fifty-two couple were asked, eight couple married, and ten children christened. His ferene highnefs the Prince of Brunfwick, with his retinue, -arrived fafe at Paris on Sunday laft; he travels by the name of Count Blankenburgh. Tuesday and Wednesday the great question, between the importers of foreign gun-powder and gun-powder makers, was debated before the court of King's-bench: when it was determined, that no gun-powder could be lawfully imported into this kingdom for fale or merchandize, and that no licence could be granted for any such purposes. And the rule of court, made for the gun-powder makers, to fhew caufe why information fhould not be granted against them for misdemeanors in joining together to profecute importers of foreign gun-powder, was difmiffed with cofts. Laft week the fociety for 24 the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, adjudged fix medals in gold, engraved by Mr. Pingo, to the fix following gentlemen, with each of their names infcribed thereon, viz. To Sir Digby Legard, Bart. of Ganton, Yorkshire, 1765, for his account of cultivating barley; Blunder Moore, Efq; of Byfleet, Surry, 1765, for fowing acorns ; William Taylor, Efq; of Cannonhill, Surry, 1765, for his account of cultivating lucerne; the Rev. Mr. H. Lowther, of Aikten, near Carlile, 1765, for his account of cultivating wheat; John Freeman, Efq; of Chutelodge, Wilts, 1765, for planting fmall-leaved English elm; Robert Fenwick, Efq; of Limington, Northumberland, 1765, for planting Scotch fir.And two filver medals, one to the Right Hon. Lord Scarfdale, 1765, for planting Scotch fir; and one to Mr. B. Merriman, 1766, for contriving a machine for raifing water by wind. LENT CIRCUIT. At Berks affizes, two were ca+ pitally convicted; but one of them was reprieved. At Bedford affizés, two were capitally convicted. At Bucks affizes, five were capitally convicted. At Cambridge none were capitally convicted. At Coventry affizes, one was capitally convicted. At Carlifle affizes, none were capitally convicted. At Devon affizes, five were capitally convicted. At Dorchester affizes, one was capitally convicted. At Derby affizes, two were capitally convicted, but were reprieved. At Durham affizes, none were capitally convicted. At Effex affizes, four were capitally convicted; but reprieved before the judges left the town. Page and Crowder, the two girls we have before mentioned, were tried for the murder of their companion, Mary Cavenach, and acquitted. At Gloucefter affizes, four were capitally convicted; but two of them have been reprieved. Lord Waldgrave's regiment, was plaintiff, and a quarter-malter and clerk to a troop in the faid regiment, defendant. While this regiment lay in Germany, his Lordhip gave a pair of gaiters to each of his men the defendant having the distribution of them, without mentioning them as his Lordship's gift, delivered them, and charged his troop 2 s. a pair. About two years ago, whit the regiment was quartered at Hereford, this man afked the quarter-mafter to return the money he had exacted from him, who, being enraged, ordered him into confinement, and three days after, held a court-martial of two or three inferior officers, who fentenced him to receive zop lashes, one half of which were feverely inflicted on him; but the gentlemen of Hereford hearing the ftory, interpofed with the commanding officer, and got his fentence miti gated to drumming out of the regiment. Upon hearing the evidence, the jury gave their verdict for the plaintiff, with 1001. damages, and cofts of fuit. There were none capitally convicted. At Hereford aflizes two were capitally convicted. At Huntingdon affizes, one was capitally convicted; but reprieved for transportation. At Lincoln affizes, five were capitally convicted, one woman for murder. At Lancafter affizes, a foreign Captain was found guilty of a murder aboard his hip, but is refpited for one month. William Whittle was alfo found guilty of cleaving his wife's head with an axe, and cutting off the heads of both his children, one of whom he rip ped open and took out his heart. He was accordingly ordered for execution. At Maidstone affizes, twentyone prifoners were capitally convicted, ten of whom belonged to the defperate gang, who murdered the keeper and Mr. Fletcher, broke the prifon, and let the whole country at defiance. At Norfolk affizes, three were capitally convicted, two of whom have been reprieved. At Northampton affizes, three were capitally convicted, two of whom are reprieved. At the affizes at Oxford, five were capitally convicted, two of whom, a mother and a daughter, were found guilty of the murder of a baftard child belonging to the daughter; the former has been executed, the latter, upon