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day on which the treaty with the Soubah of the Decan was concluded.

This nobleman, with the concurrence of the East India Company, has established a university at Calcutta, upon an extensive scale. It will contain professors for the ancient languages, with the Persian, Hindoo, &c. and for every branch of science and literature. The professors are to be obliged to read lectures in their respective departments.

19. This day being set apart for the celebration of her majesty's birth-day, the accustomed display of ceremony and splendour 'took place on the occasion. The morning was ushered in by ringing of bells, the Park and Tower guns were fired at noon, and the union flags were displayed from the steeples of the several churches. The younger branches of the Royal family paid their congratula→ tory respects to the queen, at Buckingham House. At one o'clock her majesty held a court at St. James's Palace, when the Ode (See the Parnassian Garland) for the new year was performed in the anti-chamber adjoining the drawing-room, and a congratulatory oration delivered by his grace the archbishop of Canterbury. On this occasion a new crimson velvet canopy and throne were put up in the great council chamber, the royal arms of the union being beautifully embroidered, and decorated with diamonds.

22. This evening a person of very genteel appearance, who says his name is Palmer Hurst, was taken into custody at Buckingham-house, where he had several times before been troublesome, coming there under pretence of having business with the King and Princesses. On the preceding day he left a letter, which, he said, he came then to demand an answer to. Baker, one of the porters, very properly desired him to wait, and sent

for Sayers, one of the Bow-street officers, who took him into custody. On Friday he was examined before Messrs. King and Ford, at Whitehall, and, from the incoherent manner in which he answered the questions put to him, there remained no doubt of his being in a state of insanity. He is a man of very respectable family, and formerly resided at Walton-upon-Thames, where he possessed considerable property, but which he is supposed to have squandered away. He was sent to Tothillfields Bridewell, and ordered to be taken particular care of.

Same day the Imperial parliament held their first meeting.

26. The long pending dispute between the master and journeymen taylors came on this day before the Court of Aldermen, when it was finally determined that in future the wages of the journeymen should be advanced to 275. per week.

At a sitting of the Royal Society, some valuable books, magnificently bound, were presented to the society from the National Institute of France. A letter of compliment accompanied this present, signed Bonaparte, President of the National Institute, and First Consul of France; and on the letter was a finely executed vignette, representing Liberty sailing on the open ocean on a scollop-shell, with the following motto-Liberté de Mer. Sir J. Banks read the letter, and put the question, that a letter of thanks be returned to Bonaparte, which was unanimously carried.

Some revenue officers, in consequence of a late information, searched a mourning coach, which they met in the Kent road, when finding lace, &c. to the value of 600l. they seized it, together with the carriage and horses.

The Dublin Gazette notifies the elevation to the Irish Peerage, of Lord C. Fitzgerald, as Lord

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Lecale; Admiral Waldegrave, Lord Radstocke; Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie; John Toler, Lord Norbury; and Sir A. Gardner, Lord Gardner; the Marchioness of Buckingham, to be Baroness Nugent; and her second son, Lord N. Grenville, to be Lord Nugent; F. Tench, Lord Ashtown; Gen. E. Massey, Lord Clarina; and the Hon. R. King, Lord Erris.

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It also announces the following further creations: the Earl of Inchiquin, to be Marquis of Thomond; the Earl of Bective, Marquis of HeadEarl of Altamont, Marquis of Sligo; and Earl of Ely, Marquis of Ely: Viscount Castle Stewart, to be Earl of ditto; Viscount Donoughmore, Earl of ditto; Viscount Calledon, Earl of ditto; Viscount Kenmore, Earl of ditto; Earl Clanricarde, the title in reversion to his daughters; Lord Glentworth, to be Viscount Limerick; Lord Somerton, Archbishop of Cashel, to be Viscount Somerton; Lord Longueville, Viscount ditto; Lord Bantry, Viscount ditto; Lord Monk, Viscount ditto; Lord Kilconnel, Viscount Dunlo; Lord Tullamore, Viscount Charleville; and Lord Kilwarden, Viscount ditto.

