AFFAIR S. TURKEY. Conftantinople, Jan. 10. A general terror prevails here. A man having, while the grand fignior was at prayers in the mofque, thrown a ball of lead at him, weighing a pound and a half, it was immediately conjectured that a confpiracy was on foot, and that a revolt was meditated; in confequence of which his highnefs iffued orders to banish all those who were not fufficiently known to the officers of the police; and hundreds of perfons are daily tranfported to Afia in the most violent manner. Turks, Chriftians, and Jews, are all, without exception, treated with the fame rigour; and the inhabitants are every night in fear of being carried off from their houfes and families. Numbers have been fent off who have possessions in the capital. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. FEBRUARY 28. ESTERDAY, an action was tried in the court of common pleas, to recover from the warden of the Fleet, a debt due from the count de Verteillac, whofe ingenious efcape lately attracted public notice. Several actions depended on the event of this trial. The jury gave a verdict against the defendant, though he did not appear to have been criminally negligent; but lord Loughborough stated it as law, that nothing but irrefiftible force (fuch as the riots in 1780) could be pleaded in excufe for a gaoler, who is bound to keep his prifoners in fafe cuftody. FEBRUARY 29. John Pendred Scott, efq. of Balligannon, in the county of Wicklow Ireland, has erected a machine, under the inspection of the inventor, a native of Scotland, for threfhing and winnowing corn, which is fo fimple, and fo excellently contrived, that by one and the fame movement it separates completely, and throws into different receivers, the heavy corn and the light, the ftraw and the chaff, at the expence of less than one tenth part of the time and labour generally employed. MARCH 1. A fevere fhock of an earthquake was felt on Saturday laft at Stamford, which afted for feveral feconds; it was very fenfibly perceived by a tremulous motion of the earth, and shaking of the houses, whereby they were very greatly alarmed. The fame account of it is given from Biggleswade, with the addition of the falling of fome old houses, though no lives were loft. The shock reached as far north as Doncafter, and extended toward the fea coast of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. It happened about half an hour after eight in the evening. MARCH 2. In the course of last month, Mr. Froft, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Honiton, died in confequence of a bite he received about fifteen weeks ago from a mad dog till within a few days of his death, he was apparently in perfect health; and when symptoms of the hydrophobia appeared, he feemed fenfible of his fituation, and requested that, fhould the faculty deem him incurable, they would bleed him to death. He was bled repeatedly, and died on Thursday the 16th paft. remains of the late fir Joshua Reynolds, were carried in grand funeral pomp from Somerfet-houfe, where they had previously lain in ftate, by the exprefs order of his majefty, and interred with great folemnity in St. Paul's cathedral. The proceffion was preceded by the lord-mayor, fheriffs, and city marshals. The pall-bearers were the dukes of Dorfet, Leeds, and Portland; marquis Townfhend, and the marquis of Abercorn; the earls of Carlisle, Inchiquin, and Upper Offory; lords Eliot and Palmerston, Robert Lovell Gwatkin, efq. was chief mourners. The other mourners were two attendants of the family, and the executors, meffieurs Burke, Malone, and Medcalfe. They were followed by the royal academicians and students ; the archbishop of York, the marquis of Buckingham, the earls of Fife, Carysfort, and Fortescue; lords Somers, and Lucan, and a great many gentlemen, in forty-two mourning coaches; forty-nine noblemen and gentlemen's coaches attending empty. The body was interred next to fir Chrif topher Wren. Whitehaven, March 6. On the evening of Wednesday laft, the ground in a meadow, part of the eftate of Stanley, the property of the earl of Lonsdale, fuddenly funk to the depth of fome feet, making a circular break on the furface. Immediately after, a torrent of water was heard, which appeared to ruth out from various parts of the broken foil; and falling, as it was conjectured, into a receptacle which could not at that time be perceived, occafioned a tremendous noife, while the fhrinking was evidently increafing upon the furface. In the morning, the aperture exhibited the appearance of an immenfe funnel: it was yet enlarging, confequently no admeasurement could be made: but the computation generally agreed to, was from fixty to feventy yards in diameter, and thirty yards in depth to the vortex, the diameter of which appeared to be fix or seven yards. During this time, large heaps of earth were falling from the fides, and water gushing out in an amazing abundance the water also was sometimes forced up a confiderable height above the vortex, as if from a jet d'eau; the whole prefenting to the eye a fcene of the most awful grandeur, while the ear was filled with the On Saturday, about one o'clock, the most terrifying founds; often refembling MARCH 5. G g diftant diftant thunder, as the deluge poured into the fubterraneous workings of Scalegill colliery. The people employed in this colliery, had quitted their work a fhort time before the finking happened. The aperture kept increasing for feveral hours, ftill preserving its circular form, till a fhoot of earth from one part of its margin_altered the figure in a small degree. It has remained without any perceptible change fince Saturday, when a rivulet, which runs at a fmall distance, was let into it by