fome favourable circumstances appearing in her favour, has been reprieved, as have the other three. At Oakham affizes, one prifoner was capitally convicted, but reprieved for tranfportation. At Salisbury affizes, four were capitally convicted, two of them, a weaver and his wife, for murdering their apprentice girl, a child about nine years of age, whom, it appeared upon their trial, they had ufed most barbarously, not only by beating her from time to time in a manner too fhocking to relate; but also in denying her food in any degree fufficient to fu; poit nature. At Shrewsbury affizes, feven were capitally convicted. At Somerfet affizes, four were capitally convicted. At Southampton affizes, nore were capitally convicted. At Stafford affizes, ten were capitally convicted. At Suffolk affizes, four were capitally convicted, one a woman for murder. The perfons concerned in the riot at Nafton were tried; when 7 were found guilty, fix of whom the judge ordered to be confined one month in prifon, and to pay a fine of 20 s. each; but one of the abettors was ordered to continue fix months in prifon, to pay a fine of 40 s. and find fecurity for his good behaviour for two years. At Surry affizes, four were capitally convicted; three of whom have been reprieved. At Suffex affizes, two were capitally convicted; but reprieved before the judges left the town. At Warwick affizes, three were capitally convicted; but all reprieved. At Winchefter affizes, fix were capitally convicted. At Worcefter affizes, two were capitally convicted. At York afflizes, feven were capitally convicted; but four of them have been reprieved. His Majefty went to the 30. House of Peers, attended by the Duke of Rutland, matter of the horse, and the Earl of Pomfret; when his Majefty gave the royal affent to forty-two public and private bills, among which were the following: The bill to enable the governor and company of the bank to take down certain houses adjoining to the bank, for widening and rendering more commodious the paffages leading thereto : The bill to explain and amend an act of last feffion, for rebuilding the parifh-church of Allhallows, London-wall: The bill to punish mutiny and defertion in the American colonies: The bill to encourage the leather manufactory, by prohibiting the importation of foreign leather gloves and mitts: The bill to explain an act for the improvement of tillage, fo far as relates to the city of London : The bill for better regulating and employing the poor of Richmond in Surry, and for repairing feveral roads adjoining thereto : The bill for improving and preferving the navigation of the river Stort, in the counties of Hertford and Effex: The bill cleanse, fquare: new pave, light, and adorn Berkeley The bill for better regulating and employing the poor in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel : And also to several road, inclofure, and private bills. At a numerous meeting of the fociety of arts, came on, for confirmation, the long depending mo, tion concerning Captain Blake's late fifb-fcheme; the intention of which motion was to obtain a general account of the application of the fums entrusted to him by the fociety towards carrying the fame into execution. The debates lafted till near eleven o'clock, when the queftion being put, was carried in the affirmative, by a majority of 20. Letters from Montreal in Canada are full of complaints against the foldiery quartered there, who have committed great exceffes, and are even faid to have threatened the deftruction of the town. The fine ftatue of Mr. Pitt, to be placed in the Guildhall at Cork, is is now finished by Mr. Wilton; the expence of it is 500l. The following is the infcription: The Right Honourable. WILLIAM PITT. This ftatue was erected by The corporation and Citizens of Cork, As a lafting memorial of gratitude. Anno 1766. fatentes. Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale HOR. The behaviour of M. Crellon, the king of Spain's general, immediately after the late ftorm at Gibraltar, has occafioned fome fpirited remonftrances to that court, the confequences of which are not publicly known. On Gov. Irwin's refusing to deliver up a Spanish prize that had been brought into Gibraltar by an Algerine corfair, the General thought fit to fhut up the communication between the garrison and the continent, in the very moment of its greatest distress, which Gov. Irwin properly refented; and, though the General would have opened the communication without apply ing to court, the governor infifted that it fhould remain as it was, till the king his master's pleasure should be known. At Shrewsbury, in New Hampfire, one Mr. Carter, a confiderable farmer, having been bit by a rattle-fnake