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day; but as the affair of the Diffidents came upon the carpet, they adjourned.

A great fnow fell in the Peake in Derbyshire, which lay 13 inches deep upon the ground,

6th.

At a court of aldermen, a representation from Sir The odore Janffen, city chamberlain, praying leave to appoint a deputy for a few weeks, his phyficians having advised him to go to Bath, for the recovery of his health, was taken into confideration; when it was determined that the court could not empower any fubftitute to exercife the magifterial part of that office.

The first stone of the intended bridge over the river Tyne, at Hexham, was laid by Sir Walter Blackett, who walked at the head of the proceffion of the principal gentlemen, freeholders, and free-. mafons of that town and neighbourhood, from the market-place to Tyne-Green, with colours fly. ing, drums beating, &c. and the bells kept ringing. After the ceremony of fixing the frone, the gentlemen returned in the like order, and were generously invited to an elegant entertainment at the Abbey, provided by Sir Walter.

This day the Jewish feaft of tabernacles commenced.

8th. They have had the greateft flood at Manchefter ever known. The rivers Merfey and Irwel overflowed feveral fields on each fide their banks; large quantities of hay and corn were borne away, and the damage fuftained at Salford-Quay, in fugars, fpirituous liquors, dye.Atuff, &c. damaged and destroyed, is fuppofed to amount to feveral hundred pounds. His Grace the duke of

Bridgewater's canal received no damage. At Stratford, the bridge belonging to the caffoon, was forced from its foundation, and the rubbish going along with the water, was left upon the adjacent fields, and quite altered their appearance. At Bollen, the bridge which carried the canal over that river had one third part carried away, but no other material damage enfued; the works at this place are reckoned as grand as thofe at Worsley, and the damage done at the two places is computed at about 2000l.

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A letter is juft published at Paris, from Don Emanuel d'Amas, viceroy of Peru, to the king of Spain, bearing date the 6th of September, 1766, by which he informs his Catholic Majefty, that the jefuit priests have a warehouse in the city of Lima, where most of the agents of South America refide, and whither all forts of merchandize are fent for fale in that country; and that they have like warehouses in the other cities in order to carry on an univerfal, and, indeed, an exclufive commerce; for paying no contribution, and being at very little expence, they find a quick fale for their goods, and take ready money; leaving only for the lay merchants the debts and failures of thofe who purchase on credit.' In fhort, the griefs contained in the viceroy's letter, joined to the dif ficulties the king of Portugal met with when he attempted to reform the jefuits, might have been alone fufficient to oblige his Catholic Majefty to get rid of fo irreligious and prejudicial a body.

The jufticiary rotation for Southwark was opened at the 9th. Town-hall on St. Margaret's-hill, by which regulation one justice

will be in attendance from ten in the morning to one in the afternoon, every day in the week Sundays excepted.

The new hofpital near Pancras, was opened for the reception of patients to be inoculated for the Imall-pox.

The high frofty winds, and great fall of rain, have retarded the harveft fo much in the north, that great quantities of oats, peafe, and beans, were this day, in the neighbourhood of New caftle, uncut. Cheviot-hills, and the high lands to the weft end of that town, were two days before covered with fnow, and an exceffive rain on the 9th raifed the Tyne many feet.

They write from Birmingham, that there fell fo great a quantity of fnow on the hills in Derbyshire and Cheshire, that on its melting it caufed great floods in thofe parts, particularly laft Thurfday at North. wich the waters were fo high, that the inhabitants went about the ftreets in boats.

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The court of France went into mourning 11 days for the duke of York. Gaz.

This morning about two o'clock a fire broke out at Mr. Pitt's, a grocer in High Holborn, which in a fhort time entirely confumed the fame, with all the ftock in trade, and the adjoining house, and greatly damaged five others. The flames were fo rapid, that the inhabitants had but just time to escape with their lives; a maid-fervant and a boy belonging to the grocer being miffing, it is feared they perished in the flames.

They write from Leeds, that laft Thursday morning they had the largest food that has been known in

that neighbourhood for many years' occafioned by an exceffive fall of rain weftward of them the preceding day and night, by which a deal of damage was done to the lands adjoining to the river.-But the damage was much more confiderable upon the river Calder, where the rife was fo great and fudden, that feveral perfons were obliged to climb into trees to fave themselves from being carried away by the torrent; the new navigation from Wakefield to Halifax has fuffered much; and the crops of feveral whole fields of oats and beans in that neighbourhood are entirely fwept away.-One Perfon at Peniston has loft near zol. worth of oats; and the accounts received of the damage done in feveral other parts of the country, by this inundation, are almoft incredible.

