lively, which gave the family hopes that company and the country had diffipated the gloom that hung upon her mind: but the laft day of her life, not coming down to breakfaft as usual, a fervant was fent up to call her: She had quitted the -room, in the middle of which stood a large punch bowl. This raifed fome fufpicions; and the fervants were ordered to fearch the yard and gardens, which they did, but without fuccefs: Then the coachman bethought him of the neceffary, the door of which he found faft, and on account of decency, waited half an hour before he attempted to get in; at the expiration of which he took off one of the tiles, and, to his great amazement, faw the unfortunate lady kneeling, with her head leaning over the hole of the neceffary, and her throat cut from ear to ear, without any figns of life. It was conjectured that the intended to have executed the horrid purpofe in her own chamber, and, to that intent, had placed the punch bowl in the manner above-mentioned, in order to receive the blood iffuing from the wound. An exprefs was immediately difpatched to the unfortunate husband, to give him an account of this melancholy catastrophe. A young perfon at Briftol, who goes by the name of Montague, and had attempted to buy poiton and afterwards to cut her throat, and pretended to be of a noble family, has turned out an impoftor. Several of the faculty had examined her concerning her fex, having a female voice: but none of them could tell which she was, fome faying the was male, others female, and fome faid both; but at laft fending for an old nurfe belonging to the hofVOL. III. pital, the pronounced it to be á male; whereupon he was coinmit ted to the houfe of correction, A great many hogs were lately feized by the church-warden, overfeers, and confiables, of the parish of St. George, Hanover-fquare, and fold for the benefit of the poor, agreeable to the 8th and 9th of William III. which makes all hogs forfeited that are bred, fed, or kept, in the houses or backfides of the paved ftreets, or within 50 yards of the fame, where the houfes are contiguous, within the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, parithes within the bills of mortality, and other the out parishes in the county of Middlefex. One Mr. Edward Chriftopher lately rode, for a confiderable wager, from the Axe inn, Aldermanbury, to the city of Durham, which is 262 miles: He was allowed 46 hours to do it in; but he performed it in 42, and rode 21 horfes during the journey. They write from Paris, that the Sieur de la Rouviere hath obtained a patent for the fole making of flannels, velvets, and other ftuffs, of the cottony down of the apocynum, or dog's-bane. The down of this plant hath long been in great efteem in France, for ftuffing eafychairs and making quilts, which are warm, and extremely light, the down being very elaftick, and on that account very proper covering for perfons afflicted with the gout. In the fouthern part of France, where fome of the forts of this plant will thrive in the open air, and perfect their feeds, there are many plantations of them for the fake of the down. Miller.] There was not long ago, taken out of the fea, near Weft Capelle, on the coaft of Zealand, a great block of stone, weighing near 150lb. entirely eaten by worms, immense numbers of which, of the fize of a man's little finger, were found in it. Their bodies were foft, refembling thofe of fnails, but on each fide of, the head they have an extreme hard fhell, refembling a faw, with which they had perforated the ftone, and are thought to be the fame kind of worms that have been fo fatal to the dykes. On Friday the 5th inftant, about feven o'clock in the evening, they had a sudden storm of hail and rain at Norwich, with a flash of lightning, that burst into feveral parts, refembling balls of fire, which fell in many parts of the city, followed inftantly by a clap of thunder, not diftinguishable from the explotion of a fingle piece of cannon; but did no harm. On the 21ft a raven's neft, with young ones quite fledged, was taken from a tree in a ground belonging to Mr. Johnfon, of Gedney, in Lincoln fhire. On the 13th the houfe of the widow Hazledine, at Liverpool, was confumed by fire, and Mrs. Hazledine and her grand-daughter perithed in the flames. Fort Prince George, and Fort Ninety-fix, at the back of Carolina, which were clofe preffed by the Cherokees, have been relieved by a detachment of rangers under major Thompson. The tender belonging to the Dublin, commodore Douglafs, was lately loft at St. John's, on a cruize, in a gale of wind, with upwards of a hundred chofen men on board, commanded by the commodore's own brother, and all hands' perifhed. On Saturday the 27th, a proclamation was iffued for a general faft to be observed in Great Britain