began to fearch for it on Tuesday morning, and found feven pounds ten fhillings in crown pieces, concealed in an old box; but, upon his attempting to take it away, he was furprized by his wife, who was just then recovered, met him, and terribly frightened him, by appearing as if nothing had happened, and continued feemingly in good health till Thursday noon, when the actually expired.

LENT CIRCUIT.

At Aylesbury aflizes, five were capitally convicted, four of whom were reprieved.

At Bedford affizes, three were capitally convicted, one of whom was reprieved.

At Bristol affizes,' three were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved.

At Cambridge affizes, two were capitally convicted.

At Chelmsford affizes, nine were capitally convicted, eight of whom were reprieved.

At Dorchester affizes, two were capitally convicted, one of whom was reprieved.

At East Grinstead affizes, three were capitally convicted, but were reprieved.

At the ifle of Ely affizes, none were capitally convicted, there not being fo much as one fingle bill of indictment before the grand jury.

At Gloucefter affizes, fix were capitally convicted, three of whom were reprieved. Five of the rioters, condemned at the fpecial commiffion, were ordered to be transported for life.

At Hereford affizes, feven were capitally convicted.

At Huntingdon affizes, one was capitally convicted.

At Kingston affizes, three were capitally convicted, one of whom was Richard Mihil, a baker, for the murder of his brother; an account of which the reader may fee in our laft year's chronicle.-At this affize a remarkable caufe was tried between a gentleman, plaintiff, and Mr. Wm. Courtney, defendant; the action was upon a wager of 100 guineas, which was reduced into writing, that plaintiff procured three horses that should go ninety miles in three hours, which defen. dant laid he did not. The plaintiff proved his cafe very well; but. it appearing to the court and jury that it was an unfair bet, the jury gave a verdict for the defendant. It feems the manner plaintiff performed this undertaking was by ftarting all the three horfes together, fo that they had but thirty miles a-piece to run in the three hours, which was done with all the cafe imaginable.

At Lancaster affizes, fix were ca pitally convicted.

At Lincoln affizes, two were capitally convicted.

At Maidstone affizes, two were capitally convicted, one of whom was Robert Rymes for the murder of Richard Williamfon, hoftler at the Antelope, at Dartford. Rymes, who had been long a vagabond, came into the kitchen, and demanded beer, which the master of the inn refused; on which he became troublefome: The hoftler was ordered to turn him out. Rymes ftruggled hard, and swore he would ftab him. The hoftler defended himself with a stick, and then ran from Rymes, who purfued him a

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bout an hundred yards, overtook him, and gave him a mortal wound in his breaft, of which he died two days after. The trial lafted five hours, and the jury brought in their verdict wilful murder, and in confequence Rymes was executed at Dartford next day. He died without the leaft remorfe, faying he was guilty of no crime, nor would ever forgive his profecutor, for what he did was only in his own defence.

Nottingham proved a maiden affize.

At the affizes at Oakham, two were capitally convicted, but were reprieved.

At Oxford affizes, none were capitally convicted.

At Reading affizes, three were capitally convicted.

At Salisbury affizes, three were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved.

At Shrewsbury affizes, fix were capitally convicted.

At Stafford affizes, feven were capitally convicted, all of whom were reprieved except a woman for a robbery, who, pleading her belly, was refpited to the 20th of June.

At Suffolk aflizes, four were capitally convicted, but were all reprieved.

At Taunton affizes, four were capitally convicted, but have been all reprieved.

At Thetford affizes, seven were capitally convicted.

At Warwick affizes, four were capitally convicted, one of whom was reprieved.

At Winchefter affizes, feven were capitally convicted,

At the afflizes for the county of York, five were capitally convicted, three of whom were reprieved.

At the affizes for York city, one woman was capitally convicted.

The late dauphinefs hath bequeathed feveral religious jewels to the queen; her wedding ring to the cathedral church of Chartres; a picture reprefenting Night to the bishop of Verdun, her first almoner, whom the recommends to the king in her will, as alío Mr. Pantier de la Breuille, her physician, and Mr. d'Artis, valet de chambre of the late dauphin; a picture of that prince in the regimentals of a dragoon, to the duke de la Vaguyon, with a precious relic; another relic to the countefs de Marfan, governess to the children of France; and a fuperb fnuff-box to each of her ladies. That princefs has alfo fignified her intentions, that all her domeftics be amply rewarded. According to her defire, her heart was deported in the royal abbey of St. Dennis, by the cardinal de Luynes, and the countefs de la Marche accompanied it thither. Her highness's body was removed on Saturday to Fontainbleau, and the next day to the metropolitan church of Sens, where it was depofited in the fame vault with the remains of the late dauphin. The funeral fervice was performed by the cardinal de Luynes.

