1803.] of the general, will immediately follow; and afterwards the prefect and all the civil officers, and the tribunals, according to their respective ranks. IX. On arriving at the gate of La Guillotiere, the body is to be saluted by a discharge of artillery. The great guns shall continue to fire every five minutes during the passage of the procession. (Signed) Lyons, Feb. 1803. BUREAU DE PUSY. 18. A letter officially received from Bombay states, that on the 29th of July captain Hayes, of the company's ship of war the Swift, received a requisition from the resident at Amboyna, to proceed to the relief of an outport, named Amoorang, then closely invested by the Magindanao pirates: their fleet consisted of 40 large proas, from which 1200 men had been landed, with 12 pieces of brass ordnance, of eight and sixpounders. On the first of August, at half past five P. M. the Swift came up with the piratical fleet, and instantly opened a cannonade upon them, which continued till halfpast nine. Besides the annoyance of the enemy, captain Hayes's attention was imperiously called to the critical situation of his own vessel, which was surrounded by islands, and upon a dangerous reef: to this circumstance were the vessels which escaped destruc, tion indebted for their safety. The Swift, however, captured two; one she passed over, and cut in two; 17 others were run ashore, and about 600 of the enemy are supposed to have perished during the conflict. The company's settlements upon the Celebes, as welk as granaries completely stored, have thus been protected from the most serious Execution of Colonel Despard and others for High Treason. 21. This morning, as soon as daylight appeared, the military troops of horse were stationed at took their different stations. Two roads from the Obelisk to the Elethe Obelisk; others patroled the phant and Castle, and down the a view of the scaffold were com Borough road: all parts that had pletely crammed. We suppose sembled. At seven o'clock five of that 20,000 persons might be asthe prisoners, Broughton, Francis, Graham, Wood, and Wratten, went into the chapel; colonel Desin his cell; and Macnamara, being pard refused to attend, remaining a Roman catholic, prayed in his cell with the priest. The five former conducted themselves with much decorum in the chapel: the sacrament was then administered to them. Before it was over, colonel Despard and Macnamara were brought down from their bound cells. Their irons were knocked (C 3) off, and their arms and hands bound with ropes. Notice was then given to the sheriff that they were ready. The hurdle had been previously prepared in the outer court-yard: it was the body of a small cart, on which two trusses of clean straw were laid, and was drawn by two horses. Macnamara and Graham were first put into the hurdle, and drawn to the lodge, where the inner gates were opened, and they were conveyed to the staircase that leads up to the scaffold. The hurdle then returned, and brought Broughton and Wratten, then Wood and Francis; last of all, colonel Despard was put into it alone. Macnamara seemed intent upon the book in his hand. Graham remained silent. Broughton jumped into the hurdle, smiled, and looked up to the scaffold. Wood and Francis both smiled, and all of them surveyed the awful scene with much composure.Despard shook hands with a gentleman as he got into the hurdle, and looked up to the scaffold with "I hope that every young man who witnesses my fate, will avoid public-houses, and take a warn ing! Should they mix with certain companies, they will perhaps see more executions of a similar nature." He joined in prayer with ear nestness. Wood was the fifth, Francis the sixth.-Francis ascended the scaf fold with a composure which he preserved to the last. Wood and Broughton were equally com posed. Of all of them, Francis was the best-looking-tall, handsome, and well-made. He and Wood were dressed in the uniform of the foot-guards, and Francis, when he came on the scaffold, had on his full regimental cap: the rest were in coloured clothes. Colonel Despard ascended the scaffold with great firmness: his countenance underwent not the slightest change. He looked at the multitude assembled with perfect calmness, and thus addressed them: "Fellow-citizens, I am come here, as you see, after having served my country faithfully, honourably, and I trust usefully, for thirty years and upwards, to suffer death upon a scaffold, for a crime which I am no more guilty of than any man who is now looking at me. I do solemnly declare that I am no more guilty of it than any of you who may now be listening to me: but, though his majesty's ministers know I am not guilty, they avail themselves of the legal pretext which they have of destroying a man, because they think he is a friend to truth, to liberty, and to justice, and