keep his word, and which would have tempted many, did not in the leaft ftagger that honeft and faith ful officer, who refufed it. Such greatnefs of foul fo well established his reputation, that his father interrogated by his friends, "How he managed to look fo fresh and well in his old age," used commonly to reply, That the remembrance of the difinterestednefs and fidelity of his fon, contributed greatly to prolong his days."

Providence, New-England, Aug. 1. At the inferior Court of Common-Pleas, held last week at EaiiGreenwich, came on the trial of a caufe, wherein Meflrs. Jacob Greene and Co. were plaintiffs, and Lieutenant Dudington, late commander of the armed fchooner Gafpee, was defendant. The action was brought for taking a fmall boat, with a quantity of rum and fugar, in Narraganfet-Bay, and fending the fame to Bofton; which rum, &c. was tranfporting from Eaft-Greenwich, in this colony, to Newport. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, with 2951. lawful money, damages. Lieute nant Dudington has appealed to the next fuperior Court,

The fudden melting of the icy mountains in the Tyrolefe, fwelled the waters of the rivers Ifer and Inn to fuch a height, that the towns. of Brixen, Bolzano, and Moran, were fuddenly furrounded by the inundation; and at Infpruck, the fuburbs were immerfed ten feet deep. What is remarkable, the violence of the torrent moved a mountain; and in the valleys, many houfes and churches, built of flone, were demolished.

The numbers being declared, the fheriffs gave notice, that on Thurfday they should make their return.

This day the vice-chancellor, proctors, public orator, and other officers of the univerfity of Oxford, waited on Lord North, in Downing ftreet, and inftalled his lordhip chancellor of that university.

Gilbert Laurie, Efq; was chofen Lord Provolt of Edinburgh.

The duke of Bridgewater has eftablished regular patfage-boats from Manchefter to within two miles of Warrington and other places. Forty, fifty, or fixty people, are conveyed above twenty miles for a fhilling a-piece, in a fhorter time than they can travel even in a carriage by land. They are allowed to carry with them a certain quantity of goods at the fame expence.

Extract of a Letter from Smyrna, Aug. 21.

"This day a terrible fire broke out here, and continued burning all the next day. Three thoufand houfes, which made three parts of the city, were deftroyed; from 3 to 4000 fhops, 16 mofques, 12 caravanferas, 7 bagnios, 9 fynagogues, and 8 public markets, have been all confumed; a large quantity of corn, 2000 facks of rice, and 150 [K] 2

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bales of coffee, have been loft in the conflagration. The whole lofs is computed at twenty millions of dollars. It did not affect the Englifh quarter."

Lord Carysford attended the 7th. levee at St. James's, and delivered up the enfigns of the order of the Bath, with which his late father was invested; as did the Hon. Mr. Dillon the ftaff of the late Earl of Litchfield, which he poffeffed as captain of the band of gentlemen penfioners.

At a meeting of the justices of Surry, being the quarter feflions for Surry; held at Kingfton, application was made for a licence for a new Sadler's-Wells, when the fame was unanimously rejected.

The report was made to his majefty of the malefactors under fentence of death in Newgate, when the following were ordered for execution: John Jones and John Sunderland, for burglary; John Chapman, for houfe-breaking; Benjamin Rogers, for forgery; and John Creamer, for returning from tranfportation.

The other ten convicts were refpiled. This day a court of al8th. dermen met at Guildhall, for the theriffs to make their report of the numbers on the poll for the election of a lord-mayor for the year enfuing, which ended on Tuesday laft; and Meflrs. Wilkes and Townsend were to be returned to the aldermen, as having the majority of votes, for them to make choice of one; but a fcrutiny was demanded in favour of Mefirs. Hallifax and Shakespear.

The Right Hon. Simon 9th. Earl Harcourt was this day declared by his majefty, Lieute

nant-general and General-gover nor of his majefty's kingdom of Ireland.

Lord Viscount Stormont was appointed his majefty's ambaffador extraordinary to the court of Verfailles.

At the general feffions of the peace for King's-Lynn, 13th.

in Norfolk, William Pulling, near fixty years of age, found guilty of ravishing a child under ten years of age, received fentence of death, and was ordered for execution.

The ftatue of his majesty on horfeback, erected in the center of Berkeley-fquare, was opened, and makes a fine appearance.

