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tory. He threw himfelf in with much activity, and difplayed much fhewy enterprize, while Humphreys retreated and avoided the blows. The latter bore himfelf with great referve, and the Jew was accordingly the affailant in the firft fix or feven rounds. In thefe, Mendoza being more hazardous and more fuccessful than Humphreys, the bets, which were two to one in favour of the latter before the battle, changed to fix to four, feven to four, and at laft two to one against him. Several blows of Mendoza had their effect. He cut Humphreys under the left eye, and of course endeavoured to follow up the wound, but in this he was disappointed by the fuperior addrefs of this oppon

ent.

The ftage, from the wetnefs of the day, was extremely flippery, and for fome time neither of them could keep their feet fo as to give firmnefs to their action. To remedy this, Humphreys threw off his fhoes, and got a pair of worfted ftockings, in which, without fhoes, he continued the battle with inproved footing.

After they had fought 18 or 19 minutes, Humphreys began to manifeft his fuperior skill, and the bets again changed in his favour. He planted a dreadful blow in the neck, or near the jaw of the Jew, which fickened, and almoft difabled him. He continued the battle, however, with much determination of fpirit, until extravafated blood and exhaufted wind made him fo helpless, that he lay on the ftage unable to rife, and yielded the conteft.

A battle in which there was fo much dexterity and skill, with fuch equality of ftrength and mufcle, perhaps never was fought, and certainly there never was a conteft on which fo much money depended. The battle lafted 29 minutes. The Jew was carried off the ftage totally exhaufted, and feemingly lifelefs. Humphreys was not out of breath, and fuffered no material injury from the blows.

Humphreys was feconded by Johnson, and Mendoza by Jacobs.

In confequence of the above battle, it is faid, that upwards of 20,000l. fterling of bets will be transferred from the Jews to the Chriftians.

Mendoza, on Sunday, carried with him to the scene of action, four pigeons; two of these having brought the melancholy tidings of his defeat, there was a general lamentation in Duke's Place.

SCOTLAND.

Edinburgh. The New Water-pipes are now completed, from the refervoir at Comiefton, to the ciftern lately erected at Herriot's Hofpital. In order, there fore, to afford the inhabitants the bene fit of any occafional overplus water which might be at Coniefton, à temporary pipe is placed in the Grafs-market, and there will be another opened in a few days, on the weft end of George Street. The first of thefe will deliver water until the communication is completed to the Castlehill; and that at the head of South Frederick Street at all times (when there is overplus water) until an additional fupply of water is procured to that part of the New Town.

Dec. 29. Capt. Alexander Cook, commander of the Prince Edward cutter, in the fervice of the Cuftoms, seized a very fine cutter, pierced for eighteen guns, called the Juffrowe Johnna, John Davy mafter, from Guernsey; Thomas Craig of Girvan, near to Ladyburn, in Ayrfhire, fupercargo; having on board 260 ankers of brandy, and 262 bales of tobacco.-Reckoning this fine veffel only at one thousand pounds, the brandy at fif teen fhillings the anker, and the tobacco at one filling and eight pence per lib. this feizure exceeds four thousand pounds Sterling, which being added to the feizures lately made upon the Ayrhire coaft, the fmugglers in that part of the country alone have loft goods to the va lue of about eight thousand pounds Sterling within a few weeks.

Jan. 4. At a meeting of the Truftces for building the South Bridge, and máking other improvements in the city, Thomas Elder, Efq; merchant in Edinburgh, was chosen a Trustee to fupply the vacancy occafioned by the death of Sir James Hunter-Blair of Dunskey, Bt.

The following is a state of the Votes at the Election of a Peer in the room of

the late Earl of Dalhoufie on the 10th

current :

For the Earl of DUMFRIES, Peers Prefent. Marquis of Tweeddale. Earls of Buchan, Glencairn, Kellie, Hadington, Lauderdale, Dumfries, Selkirk, Aboyne, Glasgow. Lord Elibank..

Proxy. Lord Sommerville.

Signed Lifts. Prince of Wales (Duke of Rothfay), Earls of Crawford, Elgin, Breadalbane, Aberdeen, Hopetoun. Lords Salton, Sempill, Torphichen, Cranston, Kirkcudbright,

Kirkcudbright, Banff, Colville, Ochiltree, Ballenden, Kinnaird ;-Total 27.

