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Mr. Calbeck in his garden, for whofe comforta ble accommodation, every fubftantial difb, fitting for foldiers, was provided, with abundance of wine, Irish porter, and native whisky. The troops returned to town about eight o'clock, after being under arms upwards of ten hours.

The mills are building by William Caldbeck, Efq; counfellor at law, and colonel of the law yers artillery, who about two years fince, at his own expence, built a foundery for cafting brais cannon for the ule of the volunteers of Ireland. At the review Mr. Thomas Braughali of Bridge-ftreet, a member in one of the corps of cavalry, fell from his horfe and unfortunately broke his thigh.

22.] At night there was a general parade of the volunteers in the city, to tellify their fatis faction of the mealures that feem now to be the real intention of the prefeat ministry, to carry into effect for the emancipation of the legina. ture of this long injured country. The very brile liant fuccels of Rodney, with the triumph of the British fleet in the West Indies, and the cap. ture of Ceylon in the Eaft, gave the molt heartfelt pleasure to every Irishman who wishes to live only to share the liberty and fhare the fate of Britain.

The general, attended by the Dublin and Rathdown horfe, with the artillery, took place at the head of Dawfon freet, while the different regiments of infantry were drawn up in the walks of the green. About nine o'clock, the artillery, commanded by col. Calbeck, began their fire of 21 rounds, which was anfwered by a compleat Feu-de-joye of three rounds from the infantry.

The garrifon paraded upon the quays, from the Queen's-bridge, to Effex-bridge, and fired a grand Feu de joye..

23.] The county of Dublin horfe mounted guard at the commander in chief's in Palace

row.

The different corps in the county and city are to do that duty in rotation for fourteen days after and previous to the review in June.

Extract of a Letter from Neary.

On Wednesday laft died, in Mullaghglafs, pear this town, Mr. Janes Farrell, a man who poffeffed the esteem and good-will of all his neighbours. A moft extraordinary circum stance attended his death: He had been indebt

May. tally extinguished. The a&t needs no comment; it fpeaks leadly for itfelf; and is, we believe, the only inftance of the kind on record in the annals of history.-We hear, that all the people of the neighbourhood, to whom the creditor was in the imalleft fum indebted, are, to a man, bringing in their accounts, demanding immediate payment, and unanimously concur in this mode of expreffing their honeft indignation at an act, which would disgrace even the times of Gothic barbarity. BIRTHS.

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T and The ak Philip Baty,

and heir. The lady of Philip Batty, Efq; of a fon.-On Artan-quay, the lady of Ifidore Blake, Efq: of a fon.--The lady of Guttavus Handcock Temple, Eig, of a fon.

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MARRIAGES.

HOMAS Norman, of Drogheda, Efq; to Mifs Eliza Bruh, of Britain-ftreet.James Ferguson, Elq: to Mifs Brownrig.—At Drumcondra, Robert Stevely, Elq, to Mils Jane Kirkpatrick, daughter of Alexander Kirkpa trick, Ef-In Abbey-street, the revd. Mr. Hale, to Mil Treil.

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May 9. Ther house at Stephen's Green, A Mrs. Lydia Brownrigg, reli&t of John Brownrigg, of Ballinglyn, in the county of Wicklow, gent.--At Edenderry, Mr. Riehard Grattan, fenior.-Thomas Donovan, of the county of Cork, Eiq;--Near Edenderry, Thomas Brennan, fenior, one of the people called Quakers, -At Greenhills, county of Kildare, Mits Catharine and Mils Jane Graydon; and the next day Mrs. Graydon, wife and daughters of Thomas Graydon, Eiq;- -The right honou rable James Fortefcue.--In Dominick-street, William Tighe, Efq;-Near Coleraine, Mark Kerr O'Neile, fq.-On the Merchants- quay, the widow O'Brien.--At Drummin, in the county of Longford, Thomas Newcomen, Efq; -At Stephen's Green, Mrs. Echlin, lady of Charles Echlin, Eq; of Echlinville, county of Down. At Bath, the revd. Mr. Austin, rector of St. Mary's Kilkenny. At Rathdrum, county of Wicklow, Mifs Mills, of Capel-freet. In Parliament-ftreet, Mr. James Hoey, printer and bookfeller-la Drogheda, in the 720 year of his age, the revd. Dr. Smyth Loftus. In Paffage, lieutenant G. Atkinion, of the royal navy. Charles Ofborne, Efq; brother to the right honourable Sir William Ofborne, bart.➡ Of a cancer in her ear, the wife of Mr. Hugh Holmes, of Queen-treet.At Mountanville, county of Dublin, Jofeph Barnewall, Efq; fon of the late lord Trimbleftown.-In Cork, the relict of James Nihell. Efq; a physician of great eminence in Limerick.At Garretftown, co. Cork, John Gill, Efq; M. D. ftreet, Mr. Thomas Rowlins.ftreet, Mr. Andrew Clark.

