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Dyer of a filver watch; Edward MacaJafter, for a robbery committed in Petti coat-lane; and John Milnard, for publihing a forged bill of Exchequer, received fentence of death; twenty-four to be transported for seven years; three to be branded, and three to be whipped. SUNDAY, 12.

The poft-boy, carrying the Worcester mail, was attacked and robbed on the road near Shepherd's-Bush, by a fingle footpad, between four and five in the morning, and all his bags opened, the boy being detained by him above two hours, for that purpose.

FRIDAY, 17.

The comedy of the Mifer (fee p. 556.) was performed at Covent-Garden theatre, for the furtherance of the Marine Society's charity, in fitting deferted boys out to fea, when the nett profits amounted to 2321. 58. 6d. which was paid by John Fielding, Efq; into the hands of the treasurers of the faid fociety.

SATURDAY, 18.

N° 10,568, in the prefent lottery, was drawn a prize of 10,000l.

The houfe of lords being met, a meffage was fent to the Hon. houfe of commons by the Hon. Sir Henry Bellenden, gentlemanufher of the black rod, acquainting them, that "the lords authorized by virtue of his majesty's commiffion for declaring his royal affent to the undermentioned acts, do require the attendance of that Hon. houfe in the house of peers, to hear the commiffion read ;" and the commons being come thither, the faid commiffion, impowering his royal highnefs the duke of Cumberland, the lord archbishop of Canterbury, and feveral other lords therein named, to declare and notify the royal affent to the faid two publick acts, was read accordingly, and the royal affent given to, An act to make provifion for quartering the foreign troops in his majesty's fervice now in this kingdom. (See p. 562.) An act to prohibit, for a time to be limited, the exportation of corn, malt, meal, flour, bread, bifcuit, and starch.

Dec.

der the guard of a troop of horse, for Portsmouth,

THURSDAY, 23.

Ended the drawing of the lottery at Guildhall, when N° 12,475, drawn a blank, was entitled to 1000l. as the laft drawn ticket.

The house of lords have adjourned to Jan. 11, and the commons to the 7th of the fame month.

A proclamation is iffued for a general faft, on Friday, Feb. 11, next.

Numbers of able-bodied men have been preffed for his majesty's service, since the act for that purpose was again put in execution. (See p. 563.)

In confequence of a refolution taken in a grand council at St. James's, a proclamation was published in the Gazette, at the latter end of November, for putting the laws in fpeedy and effectual execution against foreftalling, regrating, and engrosfing of corn; particularly the act 5 and 6 Edward VI. by which the buying or contracting for any corn before it actu ally arrives in fome market, city, &c. is prohibited and adjudged forestalling; (fee p. 541.) and the obtaining any corn at any fair or market, and felling it in a fair or market in the fame place, or within four miles thereof, is adjudged regrating; and the buying corn to fell it otherwife than is therein particularly allowed, is judged an unlawful engroffing thereof: The punishment for the first offence against this ac is two months imprisonment, befides forfeiture of the corn; for the fecond, half a year's imprisonment, and lofs of double the value of the corn; and for the third offence, fetting on the pillory and forfeiture of goods and chattels, and imprisonment during the king's pleasure. By this act, it is farther enacted, that every person who fhall have a fufficient provifion of corn for his house, and for fowing his ground, and shall buy corn at any market for the change of his feed, fhall the fame day bring to market as much corn as he bought for feed, and fell it at the market price, on pain of forfeiting double the value of the corn fo bought.

This proclamation alfo exprefsly enjoins the putting in execution an act of the 5th of Elizabeth, by which it is enacted, that the licences to be granted for buying corn, pursuant to the act 5 and 6 Edward VI. fhall only be granted at the general quarter feffions for one year, to none but an householder, a married man not under the age of thirty, and not less than three years refident in the county, whe fhall give bond not to foreftal, or engrofs, or do any thing contrary to the aforefaid ftatute of Edward VI. (See p. 562.) The

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The colliers in Cumberland rofe on account of the dearnefs of provisions, on the 11th of Dec. but were difperfed before they could do much mischief. The tinners in Cornwall alfo about the fame time plundered the town of Padstow, of corn, &c. and then dispersed.

The colliers in the foreft of Dean, with others, have feized feveral veffels laden with barley, &c. going down the river Wye to Bristol, and plundered feveral mills in thofe parts, carrying off near 3000 bushels of grain of all forts. (See P. 562.)

Many towns and corporations, and numbers of noblemen and gentlemen, have mcft laudably exerted themselves, in various parts of the three kingdoms, to relieve the poor at this time of fearcity, and to provide against a further encrease of fuch an alarming calamity.

Proclamations are published for a general faft in Scotland on Feb. 10, next, and in Ireland on the 11th of the fame month.

On the 18th of November, about ro minutes before 12 at night, a shock of an earthquake was felt at Inverhallen, in Argyleshire, which lafted 20 seconds. At Rothfay it was so fenfible, that the chamber bells in fome houses were rung, and it was preceded by a rumbling noife, like thunder at a distance.

The Addrefs of the Commission of the general
Affembly of the Church of Scotland, pre-
fented to the King by Lord Cathcart, at
St. James's, Dec. 11, was as follows.

Moft gracious Sovereign,

OUR majesty's most faithful fubje&s,

Ythe minilters and elders of the church

of Scotland, met in commiffion of the general affembly, deeply affected with the great and unexpected calamities of their country, think themselves called upon, by the late extraordinary events, to teftify their anxious concern for the publick welfare, and to renew their antient and moft fincere profeffions of indiffoluble attachment to your majesty's perfon, family, and government.

