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Hick's-hall; and for Holborn and Upper Westminster, &c. fomewhere near Soho.

A baker, who ferved the prifoners in the Poultry compter with bread, was lately fined feven pounds ten fhillings, for making forty-five penny loaves feventy-five ounces fhort of weight.

The demand for gold in coin is now fo great, that the Jews give four guineas an ounce for it. The reafon affigned is, the Dutch drawing their money from our funds, in order to accommodate the French, who give eight per cent.

A fociety is forming in Salisbury for raifing a fund fufficient to allow the widow of every person who has been a member three years, an annuity of thirty pounds a year during life.

At the late affizes at Perth, in Scotland, Janet Ronald was indicted for adminiftring poifon to, her own fifter; but during the trial one of the jury being fuddenly taken ill, the trial was put off till next day, when the prifoner, being again brought to the bar, refufed to plead, as the difmiffing a jury is fatal to the action. The judges, however, ordered the trial to go on, and referred the objection to the high court of justice at Edinburgh,

The following is a lift of the prize-goods taken at the Havanna: 5841 chefts of fugar; 3384 ferons 3 calks of cocoas 122 ferons jejuits bark; 8363 hides in the hair; 3900 tanned ditto 3 475 bales of tobacco; 4876 ferons fnuff; 59213 pieces logwood; 2003 ditto fuftic; 78 ditto timber; 8 cedar planks; 7 ferons cochineal; and 2 cafks tortoiseshell.

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for the Magdalen, and the like fum for the Foundling hofpital, and has, befiues, depofited to the amount of near five thousand pounds, the intereft whereof is for ever annually to be applied to the benefit of these charitable inftitutions.

His royal highness prince Clement of Saxony has been chofen bishop of Freifing, and alfo bishop of Ratisbon, without oppofition.

There is advice from Constantinople, that the Turkish traders there, enraged at the licence taken by the Venetian merchants to carry on an illicit commerce in that city, under the fanction of their ambassador, rofe in a body, attacked the ambaffador in his houfe, killed eight of his domeftics, who defended his perfon, and forced him at laft to fy for protection

to the minifter of France.

Charles-town, South Carolina, April 2. Our affembly have appropriated a large fund for bounties to foreign proteftants, and fuch induftrious poor perfons of Great Britain and Ireland, as fhall within three years refort hither to fettle in our back country. Several families are already arrived from Ireland, in confequence of

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great encouragement. Two townships, of 48,000 acres each, are laid out for them and other emigrants. One is on the river Savanna, called Mecklenburgh; the other on the waters of Santee, at the Long Canes, called Londonderry. Thefe lands are inexpreffibly rich, and the climate more mild, ferene, and wholefome, than in our lower fettlements.

A bricklayer's wife at Stirling in Scotland, was, the beginning

of this month, fafely brought to bed of four children, two boys and two girls, all likely to do well.

Died lately. William Butler, Efq; an eminent linen draper, of Cornhill, fuppofed to be worth 60,000l. which, he dying inteftate, goes among a number of poor relations, one of them a fifter, who had been obliged for some time to take fhelter in a common workhoufe.

Mr. Richard Teafdale, of Sleanly in Northumberland, aged 103. Thomas Jackfon, of Pennybridge in Lancashire, aged 104.

At Prefcot in Lancashire Mrs. Blakefley, aged 108; Mrs. Chorley 97; and Mrs. Bennet 75; they were intimate acquaintance, and all died within the space of twelve hours.

Alice Wilfon, at Newburgh, Northumberland, aged 11. Mofes Sulima, a Jew, aged 110.

