were capitally convicted; but were all reprieved for transportation. At Worcester affizes, four were capitally convicted, all of whom were reprieved, At Winchefter aflizes, twelve were capitally convicted; one of whom was executed, and the reft were reprieved for transportation. At York affizes, five were capitally convicted; one of whom was for a murder, and another for hightreafon, in diminishing the coin; One of the convicts were reprieved before the Judge left the town. Report of the State of the City Hoppitals, as read before the Goyer 4839 Remaining under cure 231 208 28 257 Mr. Reynolds, late Mr. 26th. Wilkes's under-fheriff, having applied on Saturday to the Petty-Bag-Office for Mr. Wilkes's certificate as one of the knights of the fhire for the county of Middlefex, Mr. Charles Frewen fhewed him the return to that office altered by the House of Commons, by the erazure of Mr. Wilkes's name, and the infertion of that of Mr. Lut, trel. Mr. Wilkes, however, in perfon went to the proper rooms at the Houfe of Commons, and demanded to be fworn, which the commiffioners applied to refufed. Mr. Wilkes 3987 then defired a member to fate the 391 facts to the Houfe; and wrote the 410 following paper to Mr. Glynn: 240 "Mr. Wilkes complains against Mr. Frewen, deputy-clerk of the crown, for refufing him the proper certificate as one of the knights of the hire for the county of Middlefex, and against Mr. Stracey, one of the clerks of the office where the members are ufually fworn, who informed Mr. Wilkes, that in the courfe of office no member can be fworn, who is elected fince the general election, without producing a certificate of fuch election from the clerk of the crown. JOHN WILKES." Mr. Glynn, on receiving this paper, moved, That Mr. Wilkes fhould be called in to make good his complaint against Mr. Frewen, which paffed in the negative, 225 against 124. While the members who divided in favour of Serjeant Glynn's mo tion were in the lobby, encouraged by the fullness of the Houfe, the friends of Mr. Wilkes applied to Sir George Saville to renew his motion relative to the rights of election, which he readily agreed to; and that motion being feconded by Mr. Dowdeswell, brought on a very warm debate, which ended in a divifion of the Houfe, when the numbers were for the motion, 151, against 201, majority in favour of miniftry 50. The call of the Houfe was put off to Monday, May 3. Mrs. Tonge, who kept a milliner's fhop in Fleet-ftreet, was this day tried at the Old Bailey upon two indictments. The first was for privately ftealing a piece of lace in the shop of Mr. Green in Cheapfide. Upon the fhopman's charging her with stealing the lace, fhe offered him twenty guineas to let her go; but he ftill perfifting in fending for a conftable, the threw her arms round him, told him the was not married, and that if he would forgive her, fhe would give him 100l. and he should have free accefs to her bed-chamber whenever he pleased; but as the cafe did not properly come within the defcription in the act refpecting fecret and private ftealing, fhe was, after two very long trials, acquitted of that part of both the indict. ments, and received fentence of transportation. On the 15th inftant, about a quarter past two, a fmart fhock of an earthquake was felt throughout the whole island of Guernfey. It lafted near a minute, and was accompanied with a noife like the rolling of a cart on a stone pavement. There was another bosk the next morning at and, of the whole company, 40 in· In 1771 Paris, April 16. A gang of robbers infeft this town under the name of Parafols. They go about the streets at nights, and carry an umbrella, from the tick of which comes out a fort of a cane with a leaden head, with which they affaflinate those whom they meet. Several perfons have lately been found murdered and robbed; and one of thefe wretches, on the night of Eafter-day, killed M. Joli, an advocate, in his bed. A number of people were fent out in purfuit of them. The annual regifter-fhip from the Havannah to Old Spain, on board of which 500,000 piaftres and 10,000 ounces of gold were embarked for his moft Catholic Majefty, and about twice that