Came on at Guildhall, be30. fore Lord Camden and a fpecial jury, a caufe wherein a late commander of a floop in the EaftIndia Company's fervice was plaintiff, and the commodore of a fquadron of his Majefty's fhips at the conqueft of the Manillas was defendant. The action was brought for impreffing the plaintiff from on board his own floop in Auguft 1763, and detaining him in cuftody fifteen months, part of which time he was kept as a fore-maft man, for a flight offence given the Commodore. After a long trial, in which Admiral Cornish and feveral other witnesses were examined, Lord Camden fummed up the evidence in a concife manner, and gave a very affecting charge, in which he clearly explained the prerogative of the crown, and the fubjects liberty. The jury then went out and ftaid above half an hour, when they returned and brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with 400 I. damages.

A caufe was heard by the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron, and the other reverend barons of the court of Exchequer, wherein Thomas Kynafton, Efq; the impropriator of the rectory and parifh of St. Botolph without Aldgate, was plaintiff, and Mr. Samuel Hawley, an ancient inhabitant of a large brewhouse and other buildings, within the Middlesex part of the faid parish, was defendant. The plaintiff's bill was brought to compel payment of a fum of 3 1. per ann. for tythes of the faid brewhoufe and buildings. The court decreed the defendant to pay the plaintiff the faid 31. per annum, and all arrears thereof, with cofts of fuit.

As Mr. White, belonging to St. Paul's cathedral, was fhewing the geometrical stairs, he unhappily fell down the well near go feet, and pitched on the engine at the bottom, which broke his fall, and, to the furprise of every body, he walked home feemingly unhurt.

They write from Rome, that the Chaldean character, which was in the printing-houfe of the college de Propaganda Fide, being imperfect, and wanting nine letters, the Patriarch of Chaldea, Jofeph IV. who arrived last year in that city, has been engaged thereby to form the true and ancient Chaldee character, in order to print the Miffal and Ritual, according to the use of his nation; and he has found means to enchafe the points or vowels, without which that character would be unintelligible. These new letters have been caft to the number of 726000; and the alphabets alfo of the feveral languages in the catalogue of the printing-houfe of that college have been augmented for the use of the miffions. This catalogue confifts at prefent of twenty-eight different languages.

We have many long accounts from Paris of the feafts and entertainments given to the hereditary Prince of Brunswick. He has been entertained by all or most of the princes of the blood, and by the Duke de Duras, gentleman of the bedchamber, by the King's order; and he has been fucceffively introduced to all the academies at Paris.

We hear from Ledbury, in Herefordshire, that there is one Price and his wife, now living near that place, whofe ages put toge

ther

ther make 216 years; the man being 110, and the woman 105.

A perfon died lately at Linlithgow in Scotland, aged one hundred and eleven years, the laft thirty of which he had been blind. At Kirkstall Forge near Leeds, Margaret Bartlemer, aged up wards of 102, who retained her fenfes to the laft.

A few days ago died at Aldborough, near Richmond, in Yorkfhire, Anne Armstrong, aged 107; to which age fhe had lived in the ftate of celibacy.And the fame week died at the above place, Anne Jamefon, aged 102, who had been confined to her bed for the last ten years.

At her house in Well-Alley, Wapping-Dock, aged 101, Margaret Hewitt, who had acquired upwards of 1000 pounds by milk felling, which he has left to a numerous family of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She was in Stepneyfields on Friday, with a female fervant, complained when she came home of a pain in her stomach, and said the fhould not live many hours.

We hear from Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, that a few days fince died at a village near that town, called Northweeds, one John Simpfon, in the 112th year of his age; who could read without fpectacles, and never had any illness till within three months of his death.

JULY.

We learn from Holland, that a fire happened at Hilverfum, near Utrecht, on the 25th ult. by which VOL. IX.

the greatest part of the woollen manufactures, of which they had great quantities in that village, were deftroyed. A number of people carried their most valuable effects to the church, which, on account of its diftance, it was expected would have been preserved, but where they had the chagrin to fee them all confumed, whilst many of the houses from whence they had been removed efcaped the flames. Hundreds of the poor inhabitants are ruined, and forced to lie in the open fields. This fire broke out on the very fame fpot where a dreadful conflagration began just forty years ago, and confumed the greatest part of the village.

