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St. James's, July 4.

HE king was this day pleafed to confer the honour of knighthood on John Collins, Efq; captain in his majefty's navy. Whitehall, July 5. The king has been pleafed to appoint William Campbell, Efq. to be one of the commiffioners in quality of a principal officer of his majefty's navy.

Whitehall, July 12. The king has been pleafed to grant to Thomas Stallard, of the city of London, and alfo of the Moor, in the county of Hereford, Efq. and his iffue (purfuant to the laft will of Thomas Pennoyre of the Moore aforefaid, Efq. his late ancle deceased) his royal licence and authority to take and ufe the furname of Pennoyre, in addition to that of Stallard; and alfo to order, that this his majesty's conceffion be registered in his college of arms.

The king has been pleafed to appoint the right Hon. James earl of Charlemont, Henry Grattan, Efq. and Charles Tottenham Loftus, Efq. to be of his majesty's most honourable privy council in the kingdom of Ireland.

Whitehall, July 15. Sonday night laft dieutenant Foliot, of the Baracoota cutter, arrived with dispatches from his excellency Sir Roger Curtis, Knt. his majesty's ambaffador to the emperor of Morocco, dated Gibraltar, June 14, in which he gives an account that the former treaties of friendhip and.commerce had been renewed and confirmed, and that additional articles, for the better regulation of the commerce between the two nations, were concluded and Signed at Sallee on the 24th of May lait.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Conftantinople, June 10.

DIARY.

it till he fhould have received an anfwer from his court relative to the abdication of the former Cham.

Schweidnitz, June 25. On the 22d of this month the county of Glatz was visited with fo dreadful a ftorm that there was no diftinguithing it from an earthquake. The whole country was entirely overflowed by the violence of the rains, which like a deluge carried away all the bridges that have been built for thefe 250 years. The claps of thunder were fo violent, that feveral chimneys were thrown down, and walls fhattered. Whole villages alfo were swept away by the fury of the torrents. Several hundred perfons were drowned, and a great number of cattle loft. At Glatz, the falt and other magazines, with the barracks, were filled with water. Our advices from Bohemia are as melancholy, and contain a detail of feveral very unhappy accidents.

Paris, July 4. The general fubject of converfation here at prefent is, the approaching war between Ruffia and the Porte; but no one is able to determine whether the emperor will take part in it or not: on the other hand, by the pains our ministry seem to take to accelerate the figning of the treaty of peace with England, it feems as if they had fomething great in view, and wifhed to be at liberty to purfue it.

IRELAND.

Dublin, July 8. Some of the poor ma nufacturers of the liberty, who have long in filence borne the oppreffive hand of famine and indigence, in hopes of the effequal interference of the opulent in their behalf, at length 1oufed to a degree of madnefs by their extreme fufferings, and abfolute defpair of relief, did, yesterday evening, commence cutting the muflins and pankeens, in the drefs of every perfon they met with. Their rage was directed folely against the fabrics, which, in part, occafion their misfortunes; the perfons of the wearers they held facred.

me to call you together again at an carly period; and I perfuade myfelf, from my uniform erience of your affection to me, and your zeal for the public good, that you will chearfully fubmit to a temporary inconvenience, for the permanent advantage of your country.

"The confideration of the affairs of the East Indies will require to be refumed as early as poffible; and to be pursued with a ferious and unremitting attention.

"I expected to have had the fatisfaction of acquainting you, before the end of the feffion, that the terms of pacification were definitively fettled: but the complicated ftate of the bufinefs in difcuffion has unavoidably protracted the negociation. I have however every reafon to believe, from the difpontions thewn by the (everal powers concerned, that they are perfly well inclined to fuch a conclufion as may fecure the bleffings of peace, fo much and fo equally to be defired by all parties.

"Gentlemen of the houfe of commons. "I THANK you for the fupplies you have fo liberally granted for the public fervice; for facilitating my arrangements towards a feparate effablishment for the prince of Wales; and for enabling me, without any new burthen on my people, to difcharge the debt which remained on my civil litt.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"I EARNESTLY recommend to you an attention towards promoting among my people, in your feveral counties, that fpirit of order, regularity and induftry, which is the true fource of revenue and power in this nation; and without which, all regulations for the improvement of the one, or the increase of the other, will have, no effect."

