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fleep for forty-eight hours: du- | frequent communications with ring this time he got the keys the devil! of all his master's defks, and made off with one hundred Louis d'ors, all the filver plate, and every article of jewel lery in the house.

To crown

all, he had the impudence to leave a writing on his master's table, containing a couplet of well pointed verses in German to this effect:-" Adieu, my dear Ahe, if you wish to find me, you must come to Poland." -The medicine was made fo ftrong that the gentleman's life was in fome danger.

We learn from Riga, that, about the 20th May, four British veffels were wrecked on the ifland of Ofel, whereof the one was the Hannah of Perth, Capt. John Murdoch, for Riga-the crew faved; the names of the others unknown.

The laft winter in America was fo fevere, that most of the rivers were entirely frozen up. On the Delaware, many lives were loft, and multitudes fuffered extreme distress.

DOMESTIC.

On the 31st May the King of Lord Grenville is appointed Pruffia gave a grand dinner at Secretary of State for Foreign Charlottenbourg to the Duke Affairs, in room of the Duke of York, his Generals, and Mi-of Leeds, who refigned fome nifters of State, and next daytime ago.-Mr Dundas is apreturned to Potzdam. pointed Secretary for the Home The King of Spain has given Department.-Thomas Steele, orders to the Prefident of Caf- Efq; is appointed Treasurer of tile, to inform the inhabitants the Navy. of the kingdom and cities of Spain, that the deputies at the Cortes have received orders to confider of means for relieving the people, and to draw up a lift of grievances, particularly of thofe which may tend to the general good, and reftore the prefent fyftem to the spirit of the Spanish conftitution.

The effects of poor Caglioftro have lately been burnt at Rome by the hands of the hangman. This ceremony took place in the fquare called Minerva; and as the patents, ribbons, and other enligns of free mafonry were caft into the fire, the populace rent the air with their

houts. The Italians are weak

enough to imagine, that Caglioftro was a conjuror, who held

Dr Shute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury, is promoted to the See of Durham, vacant by the death of Dr Thurlow.-Dr Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle, is promoted to the Bishoprick of Salisbury -And Dr Vernon is elected Bishop of Carlisle.

A Committee of Inquiry fat in December laft, at Madras, to inquire into the proceedings of the Meffrs Hollonds, when it appeared that they had fold places to the amount of many lacks of rupees, and several English gentlemen, purchasers, had been difmiffed the fervice.

The Attorney General has filed an information ex officio, upon the provifions of the laft bill, agaiuft Mr Hollond, latey arrived in the Rodney, upona

charge of having accepted of a prefent of 120,000l. Sterling from a fingle donor.

On the 15th of June, an action was tried before Lord Kenyon in the Court of King's Bench, at the inftance of Mr Morefom, merchant in Whitby, a

MrEdward John Hollond has has given in his bail for 400,000!. The gentlemen who have ftep-gainft Mr Clarke, a gentleman ped forward on this occafion are Mr Francis Fowke, of Wimpole street, and Mr William Holland, late of Bengal.

Accounts are received by Government, that Tippoo Saib has made propofals to Earl Cornwallis for a pacification. The terms are understood to be moft eminently advantageous to the welfare of this country. The mother, brother, and fifter of the Duke of Orleans arrived at London the 17th ult.

The falary, including perquifites, &c. of Principal Secretary of State, is computed at 8000l. a-year. Befides this, he has apartments in all the Royal Houfes, as well for his own accommodation, as for that of those who attend upon him; he has likewise the appointment of two Under-Secretaries and Clerks, whofe places are of confiderable profit. Before the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Secretary of State (there being but one at that time) did not fit in the Privy Council: he only prepared bufinefs for the Board in an adjoining room, and then produced his papers ftanding.

of property in the fame town, for feducing and carrying off the wife of the former, when the jury gave a verdict, 3500l. damages. The defendant is 50 years of age, and has a wife and family.

Not long fince, Lady Auckland was delivered of a fon at the Hague; and, what is not a little fingular, her ladyship can now produce fix children born in as many different kingdoms.

A new coinage of guineas and half-guineas, from dies of the prefent year, is now going on at the tower to a very large amount, by an order from the treasury; but no orders have been given, nor are there any preparations for a silver or copper coinage.

