fort of hood, which blinded him; they then put a collar round his neck, with chains, and, after feeding him with part of the deer, led him away. The motions of the tiger were something like thofe of a cat, by creeping flowly on the ground till within reach of the prey, and then, by a fpring, leaping at it.

WEDNESDAY, July 4.

Ralph Allen, Efq; who died on Friday morning laft, of an inflammation in his bowels, which turned to a mortification, (aged 72) at his feat at Prior Park, near Bath, was quite fenfible and refigned to the laft, and fo composed, even in the most excruciating pain, that he asked his phyficians, the day before he died, when no hopes of his recovery remained, how many hours they thought he might live, which they told him pretty nearly. He then thanked them for their attendance, and defired they would leave him. He was univerfally known to have lived in the conftant practice of every virtue that does honour to humanity. His ample fortune, acquired in the prosecution of a plan of his own invention for the improvement of the revenue of the poft office, highly beneficial to his country, was spent in a fplendid but decent hofpitality, and in the relief of a great variety of objects of compaffion. His contract with the government for the crossroad letters, which he enjoyed ever fince the year 1720, falls to the government, by which the revenue of the general poft-office will be greatly increased.

By an extract of a letter from Comte de Trefan, member of the royal academy of fciences, to M. Morand of the fame academy, we are informed of the death of Bebe, the king of Poland's famous dwarf. Bebe was the iffue of two healthy, well-made, labouring people. His mother reared him with great difficulty, his mouth being fo fmall that he could only take in part of the nipple. A wooden fhoe ferved him for a long time by way of cradle ; and his growth, to the age of twelve, was in proportion to his original littienefs. At that age, nature

feemed to make an effort; but this effort was not uniform, his growth being unequal in many parts; his nofe in particular being difproportioned to the reft of his features. Bebe gave very imperfect marks of underftanding, and had no notion of the Supreme Being, or the Immortality of the Soul. He feemed to be fond of mufic, and beat time with tolerable exactnefs. He was fufceptible of all the paffions incident to human nature, fuch as anger, jealousy, &c. At the age of eighteen, the figns of puberty were very visible, and Bebe was so amorously inclined, that he is faid to have anticipated old age by the indulgence of this propensity, for he actually died of old age before he was thirty, and began to decline from two and twenty. The king of Poland gave leave to have him diffected, and the anatomifts difcovered many obstructions, to which they attribute the ftoppage of his growth.

The late Ralph Allen, Efq; of Bath, has left upwards of 40,000 l. in legacies, and amongst them cool. to the right hon. William Pitt.

SATURDAY, July 7.

On the 27th ult. the king of France received a fall in hunting, but had no other hurt than a flight contufion in the leg. He was able to return back on horseback, and to affift in the evening at the church of the cordeliers.

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· Capt. Forbes, Mr. Wilkes's antagonist, is not gone into the Spanish but the Portuguefe fervice, where he has got great preferment, in confequence of several strong recommendations in his behalf from fome great men in England.

Laft Thurfday the filver arrow was shot for by twelve of the fenior young gentlemen at Harrow-fchool; the conteft lafted upwards of four hours, but at last it was won by Mr. Mee.

A new fociety is just established for the encouragement of claffical literature, which offers a gold medal of five guineas for the beft Latin epiftle, by a young scholar under fourteen years of age; and a gold medal of three guineas value for the fecond best: likewife a gold medal of three guineas value for the beft Latin epiftle by a boy under twelve, and a filver medal of one guinea for the fecond beft: if this fociety is properly encouraged, the greateft advantages may be expected to the republic of letters, and it is more than probable that the claffics, as yet (comparatively speaking) in their infancy amongst us, will fpeedily reach a very considerable degree of maturity. 3D 2

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They write from Penrith in Westmoreland, that there is an oak tree supposed to be above 500 years old, now standing in Winfield-park, within the body of which 20 people have fat down and cineḍ.

TUESDAY, July 10.

Yesterday at noon came on before lord Mansfield, at the King's Bench Bar, Westminster, the tryal of M. D'Eon, for a libel on his excellency the count de Guerchy, the French ambajador; a special jury was impanelled on the occafion; but no evidence appearing op M. D'Eon's behalt, he was found uilty.

Mr. Serjeant Sayer is appointed to go the. Norfolk circuit along with Lord Chief Juftice Pratt, in the room of Mr. Juftice Den nifon, who stays at home on account of his bad flate of health.

