The young prince, fourth 30th. fon of their majefties, was baptized by the bishop of London, (the archbishop of Canterbury being indifpofed) by the name of Edward. Their ferene highneffes the hereditary prince and princefs of Brunfwick, the reigning prince of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and her royal highness the princefs of Heffe were fponfors by proxy.

A body of weavers, armed with rufty fwords, piftols, and other offenfive weapons, affembled at a houfe on Saffron-hill, with an intent to deftroy the work in the looms of an eminent weaver near that place, but were happily difperfed without much mischief. Some of them were apprehended, and being examined before the juftices at Hick's-hall, it appeared that two claffes of weavers were mutually combined to dif. trefs each other, namely the engine and narrow weavers. The engine weavers were fuppofed to be ruinous to the narrow weavers, because, by means of their engines, one of them could do as much in one day as fix of the o ther, and the fame kind of work equally good; for which reafon the narrow weavers were deter. mined to destroy them: The men who were taken up were engine weavers, and they urged in their favour, that they only affembled in order to defend themselves from a party of the others who were expected to rife. As they had done no mifchief, they were all difmiffed with a fevere reprimand for not having applied to the civil magiftrate for protection.

About twelve the fame night, the mafter of the Peacock, in Gray's inn lane, difcovered a man in his fhirt that had jumped out of a two pair of ftairs window in his fleep. By pitching on the pent-houfe it had broke his fall, and the man had received no hurt. He appeared ftupid at firft, and would believe nothing of the matter; but recovering himself, and finding himself naked in the ftreet, he was greatly affected at his deliverance.

Some particulars relative to the lofs of the brig Dolphin, capt. John Malbone, belonging to Newport, Rhode island, which was fet on fire off that place in July laft.

"When the Dolphin had arrived off Point Judith from Jamaica, and was within five miles from the land, at half after ten o'clock at night, a negro boy went down between the decks, amongst the rum, where there ftood several puncheons of water, and (as he fays) with an intention to draw fome water, but mistook, and broached a cafk of rum; at the fame time the door of the lantern, in which he carried the candle, being open, and the can dle falling into the rum, fet it on fire: This fo affrighted the boy, that he neglected to stop the running of the rum, and in lefs than half a minute the head of the cafk flew out, and the flames were immediately communicated to 15 casks more, all between decks, fo that all poffible means used to extinguish it proved entirely ineffectual; the veffel was all in flames in a very few minutes, and confequently reduced 26 perfons, be

ing the number of people, including paffengers, on board, to a diftrefs and horror that must be left to the reader's imagination; among many of them fubfifted the tender and endearing connections of husband and wife, parent and child, brother and fifter, &c. between whom the merciless flames were now effecting a cruel and inevitable feparation; and it was with the utmoft difficuly that a foul on board faved his life. There were 11 paffengers, viz. Mr. John Henry, Mr. Nathaniel Green, and another gentleman; Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Storer, Mifs Ann Storer, Mifs Frances Storer, Mifs Maria Storer, Mifs Sarah Storer, and Mr. Henry's two children, one 16, and the other 4 months old, five of whom perished in the following manner, viz. Mrs. Storer, Mifs Sarah Storer, and Mr. Henry's two children, being in the cabin, were fuffocated with the fmoke before the two fmall boats could be got out, they being thrown over with the utmost difficulty, not having any thing ready to hoift them: Mrs. Henry was upon deck, with her fifters, and might have been faved with them, but, overcome with maternal love and affection, on hearing her mother cry out, the children! oh, the children! The ran and threw herfelf headlong down the companion into the flames, and was there inftantly confumed. The remainder of the people, to the number of twenty-one, got afhore, with difficulty, in the two fmall boats. The veffel burnt till eight o'clock the next day, when the funk.

"The above brig belonged to Meff. Evan and Francis Malbone,

of Newport, Rhode Island,. was upwards of 200 tons burthen, was returning from her firft voyage, with a rich and valuable cargo, and had got within three or four hours fail of that harbour when the above misfortune happened. The veffel and cargo were valued at 4000l. fterling, and the effects of the paffengers at 2000l. fterling."