The celebrated republican hiftorian, Mrs Catharine Macaulay Graham, died on the 22d of June, at her house in Windfor Foreft.

A plan has been fubmitted to the confideration of Government, for raifing a permanent fund for the fupport of the widows and children of clergymen in Ireland. One of The employment of a King's the principal parts of the plan. meffenger was once very mode- is, the appropriation of one rate in eftimation, and profit. year's revenue of every bishopSince we are become the weigh-ric that may become vacant by mafters of the balance of Eu- decease_or_translation, to this rope, it has increafed very con- very ufeful purpofe, until the fiderably in both refpects, and fund arifing from these accumuis now little lefs valuable than lated fums amount to 100,000l. that of a Colonel in the army, and the intereft to be difpofed

of in annuities to the widows | quence is, that many thousand

of clergymen not having been acres of march land are renderpoffeffed before their death of ed useless; and the poor farlivings or cures to the amount mers obliged to fell their ftock of rool. per annum; the quan- at any price, their cattle not tum of this pension to be pro- being able to exist, on account portioned to the number of of the ditches being filled with children. A plan fomewhat fi-falt water. Since the blowing milar to this was propofed fome of a north-eaft wind, the breach time ago by the Rev. Sir H.es are growing deeper and widMoncrieffe, for increafing the er every day. ftipends of the Scots clergy. An Efquire, as alfo his eldeft for, and all who rank above Efquires, are qualified by law to kill game. In the court of King's Bench, therefore, it was laft week decided, that the eldeft fon of a Doctor is qualified; because Doctors, whether of law, phyfic, or divinity, rank above Efquires.

In confequence of the late regulations refpecting the vending of fpiritous liquors in IreJand, no less than 2000 whisky houses have been shut up, fince the 25th of March laft.

Lord Uxbridge's celebrated failing yacht, Mona, is preparing in the river for an expected vilt from their Majefties: She has a fuperb fuite of ftaterooms, decorated with two changes of elegant linen furniture, and is in all otherre fpects the most perfect veffel that ever | fwam; her prime coft, out of the builder's hands, was 14,000 guineas.

There has been another afarming breach of the fea, near Winterton, in Suffolk. The former breach, made in February laft, when a large dwellinghoufe was carried away, was only 30 yards wide, but is now increased to 120. The confe

The following is a very remarkable inftance of quick failing: The Bridget, Capt. Platt, failed from the coaft of Africa to Dominica in twenty-one days. In the laft fix days of the paffage fhe failed, as appears by her log.book, one thousand three hundred and twenty-two miles, which, on an average, is more than 220 miles a day.

On the 28th ult. at Newcaftle, a match for 500 guineas each, one four-mile heat, was run for by the Earl of Lauderdale's bay horse Oftrich, and Sir Hedworth Williamfon's bay horfe Whitelegs, which was won by the former.

On Sunday the 22d May a charity fermon was preached in St Mary's Church, Dublin, for the fupport of the poor children of the parish of St. Nicholas Without, by the Rev. Walter Blake Kirwan, at which was collected the fum of four hundred and ten pounds!

The Sub-Treafurer and Steward of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, has lately abfconded to America, with no lefs a fum than 14,000l. belonging to the Society, and a few individuals who had entrusted him with fums of money. He had re

ceived the rents of the Society | the others with difficulty escapto the latest date, and had bor-ed the fame fate.

rowed money wherever he On the 16th ult. the paffencould raife it. He had previ-gers in the mail coach from oufly deftroyed the books of Glasgow to Carlifte had a very the Society, and fold every ar- narrow and moft wonderful ticle of his own furniture. He escape from deftruction, at had been abfent fome time be- Kirtlebridge, near Ecclefechan. fore his elopement was dif- By the negligence of the driver covered, under pretence of go-converfing with the guard, who ing to Margate for his health. had imprudently fhifted from Mr Whitbread, who for his feat to the coach-roof, the many years has offered a pre-reins flackened, the fore horses fent of ten thousand pounds to any perfon purchafing his brewery at a fair eftimation, has at length found cuftomers for it. A company of perfons have bought it, at the price of four hundred and fifty thou-injury. One of the fore horses fand pounds. was killed on the spot, and the pole of the carriage fhivered to atoms!

