Have oftentimes dreaded it too. His Mufe with a fury would glow And forget all the faults of a friend. Hence ev'ry engagement of pow'r, But who, if a stricture is made, Can juftice with certainty name,, Nor once been to pity, or blame! That Churchill had errors we know ;. But he gave it his purfe, or his tear. Too proud, when his fortune he met The name of the fhabbiest friend. Then round the poor fpot where he's laid On feeing ay sung Lady writing of Verfes with a Hole in ber Stocking. Ί O fee a lady of fuch grace, With fo much fenfe, and fuch a face, Oh! if you would with Venus vie, And learn to mend your stocking. EPITAPH on Capt. JONES, who publifked Some mara ellous accounts in bis travels, the truth of all which be thought proper to teftify by affidavit. TREAD doftly, mortals, o'er the bones Of the world's wonder, Capt. Jones! Who told his glorious deeds to many, But never was believ'd by any. Pofterity, let this fuffice, He fwore all's true, yet here he lies! A THE FOREIGN Florence, October 12. TRANSACTIONS. to our dey of Algiers has declared government, that he never had any defign to break the peace with Tuscany, and that his behaviour to the conful of this ftate, was intended on one hand to prevent the abuse that had been made of the imperial flag, by fuffering nations to make use of it that were at war with the Algerines; and on the other, to punish the conful for fome bold fpeeches of his upon the occafion. Certainly no act of hoftility has yet been committed by the Algerines against the subjects of Tuscany. Ratifoon, Oct. 25. The elector of Cologne, as metropolitan of Qfnabrug, has published a protest against the pietenfions of the chapter of that bishoprick to the adminiftration of fpiritual affairs during the minority of the prince bishop, son of the king of Great Britain; and, in confequence, his fe ene highness has nominated to exercife the faid administration on his part, the honorary bishop of Ahaufen, with the title of pontifical-vicar, and the dean and canon Charles de Vogelius, with that of vicar-general; ordering all the inhabitants and fubjects of the bishoprick to acknowledge them as fuch, on pain of ecclefiaftical cenfure, &c. The chapter of Ofnabrug is also in litigation with the king of Great Britain, in his quality of father and guardian of the young prince bishop, concerning the temporal administration and the presentation of the comitial fuffrage in the dyet of the empire. Turin, Nov. 10 The malcontents of Corfica, finding their progrefs in the attack of St. Fiorenzo, did not promise them a fpeedy fuccefs, raised the fiege of that place laft week, and have retired to the interior parts of the country. Petersburgh, Oct. 26. Laft Sunday there was a court at noon, and another at night, when a perfon of great diftin&tion was pleased to relate a very fingular event, the principal circumstances of which are as fol Some pany with his father and mother-in-law, Warfar, Nov. 4. Regulations are making in the primate's court relative to the ceremonials of the coronation, which will be performed on a fcaffold erected in the collegiate church of St. John. It is not the bishop of Cracow who will perform the ceremony of the confecration, but the prince primate, whofe health is entirely re eftablished. A gallery is prepared in the church for the principal nobleffe, and none are to be admitted without tickets; and to prevent confusion, no fervants in livery or common people, will be permitted to enter the church. Konigsberg, November 12. About feven o'clock last night, a terrible fire broke out here in a failmaker's workshop. near the herring wharf, where it immediately deftroyed about 3000 barrels of that fish; and running along the key, confumed the hemp, flax, and other warehouses filled with all forts of merchandize. Afterwards the conflagration fpread over the Kniphorff, the Old Town, and Levenhaupt, where it' burnt with unextinguishable rapidity, re-, ducing to ashes all the houses, hofpita s churches, and publick buildings. A great number of the inhabitants loft their lives,. and the reft were reduced to the utmost mifery and want. WE *111:112 DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, O&. 30.. hear a very remarkable circumftance has difcovered itfelf in the Weft of England: A person in the grocery business,` upwards of twenty years fince, purchafed a hogshead of currants, upon opening of which he difcovered a great quantity of money, fuppofed to amount to 10,000l. from which lucky circumftance he retired from bufinefs, and lived elegantly. The affair was lately difcovered by a friend of his, with whom he has had fome words. This morning were dispatched to Harwich, to be forwarded to Poland, 300 medals in gold, and 1500 in filver, done by Mr. Pingo: the former for presents to the nobility, at the king's coronation there; the latter to be distributed among the populace. On the obverfe: the king's head in profile, Legend. STANISLAVS AVGVSTVS D. G. REX POLONIÆ. M. D. LITH. i. e. Stanislaus Auguflus, by the grace of God, king of Poland, Great Duke of Lithuania. In very small characters, on the edge of the king's buft, T. PINGO F. On the reverse, a crown with rays of glory round it. Legend. HANC IVSSIT FOR TVNA MERERI. This fortune willed to be the refult of merit. Exergue. El. vna voce vii Sept. coron, xxv. Nov. MDCCLXIV, Elected with one voice 7 September, crowned 25 November, 1764. To the honour of our country, Mr. Pingo is an English artist. WEDNESDAY, Оâ. 31. Bath, O. 29 This day the corporation of this city met at their Guildhall, and unanimously voted, that the town-clerk fhould wait on the right bon. lord