active exertions in fo bravely checking the enemy in the attempt on this poft. Indeed Lieut. Gilman's intrepidity and cool conduct on this occafion appear to me fo praiseworthy, that I fhould not do juftice to him or my own feelings on this occafion, if I did not ftrongly recommend him to you, Sir, for promotion.

I am also happy to have it in my power to report that the enemy has been under the neceffity of raifing the fiege of Irois, before which they lay eighteen days. On the 11th ult. Gen. Rigaud, with three or four thousand Brigands, appeared before it, and fent a fummons Captain Beamish to furrender the fort to the Republic of France. Captain Bea mith very properly antwered, he should defend it to the laft extremity. The ener my had in the night landed a fixteen pounder and a mortar, which with incredible labour they got up and opened on the fort the next day, within about four hundred and fifty yards. The moment I heard Irois was invefted, I ordered too privates, officers, and non-commiffioned officers in proportion, with Lieut.-Col. Hooke of the 17th, to embark for that place, where they arrived fafe. Lieutenant Hooke took the command of the fort and troops, in which ftation he has rendered very meritorious fervices.

Finding the enemy had advanced a confiderable force between Irois and L'Ance Eros, which fhut up by land the communication with Jeremie, I determined, with what force I could collect, to attack them on the Morne Gautier. On my arrival at L'Ance Eros, the 16th, a plan was agreed upon to march in three columns on the 19th, fo as to arrive before Morne Gautier at day-break. Obferving on my approach that a few men of the 17th dragoons were killed and wounded, and that firing at a diftance anfwered no purpose, I determined to attempt to carry the hill by affault, had formed the 17th dragoons for that purpofe, ordered the 13th to difmount, and was endeavouring to rally the negroes, who had been thrown into fome confufion, when I received a fhot in my left breaft, which caufed me to fall from my horfe: afterwards I knew nothing of what paffed, except by report; and I was forry to hear that we were under the neceffity of retreating, with the lofs of the three pounder we had with us.

Fortunately this little check did not affect the fafety of the fort; on the contrary, the enemy, who muft have fuffered more than ourselves, evacuated Gau

tier, and retired the next day to Rigaud, on the other fide of Irois; and on the 29th Lieutenant Colonel Hooke wrote me, he had raised the siege entirely fo that, Sir, I may now congratulate you on this dependency being wholly freed from the enemy, and on your having it in your power to acquaint his Majefty's Minifters, that he has been beaten and foiled in every quarter of this island under your command.

I have not hitherto been able to procure exact returns of the killed and wounded, but I conceive that the 17th regiment has about fourteen or fifteen wounded; none dangerously in my affair of the 19th ult. Lieutenant Col. Hooke has not yet made his report; but I do not believe more than two were killed at Irois, and three or four wounded; fo that the enemy's fhot and shells had little effect,

I am forry to fay that my BrigadeMajor Manners received a ball through his thigh; but as it miffed the bone, no bad effect will arife, and he is doing well. I have the honour to be, &c. Hen. Bowyer, Maj. Gen.

Admiralty-Office, Dec. 20.

Copy of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Bazely, Commanding Officer of his Majefty's fhips and veffels in the Doans, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated 17th Dec. 1796.

SIR,

You will be pleafed to acquaint their Lordships, that I this morning received a letter from Mr Nich, Simmons, mafter of the Lion armed cutter, dated Sea-' ford Roads, the 15th inft. giving me an account of his having the day before captured, off the Owers, after a chace of four hours and a half, the Hazard French cutter privateer, mounting two carriage guns and two fwivels, with fmall arms, and feventeen men, which had been out two days from Fecamp, but had not captured any thing. I am, &c.

John Bazely.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Talbot, of bis Majefty's fhip Eurydice, to Rear-Admiral Bazely, dated in Dover Road, Dec. 16. 1796.

Laft night Icaptured La Sphinx French privateer, of forty fix tons and twentyfix men, from Dunkirk, on a cruize; the left it yesterday at twelve o'clock, and had not taken any thing; the is Southampton-built, and has made a prac

tice of running along fhore as a coafter. -The laft cruize fhe was at fea fhe was boarded by one of the armed luggers in the North Sea, but got clear by producing Swedish papers. I have fent her into Dover harbour, and, when I have landed the prifoners, fhall immediately proceed to my ftation. She had nothing but fmall arms on board. I am, &c. (Signed) John Talbot. P. S. I fince find fhe has 4 four pounders and two fwivels in her hold.

