fignals. There were befides, at four different places equally diftant from the circus, kettle-drums and trumpets, whofe warlike mufic was heard during the whole time of the caroufal.

The four quadrilles, [troops of horfe at a caroufal or tournament] reprefenting four different nations, viz. the Sclavonian, the Turkish, the Indian, and the Roman, perfectly obferved the customs of those nations, in their drefs and ornaments, in their chariots, in their mufic, &c. and they were all, efpecially the eight ladies, covered with gold and filver, and precious ftones, but that of the Romans, which was conducted by Count Gregory Orloff, was the moft brilliant. The drefs of Count Alexis "Orloff, chief of that of the Turks, was greatly admired.、、

The four quadrilles paffed, in great pomp, through the principal ftreets of the city, before they repaired to the circus..

On the 9th of June, a moft tremendous fhock of an earthquake was felt at Kingston in Jamaica, which lafted; more than a minute and a half, and threw the inhabisants into the greateft confterna

tion; but, happily, though the houfes fhook in fuch a manner that their ruin was thought inevitable, yet no particular damage ensued. It was felt with equal violence in the adjacent towns, but without any fatal confequences.

The cuftom - house of

Dartmouth in Devon, was 25th. in the night broke and entered by perfons unknown; and an iron cheft, in which the crown's money was depofited, was broke open, and the fum of 7701. or thereabouts, was taken and carried away.

On the zift, the most terrible form of thunder and lightning happened at Skipton in Craven, that has ever been known in the memory of the oldeft man there. The lightning ftruck the churchfteeple, beat off the weathercock and feveral of the pinnacles, and has greatly rent and damaged the whole fteeple. Much about the fame time, at a place called Shire Oaks, near Skipton, a mare and foal were killed, the former of which was divided, and torn by the lightning in an almoft incredible manner, being nearly feparated in two parts.

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A moft violent hurricane happened at Verdun-fur Garonne, in France. The hail fell with fuch force, that in half an hour's time all the harvest that remained on the ground was either deftroyed, or carried away by the torrents. A fmall rivulet which runs through the town, fuddenly overflowed, and laid upwards of an hundred houfes under water; fome ere totally washed away, and almoft all of them were greatly damaged, and many perfons were drowned.

Those bouses that stood on the highest

flood, were unroofed by the wind, which tore up a prodigious number of trees by the roots; and, to add to the calamity, entirely deftroyed the mulberry trees, of which the plantations are very confiderable in that neighbourhood. The church at Pilleport is blown down, and 12 perfons were buried under its ruins.

30th. At a court of common council, the report of Mr. Recorder was read, touching the city of London's rights to import 4000 chaldrons of coals for the benefit of the city poor; and by that opinion it appears, the corporation are by charter entitled to that quantity, at I s. per chaldron lefs duty than is the cuftom to pay in the port of London.

By the floods coming from the high country, Great Upwell and its neighbourhood are all under water, near two feet deep. The farmers have loft near 3000 fheep, which accident only has given an opportunity to fome particular gentlemen to advance almost all neceffaries for fubfiftence, which has made a general clamour amongst

the poor.

The poor near Honiton have rifen, and feized on the bags of corn lodged by the farmers in the public-houfes, brought them into the market, and fold the corn at 5s. 6d. per bufhel, paying the money, and returning the bags to the owners; and feveral hundreds rofe, and pulled down the bunting mills at Ottery, Tipton, and Sidbury. They have done damage, as fuppofed, to the amount of 1000l.

The poor have also risen at Crediton. In short, the cafe of the poor is become fo defperate, that

dress.

Great disturbances amongst the poor have happened lately near Exeter, on account of the high price of provifions, having de itroyed feveral flour-mills, and burnt down a fet of flour-mills at Stoke. The gentlemen have bought large quantities of flour, which they fell to the poor for three-pence halfpenny per pound, in order to put a stop to thofe disturb

ances.

