dermen, &c. on the prefent alarming ftate of affairs, which being agreed to, the following address was read by Mr. Bishop, and unanimoufly approved of, and the fheriffs ordered to go up to know when his majesty will be pleased to receive the fame *.

Admiralty-Office, Dec. 7.

Capt. Macbride of the Artois writes, that on the 3d inft. he had made prize of the Hercules and Mars privateers, belonging to Amfterdam, both new ships, carrying 24 nine-pounders and ten cohorts each, faft failers, and commanded by two Hogenboomes, father and fon, inhabitants of Flufhing. The father was well known laft war by the nickname of Hardapple, and did much mif chief to our fhipping and trade. The Hercules had 164 men, of whom 13 were killed and 20 wounded. The Mars had 146 men, of whom nine were killed, and 15 wounded. The Artois had only one man killed, and fix wounded.

The feffions ended at the

Ioth. Old-Bailey, when the following prifoners received fentence of death, viz. Charles Peat, for affaulting Richard Downes, Efq; on the highway on Finchley Common, and robbing him of 238. in different coins; Hannah Brown, for stealing a large quantity of wearing apparel, linen, laces, and other things, in the dwellinghoufe of Mifs Catherine Thistlethwayte, in South-Audley-street, where fhe was fervant; and Geo. Townfend, for ftealing a mare, the property of Mr. Hedge, a watchmaker at Colchester, in ES

fex.

fex. Benjamin Honey was comvicted of feloniously killing and flaying Richard Hobbs. They were both bargemen, had quarrelled on board, and agreed to decide the matter on thore, in which the deceased, by a fall, received a concuffion of the brain, of which he died the fame day.

A man for publishing a certain inflammatory hand-bill, intitled, "England in Blood," and recommending a certain paper, then fhortly intended to be published, called, "The Thunderer," and tending to inflame the minds of his majesty's fubjects, against the peace and good government of the kingdom; and which bills were, to a great amount, distributed in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1780, at the time the rioters were proceeding to deftroy the gaol of Newgate, and, perhaps, if not providentially ftopped, the whole metropolis; was fined five fhillings, and fentenced to be imprifoned one year in Newgate.

Being the anniversary of the inftitution of the Royal Academy, a general affembly of the acade micians was held at the Royal Academy, Somerset-place, when P. J. De Loutherbourg was admitted an academician, and received his diploma figned by his majefty: three filver medals were given, one to Mr. Peter Holland, for the beft drawing of an academy figure; one to Mr. Charles Roffi, for the beft model of an academy figure; one to Mr. Geo. Hatfield, for the beft drawing of architecture, being the front and fpire of St. Giles's in the Fields, done from actual measurements.

The affembly then proceeded to elect the officers for the year en

fuing, when Sir Joshua Reynolds was re-elected prefident.

Council.

Geo. Barret, Nat. Hone, G. M. Mofer, Tho. Sandby, Edw. Burch, Charles Catton, P.J. De Loutherbourg, Jof. Nollekens, Efqrs. Vifitors.

Charles Catton, Nath. Dance, Benj. Weft, John Zoffanii, James Barry, J. B. Cipriani, P. J. De Loutherbourg, Jer. Meyer, Efqrs. Rev. Mr. William Peters.

Iith.

Yesterday there was a numerous meeting of electors, and other inhabitants of Westminfter, at Weftminster-hall, to confider of fuch measures as may be thought adviseable in the prefent fituation of the kingdom. The committee having taken their places on the steps leading up to the Court of Common-Pleas, Mr. Fox opened the business in a long fpeech, the purport of which was to draw a comparison of the management of public affairs during the administration of Lord Chatham, and fome prefent persons in office; this he did in a variety of inftances, proving, as he said, that the former had raised us to the highest pinnacle of reputation and glory, as a magnanimous, free, and independent people, while the latter had reduced us to diftrefs. After fome other gentlemen had delivered their opinions, an humble petition and remonftrance, in fubítance the fame as that agreed on at Guildhall, London, was produced, which being read, was received with burits of general applaufe, and a committee appointed to present it to his majefty.

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Southwark it was alfo refolved,

that

that an addrefs be prefented to his majefty, to the fame purport with that of the city of London, by a committee.

