courfe with the deceased, and was little expected to commit an act of fo horrid a nature. But your ambition has made you commit what every honeft mind muft hudder at. You have cut off the rifing offspring of an ancient and refpectable family. In the commiffion of this cruel act, avarice seems to have been your motive, and hypocrify was your cloak. The greatnefs, of his fortune has caufed the greatnefs of your crime. You faw him likely to be in the poffeffion fhortly of an ample fortune, equal to fupport the an cient dignity of his family: you saw that his death would put you into the enjoy ment of that fortune; and therefore wickedly determined to sacrifice the devoted youth, who ftood between you and your ambitious defigns. The blacknefs of your crime is the deeper ftill, from the confideration that the unhappy youth stood in so near a relation to you, and that you took away his life under the treacherous mask of friendship, and a pretended care of his health. The inftrument, too, which you made choice of for this detefted purpose, is an additional aggravation of your offence. It was not fufficient to facrifice the life of the fon, but you must pitch upon his unhappy mother to be the innocent inftrument of your foul purpole. The act itself was not fo fuddenly thought of. It was deliberated long; and the longer the deliberation was, the greater was your offence. It was accompanied with fo many arts, and fo much previous caution, that it feemed to defy detection; but from a fatality which ever attends actions of fo black a dye, and which I truft ever will attend all the fecret defigns of murder,circumstances have arifen that have brought to light the guilt which you used so much art to conceal. For in most cafes of murder, Heaven generally points out a door for convic tion, which the murderer feems to think shut. In your cafe there appears to be a peculiar interference of Heaven to bring the crime to light; for out of the very extraordinary pains which you took to conceal the offence, circumftances have arifen that are so fingular in their nature, and fo correfpondent with each other, that they have indubitably marked you as the perpetrator of this murder. In a fact of fo fecret a kind, circum ftantial evidence is the only evidence that can generally be expected; and, in your cafe, circumftances have appeared, than which, I will venture to say, no stronger have even been known. They have perfectly fatisfied the jury of your guilt; and I implicitly concur in opinion with them. In the detail of this evidence, your letters to Sir William Wheeler are none of the weakest. They are full of the utmott deceit; and in them it ap pears moft clearly, that you have endea. voured to prevent that refpectable gentleman from inquiring into the caufe of the deceafed's death; and your rincing out the bottles, that nothing might be traced from them, appears to me as plain a proof of your guilt as poffibility could produce. After you have been convicted on fo clear an evidence, you cannot expect to meet with any thing but ftrict juftice here; but you will shortly appear before an awful tribunal, where the fecrets of all mens hearts are laid open; and however you might hope to elude the penetration of an earthly judge, that almighty and all knowing Judge, at whofe bar you are next to render an account of this unhappy fact, is already acquainted with the inmoft devices of your heart. The education you have had muft convince you of this truth; and that, during the fhort time you have now to live, a deep contrition for your manifold fins is the only means you have left to make your peace hereafter. May the Almighty, in his utmoft wisdom, pardon you! But it is my duty to pass the sentence of the law upon you, which is, "That you, John Donnellan, be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and on Monday next that you be carried to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead; and that your body be afterwards given to the furgeons to be diffected and anatomized; and the Lord have mercy on your foul !" The gaoler dire&ly said to the prisoner, "Turn to the judge, and beg your body off from diffection;" upon which the prifoner replied, "It is perfectly indifferent to me what becomes of my body." Capt. Donnellan was remarkably at eafe during the whole of his trial; and while the jury withdrew, he turned to a gentleman he had formerly known, and afked him what his opinion of the eviEe a dence 220 Affairs in England. dence was, and what verdict he thought Immediately after the conviction of Vol.43. tone of voice, addressed the spectators in then going to appear before God, to the following terms: That as he was whom all deceit was known, he folemnly declared, that he was innocent of the crime for which he was to fuffer! that he had drawn up a vindication of himfelf, which he hoped the world would believe; for it was of more confequence to him to speak truth than falfehood; and had no doubt but that time would reveal the many mysteries that had arifen in his trial, and prove that he fell a facrifice to the malice and black defigns of his fome time, he let his handkerchief fall, a signal agreed on between him and the After praying fervently executioner, and was launched into eternity. After hanging the ufual time, the body was put into a black coffin, and conveyed to the Town-hall to be diffected.