and ordered a veffel of cold water, in which the child was fully immerged. It was afterwards wrapped completely in flannels, and fo put to bed, where, being strictly attended to, after fome hours a violent perfpiration took place, and foon after life was very apparent, and the child is now perfectly restored to health.-Dr. Fothergill, of Bath, in his firft letter on fufpended Animation, makes the following interesting obfervation, which ought in every principle of humanity to caufe a univerfal attention to the circumstances attending the feeming departure of life" It is painful to reflect, that the mere resemblance of death has too often been miftaken for the reality, in which state the helpless victim has been configned to the grave! Thefe unfortunate events should awaken, caution and reprefs that inconfiderate hurry of laying out the dead, and precipitating the funeral ceremonies.' In the above inftance, fays our correfpondent, the fecond child would most certainly have been interred if it had not been for the zeal and humanity of a relation. The writer hopes that in future, the fame attention will be paid by the relations and friends of the dead, as then there is not a doubt but that numbers will be restored to their nearest and deareft connections who are now laid out on the appearance of death. Let it be remembered by the readers of this day, that at the inftant refpiration ceases, life does not quit the body in an aerial form as has been too generally fuppofed; and it is an unfortunate and melancholy truth, that this popular idea has been the caufe of thousands of the human race being committed to the grave prematurely, and thus fociety may have been deprived of many of its most valuable members. In matters of fuch infinite importance to mankind, the legislature should most seriously attend to, and give their fanction to certain experiments in order to determine life, and its departure from the fyftem; for it is poflible, in the prefent state of things, that even kings, princes and legiflators may pay the debt of nature probably to the grim tyrant death, before it is by the laws of nature justly due. Reflections that may tend to preferve the lives of the people.

M. Picco, correfponding member of the Royal Society of Medicine, at Paris and Turin, relates an account of fix perfons who were poifoned by the eating of mushrooms, which may be denominated Agaricus Conicus. Four of them died in confequence of their refusal of the remedies that were offered; the other two were restored to health. The cures were performed by emeticks; for vomiting, without lofs of time, is the principal relief that can be adopted against the corrofive and fuporifick poifon of mushrooms, when followed by the use of softening, and mucilaginous fubftances to correct the impreffion made on the prima via, and prevent inflammation, which, in fuch cafes, generally terminates in a gangrene. In a poftfcript annexed to this marration, M. Picco ftates the following: "I

have received a letter from M. J. Reycends, dated the 29th of laft Auguft, he tells me, that he learned from M. Enoch, fuperiour of the oratory in the feminary of Grenoble, that a family at Ghent, which had been poisoned by mushrooms, were cured by an infufion of pear-tree leaves drank as tea, having ineffectually tried several other remedies." This reminds me of the great confidence of the ancients, who recommended it to those who had fuffered by eating of mushrooms.

Feb. 22. The head of the Algerine Captain, who took an English ship off St. Vincent, was elevated on a pole, after it was fevered from his body. Here it stood three days, and then was fuffered to be buried. The English Captain generously made interceffion for the Algerine; but the Dey would not listen to it, as the Englishman had fhewn his paffport, and proved he was bound to Eng

land.

Feb. 26. The ingenious Dr. Adair has lately made the following curious and interefting remarks on the fhortness of human life.

Of 1000 perfons, 23 die in the birth; 277 from teething, convulfions, and worms; 80 from fmall pox; 7 in the measles; 8 women in child bed; 191 of confumption, afthma, and other difeafes of the breaft; 150 of fevers; 12 of apoplexy and lethargy; and 41 of dropfy, omiting other diseases not fo well afcertained; fo that only 78 of 1000 attain what may be deemed old age.

Or, if our readers chufe to take it in another point of view; Of 1000 perfons, 260 die within the first year, 80 in the fecond, 40 in the 3d, 24 in the fourth; and within the firft eight years of life, 446, or almost one half of the number are cut off by premature death.

March 6. A letter from Leghorn fays, that fince the Dey of Algiers took off the head of a Captain of one of his gallies for taking an English fhip, the Algerine Captains are more careful of what fhips they stop, by which means two American vessels arrived fafe in that port under English colours, having passed the corfairs without being noticed by them.

March 13. Thurfday, died, at his feat in Devonshire, Samuel Graves, Efq; Admiral of the White Squdron in the royal navy, who commanded in Chief at North America at the breaking out of the laft war.

