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fome present to the charity, retired. The Marquis of Granby ftaid dinner, and fat as prefident in the room of his royal highness. The collection at this feaft amount ed to 13331. 14s. 6d.

The fum of 1761. 10s. was lately paid to the treasurer of the afylum for female orphans, and as much more to the treasurer of the magdalen charity, by Sir John Fielding, purfuant to the generous direction of John Page, Efq; being the profits arifing, in the courfe of the year 1764, from the fale of Ward's medicines, made up according to the receipt book be queathed to that gentleman by Mr. Ward.

At the late fittings of Nifi prius at Guildhall, came to be tried in the court of King's Bench, a caufe between the affignees of a bankrupt, plaintiffs, and a gentleman of Birchin-lane, defendant, upon an action brought to recover back of the defendant a fum of money received by him of the bankrupt, at Gibraltar, pursuant to the fentence of the court there, fubfequent to an act of bankruptcy committed in England, but prior to the iffuing of the commiffion; when, after many learned arguments, the court being of opinion that the defendant could not be affected by receiving the money at Gibraltar, the bankrupt laws not extending to that place, the plaintiffs were non-fuited.

An account of the annual balances of the dead cash and fecurities of the bank of England belonging to the fuitors in the court of chaneery, from the year 1739 to the 23d of February laft, diftinguishing the dead cath from the fecurities in each year, is now before parliament.

It were to be wifhed that all the dead cash and unclaimed property in all the funds, and in all the offices of law, and infurance, were to be appropriated by parliament in aid of the fupplies, and to be made good, when claimed, or determined by law, by a vote of the house,

A lady lately deceased has bequeathed a confiderable fum to pay the creditors of a nephew of hers, who was formerly a grocer in London, and about twenty years ago failed, and paid only 10s. in the pound. A remarkable inftance of compaffion to diftrefs, or at leaft attention to family honour.

The two gold medals, given annually by his grace the duke of Newcastle, chancellor to the univerfity of Cambridge, for the encouragement of claffical learning, were lately adjudged to Mr. Travis of St John's, and Mr. Shepperdfon of Trinity college, bachelors of arts.

Some weeks ago, one William Stanton, day labourer to Mr. Dodfield,of Breedon, near Tewkesbury, Gloucefterfhire, threfhed upwards of fixty bushels of pulse, between fix in the morning and fix in the evening of the fame day, befides taking it down from the mow himself, and, after it was threshed, helping to winnow it; which was all done, and the grain put in bags, before eight o'clock in the fame night; an example of ufeful activity and industry, which we thought it would be a pity not to record

The number of forces on the peace eftablishment of France for the prefent year, is fixed at 93,970 effective men.

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The great law-fuit, depending before the parliament of Paris, between the widow and children, &c. of the unfortunate John Calas, and his profecutors and judges, was decided the 9th inftant, being three years to a day after the condemnation and execution of that unfortunate victim to fanaticism. His widow, his fon, the maid fer vant, and Mr. Lavaiffe, were difcharged of the horrid accufation; the late Mr. Calas, the father, declared innocent; his memory of former good reputation re-eftablithed, with liberty to his family to profecute the judges, called capi. touls, who condemned him; the former procefs to be cancelled, with the fentence of the faid judges; and the arret of his inno cence to be printed, published, and fixed up at all the public courts and places required.

The parliament, besides, refolved, that the prefident and his reporter fhall write to the Chancellor, defiring him to be pleafed to request the king to take the family of Calas into his royal protection, and to forbid the judges of Tholoufe to make ufe for the future of proceedings called Brefs Interdits.

Instead of seven judges, who are obliged to fit at every chamber, there fat more than forty on this occafion. The faid prifoners, who had furrendered at the Concierge rie, were cleared and difcharged out of the court by the great ftairs, thro' a vaft crowd of fpectators, fome fhedding tears, and others lapping their hands for joy; and have been fince vifited by perfons of all ranks and religions, fome of whom expreffed the intereft they

took in their caufe by hand fome prefents.

A committee of twelve eminent practitioners being appointed by the faculty of phyfic at Paris, to examine into the advantages or difadvantages of the practice of inoculating for the fmall-pox, have made their report, that the operation has been and may be attended with fatal effects, and that confequently it ought not to be tolerated. On the other hand, public notice has been given there, that 12,000 livres are depofited with the receiver general of the finances of the generality of the Soiffons, to be given as a reward to any one who thall prove in the fpace of fix years, to reckon from the firft of last month, that any perfon inoculated for the fmallpox has afterwards had it in the natural way. The magiftrates of the Hague, in conjunction with the court of Holland, have forbid any perfons being brought there to be innoculated.

The fpirit of agriculture begins to break out in Spain. A fociety for the improvement of it has been lately established at Corunna, and met, for the first time, on the zoth of January laft.

The whole number of perfons, who died last year at Naples, by the epidemical diftemper, appears, by letters from that place, after all that has been faid of it, to amount at most to thirty thousand fouls.

The antiquities of Pompeii, one of the fubterraneous cities difcovered near Naples, now appear to be very numerous. Many of the paintings, ftatues, and mofaics, are capital. The chambers

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which were painted are preferved. None of them have windows, but receive all their light by the doors, which are very high in proportion to their width.

At Herculaneum two galleries have been discovered, ornamented with paintings A curule chair was found in each gallery, one of them gilt.

At Averfa, 20,000 pieces of gold coin, each of the value of fix carlins, (half a crown) have been dug up. All of them are Saracenical. They were claimed by the fifcal, on behalf of the king.