They write from Cadiz, that föme workmen, in repairing the caftle of Verona, within three miles of that city, dug up a beautiful copper ftatue of the Emperor A drian, feventeen feet high.

The feflions ended at the

Old Bailey, when four pri 5th. foners, capitally convicted, received fentence of death; one of whom was Thomas Smith, tried laft feffrons for a highway robbery, and found guilty, but whofe counfel had moved in arreft of judgment, and the opinion of the judges had over-ruled the plea; 27 were cast for tranfportation, four were ordered to be whipt, and 22 were dif charged for want of profecution

Saturday, at eight o'clock in the evening, the man who laid wager to cross the Thames in a butcher's tray, fet out in the fame from Somerfet ftairs, and reached the Surry fhore with great eafe, ufing nothing but his hands; he had on a cork jacket, in cafe of any accident. It is faid 1400 1. was depending on this affair, and up[7]

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wards of 70 boats full of spectators were present.

The rejoicings all over North America, for the repeal of the ftamp act, have been exceffive; and feveral of the colonies have begun to raise fubfcriptions for ftatues of Mr. Pitt. At Philadelphia they came to the following healing refolution, viz. that to demonftrate our zeal to Great Britain, and our gratitude for the repeal of the ftamp-act, each of us will, on the 4th of June next, being the birth-day of our most gracious fovereign George III. drefs ourselves in a new fuit of the manufactures of England, and give what homeipun we have to the poor."

Newcastle, June 28. Laft week fome workmen at Rudchefter, who were employed to dig up ftones among the buried ruins of the Roman station, near the place where the coins were difcovered fome months fince, met with a ciftern, or trough, hewn in the folid rock, which measured above twelve feet in length, four in breadth, and two in depth, with a hole clofe to the bottom, to drain it at one end, and, about three feet from the other end, a partition wall of ftones and lime was run crofs it.-There were found in it, a tripod candleflick, fome very large teeth, and the vertebræ, and other broken and imperfect bones of fome animal, which is fuppofed to have been buried in it; but there was

ing. The number of houfes con fumed, including the cuffom-houfe and other public buildings, is about 440, the annual rents of which amounted to 16,421 1. befides a great number of warehouses and fheds, all well ftored with goods and merchandifes, the value of which cannot yet be estimated. Many of the principal ftorehouses with provifions were providentially preferved, by which means, and the benevolence of the public, the fufferers have been relieved from the apprehenfions of perifhing for

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On this calamitous occafion, the legislative body of the ifland were called together, who immediately proceeded to take every expedient into confideration for rebuilding the town, and providing for the unfortunate. committee was appointed for receiving donations, and in a few days more than 1ocol. was fubfcribed for immediate fubfiflence. The whole damage is eftimated at 300,cool. fterling.

At Hartford, in Connecticut, a most melancholy accident happened to 22 young gentlemen, who were bufied at the fchool-house in preparing fireworks for the rejoicings that were intended on the news having been received of the, repeal of the ftamp-act. Three barrels of powder being provided for this purpofe, and lodged in the lower room of the fchool-house, out of which the gentlemen had taken a fmall quantity for their prefent ufe; but while they were employed in the upper room, informing what they had taken, a negro boy below, feeing fome powder fcattered on the floor, raked it together, and set it on fire. This inftantly communicated to

the

the reft, by which the whole edifice was fhattered in a moft ruinous manner; part was blown up in the air, and the reft reduced to ruins: The gentlemen were fome blown up, fome buried in the ruins, and fome cast upon the ground, two or three only escaped with little or no hurt, the reft were miferably mangled, their bones fractured, or, which was lefs terrible, killed out right. A like accident happened at Seabrook, on the fame occa fion.

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A caufe of great confequence came on in Chancery, by which a gentleman, just come of age, recovered a very confiderable fum for intereft on all the fums retained in the receiver's hands during his minority; receivers being annually to account for moneys received on minors eftates, and the balance to be paid up accordingly.

They write frem Dunfermline, in Scotland, that a filver cup, which will hold three half pints, of curious ancient workmanship, with double handles, was lately dug up there, thought to be upwards of 1300 years old.

