past ten, just as the water scene was bone is past recovery or not. William Baker, between 11 and 12 years old, son of a foreman to the New River Company, also jumped over from the gallery into the pit; but he was caught by a man, and did not receive the smallest injury. Hannah Godfrey, a 1. John Labden, aged 20, of No. 7, Bellyard, Temple-Bar. 2. 8. 4. Rebecca Ling, of Bridge-court, Cannon-row; Westminster. Edw. Bland, aged 28, of No. 13, Bearstreet, Leicester-helds. John Greenwood, King street, Hoxton square. 5. Sarah Chalkeley, of No. 24, Oxfordroad. 6. Rhoda Wall, aged 16, of the Crooked Billet, Hoxton. 7. Mary Evans, ditch. Market-street, Shore 8. Caroline Terril, Plough-street, Whitechapel. 9. William Pinks, aged 17, of Hoxtonmarket. 16. James Phelliston, aged 30, White about to be exhibited. It is generally admitted, that in consequence of some appearance of a quarrel in the pit, where about six or eight men and two well dressed vulgar women appeared to be pushing each other about, when a Fight! Fight! was vociferated: little girl, about 12 years old, also this being immediately taken for a leaped from the front of the gallery: fire, Fire! Fire! was soon echoed a sailor, who was in the pit, caught from every part of the theatre; and, her in his arms, and she escaped unin an instant, the whole house was hurt. The following are the names of thrown into confusion. The people persous killed on the spot:in the gallery, pit, and boxes, all thronged to the doors, and, in their eagerness to escape, fell over oue another: but the principal pressure was on the gallery staircase, where thirty persons were either killed or wounded, as no one was killed in any other part of the house. It was in vain the performers and the managers assured the audience that they had nothing to fear -that the alarm was a false one, and that there was no fire. The managers even attempted to address the audience through a speaking trumpet, but in vain; the tumult continued, and the people still hurried to get clear of the theatre. Near thirty persons were presently brought into the proprietor's room, eighteen of whom were wholly deprived of life, and the remainder in 11. a state of apparent death. By the timely arrival of medical assistance, 12. many were saved; and, among the 13. number, an athletic man, who had been laid out among the dead, but being let blood, and suddenly reviving, looked round him, and the first object that struck him was his wife, lying dead beside him. The poor fellow became frantic, and was carried away in a state of desperation. Nearly an equal number were carried to the 17. hospital, or conveyed away by their friends. Some got over the wood. 18 work in front of the gallery, and let themselves drop down into the pit; On the following morning, the maone female lowered herself down from nagers had posting bills put up in sethe gallery into the pit, by means of the veral public places, stating that the chandeliers, and escaped unhurt; some alarm and disturbance had originated others, made desperate by the fright, with persons who came to the Wells jumped straight down without hesita- for the purpose of plunder. On the tion. Amongst these were Maria King, coroner's inquest, it also appeared that about 18 years of age, the daughter of a a Mr. Jones, during the disturbance, pork-butcher, in Somers-Town; her was knocked down in the gallery, and arms, her head, and her back are robbed of all he had about him. He so severely injured, that it cannot was exceedingly beaten by a tall man yet be ascertained whether the spinal in whiskers; but, on coming to him 14. 15. 16. Lion-street, Pentonville. Edward Clements, aged 13, Paradise- old, of No. 33, Lime-street, Leaden Elizabeth Margaret Ward, of No.20, City Koad. John Ward, aged 16, of No. 1, Glass- Charles Judd, aged 20, of Artillery- self, he did not find that any such Col. John Duff, of the Hon. Fast person was in custody. The whole of India Company's service.—At Lam-. the evidence being gone through, the beth church, Zachariah Pitman, esq. coroner observed, that it was impossi- Twickenham, to Mrs. Ashe, relict of ble to attach criminality on any parti- the late John Ashe, esq. Strawberrycular individual, so as to make the bill.-At Clapham, Edward Rogers, deaths of any of the unfortunate per- esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-atsons amount to murder or manslaugh- law, to Miss Wolff, eldest daughter of ter. If an individual shot a dog un- George Wolff, esq. of Balham-house, lawfully, and killed a human being, Surrey.-At St. James's church, Capt. that was murder; but here the parties H. Evans, to Mrs. Leith, widow of the had quitted the theatre voluntarily, late Capt. Leith, of the 69th regi and though those who caused the ment, and only daughter of the late alarm might be severely reprehensible Governor Seron, of the island of St. and punishable for the misdemeanour, Vincent.-At St. Mary's, Newington, yet the deaths were casual. He should Mr. Wynne, of Paternoster-row, to therefore advise the Jury to pro- Miss Ward, only daughter of Mr. nounce, that the unfortunate persons John Ward, of Tooley-street.-At above enumerated met their deaths Mary-le-Bone church, Sir J. Louis, 4. Casually, accidentally, and by misfor- Bart. R.N. to Miss Kirkpatrick, eldest tune." The Jury, of course, found daughter of Col. Kirkpatrick, of the their verdict as di ected. But, though East India Company's service.