marquis de la Galaffoniere has prefented the royal academy of fciences with feveral pieces of granite, found near Montaign, which will take the fineft polish imaginable. It is amazing to fee what plenty of this ftone, which has been thought peculiar to the Upper Egypt, is to be found in France. warner. A marine belonging to one of his majefty's tenders, was committed at the laft Bristol affizes, and executed accordingly, for fhooting fome time ago the young man who gives the intelligence of the arrival of fhips at that port, commonly called the This marine and fome of his comrades had been fhooting birds for their diverfion, in a piece of ground where fome women were at work, and on the warner's civilly entreating them to defift or go farther to divert themselves they gave him very rough language; upon which he withdrew but the marine in queftion, in a minute or two turned about, and in a barbarous frolick, to fhew himself a good markfman, told his comrades he would fetch that fellow down, and accordingly fhot him dead. A dreadful fire broke out at Workfop Manor, the feat of his grace the duke of Norfolk. It was firft discovered in a closet near the library, that had been newly washed, raging with fuch violence, that notwith ftanding the affiftance of feveral neighbouring gentlemen, and moft of the inhabitants in the adjacent villages, it could not be extinguifh ed. The engine had little or no effect, as the building was principally of lime-ftone. The chapel, with fome part of the eaft wing, is all that now remains of this late venerable feat; which, by feveral improvements made by the prefent duke, was thought to be one of the fineft feats in England. It contained five hundred rooms. The library, pictures, &c. which were very valuable, are entirely confumed; and the magnificient furniture, especially a rich bed of needle work, of which the hangings only were faved, fuffered confiderably by this dreadful conflagration. One man loft his life in the rubbish, and another was much burnt. When the duke received the fad account, he faid, God's will be done; and the dutchefs, How many befides us are Jufferers by the like calamity? Great as this lofs is to the family, being computed at 100,000 l. it will be followed by a ftill greater to the country, as upwards of 12,000 1. of late have yearly been paid in wages to workmen who were conftantly employed about the house. 22d. The city of London came to a refolution to give their reprefentatives in parliament, inftruction relating to the prefent flate of affairs, and thank Mr. Pitt for his fervices, &c. all which and Mr. Pitt's anfwer the reader will find in the State Papers. Ended the feffions at the Old Bailey, at which four received fentence of death, viz. Richard Parrot, for the wilful murder of his wife, by cutting out her tongue; Efther Bow den, for the murder of her baftard child; John Perrott, a bankrupt, for concealing his effects, [fee our Characters for this year;] and Samuel Lee, for publishing a forged bill of exchange, who were accordingly executed. Twenty received fentence of tranfportation for feven years, two to be whipped and one was. branded. Parrot on his firft examination, appeared to be deaf, tho' his plea, it is faid, for cutting out his wife's tongue was, that he was an intolerable fcold.. The meffenger who found in a trunk of Perrott's, the half of a 10001. bank note, having delivered it to one of the principal creditors, without putting any mark upon it, faid when it was fhewn him that he could not swear to the identity of it, and the prifoner's council objected to the gentleman, in whofe poffeffion it was, being examined; but one of the judges, telling the gentleman, if he would give up his right to the proportion he might receive of it, he might then be examined; this the gentleman very readily did, and fwore it to be the identical note he received from the meffenger. 26th. Leeds, Oct. 20. A few days ago a young woman, about 20, dreffed in man's cloaths, was impreffed at Plymouth, and fent to capt. Toby in this town. On her arrival, he was committed to prifon; but not liking confinement, The discovered her fex, and was difcharged. She gives the following account of herself; that her name is Hannah Whitney; that fhe was born in Ireland, had been a marine on board different ships for upwards of five years, and would not have discovered her fex, if she had been allowed her liberty. Extract of a letter from Great Malvern, Oct. 16... "On Wednesday laft we had the moft violent thunder ever known in the memory of man. At a quarter paft four in the afternoon, I was furprized with a most shocking and difmal noife; a hundred forges (the nearest resemblance I can think of) were they all at work at once, could fearce equal it; I ran to the foredoor, and casting my eye upon the fide of the hill about 400 yards to the fouth west of my houfe, there appeared a prodigious fmoak, attended with the fame violent noise. I ran back into the house, and cried out a vulcano (for so I thought) had burft out of the hill; but I had no