happened, as the pit is near the fea, the fulness of the tide might have been affigned as the reason: but it was low ebb, and, when the tide returned, it fubfided. Two men belonging to Mr. Cooke's brew-houfe, at Newport, in the isle of Wight, attempting to go down a ladder into a large ftore-cak, in order to clean it, were immediately fuffocated, notwithftanding no beer had been therein for near four months paft. Another man, in endeavouring to get them out, was very near fharing the fame unhappy fate; but a precaution having been taken to tie a rope round his body, he was, on falling, immediately drawn up, though it was feveral hours before he recovered. A counsellor of the old Parliament of France, travelling lately through the Limofin, met with a man of 114 years of age, who complained of wanting work: he was a fhoemaker by trade. The Counfellor defired him to procure the register of his birth, which he fent to the Comptroller-General, and the King being informed of it, his Majefty hath given this old man a penfion which will make him eafy for the remainder of his days. Ibraham Agra, ambaffa24th. dor from Tripoli, had his firft private audience of his Majefty. He brought with him from the Dey of Algiers, fix fine Arabian horfes, and four mares, as a prefent to his Majesty. A feizure to the amount of 15,000l. and upwards, confifting of French filks and blond lace, was made by Meffrs. Roufe and Tankard, riding officers, affifted by a party of dragoons, in a houfe at Horton, near Hythe, in Kent. There was alfo a writ of 800 l. iffued from the Exchequer, on which the tenant of the house was made prifoner, and brought to Canterbury, where he gave bail, and was released. This is fuppofed to be the greatest seizure that has been made for many years. DIED lately, at Gwyllgyth, in Glamorganfhire, Mr. Lewis Evan Morgan, in the 98th year of his age. He has left the whole of his little fortune to an housekeeper who lived with him many years; and his will is nearly comprized in these words: "I give to my old faithful fervant, Efther Jones, the whole that I am poffeffed of, either in perfonal property, land, or otherwife. She is a tolerable good woman, but would be much better if he had not fo clamorous a tongue. She has, however, one great virtue, which is a veil to all her foibles-Strict honesty." At Cloonterk, county of Mayo, in Ireland, John Jones, aged 1oz years. In Grub-ftreet, Mr. Horton, who acquired a fortune of 20col. by letting out wheel barrows, &c. to the poor. Mrs. Mary Duff, of Edinburgh, aged 102. At Gillingham, in Kent, Martha Collins, aged 102. Captain Thomas Forbes, of Harwich, aged 102. and fuch other ornaments as are neceffary to complete the original defign of the architect), lately applied to the body of Royal Academicians for their fuperintendance and fupport. In confequence of this application (the fubject being previously communicated to the members) there was a meeting of the whole of that body lately, at Somerset houfe; when, after the prefident and feveral others had ably expatiated on the honour and utility deduced from fo national and public-fpirited a work, it was refolved that fix members fhould be forthwith appointed to carry the fame into execution, each beginning with painting a picture agreeable to the defign that may be hereafter agreed on. The following are the names of thofe appointed for this undertaking: Mrs. Angelica Kauffman, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sig. Cypriani, Mr. Weft, Mr. Dance, and Mr. Barry. On an oval tablet on the 4th. front of the farcophagus of Gen. Wolfe's monument in Weftminster Abbey, juft opened, is the following infcription: To the Memory of JAMES WOLFE, Efq; Major General and Commander in Chief of the British Land Forces On an expedition against Quebec, Who, Surmounting by Ability and Valour All Obftacles of Art and Nature, In the Moment of Victory, 6th. Dedicate this Monument. At the final clofe of the poll this day at Guildhall, for the election of Lord Mayor for the year enfuing, the numbers stood as follow: Wilkes 1683 506 majority. Bull 1649 472 S Sawbridge 1177 Oliver 1093 了 This day a ferjeant of the third regiment of guards, who, on Wedneiday laft, was tried by a court martial for enlifting men for the government's fervice, and afterwards enticing them to enter into that of the French, and fentenced to be fhot, was reprieved, and ordered to receive 900 lafhes on the parade; a punishment thought by many more terrible than death isfelf. Many fcandalous