here. When young fellows of fa mily fhall be guilty of irregularities, capable of wounding the ho nour, or disturbing the quiet, of their families, or which are reprehenfible by the police, without being crimes punishable by law, it fhall be lawful for their parents to afk the fecretaries of ftate in the department of war and of the ma rine, to transport them to the island of Defirade. If the proofs, which they fhall be obliged to deliver for that effect, are found just, an order shall be delivered to them from the king, by virtue of which they may conduct, at their own expence, thofe young fellows to the port of Rochefort, where they fhall be detained in prison, and maintained at the king's expence, till they be put on board a packetboat, the commander of which fhall be anfwerable to his majefty for their fafe cuftody. During the voyage they fhall mefs with the common failors, and at their arrival at Martinico, the captain fhall confign them to the governor-general of the island, and take a receipt for them, which, at his return to France, he fhall deliver to the fecretary of ftate. The young fellows fhall be fent to prifon by the governor-general, and dieted as the common foldiers, till they be fent to Defirade. On their arrival there, the commandant, to whom they fhall be delivered, fhall ftation them in a fruitful, healthy part of the island. They shall be lodged in cabins built on purpofe for them. He hall forbid them the use of any fort of arms, and take all neceffary precautions to prevent their making their efcape. They fhall be fed as the common

foldiers are, and shall be furnished grátis with inftruments for tilling the earth, and feed to fow it, and the produce fhall be for their own benefit. They shall be new cloathed every year; and in cafe of fickness received into the hofpital as foldiers. They fhall be diftributed into claffes as foon as they discover any figns of amendment; and the commandant shall give an account to the minifter at war and of the marine, that he may inform the pa rents. In cafe it thould be dif covered that their families, notwithstanding their reformation, want to keep them abroad, that they may enjoy their eftates; the young fellows fhall be affifted to recover them, if they chufe to remain in the colonies, or they fhall even be allowed to return to France, to take care of their affairs in perfon.'

could be compared to nothing but the yellings of an infinite number of wild beats. The cloud then opening, difcovered a kind of very bright lightening, and in an inftant the roofs of one fide of the houses were carried off and difperfed at a distance; above a thoufand large trees, were fome broke off near the ground, others towards the top, and others torn up by the roots; and many, both of the branches and of the tops, carried to the distance of fixty, a hundred, or a hundred and twenty paces; whole coppices were laid on one fide, as corn is by ordinary winds. The glafs of the windows, which were most exposed, was fhivered to pieces. A tent in a gentleman's garden was carried to the distance of four thousand paces; and a branch torn from a large tree ftruck a girl in the forehead, as she was coming into town, at the distance of forty paces from the trunk of the tree, and killed her on the fpot. Some days before, there was a heavy rain which overflowed, in the fame direction, the very space of ground which the whirlwind has fince ravaged..

Lord chief juftice Pratt havroth. ing taken his refidence at Southampton for the recovery of his health, he was there waited upon by the gaoler of Northampton, with three perfons brought by habeas corpus from that prifon, to which they had been committed for fix months, or until they should pay twenty pounds each, as penalties for nonattendance as militia men, at the annual exercife at Northampton; when his lordfhip, after hearing counfel, remanded them back to prifon,

16th.

This morning about ten the queen was happily delivered of a prince, at her majesty's palace in St. James's Park; and on the 14th of September, his royal highness was chriftened at st. James's, in the great council chamber, by his grace the archbishop of Canterbury. His royal highness was named Frederick; and the sponfors were his royal highness the duke of York, reprefented by the earl of Huntingdon, groom of the ftole; his mot ferene highnefs the duke of Saxe Gotha, reprefented by earl Gower, lord chamberlain; and her royal highness princess Amelia, in perfon.

The propriety of the words "chofen to defend,” in the following addrefs to the king, on this occafion, having been much canvaffed, we thought it would not be difagreeable to our readers to fee the whole piece.

To the king's most excellent ⚫ majefty.

The humble address of the lord

mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council assembled.

