the account fince published it appears, that the whole lofs of these ufeful members of fociety amounted to 5185 1. 5 s. 1d; and the benefactions for their relief to 2156 1. 45. 2 d.

This ftorm made fuch an impreffion on the ignorant populace affembled to fee a criminal executed for a rape on Kennington common, that the fheriff was obliged to apply to the fecretaries of ftate for a military force to prevent a rescue, fo that it was near eight in the evening before he fuffered.

Moft of the English members, who voted against the new excife on cyder have been thanked for it by their conftituents, and welcomed home with the greatest demonftrations of joy. On the other hand, many of thofe, who voted for it, have been received with fhouts of contempt and hiffes. And almost all the counties, &c. of England, have inftructed their members to endeavour its repeal. One county, indeed, has exhorted its members to fupport it, as tending, they fay, to make the burdens of the state lie equally on the subject.

Died the right hon. the 21st. earl of Egremont, one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate, of a fit of the apoplexy.

A very smart fhock of an earthquake was felt at Augufta, in Georgia.

24th.

As foon as the execution of feveral criminals condemned at the laft feffions at the Old Bailey was over at Tyburn, the body of Cornelius Saunders, executed for ftealing about 501. out of the houfe of Mrs. White, in Lamb-freet, Spitalfields, was carried and laid before her door;

where great numbers of people affembling, they at laft grew fo, outrageous, that a guard of foldiers was fent for to stop their proceedings; notwithstanding which, they forced open the door, fetched out all the falmon tubs, most of the houshold furniture, piled them on a heap, and fet fire to them; and to prevent the guards from extinguishing the flames, pelted them off with ftones, and would not difperfe till the whole was confumed.

By the India fhips lately arrived from St. Helena we hear, that the Egmont, captain Mears, by making, or running down, the island, in the direction of the meridian due north, arrived at the faid ifland ten or twelve days fooner than fhe would by the ufual way of making it due weft; and that this method was used in confequence of inftructions given to the captain by the rev. Mr. Mafkelyne, and to the chief mate by Mr. Waddington.

The whale fishery has been very fuccefsful this year. One thip belonging to London brought home

nine whales.

Within these few weeks two guinea fhips have been deftroyed by the accidental firing of their powder, one at Dublin, the other at Liverpool; and the crews of both, all to one man, perished.

Two children belonging to Mr. Bale, of Lincoln cathedral, were unhappily poifoned by eating fome gingerbread nuts bought of a quack, and given them by a lad who did not know but they were wholefome: the elde, about three years old, recovered, but the youngest died.

Since the middle of July, near

150 perfons have been committed to New prifon and Clerkenwell bridewell, for robberies, and other capital offences.

The earl of Bute was

27th. with his majesty till late

at night.

Early this morning his

28th. lordship was again in con

ference with his majesty.

Mr. Pitt was in con29th. ference with his majefty above two hours. No perfon was prefent except the duke of York. -From this circumftance a rumour prevailed, that he was again to be made secretary of state.

At Duna, in Ruffian Lithuania, 700 houfes have been lately destroyed by fire; and at Kehelin, in Poland, the whole city reduced to afhes. They write from Germany, that the empress queen (whofe dominions are faid to have loft fifty millions of florins, and half a million of men by the laft war) and the king of Pruffia, feem to vie with each other in rewarding military merit; granting immunities from taxes, materials for building, and horfes for country work, to fuch of their fubjects, as by their fufferings during that calamitous period fecm to deferve, or stand in need of it; and likewife in endeavouring to repeople their wafted dominions, by pardoning fuch deferters and exiled perfons, &c. (except only the baron Warkotfch, who formed a plot to deliver the king of Pruffia up to the queen of Hungary) as may think proper to return home; and even inviting ftrangers. The king of Pruffia, in particular, has ordered the pictures of all those brave generals who fell in his fervice, to be hung up in a VOL. VI.

hall, which has been opened for that purpofe, and is to be called the Hall of Heroes. He has likewife enfranchised fuch peasants of his dominions, as fhewed an extraordinary degree of zeal to promote his fuccefs; and to encourage manufactures as well as agriculture, has forbid the importation into his electoral dominions of any filks, chintz, or cottons, and ordered all, that are there already, to be exported, under the penalty of 100 crowns for each ell."

