THE CHRONICL E. JANUARY.. 1ft. A Fine equestrian statue of his prefent majefty King GEORGE, by Van Noft, was erected on St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. On the front of the pedeftal is the following incription: Georgio Secundo Forti et Reipublicæ Vice-comitibus. By a letter from Captain 7th. Bray, commander of his majefty's armed veffel the Adventure, received this day at the Admiralty, there is an account of the taking the Machault privateer of Dunkirk, with 14 nine pounders, and 182 men. Captain Bray, foon after the engagement began, ordered the helm to be put hard-a-port, which had the defired effect of laying her athwart hawfe, her bowfprit coming in between the Adventure's main and mizen mafts. They immediately paffed the end of the mizentop-fail fheet through the enemy's bobitay, and made it faft; but 3 fearing to lofe fo good an opportunity, and that they would get clear, Captain Bray and the pilot got a hawfer, and paffed it three times round the Machault's bowfprit and the capfton on the Adventure's quarter-deck, fo that the action depended chiefly on the fmallarms, which was very smart about an hour. She then truck her colours, but upon boarding her, began to fire again, which was foon filenced. She had killed and wounded 40 men, with the lofs only of one man killed, and two wounded, on board the Adventure. This evening 70 men on board the Namur in Portsmouth harbour forced their way into the dock, and from thence fet out for London, in order to lay their complaints before the lords of the Admiralty; 15 of whom attempted to procure an audience, but were all ordered to be put in irons and carried back, in order to be tried by a court martial for mutiny. It is reported that the badness of their provifions was the caufe of their complaint. 13th. A cup and falver intended to be prefented to Captain Lockhart, was fent this day to Lloyd's to be viewed by the merchants. It was curioufly chafed and emboffed, with the 7 French privateers, his own fhip and arms. The falver is 26 inches diameter, with the following infcription: The The gift of the two public com- The under-writers and merchants For his fignal fervice in fupporting by diftreffing the French privateers in the year 1757: The merchants of Bristol prefented him alfo with a gold cup, worth 100 1. This day a committee of the fubfcribers to a fund for fupplying the poor in the city of York with corn at a lower rate than the markets, began to deliver out the fame, when 334 families were ferved with the beft of corn at 1 s. a peck, or 4 s. the bufhel. By a letter from Captain 14th. Lockhart to the Admiralty, there was advice that his majesty's fhips Edinburgh, Dreadnought, Augufta, and a floop, had blocked up the harbour of Cape Francois for fome weeks: that on the 15th of October, all the French fquadron failed to drive the English off the coaft; and the next day the two fquadrons came to a clofe engagement, which continued till night. when the French fquadron, having the land breeze, by the help of their frigates, were towed into port, greatly difabled, and the Opiniatre difimafted. They had 300 men killed, and as many wounded. This advice Captain Lockhart received from the crew of a St. Domingoman, which he had taken; and it has fince been confirmed by a letter in Lloyd's Evening-poft, directly from the spot. The fame advices from the Admiralty take notice likewife of the taking of two French flips both laden with provifions for Louisbourg. The prifoners fay, that they failed from l'Isle d'Aix, in company with three other merchant fhips, laden with provifions for Louisbourg, under convoy of the Prudent and Capricieux, and the Tripon and Heroine frigates, the two former of which parted company with them the day before> they were taken. The frigates made their efcape from our fhips by its falling little wind, before which his majesty's fhips outfailed them greatly; but there is reafon to believe the other merchant ships are taken by the fhips that were left in chase of them. A farmer upon Budgley 18th. Common, between Southampton and Redbridge, feeing a man with a blue coat, red waistcoat, and red plush breeches, very ragged, lying on the ground in a very weak condition: took him into his waggon, carried him to his houfe, gave him victuals and drink; but being full of vermin, made him up a bed of ftraw in the waggon, under the waggon house, and covered him with facks. Next morning he found him dead. He had an Enfign's commiffion in his pocket, dated in March laft, appointing him, as fuppofed, an Enfign to an independent company of invalids at Plymouth; but no money in his pocket, except one halfpenny. The following meffage from the King was prefented by Mr. Secreta ry Pitt to the house. his good brother and ally the King of Pruffia; and the exhaufted and ruined state of that electorate, and of its revenues, having rendered it impoffible for the fame to maintain and keep together ⚫ that army, until the further neceffary charge thereof, as well as ⚫ the more particular measures now concerting for the effectual fupport of the King of Pruffia,can be laid before this houfe; his majefty, relying on the conftant zeal of his faithful Commons, for the fupport of the Proteftant religion, and of the liberties of Europe, against the dangerous defigns of France and her confederates, finds < himfelf, in the mean time, under the abfolute neceffity of recom'mending to this house the speedy confideration of fuch a prefent fupply, as may enable his majefty, in this critical