The governors of the city of London lying-in hofpital 26th. held their annual feast, &c. when 330l. was collected for the charity.

As feven or eight mufquêteers were coming out of an eating-houfe in Paris, where they had drank plentifully, they happened to be splashed by a little cart that a poor man was drawing along, on which they fell upon the poor fellow, and beat him feverely. A foldier of

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the watch feeing this, called the guard, which being come, would have feized the mufqueteers, but they drew their fwords, and threatened to run through the body whofoever thould dare to lay hold of them. More guards were called, but this reinforcement ferved only to irritate the mufqueteers. They were defired to lay down their arms, and the affair fhould be dropped, but in vain; nothing could perfuade them; fo that the guards, after having behaved to them in a manner fuitable to their quality, fired a mufquet fhot, which happily did no hurt, but was the fignal of a fharp and obfinate fight on both fides, in which one of the mufqueteers was mortally wounded; the others fled. Most of the foldiers of the guard were wounded in this battle, which lafted near two hours.

They write from Hertford in New-England of the 12th of January, that the weather, which of late had been very cold, changed to warm and laft Monday it began to rain, which continued that night and next day; there being a good deal of fnow on the ground, it occafioned a vaft and fudden flood, which has done great damage to the mills, dams, bridges, &c. In this place a large dam is carried away, together with a fawmill, and the greatest part of a grift mill, in which was deftroyed a confiderable quantity of grain and meal; another grift mill on the fame ftream has received fome damage, and the great bridge was with the greatest difficulty preferved. A warehouse, fitted up for and occupied by a family, at the ferry, was entirely carried off by the ice, and the family very

narrowly efcaped. Happily the ice ftopped before the height of the flood, or it is probable all the ftores and dwelling houles at the river fide had been fwept away. All the weft divifion bridges but one are carried away, and their mills much damaged. Befides the above, the town will fuffer greatly in the lofs of fences, which are prodigioufly damaged. At Middletown, the great bridge lately erected is carried away, as are alfo feveral other bridges on the fame river; in the weft part of that town several bridges, mills, and dams are fwept away. Mr. Stephen Blake of that place, an under theriff, and his fon about twelve years old, were both drowned, in attempting to cross a bridge at the fouth end of the town. At Suffield, all their mills, dams, and bridges, are carried away, or much damaged. At Farmington, a fulling-mill, with its dam, has been carried off; there bridges are a good deal damaged. The bridge at Windior, which lately coft 200l. in building, is deftroyed. At Wintonbury, a fulling mill, and dam, belonging to Capt. Gillet, were carried away, together with a quantity of cloth. On the poft road between this place and New York there are only Kingf bridge and a bridge at Norwolk left flanding.

New Haven has fuffered very much, having loft three or four large bridges, and two or three dykes made for damming out the tides.

A calculation of the number of cattle, &c. killed in one year in the city of London, made by the late Mr. Empfon, 1761 Sheep and lambs 711,121; bulls, oxen, and cows, 78,254; calves, 104,760; hogs for pork, 146,932; for

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bacon, 41,000; fucking pigs, 52,600.

Another fire has nearly completed the total ruin of the unfortunate town of Bridgetown in Barbadoes. It broke out between eight and nine at night, on the 27th of December, and continued burning till morning, with more fury than the dreadful one of the 19th of May. Above forty dwelling-houses are burnt down, befides feveral confiderable ftores and timber-yards. It began in an old ftore of Meffrs. Bedford and Co. but in what manner no one can give any account. Several large yards full of lumber and coals being contiguous, it was impoffible to extinguish it till it had confumed all within its reach, befides feveral capital houses belonging to the merchants; a vaft quantity of boards, planks, ftaves, and heading for fugar and rum casks, &c. were deftroyed, as moft of the trade was carried on in this fpot fince the former terrible difafter.