For Lord CATHCART, Peers Prefent. Duke of Buccleugh. Earls of Caithnefs, Balcarras, Hyndford. Lords Cathcart, Elphinftone, Napier. Proxy. Earl of Eglinton.

Signed Lifts. Duke of Lennox. Earls of Morton, Galloway, Findlater, Moray, Leven, Dundonald, Kintore, Stair, Portmore, Bute, Deloraine. Viscounts Falkland, Stormont, Dumblane. Lords Forbes, Gray, Colville (Culros), Fairfax, Rutherford;-Total 28.

Protefts were taken against Vife. Dumblane, Lord Fairfax, Lord Colville of Culrofs, Earl of Moray, Lord Rutherford, and Lord Colville of Ochiltree.

Vifc. Dumblane (Duke of Leeds) is objected againft, as not having qualified properly-Lord Colville of Cuirofs for the fame reafon-Lord Fairfax for having qualified previous to the iffuing of the proclamation-Lord Rutherford, becaufe not known, and there being an exprefs order of the Houfe of Peers 1762 against affuming this title and Lord Colville of Ochiltree is objected to, on the part of Lord Cathcart, as having no right to claim that title.

After the election, LORD CATHCART, in an elegant speech, returned his thanks to the Peers, for the great honour they had conferred upon him.

This election, it is faid, will be brought under review of the Houfe of Peers. Should the numbers be equal, it is fuppofed there must be a new election, as, by the prefent mode, there is no prefident or chairman, and consequently no cafting vote.

The Court of Seffion met upon Tuefday the 15th, when the ceremony of receiving the Lord Prefident took place. Mr Maclaurin alfo prefented his Majefty's letter, appointing him one of the Ordinary Lords of Seffion, and having gone through the ufual forms, as Lord Probationer, on the 17th took his feat on the Bench by the title of Lord Dreghorn.

The Lord Prefident, after taking the chair, addreffed the Court in nearly the following words:

"My Lords, Thofe who know me will readily believe me, that many things are at this time labouring in my mind; but I will follow the example of my predeceffor, and will make no fpeech upon the occafion. I fhall therefore avoid the danger of faying too little in his praife,

and of faying too much, to difparage the choice which the King has been pleafed to make of me as his fucceffor. If I canties, I hope, and I know, that I bring not bring to this chair his fhining abili with me his independency of mind, his love of truth, and his love of juftice; and if to thefe I can add my utmost application to carry on, and dispatch the bufinefs of the Court, then I may hope, that, if I cannot repair, I may at leaft alleviate the lofs which your Lordships and the Court have fuftained by the death of your late Prefident."

A Court of Jufliciary was held immediately after the Court of Seffion rose, when Lord Braxfield was received as Lord Juftice Clerk, and Lord Swinton as one of the Lords Commiffioners of

Jufticiary.

21. This day the High Court of Jufticiary met to give judgment on the informations in the profecution at the inftance of Mr Penrofe Cumming of AlLeflie. In the month of July laft, on a tyre, &c. against the Rev. Mr William motion from the counfel for the profe cutors, the Court deferted the diet fimpliciter, but, on account of fome difagreement refpecting a compromife that was to have taken place between the parties, the profecutor, having got fome other gentlemen freeholders to concur with him, ferved Mr Leslie with a new Court therefore was, Whether the proindictment. The queftion before the fecutors were not barred from bringing a new action, by their desertion of the diet in July laft and upon this point informations were ordered.

Their Lordships delivered their opinions at great length; and it was the fenfe of part of the Court, that, for a period of above feventy years paft, no new action had been brought after the diet had been deferted fimpliciter; but that, when profecutors meant to preferve to themselves the right of bringing a new action, the words pro loco et tempore were always inferted. Others of their Lordships were of opinion that the terms were fynonimous. The former opinion was carried by a majority of one.

The following is the interlocutor of the Court on the queftion: "The Lord Juftice Clerk, &c. having confidered the objection ftated for the pannel, in bar of procedure upon the prefent libel at laft diet of Court, with the debate thereupon, and information given in for the pannel and profecutors, in obedience to

the

the order of Court, and before recorded-they fuftain the objection offered for the pannel in bar of procedure; and therefore difmifs the libel and the pan.

nel from the bar.”

