Harbour, for refusing to obey his Lordship's orders, as senior officer; a court martial was afterwards held at Fort Royal bay, Martinique, for the trial of his Lordship, who was honourably acquitted.

Jan. 17. Died at Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Thomas Kirkland, M.D. a physician of eminence, and author of several treatises on the science and practice of medicine.

ance in aid of the voluntary contribution.

Feb. 11. The French took possession of the castle of St. Angelo, at Rome, and confined the Pope to the Vatican, and declared his temporal power at an end.

Feb. 12. Died, Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, late king of Poland.

Feb. 13. At a court of common council it was resolved to subscribe 10,000l. towards the voluntary subscription fund.

1798.

A proclamation was issued appointing a fast and humiliation to be observed on the 7th March next.

Jan. 27. A proclamation was issued in timating that the plague had been communicated at Corsica, and requiring a strict quarantine for 40 days to be observed by all vessels from thence, or from Spain within the Mediterranean, or from Minorca or Gibralter.

Jan. 30. A destructive fire broke out in the extensive cotton manufactory of Messrs. Wood and Brumell, in Carlisle, which consumed the whole of the building and stock; by this accident more than 200 persons were thrown out of employ.

Feb. 6. A general meeting of proprietors of Bank stock was held, to take into consideration the propriety of subscribing a sum in their corporate capacity towards the exigencies of the state, when it was resolved to subscribe 200,0007.

Feb. 9. The lord Mayor, attended by a numerous and respectable body of merchants, bankers, &c. appeared on the temporary hustings erected in the Royal Exchange for the purpose of promoting the voluntary contributions for the service of the country. Mr. Bosanquet opened the business in an appropriate speech, and concluded by moving several resolutions, to carry into effect the object of the meeting; the sum subscribed on that day at the hustings amounted to 46,5341. and upwards, by 218 subscribers only.

The manager of Covent Garden Theatre devoted the profits of one night's perform

Berkshire, Richard Palmer, esq.
Bedfordshire, John Fox, esq.
Buckinghamshire, John Penn, esq.
Camb. and Hunt. John Tharpe, esq.
Cheshire, Robert Hibbert, esq.
Cornwall, James Buller, esq.
Cumberland, Sir R. Hodgson, knt.
Devonshire, Arthur Tremaine, esq.
Dorsetshire, E. B. Portman, esq.
Derbyshire, I. L. Newton, esq.
Essex, John Perry, esq.
Gloucester, T. V. Dolphin, esq.
Hants, Richard Meylor, esq.
Herefordshire, John Stedman, esq.
Hertfordshire, Felix Calvert, esq.
Kent, John Plumtree, esq.
Leicestershire, Rennie Payne, esq.
Lincolnshire, Burton Shaw, esq.
Monmouthshire, Josiah Morgan, esq.
Northumberland, Adam Askew, esq.
Northamptonshire, T. R. Thornton, esq.
Norfolk, George Stone, esq.
Nottinghamshire, Nathaniel Stubbins, esq.
Oxfordshire, I. A. Wright, esq.
Rutlandshire, William Sharrard, esq.
Shropshire, Andrew Corbett, esq.
Somersetshire, S. Rodbard, esq.
Staffordshire, Richard Dyot, esq.
Suffolk, John Sheppard, esq.
Surrey, James Trotter, esq.
Sussex, R. T. Streatfield, esq.
Warwickshire, R. H. Mallory, esq.
Worcestershire, I. A. Addenbrooke, esq.
Wiltshire, John Bennett, esq.
Yorkshire, Sir T. Pilkington, bart.

WALES.

Anglesea, William Evans, esq. Brecknockshire, John Lloyd, esq. Cardiganshire, P. Loveden, esq. Caermarthenshire, John Morgan, esq. Caernarvonshire, Sir T. Mostyn, bart. Denbighshire, John Jones, esq. Flintshire, John Jones, esq.

