forty poor debtors from the King's bench, and Marshalfea prisons. A butcher in Clare-market was fined 242 1. at Guildhall, before the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield, for foreftalling fixty fheep coming to Smithfield-market, which fine was paid accordingly. They write from Saxony of the 14th ult. that a moft terrible fire broke out at Mufkau in Upper Lufatia, which reduced to ashes two churches, the stadthouse, two fchools, and one hundred and thirty-fix fine houfes, with a great number of inferior buildings and out-houses. The caftle efcaped, though very narrowly, the roof being on fire in four different places. The damage occafioned by this conflagration amounts to 160,000 rixdollars. Letters from the island of Banda Neira, one of the Molucca islands belonging to the Dutch, yielding nutmegs and mace, in lat. 4 and one half S. about 25 leagues from Amboyna, bring advice, that they had there in the night of the 20th of April, 1765, an eruption of the volcano, which continued till the 4th of June, throwing out red-hot ftones, and other inflammable matter, without any intermiffion, attended with a black ftinking fog, which put the inhabitants into the greatest confternation, left plagues or earthquakes fhould follow, and that feveral of them were about retiring elsewhere, which obliged the government to put a stop to their emigration by a placard; all the trees on the fides of Negory are entirely burnt or thrown down; and the houfes are in continual danger of being fet on fire, by the long duration of the eruptions. A remarkable caufe between Mr. Francis Jones, plaintiff, and Mr. James Rule (purfer of his Majefty's fhip the Duke) defendant, was tried before Lord Mansfield, at Westminster-hall. The action was brought against the defendant, for arrefting the plaintiff in a former action, and holding him to bail on an affidavit of debt for 2000 1. but on examining their accounts before the time of the arreft, there was a confiderable balance in favour of the plaintiff; and it clearly appearing to the fatisfaction of the court, that no fuch fum as 2000 l. or any thing like it, was due to the defendant at the time of his arrefting the plaintiff; and it likewife appearing, that the plaintiff had remained in prison under fuch arreft upwards of five months, through his inability to procure bail for fo large a fum: the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff for 400 l. damages, with cofts of fuit. The unhappy father of the two Slacks, who were executed at Tyburn, hanged himself in a fit of defpondency for their fate, but being cut down before he was quite dead, we hear there were hopes of his recovery. This day his Majesty went to the House of Peers, at- 14. tended by the Dukes of Rutland and Manchefter, and gave the royal affent to the following bills, viz. The bill for redeeming certain confolidated annuities; with refpect to navy, victualling, and tranfport bills. The bill for applying the fum granted to pay and clothe the militia for the prefent year. The bill to make a navigable cut cut or canal, from or near WildenFerry in Staffordshire, to communicate with the river Mersey in Lancashire. The bill to make the river Soar navigable from the river Trent, to or near Loughborough, in the county of Leicester. The bill to make a navigable cut or canal from the river Severn, between Titton bridge, in the county of Worcester, to communicate with a canal intended to be made between the rivers Trent and Mersey. The bill to pave, light, and cleanse the streets, lanes, and paffages in the city of London, and to prevent annoyances therein. The bill to explain and amend an act for widening certain ftreets and paffages in the city of London. The bill for better regulating of apprentices and journeymen. The bill to prevent robberies and burglaries in Scotland, and for other purposes. The bill to regulate the loading of fhips with coals in the ports of Sunderland and Newcastle. The bill to establish a propofal made by William Conftable, Efq; to the governors of the charity for the poor widows and children of clergymen, in relation to a piece of land called Cherry Cobb Sand, in Yorkshire. The bill to prohibit the importation of foreign wrought filks and velvets for a limited time, and to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen employed in the filk manufacture. The bill to prevent the fraudulent marking of frame-work knitted tockings and pieces. And also to several road, inclofure, and private bills. Several thoufand weavers went yefterday to St. James's, with ftreamers flying, mufic playing, and drums beating, and attended his Majesty to the house of Peers, on account of his going to give his affent to the bill for prohibiting the importation of French wrought filks, &c. They afterwards accompanied his Majesty, on his return to St. James's, with loud acclamations of joy. In their way home they halted before the Manfion-house, and the mufic played, "God fave the