London, April 27.

THIS day, about a quarter past three o'clock, the black rod was in attendance in the lobby of the house of commons, and soon after the speaker entered in state. Prayers being read, the black rod entered the house with the usual ceremonies, announced the royal assent ́to two bills, and desired its attendance in the house of lords, to hear the king's speech from the throne previous to pro roguing parliament.

Parliament was afterwards prorogued. Jersey, April 27. We have here witnessed a most distressing scene, which has excited sensations that no language gan describe. Some soldiers belonging to the 34th regiment having committed some depredations here, were brought to trii, and two of them condemned to suffer death. Only one of them, how ever, was left for execution, named Hales. Saturday last was the day fixed on for his execution. When he had hung about a minute and a half, the exEcutioner taking hold of his convulsed body, suspended himself on it, by whose additional weight the rope gave way in such a manner, that the miserable suf ferer's feet touched the ground. The executioner then pulled him sideways in order to strangle him; and being unable to effect it in this way, got upon his shoulders. To the great surprise of all who witnessed this dreadful scene, the poor criminal rose straight upon his feet with the hangman on his shoulders, and immediately loosened the rope from his throat with his fingers. No language can describe the sensations which were excited among the by:

standers by this shocking scene. The sheriff ordered another rope to be prepared, but the spectators interfered, and the sheriff, distressed beyond description by the shocking spectacle, agreed that, before proceeding to the execution of the sentence, he would wait till the will of the magistracy should be known. The civil magistrate not being in town, orders were sent by the commander in chief to carry the man back to gaol, By the time this order arrived the poor fellow had recovered his senses. Capt. Nicolls and another gentleman took him under the arms to conduct him, and by their assistance he was able to walk back to prison. The court has decided, that the whole matter shall be transmitted to the king; and the execution of the sentence, in consequence, is suspended till his majesty's pleasure be known.

Lonzon, April 29. The proclamation for the dissolution of parliament was signed by his majesty this day. The new parliament is to meet for the dispatch of business on the 22d June, and will sit for about six weeks.

Plymouth, May 2. Arrived captain Blackwood, with dispatches from viceadmiral sir J. T. Duckworth, K. B. for government, in L'Espoir, 18 guns. She hasbrought several letters from the ships of the squadron, by which is learnt that (as has already been stated) our squadron passed up through the Dardanelles, under a tremendous fire from the batteries, which they silenced, and spiked the guns. One of the shot fired fell on board the Windsor Castle, 93 guns, which weighed near 700 pounds, Killed five men, wounded 20, and

the rigging of the main mast on fire, which was soon extinguished, without much damage. Our fleet des.royed a Turkish 64 gun ship, and several frigates. Owing to baffling winds our ships could not get nearer Constantino ple than six miles, and, after staying there some days, they returned again through the Dardanelles, under a more dreadful fire than before, as a great number of new batteries had been constructed and guns mounted on them, it is supposed by the assistance of the French-Vice admiral Duckworth then arrived safe at Tenedos, but whether he accomplished his mission is not mentioned. The Turkish fleet are said to be 14 sail of the lm, 20 frigates, and a host of large gun boats.

London, May 2. A duel was fought near Combe Wood, between sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull. On the first fire neither of the balls took effect. Mr. Pauli was asked whether he was satisfied, but he declared he was not unless he received an apology, and this being refused, they fired, when Mr. Paull was severely wounded in the leg, and sir Francis shot through the upper part of the thigh; Mr. Paull's wound is considered the most dangerous.