chief juftice Pratt, their worthy recorder, with the following letter. To the Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Pratt. "We the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city of Bath, beg leave to prefent our grateful acknowledgments of your upright and steady conduct on trying occafions in that high office, which, by tis majefty's goodness to his people, you now fuftain. And the near connection we have the honour of bearing with you, Sir, as a member of our corporation, not fuffering us to be any longer filent, we, with great fincerity and refpect, join the public voice, teftifying to you our thanks; and that a monument may remain amongst ourselves of our perfonal and particular respect andjust attention to your character and con. duct, defire you would permit us to afk you to fit for your picture, as a perpetual memorial of what ought never to be forgot by us or our pofterity, whilft the fpirit of law and liberty remains in any part of this free and independent kingdom." To which his lordship foon after returned the following answer: To Lewis Clutte:buck, Efq; Town-Clerk, "SIR, 08. 26, 1764. "My connection with the city of Bath makes me receive the honour of this compliment with particular fatisfaction, and I feel a moft fenfible pleasure in finding that my conduct has been approved by that corporation. I hope I have done my duty; I have endeavoured to the utmost of my abi lities to administer justice according to the laws of this kingdom, to which I am bound by all the ties of oaths and confcience, as well as by thofe of allegiance and gratitude to the best of sovereigns: the law of the land fhall always be, at it ought, my only guide and master, from which I have learnt that the prerogative of the crown, and the liberty of the fubje&t, spring from one parent root, the good of the people, and are so closely knit together, that they are conftitutionally infeparable. I beg the favour of you to reprefent to the corporation how Arongly I feel the marks of regard which they are pleased to exprefs for me in their unanimous refolution ; and I intreat you to convey to them my best acknowledgments for the notice whereby they have fo obligingly distinguished Your moft obedient humble fervant, THURSDAY, Nov. 1. On Thursday laft a tinker and his trull were apprehended near the city of Gloucefter, for defrauding a farmer's wife at Henley, near Upton upon Severn, of a fum of money and fundry wearing apparel; the circumstances of this notorious impofition were as follow: the tinker's trull came to the farmer's houfe to beg a little drink, and, with a fignificant fare, told the man's wife wife that he was born to fee good days, and, if he would appoint a time when her husband and children were from home, the would tell her fortune. The Gilly woman accordingly fixed two o'clock, when the forceress appeared, and upon coming into the house declared there was hidden treafure, both gold and filver, which he would bring to light But then, fays the, what money have you got, for I must have gold to fetch gold, and filver alone can produce filver." The dupe accordingly brought out all the money fhe was poffeffed of, about feven guineas in gold, a quarter-guinea, and fome filver. "There, fays the enchantress, as you are a poor woman, I return you the quarter-guinea and half the filver. Now, continued the, I will Air up the planets, and on Friday next, in such a 'cellar, fhall you find the hidden treasure, Was you ever at the facrament?" added the beldame: to which the terrified fimpleton replied in the affirmative. "Why then, says she, you must take your facramental oath never to divulge this fecret; for, fhould it be known, i cannot ftir up the planets, and you will lofe your treafure, and be damned eternally." After this the took the woman into the cellar, and made her kneel down and repeat the Lord's Prayer. The poor wretch then, frightened out of her wits, gave to the itinerant every thing fine desired, gowns, caps, &c. as much as he could carry off. When the farmer returned he found fomething extraordinary bad happened, and his wife coming a little to her fenfes difclofed the whole affair; upon which the tinker and his lady were porfued, and taken at an alehouse near this city. Thefe itinerants have a child with them, by whose means it is hoped a moft important difcovery will be made, which it is not thought advifeable to mention at prefent. FRIDAY, Nov. 2. On Wednesday laft, by order of a commitree from the fociety for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, was tried the machine for pulling up trees by the roots, in a field behind Peterboro' houfe, near Parfon's Green; at which were prefent, his royal highness the duke of York, the princes William and Henry, and many others of the nobility and gentry; when the firft tree was drawn up very eaBly; but the fecond, being somewhat larger, the machine could not force it up: upon which the gentlemen prefent ordered the machine to be taken to Mr. Coleman's wood-yard, where it was fift made, in order to make fome improvements; when, it is imagined, it will anfwer the useful purpose it was firft intended for. MONDAY, Nov. 5. The plan of a new town in the inland of Minorca is lately brought over, which is to be called George Town, in honour of his royal highnefs the prince of Wales. There is a good harbour, and the fituation is well adapted for trade. By recent letters from the Grenadoes, there is advice, that 43 fugar works have been erected in that island by the British fubjects fince the peace. Explanation of the head piece of the Stationers Almanack for the year 