eighty more were taken out of the common fewer. The gardeners round Lambeth are pestered with vermin called flying moles, their fore feet are like the wings of a cock-chaffer, No vermin can do greater damage than they in a garden; they cover themselves at the root of the vegetable, and eat it off, particularly the cucumber plants. Several perfons are now employed in deftroying them. June enfuing, fhall produce the beft drawing and likeness of his prefent majefty in profile, from which a die of a guinea may be executed with the greateft propriety. The method lately taken by the right hon. the lord-mayor, at the adjournment of the general quarter fellions of the peace at Guildhall, when a great number of poor prifoners were difcharged from Ludgate, the two Compters, and the Fleet, was the most humane, concife, and judicious imaginable; no perfon was returned back for frivo'lous objections, or for bare oppofition, as has formerly been the cuftom; it being obferved, that it was the bufinefs of the court to clear the prifoners, agreeable to the tenor of the act, as any one who in the leaft falfified his oath, lay open to the penalties of the law, which it was incumbent on the creditor to prove afterwards. Paris, May 9. The great caufe between M. Lioncy, of Lyons, and the jefuits, who refufed to honour the bills drawn on them in the Weft-Indies, by M. de la Valette, to the amount of 1,500,000 livres, was decided yesterday in favour of the plaintiff, who obtained 50,000 livres as an imdemnification for his bankruptcy, occafioned by the jefuits refufing to pay. The court being informed that many others had demands of the fame nature, and waited only for the decifion of this caufe, to bring their actions, declared that all the houfes of the fociety in France, except the colleges, fhall be refponfible, with the general of the order refiding at Rome, for each other. The jefuits are ordered to pay M. Lioncy's money immediately, and to pay all M. de la Valette's other bills within a year and a day. Laftly, the fociety and all its mem-mily being awakened by the smoke, bers are prohibited to trade any happily extinguished it,, before it This is a mortifying affair had coinmunicated itfelf beyond the wainfcot and furniture of the room. more. to the fociety. 20th.. of arts, their approbation and thanks were ordered to Mr. God-frey for his experiment of yefterday. Ata meeting of the fociety A gratuity of twenty guineas was offered by the fame fociety to the perfon, who, within the month of Vol. IV. Sunday night laft the fervant of a green-grocer in Piccadilly, after the family were gone to bed, robbed the houfe of all the linen that was looked out to be washed the next morning, and other wearing apparel; after which he fet the houfe on fire in three feveral parts of the kitchen, by putting lighted fmall-coal against the wainscot; and then made off. Some of the fa 1 of St. Cefarea, on the Appian way, near the Latin-gate, they found, in two fubterranein apartments four fepulchres of Greek marble, with two fuperb vafes of marble of a very hard kind, ufed in baths; having a beautiful head of a lion on each fide, and the head of another fierce animal in the centre, near the bottom. Thefe vafes are faid to be ten palms in length, and four high; and the property of the jefuits of the Clementine college. To raife the 10,000 crowns which the grand mafter of Malta requests of the holy fee, a new mount of piety has been erected at Rome, under the title of St. Paul, of the Religion of Malta, the actions whereof, are faid to be nearly full. The receivers of the order of Malta have borrowed a confiderable fun of the bank of Venice, the reimbursement of which is aligned upon all the commanderies. The Turkish armament has fo much alarmed the Genoefe, that they have concluded to fend the fame fuccours to the Maltefe, that they did in the year 1717; and all their gallies are to join thofe of the two Sicilies and Malta. Four hundred pounds 21ft. eighteen fhillings was collected at the fermon and feaft of the city of London lying-in-hofpital. About half an hour after nine in the evening, the warehouse and work-fhop belonging to Mr. Pym's paper-mill at Bramfhot in Hamphire, were wilfully fet on fire by one of his apprentices. There being a great quantity of pitched repe and rags in the warehouses, they were burnt to the ground in a few minutes; and the mill was with great difficulty faved. The damage is computed at 6001. The boy has confeffed the fact, and is committed to Winchefter goal, in order to be tried at the next affizes. 22d. Died the truly ingenious Thomas Simpson, F. R. S. mafter of the royal academy at Woolwich. A curious botanift at Fulham, has imported from America, a moft wonderful production of the vegetable creation, viz. a kind of melon, which weighs fifty pounds, is four feet round, and thirty-two inches long; the body is fluted like a pillar of wood or ftone, and between the flute is a regular number of prickles, as fharp as thorns, and in fhape refembling fpur-rowels; thefe prickles are about an inch long each, and at the extremity of the head are four round excrefcences of folid fubftance, in the form of monks caps, and overgrown with a reddish briftly fubftance as hard as a brufh. This production is greatly admired by the virtuofi. Hans Stanley, Ffq; his 24th. majefty's minifter to the court of France, fet out to embark for Calais. Thurfday fe'nnight the Rev. Mr. William Cullis, at Briftol, ftooping down, in order to pick up a paper he had dropped, inftantly expired.