fum on the merchants account, was lost in her paffage, but by what accident is not faid. Orders have been fent to Portfmouth for fitting out fome men of war with all expedition. There are the ftrongest grounds to apprehend an approaching war. Ships are fitting out with uncommon expedition. His Majefty's proclamation is iffued for encouraging feamen and landmen to enter on board our fhips of war; and flocks have fallen from fix to twenty per cent. notwithstanding the minifter ftill cries Peace. Belfaft, April 6. The number of fhips, and their tonnage, that failed with paflengers from the North of Ireland for North-America, in the last two years, taken from the advertisements published in the Belfast News Letter, viz. 32 fhips 8900 Tons 1772 17350 It is fuppofed, on a moderate computation, that the number of paffengers were equal to the tons. The greateft part of thefe emigrants paid their paffage, which at 31. 10s. each, amounted to 60,7251. moft of them people employed in the linen manufacture, or farmers, and of fome property, which they turned into money, and carried with them. The firft ftone of a house 30th. intended to be built for the ufe of the Marine Society in Bifhopfgate-ftreet, was laid by their Prefident Lord Robert Romney. His Lordship was attended by the Governors, and preceded by 20 of the fociety's boys with their banners, who, after the ceremony was over, set out for Portsmouth under the convoy of proper officers. During the courfe of the month paft, a very remarkable affair has been agitated in the papers, of which the following is a true relation: On the 29th of March the commiffioners of Colnbrooke Turnpike met at the Caftle-Inn, at Salthill, when the Hon. Mr. Obrien, Capt. Needham, Edw. Mafon, Esq; Maj. Mayne, Maj. Cheshire, Walpole Eyre, Efq; Capt. Salter, Mr. Itherwood, Mr. Benwell, Mr. Pote, fen. and Mr. Burcombe, attended, and dined together. The dinner was foup, jack, perch, and cel pitchcockt, fowls, bacon, and greens; veal cutlets, ragout of pigs ears; chine of mutton and fallad; courfe of lamb and cucumbers; crawfish, paftry, and jellies. The wine Madeira and Port of the The company of that at Prefton on the Hill, were compleated. very best quality. eat and drank moderately. No excefs in any refpe&t appeared. Before dinner feveral paupers were examined, and among them one miferable object that was remarkable. In about ten or eleven days after, every one of the company, except Mr. Pote, who walked in the garden during the examination of the paupers, were taken ill, and Capt. Needham, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Ifherwood, and Mr. Benwell, foon died; Mr. Burcombe languished a fhort time, and is fince dead; the reft are ftill alive, but not yet out of danger. From every circumstance that can be collected, fome infection from the paupers must have occafioned this fatal catastrophe, as Mr. Pote, who was abfent at their examination, was the only perfon who efcaped unaffected, tho' he eat and drank exactly in the fame manner as the reft did. We hear from Staffordshire, that by an account lately delivered in, at the General Affembly of the proprietors of the inland navigation from the Trent to the Merfey, it appears that 66 miles of this naviga. tion are now entirely finished; that the canal, from the river Trent, near Wilden-Ferry in Derbyshire, to Stoke upon Trent, in Staffordshire, being in length 56 miles, hath for fome time been navigable; and that many veffels have accordingly been employed thereupon. It appeared alfo, from the estimates, &c. that 40 locks, 114 cart-bridges, 9 foot-bridges, and 120 culverts, or aqueducts, including those magnificent ones over the rivers Dove and Trent, were compleated. Alfo, that 2151 yards of the fubterraneous paffage at Harecafle, (the whole being 25000) and 770 VOL. XVI. There is now living in Whitechapel, one Philip Collet, who was 112 years of age last month, and was a foldier in the fervice of King James the fecond, in the year 1685. He retains all his faculties, and now works as a còbler for his fubfiftence. DIED lately, at Wem, in Shropfhire, aged 100 years, Mary Jones, who was only two feet eight inches in