९ Lithuania be forthwith reftored to the enjoyment of their ancient rights and privileges; and that in order to accomplish this, fhe has found herself obliged to order 30,000 men to enter Poland, who will not leave the country till the Diffidents are put upon an equal footing with the other citizens. A confpiracy was formed among the felons in the North-Gate jail in Chefter, wherein one Evan Thomas, who was confined for a murder and robbery, was the ringleader. About eight, when the turnkey was going to put him and three others into the dungeon, Thomas seized him, and threw him into the dungeon, and took the key from him and locked him in; his cries brought Mr. Whitehead, the gaoler, down to his affiftance, when Thomas ran a penknife into his throat, and killed him on the fpot. They went up into the house, and, feizing Mrs. Whitehead, demanded the key of the North-Gate from her, who told them that her hufband had it in his pocket; upon which they went down ftairs to fearch for it. In the mean time Mrs. Whitehead unlocked the North-Gate door, to call affiftance; but they came up again, and seized her while the door was open: three men, however, coming out of the ftreet, fecured three of the felons; but the above Evan Thomas made his escape: his irons were found the next day in a field near the city. About nine at night, four 30th. men, coming to town from Holloway in a hackney-coach, were attacked by four foot-pads, who, on fome refiftance being made, fhot one of the men through the head, and he expired immediately. They took from the reft about 151. and helped the dead man (one Griffiths, a turner in Clerkenwell) into the coach, and then made their escape.-Intelligence of this murder, with a defcription of the murderers, being fent to Sir John Fielding immediately, one of them was taken next day, and by his means all the rest. A terrible accident happened at a colliery near Farfield, Durham. The pits were 80 fathom deep; and on Friday morning laft, when all the hands were at work, it went off with a great explofion, by which 39 perfons loft their lives. Mott of their bodies are got up, but in a very mangled manner. The owners are now giving 201. premium per man; and fo great is the neceffity of the poor, that they are already nearly fupplied. The whole quantity of the different forts of grain imported this month at the port of London, amounts, to 71,153 qrs. The following are the particu lars of a murder perpetrated by Alexander Grant, alias Dearg, weaver, in Drummulie, in the fhire of Elgin, on John McDonald, alias M'Ifaac, tenant in Drummulie, on the 15th of March. Grant kept a whisky house, as did M'Donald; the latter fupplied with better liquor, and, being of a more affable temper, engroffed all the company. Grant's envy 、 was raised, and he was often heard to fay," he would do him an ill turn.” On a Sunday, Grant, with M'Donald's brother-in-law, and fome neighbours, went to drink whifky at McDonald's; when, after they were pretty much intoxicated, they agreed to fpend the afternoon over Grant's whisky. They fet out, but, when they they were at a distance from M.. Donald's, Grant told the company, he had fomething to communicate to him, which he chofe to do in private, and defired them to ftep forward. After waiting fome time at a distance, they concluded they had gone back again to McDonald's; but, on returning, found them ftruggling together, and faw Grant plunge a large knife into McDonald's body, and throw him on the ground. This done, he advanced with his knife recking with the blood of the unfortunate man, and made at his brother-in-law, who, with the reft of the company, endeavoured to fave themselves by flight. Grant overtook him, and gave him several wounds, and, if the reft had not interpof d, would have killed him on the spot. The villain fled to the woods, and 200 men are now in purfuit of him. The brotherin-law's life is despaired of. 31ft. Between eleven and twelve at night, large detachments of troops were fent to each of the fix different houses of Jefuits in Madrid; and the doors being opened, the bells were firft fecured, and a centinel was pofted at every cell, the occupier of which being obliged to rife, they were affembled, and the king of Spain's commands were fignified to them. In the mean time, all the hired coaches and chaifes at Madrid, together with a number of waggons, were properly diftributed and early in the morning the Jefuits, to the number of about three hundred and fifty, were in motion. They were allowed to carry every neceffary along with them. They took the road to Carthagena, where they will embark for Rome. There is now living in a village near Ludlow, in