-At it was evident from the manager's St. Giles's, Camberwell, J. W. Briant, posting bill that a number of common brewer, Chigwell, to Miss M. A. Back, thieves were present, only two men, daughter of W. Back, esq. Camberwho were not thieves, and two women, well. were apprehended. It was also remarked, that as the greater part of the deceased were without money, though their appearance bespoke respectability, only 20s. being found upon all the bodies, it was of course supposed that some of them at least had been robbed. Died.] At his house, No. 94, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Samuel Greig, esq. commissioner for the navy of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; and officiating Russian consul-general in Great Britain, aged 29 years.-At his house in Charter-house-square, the Rev. J. Smith The persons apprehended were, Hargrave, A.M. auditor to the CherVincent Pierce, John Pierce, Sarah ter-house.-The Rev. Robert Wright,, Luker, and Mary Vine. They were D.D. formerly Fellow of Brasenosebrought to the bar of the Hatton Gar- college, Oxford, and vicar of Whiteden Police Office, charged with creat- chapel, London. The living, which ing the alarm of fire. After a long is a very valuable one, is in the gift of examination it came out, that these the said college.-At Brompton, aged persons conducted themselves very ri- 75, Rear-admiral John Robinson, of otously during the performance. It, Beaufort-buildings.At Hackney, however, could not be proved that Mr. James Lack, aged 105 years. He they had any intention, beyond wan- had served as a private soldier under tonly making a riot, and for which George I. and II. was in the German they are to be prosecuted. Three of wars in the reign of those two mothe prisoners they found bail, but narchs, and attended General Wolfe Mary Vine was committed to Clerk- in his last moments, at the siege of enwell prison. The men are brothers, Quebec; and it is worthy of remark, and it appeared that they went to the though he had been in 15 engagements Wells with the women. One of the and 25 skirmishes, he had not reprisoners is a brewer's servant, the ceived a wound, and boasted till his other a young man from the country. death, that he never shewed his back Married.] At St. George's church, to the enemy,-Suddenly, in one of Lieut.-Col. Holand, to Miss C. Peters, daughter of 11. Peters, esq. of Betchworth Castle, Surrey,—J. Gibbon, esq. of Adam-street, Adelphi, to Miss Mary Duff, daughter of Lieut. the courts of St. James's palace, Mr. ཤ under the command of his friend, the wise, brave, and upright general Sir Guy Carleton, now Lord Dorchester. On his return from that service he was rewarded with an annuity of 5001. granted by parliament to his wife. In January, 1781, he was sent to parlia whose will he received a small pensiou respectable corps of light horse vofor his life. By appointment of his lunteers, and with them when they Majesty, he resided many years at St. were highly instrumental in suppressJames's; and what is very remarkable, ing the alarming riots in 1780. The in passing through the palace to his following year he had the honour of lodgings in Pimlico, he dropped down presenting them with a standard from near the door of the apartments where the king, in testimony of his Majesty's he had so long attended on his royal approbation of their meritorious sermaster, and in a few minutes expired. vices. In 1782, he was called upon to He has left a son, and a widowed fill the office of commissary-general to daughter, with two young children, to the army serving in North America, lament his loss.-At Richmond, Lady Charlotte Barbara Feriers Bisshopp, eldest daughter of the Marquis Townshend, and lady of Cecil Bisshopp, esq. Her ladyship's remains are to be interred in the family vault at Parham. She had been married about two years and a half, but left no children.-Mr. ment, a representative for the city of John Wright, of St. John's-square, London, and on its dissolution, in that printer. He was taken off suddenly, year, was re-elected, and at the same after only two days' illness, in the period elected a director of the Bank 38th year of his age. His illness be- of England, and soon after an aide: gan with a cold, which he caught man for Cordwainers Ward. In 1786, whilst he was on a shooting party; this he served the office of sheriff for Lonbrought on a violent fever, which oc- don and Middlesex, and had the hocasioned his death.-At his house in nour of being chairman to the comLower Brook-street, London, Wash- mittee of the House of Commous in ington Cotes, esq. only brother of 1788, during their debates en the J. Cotes, esq. M.P. for the county of regency bill. On the dissolution of Salop; a man whose benevolence of parliament, in 1790, he was again remind and gentlemanly manners gained elected to represent the city of Lonhim the love and respect of those who don; but voluntarily vacated his seat knew him.--At his apartments in in 1793, by accepting the Chiltern Greenwich Hospital, aged 86, Lieut. Hundreds, on being called upon to Peter Van Court, the oldest lieute- serve as commissary-general to the pant of that place, as also of his Ma- army ou the continent, serving under jesty's service, he having been pro- the command of his Royal Highness moted to the rank of lieutenant on the Duke of York. In 1796 he retira the 25th of December, 1747.--At from the service, and was elected lord Brompton, Horace Walpole Bedford, mayor, and had the duties of that high esq. of the British Museum.