6. In consequence of information received by government, above thirty warrants, according to a morning Paper, have been issued against French and Italian emigrants, most of them of title. The warrants were issued on Thursday; since which time all the messengers belonging to the alien-office, and several assistants, have been employed in executing them. They succeeded last week in apprehending ten of the persons of whom they were sent in pursuit. On Saturday morning four of them were sent off in custody of three messengers for Harwich, where a vessel was in readiness to receive them; and on the same night they sailed for Tonningen. On Sunday morning early, the aid-de-camp and secretary of a general was apprehended by two messengers, and lodged in the house of correction, in Coldbath Fields. We do not believe that he has yet undergone an examination. His papers, Which are very voluminous, have been

seized. A Frenchman, a companion, was lodged in the same prison, on the same day, under similar circumstances. They are confined in separate apart ments, and none but the officers of the prison are suffered to see or speak to them. The remaining four have undergone several examinations, and are in the custody of messengers.

Another morning paper states, that a French general of high rank is reported to have been brought to town on Monday evening by a king's me senger. His aid-de-camp, with two more emigrants, are at this moment in Coldbath Fields prison, and two fo. reign counts have been taken into custody by a 'messenger. A French baron was taken at his lodging on Monday.

6. The election for the city of London commenced, when a show of hands was had for the five following can didates:

Alderman sir W. Curtis,
Alderman H. C. Combe,
Alderman sir C. Price,
Alderman James Shaw; and
Alderman J. P. Hankey.

The sheriffs declared the shew to be in favour of the four last mentioned gentlemen.

A poll was then demanded, which continued until a quarter past four, when the numbers were:

For Sir C. Price
Sir W Curtis
Alderman Hankey

Alderman Shaw

Alderman Combe

171

157

154

148

121

This election, which threatened as se vere a contest as had ever been known, has found a termination as awful as it was unexpected. Mr. Alderman Han, key, one of the candidates, at the mo ment when he might be supposed to be flushed with the hopes of success, and when the fairest promises of it were before him, has been called away from all the concerns of human life. He died of an inflammation in the bowels yesterday afternoon, at a quarter before six o'clock. The first symptoms of his complaint appeared about eight on the preceding evening, when he complained of great fatigue and an extreme thirst. He preferred wing and water to tea,

which had been recommended to him, and felt himself so refreshed for the moment that he actually proposed to proceed on his canvass in the neigh⚫ bourhood; but that was only a momentary design, which he soon found him. self unable to execute. His disorder now increased with an uncommon rapi dity. At an early period of yesterday afternoon his approaching fate was announced to him, when he called for his four children, the eldest of whom is about nine years of age, and took an affectionate farewell of them.

7. This morning the election for Westminster commenced. The candidates put in nomination, and for whom a show of hands was taken, were Lord Cochrane, Mr. Elliot, and Mr. Sheridan.

The high bailiff declared the shew of hands to be in favour of lord Cochrane and Mr. Elliott. A poll was then demanded for Mr. Sheridan and sir Francis Burdett. The populace cried out for the shew of hands to be taken in Mr. Paul's name, but the high bailiff said that gentleman had been withdrawn from the list of candidates.

8. To-day Mr. Paul's name was added to the list of candidates at Westminster, and at the close of the poll the numbers were Cochrane

Elliott

Burdett

Sheridan Paull

102

83

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The following bulletin was received by the loid mayor :

Admiralty-office, May 9. By dispatches received this morning from vice-admiral lord Collingwood, dated 27th April, enclosing a letter from captain Hallowell, of the Tigre, dated off Alexandria, 24th March, it appears that the transports containing his majesty's land forces under command of major-general M. Frazer, appeared off that place on the 17th, and a partial landing was effected, and a summons sent to the governor; and that upon a junction of the remainder of the troops on the 20th, a capitulation was entered

into, by which the city and fortresses, with two frigates and a corvette in the harbour, were surrendered to his majesty's arms.

Plymouth, May 11. This morning sailed with dispatches and a large quantity of ordnance and naval stores for Monte Video and the Rio de la Plata, the Woolwich store ship, of 44 guns, capt. White.-Letters from an officer in general Craufurd's expedition, dated in the beginning of February, state that the object of this expedition was an attack on Lima, and they expected shortly to go round Cape Hoin for that purpose.

