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the fummer as well as winter in the light-houfes on the oppofite banks of the Meufe, to prevent the accidents to which English fhips are expofed in cloudy weather. 9th.

This day the Enconia at Oxford, which began on Wednesday, ended; and is faid to have been the grandest that ever was celebrated in that university. The university of Oxford, in full convocation, paffed a vote for appointing a fubftitute to fill the Vinerian Law Profefforfhip in the abfence of Mr. Juftice Chambers, who is appointed one of the Puifne Judges for the Eat-Indies; that gentleman having the option, within three years, of returning to his profefforship, should it prove more agreeable.

On Wednesday the great caufe long depending between the heirs of the late Gen. Stanwix, his lady and daughter, was finally determined before Lord Mansfield, in the court of King's-bench: The counfel recapitulated the old arguments relating to the probability of each party being drowned before the other; but the court advifed them to compromise the matter, and let all parties come in upon an equal footing; which was agreed to.

An action was brought in the court of King's-Bench against a pawnbroker, on the ftatute against ufury; when it was proved, that the defendant took 135. intereft for five days loan of 261. 5s. The plaintiff recovered treble the fum lent, and had accordingly a verdict for 781. 15 s.

A letter from Charles-Town, South-Carolina, dated May 14, fays, "The war between the two India nations of Creeks and Choc

taws, which has fubfifted for feveral years paft, is again carried on with great inveteracy on both fides. In a late engagement the Creek Indians had 19 warriors killed, among whom was half-bred Molton, a noted and principal head man of that nation. The Young Twin, another head man, was in the party, but efcaped and got fafe, with an account of the difafter, to his own country."

A Jew from Poland, travelling through Birmingham, was fet upon by a defperate fet of young villains, who robbed him of 201. and upwards, and beat and otherwife mifufed him in a barbarous manner. It is now 22 years ago fince a poor Polish Jew was robbed of a like fum, for which one Goddard was apprehended and tried at the OldBailey, but acquitted.

A baker, who had been a long time confined in the gaol at Lynn, near Norfolk, for debt, being told by the keeper that his rigid creditor had neglected paying his groats, and that he was now at liberty, the furprize had fo great an effect on him that he dropped down dead.

Robert Gunning, Eiq; the British minifter at Peteriburgh, was invefted with the eniigns of the order of the Bath, by the hands of the Emprefs, and, at her own appointment, on the anniversary of her acceffion to the throne. After the ceremony, the Empress defired Sir Robert to wear the fword with which he had been knigh ed

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This day the fellions ended at the Old Bailey, when ten prifoners were capitally convicted; 49 were fentenced to be tranfported for feven years; one for 14 years; eight branded in the hand; fix to be privately whipped; [1] 4

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and 31 were discharged by procla

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Among thofe capitally convicted was John Lennard, for ravishing Mifs Bofs. Lennard was a bailiff's follower, and was left by Mr. Vere, a fheriff's officer, in poffeffion of a houfe in Westminster, into which he had carried an execution, and in which Mifs Bofs was a lodger. On the 15th of June the maid went out in the evening, and left nobody in the houfe but the prifoner, and his two affociates, and Mifs Bofs: Lennard foon began to be rude to the young lady, and being repulfed, behaved to her in a manner too fhocking to be mentioned. She screamed out and made all the refiftance in her power, feized the villain by the throat and ftruggled with him till fhe loft her fenfes: a neighbour hearing her fcream, and fufpecting fome foul play, knocked at the door, and enquiring what might be the caufe, Lennard opened the window, and made anfwer it was only a drunken woman, and retired. The fact was fully proved, and he was capitally convicted. His two affociates, whofe names are Graves, and Guy, were indicted, as a ceffaries after the fact, and being found guilty, were burnt in the hand, and fentenced to remain in Newgate one whole year.

A countryman having bought fome linen, at a fhop in Holborn, offered in payment a light guinea, which the mafter of the fhop instantly clipt in two. The countryman flared first at his guinea, and then at the man that clipt it; and inatching up the fciffars, made a chop at the hep keeper's hand, cut off the fift joint of his middle finger and then ran away.

On Saturday afternoon a fire broke out at Wapping-Wall, in the parish of Shadwell, occafioned by the careleffness of a perfon who attended the heating of a pitch kettle, which boiled over, and occafioned the confuming of about 15 houses.

