tive power is lodged, and in both the legislative authority; there is a large territory about Augsburgh, fubject to this city. Half of the burghers are proteftants, and the other half papifts, who have an equal fhare in government, and the choice of their reprefentatives. Here it was the Lutherans prefented their confeffion of faith to the emperor Charles V. at the diet of the empire, in the year 1550, from hence called the Augsburgh confeffion, which occafioned a civil war between the proteftants and papifts, that lafted upwards of twenty years. The bishop is one of the ecclefiaftical princes of the empire, by virtue of the territories annexed to his bishoprick, but has no fhare in the civil government of the city. The inhabitants, in expetation of a vaft concourfe of illuftrious ftrangers, demand exceffive prices for their houses. They infiit on from 15 to 18 thoufand florins per ann. for indifferent houfes, and if they are to be accommodated with ftables, &c. they must pay 3,000 more. An afs went 100 miles in 31ft. 21 hours at Newmarket. The bett was 1001. to 101. he did not perform it in 24 hours, and the owner won 101. to 201.

Arrived in town M. Buffy, the French n inifter. He was detained hear a week at Calais, by contrary winds. Mr. Stanley and he met there, and had a conference of fome

hours.

Died lately Peter Champagne, of Mavac, in Perigord, France, aged 100.

William Bruguier, a French refugee, at Berlin, aged 103.

Jofeph Standby, of Afton, near Birmingham, in the 106th year of his age: at a hundred he

had all his fenfes perfect, and in appearance feemed to be but 70; he would, with chearfulness, relate what happened remarkable in his youth, with clearness and perfpicuity; in his decline, he was pleafant in converfation, and in repartee jocofe and agreeable. Being lately told by a young lady, how handfome he looked (which was the cafe, confidering he was 103) he replied, "I thank you for the compliment, madam, but what would you have faid if you had feen me 100 years ago?" He ftill continued his pleafantry, for he told them as they were taking him from his bed,

They were carrying him to Rumford to have his backside newbottomed." His illness was a fever, in which he laid about fourteen days.

JUNE.

Was decided a remarkable wager of 1,000 guineas, between Mr. Shaftoe and Mr. Meynel, that a man rode 29 hundred miles, 29 days fucceffively, which was performed without much difficulty by Mr. Woodcock.

M. Buffy waited on Mr. fecretary Pitt, the earl of Bute, and the duke of Newcastle, and afterwards went to court.

Began paying at the pay office the fum of 20,0001. granted to the crews of his majefty's fhips Naffau, Harwich, Rye, and Swan floop, as alfo the marines, who were on board at the conqueft of Senegal, May 1, 1758, which fum has been raised from the effects taken at that place. At one o'clock in the morning, it being high water, and the wind at north, the caffoon, belonging to the intended bridge at

2d.

Blackfriars,

Blackfriars, floated with the greateft eafe; and was immediately conveyed to its proper moorings within the piles drove for that purpofe.

3d.

Was tried at Guildhall, before lord Mansfield, by a fpecial jury of merchants, a remarkable caufe between a merchant and a wharfinger: the matter in difpute was, whether the wharfingers are accountable for the thefts committed on board their lighters; and after a long hearing, it was unanimously determined by the jury, without going out of court, in favour of the latter; and that no goods are under the charge of the wharfinger, but remain under the care of the fhip's agent, until paffed the king's beam.

Omar Effendi, lately arrived ambaffador from Algiers, had his first audience of his majefty, to deliver his credentials: the ambaffador brought over, as prefents to his majefty, &c. 24 fine horses, a lion, two tygers, and fome curious fheep. The ambalador was very defirous of having the lion and tygers he brought over as a prefent, led before him, which could not be granted; however, the fine horfes and curious fheep he intended for his majefty, were admitted into the cavalcade, but could not (as he expected) be drove into the apart ments for the king to fee them; at which his excellency feemed fomewhat difguiled, till he was affured by the lords in waiting, that it was contrary to the cuftom of this country. His majefty viewed them in the royal garden, from the windows of the palace. The ambaffador being admitted into the royal prefence, the king told him he was forry that his ex

cellency had fuch a bad day for his publick entry. No, sire, fays the ambaffador, it is not a bad day, it is a very fine, it is a glorious day for me, when I have the honour to. behold so great a monarch as your majesty.

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated May 22.

