quire into the demands of the inhabitants of Minorca upon general Anftruther, their late governor, against whom there was a very heavy charge preferred the laft feffion of Parliament.

Was read before the board of admiralty a letter, fent by captain Jasper, from the prince of Annamaboe, in which he expreffed his gratitude for the civilities fhewn his fon while he was at our court, and offered the affiftance of 20,000 men to build a fort on the coaft of Africa, in cafe of obftruction from the French. At the fame time was read a long letter from captain Jasper, giv ing a very accurate account of the ftate of affairs on that coaft, at which their lordfhips expreffed great fatisfaction.

The governors of St. Luke's hofpital for lunatics, which was opened the day before for the reception of patients, dined at Grocer's hall, where were present the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of Norwich, and many other clergy and perfons of difinction, and the collection towards this charity amounted to 1219/. 18s. befides annual fubfcriptions.

church of St. Clare in the Norder Malm, and confumed that fine building and several houses; about an hour after, another fire happened in the Suder Malm, which did much damage; and at nine in the evening a brewer's house took fire and was confumed with several adjacent houses. Another fire broke out in the market in the fuburb of Ladugarfland, and next day another in the fame diftri&t near the packers-market; by these fires 1000 houfes were reduced to afhes. The populace became very infolent and affronting to feveral foreigners, whom they fufpected, and particularly to the Ruffian minifter, which obliged the king to give an order for reftraining fuch outrages, under pain of death; feveral fufpected incendiaries had been seized, but their procefs not published.

July 31. The rock in the mountain of Plainejou, funk fo fuddenly, that the earth which tumbled down at the fame time from the mountain, crushed fix perfons to death, and thirty head of cattle; foon after the mountain was covered with cinders, and out of the rock iffued two co

The governors of the Foundling hospital agreed upon a plan for building a double wall round the faid house, the one fifteen, the other eight feet high, and to be arched over, and a terras walk made upon it. Underneath it to be made rope-walks, and conveniencies for fpinning flax, hemp, &c. making cordage, twine, pack thread, and nets. They alfo agreed to erect fhops, warehoufes, &c. for various trades.

Mr. Keppel, commander of the British Squadron in the Mediterranean, fettled all the differences between this court and the

Dey of Algiers, by waving the reftitution of the money and effects taken from on board the prince Frederic packet-boat, on condition, that his Majefty's packet-boats fhall never be obliged to carry Algerine pailports, but on producing their commiffons fhall be at full liberty to pursue their voyage; and that the British merchants fhall enjoy the privilege of trading in all the ports and places belonging to the kingdom of Algiers, with fair and legal paffports; with which they were allowed a proper time to furnish themfelves.

A fire broke out at Stockholm, in the

finking and crumbling away, with a dreadful grumbling roife, and thick smoke, fometimes black, and fometimes reddish; his Sardinian Majefty fent a profeffor of the university of Turin, to make obfervations on this new burning mount.

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Aug. 5. The prince of Wales, prince Edward, and duke of Cumberland, went in a barge, attended by the earl of Albemarle, c. with two other of the King's barges, to Woolwich, where the matroffes were reviewed, Sir John Ligonier at their head. They went through their exercises with great alacrity, and difcharged their cannon and fmall arms in a regular manner, and concluded in letting off one piece nine times in a minute; the prince of Wales gave 100 guineas to the gunners, matroffes, &c. In making preparations for this review five men were wounded by the bursting of a cannon.

The Parliament which stood prorogued to this day, was further prorogued to October 15.

An order of council was iffued, forbidding the fale of cattle at Barnet and Harlow Buh fairs.

Aug. 12. A fire broke out in a ferge ware-houfe on Cotton's wharf adjoining to the bridge-house, and confumed the dwelling-house of the mafter carpenter of London-bridge, three large ware-houses, in

Aug. 28. The firft ftone in the foundation of Ilington church was laid by James. Colebrook, efq. one of the trustees for that work.

