of that place. He was thought to be the fattest man in England, weighing, four or five weeks before his death, forty stope and nine pounds. He had not been able to walk for several years, but had a little cart and able horse to draw him abroad for air. He measured, after his death, four feet three inches across the shoulders. He was drawn to the church-yard in the cart he used to ride in." His coffin was made much longer than his body, on purpose to give the bearers room to carry him from the cart to the church, and from thence to the grave. Thirteen men carried him, six on each side, and one at the head. His fatness, some years ago, saved his life; for, being at Atherstone market, and some difference arising between him and a Jew, the Jew stabbed him in the belly with a pen-knife; but the blade, heing short, did not pierce his bowels, or even pass through the fat which defended them.

And, on the 1st instant, Doctor Rutty, one of the people called quakers, an emineat physician in Dublin, and author of some very learned and ingenious pieces.

Mr. Israel Lyons, eminent for his extraordinary genius and extensive knowledge, particularly in botany, mathematics, &c. He ac companied Capt. Phipps in his voyage to the North Pole, as principal astronomer; and was the author of the tables annexed to the account of that voyage, and of scveral other ingenious publications. He has left many valuable notes and observations, for an edition of Dr. Flley's works collected into a volume, which he had just prepared for the press, with the sanction of the Philosophical Society.

Humphry Coates, Esq. late a candidate for Westminster, and remarkable for his steady adherence to Mr. Wilkes.

On the 13th, Doctor Nicholas Robinson, at Islington, a celebrated physician, author of many learned pieces.

On the 19th, Jonathan Howes, in East-Smithfield, aged 106.

On the 24th, Michael M'Laughlin, aged upwards of one hundred, at Athlone in Ire and. He had five wives, the last of whom he has left with a child not above a year and a half old.

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During the Montem, a yearly festival celebrated on this day by the Eton scholars, at Salthill, there fell the most violent storm of hail and rain ever, remen bered in that part of the country. The hail-stones were as large as playing marbles, and the sudden flood was such, that several persons were up to the ancles. Most of the many noblemen and gentlemen who were present, were as wet as if they had been drawn through a river.

This day came on at Westmins ter-hall, before Lord Mansfield, an action in which the Earl of Bristol was plaintiff, and the printer of a morning paper defendant, for a libel in the said paper on the 5th. of December last; when the jury gave a verdict for his Lordship with 3001. damages.

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them was, it seems, to convey it back privately into the wheel, but without letting go his hold of it, and then produce it as if newly drawn; the man's intention being to insure it in all the offices against. being drawn that day. But the boys were honest, gave notice of the intended fraud, and pointed out the delinquent, who, however, was discharged, as there is no law in being to punish the offence.

At a meeting of tradesmen at the King's Arms tavern in Cornhill, it was unanimously agreed to contribute to the stopping of the circulation of bad halfpence, by refusing to take any.

As one of the charity boys of St. James, Clerkenwell, was bathing in a pond at Islington, he was seized with the cramp, and sunk; and his body was so entangled in the mud at the bottom, that it was a very considerable time before it could be found. It was then carried to a public house at Islington; when Mr. Church, of that place, one of the medical assistants to the Society for the recovery of drowned persons, was sent for. It is ge nerally believed that it was near an hour before any means whatever were used to restore this object to life; and it was an hour and a half more, before any pulsation was perceived; and what could then be perceived, was very feeble. This however was sufficient to make Mr. Church persevere in the means he thought proper for full four hours, when the boy fell into strong convulsions, and after some time became sensible. He had a tolerable good night, and was pronounced out of danger next morning. This Case is inserted to keep alive the attention of our readers to the VOL. XVIII. 1779.

above most useful establishment; and to shew, among many other cases, that on such occasions, scarce any circumstances can be desperate enough to excuse the not putting in practice their prescriptions, or not persevering in the use of them. See our first article under the head of Projects for this year.

The Russian admiral lately ar rived at Spithead saluted the Eng lish flag with fifteen gans, which were returned with thirteen. But he refused this compliment, till he had received orders to pay it from her Imperial Majesty's ambassador at London:

The magistrates of Brussels have issued orders, that all Jews, settling in that city for the future, shall pay 300 florins yearly to the receivers of the Empress Queen's revenue, or be banished; and that, if any Jews should, under pretence of be ing travellers, stay there above forty-eight hours, they shall be obliged to pay the same sum.

Lord Sandwich, accompa- 5th. nied by Lord Seaford, Sir Hugh Palliser, Mr. Banks, and Omiah, the native of Otaheite, began his annual survey of the Royal Navy, by examining the state of Chatham-yard. The artificers and workmen of the dockyards, with the officers of ships and seamen in ordinary, were mustered before his Lordship. Omiah was conducted by Mr. Peake, builder's assistant, on board the Victory, of 100 guns, now repairIng. His surprize at seeing so large a ship can scarcely be expressed. By this survey, it appeared, that there were eighty-seven ships then fit for service, including those already in commission; and also several frigates.

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A buttock of beef, which some time ago had been sent from London to Charles Town, in South Carolina, in the Pallas, Capt. Turner, as a present, would not be suffered to be landed there. It was therefore brought back again, and this day eaten at the Jamaica coffeehouse, Rotherhithe.