Glamorganshire, S. Richardson, esq. Merionethshire, R. W. Wynne, esq. Montgomeryshire, R. Leake, esq. Pembrokeshire, John Tasker, esq. Radnorshire, J. B. Walsh, esq.

Feb. 14. John earl of Westmoreland appointed lord keeper of the privy seal, in the room of the earl of Chathain, resigned. Admiral John Colpoys created a knight of the Bath.

Feb. 16. A fire broke out at Purleigh, in Essex, in the house of Mr. Harris, which burnt with great fury, and Mrs. Harris, two of her sons, and two of her younger daughters perished in the flames. Feb. 17. Philip earl of Chesterfield appointed master of the horse to the King.

George earl of Leicester, and William lord Auckland appointed postmasters general.

Feb. 19. Mr. Ferguson, the barrister, brought an action of assault and false imprisonment against Sir William Addington, the Bow-street magistrate, for apprehending him on the 31st July last, at the meeting of the London Corresponding Society, in Pancras-fields, but owing to an informality in the notice of action the plaintiff was nonsuited.

Feb. 22. The officers of the West York militia, since the dismissal of the duke of Norfolk, petitioned the Prince of Wales to obtain the command of that corps, which his Royal Highness declined, with suitable acknowledgments of their personal attachment towards him.

A fire broke out at Great Chishall, Essex, which consumed 100 houses, being nearly the whole of the village.

Feb. 27. A dangerous mutiny broke out on board the fleet at the Cape of Good Hope, which was quelled by the spirited exertions of general Dundas, the Admiral, and lord Macartney, assisted by the military; the mutineers delivered up their ringleaders, who were afterwards tried, found guilty, and executed.

March 1. At Margate was apprehended on suspicion of holding a treasonable correspondence with the French government, Arthur O'Conner, esq., John Binns, James Fivey, alias Quigley, John Allen, and Patrick Leary; they were brought to London.

General Brune attacked and defeated the Swiss, and entered Friburg and Soleure.

March 3. J. B. Viotti, the celebrated olin performer, was ordered to quit the

kingdom, notwithstanding great and powerful interest was made for him.

March 5. A bloody action took place between the French and Swiss near Berne, which ended in the defeat of the latter; the French entered and succeeded in revo lutionizing that Canton.

March 8. O'Conner, Binns, Fivey, and Allen, underwent an examination before the privy council, and were committed to the Tower; Leary was sent to the House of Correction.

In consequence of suspicion being excited by a hackney coach found standing early in the morning at the burial ground of the Methodists in Tottenham-court Road, it was examined, and a dead body was found in it, and upon a general search, it appeared that numerous bodies had been from time to time removed for the purpose of dissection.

March 10. The French troops under general Berthier entered Rome.

March 13. The King's theatre gave the profits of one night's performance in aid of the voluntary contribution for the defence of the country; the receipts amounted to 8001.

March 19. The earl of Ormond and viscount Dillon elected knights of St. Patrick.

March 25. The total amount of the St. Jago, Spanish prize, was 550,0001.; out of which admiral Gell and the other flag officers shared 52,000l. each; the several captains 26,0001.; and the subaltern officers in proportion; the law expenses amounted to 28,000., leaving 148,000l. to defray any other contingent demands.

March 30. A proclamation was issued by the lord Lieutenant and council of Ireland for suppressing the rebellion which had broken out and extended itself to several counties in Ireland.

Stereotype printing invented, or rather brought into use, by Didot, the celebrated French printer, and Herman, a German.

Henry Redhead Yorke was liberated from Dorchester gaol, after an imprisonment of four years; he paid also a fine of 2001. and entered into sureties for 20001.

April 3. The Pallas wrecked near Plymouth, the crew saved, except one man who was killed by the falling of the mast; a boat belonging to the Canada attempting to go to the relief of the Pallas, was upset, and Mr. Massey, lieutenant of the Canada, and three seamen were drowned.