representations having been circulated relative to the repairs of the harbour of Dunkirk, eight masters of veffels to that port have folemnly declared, that all the reparations which are carrying on there, are only on one fide of the quay, where it was dangerous for merchant ships to lie: and that thofe reparations confift only in drawing out the old rotten piles, and replacing them with new, for the greater fafety of trade, and for no warlike purpose or defence whatever. On the 10th of last month, Lukawski and Cybulski, the two regicides condemned at Warfaw to be beheaded, were executed. They tion the fame way they had obliged were brought to the place of executhe King to go in the night of the 3d of November, escorted by all the guards of the crown, and a ftrong detachment of Uhlans: they were both dreffed in white, went in feparate waggons, and two Capuchins with them. In a third waggon were Kofinfki, Offenberg, and Pefinski, who, with Lukawski's wife, were all to be prefent at the execution. execution. CHRONICLE. Kofinfki was in tears all the way he went. Lukawfki af cended the fcaffold firft, with great fortitude, and to the aftonishment of every body prefent, made a very affecting fpeech, wherein he confelfed his guilt, and hoped for par-, don; after which he fat down on the chair, and would have nothing tied over his eyes, but holding his head as upright as he could, gave the fignal for the blow, which followed immediately; after which, his hands were cut off, his body opened, and the infide put in a bag, then quartered and burnt. Cybulski, who was obliged to be a fpectator of all this, then mounted the fcaffold, and fat down in the chair, where his head was likewife taken off, and his body fuffered to be buried. The executioner, who was fent for out of Ermeland, made a fpeech to the people, and particularly addreffed himself to the elder part of the fpectators, advifing them to be careful fo to bring up their children, that they might never come to the unhappy end of the late unfortunate wretches, whom he had juft executed. On the 13th ult. the Emperor arrived at his palace at Schonbrun, near Vienna, from Poland. The Emperor is faid to have travelled on horfeback, on his late tour, about 700 German miles, eating only once in the evening of each day, of fuch food as he found where he flopt, and flept on a ftraw-bed, covered only with his cloak. The 66th regiment of foot, commanded by Lord Adam Gordon, is just returned from Jamaica, where it has been ftationed nine years, and is ordered to Berwick upon Tweed. The above regiment has [14 been three times recruited fince it 9th. A bailiff and his follower A bargeman was shot dead in an As the workmen were lately digging for the foundation of a new vault in the chancel of the church at Chertfey, in Surry, for Sir Jofeph Mawbey, they difcovered a leaden coffin, in which was depofited the body of a woman, in the higheft ftate of prefervation. The face of the corpfe appeared perfectly fresh, and the lace of the linen about it feemed found, notwithstanding it muft have been buried many ages. As the church is a very ancient ftructure, and built with the abbey in the time of the Saxons, fome laid there before the Norman conpeople fuppofe the body may have queft. The coffin was opened in digging, from whence iffued many gallons of a liquid, in fmell not unlike oil: this liquid probably preferved the body from putrefacdepofited tion. The corpfe was immediately depofited in another part of the chancel, to the great regret of fome ingenious gentlemen, who wished to have examined the nature and effects of a compofition that feems unknown to the moderns. There was no infcription to be met with that discovered the name of the perfon interred. On the 18th past. was executed at Penfarn, in Carmarthenshire, for a robbery on the highway, William Thomas, who was one of the perfons concerned in the murder of Mr. Powell, and was an evidence against those who fuffered for that atrocious crime. Meffrs. Wilkes and Bull were this day returned to the Court of Aldermen by the Sheriffs, as having the majority of votes for ferving the office of Lord-Mayor; when the number of Aldermen who fcratched for each being equal, it was decided in favour of Alderman Bull, by the cafting voice of the prefent Lord-Mayor, who had upon this occafion two votes. markable on their route to Italy, he conducted them to the fubterranean canal of communication now carrying on between the Somme and the Escaut, in order to unite thofe