The eruption of Mount Vefuvius ftill continues, and the oldeft perfons living never remember its having lafted fo long.

A parcel of dried leaves of a fhrub, the growth of Georgia, has been received by a gentleman in town from his correfpondent at Savannah, which has a flavour and tafte equal to hyfon tea, and in colour a light green.

One Dobfon, a lighterman, undertook, for a wager of five gui. neas, to fwim on his back from Westminster bridge to Putney bridge in an hour and three quar

Yesterday in the afternoon a match at cricket was played on Blackheath, between 11 Greenwich college penfioners, who had loft each an arm, and 11 others, who had loft each a leg, which afforded much fport to a great number of fpectators, and was won with eafe by the former.

We are affured, that the place of Head-keeper of Wood-ftreet Compter, to which Mr. John Kir bey was lately appointed by Sheriffs Trecothic and Kennet, was, to thofe gentlemens great honour, given entirely gratis, although they might, as their predeceffors were heretofore accustomed, have fold the fame for 1500 pounds. - A noble example, and worthy imitation in the difpofal of all cityplaces, but especially fuch as are connected with the administration of justice.

From Maidenhead, and other places in Berkshire, we are informed, that, by the late heavy rains, many of the fields along the Thames were two feet under water, and that confiderable damage had been done thereby to the hay.

Conftantinople, June 16. On the 22d paft, between five and fix in the morning, was felt here a violent fhock of an earthquake, which

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lafted fomething more than a minute. It did very little damage in the fuburb of Pera and Galata, but a great deal in Conftantinople. Four royal mofques fuffered: the first at the gate of Adrianople, the cupola of which fell, and the walls were damaged: the fecond, that of Sultan Mahomet II. the cupola of which fell; as did likewife the public fchool, in which above 100 ftudents perished: the third, that of Mahomet Bafhaw, which was hurt only in the external part: the fourth, that of Sultan Achmet, a minaret of which fell down. They reckon 173 mofques and baths, part entirely ruined, and part damaged. Several chams, or public inns, were destroyed; fome palaces of Turks, and many houfes. The walls of this capital are fo much hurt, that it is calculated that it will cost above 100,000 piaftres to repair them. About 880 perfons have been found buried under the ruins; befides a great number of maimed and wounded. There were damages done in the feraglio. The Grand Signor lived under tents for fome days. Two of the feven towers fell, and the rest were hurt. Some small damage is faid alfo to have been done at Adrianople. Many flight tremors have been felt fince, and fome two or three days ago.

London Gazette.

The woman who cohabited with another woman, lately deceased, 36 years as her husband, and kept a public-house at Poplar a great part of that time, but retired from thence last Saturday fe'ennight, on account of the discovery made of her fex, returned to that parish laft Thurfday, accompanied by a gentleman to fettle her affairs, in order to quit the business. She was

dreffed in a riding habit, with a black hat and feather: fo that her acquaintance could hardly believe her to be the fame perfon, fhe having generally appeared in an old man's coat, woollen cap, blue apron, &c. Her behaviour now

is that of an affable, well-bred woman, and agreeable in converfation. She fupported the character fhe had affumed with reputation, as a fair dealer, and had served every office in the parish, except that of church-warden, which the was to have been next year, had not the discovery been made.

A young man, who with several others was committed for blafphemy, was lately executed at Abbeville in France, purfuant to his fentence. The crimes alleged againıt him were, that he had wickedly and impiously paffed before the holy facrament, without taking off his hat, and kneeling; that he had fung two fongs full of blafphemy against the holy virgin, the faints, and the facraments; that he had profaned the fign of the cross, the mystery of the confecration of the wine, the benedictions of the church, &c. for thefe crimes he had his tongue cut out, his hands and his head cut off, and the whole confumed in a burning pile of wood, with his body, and his afhes scattered in the air. The executioner burnt at the fame time the Dictionaire Philofophique.

The countess of Montrath hath left the following legacies, viz. 30,000 l. and 10col. per ann. to her fon, the present earl; to Lord George Cavendish 40,000l. with Twickenham park for life, after his Lordship's decease, to his two brothers, Lord Frederic and Lord John Cavendish; to her two phy

ficians,