Letters alfo from Denbighshire in North-Wales, Sheffield, Stockport, Stratford, and Warrington, mention incredible damage to have been fuftained in thofe parts from very great and extraordinary floods.

The prince Statholder having notified in form the 13th. completion of his marriage with the princefs Wilhelmina of Pruffia, to the different colleges of the government refiding here, that agreeable event was yesterday made known at the Hague by the firing of cannon, difplaying of flags, and by other demonftrations of joy; and prince Lewis of Brunfwick gave an entertainment upon the occafion to a great number of the principal perfons of the country. Their ferene and royal highneffes the prince and princefs of Orange were to leave Berlin yesterday; and as they will reftat Potzdam, Brunf

wick, Loo, and Soefdyck, in their way home, they are not expected at the houfe in the wood before the 3d of November, when the rejoicings here will begin again. The fates of Friefland have fet the example to the other provinces, by voting an annuity to the princefs of Orange; and it is probable that other prefents will be made by other provinces, to fhew their fatisfaction upon this occafion.

Four human skeletons were dug up in a gravel-pit in Barnfby-field, near Pocklington, in Yorkshire; three were without coffins, the fourth was inclofed in a coffin, with an urn at the head, after the manner of the ancient Romans, on the outfide of which were engraved feveral ancient characters: The coffin mouldered into duft as foon as expofed to the air.

His excellency. lord vifcount Townshend, lord lieutenant of Ireland, arrived at Dublin, and was received by the lord mayor, alder. men, fheriffs, and commons, in their formalities.

William Gueft, for filing

14th. guineas; John Spires and William Bryan, for the highway; and Thomas Davis, for burglary, were executed at Tyburn. Mr. Gueft was drawn in a fledge to the gallows, and after the three others were tied up, he got into the cart; he was not tied up immediately, but was indulged to pray on his knees, attended by the ordinary, and another clergyman of the church of England: He joined in prayers with the clergyman with the greatest devotion, and his whole deportment was fo pious, grave, manly and folemn, as to draw tears from the greatest part of the numerous fpectators.

The archduchefs Maria 15th. Jofepha, the intended queen of Naples, died of the fmall-pox, at the caftle of Schonbrun near Vienna. She was taken ill the 4th inftant, and there were the greatest hopes of her recovery a few days ago; but last night the diftemper took a fudden and fatal turn. The pock, which had never filled as it hould do, funk and struck in, and there foon appeared manifeft indications of an inward mortification. This day, about feven o'clock in the evening, the expired, after a long and painful agony. She had frequent lucid intervals, knew the danger, and met her fate with the calmeft fortitude, feeming to feel nothing fo much as the affliction fhe caufed, which he endeavoured to alleviate, by repeatedly begging the emperor and emprefs (who continued with her till the last moment) to remember, that at any rate the was foon to have been feparated from them for ever.

16th.

At Wayhill fair, which ended this day, hops fold from 81. to 121. and fome as high as 141. Many, however, remained unfold.

The lord mayor, fheriffs, and commons of Dublin, came to the following refolution, That the obtaining a law for limiting the duration of parliament, under proper qualifications, would be of the higheft advantage to that kingdom in general, and to the city of Dublin in particular; and that it will be adviseable for that city to take all conftitutional measures for the procuring fuch a law.

The journeymen weavers in Spital-fields have affembled in a riotous manner, cut the work out of feveral looms, and done other

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damage on account of the prices of their work being reduced. The guards were called in to quell the tioters, but the damage they had done is faid to exceed loool.

There died lately, at his houfe in Wapping, aged 84 years, the noted Mr. Daniel Day; equally remarkable as an humorift, and for his great kill in mechanics. He was the first promoter and founder of Fair Lop fair in Hannault-foreft, in the county of Effex, which was held the first Friday in July, every year; where he has for forty years cat beans and bacon, under a cer. tain tree, he constantly walked to and from, while his ftrength would admit; his dress was a blue ferge waistcoat and breeches embroidered with needle-work: the last eight years, as he grew feeble, he went in a coach attended by a fidler. He endeavoured to make the fair ftatute, but could not fucceed, or would have been buried under the free, and ordered a monument to his memory; but to fhow his great regard for the tree, and its fituation, he procured a limb, of which has been made a coffin, which he has had by him many years, in which he often ufed to lie down, to fee if it fitted him. He has ordered his body to be laid in Barking church-yard, (the parish in which the tree is in) to be carried by water attended by his men, with white gloves and aprons, each man to have 2s. and 6d. and a full pot. His fortune, which was eafy, he kept in the bank, as he al. ways declared againft intereft for money, and ufed to quote a paffage out of the Pfalms," he that putteth not out his money to ufury, gor taketh reward against the in

nocent, he that doth these things fhall never be moved.'

