12th.

officers went to an inn in Wood- beat, or he certainly had been buftreet, faying they had information ried before he had finished his of run goods having been brought trance., there; but, finding none, a riot enfued. The officers were fecured, and fent to Wood-ftreet compter, and yesterday were carried before the fitting alderman at Guildhall, who admitted them to bail, and the mistress of the inn was bound over to profecute at the next adjournment of feffions at Guildhall. The opinion of the alderman was, that no cuftom-houfe officer has a right to enter any perfon's house within his jurifdiction without a proper city warrant.

The houfe of Mr. Carter, 10th. at Bell-Bar, in Hertfordshire,, was burnt entirely to the ground, together with all the out-houses. Mr. Carter, his wife, two children, and a maid-fervant, perished in the flames. It is fuppofed to have been occafioned by the floods getting to fome lime, a great quantity of which was in the houfe where it began.

Leeds, Jan. 4.-The following extraordinary affair happened lately at Saddleworth, in this county: a man was taken ill, and to all appearance died, as he could not be perceived to breathe; in this fituation he remained for the fpace of fix weeks, during which time he received no other nourishment than now and then a fmall quantity of milk, which the doctor poured into his mouth, at the fame time topping his noftrils, left it fhould come out again there. After lying in this condition the above time, he came to himself, and is now in as good a ftate of health as ever he was in his life. The apothecary who attended him perceived his pulfe at intervals to

This day the feffions began at the Old Bailey, when Wm. Frankland was tried on the Black Act, for wilfully and malicioufly firing a loaded piftol at Juftice Miller at Hammersmith. It appeared on his trial, that Justice Miller had granted a warrant againft two of Frankland's fervants, for obftructing certain officers in executing a warrant of Diftringas on the chattels of Mr. Frankland; whofe defence was that of infanity, which, though not fufficient to acquit him of the charge, yet perhaps was the reason that induced the jury unanimously to recommend him to mercy.

The report was made to his majefty in council, by the recorder, of the feven convicts, under fentence of death, in Newgate, when the two following were ordered for execution, viz. Robert Johnfon, for uttering and publishing as true, with intention to defraud Mr. Cappock, at the Grecian coffee-houfe, a forged and counterfeit draught for 221. 10s. knowing it to be forged; and Robert Leigh, for forging an acceptance upon a draught of 8471. 10s. with intention to defraud Meff. Gines and Atkinson, bankers of Lombardstreet.

The following were refpited, viz. Benjamin Martin and John Ridley, for ftealing a cow, the property of Mr. Laycock, in Iflington road; James M'Daniel, for affaulting Hannah Langdon, near Towerhill, and robbing her of a filk cardinal; John Taylor, for stealing 12 guineas, two half-guineas, &c. the property of Agnes Lander, in

the

affection, knowing the love of them leads to moral and intellectual beauty; was a warm and ftrenuous advocate in the cause of public liberty and virtue, and for the rights of human nature and private confcience. His humanity and 'generofity were not confined to the fmall fpot of his own country; he fought for merit in every part of the globe, confidering himself as a citizen of the world, but concealed his acts of munificence, being contented with the consciousness of having done well. Pofterity will look up with admiration to this great man, who, like Milton, is not fufficiently known by this degenerate age in which he lived, though it will have caufe to lament the lofs of him.

21ft.
At half an hour after twelve,
the Grand Signior expired,
and at half an hour after two, the
guns from the Seraglio announced
his fucceffor Abdul Hamed.

A court of aldermen was 24th. held at Guildhall, when the petition of Meff. Adam, for having the lottery for the Adelphi tickets drawn in Guildhall, paffed in the negative.

