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From the exercife of public, to the en-
joyment of private virtue.
The teftimony of a good confcience
was his reward;

The love and esteem of all good men
his glory.

In battle, though calm, he was active,
and though intrepid, prudent :
Successful, yet not oftentatious,
Afcribing the glory
to God.

In the fenate he was difinterested, vigi-
lant and teady.

On the xxxth day of October,
MDCCLVII. he died as he had lived,
The friend of man, the lover of his
country,

The father of the poor,
Aged LXXIII.

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Report of the state of the city
hofpitals for the last year.
St. Bartholomew's.
Cured and discharged from this
hofpital
6178
Truffes given by a private
hand to
Truffes given by the hofpital to 28
Buried this year
390

Remaining under cure

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536

In all 7152

St. Thomas's hofpital.

Cured and difcharged from

this hofpital

6309

Buried this year

369

Remaining under cure

480

Out-patients

220

Total 7468 Chrift's hofpital. Children put forth apprentices, and discharged out of this hofpital last year, ten whereof were inftructed in the mathematics. Buried the last year Remaining in this hofpital

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About the latter end of March, there fell a greater quantity of fnow in the neighbourhood of Florence than ever had been known. The ordinary poft had been ftopt two days till forty men cleared the roads for them.

Berlin, April 2. The king of Pruffia arrived the 30th ultimo, at nine in the evening, at his palace in this city, after an abfence from us fince the 4th of Jan. 1757. He was received by the princes of the blood, foreign minifters, and principal nobility affembled for that purpose. The rejoicings and illuminations on this occafion continued for three days after his arrival; and on the 4th inftant, he, at eight o'clock at night, went through most of the streets in an open chariot, accompanied by prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, to view the illuminations, and could not help admiring many of the devices invented to celebrate his virtues and his victories. On this occafion, as well as at his arrival, he was every where faluted with loud and general acclamations of, Long

live our king and father!" To 10 which his majefty moft affectionately vouchfafed to anfwer, Long live my dear fubjects, my belov

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ferved this reception; for notwithstanding the heavy war he has been engaged in, and the glorious end he has put to it, he has not loaded his fubjects with any new tax, nor contracted any new debt. His majesty on this occafion made several magnificent prefents to the queen and the rest of the royal family.

They write from Ruffia, that general Horwarth, governor of St.

Elizabeth, having been employed by the empress to carry into execution the schemes we mentioned the month before laft, for bringing foreigners into her extenfive, and, as yet, almost defart dominions, being more intent upon his own intereft, than that of his royal mistress, has converted the fums remitted to enable him to proceed with zeal in the establishment of a new colony, to his own private ufe, by which the poor fettlers have been miferably distressed, and her imperial majefty's gracious intentions fruftrated. But his conduct having been properly reprefented, there is no doubt but he will be called to a fevere account.

Died lately. The reverend Mr. Higgs, vicar of Quatford, near Bridgnorth; who, the' his living was no more than 151. per annum, by his parfimony, heaped together fome thousand pounds.

Right hon. lord Afton, formerly cook to Sir Mordaunt, Bart. He is fucceeded in title by Mr. Afton a watchmaker.

Mr. Teasdale of Healey in Northumberland, aged 103.

James Martin, of Ballynahinch in Ireland, Efq; aged r:z.

A man and a woman, at Rippen in Jutland, each aged 112.

John Dwyer, at Ballinderry, in Ireland, aged 115.

A phyfician near Trento, in Italy, aged 117; he had practifed as a phyfician 96 years; his ufual diet was vegetables, and he never ftirred out in the month of March.

MAY.

At a fermon preached at Lambeth church, on occafion zd. of the laying the first stone of a chapel for the use of the Asylum, one hundred and feventeen pounds fourteen fhillings and fix-pence was collected towards erecting the faid chapel, to which her majefty was graciously pleased to add a bounty of a hundred pounds.

Upwards of five hundred pounds was collected at the 3d. anniversary fermon and feaft of the Middlesex hospital.

The Eaft India company waited on his majesty with their addrefs on on the peace.

4th.

