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PORTUGAL. HE king of Portugal has given orders, that for the future no perfon condemned to death by the inquifition, fhall be executed, until the fentence has been feen and approved by his council, and figned by his majefty; and at the fame time he has given great fatisfaction to the people at Lifbon, by obtaining of the court of Spain, an explanation of the treaty concluded by his father, by which it is ftipulated, that the limits of the two empires in America fhall be marked out and fully fettled, before the town of Sacrament be given up: And that the term of five years fhall be allowed for that purpose; in which time the merchants hope, that fome new incident may happen for preventing the ceffion of that town, which they look on as the bulwark of the mines in Brazil, and their chief mart in that part of the world.

There has been a violent Earthquake in the Inland of St Vincent in the Brazils, by which the town of Santos and part of the fortrefs of St Vincent were deftroy'd. By the mafters of several fhips from the Levant, we hear that the plague, which has raged there for fometime, has entirely ceased.

SPAIN.

Madrid, Dec. 3. N. S. Mr Keene delivered his mafter's ratification of the new treaty of convention, and at the fame time communicated to our minifters a new commiffion, with which he is charged, of infinitely more importance than that which he had fo happily concluded; which are, That having complain'd to the Spanish Miniftry of the new Depredations committed by their Garda de la Coftas in the Weft-Indies, M. de Carvajal made Anfwer, That all Depredations, or illegal Vifits, if any fuch had been committed, would ceafe of course, as foon as they should be inform'd in America of the Treaty lately concluded between the two Crowns, and receive ⚫rders concerning the manner in

which his Catholick Majefty pretends they fhall behave there towards Englifh fhips failing directly to their own Colonies: And that as for the laft depredations complained of, they fhould be enquir'd into with the most fcrupulous attention, and due fatisfaction made for the damage done to the owners of any veffels that may have been anjuftly taken or visited. ITALY.

The Genoefe have at laft agreed on a regulation of their bank of St. George, which bears date the 12th ult. N. S. and was published the 6th inst. In the preamble they emphatically fet forth the misfortunes brought upon the republick in the year 1746, which forced them, for the first time, to lay hands on the facred depofi, to draw out of it fifteen millions of livers, and confequently to ftop payment of its notes. Now to reftore the credit of this bank, they have determined, that in a very short time all the old bills and notes of this bank fhall be united, and conftitute a new fund, to be called Confecrazione, and to be divided into fo many actions or fhares, of 200 livers each, bank money, which actions fhall every year in certain portions be publickly drawn by lot, and paid by the treasurer according to their juft value of 200 effective livers, bank money. As a finking fund for this purpose, the republick has made over to the house of St. George, as they call the bank, feveral new duties; and to make this fund the more confiderable, the house is to pay out of its old income, half the intereft fettled upon the actions of the new ftock, till its entire extinction.

The infanta, duchefs of Parma, was on the 2d. inft. N. S. brought to bed. of a prince.

Naples, Jan, 29. The new gang of freebooters, who have affembled themselves together in Terracina and the Parts adjacent, being the remnants of the party, under that notorious villain Maftrigly, and who have at prefent at their Head, as their captains

TURKEY.

The grand fignior has admitted even to the moft fecret confultations of the divan, the fultan Ibrahim, his nephew, the fon of Achmet III. depofed in 1704, and who was declared fucceffor to the empire in March 1736. This prince is much beloved by the Janiffaries, because they perceive in him a martial genius, which they like in their fovereigns. This difpofition makes them fomewhat difpleafed with the pacifick reign of the prefent fultan, who has depofed four grand vizirs, because their meafures were fuch as tended to engage him in it. FRANCE.

The chriftenings in Paris for the year 1750 amount to 19035, marriages 4619, burials 18084, foundling children 3785.

An edict for eftablishing a royal military School imports, that there fhall be eight claffes of children admitted into it. The 1ft compofed of orphans, whofe fathers have been killed in the service, or died of their wounds. The 2d, of children whofe fathers have died of a natural death in the fervice, or retired after having been 30 years in commiffion. The 3d of children burthenfome to their mothers, and whofe fathers were killed in the fervice. The 4th, of children burthenfome to their mothers, and whofe fathers died in the fervice, or retired after having been 30 years in commiffion. The 5th, of thofe whofe fathers are actually in the fervice. The 6th, of thofe whofe fathers fhall have quitted the fervice because of their infirmities or age.

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The 7th, of children whofe fathers have not ferved, but whofe ancestors have. The laft, of children of the other nobleffe, who, through their indigence, fhall have occafion for the affiftance of this fchool. They fhall enjoy the fame rights and privileges' as the hotel royal of invalids.

As his moft chriftian majesty was fome few days ago taking the diverfion of ftag-hunting, the beaft finding himself diftreffed, turned fhort, and made head at his majefty; but Mr. d'Eftournelles being apprehensive of the danger his majesty was in, threw himself in his way, and prevented his progrefs; by which bold and brave attempt, he was wounded in the leg, and his horfe was most desperately gored by the animal's antlers. wards the reft of the sportsmen coming up, gave him a fresh chace, and killed him foon after.

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Two celebrated actors, Ribou and Rozelli, having differed about their characters, in the play of Andromachus, met to difpute the point in the field, when the former was killed upon the spot.

We are affured, that ten men of war of the line will be launch'd in the fpring, and that our marine is intended to be augmented to what it was in the reign of Lewis XIV. it having fince that time been leffened every year, by a different turn of politicks.

NETHERLANDS. From Holland we hear, that the people there are very uneafy about two projects now on foot, one upon the north, and the other upon the south fide of that republick. The first is the Eaft-India company propofed by the king of Pruffia to be fet up in Embden, which may draw many Dutch merchants to fettle there, and very much diminish their exports of EaftIndia goods to the Baltick and Germany; and the other is a canal which is propofed to be made from Oftend, by the way of Bruges, to Ghent, deep and wide enough for three maft fhips; and as from Ghent there is a communication by the river Schelde down to Antwerp, and up the Schelde and the Lys through a great part of Flanders, and fome part of Hainault, they think

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