my native country, to vindicate myself from acharge brought again me." It is confidently afferted,that Mr.Mfaw Mr. Wilkes at Paris, and that he fays that gentleman, he believes, fully in. tended to return to England by the meeting of Parliament, but the ill ftate of his wound has been the fole caufe which has prevented it. The executions faid to be entered into a certain house in Westminster on Saturday last, we hear, were removed that fame night. Jan. 23. On Monday an information was laid in the Court of King's Bench against the publisher of the North Briton in two volumes. Amfterdam, Jan. 16. All the cattle of feven or eight villages fituated along the Wahal have been drowned; many of the inhabitants perished in the waters; and those that were able in time to get to the upper ftories of the higheft houses, owe their existence to the provifions brought to them from fome neighbouring towns and villages, which by their pofition are not liable to fuch accidents. York, Jan. 17. The following very odd affair, we are informed, lately happened at Horton, near Bradford, in this county a girl of about 17 years of age, fervant to one Mr. Swain, Woolftapler there, having been charged with stealing a guinea, left her fervice privately, and was miffing upwards of two months during this time feveral of her master's family had feen her upon the stairs in the night-time, which greatly alarmed and terrified them, all concluding it must be her spirit or apparition. This confirmed the fufpicion that she had destroyed herself, and her master and father were at the expence of 51 and upwards in searching the coal pits, ponds, &c. thereabouts for her body, but without fuccefs. At last, however, the was found alive and above ground in the following manner; all her master's family being gone to church, except one maid and a child of six years of age, the child perceived her upon the ftairs, and cried out, That's no boggard [Apparition] is our Molly, and made towards her, followed by the maid. The girl made what hafte fhe could into a working chamber, where was a large parcel of wool; but being closely purfued, and not having time to hide herfelf in it, fhe jumped out of a window four yards high into a barn, where the was, on hermafter's coming from church, found concealed in the hay-mow. During all the time she was miffing she had never been out of her master's house, but had concealed herself among the wool in the working chamber, and at nights, when all the family were asleep, ftole down stairs for milk and other neceffaries. It is very remarkable, that fhe looked more healthy when found, than the did when first missed. Wednesday, Feb. 1. The prince and princefs of Brunswick went on board the yachts at Harwich at half past eleven on Sunday morning, with a fair wind and moderate weather; and its suppos ed their highnesses landed in Holland on. Monday morning. We hear that a certain noble duke made a prefent of fome fine hunting horfes, and a pack of hounds, to his highness the prince of Brunswick; but as the weather was so very stormy and tempestuous, it was not thought proper to embark them till the fea was become more calm. The only reafon of the hereditary prince's leaving England fo foon was, that being defirous to remain here as a private gentleman, at his own expence, in order to vifit feveral parts of the kingdom, and being told that that was impoffible, and utterly incompatible with the ufual ceremonies on thefe occafions, which required it should be at the expence of the crown, his ferene highness did not chufe to remain longer tied to fuch irksome etiquettes of state. We hear that the trial of John Wilkes, Elq; as the fuppofed author of No. 45. of the North Briton, &c. will come on in the court of King's Bench, Weitminfter, before Lord Mansfield, on Tuesday the 14th inftant. The behaviour of his ferene highness the hereditary prince of Bunfwick, in every every place where he refted, till his embarkation at Harwich on Sunday laft, was so affable and noble, that it has gained him the esteem of all ranks and degrees of people. One of the most affecting fcenes at the departure of our late amiable princess Augusta, we are told, was as follows: when her highness, who had kept up her fpirits furprisingly, was on the point of taking coach, in going through the hall the found all her servants drawn up in a row, to take their last farewel of an indulgent and most dearly beloved mistress. The fight of them inftantly melted her into tears, and clapping her handkerchief before her eyes, the haftened to her carriage, unable to exprefs the emotions fhe felt in any other manner. We are informed that their highneffes left handfome fums of money to be diftributed to the poor of most of the parishes through which they paffed, in their way to Harwich. rebuilt wider than they were, and that the fale of fpirituous liquors may be prohibited. The court has paid regard to this application, and sent a special commiffary, with full power to do whatever is neceffary in that refpect: notwithftanding which, that gentleman pays no regard to his inftructions, contrary to the promife made by