On the other hand, these powers have been no lefs attentive to inquire into and punish fuch mifbehaviour in their officers, as was attended with any confiderable influence upon their affairs.

At Berlin, general Zaftrow, who commanded at Schweidnitz, when that fortrefs was surprised by general Laudohn, has been difmiffed the fervice, with all the officers that commanded under him. General Finck, and the two major-generals Rebentefch and Gerfdorf, who commanded at Maxen, are condemned, the first to lofe his poft, and fuffer one year's imprifonment; the fecond, to be imprifoned fix months; and the third, broke, and to fuffer imprisonment for two years. Spandau is the place appointed for their confinement. General Finck's regiment has been given to general Wunsch, who, at that memorable affair, propofed to the Pruffian generals to cut their way thro' the Auftrian army, and offered himfelf to be the first to clear the paffage; but eight general officers oppofed this advice, as feeming to them too hazardous.

The caftle of

been degraded from all his honours and dignities, and condemned to imprisonmment for life at Kuffftein in Tyrole; and baron de Wargotfch, who formed the plan for feizing the king of Pruffia in his camp near Breflau, has been rewarded with a confiderable penfion.

In Ruffia, too, they have been making fome inquiry into the conduct of the late war; and the famous partifan, general count Tottleben, having been found guilty of feveral treacherous and oppreflive practices, has been condemned to forfeit his eftate, his honour, and his life; but the last part of his fentence has been remitted by the czarina, upon condition of his retiring from, and never again appearing in, her dominions on pain of death; and as to his eftate, fhe has given it up to his creditors, and thofe who have been any way injured by him, upon due proof of the justice of their demands upon him.

Dublin, August 20. On the 8th inftant, our weavers, on occafion of Mr. Cottingham, an eminet mercer in this city, importing a large quantity of French filks, affembled riotoufly in great numbers, and after leading his effigy in a cart by his own door, hanged it on the common gallows. They then threatened to rifle and pull down his houfe, and probably would have done fo, if a guard of. foldiers had not been fent to protect it; however, they moft unreafonably deftroyed a great number of looms belonging to him, which he had for feveral years kept conftantly employed in weaving filks; not reflecting that they alfo hurt

themselves by it. He published an apology, fetting forth, that in order to be as early at market as the London manufacturers, with French patterns, of which the ladies of Ireland were fo very fond, he had, for a few hundred pounds, engaged perfons at Lyons to fend him over two thousand pieces of different patterns, every fix months, as lefs than a piece could not be obtained. But this was rather adding fuel to the flame, than extinguishing it, as it must be obvious he would not re-export thofe filks, and by the fale of them at home, the demand for Irish, or even Enlifh, filks must be greatly leffened.

Mrs. Clements, of Billiter-lane, was lately delivered of three boys.

A washerwoman of White-crossftreet, of two girls and a boy.

Died lately. Edward Colfton, Efq; in Park-ftreet, Grosvenorfquare, who has left 2800l. to St. Bartholomew's, and 1000l. to the Foundling hofpital.

James Barton, of Orton, Suffolk, aged 106.

Mr. Ofbaldefton, near Whaley, Lancashire, aged 115.

Four diforderly women 6th. being fent to Bridewell, a parcel of failors affembled in Rofemary-lane, with an intent to rescue them; upon which a file of mufqueteers was fent for from the Tower, and the failors continuing obftinate in their purpose, the foldiers fired, when four were killed on the spot, and many mortally' wounded, who died in a few days, in the hospital.

8th.

A most dreadful fire broke out at Shadwell dock, which burnt thirty houfes before it could be extinguished, among which was Stocker's brewhoufe, and divers others of great value. Fifteen hundred pounds has been fince collected for the unhappy fufferers by this fire.

