them; the ground in many places was forced up as with a plow, in others many furprizing apertures were made in the earth, whieh feemed to be of an aftonishing depth, The lightning penetrated into one house in particular, tore up the pavement, and many of the pieces hit the dwellers on the legs and fhoulders, but, thro' the mercy of God, not one in the town received any capital damage.

A few days fince a gentlewoman, near Leicester-fields, was fuddenly taken ill; and fending for a nurse, she was likewife taken ill after the fame manner the next day, when she went home and died foon after, not having proper care taken, but the gentlewoman recovered. Upon enquiry, this accident was found to be occafioned by using a copper fauce pan, from which the tinning was worn off.

The empress queen has fold to a gentleman of Strafbourg, the town and lordship of Riechfhoffen in the Lower Alface, being the laft patrimonial estate she poffeffed in France.

Berlin, July 14. A young wo. man, aged 23, of a brown complexion, and ftrong features, who hath ferved in our troops four years with honour, hath been discovered in prince Henry's camp. Her name is Anne Sophia Detzleffin, born at Treptow on the Rega. In 1757 fhe left her father's houfe, and came to Colberg, where the enlifted in the militia, and ferved fix months. She afterwards enlifted in prince Frederick's regiment of cuirafliers, in which she served two years. In a fkirmish near Bamberg, fhe was wounded in her right arm with a fabre, She afterwards fought in

the battle of Kunnersdorff. Since that time, the corps the belonged to returning to Saxony, the fell dangerously ill there, and was fent to the hofpital at Meiffen. After her recovery, having no opportunity to rejoin her regiment, the enlisted in a battalion of grenadiers which suffered much in the actions at Strehlen and Torgau. In the laft of those battles, the received two wounds in the head; was made prifoner, and fent to the hofpital at Dresden. When the recovered a little, the found means to escape out of the hofpital, and paffed, without being difcovered, thro' the Auftrian pofts, but inftead of going to join her corps, fhe enlifted with colonel Colignon, who fent her to the regiment of Le Noble's volunteers, in which the ferved two months. One of her comrades accufing her (but without foundation) of stealing from him 14d. fterling, a fubaltern put her under arreft: this fhe could not digeft, and fending for her lieutenant, acquainted him with her fex, and told him, that, during four years fervice, he had never been put under an arreft, nor received a blow for neglect of duty, that he could not put up with this last indignity and would serve no longer,

The war that has fo long fubfifted between the Geneofe government and the maleçontents of Corfica, is approaching faft towards a conclufion. The Genoefe, no longer in a capacity to maintain the war, have publifhed a manifefto, by which they offer a general pardon to the revolters, upon terms of fubmiffion; but this has been fo far from producing the defired effect, that it has infpired the

male

malecontent's with fresh courage, who upon this occafion furrounded the house of the Sieur Martinetti, colonel in the fervice of the republic, who had difperfed money very freely among the inhabitants of Finmorbo, allowing the poorer fort 15 fols a day, forced the Genoefe, mediators to fly for fhelter to the fortified towns, feized fome of their retinue, they hanged five in terrorem, besides three failors who were hardy enough to bring over an executioner from Genoa, and hanged in effigy the officer who proclaimed the republic's propofal. General Paoli, who has fo long and fo bravely fought for the liberty of his countrymen, has been requefted by his officers not to expofe his perfon any more to the dangers of war, and the people out of their zeal to recover their independency, have fubfcribed a 13th of their income towards defraying the expences of the war. Two galliots have been built in order to cruife upon the Genoefe merchant ships, from the apprehenfions of which, fome of the warieft among the Genoefe fenators have propofed to free the ftate by difpofing of all their right and intereft in the ifland of Corfica to a neighbouring prince.

A fheep's head woman, near the Seven dials, was lately delivered of two children, two days after her delivery, he went to her bufinefs.

And a jewefs in Agate's paffage, Houndfditch of two children, and in two hours after, of two more.

Died lately. At New Hamp fhire in New Englaud, the widow Sarah Rawlins, who was married at 19 years of age, and lived with her first husband 27 years; in which time fhe had 14 children: the alfo lived 27 years with her laft huf

band. All her children lived to have children of their own, and fome of them even grandchildren. The number of her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, at her decease, amounted to 239, of whom 182 are now living.

John Newell, Efq; at Michaels ftown, Ireland, aged 127, grandfon to old Parr, who died at the age of 152.

AUGUST.

Several houfes, &c. were

confumed by fire, at Fin- 3d. cham, in Norfolk.

As a ferjeant was lately exercif ing fome of the foldiers on board one of the transports at Portsmouth, he obferved one of them, who went by the name of Paul Daniel had a more prominent cheft than ordinary. After the firings were over, he fent for the perfon to the cabbin, when telling his fufpicions, that he was a woman, and infifting upon fearching him, after fome evafions, the foldier confeffed her fex. The account fhe gave of herfelf was, that having a husband whom the dearly loved, and who after spending a plentiful fortune, by which means they were both reduced to beggary, inlifted in a marching regiment, and had been in Germany two years: having not heard from him in all that time, he was determined to range the world in fearch of him; and being informed that we were fending more troops over, he came to a refolution of entering as a foldier, and was now inconioiable that the difcovery of her fex should prevent her defign.