came

A young woman, who called herself Mifs Wilbraham, lately to an inn at Coventry, and pretended to be in great diftrefs. She faid her father was a RomanCatholic gentleman in the neighbourhood of Carlifle, who, foon after the death of her mother, (a Proteftant) had married a lady of his own communion, by whom the was ill-treated, and reduced to the neceffity of either changing her religion, or quitting the family. Under this pretence the vifited the moft confiderable families in Coventry and its neighbourhood, and from fome obtained relief; but on her applying to Lord Denbigh, his Lordship difcredited her story, and wrote to Alderman Hewit to examine her more closely. This produced a difcovery very unfavourable to her defigns. By her papers it appeared, that he had lately traverfed most of the northern counties, and had likewise paffed through Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Berkshire, Monmouthshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire; that he had fometimes affumed the title of Lady Viscountess Wilbrahammon, sometimes that of the Hon. Mifs Mullineux, and fometimes that of the [1] 4

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Hon. Mrs. Irving. Among her papers were likewife found two certificates of her marriage, one by the name of Sarah Charlotte Lewiffearn Welbrowfon, at Frenfham in Surry; the other by the name of Wilbrahammon, at Whitechapel church. She produced feveral letters, directed to her from perfons of eminence; but by comparing the hand-writing with that of feveral falfe paffes, there is reafon to believe, fhe is connected with fome very bad perfon, who makes a trade of writing fuch letters and paffes. Notwithstanding this detection, fhe found means to make her escape from Coventry. She is about twenty years of age, crooked, and has a fpeck or kell over one eye.

Duke Frederic of Brunfwic-Lunenburg Bevern, died the 16th inft. at Bevern, in his 43d year.

Paris, July 21. We have received here the news of the death of the Queen Dowager of Spain, mother to the prefent King. She was of the house of Parma, and was born the 25th of October, 1692. Her iffue, befides the King, is the Infant Don Lewis, born July 25, 1727, and the Infanta Donna Maria Antionetta, born Nov. 17, 1729, and efpoufed, on the 12th of April, 1750, to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Sa

fequies of the Queen-mother will laft nine days; after which the whole court will remove to St. Ildephonfo. The waters

Arnhem, July 21,

of the Rhine and Wahal are fuddenly fwoln to fuch a degree, that they are at prefent 15 feet high above the water-mark. This increafe of the waters reduces the inhabitants of the ground-floors to ftrange circumftances. The mar

Copenhagen, July 5. riage between Prince Charles af Heffe Caffel, and her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Louifa, youngest fifter to his Danish Majefty, was yefterday declared at the palace of Horfholm, when the court was affembled on that occafion. The mourning was fufpended for that day, and every lady appeared in galą. At the fame time the King was pleased to make feveral promotions, the principal of which were, the government of Rendfburg to Count Knuth.

In one of the mines of Norway a piece of filver ore of 260 lb. wt. has lately been dug up, and is depofited in the King of Denmark's museum. It is five feet fix inches long, and four feet in circumference, and is valued at 500 crowns.

The fettlement of British merchants upon the river Wolga in Ruffia, for trading to Aftracan and Perfia, is going to be renewed upon the fame plan as that for which an act of parliament was obtained in 1738, when Jonas Hanway, Efq; went over, and remained fome years in Perfia; but at last was obliged to leave it on account of the ufurpation of Kouli Khan, and an edit of the Emprefs Elizabeth of Ruffia, which prohibited carrying on fuch a trade through

her

her dominions. During Mr. Hanway's flay, the trade appeared to turn out very confiderably for the fale of British manufactures; in return for which they received raw filk, &c. which was shipped on the Caspian fea, and from thence tranfported up the Wolga, and carried to from Petersburgh, whence it was brought to London, cheaper than it can be had at Smyrna or Aleppo, from the Armenian merchants, who engrofs the trade, and bring it there from Perfia. Public have been put up prayers all over Italy, to obtain from heaven a ceffation of the rains, with which their grounds have been overflowed for fome time pait. The miraculous crucifixes of the nuns at St. James's in Florence, have been uncovered for that purpose, and the deluded people, who have great faith in their power, invoke them from morning till night.

One of the galley-flaves in the port of Villa Franca, having been convicted of throwing the confecrated wafer, which he had received at the communion, upon the ground, was condemned by the fenate of Nice to be hanged, and afterwards thrown into the fire and burnt, which fentence being confirmed by his Sardinian Majefty, the man was executed on the 7th paft. Another flave, who held the arm of the former, when he was going to take up the wafer to cut it with his knife, to fee if it would bleed, for his zeal in preventing this additional profanation, was reftored to liberty.

