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Infcription on the Earl of Stafford's monument, now erected in St. Edmund's chapel, Westminster abbey.

In this Chapel lies interred

All that was mortal

Of the moft illuftricus and most benevolent
JORN PAUL HOWARD, Earl of Stafford,
Who in 1738 married Elizabeth, Daughter
of A. Ewens, in the County of Somerlet,
Efq; by Elizabeth his Wife, eldeft
Daughter of

John St. Alban,

Of Alfexton, in the fame County, Efq;
His Heart was as truly great and noble as his
high defcent;
Faithful to his God,

A Lover to his Country,
A Relation to Kelations,
A Detefler of Detraction,
A Friend of Mankind;
Naturally generous and compaffionate:
His Liberality and his Charity to the poor
were without bounds.

We therefore piously hope, that, at the laft
Day his Body will be received into Glory
Into the eternal Tabernacles,
Being fnatched away fuddenly by Death,
Which he had long meditated and expected
with Conftancy.

He went to better Life the 1st of April,
1762. Having lived fixty-one Years, nine
Months, and fix Days.
The Counters Dowager, in Teftimony of her
great Affection and Refpect to her Lord's
Memory,

Has caufed this Monument to be placed here.
FRIDAY IO.

On Wednesday the report was made to his
majesty of the nine malefactors under fen-
tence, of death in Newgate; when John
Prince, for forgery; Thomas Thompson,
for burglary; and James Anderson, for a
robbery committed in a field near Hamp-
ftead, were ordered for execution, which will
be on Wednesday next. The fix following
were refpited, viz. Richard Jewes, for fteal-
ing a filver tankard; William Brown, for
burglary;
William Billet, and Richard
Bevas, for burglary; Sarah Phillips, for
Aealing money out of the house where her
mafter lodged, an ofrice-weaver, to whom the
was an apprentice; and El zabeth Olborn,
for robbing a young man in a lodging-house
in St. Giles's.

Laft Monday evening at the fecond mufic,
a gentleman obferving a couple of active
young fellows, in the front row of the upper
gallery of Covent garden theatre, throwing
things at people in the pit, took a conflable,
with the ferjeant of the guards, and imme-
diately afcen led to the gallery, and carried
both of these heroes before Sir John Fielding.
who would have committed them both to
B.idewell; but confidering that that place,

inftead of improving their morals (for they were two apprentices in the Borough) might have a contrary effect, Sir John was prevailed on to difcha ge them, on their making a proper fubmiffion, which they did by asking! pardon on their knees, and faithfully promifing never to be guilty of the like again.

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We hear from the vale of the White Herfe in Berkshire, that the land fprings are very numerous; and it is very remarkable, fpring is broke out near Wantage forty one feet higher than the o'deft man in that neighbourhood can remember, which has overflowed feveral acres of wheat. The river Thames is much higher at Maidenhead than it uted to be. It is feared it will be fome time before the navigation will be open.

WEDNDSDAY, Feb. 15.

A great riot happened at the houfe of the Morocco Ambaffador in Panton-square, occa fioned, as we are informed, by the following accident: a chairman, whofe wife had lately been fervant at h's Excellency's, having eloped from her husband, and being accidentally met by him at a public houfe in the neighbourhood, fome words arofe between them, when he proceeded to blows, on which the Ambaffador's fervants took her into his Excellency's houfe. The chairman then raised a mob, who broke the door to pieces, demolished the windows, and deftroyed great part of the furniture: in the fray the chairman received a large cut on his cheek with a fabre, but the Ambaffador's fervants being beat down with the chairman's poles, faved their lives with great difficulty, by getting over the tops of the houses: it is imagined the whole edifice would have been pulled down, had it not been for Saunders Welth, Efq; who got the affiftance of a file of mufqueteers, by whofe aid the mob was difperfed.