Aug. 31. In the weekly bill from Auguft 6 to 13, the number of burials was no more than 224, being much lower than any fince 1665, and a proof of the extraor dinary healthy feafon.

The pier of Weftminfier-bridge next the Surrey fide inclined near a foot from its true perpendicular.

The king of Spain made it death for any of his fubjects that should for the future be detected in a contraband trade with the English, befides confifcation of their effects.

A numerous colony was lately difcovered in Greenland on the other fide of the mountains to the northward of Davis's ftreights. They appeared to be Chriftians by the frequent use of the cross.

A man and his fervant were convicted at Durbam affizes on the third instant, of uttering counterfeit half-pence, to the amount of nine pounds eighteen fhillings, and fined each twenty fhillings, and ordered fix months imprisonment.

About the beginning of this month a wolf breaking loofe from a fhow of wild beafts at Litchfield, deftroyed several sheep and calves; 100 guineas were offered by the owner for taking it unhurt, but it was at laft killed in Cannoc wood, near Litchfield.

The duke of St. Albans, was appointed a lord of the bed-chamber, in the room of his father, deceased.

From the middle of July to the end of Auguft, about 8000 ounces of gold, and above 300,000 ounces of filver, were entered at the Cuftom-house, for exportation to Holland.

An order was iffued by the king of Spain, at the preffing reprefentations of Mr. Keene, the British minifter, to all governors and commanders of fhips in the Spanish West Indies, "Not to moleft or interrupt the navigation and commerce of the English in the Weft Indian feas; nor to ftop any veffels belonging to that nation, on any pretence whatever, unless actually found carrying on the contraband trade prohi 'bited by treaties." Commanders of the King's thips or guarda coftas were to be VOL. III.

feverely punished that prefumed to disobey this order.

The river Elbe at Hamburgb having rifen fixteen feet by the late rains, overflowed, all the ware-houfes and cellars in the city, and the damage done thereby was computed at 90,000l.

Sept. 2. The Dauphiness of France was fafely delivered of a prince, who was called duke of Burgundy.

When the French king a few weeks ago left Trianon to go to Verfailles, upon advice that the Dauphinefs was in labour, a foldier of the Swiss guards faid to him, as he paffed by, "Sire, I congratulate your Majefty; we have as furely a duke of Bur gundy as that you are a King." His Majefty was scarce out of fight of the castle, when news was brought him, that the Dauphinefs was delivered of a prince. Ta which his Majefty replied, "I heard that at Trianon ;" and ordered the foldier a pen fion of 2000 livres.

The duke de Belle Ifle gave an entertainment to the whole garrifon at Metz, confifting of 8000 men, on account of the birth of the duke of Burgundy; every one was allowed a pound and a half of meat, the like quantity of bread, and a pint of good wine, and the officers were treated fuitable to their rank, with a magnificence not to be exceeded.

Sept. 4. Was iffued an order of council for all fhips coming from the Levant into any port of his Majefty's dominions, to perform a quarantine of forty days, on account of the plague which had raged at Conftantinople, where 70,000 people died of it.

Sept. 5. Was caft on shore, near Wells in Norfolk, on the earl of Leicester's eftate, a fifh thirty feven feet and a half long, and eight feet thick, fuppofed eight tons weight; the feamen used to the whale fishery faid it was neither a whale nor a grampus, nor did they know what kind of fish it was.

Two foldiers condemned and ordered to be shot the 9th inftant for disertion, were reprieved, and ordered to receive 500 lashes.

Aug. 7. A fire broke out at the feat of Hume Campbell, efq. near Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, which confumed all the rich furniture, &c. and was fo fierce, that Mr. Campbell, was obliged to get down from his chamber by a ladder, without his cloaths. The fire broke out in his ftudy, and was firft difcovered by a helper in the ftables, who gave the alarm, and saved the greatest

part

part of the family from being burnt in their beds.