The following is an extract of a letter from Bombay, dated Nov. 26.-" Our whole attention at prefent is taken up on an expedition against Broach, a small way to the northward of Surat. We made an attempt last year, and brought the Nabob to terms, who paid us a vifit at Bombay, and settled matters; but he deceived us in the end, and trifled in fo fhameful a manner, as to render it abfolutely neceffary to fubdue him, which we effected. He made a valiant defence, worthy a better character, he being dreaded by his own fubjects, and every nation round us, as a cruel tyrant.

"The expedition was commanded by Gen. Wedderburn and Mr. Watfon, our fuperintendant of Marines. The troops confifted of about 1000 Europeans, and between 2 and 3000 Seapoys. The general, as I hear, rather difapproving of the ground for the encampment, went to reconnoitre on horseback, was noticed by the enemy, and fhot through the head with a ginjawl, either from the walls, or through treachery, as the Nabob had made propofals, but no faith could be put in him.

"These people are so dexterous with the ginjawl piece, which is a very long gun, that it is common for a man to hit an orange at the distance of 150 yards four times cut of fix.

"In this unlucky manner fell General Wedderburn, of extenfive abilities

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abilities, indeed too great for the field he had to act in, and well worth a better fate: he was a warm friend, and poffeffed many good qualities.

"On the 23d inft. we received advice, that Broach was attacked by ftorm on the 19th, and that the firing had not ceafed when the exprefs came away.

"We have this inftant, fince writing the above, received the agreeable news of the fall of Broach, where we have been very fuccefsful, having only loft in the whole the general and fix officers killed, and about ten wounded. Among the killed are, John Campbell, called Tall Campbell, Lieutenant Blach of artillery, Enfign L'Eftrange, and a cadet of the name of Carrick."

Hague, July 8. We hear from Brome in the county of Zell, that their fields lately promised the most abundant harveft; but they have now unhappily experienced a moft terrible reverse. A ftorm has deftroyed all the fruits of the earth. No perfons there, it is faid, were ever witnesses to fuch hail, both as to its quantity and duration, Many of the hail-ftones were of the fize of a common coffee-cup, with many points, and were prodigiously hard. The deftruction occafioned by this ftorm is immenfe. Whole villages, befides the lofs of their harvelt, have had all their fowls killed or dangerously wounded, and the cattle of all forts have greatly fuffered. The linen, which was fpread in order to be whitened, was torn in pieces, and feveral perfons, who were not able to reach fhelter, were killed or mortally wounded.

The Landgrave of Heffe Caffel had published an ordinance for

bidding the ufe of coffee; a magiftrate, however, was imprudent enough to treat his guests with coffee, and a fchoolmaster gave fome to his fervants: they were both condemned to fuffer the punifhment inflicted by the law, which is confinement for a certain time to hard labour. The magiftrate offered 100 Louis to be pardoned; but he was told, that to preferve the law in its proper force, it was not in the power of money to buy a delinquent off, which would confine the punishment to the poor, and increase the number of prevaricators among the rich.

Edinburgh, July 13. On the 2zd of laft month, between feven and eight hundred people from the Lewis iflands, failed from Stornoway for America. They complained much of the oppreffions they laboured under, which, they fay, obliged them to quit their country.

A young gentleman, na- zoth. tural fon to a late eminent attorney in the Temple, was taken into cuftody, being charged with forging the Will of a gentlewoman, in which he had made himself her fole executor, and had taken out letters of adminiftration at Doctors Commons, by virtue of which he had fold South Sea ftock to the amount of 350 l. in order to pay off the pretended legacies as expreffed in this Will, but had converted the fame to his own use. The fraud was detected by the gen tlewoman's appearing at the SouthSea houfe, in order to receive her dividend, when, to her great aftonishment, the was told the was dead, her Will administered to, and her ftock difpofed of. She was

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ftruck with the deepest forrow, when he was told by whom. She had been entrusted with the care of the youth in his infancy, and loved him as her own child. A melancholy inftance this, of the temptation to which unexperienced youth are expofed, by the prevailing diffipation and extravagance of the times!

This day the Recorder made the report to his Majefty in council of the capital convicts in Newgate, viz. Thomas Younger, James Younger, and Thomas Grear, for breaking and entering the houfe of Mrs. Mortimer, Milliner, in Gravel-lane, Ratcliff highway, and ftealing a quantity of effects. Jo. deph Holmes and Maurice Murray, for burglariously breaking open the houfe of John Wiley, in Crowcourt, Whitecrofs-ftreet, and stealing a cafk of liquor, two coats, &c. Thomas Plunkett, for robbing Mr. Dudley on the highway, between Highgate and Ilington. Alexander Montgomery, for breaking and entering the house of Mr. Craig, in Holborn, and ftealing a table cloth. John Lennard, for committing a rape on Mifs Ann Bols. William Eames, for uttering a counterfeit Bank note for 40 1. knowing it to be forged. Francis Grainger, for being at large after receiving fentence of transportation. And Mary Delany, convicted of felony in February feffion, bat refpited by the Judge on account of her pregnancy. His Majefty was pleased to refpite James Younger, Alexander Montgomery, Francis Grainger, and Mary Delany. The law is left to take its courfe with the others, and they are to be executed on Wednesday the 11th of Auguft.