-What is fomewhat remarkable, his brother died in the fame manner fome time fince. Capt. Edward Power (late of the fhip Dublin) of the Tufcany of Briftol, bound for Newfoundland, arrived at Belfaft, brought advice that on May 1, in an engagement with the Duke de Biron privateer of Dunkirk, the Tufcany blew up and funk in a few minutes; and out of 211 perfons including paffengers, only only the captain and four or five were faved; among whom was a young infant, that was blown into the privateer, and found on her deck after the explofion, without having received the leaft injury.. 26th. The new knights companions of the most honourable order of the Bath, were inftalled in Henry the VIIth's chapel, viz. The right hon. lord Carysfort; the right hon. lord Blakeney; the hon. lieut. gen. Sir Jofeph Yorke; Sir James Grey, bart. Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, bart. Sir John Gibbons, bart. Admiral Sir George Pococke; major general Sir Jeffery Amherft; major gen. Sir John Griffin Grffin; Sir Francis Blake Delaval; Sir Charles Frederick; Sir George Warren; Admiral Sir Charles Saunders. After the proceffion, the following oath was adminiftered by the dean, Bath holding the book. "You fhall honour God above all things; you fhall be ftedfaft in the faith of Chrift; you fhall love the king your fovereign lord, and him and his right defend to your power; you fhall defend maidens, widows, and orphans in their rights, and fhall fuffer no extortion, as far as you may prevent it; and of as great honour be this order unto you, as it ever was to any of your progenitors, or others." Divine fervice being ended, the dean gave the following admonition: "I exhort and admonish you to ufe your fword to the glory of God, the defence of the gospel, the maintenance of your fovereign's right and honour, and of all equity and juftice, to the utmoft of your power." On their return, the king's mafter cook, having a linen apron on, and a chopping knife in his hand, repeated to each new created knight the following admonition: "Sir, you know what great oath you have taken, which, if you keep, it will be great honour to you; but if you break it, I fhall be compelled by my office to hack off your fpurs from your heels." In confequence of a writ of mandamus, from the court of King's bench, Dublin, for reftoring Dr. Charles Lucas, lately elected one of the members for that city, to the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin, when the doctor was reftored accordingly. The house of lord Annef29th. ley, at Caftle Villain, in Ireland, was burnt to the ground, and great quantities of houthold furni ture, &c. confumed. According to the laft accounts, received by the laft Flanders mail, the king of Pruffia is likely to be involved in a quarrel with the canton of Berne, on account of his interpofing as fovereign in fome religious difputes, relative to the pu nifhments of the dead, which had been carried on with great vehemence in the province of Neufchattel; which this laft canton refenting, they have implored the protection of that of Berne. The acaderny of infcriptions at Paris has lately loft a valuable member, or rather prodigy, in Abbe Fenel; hen only in his 14th year he undertook a treatise of geogarh; at feronteen be exercifd on divination, hermetic phoy, and the conftrusion of the year; at twenty he in fed limit the depths of metrics; thence proceded to mo, the law of rature and natics, polity, and all the [42 branches branches of philofophy; he afcended the heights of fublimer geometry; penetrated into algebra; applied calculations to optical, aftronomical, and phyfical problems, and extended his knowledge thro' all the fciences, divinity, phyfic, the Oriental languages, and univerfal hiftory, facred and prophane not excepted. Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, April 12. "Of 4,335 burials in this capital during the year 1759, 1,079 were the effects of the final pox; that is to fay, within the compafs of only one year, this diftemper, which to fome authors feem fo mild and clement, has laid in their graves the Hundredth part of the inhabitants of this city. How may they congratulate themfelves, who, by inoculating their children, have prevented thofe afflictive cafes, which are fo bitterly lamented by thofe unfortunate parents who are fwayed by old prejudice. Of 200 inoculated, not fo much as one died. 66 Bifhop Pontoppidan, fo well known for his Hiftory of Norway, has nearly finished a large work on the antiquities of this capital; which will be found much more curious than foreigners inagine, and in regard to them, he has writ it in Latin." Bofton, March 30. From Wrenthan we are informed, that there hath been lately made in that town, a Dutch machine, for winnowing grain, viz. wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, flax-feed, clover-feed, &c.