Aug. 10. At Kingston in Jamaica, in the evening, the whole firmament appeared of a very livid colour, horrible to behold, and the greatest part of that night was attended with hard fqualls of wind: about fix in the morning of the 11th it blew very hard at north, which brought off great quantities of leaves and fprays of trees from the mountains to the fhips which rode at anchor a mile and a half diftant from the town, and were feen in the air like flocks of birds.

At half an hour after eight the wind fhifted to the eaft, and after that to the fouth east, when inftantly it blew a hurricane which raised the fea in the harbour to a moft furprizing height, and in a few minutes it grew totally dark, fo that at noon day the fhips could not be seen that were driving foul of each other, and the men were scarce capable of keeping them felves fixed to any thing, the wind roaring as if the moft tremendous thunder had been burfting, fo that no man could be heard to fpeak. The height of the gale lafted till between eleven and twelve, when it fomething cleared; and on looking round, nothing was to be feen but death aud deAtruction, numbers lying on the shore drowned, and others floating on the fides and pieces of wrecks, till the following afternoon. The violence of the wind was fo great, that only three fhips out of forty fail of veffels rode out the gale, viz. the Cornwall, Duncomb, the Mercury, Matthews, and the Queen Mary, who fuffered not the leaft damage. The proprietors of what fmall canoes were faved in the town, afked fix and eight piftoles each to carry any man aboard or afhore, or to endeavour to fave those that were perishing on the water. Of the veffels that were loft, fome were driven afhore in the woods, overfet and ftove to pieces, to the number of twentyfeven; and there were fourteen riding before the town without mafts. Some days after several vefiels arrived with jury mafts, and in a very shattered condition, who met with the gale between Hifpaniola and PortoRico, At the fame time the Fox man of war from the Havannab, Mr. Manning on board, with a great quantity of fpecie, was obliged to cut away all her mast, and let go all her anchors, and after driving over two or three keys, brought up between two rocks, where it pleafed God to preferve their lives, although they had taken leave of each other,

and were preparing for their last moments. They faved fome of the fpecie. Another account adds, that the lofs the inhabitants of Jamaica fuffered amounted to 300,000l.

Aug. 11. An order of council was made for fummoning the Parliament to fit for difpatch of bufinefs on the 12th of November.

The lords of trade and plantations ordered five fhips to be got ready to fail for Nova Scotia with two companies of Lee's foot, and warlike ftores.

Sept. 17. The King was pleased to appoint Ruvigny de Cofne, efq. to be fecretary to his Majesty's extraordinary embassy to the most Christian king.

And alfo to appoint Charles Townshend, efq. to be fecretary to his Majefty's extraordinary embaffy to the moft Catholic king.

Sept. 18. The French Eaft India company held at port l'Orient, the greatest sale that ever was known in France, confifting of more than double the quantity of goods they ever put up before, as appeared by their printed lifts; this was a manifeft proof of the great increase of their trade, which they used all poffible means to advance and protect.

By a lift published of the fhips employed in the whale fishery for 1751, it appeared that 167 went out, viz. thirty-two from Great Britain, thirteen from Hamburgh, three from Altena, two from Bremen, one from Embden, and the reft from Holland.

Sept. 27. The workmen employed in repairing the road to Avenches, in the county of Vaux in the canton of Bern, the ancient and celebrated city of Aventicum, built by Vefpafian, and destroyed by Attila the Hun, in the fifteenth century, discovered a Mofaic pavement fixty feet long, and forty broad, with the figures and ornaments, moftly very well prefer ed, fuppofed to be a place of public entertainment, or of a room belonging to the baths; they alfo found pieces of columns and valuable marble ftatues.

Sept. 28. At a court of huftings at Guildhall, Slingby Bethel, and Marsh Dic kinfon, efqrs. were fworn into the office of fheriffs of the city for the year enfuing. After which came on the election of a Lord Mayor, when Mr. alderman Winterbottom was chofen.

A young lionefs, together with a male and female oftrich, lately arrived at the Tower, as a prefent from the Dey of Tunis.

