1753. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. Ventilators were many years fince put into Winchester goal, to the great comfort and benefit of the prifoners; and are lately alfo put into Durham county-goal. By capt. Wright, of the Endeavour, from the coaft of Guinea, we had the following account of the lofs of the Marlborough, capt. Codd, of Bristol, by an infurrection of the Negroes the beginning of October laft. Capt. Codd having indulged 28 Goldcoaft Negroes with their liberty on deck to affist in navigating the ship, they behaved for fome time in a very tractable, civil manner. But on the 3d day after he failed from the bar of Bonny, while moft of the crew were below cleaning the rooms, and none but the captain and two white men, armed with cutlaffes, left above to take care of the ship, all on a fudden the Negroes on deck fnatched the arms from them, wounded the captain,, and forced him up the fore-shrouds, where they fhot him dead. The reft of the Negroes fecuring the quarter-deck and fmall-arms, became foon mafters of the fhip, and fpent the rest of the day in most cruelly butchering the crew (who were in number 35) except the boatfwain and cabin-boy, whom they faved to conduct the fhip back again; which they did after 8 days, and came to an anchor within the bar of Bonny. About the fame time the Hawk, capt. Jones, of Bristol, arrived at that place, and hearing of the affair, bore down on her, with an intent to re-take her; but the Negroes were fo expert at the great guns and fmall-arms, that they foon repelled him. After putting the Bite Negroes afhore that chofe it, in number 270, the remainder, confifting of 150, weighed anchor, fet their fails, and stood to fea, with intent, as is fuppofed, to go to their own country, tho' the undertaking was extremely hazardous, as they had no one to navigate the hip, the boatswain having jumped overboard the night before they failed, and got to the hawk; and it is fuppofed, that on his escape, the poor cabin-boy fell a facrifice to their revenge. Some malicious perfon or persons having in the night between Jan. 20, and 21, come upon the grounds of William Smith, farmer and dairyman in the parish of Bathwicke, in Somerfetfhire, and maimed and wounded one of his best milk cows, by cutting off her teats and tail, and at divers times before maimed and wounded four other of his milk sows in the like manner: His majesty has been pleased to promife his most gracious pardon to any of them (except the perfon who actually cut of the cows teats and tails) who fhall discover their accomplices. And as a farther encou1agement, the earl of Bath promised a reward of 251. to be paid upon conviction. In the last will of judge Burnet, (who died last month, p. 43.) is the following declaration" I think it proper in this folemn act to declare, that as I have lived, fo I truft I fhall die, in the true faith of Chrift, as taught in the fcriptures; but not as taught or practifed in any one vifible church I know of; tho' I think the church of England is as little ftuffed with the inventions of men as any of them; and the church of Rome is fo full of them, as to deftroy all that is lovely in the chriftian religion." THURSDAY, Feb. 1. At a general court of the South-Sea company it was refolved, that application be made to parliament, to get the number of directors of that company reduced, at the next election, to 18, exclufive of the three governors; and the favings by fuch reduction to be applied to the benefit of the proprietors. FRIDAY, 2. At the quarter feffions of the peace held by adjournment at Guildhall, the petition of the journeymen taylors was taken into confideration, and after feveral arguments of council in behalf both of the mafters and journeymen, the court ordered, that the journeymens wages fhall be 2s. 6d. per day from Lady-Day to Midfummer, and 25. per day the remaining part of the year, and that they fhall work from 6 in the morning till 7 in the evening. SATURDAY, 3. Sir Richard Adams, knt. and Wilfon, Efq; were called to the degree of ferjeants at law in the court of