degree, that he died within half an hour after. The horfe's mouth was found full of dead bees, that he had killed with chewing. We hear from Difs, in Norfolk, that the late tempeft was very fevere in that neighbourhood, with much lightening, thunder, and hail; the lightening fet fire to a cottage at Hoxne, and alfo to a house and barn at Banham, which were burnt down: a large oak was split to pieces at Roydon; a timber elm at Wortham was ftripped of its bark, and several fmall branches were thrown to a great distance. The following remarkable circumftance may be relied on as a fact. A little porter of the Middle Temple, fcarce five feet high, called for a pot of porter, at a houfe in ChanceryLane, about five o'clock yesterday evening, and drank Wilkes and Liberty to his companion; upon this toaft being given, a grenadier of the 3d regiment of guards, who happened to be in the fame room, blafted Mr. W-s's eyes, and loaded the little porter with the moft fcurrilous language; the grenadier afterwards went on his bare knees, took his pot "of porter in his hand, drank confufion to W-s and Liberty, and fuccefs to a favourite lord." On this, little five-feet was put on his mettle, challenged the grenadier (though he often threatened to put him on the fire and broil him) which being accepted, a battle enfued, which lafted for near 20 minutes, when victory declared fo far in favour of our little champion, that the grenadier gave up the battle, but not till both his eyes were closed, and he was fo beat, that he was forced to be led home. Yesterday the intended road from Black-Friars-bridge to Fleetstreet was fully meafured and fet out by the city furveyors, and next week the fame work will be begun, a number of hands being now engaging for that purpofe. Yesterday Nicholas M'Cabe and Malachi Doyley were re-examined before William Kelynge and Thomas Kynafton, efqrs. relating to being concerned with James Murphy, and aiding and abetting him and others in the wilful murder of John Beattie; and further, in fhooting at Mr. John Green in his dwellinghoufe at Shadwell; and being charged therewith on oath, were committed to Newgate. The fame day Dennis Toner and Peter Flaharty were also re-examined before the faid magiftrates, and being charged on oath with fhooting at the faid Mr. Green, were committed to Newgate. From the LONDON GAZETTE, St. James's, July 5. The king has been pleafed to grant unto William Stockwood, clerk, mafter of arts, the place and dignity of a prebendary in the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminfter, void by the promotion of doctor John Thomas, late prebendary thereof, to the place and dignity of dean of the cathedral church of St. Peter, Westminster. The king has been pleased to grant unto William Arden, clerk, master of arts, the place and dignity of a prebendary in the cathedral church of Christ and the bleffed Virgin Mary in Worcester, void by the promotion of William Stockwood, clerk, master of arts, late prebendary thereof, to the place and dignity of a prebend of the cathedral church of St. Peter, Westminster. Wednesday, 6. The UtrechtGazette, under the head London, June 14, has the following article:-Mr. Wilkes is not the only object of the frequent councils held at court, and at which the king very often affifts. The new fubjects of complaint of the Americans, who obftinately refufe to fub mit Foreign and Domeftic Intelligence. mit to the impofts laid on them in 1767; the fending of the French troops to Corfica; the troubles which agitate Poland, are, among others, the great objects which demand the atttention of the ministry." We are told by the Flanders mail, that they have begun to introduce the practice of inoculation for the fmallpox at Rome, where the prince de Braciana has undergone the operation with great fuccefs.. And from Germany we have an account that the princes WilliamAuguftus and Frederick-Lewis of Holftein-Gottorp have been inoculated by Dr. Haller. At Nichol-foreft chapel, in Kirkandrew parish, in Cumberland, on the 13th ult. a young couple came to be married, and at the fame time the bride's mother appeared, in order to prevent their union, when a quarrel enfued between the old woman and the parfon; however, he at laft got the young couple into the church, and the doors fhut on her, and, while he was marrying them, the broke all the windows. The parfon was wounded in fundry places before he could get clear of the vixen and fecure himself in the church, and was obliged to apply to a furgeon afterwards to drefs his wounds. Monday