April 4. As John Mellish, esq. of Albemarle-street, was returning to London from following the royal hounds, with his friends Mr. J. Bosanquet and Mr. Pole,

in a chaise and four horses, they were stopped on Hounslow Heath by three -highwaymen, who, after robbing them without resistance of their watches and money, wantonly fired into the chaise as they drove off, and wounded Mr. Mellish in the head, of which he afterwards died.

Field marshal his royal highness the duke of York appointed commander in chief of all his Majesty's forces in Great Britain.

April 5. The Princess Amelia, East India ship, was burnt by accident off Pigeon Island, on the Malabar coast; about 40 of the crew perished.

April 10. Bernadotte, the French ambassador at Vienna, caused the tri-coloured flag to be displayed in triumph at his hotel, which so incensed the populace that they tore it down and burnt it, and afterwards burnt two of the ambassador's carriages; other mischief would have been done but for the interference of the military. Bernadotte sent an insolent note to the Emperor, demanding the dismissal of the minister, the punishment of the chief of the police, and the commanding officer of the military, and that the Emperor should repair, at his own expense, the flag, flag-staff, &c. ; the whole of these demands were peremptorily refused, upon which the ambassador quitted Vienna, vowing, vengeance for the outrage.

April 11. Mr. Roger O'Conner was apprehended by a King's messenger, at his house in Craven-street, and sent, by a warrant of the secretary of state, back to Dublin.

The commission for trying O'Conner, Binns, Fivey, Allen, and Leary, was opened at Maidstone.

April 12. A fire broke out in the town of Tipperary, in Ireland, which destroyed 120 dwelling houses, chiefly the habitations of poor people.

April 15. The duke of Portland, the lord Chancellor, Mr. Pitt, the attorney and solicitor general, &c. met at the secretary of state's office, to examine several persons brought from Manchester on a charge of treasonable practices, and the witnesses against them.

April 19. A court of common council for the city of London was held, for taking into consideration the necessity of raising volunteer corps in the different wards of the city.

A magistrate from Bow-street with a party of officers apprehended in Comptonstreet, Soho, 14 persons, being a division of the London Corresponding Society;

they were sent to the New prison, Clerkenwell, except three who escaped.

April 20. Sixteen members of the London Corresponding Society, with their books and papers, were seized in an old building near Newcastle-street, Strand; they were what was called the executive committee of the society.

April 21. The earl of Bristol, bishop of Derry, in Ireland, was arrested near Bologna by the French, on suspicion of being a spy.

April 25. One of the powder mills at Battle, in Sussex, blew up with a tremendous explosion, the quantity of powder exploded being 15 tons weight; seven dwellings were destroyed, and three men blown to pieces.

April 28. Williams, who had been convicted of selling Paine's Age of Reason, was brought up to the court of King's Bench for judgment, and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in the House of Correction, and to give security in 10001. for his good behaviour for the rest of his life.

April 30. The state prisoners O'Connor, and others, were placed at the bar for trial at Maidstone, but O'Connor and Binns objected to answer the indictment, on account of a variance between the copy and the original; the reason for the objection was, as they stated, to gain time, not being fully prepared; the court, to accommodate them, adjourned to the 21st May.

May 2. The French under Schawenburg, attacked the army of the Swiss democratic cantons under Aloys Reding, who had possessed himself of the heights of Morgarten; making no impression on this quarter, the French detached a body of troops through the valley of Ensiedlin, into the heart of the canton of Schwiz.

May 4. A suspension of arms took place in Switzerland, and a convention was signed, by which the lesser cantons, with the exception of Underwalden, agreed to accept the Helvetic constitution.

May 9. His Majesty in council ordered the council book to be laid before him, and the name of the hon. Charles James Fox was erased from the list of privy councillors.

May 13. Sir Sydney Smith arrived in London, after making his escape from the prison of the Temple, in Paris, where he had been confined two years and upwards.

May 17. The French were repulsed in an attack on the little island of St. Marcou, defended by 500 invalids, under the command of lieutenant Price.

May 19. A flotilla of vessels under captain Home Popham, having on board a

against his Majesty's government, and requiring them to return to their allegiance; it was signed by four catholic archbishops, 22 bishops, and several noble men and gentlemen.