On Friday the wife of Mr. King, of Chatfey in Surry, was delivered of a fine boy. It is rema kable, the mother of this child is upwards of 62 years old, and the father near 72, and fhe has had a child every year for thefe three years lait past.

WEDNESDAY. July 11.

Yesterday the committee agreed, that the following infcription fhall be put at the bottom of the frame of the picture of the Right Hon. Lord Chief Juftice PRATT, which is foon to be put up in Guildhall.

HANC ICONEM
CAROLI PRATT, Efq.
SUMMI JUDICIS C. B.

IN HONOREM TANTI VRI ANGLICE LIBERTATIS LEGEASSERTORIS FIDI.

year of which we are just now entering. "In an uninterrupted profperity may glide away the twenty-five following years, which will lead to the fecond and grand jubilee, at the end of which the Pruffian monarchy will have no lefs foundation to extol the age of Frederick, than all the other monarcries, ancient and modern, have had to glority the ages of Cyrus, Alexander, Cæfar, Charlemagne, and Louis."

THURSDAY, July 12.

By a letter from Bengal, dated December 24, 1763, we learn, that major Adams, who was then with his army on the banks of the iver Carmanafarus, has wrote to Sujah Dowlah, the king of Delha's vizier, into whofe country Coffim Ali Cawn retreated after his late defeat by the English forces, that if he does pot furrender him up, he will cross the river, and destroy his country with fire and fword; whereupon Sujah Dowlah wrote down for an ambassador, and appointed one to treat with the governor and council. This letter adds, that the newly restored nabob has given a handsome gratuity to the English army for their late fervices in his behalf.

Tuesday a tracefman in the Borough, who had been on a journey in the country, returned to town to his house in Whitecrofs fleet, in the Park, Southwark, which he found ftripped of all the furniture, and his wife in bed, at a common lodginghoufe, with an infamous fellow, whom he ftabbed' in the body with a cafe knite, fo that he cannot poffibly furvive.

Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, John Henry Hairman, for a robbery near Lincoln's Inn Fields, and John Adams for perfonating a feaman in order to receive his wages, were carried in a cart from Newgate, and executed at Tyburn. They beFaved fuitably to their unhappy fituation, Hairman was a German, aged 21, and a foldier in the first regiment of foot-guards. By order of his friends, an undertaker at tended with a hearfe to take the body and buy it in a decent manner; but a number of foldiers feized it as foon as it was put into the coffin, declaring that no furgeon fhould have it; and regardless of affurances to the contrary, they carried the body away ard buried it in Tothil fields. And because the furgeons fhould not have it, they put fome unflaked lime into the coffin.

Yesterday being the birth day of the princefs Caroline Matilda, his majesty's After, who then entered into the

It is faid the minority are now increased to upwards of 300 noblemen and gentlemen of fortune, whofe names are all regiftered in a bock kept for that purpose.

Yesterday came on, before the fitting alderman at Guildhall, a try al between a failor, plaintiff, and a publican and his wife near Fleet market, defendants; during the courfe of which it appeared, that the failor had been recommended to the latter by a perfon at Chatham, in order to tranfa&t fome affairs for him in town, when the Landlady, for pretended fervices, perfuaded the failor to prefent her with a filver coffeepot, which coft 18 guineas, and the landJord got him to fign a bond for 40 1. payable to his brewer; but the fraud appea ing to the fatisfaction of the court, the credulous tar had his bond given up, the coffee pot returned, and the offending parties were committed to Newgate.

Exeter, July 5. Yesterday Margaret Verrant was committed to the High gaol, for the murder of her female baftard child. She is a widow woman, has a child about twelve years old, and has lived for fome time paft as cook at the Oxford Inn in Totnes. Her miftrefs fufpe&ting her to be with child, charged her with it, but the fffly denied it, and at laft was delivered alone. She not coming down, on the morning of her delivery, as ufual, ftrengthened her mistiefs's fufpicion, who went up to know the reafon; but the refufed to open the door, on which her miftrefs had it broke open; and on fearching the bed, they found the child with its head between its Jegs, and its back broke.

SATURDAY, July 14.

The marquis de Fratteaux, the French gentleman, who was fome years ago forci bly carried off from England to France, and whom the papers lately mentioned to be confined in the Baftile, is now, it is faid, at liberty at his cftate at Fratteaux; for when his brother, Mr. Bertin de Bourdeille, was made intendant of Lyons, he obtained his liberty, upon giving his word of honour to Mr. Bertin de Bourdeille to remain at his eftate at Fratteaux, and never go above fix miles from it, without leave from his father, with whom he had been at g eat variance, which was the occafion of his leaving Fraq.e. Two months after his arrival at

Fratteaux, his father went to fee him, and he had leave to return the vifit at Bourdeille. He has kept his word of honour ftri&tly, and lives at prefent in cordiality with his whole family.-See page 363 of this Mag. for the Narrative of his Seizure.

