to man two boats, and go off from the harbour there to the fand, in order to fave their lives. When they came near the fand, the wind and fea were so violent, that it was impoffible to reach the wreck; but after many attempts, and waiting there feveral hours,they at laft effected it. They found two of the ship's crew drowned, and one perifhed by fatigue and the feverity of the weather; and in the evening landed the captain and feven others (being all of them remaining alive) at Ramfgate. The great hazard and difficulty attending this act of humanity much inhances the merit of it, especially as the whole fhip's crew muft, in all probability, have foon perished without it. A caufe was determined in the court of king's-bench, wherein the king, on the profecution of William Bartin, a nominal perfon, was plaintiff, and Mr. Robert Barfoot, of Afhton, Hants,. a creditable farmer, defendant, for having in his cuftody a brace of hares, catched on his own farm; and for which he was, on the 21ft day of April laft, before fome gentlemen then affembled at the houfe of Mr. H (where there is a monthly meeting held for the prefervation of the game), convicted in the penalty of rol. which he refufed to pay, and removed the conviction into the court of king's-bench; and that court were unanimously pleafed to quash the conviction. The court of king's-bench was moved for an information againft Mr. Samuel Vaughan, and a rule granted for him to fhew caufe. It is faid the lawyers will find fome difficulty in fixing the nature of the above offence, as it does not come within the ftatutes against bribery, they prefcribing punishments on thofe taking bribes, and not on thofe offering them. Black Friars bridge was opened for the paffage of 19th. carriages yesterday morning, No cattle will be allowed to pafs until the road on the Surry fide is made and finished. It is now one year fince it was opened for horfes, and three years for foot-paffengers. The report of peace being concluded with Heider Ally was confirmed by the directors of the E. I. company. The particulars whereof are faid to be, The forts and places on both fides to be restored. Each to be at their own expence. A perpetual league offenfive and defenfive, mutual exchange and releafement of prifoners, and a freedom of trade both in the Myfore country and the Carnatic. John Burn, efq. mayor of Berwick, at the request of several of the burgeffes, held a guild, to confider of a petition: when, notwithftanding much influence used to difcountenance the measure, the motion was carried by a great majority. A motion was made in the court of king's-bench to enlarge the imprisonment of Mr. Bingley, and that he might have the benefit of the rules; but the court were of opinion that it could not be granted, as no precedent could be found in fuch a cafe. Not long ago, a lady of fashion took lodgings in a private manner in the parish of St. Martin's, Lud gate, and at the expiration of the month, made proposals of marriage to her footman; with this reftriction, that he was to wear the livery as before. The man confented, and the lady ordered her coach, and per ann. drove to St. Martin's church, with her intended hufband in the character of fervant behind it. They were married accordingly. About a month ago, the lady died, and the widower is now poffefied of 700l. Laft week her relations came to London to examine into the particulars of the marriage, obtained a certificate of the marriage being duly folemnized, and, after trying every fruitless method to fet it afide, are retired into the country, leaving the widower in full poffeffion. Extract of a letter from Virginia, Sept. 11, 1769. "On Thursday the 7th of this month, after many dreadful clouds, frightful in their imagined contents, had been fwagging about, as the fields, loaded with their crops of corn and tobacco, were very promifing, and every thing moft delightful to the poor, a wind at north-eaft arofe, and, as foon as it had spread them over the face of the heavens for one general rain, it died away till near bed-time, and then began to blow beyond the power of expreffion: it did not rain till two o'clock in the morning; but when the diffolving rains came on, every one had caufe to wish for broad day, to fee but a chance to fave themselves; for the ftrongest and neweft built houfes, by the violence of both wind and rain, were hardly a fecurity against their dreadful effects. The water pouring down in fuch mighty torTents, fome few thought of boring holes in their floors to give it vent: in this fituation it continued till two in the afternoon, when the unhappy eye faw itself furrounded with the most deplorable deftruction. Houfes crufhed down; fruit-trees of all kinds blown up; the woods laid mofily level. Our corn, not near hard for gathering, beaten flat on the earth; and, to be fure, in evident danger of rotting; the tobacco in the fields blown into fhreds, that which was houfed before the form quite crushed down and pounded, and the mills entirely detroyed, as far as the eye has at prefent reached. Numbers of vessels in every harbour bulged upon the fhares; and fome drove into the very ports, by the extreme height of the tide, except where the proprietors thought of boring holes through their bottoms and finking them; for neither anchors nor cables could ftand the dreadful hurricane. A particular defcription of every lofs would be tedious in fuch a general devaftation level fields, in many places, diffolved into deep gullies. In short, had the ftorm. continued but a few hours more, the prefent view muft fatisfy every fenfible perfon, that this part of America must have ceased to exist. : Accounts of great damage have alfo been received from other parts." 