fooner got back again, than I found it had defcended, and was paffing on within about a hundred yards of the fouth end of my houfe; it feemed to rife again in the meadow juft below it, and continued its progress to the east, rifing in the fame manner four different times, attended with the fame difmal noife as firft; the air was filled with a naufeous, fulphureous fmell. I faw it gradually decrease till quite extinguished, in a turnep field about a quarter of a mile below my house. The turnep-leaves, with leaves of trees, dirt, flicks, &c. filled the air, and flew higher than any of these hills. The thunder ceafed before this happened, and the air soon afterwards became calm and ferene. The furprize and aftonishment of all ranks of people, during the appearance of this ftrange phænomenon, is fcarcely to be expreffed." The vaft column of fmoak, mentioned in the above letter, was fo large, that a physician of eminence at Worcester, faw it in its progress down the hill, about a mile from Feckenham, which is aboye 20 miles from Malvern. of piracy, ordered them to carry back the things laid in the indict ment at the peril of their lives, he was honourably acquitted. Extract of a letter from Lisbon, →Sept. 22. "I cannot fend you a printed lift of the Auto de Fé, which we had on the 20th, because there was none published by the tribunal. This Auto exceeded all we have ever feen in magnificence. Boxes were built round the fquare da Rofico. All the regiments of horfe and foot furrounded the fquare to the gate of the Dominican convent, and each foldier had eight charges. The fcaffold built in the cloys ter of St. Dominic, on which the criminals had their fentence read to them, was in the form of a theatre, richly adorned. All the nobility, the judges, and great officers of ftate were prefent, but none of the royal family. f "A grand entertainment was given in the convent, by the inqui fitor Nuno de Mello, to all the nobility. The number of the criminals amounted to fifty-four, including three in effigy Father Maligrida was the only perfon, burnt at a ftake. His crime is fet forth in the following fentence. Abandoned in the flesh,* Michael Maligrida, native of Mi♦ lan, jefuit, for feigning revelations and falfe prophecies, for com, mitting lewd actions, and for following heretical opinions; one of which was the afferting in the life of St. Anne, and in another work of his compofing concerning * Antichrift, that the three perfons of the trinity, were father, fon, and grandfon. Convicted of various impoftures, falsehoods, duplicities, impenitent hardness, prevarication, and broaching many. heretical doctrines.'. Philadelphia, Aug. 20. A very laudable example has been fhewn by the pastors, or ministers of the feveral perfuafions in this country, viz. church of England, Presbyterians, Baptists, and German ‘Lutherans, in an address to the hanourable James Hamilton, Efq; lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of that province, &c. fetting forth the ill confequences of encouraging gaming, and all forts of luxurious and vicious publick diverfions, particularly a new subfcription by way of lottery, for opening publick gardens, baths, bagnios, &c. and other schemes of diffipation, which they obferve have already increafed too much within these few years: all which they petition the governor to use his influence to fupprefs, as they are willing to preserve the character that province has hitherto borne, of a fober, fedate, induftrious, frugal and religious people. To which the governor has given his word and honour, that every fcheme tending to the diffipation of the minds of the people fhall be difcountenanced to the utmost of his power. 7 One Daniel, condemned for the murder of his wife, 31ft. and whofe execution was poftponed as falling on the day of their majeflies coronation, has after many refpites received the king's pardon, it appearing by the ftrongest cir cumstances, that the unhappy woman was the author of her own That is, delivered over to the fecular arm. death, The inhabitants of Bow were lately greatly alarmed by the appearance of a leopard, which tore a man's leg in a terrible manner, and killed all the dogs that ventured near him; feveral perfons were thrown down by this ferocious animal, and a general confternation enfued. At length fome refolute fellows refolved to deftroy him, and prevent any further mischief; for which purpofe they provided a large quantity of fishing and other nets, which they found means to throw over him, and luckily en tangled him in fuch a manner that all his efforts to escape were fruitlefs; when clubs, pitchforks, and other inftruments foon put an end to his life. morning, at Galway, valuing them at 18 or 20 pence per hundred. A cave containing three acres of ground, feveral beautiful rooms, entered by a narrow floping paffage, that only one perfon can pafs through at a time, has been difcovered near Dry-Harbour, in Ja maica. By an estimate made in France in the year 17 10, there were then in that kingdom 612 jefuits colleges, 340 refidaries, 