27th.

An exprefs arrived at Berlin from Protzen, where young prince Henry (brother to the prince of Pruffia) lay ill of the fmall - pox, with the melancholy news, that that prince died on the 26th, at eight at night. It is not poffible to defcribe the affliction of the whole family, or the general confternation it occafions, as his Highness was extremely beloved.

The fortrefs of the ifland 28th. of Caprain furrendered to the Corficans, after a blockade of an hundred and two days: the garrifon, which confifted of 30 foldiers and two or three officers, had for many days lived upon bread and water; fo that they were all much emaciated: they were treated with the greatest humanity by the Corfican officers, and were permitted by their capitulation to go to Genoa. Among other things that were found in the fortrefs, there were four pieces of brafs battery cannon, and seven smaller pieces, with a large quantity of bullets, powder, and other military ftores. Three hundred Corficans have been left in garrifon there: the reft were immediately fent back to Corfica. Lond. Gaz.

At the annual feast of a

29th. city company held this day, it has always been usual to have green peas; which were this year with fuch difficulty obtained, that fixteen quarts coft fixteen gui

o'clock. The fmall-pox was of fo very malevolent a kind, that from the first moment there was scarce a glimpfe of hope. She herself was foon acquainted with the danger, and met it with the most exemplary piety, patience, refignation, and fortitude. Her death was very eafy, without ftruggle or convulfion, fo that thofe about her scarce knew when the expired. All the imperial family, and the whole court, are under the greatest affliction on this melancholly occafion.

According to accounts from France, the frofts have been lately fo fevere in that country, as to have deftroyed all the buds of the vines in many provinces, as well as the fruits which are beginning to form, and even the leaves of the mulberry trees; which laft lofs is the more confiderable, as the filk worms were nearly all hatched, and on that account obliged to be deferted.

Letters from Martinico of the

4th of April, by the way of South Carolina, advife, that the effects of the hurricane, which happened there in Auguft laft, continue to be felt very feverely through the whole ifland; and that the French king had done every thing in his power to alleviate the misfortunes of his fubjects there, by granting every indulgence that could be wifhed, and ordering large quantities of beef and other provifions to be tranfported and diftributed among the poorer fort; but that there was an evil which they could not overcome, the want of cash, the island having been fo drained of fpecie by foreign veffels, that an ordonnance was fhortly to be

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iffued, requiring the mafters of all fuch veffels, in future, to give fecurity that they will take in payment for their cargoes nothing but melaffes, fugars, and other goods. The legislature of Rhode Inland have paffed an act, calling in and finking all the money-bills of that colony omitted in March, April, and May, 1762, and empowering George Hazard, Efq; with the general treasurer, in lieu of the bills fo brought on, to iffue their own notes, properly printed and decorated, to the owners of the bills brought in, payable in feven years from the date of the refpective bills. And that the notes, given in lieu of the faid bills, fhall bear intereft, till the time mited for their return, at the rate of fix per cent. per ann. That a tax fhall be levied for the difcharge of the faid bills, and that it fhall be death to counterfeit them. The form is that of a common promiffory note, with intereft. None more than 100l. nor lefs than 6 s.

A letter from New-York, dated April 4, has the following depofition of William Harry, taken before Governor de Windt, of St. Euftatia, That he failed from Bristol in June, 1765, on board the floop William, for the coaft of Africa, John Weftcot, mafter, where they continued twelve months, purchafing flaves for a brig, and themselves, and afterwards proceeded for St. Kitt's; that foon after they left the coaft, the captain, for fome reasons, beat and knocked down a feaman named Stephen Porter; that in the night, between eleven and twelve, the faid Porter and Richard Hancock

murdered the captain and mate, with a broad axe, when afleep; that the floop was afterwards caft away on the ifle of May, and the flaves were fold to the Portuguese for 50 dollars a head.'

There are now four brigs, from forty to feventy tons, and fixteen armed-deck cutters, on the lake Ontario; by this means the navigation of the great lakes, and a mart of trade, will foon be established, equal to that of the Cafpian fea.