Some months ago three large tribes, in the environs of Cattaro, a ftrong place in Venetian Dalmatia, fell upon Budoa, a trading and opulent town. We now learn, that they have at their head a chief, who calls himself PeterStephen Czar III. to which he adds the title of (Servus Servorum) the fervant of fervants. He refides at Maim, in a monaftery of Callogeri, or Greek Schifmatic monks, where he received profelytes and tributes. He has about his perfon four thousand armed peafants; and, under the pretence of protecting religion, has already fubjected a confiderable number of the inhabitants of Turkish Albania, fome villages belonging to the republic of Venice, and all thofe of Montenero, a fierce people, and great enemies of the Mahometans. The republic is taking meafures for the prefervation of its territories, and ftopping the progrefs of this rude people.

An extraordinary accident has lately happened at Pontoife, which has thrown the inhabitants into great confternation. That town is fo fituated, that a rock hangs over part of it, and upon the brow of the rock are gardens, houfes, and even two churches. On the 25th inftant, about three oclock in the morning, part of the prominent

rock

rock (50 feet in length, 30 in height, and 18 to 20 feet in width) fell down, and crushed three houses, the inhabitants of which had just time to fave them felves by means of the alarm, which they received by fome cracks which preceded the fatal accident: one man only was dug out of the ruins, flightly hurt, having been preferved by a cavity occafioned by fome large pieces of the rock. The inhabitants are under great confternation, on account of fome more of the rock being in danger of falling. A fkilful engineer is fent to take proper measures to guard against the mifchief which may refult from any accident of the like kind for the future.

The expulfion of the jefuits from the kingdom of Naples, which was long expected, is at length put in execution. On the 20th of this month at the fetting in of the evening, the garrifon of that capital was under arms, and the fix houfes of jefuits were invefted by the civil officers, and a party of grenadiers. Six of the principal magiftrates alfo went to each of the houses, and fixed a feal on all the rooms. About midnight ten companies of grenadiers, and two hundred horfe, pofted them. felves in different parts of the city, where they preffed a number of carriages, and fent the jefuits in them, guarded by a party of horfe, to Pozzuoli, where veffels were waiting to tranfport them out of the kingdom. Every jefuit was allowed to take his portmanteau, which was not examined. A party of foldiers is left in each of the houfes, till further orders are re ceived from the king. The ships

have not yet failed from Pozzuoli, being detained by contrary winds; two armed galley's in this port have orders to join them, but the port they are bound to is not known.

The fuccefs which the affair of the Diffidents has met with, is owing principally to the private conferences, which were held at the houfes of prince de Repnin, the prince Primate, and the marshalls of the confederacy. It was there a greed that the king and queen of Poland fhall be of the Roman Catholic religion; but that, neverthelefs, the Diffidents, Greeks, and Proteftants fhall enjoy the fame privileges as the Catholics throughout Poland. All the proceedings of the Diffidents hall henceforth be judged before a fuperior tribunal, entitled, Judicium Mixtum, the members of which are to be of different religions, and the prefident to be alternately a Catholic, Greek, or Diffident."

The bishop of Cracow, and the other nobles whom the Ruffian troops carried off, are ftill at Wilna, and it becomes every day more apparent, that they will not recover their liberty, till the grand commiffion and the diet fhall have terminated their fittings.

Died, at Hexham, David Chambers, weaver, aged 100. He was in the army upwards of 30 years; and he was under the duke of Marlborough in his campaigns. His behaviour during that period was fuch as gained him the esteem of his fuperiors, and juftly entitled him to an offer of that asylum which numbers are glad to enjoy by petition. In the laft war, notwithstanding he was upwards of 90 years of age, he again joined the army, and had the honour to

fight under prince Ferdinand on the plains of Minden, from thence he returned again to Hexham, mounted the loom, and continued working thereat till within a very little time of his death.

Mr. Penniston Brooks, at Honduras, upwards of 40 years a confiderable logwood cutter there. Mary Griffiths, in a cellar, in the Borough of Southwark, forty years a cryer of old rags, by which the acquired houfes in Whitechapel, to the yearly rent of 731.

Ritchie, Efq. aged near 90, who had been purveyor to K. George I. and II.

DECEMBER.

The 10,000l. prize drawn ift. this day, is the property of Mr. Cappadocia, an eminent Jew Merchant, who formerly had a prize of the like value for himself, and purchafed a third for a correfpondent abroad.

