near fix foot deep one upon another. The men loft hats, wigs, and fhoes; the women their fhort cloaks, part of their gowns, pockets, stockings, and fhoes, and were ufed with many other indecencies. -The author of this fright, fome fay, was a perfon on the outfide of the barn who broke a hole in the clay wall behind the preacher, through which he put a pipe, filled with tobacco lighted, and puffing it, the fmoke was perceived, which occafioned the alarm of fire

Admiralty office. His ma27th. jefty's fhip the Vengeance, of 26 guns, (9 and 4 pounders) and 200 men, commanded by captain Nightingale, is arrived at Plymouth with a prize named the Entreprenant, pierced for forty-four, but now carrying only 26 guns, (12 and 6 pounders) with 203 men, being equipped for war and merchandise, and loaded with various kinds of goods for St. Domingo, with which The failed from Bourdeaux on the 8th inftant. Captain Nightingale gives the following relation of his engagement with the Entreprenant; That he got up clofe along fide of her at five o'clook in the afternoon of the 13th, when the action immediately began, and continued for three quarters of an hour, in which time the vengeance was five times on fire, (twice, as was imagined, from the enemy's wads fetting fire to the main rigging,) that the Vengeance's rigging and fails being then fo mnch fhattered, that the fhip was not under command, the enemy ran his bowfprit over her taffarel for boarding; that he was therein prevented, and the Vengeance sheered off, to repair her rigging and fails. As foon as the fhip was in condition, captain Nightingale got

up again close to the enemy, when the engagement was renewed for an hour, when the Entreprenant sheered off, and bore away: that the Vengeance being a second time difabled in her matts and rigging, was some time in wearing: that at length fhe wore, and captain Nightingale got again within pistol fhot of the enemy, and renewed the engagement, which continued for an hour and a half, when the enemy called for quarter. The Enterprenant had 5 men killed, and 24 wounded. The Vengeance had fix killed and 27 wounded most of them dangerously, and two of them are fince dead.

His majesty's fhip the Bedford of 64 guns, commanded by captain Deane, has taken and fent into Plymouth the Comete French frigate of war, of 32 guns and 250 men, which the Bedford fell in with on the 16th inftant, 30 leagues S. W. from Ufhant, and, after a chase of nine hours, took her. She failed from Breft on the 9th inftant.

A letter from Hampshire, in New Jerfey, dated the cth ultimo, contains the following remarka ble piece of intelligence, "A few days ago feven or eight men dug out of the fide of a hill, from whence iffued a fine fpring, 76 large rattle fnakes, and 36 black fnakes, all twined together in one bunch or knot. The cold weather prevented their making any refiftance, though the rattle fnakes were fo lively as to be able to rattle pretty briskly. They cut the heads of the rattlefnakes off, and then skinned them. The digging was purposely after them, as great numbers had been feen near the fpring the fummer before, and feveral men, women, and

children received their death by being bit by these venomous and deftructive creatures.'

All the French in Canada, of any diftinction, went into mourning for the late king; and governor Gage received the following addrefs from the officers of the militia, and of Montreal, on the lofs of our foyereign.

The addrefs of the officers of the militia, and the merchants of Montreal, to general Gage, governor of that place. Cruel destiny then has cut fhort the glorious days of fo great and magnanimous a monarch. We are come to pour out our grief into the paternal bofom of your excellency; the fole tribute of gratitude of a people, who will never cease to exult the mildnefs and moderation of their new mafters. The general who conquered us has treated us more like victors, than vanquish ed, and has left us a precious Pledge, by name and deed, of his goodness to us. What acknowledgments are we not bound to make for fo many favours? They fhall be for ever engraved on our hearts in indelible characters. We intreat your excellency to continue to us the honour of your protection. We will endeavour to deferve it by our zeal, and the earnest prayers we fhall offer up to the Almighty Being for your Health and prefer

vation.

at the Old Bailey, when there were only two perfons brought before the court, viz. Martin Alexander, detained in Newgate at the laft Ad. miralty feffions, for robbing on the high feas a neutral ship, called the City of Rotterdam, of divers quantities of linen, wearing apparel, &c, the property of Le Marquis de Pignatelli; but no profecution being commenced against him, he was difcharged.

Declarations were delivered at London in the name and on

31ft. the part of Vienna, Petersburgh, Verfailles, Stockholm, and Warfaw, propofing the affembling of a congrefs, in order to put an end to the prefent deftructive war, which declarations, and the answers of the courts of London and Berlin thereto, &c. the reader will find among the State Papers for this year.

At the Affizes at Huntingdon, I convict received fen- 31st. tence of death; at Bedford 1; at Oxford 1, viz. the famous Dumas, alias Darking, (fee p. 88.) at Reading ; at Aylesbury, 3, who were all reprieved; at Chelmsford, 7; 4, of whom were reprieved; at Dorchester 2; at Gloucefter 1; at Winchefter, 10; at Hertford 1; at Worcester 1, who was reprieved; at Bury, 1 ; at Thetford, 1, who was reprieved; at York, 1; Cambridge and Salifbury were maiden aflizes.