a trench, with a view to prevent any further shrinking of the furrounding earth. The ground, thus almoft inftantaneously loft, is one acre, one rood, and twenty four perches. MARCH 6. The queen of Portugal being unhappily in a state of lunacy, the effect of fuperiti tion, the Portuguese minifter has engaged Dr. Willis to attend her majefty; and the doctor is accordingly gone to Lisbon, attended by his fon, and two experienced female attendants. With refpect to the terms, the original offer was 20,000l. But the doctor conceiving this offer to implicate a stay longer than was confiftent with his inclination, has accepted of 10,000l. which, with 1000l. per month, forms the total of his allowance, exclufive of what the gratitude of the Portuguese nation may allot to him at the recovery of the fovereign! Whitehall, March 12. The king has been pleafed to grant unto Philip d'Auvergne, efq. captain in the royal navy, his royal licence and permiffion to accept and enjoy, for himself and the heirs male of his body, the nomination and fucceffion to the fovereignty of the Duchy of Bouillon, in cafe of the death of the hereditary prince, only fon of his ferene highnefs the reigning duke, without iffue male; to take from henceforth the title of prince fucceffor to the faid fovereignty, and to unite the arms of the Duchy with his own, purfuant to a declaration of his faid ferene highnefs the reigning duke, dated June 25, 1791, whereby he tranfmits, at the defire, and with the exprefs and formal .confent of the French nation, the fovereignty of his faid duchy of Bouillon, in cafe of the death of the prince his fon without iffue male, to the faid captain Philip D'Auvergne (whom he therein files Son Alteffe Monfeigneur Philip D'Auvergne, fon Fils adopté') and the heirs male of his body and his majefty has also been pleased to order the faid de claration and other relative documents to be registered, together with his royal licence and permiffion, in his college of arms.-Lond. Gaz. It is remarkable, that in the next Gazette, it was thought proper to notice, as an Erratum in the above, the word French before nation; on which account, the article was reprinted with the omiffion of the word French. MARCH 13. In a New-York paper, an account is given of the arrival of the Snow Elinora, at the Sandwich Islands. The natives, according to their usual custom of depredation, ftole away the cutter one night, murthered the boat-keeper who was in her, and afterward burnt him in facrifice. On being requested to restore him and the boat, they brought his two thigh bones and the keel of the boat. Captain Met calfe, the commander of the Elinora, in revenge for this treachery, fome days after, when about 200 canoes were affembled round the veffel under the supposition that their villainy was paffed over, fired a tremendous broadside among them, which did dreadful execution; eighty people being killed, and upward of 100 miferably wounded, who most of them died. In this proceeding he was undoubtedly too rath and cruel; and it is probable that American veffels, and perhaps English ones, touching in future at thofe iflands, may rue the effects of his hafty revenge. MARCH 14. In November laft, an ingenious farmer in the neighbourhood of Wendover, felected from a field of three acres of turnips, about twenty load of the largest of them; from which he cut the tops and tails, piled them into a stack, and thatched them. In this ftate they remained till the froft in February, when they were opened and found perfectly found and freflr, and afforded an excellent fodder for ewes with lambs, giving abundance of milk; and when thrown on meadow land, the feeding off which must much benefit it, was without the least waste whatever. The whole expence of this process was not more than twenty fhillings. MARCH 15. It is obferved, that the decline of Briftol fair, together with all great periodical fairs, for the ftaple commodities of this kingdom, affords a ftriking evidence of the diffufed general intercourse that fubfifts in every direction between the manufacturers and tradefinen, to their mutual benefit, by means of the facility of credit, and the increafed opportunities of conveyance, by land and water, through every part of the country. Of late years an immenfe quantity of bufinefs, heretofore tranfacted at the great regular local marts of the kingdom, now goes on, by frequent and immediate correfpondence, between the manufacturer and tradefiman. MARCH 19. A general affembly of academicians was held at the Royal Academy, on Saturday, when Benjamin Weft, efq. was elected prefident, in the room of fir Joshua Reynolds, deceafed. At Worcester affizes, George Payne, for riotously attacking the houfe of William, Ruffell, efq. and Edward Skeet, alias Skirt, for attacking the houfe of Mr. Cox, at King's Norton, were capitally convicted. The latter is to be executed on Friday the 23d.-At this afiizes, the claimants on the Half Shire and Penthore Hundreds in Worcestershire, relpecting the Birmingham riots, obtained verdicts as follows: Claimed, Damag. given. 