Orders were dispatched to commodore

Rodney,

Orders were iffued for repairing and augmenting the fortifications of Carlisle, and

feveral towns in North Britain.

A fubfidy treaty with the king of Poland was lately concluded by the maritime powers; by which 48,000l. was annually to be paid that prince for fix years; for which he was to keep up a body of troops to be at the difpofal of those powers when an occafion required.

At Waybill fair beft Farnham hops fold from 81. to 81. 8s. per hundred, the fecond from 41. 15s. to 67. the Kent and Suffex beft from 57. 10s. to 67. 10s. and ordinary from 31. to 41.

Oct. 13. An express arrived at the Dutch ambaffador's with an account of the death of his ferene highnefs, William Charles Henry Frifo, prince of Orange and Naffau, ftadtholder, captain-general and admiral of the United Provinces, on the 11th inftant, at his house in the wood, of a quinfey, with which he was feized the Wednefday before, being the day after fix deputies from Amfterdam had waited on him with thanks for his care of their trade, but could not be admitted, because he was indifpofed. He was born Sept. 1, 1711, married Anne, princefs royal of England, March 14, 1733-4, by whom he left iffue princess Caroline, born Feb. 17, 1742-3, and prince William, born March 8, 1747-8. The fame day the States General, and the states of Holland, fent a deputation with compliments of condolence to the Princess, and also to adminifter to her the oaths as governefs and guardian to the young Prince Stadtholder her fon; and by the act of settlement, the duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle was to act as captain general, and lord high admiral during the Prince's minority.

08. 15. Both houfes of Parliament met at Westminster, and were further prorogued to Nov. 14.

The workmen digging up a terras at Sion house, about ten feet from the surface under the walls found twenty-feven human fculls, one of them of a moft enormous fize, with the teeth all found and fast in the jaws of them all, and feven barrels of human bones.

08. 18. About two o'clock in the af. ternoon, in the cleareft funfhine, and calm

eft weather, the earth fhook violently in the island of St. Domingo; a steeple was thrown down, and a few houses demolished in the French part of the ifland; but in the Spanish part, feveral convents and churches were thrown down in the city of St. Domingo; a Spanish village, called Baniquo, was entirely fwallowed up, and a fort of faltish lake appeared in its place: a volcano opened within twenty leagues of Domingo, ejecting fire and fmoke. A few days after, about eight in the morning,' during a profound calm, was felt a flight fhock, which increased to fuch violence that almost all the ftone houses at Princesport were thrown down, and the timber houfes ftood but little longer; in the plain called Cul de Sac, fugar mills and refining houfes were thrown down, apertures were made in the ground, whence iffued fetid fprings; the tops of three mountains crumbled away, and choaked up a river, which has fince taken another courfe; in the plain near the cape above 25,000 pots of fugar, &c. were broken and buried under the ruins; in the district of fort Dauphin many fugar works and dwelling houfes were deftroyed. The confternation of the people was inexpreffible, most of the inha bitants of the towns paffed the night in the fields; the value of plantations decreased, and every body talked of returning to France.

0.7. 25. An eruption of mount Vesuvius began, on the 24th the whole cavity ap peared in a blaze, and next day two streams of liquid fire defcended in torrents towards the fea. The virtuofi, by observations lately made, calculated the duration of these irruptions to a few hours.

08. 26. His Majefty granted his royal charter for incorporating feveral of his Majefty's loving fubjects therein named, by the name of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

The King was pleased to appoint James Butler, jun. efq. to the office of comptroller of the duties of excife and new impofts, within England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed.

Charles duke of St. Albans, was appointed cuftos rotulorum of Berks.

-Mellifh, efq. commiffioner of excife. The duke of Leeds, furveyor of the crown lands.

George James Williams, efq. infpector general of the inland excife duties.

Henry Hitch, efq. receiver general of the land-tax and duty on houfes for the weft 0 2 riding

riding of Yorkshire, and city and aynfty of York.

Marmaduke Conftable, efq. receiver general of the north and eaft ridings.

