hand; and 32 discharged for want of profecution. Some villains went on the 29th of July to the houfe of John Scott, Efq; near Stephen's Creek, on Savannah river, in S. Carolina, and, after beating him and his wife with the utmost inhumanity, robbed him of gold, filver, and paper-money, to the amount of 140cl. They were not difcovered at the latter end of Auguft. A merchant in Threadneedleftreet, received an account from Paris, that an earthquake happened at Martinico the latter end of Auguft, which fwallowed up the greatest part of the town of St. Pierre, and deftroyed 80 fhips in the harbour; that the inundation of the fea had overflowed great part of the island; that 1600 perfons had loft their lives; that the interior parts of the island had alfo greatly fuffered; and that feveral adjacent iflands had felt the fhock very feverely. There is now in a garden in Whitehaven, Cumberland, a pear tree in full bloffom, and bearing fruit for the third time this season; and what is very remarkable, there are pears upon it, fome in half, and others full in growth. There has been cut in a field near Felton-park, in Northumberland, belonging to Riddel, Efq; a cabbage, weighing four ftone four pounds and seven ounces, growing among feveral hundreds of nearly the fame weight, all cultivated by the horfe-hoeing husbandry. This beneficial improvement in the new husbandry, we recommend to the obfervation of our readers concerned in agriculture. For only eftimating one thoufand cabbages VOL. IX. on an acre, and their weight thirtyfive pounds each, it will be 35,000 pounds weight, of which we fuppofe a bullock can eat as much again as he can of turneps, that is to fay, 300 pounds of cabbage.-Now at this allowance, in which the animal is furely not ftinted, the produce of the acre of land will nearly feed a bullock during four months. Of the fame genus is the napus fylveftris, commonly known by the name of rape, or cole, which is well worth cultivation in this country.-Mr. Miller fays he has found, in feveral places where he has fowed this feed, that one acre of land properly planted, will produce almoft as much food as two acres of turneps, and will afford late food after the turneps are run to feed. One acre will produce as much as, at a moderate computation, will fell for five pounds, clear of charges. Partridges, pheasants, turkeys, and most other fowls, are fo fond of these plants, that, if there be any of them in the neighbourhood of the field where they are culti vated, they will flock thither, and lie conftantly among them. Sir John Langham, lately de ceafed, has given in truft to the lord mayor and aldermen of London 6000l. in new South-fea annuities, towards raifing a fund for the relief of poor diftreffed foldiers and feamen, and their families; and the executors of that gentleman have given notice that they are ready to pay the fame. A boy who had been apprehended, with others, for housebreaking at Paris, brought up thirty louis d'ors, which he had wallowed fix weeks before, by way of concealment: they were [2] fo changed in his ftomach, that they were not paffable. Her Royal Highness the 27. Princess Royal was chriftened by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the name of Charlotta-Augufta-Matilda. The fponfors were the King of Denmark, (reprefented by his Grace the Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain); the Queen of Denmark (reprefented by the Countess of Effingham, one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber); and her Royal Highness the Princefs Louifa in perfon. [Gaz. By the laft affize of bread fet forth this day, the peck loaf to weigh 17lb. 6 ounces; wheaten, 2 s. 8 d. houfhold, 2 s. They write from Paris, of the 7th inftant, that a meffenger arrived from Rome with advice, that thirteen cardinals were made on the 26th of September laft, viz. Monf. Callino, patriarch of Antioch, - Archbishop of Serra, auditor of the chamber, Monfieur Oddi, Archbishop of Ravenna, Archbishop Branciforte, Prefident of Urbino, Archbishop Pallavicini, nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Borromeo, nuncio at Vienna, Archbishop Pamfili, nuncio at Paris, Archbishop Simonelli, fecretary to the Bishop and Regulars, Monfieur Perecciani, Archbifhop of Sirmo. Archbishop Peretti, fecretary of the council, Monfieur Piccolomini, governor of Rome. Monfieur Canale, treafurer general, Monfieur Veterani, affeffor of the holy office. And from Lisbon, that many diforders having been occafioned by the ill conduct of fome of the governors of the Azores, the king has united all thofe iflands under one government; and that dignity is granted to Count Antonio d'Almada. His Excellency