These advices have given rife to a report, that negociations for peace are on the point of being renewed.

The plague ftill' raged at Conftantinople on the 22d of February. And had again broke out at Algiers on the 11th of March, as appears by authentic advices to government from Conftantinople, Gibraltar, and Malaga. Monday 21.

The Court of K. B. determined, that a woman was competent to ferve the offices of Commiffioner of the Sewers and Overfeer of the poor. Mr. Justice Athurft obferved, that the itatute of Eliz. mentioned substantial housekeepers without diftinction of fex. He alfo mentioned a parish where a woman was chofen conftable.

Wednesday 23.

Being St. George's Day, the Society of Antiquaries elected a Prefident, Council, &c. for the year enfuing, purfuant to their Charter, when the former officers were continued, and the following new members of the Council elected;

R. Pepper Arden, Efq. T. Aitle. Efq. F.R.S. Sir George Barker, Bart. F. R. S. W. Bray, Efq. J. Call, Efq. F. R. S. A. Hamilton, D. D. F. R. S. Hugh D. of Northumberland, F. R.S. Lt. Gen Rainsford, F. R. S. James E. of Salisbury, F. R. S. Charles Townley, Efq.

This day the malefactors, ordered for execution on the 18th, were brought out of Newgate, about eight in the morning, and fafpended on a gallows of a new construc tion. After hanging the ufual time, they were taken down, and the machine cleared away in half an hour. By practice the art is much improved, and there is no part of the world where villains are hanged in fo Deat a manner, and with fo little ceremony.

Friday 25.

The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry attended at the Levee at St. James's, and prefeated to his Majefty, according to cuflom, the anniversary fermon, preached by his Lordship at the General Meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts, together with the printed abstract of the proceedings of that Society fince their last report.

The Purfer of the Bufbridge Indiaman, about two o'clock in the afternoon, brought the agreeable news to the India-house of the fafe arrival of that ship from Bengal, after a fhort paffage of lefs than four months She left Bengal on the 26th of December laft, and arrived at Fort St. George the 6th of January following, at which time ro hip was in the road, except the Minerva, which had arrived with a cargo of rice on the 27th preceding.

She failed from thence on the 9th of Janu ary, being the day on when the Minerva left that place on her return to Fort William. The Bafbridge felt in wan the General Elist, Captain Dromgon, off the Cape of GENT. MAG. April, 1,83.

Good Hope, from Bombay, with Rawfon Hart Boddam, Efq; the late Governor of that Prefidency, on board, the 17th of February, and failed with her till her arrival, at St. Helena on the 2d of last month, where the found the thip Earl of Chesterfield, which had arrived there from Bencoolen.

The Chesterfield left St. Helena for Europe the 6th of March, so that her arrival may be hourly expected.

The Bulbridge failed from thence on the 9th following, and

The General Eliott was expected to depart the day after.

The Burbridge came abreaft the Lizard on the 23d inftant, and arrived off the Ifle of Wight on Thursday the 24th.

The paffengers on board the Bafbridge are, Mr. Arthur Malony, Enfign Granby Sloper Mr. Robert Orby Sloper, the Hon. Mrs. Hyde and family, Mrs. Bruere and family, Mrs. Graham and family, Mafter Charles Brooke, Mafter Fenwick, all from Bengal; Lieut. Williams, from Fort St. George, and Mr. Edward Ravensworth from Bombay. Wednesday 30.

In the courfe of the prefent month, his Majefty's perfon was extremely endangere by the ftriking of a vicious horfe in the Mews at Buckingham-Houfe.-The King was in the ftables, attended by a page, who obferving his Majefty approach too close to a colt of a vifcions difpofition, gave him a caution. His Majefty, however, faying that it would not do him any hurt, went into the ftall, and was immediately hemmed in by the animal, who began to kick with great fury. The page defired his Majefty to catch hold of the herfe's head, and hold him hard

while the King was thus employed with the animal, whofe violence feemed to increafe, the page ran for the groom, who had been accustomed to attend the horse. The groom inftantly threw a halter on its neck, and backed it out of the tall; in confequence of which his Majefty was relieved from a danger that very imminently threatened his life. It is faid that the zeal and ativity of the page has been properly rewarded.

On the 17th inftant, his Excellency the Lord Lieut. of Ireland put an end to the Seffions of Parliament of that kingdom, by a very fuitable speech; wherein, addreffing himself to both Lords and Commons, he affured them that no object was nearer to his Majesty's heart than the profperity of his faithful fubjects of Ireland; and he recommended the advancement of that profperity to their warm attention, as by their example and influence in their feveral counties it was much in their power to promote it, by encouraging habits of industry in the people, and impreffing upon their minds a due regard for the laws. After his Excellency had done fpeaking, the Lord Chancellor prorogued the Parliament in the ufual style, till the 17th of June next.

