marriage, but only three of the ten are living. The ages of the hufband and wife together do not amount to 43 years.

Died lately, Mrs. Dorothy Collier, fupposed to be the largest woman in the north of England; fhe weighed upwards of 30 ftone, and yet was very active. Her coffin measured in length two yards two inches, in breadth a yard and four inches, and in depth two feet fix inches,

William Hogarth, efq; the celebrated comic painter.

Mr. William Smith, of Chichefter, a celebrated fruit and flower painter.

Mr. Parmentier, an attorney in the Temple. He bequeathed to 12 hofpitals of this city 1001. each, rings to the porters plying at the Inner-Temple gate, and had left to his fhoe-black 201, but the man not calling for three days, he ordered his name to be struck

out,

Mrs. Morgan, of St, James'sftreet, Westminster, aged 100, Mrs. Martin, in St. James'sftreet, Westminster, aged 100.

NOVEMBER.

About a quarter paft four 6th. in the morning, a flight, but alarming fhock of an earthquake was felt at Oxford, the neighbouring towns and villages, at Cirencester in Gloucefterfhire, and in different parts of Berkfhire and Wiltshire. It is agreed, that though the wind foon after became tempeftuous, the morning

24th.

After various attendances at the bar of the court of king's bench, in order to receive fentence for republishing the North Briton, No. 45, Mr. Williams, the bookfeller, was ordered to the king's bench prifon, there to remain till next term, when he is to receive fentence. Some days after, Mr. Kearfley having likewife furrendered himself, in difcharge of his bail, to receive fentence, for originally publishing the fame paper, he was, like Mr. Williams, fent to the fame jail, till the fame time,

On a memorial being presented by the earl of Hertford to the French court, fetting forth the illegal proceedings of the governor of Goree, in attempting to establish a fettlement near the river Gam, bia, that court has declared its difapprobation of his proceedings, and he is recalled to give an account of his irregular behavi our.

A melancholy accident lately happened in a town called Bin, in Ireland. About fix hours after a hole had been opened to clean a pump, a lad about twenty years old defcended a ladder, and, when he had got about half way down, was fuffocated by the damp; a man,

who

who perceived him falling, inconfiderately followed him down, and fell likewise, when he got to the fame depth; another man, who came up to the place as the fecond perfon fell, ran down the ladder as haftily as poffible, and fhared the fame fate. The best and fafeft way to know if there is any danger in going down into fuch places, is first to let down a lighted candle by a rope; for, if the candle goes out, it is a fign there is at bottom fome vapour prejudicial to animal life.

Intelligence has been received from Algiers, that Mr. Harrison, commander of a a fmall English fquadron, has terminated with the bey the differences which fubfifted on account of the taking of a veffel bearing an English flag, and for which that commander had orders to demand fatisfaction. The bey has reftored the veffel, without requiring any money, which is thought very extraordinary, being contrary to the custom of thefe pirates, to whom every thing appears lawful prize.

They write from Lisbon, that in digging up the foundation of an old palace, burnt in the late fire, the workmen found an urn containing three hundred gold medals of the emperor Titus, which ap

pear to have been ftruck foon

after that prince's laft expedition against the Jews, having this infcription:

GVSTI

TIS.

TITO VESPASIANI AV

FILIO, JUDÆIS SVBAC

Berlin, Nov. 20. The king bas caufed public notice to be given, that the fund of the

bank, lately established there, may confift of 25,000,000 of dollars, to be divided into 100,000 actions of 250 dollars each, payable in gold at the opening, on the 1ft of June, 1765. The grant is made out for thirty years.

His majefty has lately publifhed a decree, by which the lords of manors are enjoined to treat their tenants or farmers with more mildness and humanity than in time paft, and not to deliver them over to military punishment ; it being his majesty's pleasure that the military jurifdiction should not be confounded with the civil; that each fhould be confined within its own proper limits; and that when a a lord thinks himself injured in any respect by a tenant, he fhall caufe him to be brought before a magiftrate, to be dealt with in the ordinary course of juftice.