-He was dreffed in a fuit of deep mourning. - arrived from the coaft of Africa, after a Capt. Inglis of the floop Zephyr, who paffage of fifty-feven days, writes to the Admiralty from Spithead, March 11, Lordships, that on Oct. 31. laft, being "I have the honour of acquainting their juft returned to Goree from a cruize, received intelligence from Gov. Wall, of a French frigate of 24 guns being in Gambia river, and had taken two tranfports and two floops there, wooding and watering for the garrison of Goree. I immediately failed, with the Polly letter of marque, mounting 16 fhort fourpounders, with 30 men, agreeable to the advice of Gov. Wall. the entrance of the river, faw four fail at anchor off Barra Point, found them to On Nov. 2. at eleven A. M. being at be one of the transports, two floops, and a French frigate. The transport mounted 16 guns, and was, as I heard, manned with Frenchmen and negroes, belonging to Albedra, on the banks of Gambia, and interested with the French. At twelve, the tranfport and two floops ing burnt the preceding day. At one were fet on fire, the other transport beP. M. the enemy's fhip being under weigh, and the Zephyr within piftol-fhot of her, a warm action enfued, and lafted till four P. M. when, through chafing, the Zephyr and enemy grounded, (at very near low water), as close to each other as before; which occafioned the action to be renewed with redoubled violencez CAPTURE S. [166.] By Britifh men of war. From Lloyd's Lift. By the Lively and Cruifer floops: The Black Prince privateer of France, of 14 guns and 70 men; and the Four Brothers, Smith, from Yarmouth for Liverpool, with falt, retaken; both carried into Falmouth. violence, hence more resembling two After boarding the enemy, found her to be the Senegal, (Lieut. Commandant Allery), the French King's fhip, mounting 18 fix-pounders, and 126 men, but fought the Zephyr with 22, owing to tranfporting guns. She was formerly the Racehorfe, commanded by Lord Mulgrave, and lately the Senegal in his Majefty's fervice. As fhe was of great detriment to his Majefty's trading fubjects on the coaft of Africa, the taking of her gives me the utmost pleasure and fatiffaction. On our arrival on the 12th at Goree from Gambia, Gov. Wall gave me information of two veffels being off Senegal bar, taking in gum. Ready to act confonant with his information, though in fo shattered a condition, and the Senegal not condemned, from which the property of the captors was at ftake, we chearfully confented to proceed in purfuit of the apparent fuccefs; but the wind being at N. E. directly contrary, and the Zephyr in an infirm fituation, after beating five days out at fea, the fhips were obliged to return to Goree, in order to refit, on purpose we might a fecond time be able to attempt the expedition. On our return the condemnation of the fhip Senegal was entered upon, and the judge-advocate demanding an inventory, proper officers and men were fent from the Zephyr for that purpose, and that of refitting her for the aforefaid expedition; but, alas! through fome unknown caufe, on Nov. 22. he was unhappily blown up, with the lofs of Lieut. George Crofts, and 22 others, officers and feamen." Lond. gaz. By British privateers, &c. By the Vulture of Jerfey: Three floops, one loaded with wine, oil, &c. from Bour deaux to Breft, and the other two with pitch, tar, &c. from Bayonne for Breft; all taken off Breft harbour, and carried into Jersey. By the Mandamus of Yarmouth: De Vier Goede Vrienden, from Petersburg for Amfterdam, laden with 227 bales of hemp, and 3000 bars of iron, &c. carried into Yarmouth. By the Manifefto of London : Young Vrow Charlotte, from Memel for Port L'O rient, with naval ftores, carried into Portf mouth. By the General Conway of Jersey: La Marie François, Le St Louis, Le Solide, and La Concorde; the three former with pitch, tar, oil, wine, &c. and the latter with wheat, carried into Jersey. By the Mercury, Craig, of London, the Stag, of Liverpool, and the Regulator, of St Kitts: Ten fail, from Guadaloupe for St Thomas's, carried into St Kitts. They were under convoy of the Bornholm Danish