try fervice, in the rivers Gambia and Senegal. A draining plough, the invention of Mr. Randall, was tried near York. It is faid, this plough will drain more ground in a day, than feveral hundred men can in the fame time. The drains it cut upon this trial were 12 inches deep, 20 inches wide at the top, and 10 inches wide at the bottom, and floped equally on both fides. Accounts from divers parts of the country mention fo great a fall of fnow, that several sheep had been loft in the drifts, and that the roads in feveral places were impaffable. There was a trial lately at Guildhall upon a question whether a handkerchief seized upon a lady, was a French cambrick; the thing being clearly proved, he was condemned to pay 2001. A treaty has lately been concluded between the Emperor of Germany and the Emprefs of Ruf fa, for reciprocally guaranteeing their respective dominions, againft the common enemy of Chriftendom. The merits of the long con28. tefted election relating to the rectory of Blackfriars, was argued before the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor in the court of Chancery at Westminster-Hall, when his Lordship was pleased to make a decree in favour of the Rev. Mr. Romaine. It was the opinion of the court that the inhabitants had no right to reduce the number of candidates at the first ele&ion, which of course made it void; and on the second election, in which the only candidates were the Rev. Mr. Romaine, and the Rev. Mr. Smith, the former had the majority. The feat of Mr. Dymoke, cham pion of England, near Horncastle, in Lincolnshire, has been confumed by fire. Heads of a bill were laid before the Irish parliament for eftablishing public granaries in the cities of Dublin and Corke. His ferene Highnefs the prince of Brunswick was yesterday at the parliament-houfe, which was ful ler than has been known for many years. The ironmongers company have prefented to Alderman Allop, a fervice of plate, for the good offices he did them in Ireland. The sheriffs and commons of Dublin having delivered a petition to the general affembly of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Dublin, praying that an annual ftipend of 3651. be granted to Dr. Charles Lucas, for his faithful and difinterested conduct in parliament, that affembly thought proper to put a negative upon the fame, thinking themfelves bound to difcountenance alarms, which, however groundiefs, may disturb the minds of well intending citizens. The following odd circumstance lately happened at Durley in Berkfire: Mr. Durnford, of that place, having ordered his dog to be hanged, the perfon who performed the office having ftruck it on the head, in order to break the fkull, and fuppofing him to be dead from the time of his hanging, threw him into a well thirty feet deep, where he continued twelve days; when being accidentally heard to make a noife, he was taken up, and is now living. Mr. Ellington, a baize factor, has prefented the Mayor of Col[E] 3 chetter, chefter, and his fucceffors, a rich gold chain, &c. to be worn by them. The body of the late King of Denmark, having been embalmed, lies now in ftate upon a bed prepared for that purpose, in the great faloon, where drawing rooms uled to be kept at court. After they took all the baggage belong. in to the commanding officer, and every thing else they could carry off: and that Col. Reid, with a detachment from the 21ft and 34th regiments, was gone to retake poffeffion of that poft. gust 29, 1765. having been exposed fome time to Extract of a letter from Baffora, Authe public in this manner, it is to be removed to a magnificent caftrum doloris in the chapel royal; and from thence, after another interval, to be removed in proceffion to the cathedral church of Rofchild, the ufual burying place of the Danish monarchs; but it is believed the preparations for the folemnity of this grand funeral, cannot be ready before the middle of March. We have advice from Cape Francois, that the French general, in confequence of advice from Old France, had given orders to seize all English veffels that did not leave the island in 48 hours; accordingly three or four belonging to New York, were seized, and all the people imprisoned, except Capt. Montgomery, who at that time lay fick on fhore, and hearing how things were, thought it better to make his efcape than go to gaol, and accordingly in difguife, he went on board a brig, which put into the Cape in diftrels, but was ordered to depart in 48 hours, which he did, and got into North Carolina. By Capt. Dyer, from Penfacola, we are informed that the Albama Indians had deftroyed the fortifications at Aberville, erected there by Major Farmer, and had thrown the guns into the Miffifippi; that "The Schec Soliman Scha Habe, the fame whom Kerim Kan undertook lately to fubject, feized, about the end of last month, two English veffels coming from Bengal with rich