18th.

.Ham mills, near Newbery, Berks, were burnt to the water's edge, fuppofed to be malicioufly fet on fire. The da mage is eftimated at 2000l.

A deadful fire broke out about midnight, on the 26th of Septem ber at Conftantinople at the houfe of a Milanefe taylor, who perished in the flames, which fpread and raged with great violence for fix hours, notwithstanding the grand fignior, grand vizir, and great of. ficers of the Porte, affifted in giving orders, and encouraging the firemen and janiffaries with money, to exert their utmost efforts for extin guishing the flames. Their progrefs was ftopped on one fide of the way at the church and convent of St. Anthony, being a ftone building, and at the other by the vacancy of an houfe, which had 'not been rebuilt after a former fire. If it had not been a very calm night, the whole fuburb, which is of large extent, would probably have been laid in afhes. Fifty houfes are entirely confumed, most of them large ones, inhabited chiefly by Frank merchants, and by Drugomen, with fome hops. The palaces of the Dutch ambafador, the Neapolitan envoy, and the Ruffian refident, two houfes of the English factory) and a fmall Roman Catholic convent, burnt down.

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found guilty, and recommitted to Newgate, in order to receive fentence at the enfuing feffions at the Old Bailey. The jury recommend. ed the father to mercy. The fon appeared to be very ill and weak, and fo deaf, that it was with much difficulty he could be made to underftand the queftions put to him. Two time-pieces, or fea-watches, one made by M. le Roi, the other by Mr. Berthaud, were examined and compared before the royal academy at Paris, with the principles of that made by Mr. Harrifon of London, and the preference, as might be expected, given to the French watches,

A perfon in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, having loft fome calves, upon opening them found the paffages full of worms. Lift.

The fociety for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, came to a refolution to give Mr. Phillips one hundred pounds for his important difcoveries of the method of dying leather red and yellow; the colours are allowed to be fuperior to any imported from Morocco or Lisbon, and upon repeated experiments are found to be more durable. The feffions ended at the 23d. Old Bailey. At this feffions 7 received fentence of death; one, tranfportation for 14 years; 30, for feven years; 4 to be whipped, and 3 fined and imprifoned.James Brownrigg and John his fon, were fentenced to pay a fine of IS. each, and to be imprifoned in Newgate fix months; at the expiration of which, to enter into recognizances for their good behaviour for feven years. It appeared on the trial that James Brownrigg had twice dipped Mary Mit

chell's head into a water-tub, once broke the griftle of her ear with a walking-itick, and once horfe whipped her, but not naked. In anfwer to which he faid, he owned the dipping her head in water, but denied ftriking her over the ear; urged feveral inftances of her mifbehaviour; pleaded the good charafter given him by five apprentices; and added, that fome of his boarders must have known fomething of the alledged ill-treatment; but, on account of their circumftances, he did not chufe to call them. The fon was indicted for whipping Mary Mitchell three days fucceffively naked; the two firft times were by his mother's order, the laft of his own accord, for taking fome chefnuts: he faid, in his defence, that the girl never lay ill of his beating, and that he had taught her to read.

An order of council was iffued, importing that his majefty, having received information that the price of wheat in the port of London, has been, for two fucceffive market-days, above 48s. the quarter; his majefty therefore prohibits the making, extracting, or diftilling of any kind of low wines or fpirits from any wheat, wheat-meal, wheat-flour, and wheat-bran, or any mixture therewith, until 14 days after the commencement of the next feffion of parliament.

On Wednesday morning, 29th, between eight and nine o'clock, his majefty's fhip Montreal arrived at St. Helen's, with the corpfe of his late royal highness the duke of York, where the laid to almost half an hour, while fhe received her orders from the Tweed, which was ftationed there for that purpose, in cafe the Montreal

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