John Baker, for returning from tranfportation; Henry Ellifon, A. Withers, and George Withers, for highway robberies; W. Bergin and Joseph Chase, for burglaries; H. B. Palmer and Maurice Stamford, for counterfeiting ftamped dollars; and J. Lynfon, for a burglary; E. Jarmyn, T. Prickett, W. Burke, H. Smith, T. White, R. Calcott, Mary Bergin, Samuel Laws, John Boulton, R. Williams, T. Chirley, and Elizabeth Stirling, to be tranfported for feven years. Three were fentenced to be confined one year in Newgate, and fix for fix months. Jofeph Wheeler and William Wheeler, his fon, were tried upon a charge of ftealing, or receiving, knowing it to be stolen, a large piece of timber. One-and-twenty of the moft refpectable perfons in the parish, where the old man is now church-. warden, appeared to their characters, and fpoke of them in the highest terms.-The Jury were out three hours and a quarter, and, on their return acquitted the fon, and pronounced the father guilty, who was immediately fentenced to fix months impriterment, and to be fined one hundred pounds. Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, Martin Clinch and James Maclay were executed in the Old Bailey, pursuant to their fentence, for the wilful murder of Sydney C Fryer, Fryer, Efq. in the parish of St. Mary, Hlington. The platform accidentally dropped before the caps were pulled over the faces of the criminals; in confequence of which a moft fhocking spectacle prefented itself to the multitude for feveral minutes. Four naval officers went up the Medway on Wednesday night in a boat to Rochefter. They had all been ducked, which is a curious ceremony, on board the Sandwich. They tie the unfortunate victims feet together, and their hands together, and put their bed at their back, making it faft round them, at the fame time adding an eighteen pounder bar-fhot to bring them down. They afterwards make them faft to a tackle fufpended from the yard-arm; and hoiting them nearly up to the block, all at once let go, and drop them foufe into the fea, where they remain a minute, and then are again hoifted and let down alternately, till there are fcarce any figns of life remaining. After this they hoift them up by the heels, for the purpofe of getting the water out of their ftomachs, and ufually put them into their hammocks. In this inftance, however, they put them on board the boat, and ordered the mafter to convey them fafe on fhore, or his life fhould answer for it. An Extraordinary Gazette was publifhed this evening, containing his Majefty's proclamation, forbidding all intercourfe with the crews of the fhips declared to be in a ftate of rebellion, either perfonally, by letter, or otherwife, on pain of death. Fortunately, this ftrong measure has reitored tranquillity. The Duke of Wirtemberg's por tion of 80,000l. which he received with our Princefs Royal, was invested last week in the 3 per cents, where it now ftands as stock, value 165,000l. The trustees, in whofe hands the dowry of the Princefs of Wirtemberg is vefted, are the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Coxe Hippefley, and Mr. Coutts. 12th. This evening Capt. Hearne, of the Prince of Wales packet, arrived at the Admiralty, with an account of the fafe arrival at Cuxhaven, on Monday night, at nine o'clock, of their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wirtemberg, in good health and fpirits. A monument in WeftminsterAbbey, executed at the cost of Albany Wallis, Efq. was this day opened to public view. Garrick is reprefented at full length, in an animated pofition, throwing afide a curtain, which difcovers the medallion of the great Poet whom he has illuftrated; while Tragedy and Comedy, adorned with their refpective enblems, and half seated on a pedeftal, feem to approve the tribute. The infcription, by Mr. Pratt, is as follows: To the Memory of David Garrick, To paint fair nature, by divine command, came. Though funk in death the forms the Poct Shake |