upon windows or lights. An act for enabling his majesty to raise certain fums of money towards paying off and difcharging the debt of the navy, &c.-An act for charging certain annuities granted in the year 1760, on the finking fund, &c. &c. And to two private bills.

According to the above act, every houfe containing eight windows or lights, will now pay 119. for nine, 12s. for ten, 13 s. for eleven, 145. for twelve, 11. 1s. for thirteen, il. 2s. 6d. for fourteen, 11. 4 s. for fifteen, 11. 5s. td. for fixteen, 11. 7s. for feventeen, 11. 8s. 6d. for eighteen, 11. 10s. for nineteen, 11. 11s. 6d. and for twenty and upwards the fame as before, viz. 1 s. 6d. per window, and 3 s. the houfe; and all houfes and cottages, that have no more than feven windows, to pay 3 s. for the house, unless on account of their poverty excufed from parish rates; but no houses, having more than feven windows, are to be exempted from this tax, upon that account.-As many perfons have, and will alter the number of their windows on account of the additional duty, it may not be improper for them to know, that the act of parliament direas, that no window, or light, will be deemed to be stopped up, unless it be ftopped with brick or tone, or plaifter upon lath, or with the fame materials of which the outside of the house doth chiefly confift; and the furveyors in their refpective divifions have exprefs orders from the board of taxes to charge all windows that are not flopped up according to the direction of the a&t. 21ft.

On this and the follow ing day, great damage was done, and numbers of people pe

rished, in different parts of the kingdom, by a great, fudden, and unufual fall of fnow, which, in fome places, was ten and twelve feet deep. Near fifty people, who were caught in the open fields, roads, plains, heaths, and commons, loft their lives. In the hurricane that accompanied it, large trees, coaches, houfes, chimnies, and barns, were, in many places, levelled with the ground, and churches damaged; many fheep and cattle likewife perifhed. It is faid, however, that a farmer at Water-on-the-Wolds, in Yorkshire, recovered ten fheep hearty and well out of the fnow, after they had lain there about four weeks. In short, at land, and on the fea coafts, fuch devastation is not remembered by the prefent race in England.

A little girl, daughter to Mr. Giffard, late of Covent-garden theatre, was lately burnt in a very fhocking manner, and died in great agonies. A perfon in the house was fubject to fits, and amongst the methods practifed to recover her, it was ufual to burn feathers, rags, papers, &c. under her nofe. This triking the child, fhe was fuppofing her doll in the like circumftances, and burning fomething under its nofe, by which means her own cloaths caught fire whilst her mamma's back was turned.

From Faulkner's Dublin Journal.

Whereas a lady, who called herfelf a native of Ireland, was in England in the year 1740, and refided fome time at a certain village near Bath, where fhe was delivered of a fon, whom the left with a fum of money, under the care of a perfon in the fame parish, and promised to fetch him at a certain age, but has not fince been heard of: now this

is to defire the lady, if living, and this fhould be fo fortunate as to be feen by her, to fend a letter directed to I. É, to be left at the Chapter coffee houfe, St. Paul's churchyard, London, wherein he is defired to give an account of herself, and her reafons for concealing this affair: or if the lady fhould be dead, and any perfon is privy to the affair, they are likewife defired to direct as above.-N. B. This advertifement is published by the perfon himself, not from motives of neceffity, nor to court any affittance (he being, by a series of happy circumftances, poffeffed of an eafy and independent fortune) but with a real defire to know his origin.P. S. The triceft fecrecy may be depended on.

In the evening, in the 22d. midst of a great fhower of hail and fnow, with the wind at north, four loud claps of thunder were heard at Valenciennes, in France, preceded by very frightful lightning, by the violence of which the wood-work of St. Gray's church was fet on fire; and fix or feven of the workmen fent to extinguish the flames were fo terribly Icorched by a fucceeding flash, that it is fcarcely poffible they fhould

meeting they agreed, that no clergyman be permitted to fubfcribe annually more than one guinea for each benefice he shall hold, nor less than five fhillings.

The marine fociety have collected, equipped, and cloathed, for the fea fervice, 5452 men, 4511 boys, in all 9963. This fhews the utility of that noble institution.