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PROMOTIONS. TONOURABLE Richard Fitzpatrick, fecre

ed to his brother, Joseph Farrell, a trifling fum, H tary to the duke of Portland.-Lieutenant

which was not discharged; and when his coffin was half finished, the creditor feized the boards, and carried them off as part payment of the debt! thus evincing, in the strongest manner, a foul fo entirely governed by avarice, that all the feelings of humanity and confanguinity were to

general James Johnstone, governor of the fort of Duncannon in Ireland.--Revd. John Law, D. D. (fon of the bishop of Carline) first chaplain to the duke of Portland, as lord lieutenant of Ireland.

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Authentic Anecdotes of Sir Thomas Rumbold.
With a ftriking Likeness.

IR Thomas Rumbold is a gentleman, His deportment as a military man, pro

Sir Thomas Rumbold is a

may be, owes no part of his wealth or confequence in the world to either birth or family connections. He was born about the year 1737, of parents who could afford bim but few of the advantages of education. His outfet promised no eminence, and his emerging from a fituation which the generality of mankind would have been fixed in for life, proves, at least, that he poffeffed a spirit of enterprize, without which no great or extraordinary actions are ever atchieved. Report fays, and we believe with truth, that he was originally a waiter at White's, under another perfon, who has fince become a member of the British Senate :-We mean Mr. Macreth, who now reprefents the borough of Caftle Rifing, in the County of Norfolk. The time, however, which paffed while he was in this fituation, could be but fhort; as we find him in the service of the Eaft India Company, at Bengal, about the period of the taking Calcutta, in 1756.

It was in the civil line of the service to which Mr. Rumbold was deftined; but the commotions which at that juncture threatened the deftruction and extirpation of the Company from their fettlements in the Eaft, obliged many gentlemen to act as volunteers in a military capacity. Among thefe was Mr. Rumbold, who behaved himself with great spirit and gallantry on feveral occafions; and particularly, at one time, he ventured in an open boat to carry difpatches of importance, where the hazard was fo great, that no one had ever attempted any thing like it before. Hib. Mag. June, 1782.

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acknowledgments of his

commanders, and the thanks of the Company at large. After fome time, however he quitted the life of a foldier with confiderable reputation, and returned to his original deftination in the civil department of the fervice, where. equal fuccefs attended him as he had experienced while he bore arms for his employers.

To follow Mr. Rumbold through the feveral gradations of his rife in the fervice, will be unneceffary. It is fufficient to oberve, that in 1766 he was appointed from Madras to a feat in the council at Bengal. This nomination gave fome of fence to a few gentlemen, who deemed. it an injury to themselves, and a fuperceffion which their conduct at the board no way juftified. On this occafion Lord Clive, in one of his difpatches, mentions Mr. Rumbold as one whofe fervices to the Company, both in a civil and military capacity, defervedly entitled him to an exemption from every indignity.

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Soon after his arrival at Bengal, he was named by the council, Chief of Patna, where he refided fome time and while there acquired a confiderable fortune, with which he returned to England in 1770. This period was remarkable for the number of perfons who came to England from the Eaft Indies, fome with real, and others with only ideal wealth. In which of thefe claffes Mr. Rumbold is to be numbered, we have fome doubts; we are, however, certain, that the fuppofed riches of fome had an equally per

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nicious effect on the community with the real wealth of others. Each of them vied with the other in fplendor and extravagance, and both contributed to introduce and establish a fyftem of private profufion, and public venality.