and Ireland on Friday the 13th day of February next; and in Scotland on Thurfday the 12th of the faid month. Amongst the curiofities taken out of the ruins of Herculaneum, there is one that much exercises the talents of the virtuofi: It is a neat chariot of ivory, in which is placed a parroquet; this machine is drawn by a grafhopper, the reins paffing from the mouth of the latter to the bill of the parroquet. Many think it only a feu d'jprit, or whim of the artift; others confider it as an emblem of a frivolous age: but the more fcientific criticks regard it as a fatire, and fuggeft, that the parroquet reprefents Agrippina, the mother of Nero, and the grafhopper the famous Locufta who was employed to poifon Claudius. The court of directors of the Eaft India company have re-31ft. ceived, by the way of Perfia and Aleppo, from the prefident and council of Bombay, the following advices, dated the 27th of May laft."In our lait advices over land, we had the pleasure to inform you of the fuccefs which had attended the English arms at Wondevath and Chetteput; and at Arcot, in thofe by the Yarmouth: Alfo that adm. Cornish arrived with his fquadron at Fort St. George, on the 23d of February. We have now the fatisfaction to acquaint you, that on the 3d inftant we received the agreeable news from the prefident and council at Fort St. George, that Permacoil and Allumparva had furrendered their garrifons to be pri foners foners of war. Alfo, that his majefty's fhip Falmouth had obliged the Harlem, a French fhip from Merguy, to run on thore 2 leagues to the northward of Pondicherry. Thefe fucceffes were attended with the furrender of the important fettlement of Carical on the 5th of laft month, to the fea and land forces commanded by rear-adm. Cornith, and major Monfon, with all the garrifon prifoners of war. We are not yet informed of the number; but the lofs on our fide was only feven killed and wounded. The enemy is by this means reduced to their fingle port of Pondicherry. The court of directors have alfo received advices, by way of Baffora, that Pondicherry was clofely blocked up by fea and land; and that the French horfe, confifting of 400 huffars, had deferted to our camp. During the course of this year 10,239 lafts of wheat, 16,863 ditto of rye, 187 ditto of barley, and 155 ditto of oats, were exported from Dantzick. A laft is 2 ton in weight. The increase of the linen manufacture in Scotland this year has turned out very confiderable. By the returns from the stamp-masters, the linen ftamped for fale laft year (exclufive of what is manufactured for private families, which too is very confiderable) is no lefs than 11,747,728 yards and 6-8ths; value 523,1531. 10s. 4d.-The year preceding the number of yards ftamped, amounted to 10,830,707; value 451,390l. 175. 3d. So that the increafe this laft year is no lefs than 917,021 yards and 6-8ths, value 71,7621. 138. id. *This was the fhip the French feized from the Dutch (as has been formerly mention. ed) with treasure on board. She was now laden with timber and planks. only is forwarded to the market directly, the remainder is put into one of these cells or receivers: another veffel, two or three days after, leaves part of her cargo in another receiver of the fame boat, and fo on there it is kept as much beyond the limited time as the fisherman pleafes. When the infpector comes to fee that the first fish have been forwarded to market as it ought, and finds it remaining beyond the time, he is told that what he fees there is not the first fish, but such as came by after-veffels, and that the time for fending it forward is not out; which he not being able to difprove, the fraud paffes unpunished. It has also been provided, that an entry should be made of the fishingveffels, as they came in, under a very confiderable penalty; but this is frequently eluded, by prevailing upon those who have the charge of making the entry, to leave the entry to be made by fome waterman, who takes the entering-money, and makes the entry upon pieces of paper, which remain with him, before they are pofted in the enteringbook, perhaps twenty days. If the infpector, upon finding no entry made, give himself no trouble, the end is answered; if he does, and profecutes, the defendant produces the waterman's paper, which brings the entry within time; and tho' this paper may be forged, as the proof of the forgery is fcarce poffible, the. end of the fifherman is ftill anfwered, and he ftill cheats the public with impunity. To remedy thefe evils, and fome others, an act of parliament paffed the laft feffions of parliament, of which the following is the fubftance: A brief account of the A&t for better Supplying the cities of London and Weftminster with fifb. Fter June 24, 1760, the mafter A of every hingestel, within three