Very great quantities of faltpetre have been bought up in Ruffia by the consent of the emprefs, on account of his majesty, to the exclufion of every other nation, infomuch that a quantity already on board fome Dutch and English veffels was relanded, and delivered to the Pruffian commiffaries.

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Munich, Nov. 21. By an ordinance of our fovereign, published on the 13th, for reviving and extending the mortmain law of 1672; it is ordered, that no convents or ecclefiaftical communities fhall, under any pretext whatever, whether for the purpofe of mafles, anniversaries, pious works, or exercifes of devotion, obtain a title for more than 2000 florins at

any

any one time, either in money or effects. That no one perfon fhall make a fecond donation, so as to exceed that fum. That no penfion to a relation who has taken the vows, fhall be above 100 florins a year, and then to revert back to the lawful heirs. And all eftates of inheritance, which fhall fail to a religious, fhall likewife go to the heirs. The foundling hofpitals, eftablishments for the poor and fick, parish churches, ecclefiaftical feminaries, fchools and benefices, founded by fecular priefts, and eftates in foreign countries are excepted in this ordinance. Fraternities approved by the fovereign, are not to acquire more than 50 florins at a time. Offences against this ordinance are to be punished by a fine of double the fum obtained over and above the allowance of 2000 florins.

His Polish majefty has ordered the Pruffian code to be tranflated into Latin, and printed at Warfaw, at the public expence; after which it is propofed to offer both pecuniary and honorary rewards, to the best devifer of a body of laws, founded on the brevity of the Pruffian code, but adapted to the genius and con. ftitution of the Poles. By the Pruffian code, no law-fuit can laft beyond a year and a day.

Konigfberg, Nov. 19. Yefterday evening, about seven o'clock, a terrible fire, occafioned by lightning, broke out here in a failhop near the herring-wharf, where t immediately deftroyed about 3000 barrels of that fifl; and running along the quay, confumed

the hemp, flax, and other ware. houfes filled with all forts of merchandize. The conflagration then spread over the Kniphorff, the old town, and the Levenhaupt, where it burned with an irresistible rapidity, reducing to afhes all the houfes, hofpitals, churches, and public buildings. Numbers of people, particularly the fick in the royal hofpitals, and thofe attempting to affift them, perifhed in the flames. The furvivors are reduced to the greatest want and mifery. The violence of the fire was fo great, that pieces of timber were found kindled at the diftance of two leagues, to which they had been driven by it. The lighted bundles of paper, fcattered over the neighbouring woods, caft forth fo great a blaze, as to be feen diftinctly at Dantzig, though 48 miles off.

Turin, Nov. 10. The malecontents of Corfica, finding their progrefs in the attack of St. Fiorenzo did not promise them a fpeedy fuccefs, raised the fiege of that place last week, and have retired to the interior parts of the country. They have, however, on account of the daily expected arrival of French troops to the affiftance of Genoa, renewed the following manifefto, faid to have been fworn to by Paoli and his adherents, in the year 1734.

"We have fworn, and we call upon God to witness it, that we will all of us fooner die than enter into any negotiation with the republic of Genoa, or return under its yoke. If the powers

of

of Europe, and the French in particular, withdrawing their compaffion from an unhappy people, fhould arm themselves against us, and concur in our total deftruction, we will repel force by force; we will fight like defperate men, determined either to conquer or die, till our ftrength and fpirits being quite exhaufted, our arms fall out of our hands; and, when we have no ftrength to take them up again, when all the refources of our courage fhall be exhaufted, our defpair fhall furnifh us with the laft, which fhall be to imitate the famous example of the Saguntines, by rufhing voluntarily into the fire, rather than fubmit ourfelves, and our pofterity, to the infupportable yoke of Genoele tyranny and flavery."

Rebecca Parferry of Newton,. near Bury, Suffolk, was lately delivered of three daughters.

