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Ventilators were many years fince put into Winchester goal, to the great comfort and benefit of the prifoners; and are lately alfo put into Durham county goal.

By capt. Wright, of the Endeavour, from the coast of Guinea, we had the following account of the lofs of the Mailborough, capt. Codd, of Bristol, by an infurrection of the Negroes the beginning of October laft. Capt. Codd having indulged 28 Goldcoaft Negroes with their liberty on deck to aflift in navigating the fhip, they behaved for fome time in a very tractable, civil manner. But on the 3d day after he failed from the bar of Bonny, while moft of the crew were below cleaning the rooms, and none but the captain and two white men, armed with cutlaffes, left above to take care of the ship, all on a fudden the Negroes on deck fnatched the arms from them, wounded the captain, and forced him up the fore-shrouds, where they hot him dead. The reft of the Negroes fecuring the quarter-deck and fmall-arms, became foon masters of the thip, and spent the rest of the day in most cruelly butchering the crew (who were in number 35) except the boatswain and cabin-boy, whom they faved to conduct the fhip back again; which they did after 8 days, and came to an anchor within the bar of Bonny. About the fame time the Hawk, capt. Jones, of Bristol, arrived at that place, and hearing of the affair, bore down on her, with an intent to re take her; but the Negroes were fo expert at the great guns and fmall-arms, that they foon repelled him. After putting the Bite Negroes afhore that chofe it, in number 270, the remainder, confifting of 150, weighed anchor, fet their fails, and stood to fea, with intent, as is fuppofed, to go to their own country, tho' the undertaking was extremely hazardous, as they had no one to navigate the fhip, the boatswain having jumped overboard the night before they failed, and got to the hawk; and it is supposed, that on his efcape, the poor cabin-boy fell a facrifice to their revenge.

Some malicious perfon or perfons having in the night between Jan. 20, and 21, come upon the grounds of William Smith, farmer and dairyman in the parish of Bathwicke, in Somerfetfhire, and maimed and wounded one of his best milk cows, by cutting off her teats and tail, and at divers times before maimed and wounded four other of his milk cows in the like manner: His majesty has been pleased to promife his most gracious pardon to any of them (except the perfon who actually cut of the cows teats and tails) who fhall discover their accomplices. And as a farther encouragement, the earl of Bath promifed a

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In the last will of judge Burnet, (who died last month, p. 43.) is the following declaration: "I think it proper in this folemn act to declare, that as I have lived, fo I truft I fhall die, in the true faith of Chrift, as taught in the fcriptures; but not as taught or practifed in any one vifible church I know of; tho' I think the church of England is as little stuffed with the inventions of men as any of them; and the church of Rome is fo full of them, as to destroy all that is lovely in the chriftian religion." THURSDAY, Feb. 1.

At a general court of the South-Sea company it was refolved, that application be made to parliament, to get the number of directors of that company reduced, at the next election, to 18, exclufive of the three governors; and the favings by fuch reduction to be applied to the benefit of the proprietors.

FRIDAY, 2.

At the quarter feffions of the peace held by adjournment at Guildhall, the petition of the journeymen taylors was taken into confideration, and after feveral arguments of council in behalf both of the mafters and journeymen, the court ordered, that the journeymens wages fhall be 25. 68. per day from Lady-Day to Midsummer, and 28. per day the remaining part of the year, and that they fhall work from 6 in the morning till 7 in the evening. SATURDAY, 3.

Sir Richard Adams, knt. and Wilfon, Efq; were called to the degree of ferjeants at law in the court of Common pleas in Weftminster-hall, with all the ufual ceremonies. The motto of the rings given to the lord chancellor, judges, &c. on that occafion, was, Imperie regit unus æquo.

WEDNESDAY, 7.

Was held a general court of the Free British Herring Fishery, when a petition to parliament was read and agreed to, for improving and amending the act and charter, whereby the fociety was eftablished. Then Mr. alderman Bethell, the prefident, acquainted the court, that there had been caught and cured the last year 9627 barrels, and all difpofed of.