At the affizes at Kingston in Surry, Mary Davis was indicted for the murder of her male infant, by cutting its throat, and throwing it into the Thames, at Billingfgate. She had confeffed before a magiftrate that she could not be eafy, having murdered her child, which haunted her day and nign, and appeared to

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her wherever he went; that she cut its throat on some rubbish near the Grange-road, Southwark, and afterwards threw the body into the Thames, and this confeffion the voluntarily made and figned; but on her trial it appearing that at times fhe was out of her mind, and that she never had had a child, and that this confeffion was the effect of a distempered brain, fhe was acquitted. This poor creature has been fince fuffered, it feems, to ramble about the country, and perplex other courts of juftice with the fame groundiefs accufation of herfelf.

Died lately, Benjamin Schultz, a proteftant mifionary from the court of Denmark, at Tranquebar, in the Eaft-Indies. He refided twentyfour years in the town of Nagapatan. He tranflated the Old and New Teftament, and the Pfalms of David, into the language of the country, for the ufe of the natives.

Father Charlevoix, the celebrated Jefuit miffionary.

Farmer Hapgood, near Crayford, in Kent, aged 101. Anne Tyler, of Bewdly, Shropshire, aged 101.

John Crawford, a farmer, Northumberland, aged 104.

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Mrs. Eliz. Williams of Wrexham, in Denbigfhire, aged 103. The widow Dallett, of Boulogne, in France, aged 103.

George Lockhart, jun. of Carnwarth, Efq; at Paris.

Extract of a letter from FortAuguftus. "A very uncommon phænomenon happened here the 31st of March. About two in the afternoon, Loch Nefs rofe on a fudden above two feet in perpendicular height, and continued alternately rifing and falling, for the space of three quarters of an hour. Mr. Gwyn, commander of the king's galley, with feveral others, were juft by the galley, when by the violence of the water, the broke from her moorings, and drove into the loch at the fame time, by the fame fhock, feveral boats were caft very far upon dry land. In the middle of the loch, the water fwelled up, like a mountain, and during the whole time appeared extremely muddy and dirty. What makes it ftill more extraordinary, it was a perfect calm for several hours before and after. The motion was attended with a very uncommon hollow found." The fame happened during the laft earthquake at Lif bon, but never before for 50 years.

Corke, March 31. A quarter after twelve this day a fhock of an earthquake was felt here in the Exchange, in the Merchants Coffee-houfe, and from the beginning of the Red-houfe Walk, to the Eaft Marsh, between the. gates only, juft as it was in November 1755 but allowed to have been more violent by all that felt it. It did not continue above one minute, undulating from eaft to weft, and vice verfa.

Dublin, April 7. A letter from Kinfale runs thus : "As to what is mentioned in the Cork newspaper, about the fhock of an eathquake on Tuesday laft, there might be one felt there: but

here

here I can't find that any perfon felt any fuch thing. As to what hap. pened here, it was about fix o'clock in the evening; near dead lowwater the tide rofe fuddenly in our Strand, about two feet higher than it was, and went out again in the fpace of four minutes with great force, which repeated feveral times, but the first was the greatest."

Extract of a letter from Amfterdam, April 15. "We have an account from Paris, that a little before the departure of the poft for this country, an exprefs arrived there, in feven days, from Madrid, with advice, that a violent shock of an earthquake had been felt there, and along the coaft of Spain, on the 31st of March. This news is confirmed by letters from Bayonne, which add, that a pretty fmart hock, which lafted three minutes, was felt there the fame day. And from Bourdeaux they write, that a fhock of an earthquake was felt there on the 1ft of April, about one in the after

noon.

"These accounts have made us recollect the vibrations which we thought we obferved here [at Amfterdam] on the 31st of March, between half an hour after one and two in the afternoon, particularly in the fynagogue, where the branches feemed to move; and in the great church at Maefland Slys, the branches moved about a foot from the perpendicular; and the veffels in the harbour were agitated."

A letter from on board his majefty's fhip Gofport, in the Downs, dated April 16, fays, "On the 31st ult. in our paffage here from Lifbon, being then in the latitude of 44. 8. N. long. 5. 10. off the rock

of Lisbon, Cape Finisterre, bearing E. S. E. about 80 leagues, at three quarters paft eleven in the forenoon, the weather quite calm, we were alarmed with two violent fhocks of an earthquake, which was felt by all the merchantmen under our convoy, fome of whom the violence of the fhocks caufe to make water: The firft continued near a minute and a half; the fecond not fo long The fhaking of the fhip was not unlike that occafioned by letting go an anchor, and the cable running faft round the bits, or by a fhip's ftriking on a funken rock, which many aboard thought to be the cafe, till they recollected the fhocks felt by fhips at fea, during the great earthquake at Lifbon the 1ft of November 1755, and which the fhocks they now felt perfectly refembled.

Extract of a letter from Corunna, March 31. "We had this day at noon a moft violent shock of an earthquake, which lafted fome minutes: no houfes fell down at this place, but many re. moved fome feet from where they ftood before. The conful's houfe, which may be numbered amongst the ftrongeft houfes in all Europe, has been moved at least four feet forward to the sea, and its fronts towards the water fide have altered their afpect (in sea phrase} better than two points of the compafs.'

Lisbon, April 15. We had an earthquake here the 31ft ultimo, which lafted longer, and to the apprehenfions of the inhabitants was much brifker than that which overturned the city; but paffing in a direct line, did no other mitchief than splitting moft of the

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