The right hon, the earl of Buckinghamshire, for the encouragement of matrimony, propofes to give an annual bounty of ten guineas, to five young women, daughters of freemen of Norwich, upon their marriage to the fons of freemen, on the following terms;

They must not be above 25, nor under 18 years of age,

The perfons they marry muft be induftrious freemen of Norwich, refident there, and fons of freemen refident, and their age not above 31, nor under 21.

No perfons who have received collection, or who are deformed in their perfons, fubject to fits, in general unhealthy, or in whofe family there is any fufpicion of madnefs, can be entitled to this charity.

The candidates must be recommended by gentlemen and ladies of credit, refident in Norwich, who, from their own knowledge, will vouch for their characters; and alfo that they have good reason to believe that they neither of them have contracted any debts, or are liable to any of the above objections.

The marriages are to be celebrated on the first day of July yearly, and to commence upon the ift day of July next; upon which day the new-married couples are to dine together, and his lordship will allow one guinea for the dinner. It is [F] 4 expected

expected that the couples fixed upon wili, fome days previous to the marriage, firify to the perfons who may recommend them, how beft it may be laid out for their advantage, except one guinea, which will be paid the day after the wedding.

On occafion of two young children lately poifoned by taking bearsfoot for the worms, at Fitherton, near Salisbury, the following caution has been published in the St. James's Chronicle.

To prevent the deftruction of more children, pleafe to inform the public there are two hi ds of bearsfoot in ugland. One is a plant of two feet high with dark leaves, and a multitude of whitifh flowers; fome times a tle purpled at the edge. This is common in gardens, and is now in full flower. It is a poifon, and was known as fuch to Tragus, Dodonæus, and all the old writers. The other is a low plant, fcarce a foot high, with fifh-green leaves, and only one or two flowers; the flowers of this are green. This is the true bear's-foot; which is recommended with great juftice againft worms. The other being more common, has been used by mistake in its place, and to this the death of thofe infants was owing. There is the more reafon for caution, becaufe the pciferous one is the kind now fold in our markets.

J. HILL. They write from Paris, that as a wealthy citizen of Paris was lately walking in the Thuilleries, a perfen came up to him, and bid him be up a guard, for that night he world be Murdered. The citizen retired aft fupper, es ufual, to his bed-chamber, having fornifhed himfelf with fire-arms. At mid

night three men actually entered the room. One of them he fhot dead, and with a fecond fhot broke the arm of another. The third ran away. The perfon killed proved to be his own fon, and the wounded perfon his nephew, who is now in prifon along with the third affafin. This, fays the writer, is the fecond inflance of the kind that has happeried at Paris within these three mouths; to fuch a height is licentioufnefs rifen in that capital!

The fame letter adds, "The ficur Mafonet, renter of the abbey of St. Antony, in the pariff of Montfalcon, in Viennois, has a fon, which (though but five months old) is actually two feet feven inches and a half high: the circumference of his wait is two feet three inches thice lines [a line is the twelfth part of an inch], and over the breast he measures two feet three inches. The circumference of his head, at the fore part, is eighteen inches and a half; and that of the calf of his leg, eleven inches. His wrift is fix inches and a half round," his arm eleven inches, and his thigh, feverteen inches three lines. When he came into the world, he was of the ufual fize of a new-born infant. His bones are not of a fize proportionate to his body: thofe of his fingers, feet, and hands, are very fmall. His weight is 41 lb. mark [equal to our avoirdupois] and he begins to walk. After fucking at eight in the evening, he wants nothing more till eight in the morning; never cries, nor often laughs. The father is thirtyfive years old, and of a thin and meagre form. His wife is about the fame age, and of the fame complexion. They have three

other

other children of the common fize."

In confequence of the new duty upon malt liquors taking place, the publicans have at laft been, in general, quietly permitted to raise their porter to three, pence halfpenny a quar!.

Died lately. In the parish of St. Leonard, two old men, brothers, who a little before lodged in the parish of Cripplegate, but lived there in miferable a manner, as to be auchand their lodgings. On their death it appeared that the intere f 4cool which they had before left to Cripplegate parish, was now l-ft to the poor of St. Leonard's for ever. A cavent was entered by a third brother against the will, but we hear it is finally determined in favour of the poor.

Mifs Charlotte Mercier, faid to be killed in painting and engraving, ard daughter of the late prince of Wales's librarian, in St. James's workhoule

Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Efq; aged 100.

