boni plus an mali reportent fere qui peregrinantur adolefcentuli.

At Warwick affizes, one was capitally convicted, but reprieved; at Laft. Grinftead two; at Rochefter two, one of them, a French prifoner, for murder; at Kingston three, two of them were reprieved; at Taunton two; at Stafford three, two of them were reprieved; Coyentry proved a maiden affize. Extract of a letter from capt. John Bell, of the Elizabeth of London, dated from Oporto.

"Since I have been here, a Dutchman fell into the river, and was taken up from the bottom about three quarters of an hour afterwards; he was carried on board the fhip he belong'd to, and orders were actually given for fewing him up in a hammoc, in order to bury him. The British vice conful, Mr. Gabriel Harvey, who is a very humane gentleman, hearing of the affair took a boat,went on board, laid the fellow by the fire-fide, and kept rubbing him with common falt till life returned, and the man is now hearty and well. Mr. Hervey hath fince told me, he has known a dog kept under water two hours, and recovered by being covered with falt; and his lady told me that the had recovered a cat." See our fecond volume for 1759, P. 420. The court went into 28th mourning for a fortnight for the late duke of Burgundy.

The collection, at church and at the annual feat of the Middlesex hofpital, amounted to near 400 1.

Eleven dwelling houfes, with bains, ftables, &c. were confumed by fire, at Kineton, in Warwick

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which a month ago was covered with the most beautiful verdure, and afforded the profpect of a crop of the finett grats, there are thousands of uncommon maggots or grubs, which have defroyed the grafs ; and in fome piaces the root alfo is wholly eaten up and gone: the ground is leit entirely bare as a foot-path. Thefe maggots are found under the furface of the earth, are about an inch long, and like thofe called bots, which fometimes deftroy bowling-green, &c. They are of the caterpillar kind; and it is imagined that in a few weeks they will be metamorphofed, and be furnished with wings and fly away. Some little trenches, dug to carry off the water, are almost filled with thefe vermin. We don t hear of any fuch appearance in other parts. Thefe infects live in the worm ftate two or three years according to the mildness of the weather, and the rooks are faid to be great devourers of them in that state. The third or fourth year they become flies, when they may be eafily deftroyed by means, which in due time thall be communicated to our readers.

At the anniversary fermon and featt of the London hofpital 1354 1. 17 3. was collected for that cha. rity.

Marfhal Broglio having lately fent notice to the hereditary prince of Brunfwick, of his having been created a prince of the empire, his ferene highnefs anfwered him by the following letter.

SIR,

Chatham, April 24.

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head has decorated you with the most valuable gift he could bestow. What would not my countrymen do, if they durft regard you as their defender? Your highnefs may be affured that I take a fincere part in whatever perfonally concerns you; and that nothing would give me greater pleafure, than, one day, after thefe troubles are paft, to affure you, by word of mouth, of the high regard and efteem with which I have the honour to be, fir, your high nefs's most humble, and most obedient fervant.

Charles of Brunswick." They write from Magdeburg of the 14 inft. that a fisherman fishing for falmon in the river Elbe near that place, caught a fea dog in his nets: it is furprizing how that fish came there, being at fuch a vaft distance from the fea, and how it could live in fresh water; but it is fuppofed the late great inundation brought it up.

On Eafter Tuesday, the elector palatine declared to his court, that the electress, after being married 19 years, and then 40 years of age, entered that day into the 6th month of her pregnancy.

A letter dated at Fort Prince George in South Carolina, January 9, fays, I have been feveral winters in the north of Scotland, and

lage of Treppendorff in the Upper Lufatia, aged 104; during his life he had no fickness till he was about 100 years; he could fee to the laft without fpectacles; his wife was 1OZ years old, when he died, with whom he lived 52 years, and hath a fon now living that has two children, who are grand fathers to two others. In the diocefe of Lucon in France, one James Benerteau, aged 104 years, two months, and five days, who never had any illnefs but that which laid him in his grave, and never was fubje&t to the infirmities incident to old age. His father lived to be 107.

