quifite for the men to fire in their own defence, upon which the failors thought proper to retire. But the populace on recovering from their fright, finding that, of four perfons killed on the occafion, two were innocent fpectators, renewed the attack in fo defperate a manner, that the foldiers were obliged to fend for a new reinforcement, and remain on the fpot till next morning, when all was quiet.

An extraordinary luminous appearance was obferved in Scotland about feven at night. It proceeded with great velocity from N. to S. and with fuch fplendor, as to illuminate the whole country equally as in broad day. Such another phenomenon was obferved in France.

A man was robbed and barbaroufly murdered by ruffians, who attacked him in the road to Ratcliff Crofs. Finding but twopence half-penny in his pocket, they firft broke one of his arms, then tied a great ftone about his neck, and threw him into a ditch, having first fhot at, and mangled his face in a molt horrid manner. The unhappy man had, notwithftanding, fcrambled out of the ditch into the road, but expired foon after he was found. And ten days after another man was found murdered in the Mile-endroad.

At St. Neot's in Hunting19th. donfhire, at 45 minutes paft

ing its course towards the earth; its motion continued about twentyfix feconds, and fell about two miles off Bedford, as confirmed by two gentlemen who were returning from Bedford to St. Neot's, and were terribly alarmed by the fudden light, and the ball falling near them, but providentially neither of them received any hurt.

A fhovel-mouthed or cow-bellied fhark, peculiar to the coaft of Africa, was lately killed by fome fishermen on the coaft of Ireland. Its length was five feet; its breadth four. It had three rows of teeth, paps under its fins; and its maw could be feen diftinctly into three feet deep, and big enough to hold

a man.

21ft.

A curious halo appeared round the moon, its semidiameter, from the lower limb of the planet, to the oppofite arch of the phenomenon, was very near twenty-one degrees and a half. The halo was exceedingly bright and lafted from half pait ten, till within one minute of eleven, when it was entirely diffipated.

Ended the feffions at the Old Bailey, when one for murder, feven for divers burglaries and robberies, two for perfonating feamen in order to receive their wages, and one for forgery, received fentence of death, which the murderer, three of the robbers, the forgerer, and one of thofe caft for perfonating feamen, accordingly

fuffered. One was fentenced for tranfportation for 14 years, 24 for 7 years, two to be branded, and one to be whipped.

Lisbon, O&. 5. I have the fatisfaction to acquaint your lordfhip, that his royal highnefs the duke of York arrived here in per

feat

his anguish inexpreffible, the hopes of death his comfort. In thefe deplorable circumftances I received from his own mouth this fhocking ftory, which all the neighbours attefted. It now is found out, that this fame villain, about a year ago, poisoned James Devanny, and his family, all of whom, fix in number, died in cruel torments.

Charles Wright, who committed these murders, is about five feet feven inches in height, has fair hair, and fair complexion, fomewhat freckled, has grey eyes, little and hollow, heavy eye-brows, a very thin beard, a rough mole on one of his cheeks, the fcar of a wound on his right hand; he is thirty years of age, and well proportioned to his height; was bred a weaver, but of late has acted as a mill porter; he wore a blue coat and fuftian breeches when he fled. I fhould offer a large reward, but every human creature is called on to seize this monftrous enemy of mankind. I am, dear Sir, your most obedient fervant,

WM. HENRY. We have inferted the above letter at length, in order to contribute, if poffible, towards the apprehenfion of fo deteftable a monster. Extract of a letter from on board the Britannia, of Bristol, lately arrived, after lofing thirty-fix men out of forty-four, at St. Thomas's on the coaft of Africa, through the affistance of the General Murray, another Bristol ship.

The flaves attempted twice to get poffeffion of the ship in the river, which obliged us to kill about thirty of them; but, what is amazing, when the General Murray fell in with us, the flaves did just as

they pleafed on board, and yet did not attempted to deftroy us, though undoubtedly in their power."

The Metz ftage coach to Paris was lately ftopt by a gang of ruffians, who murdered the coachman and poftillion, fix paffengers, and a child. Some of this gang had the audacity to write uppon the gate of the Grand Chatelet, We are 500, and are not afraid of 1000.'

Du Lyon, a French affaffin, was lately broke upon the wheel, having firft had his right hand burnt off with brimftone, for his ingenious device in murdering his own brother, by directing a box of gun-powder for him, in which were two loaded piftols, which foon as he opened the box, went off and killed him on the spot.

A youth of 17 years of age, of a genteel family at Abbeville in France, having poifoned both his father and mother, determined, on quarrelling with a man who always had been his friend, to poison him alfo. Being invited to a neighbour's houfe to dine, where this gentleman was to be one of the guefts, he went thither before dinner to excufe himself; and going into the kitchen, threw a paper of arfenic into the pot, the confequences of which were terrible; out of 14, the number who dined at his neighbour's table, ten died almost inftantly; the other four languished in great agonies; and the young villain being apprehended on the evidence of a child, who faid he faw him falt the pot, has confeffed all, and will, no doubt, fuffer accordingly.