days after his arrival at the Nore with any fish, fhall report the time of his arrival to the deputed clerk in the Coaft-office at the Cuftom-houfe in London, under 50l. penalty, and the clerk is to enter the report in a book kept for that purpose. And every mafier of a fishingveffel is alfo to leave a true account of all fresh falmon, falmon-trout, turbots, and large freth cod, and half-fresh cod-fifh, baddock, fcate fish, fresh ling, lobfters, foles, and whitings, which have been brought alive to the Nore in his veffel, upon, pain that the owners of fuch veffel whofe mafter fhall omit to give fuch account, fhall forfeit 201." If the mafter, or any other perfon on board fuch a veffel, after her arrival, fhall deftroy, or cause to be deftroyed, any fish which shall have been brought from fea, that is not unwholefome, perithed, or anmarketable, fuch offender is to be committed and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding two months, nor less than one month. The clerk at the Coaft-office is to enter the faid accounts, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in every week, to return to the mayor of London, and to fuch perfons as the trustees of the fish-market at Weftminßer thall appoint, in the city of Weftminster, and to the infpector of the fishing-veffels at fuch place as the faid trustees fhall appoint, a true account of the time when every fuch veffel fhall have been entered as arrived at the Nore, and alfo of the 31:|:|:ཀ 1:|:ཀ9:2 : | 1 the fish, &c. which fhall have been entered, under the penalty of 51. None of the above mentioned fifh fhall, at any time after their arrival at the Nore, be put into any wellboat or ftore-boat, under the penal ty of 201. And no fuch fish are to be delivered out of any fishing-veffel (unlefs when fold by retail) but into the veffel that shall be employed to carry it directly to Billingfgate or Weftminster: and no veffel is to remain above one tide with the fith, and is to deliver the fish at or before the next market, accidents of wind and weather excepted; and if any one offends in the premifes, he is to be committed to the houfe of correction, to remain without bail, and be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding two months, nor less than one month. And the inspector of the fishing veffels is duly to execute his office, under the penalty of 201. No perfon who fhall fell or be concerned in the fale of any freth fish by commiffion, is to buy or be concerned in the buying of any freth fifh to fell again on his own feparate account, or for the joint account of him or any other perfon, under the forfeiture of gol. Bret or turbot under the fize of 16 inches, and brill or pearl under the fize of 14 inches, may be expofed to fale, fo as the fame be not fold by retail, at above 6d. the pound: and if any perfon fhall demand or take any greater price than 6d. a pound, and in proportion for any leffer weight, or fhall refufe to weigh and measure every fuch bret or turbot, brill or pearl, every fuch bret or turbot, brill or pearl, is to be forfeited; and any perfon may feize the fame, and deliver it to a con ftable, and charge him with the party who demanded any greater price than as aforefaid; and every conftable is to carry the party and the fish which fhall be feized before fome juftice of the peace; and every offender on conviction is to forfeit 20s. and the fifh feized to be given to the profecutor of the offender, and the money to be returned to the party who paid the fame.. No perfon is to fell at the firft hand at any fish market within the bills of mortality, or within 150 yards of any fuch fifh-market, and during the market hours, any of the above mentioned fish, before he thall have first placed up, on or over the place at which he fhall expofe to fale any fuch fifh, a true account of all the fith which he fhall, then have to fell, diftinguishing the feveral forts of fuch fith, and the quantity of every fort thereof refpectively; and if, at any time before the market of that day fhall be over, any fuch other fifh fhall be brought to fell, every fuch perfon, before he fhall expofe to fale any part thereof, fhall add a true account thereof to the account before put up, which fhall continue up until all the fifh fhall be fold, or the market be over, under 10l. penalty, and under the penalty of 40s. for any one's taking down or oblig terating any fuch account. No perfon is to have in his poffeffion, or expofe to fale, or exchange for any goods, any spawn of fifh, or any fith unfizeable or out of feafon, or any fielt which shall not be five inches from the nose to the utmost extent of the tail; and if any one fhall offend in the premifes, any perfon, under the authority of the act, may feize the fame, with the basketsand package, and charge |