7 8 J. Taylor, efq. 3839 4 4 198 9 MARCH 23. The following inftances of longevity have lately occurred. Helen Gray, died in the parish of Monimail in the fhire of Fife, in the 105th year of her age. She was a little woman, and remarkably cheerful! Some years before her death the had a new fet of teeth. In early life fhe had been a fervant in lord Stormont's family. On the 19th ult. died at Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Matthew Taite, aged 123 years; he ferved as a private foldier at the taking of Gibraltar by the British, in the year 1704. MARCH 24. On Wednesday, was offered at Goldfiniths-hall, to receive the standard or touch marks, anexcellent piece of workmanship, to be prefented by the Roman Catholics to John Mitford, efq. member of parliament, for his laudable and humane exertions to do away the penal ftatutes. This piece of workmanship is a filver gilt cup, of twelve quarts, mounted on a circular bafe richly adorned with chale-work; rifing from this is a triangular pillar, against which are three beautiful figures with their attri butes (Faith, Hope, and Charity) in alto relievo; on the cap of the pillar is the body of the cup, on which there is an oval medallion, reprefenting pure Faith at her altar, trampling on the inftrument of perfecution, while the book of penal ftatutes is confuming in flames in the perfpective. The handles are four ferpents involved; oppofite to the medallion is the infcription. Above is the cover, of the fame gufto, furmounted with a Fame, in the attitude of proclaiming good actions." MARCH 27. Yesterday, the chancellor of the exchequer agreed with Mr. Cope for the tickets in the enfuing English lottery at 161. 59. each. been treated by a perfon out of doors in a manner highly derogatory to the privileges of that houfe. He then read fome letters which had been addressed by Mr. James Nappy Tandy (through the medium of colonel Smith) to Mr. folicitor general Toler, on account of certain alleged afperities ufed by him toward Mr. Tandy's name in the course of the preceding Monday night's debate; which letter went to demand an explanation of fuch language, whether or not meant as a perfonal offence. An explanation was refused. Mr. Cuff having stated thefe circumftances, it was ordered, that meffieurs Tandy and Smith fhould be taken into cuftody of the ferjeant at arms, and brought to the bar of the house. The ferjeant at arms being called, informed the house, that he had dispatched three of the meffengers attending this house to execute the order for taking into his cuftody James Napper Tandy, one of whom being brought to the bar, informed the house, that he went to the house of James Nappy Tandy in Chancery-lane, where he arrefted the faid Tandy, and thewed him the warrant and his authority; that the faid Tandy went into a parlour, as if for his hat, but fhut the door, and made his escape, as he supposes, through a window. Refolved, nem. con. that James Napper Tandy having been arrested by a warrant of Mr. Speaker, iffued by the order of this houfe, and having made his escape from the officer who arrefted him, has been guilty of a grofs violation of the privileges of this houfe. Refolved, nem. con. that a humble addrefs be prefented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, that he will be graciously pleafed to direct that a proclamation may iffue for apprehending James Nappy Tandy, with a promise of reward for the fame. Refolved, nem. con. that James Napper Tandy, having prefumed to demand an explanation from John Toler, efq. his majefty's folicitor-general, a member of this houfe, of words by him spoken in debate in this houfe, and thereby having attempted to violate the freedom of debate in this houfe, is guilty of a high breach of the privileges of this house. Ordered, That his majesty's attorneygeneral do profecute the faid James Napper Tandy for his faid offence." meffage from Mr. Tandy to the folicitor general, furrendered himself to the ferjeant at arms, made the amende bonourable at the bar of the house of commons on Thursday laft, and was difcharged, after a gentle reprimand from the speaker. Dublin, Feb. 25. Colonel Smith, of the independent Dublin volunteers, the gentleman who carried the intemperate Yesterday, a proclamation by his excellency the lord lieutenant was posted up in feveral parts of the city, offering a reward of sol. for apprehending James Napper Tandy.' Dublin, Feb. 28. At half paft five, yesterday evening, as the houfe of commons were in committee, they were panicftruck by a voice from one of the ventilators at the top, communicating the dreadful intelligence, that the roof was in flames, and the dome would fall within five minutes. The fpeaker inftantly resumed the chair, and put the queftion of adjourn ment; the deliberative faculty of the house was immediately fufpended; and every member efcaped as he could with the ut moft precipitation. The fire increafed with inconceivable rapidity; and in a few minutes the dome was completely concealed from view by a yolume of flame and fmoke. At half paft fix all the combuftible materials round the roof being confumed, and the copper with which the roof of that fuperb edifice was covered, being in part melted, and the rest reddened to that degree that usually precedes fufion, it fell in. Every neceffary precaution was used by the fpeaker to preferve the books and pa pers of the house. The fire-bells instantly rung on the difcovery of the fire, and every exertion was immediately made to prevent its spreading.- Happily these exertions were fuccefsful in preferving the house of lords. The mifchief therefore was confined to the houfe of commons, which, with all its pomp of architecture, is reduced to a heap of ruins. Dublin, Feb. 29. Yefterday, the member's 'affembled in the coffee-rooms, as the house had been entirely destroyed by the fire of the day before. The fpeaker faid he was happy in being able to inform the house, that notwithfanding the dreadful accident which had happened, none of the records of journals of the house were deftroyed, except the roll which contained the signatures of the members, and which had been burned with the table upon the floor, in a drawer of which it lay. He bore the most ho nourable teftimony to the fpirited and perfevering exertions of the lord-mayor, alderman Warren, Mr. fheriff Norton, and the |