After which the parliament was prorogued to the 9th day of September.

We have the pleafure to inform the pubic, from undoubted authority, that the Fox packet juft arrived, which failed from Bengal the 17th of February, and from St. Helena the 17th of May, brings the following intelligence:

Peace with the Marattas was ratified by the Minifters at Poona.

Hyder lly died in December laft; and Tippoo Saib had expreffed his withes for peace.

The French fleet under Suffrein was upon the coaft; had taken the Coventry frigate and Blandford Indiaman; the latter returning from Madras in ballast.

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Medea had re-taken the Chacer loop of war, priced g from Trincomale, with difpatches from Mi, Bully to Suff ein.

Buffy was in very great diftrefs at Trincomale, and unable to proceed, his mea dying daily of a dyfentery.

The Locko Indiaman, from China, was arrived at St. Helena with a prize; the remaining five China fhips were hourly expected at St. Helena.

The greatest harmony prevailed in the fupreme council at Calcutta; all party diffenfions were at an end, and a thorough reform had taken place in all the public offices. Mr. Haftings was perfectly recovered.

According to advices from Vienna a teaty is negociating between the emperor and the kings of Prufha, Denmark, and Sweden, whereby they ftipulate jointly to oppofe the attempts of the Turkish armies to penetrate into the German dorninions.

A letter from Hanover fays, that according to the preparations making by all the German princes in augmenting their armies, and collecting together ftores, &c. a continental war is thought to be near at hand.

A letter from Leghorn fays that they have learnt, by a veffel arrived there from the coast of Barbary, that the Dey of Algiers having advice that the Spaniards intend to pay him a vifit, is preparing to give them a warm reception; and that he intended the Spanish prifoners thould be fet in front of the works, for which purpose they are brought to Algiers. from the internal parts of the country.

According to letters from Baftia, in the ifland of Corfica, the town of St. Fiorenzo was deftroyed, and a great number of the inhabitants have perished, by a moft tremendous thunder ftorm.

Advices are received from Boston, and other parts of America, that ships are lading at every port with the feveral productions of that country for London, and other ports in England; and that it is generally believed that the chief part of their trade will be given to their mother country.

The last accounts from New England concur in admitting, that though the people there are uncommonly cruel in their pro ceedings against the American Loyalifts, yet the religious malignity with which the fectaries purfued thofe who adhered to the eftablished church was confiderably relaxed; the times, with refpect to toleration, growing more mild (fince the conclufion of the war) and happier profpects breaking forth. The church of England people are fuffered to live more quietly; the churches are again opened, and divine fervice performed, wherever there are clergymen to officiate, many of whom are greatly ef teemed by the New-England congregations for their fteady conduct in diligently attending to the duties of their callings, and preaching

preaching the gofpel unmixed with the politics of the day.

Among a variety of inftances of official bufinefs which are ftated in the tenth report of the commiffioners of accounts, that was on Thursday last delivered to both houfes of parliament, is the following extraordinary fact, viz. "That there are one hundred and feventy millions of the public money outstanding and unaccounted for in the hands of fix perfons, whofe names are mentioned in the report."

It is the intention of minifters to appoint a Board of Commiffioners to enquire into the claims of the Loyalifts, and afcertain the real amount of their loffes, that the relief may be proportioned to their fufferings, and that the neceffary diftinctions may be made between real and affected grievances. This board is to confift of five members, and gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons are not to be excluded from it. They are alfo to have the whole bufinefs of the commercial fyftem between this country and Ame rica fubmitted to their care, that they may regulate and give effect to the new establishment, and prevent, as much as poffible, all appeals for the conftruction of acts to Weftminster-hall.

