Catherine Opalinfka, daughter of Count de Buin-Opalinfka, Caftellan of Pofnania, and the prefent Queen of France is the only iffue of that marriage." 244 On Friday fe'nnight as a poor man was returning from Wolverhampton, to his own house on Wedgfield-Heath, a place about two miles from that town, it is thought he was fo bewildered in the fnow, that he fell into a hollow way, where he perifhed; he was found laft Tuesday, and when difcovered had one eye picked out, and was otherwife much disfigured by the crows; he has left a wife and feven children. The north mail, which fhould have arrived on Sunday evening at fix, did not arrive till five on Monday evening; that which fhould have come on Tuefday at the fame hour, did not arrive till Wednesday nine in the morning; and that which fhould have arrived on Thursday at fix in the evening, did not come in till paft eleven on Friday; owing to the floods. A remarkable caufe was tried in the court of King's Bench, on an action brought on account of money expended to procure votes at a late election for Wallingford, in the county of Berks, when, after an hearing of feveral hours, a verdiet was given in favour of the plaintiff, with cofts of fuit. Friday morning, by 8 o'clock, the feats in the houfe of commons were begun to be taken for the members, by pinning down a ticket with their names in fuch feats as they chofe, which were referved for them till prayers began. There were four hundred and forty-two members prefent. It was determined early on Saturday morning, in an auguft affembly, to bring in a bill for the repeal of the American ftamp-act. The houfe of commons did not break up till two o'clock on Saturday morning. Saturday laft there was an univerfal joy to be seen in the countenances of every true lover of freedom and trade in the city, on the hopes of the ftamp-act being repealed, and that the merchant, as well as the mechanic, may hope once more to be able to pay their juft debts, and the manufactors be enabled to fet the poor to work, who have been too confiderable a time quite deftitute of work as well as the common neceffaries of life. The bells in moft churches rang from morning till night; and particularly St. Michael's Cornhill, which did not finish till near twelve o'clock, and concluded with forty-five platoons; and the following houfes were illuminated, viz. Mr. Hofe's, fhoe-maker, in Cheapfide, where were exactly forty-five lights; a hofier's in the fame neighbourhood; the Carolina and Pennfylvania coffee-houses in Birchin-lane; the New-York, Grigfby's, Portugal, Edinburgh, and Amfterdam coffee-houses; and/ the cock-tavern, or eating houfe: at all which houfes were drank the healths of his Majefly, the Queen, and the Royal Family. It is reported, that upwards of three thousand letters were dif patched from the general-poft office in Lombard-ftreet, laft Satur day night, from the merchants and traders of this metropolis, to their correfpondents in Great Britain and Ireland, to inform them of the Sunday evening their royal highneffes the dukes of York and Gloucelter, and his ferene highnefs the prince of Brunswick, were made Free-Mafons, at the Horn-tavern, Westminster, by the grand-maiter. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when the following criminals were capitally convicted: Wm. Barlow, a light horfeman, for robbing Mr. Wood, near Kenfington, of a gold watch and 125. Robert Bryer, for affuming the name of William Slack, and receiving wages due for service done by Slack, on board one of his majesty's fhips. Jofeph Jewfter, for perfonating Jofeph Mellin, in order to transfer 100l. in the funds; and Sarah Stanley, for stealing money from a dwelling-houfe; (her own father, for advifing her to fteal the money, was fentenced to be tranfported for 7 years.) At this feffions no lefs than 56 criminals received fentence to be tranfported, among whom are two of the light horfemen. Saturday fe'nnight Henry Smith, a young fellow, was married by licence, to a young woman of fome fortune, at St. James's church, Westminster; and on the Monday following the fame man was married, by banns, to an old woman at St. George's, Hanover-fquare. Was tried by a fpecial jury 25 of non-freemen, before Lord Mansfield, at Guildhall, a caufe wherein the chamberlain of the city of London was plaintiff, and Richard Green defendant, for acting as a broker, not being duly admitted by the court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, according to the ftatute of the 6th of Q. Anne; when a verdict was given for the plaintiff in the penalty of 251. with cofts. They write from Durham, that fome valuable lead mines have lately been difcovered on the eftates of a gentleman, in the parishes of Wollingham and Stanhope in that county, and are now working with great fuccefs. The Rev. Mr. Romaine took poffeffion of the living of St. Anne's, Black-Friars, accompanied by the officers of the parish, &c, with the ceremonies uled on that occafion, viz. locking the pulpit, ringing a bell, &c. prayers. After which he read Were fold, at Mr. Langford's in Covent Garden, Henry the Vith's fhilling for 71. 