REMARKABLE

P. 181, col. 1, 1. 54. The Rev. Mr. Wynne died Jan. 26.

P. 182. An old correfpondent, of whofe favours we are ever proud, fpeaks thus of Mr. Whitehurst, without having feen what we had faid of him: In your account of Mr. W. forget not, I charge you, the excel lent woman he married; for the deferved every praife. What Dr. Johnfon said of Mifs Reynolds might, with equal truth, be faidof her;-of all the women I ever knew, fhe was the nearest perfection. To do juftice to the powers of Mr. W's mind, you should point out the difadvantages he laboured under in the article of education, for he was cer tainly, in a great measure, a felf-taught philofopher; you should mention the improve nents he made in the feveral branches of mechanics, which, I have no doubt, were many. I fhall hope to fee an account of what he did to render water-clofets perfectly inoffenfive; and I wifh, particularly, for a good account of the wonderful scales he made for the ufe of the Mint. La the "Philofophical Tranfactions" are inferted his "Thermometrical Obfervations at Derby," LVII. 265; "An Account of a Machine for raising Water, executed at Oulton in Cheshire, in 1772," LXV. 277; “ Experiments on Ignited Subftances," LXVI. 575. His "Theory of the Earth," and his last great Work, "An Enquiry into the Formation of the Earth, with an Account of the Strata in Derbyshire," will hand down his name to the lateft pofterity. But that he was ingenious in a high degree is, with me, the least part of his praife. I have, within a few months, loft many valuable friends; but none whom I regret more than Mr. W. The man of candour was not, as is too often the cafe, loft in the felf-importance of the philofopher. He was as wil ling to communicate, as he was defirous of receiving, information; and he never, upon fuch occafions, affumed the air of a dictator. No one ever exceeded him in probity; and. few, that I have known, were in equal degree humane, liberal, and hofpitable. He was happy in himself, and he loved to make others happy."

P. 269. The following is a more particular account of the late Pretender's funeral.

The funeral obfequies of the Count of Albany were celebrated Feb. 3, in the Cathe dral Church at Frefcati; of which See the Cardinal Duke of York, his brother, is bishop. The church was hung with black cloth (the feams covered with gold lace), drawn up between the pillars in the form of feftoons, intermixed with gold and filver tiffue, which had a very magnificent and folemn effect; efpecially as a profufion of wax tapers were continually burning during the whole of the ceremony, in every part of the church. Over the great door, and the four principal fide altars, there were written in the feftoons (in large characters) the following texts of Scripture, which were chofen by

the Cardinal, as allufive to the fituation and fortunes of the deceased: Ecclefiaftes, xlvii. 17; Job. xxix. 5; Tobit, ii. 18; Proverbs, v.27 2 Maccab. vi. 31. A large catafalque was erected on a platform, raised three steps from the floor, in the nave of the church, on which the coffin, containing the body, was placed, covered with a fuperb pall, on which was embroidered, in feveral places, the royal arms of England. On each fide stood three gentlemen, fervants of the deceased, in mourn ing cloaks, each holding a royal banner; and about it were placed a very confiderable number of very large wax tapers, in the form of a fquare, guarded by the militia of Frefcati. About ten in the forenoon, the Cardinal was brought into the church in a sedan chair, covered with black cloth, attended by a large fuite of his officers and fervants, in deep mourning. He feated himself on his throne, on the right hand side of the great altar; and began to fing the office appointed by the church for the dead, affifted by his choir, which is numerous, and fome of the best voices from Rome. The first verfe was fcarcely finished when it was observed that his voice faultered, the tears trickled down his cheeks, fo that it was feared he would not have been able to proceed. However, he foon recollected himself, and went through the function in a very affecting manner; in which manly firmness, fraternal affection, and religious folemnity, were very happily blended. The magiftrates of Frefcati, and numerous concourse of the neighbouring peo ple, attended on this occafion; who were attracted, not so much by their curiosity, or the purpose of affifting the maffes which were celebrating at every altar in the church, as a defire of testifying their great respect for their Bishop, who constantly refides amongst them, and daily hestows upon them temporal as well as fpiritual bleffings, with a very li beral hand."

P. 274, col. 2, 1. 4. Dr. Taylor is called "rector" of St. Margaret, Weftminster. "Minifter" would have been a more proper term, that being only a perpetual curacy.

P. 277, col. 1. In our vol. XLII. is "A fhort Account of Church Organs, by W. L.” [Mr. W. Ludlam.]

Ibid. col. 2, 1. 42. The fecond husband of the late Countefs-dowager of Coventry was Edmund Pytts, esq. of Kyre, co. Worcester, for which county he was M P.; and furvived his marriage only one year. After his death, her Ladyship lived in retirement at her feat in Worcestershire, retaining with her faculties (except that of fight) all thofe happy difpofitions for chearfulness and converfation which, to the latest period, rendered her reverenced and beloved by all who had the happiness of being admitted to her apartments or acquaintance. She has left the bulk of her fortune between her nephew and niece, the Rev. Dr. Mafter, late fellows of All Souls College, and Mrs. Eliz. Master,

now

now refident in Worcester, and defcended from a refpectable family in Lancashire.