fe'nnight, about fix in the evening, a fharper went to Mr. Morifon's, a fhoemaker in Lamb-Alley, Sherborne lane, on a pretence, that he was his brother, just come from the Indies; which Mr. Motifon believed, as he had not feen his brother for above fixteen years; he stayed with him till nine o'clock on Tuesday night, when, after having got a new pair of shoes, &c. he defired Mr. Morifon to step with him to the Fountain in Cheapfide, to fetch fome of his things, but he made off, and has not been heard of fince. He is a little man, pitted with the fmail-pox, and was dreffed in a great coat, blue jacket, and trowfers. VOL. I 41 Monday at the feffions at Guildhall, a woman was tried for affaulting Mr. Emmerton, conítable of St. Bride's; the caufe of her being taken into cuftody was for crying Wilkes and liberty, when the affured him the would for his folly take the liberty of beating him, which she did by breaking his head, &c. The jury found her guilty of the affault, and the court fined her one fhilling. Thursday, 7. Yefterday his excellency the French ambaffador had his audience of leave of his majefty, he being in a few days to fet out on his return home. They write from Algiers, that of five hundred men, who compofed the laft caravan to the banks of the river Niger, two hundred and seventy died in the paffage out and home; fo that the people began to be fick of an undertaking attended with fuch hazard, and very little advantage. On Wednesday fe'nnight a woolcomber, of Grey Eagle-ftreet, Spital-fields, being invited to eat fome beef-ftakes, eat heartily of the fame; but about an hour afterwards, being informed they were cut from the rump of a young horfe, he fell fick, and died on Saturday last through conceat of his meal. An eminent mafter taylor who paid his addreffes to a young lady at Chelfea, gave her a bond to marry her in a limited time, or forfeit 1000l. This time being expired, the lady employed her attorney, and the lover was glad to compromise the affair, by paying the attorney's bill. Among the various effects of our glorious William III. which, in his difputed fucceffion, were adjudged to the family of the king of Pruffia, was a remarkable fword which that great prince wore at the day of the battle of the Boyne. Sum libertatis was engraven on the hilt. This fword the king of Pruffia has fent as a prefent to the hereditary prince of BrunfF wick wick, with a letter, in which it is faid, I never measured fwords with the French, but at Refback, your highness has made half Germany a Rojback to them. Friday, 8. Yesterday the French ambaffador took leave of her majesty, and this morning he will fet out on his return home. Yesterday the right hon. lord Cathcart and his lady, took leave of their majefties, he being in a few days to fet out on his embally to the court of Ruffia. Wednesday they began paying, at the Bank, the remaining part of the four per cent annuities, 1763, reducible by parliament, purfuant to an act made laft feffions. Yesterday fourteen prifoners were tried at the Old Bailey, three of whom were capatally convicted, viz. Samuel Craycraft, and Patrick Burn, for felonioufly affaulting Robert Nicholfon on the king's highway, on Stlt-petre bank, knocking him down, and robbing him of a guinea, and fome filver. Philip Blake, a gardener, at Brompton, for wilfully and malicioufly fhooting at Philis Evans, to whom (about fix years fince) he was married; but in February laft, fhe finding he had another wife living, preferred an indictment against him for bigamy; of which he was convicted, and burnt in the hand. The ball went through the back of her neck; and the unhapy man afterwards cut his own throat, in a fhocking manner, as formerly mentioned in the papers. Orders are given for three men of war of the line to be built at Milford-Haven, in Pembrokeshire. It is faid an additional body of fifteen thousand feamen will foon be taken into the government's fervice. We hear orders are fent to Ireland for all the fortifications of that kingdom to be immediately put into a proper state of defence. Last night as a young woman in Ludgate-Street was ironing with an old-fashioned box-iron, he held it. to her cheek to know whether it was hot, when the heater fell into her bofom, and burnt her in a most shocking manner. Saturday 9. By a person who: came home in the Carcafe bomb, capt. Jourdain, from our new-found fettlement, named Falkland Island, we have received the few following fhort anecdotes refpecting the fame. "The extent I cannot tell; but there is another ifland a fhort