A cause came on in the 17th. court of common-pleas, between John Monro, a gentleman from North America, plaintiff, and capt. Houlton of the royal navy, defendant. The action was for illegally confining the plaintiff, en board one of his majesty's fhips at Nova Scotia above fix The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with 4001. damages.

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Ended the feffions at the Old Bailey, at which nine were capitally convicted; one of them for murdering his reputed wife another, John Wefket,on the evidence of John Bradley, an accomplice, for ftealing out of the dwelling-houfe of the earl of Harrington, two bank notes, value 1301. 4001. in money; a gold watch, three gold fnuff-boxes, and feveral other valuable articles, the property of his lordship. James Cooper, with whom Bradley lodged, was found guilty of receiving a part of the faid goods, and fentenced to be tranfported for 14 years. [For an account of this robbery, and the manner in which it was difcovered, fee our Appendix.]

At this feffions Sarah Lane, otherwife Sarah, wife of William Merchant; otherwife Sarah, wife of Thomas Flint; otherwife Sarah, wife of Thomas Morgan; otherwife Sarah, wife of Adam Steadman ; was indicted for bigamy, to which the pleaded guilty, and was fentenced to be branded in the hand. She had before been indicted for fhop-lifting, and VOL. VII.

acquitted; but on her trial for bigamy, it was expected that many thefts would have appeared, to prevent which the artfully pleaded guilty.

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John Fetch, a baker, ip White-cross-street, was convicted before Sir John Fielding, for having in his bake-houfe a quantity of allum, which adjudged by that magiftrate to have been lodged there with an intent to adulterate the purity of meal, flour, and bread, contrary to the ftatute; upon which he paid the penalty of four pounds for that offence, being a mitigation of the penalty of 101. forfeited by the act. We mention this fact to caution our readers againft fuch abufes, and likewife. remind them of an affociation entered into, during a scarcity of bread at the beginning of the laft war, by the workmen in fome of his majefty's dock yards, for erecting a baking to fupply themfelves with bread at a cheap rate, which they effected. Are not fuch affociations amongst private families equally neceffary, and may not they be equally effectual, in procuring a fupply of wholefome bread?

Some time this month a sperma ceti whale was thrown afhore on the flats at Sea Salter, near Whitftable in Kent, whofe extreme length was fifty-four feet, and girt in the broadest part, over back and belly, thirty-eight.

At the meeting of the creditors. of Mr Kearfley, the original publifher of the North Briton, No. 45, the celebrated Mr. Foote appeared as a creditor, and was of no little fervice to the bankrupt by throwing the rest of the cre

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ditors into a good humour; he opened the conference in his facetious manner with, Gentlemen, it is a very common case for a bookseller to be seen among the creditors of an author; but for once! strange to tell! you see an author among the creditors of a bookseller.

31ft. The Spanish court has refused to accept the ranfom bills drawn on it by the archbishop and governor of Manilla, on pretence of a breach in the capitulation of that place; which, being fo unufual a charge against English troops, we think it our duty to give an abstract of a letter of colonel Draper's to lord Halifax, in refutation of it, in the Appendix to this part of our

fionaries fay, that the reverend Dr. Francke, in Germany, had fent them a number of Tamulian types, with a promise of more, which they were to be enabled to use; the government having erected a print ing-office in the city of Madrass, and given the care and inspection of the fame to them.

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Paris, Dec. 7. An edict has juft been registered in parliament, whereby his majefty diffolves the fociety of Jefuits for ever; but permits them, nevertheless, to refide in his kingdom as individuals, under fubjection to fpiritual fuperiors of the places where they refide, and on conforming themselves to the laws, and behaving in all refpects as becomes good fubjects. By the fame edict an entire and perpe tual ftop is put to all crimi nal proceedings that have been commenced against them on any account whatsoever.

Our academy of sciences has approved a new method of filver. ing brafs, &c. by a filver powder, applied in form of a thick paste, and fo thoroughly fixed by means of fire, that the work thus filvered will bear being touched up by the graver.

Turin, Nov. 20. On the 23d ult. Dr. Tronchin, of Geneva, inoculated prince Ferdinand, who is perfectly recovered; in confequence of which, the doctor, though a proteftant, is appointed first physician to his royal highness. The corporation of Parma have defired Icave of his royal highnefs to admit the doctor and his defendants, into the order of noble citizens, and to erect his ftatue in the town-hall; alfo to ftrike a gold medal on one fide

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of which is the doctor's effigies, and on the reverse a rapid river, in which several fwimmers, endeavouring to crofs it, are carried away with the ftream, while a man on the bank fhews another in a little boat, in which they may fafely get over; the motto tutissimus ibis. The corporation of Placentia have alfo defired leave to enroll this, celebrated physician among their noble citizens; and this requeft, as well as thofe of the inhabitants of Parina, has been granted.