Common pleas in Westminster-hall, with all the ufual ceremonies. The motto of the rings given to the lord chancellor, judges, &c. on that occafion, was, Imperio regit unus æquo. WEDNESDAY, 7. Was held a general court of the Free British Herring Fithery, when a petition to parliament was read and agreed to, for improving and amending the act and charter, whereby the fociety was eftablished. Then Mr. alderman Bethell, the prefident, acquainted the court, that there had been caught and cured the laft year 9627 barrels, and all difpofed of. His majefty in council appointed the following theriffs for 1753, viz. for Berks, Humph. Adams, Efq; Bedf. Fra. Herne. Efq; Bucks, Cha. Woodnoth, Efq; Cumb. Hen. Curwen, Efq; Chefh. John Leeche, Efq; Camb. and Hunt. Sir Sam. Clarke, Bart. Cornw. Will. Morfhead, Efq; Devon, Sir John Chichefter, Bart. Dor fet. Humph. Sturt, Efq; Derb. Goodere M Kent, Sir John Shaw, Bart. Leic. Will. Herrick, Efq; Linc. Cha. Amcotts, Efq; Monm. Will. Jenkins, Eq; Northum. Rob. Fenwick, Efq; Northamp. ArmRead Parker, Efq; Norf. Hambleton Culance, Efq; Notting. Mundy Mufters, Efq; Oxf. Tho. Horde, Efq; Rutl. Will. Brushfield, Efq; Shrop. Rowland WingЯeld, Efa; Somer. John Macie, Efq; Staff. Rich. Drakeford, Efq; Suff. Rob. Sparrow, Efq; Southamp. James Ward, Efq; Surrey, Edw. Langton, Efq; Suffex, Rob. Randall, Efq; Warw. Benj. Palmer, fq; Worc. Tho. Phillips, Efq; Wilts. Idw. Polhill, Efq; York. Sir Ralph Milbank, Bart. For South Wales, viz. Brecon, David Williams, Efq; Carm. Will. Thomas, Efq; Cardig. Lewis Rogers, Efq; Glam. Tho. Roufe, Efq; Pemb. John Smith, Efq; Radnor, Rich. Loyd, Efq; For North Wales, viz. Angl. Bodychan Sparrow, Efq; Carn. Owen Hughes, Efq; Denb. Kenrick Eyton, Efq; Flint, Edw. Pennant, Efq; Merion. Rob. Price, Efq; Montg. Will. Powell, Efq; THURSDAY, 8. Vertue Hall, a fervant to one Mrs. Wells, who kept a houfe of ill fame near Enfield wash, was taken into cuftody, by virtue of a warrant from juftice Fielding: After a very ftrict examination, the acknowledged that Eliz. Canning, a young woman, who had been robbed by two fellows in Moorfields, about ten in the evening, laft New year's day, was afterwards brought to Mrs. Wells's houfe, and confined there near a month, and that feveral menaces were made ufe of to induce her to become a common prostitute; but that he would not comply. After fo long confinement, the faid Elizabeth Canming took an opportunity of pulling down fome boards, which were nailed before a window, and made her escape, and came in a very miferable, naked condition, and almoft deprived of her fenfes, to her mother, poor widow, who lives in Aldermanbury postern. An old gypfey in Mrs. Wells's houfe ftript her of her stays, and during her confinement he had no other fubfiftence than about a quatern loaf and a gallon of water. Mrs. Wells and the gypsy had been apprehended before and committed to prifon. His majefty went to the houfe of peers, and gave the royal affent to the malt tax bill. MONDAY, 12. Eight malefactors, condemned the two last feffions at the Old-Bailey, were executed at Tyburn. Lee and Nugent were reipited. See their crimes in our Mag. for Dec. laft, p. 574. and Jan. p. 42. TUESDAY, 13. Sir Richard Adams, now a baron of the Exchequer, came to the court of alder men, and in a handfome speech refigned his office as recorder. And two days after, William Moreton, Efq; fenior judge of the fheriffs court, was chofen recorder in his room. THURSDAY, 15. Among the papers read this day at the Royal Society, was a very curious account of a most extraordinary thunder ftorm, that happened last December in Cornwall; one of the flashes of lightening which dif charged itfelf on a hill, bored several holes thro' banks, and into the ground, cut feveral channels, like plough-furrows, along the hill, and hattered feveral parts of a rock, as if blown to pieces with gunpowder: Another flash discharged itfelf on a farm-house, beat down a large chimney of about 4 feet fquare, and moved it to a confiderable distance from the house, made feveral fractures in the partitions and