back on the deputy curate of St. Martin's, and saw Mr. Smith in the vestry, when he told him, he had an opportunity of disposing of the set of canonicals he had lent him in the morning; but, to prevent Mr. Smith's being put to any inconvenience, he should have the set he had ordered by three o'clock precisely. By this finesse, the mercer got back his goods.

This new species of depredation might have continued a short time longer, had not the forged draft exposed the character of the party, and occasioned an enquiry, from which we learn, that the hero in question was educated at Peckham school, and has been employed as a rider to a wholesale house in the city, This affair has thrown St. Martin's parish into much confusion.

During the time this impostor officiated as a priest, he was very attentive to duty, read prayers morning and afternoon: with administering the sacrament, attending christenings and burials, marriages, &c. his time was wholly taken up. The clerk was known to say, he was a little aukward at first, but respect for the dignity of his new master prevented comment, and rendered him extremely willing to give every assistance in his power.

The above impostor is only twenty-three years of age, middle statue, in person thin, and when he stood at the bar at Bowstreet, stared around him with an unmeaning eye, apparently quite indifferent as to his situation,

SUICIDE. Mrs. Martin, wife of Mr. Martin, tallow-chandler, opposite York-house, Piccadilly, after returning home from Hyde Park, on Monday evening, about seven o'clock, with two of her children, said to her husband-" My dear, I shall call on my milliner in Jermyn-street." Mr. Martin recommended her to let the children accompany her, when she observed—“ No; should the children get together, they'll detain me too long." Mrs. Martin then left her husband, who, about eleven o'clock, began to be anxious for her return. He sent in vain to the milliner's, as she had not made her appearance there that evening. He was equally unsuccessful in his enquiries at several places, when he made the circle of all his friends to the same effect. He returned home about three o'clock in the morning, and his distracted state of mind induced him at last to send to Hyde Park, when at five o'clock in the morning it was discovered that she had drowned herself in the Serpentine river!-The coroner's inquest sat on the body: it was proved, that at her last delivery she had caught cold, and contracted a brain fever; and that her late visit to a watering-place, where she had incautiously bathed, had increased rather than diminished her mental derangement. The jury, therefore, returned a verdict of Lunacy. Mrs. Martin, previous to her indisposion, was a very affectionate wife, and universally beloved,

PROMOTIONS.

PROMOTIONS.

Aug. 21.-His Majesty has been pleased to appoint General his Royal Highness Edward Duke of Kent, K. G. to be Colonel of the 1st. (or Royal) Regiment of foot, vice Lord Adam Gordon, deceased.

Aug. 25.-His Majesty, by his Royal Letters, having been pleased to appoint Sir Michael Smith, Bart. Master of the Rolls in Ireland, to be of his Most Honourable Privy Council of Ireland, he this day, in Council took the usual oaths, and his seat at the Board accordingly. Sept. 5.-The King has been pleased to appoint Bartholomew Frere, Esq. to be his Majesty's Secretary of State to the Court of Lisbon.

Sept. 5.-The King has been pleased to nominate and appoint Sir James Saumarez, Baronet, Rear Admiral of the Blue, to be one of the Knights Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Sept. 15.-The King has been pleased to grant the diguity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon. Murrough Marquis of Thomond, Knight of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title, of Baron Thomond, of Taplow Court, in the County of Buckingham.

Sept. 22. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint his Grace George William Frederick Duke of Leeds, to be Governor of the Islands of Scilly, alias Sully, alias Sorlingues, in the room of Francis Duke of Leeds, deceased.

BIRTHS.

At Stourfield House, Hants, the Lady of Sir H. Harper, Bart. of a son.-In Portland-place, the Lady of the Hon. Lord Hervey, of a daughter. At his Lordship's house, in Berkeley-square, Viscountess Duncannon, of a son.

MARRIED.

John Band, Esq. High Sheriff for the county of Somerset, to Miss Cruckshank, of Enmore, in the same county.-Robert Waller Otway, Esq. Captain of his Majesty's ship Edgar, to Miss Holloway, daughter of Rear-Admiral Holloway, second in command at Portsmouth.-Sunday morning, Charles Dixon, Esq. of Savage-gardens, to Miss Harriet Wilder, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Wilder, of Purley Hall, Berks.Brigadier-General Dunne, to Miss White, sister to Lord Bantry, and niece to Lord Longueville.-Edmund Bacon, Esq. eldest son of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. to Miss Bacon, daughter of Dashwood Bacon, Esq. of Ottey St. Mary.—At Dumfries, Mr. John Swan, merchant, of London, to Miss Helen Maxwell. The Rev. Hans Hamilton, son to the Lord Bishop of Ossory, to Miss Susanna, Oliver, daughter of the late Right Hon. Silver Oliver.At the Earl of Rosebery's house, in Park-lane, by special licence, William Hervey, Esq. of Bodwel Hall, in the county of Carnarvon, to the Right Hon. Lady Dorothea Arabella Primrose, his Lordship's youngest daughter.-Lately, Robert Gamell, Esq. to the widow of the late Admiral Vandeput, both of Bungay, Suffolk.-At Langadwalader, in the Isle of Anglesea, August Elliot Fuller, Esq. of Ashdown-house, Sussex, to Miss Meyrick, daughter of Owen Pukland Meyrick, Esq. of Bodorgan, Anglesea.— At St. George's, Hanover-square, Brigadier-General John Murray, to Miss Maria Pasco, niece of William Baker, Esq. Comptroller of the Customs at Montreal.-J. Bacon, Esq. Sculptor, to Miss Taylor, of High-street, Southwark.-At St. Margaret's, Westminster, the Rev. John Chandler, of Whitley, in Surrey, to Miss Mary Currie, of Burwood-house, in the same county.-St. George's, Bloomsbury, Jaines Kelly, Esq. to Miss Fallon, daughter of Aug. Fallon, Esq. HartVOL. 2.---NO. 9. street,

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street, Bloomsbury-square.-At St. Ann's, Blackfriars, Mr. Langhorn, of Clapham, to Miss Box, only daughter of William Box, Esq. Doctors' Commons.-At St. Mary-le-bone Church, Edward Hilliard, of Cowley-house, Middlesex, Esq. to Mrs. Colborne, of Shredding green, Bucks.-The Rev. Thomas Kidd, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and second Master of Merchant Taylor's School, to Miss Smith, daughter of Mrs. Moir, Hoxton-square.

