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difpiritedness of the men, and a great defertion among the feapoys, it was found impracticable to make any stand there; and a refolution was therefore taken to proceed to Sujah Dowla's country; that they accordingly croffed the river the 26th in the evening, and met with no obstruction untill they paffed Churpa; that then they were attacked on the 30th by the phoufdar, with about 2000 men, whom they easily routed; hut he being that evening joined from Budgepore with four or five hundred feapoys, and five or fix field pieces, he attacked the party on the next evening, the ift of July, and entirely routed them, the Europeans having quitted their ranks at the first onfet; that in the whole there were about fifty Europeans killed, and about eight or nine officers, amongst the last Captain Carstairs, who was killed by a cannon-ball in the morning of the ift; that on the 2d Mr. Ellis, with the officers and private men, were taken prifoners, and by the laft advices were all at Mongheer, excepting Captain Wilfon, enfigns Mackay and Armstrong, Mr Anderfon, furgeon, and Mr. Peter Campbell, who then remained prifoners at Patna.

Upon thefe and other acts of hoftility against several of the company's fettlements committed by Coffim Aly, it was determined to declare war against him, and to restore the former nabob, Meer Jaffier, to the fubahfhip, upon his entering into a new treaty with the company. War was accordingly declared, and an advantageous treaty was concluded the moft material articles whereof are a confirmation of his former treaty, and alfo of the provinces of Burdwan, Nidnapoor and Chittagon, granted by the late nabob Coffim Aly, engaging to give thirty lacks of rupees to defray the expences and lofs accruing to the company from the war, and engaging alfo to reimburse the amount of private perfons lofies.

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Meer Jaffier. fet out a few days after to join the army under Major Adams, which was then on its march towards Moorfhedabad. The first action which happened, was on the r9th of July, opposite to Cutwa, on the Coffimbuzar fide of the river, The Major having creffed the army the night before, in the morning came up with a large body of the enemy's troops, who were strongly posted to oppofe his progrefs to the city; and having attacked them, they were routed, after a fmall refistance, and with an inconfiderable lofs on our fide,

A detached party under the command of Capt. Long, at the fame time poffeffed themfelves of the fort of Cutwa, on the other fide of the river; and all the artillery they had there, as well as what they had brought into the field, fell into our hands. In this action Mahomed Tuckey-Cawn, who, it is faid, commanded Mr. Amyatt's party, was mortally wounded, and died a few days

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The good effects of this fuccefs were difplayed in the eafy conqueft that followed of the city of Moorthedabad, which the army entered with a trifling oppofition the 24th at night. Here the Major established and proclaimed the nabob Meer Jaffer in due form, and halted fome days to refresh the army.

Gn the 28th of July, the Major continued his march towards Mongheer; and on the 2d of Auguft, having arrived near a place called Sooty, at the head of the Coffimbuzar river, a very obftinate engagement ensued with a numerous army of the enemy's best troops and artillery, who there occupied a very strong and advantageous poft. The ftand that they made was refolute and uncommon for troops of this country, having clofely engaged our forces for no less than four hours: however, by the intrepidity and good conduct of Major Adams, and the remarkable bravery of the officers and men, the enemy fuftained a total defeat. The lofs on our fide was not fo confiderable as might have been expected from fo fevere an action, confifting only of fix officers and forty Europeans, and 292 feapoys and black horse killed and wounded. On the fide of the enemy, a great number of men were killed and wounded, 3 pieces of cannon, and about 150 boats, laden with military and other ftores, taken; amongst these last were found all the artillery and most of the Patna detachment; and within fome days after the action, between fixty and feventy of the men who were taken prifoners at Pat na, and had been engaged by foul means and fair to ferve the enemy's guns, returned to their colours.

Immediately after this battle the Major advanced with the army near to Rajamaut; about three or four miles from which place the enemy had thrown up a strong entrenchment from the hills to the river, and for the forcing of which, it was judged most proper for enfuring the fafety of the troops to carry on regular approaches. Every thing having been accordingly prepared

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the works were begun upon the 29th of Auguft, and continued till the 5th of September, when the Major refolved upon an affault, which was executed with very little lofs, and their whole works were in our poffeffion that morning. Their fuccefs, we have great reafon to believe, will be decifive of the fare of the war, as the enemy feemed to repofe their chief confidence in the frength of thefe works, and now by the lots of them are deprived of all fupplies of provifion from the province of Bengal, which is entirely fecured to us.

THURSDAY, April 5.

This day his majesty went to the house of peers, accen, sanied in the state coach by His Grace the Duke of Rutland, and one of the lords in waiting, and gave the royal alfent to the following bills:

To the bill to enable John Pollard, Efq; (lately called John Carter) and his heirs to take and use the furname and arms of Pollard.