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Died at Mentz, in the 74th year of his age, his electoral highness John Frederic Charles Count d'Oftein Engleheim, archbishop and elector of Mentz, prince bishop of Worms, dean of the electoral college, and archbishop chancellor of the empire. He was elected archbishop of Mentz, April 23, 1743, and bishop of Worms Oct. 7. 1748.g? Teks

Three men, one of them up wards of feventy years old, and another more than fixty, standing in the pillory oppofite Westminfter-hall door, for perjury, in a caufe relating to the right of an eftate in Leicestershire, their tears and grey hairs drew fuch com

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Being the king's birth-day, 4th. who then entered the 26th year of his age, there were the greatest rejoicings ever known upon the like occafion, all parties vying with each other who fhould exprefs moft affection to his majefty. Mr. Wilkes, in particular, celebrated it with the greatest demonftrations of joy among his conftituents at Aylesbury.

As the people were crouding at night in fhoals through the poltern on Tower-hill to fee the grand fireworks exhibited there on this occafion, the rails furrounding a fpring 30 feet deep, fuddenly gave way, and fuch a multitude fell together into the place as almoft to fill it.. Six were taken up dead, fourteen or fifteen fo mangled as scarce to be able to live, and a much greater number bruised in a terrible manner. What is most fhocking, feveral of the fufferers were women far gone with child. During the confternation occafioned by the accident, a failor had his pocket pick'd by a Jew; who after undergoing the ufual difcipline of ducking, hopped out of the water, pretending to have his leg broke, and was carried off by fome of his brethren. But the failors discovering the trick, and confidering it as a cheat, purfued him to Duke's Place, where, at firft, they were beaten off by the inhabitants; but prefently returning with a fresh reinforcement, they attacked the place, entered three houfes, threw every thing they met with out at the window, broke the glaffes, tore the beds, and ript up the wainscot, leaving the houfes

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in the moft ruinous condition; with the furniture three children fick of the fmall-pox we thrown out, but happily received no damage. Great rejoicings were made 6th. at the queen's houfe, in honour of his majesty's birth-day. A moft magnificent temple and bridge, finely illuminated with about four thousand glafs lamps, were erected in the garden. The painting on the front of the temple, reprefented the king giving peace to all parts of the earth. his majelly's feet were the trophies of the numerous conquests made by Britain, and beneath them a groupe of figures reprefenting envy, malice, detrac tion, &c. tumbling headlong like the fallen angels in Milton. In the front of the temple was a magnificent orchestra, with above fifty of the most eminent performers; but what rendered this entertainment very extraordinary, is, that all the machinery, paintings, lights, &c. were defigned and fixed by her majefty's direction in fo private a manner, in the fmall space of two days, that the contrived to detain the king at St. James's, that the first intimations his majefty had of this moft elegant and affec tionate mark of fo amiable a prin cefs, was the fuddenly throwing back the window-fhutters of her majefty's palace, when his majefty entered the apartments between nine and ten o'clock.

What his majesty muft have fel on receiving, and the queen in prefenting, fuch a teftimony of her love and refpect, cannot be con ceived but by thofe whofe lot it was to perceive it.

Most of the royal family were prefent, and a cold fupper of up

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wards of an hundred difhes, with an illuminated defert, was alfo provided.

An ode fuitable to the happy occafion, written and fet to mufic by Dr. Boyce, was performed by a fele&t band.

For the fongs fung on this occafion, fee our article of Poetry.

At the duke of Richmond's, likewife, was a grand masquerade ball with mufic, the vocal parts of which were performed by many of the nobility in masquerade. The defert was remarkably grand and elegant, as were the fire-works, which were played off from the garden, and from barges on the river, with the greatest regularity, and (tho' the water was covered with boats) without the leaft accident whatever. The fireworks, though very extraordinary, coft but a hundred pounds.

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his majefty at St. James's with their addrefs on the peace, and were very graciously received. This addrefs was warmly oppofed at feveral meetings.

A moft violent eruption 16th. of Mount Gibel, in the ifland of Sicily, terrified the inhabitants for many miles round. The torrent of lava or inflammatory matter thrown out had, by the 24th, advanced two miles, and was fuppofed to be thirty feet broad and fixteen deep. On the first inftant it extended twelve miles. The roaring, which proceeded from the volcano, was heard diftinctly at the distance of twenty miles; and, added to the frequent fhocks, fpread the greateft confternation throughout the neighbourhood. A prodigious quantity of fine black fand was likewife difcharged from the mountain, and darkened the air to the distance of fifteen miles; but the eruption has not, that we hear, done any other damage than burning fome trees in the wood of Paterno, and deftroying the grafs over which it proceeded.