OBITUARY.

At a very advanced age, at Clapton, William Rix, Esq. Town Clerk of the City of London. which office he held for a great number of years.-John Vale, of Grosvenor-square.-Suddenly, while playing a single match of cricket, in the Roebuck field, Maidstone, Mr. Bates, of Egerton.-At Lewisham, in Kent, Lady Mary Churchill, wife of Charles Churchill, Esq.-At Great Marlow, Berkshire, Mrs. Magden Grignion, relict of Reynol Grignion, Esq. late of the King's-road, Chelsea. On Monday evening, at a very advanced age, Sydenham Singleton, a man truly pious and of the strictest probity.-Suddenly, at Tunbridge Wells, Sir George Warren, K. B.-Lately, in Great Denmark-ftreet, Dublin, Lady Hannah Stratford, daughter of the late Right Honourable John Earl of Aldborough.-Lately, on his passage to Lisbon, Lieutenant-General Macleod, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 73d foot. Suddenly, aged 103, Mr. Joshua Dixon, of Downton, Wiltshire. By his two wives he had a numerous family; his eldest daughter, now living, is upwards of 70 years of age, and his youngest child only 18. He was a remarkable free liver, and, from his own account, had drank in the course of his life, upwards of 2000 gallons of brandy, besides other liquors; he enjoyed his faculties to the last.-At Hackney, the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, a man not less distinguished for great acquirements in scientific and literary knowledge, than for his excellence of character in private life. He was born February 22, 1756, in the parsonage-house of St. Nicholas, Nottingham, of which his father was then Rector. Mr. Wakefield's education was regularly classical, finishing at Cambridge University; and in 1776, he took his degree of B. A. and obtained some of the academical prizes.---In his theology, however, he was decidedly adverse to some of our established dogmas. Thus shut out from Church preferment, Mr. Wakefield was compelled to pursue other modes of livelihood.---In March, 1779, he vacated his fellowship by marriage. Soon after, he took the classical department of Warrington Academy; and in this situation he published several religious, or rather critical and religious works. Mr. Wakefield was, in the course of his literary pursuits, the author of many political tracts, from the joint result of which, though apparently from one publication, he was immured in Dorchester Gaol, from which he was but lately liberated.-Mr. Locke, fariner, of Kempsey, near Worcester. Going out in the morning, with a gentleman to course, in perfect health, he dropped in the field, and expired.

PRICE of GRAIN-At Mark-lane, this morning, there was the greatest supply of both English and foreign Wheat that has been there for these twelve months past. English Wheats were full 7s. lower than last week, while the best foreign maintained the prices of this day week; a most remarkable circumstance, and not easy to be accounted for.All other articles had a brisk sale, and brought about the same prices as on Friday last.-Fine Flour, 70s. to 75.-Return of Wheat in Mark-lane, from the 14th Sept. to the 19th, total 12,375 quarters.Average, 775. 8d.-1d. lower than last return.---Return of Flour from 12th to 18th of Sept. total, 13,215 sacks.---Average, 78s. 94d.--75. 148. higher than last return.

Corn Exchange, Sept. 28.

PRICES

WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30.

THE intelligence brought by the Hamburgh mail which arrived yesterday is, in various respects, important.

There is no longer any doubt of the acknowledgment of the new King of Etruria by the Court of Vienna, as his name has at length appeared in the Gazette of that capital, and it is observed in several private letters from Germany, that the Emperor had been induced to the measure by the earnest solicitations of the First Consul.

The differences which were likely to have taken place between Austria and Prussia in consequence of the election of the Archduke Anthony as prince bishop of Munster, are confidently stated to have been prevented by the cession of the Brisgau to his Prussian Majesty.

The insurrection, which broke out in Belgrade, has extended itself to the most important parts of European Turkey. It has been felt at Nissa and Adrianople, and even threatens the capital of the Porte.

We learn from Lisbon that a proclamation was issued by the Prince Regent, limiting the admission of British vessels into the ports of Portugal to the 21st of the present month.

It is understood at Hamburgh, that the preliminaries of a treaty between France and Russia had been sanctioned by the Emperor Alexander; and that the object of count de Markow's embassy to Paris was to exchange the official ratification of the treaty.

The honourable Mr. Paget, appointed British minister to the Court of Vienna, had arrived at that capital, and lord Minto was preparing to return to England.

The delay which has taken place on our part in the restoration of the Danish West-India islands, is now attributed to the exorbitant demands of the Court of Copenhagen. It is said not only to have refused the confiscation of the French, Dutch, and Spanish.. property which remained in these settlements from the year 1794; but to have required the restitution of the islands in their former state, and indemnity for the expences occasioned by its armaments against Great Britain. Such demands may have been set up, but it requires no great knowledge of the firmness and dignity of the British, to be able to assert that they have been rejected. In the island of St. Croix, the property of the subjects of France, Spain, and Holland, has been already condemned and sold.

Dispatches were yesterday received at the Admiralty from Vice Admiral Pole, who continues to block up the port of Cadiz,