the other; and the watchman have ing taken them all into custody, Mr. Pearce broke loose from the watchman's hold, and, retreating a few paces, put his hand about his pockets, and instantly presented a pistol to Cobb, and shot him under the left ear; the ball entered his jaw he instantly went into the shop, and said to his mistress that his jaw was broke.. The watchman's testimony proved the conversation, and that no insult had been offered to miss Johnson, either by innuendo or other wise. Mrs. Sharp proved, that Mr. Pearce and miss Johnson came into the shop, and the denial of the boy and Cobb of their having insulted miss Johnson. Another watchman stated, that he had. Cobb in custody, and that Pearce fired at him. He said, that if he had not drawn back, he must have received the contents of the pistol himself. Wm. Serjeant, a coachman, was passing at the time, and seeing a mob gathered round Mr. Sharp's door, was induced to ask what was the matter, and perceived, almost instantly, Mr. Pearce break loose, and put his hand to his pockets; the witness supposing him a gentleman, and conceiving that he was afraid of having his pocket picked, from the circumstance of his put ting his hand there: in a moment, however, he advanced with the pistol, levelled it at Cobb, and shot him. 1 Another witness confirmed this testimony. Mr. Morris, the surgeon, stated that Cobb was brought into his house about half past nine. Upon examining him, he found a pistol ball had entered below his left ear, lodged in the roof of his mouth, and splintered the jaw. He exa tracted one ball (which he pro duced), and had every reason to believe, from the nature of the fraction, that there was more than one, but could not positively state whether or not. He would not state that the man was not in immi nent danger of his life from the wound. The magistrate asked Mr. Pearce what he had to say to the charge. He replied, that he went into a fishmonger's to purchase some fish, and miss Johnson waiked before the door: in a few minutes she came in and told him that she had been much insulted; on which he went out, and went to the butcher's shop to reprimand the persons who had insulted her; when Cobb came in, and wanted to fight him, and struck him several times, and that he pulled out the pistol to defend himself, and it went off. Miss Johnson stated, that the boy had crept on the ground, and seized hold of her legs in a very indecent manner, and that accordingly she went into the shop to Mr. Pearce for protection. The magistrate, under this evi. dence, said he was obliged to commit them for trial. Mr. Pearce is a very fine-look ing man, upwards of six feet high, and is said to be an officer in the army. Miss Johnson is about 25 years of age, and of a very pleasing countenance. She was very much agitated during the examination.Mr Pearce conducted himself in a firm manner. La Chiffonne, captain Stuart, arrived in the river from Bombay, with dispatches from that presidency to his excellency the most noble the governor general in council, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of his excellency Haujee Khuleel Khaun, ambassador to the British government on the part of his majesty the king of Persia. In the afternoon of the 20th ult. a dispute unfortunately arose between the Persian servants of the ambassador, and the sepoys of the corps of Bengal volunteers, composing his excellency's honorary guard, at the house assigned for his residence near Massagong. An affray ensued, and both parties resorted to arms. At the commencement of the disturbance, his excellency the ambassador, with his nephew Aga Hoossain, and his attendants, descended into the court, for the purpose of quelling the tumult; and while his excellency was exerting his endeavours, with the utmost degree of humanity and firmness, for that purpose, he received a wound from a musket which instantly proved mortal. His excellency's nephew was severely wounded in several places. Four of the ambassador's servants were killed, a and five more wounded. Tranquillity, however, was speedily restored, and medical assistance was imme diately procured for the relief of the surviving sufferers. The most active and judicious exertions were successfully employed by the acting president at Bombay, J. H. Cherry, esq. and by the civil and military officers under his authority, for the purpose of restoring order, and of tranquillising the minds of the attendants and followers of the deceased am bassador, as well as of securing the means of bringing to justice the perpetrators of this atrocious act. A court of inquiry has accordingly been instituted at Bombay, for the purpose of investigating, with due deliberation and solem nity, all the circumstances of the case. The governor general in council has adopted measures for affording to the relations and followers of the late ambassador all the relief and consolation which can be administered to them under the pressure: of this severe calamity. 