in the county of Kerry, landed fome of their men on the island of Valentia, plundered it, and took away all the live cattle and other provifions they met with; that another party landed on the continent, and plundered two gentlemens houses; that then they fet fail, taking away with them the Johnson privateer of Bristol, of 10 guns, which had been fome time ago deferted there by her crew, after an unfuccessful cruife. It is added, that a great many of the privateers crews fpoke English very well. BI R T H S. April 11. AT London, the Lady of Natha P. S. May 3: D E Λ T H S. Feb. 18. At Fez, James Read, Efq; ConfulGeneral in Barbary, and Envoy to the Emperor of Morocco. He was found murdered, fome fay in his houfe, others in the street, not without fufpicion of the murder's being authorited by the Emperor. In Rhode Island, North America, William Greene, Efq; Governor of that colony. At Pifcataqua, Capt. John Donckley, commander of the Enterprife man of war. April 3. At Paris, aged 63, Louifa-Anne de Bourbon-Condé, commonly flyled Mademoiselle de Charolais, a princefs of the blood. She was daughter of the late Lewis de Bourbon, the third who bore the name of the Prince of Condé, and of Louifa-Elifabeth de Bourbon, a legitimated daughter of Lewis XIV. 9. At London, Nicholas Hardinge, Efq; member for Eye, and joint fecretary to the Treafury. 10. At London, aged 93, the Countefs-dowager of Kildare, grandmother to the prefent Earl, and fifter to the late Earl of Coningsby. 11. At London, the widow of Robert Dalziel, Earl of Carnwath, who was attainted for being engaged in the rebellion 1715. This lady's maiden name was Margaret Vincent. She was third daughter of Thomas Vincent of Bamboroughgrange, of the county of York, Efq; 13. At Dublin, Dr Henry Maule, Bishop of Meath in Ireland. He was one of the first promoters of the Proteftant charter-schools in that kingdom. 14. At Chatham, Col. Gordon of the marines. 16. At Dublin, in the 136th year of his age, James Maclonghlid, fhoemaker. He ferved as a ferjeant in K. William's army at the battle of the Boyne. Being afterwards difbanded, he worked at his trade of fhoemaking. He lived a fingle man to the age of 87; from which time he turned a master shoemaker, and by his trade acquired a handfome fortune. 17. At his feat near Minehead, Somersetshire, William Collins, Efq; Having no heirs, he has 22. At Melrofe, of a nervous fever, with which he was feized in his way to Jedburgh circuit court, Mr Kenneth Tulloh, one of the clerks to the circuit-courts of justiciary. P. S. May 3. At London, Henry Smith, M. D. He had been for twenty years first phyfician to the Empress of Ruffia. 3. At Cumnock, Mrs Jean Morice, relict of Mr James Wardlaw of Lufcar, Fifeshire, minifter at Dunfermline. 4. At Edinburgh, David Bruce of Kinnaird, Efq; He is fucceeded in his eftate by his eldeft fon, James, a wine merchant in London. 7. In an advanced age, Mr Alexander Forbes, minifter at Forgue. PREFERMENTS. Taken from the London Gazette. The King has been pleafed, April 29. -to name and recommend Dr John Hume, Bishop of Bristol, to be elected Bishop of Oxford, in the room of Dr. Thomas Secker, tranflated to the fee of Canterbury. Comp. Second Lieut. 29. to appoint the following gentlemen officers in the marines, viz. Lieutenant-Colonel. James Burleigh. Major. John Tufton Mafon. Comp. Captains. 116. Hon. Hugh Sempill. 7. Stawell Chudleigh. 22. Turbeville Wain wright. 8. Robert Walfh. First Lieutenants. Second Lieutenants. 68. Henry Weir. 104. Alexander Brown. 8. Perkins M'Ma hon. 52. Tho. Hayward. 19. Jofeph Adams. 127. George Willoughby. 130. Singleton Roche- 113. Jof. Hazlewood.. 61. Robert Gardiner. P. S. May 8.. -to appoint Henry Ellis, Efq; prefent Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia, to be Governor in Chief of the faid colony, in the room of John Reynolds, Etq; 9.-to appoint Lt-Gen. Granville Elliot (from the Dutch fervice) to be a Major-General. -to appoint the following Lords and Gentlemen to be officers in the following regiments. Maj. Gen. Elliot [above mentioned] to be CoJanel; Maj. John Barlow, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Chriftopher Teesdale, Major, of the 61ft regiment of foot. Col. William Strode to be Colonel; Maj. John Jennings, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Maj. Jofeph Higginson, Major, of the 62d regiment of foot. Col. David Watfon to be Colonel; Maj. Peter Delbrifay, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. John Trollope, Major, of the 63d regiment of foot. Col. John Barrington to be Colonel; Maj. Wollaston Pym, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Thomas