Miss Fox, the Asylum warbler, who was seduced some time since by Mr. Septimus Hodgson, is said to have been lately married to a gentleman of very considerable fortune, and now rides constantly to the Asylum in her own carriage.

Lady Southampton's dower, which at her marriage settlement amounted only to 350l. per annum, in land let to cow-keepers in the neighbourhood of Fitzroy-square, is improved within her own life to the extraordinary rental of 8000l. per

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MONTHLY LIST OF BANKRUPTS, (From the London Gazette.)

OHN HALLIDAY, of Old George-yard, Drury-lane, Middlesex, victualler. John Ansell, of Wickham, Southampton, victualler. Edward Parker, of Little Turnstile, Holborn, man'smercer. Joseph Haslewood, of Birmingham, gunmaker. James Meredith, of Hereford, linen-draper. William Nokes, of Acle, Norfolk, liquormerchant. Thomas Whitaker, of the Colonade, Russell-square, St. George, Bloomsbury. Robert Talbot, of the parish of St. George, Southwark. victualler. John West of Bath, cordwainer. Joseph Whitehead, the younger, and William Henry Taylor, both of Preston, Lancaster, iron-mongers and iron-founders. Joseph Hurst, Wakefield, York, woolstapler. John Bacon, Sutton, Ashfield, cotton-spinner. Joseph Whittingham Salmon, Manchester, manufacturer. T. Cooper, Liverpool, horse-dealer. J. Kirkpatrick, Liverpool, merchant. J. Shuck, late of Worcester, glove-manufacturer Charles Manwaring, of Manchester, shoe-maker, Samuel Parsonage, of Manchester, plumber. John Holmes, of Leeds, Yorkshire. Wm. Rideal, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, merchant. David Lowes and John Henry Rigg, of Hart-street, Covent-garden, rectifiers. Edward Bunn, late of West Ham, Essex, baker. W. Damerum, of Portsmouth, house-carpenter. J. Plaston, of Worcester, coach proprieter. H. Winchester, of Hulme, Bakewell, Derbyshire, smelter of lead-ore. Jn. Radcliffe, of the township of Eringdon, Hali

fax, Yorkshire, miller. S. Townsend, of Bristol, ironmonger. A. Campbell, of Gosport, Southampton, brandy-merchant. Francis Merryweather and J. Hardwidge, of Lombard-street, merchant. Geo. Hammond, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, mercer, A. Hilton, of Liverpool. linen and woollen-draper. Tho. Edwards, of New Bond-street, haberdasher. Wm. Agur, of Whitechapel-road, Middlesex, Joseph Hatch, of Robert-street, Bedford-row, cabinet-maker. Ralph Jackson, of MarketWeighton, Yorkshire, shop-keeper. Robert Bedwell, late of Wantage, Berkshire, surgeon. John Elston, of Liverpool, merchant. Willoughby Taylor, late of Brighthelmstone, wine-merchant. Joseph Mawby, Long Buckley, Northampton, Cordwainer. William Dunor, Green-Bank, Wap、 ping, baker. Thomas Lea, Nuneaton, Warwick, dealer in horses. Robert Hayward Gosford, Pitfield-street, Shoreditch, Henry Saint Guliver, Richmond, Surry, stable-keeper, Nicholas Topper, of Charles-street, St. Mary-le-bone, dealer in coals and wax candles.

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The lady of F. Freeling, esq. Sec. of the Gen. Post-Office, of a son (still-born). Of daughters Lady Harriet Sullivan, in Chesterfield-street. Lady Elizabeth Lowther, at Swillington-Hall. ladies of Major Gen. Brownrigg, in Fitzroy-square; of Col. Gascoigne, M. P. of Hertford-street; of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Twisleton; of W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P.-and Mrs. Jordan, of Drurylane theatre, of a daughter.

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