to pieces, and it was impoffible to make any way, and they were left to the mercy of the feas; in this condition, and in want of provifions, they were put to the neceffity of eating one of the dead negro, children, which fo exafperated the negroes on board, that they fell on the crew, killed Mr. Williams and the mate, cut them in pieces, and threw them over board; wounded the captain in a terrible manner; but he taking to the throuds, they followed him ; he then flipped down the gib fay, got into the hold unperceived, and lay there till the floop got into Bermuda, which was the next day. The captain, it is thought, will recover; but one of the feamen, who was much wounded, died foon after he got ahore; the other two feamen efcaped unhurt, by hiding in the hold till the bloody rage of the negroes was cooled, when they called them up, and told one of them to be captain. Thus did that unhappy crew fare, after being at fea near 15 weeks, forty days of which almoft without provifion. When the negroes and foldiers landed, they were fo reduced, that they were forced to be carried to lodgings provided for them." ifles; where fine herrings are like wife taken in great plenty. And on both coafts great improvements have been made in the falting the fish, both as to quality and expedi tion. 26. A caufe was determined in the court of Common Pleas, before Lord Camden, wherein an eminent phyfician was plaintiff, and an eminent lawyer defendant. The action was laid for criminal familiarity with the wife of the plaintiff, for whom the jury, which was fpecial, gave a verdict in his favour, with 1500l. damages, befides cofts of fuit. A melon raised by a tanner, in Southwark, upon tan, was fold in Covent-garden market, and reckoned equal in flavour to any of the fpecies either foreign or British. The fub-committee, to whom it was referred by the grand-committee, to enquire into the corporation of the city of London's rights in the five city hofpitals, have fome time fince unanimoufly figned their report, that the right of government over thefe respective royal foundations, is jointly in the mayor, aldermen, and commoncouncil, as being the only legal reprefentative body of the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London. The fisheries on the western coafts of Scotland have this year been attended with uncommon fuc- On Thursday laft Capt. Flemcefs; the banks about twenty ming, aid de camp to the Earl of leagues to the S. W. of Campbell- Hertford, was robbed by a fingle town, in Argylefhire, being found highwayman between Towcefter to be fo well ftored with cod, that and Stoney Stratford of feventeen a thoufaad fhips of two hundred guineas. Captain Fleming, after tons might foon be fufficiently he was robbed, went to Stoney Jaden therewith. The fisheries on Stratford, where he procured two the eastern coafts are alfo greatly improved, as new difcoveries are every year made of rich banks of cod and ling amongst the northern pott-horfes and a poft-boy, went in purfuit of the highwayman, and came up with him near the Earl of Pomfret's, near Towcefter, when a clergy. clergyman, who was affifting to take him, defired him to furrender which he refufing, he was, by him, fhot dead on the spot. ' A letter from Gloucefter tells us, that on Thursday paffed through that city for Scotland, in two hearses, from Bath, the remains of the late earl and countess of Sutherland. There is fomething very affecting in the fate of thefe noble perfonages. The lofs of an only fon, who died about a twelvemonth ago, lay fo heavy upon their fpirits, that they determined to try whether the gaiety of Bath would difpel the gloom. They had been there a few weeks only, when the earl was taken ill of a violent fever, during which the countefs devoted herself fo entire ly to the care of her lord that it is afferted the attended him for twenty-one days and nights without ever leaving him or going to bed; and the apprehenfion of his danger fo affected her fpirits and appetite, that her ftomach refufed all fuftenance, and he died about three weeks ago, perfectly worn out with fatigue and watching; and on laft Monday fe'nnight the fever carried off his lordship. This most amiable pair were an honour to nobility: their conjugal love was even proverbial. It ap. peared from the inferiptions on the coffins, that the earl was only 31, the counters 26. On Friday night laft a perfon broke into the custom-houle of Liverpool, and ftole out of the colletor's office between 500 and 6001. He has been fince taken and committed to Lancaster gaol. An ingenious gentleman in London has lately invented a machine, with which he can, with great expedition, fpin copper, filver, or gold, on thread or filk, without any friction or hurt to either. They write from Antigua, that