Buckade (who was burnt out on this occafion) through inclofed in fand near a foot thick, was entirely confumed, and a quantity of cash in the fame box was melted. One Mrs. Holden, an aged gentlewoman, who lived at the end of Swallow street, being alarmed with the cry of fire, fell down, and expired directly. And the next day, as a number of perfons were gazing at the ruins, a party wall fell down, by which a man was killed, and feveral others dangerously bruised. This accident was owing to Edward Winwood a coachman carrying a lighted candle into the ftable, and (agreeable to Dean Swift's Advice to fervants flicking it againft the rack; the ftraw being fet in a flame in his abfence by the candle's falling. church-wardens fhall feem juft; and in default of payment to be committed to fome workhouse, or houfe of correction, to hard labour for the space of 18 months." Rome, May 28th. The refident from the grand mafter of Malta has had an audience of the Pope, in which he produced fome dispatches concerning the warlike preparations making by the Turks, which leave no room to doubt but that their armament is destined against the island of Malta: upon which reprefentations the Pope has ordered all forts of ammunition and provifions to be tranfported from the Ecclefiaftic state to that island. A negotiation for the loan of a fum of money is likewise set on foot, upon the security of the eftates and revenues of the knights of that order. The great caufe between This man being a few days after convicted of thus negligently the Duke of Devonshire (who 25th. and carelefly caufing the faid fire, and refusing tho' very able, to pay the penalty of 100l. for the faid offence, was committed to the houfe of correction at Westminster, to hard labour for 18 months. ACAUTION to fervants in general, relative to fires happening in London, by their negligence and carelefness. By the 6th of Q Anne, Cap. 31. Sec. 3d it is enacted, "That if any menial or other fervants, through negligence or carelefnefs fhall fire, or caufe to be fired, any dwelling houfe, or out houfe, or houfes, fuch fervant or fervants hall on conviction forfeit and pay the fum of one hundred pounds to the church-wardens of the parish where fuch fire fhail happen, to be diftributed amongst the fufferers in fuch proportions as to the faid fued in the king's name) and the lead miners, concerning the duty upon the ore, was determined by a fpecial jury in the King's-bench, after a tryal of 17 hours, in favour of the duke. A grant has paffed the great feal, granting to the right hon. Arthur Onflow, Efq: a penfion of 3000l. per annum, payable out of his majefty's treasure at the exchequer, for his life, and the life of George Onflow, Efq; his son, and the furvivor of them. The vice chancellor of Cambridge gives notice, that the fubjects for Mr. Finch and Mr. Townshend's prizes for this year are. For the fenior batchelors; Utrum fit præftantius noa invenire, an inventis cultum addere et ornatum, For the middle batchelors: Utrum [H] 4 boni boni plus an mali reportent fere qui peregrinantur adolefcentuli. At Warwick affizes, one was capitally convicted, but reprieved; at Eaft-Grinflead two; at Rochefter two, one of them, a French prifoner, for murder; at Kingston three, two of them were reprieved; at Taunton two; at Stafford three, two of them were reprieved; Coventry proved a maiden affize. Extract of a letter from capt. John Bell, of the Elizabeth of London, dated from Oporto. "Since I have been here, a Dutchman fell into the river, and was taken up from the bottom about three quarters of an hour afterwards; he was carried on board the ship he belong'd to, and orders were actually given for fewing him up in a hammoc, in order to bury him. The British vice conful, Mr. Gabriel Harvey, who is a very humane gentleman, hearing of the affair took a boat, went on board, laid the fellow by the fire-fide, and kept rubbing him with common falt till life returned, and the man is now hearty and well. Mr. Hervey hath fince told me, he has known a dog kept under water two hours, and recovered by being covered with falt; and his lady told me that the had recovered a cat." See our fecond volume for 1759. p. 420. The court went into 28th mourning for a fortnight for the late duke of Burgundy. The collection, at church and at the annual feast of the Middlefex hofpital, amounted to near 400 1. Eleven dwelling houses, with barns, ftables, &c. were confume.1 by fire, at Kineton, in Warwickfhire. which a month ago was covered with the most beautiful verdure, and afforded the profpect of a crop of the fineft grafs, there are thousands of uncommon maggots, or grubs, which have deftroyed the grass; and in fome places the root alfo is wholly eaten up and gone: the ground is left entirely bare as a foot-path. Thefe maggots are found under the furface of the earth, are about an inch long, and like those called bots, which fometimes deftroy bowling-green, &c. They are of the caterpillar kind; and