fore parts of a waistcoat, worth fixty guineas, which were bespoke for a lord and lady to appear in before his majefty. The poor man, dazzled with the fight of fuch fine thinks, gave them eight guineas and a half, and carefully locked up the gold clothes. The things fince appear to be only tinfel, and fcarce worth nine fhillings. Dover, Nov. II. Yesterday Humphry Cotes, Efq; landed at this place from France, and brought with him the corpfe of the late celebrated Mr. Churchill, lately fo famous for his poetical and fatyrical works. Mr. Cotes, after seeing the body landed, and giving proper directions about it, fet out poft for London. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14. Saturday laft was exhibited at a mathematical instrument maker's behind St. Cle ment's church, in prefence of two lords of the Admiralty, and feveral members of the Royal Society, the trial of a new-invented hydrostatic machine, for extracting water out of fhips, by the preffure of the air and centrifugal force; which their lordships and all prefent highly approved. The laft trial is to be made on board a fixty gun ship now fitting out at Woolwich, previ ous to its being introduced into practice in the royal navy. THURSDAY, Nov. 15. Yesterday Daniel Spence and John Car. low were executed at Tyburn, for stealing out of the warehouse of Meff. Crane, fear let dyer, at Old Ford, a quantity of cloth, &c. bouring river, fide. In a few weeks their fitckle turned quite yellow, and fo blunt that it could cut none, which furprised the little family. The parfon getting notice of this, called for a fight of the fickle; and having feen in the public papers an account of a halfpenny being turned into gold by the juice of a certain herb, fent the fickle to Mr. Slater, goldfmith at Bishopfgate, to be proved. What is still more remarkable, is, that the teeth of the family are likewife turned quite yellow, and believed to be turned to the fame metal. The Dallam Tower, Freerson, from Dublin to Chefter, with upwards of 70 patien gers on board, was loft between Skerries and Holyhead, and all but one man pe rished, On Thursday the will of the late right hon. Sir Thomas Clarke, mafter of the rolls, was opened, in which are the following legacies, viz. the earl of Macclesfield refiduary legatee. To St. Luke's Hospital 30,0col To Mr. Seddon, one of his executors, 1000l. To Mr. Turner, his train-bearer, 400l. And to each of his other fervants, 401. A few days ago Mrs. Bees, of PeterAtreet, Wapping, was delivered of a child and the next day of three more. Three of them died foon after they were born; Mrs. Bees and the other child are well. A few days fince died at Beauchamp St. Paul's, in Effex, Mr. Edward Jay, dealer in calves, remarkable for being no more joints at his knees, and was entirely ftraight than three feet and a half high, had no to the hip bone; he had but one arm and hand, with which he could make a pen; and buckle and unbuckle his fhoes without St. James's, Nov. 17. The king has been pleafed to grant unto his dearly be loved brother prince William Henry, and to the heirs male of his royal highness, the dignities of a duke of the kingdom of Great Britain, and of earl of the kingdom of Ireland, by the names, stiles, and tities, of duke of Glocester and of Edinburgh, in the faid kingdom of Great Britain; and of earl of Connaught, in the faid kingdom of 1:eland. From Rochdale, in Lancashire, we have the following account: One Jane Herdman, a poor widow woman near that place, kept a cow, on whofe milk herself, her fon, and daughter mostly subfifted; but not having fufficient pasturage, they went once a day to cut grafs for her on a neigh-in the interim her fifter brought her a ba On Sunday morning Mrs. Jennings, wife of Mr. Jennings, fword hilt-maker, in Oxford Road, dreffing her child, unwarily put three blanket pins into her mouth; fon fon of tea, which Mrs. Jennings drinking room, who has been bed ridden these fix WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21. Yefterday came on before the right hon. THURSDAY, Nov. 22. FRIDAY, Nov. 23. On Tuesday last at half past fix at night, two men, one named F----- and the other B-, followed by four others, came into Mr. Eddowes's house in Scotland Yard, Whitehall, faying, that they had orders from L to feek there for, arreft, or take, alive or dead, (as F himself faid) the chevalier D'Eon: they came up years. Never was infult carried to fuch crew, F is an officer, B---- a fervant to ----, a king's meffenger: B---- was the person who ordered the cfficer to break chamber to fearch there for the chevalier open the door of Mr. Eddowes's bedD'Eon. A foldier