diftance from this, feeming of much the fame fize, and a number of smaller, faid to be near 100 in number. Falkland Island is but very thinly peopled, perhaps not zoo in the whole. They are tall and well-made, and of a copper complexion; but not the height that has been whimfically related. Indeed I have feen fome of the men from fix feet to fix feet and an half high; the women are much fhorter, as are the generality of the men. The captain, foon after landing, caufed a fmall fpot of ground to be cultivated, and fown with useful vegetable feeds, which produced fome, but not fo many as was ex-pected, the climate being fo exceffive hot; however, a fufficiency was raised to afford a comfortable relief to the fhips crews. The inhabitants talk an unintelligible language, and are only to be understood by figns and geftures. In the other large ifland, it is faid, there are many wild beafts, but here there are not any. The inhabitants live upon a fort of Indian corn and jerked beef, or meat dried in the fun. There are a number of little harbours, very fafe and commodious, having great depth of water, and fo land-locked, that no ftorms can damage any ships taking fhelter therein. There are alfo a number of fmall rivulets of fresh water, fo that the island will make an excellent watering place for our Foreign and Domestic Intelligence our fhipping in time coming, and may be rendered otherwife ferviceable. When the Carcafe failed for Europe, they left the Swift floep of war, a ftoreship, and a man of war there." Monday, 11. The hon. and rev. Mr. James Yorke is prefented to the living of Allhallows the Great in Thames-Street, in the room of Mr. Tallbott, who has refigned. Yesterday twelve prifoners were tried at the Old-Bailey, feven of whom were capitally convicted, viz. John Grainger Daniel Clarke alias Clarie; Richard Cornwall, Patrick Lynch, Thomas Murray, Peter Flaharty, and Nicholas M' Cabe, coalheavers, who were in the late riot in Shadwell, and shooting at Mr. John Green in his dwellinghoufe; the trial of whom lafted feven hours. 4 and w On Saturday nine coalheavers were tried at the Old-Bailey, viz. James Murphey, for the wilful murder of John Beattie, by giving him feveral wounds with a hanger on his head, and divers parts of his body, of which he died; James Duggan, Thomas Kearman, John Coitello, Thomas Davis, James Hammond, Hugh Henley, Malachi Doyle, and Thomas Farmer, for being prefent, aiding, abetting, and affitting the faid Murphey, in committing the faid murder; which trial lafted the whole day, and the jury, after withdrawing for about twenty minutes, brought in their verdic against Murphey and Duggan, who immediately received fentence to be executed this morning, and anatomized; the other feven were acquit ted... Wednesday 13. There is now living at Whitehaven, one Peter Magee, who is upwards of 102 years old, has had eight wives, by whom he has had twenty-eight fons and four daughters, the youngest of whom is now between eleven and twelve years of age. 43 Saturday, 16. His excellency the Ruffian ambassador, has engaged Dr. Dimfdale, an eminent phyfician at Hertford, to go over and inoculate. the empress queen and the great duke of Courland. Tuesday, 19. Thurfday laft his royal highness the duke of Cumberland, attended by fome fea-officers, went incog. and vifited the dock yard of Chatham, and veiwed the several fhips now building there. Sir John Pringle, bart. is appointphyfician to her royal highness the princefs dowager of Wales, in the room of doctor Duvall deceafed, and yesterday he received his warrant for that purpose. Wednesday, 20. The Mary yacht, at Deptford, commanded by capt. Campbell, is. ordered to be got in immediate readiness to fail for Calais, for the reception of the prince of: Travendahl, (king of Denmark) on board of which will embark lord Bofton, chamberlain to her royal highnefs the Princefs dowager of Wales, to accommodate and accom pany that prince hither.. Thursday, 21. Tuesday the rev. Dr. Thomas was inftalled in the collegiate church of St. Peter, Weltminster, dean of Westminster, void of by the refignation of the right rev. Dr. Zachary Pearce, lord bishop of Rochefter. Friday, 22. A commiffion has paffed the great feal for incorpora ting the heads of the Civilians in Doctor Commons. Tuesday 26. Oxford, July 23. On Thurfday laft the organ which has late. ly ly been rebuilt, with confiderable additions, by Meffrs, Byfield and co. of London, at the expence, and by the voluntary contribution of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Peter