Penzance, May 12. Arrived this morning the Portuguese brig St. Anna, from Madeira in eleven days, bound to St. Petersburg: one of the passengers that landed from her states, that on the 28th ult. his majesty's ship Sybille ar rived at Madeira, the captain of which informed him that he had spoke with sir Samuel Hood, cruizing off the Canaries, by whom he was informed that Boenos Ayres was re-captured by our troops.

London, May 23. The contest for Westminster terminated in favour of sir Francis Burdett and lord Cochrane.When the poll closed, the numbers stood thus:

2137

Exeter, May 25. The town of Chudleigh, in Devonshire, has been destroyed by fire. The dreadful conflagration began on Friday morning, at ten o'clock. It is supposed that it commenced at a bakehouse, and the greater number of the buildings in the town being thatched, the flames spread from house to house, from tenement to tenement, with astonishing rapidity. The terrified inhabitants had, ere night, the dismal prospect of every habitation enveloped in flames; they were left without shelter-almost without food and raiment; and on Saturday the whole scite of the town, with the exception of one or two detached buildings, was a heap of smoking ruins. The road was impassable, and the Mercury stage coach made a circuit of two miles in

consequence. As one alleviation of this dreadful visitation, we hear that no lives were lost; and every exertion will doubtless be immediately made by the neighbouring gentlemen to procure necessaries for the sufferers.

BIRTHS.

April 18. At Exmouth, the lady of Colin Makenzie, esq. of Dortmore, of

a son.

20. The lady of John Finch Simp-. son, esq. of Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, of a daughter.

Mrs. D. Walker, of Gloucestergreet, Portman-square, of a daughter. 26. At Twickenham, the lady of John Dean Paul, esq. of a daughter. May 4. At Gloucester-place, Maryle-bone, the lady of H. J. Hardacre, esq. of the royal navy, of a daughter, being the eighth in succession.

5. At Genaed's Cross, the lady of Edward Thomas Hussey, esq. of Galhem, in the kingdom of Ireland, was safely delivered of a son and heir.

In Grosvenor square, lady Anne Ashley Cooper, of a son.

9. At his house in Queen Ann-street, west, the lady of Wm. Drummond Delap, esq. of a daughter.

The lady of capt. Walker, of his majesty's navy, was safely delivered of a daughter, at Hill Lodge, near Southampton.

MARRIAGES.

April 29. At Gretna Green, William Green, esq. proctor, Doctors Commons, to miss Mary Brewster, eldest daughter of John Brewster, esq. of Brandon, Suffolk.

At Long Benton, near Newcastle upon Tyne, on the 28th uir, Ralph Fenwick, esq.of Streatham, Surrey, to miss Brown, daughter of William Brown, of the former place.

21. John Byng Wilkinson, esq. of Red Lion-square, to the youngest daugh ter of the rev. J. Thoroton, of Bottes ford, Lincolnshire.

At Bath, John Christian, esq. eldest son of Christian Curwen, esq. M. P. of Workington Hall, in the county of Cumberland, to miss Allen, only daughter of Lewis Robert Allen, esq. of Bath.

May 2. At St. George's church, Hanover-square, Mr. R. Y. Cummins, of Plymouth citadel, to miss Lawrence, daughter of Mr. W. Lawrence, builder, Richmond, Surrey.

At Little Missendon, the rev. Frederick Anson, rector of Sudbury, in the county of Derby, brother to viscount Anson, to miss Levert, only daughter of the late rev. Richard Levett, of Milford, in the County of Stafford.

At St. George's church, by the hon. and right rev. the lord bishop of Bristol, George Warwick Bampfylde, esq. only son of sir Charles W. Bampfylde, bart. to miss Sneyd, only daughter of the rev. Ralph Sneyd, domestic chaplain to his royal highness the prince of Wales, precenter of St. Asaph, &c. The married couple immediately left town for the family seat at Pultemore, in Devonshire.

6. Capt. John Croft, of the royal navy, to miss Buckworth, daughter of the late Thomas Buckworth, esq. of Finsburysquare.

