should work from fix in the morning to feven at night, the whole year. The order of the Bath, lately given to Lord Clive, was promifed to Col. Draper, who waved his claim to accommodate his lordship, as it may add to his refpect and influence with the nabob of Bengal. On Monday Lord Clive was fworn before the court of directors of the Hon. Eaft India Company, commander in chief of the company's forces in India. Sunday morning a waterman, who lived on the Broad Wall near Chrift-Church, Surry, and plyed at the Old Bargehouse, being drinking till four o'clock the fame morning, faid he would go home and murder his brother and wise, and his father fhould fee him hanged; accordingly he went home, but did not kill any body, and when his father came down, found him hanging in the kitchen in his ilk handkerchief, with his knees on the ground. THURSDAY, May 3. The aft Dutch Eaft-India hips, which arrived in Holland from Batavia, brought letters from Calambazur, which give an account, that in March, 1763, a most violent fire happened at Moxudabath, which had reduced that place to afhes. And that on the 2d of April following there was such a vetement earthquake at Deher or Decca, that it caufed the water in the river Ganges to rife twenty feet above its common course, and agitated it in the fame way as it is at new and full moon: upwards of 500 veffels with provifions, and a great number of peoples lives, were lost; but the most shocking and dismal account is, that at Lockepoer, about two days journey from Decca, a circuit of land, near 15 English miles in circumference, was (wallowed up, and all the people and cattle on it were drowned. All the hips for the Greenland fishery from the port of London, failed out of the river within a few days paft; but there are not fo many as were employed last seafon. Jeremiah Dyfon, Efq; lately appointed one of the lords of trade, is re-elected for the borough of Yarmouth, in Hants, without oppofition. FRIDAY, May 4. A new grand ftate coa.h, of curious workmanship, is finished, and brought home to the queen's palace, for the prince of Wales and his brother, in which they are to take the air in the gardens behind the queen's palace. It was made ufe of on Wednesday last for the first time. On Wednesday laft a gentleman loft his pocket book at the Eaft India House, with Bank and barkers notes in it, to the amount of 17col. Yesterday Thomas Wright, a fidler, and Margaret Wright, alias Brown, alias Price, alias Montgomery, alias Scotch Peg, a moft infamous and notorious bawd, were taken by the vigilance of Sir John Fielding, and by that magiftrate committed to Newgate, being charged with keeping a diforderly houfe in Eagle Court in the Strand, and therein decoying Sufannah Leach, a poor gil, and detaining her there against her will; and violently beating and otherwife cruelly using her, for not getting money fufficient to anfwer the exorbitant demands of thefe vile mifcreants. SATURDAY, May 5. Yesterday morning about ten o'clock, came on, before Lord Chief Justice Pratt, in the court of Common Pleas, Guildhall, an action brought by Mr. Arthur Beardmore against Mr. Nathaniel Carrington, and three other of his majesty's meffengers. In the courfe of the tryal it appeared, that Mr. Beardmore had been taken into cuftody on the 11th of November, for a fuppofed connection with the Monitor, and confined till the 17th, two days of which he was not fuffered the ufe of either pen or paper, nor permitted to conve:fe with any of his friends, but in the prefence of the meffen ger. Nay, it was mentioned, that when application was made by the then lord mayor of London to bail him, the proper officer who was to examine him, neglected it on this confiftent and reasonable account, that the Monitors were much too voluminous to be infpected. Mr. Jonathen Scott, the former publisher of the Monitor, in order to prove the justige of Mr. Beardmore's commitment, prefented a paper to the court, fetting forth that this gentlemen, together with the Rev. Mr. Entic, Dr. Shebbeare, and others, were the authors; that the two latter had a falary of one hundred a-year for their writings; and that he himfeif (Mr. Scott) was allowed the profits of the fale for his trouble, after the neceffary expences attending the publi cation were difcharged. Such being the groundwork of the charge and defence, the examination of witneffes, and the pleadings on both