frigate, of 36 guns, which they suffered to depart. and By the Regulator, Walcot, of 18 guns 72 men: The Rover French frigate, of 22 guns and 180 men, without firing a gun, carried into St Kitts. By the Hypocrite of Liverpool: A valuable fchooner, from St Euftatia for Marigalante, carried into St Kitts. By the Tom, Lee: Two fhips, from Curacoa for Amfterdam, richly laden with fugar, tobacco, &c one carried into Liverpool, and the other into Cork. By the Look-Out of Liverpool, and the Prince of Orange of Guernsey: The Vleyt, from Curacoa for Amfterdam; and the John, Brenock, from Corke for Barbadoes, reta ken, both carried into Scilly. By the Surprife of Dover: Le St Michael, from Bourdeaux for Morlaix, laden with wine. By the Rumbold of Liverpool: the Fortuna, from Meffina for Amfterdam, with fruit and wine, carried into Cork. A large Dutch West Indiaman, with 30 tons of indigo, &c. They did not know of the Dutch war, and was taken by a boat belonging to Scilly. By By the Minerva, Rider, of London: The Good Friends, of Amfterdam, valued at 40,000 l. carried into Liverpool. By the Ant and Wafp privateers of Briftole A Dutch brig, from Curacoa for Amfterdam, carried into Scilly. By the Bird, of London: A ship of 300 tons, from Euftatia for Amfterdam, carried into Scilly. By the Sprightly and Hero privateers of Guernsey: The Mary, the Holy Ghost, and the St Holy Ghof, from Bourdeaux for Breft, with wine, vinegar, and wheat, carried into Penzance. By the Speedwell of Dublin: The Endraght galliot, with tobacco, from L'Orient for Bourdeaux, carried into Penzance. By the Achilles of Weymouth: Le Eprieve, a fmall French lugger, of 8 carriage guns, carried into Portland road. By the Phoenix lugger: A French privateer of 6 guns, after a ftout engagement, carried into Pool. By the Tartar and Rambler privateers of Dartmouth: The Valentine Margretta, from Nantz for Bruges, carried into Falmouth. By the Woolton of Liverpool: Le Sartine, pierced for 24 guns, but had only 16 mounted, and 58 men, with fugar, coffee, cotton, and indigo. The engagement continued for three hours and an half, and both kips fuffered much; carried into Limerick. By the Phoenix privateer of Dartmouth: The Fly fchooner, an Eaft-India packet, from Mauritius, after an obftinate engagement, carried into Kinfale. The difpatches were thrown overboard By the Eolus of Jersey: The Ebenezer, of 300 tons, from Rochfort for Breft, with wine, &c. carried into Cork. By the Britannia of Coomby: The Princefs of Orange, from Guernsey for Bristol, retaken, carried into Scilly. By the Shafifbury of Mountfbay: The Fantaifee, from the East Indies for France, carried into Mount bay. By whom taken not mentioned; The Janet, from Clyde for Charlestown, retaken, and fent for St Kitts. By the Greyhound of Jersey: The L'Indour, from Bourdeaux for Breft, with wine, &c carried into Helford. By the Phoenix of Dartmouth: A brig from Mauritius, and the Tartar privateer of Bristol, retaken; both carried into Pen tune, Fisher, a Dane, from Smyrna for Oftend, carried into Falmouth. By the French, &c. The Mary, Stowrds, from London for St Kitts, carried into Martinico; the captain killed. The Dispatch, Couts, from Dundee for London, fent for Dunkirk. The Champion, Sparks, from Lifbon for Dartmouth, carried into Morlaix. The Refolution, Pearce, from Newfoundland for the Weft Indies, carried into St Domingo. The Janet, M'Lanahan, from Clyde for Charlestown, carried into Boston. The Placentia, Blanch, from Newfoundland for New York, carried into New Eag. land. The Neptune, Bowden, from Plymouth for Jamaica, carried into Hifpaniola. The Providence, Brockbank, from Dublin for Cork, carried into Brest. The Albion, Beaumont, from London for Lynn, carried into Dunkirk. The Fly, Hamilton, from New York for London, carried into Havre de Grace. The Peggy, Burgefs, from Portfoy for Oporto, carried into Vigo. Taken, but whither carried not mentioned: The Julia, Leith, from Newfoundland for Jamaica; the captain died of wounds he received in the engagement; the Kingston, Dawson, from Lancaster to the Leeward islands; the Mercury, Brown, from St Kitts for Barbadoes; the Chance, privateer of Bristol Taken, but ranfomed: The Elifabeth and Clare, from Tingmouth for Liverpool, for 2001.; the Adam, Cleator, from Cork for Oporto, for 110 guineas. MARRIAGES. April 2. Andrew Drummond, Efq; to Lady Mary Percival, eldest daughter to Lady Egmont. 