The Sieur Leorier de L'Ifle, at Paris, has brought to great perfection, the invention of making a ftrong, folid, and white paper from different vegetables, cheaper than any paper made from rags-and better for drawings, hangings, &c.-The Royal Academy of Sciences have examined and approved.

Extract of a letter from Paris, March 1.

L'Abbe de Bologne, one of the Lent preachers to his Majesty at the Royal Chapel at Verfailles, paid a very high and elegant compliment to the King for having convened the National Affembly. "How great,

Sire, how auguft is Majefty (fays he, addreffing himself to the Monarch) when it receives an additional luftre from the virtues and lights of fubjects so nearly approaching the throne! You have proved, great King, that the welfare of a nation is the only fecret in politicks. What would your noble and generous heart do with politicks? It is the refource of feeble and common minds; true greatnefs wants no veil, and all the art confifts in fhewing it as it is. A good and upright Prince, like you, Sire, has won the caufe the moment he ftands confeffed before his subjects, and displays the ineffable qualities of his virtuous mind. The time is come that your faithful people, filled with an irresistible and everlasting attachment to the House of Bourbon, and entirely devoted to your Royal family, will form but one heart in that of the beneficent Lewis the XVIth.

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"The question for granting a civil existence to the Proteftants, and perhaps re-enacting the edict of Nantz, and fuppreffion of monafteries and convents, will not be dif cuffed in the Affembly, nor in the CommitThe King can do it by his own Royal authority with a fimple fiat; and fome deep politicians pretend that this grand coup de main will be after the Affembly, and this piece will end with an eclat which will aftonifh all Europe. It is certain, that if such a thing was propofed in the Auguft Affembly, where there are fo many Archbishops and Bishops, the very word Proteftant would make them bounce and become truly tempeftuous. It is faid the Clergy are already very much alarmed at the report that Government will take care to pay all their debts, and not give them the trouble to collect their tithes, which will certainly be modified; they will likewise be obliged to pay the land tax."

NEW YORK, May 5. The following are the most accurate returns we have been able to collect of the delegates appointed by the several states to meet in General Convention at Philadelphia, on Monday the 14th inftant for the purpofe of revifing and amending the Confederation of the United States:

New-Hampshire.The Hon. John Langdon, John Sparhawk, Pierce Long.

Maffachusetts.The Hon. Francis Dana, Elbridge Gerry, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King, Caleb Strong.

Connecticut. Their legiflature are to meet in the beginning of this month at which time it is fuppofed their delegates will be appointed.

Rhode-Island—Has not made any appoint

ment as yet.

New-York. The Hon. Robert Yates, Alexander Hamilton, John Lanfing. New-Jersey-The Hon. David Brearley, William Churchill Houstoun, William Patrson, John Neilfon.

Pennsylvania.—His Excellency Doctor Franklin, the Hon. Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzfimons, George Clymer, Jared Ingerfoll, James Wilfon, Gouverneur Morris.

Delaware.-The Hon. John Dickinson, George Read, Gunning Bedford.

Maryland.-The Hon. Robert Hanfon Harrison, Charles Carroll, of Carrolton. James M'Henry. The other names we have

not been able to obtain.

Virginia His Excellency General Washington, Governour Randolph, the Hon. John Blair, James Madifon, George Mason, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee.

North Carolina.-His Excellency Gover Dour Caswell, the Hon. Alexander Martin, Wille Jones, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Wil liam Richardson Davie.

South Carolina.-The Hon. John Rutledge, Charles Cotefworth Pinckney, Henry Laurens, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.

Georgia. The Hon. William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, William. Pierce, William Houstoun, Nathaniel Pendleton.

By the latest arrivals, we have received European intelligence to the 15th of March, the moft interesting purport of which (en ebrigé) here follows.

Mr. Grenville has brought forward a motion in parliament, for the continuance of the old laws, relative to the American trade; and a clause is to be inferted for the melioration of any acts which appeared defective.Mr. Haftings had not then been impeached, though it was daily expected.-The republick of Venice, has taken a large number of German troops into fervice, on contract.-A treaty of national amity has been concluded between the Grand Duke, and the French court. A papal mandate has been iffued at Rome, for the fuppreffion of convents for fe males, in the immediate circle of that city General Elliot, after putting the Rock of Gibralter in complete repair, retires from fervice. The king of Spain has laid a heavy duty on the exportation of cochineal from that kingdom.-The States General have invited. the return of the Prince of Orange, to the Hague, by a grand deputation. The 8th of March, being the birth-day of the Prince of Orange, the states of Holland and WeftFriesland, iffued a placart, forbidding the fale of any cockade, ribband, or other infignia of the Orange party; alfo the ufual acclamations, &c. His Catholick Majefty is fo much indifpofed, as gives us little hopes of his recovery; and the Prince of Aufturias, prefides. in all the executive councils.-Earl Cornwallis had arrived in India, and taken the chief command there.-The British packet Severne, Capt. Kidd, from Bengal, for England, was loft in that river, by which accident, near feventy perfons perified, including the Captain, his principal officers, and several gentlemen andladies, passengers : Ont

officer and fourteen others were faved. And, a large fleet of American fhips, from South Carolina, with cotton, indigo, rice and other valuable articles, were arrived at Merfeilles.

