SEPTEMBER.

A moft aftonishing rain 7th. fell at Inverary, in Scotland, by which the rivers rofe to fuch a height as to carry every thing along with the current that flood in the way; even trees that had braved the floods for more than 100 years, were torn up by the roots, and carried down the ftream. Numbers of bridges were fwept away, and the military roads rendered impaflable. All the Duke of Argyle's cafcades, bridges, and bulwarks, are destroyed, at his fine palace in that neighbourhood. The communications of the Birmingham, Staffordshire, and Worcefterfhire canals, were this day opened.

His majefty's pardon, on condition of transportation during life, hath been obtained for Capt. Robert Jones, a convict in Newgate.

By letters juft received from the Eaft Indies, there is an account of the blowing up of the powder magazine in the fortrefs of Trichinopoli, by which explofion the whole fortification was fhaken to the foundation, many houfes were levelled with the ground, above 100 Europeans buried under the ruins, and more than 200 natives. The company have fuftained befides a very confiderable lofs. 340,000 ball-cartridges having been blown up, all the gun carriages deftroyed, and almost all the arms, tumbrills, &c. The whole lofs is almoft ir retrievable.

Paffed the feal, a proclamation, promifing a reward of 500l. for the difcovering and apprehending any of the perfons concerned in burning the Gafpee fchooner in

Providence river, on the 10th of June latt; alfo a further reward of 500l. and his majesty's pardon, to any of the offenders, for apprehending each of the ringleaders.

At the aflizes at Dorchester, Elizabeth Taylor, charged with the murder of her baftard child, was found guilty. By fome error in the indictment, by which Elizabeth Taylor was first tried, fhe was acquitted; and being tried again on a fecond indictment, was found guilty of murder; but a doubt arifing how far fhe could be tried a fecond time for the fame offence, her fentence was refpited.

At Carlifle affizes, a cause was tried before Judge Willes, in which the matter in difpute was, whether the plaintiff (againft whom a commiffion of bankruptcy had fome time before been iffued, upon the affidavit and petition of the defendant) could be deemed a bankrupt; and the defendant not being able to make out a debt of more than 261. due to him, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff.

8th.

The late Sir Robert Kite Alderman of Lime-street ward, has left the following charitable legacies; to the charity-chil dren of Lime-ftreet, Cornhill, Bridge, Candlewick, and Dowgate wards, rcol. each; to Chrift's hofpital 100l. to Bridewell and Bethlem-hofpital 100l. to St. Bartholomew's-hofpital 100l. to St. Thomas's-hofpital 100l. to the London-hofpital 1ool, and to the poor of Lubbenham and Little Streeton, in Leicestershire, where he had a confiderable estate, 201. each.

In the will of John G--e, Efq; who died at Lambeth, a short time fince, is the following very remarkable claufe: Whereas it was

my

my misfortune to be made very unealy by Elizabeth Ge, my wife, for many years, from our marriage, by her turbulent behaviour; for he was not content with defpifing my admonitions, but the contrived every method to make me unhappy; she was so perverse in her nature, that she would not be reclaimed, but feemed only to be born to be a plague to me; the ftrength of Sampton, the knowledge of Homer, the prudence of Auguttus, the cunning of Pyrrhus, the patience of Job, the fubtilty of Hannibal, and the watchfulness of Hermogenes, could not have been fufficient to fubdue her; for no fkill or force in the world would make her good; and as we have lived feparate and apart from each other eight years, and the having perverted her fon to leave and totally abandon me, therefore I give her one thilling only.'

His Swedish majefty was pleafed to diffolve the diet with the ufual ceremonies, when he told the ftates he would affemble them again after fix years.

The king of Pruffia took poffeffion of the diftrict of Great Poland, fituate between the Drage and the Netze, after publishing a manifeflo, in which he pretends to make out a right to all the country known by the name of Polish Pruília.

12th. Richard Daw, a wealthy farmer in Gloucestershire, was executed at Gloucester, for being acceffary, before the fact, to the murder of a baftard-child, of which he was the father. He was upwards of feventy years of age, and had a wife and family. He caufed the poor innocent to be expofed to the inclemency of the weather, in a cold frosty night,

where it must be either destroyed by vermin, or frozen to death.