windows of the upper rooms, befides rending the roof to pieces, broke into the kitchen where the farmer and his family then were, and ftruck down and stunned most of the perfons prefent. The farmer's fon, who had juft before retired by his father's direction, from a window, to a feat in one corner of the kitchen, was killed, his cloaths almost rent to fhivers, his fhoes very much fcorched, and one of his toes cut fo nearly off, as to hang by a bit of fkin; also his dog, which lay between his feet, was ftruck dead: What was most remarkable, the fon continued in the position he was before the ftroke, and his countenance not in the leaft altered; neither the man nor dog stirred on the fhock: One perfon in another room was thrown 12 feet from her place. The gentleman, who fent this account, went to the house and examined every particular himself, and has given a moft circumftantial relation of the extraordinary havock caufed by this flash, which, for the variety of ways wherein it acted, is perhaps as confiderable as were ever remarked before, in any of the moft tremendous thunder ftorms. MONDAY, 26. The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when Charles Sickamore, for a burglary; Mary Squires, the gypfy, for robbing Eliz. Canning of a pair of stays in the dwelling-houfe of Sufannah Wells, at Enfield-Wash; Edward Mac Manning, for ftealihg wearing apparel, &c. out of a dwelling-house; John Jetter, for returning from tranfportation; Grace Weedon and Ifabella Roe, for a street robbery; and John Higgins, for a burglary, received fentence of death. Mrs. Wells, as an acceffary to the gypfy after the fact, was branded, and ordered to be imprisoned fix months. MAR 1753. MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. Jan. 28. fortune. MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. A UGUSTINE Talbot, Efq; 31. Hon. George Bridges Rodney, Efq; to Mifs Jane Compton, niece to the earl of Northampton. Feb. 2. Charles Gibfon, Efq; of Kenfington-Gore, to Mifs Francis Poole, a 30,000l. fortune. 5. Rt. Hon. the lord Abergavenny, to the Hon. Mrs. Henrietta Temple, with a fortune of 1200l. per ann. and 20,000l. in money. 6. Mr. William Marshal, oilman in Newgate ftreet, to Mifs Caroline Thomfon, an heirefs. 9. Edward Tyfon, Efq; of Baristonlodge in Effex, to Mifs Shelly. 13. Jofeph Tantum, Efq; of Gallows. green, to Mifs Watkins of Bow, a 20,000l. fortune. Philip Reginald Ryley Taylor, Efq; to Mifs Baylis. 15. Lionel Simpfon, Efq; to lady Kitty Bridges. 18. Mr. Benj. White, partner with Mr. Whifton, bookfeller, to Mifs Yalden. 22. Samuel Norman, Efq; of Henley upon Thames, to Mifs Brooksbank, daughter of Stamp Booksbank, Efq; of Hackney, Jan. 25. Her grace the dutchefs of Hamilton, delivered of a daughter. 26. The lady of Richard Syer, Efq; of a fon and heir. 26. The lady of William Chetwynd, jun. Efq; of a fon and heir. Feb. 7. The lady of Mundy Mufters, Efq; of a fon and heir. 23 Countefs of Hillsborough, of a fon. 25. The lady of the late Dr. Twifden, bishop of Raphoe, of a daughter. DEATHS. Jan. 25. R diffenting minister at EV. Mr. Jofeph Simmons, Hampstead. a Martyn Sandys, Efq; uncle to the lord Sandys. 93 8. Sir Ch. Arefkine, Bart. in Scotland. 13. Robert Tothill, Efq; in Red-Lion ftreet, Clerkenwell, fenior clerk of the privy feal, and one of his majesty's juftices of the peace for Middlefex. 15. Rev. Mr. John Stuart, prebendary of Chichester, lecturer of St. James's, Garlickhithe, and one of the lecturers of St. Antholin's. Capt. Wilson, an old experienced officer in the army. 16. Dr. Thomas Deacon, an eminent phyfician at Manchester. 17. Rev. Mr. Furney, archdeacon of Surrey. 18, Francis Mitchell, of Pall-Mall, Efq; who, during the whole time our troops were abroad, was chief furgeon to our hofpitals. 24. Hon. Mrs. Crawford, fifter to the late earl of Dartmouth. J ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. AMES Stonehoufe, L L. B. prefented by Sir Richard Atkins, Bart. to the rectory of Clapham, Surrey.-Mr. Hethrington, by the fociety of Eton-college, to the living of Fernham-Royal near Windfor. Mr. Evans by the bishop of Ely, to the living of Great-Finborough, in Suffolk.