The Maryland legislature, have again convened at Annapolis. It is faid the affembly have relinquifhed their favourite plan of emitting paper money, having found their conftituents totally averfe to the measure.

Last night arrived the fhip Empress of Chipa, Captain Green, in four months and eighteen days from Canton, in China.

BOSTON, May 10.

Tuesday last, agreeably to notification, the inhabitants of this town convened at FaneuilHall, for the purpose of electing perfons to reprefent them in the General Court the enfuing year. The pool was closed at twelve o'clock, when the following gentlemen were declared to be elected, viz.

Thomas Dawes, Efq; Samuel A. Otis, Efq; Doctor Charles Jarvis. Samuel Breck, Caleb Davis, John Winthrop and John Coffin Jones, Efquires.

The town of Roxbury have elected Mr. Thomas Clarke, and John Reed, Efq;-and the town of Charlestown, have re-elected the Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, Efq; for their Reprefentative, the year enfuing.

May 14. His Excellency the Governour, with advice and confent of the Council, has been pleafed to appoint Samuel Barrett, Efq; a Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Suffolk, in the room of the Hon. Oliver Wendell, Efq; who has. religned.

By a gentleman from Great-Barrington, in the County of Berkshire, we are informed, that numbers of the fugitive Rebels are dai. ly collecting in fmall bodies in New-York State, near the line of this Commonwealth, with a profeffed intention of rifquing the Traitors who are ordered for execution the 24th inft. and who are now confined it GreatBarrington goal-and that in confequence, the minute men (about one third part of the militia) are ordered to march, and be at Great-Barrington the 20th inft. to protect the Sheriff in the due execution of the law.

The towns of Attleborough, Middlebo rough, and Stoughton, we hear, have chofen two or three Members each, to reprefent them in the General Court the enfuing year. We have obtained a lift of reprefentatives from the following towns:

Lynn and Lynnfield, John Carnes, Efq.
Cambridge, Col. Dana.

Watertown, Doct. Marshall Spring.
Lexington, Mr. Jofeph Simonds.
Billerica, William Thompfon, Efq.
Groton, Doct. Morfe.
Malden, Capt. Blaney.

Rowley, Capt. Thomas Mighall.

Woburn, Mr. Wynn.

Newbury, Mr. Amǝry.

Kittery, Mr. Adams.

The building of Malden bridge we hear,

goes on with fuch rapidity, as bids fair for

its being paffable early in the fall of the pre fent year.

We are informed that Thomas Dawes, jun. Efq; is appointed by the Board of Selectmen, to pronounce the Oration on the 4th of July next, the anniversary of the declaration of independence of the United States of America.

WORCESTER.

Accounts from the fouthward and weftward fay, that one confolidated government is now fully talked of, to extend from NewHampshire to Georgia; but it is to be hoped there is yet that virtue in United America, as will enable her to fupport the free governments her citizens now enjoy.

We learn that his Excellency John Adams, Efq; our Minifter at the Court of Great-Britain, has afked permiffion to return home; and may be expected next fpring at furtheft.

Among the many good Inftructions now giving to thofe who are to reprefent us in the next General Court, it is to be hoped the Liberty of the Prefs will not be forgotten.

The Courts of Common Pleas and General Seffions of the Peace, which by law were to fit at Groton, in the county of Middlesex, on the third Tuesday of May inft. are, by a Refolve of the General Court, adjourned to the fourth Tuesday of the fame month.

On Tuesday morning this week, his Excellency John Hancock, Efq; his lady, and Mrs. Jeffrey, pafled through this town, on their return to Bofton, from New-York.

The following is a lift of Reprefentatives for a number of towns in this county, from which we have heard.

Grafton, Col. Luke Drury. Shrewsbury, * Capt. Harrington. Sutton, Amos Singletary, Efq; and * Dr. James Freeland.