There is now living in a village near Lead-hills, about three miles from Edinburgh, a man named John Taylor, aged 130 years. He was born in England, bred to the bufinefs of a miner, in which capacity he worked there fome years before he came to Scotland, and has a difcharge to fhow from the earl of Lauderdale, when the' Scots mint was given up at the Union. He lately walked two English miles from his houfe to be prefent at the christening of his grand-child, and after fpending fome time in merriment on the occafion, returned home the fame evening without any affistance.

Died, John Mitchell, at Great Bircham in Norfolk, aged 100 years.

Alexander Crawford, at Fermanagh in Ireland, aged 99 years.

Charles Lapiere, a diamondmerchant, aged 93 years.

Captain Branitone, formerly a commander in the royal navy, aged 90 years.

Rene de Triffonier, at Bouchain. in France, aged 103 years.

Mrs. Corbyn, at Worcester, aged 98 years. She was an eminent preacher among the quakers.

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Henry Reilton, Efq; at Epfom, aged 97 years.

Mrs. Collier, at Farringdon, aged 98 years.

Robert Cumming, in the Royal Hofpital at Chelfea, aged 116 years.

Edward Bofwell, carpenter, at Oxford, one of feven that have died in that city fince February laft, whofe ages together amount to 616.

JUNE.

At the feffions at Guildhall, ift. capt. Young, who was convicted laft feffions for illegally confining Henry Soppet at a lock-uphoufe in Chancery-lane, was fentrnced to fuffer imprisonment in Newgate for 12 months; and to give fecurity for his good behaviour for two years, himself in 100l. and two in 501. each. One Edward Fielding, for charging a young fellow with a robbery, who refused to lift into the Eaft-India company's fervice, received the like fentence. And Robert Gow and John Ratcliffe, for attempting to force a 'young woman, at an inn near Fleetmarket, were found guilty, and are to receive sentence next feffions. While the court was fitting, an overdrove ox, entering Guildhall, threw the whole court into confternation; but, not liking his company, he turned about, and ran back again without doing any mischief. A gentleman, paffing by at the fame time, and feeing. the croud, afked, what was the matter? Nothing,' replied a fellow humorously, but an ox that is just run into Guildhall in a paffion, to complain to

my lord-mayor of the inhumanity of his drivers.'

A cause came on to be tried before Lord Mansfield, in which a poor broom - maker was plaintiff, and the toll-master of Hamptonbridge, defendant, who had feized the plaintiff's horfe for toll after he had rode him through the river, and had fold him to pay himself the penny and cofts. After a long trial, the jury brought a verdict for the plaintiff.

The marquis de Courtenveaux, honorary member of the R. A. of Paris, embarked on board a frigate for Havre, to make trial of fome inftruments, defigned to facilitate the determination of the longitude by fea, and particularly the watch of the Sieur le Roi, and the megametre, or grand measurer of the Sieur de Charnieres. The Sieurs Pengre and Meffier accompany the marquis in the enterprize.

The guardian of the Cordeliers, at Sifteron, after having fet fire to his convent in eight different places, armed himself with a knifé and a cleaver, with which he murdered the cook of the house, whom he wounded in nine different places. He afterwards ran after two religious, with an intent to murder them alfo; but one of them made his escape in his fhirt out of a two pair of stairs window, and the other found means to conceal himself. When the alarm of fire drew people to the convent, the guardian was found in his bedchamber; and, in order to raise suspicion of other perfons, he wounded himself very flightly in the throat, and had fet fire to the curtains of his bed, After under

going feveral interrogatories, to which he would give no answer, he was fent to the hofpital to be taken care of, but in the night he made his efcape.

A moft terrible ftorm of thunder and lightning fell upon the houfe of Richard Rylance, in Churchftreet, Ormskirk, carried away the chimney and flates from the roof, the windows of the third ftory, fhattered the fide of the building, and melted the lead of the lower windows. A ball of fire traverfed the room of a lying in woman, but providentially did her no hurt. The conftables at Bristol difcovered, concealed in a box, in the house of one Langford, a nightwatchman, a girl about 18 years of age, almoft ftarved, and quite naked, It appeared that he had been a lodger in the house near 20 months, but had not been confined to the narrow limits of this box (which is about 40 inches long, and 18 broad) more than eight months, during which time the has been often without futtenance for three days together. The pofition he was obliged to lie in has fo contracted her limbs that they are quite useless. They alfo found a young woman quite naked, with only havings to lie on: who, being with child, had fled to this place for fhelter. Both thefe deplorable creatures were carried to St Peter's hofpital. Langford, his wife, and daughter, were fecured, but the man pleading ignorance, and the girl confirming it, he was released.