Wednesday one Griffiths, a Weifh fhoemaker in Smithfield, through a bravado of drunken heroifm, held one of his fingers in the blaze of a candle till it was burnt to the bone; the confequence of which will, in all probability, be the lofs of his arm, as the part began to mortify next morning.

An apprentice to an eminent house in Cheapfide has been detected within thefe few days, in a kind of frugal knavery very uncommon among other rogues of the fame clafs, having, within the fix years that he had ferved of his apprenticeship, by making free with his mafter's till and other means, accumulated no less than the fum of 10001. which he lodged fafely in the funds till he was at liberty to turn it to better account. TUESDAY, July 17.

A few days fince a gentleman near Queen's-fquare. Bloomsbury, purchased an cld defk of a broker in this city, when in clearing it he found in a private drawer three guineas, a gold ring, and two lottery tickets of the year 1751.

Yesterday morning a poor woman in Newtone:'s-lane, who had lain in but four days, being left alone by the nurfe, fome clothes, which were hanging to dry, took fire, and the flames communicating to the bed, in which the mother and infant lay afleep, the child was unhappily burnt to death, and the woman fo much scorched, that her life is defpaired of.

WEDNESDAY, July 18.

The mate of the Hopeftill, Capt. Sybrand, lately carried into Carthagena by the Spaniards, writes, that before they were attacked they obferved eight vessels in chace; that they immediately brought-to, and got their boat in the tackle ready to hoift out; when one of the Spanish men of war hailed her in Arabic, and under Moorish colours The captain of the Hopeftill immediately replied, that he did not underftand what they had faid; when, without further ceremony, they fired into her; the commodore foon coming up fired two broadfides more, which killed a gentleman pallenger, wounded the captain, fupercargo, and fome of the men, and carried off every thing above deck. The Hopeftill had not a fingle gun on board, and the Spanish hips were fo clofe, that the fupercargo

had

THURSDAY, July 19.

Yesterday an estate belonging to John Wilkes, Efq; fituated in Buckinghamshire, was fold by auction at Mr. Langford's, for the fum of 4,800 1.

Birmingham, July 16. Laft week a cow belonging to a gentleman of this town had three calves, which are all healthy and likely to live.

SATURDAY, July 21.

Yesterday a cause came on to be tried, by a fpecial jury at Westminster-Hall, before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Juftice Pratt, wherein the Rev. Mr. Entick was plaintiff, and Mr. Carrington, and three other meffengers, were defendants, for feizing Mr. Entick's papers, as one of the fuppofed authors of certain numbers of the Monitor: when after many learned arguments by the counfel on both fides, which Jafted near four hours, a verdict was found for the plaintiff, in 300l. damages.

Some time fince a man went to see the crown and regalia in the Tower, he was greatly pleafed at the fight, and the defcription he gave made fuch an impreffion on his wife (who was big with child) that a few days fince he was delivered of a child at the lying-in hofpital in Alderfgateftreet, which had the mark of a crown, and the letters G. R. on each fide of it, plainly imprinted between its fhoulders. Tranflation of a letter in the Dutch Philofophical Tranfactions, on the animal cleri

city of the Conger-Eel, written June 7, 1761, from Rio Effequebo, in South America, by Mr. Lott, furgeon of the colony.

"The fish here called the drill-wisch, or conger eel, is a kind of eel, in length from one to five feet, and of this fingular quafity, that it produces all the known effects of electricity, the like fhock, the like real or fuppofed cures. The facts mentioned are thefe at first, fowls, grown paralytic by contractions of the nerves, were cured : proceeding from animals to men, the letterwriter electrified a paralytic with the eel; he ftruck the patient's knees three times with one of these fihes, fresh taken. The fhock was fuch as to throw him down, with the two perfons who held him, but he foon got up, and, instead of being carried to the place of operation, he walked away as if nothing had ever ailed him. With this admirable eel Mr. Lott has cured nervous diforders, fevers, and very fevere head-achs, to which the flaves are peculiarly fubject. Some of thefe wonders were performed before the governor, and several other perfons of confideration."

MONDAY, July 23.