York, Sept. 8. At the anniverfary meeting of the fons of the clergy, on Thursday laft, at Newcaftle, the collection amounted to 3371. 10s. 2d, which was distributed to fixteen clergymen's widows, nine clergymen's fons, and twenty-eight clergymen's daugh'ters, according to their several neceffitous circumstances.

Came on at the feffions in

the Old Bailey the trial of 14th. one Male, a barber's apprentice, for robbing Mrs. Ryan, of Portland-ftreet, on the highway, on the 17th of June laft. The evidences fwore pofitively to the iden tity of the lad, and the whole court imagined him guilty. He faid nothing in his defence, but that he was innocent, and his evidences would prove it. His evidences were the books of the court, to which reference being made, it appeared, that, on the day and hour the robbery was fwoin to be committed, the lad was on his trial, at the bar where he then ftood, for another robbery, in which he was likewife' unfortunate enough to be mistaken for the perfon who committed it; on which he was honourably acquitted.

A bow and quiver were found in New-Foreft, Hampshire, fuppofed to have lain there ever fince the reign of William Rufus.

A fet of villains broke into the convent of Newburgh, in Germany, and robbed it of 200,000 florins in cash.

There fell ten inches of water in twelve hours at 15th. Marieilles, in France; a thing hardly credible.

It is faid, that the captain who carried

no perfon was hurt, nor much da◄ mage done among the shipping. This ftorm, though pretty general along the fea-coaft, has been attended with lefs damage than others on former occafions, that were lefs violent.

John White was one of thofe capitally convicted, for felonioufly and traiterously coining and counterfeiting the current coin of this realm called fhillings, in an upper room in Bartlett's court, Holborn, where were found upwards of 1400 counterfeit fhillings, and feveral not finished, and a great number of implements proper for that pernicious bufinefs. The intrinfic value of each piece appeared to be about four-pence halfpenny, they being compofed of half filver and half metal, but confiderably short of weight, fo as to refemble worn money.

The ceremony of baptizing the Hereditary Prince of Orange and Naflau, who is named William Frederic, was this day performed at the Hague, with great folemnity.

The marriage of the Duke of Gloucefter with Lady Waldegrave, was declared at court.

At Portsmouth they had 23d. the moft violent ftorm of wind and rain ever remembered. The wind blew off the roofs of feveral houses, threw down chimnies, efpecially thofe of the marine barracks, where a whole ftack fell at once on the roof. Providentially

The Prince Stadtholder of the United Provinces has abolished one fpecies of luxury practifed in Holland, and that was, the extravagant entertainments given at the

now prohibited under penalties.

The foundation ftone for improving the harbour of Ayr in Scotland was laid. At which were prefent the Earl of Dumfries, grand-mafter mason, and 500 of the brothers.

A new coach is finished in an elegant manner, and is to be put on board a veffel next Monday for Petersburgh, as a prefent from the Ruflia merchants to the empress ; it cost 15ool. The body of the coach is fupported by dolphins and mermaids; on the pannel of one door is curiously painted the emprefs fitting in a triumphal car, furrounded with trophies of war, &c. on the pannel of the other is a Turk in a fupplicating posture, furrendering to the empress the implements of war; and on the quarter pannels, are painted coronets and crowns of laurel, and several other devices; the naves are gilt in fuch a manner, that they appear like folid filver, and the fpokes are carved and gilt.

Laft night and this morning there was a most dread- 25th. ful hurricane, beyond any thing we have known for fome years; and great damage was done among the thipping in the river, and to the houfes in the city and suburbs that

were

were moft exposed; fome were ftript of their tiling, fome had their chimnies blown down, and fome old houses, that were unable to refift the fury of the tempeft, fell to the ground; many trees were torn up by the roots, in the neigh bourhood of London, and one old tree in the park was broke off in the middle; fome lives were loft by the fall of bricks from the chimnies, and, in fhort, the damage is incredible.

Whiteball, Sept. 26, 1772. Letters have been received from Sir Ralph Payne, K. B. his majesty's governor-general of the Leeward Iflands, containing advice, that, on the 13th of July laft, he received an account from Anguilla, that a Spanish man of war of 70 guns, called The Royal Council, and another Spanish fhip of 40 guns, called The Royal Pruflian, were wrecked on the east end of that ifland; that a great part of their cargoes, which were faid to be of great value, were faved; that, by the affiftance of one of his majefty's fhips of war, fent thither by RearAdmiral Mann, and by a timely fupply of provifions fent by Sir Ralph Payne, the crews of thofe fhips had been relieved from the diftrefs they muft otherwife have been expofed to; and that five hundred of them had been accommodated with a paffage to Porto Rico, and the reft were to follow as opportunity offered.