A fubfcription is going forward amongst fome men of large fortune, for raifing the fum of 16,000l. to fit out a fhip for a voy age of fcience to the South Seas, and round the world. Some of the principal of the literati are engaged, in order that obfervations and experiments may be made in every branch of human knowledge. It is to include an attempt to reach the North Pole. A party by land for the fake of obfervations are to crofs the whole continent of North America, to meet the fhip at the port of Sir Francis Drake, to the North of California. Sir Jofeph Banks and Dr. Heberden are in the fubfcri tion, and Dr. Priefly is to make the voyage. Lord Shelburne offers to be at the expence of fending a naturalift by land from Peterburgh to Kamfchatska, to meet the fhip there alfo. A fettlement is to be made, and left at NewZealand, merely for the purpose of cultivating and making experiments on the New-Zealand hemp, and other curious plants, which may be examined by refiding two or three years there.

We are affured that the lord bishop of Chefter, with the benevolence which has ever diftinguifhed his character, is indefatigable in his endeavours to refcue the nein our groes Weft India iflands from the abject, uncivilized, oppreffed, and immoral ftate, in which they have fo long been fuffered to remain. If there are any human beings in the world, who concentrate in themfelves every fpecies of mifery, they are Lurely that unhappy race, the African ne

groes, who are in general confidered, by their mafters, as mere machines to work with; as having neither understandings to be cultivated, nor fouls to be faved! To the greater part of this clafs of our fellow ereatures not fo much as the mere ceremony of baptifm is administered, and fcarce any enjoy fufficient leisure from their labour to preferve them in health, or to be informed of the duties of morality or religion!

The efforts of the above amiable prelate, united with those of the venerable fociety for the propagation of the gofpel in foreign parts, it is to be hoped, will excite the attention of government to this important object as it highly becomes the wisdom of the provincial legillatures to give fome countenance to the wretched Africans who groan under their power; and to enact, as the French government has long fince done, a code of laws for their protection, their fecurity, their encouragement, their im provement, and their converfion.

The number of flaves in the feveral Weft India islands now in our poffeffion, or to be restored to us by the late treaty of peace, amount to upwards of Four Hundred Thouand!-Nineteen of whom out of twenty live without any one principle either of natural or revealed religion, without the practice of any moral duty, except that of performing their daily task, and efcaping the fcourge that constantly hangs over them.

On the rft inft. a court of aldermen was held at Guildhall, at which were prefent the lord mayor, recorder, and nineteen aldermen. Previous to which Mr. Wooldridge, late alderman of Bridge Ward, feated himself on the bench in his former fituation. When the bufinefs was commencing, the lord mayor informed Mr. Wooldridge, that he had, for just caufes and complaints, been difplaced from his office, and therefore he must not attempt to remain on the bench without meeting difagreeable confequences.-Mr. Wooldridge continued in ftatu quo, and Mr. alderman Turner rofe to inform him, that unless he quietly withdrew, the dignity of the court, of which he was no longer a member, would be fupported, and he neceffarily must expect to be turned out by the peace officers. Mr. Wooldridge then peaceably quited the room, faying he thould apply to the Court of King's Bench.

The 3d in. earl Mansfield gave judg ment in the Court of King's Bench, against Lord Portchefter, in the long depending caufe between his lordthip and Mr. Petre, refpecting the damages recovered in the actions for bribery at the general election at Cricklade.

By this determination, we understand,

Mr.

Mr. Petre will recover the fum of 14,000l. befides cofts of fuit, which, it is fuppofed, will amount to 10,000l. more.

Saturday came on in his majefty's court of King's Bench, before earl Mansfield, the trial in the caufe of the king on the profecution of Mr. William Bennet, againft Christopher Atkinfon, Efq. for wilful and corrupt perjury.-The indictment contained nine counts, each upon a fpecific charge. The facts stated on the part of the profecution were, that the defendant, Chriftopher Atkinfon, Efq. had made a contract with the commiffioners of his majesty's navy, for the purpofe of fupplying a certain quantity of corn, the condition of which agreement was, that Mr. Atkinfon fhould have commiffion upon faid quantity of corn as a compenfation for his trouble in purchafing the fame, but fhould not charge any profit upon the price paid by him to the cornholders, or be entitled to any profit whatfoever, except the faid commiffion.-1 hat the corn being delivered by Mr. Atkinson, he gave in his accounts fpecifying the names of the perfons from whom he had purchafed, the prices paid by him to each perfon refpectively,andcharging his commiffion thereon, which faid accounts were refpectively delivered in upon the oath of the faid Atkinfon.-That in each of thefe accounts ftated in the indictment, Mr. Atkinfon had charged the commiffioners of his majefty's navy with an advanced price, beyond what he had paid to the corn-fellers, with an intent to defraud, and, having done fo, was thereby guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury-To each of the nine counts Mr. Atkinfon pleaded Not Guilty.

