rool; Edward Parker, Wm. Pritchard, and Peter Shaw, for burglarioufly breaking open the dwelJing-houfe of Mr. Jofeph Cruttenden, at Surgeons-hall, (where Pritchard had fome time fince been a fervant) and ftealing a large quantity of filver plate, value 401. The following are refpited till further fignification of his Majefty's pleafure, viz. William Cook, Charles Rogers, Jofeph Horton, William Oxtoby, Edward Blackmore, William Clifton, and Richard Hawke. The river Ribble, near 31ft. Prefton, in Lancashire, ftood ftill; and, for the length of three miles, there was no water, except in deep places. In about five hours it came down with a ftrong current, and continues to run as ufual. The like phænomenon happened in the year 1715. Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, Nov. 22. "The laft fhip which came from India brought a letter from the Miffion of Tranquebar, dated the 5th of October, which contains what follows, viz. "This year, which now draws near to an end, has been rendered remarkable to us in many refpects, but particularly by the fall of the kingdom of Tanjour, the chief of our miffion, from whence it extends to the neighbouring provinces, which was effected on the 7th of September by the Nabob Mahumed Ali Chan, affifted by the English, who, after a fiege of two months, carried the place by aflault, took the king prifoner, and extinguished that kingdom, one of the most ancient on the coaft of Coromandel. Notwithstanding the Indians looked upon this place as invincible, it being the center of their idolatry, and that they now must be convinced of the ridiculoufnefs of trufting to idols, they are not the more inclined to embrace the Chriftian religion. 80 children and 41 Pagans have been baptized in the church of Talmud; and in another 214 perfons, among whom were 145 Pagans. There have been 860 perfons baptized in the three communities of the Miffion, viz. 136 children of the community, 194 Pagans, and 30 Roman Catholics; 143 perfons have died, and there have been 20 marriages. The number of communicants are 1585, and of all the perfons infcribed in the registers fince the commencement of the three communities, are 14,000." Hague, Dec. 16. Advice has been received that the Emperor of Morocco has declared war against the States General, and that the period for the commencement of hoftilities is fixed for the 1ft of next month. Oftend, Dec. 21. The board of finances have, by an ordinance of the 13th inftant, prohibited the exportation of pcafe and beans, as alfo meal of all kinds, except that made from buck wheat. Letters from Paris mention the execution of a young man, and his accomplice, last week, for murdering his father, a ftable-keeper of that city, with a knife, with which he gave him two mortal wounds in the body. His mother gave him ten guineas to effect his escape;, but the murderers, however, were both taken, tried, and fentenced to the wheel, &c. In the morning of their execution, the fon was carried to Notre Dame, where, with a lighted torch in his hand, he he made public confeffion of his crime to God, his king, and juftice; after which he had his right hand fevered at the wrift from his body; he was next conducted to the foot of a scaffold, where he beheld his accomplice on the wheel. Having afcended it, he was likewife put on the rack, with his face upwards, in which excruciating torture he continued near fix hours uttering the most horrid imprecations, before he expired. Berlin, Nov. 15. The king has renewed his orders to all the chambers of domains in his eftate, to cultivate all the ground that lies wafte at prefent. His majefty has ordered a new regiment of grenadiers to be raised in New Pruffia. Stockholm, Nov. 29. The fnow was never known to be fo deep, nor the cold fo fevere at this feafon, as now; by which means the navigation is clofed, before the capital has been fufficiently provided with neceffaries from Gothenburg, Finland, and other parts; and it is feared the poor in particular will be reduced to great diftrefs during the winter. Letters from St. Amant Roche Savine, in the mountains of Lower Auvergne, dated the 28th of November, contain the following acCount:- "In the memory of man there never was known fo fevere a commencement of winter as that we have experienced. For fourteen days there has been a heavy fall of fnow without intermillion. Our roads are fo covered as to render them impaffable, and for eight days we have not feen the fight of a traveller, owing to the fnow lying from nine to ten feet deep on the ground." By letters from Lisbon we learn, that his Portuguese Majefty has ordered the duty on leaf tobacco from America to