At Brundifi, a hundred rotoli (a weight of about 33 ounces English) of Roman filver denarii, were lately discovered. These denarii began with Septimus Severus, and come down to Philip, the fon. The king had 75 of the rotoli.

At Pefto, many fmall curious etrufcan vafes have been dug up. Mr. Bruce, a Scotch gentleman, cafued the three bafiliche remaining there to be defigned; and fignor Ricciardelli, who was not long ago in England and Ireland, defigned and painted as much of that city, its walls, towers, and other buildings, as could be reprefented in one picture.

On the 19th inftant, uear half the city of Belgrade was reduced to afhes by fire.

The king of Denmark has lately iffued an ordinance, by which the firft and fecond lieutenants both in the foot and horfe fervice, are prohibited from marrying, unless they can make it appear that they have 150 crowns per annum of their own private fortune, exclufive of

their pay.

The order of peafánts in Swe

den having lately applied to the general diet of that kingdom, for leave to poffefs land, and to render it hereditary to their families, a privilege hitherto reftricted to the nobletfe; their demand was rejected, a few days after, by the chamber of nobles, after very great debates.

The inhabitants of Mexico and other parts of Spanish America, begin to use elephants, feveral of these animals having been landed laft year from Africa at La Vera Cruz.

His majefty has been pleased to order that North America be di-' vided into two diftricts, viz. Northern and Southern by the iver Potomack, and a due Weft line drawn from the head of the main branch of that river, as far as his majefty's dominions extend; and that a furveyor-general be appointed in each, to make general furveys both of the fea coats, and the inland country, in order to facilitate the navigation, and promote the fpeedy fettlement, of the new acquifitions.

The commiflioners appointed to fettle the new ceded islands in the Weft Indies, are first to divide each ifland into parishes and diftri&s. In every parish they are to trace out a town, its ftreets, marketplace, and other public places, and then to parcel out the ground into proper allotments to build on, with a fmall field annexed to each. Where the land is cleared, the purchasers, befides the purchasemoney, are to pay a quit rent of one penny per foot in front of each town lot, and fix-pence for every acre of the field that accompanies it. If the land be uncleared, it is to be granted by the governor,

governor, upon fecurity given to build on it, inclose and fence it, in a reasonable time, and to pay the fame quit-rent.

Certain diftricts of wood-land are to be referved to the crown, as woods, by the damps continually exhaling from them, and by the clouds they attract, are well known to furnish a perpetual fup ply of moisture, and prevent thofe droughts, which frequently happen in other parts of that climate, where fuch precautions have been neglected.

All the neutrals, fo called, who remained at Halifax in Nova Scotia, to the amount of between five and fix hundred fouls, except four or five families, who took the oath of allegiance, were lately embarked for Cape Francois. They had in that province the fame allowance of provifions with the foldiers, in hopes of their becoming fubjects of Great Britain. As they used to supply the town with firing, their abfence is feverely felt by the inhabitants.

Some of thofe people, lately fet tled in the Western parts of the province of South Carolina, have already begun to apply themselves to the breeding of filk-worms, in which they had made fome progrefs. For their greater encouragement, the governor has promifed 500 dollars premium to the first who fhall produce 10lb. weight of raw filk, the product of Carolina.

The following public notice, fuck up on feveral confpicuous places in the little town of New London, in the province of Connecticut, and likewife published in the news-papers there, befides being curious in itself, and fur

nifhing an ufeful leffon, is a proof. that our brethren of North America have fuch just notions of police, in fome refpects at least, as might do honour to the mother country.

"We the fubfcribers, fele& men of New London, the current year have diligently infpected into the affairs and bufinefs of N. N. of the faid New London, and find that through idleness, mifmanagement, and bad husbandry, he is likely to be reduced to want, and his family to be chargeable to the faid town, if speedy care be not taken to prevent it; whereupon faid felect men, by and with the confent of the civil authority in faid town, and purfuant to a law of this colony, do by thefe prefents put and place N. N. an overfeer to faid N. N. to order, direct, and advise him in the management of his affairs and bufinefs, for and until fuch time as faid N. N. by diligence and steady application to business, and prudent management of his affairs, fhall obtain a release herefrom, by the felect men then being. Hereby forbidding all and every perfon tranfacting any affairs relating to traffic with him, without the liberty and confent of faid overfeer, as fuch proceeding will not be valid in law.

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or unfkilfulness, set fire to the damp or foul air in the workings, which lie about one hundred fathoms deep below the furface of the ground. The inflammable vapour fired in an inftant, and was inftantaneously followed by a dreadful explofion, which produced a report at the mouth of the coal pit, as loud as thunder. The poor workmen below were scorched and burat to a frightful degree; though none of them killed. foon as it could poffibly be done, they were drawn up and fent to the infirmary.-On the day following many others went to examine the state of the colliery, feveral of whom were of the upper fort of fervants, called overmen, reputed to be very expert and knowing in their bufinefs; but, through fome mistake, or through accident, the fulminating fteam. took fire a fecond time, more dreadfully, and with greater vehemence, than before. It is faid. that eight men and 17 horses loft their lives by this fecond explosion; feven dead bodies have been found, which were burnt in a most fhocking manner.

Being Maundy Thurfday, the king's bounty was dif- 4th. tributed at Whitehall to 27 poor men and women, being the number of his majefty's age, One of those who received it was a woman aged 106.

Twenty foldiers on board 7th. the Speaker Indiaman having feized the waterman's boat, were intercepted by boats from the men of war at Spithead, who carried them back, where being all put in irons, the reft of the foldiers, in order to release their companions and themselves, formed a confpi

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