We cannot help obferving on this occafion, how many lives might be faved in cafe of fudden fire, had every floor a front and a back doorwindow, as then thofe, who could not get down stairs, might much better come at ladders fixed to receive them, and throw out beds, and jump out with a much greater certainty of falling upon them, than can be done by means of mere windows, as is plain from the unhappy fate of those involved in the great fire at lady Molefworth's. 19th.

Robert Wood, Efq. refigned his place of one of the under fecretaries for the fouthern department.

The following lines, engraved on the tomb-ftone of a perfon lately deceased, in St. James's churchyard, (having given offence) were erafed by order of the bishop: Return'd to earth, within this dirty hole

Lies a lifeless mortal, body and foul,

Till Chrift, his God, fhall to this world defcend,

Eternity to fix, all time to end; Whofe powerful word shall raise the general dead;

First thofe, elect by him, fhall rear each head;

With him above eternally to dwell, Leave the reject eternal here in hell. The earl of Northum17th. berland, with his family, fet out for Ireland, and arrived at Dublin the zoth.

Trial has been made before the fociety for encouragement of arts, of an improvement of the guitar, by adding fome new strings, which gave great fatisfaction.

The fea at Weymouth rofe 18th. 10 feet inftantly, and went back as fuddenly; probably owing to an earthquake in fome other part of the globe.

At the quarter feffions held at Manchester, John Unfworth, bellman, was tried and found guilty, for robbing the charity box belonging to the fociety of free mafons, of which he had one key in his poffeffion, and obtained the other two by fraud. Thefe boxes being common property, it has been a queftion, whether the taking the money could be deemed robbery, which this verdict feems to have decided.

The honourable commiffioners of longitude have appointed the reverend Mr. Nevil Makelyne, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, and of the royal fociety, and Mr. Charles Green, affiftant observer at the royal obfervatory at Greenwich, to proceed for Barbadoes in the Princefs Louifa, commanded by captain Tyrrel, in order to fettle the longitude of that island by

aftronomical obfervations, for the trial of Mr. Harrifon's longitude watch; and, likewife, to try in the course of the voyage, Mr. Meyer's method of finding the longitude by the distances of the moon from the fun and fixed stars, with a curious Hadley's fextant, executed by Bird; and the goodnets of Mr. Irwin's marine chair, in making obfervations of eclipfes of Jupiter's fatellites, and occultations of itars by the moon, for the fame purpose.

The high conftable, and 19th. upwards of one hundred petty conftables, by an order from the juftices in Southwark, went to Suffolk Place, adjoining to St. George's Fields, and caufed the perfons who had erected booths and stalls there, to pull them down, as they had no lawful authority for keeping any fair; fo that Southwark fair may now be confidered as entirely abolished.

Ended the feffions at the 20th. Old Bailey, at which 168 prifoners were tried, and a woman for murder, eight perfons for ftreet robberies, a woman for fhoplifting, one for forgery, one for perfonating a failor, to defraud the government, and one for returning from tranfportation before the expiration of his time, received fentence of death; ten of whom, including the woman for murder, fuffered foon after; two were fentenced to be tranfported for fourteen years, forty-one for feven years, one to be whipped, and three were branded. His royal highness the 23d. duke of York embarked for Lisbon at Plymouth, on board the Centurion man of war.

Some antiquities were lately

found in new paving the cathedral of Exeter, of which the reader will find an account in our article of Antiquities.

26th.

Her royal highnefs the princefs of Brazil was delivered of a prince, but he died within a fortnight. It is very remarkable, that one of the many names given this young prince at his baptifm, was Francis Xavier, after St. Francis Xavier, the first difciple of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jefuits.

Captain Sampfon had the 27th. honour to prefent an elephant, brought by him from Bengal, to his majefty, at the queen's houfe. It was conducted from Rotherhithe in the morning at two o'clock, and two blacks and a feaman rode on his back.

He is feven years old, toes on each fore foot, toes on each hind foot. menfions of his several as follows.

Height

has five and four The diparts are

Feet. Inch.

561

Length from the tip of his trunk to the tip of his tail 13 Length of his body from behind his ears to the root of his tail Ditto of his neck from between his ears to his fhoulders

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