SCOTLAND.

On the night of the 11th January a most barbarous murder was committed at Achanafie, near Keith, on the perfon of George Milne, an old man, paft eighty years of age, and Margaret Milne his only daughter. Thefe people were known to be poffeffed of a confiderable fum of money, which the murderers carried off, along with a pocket book in which it was contained, and afterwards fet fire to the house on the outfide, but the fire being discovered, was extinguished before it made any progrefs, and the mangled bodies of the poor people were found in the house quite dead, but ftill warm.They seem to have been murdered with an ax, which was found bloody near their bodies, and two fhoe bukles were found in the house, which were fuppofed to have been dropt by the murderers in truggling with the poor people.-The Sheriff and Juftices of the Peace, have offered One Hundred Guineas for the difcovery of the perpetrators, and we hope the authors of fuch fingular barbarity will not efcape detection.

On the night of Friday the 13th January as a farmer in Ouchincloch, in the parish of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, was returning home from the town of Beith, about eleven o'clock, he was attacked by a foot pad, who having knocked him from his horfe, and bruifed him in a very fevere manner, robbed him of his pocket book, containing notes to the amount of fifty pounds fterling.

Same night, a man returning home from Kilmarnock to Galfton, was ftopped on the road by two foot-pads, who robbed him of feven fhillings. One of the thieves, not content with fo fmall a

booty, infifted on exchanging coats, which was immediately complied with by the country man, who, on arriving at his own houfe, found that the coat given him in exchange, though old and tattered, contained feveral pocket handker

chiefs, in one of which were notes to the value of ten pounds!

Jan. 29. This morning, the Epifcopal Chapel in Glasgow was broken into, but the thieves found nothing to carry away; and in the night between Mont day and Tuesday, a tobacconist's shop in Stockwell ftreet was broken into, and about 3ol. carried off.

During the dreadful ftorm on Monwick, loaded with corn, by keeping too day the 30th January, a floop from Bernear the fhore to avoid the effects of the tempeft, ftruck upon a rock near Bamborough and funk; the crew, confifting of feven men and boys, clung for fome time by the mafts, and in fight of a great number of fpectators very near them, on the fhore, fix of them were, one after another, washed into their watery grave. The fishermen at North Sunderland would not venture out to the affiftance of the unfortunate men; but some brave fellows, who had a boat at one of the Fern Islands, by the most severe labour, and in the moft imminent danger, rowed againft the wind, and arrived in time to fave the life of the furvivor; an inftance of .intrepidity highly meritorious and deferving reward.

Feb. 6. While two men were repairing the fides of a coal pit at Prickymuir, in the neighbourhood of Glafgow, one of the ropes of a fcaffold upon which they were ftanding broke, when they fell to the bottom of the pit, about thirty fathoms, and were killed on the spot. One of them has left a wife and three children.

14. A number of gentlemen met in the Royal Exchange Coffee-houfe, Edinburgh, for the purpose of confidering of farther means of defence against a threatened invafion, when it was refolved to raife a corps of Cavalry for the city, to be composed of the gentlemen who keep pleasure horses, a number of whom immediately put down their names, and others are daily coming forward. Permiffion is granted for twenty-five of the Gentlemen of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Corps to join the Cavalry, if they fhall be fo difpofed.

Comrie, (Perthshire) Feb. 17. On Friday the 10th curt. we were again vifited with two very fmart fhocks of an earthquake, accompanied with a loud fubterraneous noife. The firft fhock, which was more fenfible and alarming than the laft, happened at 20 minutes after 12 midnight, and the other was about 6 o'clock in the morning. The noise began,

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or feemed to begin, in that part of the Grampians which runs parallel to this village, and after continuing for the space of about half a minute, expired on the fouth-eaft. The motion of the earth was evidently horizontal, and pushed every thing to a fide; but providentially no hurt has been done."

BIRTHS.

Feb. 3. The Lady of Robert William Duff, Efq. of Fettereffo, a fon.

