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Prince Jerome de Radzivil, great ftandard-bearer of the dutchy of Lithuania, who is immenfely rich, but has no children, has lately formed in his ftates a body of between three and four thousand troops, well cloathed, well armed and well difciplined, together with an arfenal, in which are already above 60 pieces of battering cannon, with powder and ball in proportion. He has also formed a troop of 100 mufqueteers, exceedingly well mounted, and fuperbly clothed. Befides which, this prince has got together thirty of the most beautiful and well shaped maidens among his tenants and vaffals, of whom he has formed a company dreffed in the amazon habit, and for whofe education he is fending for mafters in various sciences and accomplishments; and when thofe maids fhall have attained the age, at which he will allow them to marry, fuch of the mufqueteers as he fhall think most dserving will be allowed to chufe wives amongst them.

RUSSIA.

The Ruffian troops which are kept on foot for the service of the year 1751 amount to 464,000 regular troops, befides irregulars; 100,000 regular forces are quartered in Livonia, and the other conquefts from Sweden, which may be drawn together in a fhort time.

The emprefs fo well approved M. Grois's conduct at Berlin, that he has made him a counsellor of state,

with a penfion of 2000 rubles, and he is to prefide in foreign affairs.

DENMARK.

The mathematicians fent by the king into Iceland to make aftronomical observations, and examine into the nature and product of that country, obferve, that this ifland produces a great quantity of falt petre, and that the earth in fome places, is fit to make china, and has ftones which contain filver ; 100 weight of these ftones fent to Copenhagen were found upon an affay to produce 6 ounces of fine filver. By the great encouragement which his majesty gives to trade, a scheme is propofed for encreafing it, by forming a great magazine of all kind of naval stores in the island of St Thomas in the W. Indies, to supply all nations that trade to those parts, and the better to accommodate fhips, that may want careening, to ftop leaks, or repair, (an invention formerly practised in Denmark) whereby a fhip either light, or laden, may be careened in 24 hours, and fit to put to fea again.

PRUSSIA.

From Berlin we hear, that by the plan for the adminiftration of justice, established by his Pruffian majesty in his dominions, the court of judicature in that city determined 560 law-fuits during the year 1750, not fo much as one being left undecided; for which dispatch his majefty wrote a very handfome letter of thanks to baron Cocceji, his chancellor.

PLANTATION NEWS.

Kingston in Jamaica, Oct. 15.

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Sailor, who was marooned on the Mufquetto fhore, and was taken up by the captain of an English veffel, told him he had discovered fome nutmeg trees, the Cap. went and view'd thetrees, and gathered fome of the fruit, both of which answered exactly to the defcription given of thofe in the spice iflands in the Eaft Indies. The mafter fent up fome of the fruit to our governor, who has thought it worth his pains to fent down a man of war floop on purpose to profecute the discovery; which, if it anfwer, will be of great

advantage to this ifland, and of as great detriment to the Dutch fpice trade.

Jamaica, Oct. 6. There is advice that one Dobbins, in a floop at Parker's bay had turn'd pirate, robbed a floop off Blackwater, and cut the mafter's nofe off, and had also attempted to take 2 or 3 canoes off Whitehoufe.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sep. 11. A Brig. is just arrived after three weeks paffage from London, with 129 English fettlers. A French brig. which was feized in Verte bay fupplying the Indians with powder and

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guns, and having alfo 5 English deferters from our troops at Minas, is to be fold this day.A French fhip of 300 tons, with ftores for the fhips of

Jan. 18.

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war building at Canada, funk at fen, and the captain is come hither in a fifhing fchooner.

DOMESTICK

HE right honourable the houfe of peers waited on his majefty at St. James's with their addrefs of thanks for his moft gracious speech from the throne, on Thursday laft; to which his majefty was pleafed to return the following moft gracious answer:

My Lords,

I return you my hearty thanks for this dutiful and affectionate addrefs.

The fatisfaction you have fo unanimoufly expreffed in the treaties I have latelyconcluded, and the measures which I am pursuing, gives me the greatest pleafure: I entirely rely on your zeal and fupport, in bringing them into perfection, for the welfare of my own kingdoms, and the general tranquillity of Europe.'

They alfo congratulated his majefty on the joyful occafion of the birth of a princefs. To which his majesty said, He looked upon it as a fresh inftance of their lordships duty and affection to his perfon and family.'

A letter from Fort William in the Highlands, dated December 24, mentions feveral nefts being found with eggs, and fome with hatched chickens, in that neighbourhood, which are afcribed to the extraordinary mildness of the season.

Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Briftol.