fides, continued till about a quarter after four, when it ap pearing inconteftibly evident, that Mr. Beardmore had fuffered very confiderably in being confined for fo long a space at the beginning of term, when he had a number Nn 2 of of important caufes to conduct; and his principal clerk, who tranfacted the bufnefs in his abfence, being alfo taken up by the fame warrant with himfelf, and in the cuftody of another mcffenger, the Loid Chief Juftice proceeded with his ufual candour and good fenfe to give the charge, in which he obferved, that the feizure of Mr. Beardmore's perfon and papers was illegal, and that the S of S fhould always be particularly careful to hear with their ears open, and fee with their own eyes: he recommended moderation, however, in the damages, as the meffengers were nothing but fervants, and confequently could not be confidered as materially culpable in intent. The jury then withdrew, and returned in about fifty minutes, with a verdict of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS in favour of Mr. Beardmore, highly to the fatisfac. tion of the court, and the wishes of the fpectators, who teftified their approbation with the ioudeft burfts of applaufe. The journeymen-taylors who have been lately confined, for refufing to work during the mafter's hours, have ferved fixty-two copies of writs upon different mafters, for falfe imprisonment, which is to be heard in the court of Common Pleas this team. Thur day-night, about ten o'clock, a man genteelly dreffed, went into a public house at Queenhithe, and called for a pint of beer; but, while it was gone for, he found means to fteal a quart filver tankard which flood in the bar, and got off with it undifcovered. WEDNESDAY, May 9. The citizens of Corke have placed a fine white marble ftatue of Mr. Pitt, as big as life, in a niche on their Exchange, with the following infcriptions: "In honour of Mr. PITT, late fecretary and minifter of ftate to their majefties K. GEORGE II. and III. of Great Britain, who, in the few years of his able and upright adminißration, restored the honour of the British arms, together with the fafety, influence, and glory of his king and country, this ftatue is erected by the citizens of Corke, Anno 1764." This is on one plate. On another is the following: "Sifte viator ubicunque terrarum oriundus. Vera Icon GULIELMI PITT, cujus fi nomen audies, nihil hic de famâ defideres." Yesterday at the rehearsal of the mufic for the feaft of the fons of the clergy, the Rewards collected 2431. 18 s. 9 d. at the church-door, which is 651. more than the last year. A 201. bank-note was fent by fome perfon, who has been benefited by the charity. On Saturday laft there was a meeting of the commiffioners of the Surry and Sulfex turnpike-roads at Croydon, when their lofs by a late treasurer of the Godstone divifion was taken into confideration. The Rev. Mr. Kidgel, the noted author of the Narrative of the Effay on Woman, had been treasurer, but has lately disappeared, with a balance in his hands of upwards of 2001. It appeared, however, that he had given a bill of faie to the clerk of the roads, in confequence of which, it is faid, the commiffioners will recover ten shillings in the pound. An inn keeper of Ryegate aitended, and proved that he had bought of Mr. Kidgell fome cyder, which not having received home, and being taken into the bill of fale, the commiffioners ordered the amount of it to be given him. THURSDAY, May 10. On Monday-evening the eldest daughter of capt. Frumpton, commander of the Seahorfe outward-bound, went on board the fhip, lying off Blackwall, to take leave of her father, and coming down the ship-fide, fhe miffing her hold, unhappily fell into the river, and was drowned. On Tuesday-afternoon a fhoemaker was committed to New Prifon by Juftice Pell, for ftabbing Mr. Chambers, a ropemaker, in four different parts of his body,, on Monday-evening laft, at a public houfe in Perriwinkle ftreet, near Ratcliff-Highway, with one of his working knives; of which wounds he languished till Tuesday-morning, when he died in the London-Hofpital; the quarrel arofe on the deceased's refusing to treat the fhoemaker with another pot of beer, after having drank seve ral together; but the real caufe is fupposed to be jealousy. Extract of a letter from Exeter, May 5. "At a general meeting of the sheriff, gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Devon, held