"In 1672 and 1686, Caffini, with a telefcope of 34 feet, thought he perceived a fatellite which revolved round Venus: but no aftronomer hath feen it fince, till the 3d of this month, the 4th and the 7th, when it was difcovered by M. Montagne. M. Baudouin, a member of the grand council, who put Montagne in the way of obferving it, read in the royal academy of fciences, on the 20th, a memoir,, in which he determines the revolutions and diftances of the fatellite; and deduces all the confequences that may refult from this theory. It follows from his calculations, that this fatellite is about a fourth of the diameter of Venus, and is diftant from it about fixty femi-diameters of that planet. It performs its revolution in nine days feven hours. Its af cending node is in the 22d degree of Virgo. Its greateft digreffon to the north, was on the 7th at nine at night. M. Baudouin hopes to fee this fatellite pafs over the fun fome hours after Venus, fuppoting M.Montagne's obfervation to be perfectly exact." [This fatellite was alfo feen by Mr. Short, F.R.S. in 1740, an account of which is in the philofophical tranfactions of that year.

Being the anniversary of 4th. his majefty's birth, when he entered the 24th year of his age, it was celebrated with the utmost [7] 4 demon

demonftrations of joy. There never was a more brilliant court on any occafion. Moft of the ladies cloaths were gold and filver brocade. The guns in the Park and at the Tower were difcharged, and in the evening feveral curious fireworks were played off on Towerhill, St. James's-fquare, Leicefterfields, Kew, and Richmond, with illuminations in the houses, and a grand ball at St. James's.

At the duke of Newcastle's entertainment was a curious defert, reprefenting the citadel of Palais, and his majefty's forces now befieging the fame.

The hay-makers being diftreffed by the rainy weather, near 301. was collected for them at two feveral times, by the merchants, &c. on the royal exchange.

While fome young gentlemen were drinking lately at a tavern in Whitechapel, one of them who happened to be confiderably in debt, was informed of two bailiffs loitering about the door; on which they held a council, and came to a refolution to fend for two men, who lived juft by, who were ordered to nail the two bailifs by their cloaths to the poft which they leaned againft. This being effected unperceived, they gave the men a crown for their trouble, and paying their reckoning went out; when the bailifs going to do their duty, and attempting to move from their station in a hurry, each of them got a moft violent fall on the ftones, and before they could difengage themselves, the young gentlemen made off. The mob who were gathered about the bailiffs were highly diverted with the affair.

5th.

At a court of commoncouncil, it was unanimoufly

refolved to prefent the freedom of this city in a gold box of 150 guineas value to his royal highnefa the duke of York, one of the rear admirals of the blue fquadron of his majefty's fleet. Refolved alfo, that 2,0001. the money lately received for the city remembrancer's place, fhould be returned, and that the place fhould be a gift to be difpofed of by the common council, for the future.

A gentleman, who travelled laft year through France, obferved that in all the provinces where the chief bufinefs of the inhabitants was hufbandry and agriculture, the people in general were taller, ftronger, lefs volatile, and more populous, than thofe who cultivated vineyards; though no fenfible difference could be found in the climate. This remark, fupported by a detail of natural reafons, was communicated to a member of the fociety of agriculture in France, who hath laid it before the miniftry.

This morning the long ex- 6th. pected tranfit of Venus was obferved by many curious gentlemen, with fuitable apparatufes, and, by comparing notes, it appears, that it differed very little from doctor Halley's computation; which fhews the great perfection to which aftronomical obfervations have arrived, and from thence what greater usefulness may be expected; fince it appears from the obfervations, that at two places, viz. one at the caft, the other at the weft of London, the time of the absolute emerfion was at one of them thirty-five minutes three fe conds after eight, and the other thirty-five minutes feven feconds after eight. And the accounts

from different parts of England end Holland too, give the greateft fatisfaction with respect to the faid phænomenon; and to eftablish the truth, that there is a fatellite like our moon, which performs a courfe in twelve days about her.

This week was prefented to fir Edward Hawke, by the hands of lord Farnham, the freedom of the city of Dublin, in a gold box, as a mark of their gratitude to that gallant officer for his great fervices, particularly for his victory over M. Conflans, on Nov. 20, 1759.

The following threatening 9th. letter, directed to Mr. George Catter, being found near Haverhill, in Suffolk, his majefty's pardon, and a reward of 201. are offered for the difcovery of the accomplices therein, except the perfon who wrote the fame.

"On the Recept of this goo and Tell Hemfted Pickett and Milleway and all the Reftt of your Heaveril Gang of the Bandity that fo Vilinoully oppofe the Gorfpell being Preached that if we meet with any more affronts or abufe when we come again as we Intend to Doo on the 17th Inflant we are Refolved to Reveng itt on your Parffons or Houfes for as wee have lifted under the Baner of Chrift our Captein we are on and al; deturmin'd to fland by on another our Number is Larg and our Caus good therefor we fett all your Mallis at Defians Dont fay You had no Notis or worning for Wee are fo prepar'd that we fear you not thefor tak Care what you doo I am order'd by my Brethren in the Lord to Sighne for the Reft * your Friendly Moneter five Hundred or the Gofpel Legion."