Shropshire, one John Saunders and his wife, whose ages added together, make 212, the man being 107, and the woman 105; they are both chiefly fupported by the charity of fome neighbouring gentlemen. Died, Nicholas Dufrenois, a notary at Berrieux, in the diocese of Laon, the 15th ult. aged 101. He married at 75, and had fix children; and never had any illness. At Wigtown in Scotland, Mary Finlater, aged 113 years. At Hampstead, Mrs. Jane Staples, aged 106 years. The governors of the Magdalen charity held their anniversary feat at drapers hall, Throgmorton-ftreet, after a fermon preached at St. George's Hanover-fquare, by the Reverend Mr. Sellon, Chaplain to the Earl of Pomfret. The collection, at the church and hall, amounted to 5231. 8s. zd. A caufe, which has been depending for upwards of two years, between two gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Exeter, has at length been determined at the affizes for that city. The action was brought against the defendant for carrying the produce of the harvest of the year 1764, without giving notice to the plaintiff's deputies of their intention of carrying the fame, in order that the plaintiff, as owner of the tythes of the faid parish, might fend for his tenth of the produce; when, after a trial which lafted 14 hours, in which the year. The bill to apply the fum granted for the pay and cloathing of the militia for 1767. The bill to enlarge the term and powers granted for building two new churches in the town of Liverpool. The bill to enable the earl of Strathmore to take and ufe the name of Bowes, purfuant to the will of George Bowes, Efq; deceased. And alfo to feveral road, incló fure, and naturalization bills. It is faid, there are now in England three dukes of France, and twenty-nine other noblemen of that kingdom. The fubjects at Cambridge for the prizes of fifteen guineas each, given by the members of the univerfity, are this year, For the fenior bachelors; Utrum cenforis Romani difciplina reis publica utilis fuerit. For the middle batchelors; Utrum poffefforem bearint fæpius an perdiderint divitiæ. The exercifes to be delivered in by the 10th of June in the ufual manner. A dreadful storm of thunder and lightning did confiderable damage at Provence in France. The lightning fet fire to the royal abbey of St. James, by which one of the main beams in the fteeple was burnt, fo as to give way in the angle; two other churches were fet on fire in the neighbourhood; the bells of one melted, and the other entirely confumed. His ferene highness the hereditary prince of Brunf- 13th wick arrived from his travels, at St. James's, after an absence from England, of one year and two days, His majefty went to the houfe of peers, and gave 15th. the royal affent to the following bills, viz. The bill to continue an act for allowing the free importation of wheat and wheat-flour, barley, barley meal, and pulfe, for a further limited time, from any part of Europe The bill for laying an additional duty on baft, or chip, ftraw, cane and horfe-hair hats or bonnets imported. [F] The The bill to enable his majefty to grant certain annuities to his three brothers, their royal highneffes the dukes of York, Gloucester, and Cumberland. The bill for making the river Ure navigable from its junction with the river Swale to the borough of Rippon in Yorkshire. The bill for lightening, cleanfing, and paving that part of the parish of St. Botolph, without Aldgate, and the precinct of St. Catherine's. The bill to enable the trustees of the Museum to exchange, fell, or difpofe of, any duplicates of books, medals, coins, &c. and to purchase others in lieu thereof. The bill to enable Henry duke of Buccleugh, a minor, to make a fettlement on his intended marriage with Lady Elizabeth Montague. was The following odd relation is attefted as a fact. An inquifition was taken at Newbery, Berks, on the body of a child near two years old, who fell into the river Kennet, and was drowned. The jury brought in their verdi& Accidental death. The body was discovered by a very fingular experiment, which as follows: After diligent fearch had been made in the river for the child, to no purpose, a twopenny loaf, with a quantity of quickfilver put into it, was fet floating from the place where the child, it was fuppofed, had fallen in, which fteered its courfe down the river upwards of half a mile, before a great number of fpectators, when the body happening to lay on the contrary fide of the river, the loaf fuddenly tacked about, and fwam acrofs the river, and gradually funk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediate ly brought up, with grablers ready for that purpose. One of the crimps who decoy