Montrogue, used for baking bread and cooking the victuals. Nine perfons were feized with the cholic, and one died before the discovery of the caufe. The hiftory of the diftemper is followed by that of the cure, with an account of the medicaments by which it was effected. The count de St. Florentin lately prefented to the queen two young gentlemen, born deaf and dumb, who have been brought to their speech by M. Pereire, a Portuguese, who at the fame time had the honour to be presented. We learn from Mittau, that the new duke of Courland practifes every method, in order to acquire the esteem, and captivate the affections of his fubjects. He has given a penfion to two learned men, to write the history of the duchies of Courland and Semigalia. He has fent two or three young men to travel at his expence, and is extremely affiduous in the introduction of agriculture, and in all the manufactures to which timber can be applied. But we do not yet hear that he is at all tractable in the point of religion. By letters from Conftantinople we are informed, that Muly Muftapha Aga, first phyfician to the Grand Signior, viewing, with concern, the vast havock and devaflation lately made in that metropolis and its fuburbs, by the peftilence, had collected a quantity of laudable matter from fome peftilential eruptions, and tried the effects of inoculation on feveral perfons, of whom fome were perfectly recovered, and the others were in a fair way. This may justly be looked upon as the greatest, and most valuable difcovery of the moderns; as many thou. fand lives will be thereby annually faved. Hague, Dec. 10. Yesterday, between eight and nine in the morning the princefs of Naffau, Weilbourg, the stadtholder's fifter, was fafely delivered of a prince; and both mother and child are as well as can be wished. The powder magazine near the Bruffels gate in Maeftricht, a ftrong town on the frontiers of Holland, blew up with a terrible explosion. The guard of the magazine, confifting of 11 foldiers, were all killed. The house of the princess of Hesse Philipftahl was very much fhattered, and her highness buried under the ruins. The house of baron Salis, that was nearer the magazine was quite deftroyed, and not one of the family, except the coachman, efcaped. A breach of 130 feet in length was made in the rampart, and fome of the outworks were also damaged. Stones of two and three hundred weight were thrown almoft a mile from the town. About 18 perfons perifhed by this disaster, which was occafioned by a canno-, nier plundering the magazine in thẹ night. His majefty went to the houfe of peers, and gave the 23d royal affent to the bill for an addi, tional duty on fpirituous liquors, that for the free importation of Irish falted beef and pork, and Irish butter, for the navy, and to two naturalization bills. They write from Hamburgh of the 11th, that the froft there is so fevere, that they begin to compare it to that of 1740; and that the Elbe having been froze over for fome days, the magiftrates thought proper to double the guards, both of the regulars and the trained bands, on account of the fhoals of French and Hanoverian deferters who flock there, there, in fo much that they think, that if the froft fhould continue, they fhould foon have in the neighbourhood of that city above 10,000 deferters of different nations. The magiftrates of Hamburgh ordered a general collection to be made in all the churches of that city on the 13th inftant, for the relief of the unhappy fufferers in the war in Germany. Neufchatel, Nov. 15. The fatal controverfy which has lately diftracted the church of this country (on the duration of the fufferings of the wicked in a future ftate) has produced a very acrimonious paper war: there are, however, not wanting fome who furmife, that a political drift is at the bottom of thefe feuds; and that the commonwealthfman, whatever his private fentiments be, fhould obferve a fi lent neutrality. One writer concludes in this myfterious manner: "The history of our differences is indeed a very fingular riddle; but the key to it partly lies in the fcheme of fetting up a fchifm long fince concerted, in flow and clandestine advances to the execution of it by the best means poffible, but the time of its breaking out moft ill chof n." rent forts of poems, but chiefly in odes and tales. She is a very dif agreeable figure, was born in Silefia, of the loweft extraction, and had never any kind of education or inftruction. Her parents forced her to marry a taylor, who treated her in a very barbarous manner; she compofing verfes while he made fuits. She is now feparated from her husband, and lives at Berlin, from whence