8. As a testimony of the public: regret for the death of the late ambassador, and of a deep sense of sorrow for the calamitous event which occasioned it, and as a mark of public respect for the high sta tion of the deceased ambassador, and for the sovereign whom he rel presented, his excellency the go. vernor general in council has been pleased to direct, that minute guns be fired on this melancholy occasion, at five o'clock this afternoon, from the ramparts of Fort William Extract of a Letter from an Officer of Major-General Baird's Army, dated Giza, opposite Grand Cairo, May 18, 1802. On the 15th instant major-general Baird, preparatory to the march of the army across the Desert. to Suez, paid a visit of ceremony to his highness the pacha of Egypt in Grand Cairo. The general, attended by his staff and other officers, with an escort of the 8th light dragoons, crossed the river to the Cairo side in the morning; where a Turkish guard of honour, consisting of horse and foot, were drawn up to receive him. On landing, the general was met 1800. met by the pacha's chief secretary to mount the horse on leaving the After the usual compliments and honours being paid, the guards moved off in front atra slow pace toward his highness's palace, the kettle drums and other music of the Turkish horse playing during the procession, while the heralds proclaimed the approach of the English general On coming near the palace, (formerly general Kleber's, and in which he was assassinated) we found the streets lined with the Albanian guards up to the steps of the great staircase. The appearance of the soldiers was more sanguinary than martial, every man, besides his musket and bayonet, being armed with a brace of pistols, a dagger, and a sword. Having arrived at the palace, The staff and other officers of The general was requested by the pacha, as a particular honour, We then returned home in the same manner we came, amidst an immense concourse of people; and, as is usual in most Mussulman countries, were importuned for buckshees (money) on all sides. The saddle and furniture presented to general Baird must be of great value, the former being solid silver gilt, and the latter of crimson velvet studded with stars' and crescents of the like metal. The horse was one of the most beauti ful animals I ever beheld, and of the finest breed in Turkey. The general's sword was no less costly, the scabbard and mounting being of entire gold, and the blade one of the true Damascus. We afterwards learned that the whole had been sent by the grand seignor to the pacha, on raising him to his present high situation in the em pire. 10. From the intelligence brought by the New York papers of the 14th December, it appears that the situation of the French in St. Domingo becomes every day more critical. Indeed very faint hopes can be now entertained of their being able to reduce the negroes to a state of subjection and subordination. The loss which Bonaparte has already sustained of some of his most skilful generals, and of so many thousands of his most gallant and best disciplined troops, is now severely aggravated, by a loss that touches him more nearly, in the death of his brother-in-law, General Rogeneral Le Clerc. chambeau succeeds to the chief command, with which had he been first intrusted, a far different fate might have attended the expedi tion. stripped it of its clothes. The girl is secured at the workhouse, by order of the magistrate. Yesterday evening a man went into a pork-shop in Whitecrossstreet; and having some words with the butcher, the latter stabbed him in the belly, of which wound he died, on being conveyed to St. Bartholomew's hospital.— The murderer is in custody. tion. He was inured to the cli- land, and taken it into a barn and mate, and intimately acquainted with the country; circumstances which, added to the influence which a known disposition for firmness and conciliation must have given him, would have enabled him to overawe the blacks or to gain their confidence. But the expedition, as it was inauspiciously undertaken, so is it likely to end in defeat; and the disgrace and disasters which it has heaped on the mother country will but justly expiate the cruelty and treachery that have so flagrantly marked the treatment which the ill-fated Toussaint has experienced from the first consul. Marlborough-street.