Being the day for a public thanksgiving on account 5th. of the peace, the following anthem, compofed by Dr. Boyce, was performed before his majesty

"The Lord is King, be the people never fo impatient: he fitteth between the cherubins, be the earth never fo unquiet.

O thou fword of the Lord, put up thyfelf into the scabbard, reft, and be still.

Some put their truft in chariots, and fome in horfes, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

He maketh peace in our borders,

and

and caufeth wars to ceafe in all

the world.

O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doth for the childen of men. That they would exalt him alfo in the congregation of the people; and praise him in the feat of the elders. Hallelujah."

6th.

herself from a two pair of stairs window into the garden, and was terribly bruifed; the doctor hung by his hands till a ladder was brought him. Lord Molefworth, a youth of 13, and only fon, of the family, was faved by being fent back to fchool over-night, to make room for the doctor and his lady. An elderly gentlewoman, governefs to the children, threw herself out of a window in the nursery, and was killed on the fpot; one of the footmen jumped out of a two pair of ftairs window, and fell upon the iron fpikes, where he hung till a chairman took him off at the hazard of his life; he was carried to St. George's hofpital, but died in two or three days. Many conjectures have been formed concerning the caufe of this fire; fome attributing it to a candle being carelefly left burning near a mufic book, and fo fetting fire to a harpsichord, on which it ftood; and others to a flambeau being thrown into a dark place under the stairs, without being first thoroughly extinguished. But all agree, that its not being timely difcovered was entirely owing to the watchmen being permitted to leave their ftands much earlier than is proper, in a part of the town where the streets being no great thoroughfares, and being, befides. inhabited almost wholly by perfons of fashion, are a mere defart till between fix and feven; or at least, a garret windows to the watchmen leaving their ftands much earlier than permited. It is faid, however, that many more might have efcaped, but that her ladyfhip's room was in a blaze before the bulk of the family difcovered their danger, fo that there was no coming at the key of

Early this morning, a great fmoke was discovered iffuing out of the house of lady Molefworth, in Upper Brook-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, by a man going by, who alarmed 'the family, and in less than a quarter of an hour the whole houfe was in a blaze, and in a fhort time entirely confumed, with all the furniture. Her ladyfhip, her brother captain Ufher, her fecond and third daughters, and four or five fervants perifhed in the flames. As foon as her ladyfhip difcovered the danger, the threw out a feather bed, forced her eldeft daughter, of eighteen, to take the advantage of it, by throwing herfelf out of the window, and calmly affifted her in fo doing; notwithstanding which the young lady broke her leg. Her ladyship had not time to follow, but was obferved, by a lady in an oppofite window, after a fhort recommendation of herfelf, to fink down at once in the room, as if fuffocated by the fmoke. Her fourth and fifth daughters jumped out of

the firft broke her thigh, and the latter was miferably bruifed. Dr. Coote Molefworth, with his lady, being on a vifit to her ladyship, became a part of this unfortunate family. The doctor's lady, being much fcorched, threw

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the street door, which her ladyship ufed to have brought to her every night.

His majefty, as foon as he was made acquainted, with this catatrophe, fent the young ladies a handfome prefent, ordered a house to be taken and furnished for them at his expence, and not only confinued to them the penfion fettled on the mother, but made an addition to it.

When the house came down, the flames went out, in a manner, of themselves, being deprived of fuel by ftrong party walls.

On this occafion, many methods of preventing, and efcaping from, fire, have been published, which the reader will find in our former volumes, especially in our Chronicle for laft year, except the two following:

First, fire alarms, for giving the perfon in whose room they are immediate information of fire in any part of the houfe, and of the particular part where it breaks out.

Secondly, the leaving, where there is no danger of fervants breaking locks, the key of the ftreet door in a place where it may be readily come at, and fecuring nothing but the key of a fmall lock on the fame door, which though fufficient to hinder any thing from paffing in or out of the houfe at improper hours, may, notwithstanding, be eafily forced, fhould there be an abfolute neceffity for fo doing.