exigency, to fubfift and keep together the faid army.' In confequence of this meffage, 100,000l. was unanimously granted, to be taken immediately out of the fupplies of last year unapplied, and to be remitted with all poffible difpatch. A court martial was held 21ft. on board the Newark, for the trial of the 15 mutineers belonging to the Namur man of war, who all received fentence of death. Information having been given to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that feveral officers were recruiting in that kingdom from Great Britain, without the knowledge of the government there, his excellency fignified his pleasure to fuch officers, that they should immediately defift from raifing men in that kingdom, and that they do immediately difcharge all fuch as they have already enlifted. By letters from Conftantinople, we heard that the 30th. caravan of pilgrims, returning from had been attacked by a Mecca, large body of Arabs, who had deftroyed, as it is faid, from 50 to 60,000 perfons. This defperate and unpredecented proceeding is fuppofed to have taken its rife from the Arabs being difgufted on account of the removal of the Pafcha of Damafcus to Aleppo, who was greatly esteemed by them, as a generous able man, and the Killar Aga's having put in his room a man of different principles, who deprived them of fome part of their dues, which they receive from the pilgrims. As the chief of the black eunuchs was the caufe of all that has happened by that change, which he effected merely to ferve his own interested views, the Grand Seignor ordered his head to be fent for from Rhodes, where he was lately exiled, and on its arrival was expofed to public view. Captain Wallace of the King George of Bristol, took up at fea, off Bermudas, fix men, the crew of the fchooner Nancy of Boston, one Gavian, mafter; the veffel in a hard gale had overfet, but, after they had cut away her main maft, fhe righted: but a fea foon after beat in her ftern, and having a quantity of bricks abaft, her itern funk and her head ftuck upright, and then the people got on her bow. After the ftorm abated, they got fome mackrel out of the veffel, and an iron inftrument to ftrike fish, and making an awning of one of the fails, which they fixed to the bowfprit, they lived there 46 days, before Captain Wallace met them, one of them died foon, and two others are deprived of their fenfes. The The Lord Chief Juftice of the King's-bench declared that court's opinion of the cafe of the bank note ftolen out of the mail, and paid away by the robber, who received the full value of Mr. Miller, at the poft-office at Hatfield, and then travelled on the fame road in a four-wheel poft-chaife and four horfes, and at the feveral stages paffed off feveral other bank notes he had taken out of the mail at the fame time; all which, at the requeft of the owner, who fent them by the poft, were ftopt by Mr. Rice, cafhier of the bank, and an action fuffered to be brought against Mr. Rice, for recovery of the money; when, after very learned pleadings on both fides, it was moft folemnly determined, That any perfon paying a valuable confideration for a 'bank note to bearer, in a fair 'course of business, has an un'doubted right to recover the money of the bank.' The pretext for ftopping them at the bank was, because they had been altered, the figures of 11, which denoted the date, having been by the robber dexterously converted to a 4. This day being appointed for the execution of the 15 feamen, belonging to the Namur, the boats from every fhip in commiffion, manned and armed, attended, and rowed guard round the Royal Anne. A little before 12 o'clock the prifoners were brought up, in order to be executed, and the halters were fixing, when they were informed his majefty had hewn mercy to 14, but they were to draw lots who fhould be the man that was to fuffer death. Matthew M'Can, the fecond man that drew, had the unfortunate chance; and accordingly, at a gun fired as a fignal, he was run up to the yard-arm, where he hung for near an hour. The reprieved were turned over to the Grafton and Sunderland, bound to the Eaft Indies. It is faid, the cause of the mutiny was only the dislike they had to quit the Namur, on board which fhip Admiral Bofcawen, when he took upon him the command of the intended expedition, hoifted his flag, and was to bring the crew of his former ship with him. FEBRUARY. ift. Monfieur Rene Brison, fecond captain of the Prince de Soubife, who formerly made his escape from where he refided on his parole of honour, went into France, and was sent back by order of the French king, made a second attempt to escape out of Porchefter Castle, where he had been confined ever fince his return. He had bribed the centinels on duty, but his attempt being fufpected by the officers of the prifon, they planted others at a distance, who immediately apprehended him, and carried him back to the castle. A marble bust of Doctor 4th. Claudius Gilbert, formerly vice provoft of Dublin college in Ireland, was fet up in that college-This excellent perfon, befides other valuable donations, bequeathed to that college a collection of books, confifting of 13000 volumes, chofen with great difcernment and care. His buft is placed at the head of thefe. It is the workmanship of Mr. Verpoil; and for expreffion and elegance does great honour to the taste and skill of the ftatuary. It was ordered by the lords 6th. fpiritual and temporal, in the parliament of Ireland affembled. That the king at arms, attended G by |