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There has been lately published at Paris a poetical performance, under the title of Letter from Barnwell in prifon to his friend Trueman" The hint of this piece was taken from the English play of George Barnwell, or the London Merchant. M. Dorant, the author of the French poem, was fo affected by reading that tragedy, that he conceived a defign of adapting it to the theatre of Paris; but as he forefaw many difficulties in the ac complishment of his purpose, he contented himself with forming a poetical letter, wherein the hero of the tragedy, the unhappy Barnwell, relates his birth and the progress of his un'ortunate amour with Millwood, her feducing charms, the dangerous arts fhe employed in directing his weakness to the perpetration of the greateft crimes, almost a parricide, his refiftance, his ftruggles, the accomplishment of the deed, and the dreadful confequence of it. The author has chofen the finest period of the English tragedy,

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and every event which could poffibly be detached from the dramatic action. The work is adorned with cuts, particularly a frontifpiece defigned by Evfen, reprefenting Barnwell at the inftant, when, penetrated with horror at the fight of his uncle just fa len under the blow, be cafts away his poignard and his mask. This engraving is full of expreffan. The other cuts confift of a vignette and a tail-piece, emblematical of the ftery.

Yeovil, Somerset, Feb. 16.

Mifs Linthorne, daughter of James Linthorne, Efq; riding cut this morning to take the air, on a young gay horfe, attended with footman, was unfortunately flung off, and her foot entangling in the ftirrup, she was tragged a great diftance, and would have inevitably have loft her life, had not the horse been flopped in a narrow lane by a young gent eman coming to Yeovil; Mr. Linthorne has made the gentleman a prefent of the horse, which has fufficiently recompenfed him for the good office he had done him. The young lady has happily escaped with her limbs, but "Thofe fhe's otherwise very much bruifed; ladies who have carriages fhould not venture on hories."

The following is an account of a melancho'y accident which happened at the Bull at Kingfon in Surry: a ferjeant of Eliot's Fight horfe having courted the maid there, the confented to have him; upon which a licerce was taken cut, the ring bought, and the wedding to have been on Sunday; but on fime difference between them, the maid burnt the licence, and would not confent to it; on which he came into the kitchen on Sunday morning, and fired a pistol at her, and the ball hitting against her ftays behind, made only a fcra'ch on her fide; on which the flung her apron over her head, and run towards the fire, crying out, "Lord, don't fhoot me," when he discharged another piftol at her, which went into her back between her flays; and it is thought he cannot recover. There were feveral people in the kitchen when this was d. ne. He was immediately apprehended, and committed by the Bailiffs of Kingston to the New Gaol in Southwark.

The fociety for the encouragement of arts and sciences were lately prefented with a liquor from an ingenious gentlewoman, the quality of which is, for making of colours for printing upon ficks and fluffs, in place of oil: the fociety has caufed trial to be made thereof, and have the fame now under confideration; and we hear that the patterns fhewn them are equal to any India chintz. If this takes place, as there are hopes it will, there is no doubt it will be one of the greatest di caveries for the advancement of the manufactures of Great Britain that has yet been made known,

MONDAY Feb. 27.

On Friday night last came on to be tried before the Recorder of London, at the Old Bailey, the trial of the gang of pickpockets, for picking the pocket of Monfieur Trembley, a Frenchman, of his gold watch the night that their Majefties and the Prince and Princefs of Bruniwick were at Covent Garden theatre, when they were all convicted upon the most fatisṭactory evidence. Amongst this gang were the famous Ifaac Ufher and Scampy, for fome years paft the greatest receivers of folen goeds in this kingdom, particularly from the pick pockets, but the knot of thefe offenders having been of late broken and much reduced, it feems the fences, as they are called, were fo far reduced as to go out a thieving with thote to whom they used only to be receivers. We hear that fince the above conviction, a principal of the above gang has already wr te to a certain public acting Magiftrate (who was the means of bringing the whole gang to juftice) promifing great and important difcoveries in cafe of his procuring a respite.

On Saturday two prifoners were capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, viz.

Ann Baker, for robbing Thomas Porter, whom the, with another woman, had picked up and carried to Black Boy-alley, where being joined by two fellows, they beat him in a moft terrible manner, and took from him near 40s. and it is thought would have murdered him, had not the watch come to his affiftance.