25th. At noon a phænomenon happened, which is likely to afford matter of difcuffion to the aftronomers. About twelve, Mercury passed over the fun's disk, on which he appeared in the form of a fmall, round, black spot, extremely vifible to the naked eye, and con tinued fo till two o'clock, when he became again invisible. A confultation was this day held at lord Mansfield's houfe, at which all the judges attended, in order to determine the place for the execution of the two cutters under fentence of death: when they unanimoufly gave it as their opinion, that his majefty has a power of fixing the place of the execution of any any criminal; and they are confequently to be executed, according to his former order, at Bethnal-green. The Americans, to fhew their diflike of that, as well as every other commodity that comes from England, who ufed, on an average, to take off at leaft an eighth part of the lottery, we are well informed, have not, this time, fent orders from throughout all the colonies for an hundred tickets. Aletter from Dublin, dated Nov. 18, fays, on Wedne day laft the bag, which contained the English mail of the 3d inftant, taken from one of the packet wherrymen last week in College-green, was found in a field near Fortick's-lane, without any let ters or other articles therein. And yefterday morning a waiter belonging to the Queen's-arms-tavern, St. Paul's Church-yard, was fent by a perfon who called there, with a note for 500l. to a gentleman in Aldermanbury; which appearing to have been taken out of the Irish mail that was lately robbed in Dublin, the waiter was detained; but before they could fend to the tavern, the perfon who fent the note had made off. It seems by the defcription given of him, that he is well known at fir John Fielding's. Yefterday morning came on, before lord Mansfield, &c. the, motion for granting a rule of court for Samuel Vaughan, efq. to fhew caufe why an information fhould not be filed against him, at the fuit of his grace the duke of Grafton, for an attempt to bribe his grace. After many arguments, feveral letters, and Mr. Vaughan's affidavit being read court, which lafted till 4 o'clock, the rule of court was made abfolute. Mr. Vaughan's counfel were, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Wedderburn, and Mr. in Waller. Mr. Vaughan was in court the whole time. Extract of a letter from York, "The week before laft they had a feyere fhock of an earthquake at Invernefs, which did confiderable damage; feveral houfes were thrown down, and many perfons killed." Capt. Gordon, known in France by the name of lord Gordon, was beheaded at Breft, for being concerned in a confpiracy to fet that fortification on fire, and burn the fhipping in the dock. This myfterious affair occafions much fpeculation. What end could it ferve to a youth but juft come of age? who fet him to work? or who was to reward him? The condemnation of a British fubject on fuch an improbable pretence muft furely deferve an enquiry, as, by his fentence, an injurious reflection feems intended against the British government. 27th. At eleven oclock, came on in the court of king's-bench before lord chief justice Mansfield, and the rest of the judges of the court, the long expected motion, Whether Samuel Vaughan, efq. fhould not fhew caufe, in a complaint at the fuit of his grace the duke of Grafton, relative to the fum of five thousand pounds offered by that gentleman to his grace, for procuring his fon the reverfionary grant of clerk of the crown in the ifland of Jamaica.” The lawyers employed on both fides fupported the fentiments of their leaders, which continued till after four o'clock, when my lord Mansfield (after obferving on the . fact and pleadings, with great good fenfe and accuracy), with the unanimous confent of his brother judges, made the rule abfolute. Lawyers Lawyers for the defendant, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. Leigh. For the plaintiff, the folicitor ge neral, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Ranby. A meeting of the freeholders of the county of Kent was held at the town-hall in Maidstone, when the late addrefs procured from that county was disavowed, and the queftion for a petition was put, and carried by 700 against 7. The bill for the augmentation of the forces on the Irish eftablishment, notwithstanding pofitive reports to the contrary, paffed the houfe of commons in Ireland by a very respectable majority. The debate lafted many hours, and fome members held their hands upon their fwords while their friends were warm in the argument. The augmentation bill having paffed, the next point which the court party had to carry was the money bill; but in this they found more oppofition than they expected. In the courfe of the debate fir George Macartney, fon in-law to lord Bute, and fecretary of ftate for Ireland, faid, in