ftature, very deformed, and lame. Mrs. Mary Bond, a maiden lady at Upton near Windfor, worth 50,000l. great part of which she has left to her fifter, who keeps a chandler's fhop in Southwark. At Plaistow in Wales, Mr. David Worfam, aged 109, formerly an eminent cornfactor in the Borough. The Rev. Mr. Dyton, aged 76, of the fmall-pox at Chelsea. Mrs. Coape, at Tottenham. She has left 100l. to the Prefbyterian Independent fund; 100l. each to the funds for widows and orphans of Diffenting Minifters; and 100l. to the Orphan-fchool at Hoxton. Antonine Camboulas, minifter of the parish of Barbatogue, in the diocese of Caftres, on the 11th ult. at the age of 114 years. At Burgate, near Fordinbridge, Mrs. Ann Bulkeley, daughter of the late Sir Dewy Bulkeley, Knt. a maiden lady, in the 75th year of her age. Lady Bulkeley, her mother, who is now upwards of a hundred years of age, is a fine woman, and in good health and fpirits. At Dunkirk, Capt. Rob. Creed, aged 110; he was ten years a Lieutenant in Queen Ann's wars, and commanded a man of war in the reign of George I. In Clifford's Inn, Mr. Hales, aged 104. MAY. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Oliver, and feveral other gentlemen, went from the Manfion-house to Mile-End, to be present at the meeting of the freeholders of Middlefex. Mr. Wilkes alfo went thither from his houfe in Prince's Court, accompanied by many gentlemen of Weft minster, &c. Mr. Wilkes was voted to take the chair, and several refolutions were agreed to, in fubftance as follows, viz. That the most effectual means of obtaining redress for the violated right of election, aad other national grievances, is by bills for fhortening the duration of parliaments, for excluding placemen and penfioners from the House of Commons, and for a more fair and equal representation of the people. That thanks be given to John Wilkes, Efq; for his perfeverance in fupport of the rights of the freeholders of Middlefex. Alfo thanks to Mr. Serjeant Glynn, for his conduct in parliament and defence of the rights of the nation at large, and of Middiefex in particular. They refolved to fupport their prefent members Meff. Wilkes and Glynn to reprefent Middlefex in parliament at the next general election: That thanks be given to Sir George Saville, for his endeavours to reftore the right of election, &c. That thanks be given to the minority in the House of Commons, who fupported the motion on the 26th of April, in focport of the rights of the trochullers Middlesex. Thanks were like voted to the profunt fenfe, for having fum of moned Meff. Wilkes and Glynn to attend their duty in parliament. Thanks to Mr. Sawbridge, for his repeated endeavours to procure a bill for shortening the duration of parliament. And thanks to Mr. Wilkes, for his conduct on Friday as chairman. The thunder and lightning was fo dreadful this morning, that the centinels in St. James's Park were relieved every hour, as in the depth of Winter. Five fheep and three lambs were killed by the lightning in a field near Kentish-town. It pierced through a houfe in Fenchurch-ftreet, unroofed part of it, and finged fome linen that was on a horse in the kitchen. This day, at a meeting of 4th. the creditors of Sir George Colebrooke, the trustees, who at a former meeting were appointed to enquire into the eftate and effects of that gentleman, made their report, by which it appeared, that the balance in favour of Sir George was 315,000l. that from that balance the trustees had thought proper to write off 120,000l. on account of Sir George's engagements for his brother-in-law, Mr. Gilbert; and 89,000 1. which had been fettled on Lady Colebrooke and her family, which reduced the balance to 106,000l. befides the eventual chance of the Chilham eftate in Kent; that, notwithstanding this balance, by reafon of the diffuse flate of Sir George's effects, it must be near two years and a half before the creditors could be fully paid their principal and intereft; but that 7s. in the pound fhould be advanced within the space of two months. With this promifing state of Sir George's affairs the creditors feemed well fatisfied; and it was propofed by fome gentle men |