is made perpetual. They are moreöver condemned to make reftitution of feveral fums in proportion to the frauds they have been found guilty of: the fieur Bigot is to reftore 4.500,000 livres; the fieut Varin, director of the marine at Montreal, 800,000 1. M. Bread, comptroller of the marine, 300,000; M. Cadet. purveyor-general of the army 6.000,000; Penny fiant, Maurin, and Corpion, commifflaries under Cadet, 600,000 each; Estabe and Martel, keepers of magazines, the former 30,000, and the latter zoo,coo; the commandant, Laudriere, 5000; De. chainaux, fecretary to the intendant Bigot, 30,000. In all 12.965,000 livres. Ás foon as the English merchants, trading to Canada, who are largely concerned in the paper money of that colony, heard of these fines, which, it is faid, have been fince paid, they applied to the the fecretaries of state to obtain the fulfilling of his moft Chriftian majefty's declaration, with regard to the bills of exchange, drawn by the government of Canada on that of Old France, a fhort hiftory of which may not be difagreeable to the reader. Canada, in the poffeffion of the French, was undoubtedly an annual lofs to the government, although the trade of that country was very profitable to individuals and to the kingdom in general. The method the French government took to pay to the fubjects of Canada the ballance due to them, was by giving them either bills of exchange on the royal treafury in Old France, or what they call ordonnances, of which the following is the form. 20 Sols.-COLONIES 1757- Il fera tenu compte par le roi, aut mois d'Octobre prochain, de la fomme de vingt fols, valeur en la foumiffion du Tréjorier, reftée, au bureau du contrôle. A Quebec, le premier Juin, 1757 BIGOT. Thefe bills were given from a thoufand livres to feven-pencé half-penny, and were preferred by the inhabitants to current coin, and anfwered all the purposes. In the month of October of every year, every one was at liberty to bring thefe ordonnances to the inten dant's office, and had a right to demand bills of exchange on Old France in payment. This right gave the paper currency even à preference over ready cafh, for the government would not take cafh for bills of exchange. Although the inhabitants might have brought all their ordonnances to the year 1759 for payment, yet being as current and more ufeful than caff, confiderable quantities always remained in the country, and, as a proof, there are still extant fome of thefe ordonnances of the year 1729. In the year 1759, the intendant and others concerned in the government of Canada, iffued out very confiderable quantities of bills of exchange, which they pretended was for the use of the government ; but as the French court charged them with mal-adminiftration, this point continued in difpute till the above fentence. However, the poor Canadians, who knew that Bigot who figned thefe bills, had full powers from the court of France fo to do, took them as usual, and and in general paid the full value for them. It is faid there is upwards of two millions and half fterling of this paper unpaid. 31ft. At Ledbury in Herefordfhire there are now living one Price and his wife, whofe ages together make 210 years; the man 107, the woman 103. On a tomb-stone in Heydon church-yard, near Hull, in Yorkfhire, is the following infcription; Here lies the body of William Sturt, of Patrington, buried May 18, 1685, aged 97 years. He had children by his first wife, 28; by his fecond, 17; own father to 45 ; grandfather to 86; great grandfather to 97; great great grandfather to 23; in all 251. Mrs. Salvador, of White-hartcourt, was lately delivered of a fon and heir, after being married twenty-five years. Died lately. Thomas Blundell, Efq; aged 85. He was born deaf and dumb, but could converfe by figns. John Dodley, at Worcester, aged 90; he was born with a contraction of the tendons in one of his hams, and was obliged to make ufe of a wooden leg thirty years; but in endeavouring to recover a bell, which happened to overfet, the rope pulled him up with fuch velocity as to break the bandages that fastened the artificial leg; and, in the fame inftant, rendered his natural one ufeful. fioned, it is faid, by his drinking a gallon of cyder at an inn on the road, to keep off a fit of the gout. Part of the wall of the room where he died was obliged to be taken down to get the corpfe out, and no hearfe being wide enough to admit the coffin, it was placed on the carriage. At Marlborough in New England, in the 94th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hapgood. His pofterity were very numerous, viz. 9 Children, 92 Grand children, 4 great grand children. 