loffes during one night's ftay at an inn. The facts were thefe: when they were conducted to bed by the chamberlain, they defired to have a key to lock the chamber door: it was a two-bedded room, but the travellers chufing to lie together, there was one bed remained empty. In the morning one of the plaintiffs miffed three guineas, the other thirteen and a half. For the recovery of this money the actions were brought. Mr. Bearcroft laboured hard for the defendant, upon the danger of giving a verdict against his client, on the evidence of one plaintiff in favour of another, by which mankind might be tempted to confpire together, and fabricate loffes which they never fuffered. He faid, in the prefent cafe, it looked as if one man robbed the other. The attorney-general proved the reputation of the plaintiffs to be above that fufpicion. Lord Mansfield faid, the law was clear, that an inn-keeper was bound to keep his guests in fecurity. The circumftances for the confideration of the jury were, whether the defendant was negligent, and the evidence of the plaintiffs to fupport each other's caufe material as to their credibility. The jury gave the travellers a verdict to repair their loffes. Paris, Nov. 30th. A cure for cancers has been lately found out by chance; it is nothing more than pitch, which a fhepherd in one of our provinces applied with great fuccefs, and it has been found to be a radical cure for that complaint. DIED, fuddenly, in Dublin, Mifs Clancy, daughter of the late William Clancy, formerly one of the most confiderable merchants in Dublin. The circumftances of this lady's death are very extraordinary: on the morning of her decease she told the family fhe had paffed a moft difagreeable night, having dreamed that her eldeft fifter (a widow lady who refides in France) was dead, and that her ghost had appeared to her, to warn her of an immediate diffolution: at firft fhe refused to credit the ghoft, declaring her health to be very good; but the apparation perfevered in afferting, fhe had but a few hours to live. This dream affected her much, but fhe was rallied out of her fears, She paid fome morning vifits, and then retired to her devotion. At dinner fhe was very cheerful, but fuddenly dropped her knife and fork, complained of a violent pain in her head, and instantly expired. it can be productive of any bad confequences. If the English general has not been able to punish the horrible crime you complain of, in fo exemplary a manner as he fhould, there is reafon to think he will take the most efficacious measures to prevent the like in future. I fincerely wish, Sir, that my interceffion may meet fuccefs; the fentiment which dictates it, and which you have not ceased to manifeft on every occafion, affures me, that you will not be indifferent to the prayers and to the tears of a family which has recourfe to your clemency through me. It is rendering homage to your virtue to implore it. I have the honour to be, with the most perfect confideration, Sir, yours, &c. (Signed) DE VERGENNES. Copy of the Order of Congress for releafing Capt. Afgill. By the United States in Congrefs affembled, Nov. 7, 1782. ON the report of a committee to whom was referred a letter of the 19th of Auguft from the commander in chief, a report of a committee thereon, and motion of Mr. Williamfon and Rutlege relative thereto, and alfo another letter of the 25th of October from the commander in chief, with a copy of a letter from the Count de Vergennes, dated the 29th of July laft, interceding for Capt. Afgill, Refolved, that the commander in chief be directed, and he is hereby directed, to fet Capt. Afgill at liberty. CHARLES THOMSON, Sec. Copy of a Letter from General Washington to Capt. Afgill, covering the above Refolve. Head Quarters, Nov. 13. "SIR, "IT affords me fingular pleafure to have it in my power to tranfmit you the inclofed copy of an act of Congrefs of the 7th inft. by which you are released from the difagreeable circumstances in which you have fo long been. Suppofing you would wish to go to New-York as foon as poffible, I also inclose a paffport for that purpose. Your letter of the 18th of October came regularly to my hands; I beg you to believe that my not answering it fooner did not proceed from inattention to you, or a want of feeling for your fituation; I daily expected a determination of your cafe, and I thought it better to await that, than to feed you with hopes that might in the end prove fruitlefs. You will attribute my detention of the inclofed letters, which have been in my hands about a fortnight, to the fame caufe. I cannot take leave of you, Sir, without affuring you, that in whatever light my agency in this unpleafing affair may be received, I never was influenced through the whole of it by fanguinary motives, but by what I conceived a fenfe of my duty, which loudly called upon me to take meafures, however difagreeable, to prevent a repetition of thofe enormities which have been the fubject of difcuffion; and that this important end is likely to be anfwered without the effufion of the blood of an innocent perfon, is not a [2] 2 greater feals of their refpective offices. On this meffage the feals were fent to Buckingham-houfe by Mr. Frazer and Mr. Nepean, the two under fecretaries. A fimilar meffage was about the fame time fent to the commiffioners of the great feal. Late the evening before the Duke of Portland and Mr. Fox communicated to his majesty difpatches from Holland. His majefty went to the 24th. Houfe of Peers, and gave The lady of Lord Alger non Percy, of a daugh ter. 15. The lady of Sir Henry Hunlock, of a daughter. 