His majefty in council appointed the following theriffs for 1753, viz. for Berks, Humph. Adams, Efq; Bedf. Fra. Berne. Efq; Bucks, Cha. Woodnoth, Efq; Cumb. Hen. Curwen, Efq; Cheth. John Leeche, Efq; Camb. and Hunt. Sir Sam. Clarke, Bart. Cornw. Will. Morshead, Efq; Devon, Sir John Chichester, Bart. Dofet. Humph. Sturt, Fiq; Derb. Goodere Fletcher, Efq; Effex, Will. Hunt, Efq; Glouc. Tho. Kemble, Efq; Heiti. Caiet Lomax, Efq; Heref. Tho. Dunne, Fa M 2 Kent

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Kent, Sir John Shaw, Bart. Leic. Will.
Herrick, Efq; Linc. Cha. Amcotts, Efq;
Monm. Will. Jenxias, Efq; Northum.
Rob. Fenwick, Efq, Northamp. Arm-
ftead Parker, Efq; Norf. Hambleton
Cuftance, Efq; Notting. Mundy Mufters,
Efq; Oxf. Tho. Horde, Efq; Rud. Will.
Bruthfield, Efq; Shrop. Rowland Wing-
field, Efq; Somer. John Macie, Efq;
Staff. Rich. Drakeford, Efq; Seff. Rob.
Sparrow, Efq; Southamp. James Ward,
Efq; Surrey, Edw. Langton, Efq; Suffex,
Rob. Randall, Efq, Warw. Penj. Pal-
mer, Efq; Wore. Tho. Phillips, Efq;
Wilts, Edw. Polhill, Efq; Yorks. Sir
Ralph Milbank, Bart.

For South Wales, viz. Brecon, David
Williams, Efq; Carm. Will. Thomas,
Efq, Cardig. Lewis Rogers, Efq; Glam.
Tho. Roufe, Lfq; Feinb. John Smith,
Efq; Radnor, Rich. Loyd, Efq;

For North-Wales, viz. Angl. Bodychan Sparrow. Efq; Carn. Owen Hughes, Efq; Denb. Kenrick Eytor, Efq; Flint, Edw. Pennant, Efq; Merion." Rob. Price, Efq; Montg. Will. Powell, Efq;

THURSDAY, S.

Vertue Hall, a fervant to one Mrs. Wells, who kept a houfe of ill fame near Enfield wash, was taken into custody, by virtue of a warrant from justice Fielding: After a very ftri& examination, the acknowledged that Eliz. Canning, a young woman, who had been robbed by two fellows in Moorfields, about ten in the evening, laft New year's day, was afterwards brought to Mrs. Wells's houfe, and confined there near a month, and that feveral menaces were made ufe of to induce her to become a common prostitute; but that he would not comply. After fo Jong confinement, the faid Elizabeth Canning took an opportunity of pulling down fome boards, which were nailed before a window, and made her efcape, and came in a very miferable, naked condition, and almoft deprived of her fenfes, to her mother, a poor widow, who lives in Aldermanbury pottern. An old gypsey in Mrs. Wells's houfe ftript her of her stays, and during her confinement he had no other fubfiftence than about a quatern loaf and a gallon of water. Mrs. Wells and the gypsy had been apprehended before and committed to prison.

His majesty went to the house of peers, and gave the royal affent to the malt tax bill. MONDAY, 12.

Eight malefactors, condemned the two lat feffions at the Old-Bailey, were executed at Tyburn. Lee and Nugent were refpited. See their crimes in our Mag. for Dec. laft, p. 574. and Jan. p. 42. TUESDAY, 13.

Sir Richard Adams, now a baron of the Exchequer, came to the court of alder

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men, and in a handfome fpeech refigned his office as recorder. And two days after, William Moreton, Efq; fenior judge of the fheriffs court, was chofen recorder in his room.

THURSDAY, 15.

Among the papers read this day at the Royal-Society, was a very curious account of a moft extraordinary thunder storm, that happened laft December in Cornwall; one of the flashes of lightening which difcharged itfelf on a hil!, bored feveral holes thro' banks, and into the ground, cut feveral channels, like plough-furrows, along the hill, and fhattered feveral parts of a rock, as if blown to pieces with gunpowder: Another flash difcharged itfelf on a farm-houfe, beat down a large chimney of about 4 feet fquare, and moved it to a confiderable diftance from the houfe, made feveral fractures in the partitions and windows of the upper rooms, befides rending the roof to pieces, broke into the kitchen where the farmer and his family then were, and ftruck down and funned most of the persons prefent. The farmer's fon, who had just before retired by his father's direction, from a window, to a feat in one corner of the kitchen, was killed, his cloaths almoft rent to fhivers, his fhoes very much fcorched, and one of his toes cut fo nearly off, as to hang by a bit of skin; alfo his dog, which lay between his feet, was ftruck dead: What was moft remarkable, the fon continued in the pofition he was before the ftroke, and his countenance not in the leaft altered; neither the man nor dog stirred on the shock : One perfon in another room was thrown 12 feet from her place. The gentleman, who fent this account, went to the house and examined every particular himself, and has given a moft circumftantial relation of the extraordinary havock caufed by this flath, which, for the variety of ways wherein it acted, is perhaps as confiderable as were ever remarked before, in any of the most tremendous thunder storms. MONDAY, 26.