Baftia, Nov. 15. The 23d ult. the principal of the malecontents met to deliberate on the expected arrival of French troops in this ifland; and the result of their deliberations was, that, tho' his most chriftian majefty's intention feemed to be only to defend the places which the Genoefe are poffeffed of in that ifland, they thought it neceffary for the public fafety to take the following precautions:

First, That a military committee, compofed of fubjects from each of the provinces, be formed, in order to inforce the obfervation of the regulations, which forbid all communication between the free inhabitants of Corfica, and thofe of the places belonging to the free Genoefe. Secondly, that the French be prohibited coming into the country on any pretence what foever. Thirdly, that all propofals for peace with the republic fhall be abfolutely rejected, unless she will previously agree to the preliminaries propofed in the general affembly at Cafinca, 1761. Fourthly, that Pafcal Paoli fhall be charged to make, in the name of the whole country, the

moft refpectful remonftrances to his moft chriftian majesty, upon the damage he will do the country, by fending his troops at a time, when the Corficans were upon the point of driving the enemy entirely out of the island. Fifthly, that, in order to give weight to thefe representations, Paoli fhall be charged at the fame time, to apply to the powers in friendship with this country, for their mediation with his most chriftian majefty, and to implore their protection, for the defence of their rights and liberties.-The French troops have fince arrived in Corfica.

Brunswick, Dec. 3. This day her royal highnefs the hereditary princefs was fafely delivered of a princefs, and her royal highnefs, and the young princefs, are both as well as can be wished.

Berlin, Dec. 14. By an exprefs, juft arrived, we have the difagreeable news, that the whole town of Fendenthal, in the Upper Silefia, except 26 houfes, is reduced to ashes. The fire broke out the 11th of this month, early in the evening, and was not got under till the next day at noon. Even the ramparts are destroyed, and all the ammunition and provifion lodged in the ftore-houses and caverns are confumed. The town-hall, the public school, and church, with its fine altar, pictures, and relicks, amongit which were the bones of St. Conftance, all fell a prey to the flames. The fhops of the foreign merchants, who came to attend the fair, which was to have been opened there the very next day, had the fame fate with all the rich goods and effects which they con[1] 2

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tained. Nobody has been able to fave any thing; vaft numbers of those who were furprifed by the flames, miferably perifhed in them; and the reft, as there was but one gate free, had a great deal of difficulty to fave themselves. Thofe, whom the fire has fpared, are exposed to the cruel horrors of want and mifery.

The mathematical prize queftion propofed by our academy of fciences, is, An explanation of the principle wherebywater is raised by the machine commonly called Archimedes's screw, together with the means of improving this machine. The prize is a gold medal of fifty ducats weight. The memoirs are to be tranfmitted to M. Formey, perpetual fecretary to the academy, before the 1ft of January 1766; and the academy's judgment will be declared at the public meeting on the 31ft of May, of the fame year. The authors are defired, instead of naming themselves, only to put a motto to their memoir, adding a fealed note, containing the motto and their addrefs.

The fumigating of cattle with burning tar has been discovered to be a prefervative against the infection which has raged in many parts of Germany.

Warfaw, Nov. 17. Our new king feems to abhor all excefs in luxury. His majefty, having ordered his fhoe-maker to be fent for, was soon after extremely furprifed to fee enter his apartment, in order to take measure of him, a man dreffed in embroidered velvet.

He was, it is true, the court fhoe-maker; but his majefty difmiffed him, without permitting him to exercife, in that fumptu

ous habit, the noble and brilliant functions of his office, faying at the fame time, feemingly in good-humour however, What cloaths must I wear, if people of your profession dress in this manner?

The beginning of this year, Harvard college, in New England, was entirely destroyed by fire, with the public library, philofophical apparatus, &c. to the immense and almost irreparable lofs of the province and all North America. The general affembly have agreed to rebuild it, and a collection has been made to endow it.

Mrs. Smith, wife of a journeyman carpenter, aged 63, was lately delivered of a fon.

The wife of Mr. William Plo

mer, clerk to Mr. Willet, in Corn-ftreet, Bristol, was lately delivered of a girl, and in about twelve hours after, of two more girls and a boy. They were baptized by the names of Hannah, Sarah, Mary, and William. The children were larger than many twins; they at firft feemed hearty and likely to live, but died fome days after.

Died lately. The hon. Tho. Hancock, efq; at Boston in NewEngland. He has left 10001. fterling for founding a profefforship of the Hebrew and other Oriental languages, in Harward college in Cambridge; 10001. lawful money to the fociety incorporated by an act of this province for propagating the gospel among the Indians in North America; 6001. to the town of Boston, towards erecting an hofpital for the reception of fuch perfons as are deprived of their reafon; and 2001. to the fociety for carrying on the linen ma nufacture.

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Konigsberg, Births 1987. Burials 1818. Marriages 993. Magdeburgh, Births 941. Deaths 1116. Marriages 263.

Mecklenburg Schwerin. The four cities of Schwerin, Roftock, Guftrow, and Parchim. Births 816. Deaths 700. Marriages 370.

Norwich, Chriftened, males 537, females 496; total 1033. Buried, males 544, females 543; in all 1087.

Paris, Burials 20,171. Weddings 4479. Chriftenings 17,456, Foundlings 5153.

Pruffian Pomeranias, Births 11,072. Deaths 9100. Marriages 3422.

Vienna, Births 5879. Deaths

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By a medium of the births and burials at Paris, it has been made appear, that one fifth of the children born there are fent to the foundling-hofpital; and one third of the people who die there, die in an hofpital.

This fo extraordinary a circumftance is to be attributed to the indifcriminate reception of all the children fent to the foundling-hofpital and of all the fick that prefent themselves at the Hotel-Dieu, whatever age, fex, country, or religion they may be of, or whatever their complaint may be, and likewife to the extraordinary poverty of the loweft clafs of inhabitants; notwithstanding which poverty, they marry more than in England, or perhaps elsewhere, not only on account of the ftrictnefs of the police, by which licentioufnefs of every kind is more reftrained than with us, but because married men are exempted from ferving in the militia, from which [3

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