In fupport of thefe facts Mr. Bennet and feveral other witneffes were called, the amount of whofe evidence came to this, that Mr. Atkinfon had charged in the accounts delivered by him to the commifioners of the navy, of corn purchased for their ufe, prices exceeding what he had paid.

On the part of the defendant, nothing material was produced.

Earl Mansfield, in his charge to the jury, ftated the agreement made between the de fendant and the commiffioners, and obferved, that the only point for their confideration was, whether the defendant had charged higher prices than he paid? if they thought he had, they must find him guilty; if not, they must acquit him.

The jury, after a fhort confideration, brought in their verdict GUILTY.

Sentence, as ufual in fuch cafes, was poftponed till the enfuing term, Mr. Atkinfon giving bail for his appearance.

On Friday the 18th inft, an information filed against Mr. Charles Bembridge (late accountant of the pay-office) by his majefty's attorney-general, charging the faid Mr.

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Bembridge with neglect of duty, in having connived at the concealment of certain items in the account chargeable to the late lord Holland, (as paymaster-general of his majefty's land forces) to the amount of forty-eight thoufand, feven hundred, and nine pounds, ten fhillings, and a fraction, came on to be tried before the earl of Mansfield, and a fpecial jury, in the Court of King's Bench, in Weftminfter-hall; when after a long trial the jury brought in their verdict, GUILTY.

On Wednesday the 16th a young man, who pretended he belonged to the navy, pafled under a long private examination before alderman Hart, on a charge of a forgery on the bank of Newcastle, for 1531. The fact being proved by three gentlemen belonging to the houfe, and his perfon being fworn to, he was committed to Newgate till he can be removed from thence to Newcastle to be tried for the fact.

During the course of the month, various accounts have been received from different parts of the country of dreadful ftorms of thunder, lightening, hail and rain: At Leicester befides cattle being killed, a ball of fire fell in Bath gardens which did fome damage; feveral perfons were ftruck with lightening, but recovered.--At Exeter feveral mills and other places were burnt down. In Lincolnshire, at Sleaford, feveral haystacks were fet on fire, and many horfes, cows, fheep, &c. killed; and ar Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, John Kenfhaw, farmer of Selfton, and his horfe, were both ftruck dead. At a village rear Yarmouth, Norfolk, part of a flock of theep were truck dead. At Leeds, York, and feveral places in that county, the ftorms have been equally violent, and have done great damage.

Extract of a letter from Huntingdon, July 4.

On Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, there was a violent ftorm of thunder sand lightening atFenftanton, and that neighbourhood. A fire-ball fell on a barn belonging to Mr. Hipwell of Fenftanton, to which it fet fire, and the flames were inftantly communicated to the houfe of a poor weaver at fome yards diftance, whofe whole property, together with a quantity of cloth belonging to his employers, was confumed. Six dwelling-houfes, with feveral barns, out-houfes, &c. were deftroyed., A haystack continued burning yesterday morning, and labouring man going into a ftable in order to bring out a horfe, received a violent kick, and died inftantly.

"There is great reafon to apprehend that the above ftorm was very fatal in many other places. A daughter of the Rev. Mr. Cranwell, of Abbot's Ripton, in this county, was ftruck dead by lightening., A young woman at Hilton, and a lad at Needingworth, met with a fimilar fate.

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"At Stilton the rain was fo violent, that the waters rofe to the height of four feet perpendicular in fome of the inn-yards, and great quantities of hay from the meadows were carried away by the floods."