cargoes, and a floop from the fame nation, which was coming from Bender Boucher. He has been induced to this act of hoftility, in order to avenge himfelf of the English, who on different occafions had affifted the Turks and Perfians against him with their vessels. The Sieur Reinck, the English conful at Baffora, has purchafed, by dint of prefents, the freedom of his countrymen, who were on board thofe veflels; but the Schec will neither reftore the veflels themfelves, nor their cargoes, till he has been indemnified for the loffes which he pretends to have fuffered by the conduct of the English who have refided here. As be has at prefent under his command 14 galliots, exclufive of the three veffels which he has taken, he may render himself very formidable in the river of Bal fora." Advices from Brittany are full of the diforders occafioned there by the fufpenfion of the parliament, and the flop put to the ufual courfe of juftice. The whole province, at the the time when thefe advices came away, was in the utmost confufion; but it was hoped the re-establifhment of the parliament, or at leaft the arrival of the duke d'Aiguillon, would restore all things to proper order. Letters from Port l'Orient advile, that the French Eaft India Company propofe establishing two confiderable fettlements this fummer on the Island of Madagascar. The French Goree merchants have entered into a new contract with the Havannah company, for the annual fupply of flaves from the coaft of Africa. 29. We hear from Whitehaven, that a few days ago a man in that town having fome difference with his fon, decoyed the lad into a neighbouring wood, and after putting an inftrument into his mouth, to prevent his cries being heard, cut off his fingers and toes, and left him tied faft to a tree; a perfon paffing that way fome time after, released him, but by lofs of blood he expired foon after. It is faid that a confiderable hat manufactory is going to be established by fome merchants in the Ifle of Man. As Mr. Bainbridge of Bolton, near Lancaster, was attempting to crofs, the Seven-mile fands, in a thick fog, he loft his road, and wandered about till the flood-tide came in and furrounded him; he killed his horfe galloping back wards and forwards, to efcape the tide; and was fortunately taken up (after floating on the furface of the water about five hours) feated on the dead horfe, motionlefs, and benumbed with cold, by two youths, belonging to the floop Providence, from Milathorp, then riding at anchor (fince arrived), who towed him with their boat to the fide of the veffel, hoisted with a tackle on board, rolled and rubbed his body, and finding fome appearance of life, ftripped him, and cloathed him with dry cloaths, and applied fome brandy and water to his mouth, which, with great difficulty, they got down his throat. Life vifibly returning, they carried him in their boat to a public houfe, where, after putting him in a warm bed, he recovered in a few hours. We have received the following extraordinary account from Sunderland, viz. Not long ago, a countryman making up a hedge near an old ftone quarry, went to eat his dinner, (which he had with him) in a deep cavity or hollow place to be sheltered from the weather; and as he went along, pulled off his hedging gloves or mittens, and threw them down at fome distance from one another: being at his repaft, he observed a raven take up one of them, with which it flew away; and very foon after the raven returned, lighted upon the ground, took up the other mitten, and went off with it as before; being furprised, he rose to fee if he could find out the reafon of fo odd an accident, and to obferve what became of the mittens; and he was hardly got clear from it, before the ground, full of loofe pieces of the rock, tumbled down into the very place where he had been feated; and where, if he had continued a minute longer, he muft have been crushed to pieces. The following uncommon inftance of fertility will doubtless engage the attention of the cu(E) + rious rious among the gentlemen of the faculty. On the tenth of Auguft laft, the miftrefs of the Blue Lion, in Alderfgate-street, was fafely delivered of a fine boy in its full time, and three days after he felt hetfelf pregnant with another; and on the feventh of this month fhe was fafely delivered of another fine boy in its full time, and is at this time healthy and well. A remarkable inftance of fuperfotation, the poffibility of which has hitherto been much difputed among the learned of the faculty. A fimilar inftance happened to the fame perfon about a year and a half ago, with this difference only, that the former was at a distance of four months. They write from Jamaica, that the bay-men at Honduras have tranfmitted great complaints against the irregular proceedings of the French, who are faid to have upwards of forty fail, from Martinico, employed in the logwood