men to go abroad, met with a young fellow who he thought would anfwer his purpose, and told him that he would treat him with a pot of beer, if he would only say to a perfon juft by that he was enlifted to ferve the Eaft-India company, by which he should win a wager; but the young man refufed, on which the crimp pulled out a paper, and faid he had a warrant against him for stealing a filver tankard from a public-house, valued at above 121. and thereupon infifted on his going with him; when a man paffing by enquired into the affair, and found it was a trick to get the young fellow to fome lock-up houfe ; he thereupon infifted on their going with him to the Manfion-house, but it being late, they were both lodged all night in the Poultry Compter, and on Saturday were carried before the right hon. the lord mayor, when the fact appeared to be as above, that the crimp had no real charge against the young fellow for theft, and that it was an artifice generally used to get men to lock-up houfes, where they are confined in fuch a manner, that it is impoffible for them to acquaint their friends of their fituation; upon which the crimp was committed to Newgate, and the young fellow bound over to appear against him at the next feffions at the Old Bailey. The committee of polite arts, &c. in the Strand, adjudged the first premium for landscape painting to the ingenious Mr. Jones, formerly pupil to Mr. Wilfon, for his truly meritorious perforinance; the mafter of an academy in Kenfington. The merits of both pictures appeared fo equal, that the cafting vote was left in the breaft of the chairman. There was likewife given to Mr. Dean, landscape-painter, twenty guineas as a bounty, his picture having great share of merit. the fecond to Mr. John Gardnor, a butcher's on one fide of it, and a fmall houfe on the other, at the upper end of the piazza, damaged two more houfes in the front, and fome out-houfes backwards. The flames were fo rapid, that Mr. Wood's family had not time to fave any part of the ftock, and but little of their furniture. A jeweller, who lodged in the house where it began, loft fome diamonds of confiderable value. There has been lately published a fheet lift of changes, faid to have happened during the prefent reign; by which it appears, that there have been no less than 2 lord chancellors, 4 lord prefidents, 5 lord keepers of the privy feal, and once the feal in commiffion, 5 firft lords of the treasury, 13 other lords of the treasury, 6 chancellors of the exchequer, 5 lord chamberlains, 2 vice chamberlains, 3 grooms of the ftole, 31 different lords of the bedchamber, 22 different grooms of the bedchamber, 4 keepers of the great wardrobe, 4 groom porters, 2 lord stewards, 5 comptrollers, 5 treafurers, 5 cofferers, 12 different clerks of board of green cloth, 3 treasurers of the chamber, 5 masters of the horse, 11 secretaries of state, first lords of the admiralty, 23 different lords of the admiralty, 8 firft lords of trade, 18 different lords of trade, 9 poft-matters, 4 pay-mafters, 3 treasurers of the navy, 3 fecretaries at war, 5 keepers of privy feal of Scotland, 8 vice treasurers of Ireland. There are above as many more changes mentioned in the faid lift. This morning, between 17th. twelve and one o'clock, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. Wood, cheefemonger, in Hungerford-market, Strand, fuppofed to be occafioned by fome linen being left near the fire, which in a few hours confumed that houfe, On the 16th of Auguft laft, the Pitt, Capt. Bothomley, from Rotterdam for Angola, ran afhore on Cape Bajadore, on the Coaft of Barbary; 25 of the crew going afhore, were ftript naked by about 100 Moors, in which condition they remained 14 days, while the Moors were getting all they could from the fhip; and then breaking her up, they burnt the pieces, and ftove the cafks of liquor as they came afhore, for the fake of the iron and hoops, which were divid ed among them with the reft of the plunder; then feparating the crew, they were fold in the country for camels, fheep, goats, &c. About three weeks after, meeting together again, the natives concluded to carry them to the emperor of Morocco. After 49 days travel, they arrived at Teredant, and were carried before the bashaw or governor, who treated them kindly, fupplying them with plenty of bread and grapes. After 14 days reft they travelled in feven days to Morocco. The last day's march Meff. Adams and Hofier of Santa Cruz fent two Moors to conduct them; but being in two parties, only 12 got fafe, and 12 were taken by the foldiers, and Hugh Evans was left upon the mountains, but got fafe in. After eight days they were prefented to [F] 2 the |