because he has been a friend to the poor and to the oppressed.But, fellow-citizens, I hope and trust, trust, notwithstanding my fate, and perhaps the fate of many others who may follow me, that still the principles of liberty, jus tice, and humanity, will triumph over falsehood, despotism, and delusion, and every thing else hostile to the interests of the human race. And now, having said this, I have nothing more to add, but to wish you all that health, that happiness, and that freedom,. which I have ever made it my endeavour, as far as it lay in my .power, to procure for every one of you,and for mankind in general." Immediately after this speech, the crowd cheered; but the impulse immediately subsided. The clergyman now shook hands with each of them. The executioners pulled the caps over the faces of the unhappy persons, and descended the scaffold. Most of them exclaimed "Lord Jesus, receive our souls!" At seven minutes before, nine the signal was given, the platform dropped, and they were launched into eternity.' After hanging about half an hour, they were cut down: colonel Despard first: his head was then severed from his body, and the executioner held it up to the view of the populace, exclaiming "This is the head of a traitor Edward Marcus Despard." The same ceremony was performed at the parapet on the left hand. There was some hooting and hissing when the colonel's head was exhibited. His body was now put into the shell that had been prepared for it. The other prisoners were then cut down, their heads severed from their bodies, and exhibited to the populace with the same exclamation of "This is the head of another traitor !" The bodies were then put into their different shells. The execution was over, shortly after ten; and the populace soon afterward dispersed. Macnamara was 50 years of age. He was born in Ireland; by trade a carpenter, Wood, 26 years of age, born in Derbyshire; a soldier. Francis, 23 years of age, born in Shropshire; a soldier and shoemaker. Broughton, 26 years of age, born in London; a carpenter. Graham, 53 years of age, born in London; a slater. Wratten, 35 years of age, place of birth not known; a shoemaker. SUICIDE. 28. To the numerous lamentable accidents that have been occasioned by intoxication, and a propensity to drinking, the present unfortunate instance of self-destruction may be added:-Charlotte Blair, a young woman, only eighteen years old, was observed by the neighbours about Porter-street, Leicester-fields (where she resided), to be on Friday night last extremely unhappy and dejected in her mind. At a late hour she ap peared at the street-door of the house in which she lived, apparently in liquor, She addressed several of her acquaintances, and in a peculiar manner bid them good-b'ye, declaring it was the last time she should see them. On meeting a person that lives in the lower part of the house, she said she had just taken half an ounce of laudanum, which she bought for the purpose of putting an end to her existence. No notice, however, was taken of the expression, as the unfortunate girl appeared to be intoxicated. She then went into the room where her mother was, and asked to shake hands with her, ob(C4) serving serving that she had taken poison, and would be dead by the next morning. Her mother supposed from her appearance, that she had been drinking, and did not know what she said, therefore placed no confidence in such an assertion, but advised her to go to sleep, and not to give her any uneasiness by fabricating so dreadful a story. It, however, appeared to be too true. She retired to rest, and on the morning following was found dead in her bed. The motives that actuated the deceased thus to put a period to her life, at present are not exactly known. The general belief, however, is, that her predominant passion for drinking had produced a variety of misfortunes, which had so forcibly affected her feelings, that her intellects became deranged; in which situation she had unhappily deprived herself of life, MARCH. Dover, March 7.-We have had a most violent storm of wind and snow all day from the eastward. This morning, at eleven o'clock, a large collier brig, the Claude, of Blyth, in attempting to come into the harbour, struck against the south pier head, and was afterwards dashed on shore, where she now lies a perfect wreck. A small fishing-boat, with five then, was upset about the same time at the entrance of the harbour; the boatmen immediately put off their boats to the relief of the poor sufferers, and providentially arrived to their assistance at the moment they were sinking; and it is with much pleasure we state that all of them were brought on shore without receiving any very material injury. Constantinople, Jan. 12.