evaded nor baffled. Prayer of the petitioner granted in the terms prayed for.

OCTOBER.

NEW LORD MAYOR.

1. At a common hall, September 29th, Mr. alderman Domville, citizen and stationer, and Mr. alderman Wood, citizen and fishmonger, were returned by the livery of London, as proper persons to fill the important office of lord mayor of London. The court of aldermen having proceeded to a scrutiny, Mr. Domville

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clared to be duly and unanimously elected; and, in a very impressive yet unaffected manner, he thus addressed the common hall:

"Gentlemen of the livery; I stand before you, at rather a late period of life, to thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me, in electing me your chief magistrate for the year ensuing; 'and, gentlemen, a very high honour indeed do I think it, because it is the greatest in the power of subjects to confer. At the same time I am well aware of the arduous and important duties of the office; and how unequal my abilities are to execute those duties in such a manner as you have a right to expect. But, I promise you, justice shall be impartially administered; and that your rights, privileges, and franchises, shall be defended and supported. To accomplish 'these great ends, under Providence, I look for the advice and assistance of all those able magistrates that have gone before me, as well as those who are looking forward to the civic chair.-Gentlemen, it would be a great consolation to me, if I were addressing you in the midst of a profound peace: and I cannot but indulge a hope that the bril.

liant successes of our arms in the peninsula, and those of our allies on the continent, may give me an opportunity, during my year of service, to announce to you the blessings of an honourable peace.-Gentlemen, I cannot retire from your presence without assuring you that, if at the end of the year my conduct shall have been such as to merit your approbation, it will be one of the proud. est days of my life."

BERLIN.

2. Bonaparte has, it is said, issued a proclamation, promising his troops winter-quarters in Saxony, previous to which a diversion would be undertaken against the Silesian army; exhorting them to perseverance and confidence in the genius of their great leader. Seventy-five thousand wounded French have been brought into Leipsig alone, from the 17th of August to the 23d of September!!! The churches and public buildings are filled with them.An intercepted letter from Maret (Bassano) to his wife says, that the emperor is not forsaken, even in so critical a situation, by his great ge

ius, but that his generals are deficient. Another from Berthier to a secretary at Paris describes the miserable state in which the French army is, and declares that nothing but a speedy peace can France,

NEW BISHOP.

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Dr. Howley's election to the bishoprick of London was confirmed at Bow-church, Cheapside, being the oldest church in the diocese, by sir W. Scott, the vicargeneral of the province of Canterbury, with the usual ceremonies.

3. This morning Dr. Howley

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was consecrared bishop of London at Lambeth chapel. At half past ten, the queen (who had expressed her wish to be present) with the princesses Augusta and Mary, were received at Lambeth palace by the archbishop of Canterbury, who conducted them into the drawing room, where Dr. Howley, the bishop of London elect, the bishops of Oxford, Gloucester, and Salisbury, the vicargeneral, in their full robes, and other distinguished characters, paid their respects to them; after which they proceeded to his grace's chapel. The queen and princesses were conducted into Mrs. Sutton's family-gallery. No person was admitted into the body of the chapel except those engaged in the ceremony: among them were the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of Salisbury, Gloucester, and Oxford, in their full robes. Dr. Howley, the bishop of London elect, took his seat the last on the right of the altar. The morning service was read by one of the archbishop's chaplains. The bishop of Gloucester read the epistle; the bishop of Oxford the gospel; the sermon was preached by the rev. Dr. Goddard, who took a general view of the established church from the period of the reformation, and in a most impressive manner dwelt upon the divine institution and expediency of the episcopal order.

6. On Monday was found drowned in the river at Millwall, near Poplar, the body of a person unknown; but from his dress, and other indications, apparently a gentleman of the middle age. On Tuesday a coroner's inquest was held. No evidence, until after the verdict was given, appeared to identify his person.Two water

men discovered the body by the falling of the tide. No marks of violence appeared upon his person, He was dressed in a black coat, black silk waistcoat, blue stocking pantaloons, shoes and gaiters; short hair, brown and gray; about forty years of age, and otherwise of respectable appearance. Nothing in his pocket but a pawnbroker's duplicate, "Moritt, 32, Yorkstreet, Westminster, 30th September, 1813, a gold box, 21. 5s. Capt. James Vaughan, Queen-square," which being rather defaced, was first read Manby,-The deceased had been seen the preceding day at the Kings Arm's coffee-house, but nothing thence could lead to his identity, except that he appeared to speak broken English. Verdict, Found drowned. When the inquest was over, the lady of the house at which the deceased had lodged came to inspect the body, when she identified it as that of captain Whorrah, of the king's German legion.-It appeared by her testimony, that the deceased had boarded with her at repeated intervals within these last nine years; and in the course of that time had served in several campaigns, where he was wounded, and in a great degree disabled in consequence, which occasioned his retiring on half-pay. During the time specified, he had lost his wife by death,, in her own country, by whom he had five children now living. His brother, a major in the German legion, fell gloriously at the siege of Badajos.-These casualties tended to throw a damp upon his spirits, and subjected him, it is supposed, to occasional melancholy; added to this, his having become somewhat embarrassed in pecuniary matters, being indebted to his landlady about 26%, which, it seems, she re