Moft gracious fovereign, WE your majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, moft gladly embrace this joyful occafion of approaching your facred perfon, with our fincereft and warmest congratulations on the fafe delivery of the queen, and the aufpicious birth of another prince; firmly trufting, that every increafe of your royal family will prove an additional fecurity to our religion, and that great charter of liberty, which, in

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confequence of the glorious revolution, your illuftrious house was chofen to defend.

Your majefty's ever loyal and faithful citizens of London, exceeded by none of your fubjects in honest and anxious zeal for your majesty's happiness, and the glory and profperity of your reign, rejoice in every event which augments your majefty's domeftic felicity.

Permit us, royal fir, to intreat your majefty's acceptance of our faithful affurances, that we will, at all times, be ready, chearfully to render to your majefty every inftance of allegiance and duty, which affectionate and loyal fubjects can pay to the best of princes...

Signed by order of court, James Hodges. To which addrefs his majefty was pleased to return this moft gracious answer.

"I thank you for this loyal addrefs; and for the fatisfaction you exprefs on the increafe of my family. The religion and liberties of my people always have been, and ever fhall be, the conftant objects of my care and attention. I fhall at all times depend upon the affurances, which you give me, of your allegiance and duty."

They were most graciously received; and had the honour to kifs his majefty's hand.

About twelve at noon 19th. the fky, for feveral miles round London, was overcaft in fuch a manner, that the darkness exceeded that of the great eclipfe in 1748, greatly refembling that which preceded the laft great earthquake at. Lifbon. This darkness was, occafioned by a black fulphu

reous cloud, which arofe in the north west, and, attended with hail, rain, wind, and lightening, drove furiously over London, and then discharged itself chiefly on the county of Kent, where in rapidity and fiercenefs the ftorm resembled a tornado, fo as to kill fowl; and even sheep, and, in near twenty parishes, deftroy all hopes of any kind of crop, to the amount of near 50,000 1.

After the ftorm was over, the hail and rain water, with which the earth was covered, formed a kind of jelly, fo flippery, that it was difficult to walk over them. The hail ftones measured from two inches to ten inches in circumference, and fome taken up on the 4th of September, ftill meafured four inches and a half round.

Of the ftones, fome were globular, others like flat pieces of ice frozen together; heaps and ridges of them lay by the hedges three and four feet deep.

But the most surprifing circumftance that attended this pheno menon, was the fudden Aux and reflux of the tide in Plymouth pool, exactly correfponding with the like agitation in the fame place, at the time of the great earthquake at Lisbon.

As feveral honeft and induftrious farmers were known by this ftorm to be entirely, in a manner, difabled from being any longer ferviceable either to themselves or the community, lord Romney and feveral other noblemen and gentlemen, from a principle of humanity and public fpirit, invited all fuch to bring in an account of their loffes, and fet on foot a fubfcription for their relief. And by

the

the account fince published it appears, that the whole lofs of these ufeful members of fociety amounted to 5185 1.5 s. 1d; and the benefactions for their relief to 2156 1. 4s. 2 d.

This ftorm made fuch an impreffion on the ignorant populace affembled to fee a criminal executed for a rape on Kennington common, that the fheriff was obliged to apply to the fecretaries of state for a military force to prevent a rescue, so that it was near eight in the evening before he suffered.

Moft of the English members, who voted against the new excife on cyder have been thanked for it by their conftituents, and welcomed home with, the greatest demonftrations of joy. On the other hand, many of thofe, who voted for it, have been received with fhouts of contempt and hiffes. And almoft all the counties, &c. of England, have inftructed their members to endeavour its repeal. One county, indeed, has exhorted its members to support it, as tending, they fay, to make the burdens of the ftate lie equally on the fubject.

21ft.

Died the right hon. the earl of Egremont, one of his majesty's principal fecretaries of ftate, of a fit of the apoplexy.

A very fmart fhock of an earthquake was felt at Augufta, in Georgia.