Henry Harriage, efq. regifter general of tobacco in Great Britain.

Richard Arnold, efq. collector of customs in the port of Horsham and Suffer.

Mr. Snell, furveyor of the land coaft, in the port of Yarmouth.

Richard Haddock, efq, comptroller of the customs for Sandwich and Queenborough.

John Butler, efq. fecretary to the comptroller of excife in England and Wales. Viscountess Howe, a lady of honour to the princess dowager of Wales, and

The duke of Cumberland obtained a grant of the lodge and walks in Cranbourn-chase, Windfor-foreft.

A treaty of peace and commerce between his Majefty and the kingdom of Tripoli, was concluded and figned Sept. 29; and alfo a treaty of peace and commerce between his Majefty and the ftate of Tunis, was concluded and figned Oct. 19.

08. 29. The right hon. Thomas Winterbottom, efq. lord mayor of London, went to Westminster, and was fworn into his office with the ufual ceremonies; the feast was honoured with the prefence of the Lord Chancellor, mafter of the Rolls, judges, feveral of the nobility, foreign ministers, and minifters of state.

Oct. 30. There was a drawing room, morning and evening, at St. James's, when every body appeared in mourning.

An eftate of 180l. per annum falling to the parish of Bexley, Kent, by the decease of the relict of Mr. Soloman, according to his will, the overfeers ordered twelve almshoufes to be built for twelve poor men of that parish not receiving alms, and the eftate to be appropriated for ever for their maintenance.

There was landed from on board a Greenland fhip the upper jaw-bone of a whale, twenty feet long, and near twenty-fix hundred weight.

In a circular epiftle from the yearly meeting at London to the quarterly meetings of the Quakers in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere, the account of fufferings this year (chiefly for tythes and churchrates) amounted in England and Wales to upwards of 30251. and in Ireland to upwards of 17601.

Nov. 1. Two gentlemen went to the feveral gaols in London, Middlefex and Surrey, and discharged a great number of per

fons confined for fmall debts, and others that laid for their fees.

The Admiralty office, for the benefit of trade, published the copy of an advertisement of his Danish majefty, that the fire or lights kept hitherto on a fand-bank at the point of Jutland, called Schaget, for the direction of fhips failing through the Cattegat, would on Feb. 1, N. S. 1752, be removed farther within the land 800 feet from the faid fand bank, and 400 feet more towards the north, and lighted and kept on a tower fixty-four feet high, erected for that purpose.

The commiffioners for the navy contracted for 10,500 load of timber for Deptford, Woolwich and Chatham.

His Majefty walked with the duke of Cumberland in the Mall of St. James's park, which was new gravelled, above an hour, to the great joy of the spectators.

There was feized at an inn, and carried to the Tower, about 400 weight of bad half-pence; fixty of these weighed about a pound, and confequently the makers got two fhillings and fix-pence for what was not worth above nine-pence.

Nov. 8. Being the eve of the day fixed for the marriage of 600 young women, portioned by the city of Paris, on occafion of the birth of the young duke of Burgundy, the ceremony of betrothing them was performed in their refpective parishes, the bells ringing all the while. The next morning was ushered in by a general discharge of the cannon of the city and Baftile; and at nine o'clock the bridegrooms and brides repaired to their feveral parish churches, which were hung with tapeftry, and decorated with all the magnificence ufually displayed on the greatest feftivals, and the marriage ceremony was performed in the prefence of an alderman and two churchwardens. The city, befides portioning the maidens, and giving cloaths to them and the bridegrooms, alfo provided them a wedding dinner in their refpective parishes, to which they were carried in the fame coaches that brought them to church, fome of which belonged to noblemen and gentlemen, and others were found by the city. In the parishes of St. Sulpitius and St. Roch, the married cou❤ ples were waited on at table by princes, and other perfons of the highest rank, who at parting made them handsome prefents; and at fix in the evening they were carried in the fame coaches to their respective habitations.

Nov. 9. The King reviewed in the
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