At St. George's church, Hanoversquare, the hon. colonel Crewe, only son of lord Crewe, to miss Hungerford, of Cavendish-square, and of Calne, in Wiltshire.

9. At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Mr. Walter Barratt, of Brighthelmstone, surgeon, to miss Sayer, of Parliament

street.

10. At Walcot church, Bath, Henry Boulton, esq. of Cottingham, Northamptonshire, to Iniss Durell, eldest daughter of the late licut. colonel Darell, deputy commissary general on the continent.

On Saturday last, at St. George's church, Hanover-square, caprain John Alexander Pul Mic Gregor, of the Bengal infantry, to miss Jane Ness, of Baker-street, Porman square.

At St. George's, Floomsbury, by the rev. E. Rovenshaw, Wm Dickson, esq. of Prospect place, Sorthampton, to miss Dickson, niece of major-general Dickson, of the same place.

12. At St. George's-church, Hanover-square, by the rev. Mr. Orme, one of his majesty's chaplains, lord Chartley, eldest son of the earl of Leicester, to miss Gardner, daughter of W. D. Gardner, esq. of Lower Grosvenorstreet. There were present at the ce

remony

The duke and duchess of Leeds, the marchioness of Townshend, the ladies Townshend, and the misses Elliker, general and 1:dy Elizabeth Loftus, the hon. Charles Veres Townshend, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardner.

The bride was elegantly dressed in white satin, richly trimmed with point lacc.

DEATHS.

Lately of a rapid decline, in the 23d year of her age, Sarah, wife of George Yecles, esq. of Bathford, Somersetshire. Uniting a blameless conduct in all the duties of social life, she was distinguished for pleasantness, and an innocent candour of manners, which captivated the good will even ofstrangers, and quickened to a high degree of ten. derness the affection of her friends. She exhibited an example of piety during life, and of resignation at the awful crisis of death, which must be a consoling balm to the affliction of her relatives and friends.

April 19. Robert Bushby, esq. of Arundel, Sussex, banker.

25. At Clifton, near Bristol, lady Elizabeth Maginis, daughter of the late earl of Enniskillen.

In er 46th year, Mrs. Reddington, wife of Mr. Wm. Reddington, Wind

sor.

27. At Iver, near Uxbridge, in sudden and unsuccessful labour with twins, the wife of the rev. George C L. Young.

At Clay Hall, Herts, Wm. Gosling, esq. mer hant, of London.

29.

At North M.ms, Hertfordshire, Mrs. Jane Gould, youngest and only remaining sister of the late hon. Mr. Justice Gould.

At Bath, sir H. Dillon Massey.

So. At Manchester, Henry Barton, jun. esq. of the highly respectable com mercial house of Messrs. Henry and John Barton and Co. of that place.

May 3 At his house in Berner. street, John Buller, esq. member of parliament for East Looe, in Corn. wall.

At his house in Norfolk-street, Strand, Matthew Chessall esq. in the 74th year of his age.

On Saturday last, at Kenelworth, near Coventry, John Hallifax, esq. at the advanced age of 90 years.

At Cheltenham, on the 30th ult. Mrs. Ricketts, mother of captain Ricketts, of the royal navy.

4. At Bristol Hot Wells, miss Spry, eldest daughter of the late lieutenantgeneral William Spry, of the royal engineers.

On Saturday last, at his house in Berner's-street, Langford Millington,

5. At his house at Ferham, near Rotherham, sincerely regretted, Jonathan Walker, esq. one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the west riding of the county of York.

At his house, in Montague-street, Russel-square, William Day, esq.

At Ramsgate, suddenly, in the 67th year of his age, Charles Dilly, esq. for. merly an eminent bookseller.

At Brooke's-place, Kennington, Mrs. Robert Buckanan.

20. In child bed, Mrs. Ebers, aged 31, wife of Mr. John Ebers, librarian and stationer, Old Bond street.