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French Translation of the "London Gazette" (Vol. vi., p. 223.).—A correspondent describes a French edition of the London Gazette, which he had met with of the date of May 6, 1703; and considering it as a curiosity, he wishes some reader would give an account of it. It has occurred to me to meet with a similar publication, which appeared twenty years antecedent to the time above specified. It is entitled La Gazette de Londres, publiée avec Privilège, depuis le Jeudi 11, jusqu'au Lundi 15, Mai, 1682 (vieux style), No. 1621. It gives a very circumstantial detail of the loss of the "Gloucester" frigate, near the mouth of the Humber, in the night of Friday, May 5, 1682, when she was conveying the Duke of York (postquam James II.) to Scotland. Sir John Berry, who commanded the vessel, managed to remove the duke to another ship; but the Earl of Roxburgh, Lord O'Brien, the Laird of Hopetoun, Sir Joseph Douglas, Mr. Hyde (Lord Clarendon's brother), several of the duke's servants, and about 130 seamen, were lost in the "Gloucester." The pilot was either deficient in skill, or obstinate, and was to be brought to trial.[1]