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Monthly Chronicle.
A dreadful fire broke out in the ioft of Mr . Douglas , sail-maker , in Southsidestreet , Plymouth , on Wednesday last , which communicating to the houses of two other sail-makers , raged with such fury as to have consumed property to the amount of 30 , 000 ! . before it was extinguished . 'Mr . Bessel , who was Assistant Commissary of Stores in the Duke of York ' s army , after being mulcted in different fines . of which he had defrauded Government , is sentenced , that from his scandalous ancl infamous conduct he is unworthy to
remain in his Majesty ' s service , ancl is therefore to be cashiered with every mark of ignominy and disgrace . The metropolis is going to be improved by two of the most magnificent bridges in the world ; the one near the Savoy , in the Strand ; the . other the re-building of London bridge : they are in length to be the whole of the original water-way , with large arches , and much wider on the surface than Westminster bridge . The Editor of the new Manchester paper informs us , that a Thinking Club ( or . true constitutional principles J is established in that townthe president cf which is
, deaf and dumb . For every monosyllable spoken , a penny is forfeited by the offender ; and for a polysyllable , two-pence . OFFICIAL MISTAKE . —Dispatches intended for Genera ! Doyle were sent to Col . Craig ; ancl the dispatches intended for Colonel Craig , to General Doyle 1 By this mistake , Colonel Craig was ordered to evacuate the Cape of Good Hope , and General Doyle is ordered to strengthen himself by every possible means in Isle
Dieu . VEGETATION . —Three hundred and thirty potatoes were dug up in a garden of Mr . Hazard , in the upper road near Bath , the produce of one single reel-nosed kidney potatoe . A single turnip , weighing twenty-seven pounds , without the top or root , was dug up in the garden of Thomas Kemp , Esq . of Coneyboroagh , near Lewes . At a meeting of the Bath Agricultural Society two potatoes were produced , weighing 51 b . 3 qrs . They were from shoots
Captain Manners , in the merchant service , residing at Ratcliffe-cvoss , brought an action against Dr . Pitcairn for criminal conversation with his wife , Mrs . Manners . The cause was tried on Friday before Lord Keiiyon , when it appearing that the Captain had a view rather to the Doctor ' s purse , than the reparation of his own honour , a verdict went for the defendant . Next day , in the same ; Court , and before the same Judge , Mr . Houldilch , coachmakcr , of Long-Acre , obtained a verdict , with one thousand pounds damages , against Mr . Goodhew , the distillerof Deptfordfor criminal conversation with Mrs . Houlditcb .
, , To the relation of these immoralities , as destructive to the parties themselves as pernicious examples to society , we have to acid another instance likely soon to come before the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Court . The gallant is the son of an eminent coachmaker ; the frail fair one mother of four children , and wife of a respectable man of business , who was a particular friend and school-fellow . of the seducer . In consequence of the discovery , the spark has taken a Continental ' trip , but did not lead her with him .
NAVAL COURAGE . Extract of a tetter from an Officer 0 : 1 board the BRITANNIA , Admiral Hatbam's Jag-ship , ir . the Mediterranean . " The spirited and gallant conduct of Lieutenant W . Walker , who command * the Rose hired armed cutter , attached to this fleet , has for some time been the subject of general commendation . He was making his passage from Leghorn to Bastia with money on boardwhenin the morning of the ' 28 th of Septemberat
; , , half past four o'clock , befell in with three small Republican cruisers , fitted out on purpose to intercept him . Finding himself in the midst of them , he , with a . promptitude and resolution that do him high credit , bore clown on the largest ami most leeward , ran the cutters bowsprit against her mizen-mast , and carried i " away , with part of the stern , raking her ' as he passed ; then shot a-head and tacked , in doing which the cutter ' s main boom carried away the enemy ' s fore-yard , and her broad-side set her fore-sail and mizen on fire ; she then got under her
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
A dreadful fire broke out in the ioft of Mr . Douglas , sail-maker , in Southsidestreet , Plymouth , on Wednesday last , which communicating to the houses of two other sail-makers , raged with such fury as to have consumed property to the amount of 30 , 000 ! . before it was extinguished . 'Mr . Bessel , who was Assistant Commissary of Stores in the Duke of York ' s army , after being mulcted in different fines . of which he had defrauded Government , is sentenced , that from his scandalous ancl infamous conduct he is unworthy to
remain in his Majesty ' s service , ancl is therefore to be cashiered with every mark of ignominy and disgrace . The metropolis is going to be improved by two of the most magnificent bridges in the world ; the one near the Savoy , in the Strand ; the . other the re-building of London bridge : they are in length to be the whole of the original water-way , with large arches , and much wider on the surface than Westminster bridge . The Editor of the new Manchester paper informs us , that a Thinking Club ( or . true constitutional principles J is established in that townthe president cf which is
, deaf and dumb . For every monosyllable spoken , a penny is forfeited by the offender ; and for a polysyllable , two-pence . OFFICIAL MISTAKE . —Dispatches intended for Genera ! Doyle were sent to Col . Craig ; ancl the dispatches intended for Colonel Craig , to General Doyle 1 By this mistake , Colonel Craig was ordered to evacuate the Cape of Good Hope , and General Doyle is ordered to strengthen himself by every possible means in Isle
Dieu . VEGETATION . —Three hundred and thirty potatoes were dug up in a garden of Mr . Hazard , in the upper road near Bath , the produce of one single reel-nosed kidney potatoe . A single turnip , weighing twenty-seven pounds , without the top or root , was dug up in the garden of Thomas Kemp , Esq . of Coneyboroagh , near Lewes . At a meeting of the Bath Agricultural Society two potatoes were produced , weighing 51 b . 3 qrs . They were from shoots
Captain Manners , in the merchant service , residing at Ratcliffe-cvoss , brought an action against Dr . Pitcairn for criminal conversation with his wife , Mrs . Manners . The cause was tried on Friday before Lord Keiiyon , when it appearing that the Captain had a view rather to the Doctor ' s purse , than the reparation of his own honour , a verdict went for the defendant . Next day , in the same ; Court , and before the same Judge , Mr . Houldilch , coachmakcr , of Long-Acre , obtained a verdict , with one thousand pounds damages , against Mr . Goodhew , the distillerof Deptfordfor criminal conversation with Mrs . Houlditcb .
, , To the relation of these immoralities , as destructive to the parties themselves as pernicious examples to society , we have to acid another instance likely soon to come before the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Court . The gallant is the son of an eminent coachmaker ; the frail fair one mother of four children , and wife of a respectable man of business , who was a particular friend and school-fellow . of the seducer . In consequence of the discovery , the spark has taken a Continental ' trip , but did not lead her with him .
NAVAL COURAGE . Extract of a tetter from an Officer 0 : 1 board the BRITANNIA , Admiral Hatbam's Jag-ship , ir . the Mediterranean . " The spirited and gallant conduct of Lieutenant W . Walker , who command * the Rose hired armed cutter , attached to this fleet , has for some time been the subject of general commendation . He was making his passage from Leghorn to Bastia with money on boardwhenin the morning of the ' 28 th of Septemberat
; , , half past four o'clock , befell in with three small Republican cruisers , fitted out on purpose to intercept him . Finding himself in the midst of them , he , with a . promptitude and resolution that do him high credit , bore clown on the largest ami most leeward , ran the cutters bowsprit against her mizen-mast , and carried i " away , with part of the stern , raking her ' as he passed ; then shot a-head and tacked , in doing which the cutter ' s main boom carried away the enemy ' s fore-yard , and her broad-side set her fore-sail and mizen on fire ; she then got under her