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Southborough, Capt. Newton.
Sterling, Capt. Benjamin Richardfon.
Douglas, John Taylor, Efq;
Lunenburg, Capt. John Fuller.
Brookfield, Meffrs. Forbes and Jenks.
Spencer, Mr. Hathaway.

Thofe gentlemen with this mark prefixed to their names, were Members of the County Convention.

DIED.]-At Lancaster, Mrs. Katharine Sprague, wife of the Hon. John Sprague, Efq; aged 48.At Marblehead, Mrs. Abigail Glover, confort of Jonathan Glover, Efq; in the 61st year of her age.-At Boston, Mrs. Mary Billings, widow, aged 78.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford, aged 55.-Mifs Hannah Stillman, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Stillman.At Bridgwater, the Rev. John Angier, in the 86th year of his age, and the 634 of his minittry.

who might have infpired confidence in a commander much more difpofed to defpondency. For although they a mounted only to about 1300 in number, they were compofed, belides a verteran regiment, of a part of thofe brave and hardy light troops, who had borne fo diftinguished a fhare, in all the most active and dangerous fervice in the Ame

rican war.

Upon the whole, with troops of another caft and character, even without fuppofing them to be by any means contemptible, the fituation, notwithstanding its advantages, would have been found more than perilous. The critical fituation of the fleet and army, with the vaft importance of that poft, and of the Careenage, which depended on it, cut off, however, every imputation of rafhnefs, from whatever hazard might be encountered in their prefervation.

The effect of thofe judicious pofitions which had been taken by the British troops on their first landing, became now fully evident to both armies. Nor was the chagrin and disappointment of the French greater, upon the failure of their attempt to gain the Careenage Bay, than it was after their landing, when they discovered that Sir Henry Calder's brigade were in poffeffion of the mountains on the fouth fide of the Grand Cul de Sac. For the bombarding of the British fleet, from those heights, which fo effectually commanded that bay, was the first great object in view in their landing; which, from the strong pofitions taken by that brigade, was now totally unattainable, at any lefs price, than that of a general engagement by fea and land; an iffue to which the French were not yet at all disposed to Bring matters.

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Upon a full view and confideration of thofe circumstances which we have ftated, as well as of others, the French commander's determined to direct their firft effort feparately against General Meadows, and to attack the peninfula, at the fame time, by land and fea. For 18th. the first of these purpofes, a bout 5000 of their best troops were drawn out, and advanced in three columns to attack the British lines, which were drawn across the ifthmas that joins the peninfula to the continent. That on the right was led by the Count D'Eftaing, the centre by M. de Lovendahl, and the left column, by the Marquis de Bouille, governour of Martinique. The remainder of their troops were kept dis

engaged, to watch the motions of Prefcot's brigade, and to check any attempt they might make to fuccour General Meadows.

On the near approach of the columns they were enfiladed with great effect, by thofe batteries which we have taken notice of, on the fouth of the bay. But notwithstanding this impediment, they rushed on to the charge, with all that impetuofity which is characteristick of their nation. They were received with a coolness, fteadinefs, and immoveable firmnefs, which even exceeded the expectation of thofe, who were moft verfed in the temper and character of their enemy. The French troops were fuffered to advance fo close to the entrenchments, without oppofition, that the Britifh front line fired but once, and then received the enemy on the bayonet. That fire, had of courfe, a dreadful effect; but the French, notwithstanding, fupported the conflict with great refolution, and fuffered extremely before they were entirely repulfed. It is faid, that feventy of the enemy were killed with in the entrenchment on the first onset.

As foon as they had recovered their breath and order, they renewed the attack with the fame eagerness and impetuofity as before; and were again encountered, with the fame determined refolution and inflexible obftinacy. Al though they had fuffered feverely in thefe two attacks, they again rallied, and returned to the charge the third time. But the affair was now foon decided. They were totally broken, and obliged to re tire in the utmost disorder and confufion, leaving their dead and wounded in the power of the victors. They were, however, in confequence of an agreement entered into, almost immediately after, permitted to bury the one, and to carry off the other; M. de Estaing having rendered himself accountable for the wounded as prifoners of war.

The diverfion attempted by fea pro duced fo little effect, as not to de ferve any particular notice. Nothing could exceed the difpofitions made up on this occafion by General Meadows nor surpass his conduct in any of it parts. He was wounded in the begin ning of the action; but could neither perfuaded by his furgeons to quit th field, nor to admit of their affiftance it, until the affair was decided. would be needless to make any obferva tion upon the behaviour of his officer and troops. Where all were brave