13th. A few evenings ago, when the family of Mr. Pickett, goldfmith, of Ludgatehill, who refides in Harpur-ftreet, near Red - lion - fquare, were retiring to reft, his eldest daughter, as the ftood by the fire fide, was employed in fome little act of dutiful attention to her father, when the fire unperceived caught hold of her clothes, and in an inftant her whole drefs was in a blaze. The father was ftruck motionless on the occafion, but recovering a little, burnt his hand in attempting to extinguish the flames; and the young lady finding no relief, fan from room to room to feek it, but in vain. In her progrefs the fet fire to the bed, which was with difficulty extinguished, and where fhe fell the floor was actually on fire. No relief could be given her till her clothes were totally burnt off her back, when her whole body was left as if it had been broiled, or rather burnt on a gridiron. Medical affiftance was foon procured, but it was impoffible for human art to afford the leaft relief; and in this dreadful ftate fhe lay till the next evening, and then expired.

This day, purfuant to 19th. advertisement from the fheriffs, there was a general meeting of the freeholders of the county of Middlefex, at the Mermaid, at Hackney, when it was unanimoully refolved that a fimilar petition to that of the city of London fhould be prefented to the king by their two reprefentatives in parliament.

At a meeting of the 21st. West-India merchants, Mr. Bailey in the chair, it was unanimously refolved, that an humble addrefs and petition be prefented to his majefty, reprefenting the dangerous ftate of the Weft-India iflands, and imploring immediate relief. Several other refolutions were alfo entered into unanimoufly, there being no opposition.

At the above meeting it was declared, by a formal resolution, that what Mr. B. Gascoyne had faid in the house, of their not being under any apprehenfions for the fafety of the Weft-Indies, was de lufive, falfe, and groundless.

Same day a meeting of the freeholders of Surrey was held at the Spread-Eagle, Epfom, Sir Francis Vincent in the chair, when Mr. Budgen moved for a petition and remonftrance to the fovereign; the motion was fupported by Admiral Keppel, Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Sir Robert Clayton, and others, and carried.

DIED, in Stafford-row, Weftm. aged 79, Mrs. Madan, daughter of Spencer Cowper, Efq. formerly one of the juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, and relict of Col. Martin Madan, who died at Bath in 1756. This lady very early diftinguished herself by her poetical talents, as appears by her "Verfes to the Memory of Mr. Hughes," 1720, printed with his poems; and "The Progress of Poetry," in The Flower Piece, 1731. She has left two fons, the Rev. Martin Madan, author of Thelyphthora, &c. and Spencer Madan, D. D. Prebendary of Peterborough. Her eldest daughter was married to Wm. Cowper, Efq. of Hartingfordbury (her firft coufin), and

Nottinghamshire, L. Rolleston,

of Watnall, Efq.

Oxford, Rd. Paul Jodrell, of Lewknor, Efq;

Rutlandthire, Tho. Sanders, of Mercott, Efq;

Shropshire, Ed. Charles Windfor, of Harnage Grange, Efq; Somerfetfhire, John Ford, of Hadfpen, Efq;

Staffordshire, Ph. Keay, of Abbots-Bromley, Efq;

Suffolk, Charles Kent, of Farnham St. Genoveve, Efq; Southampton, Benjamin Smith, of Lys, Efq;

Surrey, William Northey, of Epfom, Efq;

Suffex, Wm. Peachy, of Kidford, Efq.

Warwickshire, John Webb, of Sherborne, Efq; Worcestershire, John Darke, of Bredon, Efq;

Wiltshire, W. Hayter, of Newton-Toney, Efq;

Yorkshire, Humphrey Ofbaldefton, of Hunmanby, Efq;

SOUTH WALES. Brecon, Lewis Williams, of Pentwyn, Efq;

Carmarthen, Sir W. Mafell, of Ifcoed, Bart.

Cardigan, David Lloyd, of Altyroden, Efq;

Glamorgan, C. Bowen, of Merthyrmawr, Efq;

Pembroke, H. Scourfield, of Robefton-hall, Efq;

Radnor, Jonathan Bowen, of Knighton, Efq;

NORTH WALES. Anglesey, Jonathan Bobyckan Sparrow, of Redhill, Efq; Carnarvon, Edw. Carreg, of Carreg, Efq;

Denbigh, the Hon. Tho. Fitzmaurice, of Leweny, Efq;