-Mr. Robert Gascoyne, by lord Sandys, to the rectory of Everfholt, in Bedfordshire.-Mr. Richard Head, to the rectory of Chievely, Berks. - James Stopford, D. D. dean of Kilmacduagh, made bishop of Cloyne, in the room of the late bishop Berkeley. -Mr. Robert Bathurst, prefented by the bishop of London, to the living of Wennington, in Effex.-Mr. John Cherbury, to the vicarage of Great-Marlow in Bucks. John Frankland, M. A. by the abp. of Canterbury, to the living of Sundrich, in Kent.-John Denne, M. A. by ditto, to the living of Maidstone, in Kent. The late Mr. Alderman Perry, who H had ferved the office of lord-mayor, and was formerly one of the reprefentatives of the city of London, in parliament. Mary countefs dowager of Roxburgh, who had been a widow 70 years. Sir Wm. Napier, of Dorfetfhire, Bart. Hon. Wm. Tempest Widdrington, Efq; 26. Lady Anne Boys, at Canterbury, relic of the late Sir William Boys, M. D. 30. Jofeph Smith, Efq; formerly an eminent grocer in Cannon-street. Feb. 2. Mr. Henry Dodson, an eminent furgeon. Anthony Kempe, Efq; aged 85, at Slindon, in Suffex. John Burridge, Efq; formerly memb. ef parl. for Lyme-Regis, in Dorfetfhire. PROMOTIONS Civil and Military. ENRY Charles Sommers, Efq; made a captain in the first reg. of footguards. Frederick Frankland, Efq; made a commiffioner of the Excife; and the Hon. William Monfon, Efq; commiffioner of the revenues in Ireland, in his room. Sir William Lowther, Bart. made lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of Weftmoreland.-William Herbert, Efq; made colonel of the queen's reg. of dragoon guards.-Philip Thicknefs, Efq; made lieut. gov. of Languard fort.-Mr. baron, now Mr. juftice Clive had the honour of knighthood conferred on him by his majefty.-Edward Williams, Efq; chofen judge of the fheriffs court, in the room of the new recorder. (See p. 92.) [Bankrupts in our next.] PRICES Price of corn PRICES of STOCKS in FEBRUARY, BILL of MORTALITY, &c. BANK INDIA South Sea South Sea South Sea B. Annu. B. Annu. 3 p. Cent. S. S. An. Ind. Bonds B.Cir. p. Wind at | Weather STOCK. STOCK. STOCK. Annu. oid Ann. new 1746.1747-8-9 B. Annu. 1751 106 BILL of Mortality from Males 629 1228 Males 8281702 fnow fleet Died under 2 Years old 595 Between 2 and Days 143 192 107 106 107 106 107 103 103 præm. 1. s. d. Deal. London. 61. 1651 15 o W. S. W. mild Chrift. 2 144 192 107 107 107 104 103 61. 1851 15 of W. S. W. fnow 3 144 192 107 107 107104 103 104 61. 195 1 15 4 Sunday 5678 192 107 106 1 107 107 104103104 71. 15 I 15 o E. by N. 144143192 107 107 107 104 104 71. 35 I 15 S. E. fnow 7 144 107 107 104 104 71. 58 1 15 S. E. fnow 1922 108 106 10 107 107 104 104 71. 58 1 15 S. W. clou. cold 107 107 107 104 10471. 5s I S. S. W. fnow 10 107 107 104 104 71. 4s So and 90. 90 and 100 - 168 123 73 58 Within the Walls 142 Without the Walls 402 In Mid. and Surrey 781 City & Sub. Weft. 377 Weekly Jan. 30 Wheaten Peck Loaf 25. Peafe 19s. to 228. per Quar. Tares 22s. to 25s. per Quar. Gloucefter. 55 od bush. 25 03d Is 6d to 25 28 3d to os Birmingham. 48 to 4 8d bush. 55 od to 35 3d Ν FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1753. 95 IN confequence of the refolutions of the parliament of Paris, which we gave in our laft, the peers were again fummoned to come and take their feats in parliament on the 29th ult. but his moft Chriftian majefty iffued fresh orders, commanding them on their allegiance not to attend, which they found it neceffary to obey. In the mean time the poor nun St. Perpetua, who had the courage to refuse acknowledging the bull Unigenitus, as well as the nunnery of S. Agatha, to which The belonged, are like to be great fufferers, if not martyrs; for on the 24th of Dec. at nine at night, three exempts of the guards feized her, and carried her away prifoner to the monaftery of Port-Royal; and on the 2d inft. an arret of the council of ftate was iffued, ordering the nunnery of St. Agatha to be diffolved, and the fifters to quit the house in a fortnight; which looks as if the court of