Babua Solyman, a Turk, in Hampshire, aged 105.

Thomas Nixon, of the county of Cumberland, aged 108.

At Tiefenau, in the neighbourhood of Groffenhayn, Gafpard Balcke, aged 112 years, three months, and 27 days. He married two wives, by whom he had fifteen children. He was 85 when the youngest child was born. He lived to fee his pofterity to the number of 66. He was confined to his bed only two days.

Catharine Brebner, in Aberdeenfhire, aged 124.

John Noon, of the county of Galway, in Ireland, aged 129.

A pealant in Poland in the 157th

12th.

Being the day appointed for a general ft and humiliation, it was obferved in the accultomed manner.

Copy of a refolution of the Irish parliament, refpecting the revenue of the lord lieutenant.

Veneris, 26 Feb. 1762. Refolved, nemine contradicente, That an addrefs be prefented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, that he will reprefent to his majefty the fenfe of this houfe, that the entertainments and appointments of the lord lieutenant of Ireland are become inadequate to the dignity of that high office, and to the expence with which it is, and ought to be, fupported; and that it is the humble defire of this houfe, that his majefty will be graciously pleafed to grant fuch an augmentation to the entertainment of the lord liedtenant for the time being, as, with the prefent allowances, will in the whole amount to the annual fum of fixteen thousand pounds. And to exprefs that fatisfaction which we feel at the pleafing hope, that this juft and neceffary augmentation fhould take place during the adminiftration of a chief governor, whofe many great and amiable qualities, whofe wife and happy adminiftration in the government of this kingdom, have univerfally endeared him to the people of Ireland.

E. Sterling, H. Alcock

Copy of the anfwer of the lord lieutenant to the addrefs of the houfe of commons, prefented to his excellency perfuant to the foregoing refolution.

"I fhall take the first opportunity of laying before his majefty the fenfe of the house of commons contained in this addrefs. I enter fulJy into the truly liberal motives, which have influenced your conduct in this unanimous refolution. That you are folicitous not only to fupport his majesty's government, but to fupport it with becoming grandeur and magnificence, reflects the highest honour on yourselves; that you have chofen the time of my adminiftration, that you have diftinguished my perfon as the object of your favour, reflects the highest credit on me; and I must ever confider this event as one of the most fortu nate and honourable circumstances of my life. Whatever merit you afcribe to me in the government of this kingdom, in reality arifes from your own conduct, though your partiality would transfer it to mine. Your unanimity has firft created this merit, and your liberality would now reward it.

I am fenfible of the obligation you confer: And I can in no way properly demonftrate my fenfe of it, but by being, as I am, unalterably determined to implore his majelly, that I may be permitted to enjoy it pure and unmixed with the lucrative advantages you propofe fhould attend it. This affectionate addrefs is intended as an honour to me; that intention has on your part been fully anfwered; to make it truly honourable, fomething is fill neceffary on mine. It becomes me to vie with the generofity of parliament, and to keep up an emulation of fentiment. It has been my duty,

in the courfe of this feffion, to propofe large plans of public expence, and to promife an attention to public economy; and I could not without pain fubmit, that the eftablishment, already burthened at my recommendation, fhould be ftill farther charged for my own particular profit.

But while I confider myself at liberty to facrifice my private interefts to my private feelings, I must confider myself as bound likewife to confult, in compliance with your enlarged and liberal fentiments, the future fupport of the station in which I am placed, to the dignity of which, the emoluments are, as you reprefent them, inadequate. I fhall tranfmit, therefore, the fenfe of the house of commons, that the augmentation which your generofity has propofed, may, if his majefty fhall think fit, be made to the establishment of my fucceffor, when he fhall enter on the government of this kingdom, and when, it is probable, the cir cumftances of this country may be better able to fupport fuch additional burthen. But while 1 must decline accepting any part of the profits, rejoice to charge my felf with the whole of the obligation: abundantly happy, if when I fhall hereafter be removed from this high, and, through your favour, defirable fituation, I fhould leave it, through your liberality, augmented in its emoluments, and by my inability not diminished in its reputation."

16th.

At fix in the morning an earthquake was very fenfibly felt at Wexford in Ireland. It was preceded by a loud rumbling noife, and was fudden, and of fhort duration.

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At the anniversary fermon, St. George's, Hanover

18th.

fquare,