the came hither to fee the court. Every body is curious to fee her, and a volume of her poems will foon be published by fubfcription. She not only furpaffes by far all our German poets, but even the ancients. The most anmirable ode only cofts her a few minutes, and the one day made twelve in one evening on different fubjects, all alike furprifing. She even speaks verses, but without any enthufiafm, ufes the nobleft expreffions, and is full of lofty fentiments. All this is very much like a fable, you will fay; but were you to fee the rapidity with which the writes her fublimeft odes, you would think it still more a fable. Cette inconceivable femme donne bien a penser a nos meilleurs tetes, et detruit les meilleures theories du genie. A great many people think she has a dæmon, for, I affure you, fhe is a fingular phænomenon." We hear from Newfoundland, that an ugly accident happened at Carpoon, a little ifland at the entrance into the ftraits of Belleifle, and the moft northern parts of our fisheries. The Indians from the main come there once every year (the ftraits being very narrow) in order to trade with the Europeans, and to rob them, if they can. Thefe Indians, who are a tribe of the Eskimaux, coming coming over with their whalebone, traded for two days with our fifhérmen; but the third day obferving them to be off their guard, and their fire arms left at some distance behind them, and that they were a good way from their blockhoufe, thefe favages thought it a good opportunity for attacking our people, efpecially as it was a Sunday, which is a fort of holiday with the fishermen, and when every body's cu riofity or avarice prompted them to run and meet the Indians, the two preceding days having been spent principally about the fish.The Indians mixing with our people, traded with each particular man for his knife, or whatever cutting inftrument he had, almoft at the fame moment, whilft others brought bows and arrows from their canoes, and diftributed them among their own people and this being done, they inftantly, with one confent, fell upon our fishermen, and ftab bed many with their knives, which they had parted with, but the very moment before. They killed 11 on the fpot, and wounded 16 or 17; whereupon all our people that could, fled away to their boats, and got on board a floop which lay in the road (four or five, however, having a little lefs fear than the reft, got into the blockhouse, and brought off most of the arms, killed one Indian, who was more forward than the teft.) They then weighed one an chor, cut the cable of another, and came away as fast as poffible, leaving their whole feafon's fish, furniture, trade, whalebone, and every thing behind, in poffeffion of thefe favages. Our countrymen were 50 at firt, 11 were killed outright, 17 or 18 got off wounded, and of thefe two died of their wounds within a few days. The Indians had been fo prudent as to fingle out and make fure of the principal people: for they killed two mafters of veffels (one of whom commanded the floop, the other took care of the fishery on fhore, and the mate, and flew er wounded every boat-master, fplitter and mafter-voyage, who are the chief people among the fishermen and fhoremen, being the catchers and curers of fish. Thefe Eskimaux are a faithlefs and cruel tribe, and have often furprized the French in the fame manner, and are, notwithstanding, fo terrified at firearms, that a dozen refolute steady men, armed, would have destroyed every one of those wretches, had there been 500, as they were on an ifland, and had five of our men kept themselves armed, they would never have been attacked at all. We have had accounts during the course of this month, of feveral terrible ftorms on the coaft of America. At South Carolina, a hurricane arofe Sept. 4, that has been attended with unexpected confequences; for the navigation of Cape Fear river, from being the molt difficult, is changed to the eafieft and fafeft on that part of the continent. A new channel 18 feet deep at high water, and near half a mile over, having been formed by the prodigious influx of the fea, which threatened deftruction to the whole country. Another ftorm arofe on the 4th of October, which did incredible damage along the coaft of New England. The Griffin man of war, of zo guns, was lost October 25, off Bermudas, and 50 of her men were drowned. His His majesty's fhip Bidde30th. ford ran on fhore on Hazebo rough fand, near Yarmouth; captain Gordon, and above one half of his men perished. Those who efcaped were quite exhaufted, having ftaid till Friday on the wreck without other fuftenance, than a little raw meat and fpirituous liquor. His royal highness the duke of York, in the course of this month, vifited Bristol, Bath, and the western parts of England, and by his courteous and frank behaviour, has gained the affection of the people wherever he has been. The contract for oxen this month by the victualling office, was 11. 