-It was made by the direction of a gentleman in the Jerfeys:-From thence we are aflured, that, two boys can winnow 100 bushels of wheat in one day, and do it in the beft manner. It makes all the wind it wants; and lays the grain, the chaff, and the cobs, in three ditferent heaps.-That it has been tried at Wrentham with the beforementioned forts of grain; and anfwers the utmoft expectation.-— That two boys, about 15 or 16 years of age, winnowed 21 bufhels of rye, in 50 minutes, in the best manner; which a gentleman, with his watch, who was prefent, can atteft to; and fince which, it winnowed 50 bushels in one hour and a half, done as well as the other.—It is esteemed a ufeful infìrument for a farmer; and being not very cumberfome to move from place to place, might ferve a large neighbourhood. The director of this inftrument expreffes himfelf thus; “I fhould be glad if the moft ufeful arts, and beft methods in husbandry were more generally known; it would afford the husbandman renew ed caufe of praife and thankfulnefs to that God who doth inftruct him with direction."-We are further informed, that on Monday laft, it winnowed 10 bushels in one hour, as can be attefted by many witnelles. Peterburg, April 10. On the 30th paft arrived here with a retinue of 75 perfons, the reigning prince of Georgia, father of the prince Heraclius, who has rendered himfelf faraous in the civil wars of Perfia. He comes, after the example of his predece Tors, to pay his compliments to the Czarina, and was received with all the honours due to his high rank. He had not been here above five or fix days, when he received letters from prince Heraclius, visiting g that the difturbances in Pertquare greater than ever cach dan or lord uturping ufurping the fovereignty of his particular district; and thefe ufurpers make war upon one another in fupport of their ufurpations; whilft the great lords fight with the utmoft animofity for the crown itself. Florence, April 14. The knights of Malta, refiding in the emprefs queen's dominions, are forbid by her majefly to go to the affiftance of their land, for fear of difobliging the Turks. According to the most common eftimate, it confifts of 20 thips of the line, fix galleys, many fmaller veffels, and fome corfairs that were ordered to join it. We learn from Holland, that a little while ago, the Narden waggon was ftopt by the French, who took out of it a large fum of money, and other effects. The Dutch ambaffador at Paris prefented a memorial demanding reftitution. The French minifter at the Hague hath fince reprefented to the fates general, That the king his malter was furprized, that they fhould claim money which could be undeniably proved to be defigned for the allied army; that it had indeed been feized on the territory of the republic; and therefore when their. high mightineffes fhould give his majefty fatisfaction for the outrages and damages fuffered by his fubjects from the English on Dutch territory, particularly in the affair of the Felicité frigate, his insjefty would give them jafi faxisfaction, being defirous, that their high mightinefiles fhould enjoy the benefits of their neutrality in its full extent; and that in the mean time how ouldreftore all the merchandizes belonging to the fubjects of the republic, which were taken out of the waggon.' 30th. A fet of fine cream coloured horfer, and feveral other coach and faddle horfes from Hanover, were landed at Tower-wharf for his majefty's fervice. Bofton, March 16. Laft Thurfday morning about half an hour after two, the people of this town were awakened with an earthquake, which lafted about twenty feconds,, but without doing any damage to our houses. It was divided into two flakes, with a fhort pause between; and the laft was the greateft.-The weather was moderate for the feafon, like that of the preceding days, and a perfect calm refted upon both land and water. The ftars over head fhone clear; but the horizon all round was covered with a whitifh fog, which appeared as if there had been a light behind it. We alfo learn by fome fishermen that were upon the water coming in at that time, that the courfe of this earthquake was nearly from the S. W. to the N. E. and that they perceived the noife, as of a diftant rifing wind, fome confiderable time before the thaking came on. The colony of Connecticut has provided for railing and equipping 2,300 effective men; Rhode Island 665 men; Maffachufets Bay 3,000, and New York 1,757 men, for the enfuing campaign in America. Augfburgh, where the.congrefs is to be held, is a very large and elegant city of Suabia, (a circle in Germany, fubject to feveral princes and ftates) fituated on the river Lech and Wardour, 36 miles eaft of Ulm, and 65 fouth-west of Ratifbon, 220 weft from Vienna, and 33 north-weft from Munich. It is an imperial city or fovereign ftate, being governed by the town council, and the reprefentatives of the burghers; in the firft, the execu[43 tive |