Jan. 22. Was prefented to the Hon. the Truftees for Fisheries, Manufactures, and Improvements in Scotland, the model of a weaving machine, invented by a gentleman from Galloway. Although this rude model was made almost entirely with a common knife, yet he has been able to weave a little web fourteen inch es broad in it. A vast number of these machines may be put in motion by the force of water, of a horse, or of a team engine, and three or more webs may be wrought in one machine, and will require the attendence only of a boy, to dress the web, take up the broken threads, and renew the pirns in the fhuttles.

At the fame time, there was also prefented, a rude model of a new pirn wheel, invented by the fame gentleman, which will enable one boy to fill twelve, twenty, or even a greater number of bobbins, or pirns, in the fame time that he would formerly have taken to fill one; and this machine will fill them much more regularly than the common pirn wheel. Thefe machines are fo fimple, that they will coft little more than the common loom and pirn wheel.

At the defire of the Hon. Trustees, the rude models of thefe machines were inspected by Mr Playfair, Professor of Mathematics in the Úniverfity of Edinburgh, and by Meff. M'Vicar and Nifbet, gentlemen well skilled in manufactures and mechanics, who were unanimoufly of opinion, that the invention of thefe machines were entirely new, and they might prove highly beneficial in many branches of manufactures.

The Hon. Trustees have ordered complete models of thefe machines to be exer cuted at their expence, under the direction of the original inventor.

Jan. 28. Lord George Gordon was brought up to the Bar of the Court of King's Bench at Weftmiufter-Hall, to receive fentence, when he was ordered to be imprisoned in Newgate three years for the first offence he had been found guilty of, and two years more for the fecond offence-and to pay a fine of five hundred pounds.

MARRIAGES.
Dec. 31. Mr Eneas Morrifon, writer
Edinburgh, was married at Clafgow,

to Mifs Ifabella Weir, daughter of James Weir, Efq; of Greenock.

Jan. 1.1788. At Kinordy, Arch. Grant, Efq; younger of Monymufk, to Mifs Mary Forbes, daughter of Major John Forbes of New.

14. At Dumfries, Mr William Boyd, bookfeller, to Mifs Peggy Moffat, both of that place. BIRTH.

Jan. 18. In Prince's Street, Edinburgh, the lady of the Right Hon. Lord Napier, of a daughter.

DEATH S.

Dec. 27. At Edinburgh, in the twentyfecond year of his age, John Turner Grier, Efq; fecond fon of John Grier, Efq; of Lurgan, Ireland. He had con cluded his academic education at Cam→ bridge, and was a member of the Medical Society of this city.

27. Mr Robert M'Nair, fenior, mer◄ chant in Glasgow.

28. George Miller, Efq; merchant in Glasgow.

29. At Arbroath, the Rev. Mr Alex. Mackie, minifter of the gospel of that place.

29. Mr George Dunfmure, merchant in Edinburgh.

29. Mr John Bryce, bookfeller in Glaf gow.

29. At Kilpatrick, the Rev. Mr Arch. Wood, a Burgher minifter.

29. At Pittodry, in the 81ft year of his age, William Erfkine, Efq.

29. At Eaftend, near Lanark, Michael Carmichael of Hezleheath, Elg.

30. At Kirkhill, Alexander Innes, Efq; late of Cathlaw.

31. Mifs Jane Baird, daughter of the late William Baird, Efq; of Newbyth. Jan. 1. At Limecraigs, in Argylefhire, Dugald Cempbell, Efq; of Kentarbert.

1. At Renton Houfe, Sir John Home of Renton, Baronet.

1. At Queensferry, David Crawford, Efq; of Carronbank, Captain-Lieutenant in the late 83d regiment.

1. At Montrofe, Mr David Mudie fon of Doctor John Mudie, physician. r. Mr Daniel Douglas vintner, Edinburgh.

1. At Kilmarnock, Janet Allan, aged 105. About four years ago her fight re turned in a great meafure, after it was long dim by reafon of age.-She went to kirk and market till within a few days of her death, and retained her fenfes to the laft,

Jan. 1.

Jan. 1. At Bath, where he had gone for the benefit of his health, Duncan Grant, Esq; Provost of Forres.