Ball, Major, of the 64th regiment of fect. Col. Robert Armiger to be Colonel; Maj. John Salt, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. John Delgarno, Majer, of the 65th regiment of foot. Col. Edward Sandford to be Colonel; Maj. Rowland Phillips, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Charles Beauclerk, Major, of the 66th regiment of fat. Col. James Wolfe to be Colonel; Maj. Robert Robinson, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Alexander MacDowal, Major, of the 67th regiment of fact. Lt-Col. John Lambton to be Colonel; Maj. William Adey, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. William Napier, Major, of the 68th regiment of fest. Lt-Col. Charles Colvill to be Colonel; Maj. John Browne, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Edward Martin, Major, of the 69th regiment of fot. Lt-Col. John Parflow to be Colonel; Maj. Charles Vignoles, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Robert Pigot, Major, of the 70th regiment of foot. Lt-Col. William Petitot to be Colonel; Maj. William Tayler, Lieutenant Colonel; and Capt. Robert Murray, Major, of the 71ft regiment of foot. Lt-Col. Charles Duke of Richmond, to be Col; Maj. William Wilkinson, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Maj. Richard Prefcott, Major, of the 72d regiment of foot. Lt-Col. William Brown to be Colonel; Maj. Hezekiak Fleming, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Thomas Shirley, Major, of the 73d regiment of fut. Lt-Col. Sherington Talbot to be Colonel; Maj. Willian Mafters, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. Thomas Maule, Major, of the 74th regiment of jur. Lt-Col. John Bofcawen to be Colonel; Maj. Jordan Wren, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. James Stuart, Major, of the 75th regiment of foot. Lt-Cols Lord Frederick Cavendish, Henry Earl of Pembroke, and John Weft, to be Aids-deCamp to his Majesty. Capt. Robert Watfon to be Deputy-Quartermafter-General to the forces in South Britain, and to take rank as Lieutenant-Colonel of foot. First Major Andrew Robinfon to be LieutenantColonel; Col. John Griffin Griffin, First Major; and Lt-Col. John Prideaux, Second Major, of the third regiment of foot-guards. Lt Col. Thomas Gage to be Colonel of a regiment of rangers raised in America. Maj. William Farquhar to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th regiment of foot, Maj.-Gen. Jeffery Amherst's. Lt-Col. George Haldane to be a Colonel of foot in the army. Maj. Gen. Alexander Duroure, to command, in the abfence of the Governor, in Plymouth. Maj. Robert Douglas to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and Capt. Charles Lumifden, Major, of the 19th regiment of foot, Maj.-Gen. Lord George Beauclerk's. Maj. John Beckwith, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and Capt. John Maxwell, Major, of the 20th regiment of foot, Maj-Gen. William Kingsley's. Capt. Robert Hall to be Major of the 37th regiment of fact, Maj -Gen. James Stuart's. Capt. Lord George Lenox to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the 33d regiment of foot, Maj.-Gen. Lord Charles Hay's. Maj. Nehemiah Donnelen to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the 38th regiment of foot, Col. James Lockhart-Rofs's. Capt. Lewis Thomas to be Major of the 50th regiment of foot, Col. Studholm Hodgion's. Capt. Robert Walsh to be Major of the 54th regiment of foot, Col. James Grey's. Capt. James Ramfay to be Major of the 30th regiment of foot, Lt-Gen. John Earl of Lou doun's. May 8. 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This medicine is his breakfast and fupper; his dinner, that of other moderate people. "The medicine, the advantages from which I have fo much caufe to boast, is the root of the bardans, or burdock; and the method wherein I have taken it is a light infusion. That no mistake may prevent others from finding in it the fame benefit, I fhall be particular as to the plant itself, and in the preparation. We have, in England, fix fpecies of bardana or burdock; they all poffefs the fame general virtues; but the kind which I have found best, and always have used, is the fourth fpecies mentioned by Ray, the woolly-headed burdock. This is called lappa major montana capitulis tomentofis, by Cafpar Bauhine, and arЯium by the Greek writers. This is common by way-fides, and in wafte places. It very much refembles the common burdock in form and ftature; but may be known from it, when young, by the redness of its ftalks, and when full grown, by its woolly heads. Linnæus fuppoes it only a variety of the common kind. However that be, I have found it poffeffes greater