A very laudable regulation has lately taken place at Lisbon, where all the idle boys about the streets

are fent to the arfenal, where they are inftructed in bufinefs, and employed in the King's fervice.

The fcarcity of provifions has. been fo general, as to reach North' America, where Indian corn has rifen to a great price; and at Wilmington, in North Carolina, fmall fishes were fold from fixteen to twenty-pence each.

They write from Hamburgh, that one Chriftopher Schroder died the 6th inftant at Steinbeck, a village in that neighbourhood, at the

age of 106 years. He had been a foldier, and was at the battle of Hockstadt, &c.

One Frances Mazzini died lately near Pifa, aged 105. She never had any illness, and, what is most remarkable is, that being poor, and fubfifting merely by her daily labour, the found means by her induftry to fave a fum of 6000 fcudis, which fhe has left to her heirs.

There is now living on the ifle of Jerfey, one Martin Fountain, aged 109 years, who never was out of the island.

Lately died at Worcester, Mr. Baker, by trade a baker, supposed to be larger than the late Edward Bright. His coffin measured feven feet over, was bigger than an ordinary hearfe, and part of the wall was obliged to be taken down for its paffage.

They advife from Douglas, in the ifle of Man, that a perfon died there lately in the 117th year of his age, who had never been out of the island fince his birth.

Died at Lisbon, Capt. Butler, aged 103. He was related to the Duke of Ormond.

Mr. David Davis, at Plaistow, aged 102.

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Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. Smith's, cheesemonger, in Blackmoor ftreet, Clare market, which entirely confumed his house, greatly damaged two others in front, and burnt backwards as far as Craven-buildings in Drury-lane. An elderly woman, who lodged at Mr. Smith's, unfortunately perifhed in the flames; and a man and a child being miffing, it is feared they have shared the fame fate. The fire was fo rapid, that Mr. Smith faved only his day-books.

Alfo a fire broke out early yefterday morning in Joiners-ftreet, near Tooley-ftreet, which confumed two houses.

A Popish bishop has at last been fent from England, where he had refided for fome months, to Canada, agreeable to a fecret article in the late treaty of peace, in confideration of the French court's engaging not to abet or affift, in any hape, the fon of the pretender. The bishop has given fecurity for his good behaviour. He bears a remarkable character for a mild, modeft, and difcreet perfon, and is about 50 years of age.

Between ten and eleven at night, there was a violent ftorm of lightning and thunder at St. Edmund'sBury, Suffolk, by which a large crack was made in the wall of St. Mary's church, feveral large ftones were driven through the wall into the church, and fo great was the explofion, that many of the neighbours imagined the whole church was coming down, and expected nothing less than being buried in the ruins. At the fame time a

pair of horses, belonging to Mr. Coldham, an attorney in Guildhall-street, were ftruck dead by the lightning.

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Arrived in London the Indian chiefs, with their ladies, and an Indian attendant. According to their own account, they are chiefs of two of the five tribes of Iroquois Indians, inhabiting the country bes tween New-York and Lake Ontario, and are come with letters of recommendation from Gen. Sir William Johnfon, in order to fettle the limits of their huntinggrounds, which they complain are encroached upon by the fettlers from New-York. The Sachems are remarkably tall and ftrong, of a brown fhining complexion, are dreffed after the Indian manner, and are remarkably warlike in their appearance. Their women are of the fame complexion with the men, appearing modeft and decent in their behaviour, and highly delighted with the little prefents that are made them, though of the smallest value.

Died, at her lodgings near the Broadway, in Deptford, aged 96 years, Mrs. Mary Luhorne, reli&t of Capt. Luhorne, formerly in the Eaft-India fervice, who, for upwards of forty years, has lived in Greenwich and Deptford in the moft penurious manner: fhe even denied herfelf every neceffary of life, wearing cloaths that would fcarcely hide her nakedness, and thofe covered with vermin ; has not been known to have had any fire, or even lighted candle in her apartment, for fourteen years past; nor either to wear a fhift or lie in a sheet. She frequently went a begging on the high road, when he went on bufinefs to London;

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