59 noviciates, 200 miffionaries, and 24 profeffors houses of that fociety, amounting in the whole to 20.000 jefuits; and it was thought, that within the 50 years fince that time their houfes are very much enlarged and their number greatly increased. As the island of Malta has nothing further to fear on the part of the Turks, the grand mafter has permitted all the knights, whom he had fummoned thither for the de fence of the ifle, to return to their refpective places of abode. The Italians embarked on board gallies, which failed first to Naples, afterwards to Civita- Vecchia, and from thence to Leghorn, The French were to return home on board man of war. The island has been well fortified, and provided with every thing for a long and vigorous defence; the commander of Xamora having, for that purpose, advanc A new piece of artillery was tried lately in Dublin, after the manner of marshal Saxe's amulette; it car ries a ball of lead of half a pound, is loaded at the breech by a cham ber; its bore is two-thirds of the diameter of the fhot, and its point blank range is about 800 yards. It has a stock and lock, and is fired from the fhoulder like a common musket, refting on its carriage which ferves as a parapet to fire over. It is drawn by one man on all occa fions, and its carriage is fo contrived to the order the fum of 200,000 ed, that in case of bogs, brooks, crowns at two per cent. and moreditches, &c. the fhafts lide back, over made them a free-gift of anoand it is carried by two men like a ther large fum in ready money. fedan chair. An account of the proceedings of the French king's frigate Amethyst, of 32 guns, capt. Oxeoday, (lent to the merchants) from Cape Blanco to the river Gambia. A caft gun carriage of a new invention, has likewife been tryed at Woolwich and highly approved. Five hundred pounds worth of herrings were lately taken, in one "After "After he had made Cape, Blanco, fhe fteered along the Gui, nea, shore, till she discovered the Tryal fnow, laying at Port en De rick, to take in a lading of gum. The frigate fent in a packet of 10 guns, which he had before taken, in order to feize the faid fnow, which the accomplished, and then made fail down the coaft to Senegal, and on her coming a-breaft of Senegal fort, the fired four guns by way of fignal to the fort, which not being taken notice of, or returned, the frigate ran down to the bar of Senegal, and there took a fnow laden with provifions from England for the garrifon, which capture greatly diftreffed the faid garrifon. She fent feveral of her prifoners on fhore in her long-boat, and then proceeded down the coaft to Goree, where (by the information of the prifoners) the intended to have cut out the Goree brig, and the other veffels employed for wooding and watering the garrifon of Goree: but, on her arrival off the hill of Goree, fhe difcovered four fail off Dunnefs, which the immediately made fail for, and took two of them, From thence the proceeded to the river Gambia, where he brought to, and manned the packets of 10 guns, and the Tryal fnow of eight, and fent them up the river, in order to take James's fort. But the commanding officer of the fort having received the notice fent by governor Newton of the frigate' defign, about fix hours before the two veffels appeared, they gave them fuch a reception, by a difcharge of their guns, which was fo little expected, by the French, that inftead of at tacking the fort, the two veffels, wore, in order to retreat, but in wearing, the Tryal being a good deal by the ftern, run a-ground, and finding they could not get her off in time, left her all but eight men, four of which were English; the other veffel (being the packet) having received the crew of the Tryal on board, made all the fail she could down the river. The mate of the Tryal being one of the four Englifhmen left on board, made the fignal of diftrefs, on which affistance was fent them from the fort by governor Debatt, and she was imme diately got afloat. 1 ་ "Governor Debatt took out her cargo, and fent her to Goree with provifions, as he knew of the capture of the fnow with provifions from England, but before her arrival at Goree, they had received a fupply by the arrival of another veffel from England. The Tryal then failed for Senegal on account of the African company; but on her arrival at Senegal, capt. Hickes, of his majesty's floop Goree, feized her, as also a brig in the river Senegal, belonging to the conful of Teneriffe, in confequence of which the Tryal was fent to Eng land without the cargo defigned. "The captain of the Amethyst, appointed by the French king, is faid to have behaved well to the prifoners; but the fecond captain i who belonged to the adventurers, together with the rest of the offi cers and crew, were perfect ba fhaws in their behaviour." Died lately at Petersbourgh, the spouse of a prince of Mongala, who came there to feek for refuge. The chan of Undoria, her husband, in alliance with other petty chans, had waged continual war against the Chinele for near a century. Three years: |