At the rehearfal and feaft of the fons of the clergy 11791. 6d. was collected, of which money Ico guineas were given by admiral Pocock, 1001. by John Thornton, Efq; one of the flewards, 50 1. by a gentleman, who, at giv

ing it, faid he was put out appren tice by that charity, and 30l. by Mr. Bofanquet.

A perfon was fined by the court of King's Bench two 7th. hundred pounds, for bribery at the laft electtion for Evesham, and committed to prifon for three months, and till the fine is paid.

Some days ago a fish, of an un common kind, was killed by the the fishermen in King Road, Bri ftol. Its length was about four feet nine inches, its mouth a foot in length, with feveral rows of fmall teeth; between the fins are two flabby substances, fomewhat like lion's paws; its skin is of a dark colour, has no fcales. It is fuppofed to be a fpecies of the fea lion.

12th.

Sir Charles Afgill, as Locum Tenens, fix other aldermen, the recorder, two fheriffs, chamberlain, and town clerk, waited on his majefty with the city's addrefs on the peace. They were hiffed, going and coming, by great numbers of people; and as they paffed by St. Bride's church, in their way to St. James's, the great bell began to toll, and then a dumb peal truck up, which continued a confiderable time; they were treated in the fame manner at their return by Bow bells.

It being cuftomary with the kings of England to 13th. knight the Venetian ambaffadors fent to congratulate them on their acceffion to the throne, M. Querini was this day knighted by his majefty at their audience of leave. M. Morofini had been knighted by his late majefty.

16th.

A gentleman of Monmouthfhire was fined two

hundred

hundred pounds by the court of King's Bench, for challenging a knight of the fhire to fight him; and is, befides, to find fecurity for five years to keep the peace. 18th.

The foundation ftone of a new bridge over the Tweed, for the building of which the parliament lately granted four thousand pounds, was laid by the right honourable Alexander, Earl of Hume, in prefence of the truftees appointed for that purpole. It is called the Union bridge, and his lordship prayed flability to the work, that it might

remain a monument of real union between the two people to the lateft pofterity.

The margrave of Anfpach, lately arrived in London, was introduced to his majefty.

Near four hundred merchants of this city, in a hundred and thirtythree coaches and chariots, went in proceffion from the King's Arms tavern in Cornhill to St. James's, and prefented to his majesty a moft dutiful addrefs of congratulation on the peace.

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Ended the feffions at the

Old Bailey, when feven for foot-pad robberies; two for fheepftealing; and a boy aged fifteen, against whom there were four capital indictments for fhoplifting, received fentence of death; and twenty-three to be tranfported for feven years. Of thofe fentenced to die, five were foon after executed, among whom was the boy of fifteen, whofe youth excited great compaffion in the fpectators.

This and the day following the floods occafioned by exceflive rains, in the neighbourhood of Nantz, rofe thirty-five feet in two hours; at

the fame time the tide fuddenly funk about a foot, and as fuddenly rose a foot and a half.

His excellency the duke de Nivernois fet out for zzd. France, and next day embarked at Dover, Some time before, his grace vifited the university of Oxford, when that learned body conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of the civil law. his audience of leave his majefty made him a prefent of his picture richly fet with diamonds.

The Quakers waited up

At

on his majesty with their 25th.

address on the peace.

The chevalier d'Eon, refident from France, has prefented to his majefty Meff. de la Condamine, Camus, and de la Lande, membersof the royal academy of fciences at Paris, who lately arrived here by order of the French king, and at the nomination of that academy", to affift at the report which the royal fociety of London is to make of the clock invented by Mr. Harrifon, for facilitating the finding of the longitude at fea.

Some old houfes in Bunhill

row fell down lately; by which 31, accident feveral perfons loft their lives, A little before,three others fell down in White Friars; and a poor child accidentally going by to fchool, was buried under the ruins.

A plan for the better diftribution of justice has been fettled by the acting juftices in the neighbourhood of London. The bufinefs is formed into divifions; and two juftices are to fit every day in a place appointed, in each divifion, from eleven till two, to hear and determine complaints, to wit, for the Tower hamlets at the court houfe; for Finfbury divifion at

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