him to the ambaffadors, at his departure from Conftantinople, who in confideration thereof made him a prefent of 200 lowendollars, which were paid him before his departure: to this inconveniency mult be added the Chicaneries of the Mahometans, who are the ground-landlords or land owners, demanding a moft exorbitant price for the ground on which they intend to build. If the foreign minifters refiding there, cannot, through their interpofition, remedy this abufe, the trade of foreign merchants to this country will fuffer greatly. Extract of a Letter from Harwich. "A dutiful addrefs was prefented to their ferene highneffes the prince and princefs of Brunswick, by the mayor, aldermen and capital burgeffes of this Its faid that the hereditary prince of Brunswick will be declared generaliffimo of the Hanoverian troops. The duke of Brunswick has made a town, on their arrival here last Friday confiderable reduction in his troops. in the afternoon, to which her royal and ferene highnefs was pleafed to return the following answer for the prince and herself. "I thank you for this feasonable "mark of your attention to the prince and me: for which we are very "much obliged." We learn from good authority, that the revenue of the reigning duke of Brunswick, father to the excellent prince who fo lately renewed the alliance between his illuftrious House and the royal family of Great Britain, is equal" to that of any other German prince, and fuperior to most, amounting to no lefs than the fum of one thousand pounds Sterling per diem. "They had all the honour to kifs her royal and ferene highness's hand. "The prince and princefs of BrunfVenice, Jan. 6. It has been ordered wick refided at Griffith Davies's, Efq; by the fenate, that all fuch Levant goods, on Friday and Saturday lalt; and on as are or can be shipped here on English Sunday at ten o'clock, the weather beveffels for England, fhall be exempteding more moderate, their highneffes from the export duties, with the reftitution of thofe paid on importation. Smyrna, Nov. 16. That part of the city inhabited by the Franks, that is by the Europeans, which fome months ago was burnt to afhes, remains as yet a ruin, except two or three fmall houfes which are rebuilt. The Europeans have follicited the porte, that the streets may be embarked on board different yachts, but a gale of wind arifing, they could not fail that day. About five in the evening the prince went to pay a visit to his royal confort, and afterwards his ferene highness came on fhore to lodge. The next morning Mr. Davies carried a let, ter, that came from the princess dowager of Wales, to her highnefs on board the the yacht, when the defired him to tell the prince that he was in good spirits, and had flept from nine at night till feven that morning. On Monday his ferene highness re-embarked, and about two o'clock in the afternoon the yachts failed with a fair wind, and in all probability arrived in Holland the next day: but as the wind has continued in nearly the fame quarter, neither packet nor exprefs has as yet arrived from Holland." It is expected that the next advices from thence will bring an account of the lofs of Calcutta, if not Bengal. This melancholy breach is faid to be chiefly owing to the covetousness of fome of our great men there, many of whom have loft their lives on the account. It is faid, the only refource the English have now left, is to fupport the Nabob they before depofed, in order to oppofe the present one. It is expected there will be a greater ftruggle for the directorship of the EaftIndia company the erfuing election, than has been for fome years past, The intelligence lately received from the Eaft-Indies, of disturbances in the province of Bengal, and the causes of them, being variously related and mifreprefented, we are forry to acquaint our readers, that we have good authority to fay, thofe disturbances have arifen chiefly, if not wholely, from the very unjustifiable conduct of fome of the company's fervants, whose continual abufes of the company's authority to their own private emolument, and to the prejudice of the just rights of the country government, which neither the prudent remonftrances, nor the difinterested example, of the governor were able to restrain; having provoked the Nabob to fome violent measures on his part, having at length, as was perhaps intended, produced an open rupture. On the 23d of June, Mr. Ellis, the chief of the company's factory at Patna, thought fit to put himfelf at the head of a confiderable body of the company's troops, and upon what provocation does not appear, to attack the city, which was carried with great flaughter of the inhabitants, and given up to plunder. Mr. The governor making his escape, join. ed a party of the Nabob's forces, who were marching to his relief, and hearing of the disorder into which the Englifh in the town were fallen, attacked, and entered it fword in hand, sparing none who were found in arms. Ellis, with three or four hundred men, Europeans and feapoys, efcaped and croffed the river.The very day this misfortune happened, Mr. Amyatt, who had been deputed from the