it is imagined that in a few weeks they will be metamorphofed, and be furnished with wings and fly away. Some little trenches, dug to carry off the water, are almost filled with thefe vermin. We don't hear of any fuch appearance in other parts. Thefe infects live in the worm ftate two or three years according to the mildness of the weather, and the rooks are faid to be great devourers of them in that ftate. The third or fourth year they become flies, when they may be easily deftroyed by means, which in due time fhall be communicated to our readers. At the anniversary fermon and feat of the London hofpital 1354 I. 17s. was collected for that cha. rity. Marshal Broglio baving lately fent notice to the hereditary prince of Brunfwick, of his having been created a prince of the empire, his ferene highness answered him by the following letter. SIR, "Titles, which do honour to those on whom they are conferred, receive a new luftre when borne by your highness. You are known to meadow adjoining to this town, Germany, only as a hero; and its Chatham, April 24. In a head head has decorated you with the most valuable gift he could bestow. What would not my countrymen do, if they durft regard you as their defender? Your highness may be affured that I take a fincere part in whatever perfonally concerns you; and that nothing would give me greater pleasure, than, one day, after thefe troubles are past, to affure you, by word of mouth, of the high regard and esteem with which I have the honour to be, fir, your highnefs's moll humble, and moft obedient fervant. Charles of Brunswick." They write from Magdeburg of the 14 inft. that a fisherman fishing for falmon in the river Elbe near that place, caught a fea dog in his nets: it is furprizing how that fish came there, being at fuch a vast distance from the fea, and how it could live in fresh water; but it is fuppofed the late great inundation brought it up. On Easter Tuesday, the elector palatine declared to his court, that the electreis, after being married 19 years, and then 40 years of age, entered that day into the 6th month of her pregnancy. A letter dated at Fort Prince George in South Carolina, January 9, fays, I have been several winters in the north of Scotland, and do not think I ever felt it colder than here at this time; the fnow is in general three quarters of a yard deep, attended with very sharp frofts.' Many people of fashion have lately vifited a tradesman's family at Brentford in Middlefex, to fee nine fine healthy children, all of whom were born in 28 months. Died lately, Mrs. Jane Atkins, of York, aged 100. One Klauk, a peafant of the vil lage of Treppendorff in the Upper Lufatia, aged 104; during his life he had no fickness till he was about 100 years; he could fee to the laft without spectacles; his wife was 1oz years old, when she died, with whom he lived 52 years, and hath a fon now living that has two children, who are grand fathers to two others. In the diocese of Lucon in France, one James Benerteau, aged 104 years, two months, and five days, who never had any illnefs but that which laid him in his grave, and never was fubje&t to the infirmities incident to old age. His father lived to be 107. In the laft Eafter week, Mrs. Sarah Hooper, at Exeter, an old maiden, in her 105th year, whose father was buried in the fame church with her 95 years ago. The fame week, one Cox, a gardiner in that city, who is in his 99th year, and has all his fenfes perfect, went to the Guildhall, and voted for Mr. Tuckfield and Mr. Walter. Ifaac Duberdo, of Clithero, inLancashire, aged 108. Patrick M'Ewan, of Fordie, in Perthshire, aged 109. Mrs. Gillam, of AlderfgateStreet, aged 113. black fcales. It produced 1250 quintals of oil. 3d. About one o'clock this morn ing, a terrible fire broke out at a bifcuit-baker's, on Wapping wall, between Pelican and king James's ftairs, Lower Shadwell, which confumed about 30 houses. One fhip which was repairing in the dock, took fire, but was foon extinguished; and eight other fhips were, with great difficulty, preferved. Several perfons had their limbs fractured, and feveral it is feared perished in the flames. Eight barges and lighters were deftroyed, and three funk, and the damage is computed at above 50,000l. 4th. A little after two o'clock the people on the Royal Exchange were much alarmed by the appearance of a cow (hard driven from Smithfield) at the fouth gate and (though the beaft did not run in upon change,) great confufion enfued; fome lofing hats and wigs, and fome their fhoes, while others lay upon the ground in heaps, with their limbs bruifed, &c. and during the alarm, a rumour of an earthquake prevailing, fome threw themselves on the ground expe&ting to be swallowed up. The cow, in the mean time, took down Sweeting's alley, and was knocked down and fecured by a carman in Gracechurch-street, This accident probably gave occafion to a motion made the next day in the court of common council: “ That many fatal accidents being