trade. About the middle of October, Mr. Bolwell, a Scots gentleman upon his travels over Europe, failed from the port of Leghorn for the ifland of Corfica, with a very ample and particular pafiport from Commodore Harrifon. He landed on Cape Corfo, and went above a hundred miles into the territories of the male-contents, as they were formerly called, but muft now have the title of the nation. found Signor Paoli in one of the provinces on the other fide of the great range of mountains which divides the inland. He, no doubt, prefented to that chief very futhi cient recommendations, for he was received by him with every mark of diftinction, was lodged in a pa He lace of the noble family of Colon na, and whenever he chose to make a little tour, was attended by a detachment of guards. He paft ten or twelve days with general de Paoli, dined and fupped with him conftantly, and was daily in private conference with him for fome hours. Mr. Bofwell gave it out at Leghorn, that he went to Corfica merely for curiofity, but the politicians of Italy think they can fee more important reafons for his vifiting that island. The froft has been lately fo fevere at Ratifborn, that birds fell down dead with the cold. Reaumur's thermometer was two degrees lower on that day, than in the fevere weather in 1709. At Naples alfo the weather was fo exceffively fevere, that the fnow lay knee deep in the streets; mount Veluvius was alfo covered with fnow at the fame time throwing up fire and black fmoke, which made a moft aftonishing appearance. An eruption of the lava is foon expected, as the agitation of the mountain increafes. About this time the wolves in various places on the continent became fo ravenous, that they quitted the forefts, and killed many travellers. Reaumur's thermometer, at Lifbon, was on the 25th 3 and a half degrees below the freezing point. de Ourique, just above Bon Morte. The Count La Lippe's confirmation of the sentence paffed on him by the court-martial, came by the packet-boat from England, on the 11th inft. and on the 14th he was fhot. "The king being out of town on a hunting-party at Palma, as foon as Graveron knew his fate, he dispatched his fon to beg a fufpenfion or pardon; but the diftance was fo great, that it was impoffible to know the king's pleafure or answer before fentence was executed, (and probably fo calculated for the purpose). He was brought to the field in an escorted chaife, from whence he jumped out of himself, and threw off his cloak to meet his fate with a decent, though manly refolution; but with what justice God knows. It is faid, that he wanted to pafs himself as the true Graveron, treating his own fon, as coufin, and concealing his having been married in France; that he received a hundred doubloons every month to be employed in raifing recruits among the Swifs and Germans, which he laid out in enlifting deferters; that he had pretened places for foldiers, who exifted not; that he gave not the allowance to his prisoners; that he embezzled, &c." cident happened at Carpentras, in the diftrict of Avignon. An inhabitant of that place had married his daughter, and the weddingday being paffed with the ufual merriment, the new married couple were conducted to their apartment. The next day, as neither of them made their appearance, after waiting till it was very late, a perfon was fent to call them: but as nobody anfwered, and the window-fhutters being open, they got a ladder and looked in at the window, when they found the young woman dragged upon the floor all over blood, and the husband tearing her with his teeth, and devouring her. It is impoffible to exprefs the horror which such a shocking spectacle muft occafion. They immediately broke open the door, but too late to fave the poor woman, who was quite dead, and almoft torn to pieces. They were at a lofs to know to what to attribute this fhocking cataftrophe, but the footman of the new-married man recollected that his mafter had fome time before been bit by a mad dog, which they were convinced must be the caufe of it. They thought it expedient to fhoot the unhappy man, which was done upon the spot. On the 21ft in the afternoon, the funeral obfequies were performed The wild boars, the hunting of at Venice for the late great Chanwhich is a royal diverfion in Ger- cellor, with much the fame pomp many, are grown fo numerous in and ceremony as are obferved for the forests there, and so ravenous, a doge. All the fecular clergy of that it has been thought neceflary Venice walked in proceffion with to give a general licence for lighted wax candles in their hands, their deftru&tion, in confequence from St. Mark's church, and of which 1400 of them have been through St. Mark's place, to the killed in the forefts of Schonbrun church of St. John and Paul, folonly. lowed by the fchool or confraterThe following melancholy ac- nity of St. Mark, with great num ber's |