fome prefent to the charity, retired. The Marquis of Granby ftaid dinner, and fat as prefident in the room of his royal highnefs. The collection at this feaft amounted to 13331. 14s. 6d. The fum of 1761. 10s. was lately paid to the treasurer of the afylum for female orphans, and as much more to the treasurer of the Magdalen charity, by Sir John Fielding, purfuant to the generous direction of John Page, Efq; being the profits arifing, in the courfe of the year 1754, from the fale of Ward's medicines, made up according to the receipt book bequeathed to that gentleman by Mr. Ward. At the late fittings of Nifi prius at Guildhall, came to be tried in the court of King's Bench, a caufe between the affignees of a bankrupt, plaintiffs, and a gentleman of Birchin lane, defendant, upon an action brought to recover back of the defendant a fum of money received by him of the bankrupt at Gibraltar, pursuant to the fentence of the court there, fubfequent to an act of bankruptcy committed in England, but prior to the iffuing of the commiffion; when, after many learned arguments, the court being of opinion that the defendant could not be affected by receiving the money at Gibraltar, the bank rupt laws not extending to that place, the plaintiffs were nonfuited. An account of the annual balances of the dead cash and fecurities of the bank of England belonging to the fuitors in the court of Chancery, from the year 1739 to the 23d of February laft, diftinguishing the dead cash from the fecurities in each year, is now before parliament. It were to be wished that all the dead cafh and unclaimed property in all the funds, and in all the offices of law, and infurance, were to be appropriated by parliament in aid of the fupplies, and to be made good when claimed or determined by law, by a vote of the house. A lady lately deceafed has bequeathed a confiderable fum to pay the creditors of a nephew of hers, who was formerly a grocer in London, and about twenty years ago failed, and paid only 10 s. in the pound. A remarkable inftance of compaffion to diftrefs, or at least attention to family honour! The two gold medals, given annually by his grace the duke of Newcastle, chancellor of the univerfity of Cambridge, for the encouragement of claffical learning, were lately adjudged to Mr. Travis of St. John's, and Mr. Shepperdfon of Trinity college, bachelors of arts. Some weeks ago, one William Stanton, day labourer to Mr. Dodfield, of Breedon, near Tukefbury, Gloucestershire, threshed upwards of fixty bushels of pulfe, between fix in the morning and fix in the evening of the fame day, befides taking it down from the mow himself, and, after it was threshed, helping to winnow it; which was all done, and the grain put in bags, before eight o'clock the fame night; an example of ufeful activity and induftry, which we thought it would be a pity not to record. The number of forces on the peace eftablishment of France, for the prefent year, is fixed at 93,970 effective men. The The great law-fuit, depending before the Parliament of Paris, between the widow and children, &c. of the unfortunate John Calas, and his profecutors and judges, was decided the 9th inftant, being three years to a day after the condemnation and execution of that unfortunate victim to fanaticifm. His widow, his fon, the maid fervant, and Mr. Lavaiffe, were difcharged of the horrid accufation; the late Mr. Calas, the father, declared innocent; his memory of former good reputation re-eftablished, with liberty to his family to profecute the judges, called capitouls, who condemned him; the former process to be cancelled, with the sentence of the faid judges; and the arret of his innocence to be printed, published, and fixed up at all the public courts and places required. The parliament, befides, refolved, that the prefident and his reporter fhall write to the chancellor, defiring him to be pleafed to request the king to take the family of Calas into his royal protection, and to forbid the judges of Tholoufe to make use for the future of proceedings called Brefs Interdits. Inflead of feven judges, who are obliged to fit at every chamber, there fat more than forty on this occafion. The faid prifoners, who had furrendered at the Conciergerie, were cleared and difcharged out of the court by the great ftairs, thro' a vaft crowd of fpectators, fome fhedding tears, and others clapping their hands for joy; and have been fince vifited by perfons of all ranks and religions, fome of whom expreffed the interct they took in their cause by handsome prefents. A committee of twelve eminent practitioners being appointed by the faculty of phyfic at Paris, to