Plymouth, July 31. By an an nual colom, the right worth pfuf the mayor, many of the corpora

tion, and feveral others, rode out this day to the Head Ware, from whence this town is fupplied with water, brought by a current of almost twenty miles, by the ever memorable Sir Francis Drake, who in the year 1581, was an inhabitant here, and mayor of the town, and as tradition has it, in the year 1590, when the water ran before his own door, dipt his fearlet gown therein, for joy that he had obtained his defired end.

The following cargoes of fix fhips, under the convoy of the Dutch man of war the Loo, which arrived the 18th of July, in the Texel, from Curacoa, will ferve to fhew what quantities of French property are imported in Dutch bot toms, viz. 537 bales of cocoa, 195 ferons ditto, 5179 bales of coffee, 1532 hogfheads of fugar, 4365 flicks of logwood, 12540 hides, 373 bales of Porto Rico tabacco, &c.

The honourable Francis Fauquier, deputy governor of his majesty's province of Virginia, has procured a very public-fpirited law to be paffed, in the affembly of that colony, for distributing annually the fum of one thousand pounds in the way of premium for promoting the principal commodities that province is capable bf raifing, and which hitherto have been scarce attempted, for want of fuch an immediate encouragement as by this law is fecured to the induftrious and ingenious planter.

Annapolis in Maryland, April 16. On Tuesday the 7th inflant, at the plantation of Mr. John Booth, in St. Mary's county, Mr. Booth having juft left home, in order to fettle accounts with the fheriff, a negroe man, whom he had bought laft fummer, attacked a negroe VOL, IV.

wench, and beat her head to pieces with a maul, and would have killed a negroe boy, but he faved himfelf by running; when he had killed the negroe woman, he went into the house and murdered his miftrefs beating her head to pieces, and with an axe fplit the head of a little boy, about three years old, his mafter's fon, as he lay fleeping in bed. He immediately went away, and is fuppofed to have put an end to his own wretched life, Mrs. Booth, and the negroe wench, were both advanced in their pregnancy.

Letters from Dominico dated June 8th, 1761, advife, that the cafh and goods found in the town of Roseau only, were valued to a great amount, and were lodged in the warehoufes, under different locks, by the land and fea officers, till they fhall receive inftru&tions from England how to act therein. The foldier and failors availed themfelves of the plunder; but that was chiefly confined to a little cafh, cloaths, and provisions of all kinds.

A moft violent form of thun

der and lightning, attended with 5th hail, did incredible damage to the corn in the neighbourhood of Benfield in Northamtonshire. Many of the hail ftones, or rather pieces of ice, weighed a pound each, and broke the windows wherever they fell.

Extract of a letter from Paris, July 24. "The king came on Tuesday to the parliament, where the princes of the blood, and the peers of the kingdom were affembied by his orders, and his majefty there held a bed of justice. He declared on this occafion the neceffity of continuing ftill for two years (to the end of 1763) the double capitation and the third twentieth; af

ter which the chancellor propofed in the king's name, the borrowing of twenty seven millions upon the farm of leather, at an annual inte. reft of 3 per cent. and the capital to be reimbursed at the end of nine years. The votes being afterwards collected, and found unanimous, the two edicts in queftion, and declaration of the king, were regiftered, with the clause, " The king holding his bed of juftice." All being finished, his majefty rofe, and fet out on his return to the caftle of Muette. On leaving the city, he was faluted by difcharges of the cannon of the Baftile and the royal hospital of invalids.”

The above edict for prolonging the poll-tax for two years, fufficiently proves the diftrefs of that kingdom, fince it was fuch, that the parliament, notwithstanding their zeal for the king's fervice, refused to register it; fo that his majefty was obliged to come in perfon to the parliament-houfe, to cause it to be registered before him. To foften the minds of the people, the preamble of this edict was in thefe plaufible words.

"Louis, &c. &c. We have hitherto fupported a war rendered indifpenfible by juftice and honour: animated by a fincere defire to procure our fubjects a folid and lafting peace; we have agreed with the belligerent powers on a congrefs, the fuccefs of which cannot be doubtful, if each of them would therein difcufs their interefts with that fpirit of equity and moderation, of which our plenipotentiaries will fet an example: but the greater foundation there is for our hopes, the more we are obliged to put ourfelves in a condition to refift our

enemies, that at the fame time we

are occupied about a peace, they may know, that if they reject it, we are always fure of finding in the love, as well as courage of our fubjects, new resources to oppofe their efforts.

"The prorogation for two years of tax, which is attended with almoft no expence in collecting, being the most natural method of fecuring to us those resources we have the more readily adopted it, &c."

A letter from Ancona gives the following tragical account: there was in the neighbourhood of Bagni, the capital of Boínia, three convents of the brothers of Minor-obfervantins of the order of St. Francis; fome Greek priests, jealous of thefe religious, or poffeffed with a fiery zeal, endeavoured to perfuade them to prefer the communion of the fchifmatic patriarch of Conftantinople to that of the holy father, but all their attempts proved vain : then, in their fury at this difappointment, they impaled a guardian of the three convents, beheaded a bishop of that order, and twentyfive religious, and fet fire to the most confiderable of their cloysters. The guardian martyr furvived three days, and was a witnefs to the fufferings of his twenty-fix brethren, exhorting them to the laft to perfe vere to death. This account is confirmed by letters from Dalmatia.

Letters from Coningsberg bring a confirmation of the hemp ware houfes being confumed by fire, on the 10th paft, by which 400,000 pood of hemp, amounting in the whole to between 6 and thousand tons, was destroyed. A pood is about 36 lb. English.

A navigation being compleated from Lynn to North- 7th.

ampton,