was in the lord alme ner's office when the officer broke open the door, and remained at the time they were in the house; there were many other foidiers at Mr. Eddowes's door. On Wednesday night the ballot for che fing chairmen of the feveral committees of fuing, was ended; when the following the Society of Arts, &c. for the year engentlemen were elected ; Accempts. John Grove, Efq; John Fo Correspondence. Mr. Francis Wifhaw, John Polite Arts. John Barnard, Efq; Matthew Agriculture. Dr. Parfons; Henry Dod- Manufactures. Mr. Washington; Jonas Mchanics. Mr. Yeoman; Mr. Wyat. Bridgen, Efq; SATURDAY, Nov. 24. royal highness Prince William-Henry duke is as follows: Treasurer, Edward Le Grand, Efq; Grooms of the bed-chamber, col. Clinton and col. Ligonier. Equerries, Captain Cox and captain Blackwood. Secretary, Rev. Mr. Duval. nefs William duke of Glocefter, is now A fine new equipage, for his royal highmaking ready; and we hear his royal highday of Leicester House, which is now ftnefs and family are to take poffeffion this ting up, where he is to refide for the future. Prince Henry continues in the fame houfs where their royal highneffes formerly refided, in Leicester Fields. Laft Friday night the officers of the cufbaggage coming from foreign parts) difco tom houfe at Dover, (who vifit pafforgers vered in the fides of a trunk a conveniency, ing on Sunday next, the ad of Dec. for one The ladies to wear black filk or velvet, BIRTH S. Lady of the hon. Lucius Ferdinand Cary, of a daughter. Lady of George Richard Carter, Efq. of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Humphrey Waldon, Efq. to Mifs Sarah Cox. Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in the workshop belonging to Mr. Laiden, a fnuff maker, the back of Alderfgate ftrret, which communicating itself to a timber-yard adjoining, became dreadful and alarming, and burnt with unparalleled rapidity for near seven hours, in which time it confumed Cooks hall, Mr. Hatton's house and the timber yard, (great part of which he had laid in within the laft fortnight) the back part of feveral other houles, fheds, ftables, &c. And on Sun-, day night, about feven o'clock, the fire. burst out again with great violence, but by the engines playing, was prevented from communicating itself to a remaining pile of timber in Mr. Hatton's yard. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 28. Lord Chamberlain's Office, Nov. 27. " Rev. Mr. Loftie to Mifs Billington. Mr. James DEATH S. Right hon. earl Paulett, vifcount Hinton, &c. Right hon. lord Craven. Right hon. Sir. T. Clarke, knt. Master of the Rolls. Lady Lawfon. Lt. gen. Crawford. The lady of Alexander Sheafe, Esq. George Nath, Efq. Samuel Beverley, Efq. The. Serjeant, Efq. Thomas Blunt, Efq. Francis Bulier, Efq, member of parliament for West Loo, in Cornwall. Thomas Sydenham, Efq. Wm. Staniey, Efq. Mifs Anne Hamilton, niece to lord Abercorn. George. Sander Sanderfon, Efq. Redmond Pearfon, Efq. John Woodley, Efq. James Ennis, Efq. Jofeph Mofeley, Efq. Peter Craven, Esq. Dr. Merrick. Wm. Gore, Efq. Francis Codrington, Efq. Captain Jones. John Spriggs, Efq. Sir John Wynne. Walter Crawford, Efq. Thomas Symes, Efq. Jofeph Rudge, at Newent, Gloucestershire, aged 107. He retained all his faculties, &c. till a few hours before his death. Ambrofe Owen, Efq. G. Stedman, Efq, At Duleck, in the county of Meath, Owen Carollan, labourer, aged 127. He had fix fingers on each hand, and fix toes on each foot; he was never blooded, and an en ire Aranger to fickness. Rev. Mr. Tho. Barford. Rev. Mr. Pemberton, Nehemiah Brooke, Efq. James M'Culloch, Efq. Ulfter king at arms in Ireland. Lady Graham. Sir Philip Touchet Chetwode, bart. John Amersham, Efq. Richard Crane,, Efq. Rev. Mr. Jonathan Leigh. Daniel Booth, Efq. Jofiah Bennell. Efq. Charles Palmer, Efq. Dr. Bracken." PROMOTIONS. Major-general Gage, commander in chief of his majesty's forces in North Ame rica. Hugh lord Warkworth, one of his majefty's aids de-camp. Lady Mary Churchill, houfekeeper at Windfor caftle. Mifs Floyd, houfekeeper at Kensington palace. Duncan Steward, Efq. collector of the cuf toms at New London, in New England. Dr. Baylies phyfician to the Middlesex hofpital. Dr. Barnardiston, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Jofiah Hardy, Efq. his majefty's cenful at Cadiz and Fort St. Mary, Dr. Marriot, advocate-genéral to the ecclefiaftical court. Rev. Mr. Wation, profeffor of chemistry at Cambridge. Mr. H. Summers, clerk to the ironmongers company. Dr. Richardfon, physician to the London Hofpital. Capt. Graves, capt. of his majesty's fhip the Temeraire. Capt. Mafferes, capt. of a troop in the horse guards. George Pigot, Efq., created a Baronet. Wm. Howe, Efq. col. of the 46th reg. of foot. Ralph Burton, Efq. col. of the 3d reg. of foot. James Steuart, Efq. ferjeant painter to his majefty. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Geo. Woodward, B. L. rector of Eaft Hendred in Berkshire. Rev. N. Holland, M. A. rector of Stifferd in Weftmore land. Rev. Mr. Hele, prebend of the cathedral at Wells. Rev. Mr. Fred. Wollakon, rector of Wolverstone in Suffolk. Rev. Thomas Carthew, rector of Little Bealings in Suffolk. Rev. Edmund Wil 1 liamson, M. A. rector of Millbrook in Bedfordshire. Rev. Brag Blagden, rector of Slidon, with the rectory of Binsteid in Suffex. Rev. Mr. Stinton, rector of Martin Hoe in Devonshire. Rev. Philip Cocks, vicar of Stoke Blifs in Suffex. Rev. Mr. Mapletoft, reader and schoolmaster of Bridewell. Rev. Mr. Flower, lecturer of St. Martin's Ludgate. Rev. Mr. Goodfon, vic. of Beafeley in Leicestershire. Rev. Mr. Moore, ordinary of Newgate. BANKRUPTS. Edmund Powdich, of Burnham Marke in the county of Norfolk, linen-draper, mercer, and shopkeeper. Jofeph Maneffy, late of Liverpoole, Lancashire, merchant, Ifaac Henriques Samuda, of Lemon-street, Goodman's Fields, London, merchant. Aaron Brandon and Samuel Cortiffos, of New London Street, Crutched Friars, London, merchants, and copartners. Robert Hufband, now or late of Oxford Road, Middlefex, leather breeches-maker and glɔver. John Hill, of the parish of WeftHam in Effex, brewer. William Evans, now or late of St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlefex, victualler." Charles Tapping, of Leadenhall-ftreet, London, feedsman. Thomas Lewis, late of Liverpoole, Lancafhire, bread baker. Wm. Murvell, of the Strand, Middlesex, haberdasher. John Henry Bartels, late of St. Martin's Lane, Cannon-street, London, merchant, Alexander Mafter, of Smithfield, London, and Edward Raby, of the Borough of Southwark, Surry, ironmongers and copartners. John Scanlan, late of Dean-fireet, Soho, Middlefex. John Ellis, late of the parish of St. Margaret, Weftminfler, Middlefex, victualler. Thomas Collins the younger, of the parish of St. Nicholas Warwick, in Warwickshire, Skinner. Richard Harding, late of Threadneedle-ftreet, London, virtner. John Stewards, of Knightsbridge, Middlefex, brewer. James Appleton, of Frodsham, Cheshire, dealer. Wm. Champlain, of the parish of St. John, Wapping, Middlesex, victualler. Joel Harry, late of Liverpoole, Lancashire, hopkeeper. Wm. Walton, of Savage- Gardens, London, cornfactor. James Murray, of Plymouth, Devonshire, linen-draper. Elizabeth Vinter, of the town of Huntingdon, innholder. Wm. Overend, of Bristol, merchant. Mark Legg, of the parish of Eaft Garfton, Berkfhire, dealer. Wm Woodham, of the Strand, in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, Middlefex. ftationer, and music paper ruler: John Heath the younger, of the county of Gloucester innholder. Some Account of the LIFE of the Learned Mr. GEORGE PSALMANAZAR. F EW of our readers, we believe, will be difpleafed with the following anecdotes concerning the learned Mr. George Pfalmanazar, fo famous for projecting, and long fupporting the moft extraordinary fallacy that the prefent age has exhibited. His true ftory, it is well remembered, became, in vain, the grand defideratum, after his fictitious one had excited a curiofity and divifions among the learned, equal to what have been experienced in the cafe of a Canning or a Ghost among the vulgar, with this additional circumftance alfo, that he lived to acknowledge the fraud, and, during a long feries of years, moft heartily to repent of the advantages he once maintained over the ftrange credulity of his numerous friends.-From his own memoirs (written in order to be published, when the author December, 1764. fhould be far removed from the influence of any finifter motives to deviate from the truth) we learn the following particulars. Mr. Pfalmanazar was undoubtedly a Frenchman born. He had his edu cation partly in a free-fchool, taught by two Francifcan monks, and in a college of jefuits in an archiepifcopal city, the name of which, as alfo thofe of his birth-place and of his parents, remain yet inviolable fecrets. Upon leaving the college, he was recommended as a tutor to young gentlemen; but foon fell into a mean rambling kind of life, that produced him plenty of difappointments and misfortunes. The first pretence he took up with was, that of being a fufferer for religion, and procured a certificate that he was of Irish extract, had left the country for the fake of the Roman catholick religion, and was going on a pilgrimage to Rome. 4 K It was necef |