To the bill for naturalizing John Alric. To the bill for regulating buildings, and to prevent mifchiefs that may happen by fire within the bills of mortality.

To the bill for widening and keeping in repair feveral roads in the feveral parishes of Lambeth, Newington, St. George, Southwark, and Bermondfey, in the county of Surry, Lewisham in Kent; and for repairing Lambeth Back-Lane, and for lighting and watching the fame.

To the bill for cftablishing a nightly watch, maintaining, regulating, and employing the poor of the parish of St. Clement Danes.

To the bill for granting to his majesty a certain fum of money out of the finking fund, for the fervice of the year 1764.

To the bill for repairing the harbour of

Dover.

To the bill for better fupplying the town' of Wigan, in the county of Lancaster, with fresh and wholefome water.

To the bill for laying a duty on beaver. kins and wool,

To the bill for better fecuring and encouraging the trade of his majesty's fugar colonies in America.

And to feveral other private bills.

The Ruffian ministers at Ratisbonne and Hamburgh are engaging a great number of German families, manufacturers, &c. to go and fettle in the north-caft part of Ruffia; as foon as they enter, a man has eight, a woman five, and a child three fchillings, heavy money, allowed them daily for their

maintenance, and they are fent to Lubeck at the empress of Ruffia's expence, where > they embark for Petersburgh.

On Tuesday laft in the afternoon, three barges, two loaded with coals and one with timber, in paffing through one of the arches of London Bridge ran foul of each other, by which accident two of them funk,⠀ but by the timely affiftance of boats none of the persons in them were drowned. FRIDAY, April 6.

It is faid a very valuable pearl fishery has been discovered in Florida, by means of fome Overhill Indians who came down to trade with the English at St. Auguftine. The Spaniards were, it feems, acquainted with it long ago, but from the natural antipathy fubfifting between them and the natives, were never able to derive fo much advantage from this fishery, as might otherwife have been expected.

On Monday last forty journeymen taylors were taken out of the Bull Head in Bread-ftreet, and confined in Wood-street Compter, for not working the hours according to the laft order of Seffions. But on their re-examination before the fitting alderman at Guildhall yesterday, Mr. Field, judge of the Sheriffs Court, was called in as counsel for the mafter taylors, and Mr. Cox, counsel for the journeymen; when it ap-: pearing that the masters had acted illegally, by taking up many more who were not guilty, but only called to drink with their brother-trade, the masters were ordered to pay to each man one guinea, for his imprifonment and lofs of time, which was paid them at the above house, and releases executed by all parties. The journeymen have alfo liberty to prefent a petition to the juftices at the next feffions, to have an hour taken off (from seven to eight); which petition the major part of the mafters have agreed to back; and thereupon they were all fet at liberty.

SATURDAY, April 7.

Among the many ingenious new inventions in the mechanical way, we are informed, that a master watchmaker has invented a curious watch key, a fmall fize larger than the ordinary fort, which contains two plates, one for the day of the month, the other for the moon's age; and regularly, every twenty four hours, at the winding up the watch, fhews the fame.

Thursday in the evening, as a lady was coming down Ludgate-Hill, a well-dreft fellow standing by a poft near the Fountain, (fuppofed to be one of the hand bill gang)

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fell down at her feet before her, as fhe ftept forward, by which the lady fell upon him; when others, of the same gang, very kindly affifted in taking her up; but when the came to a friend's houfe, where he went to pay a visit, he found her pocket was gone, with a purfe of about nine guineas, and every thing else in it.

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Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, William Corbet was executed on Kennington Common, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Knight, of Rotherhithe : he behaved very decently, and acknowledged the juftice of his fentence; he was a stout, swarthy looking fellow, aged about 35 years, and was a native of Portsmouth in the province of New Hampshire, New England. After ⚫ his execution his body was hung in chains at a place called Galley-Wall, between. Kent-street Road and Rotherhithe.-Soon after the above execution, a man had the misfortune to be thrown down by the concourfe of people, and was run over by a cart, which inftantly killed him. He was left on the common, as it is faid, in order to be owned.

MONDAY, April 9.

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Last Wednesday morning was taken up: out of the New River, near Iflington, floating down with the ftream, a bundle wrapt up in three small linnen cloths, pinned, and tied with a packthread ftring: which, upon opening, was found to contain the body of a new-born female child, with its thighs disjointed and turned up backwards towards the neck (in order to shorten the bundle, as is fuppofed) and with a wound on the left breaft (supposed with a small pointed knife or inftrument) and the cloth covering the breast, bloody; and by an inquifition taken before E. Umfreville, Efq; one of the coroners for this county, the fact was found to be wilful murder by fome perfon or persons unknown.