council at Calcutta to treat with the Nabob, and to difpofe him to comply with the demands they had thought fit to make on him, and who had attended the Na bob at Mongeer for that purpose, accompanied with several other gentlemen of the factory, not fucceeding in the embaffy, took his leave of the Nabob, having received the neceffary passports to return to Calcutta, and fet out in boats with his party, confisting of Meff, Amphlett, Wollafton, Crooke and Hut. chinfon, and the lieutenants Jones, Gordon and Cooper, with two companies of feapoys, and twenty European horstmen. Soon after their departure, news arriving at Mongeer of what had passed at Patna, this unfortunate party were followed by fome of the Nabob's troops, and, as is supposed, by his orders, they were overtaken on the 3d of July near Muxadavad, and it is feared all, but Mr. Amphlett, who was carried bound to the Nabob, were cut to pieces. Upon advice of these incidents at Calcutta, the Council took upon them to fet up Meer Jaffier, the Nabob for merly depofed; the company's whole force was ordered to take the field,under the command of major Adams, who was advanced as far as Cutwa, when the last advices left him, and there was little doubt of his fuccefs. It is hoped, therefore, that long before now these commotions have subsided, and that the tranquility of the country is re-established. Wednesday, Feb. 8. A mail arrived this day about noon, from Holland, which it is faid brings an account of the fafe landing of their highneffestheprince andprincefs of Brunfwick at Helvoetfluys, on Thurfday lait. The BEAUTIES of all the M'AGAZINES SELECTED, For XXX W OXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX E have been favoured with fome original Pieces by our Correfpondents, which we think ourselves bound by gratitude to infert prior to any of our own Compositions. To the maft noble the Marquis of GRANEY. I O radiant fun! whofe piercing ray That hail'd illuftrious Granby born! Granby! the good, the great, the wise, And feels each rapture he bestows; That his chief bleffing, is, to blefs. See! at his country's call he flies For glory with the first he vies, In glory, ev'n the first excels! Tho' danger rears her Hydra head Tho' death and terror stalk around, His arm, oppofing legions dread, Oppofing legions frew the ground. VOL. III. IV. See! by his bold example fir'd, His troops with love of glory burn! Marks ev'ry merit as he moves; 'Tis faid, that the beggar much longer furvives, Than those in exalted condition, By wanting distempers, which shorten mens lives, But the truth is,tis want of phyficians. ERMIT the meaneft of your flaves to ask you one question. Pray, Mr. What is your opinion of things in general? I must own, it hath caufed great agitation in the repofitory of my ideas. Every Quidlibilification of thought have I exerted, but in vain. The powers of Cogibundity, alas! were confounded with the Ponderofity of the interrogation, infomuch, that an ignis fatuus darted its deceptio-vifive Phlogifton over the whole space of the Cerebrum, and I am incarcerated in Cogitations. To be fure, what you fay about the tail of the Comet bursting against the kirts of Aquarius is perfectly right, but you err in saying, that his lordship could never get into a coach without the help of an arm chair; because, if a man has no arms, how does he contrive to blow his nofe, &c Your opinion upon this, would do great service to the republick of letters; for if you obferve, the next time you look into a glafs, 'tis all the world to a nutshell bu you fee your own self; because, as I faid before, the rays of light condenfing thro' the rarified medium, on the north-eaft fide of the conjunctive quarterstaff, make the disappearance highly improbable; fo that unlefs fome means can be invented to caufe an ebullition, the pot can never boil, and confequently the mutton will be in ftatu quo. As in the cafe of Jackson and Johnfon, there the former loft his eye-fight by reading in the dark; but the latter, by reason of the declivity of his ideas, fell down the precipice of conviction, and dislocated his optic nerve. This fatal catastrophe has occasioned many elaborate arguments among the anatomists, to reconcile the pellucid imperviosity of the vivid vifionarium, when the Lux Clara, by means of refrangibility, cannot perforate the retinacular membrane. As to what Helvetius obferves, concerning the urinary aqueducts being continually fupplied from the evacuating fprings or pumps of the heart's left ventricle, is not fo much to the purpose, as what Van Helmont would fuppofe, that the aqueous and chryftalline humour both act in contact with the beforementioned channels, which, according to what Ben in Love for Love fays, reconciles the old proverb, that the more the cries the lefs fhe'll →→→ Therefore, as the thing fpeaks for itself, and there cannot be the leaft doubs about it, I hope you'll allow a place in your Magazine, to my truly and mathematically conftructed machine, which co-operates fo well upon felf-acting principles, that no wind or rain, froft or fun-fhine, will affect it. It is called, The PLACEMAN. By |