The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when Charles Sickamore, for a burglary; Mary Squires, the gypfy, for robbing Eliz. Canning of a pair of flays in the dwelling-houfe of Sufannah Wells, at Enfield Wah; Edward Mac Manning, for stealing wearing apparel, &c. out of a dwelling-houfe; John Jetter, for returning from transportation; Grace Weedon and Ifabella Roe, for a fireet robbery; and John Higgins, for a burglary, received fentence of death. Mrs. Wells, as an acceffary to the gypfy after the fact, was branded, and ordered to be imprisoned fix months.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

N confequence of the refolutions of the parliament of Paris, which we gave in our laft, the peers were again fummoned to come and take their feats in parliament on the 29th ult. but his most Chriftian majefty iffued fresh orders, commanding them on their allegiance not to attend, which they found it neceffary to obey.

In the mean time the poor nun St. Perpetua, who had the courage to refuse acknowledging the bull Unigenitus, as well as the nunnery of S. Agatha, to which the belonged, are like to be great fufferers, if not martyrs; for on the 24th of Dec. at nine at night, three exempts of the guards feized her, and carried her away prifoner to the monaftery of Port-Royal; and on the 2d inft. an arret of the council of ftate was iffued, ordering the nunnery of St. Agatha to be diffolved, and the fifters to quit the houfe in a fortnight; which looks as if the court of France had refolved to fupport and enforce the bull Unigenitus at all hazards; and this is the more probable, as the court of Rome have lately iffued a bull not only condemning a book, intitled, An Apology for the Conduct of the Parliament, but exprefly enjoining fubmiffion to the bull Unigeni

tus.

Upon thefe difputes the parliament have refolved to prefent very strong remonftrances to his majefty, but no day has yet been appointed by the king for receiving them; however, fome copies of them are handed about at Paris, containing in fubftance as follows:

That the king's fupremacy, his authority over all his fubjects without diftin&tion, the obedience of the people, and their juft liberties are the effence of every monarchy, and cannot fubfift but by maintaining the laws.

That his parliament is bound by its conftitution and oath, to obferve, and cause to be obferved, all the laws and maxims of the kingdom, and to regulate the general polity of the ftate, which is committed to them conformably to thefe.

That an effential branch of this duty is to adminifter fupreme juftice in his majefty's name; to maintain the good order, honour, and jurifdiction of his majesty's inferior courts; and to reprefent in general to the king all abuses of his name and authority, and oppose any derogation of them.

That, in different centuries, the clergy, in oppofition to these invariable principles, have difcovered a spirit of inde-. pendence ; and it is of importance to inform his majesty of their fyftem.

That this fyftem, which has always been discountenanced by the fovereign,

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always oppofed by the parliament, at prefent fhews itfelf more openly than ever, in the numberlefs writings and judiciary declarations of many ecclefiafticks; and is openly avowed by the archbishops of Paris and Tours in the answers which they have prefumed to make.

That an answer, perhaps lefs reprehenfible than thefe, in which two ecclefiafticks disowned the fupremacy of one of his majesty's predeceffors, pretending to be fubject only to his majefty's perfon, was cenfured by parliament, who, with his approbation, profecuted the authors.

That thofe prelates who affume this independence at prefent, exercite an arbitrary power over the inferior clergy, by commands that are irregular both in matter and form, and by other abufes of their authority; and that the inferior clergy, by their blind, fervile, felfifh fubmiffion, help to establish this authority.

That this fyftem, and this conduct have given rife to the fchifm, of which his majefty himself has feen the danger, and which will not be healed if the fuperior clergy, who promote it, be not curbed by his majesty's courts, and the inferior clergy find a protection there under which they may execute the canons of the church and the laws of the ftate, notwithstanding any order to the contrary.

That the authors and fomenters of fchifm execute the letters Paftoralis Officii, which the parliament, even by the king's orders, have always declared to be an abuse.

That, nevertheless, thefe ecclefiafticks pretend to be authorifed by different arrets of the council, particularly that of the 23d of Auguft laft: That if these arrets were carried into execution, they would establish the very principles of fchifm; annul the most important judgments of his majefty's fupreme courts, and throw contempt on the inferior judges; and inveft the clergy with an unalienable part of the royal prerogative, to the prejudice of the unalterable laws of the realm.

That the fchifm makes still new progrefs by means of the evocations, which (except in certain cafes, foreseen by the laws) are contrary to publick order, juftice, the rights of the subject, prejudicial to the courts of juftice, and prohibited by ordinances, especially in criminal cafes: That his parliament cannot better fet forth to his majesty the confequences of thofe evocations, than by putting him in mind of what the parliament said, in 1524, in a like cafe, of evocations.

That the evoking the caufe of a peer, whatever might be the motive, directly attacks the cffence of the peerage, and