-The 7th instant arrived here, the French ambassador, general Brune, with a squadron of six ships of war. He did not, however, come on shore till the 8th, when, on landing, he was saluted by a general discharge from all the ships. The 10th, all the French here assembled in the church of the Capuchins, to hear mass for the welfare of the republic and of the new embassy; after which, Te Deum was sung, and the French ships, on a signal given from one of the hotels, fired their guns. The capitan pacha ordered. 25,000 okes of fresh meat, and a considerable sum of money for bread, to be distributed among the crews. The Russian ambassador, Ilankinsky, lately arrived here. Lord Elgin has embarked, and will shortly set sail on his return. On the 26th of December, in the evening, an adjutant of general Stuart had a conference with the Reis Effendi, and proposed, in the name of the English government, that the Porte should grant a par don to the Egyptian beys, and assign them a distant place in Upper Egypt for their residence, where they should engage to live peace ably, and conduct themselves as faithful subjects of the Porte. The Reis Effendi, who had ex pected very different proposals from the English adjutant, answered, that the Porte would communicate its determination on this subject to the English ambassador lord Elgin. The latter accordingly had several conferences with the Reis Effendi, and the negotiation was yesterday evening brought to a conclusion, as lord Elgin took his leave of the grand vizier. The Porte has in fact, contrary to ge neral expectation, granted a pardon to the beys under the following conditions; 1. The 1. The cavalry of the mamelukes shall enter immediately into the service of the pacha of Cairo. 2. The Porte will assign to the six insurgent beys, the little town of Awan, in Upper Egypt, where they shall reside in peace, and subject to the Porte, without interfering, in any manner, in the public affairs and government of Egypt. As soon as this convention was concluded, lord Elgin declared officially to the grand vizier, that Egypt should be immediately evacuated by the English troops, which would be conveyed from thence to Malta. The latter island the English will continue to retain possession of, till they have cer. tainty of the maintenance of peace between England and France. On the 6th instant, the French ambassador, general Brune, arrived here with the squadron from Toulon, consisting of a ship of the line, a frigate, two brigs, and two corvettes. This squadron likewise brought the French agents of legation and commerce, destined for the different ports of the Levant. 9. On Sunday night, about ele ven o'clock, a coach was hired at Charing-cross by a man genteelly dressed, who ordered the coachman to drive to St. George's-row, on the Uxbridge road: on the coach arriving at that place, the man got out, and with horrid threats demanded the coachman's money, at the same time presenting a very long pistol to his breast, and slightly wounded him in the side with a tuck in a stick. The coachman delivered his money, amounting to two seven-shilling pieces, and eight shillings and sixpence in silver. The robber, on parting, told the coachman if he attempted to pursue him he would shoot him. The robber returned towards Lon don, and is supposed to have got over the park wall. A suicide of the most singular nature was committed on Saturday evening last between Walhamgreen and Great Chelsea. A Mr. Hayward, a housekeeper, in Suffolk-street, Charing - cross, and twelve years head waiter at the British coffee-house, left his home about 12 o'clock, and proceeded as far as Hammersmith. On his return, he went to the house of Mr. Newman, the Swan, at Walhamgreen, where he called for a glass of brandy; and afterwards inquired if he could be accommodated with a bed: the landlord then informed him, that he never let beds to strangers: the deceased turned round and said, "Sir, it is no reason that I should not have another glass of brandy." He then paid his reckoning, and left the house at half-past ten o'clock in the evening, and proceeded on the road for the King's Arms, Chelsea, within a quarter of a mile of which he took a two-bladed knife out of his pocket, and stabbed himself in several parts of the neck. On perceiving a cart coming up, he threw himself across the road, in order that the tart might ride over him; but the carter alighting, asked who was there, and what was the matter; when taking him up he observed some blood running, when Mr. H. exclaimed, "It is only my nose bleeding!" The man immediately mounted his cart, and rode on. Shortly after the deceased proceeded to lacerate his throat with the knife. Being then in view of two boys, who immediately came after the cart, he threw himself into the ditch, and lay, as he supposed, concealed. On their asking what the matter was, he described, as before, that his nose bled; when the |