virtue; and as it is nearly as frequent, and is eafily ditinguished, no other fhould be ufed. Nature, friendly to mankind, though in her favours too much neglected, has generally made those things which are most useful, the most common, and most permanent. This plant, which grows every where at our doors, has a perennial root, fit for fervice at all feafons. It should be gathered freth every time for ufe; for I have found its virtue is, in a great meafure, loft by keeping. When fresh taken up, it is a cordial, diaphoretic, and diuretic medicine; when it has been kept fame time, it is a diuretic only. All its virtues are useful in the gout, and therefore it should be ufed juft gathered. Cut one ounce of this root, clean washed, into thin flices; pour on it a pint and half of water in a stone jar; cover the veffel; and, as foon as the liquor is cold, pour it off through a fieve without preffing. This quantity istwo dofes. Warm half of it moderately, and mix with this half a pint of new milk and half In ounce of honey Drink this alone, or eat it with bread for breakfast, and the remaining half in the fame manner for fupper. It is not difagreeable, the flavour is like that of the pea or bean kind; and the infufion, thus mixed with milk, taftes like afparagus, or young pea-foup. Paates are various, but to me it is as pleasant as asy of these: it fits well upon the ftomach, and promotes gentle perfpiration; it is lubricating and deabftruent; its principal operation is by urine, but not violent; and it at once is ferviceable against the disease for which it is given, and against that certain concomitant of it, the stone or gravel. Perhaps, in this refpect, it excels all other remeEs. In regard to the gout, it does all we can expect or require of a medicine, unless we knew an abfolute or specific remedy. It foftens the too firm texture of the coats of the veffels; it feparates the folid parts fwallowed in our food to a due diflance, if drank regularly in this manner; and while it keeps them out of thofe clufters, which would prevent their paffage in the smallest veffels, it labricates and foftens thofe veffels on the infide, and gives them a due diftention: at the fame time it refreshes and invigorates the whole frame, promotes circulation, as evidently as it does perfpiration; and, in a fecondary manner, affitts the digeftive faculties; for the ftomach being charged but once in the twenty-four hours with folid or courfe food, according to this regimen, and that nx in too large quantity, is able to act properly upon it; and is not a little affifted primarily by this medicine. Thus, if I do not deceive myself extremely, this root poffeffes all the virtues we expect in courfes of medicines for the gout, and has their full effect, while it neither offends the ftomach nor loads it. There is alfo this farther advantage, that in taking it in the regular manner here directed, the patient has the benefit of the best milk course withal; for cow's milk, with this addition, is brought nearly to the state of afs's; and this is the moderate way of taking it, which alone is fafe. The abfolute good effect of milk none can difpute, who have read of its effects, or feen them: but the danger is in this abfolute change from a common courfe of life to one fo poor. This is a middle method. The effects of the milk are improved by the medicine; and there is neither the danger attending on the entering upon fuch a courfe, nor on the leaving it for a common diet. What I write of the great effect of this medicine, I feel. Mine, though not the most terrible state of the gout, was as bad as ufually men fuffer at my time of life; and it is now reduced to a very flight degree. I have fome feafons efcaped with two fits in the year, and these only of three weeks each; one in autumn, and another in spring. And if the peculiar unfavourable nature of the feafon make it worse, if one fit follow another through the winter; ftill they are the flighter for their number, and there are intervals of health. More than this, no man afflicted with the gout can hope, unless an abfolute remedy should ever be found. And thus much I can, in general cafes, promise to any who will follow the fame eafy, convenient, and agreeable method." LAW, POLITICAL. A treatise on the better employment and comfortable fupport of the poor in workhouses; also fome confiderations on the growth and culture of flax. By W. Bailey, member of the fociety for promoting arts and commerce. Dodfley. 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That thefe houfes fhall be let to the feamen of his Majesty's navy; the preference being always given to those that are married. 