18. Lady of C. A. Pelham, Efq. of a daughter. 29. The lady of the Right Hon. Lord Macdonald, of a fon. 30. On Monday laft, at his house in Arlingtonftreet, the Countess of Carlisle, of a daughter. the royal affent to the following Feb. 13. The lady of the Hon. bills the malt bill-land-tax bill -Eaft-India payment bill-American trade bill-Irish poftage bill Splitnerberg's naturalization Tournay's naturalization bill-Borrowtownefs canal billand fome road bills. bill DIED.-At Newmarket, Mrs. Moore, wife of Mr. Moore, church-clerk, who had been many years miftrefs of the free-school. Her death was occafioned by a bite from a cat. She had a day or two preceding her death all the fymptoms of feline madness. BIRTHS for the year 1783. Jan. 2. Lady of W. Drake, jun. Efq. M. P. for Amer. fham, of a daughter. 6. At feven in the morning, the Countess of Artois was happily brought to bed of a princess, whom the king has named Mademoifelle d'Angouleme. 10. The Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Cavendish was fafely delivered of a fon and heir. Mr. Fortescue, of a fon and heir. 17. The lady of the Hon. The lady of the Hon. ter. March 4. The lady of Sir Robert Hutchinfon, of twins, at their house in Portmanfquare. 10. The lady of Sir John Bart. at his house in George-ftreet, Hanoverfquare. 16. The lady of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. was fafely delivered of a fon. 23. Archduchefs Maria Ame lia, fifter of the grand duke, and wife of the Prince of Parma, of a prince. 24. Countess of Tankerville, of a daughter. Countess of Cavan, of a fon. April 10. The lady of Lord Paget, of a daughter. 12. Lady Elizabeth Yorke, of a daughter, at the houfe of Philip Yorke, Efq. in Park-ftreet. 14. Lady of Sir Thomas Miller, Bart. of a fon. 16. The lady of Sir Rowland Hill, of a son. May 6. The Countefs of Percy was fafely delivered of a daughter. 7. Lady Cadogan, of a fon. Countess of Balcarras, of a fon. June 1. Duchefs of Rutland, of a fon. 8. The lady of Sir Alexander Purves, Bart. of a daughter. Right Hon. Lady Rod- 12. Countess Dowager of of a Lady of Baron Nolken, of a fon. VOL. XXVI. 14. Lady of the Hon. Mr. Walpole, of a fon and heir. Her grace the Duchefs of Leinfter was fafely delivered of a fon. 25. Her Serene Highness the Duchefs of Courland, of a princefs. Sir Cecil Bishop's lady, of a fon and heir. July 3. Her Royal Highness the Princefs Royal of Pruffia, of a prince. The Right Hon. the Countefs Mexborough, of a fon. 6. Lady of Viscount Duncannon, of a fon. 10. The lady of the Hon. Henry Erskine, of a fon. English, whether within or without it, fhall be fecured to them. Agreed. The whole is thoroughly understood and agreed to, upon the ftricteft honour. April 3, 1782. Signed for the French general, Le Vicomte de Houdetot. (Signed) DUCHEMIN. of Cuddalore. N. B. The above is a tranflation of a copy from the original articles of capitulation. JAMES HUGHES, Captain Commandant. On the 12th, I received intelligence of the enemy having commenced the fiege of Permacoli. And I find that garrifon capitulated on the 17th. I had no doubt of the enemy's forming defigns upon Vandiwath; indeed my intelligence gave me reafon to believe, that the French and Hyder would march immediately to attack it: I therefore moved the army towards it with all poffible difpatch, in full perfuafion that our enemies would have met me there, and tried a decifive action; but I arrived there without receiving the fmalleft oppofition; apprehending, however, left the enemy might be in doubt about my defire of bringing them to action, and convinced that they would not feek for me in the neighbourhood of Vandiwafh, where I could receive them to fo great advantage, I determined to advance towards them. I accordingly made two marches in the direct road to the ground, on which we had obferved them, from the hill of Vandiwafh, to be encamped; but on my approach they fell back, and both by my intelligence, and by what I could difcover from the heights in the neighbourhood of our camp, they took up their station on the Red Hills. This was a pofition in itself fo ftrong, and could, by an army of fuch magnitude as Hyder's, fupported by an European force far exceeding the numbers in my army, be occupied to fo great advantage, that I judged it expedient to lay my intelligence and fentiments before the two next officers in command, Major General Stuart and Colonel Lang, that I might have the benefit of their opinions on a matter of fuch momentous importance, and on the iffue of which depended the whole of the British interefts in India. Upon a reference to the council of war, which was held on this occafion, the idea I fuggefted of drawing the enemy from their strong poft, by moving in a direction which would effectually check Hyder's fupplies, and alarm him for the fafety of his grand magazine of Arnee, was unanimously approved. In conformity to that plan, we accordingly marched on the 30th, and, on the firft of June, encamped at the distance of about five miles from Arnee. That day I received intelligence that Hyder, on hearing of the route we had taken, marched immediately, and that the advance of his army had arrived the preceding evening at Deffoor, diftant from us about twenty-five miles, and in the high road toward us. I was thereby fatisfied, that the effect I had in |