As foon as the execu

24th. tion of feveral criminals condemned at the last feffions at the Old Bailey was over at Tyburn, the body of Cornelius Saunders, executed for ftealing about 501. out of the houfe of Mrs. White, in Lamb-ftreet, Spitalfields, was carried and laid before her door;

where great numbers of people af fembling, they at laft grew fo outrageous, that a guard of foldiers was fent for to ftop their proceedings; notwithstanding which, they forced open the door, fetched out all the falmon tubs, most of the houfhold furniture, piled them on a heap, and fet fire to them; and to prevent the guards from extinguifhing the flames, pelted them off with flones, and would not difperfe till the whole was confumed.

By the India fhips lately arrived from St. Helena we hear, that the Egmont, captain Mears, by making, or running down, the ifland, in the direction of the meridian due north, arrived at the faid ifland ten or twelve days fooner than fhe would by the usual way of making it due weft; and that this method was used in confequence of inftructions given to the captain by the rev. Mr. Makelyne, and to the chief mate by Mr. Waddington.

The whale fishery has been very fuccessful this year. One fhip belonging to London brought home nine whales.

Within these few weeks two guinea fhips have been destroyed by the accidental firing of their powder, one at Dublin, the other at Liverpool; and the crews of both, all to one man, perished.

Two children belonging to Mr. Bale, of Lincoln cathedral, were unhappily poifoned by eating fome gingerbread nuts bought of a quack, and given them by a lad who did not know but they were wholefome: the eldeft, about three years old, recovered, but the youngeft died.

Since the middle of July, near

150 perfons have been committed to New prifon and Clerkenwell bridewell, for robberies, and other capital offences.

The earl of Bute was

27th. with his majefty till late at night.

28th. Early this morning his lordship was again in conference with his majesty. Mr. Pitt was in con29th. ference with his majefty above two hours. No perfon was prefent except the duke of York. -From this circumftance a rumour prevailed, that he was again to be made secretary of state.

At Duna, in Ruffian Lithuania, 700 houses have been lately destroyed by fire; and at Kehelin, in Poland, the whole city reduced to afhes. They write from Germany, that the emprefs queen (whofe dominions are faid to have loft fifty millions of florins, and half a million of men by the laft war) and the king of Pruffia, feem to vie with each other in rewarding military merit; granting immunities from taxes, materials for building, and horfes for country work, to fuch of their fubjects, as by their fufferings during that calamitous period feem to deferve, or ftand in need of it; and likewife in endeavouring to repeople their wafted dominions, by pardoning fuch deferters and exiled perfons, &c. (except only the baron Warkotfch, who formed a plot to deliver the king of Pruffia up to the queen of Hungary) as may think proper to return home; and even inviting ftrangers. The king of Pruffia, in particular, has ordered the pictures. of all thofe brave generals who fell in his fervice, to be hung up in a VOL. VI.

hall, which has been opened for that purpofe, and is to be called the Hall of Heroes. He has likewife enfranchised fuch peasants of his dominions, as fhewed an ex

traordinary degree of zeal to pro

mote his fuccefs; and to encou- . rage manufactures as well as agriculture, has forbid the importa tion into his electoral dominions of any filks, chintz, or cottons, and ordered all, that are there already, to be exported, under the penalty of 100 crowns for each ell.

On the other hand, these powers have been no lefs attentive to inquire into and punish fuch mifbehaviour in their officers, as was attended with any confiderable influence upon their affairs.

At Berlin, general Zaftrow, who commanded at Schweidnitz, when that fortrefs was furprised by general Laudohn, has been difmiffed the fervice, with all the officers that commanded under him. General Finck, and the two major-generals Rebentefch and Gersdorf, who commanded at Maxen, are condemned, the firft to lofe his poft, and fuffer one year's imprifonment; the fecond, to be imprifoned fix months; and the third, broke, and to fuffer imprisonment for two years. The caftle of Spandau is the place appointed for their confinement. General Finck's regiment has been given to general Wunsch, who, at that memorable affair, proposed to the Pruffian generals to cut their way thro' the Auftrian army, and offered himfelf to be the first to clear the pas fage; bat eight general officers oppofed this advice, as feeming to them too hazardous.

At Vienna, general Brunian has [H] been