two rivers. After viewing it, they expreffed great aftonifhment, as it seemed an undertaking fuperior to any attempts of the like fort made by the ancient Romans. The letter adds, that the Duke and Dutchess travel incog: under the titles of Count and Countess of Dublin, and desire that no public honours may be fhewn them. The body of a man quite putrified was taken out of a parlour chimney, at Mr. Douglas's, in Mount-ftreet, Grosvenor - fquare, The family had been out of town fome months, and on the maid's lighting a fire in the grate, it fmoaked fo that they were almoft fuffocated; a chimney-fweeper was then fent for, who found the ob. ftruction. It is supposed to be the body of a perfon coming down in The Aldermen fcratched in the order to rob the house, but the chimney being narrow, he fuck in it. Were interred, with a magnificence becoming his 19th. dignity, in the family vault at Holme-Pierpoint, in Nottinghamfhire, the remains of his Grace the Duke of Kingston. As fome workmen were digging up the foundations of two old houfes in Trinity-lane, they found a large quantity of the finest tallow melted into a mafs, fuppofed to have lain there ever fince the fire of London.. The cloaths of the late zoth. Diana Bofwell, Queen of the Gypfies, value 50l. were burnt in the middle of the mint, South wark, wark, by her principal courtiers, according to ancient cuftom; it being too great an honour for fubjects to be cloathed in robes of state, and too great a difgrace for her fucceffor to appear in fecond-hand royalty. Her remains were interred the day before in Newington church-yard, at which ceremony, more than 200 of her loyal fubjects were present. York, O. 12. Laft Sunday morning a violent hurricane happened, which blew down the house of William Turton, of Marton lordship, near this city, and all the out-buildings were levelled quite to the ground. Six people were in the houfe, two of whom, the wife and fon, were forced out of it, and terribly crushed: the other four were buried in the ruins, one of whom was unfortunately killed, but the rest are likely to do well. His corn-ttacks were blown away, part of which were carried above two miles, and part difperfed fo as not to be found. Several large trees were torn up by the roots, and carried to a great diftance, and in a field adjoining part of the corn was blown entirely away. Another perfon, at the fame time, had his barn raised above two feet, which afterwards returned into its place again. All the houfhold furniture belonging to William Turton was entirely deftroyed, and himfelf, wife, and five children, are reduced to the greatest distress. Petersburg, Sept. 10. On Wednefday laft was exhibited here, before the Emprefs and the whole court, a reprefentation of the taking of the fortrefs of Giurgewo. The fiege was conducted in the regular forms by the train of artillery, under the direction of the grand mafter Prince Orlow, affifted by the Preobrazinski regiment of guards, After a cannonade and bombard ment of near two hours, during which time the regular approaches were made, the outworks of the fortrefs filenced, and a breach ef fected by the battering cannon, the foldiers were seen to mount to the affault, and the place furrendered. In the course of the fiege feveral mines were fprung, the magazines of powder in the place took fire, and no incident was omitted which could contribute to give the fpectators a perfect idea of the manner in which fuch an attack is carried on. Afterwards a magnificent firework was played off on a ftage built on the river for that purpose; which concluded the entertainment of the day, at the whole of which, the Emprefs was pleased to express great fatisfaction." Yesterday her Imperial Majefty, attended by the court, went to hear folemn mass at the fortress of Petersburg, and to offer up her prayers for the fouls of those killed in battle, which is an annual custom in time of war. Rome, Sept. 12. The plate which has been taken out of the Jefuits churches, amounts to 6400 pounds weight, which has been all carried to the mount of piety. The Chafubles, and other ornaments fet with precious ftones, are depofited at mount Cavallo. The congregation of Cardinals, deputed to examine the affairs of the Ex-Jefuits, continue their operations. 9th instant they arrefted the Abbe Catrani de Caftillo, Arch-priest to the collegiate of St. Eustatius, in his own house, and fent him to the caftle of St. Angelo the fame night; as was likewife the Abbe Comoli, The Secretary |