-On Satur. day William Hutchinson and Alice his wife, who are charged by their daughter with stealing and mur. dering a child in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, were brought before Mr. Conant, and underwent another examination. Several persons attended who had been dispatched by the magistrates to the neighbourhood of Chelsea, to make diligent inquiries respecting a child having been lost; when they all stated, that, after very particular inquiries, they could not learn the least tidings of any such circumstance having taken place. The girl accounted for the child not being found at the place she described, by asserting she suspected her father had taken it away, as he got up at five o'clock the following morning; but the magistrate did not give credit to this tale, for the man was discharged. The woman was committed to the house of correction for further examination. The girl told another tale, of her mother having stolen another child in a village on their way from Scot MUTINY. From the following letters our readers will learn with satisfaction, that the mutiny in the Mediterra nean was confined to the Gibral tar, the crew of which wished to sail to the westward, to return home. It had scarcely manifested itself, when the activity of the of ficers, and especially the intrepidity of the marines, succeeded in instantly quelling it; by which behaviour the marines have added to the reputation they have long maintained for loyalty, discipline, and courage-behaviour that has deservedly drawn forth the thanks of the admiral on the station, and which equally calls for the praise and gratitude of the country. Dragon, Oristagni Bay, Sardi nia, Nov. 29, 1802. As it is very probable that the mutiny, which lately broke out on board his majesty's ship Gibraltar, may occasion much conversation in England, I conceive it my duty, and have taken the liberty, to inform you of the degree of firmness shown by the detachment of marines serving on board that ship, during the whole of that most unfortunate event. I should have observed to you, that the above happened on our passage from the Rock to rejoin the admiral. The two two ringleaders were seized, tried. on board the Dragon, condemned, and executed on board the Gibraltar, about three weeks since. So truly sensible was captain Kelly of the merits of the marines, that, in the clearest manner possible, he pointed out to the court (in his narrative) the dependance he placed in the whole of the detachment: a burst of applause instantly appeared in the court, and the members passed the highest eulogium on their meritorious conduct, which was inserted in the minutes of the court-martial.The sensations of those present on the occasion are easily imagined, but to describe them would be impossible. To this I beg to subjoin the admiral's public thanks to captain Johnson, the officers of marines, and the detachment acting under them; which were ordered to be read throughout the fleet on the morning of the execution of the mutineers: (A Copy.) Kent, Oristagni Bay, 4th Nov. 1802. "Whereas it appears in the minutes of the late court-martial on the mutineers of the Gibraltar, that the detachment of marines, serving on board that ship, bore no part in the disgraceful proceeding of the 6th of October last; but, much to the credit of their officers and themselves, maintained the character of the loyal and respectable corps to which they be long, by a steady adherence to their duty, the rear-admiral takes this public method of expressing his approbation of their good and soldier-like conduct, and requests captain Johnson to accept his thanks. (Signed) "A. BICKERTON. "To the respective captains, &c." His Majesty's Ship Superb, Oristagni Bay, Sardinia, Nov. 28, 1802. On the 6th of October we received orders to sail (we supposed for Malta), in company with the Dragon, Gibraltar, Triumph, Superb, and Renown. The crew of the Gibraltar expressed a wish to go to the westward, which they followed up with an alarming and unexpected disposition to mutiny; which, however, was soon quelled by the spirited conduct of the officers, assisted by the able, steady, and determined, behaviour of the marines: several of the principals are in confinement; two have been tried, and paid the forfeit of their lives. 13. On Monday evening, about seven o'clock, when the wind blew excessively hard, some premises at the back of Mr. Keen's house, facing Paddington church, occu pied by Mr. Blofield, an attorney, as a country cottage, were nearly demolished, The premises consisted of a small room and a kit chen, built of wood, having a chimney carried to a great height, to prevent smoke: during the vio lence of the gust, the chimney was thrown on the roof of the upper room, in which Mrs. Blofield and five of her children were sitting; and the weight of the brick-work, brought the whole of the tiles, tim, ber, and rubbish, into the room, and enveloped them in the ruins, One of the children found means to extricate herself, and with great presence of mind thrust her hand through the window, calling loudly for assistance to some men who were working in a shop across the yard: they immediately attended: but it was not without difficulty they could get to the room where the mischief had happened; for the Servant being out upon an errand, and the doors all fastened, they were |