a free negro has lately difcovered a very rich crimfon die, from a preparation of the fruit of the manchineal tree; which, for brilliancy of colour, exceeds any thing hitherto attempted, and is extremely durable. The following is a lift of the perfons that were drowned on board the fnow Nancy from Bristol, lately loft on Hereford bar, viz. Captain Kerr, Mr. Oliver, the mate; Capt. Wilfon, his wife and child; Rev. Meffrs. Gyles and Willon; Robert Smith, a brother of Dr. Smith's, of Philadelphia; Capt. John Corfer, of that place; Capt. Jones, and four feamen taken up at fea out of a Rhode island veffel; Mr. Mott, of Connecticut: a captain and two mates, paffengers from Briftol: and fix feamen belonging to the fnow, moft of them fhipped at Bristol. By letters from Edinburgh, we are informed, that feveral gentlemen, curious in antiquities, have gone to Dumferline, in order to examine the ftone coffin and bones found under the foundation of the eaft end of that church; all of whom agree in thinking it the remains of Queen Margaret, confort of Malcolm Canmore; and to fupport their opinion they mention the method of burying in stone, which exactly correfponds with that æra. The coffin measures fix feet, by three, two and a half, and is cut out of one entire ftone, fuppofed to be brought from the Queen's ferry, (a place adjacent thereto thereto) and famous for its finenefs, the most elegant buildings in Scotland being built therewith, as the Earls of Hopton's and Fife's, which have been greatly admired by all connoiffeurs in architecture. On the top of the coffin there is vifibly to be feen a crofs, on the fides, fome hieroglyphics, which time has entirely obliterated. The general affembly of Scotland is now fitting, the Earl of Glafgow, high commiffioner, and Rev. Mr. John Hamilton, mode rator. An action was tried in the court of King's-Bench, wherein an eminent attorney was defendant, and had a verdict given against him for 1500l. with cofts of fuit, for delaying the plaintiff's cafe. Lately was tried before Lord Chief Baron Parker in the court of Exchequer, a caufe wherein the gold and filver wire-drawers company, at the fuit of the crown, were plaintiffs, and a merchant in this city was defendant, for having imported a large quantity of foreign ftained copper uuder, the name of horfe-dew. After a long trial, a verdict was given for the plaintiff, by which the faid copper was forfeited, and will be all burnt purfuant to act of Parlia ment. Mr. Bowen has lately, by his travels into China, difcovered a powder which all wayfaring people ufe there as an occafional diet, and which cannot fail of being greatly ferviceable in hofpitals, the army, the navy, in all fhips, efpecially the African, and in a long voyages, being an excellent antifcorbutic. This powder is no other than that of Sago or China The Asbestos has been brought lately from Scotland: it was found among the rocks in the parish of Auchindoir, near Strathbogie, and bordering upon the Highlands of Scotland. Some years ago the lady of the manor had a petticoat made of it. It is defcribed by naturalifts to be a fibrous, flexile, incombuftible, and elaftic body, compofed of fingle and continuous filaments. Among the ancients," Ciampi, of Rome, was fuccefsful enough to make cloth of it, after fteeping the ftone in water, and afterwards carding it as wool, and then having it pun into a thread; which being wrought into a cloth, by the help of other threads, and thrown into the fire, left the compofition entirely of afbeftos. It will neither give fire with fteel, nor ferment with aqua fortis; and if thrown into the fire will endure the moft extreme heat, without the leaft injury to its texture. By a letter juft received from Metz, we are informed of a thunder form which happened there in the night between the 27th and 28th of laft month, when the lightning fet fire to the barracks in the new town, and fpread with fuch rapidity along the wood-work of that large pile of building, that it was near all reduced to afhes before there was time to give any af fiflance. fiance. But a fmall part was of an the town, and above ftairs, in the ftate apartment, were affembled the principal Italian and foreign ladies, the latter of which were prefented to their Royal Highneffes by the confuls of their refpective nations. In the afternoon the exhibition of the public games began, which continued the 20th, 21, 22d, and 24th, and confifted of variety of races, and magnificent and curious exibitions of dif ferent kinds, one of which the Englich gave. Monday morning their Royal Highneffes gave audience of leave; and in the afternoon left the city. They dined every day in public, fhewed the greatest condefcenfion and affability; and when they went away, left to the governor and