1765. Britannia, with juftice by her fide, is prefenting the crown and fceptre to King George the Fift, who is introduced by religious and civil Liberty, and followed by Peace and Plenty. Superftition and Tyranny are flying away at his approach. The two genii on the foreground are showing, one his right by defcent, the other the act of fettlement. The figure of Mercury employed, shows the flourishing state of commerce, and in the other that of the arts and sciences. Workfworth, in Derbyfoire, Oct. 25. There has been a tumult in the lower parts of this county, about Newell on Trent, and Burton, occafioned by fome colliers, &c. refufing to pay 8s. 4d. per bushel for wheat. It had been fold for that money in the market, which they thought unreasonable, as it took fo much of their money for bread only. So they enquired out both buyer and feller, brought them face to face, and obliged the feller to return 3s. 4d, of the money per bufhel, and cleared the market of all the wheat at 55. per bushel, which they faid was the London price; and if that would not do, they would have fowed it all in the market-place. pocket in the crowd, of his handkerchief; and yesterday he was committed by the lord mayor to the Poultry Compter. Yesterday a man was taken into custody, on the information of a lad, on suspicion of murdering a woman about feven months ago, and burying her body in the ruins near Chick Lane; for which the conftables have employed men to dig. This is the fame fellow who cut off three of his fingers fome time fince in New-Prifon, in order that he might not be fent to fea. Yesterday the report was made to his majefty in council of the malefactors under fentence of death in Newgate; when David Spence and John Carlow, for ftealing woollen cloth, &c. from the warehouse of Meff. Crane, fcarlet dyers, at Old Ford, were ordered for execution on Wednesday next. Thomas Fletcher, for ftealing four guineas out of the house of Mr. Luke Paine, was refpited during his majefty's plea fure, FRIDAY, Nov. 9. At Blixton, near Plimpton, in Devonhire, yesterday fe'nnight a farmer's wife went to pay her tythes; and having two children, the eldeft not above four years old, the locked them out, that they might do no mifchief in the houfe; but they be ing cold, got fome fire from a neighbour's houfe, and fet fome ftiaw on fire near a barn door, which foon communicated itself to the barn, and got to fuch a head before difcovered, that it destroyed the barn, with fome corn, and eight fat hogs that were in a ftye adjoining." SATURDAY, Nov. 10. A cheat, fuppofed to be a Dutchman, has by various fratagems obtained great quantities of goods from divers tradefmen; and on Tuesday laft having purchased of a watch-maker in St. Anne's, seventy pounds worth of watches, tried many fchemes to get them in his poffeffion without money, but in vain; at last he took the watchmaker to his lodgings in York Buildings, and, by frivolous excufes, prevailed on bim to ftay till after it was dark, and then going into a back room, called the watch. maker after him, defiring his affiftance in drawing a bill, who putting down his parcel of watches upon the table, and following the harper, he prefently took an opportunity to turn round and lock the tradefman in the room, then feized the parcel, and run out of the house with it, and has not fince been heard of, Oxford, Nov. 10. Laft Tuesday morning, about a quarter past four o'clock, a flight but very alarming shock of an earthquake was felt here; which, however, providentially did very little, if any damage, to either the public or private buildings; nothing of that kind having come to our knowledge, except that at a brewhoufe in Brewer's Lane, where a part of the building had before given way a little, the breach was fomewhat enlarged. And as the fhock happened fo early in the morning, many who enjoyed found fleep did not experience its effect; thofe neverthelefs who happened to be awake, or were disturbed from their fleep by the concufion, (many of whom quitted their beds) give the following accounts: Some were alarmed by a fudden fhock which toffed them upwards in their beds; others found rather a reverberating agitation, attended with a rumbling noife, as if fomething had fallen upon the floors; and in the bedchambers of colleges, as well as in other ftone built structures, the doors bounded by the preffore of the buildings as if they had been rushed against, some of which are faid to have fprung open; and likewife that there were dwelling houfes fo much agitated that the bells rang in them. MONDAY, Nov. 12. The following odd accident happened on Friday night: A pawnbroker in the Minories having been to fee the lord-mayor's show, had his filver watch picked out of his pocket in the crowd; and the fame evening, about eight o'clock, a fellow came into his shop to pawn a watch, which very luckily happened to be his own; but he was not able to feize the thief, who either knew him again, or having fome fufpicion from the pawnbroker's apparent surprize, made off directly. TUESDAY, Nov. 13. Colchester, Nov. 8. On Tuesday the 23d ult. two men on horfeback came to the fhop of Mr. Lewin, of Foot-End, in the parish of Great Waltham, Blacksmith, and asked if he had not a place where he could fafely put a little parcel for them; and on anfwering in the affirmative, they begged fome fmall beer, and difmounting immediately, followed him into the houfe, and afked him, if he knew any body that would lend them eight guineas and a half, or whether he would be fo kind, and they would depofit in his hands, by way of fecurity, a rich laced ftomacher, apron, and fore |