In the laft Eafter week, Mrs. Sarah Hooper, at Exeter, an old maiden, in her 105th year, whofe father was buried in the fame church with her 95 years ago. The fame week, one Cox, a gardiner in that city, who is in his 99th year, and has all his fenfes perfect, went to the Guildhall, and voted for Mr. Tuckfield and Mr. Walter.

Ifaac Duberdo, of Clithero, in Lancashire, aged 108.

Patrick M'Ewan, of Fordie, in Perthshire, aged 109.

Mrs. Gillam, of Alderfgatestreet, aged 113.

black fcales. It produced 1250 quintals of oil.

3d.

About one o'clock this morning, a terrible fire broke out at a bifcuit-baker's, on Wapping. wall, between Pelican and king James's ftairs, Lower Shadwell, which confumed about 30 houses. One fhip which was repairing in, the dock, took fire, but was foon extinguished; and eight other fhips were, with great difficulty, preferved. Several perfons had their limbs fractured, and feveral it is feared perished in the flames. Eight barges and lighters were deftroyed, and three funk, and the damage is computed at above 50,000l.

4th.

A little after two o'clock the people on the Royal Exchange were much alarmed by the appearance of a cow (hard driven from Smithfield) at the fouth gate and (though the beaft did not run in upon change,) great confufion enfued; fome lofing hats and wigs, and fome their fhoes, while others Jay upon the ground in heaps, with their limbs bruifed, &c. and during the alarm, a rumour of an earth-, quake prevailing, fome threw themfelves on the ground expect. ing to be swallowed up. The cow, in the mean time, took down Sweeting's alley, and was knocked down and fecured by a carman in Gracechurch-freet. This accident probably gave occafion to a motion made the next day in the court of common council: "That many fatal accidents being frequent ly occafioned by the driving of horned cattle through this city and liberties, in a careless or inhuman manner, it be earneftly recommended to the right honourable the lord mayor and the rest of the worthy magiftrates, to exert their

authority to fupprefs this growing evil, fo contrary to the police of the metropolis, and the fecurity of its inhabitants." Which was re-, folved in the affirmative, and ordered accordingly.

At a court of common

council held at Guildhall, 5th. it was unanimously refolved, "that the freedom of this city, in a gold box of the value of 100l. be prefented to the right hon. Arthur Onflow, Efq; fpeaker of the house of commons in five fucceffive parlia.. ments, as a grateful and lafting testimony of the refpectful love and veneration which the citizens of London entertain for his perfon, and diftinguished virtue; for the many eminent qualifications he difplayed, the unwearied and difinterested labours he bestowed, and the impartial and judicious conduct he maintained, in the execution of that arduous and important office, during the course of three and thirty years; and for that exemplary zeal, which, upon all proper occafions, he exerted with fo much dignity and fuc cefs, in fupport of the rights, privileges, and conftitutional independencies of the commons of Great Britain."

Was tried at Guildhall, be6th. fore lord Mansfield, chief justice, the caufe fo long depending between Samuel Blackden, of Hallifax, in Nova-Scotia, plaintiff, and capt. Gambier of his majesty's fhip Burford, defendant. The action was brought for damages the plaintiff fustained in Nova Scotia, by the defendants taking him by violence from his freehold there, burning his houfe, and detaining the plaintiff unjustly on board the Burford 125 days: when after a hearing of three hours, a special,

jury

jury of merchants gave the plaintiff 800k damages and costs of fuit. [This verdict muft give great fatisfaction to all his majesty's fubjects in America, and increase their esteem and affection for their mother country, whofe excellent laws will not fuffer any injury to the fubject in the molt remote part of the British dominions, to pafs with impunity; and convince all men in power, that they are accountable at home for every arbitrary act, even in the moft diftant parts of his majesty's dominions.]

James Grattan, Efq; recorder, and Charles Lucas, M. D. were chofen members for the city of Dublin, after a poll of 13 days.