A great assemblage of rebels, to the amount of 15,000, attacked the town of Enniscorthy, county of Wexford, which they carried.

May 29. The town of Kildare was attacked by the rebels, but they were defeated with loss by Sir J. Duff.

May 30. The town of Wexford was taken by the rebels, who liberated Mr. Beauchamp Bagnal Harvey, a protestant gentleman, and some others, who were under confinement for treasonable practices. Mr. Harvey was nominated to the chief command in the rebel army.

June 1. The town of Newtown Barry was attacked by a great party of rebels from Vinegar-hill; colonel L'Estrange retreated in order to collect his forces, when he attacked them and drove them from the town, killing 500 in the attack and pursuit.

June 4. Executed for high treason at Carlow, in Ireland, Sir Edward Crosbie, bart.

June 5. Lieut. general Sir Ralph Abercrombie, K. B. appointed commander of his Majesty's forces in North Britain.

Major general Johnson repulsed an attack of the rebels under B. B. Harvey, at New Ross, with great slaughter; lord Mountjoy was killed in the attack.

June 7. The rebels, who had for a short time possession of the town of Antrim, were driven out by general Nugent. In this action lord O'Neill received a dangerous wound, of which he soon after died.

June 8. James O'Coigley, found guilty of high treason at Maidstone, was this day executed on Pennenden-heath; he addressed the multitude professing his innocence of having carried on any improper correspondence with France.

June 9. A great body of the Wexford rebels attacked the post of major general Needham, at Arklow, and were repulsed with great loss.

June 11. The French fleet with the army under general Bonaparte, arrived before the island of Malta, which place surrendered to the French without resistance; Bonaparte having left a sufficient garrison there, proceeded on his expedition.

June 13. A body of rebels, 5000 in number, commanded by H. Munro, were at tacked by general Nugent near Ballynahinch, and routed with great slaughter; 400 were killed.

Charles marquis Cornwallis appointed governor general of Ireland in the room of the earl of Camden. On the 20th his Lordship arrived in Dublin.

June 15. In the House of Lords the duke of Leinster moved an address to his Majesty, that he would direct to be laid before the House a statement of the circumstances which had led to the disastrous affairs of Ireland. The motion was nega tived by a great majority. On the same day, a motion made by lord John Cavendish in the Commons, recommending to ministers the emancipation of the Irish Catholics, was also negatived. Mr. Fox also made a motion, deprecating the system of coercion that had been enforced in Ireland, and recommending conciliatory measures, which was also negatived.

June 19. A message from his Majesty acquainted Parliament, that the English militia had volunteered their services to Ireland.

Beauchamp Bagnal Harvey, J. Colclough, and Cornelius Grogan, were executed at Wexford for high treason. Harvey had been commander in chief of the rebel army in that part of the country; and Grogan was possessed of an estate of 60001. a year, and had been high sheriff of the county of Wexford. Their heads were fixed on the market and sessionhouse at Wexford.

About this time the spirit of military ardour seemed to prevade (ireat Britain, and all ranks eagerly formed themselves into volunteer corps.

June 21. Lord Lake, with the troops under his command, attacked the rebel. camp upon Vinegar-hill, and carried it in about an hour and a half, after a sharp conflict; the rebels fled with precipitation, leaving their cannon and ammunition behind them.

June 22. Wexford having been evacu ated, the King's troops under general Moore entered the town.

Rear admiral Nelson arrived off Malta with a British fleet of 13 ships of the line and one 50 gun ship, when he found that the French fleet had quitted that place a few days before. He sailed for the port of Alexandria, where he arrived on the 28th; but the French had not been seen on the coast of Egypt. He then steered northward for Caramania; thence he returned to Sicily, and after obtaining refreshments and assistance of every kind for his squadron in the bay of Syracuse, sailed once more for Alexandria.

June 25. Lieut. Gardiner repulsed an attack of the rebels at Hacket's-town with