"On the feventh of December Mr. "Richards, parfon of the Hay, a "market town of Brecknockshire, in "South-Wales, died, as it was fuppos'd fuddenly, and the fecond day "after, as his limbs did not ftiffen, " he was bled, and the blood could "hardly be stopped by the furgeon, "who faid he was not dead but in a "trance; however, next day his "friends buried him. A perfon "hearing a noife in Mr. Richards's << grave, procured it to be opened,

NEWS.

" and the body appeared bleeding at "nofe, and covered with fweat; "whence it is conjectured that he

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was not dead when buried, tho' "all fymptoms of life were now "vanish'd."

This month a man came to Dundee, fuppos'd lately from Holland, who was fuddenly taken ill, and died. There were found in his cuftody filings of gold to the Value of 18 I. Sterling.

Letters from Montgomeryshire mention, that the mortality among the cattle rages there, and in all Denbighfhire and Flintshire.

A Bill is preparing to be brought into parliament, to punish failors who fhall fell their tickets for wages and prize-money to more perfons than one; and likewife to punish all agents, and buyers of fuch tickets, that shall prefume to take more than legal intereft for tickets fold to them render more effectual the fpeedy payment of feamen's wages, without any deduction whatever.

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This month feveral perfons were convicted before the Commiffioners of Excife, of retailing fpirituous liquors without licence, and fined in the penalty of 10 l. each. A practice too common among the chandlery and herb-shops, whereby many fervants are inured to drinking, to the ruin of their morals and induftry.

Jan. 15. London. A Committee from the Governors of the Foundlinghofpital, waited lafted Thursday on the fociety of the free British fishery, at Mercers-hall; when they generously offered to let fuch foundlings as had ftrength fufficient for it, to be employed in weaving twine, making nets, ropes, &c. for the fervice of the afore faid fociety; which propofal was ac cepted of with due thanks.

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For an account of the entertain-
ment of queen Mab, we refer our
readers to the facetious and ingenious

feus and Andromeda
Wife Merlin's-Cave
Apollo and Daphne
The Devil to pay
The funeral Pro-
ceffion
Apollo and Daphne
Merlin's-Cave
The what d'ye call it.

Mrs. Midnight, who has given a most
diverting narrative thereof in the fourth
number of her magazine,

The following account of the new play call'd GIL BLAS, is wrote by Mr. Critic Catchup, a gentleman who, perhaps, has more acrimony than judgment; but we are obliged to infert it leaft we shou'd fall under his formidable lash.

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N. B. The Academical Nervs, together with the Marriages, Deaths, Promotions, Lift of Books, Bankrupts and Stocks, we were obliged to omit for want of Room in this, but they will be regularly inferted in all the future Numbers.

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E hear from Petersburgh, that the court has receiv'd advice from Cronfadt and Revel, that the fhips and galleys in thofe ports, which are to compose the Ruffian fleet, were ready to fail upon the first notice.

SWEDE N.

They write from Stockholm, that the publick is at prefent entirely at a lofs, with regard to the refolution which the king may take in the affair of the election of the archduke Jofeph to be king of the Romans; but it's thought his majefty will not be very follicitous about the fuccefs of it, except he finds fome likelihood of putting in execution, a promise which was made him fome time ago of erecting a tenth electorate in favour of his house.

The regiments deftined to reinforce the Swedish army in Finland, are order'd to hold themfelves in readinefs to march. The Swedish fleet will be ready to put to fea, the moment it fhall be heard that the Ruffian fleet is failed from Cronstadt and Revel.

The French ambaffador has lately received orders from his court, to haften the departure of the veffels that are to transport naval ftores to Breft and Rochefort.

DENMARK.

Letters from Copenhagen inform us, that the fevere froft they had there for feveral days together, is gone off

by a very gentle thaw, and the Sound is already fo clear of ice, that several veffels in the road of that city are preparing to put to fea.

GERMANY.

The king of Pruffia has received a letter from the king of Great Britain, on the fubject of the answer, which his majefty lately gave the count De la Puebla, concerning the election of a king of the Romans: In which, his Britannick majefty fays, among other things, that it is evident, and confirmed by experience, that, when there has not been a fucceffor to the empire, during the life of the emperor, the moft bloody wars have enfued; and that the neglect of this precaution, has been attended with the most pernicious and fatal confequences to the empire that the election of a king of the Romans is at prefent more neceflary than ever, and will be fufficiently juftified by the intention of preventing in time future broils; that indeed it were to be wifhed the archduke Jofeph had a few more years over his head; but that, at all events, it is more to the advantage of the empire to have a minor for its head, than to have none at all, &c.'

From Erfurt we hear, that on the 25th of laft month, N. S. a terrible fire happened at the village of Alperftead in the territory of Saxe-Eifenach, which in less than three hours reduced above twenty houses to ashes, befides barns, ftables, &c,

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