by defire of the sheriff, at the caftle of Exeter, the 2d day of December 1763, on account of the cyder act, it was unanimously agreed, that Benjamin Heath, Efq; now at Bath, be earneftly defired to favour them with his attendance at London on this occafion, in order to affift the reprefentatives of this county in their endeavours to obtain a repeal of the said a&t. "And at another meeting held at the fame place, May 3, 1764, in confequence of INTELLIGENCE the above meeting, it was refolved, That thanks be given to Mr. Heath, for his ready compliance with this request, at the hazard of his own health, and for the great service he has rendered this county, by endeavouring to rescue it from the grievous burthen of this tax, and the shackles of excife; and by the irrefragable arguments contained in The CASE of the COUNTY of DEVON, which, although they had not their full effect in the last feffion, will, it is hoped, not fail of producing it in the next. Under a due fenfe of thefe eminent fervices, it is refolved alfo, That a piece of plate be prefented to Mr. Heath, with the following infcription The GIFT Of the gentlemen Of the county of Devon, To BENJAMIN HEATH, Efq; Of his ftrenuous endeavours To refcue them from With the utmost honour to himself, dextrâ Defendi poffent, certè bac defenfa fuiffent. Lieutenant Alexander Dunn, who has for fome time been confined in the King's Bench for threatening the life of John Wilkes, Efq; is removed from thence by fome of his friends to a private madhouse. Saturday laft were examined in Bowftreet, before Sir John Fielding, Thomas Kynalton, William Kelynge, John Spinnage, and John Phillips, Efqrs. four footmen, charged with riotous behaviour at Renalagh House, by hiffing feveral of the nobility, relative to their not giving or fuffering vails to be taken, pelting several gentlemen with brickbats, and breaking the windows, &c. when one, who had threatened violence against the perfons of the lords Cornwallis and Allen, and who had allo affaulted a perfon who had endeavoured to diffuade him from his riotous pro ceedings, was fent to Newgate, another was bound to his good behaviour, and publicly discharged from his master's fervice, him, and the other difmiffed by the magione fet at liberty, no one appearing against ftrates, on asking pardon, and promifing to difcover his accomplices. TUESDAY, May 15. which madam Pompadour left are incrediLetters from Paris affert, that the riches ble; her rich furniture, jewels, and plate, are valued at eight millions of livres (about 350,000 1.) and three millions are to be received from the Bank of Venice; but whether that fum is an old debt, or the intereft of a much greater fum, is not mentioned. The fine palace of St. Honore reverts to the houfe of Bouillon; the Sieur d'Etoiles, her husband, has put in a caveat, in order to fet her will afide. It appears by the books of the late Benjamin Mendez da Cofta, Efq; that he gave away in charity, to the poor and indigent of different nations and religions, to the amount of 3000 1. annually, for thirty years. Laft night between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Rutter, of Gray's Inn Lane, coming from Kentish Town on horfeback, was attacked by two footpads in Pancras Wash, who robbed him of half-a-guinea and three fhillings, wifhed him a good night, and made off over the fields. Some private letters from Poland advise, that a confiderable part of the grandees, at had declared for prince Charles of Saxony, the head of which was the prince primate, duke of Courland and Semigallia; who, if he fhould obtain the throne, will thereby become the lord paramount of Courland, the duke de Biren. of which he has been forcibly deprived by THURSDAY, May 17. Yesterday the Right Hon. the Lord High Yesterday two butchers were convicted ham, the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Ofbaldes- Yesterday Yesterday morning a man genteely dreffed, was found in the road between South Lambeth-Common and Stockwell Lane, quite fpeechlefs, and fo disfigured in the face that it was impoffible to difcover who he was at that time. It is conjectured, that he was thrown from his faddle and dragged in the ftirrup, as his horfe was found at a fmall diftance from him. FRIDAY, May 18. Yesterday George Pitt, Efq; late ambaffidor at Turin, waited on their majefties at St. James's, for the fift time fince his arival, and