TUESDAY, April 10. Yesterday Norborne Berkley, Efq; late knight of the thire for the county of Gloucefter, obtained the peerage of Botetourt, by appeal to the Right Hon. the house of peers, after bearing council feven days, in favour of the appeal.

yard, and two gentlemen, belonging to the faid manufactory, had the honour to be introduced to his majesty's prefence and prefent their petition, which his majefty received in the most gracious manner, and gave for aufwer, That he would fend immediate orders to put a stop to the importation of French filks; that an affair of fuch confequence to the kingdom should be properly laid before his parliament, and that they might depend on his care and protection.

THURSDAY, April 12.

On Saturday laft a very valuable feizure was made by Mr. Trott, one of the officers of his majefty's cuftoms, of a very large book of patterns of French wrought filks of all forts, from 5 s. per yard to 51. and upwards, containing feveral thousand patterns, in the hands of fome French agents, which had for fome time been privately carried about among the mercers and other dealers in the filk trade, to engage them to become purchasers of the pieces.

FRIDAY, April 13.

They write from Tournay, in the Auftrian Netherlands, of the 27th past, that feveral French Jefuits had come there to feek an asylum among their brethren; but that it was immediately fignified to them, that the empress queen bad forbid all Jefuits, and others her fubje&t, in the Netherlands, to receive into thei: houfes any profcribed French. In the cities of the Netherlands where any French Jefuits have appeared, they have had a guard fet over them till they went away: Some are gone to Liege, others to the frontiers of Germany, and others to Switzerland.

A mechanick of Copenhagen, named Henry Schultz, has invented a pendulum for determining the longitude at fea; and propofes to thofe nations who have offered a reward for fuch difcovery, to make the proof of this pendulum for fix months. Yesterday twenty-nine children were admitted into Chrift's Hospital.

On Tuesday morning laft, between twelve and one o'clock, a fire broke out in the ftables of Mr. Browne, in Jamesftreet, Bedford-row, occafioned by the Yesterday morning several thousand jour- coachman's leaving a candle burning in the peymen filk-weavers went in proceffion lanthorn, which fet fire to the tallow, and from Spitalfields, and waited on his majefty unfoldered the tin-bottom, and that dropat the Queen's Palace in St. James's Park, ping out, fet fire to the litter; but by acwith a petition, representing the miferable cident a lady's coachman, at the next ftacondition themselves and families are redu-bles, coming to fet up his coach, alarmed ced to, by the clandeftine importation of the family, and by the convenience of a French filks. They waited before the court horfe-pond, near the door, prevented the

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Last Wednesday a long hearing was had before the fitting juftices at Hicks's Hall, on the following entertaining affair: a young woman having been courted by her fellow fervant, hired a child and charged him with being the father, insisting upon. his maintaining it; but her lover difcover, ing that the child had been procured elfewhere, obtained a warrant against his miftrefs; the confequence of which was, that on the above hearing, matters were compromifed, and releafes given by both parties.

Last night a fire broke out at a toy-fhop. in James-ftreet, Grosvenor fquare, which cntirely confumed the faid houfe, and damaged feveral others before it was extingifhed. Six or feven perfons are milling, who, it is feared, have perished in the flames.

It is faid to have been occationed by a gentleman's reading in hed.

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On Wednesday came on at Norwich, the election of a knight of the hire for the. county of Norfolk, in the room of the Hon." Lord Townshend, when Thomas De Grey, Efq; brother to the folicitor general, was chole without opposition.

TUESDAY, April 17.

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On Saturday laut Mr. Bourne's new in-. vented waggon was tried on the New Road, 1ington, (before feveral of the gentlemen belonging to the fociety of arts) against a common broad-wheel waggon. Each of them had five tons weight of stones, and was drawn by eight horfes, and the two carriages went a-breaft from the New Road just by Pancras, to within a small distance of the Dog-Houfe Bar. On their return they were tried with four horfes each for a little way, when it appeared that the commen bread wheel waggon had greatly the advantage, and that the four horfes in it did not work feemingly harder, than the eight houfes in the new-inven:cd one. The intention of Mr. Bourne's cariage is to roll the roads, and keep them from rutting; for

which purpose the wheels, or cylinders, are placed under the body of the waggon, are fourteen inches in breadth, and not more than two feet feven inches in diameter. It does not therefore feem calculated for roads that are uneven, or for steep afcents; but, on the other hand, by the fituation of the wheels, it can país on narrower roads than the broad wheel carriages, and can turn in a very little.fpace, and without difficulty. It is the ftaze waggon from Leominster to London, and has been two journeys.

On Friday last the workmen began to dig the foundation for a new fmall-pox hofpital, in the field between Battle-Bridge and Prancras-church, which it is faid, is to be built on the fame model and plan with the Foundling Hospital.

Yesterday the worshipful the juftices Colepeper, Brittel, and Eastdale, attended by proper officers, feized a great number of hogs, and among them fifty from one man, in the parishes of St. Sepulchre withou", and St. James, Clerkenwell, which had been fed on unwhole fome food, and were all therefore forfeited to the use of the poor, according to act of parliament.