The Dutch Eaft-India company have loft the last homeward bound fhip that was expected from Batavia this year. She was wrecked in a ftorm within three leagues of the Texel, and all on board, except 5 or fix failors perifhed. It is faid 500,000l. private property, has been loft on board that ship. zd. Hamed Agen, ambaffador

from Tripoly, had his audience of leave of his majesty. He was honoured with extraordinary marks of royal favour, and, fince his departure, has been received at Portfmouth by a falute of all the guns on the ramparts.

The following remarkable affair is faid to have happened near Frome

in Somersetshire: A farmer having high words with his wife, and being employed at the fame time in fomewhat wherein he had occafion for the ufe of a bill-hook, which he had in his hand, on fome provocation he gave her a cut on the top of the head with it, on which the ran from him, and he after her, in order (as fuppofed) to repeat the blow, when there being a very deep well in the yard with its mouth unftopped, the woman leaped over it, but the poor man ftumbled, fell headlong into it, and was drowned.

At a court of Chrift's-hof

pital, the prefident declared 3d.

that a benefaction of 100l. had. been received from John Spicker, Efq. 5ol. from John Drinkwater, Efq. 100l. from Lord Monfon; 50l. from the hon. George Vena. bles Vernon; 200 guineas from Jofeph Martin, Efq. and the like fum from John Durand, Efq. the prefent high fheriff for Surry.

The court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, delivered their opinions in the great infurance caufe, wherein John Drinkwater, Efq. was plaintiff, and the Royal Exchange affurance-office defendants, on a cafe referved, whether a lofs by fire at Norwich, in the riots there, was within the exceptions of the company's policy? When the court gave judgment for the plaintiff.

From the Votes of the Houfe of Com mons of Ireland.

Jovis 19 die Novembris, 1767.

Refolved, That it appears to this committee, that the penfions placed upon this establishment (exclufre of the French and military pers fions) for 2 years, from the 25th

of

of March, 1765, to the 25th of March 1767, exceed the whole charges of the rest of the civil lift 60,6881. 7s. old.

Refolved, That it appears by the public accounts that the charge of the civil eftablishment, for two years preceding Lady-day 1751, amounted to 146,1341. 8s. 41d. and that the charge of the civil . eftablishment, for the two years preceding Lady-day 1767, amount. ed to 257,9881. 6s. 10d. and that the difference is an exceeding of 111,8531. 18s. 6d. in the two laft years.

His majefty came to the 7th. houfe of peers, and gave the royal affent to,

An act to prohibit the exportation of corn, grain, meal, malt, flour, bread, bifcuit, and ftarch, and also the extraction of low wines and fpirits from wheat and wheat flour.

An act for allowing the importation of wheat, wheat-flour, barley, barley-meal, pulfe, oats, oatmeal, rye, and rye-meal, duty free: and to allow the importation of wheat and wheat-flour from Africa, for a limited time, free of duty.

The corporation of Briftol, and the fociety of merchants of that city, fent commiffions to Dantzick for feveral thoufand quarters of wheat to be imported there, which thofe bodies intend to fell to the poor at a low price.

A butcher in liquor went to a public houfe in Bristol, and having a pint of beer, was defired by the landlady to go home; on which he began curling and abufing her, and after feveral words he drew out his knife, and faid that he would as foon run it into her as

he would ftick a pig; and making fome advances towards her, the husband was fo ftruck with the fright, that he dropped down on the spot, and expired inftantly.

A fellow was committed to War wick gaol for defrauding Mr. Jof. Kendrick, of Bermingham, in July laft, of 2211. 1s. with which he immediately went off to France; and on his return from thence laft week was apprehended at Holmes Chapel, in his way to Warrington in Lancashire, where he had hired himself to work in one of the glafshoufes there, in order to obtain the art of making glass, and then was to return to France. He was, fervant to Mr. Kendrick, and was fent with bills to the above amount to the bank in Bermingham for cafh, which having obtained, he made off.

Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, an untenanted houfe under repair, adjoining to the rofe tavern and alehoufe in Curfitor ftreet, fell down, and carried with it part of the alehoufe, in which were feveral lodgers, five of whom were killed, viz. a man, a woman with child, and three chil dren. Several others were much bruifed, and carried to St. Bartholomew's hofpital, among whom was a poor woman dug out of the ruins, who had a youg child at the breaft, now miffing.

Extra of a letter from Bofton, New

England, September 27.

"Mr. James Barclay, of Warwick township, in Bucks county, has fent to a gentleman in this city the following affecting narrative of the fudden deaths of Mr. Robert Stewart, of that township, and his

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