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into town by. The burghers were under arms, as was like wife the garrifon; and the prince of Weilburgh and prince Lewis of Brunf. wick marched in the train at the head of their respective fquadrons of guards. The artillery was fired at the fame time from the ramparts; the bells rung; and the ftadtholder, with his royal bride, were conducted to their apartments amidst the acclamations of the people. The whole town was magnificently illuminated at night. This evening their highneffes make their appearance at the French theatre; and on Thurf day next the prince of Orange will give a ball and fupper at the old court, with which the public fef

tival will conclude.

A breakfast was given to the friends of the marquis of Kildare, at the Rotunda in the New Gardens, in Dublin, of which the following is the bill of fare:

100 rounds of beef: 100 neats tongues: 1000 fheep's ditto: 100 baked pies 100 firloins of beef: 100 geefe roasted: 100 turkies ditto: roo ducks ditto: 100 pullets ditto 100 wild fowl: 1000 French loaves zooo large prints of butter: 100 weight of Gloucefter cheese tea, coffee, and chocolate, in abundance:

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faffron cakes: 4000 plain ditto, 50 hams: 2500 bottles of wine: and a moft fplendid and large pyramid of fweetmeats in the middle of the defert in the centre of the room; likewife a great numẹ ber of ftands of jelly, and a curi. ous fountain playing, handfomely ornamented with ivy, &c.

This day the right hon. 11th. the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of Lon

don, in common-council affembled, waited on his majefty; and being in roduced to his majefty by the right hon. the earl of Hertford, lord chamberlain of his májefty's houthold, James Eyre, efq. the recorder, made their compli ments in the following addrefs. To the king's most excellent majesty.

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May it please your majefty, We your majesty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, happy in every occafion of approaching your royal prefence with our most dutiful congratulations, beg leave to exprefs our unfeigned joy on the fafe delivery of that moft excellent princefs, the queen, and the further increafe of your royal family, by the birth of another prince.

We cannot but feel ourselves deeply interested in every event which affects the illuftrious houfe of Hanover, under whofe mild government the British fubjects have, for more than half a century, been bieffed with a full enjoyment of their civil and religious rights, and a feries of happinefs, unknown to the fame extent in any former period.

Permit us, therefore, royal Sir, at the fame time, humbly to offer our fincere condolence on the much lamented death of your majefty's royal brother the duke of York, whofe many eminent and princely virtues have moft juftly endeared his memory to all your majefty's loyal fubjects, and made the private lofs of the royal fa. mily, a public misfor une.

May the divine providence long preferve your majefty; and [K] 2

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may there never be wanting one of your majefty's royal defcendants to be the guardian of our moft happy conftitution!

Signed by order of court, JAMES HODGES.' To which addrefs his majefty was pleased to return this most gracious answer:

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I thank you for this loyal addrefs, and for the fatisfaction you exprefs in the increase of my family Thofe expreffions of your zealous attachment cannot but be agreeable to me: The religion and liberties of my people always have been, and ever fhall be, the conftant objects of my care and attention; and I fhall efteem it one of my first duties to inftil the fame principles into those who may fucceed me.

I regard your condolence on the melancholy event of the Duke of York's death, as an additional proof of your attachment to me and my family; and I take this first opportunity of exprefling my

thanks for it.'

They were all received very graciously, and had the honour to kifs his majefty's hand.

This morning early a ter14th. rible fire broke out at the houfe of Mr. Bailey, turner and chandler, near Gray's-Inn-Lane, Holborn, which entirely confumed the fame, together with another house, a pawn-broker's adjoining, and damaged one more. The Aames were fo rapid, that Mr. Bailey and his family had hardly time to make their efcape, undreffed. His stock in trade, furniture, wearing apparel, &c. were destroyed; a young man, a lodger, was obliged to throw himself out of a two-pair of

ftairs window, by which he broke his arm and thigh, and now lies without hopes of recovery. This accident is faid to have been occafioned by a lamp being left burning for a lodger, which unhappily fet fire to fome fhavings in the room.

A number of colliers from near Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, af. fembled in a riotous manner at Kidderminfter-market, and being joined by other perfons, to the number of near 2000, forced the farmers to fell their wheat at 5s. a bushel, which before was fold at 75. and at the fame time obliged them to fell their butter at 6d. a pound, which before was fold for 8d. They paid for what they had, and then went home quietly.