Was committed to the Gatehoufe, Alexander Dunn, for violently beating and threatening to murder a poft-boy who had juft brought him out of the country. VOL. X.

This is the perfon who was fome time confined in the King's Bench, charged with the intention of asfaffinating Mr. Wilkes.

Their majefties having honoured the fociety of artifts of Great Britain with their prefence, at the exhibition in Spring Gardens, his majefty has been graciously pleafed to order them the fum of one hundred pounds.

This morning, about three o'clock, as the Plymouth stagewaggon was going out of town, it took-fire in Fleet treet, occafioned by a bottle of aqua-fortis breaking against a bottle of fpirits of wine, and fetting fire to the fame : By timely affiftance it was foon extinguished, after doing about 30l. damage, and the waggon purfued its journey.

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It began yesterday to fnow in Derbyshire, which 4th. tinued the whole day, and part of this, fo that the fnow was above half a yard deep.

An uncommon inundation hap. pened in the road between Newington and Clapham, occafioned by the heavy rains that had been falling for three days before; the waters collected in the road meeting with a high tide (wind N. by W. moon's first quarter) running up Vauxhall creek, fwelled to fuch a degree, that they foon covered Kennington Common, and tering fome low grounds, (on the fouth fide,) deftroyed the brickworks, and did other damage to the amount of zool. The current making its way S. E. and over Camberwell road by Walworth common to the Thames; a poor woman happening to be on Kennington common before the height of the flood, got on the bank

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above the turnpike-houfe, and a working man in the gardens juft by, going to affift her over the road, in ftepping off the bank, her feet flipped, and the falling, pulled the poor man into the current with her; and both were carried through an arch under the turnpike-houfe, but two feet wide, and three deep. The woman was foon discovered by her cloaths, but the man was carried forty yards down before feen. However, both being taken into a houfe, they foon recovered. The magiftrates of Edinburgh conferred upon Mr. James Craig, architect, a gold medal, with the freedom of their city, in a filver box, as a reward of his merit, for having defigned the beft plan of a new town to be built in that neighbourhood.

M. de Larrey, privy-counfellor and fecretary to the prince of Orange, fets out for Berlin to-morrow, in order to fettle every thing relative to the marriage of his ferene Highness with the princess Wilhelmina, fifter to the prince Royal of Pruffia.

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Orders were received at Chatham to take his majefty's fhip Monmouth, of 64 guns, to pieces, being judged unfit for further fervices. This fhip was efteemed the beft failer in the navy, had a principal fhare in the actions fought by the admirals Anfon and Hawke, when commanded by the brave admiral Harrison, in the war preceding the laft; was in the late war in feveral actions commanded by the captains Gardiner and Hervey, the former of whom was killed on board, when engaged fingly with the Foudroyant, of 80 guns. She never gave chace to any fhip that he did not come up with.

As fome workmen were employed in pulling down part of Cundover Hall, near Shrewsbury, they found, in removing fome ftones in the vault, an iron box of about 20 inches long, and 14 broad, in which were contained feveral very curious ancient medals, together with a brafs ftatue, about 16 inches high, which is fuppofed to be the ftatue of fome heathen god.

6th.

The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when three received fentence of death; one to be tranfported for fourteen years; 36 for feven years; and three to be whipt.

Mount Vefuvius began to throw out fire from its fummit; an omen of an approaching irruption.

There was a commotion at Troyes in France, the confequence of which might have been very fatal. It was occafioned by the refufal of the officers of police to permit the bakers to raise the price of bread, though corn is grown dearer. A woman took occafion from hence to raife by her clamours a troop of mutinous people, who, fufpecting fome individuals of carrying on a trade in corn, and profiting confiderably by it, repaired tumultuously to their houses, broke open their doors, and deftroyed the furniture of their dwellings. Such as feemed inclined to oppofe them, were ill-treated. and, it is even faid, that three or four were killed. They threatened to fet fire to the city; but the town officers took fuch just meafures, that the burgeffes in arms gave a check to part of the infurgents, feveral of whom had difguifed themfelves like women, and difperfed the rest.

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Charles