frequently occafioned by the driving of horned cattle through this city and liberties, in a careless or inhuman manner, it be earneftly recommended to the right honourable the lord mayor and the rest of the worthy magiftrates, to exert their authority to fupprefs this growing evil, fo contrary to the police of the metropolis, and the fecurity of its inhabitants." Which was refolved in the affirmative, and ordered accordingly. At a court of common council held at Guildhall, 5th. it was unanimoufly refolved, "that the freedom of this city, in a gold box of the value of 100l. be prefented to the right hon. Arthur Onflow, Efq; fpeaker of the house of commons in five fucceffive parliaments, as a grateful and lafting teftimony of the refpectful love and veneration which the citizens of Lon don entertain for his perfon, and diftinguished virtue; for the many eminent qualifications he displayed, the unwearied and difinterested labours he bestowed, and the impartial and judicious conduct he maintained, in the execution of that arduous and important office, during the courfe of three and thirty years; and for that exemplary zeal, which, upon all proper occafions, he exerted with fo much dignity and fuccefs, in fupport of the rights, privileges, and conftitutional independencies of the commons of Great Britain." Was tried at Guildhall, be6th. fore lord Mansfield, chief juftice, the caufe fo long depending between Samuel Blackden, of Hallifax, in Nova-Scotia, plaintiff, and capt. Gambier of his majesty's fhip Burford, defendant. The action was brought for damages the plaintiff fuftained in Nova Scotia, by the defendants taking him by violence from his freehold there, burning his house, and detaining the plaintiff unjustly on board the Burford 125 days: when after a hearing of three hours, a fpecial - jury jury of merchants gave the plaintiff 800l. damages and cofts of fuit. [This verdict muft give great fatisfaction to all his majefty's fubjects in America, and increase their efteem and affection for their mother country, whose excellent laws will not fuffer any injury to the fubject in the moft remote part of the British dominions, to pafs with impunity; and convince all men in power, that they are accountable at home for every arbitrary act, even in the moft diftant parts of his majefty's dominions.] James Grattan, Efq; recorder, and Charles Lucas, M. D. were chofen members for the city of Dublin, after a poll of 13 days. A caufe is depending before the parliament of Paris, which deeply concerns the jefuits. The point to be decided is, whether the whole order be bound to make good the obligations of any particular houfe, or whether each house is to be anfwerable for itself alone. The je fuits, the defendants, demand that the houses of the fociety may be confidered in the fame light, as the regular abbeys, and other rented monafteries. What gave occafion to this trial was, that father de la Valette, procurator-general of the profeffed house at Paris for its poffeffions in French America, had purchafed eftates and effects in Martinico and elsewhere, for which he gave bills on the profeffed houfe. The remittances he fent from the Weft Indies, either in filver or goods, being intercepted by the English, or loft at fea, the houfe at Paris refufed to honour his bills, because they had no effects in hand. This affair being brought before the judge confuls, they gave a decree for the plaintiffs. The defendants appealed to the parliament. One of the plaintiffs has produced letters from the general of the jefuits, acknowledging the doubt to be just, and asking him to have patience. If it be determined that these houses are answerable for each other, their credit, and confequently their gains, will be immenfe. On the other hand, if their houses are adjudged, not to be anfwerable for each other, the credit and trade of each fingly will be greatly diminfhed. Mr. Gleditfch fome time fince read to the royal academy of sciences at Berlin, a memoir, the fubftance of which may not be difagreeable, as explaining a phænomenon which may have been often obferved: it is that a dead mole being left on the ground, after a few days is no longer to be feen, and this fooner or later, according to the season, and the nature of the foil. Mr. Gleditsch, in the month of May, left in his garden a mole, on a moift foft, and black earth; two days after he found it a hand's breadth deep in the ground, and the day following this cavity was half filled up; examining further, under the corpfe he found four beetles, which he immediately conjectured to be the grave-diggers; this was further confirmed about a week after when, within the mole, he faw three or fourfcore whitish maggots, unquestionably the iffue of the beetles, who had there provided them with plenty of fufte nance in their infantine ftate. Further, by repeated experiences, this indefatigable naturalist has been frequently entertained with a large fight of beetles from the fame parental |