At Mr. Dudley's, iron16th. monger and grocer, in Stourbridge, by fome means, a fpark of fire flew into a barrel of gunpowder, which was in a back warehoufe, while Mr. Dudley was there, and blew up the whole building, and buried him in the ruins, from whence he was dug out a moft miferable fpectacle; yet there are hopes of his recovery adjoining to the building was a locksmith's fhop, in which feveral men were at work, who were by the concuffion, which forced out the windows of the fhop, thrown confufedly against each other. One man received a mortal wound in his belly from an inftrument one of his fhopmates was at work with, and died foon after. The violence of the shock broke the windows of feveral adjacent houfes.

A gentlewoman in Holbourn, whofe husband had prefented her with a ticket, put up prayers in the church the day before drawing, in

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the following manner. "The prayers of this congregation are defired for the fuccefs of a perfon engaged in a new undertaking.' Mr. Hughes, a ftock-broker, had his pocket picked in Jona than's coffee houfe of 5o lottery. tickets, the value of which (at the price then fold) is 800l. The fame evening three other brokers had their pockets picked of their purfes. one containing 62 guineas, another feven, and the third five. One of the pickpockets has been fince apprehended, on whom 35 of the tickets were recovered; the other 15 he faid were carried to Holland by his accomplices.

A coloured print of the French king, engraved on copper, was worked off, in his majesty's prefence, by M. Gautier, affifted by one of his fons. The work was compleated in fix minutes, and the picture came out finished with all its colours.

A court of aldermen was held at Guildhall, when 100l. was ordered to be paid to the widow of the late worthy alderman Cockayne, as a teftimony of the fenfe they entertained of his ever being ready and willing to ferve his fellow-citizens.

A motion was made in the court of common pleas for a new trial to fet afide the verdict given against the furgeons in the Borough, for 500l. damages, for breaking a perfon's leg, by new fetting it; but upon hearing the merits of the caufe argued, the court over-ruled the motion, and confirmed the verdict.

19th. This morning No. 3379, was drawn a prize of twenty thousand pounds. It is the property of Mr. Alder, a cooper and

publican, at Abingdon, in Berks. The broker who went from town to carry him the news, he com plimented with 100l. All the bells in the town were fet a ringing; he called in his neigh bours, promifed to affift this with a capital fum, that with another, gave away plenty of liquor, and vowed to lend a poor cobler (his old penny cuftomer) money to buy leather to ftock his ftall fo full, that he fhould not be able to get into it to work; and laftly, he promifed to buy a new coach for the coachman who brought him down the ticket, and to give a fet of as good horfes as could be bought for money.

On Wednesday, in the afternoon, the body of a gentleman was found drowned juft off Billingfgate, fuppofed to have miffed his way in the fog; he had in his pockets a watch, two guineas, a five and threepence, fome filver, and a dollar, and filver buckles in his fhoes.

On Wednesday evening, as Mr. Cox, needlemaker in Black-friars, was going over to Bridewell, he, by the thickness of the fog, missed his way, and fell into the ditch clofe to Black-friars wharf, and was found fuffocated in the mud.

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This day his majefty, attended by the duke of Ancafter, and the earl of Huntingdon, went in his state-coach to the houfe of peers, and opened the prefent meeting of parliament with a moft gracious fpeech from the throne.

A court of common-council was held at Guildhall, when a petition to the hon. houfe of commons, relating to the prefent high price of provifions, was read and agreed [K] 3

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to, and the sheriffs were ordered to prefent the fame forthwith.

They write from Vienna, that letters from Tyrol bring a detail of the most melancholy events. After a very copious rain, which lafted from the 16th to the 19th, in the fouthern part of that country, the rivers and brooks overflowed on all fides. The waters which ran from the mountains dragged down along with them ftones of an enormons fize, and overturned bridges, houfes, and churches. In fome places the very rocks, detached from the mountains, made terrible havock. The adige, iffuing from its bed, produced fo great an inundation, that the plain between the two mountains resembled a lake. The mifery of the country is general, and the inhabitants not being able to remedy the misforune, had no other courfe to take but to efcape to the high grounds, from whence they beheld with grief the dreadful fpectacle of the deftruction of their houfes and fields.