James Wharton, for attacking Ann Curtis, a Temple laundrefs, and another woman in the fields near Newington, and rubbing them of two fhillings and upwards.

Eight were cast for Transportation; and two acquitted.

On Saturday at one o'clock, a pamphlet, intitled A digest of the rights and prerogatives of the crown, &c. was burnt before Weftminfter-Hall door, by the hands of the common hangman. Mr. Sheriff Harley, and Mr. Sheriff Turner, attended to fee the order fully executed, and the whole affair was condufted with the greatest order.

A few days ago, a fuperbly grand, but exceedingly light town-chariot, was fhewn to their Maj fties at St James's, by their own coachmaker, in Park-Street, for his Serene Highness the Prince of Mecklenburgh, upon an entirely new and elegant plan.

BIRTHS.

The Lady of James Pennyman, Efq; fifter of Sir Henry Grey, Bart of a fon.

The Lady of his Excellency William Henry Lyttleton, Efq; Governor of Jamaica, of a fon, at Jamaica.

Mrs. Smith, wife of Jehn Smith, a Whitefmith, in Hatton-Garden, of three children, a boy and two girls, who are likely to do well. MARRIAGES,

which afterwards aftonished all the world, and exalted its owner to divine honours, efcaped the obfervation of every body but Sylla, whofe penetration could difcover the most extraordinary talents and the most turbulent ambition, under the difguife of the young and thoughtless libertine; and who prophefied to the Romans the future exaltation of Cæfar in thofe remarkable terms, Ma'è præcinctum juvenem cavete, "Beware of the young man who neglects his drefs;" in that period when corruption had arrived at a pitch never equalled in any state whatever, the Roman Republic tottered to its fall, or rather the fhadow of liberty alone fubfifted, a few men of the first rank having, in a competition for fovereign fway, embroiled their country with inteftine commotions, and often made Italy a fcene of bloodthed and horror. When Cromwell was a ftudent at the university of Cambridge, and, like Cæfar, taken more notice of for the loofenefs of his morals, than for any uncommon endowments or fhining qualifications; the defpotic difpofition of James and Charles the Fift, by laying the foundation of an arbitrary monarchy, had given ife to that of pofition which ended in a temporary abolition of the monarchical form government, and at laft raifed Cromwell himself to every royal dignity, except the empty name of king. In Rome, Sylla, Marius, and the triumvirs, had fucceffively tyrannized over their countrymen, and trampled upon the fallen commonwealth, before Cæfar, by engaging in public affairs, fhewed himself poffeffed of a genius capable of producing as great revolutions. In England the arbitrary proceedings of the ftarshamber, the illegal impofition of

fhip money, and other oppreffive measures, had rendered the name of king odious; and the people, excited by Pym, Hamden, and others, were bent upon fhaking off the yoke fome time before Cromwell became one of the leaders of the opposition in the houfe of commons, and difplayed thofe talents for forming a party, by means of which he afterwards became the first man in the kingdom. Both Cæfar and Cromwell firft diftinguished themselves as orators. Cæfar was reckoned one of the greatest of his age, and by his eloquence acquired that credit and multitude of followers, of which he afterwards availed himself, in order to effe&t his ambitious purposes; and Cromwell, who had catched the fire of enthufiafm from the fanatical preachers of his age, had extraordinary talents for fpeaking, and feldom failed to perfuade, as he always spoke like a man that was himself convinced. Thus thefe two great men refemble in one remarkable circumfiance; they both owed their first influence to the powers of eloquence. It is however reafonable to think, that Cæfar greatly furpaffed the English hero in this refpe&t; and this is eafily accounted for from the circumstances of the different countries in which they lived. In Italy, eloquence, poetry, and every branch of literature in Cæfar's time, made a near approach to their utmost point of perfection; whilft the Englith, whofe tafte had been corrupted by the pedantry of James, and whofe progress in arts and fciences was impeded by the diffentions occafioned by the tyrannical proceedings of his fucceffor, were returning to that barbarifm from which they had emerged in the reign of queen Elizabeth: add to this, that the preaching of

fanatics,