About five years had only elapfed, before Mr. Rumbold defired again to change the fcene, and return to India. He was accordingly a candidate for the govern ment of Madras against Lord Pigot, but failed in his application. On the death of that nobleman, and the fubfequent divifions in that fettlement, he was chofen to fucceed him. In confequence of his adminiftration, during his thort refidence at that place, he made a vast addition to his fortune; the acquifition of which is now become the object of public enquiry. Af. ter fo many complaints as we have heard against the peculation of Eaft India ad. venturers, we prefume the prefent profecution will be carried on with effect. The juftice, the honour, and the dignity of the nation, require it. At the fame 'time, we could with that all prejudices might sleep, and judgment be fufpended, until the whole of the evidence againft, and the defence of the criminal, are both laid before the public. With heated minds, and prepoffeffed opinions, a cool and impartial determination can fearce be looked for. To give weight, however, to the fentence of vindictive juftice, calm deliberation is neceffary. An extraordinary mode of proceeding against any perfon, demand that the proofs against him fhould be clear and precife, fubject to no objection, and carrying conviction to every mind. We confefs ourselves no friends to bills of pains and penalties, especially where the ordinary courfe of law would be fufficient for the conviction and punishment of offenders. The prefent cafe may, however, be one of thofe which require the interpofition of the latent powers of the ftate; and from the mode in which it hath hitherto been conducted, we see no

from it. What was begun from princireafon to apprehend any ill effects to arife ples of humanity and juftice, will, we doubt not, be terminated according to the dictates of wifdom, and the fpirit of

the conftitution.

Sir Thomas Rumbold was created a baronet March 27, 1772, and fiace his laft return from India, has purchased a large eftate in Hertford (hire, is building a magnificent houfe upon it, and has transferred all the fplendor of Eaftern magnificence from Madras to England. If the charges against him are proved, we fhall fee, without concern, this imprudent difplay of wealth vanish like the bafelefs fabrick of a

vifion, or remain only a monument of its owner's folly and disgrace.

Account of the Execution of Mary Queen of

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Scots.

N the year 1769, his Grace the prefent Duke of Norfolk, then Charles How ard, Efq; publifhed a volume which he entitled, "Hiftorical Anecdotes of fome of the Howard family, 8vo." This performance, a very entertaining one, contains amongst other things, a particular account of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, taken from an old manufcript in the British Mufeum. The beauty, the imprudence, the misfortunes, and the miferable catastrophe, of this unhappy princefs, even until the prefent times, continue to engage the attention, and excite the paffions of mankind, more than any event which is now placed at fuch a remote period. With the political prejudices which have actuated the feveral opponents and defenders of this unfortunate lady, we profefs not to be influenced. Those who wish to be informed of the argument which have been adduced to prove her guilt, or to eftablish her innocence, may confult, on the one hand, Dr. Robertfon and Mr. Hume; and, on the other, Mr. Tytler and Dr. Stuart. The following fimple narrative, written by an eye-witness of her death, is given from a copy more correct and perfect than that printed by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk; and while it fhews the uncertainty of human greatnefs, cannot but give birth to emotions of pity in every reader, not excepting those who may have entertained fentiments unfavourable to the unhappy fufferer.

A more circumftantial Account of the Execu tion of Mary Queen of Scots, than hitherto publifhed. By Robert Wyngfield, Efqi to Lord Treasurer Cecil.

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honour gave me in command, I have heer Iey please your good Lordshipp, to be advertised, that according as your fett downe in writting the trew order and manner of the execution of the Lady Ma ry last Queen of Scots, the 8th of February laft, in the great hall within the caftle of Fotheringtray, togither with relation of all fuch fpeeches and actions spoken, and done by the fayde Queen, or any others, and all other circumftances and proceedings concerning the fame, from and after the delivery of the faid Scottish Queen, to Thomas Andrews, Efq; high Sherife for hir Majeftyes County of Norfolk, vnto the end of the fayde execution, as followeth ;

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