A caufe is depending before the parliament of Paris, which deeply concerns the jefuits. The point to be decided is, whether the whole order be bound to make good the obligations of any particular houfe, or whether each house is to be anfwerable for itself alone. The je fuits, the defendants, demand that the houses of the fociety may be confidered in the fame light, as the regular abbeys, and other rented monaiteries. What gave occafion to this trial was, that father de la Valette, procurator-general of the profeffed houfe at Paris for its pofieffions in French America, had purchased eftates and effects in Martinico and elsewhere, for which he gave bills on the profeffed house. The remittances he fent from the West Indies, either in filver or goods, being intercepted by the English, or loft at fea, the houfe at Paris refufed to honour his bills, because they had no effects in hand. This affair being brought before the judge confuls, they gave a decree for the plaintiffs.

The defendants appealed to the parliament. One of the plaintiffs has produced letters from the general of the jefuits, acknowledging the doubt to be juft, and afking him to have patience. If it be determined that thefe houses are answerable for each other, their credit, and confequently their gains, will be immenfe. On the other hand, if their houfes are adjudged, not to be answerable for each other, the credit and trade of each fingly will be greatly diminfhed.

Mr. Gleditfch fome time fince read to the royal academy of fciences at Berlin, a memoir, the fubftance of which may not be difagreeable, as explaining a phænomenon which may have been often obferved: it is that a dead mole being left on the ground, after a few days is no longer to be seen, and this fooner or later, according to the season, and the nature of the foil.

Mr. Gleditsch, in the month of May, left in his garden a mole, on a moift foft, and black earth; two days after he found it a hand's breadth deep in the ground, and the day following this cavity was half filled up; examining further, under the corpfe he found four beetles, which he immediately conjectured to be the grave-diggers; this was further confirmed about a week after when, within the mole, he faw three or four core whitish maggots, unquestionably the issue of the beetles, who had there provided them with plenty of fufte nance in their infantine state. Further, by repeated experiences, this indefatigable naturalift has been frequently entertained with a large fight of beetles from the fame parental

parental caufe, inferring moles, frogs, birds, fishes, &c. and concludes with this pious obfervation, That animals, when become unfit for the uses annexed to their life, im mediately after their death acquire others; and thus, even in their de ftruction, concur to the univerfal defign of the Creator, whofe wifdom and goodness is over all his works.

The reading the history and memoirs of the foreign academies of fciences, muft neceffarily hinder the notion of our vaft fuperiority in fcientific abilities and improvements, from degenerating into a contempt of foreigners, like the narrow queftion of Nathanael, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? On the other hand, as there may be foreigners, though probably very few, infected with the like national prejudices, we would refer them to our Tranfactions and other publications, as thining proofs that the poet did not flatter his country when he fays, its natives are

In genius and fubftantial learning high

Her fons of glory many.

The following are fome particulars relating to the death of fir William Peere Williams, lately killed at Belleifle. Being eager to reconnoitre the works of the cita del, he drew near the glacis, not withstanding the repeated warning of his fervant, whom he ordered to attend him, and who was very fen fible of their being within the reach of a mufket: But his advice being difregarded, fir William was shot by a centinel, and expired on the fpot. His body being taken up by fome men belonging to

the garrison, the French comman dant judging it to be a perfon of diftinction, fent out a drummer to general Hodgfon, to request him to fend for the corpfe; which drummer was fhot dead by an over-forward foldier in our army, who, for this breach of the laws of war, was ordered to be hanged; but the French commandant, judging it to be a miftake, proceeding from ignorance and zeal to revenge the death of fir William, fent off another drummer with a polite interceffory letter on behalf of the delinquent, who has been pardoned in confequence, and the corpfe of fir William was brought back to our camp. 'Tis faid fir William had in his pocket, notes to the amount of 250l. which were returned with the body.

7th

Was held the anniversary feast of the fons of the clergy. The collection at the church, and after dinner, (including a benefaction of zool. by the hands of earl Talbot) amounting to 10781. befides 1001. given (as ufual) by Sampfon Gideon, efq;

Ended the feffions at the 8th. Old Bailey, when feven were capitally convicted; one for horfe ftealing; one for ftealing mercery goods out of his mafters's warehoufe; three for robbing on the highway, one for forgery; and one for fodomy. Thirteen were ordered to be tranfported, two were branded, and eight were discharged for want of profecution. Ŏf thefe capitally convicted, four were executed the 27th, the reft have been pardoned; one was reprieved at the place of execution, and fince pardoned on condition of ferving his majefty.

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