10s. and Charles the Firit's Oxford crown for 111. 16s. Extract of a letter from Vienna. "Count Caldwell, on his return to England, had a private audience of leave of their imperial majelties, when the empreis-queen gave him a magnificent gold box, of curious workmanship, to prefent to his mother, Lady Caldwell. On the infide of the bottom of the box is the imperial arms, and on the infide of the lid an infcription, in the French language, of which the following is a literal tranflation. "Her majesty the apoftolic em. prefs queen tends this inuff-box to the Lady-dowager Caldwell, as a teftimony of her remembrance o [F] 3 thef the fignal services of her fon Hume Caldwell, colonel commandant of a regiment of foot, and knight of the military order of Maria Therefa, who diftinguished himself in all his campaigns by his military knowledge and heroic bravery. He was one of the first that efcaladed the walls of Schweidnitz, at the head of the column that he commanded, and when that fortrefs was befieged by the king of Pruffia, he was flain on the roth of August, 1762, in the 27th year of his age, in a fally that he conducted; to the great regret of the court, and the whole army.” The quantity of Roman coins lately found by the Roman wall, near Newcastle, proves to be one of the greatest acquifitions of that fort that has been heard of in this country. The difcovery was made by a labourer at work in Rutchefter grounds, as he was, digging up the foundation of an old fence; which place being within the manor of William Archdeacon, Efq; the fame has been claimed by him, and we hear he has already recovered near 500 filver and 16 gold coins. We are informed that this collection contains almoft a complete feries of the coins of the higher empire, and most of them are in fine prefervation. Several Othos are faid to be amongst them. -The village of Rutchefter is fituated near a station on the Roman wall, fuppofed to be the ancient Vindobala, where the Cohors prima Trixagorum kept garrison. M. de Thulemeyer, minifter from the court of Berlin to the epublic of Holland, remitted, on Jan. 14, to their High Mightineffes, on the part of the king his mafter, a memorial, importing, that in 1572, and the following to years, the republic, being engaged in a very embarraffing war with France, found herfelf obliged to keep garrifons in the towns of Cleves, Wefel, Buderick, Emmeric, and Orfoy, which furnished her troops with lodging and other neceffaries, for which charges they have not been reimbursed to this day, notwithstanding their reiterated demands; and therefore, upon this fimple declaration, the king his mafter required the liquidation of that debt, which amounts upwards of four millions, and which he regards as the only article that can be admitted, to put an end to the pretenfions which the ftate forms upon fome life annuities granted in former times by his great grandfather; affuring their High Mightineffes, that he will take them in payment for a part of the fum which he now demands. The faid minifter, having had within thefe few days a conference with the prefident of the week, has infifted upon a fpeedy answer to this memorial; which makes it prefumed that his Pruffian majesty has the decifion of this affair much at heart. A great fickness still prevails in the city of Naples, which is particularly fatal to the young nobility, many of whom have died within thefe few weeks. Authentic letters from Halifax mention, that upwards of three hundred French and Acadians, with a number of Nova Scotia Indians, were actually fettled on the ifland of Miquelon at Newfound land, where they had built a kind of fraggling town, had plenty of brick and raft work, and intended to remain till the return of the French fleet in the fpring. They write from Inverness, that one 1. MARCH. The coins of Jofeph Tolfon Lockyer, Efq; fold at Meffrs. Langford's, in Covent Garden, at very high prices; a coin of Edward the black prince fold for 251. 145. 