St. James's. July 21. In answer to the reprefentations made by his majesty's ambaffador at the court of Madrid, upon the late tranfactions of their governor of Jucatan, and his proceedings towards the British fubjects employed in cutting logwood in the Bay of Honduras, the Spanish ministry have replied, that they have not received any advices from that governor relative to this affair; but that it is certain the Ca. tholic king has given pofitive orders to his governor of Jucatan to abide by, and obferve the XVIIth article of the last treaty of peace, and that he will not approve of the conduct of his fubjects who act in contravention to it. That it is the intention of his Catholic majefty, that no one shall impede the English in their cutting logwood in the ftipulated places; and he will difapprove of his governors and ministers, whenever they act to the contrary, and renew the most strict orders to that effect.

when the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 3001. damages.

This morning, between four and five o'clock, the celebrated William Morgan, the highwayman, lately returned from transportation, made his efcape from Newgate in the following manner: he was confined and heavily ironed in a two-pairof-stairs room, in the apartments behind the prifon, where he made a hole through the bricks at the back of the chimney large enough to get his body through, and then tying his fheets together, faftened one end to the grate, and let himself down to a penthoufe, from which he defcended into a little yard and got through an empty houfe into the Little Old Bailey, and thence made clear off he was miffed about fix o'clock, and notice given of it to Sir John Fielding, who immediately dispatched a great number of his people to the different Inns, &c. in order to retake him, but no certain information has been yet received of his being retaken.

It is fuppofed that Morgan was furnished with the tools by which he was enabled to make the hole for his escape, by fome who vifited him yesterday in Newgate.

WEDNESDAY, July 25.

Yefterday about one o'clock came on before Lord Chief Juftice Mansfield, at Guildhall, the trial of fome former officers of Bishopsgate parish, for a mifapplication of money fome time ago collected by a brief: about the middle of the caufe, the defendants offered to pay rcol. and costs, which being accepted by the plaintiffs, an end was put to this remarkable debate, which has fo long employed the converfation of the public

THURSDAY, July 26.

On Tuesday a battle was fought in a field near Knightsbridge, between one Brooker, a chairman, and a man, known by the name of Brick-ftreet Jack, for a fum of money, amounting to near four hundred pounds, laid by gentlemen. The battle was the most defperate ever known, the combatants having fought fucceffively 48 minutes, and during the conteft feveral hundred pounds were won and loft. Both the men were fo much hurt and bruifed, that the gentlemen prefent thought proper to part them, and leave the decifion to an other day.

Yefterday the feffions began at the Old Bailey, when 29 prifoners were tried, one of whom was capitally convicted, viz, Mar

garet Wefton, for robbing Ann Peirce of three guineas, four fhillings, and eight pence, on the highway in Ruffel-street. Eleven were caft for transportation, and 17 acquitted.

This morning at nine o'clock came on at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, the trial of Mr. Williams, bookfeller in Fleet-street, for re publishing the North-Briton, No. 45, in volumes; when, after a hearing of three hours and a half, he was found guilty.

Immediately after came on the trial of Mr. Kearsley, bookfeller on Ludgate Hill, for originally publishing the faid No. 45, when he likewife was found guilty.

SATURDAY, July 28.

Thursday morning as a great perfonage was taking an airing, his horse trod on a large ftone near Hammersmith turnpike, and threw him over his head; the animal fell with fuch force, that he was turned quite over on his back, and very narrowly miffed falling with all his weight on the above great perfon, who providentially received no hurt.

Wednesday night, a little before ten o'clock, a tall ftout fellow knocked at the door of Mr. James, a filver-flatter in Giltfpur- ftreet, near Newgate, when the maid opened the door, and asked what he wanted, he faid, to come in, and immediately pushed by her, and attempted to fhut the door, when the maid ran back: luckily Mr. James (who is a very ftout man) happened to be at home, and met the fellow at the parlour door coming in; on which Mr. James immediately took hold of both his hands, and held him faft, asking what he wanted; the fellow thereupon began to fwear at and bully him; but Mr. James ftill held him faft, while the maid went out and got the affistance of a conftable, (the watch not being then fet) and he was fecured, and on Thurfday carried before the fitting aldermen at Guildhall,

Yesterday fixteen prifoners were tried at the Old Bailey, three of whom were capitally convicted, viz. Archibald Nelfon, for perfonating John Wallis, a seaman, on board his majesty's fhip the Guadalupe, in order to receive prize money and wages due to him; and James Lacy, and Thomas Edwards, for robbing Philip Roaper, Efq5 of a gold watch, two penknives, and half a crown, on the new road near Marybone turnpike. Nine were caft for tranfportation, and four acquitted.

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