The reigning Prince of NassauUsinguen, being willing to establish, in a Catholic church in his country, the exercise of the Lutheran religion, and having sent thither for that purpose a Bailiff, accompanied by several armed men, the inhabitants, assisted by some peasants of the country of Mentz, opposed them; and the opposite parties came to blows. The Bailiff was dangerously wounded, and some of his companions were killed.

The sessions ended at the 7th. Old Bailey, when fourteen convicts received sentence of death, viz. the two unfortunate brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, for forgery; four, for street, field, and highway robberies; three, for housebreaking, and house-robberies; one, for theft; one, for firing a pistol at Walter Butler, one of the patrole, near the Foundling Hospital, and wounding him in the neck; two, for coining; and one, for horse-stealing. One received sentence of transportation for fourteen years;

sixteen, sentence of transportation for seven years; and nine convicted of coining halfpence, were branded in the hand, and sentenced to suffer an imprisonment in Newgate for twelve months. One, for a fraud, was fined 1s. and ordered to be imprisoned six months. And on the 19th of July following, seven of the above capital convicts were

executed at Tyburn; among whom were the two coiners. But the two brothers were not so much as reported, in hopes the trial of Mrs. Rudd, supposed to be concerned with them, might produce something to exculpate them, or at least alleviate their guilt, without exposing them to the aggravated distress of suffering after a reprieve.

8th.

Came on before Lord Mansfield and a special jury, the well known cause between Charles Morris, Esq. cornet of dragoons, plaintiff, and the Rev. Mr. Charles Everard, defendant. The action was brought for the recovery of damages for a caning which the former received in the Hay-market from the latter. The defendant not denying the fact, Lord Mansfield directed the jury to find for the plaintiff what damages they thought proper. The jury, after going out about fifteen minutes, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff with 201. damages.

His excellency Count de Guines arrived at his house in Great George-street, from France, after gaining, on the 2d., a decree of the Chatelet, against one of his secretaries, who had accused his ex cellency with ordering him to game for his, his excellency's, account in the English stocks. His excellency, immediately on his arrival, was visited by all the foreign ministers, the secretaries of state, and a great number of the nobility.

Mrs. Ivy, of the Borough, in coming from Guildford, was stung by a gnat on the chin; which so inflamed her jaw and head, that a. mortification ensued, and she died in less than twenty-four-hours.

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brought home some of the greatest curiosities of the animal and vegetable kind that ever were seen in Europe. The following are a few of the most surprising; The skin of a large Oranoutang, which died on the passage; this creature came from a remote part of the island of Sumatra; one would take them to be a species of the human creation; they have many of the actions of man; and even seem to have a kind of government and police among themselves; but their speech, if it may be called such, is not intelligible.-A large Brandafornia, from the diamond mines of Golconda, something resembling monkey, with a large white beard,, fierce, strong, and terrible, yet very tractable: this kind of creatures are made use of by the natives of Golconda as coolys or slaves in the mines. During a very hard gale of wind, being put in the cable -tier below, he drew the splice of the sheet-cable; which is almost incredible. A small black amphibious animal, in every part resembling our cat, only it has no tail; caught on a reef of rocks near Princess's Island, in the Straits of Banca, where it lived on flying fish, which it is very expert in catching: it now lives on small fish or fresh meat, it is very docile and tractable.-A large horned dog, by the natives called Picrobus, made every way like a dog, all to its horn and claws. An exceeding beautiful Crown-bird, and two Cockatories, who have been so well trained, during the voyage, that they will answer some little questions, and even ask them. Among the plants there is the famous Maribolys, or walking plant; being in a small basket of earth, when the sun shines

on it, once a day, it will gradually move about by the help of its branches; a tea-tree, with a few blossoms on it; a real tallow-tree; a nutmeg and cinnamon tree; and several other exotics; besides a number of small birds.

When the learned and ingenious Doctor Franklin arrived some time ago at Philadelphia, the General Assembly of the Province, which was then sitting, on hearing of his arrival, immediately asked his consent to be chosen one of their delegates to the Continental Congress; and, on his consenting, elected him accordingly.

21st.

At a Quarterly General' Court of the Proprietors of East-India stock, the half-yearly dividend from Christmas to Midsum mer was declared to be 3 per cent.

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Being the day appointed for keeping the anniversary of his Majesty's birth-day, who entered into the 38th of his age year on the 4th instant, it was celebrated with the usual joy and splendour. Lord Stormont's St. Andrew's cross, set round with diamonds, and appended to his riband of the order of the Thistle, was cut from it, at court, by some sharpers, who made off with it undiscovered. It was worth several hundred pounds.

The same day, his Majesty's birth-day was celebrated with bonfires and illuminations of a new kind, at Mr. Hartley's, at Bucklebury. The bonfires were made within doors, not without; and t'e illuminations were made upon the floors of the several apartments. Their Majesties healths were drank round a great bonfire in one room; in another thirty-seven large faggots, answering to the years of his Majesty's age, together with a

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