3. As the condition on which these houfes are allotted them, they fhall repair on board fuch fhip as they fhall be ordered to serve in, whenever they are required. 4. That the rent of the houfe fhall be deducted out of their wages. 5. If a failor fhall die, leaving a widow, his houfe fhall be difpofed of to fome other failor; but if any other failor will marry the widow, be fhall have the preference. 6. Each of thefe, houfes fhall take in two of thefe fick feamen,, if the husband be at home, and four if he be abfent; for w. .ccommodation, the wife, who is to attend them as nurse, fhall be paid. 7. That the children of feamen inhabiting these houfes fhall, till they are fit for other bufinefs, be employed to pick okum; and when grown up, the boys fhall ferve the officers on board the navy, and the girls make the fhips colours, and the flop-cloaths for the feamen. 8. That in time of peace a certain number of feamen, after manning the guard-fhips, fhall be employed, by rotation, in the King's yards, at 15 d. a day, and the reft shall be at liberty to go into the merchants fervice. 9. That on confideration of their continuing to be tenants of thefe houses, they fhall, on the King's proclamation, or on advertisement from the lords of the admiralty, requiring their fervice, repair to their divifions as foon as poffible; and if they do not, they fhall forfeit all the advantages of this inftitution. The failor is either proffed into the fervice, or enters voluntarily. If he is preffed, his family, if he has one, is inftantly reduced to a state of the most deplorable diftrefs, by being fuddenly deprived of that labour, which alone protected them from hunger and nakednefs. If he enters voluntarily, and has a family when he enters, the mifery to which his family is reduced by his own act, is equal to that which the family of a preffed man fuffers by the act of another. If he marries after he is in the fervice, he has neither an opportunity to fee his wife when his fhip comes into port, nor to remit her any part of his wages, to Support his children when he is abroad; for the belt failors have only a fmall credit on an exorbitant ufurer, who advances them money at a hundred per cent. or with an alehousekeeper, who gives them credit for victuals and drink, at a yet more unmerciful intereft. If by chance the failor gets on fhore in the reach of his wife, he will not find himself strongly inclined to spend his few hours of leifure in fach a fcene of want and wretchednefs, as the hovel in which he and his 10. That fuch feaman as is defirous of remitfamily are 1 hing, almoft without food or ting money for the fupport of his family, thall, cloaths he wan be induced to spend the little pit- before he fails, make known to the commiffioners tance which should be allotted to alleviate their of the port, the monthly allowance he will make, mifery, in the purchase of immediate gratification and that his name be entered in a book, witneffed to himself. If he is fick, and gets into au hofpi- by the clerk of the check at his last muster, and tal, which is the best thing that can happen toy the captain and the figuing officers of the fhip, him, he must fuffer the neglect which unavoid before the proceeds on her voyage, as an autho ably happens, when twenty patients are left to rity for paying fuch fum, and that a counter-part the care of one nurse; and he will befides be ex- of this book be kept by the captain of cach ship. pofed to the craft of an infernal crew, called crimps, who conftantly hover about the naval hofpitals, and entice the men that recover, either to enter into the merchants fervice, or go to fettle in the Weft Indies, first debauching them with drink, and then corrupting them with money. To all thefe evils must be added that which arifes from the utter neglect of the children of feamen, who, like the progeny of the very refuse of the poor, are left to creep from idleness to wickedness in the very firft ftages of life, and either perish early upon a dunghill, or in a workhoufe; or, having lived to be the pefts of fociety, are cut off or tranfported by the law. The benefits arifing from thefe proposals are evident from the following particulars. 1. It will render hofpitals needlefs. 2. The failor will think of returning to his family with pleasure. 3. The rambler will be fixed, and the good man encouraged to his duty. And, 4. The children of failors will be rendered usetul members of fuciety. EDINBURGH. The Highlander; a poem, in fix cantos. I S De natura rerum quæftiones philosophica. Authore Georgio Gordono. 55. Stalker, and Foolis Glasgow; Tair & Fleming, Edinburgh, |