in the Eaft, in this city, was opened with a grand concerto, and gave general fatisfaction; when the oratorio of the Meffiah was performed for the benefit of Mr. Waloud, the organist, to a polite and very crowded audience. The mufic was conducted by Dr. Hayes, and the oratorio performed by the voices and inftruments of this place; the whole of which went off with great fpirit, and was received with univerfal approbation. Friday, 29, Orders are fent to Portsmouth for a floop of war to be immediately got in readiness to carry over fome important dispatches to his excellency general Gage, commander in chief of his majesty's forces in Norh-America. It is rumoured, that fome difagreeable advices have just been received from South-Carolina. There is now living at Hartley in Effex, one Arthur Jackfon, a ploughman, aged 107, and his wife aged 103; they have been married 81 years, and never had a child. The right hon, the earl of Abingdon, to Mifs Charlotte Warren, daughter of the late Sir George Warren. At St. Kitt's, Alexander Hume, efq; fearcher of his majesty's euflons at that place, to a widow gentlewoman of St. Croix, with an actual fortune of 15,ccal. John Kenrick, efq; one of the commiffioners of his majefty's Stamp-office, to Mifs Gyfford, only daughter of Anthony Gyfford, efq; of Queen-fquare. James Skinner, efq; of Hillstreet, Berkeley-fquare, to Mifs Ann Sylchester, of New Bond Street. At Bishop-Middleham in the county of Durham, capt. Baron, of his majefty's 5th regiment, to Mifs Heron, only daughter of Sir Thomas Heron, bart. Hickman, efq; of the fecond troop of horfe guards, to Mifs Polly Hughes. At Stanhope, Francis Tweddel, of Tereepy ood, in Northumberland, cfq; to Mifs Weftgarth. At the cathedral in Salif ury, by the right rev. the bifhop of St. David's. John Douce Garthwaite, cfq; only (on of Edward Garthwaite, of Shackleford, in Surry, efq; to Mifs Fanny Hancock, young eft daughter of Dr. Hancock, of the Clofe. The earl Cornwallis, to Mifs Jones. The ceremony was performed by the hon. and rev. James Cornwallis, at Mrs. Jones's in Strettonftreet. DEATH S. Shephard, marry years houfe-keeper to the At her apartments in the treafury, Mrs. Treafury. Aged near 91, at Richmond. William Saunders, efq; late a fcarlet-dyer in Southwark. At Clapton, capt. Charles Beringer, who formerly acquired a large fortune in the Eaft-Indies. At Williamsburg in Virginia, the rev. Mr. Floyd, vicar of Weftoning in Bedfordshire, and author of several learned works. At his feat near Paris, Rich Lambert, efq; nephew to the late earl of Cavan. At her lodgings in St. Giles's, aged 81, Sarah Morelove, whofe bufinefs was that of picking up rags and fifting cinders in the streets; in fearching her lodgings, there were found 140 guineas, and above thirty pounds in filver, principally in crowns and half-crowns. At Scarborough, aged 93, Robert Bigland, efq; the oldeft inhabitant of that place. In the 82d year of his age, at his feat at Downham, Effex, Wm. Selwin, efq;. At his lodgings at Vauxhall, James Regnier, efq; many years in the commiffion of the peace for the county of Bucks. At his houfe in Red-lion-ftreet, Holborn, James Coningham, efq; governor of the London hofpital, the Magdalen, and moft of the charitable Colebrooke, efq. in the 80th year of his age foundations. In Bishopfgate-ftreet, William At his houfe near Worcefter. Capt. John Lee, formerly belonging to the navy. John Payne, efq; at his houfe near Chefter. At his houfe near Dorking, Surry, the rev. Jofeph Pennell. M. A. Thomas Piggot, efq; of Charlow, near Wantage, in Berkshire. On Epping Foreft, Meredith Jones, efq; formerly an eminent Turkey merchant. At St. Kitt's, May 14, capt. Robert Crawford, of the lady Camilla, from London. At Gourdie, near Dundee, in Scotland, James Haldane, efq; late capt, in the East-India company's fervice. The right hon. lady Hinchinbrook, confort of lord Hinchinbrook, son of the earl of Sandwich; her ladyship was one of the daughters of the earl of Halifax. At his houfe in Charterhoufe-fquare, the rev. Mr. Moore, many years curate and lecturer of St. Sepulchre's church. In Frederick county, Virginia, capt. Alexander Stephen, late an officer of his majesty's royal American regiment. Mrs. Nash, wife of William Nah, efq; alderman of Walbrook-ward, and one of the prefent fheriffs of this city. Of a putrid fever, at his houfe on Epping-forest, Jacob Howel, efq; formerly a confiderable Ironmonger in the Steel-yard. After a few days illness, the rev. Mr. Mark Hall, M. A, vicar of Earfdom in Northumberland, |