be taken off; an exemption which occafions fome speculations, as, at the time that every poflible obstruction is thrown in the way of the British commerce, the greateft encouragement is given to that of the colonies. Turin, Dec. 3. The king of Sardinia, and all the royal family, returned from Montcalier to this city on Wednesday laft. His Majefty propofed ftaying fome days longer there, but was driven hither by the extreme feverity of the weather, which is colder than has been known at this feafon for many years paft. His majefty was indifpofed, and kept his bed one day, but is now perfectly recovered. Hamburgh, Dec. 9. Laft night it froze fo hard, that the thermometer was ten degrees below the freezing point. The cold has continued as intenfe all this day, and feems to increafe to-night. Not only the poft, but alfo waggons with heavy loads, paffed over the ice yefterday to and from Harbourg. Vienna, Dec. 14. The very fevere froft, which we have had here for upwards of three weeks, and of which there has been no example fince the year 1740, is now fucceeded by a gentle thaw, though it is hardly to be expected that the. change will be lafting. The Turkish poft has been delayed feveral days later than ordi, nary by the great fall of fnow. Drefden, Dec. 14. The prefent winter is the coldest and feverest that has been known in Saxony fince the year 1740, hard weather feldom beginning in this country before Christmas or the 6th of Ja nuary; nuary; but this year it began to the court of Great Britain was no freeze on the 11th of November laft, and has gradually increafed till within these three days, when the air grew milder. The Elbe has been thut and frozen up these three weeks, fo that no wood can come down the river, as ufual, from Bohemia, nor are the mills able to work; and there being but two windmills in the neighbourhood of Drefden, bread and wood are exceffively dear; there is at prefent a deep fnow on the ground. Copenhagen, Dec. 24. The mail from England of the 6th inftant arrived to-day. The ice that filled this harbour having being loofened, partly by the thaw, and partly by the labour of 900 men, who were employed for feveral days, fixtyfeven hips, which were in this road and in the offing, have been enabled to come into harbour; and a great number, long detained here by the ice, have got out and proceeded on their voyages. Hamburgh, Dec. 20. The cold was fo fevere here on the 9th, that feveral poor people were found dead; the 13th, 14th, and 15th it rained and thawed, but the froft fet it again the 16th, and the Elbe is again blocked up. Paris, Dec. 4. All the maritime towns of France have charged their deputies in this city to make remonftrances against the orders they have received to conform, in future, to the conventions which the court of Great Britain has obtained for the prohibition of fending foreign manufactures to their colonies. The deputies went, upon this occafion, in a body to M. de Trudenne, fuperintendant of the manufactures of France; but he told them the demand made by thing more than the execution of the treaties fubftfting between the two courts, and which his majesty had lately renewed; and therefore they must not expect any alteration in respect to the affair in question. Hague, Dec. 16. A misunderftanding has arifen between the ftates of Holland and the Flemish government in Auftrian Flanders, the latter having laid very high duties, amounting in effect to a prohibition, on moft of the Dutch commodities entering the ports of Oftend and Newport, in violation of the Barrier Treaty. In confequence of which a memorial has been fent to the Dutch 'minister at Vienna, complaining of the conduct of the Flemish government, and an anfwer is impatiently ex• pected by the merchants of Amfterdam. Porto, Dec. 16. On Sunday laft, the 11th inftant, this river rose fifteen feet perpendicular in about feven hours, filling the ftreets near the quays on both fides; many warehoufes were thrown down; pipes of wine and various other merchandize were carried away; and in fome places, the inhabi tants had but just time to escape at the tops of their houses. On Monday the torrent was extremely rapid: About one o'clock, the ship Kirby Hall, James George, mafter, with only one man on board, laden with 262 pipes of wine for London, and ready to fail, was forced from her moorings, and in a few minutes dafhed to pieces on the Bar; however, by the courage and fkill of the pilots at St John's, the man was faved. On Tuesday night the torrent abated; and, though the ftream ftill runs with great rapidity, boats begin to pafs. Some freshes here have been known as high as this, but they