examine into the advantages or difadvantages of the practice of inoculating for the fmall-pox, have made their report, that the operation has been and may be attended with fatal effects, and that confequently it ought not to be tolerated. On the other hand, public notice has been given there, that 12,000 livres are depofited with the receiver-general of the finances of the generality of Soiffons, to be given as a reward to any one who shall prove, in the fpace of fix years, to reckon from the first of laft month, that any perfon inoculated for the fmall-pox has afterwards had it in the natural way. The magiftrates of the Hague, in conjunction with the court of Holland, have forbid any perfons being brought there to be inoculated. The spirit of agriculture begins to break out in Spain. A fociety for the improvement of it has been lately established at Corunna, and met, for the first time, on the zoth of January laft. The whole number of perfons, who died laft year at Naples, by the epidemical diftemper, appears, by letters from that place, after all that has been faid of it, to amount at most to thirty thousand fouls. The antiquities of Pompeii, one of the fubterraneous cities difcovered near Naples, now appear to be very numerous. Many of the paintings, ftatues, and mofaics, are capital. The chambers which which were painted are preferved. None of them have windows, but receive all their light by the doors, which are very high in proportion to their width. At Herculaneum two galleries have been discovered, ornamented with paintings. A curule chair was found in each gallery, one of them gilt. At Averfa, 20,000 pieces of gold coin, each of the value of fix carlins, (half a crown) have been dug up. All of them are Saracenical. They were claimed by the fifcal, on behalf of the king. At Brundifi, a hundred rotoli (a weight of about 33 ounces English) of Roman filver denarii, were lately discovered. These denarii began with Septimus Severus, and come down to Philip, the fon, The king had 75 of the rotoli. At Pefto, many fmall curious Etrufcan vafes have been dug up. Mr. Bruce, a Scotch gentleman, caufed the three bafiliche remaining there to be defigned; and fignor Ricciardelli, who was not long ago in England and Ireland, defigned and painted as much of that city, its walls, towers, and other buildings, as could be reprefented in one picture. On the 19th inftant, near half the city of Belgrade was reduced to ashes by fire. The king of Denmark has lately iffued an ordinance, by which the first and fecond lieutenants, both in the foot and horfe fervice, are prohibited from marrying, unless they can make it appear that they have 150 crowns per annum of their own private fortune, exclufive of their pay. The order of peasants in Swe den having lately applied to the general diet of that kingdom, for leave to poffefs land, and to render it hereditary to their families, a privilege hitherto reftricted to the nobleffe; their demand was rejected, a few days after, by the chamber of nobles, after very great debates. The inhabitants of Mexico and other parts of Spanish America, begin to ufe elephants, feveral of these animals having been landed laft year from Africa at La Vera Cruz. His majefty has been pleafed to order that North America be divid ed into two districts, viz. Northern and Southern, by the river Potomack, and a due Weft line drawn from the head of the main branch of that river, as far as his majefty's dominions extend; and that a furveyor-general be appointed in each, to make general furveys both of the fea coafts, and the inland country, in order to facilitate the navigation, and promote the fpeedy fettlement of the new acquifitions. The commiffioners appointed to fettle the new ceded islands in the Weft Indies, are first to divide each ifland into parishes and districts. In every parish they are to trace out a town, its streets, marketplace, and other public places, and then to parcel out the ground into proper allotments to build on, with a small field annexed to each. Where the land is cleared, the purchafers, befides the purchafemoney, are to pay a quit-rent of one penny per foot in front of each town lot, and fix-pence for every acre of the field that accompanies it. If the land be uncleared, it is to granted by the governor, governor, upon fecurity given to build on it, inclofe and fence it, in a reasonable time, and to pay the fame quit-rent. Certain diftricts of wood-land are to be referved to the crown; as woods, by the damps continually exhaling from them, and by the clouds they attract, are well known to furnish a perpetual fupply of moisture, and prevent thofe