France had refolved to fupport and enforce the bull Unigenitus at all hazards; and this is the more probable, as the court of Rome have lately iffued a bull not only condemning a book, intitled, An Apology for the Conduct of the Parliament, but exprefly enjoining fubmiffion to the bull Unigeni tus. Upon thefe difputes the parliament have refolved to prefent very strong remonftrances to his majesty, but no day has yet been appointed by the king for receiving them; however, fome copies of them are handed about at Paris, containing in fubftance as follows: That the king's fupremacy, his authority over all his fubjects without distinction, the obedience of the people, and their juft liberties are the effence of every monarchy, and cannot fubfift but by maintaining the laws. That his parliament is bound by its conftitution and oath, to observe, and caufe to be obferved, all the laws and maxims of the kingdom, and to regulate the general polity of the ftate, which is committed to them conformably to these. That an effential branch of this duty is to adminifter fupreme juftice in his majefty's name; to maintain the good order, honour, and jurisdiction of his majesty's inferior courts; and to reprefent in general to the king all abuses of his name and authority, and oppofe any derogation of them. That, in different centuries, the clergy, in oppofition to these invariable principles, have difcovered a fpirit of independence; and it is of importance to inform his majesty of their fyftem. That this fyftem, which has always been difcountenanced by the fovereign, always oppofed by the parliament, at prefent fhews itfelf more openly than ever, in the numberless writings and judiciary declarations of many ecclefiafticks; and is openly avowed by the archbishops of Paris and Tours in the anfwers which they have prefumed to make. That an answer, perhaps lèfs reprehenfible than thefe, in which two ecclefiafticks difowned the fupremacy of one of his majesty's predeceffors, pretending to be fubject only to his majesty's perfon, was cenfured by parliament, who, with his approbation, profecuted the authors. That thofe prelates who affume this independence at prefent, exercife an arbitrary power over the inferior clergy, by commands that are irregular both in matter and form, and by other abuses of their authority and that the inferior clergy, by their blind, fervile, felfifh fubmiffion, help to establish this authority. That this fyftem, and this conduct have given rife to the fchifm, of which his majefty himself has feen the danger, and which will not be healed if the fuperior clergy, who promote it, be not curbed by his majesty's courts, and the inferior clergy find a protection there under which they may execute the canons of the church and the laws of the state, notwithstanding any order to the contrary. That the authors and fomenters of fchifm execute the letters Paftoralis Officii, which the parliament, even by the king's orders, have always declared to be an abuse. That, nevertheless, thefe ecclefiafticks pretend to be authorifed by different arrets of the council, particularly that of the 23d of Auguft laft: That if these arrets were carried into execution, they would eftablish the very principles of fchifm; annul the most important judgments of his majefty's fupreme courts, and throw contempt on the inferior judges; and inveft the clergy with an unalienable part of the royal prerogative, to the prejudice of the unalterable laws of the realm. That the fchifm makes ftill new progrefs by means of the evocations, which (except in certain cafes, foreseen by the laws) are contrary to publick order, juftice, the rights of the fubject, prejudicial to the courts of justice, and prohibited by ordinances, efpecially in criminal cafes : That his parliament cannot better fet forth to his majesty the consequences of thofe evocations, than by putting him in mind of what the parliament faid, in 1524, in a like cafe, of evocations. That the evoking the caufe of a peer, whatever might be the motive, directly attacks the effence of the peerage, and of |