313 in the whole. His grand children faw their grand children and their grandfather at the same time. Baron de Weffenftein, governor of Bon, aged 100. Mr. Goring, a quaker, at Chertfey, aged 102. Jacob Salm, a Dutch foldier, aged 111. Mr. Wallace, at Paris aged 112. Peter Schurman, at Groningen, aged 113. Jane Blake of Northweeds, in Yorkshire, aged 114. A general bill of chriftenings and burials in London, from December 14, 1762, to December 13, 1763. Christened Males 7761 Females 7372 15133 Buried 26143 At Holt, near Wenbourn, Dorfetfhire, the great Mr. Benjamin Bower, fo called from his enormous fize; he weighed thirty-four ftone Decreafed in the burials this year and four pounds, yet was a lively active man, and travelled to London in a stage coach but a few days before his death, which was occa 183. Among the deaths were than 195 drowned. no lefs At Manchester, Chriftened males 338; Females 392. In all 667. Marriages 363. At Newcastle on Tyne, Chriftened 711. Buried 747. Át Amfterdam, Buried 7204. At the Hague, Buried 1267. At Leipfic in Saxony, 886 children born; 1614 perfons died; 348 couple married, At Hall in Saxony, 521 born; 995 died. In the Dominions of the king of Denmark, Born 47,393. Died 59,228. Increase in deaths 11,835. Supplement to the bills of mortality, &c. at the end of our last year's Chronicle. Glasgow, Buried 173 men, 189 women, 697 children, total 1059. Increased in the burials 159. Bofton in New England, from Jan. 4, 1762, to Jan. 3, 1763, buried whites, 390. Blacks, 65. Baptized, 418. Paris, Chriftened 17809. Buried 9977. Married 4113. Found lings 5289. Rypen, 8470 2973 10691 7190 3703 Aggerbus, Drontheim, 5.400 Chriftianfand, 3711 2978 [In the diocefe of Aggerhus, it appears, that two women were each delivered of three children at a birth; and another woman of five children in one year only. Among other fingularities, they reckon 150 married couples, who have lived together 80 years and upwards; 70 others who have lived together 90 years and upwards; twelve marriages from 100 to 105 years, ftanding, and another of no lefs than 110 years. They have alfo recorded the following cafe of a woman, remarkable for her piety and her misfortunes, who died latt year aged feventy-eight. Her hufband drowned himfelf; her fecond fon loft himfelf in the mountains ; her only remaining fon kindled a pile of wood in a foreft, and leapt into the flames; and her daughter, who was was married, flung herself into a Sep. 1. Lady Petre, of a fon and river. BIRTHS for the year 1763. Jan. 1. Countess of Fingal of a daughter. 20. lately countefs of Elgin, of a fon and heir. lady Packington, of a dá. lady Dick of a fon and heir. lady Bagot of a daughter. Feb. 16. Lady Torpichen of a fon. viscountefs Folkefton of a fon. Mar. 1. Lady Burdett, of a dá. 4. lady of the hon. Everard A rundel of a fon and heir. 15. lady St. John of a daughter. Ap. 6. Ctfs. of Egremont, of a fon. May 1. Lady Bruce, of a daughter. 10. countefs of Afhburnham, of a daughter. 13. lady Harpur, of a fon and heir. June 1. lately countefs of Mornington, of a fon and heir. 25. lady Willoughby de Broke, of a fon. July 6. Lady of lord Charles Spencer, of a fon. lady Char. Murray, of ada. 2c. countess of Hertford, of a fon. 23. lady Ludlow, of a daughter. lately lady of the hon and rev. Mr. Cholmondeley, of a daughter. 10. lady of the hon. capt. Colville, of a fon and heir. lady of fir Rich. Temple, of a daughter. 16. Her majesty of a prince. heir. R.Shafto, memb. for Durham. -Butler of Kilcash, efq; heir to the late E. of Arran, to mifs Stracey, niece to E. Powis. 20. Sir John Thomas of Alderley, Chefhire, bt. to mifs Owen of Penthurft. May 2. James Townshend, efq; to the hon. mifs Hare, only daughter to the late lord Coleraine. 4. Hon. Aubrey Beauclerck, fon to lord Vere, to lady Catharine Ponfonby,daughter to the E. of Befborough." 20. Vifc. Downe, member for Ci- lately lord Will. Campbell, 31. Lord Arundel of Wardour, to mifs Conqueft, of Great George freet, June 20. Sir Wm. Lee of Hartnell, Bucks, bart. to lady Eliz. Harcourt. 21. William Auguftus Pitt, efq; memb. for Wareham, to mils Howe, fifter to lord Howe. 27. Sir Billingham Graham of Norton Conyers, bart. to mifs Hudson of Bridlington, Yorkfhire. July 2.-Earl of Rothes, in Scotland, to mifs Lloyd, daughter to the countess of Haddington. Tho. Cheape, efq; conful at the Madeiras, to mifs Stewart, niece to the E. of Moray. 7. Sir John Davie, bart. to mifs Stokes of Lincoln's-inn-fields. Aug. 27.-Rt. hon. earl of Portf mouth, to mifs Fellows, of Hampstead. Sept.4.- Ld.Digby, to mifs Fielding, niece to E. Winchelfea, 20. Col. James Stuart, to lady Margaret Hume Campbell, daughter to the E. of March mont. Major Geo. Lambton, to lady Lucy Lyon, fifter to the earl of Strathmore. Oct. 1.-Hon. capt. Hamilton, to mifs Chamberlayne, niece to the duke of Chandois. 12. Sir Edw. Clive, one of the judges of the Common Pleas, to mifs Judith Clive. 27. fir Henry Paulet St. John of Dogmersfield, Hants, bart. to mifs Tucker of Brackworth'caftles Surrey. Nov. 3.-Sir T. Salufbury, judge of the court of admiralty, to the hon, Mrs. King. 12. firDavid Dalrymple of Hailes, bart. to mifs Brown, daughter of lord Coalftoun. 23. hon. col. Somerville, at Lydeard, Somerfet hire, to mifs Eliz. Lothbridge. 28. fir George Pocock, admiral of the blue, to the widow of commodore Dent. Dec. 14.-Vifc. Boyle, eldest fon to the earl of Shannon, to mifs Ponfonby, daughter to the fpeaker of the house of commons of Ireland. PROMOTIONS for the YEAR 1763, from the London Gazette. Jan. 1. Chriftopher D'Oyley, efq; deputy fecretary at war. Jan. 4. HenryOfborne, efq; viceadmiral of Gr.Britain, lieut. of the admiralty thereof, and lieut. of the navies and feas of the faid kingdom, void by the death of G, lord Anfon |