is to refide at Angra, the capital of Terceira, and will have under his command two regiments of 420 men each, a detachment from which is to be quartered in each of the islands. Extract of a letter from Madrid. Father Poyans, rector of the Jefuits of Sarragoffa, and brother of the Marquis de Poyans, late fecretary of the Spanish embaffy to Ruffia, has been arrested by order of his Catholic Majefty, on account of there having been found in his houfe upwards of three thoufand copies of a writing on the expulfion of the Jefuits from France; a work, in which not only the magiftrates and the minifters are treated with indignity, but even the facred perfon of his most 'Chriftian Majefty is not refpected. This feditious piece bears in the title page, Paris, though printed at Saragoffa; and it is fuppofed, that the French minifter, having been informed of what was doing, acquainted the Spanish miniftry with it, and demanded the detention of the Jefuit. Copenhagen, O. 11. The marriage-ceremony between the Princefs Sophia Magdalena, and the Prince Royal of Sweden, having been performed by proxy on the first inftant, the whole royal family accompanied the princefs to Elf Elfineur, on Tuesday the 7th inft. and on the 8th, her royal highnefs paffed the Sound to Helfinbourg, where he was received by the prince her confort, and a depuration from the fenate to compliment her upon her arrival in the terri tories of Sweden. Dr. Walker, a gentleman of honour and veracity, who has been revifiting the weftern ifles of Scotland, and is now in the Orkneys, being in the church-yard of Lochaber, faw the remains of a monfrous ash-tree, dead with age, yet a vaft column-like trunk was ftanding fixteen feet high. As the fize round may seem incredible, he took two people of credit to fee him measure it, who attefted to the truth of the menfuration before a magiftrate, that it contained in circuit fifty-eight feet, taken five feet from the furface. It was measured in the year 1765: The riots and difturbances in many places, have continued the greatest part of the month, occafioned by the high price of provifions; but the military being called in, many of the rioters were taken and are in cuftody, and fome lives were loft in different fkirmishes between the rioters and the foldiers. They pulled down mills, burnt houfes, and robbed the farmers, in feveral places. A collar-maker, at Difs, in Norfolk, under pretence of giv ing his wife a kifs, inhumanly cut her throat, and afterwards hanged himself. was The wife of a master of a fhip at Blyth, near Newcastle, fafely delivered of five male children; who, it is faid, are all likely to live. Lieutenant-Gen. Han Died. dafyd, aged 97. At Norwich, Peter le Nere, Efq; who, though he was both deaf and dumb, was mafter of feveral polite arts and sciences. At Shadwell, aged go, 'Mr. Peter Coulthurft, a fhip chandler, who died worth above 30,000. In Norway, Mathias de Seve; he was a foldier under four Kingsof Denmark, was prefent at fix capital engagements, and fifteen heavy fieges in Queen Anne's time, and never received a wound. William Whitchurch, in Virginia, aged 107; he ferved in the militia in the reign of Charles II. and bore arms when his prefent Majefty was proclaimed. 95. Mr. Nafh, at Chelfea, aged John Robarts, a labourer, near Leicester, aged 97; he was able to mow graís a few days before he died. NOVEMBER. J There was a court at Dronningholm in Sweden, for three 4* fucceffive days, which began the 28th of last month. The princess royal, after having received the compliments of the fenate, and of the states at Calberg, arrived at Droningholm in the king's barge, accompanied by fix others, about five o'clock in the afternoon; where her royal highnefs was received at the landingplace by all the officers of the houfhold, and was led by the prince royal to the queen's apar ment, where the whole court was affembled. The princefs royal has made her public entry this morning; and the marriage-ceremony is to be (L) a per. performed at feven o'clock this evening in the chapel royal. [Lond. Gaz.] The Right Honourable the 6. Lord Chancellor went in great ftate to Westminster-hall, and opened the refpective courts. His Lordship was dreffed in a magnificent robe, richly laced, attended by divers of the nobility, the judges, and proper officers. Being come into court, the lord privy feal received his oath, the clerk of the crown reading it. The proceffion was the grandeft ever known on the like occafion, confifting of fifty-one coaches, befides his lordship's new ftate coach, which was very fuperb. A dreadful fire broke out at Kettering in Northamptonshire, occafioned by the boys throwing fquibs, which