The town of Neumark, founded fome ages ago, at the place where the town of Enna, by the Romans called Endida, flood, and which was deftroyed by an inundation, has had pretty nearly the fame fate. Thirty-feven inhabitants, who had retired into the little church of St. Antonio, perifhed, the rivulet of Vilbach having thrown it down. The little river known by the name of Lavis, broke a large dike of ftones, and penetrated into the country of Trente, where it has done prodigious damage. The Ferfina, another small ftream, having broke its banks, has likewife committed great ravages.

Jofeph Harvey and Richard Bittere, for burglary; 25th. John Brafs, for robbing Mrs. Hubbard, of a fum of money; and William Edwards, for ftealing 8ol. in the dwelling-houfe of Daniel Lucas, the fox and crown at Highgate, were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence. Edwards feemed to be above thirty years old; but the three others greatly excited the compaffion of the fpectators, the eldest being about eighteen, and the two others younger.-Edwards was by trade a painter, and lived feveral years in good repute in Litchfieldftreet, near Newport-market; be was waited on by a gentleman, at the defire of Mrs Bartholomew, of the White-conduit houfe, relative to a family gold watch, when he trembled very much, and owned the taking 491. but denied his knowing any thing of the watch.

A prifoner in the Baftile hanged himself a few days ago; but the gaoler coming into his room foon after, and perceiving that he was not dead, cut the cord by which he hung, and made ufe of every means to recover him; but the prifoner no fooner came to himfelf, than he feized the knife with which the gaoler had cut him down, ftabbed him with it, and afterwards ftabbed himself. The gaoler furvived him only a few hours.

The queen of Denmark, in commemoration of her marriage, has ordered the fum of 30 rixdollars to be given to each of 25 young women in the district of Soroe, as a portion at their wedding, befides ten rixdollars at the birth of every first child. The weddings are to be on the 29th of

next January, which is the king's birth-day.

Ephraim Philpot of North Kelly, near Taunton, in Somerfetfhire, having fome difference with his father, went into the field where he was, and fhot him dead. He has fince been apprehended, and committed to prifon.

The cafe of Mr. Gibson, 26th. on a fpecial verdict, was argued by council, before the right hon. Lord Mansfield, and nine more of the judges, in the Exchequer-chamber, Weftminsterhall, for upwards of three hours: their lordships are to give their opinion on the cafe next term.

Extract of a letter from CharlesTown, South-Carolina, Oc. 2. "Wednesday laft, Michael Muckenfufs, dispatched by the poft mafter-general with the mail for St. Auguftine, returned here, and gives the following account, to which he has made oath: September 20th, three days after leaving Savannah, he reached the Store on Santilly river, kept by James Lemmon, who told him, that the day before, while George Mills, Benjamin Baker, Jeremiah Wylly, and one Cummins, were driving fome cattle across a run of water near the faid Wylly's houfe, the three-laft mentioned were fired upon and killed upon the spot. Mills made his efcape, and rode towards Wylly's, where he faw five Indians killing two women, three children, and old Mr. Mills, his own father, on which he rode off; he knew the Indians to be Creeks, belonging to the village of Allatchway, who, to the number of 15, had been for fome time hunting in that neighbour

bourhood. The houfe where the murder was committed is in EaftFlorida, on St. Mary's river, fifteen miles above the Ferry, which he reached on the 2zd; but finding no boat, and no anfwer from the Ferry-house on the other fide, he fuppofed the people were fled, and not being able to cross the river, he was obliged to return."

Letter from the Eaft-Indies. "On the 10th of September, 1766, came to our garden near Tranquebar, a Moorish or Mahometan prieft, a dwarf, aged 45 years: his fize was fcarce that of an ordinary child of four years old. What was remarkable in this cafe was, that he was not at all mishapen, but all his limbs feemed as well proportioned from head to foot as thofe of any other person. He fung in the Perfian, but underftood very little of the Malabar language. The former governor of Madrafs had his image caft in brafs, fince the dwarf himfelf could not be perfuaded to go to Europe. He walked a little in our plantation to look about him; but as walking was troublesome to him on account of a disorder in his breaft, one of our people carried him on his arms like a child, which he liked very well."

This autumn has been fatal to the horfes in America, as well as England and Holland. The dif temper there has been attended with fatal effects; in the province of New Jersey, it has carried off almost all their young horfes and colts; and in New England the havock it has made is very ruinous. The tide ebbed and flow28th. ed about five in the morning, twice in an hour and a half, [K] 4

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