other principal officers very handfome prefents, and to each of the confuls of the foreign factories who had given public diverfions on this occafion, a very fine diamond ring. And the Great Duke confirmed the privileges granted by his predeceffors to foreigners who come and fettle there. On the 19th of May, their Royal Highneffes, the grand Duke and Duchefs of Tufcany, accompanied with a large train of nobility, foreign minifters, and other perfons of diftinction, arrived at Leghorn. The road without the Pifa gate was lined with two battalions of foldiers, through which their Royal. Highnelles pailed amidft the firing of cannon, and the acclamations innumerable crowd of people. When they arrived at the gate, his Royal Highnefs was prefented by the governor with the keys of the city; after which their Royal Highnelles proceeded to the royal palace. The houfs were every where decorated with carpets, daniafk, and other ornaments, and the windows crowded with fpectators, fo that there never was a more fplendid entrance feen upon any occafion. At the door of the palace their Royal Highneffes were met by the chief magaftrates of They write from Rome, that therehas been lately found in digging in Prince Alteri's ground near that city, a beautiful ftatue of Diana, fuppofed to have lain there many hundred years. There was a hearing before his honour the mafter of the rolls, concerning a legacy of about 10,000l. left by the late Sir William Pynfent to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Efq. which was contefted by fome of the relations of the deceaf ed baronet; and after many learned arguments of the most eminent counfel, it was determined in fa vour of Mr. Pitt. Came Came on at Guildhall, be30. fore Lord Camden and a fpecial jury, a caufe wherein a late commander of a floop in the EaftIndia company's fervice was plaintiff, and the commodore of a fquadron of his Majefty's fhips at the conqueft of the Manillas was defendant. The action was brought for impreffing the plaintiff from on board his own floop in Auguft 1763, and detaining him in cuftody fifteen months, part of which time he was kept as a fore-maft man, for a flight offence given the Commodore. After a long trial, in which Admiral Cornifh and feveral other witneffes were examined, Lord Camden fummed up the evidence in a concife manner, and gave a very affecting charge, in which he clearly explained the prerogative of the crown, and the fub. jects liberty. The jury then went out and flaid above half an hour, when they returned and brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with 4001. damages. A caufe was heard by the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron, and the other reverend barons of the court of Exchequer, wherein Thomas Kynafton, Efq. the impropriator of the rectory and parifh of St. Botolph without Aldgate, was plaintiff, and Mr. Samuel Hawley, an ancient inhabitant of a large brewhoufe and other buildings, within the Middlefex part of the faid parifh, was defendant. The plaintiff's bill was brought to compel payment of a fum of 31. per ann. for tythes of the faid brewhoufe and buildings. The court decred the delendant to pay the plaintiff the faid 31. per annum, and all arrears thereof, with cofts of fuit. As Mr. White, belonging to St. Paul's cathedral, was hewing the geometrical ftairs, he unhappily fell down the well near 90 feet, and pitched on the engine at the bottom, which broke his fall, and, to the furprize of every body, he walked home feemingly unhurt. They write from Rome, that the Chaldean character, which was in the printing houfe of the college de Propaganda Fide, being imperie, and wanting nine letters, the Patriarch of Chaldea, Joseph IV. who arrived last year in that city, has been engaged thereby to form the true and ancient Chaldee character, in order to print the Miffal and Ritual, according to the ufe of his nation; and he has found means to enchace the points or vowels, without which that character would be unintelligible. Thefe new letters have been caft to the number of 72,600; and the alphabets alfo of the feveral languages in the catalogue of the printing-houfe of that college have been augmented for the ufe of the miffions. This catalogue confifts at prefent of twenty-eight différent languages. We have many long accounts from Paris of the feafts and entertainments given to the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick. He has been entertained by all or moft of the princes of the blood, and by the Duke de Duras, gentleman of the bedchamber, by the King's order; and he has been fucceffively introduced to all the academies at Paris. We hear from Ledbury, in Herefordfhire, that there is one Price and his wife, now living neat that place, whofe ages put toge ther |