confumed feventeen dwelling-houfes, befides outhouses, ricks of wheat, barley, and corn of all forts. The damage is computed at 40001. The common people, inftead of joining to extinguish the flames, called out tauntingly to a farmer whofe ricks were on fire," Now, farmer, will you fell your wheat at feven and fix-pence a strike! Being the birth-day of his 7. R. Highness Frederic Duke of Cumberland, who then entered into the twenty-fecond year of his age, their Majefties and the Royal Family received the compliments of the nobility, &c. on that occafion. The Earls of Northampton and Halifax have actually paid into the hands of Alderman Thompson, at Northampton, 500 1. (250 1. each) for the relief of the poor. The Queen of Denmark made her public entry into Copenhagen this day. Her Majefty left Fre dericksbourg at half an hour after eleven, accompanied only by the Princefs of Helle-Caffel. The retinue was very numerous, and went fo flow through the ftreets, that her Majefty did not arrive at the palace royal till between three and four. She was received by the king at the door of the firft antechamber. The croud of people, which affembled on this occafion, was immense. The nuptial ceremony was performed in the palace chapel about eight o'clock; after which their Majefties and the Royal Family, together with the principal perfons of the court and foreign minifters, fupped at a ta ble of a hundred and twenty.co At a court of common-council, five hundred pounds were voted for the fufferers by the late fire at Barbadoes. Came on before the barons of the Exchequer, the caufe 13. which has been fo long depending between the commiffioners of excife, and Mr. Wright, diftiller in White-friars, for penalties to the amount amount of eighteen thousand five hundred pounds; when, after a trial of twelve hours, and without calling in any witneffes on behalf of the defendant, the jury withdrew for a fhort time, and brought in a general verdict for Mr. Wright. The counsel for the crown were, the attorney general, the folicitor general, Mr. Huffey, Mr. Afhurft, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. Newnham; and for the defendant, Sir Fletcher Norton, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. Serjeant Glynn, Mr. Dunning, and Mr. Davenport. The folicitors were; for the crown, Mr. Baxter, folicitor to the excife; and for the defendant, Mr. Davy, late deputyfolicitor to the excife. This day commiffions paffed 15. under the great feal, for trial of the offenders in cuftody in the counties of Norfolk, Gloucester, Berkshire, and Wiltshire, and the cities of Norwich and Gloucefter, on account of the late infurrections and outrages in those parts. The colliers from the Cleehill, near Ludlow, affembled in a body, and pulled down the ftill-house in that town. They entered the town in a very orderly manner, proceeded to the house, pulled it down, and then returned, without offering any other violence to any perfon whatever. They were affured by the magistrates, that the fill fhould be stopped, but they could not be diverted from their purpose. A person who called himself GeorgeWent, Efq; was committed to Chelmsford gaol, on the oath of one of his accomplices, for confpiring with feveral others to defraud Evan Evans, of Brecon in Wales, of a number of cattle, which they obtained from him by falfe pretences. The 'fquire, who' always appeared, attended by his footman, pretended that he was in immediate want of the cattle to ftock a farm which he had lately taken into his hands, and being at an inn in Burntwood, bargained with Evans for fheep, &c. to the value of 1871. and produced two draughts for the money of 100l. each, and received Mr. Evans's note for the balance; but the innkeeper fufpecting the fraud, by. obferving too great an intimacy between the 'fquire and his footman, he apprifed Evans of his fuf picion, who immediately hurried to town, and applied for payment, when the draughts appeared to be forged, and the whole tranfaction a fraud. Number 28,316 came up a prize in the lottery of 1000l. It was given by a gentleman to a newmarried lady in the city, in a state of pregnancy, for the benefit of her child, whether male or female: the lady was delivered of a fine girl on Monday, and he was complimented on the coming up of this ticket the next day. The new temporary bridge 19. was opened at Black-friars, to the no fmall mortification of the watermen, who cannot help complaining of this precipitate expedient to deprive them of their bread at this hard time. Many of us, fay the old men, may be dead before the ftone bridge can be finished, and it is hard to ftarve us to death before our time, by a wooden |