Died lately. The reverend Mr. Churchill, the celebrated fatyrift, at Boulogne, on a vifit to Mr. Wilkes.

Mr. Robert Lloyd, author of the Actor, the Capricious Lovers, and feveral other ingenious pieces; he was fo much affected, on hearing of the death of Mr. Churchill, that it is faid to have brought on the illness, which ended in his

death.

Mr. Lock, at Broughton Poys, Oxfordshire, aged 100.

Mrs. Alice Fort, in Cambridgeshire, aged 100.

Mary Frances, of Moorfields, aged 102.

Eleanor Hunt, at Lydd, in Kent, aged 103.

Mrs. Pelican, of Cork, aged 105.

John Ridge, at Newark, in Glou cefterfhire, aged 107.

At Newent, in Gloucefterfhire, Jofeph Budge, a taylor, aged 107. He retained all his faculties till a few hours before his death. He had had two wives, by whom he had children, grand children, and great grand children, to the number of 102, and by his laft wife three children born after he was 80, the laft of which when he was 85.

Some time before his death he loft the nails of his hands and feet, and afterwards had new ones, the fame as a young infant; and, till about a year before his death, he had his mouth full of teeth, found and good.

Matthew Hubert, at Birr, Ireland, aged 121.

At Duleek, in the county of Meath, Owen Carollan, labourer, aged 127. He had fix fingers on each hand, and fix toes on each. foot; he was never bled, and an entire firanger to sickness.

but the note being confeffedly a genuine note, and no forgery, a verdict was given for the country tradefman, with cofts of fuit. It is remarkable, that this affair was tried fome months fince in the fame court, before a special jury alfo, who gave a verdict for the defendant.

Was heard before the

10th. lord high chancellor, in

Lincoln's-inn hall, a very interefting caufe, wherein a Yorkfhire lady was plaintiff, and James Reilly, a reputed Antinomian preacher, and others, were defendants. The cancelling of an annuity deed of 501. for the life of the defendant Reilly, fraudulently obtained by him without valuable confideration, from a perfon labouring under a temporary enthusiastical frenzy; and the refunding a confiderable fum of money, obtained under the like circumftance, were prayed; when, after a full hearing of council, his lordfhip was pleased, to the extreme fatisfaction of a crowded hall, to decree in favour of the plaintiff.

Came on a remarkable 11th. cause in Westminster-hall,

wherein a magiftrate for the county of Middlefex was plaintiff, and another magiftrate for the city and liberty of Westminster, defendant, in an action of falfe imprisonment and confinement of the former by the latter for upwards of two hours; when, after a full hearing, and feveral learned arguments on both fides, a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with 501. damages, and full cofts of fuit.

Came on in the court of com. mon pleas, at Weftminster-hall, before the lord chief justice Pratt, and a fpecial jury, a caufe wherein Mr. Arthur Beardmore, an eminent attorney at law, was plaintiff, and the right honourable the earl of Halifax, defendant, in an action for false imprisonment in a meffenger's houfe; when, after a hearing of eight hours, the jury withdrew, and in about three quarters of an hour brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with 15001. damages.

And the day following came on the feveral caufes, wherein the reverend Mr. Entick, Meffrs. Fell and Wilfon, bookfellers, and Mr. Meredith, clerk to Mr. Beardmore, were plaintiffs, and the earl of Halifax and others, defendants, by four different juries; when Mr. Entick had a verdict of 201. Mr. Fell of 101. Mr. Wilfon of 401. and Mr. Meredith of 2001.

In relation to Mr. Beardmore's having 15001. damages given against the earl of Halifax, it fhould be obferved, that on a former trial he had 10001 against the meffengers, and that the verdict for the 15001. included the first 10001. by which the earl of Halifax is made liable to make good the verdict against the meffengers. Mr. Entick had only 201. damages, as he had already received fatisfaction for the 3001. given in his cause against the meffengers on a former trial.

The warrants upon which the plaintiffs were apprehended and detained, were determined to be legal