They write from Venice, that the deputies of the republic gave lately to the reigning duke of Wurtemburgh the diverfion of a bullfight in the fquare of St. Mark. Forty-eight mafks, dreffed in the English, Spanish, Swifs, and Hungarian manner, haraffed the bulls whilft they were baited by the dogs; after which two perfons ftruck off, at a fingle blow, the heads of fix bulls fucceffively. The baiting of three bulls, with fireworks fixed to them, clofed the diverfion, at which upwards of twenty thousand perfons affifted; and there was afterwards a grand fupper.

The edict against luxury is fo ftrictly observed at Stockholm, that a counsellor of state, who had neg

lected to have a velvet border stript off a cloak which he had worn many years, was fummoned a few days ago before the tribunal to whom the execution of the said edi& belongs, and reprimanded; and a lady, refpectable no less by her merit than her high birth, has been alfo obliged to appear before them, for drinking a dish of chocolate in her box at the play-house."

The king of Naples, playing lately with the prince de Spaccatorno, gentleman of his chamber, accidentally tore one of the prince's ruffles. The latter, who ought to have taken it only in joke, immediately uttered fome harsh expreffions, and was put under an arreft for fome days in the caftle: from whence he was no fooner released, than, instead of going to make his excufes to the king, as good fenfe dictated, he went to the prince de St. Nicandre, formerly his majefty's governor, and there made use of terms as unguarded as before; for which audacity he has been again punished by the lofs of all his pots, and banishment to his eftate in Sicily.

Letters from Saintonge advife, that the wolves have lately made most terrible ravages in the neighbourhood of St. Jean d'Angeli, where feveral perfons who had been bit by them have died mad.

A woman, by profeffion a feamftrefs, has been condemned by an arret of the parliament of Paris, to make the amende honorable, to be fixed to the Carcan, to be branded and confined to the faltpetre-house for nine years, for having, by means of a forged regifter of her firft hufband's burial, contracted a fecond marriage with another man, whose widow he now is. The writing

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mafter, who forged the register, is likewife condemned to the gallies for life, after making the amende honorable, and being branded in the fhoulders. This fentence began to be executed last Thursday.

There was lately tried at Chelmf ford, in Effex, two caufes, wherein William Butler, and John Mungall, of Barking, in the fame County, fishermen, were plaintiffs; and an officer of the customs, at Malden, defendant. The action was brought for the illegal feizure and detainer of the plaintiffs fishingboat, and for killing and otherwife damaging, with a boat-hook, their cargo of fish, for no other reason than the plaintiffs having on board an old rusty mufket, a pound of fhot, and half a pound of powder, which the officer called fire-arms, against the king. A verdict was found for the plaintiffs, with damages and full cofts of fuit.

A coal-mine has been opened near Campbeltown in Cantire, which promifes to fucceed well; in time it may prove an advantageous trade to that port, which promises to be a flourishing place, from whence many veffels are going to the Newfoundland fishery.

They write from Genoa, that the hereditary prince of Brunswick arrived there from Turin, early in the morning of the 20th of February. At half an hour after his arrival, he was complimented by the mafter of the ceremonies in the republic's name, who renewed the offer of a deputation on behalf of the republic, which his Serene Highness defired, in the moft polite manner, to be excufed from accepting. The prince will embark, in a few days, on board his

majefty's fhip Montreal, for Antibes or Toulon.

The late earthquake has done confiderable damage to the houses in this city. It has been fucceeded by feveral other fhocks not fo violent as the firft, and there is a conftant tremor in the earth, felt in the city and its environs.

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On the ninth of February, at a quarter after four in the morning, three fucceffive fhocks of the earth were felt at Graffe in France. first lafted but a few feconds, though it waked feveral perfons in bed, and threw down fome tiles and chimnies. During its continuance, a found was heard like that of a ftrong guft of wind. The two other fhocks were not fo fenfibly felt Thefe fhocks were confiderably more violent in Italy; but diminished in proportion as they were nearer to France. Their force was greateft at Venice, lefs confiderable at Genoa, and still lefs at Nice.

By the earthquakes at Fivizzano in Tuscany, the cathedral is rent in many parts; the church of the Cordeliers has fuffered much, and the great hofpital, the town-hall, and the falt-magazine, are greatly damaged.

On the 12th of this month, at three in the morning, a fire broke out in the king's palace at Warsaw, and in two hours destroyed one entire wing; in which, amongst other people, were lodged a part of his majesty's own family. No lives were loft, but papers of great importance to the republic are de ftroyed.

Prince Repnin, ambassador from Ruffia, prefented a declaration to the king of Poland, figned by the emprefs, by which the demands, that the Diffidents of Poland and