was most graciously received. Yesterday, at two o'clock in the afterncon, his excellency the earl of Northumberland, the countefs, and the Hon. Mr. Percy, attended with a large retinue, arrived at Northumberland House from Dublin. Wednesday-morning fome villains entered a field at Stepney, where were feveral cows belonging to Mr. Mars, a butcher, in St. Catherine's-Lane, Eaft-Smithfield, from eight of which they cut off the teats, and fafled the udder of one of them fo much, as to kill the beaft from the effufion of bicod; the rest being very fine milch cows are entirely spoiled, and must be killed. This offence being made capital, the con. viction of fuch an offender, it he can be difcovered, may be a means to deter others from so inhrman a practice. Yesterday Christopher Pepper, a hackney-coachman, was taken on a warrant, being fined by the commiffioners the fum of 3os. on a complaint of exacting from Mt. Benton, in March laft, the fum of 2 s. for his hire, in driving him a distance not exceeding two miles; and re'ufing to pay the faid fine, was fent to Newgate. SATURDAY, May 19. Yesterday the countefs of Northumberland waited on her majefty, for the fift time ince her return from Ireland. His lordfhip has not yet been at court, nor feen company, on account of the deceafe of his mother. A few days fince Mr. Mores, painter, prefented a picture of his majesty on horseback, attended by lord Ligonier, to the queen, who was fo much pleased with the execution, that the ordered Mr. Morea a purfe of one hundred guineas. Twenty-one feparate actions have, within thefe few days, been ferved upon the keep es of Woodstreet compter, on account of the imprisonment of the 45 journeymen taylors, taken into cuftody at a publichouse in Bread ftreet, and committed to that compter, fome time unce. Yesterday the Right Rev. Dr. Richard Terrick, bishop of Peterborough, kiffed his majesty's hand, on being tranflated to the fee of London, vacant by the death of Dr. Ofbaldefton. At the fame time Dr. Lamb, dean of Peterborough, kiffed his majefty's hand, on being nominated bishop of Peterborough. As did alfo Dr. Tarrant, dean of Carlife, on being appointed to fucceed to the deanry of Peterborough. And Dr. Burn (author of the Complete Juftice of Peace, and Ecclefiaftical Law) who is to fucceed to the deanry of Carlisle. Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, Mr. Samuel Cooke, a custom house officer, was attacked by two fellows, dreffed like failors, in Thames-ftreet, near Queenhithe, who robbed him of his watch, two quarterguineas, and fome filver, with which they made off up Queen-street. MONDAY, May 21. The ftatues in the E. of Peterborough's garden at Parfon's Green in the county of Middlesex, having been lately all broke down and defaced, the mount-house broke open, and much damage done at five different times, to his lordship's property there, by perfons whom it hath not, as yet, been found practicable to apprehend for committing the faid crimes; his majeây has been pleafed to promife his moft gracious pardon to any of them, (except the perfon principally concerned therein) who fhall difcover bis, or her, accomplice, or accomplices in the faid fact. And his lordship hath promised a reward of thirty pounds, to any perfon making fuch difcovery. Saturday was committed to New Prifon, by Sir John Fielding, one Jennings, a journeyman barber, charged with stealing, out of the house of a gentleman in Surry-street in the Strand, eight thirts, feveral neckcloths, and other things. This genius being admitted about three times a week into the gentleman's dreffing room to shave him, where open drawers were with his linnen, had been fo dexterous with his hands, as while the gentleman had the lather upon his face, each time to flip into his pocket a fhirt or neckcloth, and fo,metimes both, which being at length miffed, occafioned the innocent fervant girl to be suspected of the crime; and the being confcious of no other perfon having accefs into the room but the barber and herself, took an opportunity, the next time he came to fhave bee mafter, to watch him through the key-hole, by which fue derected him; and on fearch ing his box at his mafter's houfe, the feveral goods were found in his cuftody, which he had ftolen at different times in the above manner. TUESDAY, May 22. The Irish every day improve in the manufacturing of their lingens, of which a remarkable inftance was given a little more than a fortnight ago, when a noted manufacturer exhibited before the Dublin fociety fome damafk linnens made by himself, which were, on a strict examination, found to be at least equal both in colour and the quality of the fabrick, to the imported Naffau damasks. There is established in Ireland a manufactory for making carpets, which are found to be equal in duration to the Scoth carpets, but much fuperior in colour and elegance of pattern. Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, a melancholy accident happened at Mr. Pennington's, a haberdasher on Ludgate-hill: a fervant maid feil afleep on the bedfide, and inadver ently left her candle burning fo near her, that her clothes took fire; the family were foon alarmed by her cries, and the flames spread over her fo quick, that as foon as Mr. Pennington entered the room, he found her in an entire blaze, on which he took off with his hands as much as he could of the burning clothes, and ex inguished the rest by preffing upon her one of her gowns. The fervant was fent to an hofpital, but with little hopes of recovery. By le ters from Cadiz in Spain; Afti, Alexandria, Cremona, Genoa, and other places, in Italy; and Nordhaufen and its environs, in Germany; we learn, that a mortality reigns there among the fowls, dogs, hogs, horfes, and cattle, of which they die in great numbers, particularly in the Cremonefe, where upwards of five thousand of the first have perished. The poultry feized with it at Cadiz, on being opened, are difcovered to have a great quantity of ferum in their bodies, which is attributed to the badnefs of their food. The does taken with it, in Italy, run mɔd. A putrid matter difcharges itself from be. neath the nails of the hogs in Holstein, and their skins and fnouts lofe their hair. This morning Mr. Jewell, a mafter taylor, in Surry Arcet in the ftrand, was found fuffocated in a ditch near Cuper's Bridge: as there were fome marks of violence about him, it is imagined he was thrown into the ditch by fome villains, who had likewife robbed him, the Sunday died, at his houfe at Actor in Middlefex, the Right Worshipful Sir Edward Simpfon, knight, dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury, and judge of the Prerogative Court at Doctors Commons; memher in the prefent parliament for the town and port of Dover in Kent; and matter of Trinity-Hall in the university of Cambridge. The deanry of the arches, and judge of the Prerogative Courts, are in the gift of the archbishop of Canterbury; in which, we hear, he will be fucceeded by Dr. John Bettefworth, chancellor of the diocefe of London. WEDNESDAY, May 23. Yesterday at half past twelve came on before Lord Chief Juftice Mansfield, and the other honourable judges of the court of King's Bench, at Weflminfter Hall, the tryal of Philip Carteret Webb, Efq; member of parliament for Haflemere in Surry, folici or to the treafu y, and fellow of the royal fociety, for perjury, which continued till feven o'clock in the evening, when the jury which was a fpecial one, after an abfence of about an hour and twenty minutes, brought in their verdict, Not Guilty.-It was with no little difficulty that a jury could be impannelled to try this important cause, fome of the gentlemen, who had been fummoned, neglecting to attend, notwithstanding the preffing neceffity for their appearance. One of them, however, was fined 301. for his remiffness, which it is hoped will have a falutary effect upon every future occasion. This morning the remains of Dr. Richard Ofbaldeftin, late bishop of London, after lying in ftate, were carried from his palace at Fulham, in order to be interred at Hunmanby, near Scarborough, in Yorkshire, of which parith his lordship was vicar many years. An order is made for erecting a conve nicnt apartment contiguous to Juftice Hall in the Old Bailey, for the reception of witneffes, who are fummoned and obliged to attend, to give teftimony against prisoners that are to be tried in that court. THURSDAY, May 24. Yesterday morning early feveral country ftage waggons, from Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, were robbed on Finchley Common, by two footpads, to the amount of 61. They afterwards attacked Mr. Smart's waggon at Skifford, Bedfordshire; but four men being paffengers therein, they made a ftout defence, and obliged the villains to go off without their booty. |