THURSDAY, April 19.

A few days fince the wife of an eminent tradefman in the country coming up to London in á stage-coach to pay away a confiderable fum of money, was accompanied in her journey by a pretended clergyman, who, when they came to the inn, offered his fervice to fee her fate to her lodgings, which the accepted of, and a hackney coach was accordingly called; but instead of taking her where the defired, he privately ordered the coachman to drive to a certain bagnio: the lady feeing the mistake, refufed to get out of the coach, upon which he ordered the coachman to drive about the freets, in which time he took occafion to use her with great brutality, which may probably cost her her life, as the is not yet recovered from the fits that ensued. He afterwards left her in the coach, in the middle of the freets, and made his escape, but frict fearch is making after him.

This day his majesty. went to the house of peers, accompanied in the ftate-coach by his grace the duke of Rutland, master of the horse, and one of the lords in waiting. His majefty being feated on the throne, made a most gracious speech to both houfes of parliament, and gave the royal affent to the following bills:

To the bill for velling the fort of Senegal,

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To the bill for fwearing affidavits to be made use of in any courts of the county palatine of Durham.

To the bill for applying the money granted this feffion, for defraying the charge of pay and cloathing of the militia for one year.

To the bill for charging on the finkingfund certain annuities, and for confolidating fuch faid annuities as are granted for a certain term of years irredeemable.

To the bill for granting for a limited time, a liberty to carry rice from his majefty's provinces of South Carolina and Georgia to America.

To the bill for allowing further time for the inrollment of deeds and wills made by papifts, and for the relief of protestant purchafers.

To the bill for paving, cleansing, lighting, &c. the fquares, ftreets, lanes, allies, in the city and liberty of Weftminiter.

To the bill for raifing money by loans or exchequer bills.

To the bill to prevent frauds committed by bankrupts, and for extending the laws relating to hackney-coaches to the counties of Kent and Effex.

To the bill to indemnify perfons who have omitted to take the oaths to qualify themfelves for offices, &c.

To the bill to amend and reduce into one act of parliament, feveral laws in being, relating to raising and training the militia.

To the bill to prevent inconveniences arifing in cafes of merchants, and fuch other perfons as are within the ftatutes of bankrupts, being intitled to privilege of parliament, and becoming infolvent.

To the bill for diffolving the marriage of John Weller, Efq; with Charlotte Wilfon, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again.

To the bill for importing falt from Europe to Quebec for a limited time.

To the bill for granting a bounty upon the importation of hemp, and rough and undrefïed flax, from his majesty's colonies in America.

To the bill to enable his majefty, with the advice of his privy council, to order the free importation of provifions from Ireland during the next recefs of parliament, or as the neceffity of the time may require.

To the bill for continuing feveral acts of

parliament, made for the encouragement of the whale fishery carried on by his ma jesty's fubje&s.

To the bill for establishing an agreement with the governor and company of the Bank of England, for raiting certain fums of money for the fervice of the year 1764.

To the bill to prevent paper bills of ciedit hereafter to be issued within any of his majefty's colonies or plantations in America, from being made legal tender in payment of money.

And to feveral other road and naturalization bills; after which both houses were prorogued to the 21st of June.

FRIDAY, April 20.

Yesterday was brought to the Bank from Portfmouth, in two waggons, guarded by a party of failors, about three tons of money, among which was a confiderable quantity of gold, brought home in the Deptford man of war from the Havannah.

On Tuesday John Ives, a noted houfebreaker, now in cuftody in Clerkenwell Bridewell, fent for his fifter, pretending a vifit would greatly oblige him, he having fomething particular to communicate to her; but when the villain had got the poor girl in his power, he cruelly cut off one of her ears, ftripped her of her apparel, and otherwife ufed her fo inhumanly, that the lies dangerously ill.

SATURDAY, April 21.

Yesterday his ferene highnefs George Auguftus, prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, her majefty's youngest brother, arrived at the house in Pall-mall which has been fitted up for his reception, and soon afterwards waited on their majefties at St. James's.

Two labouring men, about a fortnight ago, in digging fomewhere in Stow-Langtoft, a village near St. Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, found an earthen pot full of old Roman coins. The metal is not valuable, as there are no gold or filver pieces among them, being all copper; nor are the pieces themselves remarkably rare. Those that had an opportunity of feeing the most of them, could not certainly diftinguish more than four forts; viz. Victorinus, Pofthumus, Tetricus Aug. and Tetricus Cæf The number was very confiderable, being 7000, if not more. They were fold to a man at Bury, for one fhilling a pound, and at that rate fold for more than two guineas. The purchaser was content with a moderate profit, for he offered to fell them at a farthing each, pick and choose, or half-a-crown a pound, Excepting two

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