in the woods, a negroe attendant immediately applied his mouth to the wound, and, by a continual fuction, extracted the venom, which faved his mafter's life; but the flave himfelf died in a few hours; his head fwelled to a frightful degree. They write from Rome, that the courts of Verfailles and Madrid have certainly refufed to acknow ledge the eldest fon of the late Chevalier de St. George, as heir or fucceffor to the pretenfions of his father; and that the banker to that family had closed his accounts, and refufed to have any further concern with them, because Prince Edward, and Cardinal York his brother, infifted on his giving to that Prince the title of Charles III. King of E. A letter from Naples, dated April 1. fays, that mount Vefuvius made an eruption the Friday evening before, after a flight shock of an earthquake, which was only fenfible in the neighbourhood of the mountain. In less than two hours the lava ran from the mouth of the volcano, near a mile down the hill on the Portici fide; the river of fire divided into two branches, and joined again at the spot where the lava terminated. Saturday the mountain was quiet. Sunday night it was most violently agitated, throwing up red-hot stones every minute to an extraordinary height; but the lava has not been fo confiderable any time as at the firft eruption. The mountain being fo full of inflamed matter as to run over the mouth, they are apprehenfive of its burtting out lower down; in which cafe the lavas generally do great damage. The King of Pruffia, in order to encourage the porcelain manufactory in his kingdom, has made prefents of fuperb fervices of china of the manufacture of Berlin, to feveral German princes. From Fort Johnson we learn, that eighteen young white women, have lately been inarried to as many young Indian chiefs; and that Sir William Johnfon gives all poifible encouragement to intermar Lages riages with the Indians, which has long been practised by every other nation in America but the English. It is faid the Rev. Dr. Brown has lately had the honour of an invitation to Petersburgh, from the emprefs of Ruffia; and that her imperial majefty has defired to confer with him there on fome points of the highest importance, relative to the general civilization of the Ruffian empire. Died at Malaga in Spain, one Sanchez Inrado, aged 119, At Olmuts, Simeon Holey, aged 119. Near Knaresborough in Yorkfhire, J. Simpfon, aged 112. Jane Iles, at Hanham in Gloucefterfhire, aged 106. The Sieur Luchatsky, in Hungary, aged 113. Roger Dove and Elizabeth his wife, at Newcastle; their ages put together amounted to 202 years. They died within 48 hours of each other, and were interred in the fame grave. Alice Bond, a beggar; among her rags were found 501. in gold, 23 1. in crown-pieces, and receipts for 300 l. in the funds. MAY. At the anniversary meeting 1. of the governors of the Magdalen charity, at Drapers-hall, the benefactions amounted to 17541. 5 s. 4 d. including the fum of 6451. 10s. remitted from Charles Cromelin, Efq; governor of Bombay, being the amount of the fubfcriptions of feveral gentlemen refiding there; and the fum of. 290 1. received from Robert Palk, Éfq; governor of Madrafs, being the a mount of a fubfcription of the gentlemen at that place. Three extraordinary large oxen, fed by Mr. William Taylor of Heckly, Northumberland, were fold to a butcher in Sunderland for Jool. The fpot or macula on the fun, mentioned to have appeared lately, paffed over the fun's centre Thurfday fe'nnight about two P. M. when it appeared in the very middle of its difk, and quite round; at which time it fubtended an angle of 26 feconds of a degree at least; whereas our earth, at the fame diftance, is feen under an angle of only 17 feconds; which proyes it to be more than three times and a half bigger than our whole globe. From that time its apparent shape and magnitude hath continually diminished fo much, that yesterday noon its breadth was but fix feconds, and its length 17, being distant from the western limb but 22 feconds; and totally disappeared the fame evening, having taken about fix days and a half in defcribing the fun's femi-diameter, or in paffing from his centre to the circumference. It was all the time, till near its going off, very black and diftinct, and furrounded with a cloudiness or dulky atmosphere. It will, it is highly probable, make its appearance again on the eastern limb, confiderably to the north of the equator, in 13 days time.By thefe fpots it is difcovered, that the fun turns round its axis, though it does not move out of its place, in about 26 days; to do which it muft turn 200 times fafter than the motion of a cannon-ball, when it firft leaves the mouth of the cannon. |