Was opened, over the 18th.. north door of Weftminsterabbey, a monument, with the following infcription :

A motion was made at the meeting of the royal fociety, by the rev. Neville Mafkelyne, F.R.S. and unanimoufly agreed to; recommending it to their council, as vifitors of the royal obfervatory, to take proper measures for obtaining and fecuring the aftronomical obfervations that have been made there in time paft, for the benefit of the public. It was alfo agreed to publish them when obtained at the expence of the tociety; and, for the future, to pub-commander in chief of his majesty's lifh the obfervations made at the naval forces in the Eaft Indies, royal obfervatory annually, in the who died at Calcutta the 16th of Philofophical Tranfactions. Auguft 1756, in the 44th year of The duke and duchefs of his age. The Eaft India company, of Bedford arrived from as a grateful teftimony of the figFrance. Soon after his grace wait-nal advantages which they obtained upon his majesty, and was moft graciously received.

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"To the memory of Charles Watfon, vice-admiral of the white,

ed by his valour, and prudent conduct, caufed this monument to be erected.”

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center of the door, is the figure of About two in the mornthe admiral in full proportion, ing a fire broke out in 23d.

ftanding upon a pedeftal, with a branch of olive in his right hand, looking towards a beautiful female figure in a kneeling pofture, returning thanks for her fafe deliverance from imprifonTent in the black hole, and underneath are the following words, Calcutta freed January 11th 1757. On the other fide of the admiral is the figure of an Indian prifoner, fitting chained to a pilIar, with a dejected countenance, but cafting a contemptuous look towards the admiral. Over him is wrote, Chander Nager taken March 23, 1757; and underneath him is Sherah taken February 13th, 1756. The whole is performed in

a very masterly manner.

As the workmen were digging a vault under the mafter's apartments in the Charter-house, they difcovered a perfect human skeleton, of a furprising length, the thigh-bone meafuring two feet two inches, and the other bones in proportion. It is fuppofed to have lain there fince before the reformation.

At Lofduyne, a village zoth.. near the Hague, there fell a fhower of hail-ftones, fome of which were as large as a hen's egg, and broke almoft all the windows in the village. 0912

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The reverend Mr. Entick, 2zd. Mr. Arthur Beardmore, his clerk, and meff. Wilson and Fell, were discharged by the court of King's Bench from the recognizances they were obliged to enter into, laft Michaelmas term, on account of feveral numbers of the Monitor, concerning which no profecution had been carried on against them.

King's-ftreet, Rotherhithe, which entirely confumed about twenty hoafes, and feveral out-houses, befides damaging many other buildings.

A terrible fire broke out

at Offord-Cluny, Hunting- 25th, donhire, which in two hours confumed the greatest part of that town, to the number of twentytwo large farm and other dwelling houfes, fo that there did not remain a fufficient number of houfes to receive the fufferers families. Next morning the bishop of Lincoln, and the mayor and principal gentlemen of Huntingdon fent provifions of every kind to the unhappy fufferers.

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26th. earth, throughout the dif tricts of thirty-fix villages, in the province of Maconnois, in France, were totally destroyed, by a violent ftorm of hail, and the vineyards cut off in fuch a manner, that it will require many years to recover them. This fevere calamity was felt from the frontiers of the Beaujolois to the frontiers of Burgundy, within a league or two of the Soan.

A caufe was tried before 28th. the court of King's Bench, Weftminster, wherein Mr. Mackay, clerk of the fores, was plaintiff, and Mr. Dannant, one of the commiffaries of the mufters, defendant. The action was brought for a violent affault committed by the defendant at the plaintiff's quarters at Bremen in Germany. The fact being proved, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with a hundred pounds damages.

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