Lisbon, May 5. A few days ago a prieft, whofe brain was touched, but otherwife a good fort of a man, infifting that he felt the fhock of an earthquake between twelve and one in the morning of the 22d past, a foldier, who was then on duty, gave him the lye. Upon this the prick called the foldier infidel, heretic, and one who feared neither God nor man, which the foldier refent-. ing, he laid fome heavy blows with the but end of his musket on the priest's back, and would probably have finished him, had not fome by-ftanders interpofed. The affair being carried before a magiftrate, the ecclefiaftic was ordered to be conned in a madhouse for fix months, and the foldier to be exempted from night duty during the fame face of time.

9th.

A confiderable fhock of an earthquake was felt this day at Sherborne,Shaftesbury, and other places thirteen miles round, about five minutes before twelve.

At Lower Areley, in Worcafterfhire, is now living a woman 99 years of a e, who can read fmall print without fpectacles, and is of great vivacity and comeliness for a perfon of fuch an advanced age."

A letter from Madrid has the following parage. "All livery fervants, as well thofe of illuftrious blood as of low extraction, except fuch as belong to the king, are forbid to wear fwords." [There are nobles of Galicia, Afturias, and Fiferye, among the valets of Spain; and, notwithstanding their humble ftate, they retain a great part of the prerogatives of their birth.]

Came on at the King's 13th. Bench, Westminster, a cause wherein one Mr. Butler was plain

tiff, and one Bell, defendant, on an action for the defendant's dog being loofe, and biting the plaintiff's hand, fo that he left the use of three of his fingers. The jury brought in a verdict of 2001. and advifed the defendant to hang his dog for fear of farther mischief.

Gloucester, Jan. 6. Yesterday a man, who was washing fheep in a pool, at Tibberton, in this county, let one of the fheep get from him, and endeavouring to catch it, fell into a hole very deep in the mud and water, and was fuifocated ; 'one of his companions, who ftood on the bank, immediately jumped in to aflift him, and met with the fame fate; and a third, who was with them, in endeavouring to help them, fell in alfo, and was drowned.

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A letter from Stockholm gives the most melancholy account of the diftemper among the cattle, with which the province of Finland has for fome years been afflicted; it now affects even the men who attend the fick cattle, or who flay the dead; a flout young fellow, after flaying a cow dead of the diftemper, at night laid himself down on the fkin, wrapped it about him, but the next morning was found quite ftiff and dead. The moft ingenious Mr. Hartman, continues the letter, has advanced, that the fymptoms of this diftemper in the human species, perfectly correfpond with thofe of the English fweating: we fometimes burn the liver, milt, and lungs of the dead beafts, and adminifter the powder of them to the fick beafts, on account of the volatile falts in thefe afhes: I hear that now they are beginning to burn whole carcafes for the fame ufe: and likewife to prevent the air from being infected by fuch a number of

putrified carcafes, the cow-houfes alfo are fumigated with fulphur, gunpowder, and vinegar."

Letters from Smyrna, dated the 6th ult. fay, "The report of the Turkish armament being deftined against the pretended ufurper of Egypt, is here looked upon as an idle ftory. It is true that Ibraham Kiaja extends his fway of government beyond the ufual limits: but it is far from being to the disadvantage of the Ottoman Porte, as, by his difinterefted and fpirited exertions, he keeps the haughty and oppreffive pachas within due bounds. It is computed the revenues of Egypt amount to 100,000 purfes per day; of which enormous fum, hardly one tenth part enters into the exchequer of the Grand Signior, on account of the avarice of the pachas, and other frauds; and as the revenues have confiderably increafed of late, Ibraham Kiaja will be fupported as a most useful vallal to the Porte, by the frongeft political cement, which is common intereft. As nothing is fettled in Perfia, there is no hope at prefent of reviving the ftagnated commerce."

15th.

Sir Thomas, Harrison reported to the common council of London, the ar.fwer that the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onflow gave him in writing, when he attended him with the freedom of this city, in purfuance of an order of this court: which was as follows:

"Mr. CHAMBERLAIN,

"I receive, with the trueft fenfe, of gratitude, this great mark of refpect the city of London is pleased to fhew towards me in their gift of the freedom, and which I can only impute to the high regard the citizens of London bear to the house of commons, and as a testimony for