Letter from Chatham, July 17. "At a Court Martial held here, compofed of twelve Captains, and Sir Hyde Parker, prefident, The following prifoners for mutiny, on board the Raifonable, Lord Hervey, commander, took their trials: when the evidence being fummed up, and the charge fully proved against seven, and partly proved three others, the following fentence was paffed,

"Benj. Gravat, Geo. Wright, Rob. Dible, Will. Marlow, Will. Thompson, Thos. Snudon, and Jacob Francis-DEATH. "Samuel Pile, Will. Day, and Jacob Collins-to have 300 lafhes each.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS. 7th Reg. of Dragoons. Geo. Street,cornet. 16th reg. foot. Henry Craig, lieutenantcolonel. Hugh Wallace, lieutenant.

40th reg. foot. Nathaniel Coffin, enfign. Peter Cuninghame,lieutenant.'

43d reg. foot. 86th reg. foot. 82d reg. foot. lieutenant-col.

John Marland, lieut.
Samuel Chambers, lieut.
The Hon. Colin Lindsay,

92d reg. foot. Bates Watfon, lieutenant.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Charles Tarrant, D. D. impowered by difpenfation to hold, together with the rectory of St. George, Bloomsbury, the vicarage of Wrotham, with the chapels of Plaxtol and Stanfted, and the rectory of Woodland, in the county of Kent.

The Rev. J. Pridden, B. A. of Queen's college, Oxford, to the living of Heybridge in Effex, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Hayes, refigned.

Difpenfations have paffed the great feal for the following preferments:

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The Rev. Thomas Phelps to the vicarage of Haddenham in the county of Bucks, with the vicarage of Kingsey in the fame county.-The Rev. Charles Warneford to hold with the vicarage of Quinton in Gloucestershire the vicarage of Shuftocke in Warwickshire.-The Rev. Charles Morgan to hold with the rectory of Whitborne in Herefordshire, the vicarage of Lidney, with the chapels of Alberton, Heversfield and St. Brevils in Gloucestershire. Rev. Peter Wade, M. A. to hold the rectory of Cowling, with the vicarage of West Peckham, in the county of Kent, and diocefe of Rochester.

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The Rev. Brook Bridges to hold with the rectory of Danbury in Effex, the rectory of Woodham Ferrers in the fame county.

The Rev. James Gerrard, clerk, D. D. (late warden of Wadham college, Oxford, to the rectory of Monk's Ritborough, in the county of Bucks and peculiar jurifdi&tion of Canterbury, worth upwards of 300l. per

annum.

The Rev. Charles John Gough, LL. B. to hold the vicarage of New-church in the Ifle of Wight, with the rectory of Bradley, both in the diocefe of Winchester, and county of Southampton.

The Rev. Thomas Cotes, M. A. to the vicarage of Stanwell, in the county of Middlefex, and diocefe of London.

The Rev. John Wills, A. M. fellow of Wadham college, Oxford, elected to the wardenship of that fociety, void by the refignation of the Rev. Dr. James Gerrard.

BIRTH.

Of a fon, the lady of the Hon. Mr. Walpole, at his houfe at Whitehall.

MARRIAGE S.

The right Hon. the earl of Chatham to the Hon. Mifs Townfhend, daughter of lord Sydney.

Lewis Majendie, Efq. captain in the king's regiment of light dragoons, to Mifs Houghton, daughter of Sir Henry Houghton, of Houghton tower, in the county of Lancafter.

Edmund Bramfton, Efq. of Hull, banker, to Mrs. Outram, of the fame place.

DEATHS.

Suddenly, as he was finoaking his pipe after dinner, Mr. Larking, tobacconist, in the Borough.

William Clayton, Efq. member for Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

The Rev. Mr. William Harper, rector of Eafington in Yorkshire, and vicar of Stanwell.

At Wigan in Lancashire, the Rev. John Kynafton, M. A. fenior fellow of Brazennofe college, Oxford.

Lady Catharine Bouverie, daughter of the earl of Dunmore.

At his houfe at Huy, near Leige, gen. Lloyd.

At Edinburgh, the right Hon. James lord Ruthven.

Raving mad, Mr. Caftleton, brewer in Tooley-ftrect; he was bit about three years ago by a favourite spaniel, and went down immediately after the accident to the falt water, and never felt any ill effects till three weeks before his death.

At Bath the Rev. John Lewis, A. M. dean of Offory, in Ireland.

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