King;" they then gave three cheers, and marched on. Their ftreamers confifted of flips of different forts of goods of their own manufacture. George Noble, about nineteen years old, apprentice to a gardener, walked for a wager of three guineas, from the feven-mile ftone, at the upper end of Wandsworth town, with a basket of three hundred afparagus on his head, to the Borough-market, which is upwards of fix miles, in 58 minutes. He had an hour allowed him. His At the fittings at Weft- 16. minster-hall, an action was brought by a young attorney, for bufinefs faid to be done by him for the defendant, when he was a clerk, by the permiffion of his mafter. But the plaintiff failing in proof, was non-fuited. Lordship was pleafed to declare, that as long as he fat in that court, he would never countenance an action for bufinefs, tranfacted by an attorney's clerk before the expiration of his time, as it might be productive of mischievous confequences. A court of common council was held at Guildhall, when commif fioners fioners were appointed for carrying into execution the act for better paving, &c. the streets in London. The court recommended it to the aldermen, not to grant any licence to any person or perfons for holding or keeping any public affembly, or affembly-houfe, which may have a tendency to corrupt the morals of the youth of the city. The court alfo gave a benefaction of 4col. to the fufferers by the fire at Montreal in NorthAmerica. The feffions ended at the OldBailey, when fentence of death was pronounced against four criminals, among whom were Edward M'Ginnis, and Jane, his fifter, for ftealing a large quantity of plate, in the houfe of her master, James Adair, Efq; in Soho-fquare. Twenty-fix were fentenced to be tranfported for seven years, one branded in the hand, one ordered to be publicly whipt, and ten difcharged by proclamation. A young man, about 19 19. years of age, apprentice to Mr. Turner, watchmaker, in Alderfgate-ftreet, eat a leg of pork of fix pounds, and a peafe pudding weighing in proportion, at a public houfe in Illington, for a trifling wager, in less than three quarters of an hour; after which he drank a pint of brandy off at two draughts, and went away feemingly in perfect health. They write from Leghorn, that notwithstanding the exprefs orders given by the government of Rome, that no perfon fhould prefume to give the title of King to the Chevalier Charles; the friars of San Tomafo di gli Inglofi (who have a college for the education of Eng lifh Roman Catholics) the Scotch college, the two Irish convents of San Clemente and San Ifidore, havé all, in four fucceffive days, thought fit to receive him with that kind of ceremony that is used toward the Pope, and crowned heads. When this procedure became known at Monte Cavallo (the Pope's palace) orders were iffued immediately for exiling the fuperiors of the before noticed colleges and convents from Rome. We are informed from Elgin of Murray, in Scotland, that one Donaldfon, a labouring man, who had been deaf for upwards of 20 years, being at work, in the fields, was fuddenly ftruck to the ground by a flash of lightning; foon after which, to the furprize of every body, he was fully restored to his hearing. A gentleman of the town of Leicester, dug out of his ground laft week a potato, which weighed upwards of 15 pounds. There are now in Brown's hofpital at Stamford, endowed for the maintenance of old decayed perfons, ten old men, healthy and well, whofe ages together make 785; and what is remarkable, the youngest of them is fixty-nine. A new difcovery, made by Thomas Rankin and Holt Waring Efqrs. for the tanning of leather, which difcovery was laid before the houfe of commons in Ireland, on the 13th inftant, and is as follows: The material for tanThe method of ufing it, is to put it into water, and boil it in a large copper pan, for about three hours, which time will be fufficient to extract the juices from it. The water fo in ning is heath. fused fufed with the juice, must be drawn it, who were going on a party of pleasure, was overturned by the coachman's driving on the bank, to avoid a cart that was coming along without a driver: Mr. Wallbank, a buckle-cutter, in Nobleftreet, being on the coach-box, was thrown off, and the cart at the inftant went over his head, and killed him on the spot; the wife of a ftone-mason, who was in the coach, had her face almost tore off by the cart-wheel, and expired foon after; a publican in Noblestreet was much bruised; but a youth, his fon, happily escaped without any hurt. from the pan into large vats, which are to be placed above ground, fo that the liquor may be drawn from them again. Care must be taken that the fkins and hides be not put into the ouze in the tan vats, until it be no warmer than the blood of a beast just killed, by which means the leather is nourished by the ouze, and the tanning expedited, more effectually than in the ordinary method of tanning with cold ouze. Care muft likewise be taken not to use an iron pan, which will blacken and harden the leather. The oftener that fresh ouze is applied (as above) with a natural warmth, it impregnates the leather fooner than any tannage made by bark, and expedites the tannage.