always hitherto came on gradually, none having ever been known fo violent and fo fudden. The loffes are very confiderable in wine, fugar, fhips, houfes and merchandize of all forts; though no çertain calculation can as yet be made of the amount: however, we do not hear that any lives have been loft. His Britannic Majefty's conful has taken the neceflary ineafures for the recovery of fuch parts of the wrecks and merchandize as can be found, in order to their being reftored to the owners. Florence, Dec. 24. The great duchefs was this day delivered of a prince; her royal highness and the young prince are as well as can be expected. It appears by the export entries at the custom-house at Dublin, that the linen trade alone has decreafed 5,000,000l. of yards, of the invoice value, of 350,000l. in the year 1772; and by the beft eftimate that could be formed of the exports from March 1772 to March 1773 they were fuppofed to have further decreased one third, which would bring them under 9,00,000l. fo that the exports of linen and yarn, taken together, will fall fhort of 1,100,000l. little more than half of their amount in the year 1771. Woollen drapery imported in Dub-. lin in 1774. From Chefter Briftol Yards. 129,918 51,756 Total 181,674 Muflins imported the fame time, 65.951 yards. An eftimate of the number of fouls in the following provinces, made in Congrefs, Sept. 1774. In Maffachusetts, 400,000. New Hampshire, 150,000. Rhode-Ifland,59,678. Connecticut, 192,000. New York, 250,000l. New Jersey, 130,000. Pennfylvania, including the lower counties, 350,000. Maryland, 320,000. Virginia, 650,000. North Carolina, 300,000. SouthCarolina, 225,000.3,026,678. Total The excife on beer and ale, from January 1774, to January 1775, amounted to 1,385,420l. 10s. The whole revenue of the excife amounted to 3,487,1291. 12s. 6d. It appears from the excife books, that the coach tax from 1772 to Midfummer laft, produced upwards of 42,000l. and is daily increafing. The duty on hops for the year 1774, amounted to upwards of 138,800l. In the year 1600, the laft year but one of Queen Elizabeth, the whole of the ordinary public revenue amounted to no more than 600,000 per annum. In 1633, the 8th of Charles I. to 800,cool. In 1660, the 12th of Charles II. to 1,200,cool. In the year 1686, the 2d of James II. to 1.900,000l. In 1714, the 12th of Anne, to 3,200,ocol. In 1751, the 25th of George II. to fomething fhort of 6,000,000l. and in the 5th of his prefent Majefty, year 1765, to full 10.300,000l. Thus from Queen Elizabeth to Charles the Second's time, our public burdens were doubled, being a space of about 60 years; and from thence to the laft of Queen Anne, about 54 years, nearly nearly trebled; from 1714 again, to the year 1751, that again nearly doubled; and what is ftill more extraordinary, this laft enormous burden increafed from 6 to upwards of 10,000,000l. in the narrow compass of 14 years, from 1751 to 1765. DIED lately, at Turin, a man, named Andrew Brizin Debra, at the age of 122 years, feven months and 25 days; and his death was then occafioned by a fall, otherwise he feemed likely to bave lived fome years longer. At Verfailles, in the 82d year of his age, N. Quefnay, the king's countellor, and first physician in ordinary, member of the royal academies at Paris, Lyons, and the royal fociety of London, a man diftinguished by his learning in many respects. In Henrietta-street, CoventGarden, Paul Whitehead, Efq. a gentleman much admired for his many literary publications. Among other whimsical lagacies, he has bequeathed his heart, with gol. to Lord le Defpencer. Mr. Ifaac Warnford, farmer, at Hartley-Hill, in Berkshire, in the 103d year of his age. Ifaac Benjamin, a Jew, aged 108 he was a native of Zamothed, in Poland, where he had 13 children; the 12th is here, aged 70; he was the oldest Jew in England. At Cornearth, near Sudbury in Suffolk, the Rev. Mr. Heckford, near fifty years rector of that place. A General Bill of all the Christenings and Burials, from December 14, 1773 to December 13, 1774. At Liverpool, from the 24th of December, 1774, were baptized, Males, 640; Females, 552; in all I 192. Buried, Males, 521; Females, 608; in all [129. Marriages, 506. Increased in Chriftenings, 32; increased in Deaths, 70; increafed in Marriages, 1. At South Shields, Deaths; 263; Baptifms, 267. Increased in Chriftenings, 26; increafed in Burials, 112. In, the city of Norwich laft year there were 1090 Christenings, and 1055 Burials. By an exact account lately taken, there are 4099 families in Leeds. The number of inhabitants is as follows: Males, 8041; Females, 9076; total 17,117. In the courfe of last year, 4106 |