It is faid that the late Lord Tyrawley, who died on the 13th inft. begged fome time before his death that he might be laid in the burying-ground of the Royal Hofpital at Chelfea, with the old foldiers of that foundation, faying, "As he had bravely lived with them in the field, fo he wifhed, after death, that his remains might be depofited with theirs." A request that clofed the life of this noble

veteran.

At a general court of the 22d. proprietors of the East-India Company, the refolution of not appointing Gen. Clavering Cominander in Chief of the Company's forces in India, was confirmed.

Peterburgh, June 22. Her Serene Highness the Landgravine of Heffe Darmstadt, and the three Princeffes her daughters, arrived at Revel on Tuesday night lafst, after a voyage of 10 days, from Lubeck; and they are expected this evening at Zarfco-Zelo.

Paris, July 2. The 24th of laft month two girls, one of 12, and the other of 13 years old, were feeding four cows and a heifer on a h, named Coteau de Rofe, in the territory of Afpres. About four o'clock in the afternoon, the cows fuddenly began to run, and one of the girls followed them in order to flop them, while the other was giving bread to the heifer; at the fame time a fubterraneous noife was heard, and all the ground which the cows had juft left fell in. Diligent fearch has been made for the other girl and the heifer, but to no purpose.

By letters from Prague we have advice, that Mr. Coulton, an Englih merchant reliding in Bohemia, has lately received from her Im

perial Majefty the Emprefs Queen, a prefent of her Majefty's cypher, fet in diamonds, as a teftimony of her Majesty's approbation of the great relief given by that gentleman to the poor, during the late fcarcity of corn.

At the request of the 31ft. Lords of the Treafury, the Bank gave notice in this night's Gazette, that any quantity of guineas, half-guineas, and quarterguineas, (cut and defaced agreeable to the act) not less than fifty guineas in a parcel, will be taken in there on Monday, Auguft 2, and every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, till further notice, at the rate of 3 1. 17 s. 10 d. per ounce.

By an act of parliament made in King William's reign, and yet unrepealed," whoever takes or pays away any milled money, not cut to pieces, for less than it paffed current when firft coined, fhall be deemed guilty of felony, and fuffer death accordingly.”

A young lady, at St. Merrin in Cornwall, threw herself from the top

of an high cliff into the fea, and was drowned; her corpfe was much defaced by dafhing against the rocks. This melancholy affair is faid to have been occafioned by her father's refufing to let her fee a young fellow a few hours before he died.

Edinburgh, July 27. This day the court of Seffions determined the important queftion, which has been fo long agitated in this and our neighbouring country, viz. Whether authors fhould have a perpetual exclufive property in their works, or a limited one. The caufe before the court was a profecution brought by Mr. Hinton, a

London bookfeller, against three Scotch booksellers, for printing and vending Stackhoufe's Hiftory of the Bible, firft published in the year 1732. The caufe was argued by the council at the bar for four days, with much learning, ingenuity, and acutenefs. After which the judges delivered their opinions at great length, and by a majority of twelve to one, fuflained the de fences, and affoilzied the defenders from the profecu ion brought against them by the London bookfellers. It is faid this caufe will be removed to the Houfe of Lords in England, and there finally determined.

DIED lately, Abraham Cowley, Efq; of Dublin, who dying a batchelor, has left his fortune to the hofpital for lunatics.

At his houfe in Rofe-court, Ratcliffe - Highway, aged 71, Mr. Charles Munder, who was originally a coal-porter, but for fome years paft had dealt in feamens tickets, and let out money to intereft, by which means he died poffeffed of upwards of 7000 1. which will devolve to his niece, now fervant at a public-houfe in Southwark, and the only relation he has living.

At Lambeth, in the 104th year of his age, Mr. John Drickly. He was formerly a furgeon in the army, and was at the battle of Culloden: he retained his fenfes till within ten minutes of his death.

At Greenwich, Captain Ridley, aged 104. He was a commander in Queen Anne's wars, and loft both his legs in the fervice.

At Cardigan, aged 92, Philip ap Morrice, Elq; who by his will has ordered 31 calves heads to be given

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