Several workmen were this day employed at the Old-Bailey, in making a new ventilator, and other neceflary precautions, to prevent the effects of any malignant diftemper at the enfuing feffions, feveral perfons having died who attended the laft feffions. Among otherprecautions, a contrivance is made by a pipe, to carry the fumes of vinegar into the feflions-house, while the court is fitting.

Extract of a Letter from Paris.

"A Swifs, who had been hired before the vintage, in a neighbouring province, to take care of the vines, took advantage of the abfence of the husbandman to attempt the feduction of his daughter; but, not being able to effect this by perfuafion, he fatisfied his brutal appetite by force. To prevent detection, he then killed the young woman and fled. Being immediately purfued, he was overtaken, and delivered up to the juftice of his bwn nation; (for the Świfs na. tion, by treaty, have a fovereign right to decide in all caufes civil

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and criminal, relative to their own nation in France.) He was adjudged, after trial, to the ufual punishment in the like cafes, viz. to be fawed alive in two. He was accordingly jammed in (all except his head) between two large logs of wood hollowed for that purpose, and in that pofture underwent the dreadful punishment. He was then expofed to public view, as a warning to others whose paffions are ftronger than their reafon."

14th. John Jones, John. Creamer, John Sunderland, and John Chapman, were, purfuant to their fentence, executed at Tyburn. Rogers, who was to have fuffered the fame punishment, died in Newgate.

His Grace the Duke of Marlborough was chofen prefident of the Radcliffe infirmary at Oxford, in the room of the late Earl of Litchfield.

A poor man at Waterbeach, in Cambridgeshire, being very defirous of his children having the fmall pox, got fome matter for that purpofe, and putting it between two pieces of bread-andbutter, gave it them to eat. They took the fmall-pax, and are now perfectly recovered.

Rome, Sept. 20. The Romish feminary fo well known, which has fubfifted 200 years under the direction of the Jefuits, and where four popes and 96 cardinals were educated, befides great numbers of bithops, generals, doges, and men of learning in every rank of life, was shut up the 17th inftant. The debts of this houfe amount to 378,000 feudis. The Jefuits and their scholars were fent away very humanely, except five of the latter,

who wait for an answer from their relations, to know how they are to be difpofed of.

Extract of a Letter from Stockholm, Sept. 28.

"The pardon which the kings of Sweden have been accuftomed to grant, on occasion of their coro. nation, had been hitherto fufpended, on account of the difficulties arifen with regard to fome public officers, who had been accused of having prevaricated at the election of deputies of the diet. Circumftances having changed by the late revolution, a pardon hath at length taken place, and the act has already been figned by the king."

The finishing ftone was laid of the tower near Sutton, Wilts, ere&ted by Henry Hoare, Efq; in memory of King Alfred, who, on the fpot it ftands upon, erected his ftandard in the year 871, to make head againft the Danes, and foon after gained a great victory over them. It is a building of brick, 155 feet in height, and commands a moft fine and extenfive profpect; over the door-way, in a niche, properly ornamented, stands the statue of Alfred; and under, the following infcription cut in marble: "In memory of Alfred the Great, who on this fummit erected his ftandard againft Danish invaders. He inftituted juries, eftablished a militia, created and exerted a naval force: a philofopher and a chriftian, the father of his people, the founder of English monarchy and liberty."

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A prodigious concourfe of people afiembled on Towerhill, where a temporary Itage had been built, with back-feats, on which appeared eight divines, feven of whom had been educated at

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the fole charge of the Countess of Huntingdon, who was prefent. After pfalm-finging, a fermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Piercy, chaplain to the countefs, fuitable to the occafion, the aforefaid feven gentlemen being to fail as mitiionaries to America.

At a meeting held this day at the India Houfe, the following gentle men were nominated as proper perfons to be fupervisors of the company's affairs in India, viz. the Hon. Lieut. General Monckton, George Cuming, Efq; William Devaynes, Efq; Peter Lafcelles, Efq; Daniel Wier, Efq; and Edward Wheeler, Eiq.

This day the feffions 28th. ended at the Old-Bailey. At this feflions, fitteen prifoners were capitally convicted, 38 to be tranfported for feven years, and

two branded.