6d. the commonwealth half-crown, for 121. and Oliver Cromwell's farthing for fix guineas and a half. A moft curious experiment in electricity was perforined by Mr. Spence, operator of teeth to his Majefty, before a number of gentlemen, on a woman belonging to St. Andrew's workhouse, above the Bars, who had for above fix weeks loft her fpeech by convulfion fits; when after applying the electrical ftrokes to feveral parts of her body, and at length to her mouth, the foon recovered her fpeech, the convulfion fits having first left her. Mr. Franklin of Philadelphia was prefent at this ope ration, and expreffed his afonishment. A caufe was tried, by a special jury, in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, wherein an under-writer was plaintiff, and a merchant of this city defendant, for recovery of 2001. paid by the plaintiff, for lofs on a policy of insurance on a fhip which was proved to be wilfully funk by the captain in 1765. It app aring upon the trial, that the inerchant knew nothing of the captain's roguery, and that he had paid the infurance to the perton for whom it was made, the jury brought in a verdict for the defendant. It is faid that other caufes, to the value of near 30,000 l. depended upon the iffue of this. 3. Their Royal Highneffes the Prince of Wales and Bishop of Ofnaburgh were inoculated for the fmall pox, by Pennel Hawkins, Efq; ferjeant-furgeon extraordinary to his Majesty, and furgeon to her Majefty and the houfhold, in the prefence of their Ma jefties, and his Majesty's ferjeantfurgeon, Cæfar Hawkins, Efq; Sir Clifford Wintringham, Sir William Duncan, and John Pringle, Efq; phyficians. At midnight the Newcafile. Greenlandman, a fine thip of 4 400 tons burthen, juft came out of the dock from a general repair at Howden Pans near Shields, took fire, and was burnt to the keel. A large collier that lay alongside of her fhared the fame fate. The hofpital at Monthifon in France was burnt down, and affor ded the moft dilma! fcene that can be imagined. The old, the lame, the blind, the decrepit, and help [F] 4 lei lefs, were dragged promifcuoufly to the ramparts, and there left naked and deftitute, during the feverities of a difmal cold night, A Ramsgate fisherman having brought to Billingfgate a cargo of falt-fish, was fummoned before the Lord Mayor, on the complaint of a London fishmonger, for felling the fame by retail; when, upon a full hearing, the man was discharged, it appearing to his Lordfhip that he had full power to do the fame, by an act of parliament made in the fecond year of his prefent Majefty. It feems, however, that fome fishmongers are ftill profecuting the man, to deter others from fpoiling the market. At Eaft Newton, in Yorkshire, two of the largest elms were felied, that have been known. One contained 13 tons 17 feet, the other 13 tons 13 feet; total 26 tons 30 feet; which, at the very moderate price of 1 s. by the foot, amounts to 53 1. 10 S. The Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke made his final decree, as vifitor of Jefus College in Oxford, on an appeal, which was profecuted against that college, by J. Jones, of the Middle Temple, and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxon, in behalf of the defcendants of Henry Rowlands, Bishop of Bangor, who founded fome fellowships in that college, with preference to his relations. His Lordship decreed, that the founder's heirs fhould always have the preference according to the will; and the college was condemned to pay cofts. Friday last was heard, before the barons of the exchequer, a caufe wherein the Vicar of Leach lade, in the county of Gloucester, was plaintiff; and one of the lords of the manor, in behalf of his tenant, defendant. The principal point in difpute was whether lands, which formerly belonged to a priory, within the faid parish, were exempt from tithe; and notwithftanding thofe lands had never paid tithe, yet it being inconteflably clear from feveral ancient records, produced on the part of the plaintiff, that there could be no grounds for fuch an exemption, a decree was given in favour of the vicar. 6. Yesterday a body of upwards of two hundred members of the houfe of Commons carried up the bill to the houfe of Peers for repealing the American ftamp-duty act; an inftance of fuch a number going up with a fingle bill, has not been known in the memory of the oldest man. A few days fince two fharpers, the one a Swiss (pretending to be a Frenchman) and the other his interpreter, purchafed fixty horfes in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, for which they gave draughts on two great houfes in this city, to whom they were entirely unknown, and who of courfe refufed the payment of the fame, fo that the dealers are taken in to a confiderable amount. One Richard Parfons of Chalford in Gloucestershire, in playing at cards, wifhed his flesh might rot, and his eyes never fhut, if he loft the next game, At night, in going to bed, he obferved a black fpot upon his leg, from which a mortification foon enfued, and he died in a few days in a very miferable condition. [For a further account of this affair, |