2. Mr Thomas Allan, at Kirklifton Mains.

4. At his father's houfe in Brifto Street, Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Clark.

5. Mifs Philadelphia Carruthers, daughter of John Carruthers of Holmains. 6. Mrs Mary Pringle, daughter of the deceafed Mr Thomas Pringie, writer to the fignet.

7. At his houfe in Robert Street, Adelphi, Andrew Gray, Efq; agent to the Ayr Bank.

8. At Kilfon in Herefordshire, the Right Rev. Dr John Harley, Bishop of Hereford, Dean of Windfor, and Regiftrar of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter. His Lordship was confecrated in November laft, and inftalled about a month fince. He was born on the 29th of September 1728; married Roach, daughter of Gwynne Vaughan, Esq; of Trebarry in Radnorfhire, by whom he has iffue, 1. Edward, born Feb. 20, 1773; 2. John, born Dec. 31, 1774; and two daughters, Frances and Martha. His Lordship was heir apparent to the prefent E of Oxford. 11. At his lodgings in Whitcombe Street, Captain James Sinclair, in the fervice of the Hon. Eaft India Company.

12. At Stranraer, Mr Tho. Naismith, writer in Edinburgh.

14. At Garthamlock, parish of Barony, in the 73d year of his age, Mr John Hamilton of Garthamlock.

14. At Dundee, John Ballingall, writer in Dundee, in the 87th year of his age.

14. At Dumfries, Capt. Walter Johnftone, in an advanced age.

14. At Bath, Mr Smyth, father to Mrs Fitzherbert, of Pall-mall.

15. The Rev. Mr William Peterkin, one of the minifters of Eigin.

16. At Glasgow, Captain Addison of the 56th regiment.

16. At Stirling, Mrs Don, relict of the late Provoft Don.

16. At Rothiemay, the Countess of Fife.

17. At Roffie, Mrs Margaret Cheape, daughter of the deceafed James Cheape, Efq; of Roffie.

17. Mrs. Margaret Muir, relict of the late Andrew Thomfon, Efq; advocate in Aberdeen.

18. At Leith, Mifs Wilhelmina Middleton, daughter of George Middleton,

Efa; Comptroller of the Cufioms at Leith.

Jan. 18. At Rutherglen, Gabriel Gray, Efq; Provost of that burgh.

18. At Dumfries, Mrs Ilenr. Blair, fif ter of the late Provoft Blair of that place. 19. At Elcho Caitle, Mr John Donaldfon.

20. At Duplin, Robert Wation, Efq; late of Eafter Rhynd, in the 72d year of his age.

20. At her house in Crichton Street, Mrs Margaret Kennedy, widow of Mr John Hamilton of jamaica.,

21. At Banff, Alexander Dirom, Efq; of Muiresk.

22. Alexander Robertson, Efq; one of the principal Clerks of Seffion.

22. At Youngfield, near Dumfries, Mr Ebenezer Young, fecond fon of Thomas Young, Efq; of Youngfield.

23. James Home Rigg of Morton, Esq; 23. Captain George Robertion of the City Guard.

23. John Elliot, Efq; of Binfield, in the county of Berks, many years Gover nor of the four great Royal Hospitals.

24. In the Abbey, aged 85, Mr H. Pren tice, who first introduced the culture of potatoes into this country. His coffia, for which he paid two guineas, has hung in his houfe thefe nine years; and he took the undertaker's written obligation to fcrew him down with his own hands gratis.

25. At his houfe in Ely-place, P. P. Waith, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Phyficians, Lecturer on Midwifery, and Phyfician to the General Lying-in, and the Brownlow-Street Hofpitals, &c. who from extensive abilities had obtained an establishment in his profeffion, rarely acquired at the age of five or fix and twenty.-In diffecting a perfon whofe diforder he wifhed perfectly to afcertain, he fcratched his finger, and was advised by a gentleman prefent to cut away the part; inftead of which, be washed it with warm water and foap, and applied fome oil; but the infectious matter became inftantly abforbed, and occafioned a putrid fever, which was foon judged fatal, and in three days from its commencement proved fo.

At his houfe in Bernerd Street, London, Arthur Cuthbert, Efq; lately from India.

Lately in St Ann's parifh, Iffe of Man, in the tooth year of his age, Daniel Teare, labourer.

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