This morning about ten o'clock, one Mallard, a Frenchman, came to Mr. Cater, an attorney, in his chambers, in Lincoln's-inn. Mallard was recommended to him laft year in France by his fervant as a great object of pity, whom Mr. Cater then relieved; about three months ago Mallard came over to England, and foon found out his benefactor, who has fince conftantly extended his charity to him, and, on the prefent occafion, gave him a fhilling, and bid him warm himfelf; foon after Mr. Cater told bim he was going out about fome

bufinefs, and that he muft lock his chambers, on which Mallard turned about, as if going out, but inftantly came round him, and with a large flint ftone cut Mr. Cater defperately in two places on the head; the villain then ran out of the room to bolt the outer door, as Mr. Cater imagined, to hinder any from coming in, and then to murder him; but Mr. Cater running to the window, and crying out murder, prevented Mallard from coming up again, and who then ran away, but was pursued by two men, and taken near Clare-market, and is now in prifon.

Arrived fafe in the river Thames, the fhip Polly, Capt. Ayres, from Philadelphia, with 600 chefts of tea, with which he was chartered by the Eaft-India company for that port, but was not permitted to land the fame.

Letters from Munich mention, that Baron Waldeck was ftabbed by his valet-de-chambre, in his bed, at Munich, the beginning of this month; the murderer was inftantly detected, but afterwards fhot himself. It fince appears, by fome notes found upon him, that he was promifed 3000 florins for that heinous action, and the hand-writing appears to be that of his young master, a near relation to the baron, about 17 years of age, who was immediately fecured on fufpicion.

The tea thrown into the fea at Bofton is valued at 18,000l. at Is. 6d. per pound. The whole fent to America is faid to be about 300,000 worth, which is returning home, not being fuffered to land.

This day there was a general court of the proprietors 25th. of Eaft-India ftock, at their house

in Leadenhall-ftreet, for the deter- is, Whether the general's apartmination by ballot of the following ments were really locked when the queftion: Whether the inftruc- bailiffs came to the door; fhould tions prepared by the court of di- the court be fatisfied of that, the rectors, as amended by the general queftion of law arifing from it will court, for the governor general be, Whether the occupier of a feand council of the precedency of parate apartment is to be deemed Fort William, in Bengal, in con- an inmate, or the poffeffor of a fequence of the act for eftablishing diftinét manfion. certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the Eat-India company, as well in India as in Europe; or the inftructions prepared in confequence of the faid act, by the committee of proprietors appointed by the general court of the 7th of December laft, as amended by the general court, fhall be the inftructions recommended by the general court to be fent by the court of directors to the precedency of Fort William in Bengal:' when, at the clofe of the ballot, the numbers ftood as follow:

For the directors inftructions 406
For the committee of pro-
prietors inftructions
Majority in favour of the di-

rectors

308

98 Yesterday the important queftion relative to the legality of General Ganfel's imprisonment came to be argued in the court of King'sbench. The matter of fact and law was very ably argued and difcuffed on both fides, by Meif. Wallace, Bearcroft, and Buller, in favour of the caption; and Meff. Dunning, Mansfield, and Morgan in behalf of the general. The court, however, on account of the extreme difficulty of the cafe, as well as its high relative importance to the community at large, deferred giving an opinion till fome future day. The fact to be decided

The following remarkable infeription is engraved on a tombftone in Conway church-yard, Carnarvonthire; "Here lieth the body of Nicholas Brookes, of Conway, Carnarvonthire, who was the 41tt child of William Brookes, Efq; by Alice his wife, and father of 27 children; who died the 20th of March, in the year of our Lord 1637."

Robert Leigh, after the expiration of a week's refpite, was executed at Tyburn.

26th.

The brewers in this metropolis have left off brewing during the laft month, which has greatly diftreffed the diftillers, bakers, &c.

On the fourth inftant at Haverfham, Bucks, a very fingular inquifition was taken by the coroner for the faid county on view of the bodies of one male and two female baftard children, found fecreted behind the chimney of a houfe at that place, occupied for fome time paft by a man and his daughter; when it appeared upon the examination of divers witneffes, and the confeffion of the daughter, that the had criminally cohabited with her father by whom he had all the above-named infants; that the was from time to time privately delivered of them all; that two of them were born alive, and immediately murdered by her father; that the laft was fill-born; and that all three were fecreted by her

faid