Among thofe capitally convicted, was Evan Maurice, for forging a promitory note for 1031. 10s. This was moft artfully contrived: Maurice, who was a lodger, paid the profecutrix fome money for rent, but by taking two pieces of paper, lapping them over each other, and making them just stick together with a little gum water, he fo ordered it, that the body of the receipt fhould fall on the uppermott piece, and the name on the lowermoft, fo that when the paper came to be feparated, the body of the receipt, which was taken off, left room for the body of the note to be written in its ftead, and the name at the bottom appeared in its true place. This day the fheriffs 29th. made their report of the forutiny lately held at Guildhall, declaring that Meffrs. Wilkes and

Townsend had the majority, and accordingly returned them as duly elected, to the court of aldermen, who fixed upon Alderman Townfend to ferve the office of Lord mayor.

By a letter from Captain James Wilder, of the Diligence brig, fitted out by fubfcription in Virginia, with a view to the difcovery of the long-fought-for N. W. paffage, it appears, by the courfe of the tides, there is a patlage, but that it is feldom or never open, and he believes impaflable. He failed as high as 69 degrees, 11 min. and discovered a large bay before unknown.

Hamburgh, Oct. 16. A stranger was taken up here yesterday and put in prifon, who ferved as a captain of the Confederates; during which time he infinuated himself fo much into the friendship of fome of the chiefs, that he found means to difcover from them, where they had hid their principal ef fects, and then ftole the jewels belonging to a lady of one of the Confederate chiefs, valued at 70,000 rixdollars; he fet off immediately for Vienna, where he lived in a very fplendid manner; from thence he went to Berlin, and after that came here, where, after living four months, his theft was found out, and he was arreli in confequence of it.

In Monmouthshire, one 30th. of the greateft floods ever known in that country, did incredible damage, by bearing down bridges, carrying away cattle, deftroying mills, fweeping away houfes with their inhabitants. A moft providential efcape is related, which deferves to be remembered: a woman, the wife of a tinman at Caerleon, crolling Caerleon bridge

when

when it fell, happened to lay hold of a beam, upon which the floated through Newport bridge, and three miles below that town was taken up by a fmall boat. As foon as fhe was put on thore, the procured a horfe and rode home, and was the first person who carried the news to her husband of the accident that had happened to her.

This evening, as Thomas Oiling and his wife were returning from Doncafter market to their houfe at Edington, in Yorkshire, they were ftopped by two footpads, who demanded their money, which Mr. Olling refuting to deliver, one of them thot him dead upon the spot. William Gill was likewife robbed and murdered, as he was returning from Appletreewick fair to his houfe at Linton, in Craven, Yorkshire.

During the month paft, a peftilential fever raged in the Lewis Ilands; but all accounts agree that its violence is abated.

The wife of one Collins, a labouring man, at Sutton Colefield, in Warwickshire, was delivered of four children, two boys and two girls, who are all alive.

The wife of a chairman in Petty-France, Weftmintier, of two boys and a girl.

Married lately, Capt. Shenton, of Deptford, aged 79, to Mrs. Whitehead, of Peckham, aged 72, whofe grand-children were at the wedding.

Died. Walter Mallet, Efq; aged 98, formerly member in two parfiaments for Cambridge.

John Brooks, Efq; aged 96, at Chellea,a Captain under George I. Peter M Cloud, Efq; in NorthAudley ftreet, aged 105.

In the 109th year of his age,

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Mr. Shepherd, gardener to King George 1.

At Edinburgh, Peter McDonald, a fisherman, in the 100th year of his age, whofe father lived to the age of 116, and grandfather to

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tract of a Letter from the Sieur Seignette, Secretary to the Academy at Rochelle.

"The discovery of Mr. Walsh, member of the English parliament, and of the Royal Society of London, was mentioned in the Gazettes for the month of Auguft laft. The experiment, of which I am now to give an account, was tried before the academy of this city. A live torpedo was placed upon a table upon a wet napkin. Round another table flood five of the members of the fociety fingly, not one touching the other. Two brafs wires, thirteen feet long each, were fufpended to the cieling, by filken cords. One of thefe wires was fupported at one end by the napkin on which lay the fish, the other end was immerfed in a bowl full of water that food upon the table, on which there were placed four other bowls, all equally filled with water. The firit perfon who flood round the fecond table, put the fore-finger of one hand in the bowl in which the end of the brass wire was immerfed, and the fore-finger of his other hand in the fecond

bowl that ftood next to it. The fecond perfon in like manner, put the fore-finger of one hand in the fecond bowl, and the fore-finger of his other hand in the third bowl, [K] 4. and