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quested him once or twice to pay her. About the end of last month, he went out after breakfast, saying he should return with money to pay her that day. She expected him home to dinner, but did not see or hear any thing of him until reading of this accident in the papers, when she came and identified the body. Deputies have again been sent from Buenos Ayres and the Caraccas to this country, to solicit, we suppose, the interposition of the British ministry with the metropo. litan government, for the conciliatory adjustment of the differences between them. Whether there be any thing new in the proposals with which they are charged, we have not been informed; but as yet, we believe, they have not obtained an audience from ministers. There are two circumstances rather curious which we learn from those deputies the one, that the catholic clergyman, who is known to have gained a decided ascendancy in the new government of Buenos Ayres, has become a most strenuous opposer of the celibacy of the cler gy; the other, that the deputies are instructed to bring back with person duly initiated in the Lancasterian system, who is to superintend a school, to be established and conducted on the principles of that liberal and truly rational plan of education.

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BONAPARTE.

In the last conference which M. de Metternich had with Bonaparte at Dresden, just before Austria had declared war against him, he took the Austrian minister into his cabinet and locked the door. He then began one of his usual discourses, in which he passed with his usual rapidity from the bitterest invectives to the most

magnificent promises, offering territories, indemnities, every possible temptation, to keep Austria as his ally; now soothing, and now menacing; at one time declaring he would destroy the Austrian name; at another, that he would raise it to a splendour it had never known before, Frequently he broke out into these expressions-Pour Dieu, laissez-moi finir avec ces Russes!After the conference had continued four hours, he went out and locked the door upon M. de Metternich. He remained absent about a quarter of an hour, returned, and cortinued in the same strain for four hours more; when M. de Metternich, nearly exhausted with fatigue and the passion of the Corsican, was allowed to depart.

DOMINICA.

9. The late dreadful hurricane which has visited some of our West India islands, has been most fatal to Dominica. Its plantations and houses have been mostly involved in ruin, and many of its inhabitants killed or wounded.- Previously to the 23d the weather was calm and very hot. At day-light on the 23d of July, the lowering sky, and rapid scud over the hills, announced the storm. The barracks and other buildings at Roseau, &c. soon yielded to its fury, while the fragments of the hospital covered the tops of the hills. The storm was so sudden and violent as to prevent all precautionary measures, and among those that perished some were blown into the sea over the cliffs. The plantations, gardens, &c. were nearly demolished, scarcely an outhouse or a tree be ing left. Several shocks of earthquakes were felt during the hurricane; the waves curled as high as the second stories, and those ves

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MARIA LOUISA.

SHADWELL POLICE OFFICE.

15. Ann Bartran, charged with obtaining various sums of money, on pretence of procuring places at the East India-house, underwent a final examination.

David Sutherland stated, that he was by trade a shoe-maker in the Borough, and that he was particularly desirous of obtaining the place of an elder at the India-house, a situation worth 7007. per annum! He had made application to the duke of Kent soliciting his interest, who had returned an answer, purporting that his royal highness's interest was unequal to the task, having experienced a want of suc cess in similar applications in behalf of his own domestics. The witness accidentally fell into company with the prisoner, who represented that her interest was far superior to that of the royal duke, through the medium of friends in the India-house, and she undertook to procure the object of his wishes; in the mean time requesting his royal highness's letter might be put into her hands as a credential; which the witness did. He like. wise supplied her at different times with several small sums, which she pretended it was necessary to employ, in order to get access to the gentlemen by whom the business was to be done. He accompanied her several times to the India-house, where she made

him wait outside for her return. She called repeatedly to dine and drink tea with himself and wife pending the negotiation, when she continued to feed their golden dream. She procured from witness's wife several sums of 21. each, saying "that the clerks required to be palmed." The wife asked her, on one occasion, if 10%. would do? when she replied, she would only take 21. at that time.-The witness becoming impatient, she consented' to his accompanying her for the purpose of being introduced to his patrons. She again desired him to wait, and after some hours returned with a letter in her hand, saying, this was an assurance that the business was effected. The letter was produced, bearing the name of a gentleman at the Indiahouse, who, by his evidence, disclaimed the letter and all knowledge of the prisoner. The pri soner returned to witness's house to dinner, and accepted an invita tion to stay all night. She indited a letter of thanks to the clerk, in which she prevailed on him to give her the additional sum of 51. to inclose in it, which he put into her hand for that purpose. The letter was in scribed, when a knock came to the door, which witness went to answer. On his return, she was in the act of sealing the letter. She then gave it to him to deliver the next day; but first holding it up to the light and saying, "You see it is all right, there is the 57. inclosed." He then put the letter in his pocket. The prisoner engaged that if the place was not procured, the money should be returned, adding that she could dismiss the clerks from office, if they did not act honourably by her.The prisoner continued as their guest till evening, when the witness had occasion to

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