3. The Rev. Robert Darly Waddilove, to Mifs Anne Hope Grant, fifter of Sir James Grant of Grant, Bt. 7 4. At the great fynagogue in Duke's Place, London, by the Rev Mr Tavely, the High Prieft of that fynagogue, Mr Henry Noah, of Crosby-fquare, to Mifs Minka Levy, daughter of Mr Judah Levy, an eminent American merchant, in Heydon-fquare, in the Minories. At twelve o'clock the bride and bridegroom, and all that were invited to the ceremony, affembled in Duke's Place, and walked in proceffion three times round it, according to their cuftom, in the following order: First, the High Prieft, followed by the two readers of the fynagogue, each holding in their hands the laws of Moses, written on parchment; then went the bride and, bridegroom bridegroom; after them the fathers, mothers, and other relations of both; then Mr Jacob Salomons and Mr Barnet Monk, the two elders of the fynagogue; after them Mr Naphtali Myers, the treasurer to the fubfcriptions for the poor Jews; then followed, two and two, above three hundred Jew gentlemen and ladies After their having walked the third time round Duke's Place, they entered the fynagogue, and were married according to the Jewish rites and ceremonies. Immediately after the ceremony, the whole company retired to the great hall adjoining the fynagogue, where an elegant dinner was provided, confifting of four courfes, and a defert. After dinner the company entered the ball-room; and minuets were danced till feven o'clock, when country-dances began, and continued till twelve; at which time the bride and bridegroom retired, and the company fat down to a cold fupper. 7. Major Archibald Erskine, to Mrs Ogilvy, widow of Charles Ogilvy, Efq; and niece to the Earl of Lauderdale. At Falkirk, Thomas Henderson, aged 86, to Elifabeth Wardrop, aged 88 years. 17. At Lude, Perthshire, John Menzies of Culdares, Efq; to Mifs Charlotte Robertfon, eldest daughter of Robert Robertfon of Tullibelton, Efq; 19. At Edinburgh, George Buchan-Hepburn of Smeaton, Efq; Advocate, eldest fon of John Buchan of Letham, Efq; to Mrs Frafer, widow of Brig. Gen Fraser. 21. At London, Mr John Strahan, book feller, to Mifs Blackwood, daughter of the late Alexander Blackwood, Efq; of Edinburgh. 29. At Airth, Mr David Erskine writer to the fignet, to Mifs Ann Graham, eldest daughter of William Graham, Efq; of Airth May 2. At Airth, John Stirling, Efq; of Kippendavic, to Mifs Mary Graham, fecond daughter of William Graham, Efq; of Airth. BIRTHS. April 13. At Pinky-house, the Lady of Sir Archibald Hope, Bt, of a fon. 13 The Lady of John Sinclair, Efq; of a daughter. DEATH S. 08. 3. 1780. At Madrafs, Eaft Indies, Robert Rutherford, Efq; fon of the late Major Rutherford of Edgerfton. Nov At the fame place, George Hay, Efq; fon of Mr Hay of Mordington In the East Indies, Col. Alexander Maclellan. Feb 18. 1781. In Euftatia, Mr Ninian Menzies, of Glasgow, merchant. March 17. In France, the Duchefs of Mazarine. April 1 At Castlemilk, Sir John Stuart of Castlemilk, Br. 3. At Bath, Henry Earl Conyngham, Vis count Conyngham, and Baron Mount Charles, of the kingdom of Ireland, a privy counsellor, and Lord Lieutenant of the county and city of Londonderry, in that kingdom. 3. Mrs Helen Abercromby, widow of James Duff, Efq; of Craigfton. 6 At Edinburgh, Charles Lord Elphinftone. 7 Robert Watfon, D. D. principal of the university of St Andrew's, author of the History of Philip II. 8. Lady Barbara Gould, daughter of the Earl of Suffex. 8. At London, a pauper, in the 108th year of his age 9. At Skerrington-houfe, Airfhire, John Campbell, Efq; of Skerrington, Advocate. 9 At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Efplin, merchant, and late one of the magiftrates of that city. 10. At Chatham, aged 110, Mary Webb, a poor woman, who had fubfifted many years on charity. 18 At Acomb, near York, Lady Margaret Dalziel, only daughter of the late Earl of Carnwath. 19 At London, William Strahan, ju nior, Efq; fon of William Strahan, member of parliament for Wooton Baffet, Wilts, and printer to his Majesty. 19 At her father's houfe near Dyfart, Mifs Beatfon, daughter of David Beatfon of Vicarfgrange, Fifethire, Efq; 21. At Pitcullo, Fifcfhire, Maurice Trent, Efq; 22. At Warriston, near Edinburgh, in the 16th year of his age, Mr James Ramfay, eldest fon of Mr William Ramsay, banker in Edinburgh. 23. At Balfhagrie, near Glafgow, Mrs Margaret Haldane, relict of William Bunton of Ardoch 23. At Glaffaugh, Banffshire, in the 75th year of his age, James Abercromby of GlafLaugh, Efq; a general of foot, colonel of the 44th regiment of foot, and deputy-governor of Stirling cattle. 24. At Air, Mrs Duff, relict of William Duff of Crombie, Etq; 25. At Bath, Mr Charles Brown writer to the fignet. 28 At Stitchel, Mifs Joanna Pringle, daughter of Sir James Pringle of Stitchel, Bt. 29 At Bath, Lord Teynham, Baron of Teynham, in Kent. His title and eftates devolve on his eldest fon the Hon. Henry Roper. 30. At Chelfea, Dr Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, prelate of the order of the Garter, and clerk of the clofet to his Majety. PRE |