The price of milk was 29th. this day raised in London, from two pence-halfpenny to threepence the quart.

There are three Ruffians arrived here in the Queen Indiaman, who travelled on foot from Mofcow to Canton in China, through the VOL. XV.

defarts of Perfia, which is upwards of 5000 miles. They were three years on their journey, and endured incredible hardships.

By order of her imperial majesty the emprefs queen, a ftone pillar, about an hundred feet high, has been erected on the outward works of the fortification nearest to the weft fide of the entrance into the port of Oftend. On the top of the pillar, a coal-fire, large enough to be feen a great distance at fea, is to be kept burning every night throughout the year, commencing on the 15h day of next month, in order to direct veffels into the harbour. There will alfo conftantly lie in that road, both day and night, a boat, with a fufficient number of able pilots, acquainted with the coaft, to be ready to give all neceffary affiftance to vellels arriving there, either in anchoring or otherwife.

Died lately, Lewis Davis, at Llalhyndrid, Flintshire, remarkable for his memory and other natural powers. He could repeat (after a fecond reading) two or three hundred lines, either of profe or verfe, and could converfe agreeably on almost every subject of fcience, though he never had a liberal education.

Mr. William Acres, famous for his skill in the Irith, Erfe, and Welth tongues.

Mrs. Redrick, aged 105, at Shrewibury.

John Symmonds, aged 105. He acquired 2000l. by vermin-killing.

ing at the fpotted dog ale-houfe, in Clement's-lane, near Clement'sInn, with Mr. Taaffe, a barber, in that neighbourhood, and others, on a fudden left his company, and went to Taaffe's houfe, defired to fee his wife, and after afking her if her husband was come home, he took up a razor, and made two violent attempts to cut her throat; but the holding her head down, he cut her cheek and chin in a fhocking manner; then cut his own throat from ear to ear, and expired immediately. This horrid act is fuppofed to have been occafioned by the German bearing malice against Mrs. Taaffe, at whofe house he lodged fome time ago, because the obliged him to leave it, on a fuppofition that he dealt in fmuggled goods.

Extract of a Letter from Algiers,

Aug. 6.

"A most remarkable escape of fome Chriftian prifoners has lately been effected here, which will un doubtedly caufe thofe that have not had that good fortune, to be treated with the utmost rigour. On the morning of the 27th of July, the Dey was informed, that all the Chriftian flaves had efcaped the overnight in a galley; this news foon raifed him, and upon enquiry it was found to have been a preconcerted plan. About ten at night 74 flaves, who had found means to fcape from their matters, met in a large fquare near the gate which opens to the harbour, and, being well armed, they foon forced the guard to fubmit, and, to prevent their railing the city, confined them all in the powder magazine. They then proceeded to the lower part of the harbour, where they

embarked on board a large rowing polacre, that was left there for the purpose, and, the tide ebbing out, they fell gently down with it, and paffed both the forts. As foon as this was known, three large gallies were ordered out after them, but to no purpose; they returned in three days, with the news of feeing the polacre fail into Barcelona, where the galleys durft not go to attack her."

3d.

This cay Lord North was chofen chancellor of the univerfity of Oxford, without oppofition.

They write from Copenhagen, that the king has advanced 50,000 crowns, without intereft, to the projectors of a fcheme for erecting a foundery for cannon and mortars in Norway, and has agreed to take all that fhall be caft, even at à higher price than the propofer demanded.

A letter from Stockholm, dated Sept. 8, fays, "The king, to perpetuate the memory of the alacrity with which the body-guards declared themfelves in his favour on the 19th of Auguft, by tying a white handkerchief round their left arm, hath permitted them to wear always for the future a white ribbon."

Old Macdonnel, the Irish officer, who lately died at the age of 118, at Madrutz, in Croatia, was father to the brave officer of that name, who in 1702, in the war about the Spanish fucceffion, made prifoner at Cremona, the Marthal de Villeroi, who offered him on the fpot 10,000 louis d'ers, and a regiment, if he would releafe him. Young Macdonnel was then but a captain; and the offer, though made by a perfon who was fufficiently able to

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