12. At Monymusk, Lady Grant of Monymufk, a fon.

16. At Edinburgh, Mrs Hathorn of Caftlewigg, a fon.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 3. At Glenfaddale in Argylefhire, Major Campbell, to Mifs Matilda Lockhart.

Jan. 9. At Glasgow, Mr Peter Hall, filk manufacturer at Largs, to Mrs Lang, relict of James Lang, Elq. of Ferralfide. 16. At Glasgow, Mr James Paterson, manufacturer, to Mifs Margery Whyte, daughter of Mr William Whyte, thread manufacturer.

19. At Edinburgh, William Forbes, Efq. eldeft fon of Sir Wm. Forbes, Bart. of Pitfligo, to Mifs Belfches, daughter of Sir John Wishart Belfches, Bart. of Fettercairn.

27. At Ballentyne Houfe, the Rev. Alexander Thomfon, minifter of the gof pel at Lentrathan, to Mifs Eliza Small, refiding at Ballentyne House.

28. At Bath, W. Johnfton, Efq. to Mifs Gladitanes, daughter of Colonel Gladftanes, late of the Royal Manchester Volunteers.

30. Mr John M'Queen, rector of the grammar school, Largs, to Mifs Chriftian Alexander.

31. At Dunlop, Mr John Gemmil of Templehoufe, to Mifs Jean Barr, daughter of Mr John Barr, portioner in Dunlop.

Feb. 6. At Glafgow, Mr And. Coats, brafs founder, to Mifs Williamina Birkmyre, daughter of the late Mr William Bikmyre, merchant in Paisley.

7. At Dundee, the Rev. Pat. M'Vicar, one of the minifters of that city, to Mifs Gibson, only child of the late Rev. John Gibfon, minifter of Mains.

9. At St Martin's Church, London, Major-General Souter, of the Marines, to Mifs Amelia Eliza Mary Fordyce, daughter of the late Capt. William Fordyce.

14. At London, Charles Cunningham, Efq. Commander of his Majesty's fhip

Clyde, to Mifs Proby, daughter of Com miffioner Proby of Chatham.

Feb.14. At Dundee, John Jobson, Esq. of Rofemount, to Mifs Stephenfon of Dundee.

17. At Caroline Park, Lieut.-Colonel James Spens, of his Majesty's 734 regiment, to Mils Frances Stuart, daughter of the late Sir John Stuart of Allenbank, Bart.

DEATHS.

der Foulis, agent for the Coaft Army, May 17. At Madras, Captain Alexanmittee of the Army of the Hon. Eaft Inand Member of the Reprefentative Comdia Company.

Sept. 24. At the age of twenty-five years, at an outpoft in the island of St Vincent's, in less than three days after his having been feized with the fever, Lieutenant Adam McPherfon, of the fecond Weft India regiment, third fon to Colonel Duncan Macpherson of Bleaton.

Od. 4. In Grenada, Lieutenant John Scott, of the 57th regiment, only fon of the late Alexander Scott of Sinton, Efq.

At Martinico, in October iaft, Captain George Hamilton Montgomery, of the 14th regiment of light dragoons, only fon of the late Lieut.-Col. Montgomery of Newton.

On the 27th of October, at Carriacou, to which place he had gone from Marti nico for the recovery of his health, Captain John Arbuthnot of the Royal Artillery.

At Martinique, in November laft, William Ker, jun. of Kerfield, Lieutenant and Paymaster of the 26th light dra

goons.

On the 12th December laft, Lieut. Archibald Johnftone Douglas, of the 18th foot, fecond fon of the late Sir Wil liam Douglas of Kelhead, Bart. He was one of the unfortunate fufferers in the Courageaux man of war, on board of which fhip he had embarked from Gibraltar, to join his regiment at Elba.

Lately, Lieut. Robert Menzies, in the fervice of the Hon. Eaft India Company, fon to the late William Menzies, Elq. Solicitor of Cuftoms.

At Bofton, the Hon. Mrs Lindfay, wife of the Hon, and Rev. Charles Lindlay.

In the island of Jamaica, Alexander Alves, Efq. fecond fon of the late Dr John Alves, phyfician in Inverness.

Jan. 11. At Edinburgh, Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh, fecond fon of the late Sir Egerton Leigh, Bart. his Majesty's Attorney-General of Carolina.