defence of the manner of bringing it in," that taking its rife in the privy council was a tax the commons of Ireland paid for a continuance of their conftitution; that Ireland was a dependent government, and owed to England the highest obligations for the free exercife of its invaluable privileges," upon which the whole houfe became turbulent, and it was with difficulty the fpeaker could bring it to order. At length the queftion being put, it paffed in the negative. This unlucky incident threw the whole bufinefs of the feffion out of its courfe, and occafioned a fhort prorogation, as, according to order, a fecond money bill could not be again propofed during the fame feffion. The remonftrance and petition from the freeholders of 29th. the county of Buckingham was prefented to the king at the levee, by the hon. Tho. Hampden, chairman at the general meeting, the hon. Henry Grenville, John Aubrey, John Calcraft, and Edmund Burke, efqrs. all members of the houfe of commons. Lord Verney was unable to attend; and the hon. fir William Stanhope, who had engaged to make the motion at the general meeting, was prevented by illness from giving his attendance either at Aylesbury or at court; he has figned the petition, which is figned alfo by above 1800 freeholders.-Lord Temple was at the levee. The following pirates were carried from Newgate in two carts, and executed at Execution Dock, viz. Edward Pinnel, for finking and deftroying the Ifabella merchant fhip, capt. Henderfon; Thomas Ailfbre, William Geary, alias Juftice, alias Ward, William Wenham, and Richard Hyde, for piratically entering a Dutch fhip, two leagues from Beachy-head, and ftealing 60 hats, &c. It is faid Pinnel, before his execution, confeffed that he was the perfon who murdered capt. Henderfon on board the Ifabella, on the German fea, in April laft, and that two others of the crew were concerned with him. Pinnel was tried for the above murder at the Old Bailey, but acquitted, through a mistake in the indictment. The emperor of Morocco, having fet at liberty 37 Tufcan captives, fent them as a prefent, by a French veffel, to the grand mafter of Malta, who has fent them to Leghorn, from From whence they arrived at Flo rence, and were presented to the great duke. Private advices from Copenhagen of Oct. 16, fay, "The king our fovereign, ever attentive to the good of his fubjects, having teftified his approbation, during his refidence in England, of many civil and military establishments, intends to build two hofpitals at Copenhagen and Bergen, for difabled feamen. The hotel of the invalids is already begun, under the direction of the first architect of the court. Thefe monuments of the beneficence of the best of kings will immortalize his name in the Danish annals. The English fashions and furniture prevail in the capital; and the young noblemen, by the king's defire, learn that copious and energetic language; a circumftance very agreeable to the queen." They write from Conftantinople, that fince the late execution of the grand vizir, above three millions fterling in gold and precious ftones had been difcovered in a fecret place in that prince's feraglio, by means of a Greek flave, who alfo informed against two Jews, who had large fums in their poffeffion. By letters from Bagdat we learn, that the greatest part of that city was deftroyed in May laft, by an earthquake: and we further learn, that Kerim Khan, fovereign of Perfia, was marching an army towards that place if this fhould prove true, the Porte will find itfelf greatly embarrassed. Letters from Leghorn advife, that a Corfican chief, with about 500 men, poffeffes an advantageous poft behind a mountain north of Muratto, and they feem determined to be cut to pieces rather than submit to the tyrannic yoke of France. Letters from Warfaw, dated Oct. 7, fay," A fpectacle, very capable of infpiring every one with pity, has prefented itself before us for fome days paft: nine gentlemen, who had their hands cut off at the wrift, have been conveyed to this place. This cruel execution was perpetrated by order of general Drewitz, and by fome is faid to be done by himself. The grand general of Lithuania has taken great care of thefe unfortunate people, and intends to provide for their maintenance." Elfineur, Nov. 4. The following is a list of the Ruffian fquadron under Admiral Elphinston, now in the Sound: Le Petronia, the flaghip, of 66 guns. Le Saratoffe, capt. Bofchentzoff, ditto. Another of the fame force, capt. Ignatiefs. Le Sweeteloff, capt. Borch, of 80 guns. Le Nadefchie frigate, capt. Poluvanoff; and L'Afrique frigate, of 45 guns each. And two pinks and a tranfport vessel, of 12 guns each. A Danish fhip bound from Hamburgh to Cadiz, faid to be worth 20,000 dollars, has been lately taken by the Algerines. The king of Portugal has lately iffued an edict, by which widows of more than 50 years of age are forbidden to marry; "becaufe, fays the edict, experience has fhewn that women of that age commonly marry young men of no property, who dif fipate the fortunes which fuch marriages put them in poffeffion of, to the prejudice of the children and other near relations of their wives.” A thunderbolt fell upon the convent of the Urfuline nuns of Mende in Languedoc, without any prevous explosion, which fet the con vent |