flew over the bridge, and the coach falling at least ten feet upfide down, was dashed to pieces! Of three paffengers, only one, a gentleman from Glasgow, received any perfonal

The following fingular circumftance lately happened at Everdon, in Northamptonshire: On the 20th of June, came The houfe of Mr Warr, a far-on before the Court of Jufticimer of that place, has been ary at Edinburgh, the trial of greatly infefted with rats; Mrs John Paul, James Stewart, and Warr, in clearing away the Alexander Ballantine, for robbearth they had fcratched from ing a gentleman in Nicolfon's the foundation of a pantry un- Street, on the night of the 3d der a ftair cafe, difcovered fe- of May laft, of his watch, hat, veral guineas; and upon fur-and twelve shillings in money, ther fearch, found a large tea- when they were all found guilty, pot with upwards of 250 gui- and fentenced to be executed neas more in it. at Edinburgh on the 27th July. On the 16th ult. a veffel on On the 27th of June, Thoher way to Scotland from Lon-mas Wilfon was brought bedon, being wind-bound in Yar-fore the fame Court, for stealmouth Roads, fome of the paf-ing from a haberdasher in Edinfengers, amongft whom was a lady, finding themselves fea fick, requested to be fet on thore, which being complied with, the boat had juft got within a few yards of the fhore, when a breaker, dafhing against the boat, overfet it, and the lady was unfortunately drowned;

burgh, muflins to the value of 2001. He pled guilty, and was fentenced to transportation for life, to fuffer death if he return.

On the 21ft ult. an extract of the will of Baron Vryhouven was received by the Society for Propagating Chriftian Knowledge in the Highlands and

Islands of Scotland, by which | fhe called her difciples together,

it appears that he has left 20,000l. in the 3 per cent. confols, for the purposes of the Society. The above donation is diftinct from the 10,000l. lately given to the Society by a perfon who wishes to remain unknown.

and exhorted them to continue ftedfaft and unanimous in their adherence to the doctrine which they had received from her. She told them she had ftill one fecret to communicate to them, which was, that he was the Virgin Mary, the real mother Estates in Scotland ftill con- of our Lord; that she was the tinue to fell at very high prices fame woman mentioned in the -One eftate, let indeed upon Revelation as being cloathed an old rental, was lately fold with the fun, &c. who was at eighty years purchafe! O-driven into the wilderness; ther eftates have lately fold at that he had been wandering from thirty to forty years pur- in the world ever fince our chafe. Saviour's days, and for fome At the fale of the late Gene-time paft she had fojournral Watson's stock, a few days in Scotland; that though the ago, at Aberdour, who kept a here appeared to die, they needmoft excellent breed of cattle, ed not to be difcouraged, for one cow was fold at 481. ano- she would only fleep a little, ther above 351. and a calf, not and in a fhort time would again many months old, at 131. 138. vifit them, and conduct them Such prices are feldom obtain to the New Jerufalem. After ed in this country. fhe died, it was a long time beOn the 24th of June the Ma-fore her enthufiaftic votaries giftrates of Edinburgh lowered the price of bread a full affize, or 2d. in the peck loaf.

On the 24th of June, the Univerfity of Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine on 14 gentlemen, after the ufual trials.

would ftraight or dress the corpse; nor did they coffin her untill they were obliged thereto by the fmell; and after that, they would not bury. her, but built up the coffin in a corner of the barn, always expecting that the would rife again from the dead, according to her promife, to conduct them to Jeru

Mrs Buchan, the leader of a few deluded people, and who for a time refided in the neigh-falem. At laft the people in bourhood of Thornhill, near the country around, fhocked Dumfries, died about the be- with thefe proceedings, interginning of May laft. Her fol- fered, went to a juftice of lowers were greatly reduced in peace, and got an order that number; but Mr White, once the fhould be buried. So that a relief minfter, continued till the famous Mrs Buchan of the her laft. Finding the was go- weft, is now lodged in the ing the way of all the earth, house appointed for all living.

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