3s. 11d. for oxen; and 11. 155. 6d. for hogs. Charles Pratt, Efq; attorneygeneral is knighted and appointed lord chief juftice of the court of common-pleas. Murders, robberies, many of them attended with acts of cruelty, and threatening letters, were never perhaps more frequent about this city than during this and laft month. One highwayman in particular, by the name of the flying highway man, engroffes the converfation of mot of the towns within twenty miles of London, as he has occa Bonally vifited all the public roads round this metropolis, and has collected feveral confiderable fums, He robs upon three different horfes, a grey, a forrel, and a black one, the last of which has a bald face, to hide which, he generally hangs on a black cat's fkin; he has leaped over Colnbrook turnpike a dozen times within this fortnight, and is now well known by most of the turnpike men in the different roads about town. One of thefe threatning letters A fea eel, 6 feet long, 20 inches round, and weighing 30lb. was lately taken, in a fhallow water, where it had been left by the tide, at Whitftable in Kent. Heads of a bill for limiting the duration of parliaments in Ireland, have been agreed to by the commons there, and his excellency the lord lieutenant has been requefted to tranfmit the fame to his ma jefty. Several fhocks of an earthquake were felt at Lima in December, 1760; and one, which happened on the 8th of January 1761, was much more violent than that which happened in 1756.. Accounts lately received of the unfavourable or rather hoftile difpo fitions of the Spanish court, have occafioned a very great hurry at both ends of the town. Extraor dinary councils have been held, prefs warrants granted and rigorously executed, the royal exchange crowded with merchants, notwithstanding the holidays, which fo many generally fpend in the country. This news too caufed the new fubfcription to fall 4 per cent. The Spanish minifter would have fet out on his return home, if not delayed by his daughter's being dangerously ill. Orders Orders have been fent to the cuflómhoufe, for the Spanish ambassador's baggage to be paffed without any examination, and to be shipped without any delays whatsoever. And the Spanish merchants here, having waited upon the earl of Egremont, have obtained leave for all Spanish fhips, now loaded or loading in any of the ports of Great-Britain, to depart in fafety, agreeable to treaties which ftipulate, that in cafe of a rupture, the fubjects of each nation fhall have fix months to return to their refpective countries with their effects. The Spaniards, on the contrary, have laid an embargo on ali fhipping in their ports, till they knew how we behaved to theirs. It is computed that among the prifoners actually in England, taken on board of French fhips, there are about 10,000 Spaniards. The ftate of the Spanish navy, by the laft accounts, was as follows, 16 to 24; 68 floops, from 8 to 14, befides fwivels, 12 bombs, 10 firefhips, 4 ftore-fhips, 39 armed veffels hired, 7 royal yatchs, 5 fmall yatchs.- 372-king's fhips. Englifh fhips of war loft, taken, or become unferviceable, 1761 Duke d'Aquitain, of 64 guns, Sunderland of 60, Newcastle of 50, Queenborough of zo, Duke and Protector, company's ships, loft off Pondicherry.Cumberland, of 50 guns, loft off Goa.-Pheasant floop, loft in the Channel.-Sybilla armed veffel, loft off Gibraltar.-Speedwell cutter, taken off Vigo.—Emerald, of 34 guns, Kennington of 20, and Port Antonio floop, broken up and fold. Great-Britain, of 120 guns, Victory of 110, London of 90, Formidable of 80, Ramilies of 74, on the flocks, building new, or rebuilding.48 thips (28 of them of the line) are at present laid up for repair, &c. Mrs. Canner, of Melton Mowbray, aged 50, was lately delivered of a fon. Some time ago Mrs. Cook, a fhop-keeper in Middlewich, Chefhire, being in diftreffed circum. ftances, in her great defpair, murdered her two children, and then put an end to her own life. Died lately. A woman, at Arnhuus, in Denmark, aged roz. Three other perfons are now alive there, aged above 100. Francis Watkins, of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire, aged 1oz. Jane Prudhomme, near Guife, in France, aged 103. Francis Atkins, aged 104, who had been porter at the palace gate at Salisbury, ever fince bishop Barnet's time. Mrs. Poft, of Great Cheverit, Wilts, aged 105, Simeon |