Breft, Sept. 24. This day the Calypfo returned into our port in a shattered condition, being fent

to

to sea to make a trial of fails of a new construction, invented by Le Roy, fon of the famous watchmaker of that name; but they were fo far from fucceeding, that the fhip loft her maits, and was in danger of finking.

Conftantinople, Sept. 1. The late news from Smyrna has alarmed us very much about ten days ago the ambaffadors and minifters here received from thence the account of a very extenfive and devouring fire, which by fome fatal accident, broke out on the 6th of laft month, at midnight, and lafting 26 hours, involved in its progrefs the whole quarter of the city, called the Frank-quarter, inhabited entirely by the different factories of the feveral nations trading there, particularly the English, French, Dutch, Venetian, Imperial, Swedish, Danish, and Ragufan. By the English conful's account, not a merchant's or conful's houfe is left standing, except his own, and that not entire, nor without fuffering great damage. Even their magazines, the repofitories of all their various merchandise (which had hitherto been looked upon as fire proof) burst, through the intense violence of the flames. The fcene of defolation is on all fides terrible. The lofs fuftained is reckoned, by a grofs computation, at a million and a half of Turkish dollars, or near 200,000l.

As by the accounts received from thence, the behaviour of the Turkish officers, during the fire, gave the greatest cause of complaint to the fufferers by it; all the christian minifters refiding here have prefented memorials to the porte on that occafion.

Kerim Kan has made himfelf

master of all Perfia by the defeat of Fat-ali-Kan, by which happy event that vaft empire, after being long rent and ravaged by a crowd of petty tyrants, seems to be on the point of recovering, under the wife and vigorous adminiftration of Kerim Kan, its ancient splendor. Though this prince has no competitors, he has declined the title of king; ftiling himself only Master of the prefent times.

Charles-town, July 6. In the garden of William Bull, Efq; lieutenant-governor of this province, in St. Andrew's parish, an aloe of of the arborescent kind is now in flower, and makes a most beautiful appearance. The flower-ftem has grown about 24 feet in the last five months; the plant is about 29 years old.

Died lately. Charles Savage, Efq; in Bedford-row; who has left 1500l. to each of the following hofpitals, viz. St Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, Bridewell and Bethlem, St. Luke's, the London, and the Foundling.

Jane Grey, at Wem, Shropshire, aged 100; her husband, a fhepherd, is ftill living, aged 98.

Mary Iles, of Hanham, in Gloucefterfhire, aged 104.

NOVEMBER.

2d. and three halfpence for porter, the reft of the year.

The journeymen taylors at Leipzic, on the death of the king of Poland, having refused to work at the accustomed wages, were all clapt into prifon at Glatz, and fed on bread and water till they thought fit to work at the wages allowed by the magistrates.

Letters from New York mention the lucky thought of a negro in faving a fhip in diftrefs, by launching a hundred and fifty fathom haufer, with a fpare boom faftened to it; the fhip, by this means, riding head-a-wind during the ftorm, as at anchor, after having cut away the main-mat.

On petition of the Spanish 4th. merchants, his majefty was gracioufly pleafed to order the quarantine to be taken off from all Spanish ports in the Mediterranean, Gibraltar, and Mahon included.

8th.

Two women were found dead in an empty houfe in Stonecutter-freet, Shoe-lane. It appeared on the coroner's inqueft, by the depofition of two women and a girl, found in the houfe at the fame time, that the deceased women, being deftitute of lodging, got into the houfe, being empty and open, and being fick perifhed for want of neceffaries and attendance. The poor wretches who gave this evidence were almoft in the fame condition.

Soon after another woman was found ftarved to death in an empty houfe in the fame neighbourhood.

There is, near Glasgow in Scotland, a coal pit which has been burning under ground for fome years, and near it is an old pit full of water, which, by the force of

the fire underneath, boils like a cauldron. Into this boiling pit a man lately fell, in the darknefs of the night, and next morning was found by his friends fo boiled, that, on taking him out, his flesh fell from the bones.

The right hon. William

Bridgen, Efq; was fworn in 9th. as lord mayor of this city, before the barons of the court of Exchequer, Weftminster, with the ufual formalities. In the afternoon there was a grand entertainment at Guildhall, at which were prefent the great officers of fate and other perfons of diftinction; and the evening concluded with a ball.

The BlueAnchor, a public 12th. houfe near the king's yard Deptford, known by the name of the Red-houfe, fell entirely to the ground; there were several lodgers in it, two of whom were unfortunately killed; divers were dug out of the ruins much bruifed, and three children, who happily received no hurt. Two days before two old houfes and a new houfe fell down of themselves in London, but fortunately without doing any mifchief.

His majefty went to the

houfe of peers, and opened 15th. the feffion with a most gracious fpeech.

16th.

The fheriffs of London attended the hon. houfe of commons, and prefented the petition of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of that city, in common council affembled, praying a repeal of fo much of the late cyder act as fubjects the makers of cyder and perry to the excife laws, &c.

A duel was fought between Samuel Martin, Efq; member for Camelford, and late fecretary to

the