-Charles office to discharge during a period reWright, esq. chief clerk of the Admi- plete with unexampled difficulties, ralty. At East Sheen, Sir Brook arising from the effervescence of party Watson, bart. an alderman of London, spirit, the mutiny in the fleet, and the and deputy governor of the Bank of restraint laid on specie payments by England. He was born at Plymouth the Bank of England, of which he in the year 1735; left an orphan in continued to be a director. In March 1741; lost a leg by a shark at the 1798 he was commissioned CommisHavannah in 1749; served as an as- sary-general of England; and in Nosistant commissary under colonel vember, 1803, his Majesty was graMonckton at the siege of Beansejour, ciously pleased to express the royal in Nova Scotia, in 1755, and at the approbation of his services, by creatsiege of Louisbourg, with the immor- ing him (gratuitously) a baronet of tal Wolfe, in 1758. In 1759, he the United Kingdom, with remainder settled in London as a merchant, and to his nephews, William and Brook the year followig married Helen, the Kay. Having no surviving issue, be daughter of Colin Campbell, esq. of has devised his inherited estate (about Edinburgh. He was among the first 3001. a year) after the death of his gentlemen who, in 1779, formed the wife, to his sister, the widow of the UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII. 22 or compelling the Court of Denmark to close the passage of the Sound against the British commerce and navigation; and of availing himself of the aid of the Danish of Ireland. marine for the invasion of Great Britain and late William Pitt, esq. 2nd his slender for the purpose of excluding Great Britain acquired property, after paying a few from all her accustomed channels of cominconsiderable legacies to relations, munication with the continent; of inducing friends, and servants, to be placed in the public funds, the interest to be paid lady Watson during her life; the principal at her death to his own and her named relations in equal proportions. The alderman, like the vicar "Confident as his Majesty was of the of Bray, was a government man upon authenticity of the sources from which this all occasions, and was supposed to be intelligence was derived, and confirmed in a favourite with Mr. Pitt. When the credit which he gave to it, as well as by commissary with the Duke of York in the notorious and repeated declarations of Flanders, an anecdote is related of his the enemy, and by its recent occupation of meeting a jew-boy with a drove of the towns and territories of other neutral cattle, whom it appeared had carried fish, &c. to the alderman's house in London; and who, emboldened by this circumstance, had the courage to accost his quondam benefactor, to whom he communicated such information respecting the enemy's posttion in a defile, as induced the English commander-in-chief to change the route. STATE PAPERS. BRITISH DECLARATION. His Majesty owes to himself and to Europe a frank exposition of the motives which have dictated the late measures in the Baltic. “His Majesty has delayed this exposition only in the hope of that more amicable arrangement with the Court of Denmark, which it was his Majesty's first wish and endeavour to obtain, for which he was ready to make great efforts and great sacrifices, and of which he never lost sight even in the moment of the most decisive hostility. "Deeply as the disappointment of this hope has been felt by his Majesty, he has the consolation of reflecting that no exertion was left untried on his part to produce a different result. And, while he laments the cruel necessity which has obliged him to have recourse to acts of hostility against a nation with which it was his Majesty's most earnest desire to have established the relations of common interest and alliance, his Majesty feels confident that, in the eyes of Furope and of the world, the justification of his conduct will be found in the comnanding and indispensable duty, paramount to all others among the obligations of a Sovereign, of providing, while there was yet time, for the immediate security of his people. States, as by the preparations actually made for collecting a hostile force upon the frontiers of his Danish Majesty's Continental have forborne to act upon this intelligence, dominions, his Majesty would yet willingly until the complete and practical disclosure of the plan had made manifest to all the world the absolute necessity of resisting it. "His Majesty did forbear, as long as there could be a doubt of the urgency of the dan ger, or a hope of an effectual counteraction to it, in the means or in the disposition of Denmark. "But his Majesty could not but recol lect that when, at the close of the former war, the Court of Denmark engaged in a hostile confederacy against Great Britain, the apology offered by that Court for so unjustifiable an abandonment of a neutrality which his Majesty had never ceased to respect, was founded on its avowed inability to resist the operation of external influence, and the threats of a formidable neighbour. ing Power. His Majesty could not but compare the degree of influence which at that time determined the decision of the Court of Denmark, in violation of positive engagements, solemnly contracted but six months before, with the increased operation which France had now the means of giving to the same principle of intimidation, with Kingdoms prostrate at her feet, and with the population of Nations under her banners. "Nor was the danger less imminent than certain. Already the army destined for the invasion of Holstein was assembling on the violated