-The houfe ordered this discovery to be published. A few days ago was married, Mr. George Southern, lineally defcended from the ancestors of the famous poet of that name, to the widow Talbot, of Donaghmore, in the Queen's County. Both their ages make 171 years, he being 90, and the lady 81; and what makes this more remarkable is, we hear, fhe is advanced in the happy state of pregnancy. Dublin Journal. A fevere battle was fought between a lamplighter and a baker, in Bunhill-fields, which lafted one hour and five minutes, when the latter was obliged to yield to his antagonist, with the lofs of an eye and four guineas; the fum agreed to be paid the conqueror. 22. An unhappy accident happened near the fix-mile ftone on the Edmonton road, where a coach that had feveral perfons in VOL. IX. There is now living at Whitehaven, one Peter Macgie, who for many years has been employed as fcavenger. He is above 100 years old; has been married to eight wives, who bore him 28 fons, and four daughters, the youngest of whom is now but nine years old. India ftock rofe from 183, to 197 per cent, in expectation that the Eaft-India company will advance the dividend. A parcel of fheep belonging to a farmer at Edmonton, having eat a quantity of the bark of a yew-tree, in a field adjoining to the road, five of them died foon after ; the others, by proper care, were recovered. His Excellency Count Guerchy, the French ambassador, accompanied by feveral perfons of diftinction, vifited the colleges and public buildings at Oxford. Lord Grey fent, as a prefent, to Queen's College, Cambridge, three curious pieces of painting,; the one reprefenting Lady Jane Grey, another the First Profeffor of Aftronomy, and the third the firft Grecian writer. [H] Naples, Naples, April 15. Mount Vefuvius broke, on Thursday laft, with great violence, on the oppofite fide to its firft eruption; and a new lava took its courfe towards the Torre del Annunciata, between Portici and Pompeia. The lava is really tremendous, the river of fire being now at least four miles in length, and in fome places near two miles in breadth. It has already deftroyed three vineyards, and is continuing its courfe flowly, over cultivated lands, towards the village of Annunciata. The lava, at its fource, and for the firft mile, is as rapid as the river Severn at the paffage near Briftol; but, by extending itself, cools, and lofes its velocity, fo as not to advance more than thirty feet in an hour. The young Stadtholder of Holland, who lately came of age, has, during the courfe of the prefent month, vifited most of the departments under his jurifdiction, and has made fuch promotions and alterations in each, as he saw neceffary. He has been received in all the cities through which he paffed, by the acclamations of the people, and the strongest marks of fincere affection. The tolls to be paid on a Sunday at the turnpike-gates, on thofe roads which lead to the city of London, pursuant to the late act. For every coach, or other carriage, drawn by fix or more horfes, ten pence. For every coach, &c. drawn by four horfes, eight pence, For every coach, &c. drawn by three or two horfes, the fum of fix-pence. And for every chaife, &c. drawn by one horfe, three pence. For every horfe, mule, or afs, not drawing, one penny. However, it was refolved, that the above Sunday toll fhould not extend to carriages bringing provifion to the London markets. The commiffioners for the better paving, &c. the city of 23. London, met at Guildhall, and fettled the appointments to their refpective officers and fervants, viz. To the chief clerk, 100l. per ann. firft affiftant clerk, 60; junior assistant clerk, 50; furveyor, 200; three infpectors, 60 each. A mackerel, which weighed three pounds and a quarter, was fold at Billingfgate to a nobleman's fteward for half a guinea. The merchants, traders, freeholders, and citizens of Dublin, have prefented the following addrefs to their reprefentatives in parliament: 66 Gentlemen, "Having authentic intelligence, that the bill, upon which the Protestant intereft and freedom of this kingdom greatly depend, is dropped in Great Britain; and finding that every attempt made by the commons of Ireland, frengthened by the united and general voice of all ranks and denominations of Proteftants, to obtain a law for limiting the duration of parliaments, has hitherto proved ineffectual; we cannot but think that the commons of this kingdom will stand justified in following the example given them by the commons of England, on a fimilar occafion, at the late glorious revolution, that grand æra of British liberty. We therefore, as citizens and freeholders of this metropolis, thinking ourselves bound to ftand foremoft in all national |