droughts, which frequently happen in other parts of that climate, where fuch precautions have been neglected. All the neutrals, fo called, who remained at Halifax in Nova Scotia, to the amount of between five and fix. hundred fouls, except four or five families, who took the oath of allegiance, were lately embarked for Cape François. They had in that province the fame allow ance of provifions with the foldiers, in hopes of their becoming fubjects of Great Britain. As they used to fupply the town with firing, their abfence is feverely felt by the inhabitants. Some of thofe people, lately fettled in the Western parts of the province of South Carolina, have already begun to apply themselves to the breeding of filk-worms, in which they had made fome progrefs. For their greater encouragement, the governor has promited 500 dollars premium to the first who fhall produce clb. weight of raw filk, the product of Carolina. The following public notice, fluck up on feveral confpicuous places in the little town of New London, in the province of Connedicut, and likewife published news paper there, befides being curious in itfelf, and fur in a nifhing an ufeful leffon, is a proof, that our brethren of North America have fuch juft notions of police, in fome refpects at leaft, as might do honour to the mother country. "We the fubfcribers, felect men of New London, the current year have diligently inspected into the affairs and bufinefs of N. N. of the faid new London, and find that through idleness, mifmanagement, and bad husbandry, he is likely to be reduced to want, and his family to be chargeable to the faid town, if fpeedy care be not taken to prevent it; whereupon faid felect men, by and with the confent of the civil authority in faid town, and purfuant to a law of this colony, do by thefe prefents put and place N. N. an overfeer to faid N. N. to order, direct, and advise him in the management of his affairs and bufinefs, for and until fuch time as faid N. N. by diligence and fteady application to business, and prudent management of his affairs, fhall obtain a release herefrom, by the felect men then being. Hereby forbidding all and ever perfon tranfacting any affairs relating to traffic with him, without the liberty and confent of faid overfeer, as fuch proceeding will not be valid in law. faces, viz. four eyes, two nofes, two mouths, two tongues, four teeth in the upper-jaw of each mouth, and two chins, two back-bones, and two breaft-bones; the ears, arms, and the lower parts, from the hips, were na toral. Died lately, M. Eleazer Manaffes Mordecai, a Portuguese Jew, who lived upwards of years in one apartment near Clapham-common, without ever firring out of it, or opening his lips to any body but his landlady, who brought him every thing he wanted, and to whom he has left a confiderable fortune in ready money. At Middleton Cheney, Mary Benbowe, aged 103. Near Afton in Cumberland, Anne Wilfon, aged 110. At Fishkill, near New-York, Mr. Edglebert Hoff, a native of Norway, aged 128. He remembered that he was a boy driving a team, when the news arrived in his country of the beheading of king Charles the firit. va As or unfkilfulness, fet fire to the damp, or foul air in the workings, which lie about one hundred fathoms deep below the furface of the ground. The inflammable pour fired in an inftant, and was instantaneously followed by a dreadful explofion, which produced a report at the mouth of the coal-pit as loud as thunder. The poor workmen below were fcorched and burnt to a frightful degree; though none of them killed. foon as it could poffibly be done, they were drawn up and fent to the infirmaryOn the day following many others went to examine the ftate of the colliery, feveral of whom were of the upper fort of fervants, called overmen, reputed to be very expert and knowing in their bufinefs; but, through fome mistake, or through accident, the fulminating fteam took fire a fecond time, more dreadfully, and with greater vehemence than before. It is faid that eight men and 17 horfes loft their lives by this fecond explosion; seven dead bodies have been found which were burnt in a moft fhocking manner. Being Maundy Thursday, the king's bounty was dif- 4th. tributed at Whitehall to 27 poor men and women, being the number of his majesty's age. One of those who received it was a woman aged 106. Twenty foldiers on board the Speaker Indiaman having 7th. feized the waterman's boat, were intercepted by boats from the men of war at Spithead, who carried them back, where, being all put in irons, the rest of the foldiers, in order to releafe their companions and themselves, formed a confpi racy |