territory of neutral HamburghAnd, Holstein once occupied, the Island of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the Navy of Denmark at her disposal. "It is true, a British force might have found its way into the Baltic, and checked for a time the movements of the Danish marine. But the season was approaching His Majesty had received the most po- when that precaution would no longer have sitive information of the determination of availed; and when his Majesty's fleet must the present Ruler of France to occupy, with have retired from that sea, and permitted a military force, the territory of Holstein, France, in undisturbed security, to accu mulate the means of offence against his and proportioned to the magnitude of the Majesty's dominions. danger. Notwithstanding the Declaration of "Yet even under these circumstances, in calling upon Denmark for the satisfaction War on the part of the Danish Government, and security which his Majesty was com- it still remains for Denmark to determine pelled to require, and in demanding the whether war shall continue between the only pledge by which that security could two Nations. His Majesty still proffers an be rendered effectual-the temporary pos- amicable arrangement. He is anxious to session of that Fleet, which was the chief sheathe the sword, which he has been most inducement to France for forcing Denmark reluctantly compelled to draw. He is ready into hostilities with Great Britain-His Ma- to demonstrate to Denmark and to the jesty accompanied this demand with the offer of every condition which could tend to reconcile it to the interests and to the feelings of the Court of Denmark. "It was for Denmark herself to state the terms and stipulations which she might require. "If Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender of her fleet would be resented by France as an act of connivance, his Majesty had prepared a force of such formidable magnitude as must have made concession justifiable even in the estimation of France, by rendering resistance altogether unavailing. "If Denmark was really prepared to re. sist the demands of France, and to maintain her independence, his Majesty proffered his co-operation for her defence-naval, military, and pecuniary aid; the guarantee of her European territories, and the security and extension of her colonial possessions. world, that, having acted solely upon the The Moniteur of Sept. 21, has anticipated almost every argument in this Declaration. "Copenhagen," says the writer, "is in the hands of the English! Europe will hear with surprise, that this city fell into their hands before the trenches were opened, and merely in consequence of the apprehensions of a bombardment.-It is true that the first effects of it were terrific; that a part of the city was in ashes, and a nuber of women and children killed, and that this induced the Danish General to sign the "That the sword has been drawn in the capitulation —Every thing gives us reason execution of a service indispensible to the to suppose that the Prince of Denmark will safety of his Majesty's dominions, is matter not ratify the capitulation. He has already of sincere and painful regret to his Majesty. refused to receive the English ambassador, That the state and circumstances of the Jackson, who shewed himself before Kiel; world are such as to have required and justi- he has declared that he will remain at war fied the measures of self-preservation, to which his Majesty has found himself under the necessity of resorting, is a truth which his Majesty deeply deplores, but for which he is in no degree responsible. with England, and that he will recover by force of arms, what he has lost through surprise and treachery-In the seventh article of the capitulation it is remarked, that the English speak of the harmony between "His Majesty has long carried on a most both States; and can they go so far as to unequal contest of scrupulous forbearance suppose that the Danes retain any affection against unrelenting violence and oppression. for them? Really! Without reason, withBut that forbearance has its bounds. When out pretext, without a declaration of war, the design was openly avowed, and already they have done them no other damage than but too far advanced towards its accomplish- burning their ships and houses, and disment, of subjecting the Powers of Europe seminating death and terror in the bosom to one universal usurpation, and of com- of peaceful families.-If, after such conduct bining them by terror or by force in a con- as this, the Danes do not wage an unfeigned federacy against the maritime rights and war against England-if the sentiment of political existence of this kingdom, it be- hatred and vengeance does not inspire every came necessary for his Majesty to anticipate individual between old age and infancy, the success of a system, not more fatal to from the Admiral to the cabin-boy-there his interests than to those of the Powers is an end to the Danish nation. who were destined to be the instruments "Did they apprehend that France wished of its execution. to increase its military strength by the ad"It was time that the effects of that dition of that of Denmark? The means of dread which France has inspired into the preventing this were not those adopted by nations of the world should be counteracted the English. Had the Danes been inby an exertion of the power of Great Bri- fluenced by the menaces of England, might tain, called for by the exigency of the crisis, not the French have made themselves mas |