P. 278, col. 1, 1. 2. The late Dr. Cuming was the youngest surviving fon of James C. an eminent merchant in Edinburgh, and was born in 1714. After a fuitable education in the High-school of that city, and under the particular tuition of Alex. Moir, formerly profeffor of philofophy at Aberdeen, he ap plied himself to the study of phyfic four years in the University of Edinburgh, and became connected with fome of the most ominent students in that line. In 1735 he fpent nine months at Paris, improving him felf in anatomy and the French language; and he paffed fome time at Leyden the following year; but returned just before the death of his father. An elegant Ode, addreffed to him on his going to France, Aug. 31, 1735, by Mr. S. Boyfe, is printed in Nichols's "Mifcellany Poems," vol. VI. p. 342; and in the fame volume, p. 328, is "The Vifion of Patience, an Allegorical Poem, facred to the Memory of Mr. Alexander Cuming, a young Gentleman unfortunately loft in the Northern Ocean, on his Return from China, 1740."-In 1738 he quitted Edinburgh for London; and while his friends meditated a fettlement for him at Lynne, in the room of the late Sir William Browne, his friend Dr. Fothergill found out a more promifing one for him at Dorchester, where he remained to the laft, notwithstand ing the most preffing invitations from his friend Fothergill to fucceed Dr. Ruffel in London. In the space of a few years after his establishment at Dorchester, he came to be employed in many, and, in process of time, with an exception of three or four at moft, in all the families of distinction within the county, and frequently in the adjacent ones. At length his chafte manners, his learning, and his prob ty, as they were more generally known, rendered him not only the phyfician but the confidential friend of fome of the beft families into which he was introduced. His warm and friendly attention to the interefts of the late Mr. Hutchins, author of "The History of Dorfet," in bringing in to light that well-written and well-arranged work, cannot better be expreffed than in the grateful language of its author: "One of the gentlemen to whom my acknowledgements are eminently due, permitted part of that

Elder brother of the Doctor, and firft fupercargo of the Suecia, a Swedith Eaft India fhip, which was wrecked on a rock about two miles Eaft of the island of North Ronalsha, the northernmost of the Orkney Inlands, Nov. 18, 1740. Immediately on the fhip's ftriking, Mr. Cumming weat off in the barge, accompanied by the surgeon and fix of the boldest seamen, in order to difcover what the island was, but were never more heard of. Thirty-one of the failors were faved out of one hundred, the hip's complement.

time, which is fo beneficially employed to far better purposes, and is so precious to a gentleman of his extenfive practice, to be diverted to the work in hand; the publica "tion of which he patronifed and promoted with great zeal and affiduity; nor did his fuccefs fall fhort of his zeal. Without his friendly affiftance, my papers might yet have remained undelivered to the prefs; or, if they had been committed to the publick, would have wanted feveral advantages and embellishments with which they now appear."-The Doctor, we hear, has left his interleaved copy of this work to his friend and coadjutor in its publication. In 1752 he received a diploma from the University of Edinburgh; and was foon after elected a fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians there; and died fenior fellow thereof. was elected, in 1769, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; and, in 1781, of that of Scotland. The tenderness of his eyes was,through life, the greatest misfortune he had to struggle with; and, confidering the many obftacles which the complaints in those or gans have occafioned in the pursuit of knowledge, it is wonderful how he attained the degree of erudition which he was well known to poffefs. In his retreat from the more bufy purfuits of this world, the furviving companions of his youth continued the friends and correfpondents of his advanced years; and he enjoyed to the last the fingular fatisfaction of being visited by the most refpectable perfons in the county for probity, rank, and fortune. We cannot but regret that the Doctor, who has been the means of fo many valuable performances being laid before the publick, and fome of them im proved by his pen, had not himself stood forth to give that information for which he was fo well qualified, both in point of classical learning and elegant compofition.-See memoirs of his life, feveral of his letters, and a portrait of him by Sharp, after Beach, at the end of the fourth edition of Dr. Lettfom's "Life of Dr. Fothergill, 1786," 8va-The "Sherborn Mercury" (March 31) records his death, with this honourable testimony: "He was a phyfician of learning, strict integrity, and great humanity, poffeffed of a happy turn for enquiry and obfervation, devoted, from an early age, to the faithful difcharge of the duties of his profeffion. The death of this excellent man is a misfortune to his friends and neighbours more immediately, to the faculty in general, and to all mankind.”