We are unwilling to enumerate the well-known loffes, or to amplify the difgraces fuffered by the British nation, con. vinced as we are, that so good a king, and fo brave a prince, must be sensibly touched with events fo fatal to the intereft of his kingdoms, and the reputation of his people; calamities, which (tho' justly merited by a finful nation) do not feem to have been brought upon this land by any fignal effects of the wifdom or courage of our enemies.

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From your majefty's wisdom and attention to the profperity of your kingdoms, we may justly expect the application of every remedy to the prefent evils; and whatever measure the wifdom of this nation fhall adopt for the publick defence, we can venture to affure your majesty, that the members of this eftablished church, who make so great a majority of the people of Scotland, are full of loyalty and zeal, and poffeffed of fuch difpofitions as entitle them to your majesty's confidence, and render them fit for the fervice of their country.

In a zeal for religion and liberty, in a grateful attachment to your majesty's perfon and family, and a just indignation at the triumphs of our enemies, your majesty's fubjects of this national church yield to none; and, confcious of fuch difpofitions, believe that their gracious prince will honour with truft their ardent zeal, that the inhabitants of the united kingdoms may give the noblest demonstration of loyalty to their king, and a love of their country.

That mutual love and confidence may ftill fubfift between your majefty and your fubjects; that the Lord of Hofts may ble's your fleets and armies with fuccefs; and that a race of kings of your royal line, lovers of religion, liberty, and their country, may always fway the fcepter of these lands, is the earnest prayer of, &c.

Edinburgh,
Nov. 18, 1756.

PAT. CUMING, Mod.

Extract of a Letter from a House at Leghorn,
to a Gentleman concerned in the St. George
Privateer, commanded by Capt. Fortunatus
Wright, dated Nov. 22.

We

"Capt. Wright has taken another prize, (fee p. 563.) which he has fent into Cagliari; we get the notice the day before yesterday, by a veffel from thence, particularizing her cargo to confift of 4 to 5000 facks of wheat, worth goool. have advice from Marseilles, that two ships of 20 guns, and a fettee of equal force, and all well-manned, are there fitting out purpofely for him, with orders to give him no quarter, but to burn him on board. We are forry to give you this alarm; but a French gentleman, a friend of ours, is now in our houfe, and confirms every particular. We have to add, the difagreeable fituation we are all in, and the miferable state of our trade, the French privateers in these seas being innumerable.

P. S. Since writing the above, our partner is returned from the conful, who has acquainted him of the equipment against 4 H 2 capt.

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capt. Wright, with this addition, that the two fhips are fitting out by the French king, and the Settee by the chamber of commerce at Marseilles; and that they have orders to fet him on fire in any road where they may find him."

Letters have been received also from capt. Wright, in which he relates many infults he received from the Maltese, which paltry state dares even restrain, moft partially, the liberty of the English conful-Alas Minorca !

On the 23d of November, and the following day, one man of war of 60 guns, one of 74, one of 64; two frigates of 30 guns, and one of 16, found means to fail fecurely out of the harbour of Brest.

The Sky and the Lion lately arrived at Cadiz, from the South-Seas, difcovered an unknown land in 54° 48′ S. lat, which they coafted for 25 or 30 leagues, appearing all high land, and probably vifible at 60 leagues distance.

On the fixth of November, the Rotunda of the antient Pantheon, at Rome, fuddenly fell in, to the entire demolition of that magnificent and celebrated building, a precious remain of the Roman architecture. It has fince been a Romish church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and all the martyrs, and called the church of All Saints.

MARRIAGES and BIRTHS.

Nov. 29.

R

ICHARD Heber, of Martin, in Yorkshire, Efq; was married to Mifs Elizabeth Barnardiston, of Brightwell, in Suffolk.

Mr. Stockwell, an eminent wine-merchant, to Mifs Cobourn, with a fortune of 1000l. per ann.

Dec. 2. Mr. Harding, jun. of Edmonton, to Mifs Jackson, of Southgate, with a fortune of 15,000l.

Samuel Cox, Efq; to Mifs Hagen. 8. Mr. Aguilar, to Mifs Mendez da Cofta, with a fortune of 30,000l.

12. Thomas Herbert Noyes, Efq; to Mifs Halley, of Great Gaddefden, in Hertford fhire,

17. Richard Supple, Efq; to Mifs Brooke, of Great Oakley, in Northamptonshire.

22. Right Hon, the earl of Hyndford, to Mifs Jane Vigor, daughter of Benjamin Vigor, Efq;

Dec. 14. Lady of Sir Peter Leicester, Bart. was delivered of a fon and heir.

Nov, 16.

DEATHS.

Bello, near Wexford, in Ireland, Efq; aged 107. He served in all K. William's and Q Anne's wars, and retained all his fenfes to the last.

Dec.

28. Thomas Sherwin, Efq; firft clerk in the war-office.

Mr. John Townsend, of Batterfea. Dec. 1. Mr. William Innys, an eminent bookfeller, and one of the court of affiftants of the Stationers Company.

John Yeo, Efq; a fuperannuated rear

admiral.

Right Hon. William earl of Dunmore, fucceeded in title and eftate, by his fon, lord Fincastle.

3. Rt. Hon. the lord viscount Jocelyn. baron Newport, lord high chancellor of the kingdom of Ireland, fucceeded in title and estate by his only fon, Robert, now lord viscount Jocelyn.

George Hammond, of Parlington, in Yorkshire, Efq;

Robert Grimstone, of Nefwicke, in Yorkshire, Efq;

Dr. Nicholas Fivat, of Chelfea.

4. Rt. Hon. Mary viscountess Blundell, relict of the late vifcount. (See p. 404.)

Baron Bufeck, bishop and abbot of Fulda, prince of the holy Roman empire, aged 72.

6. George James Trenchfield, of Dorfetihire, Efq;

Lady Blackett, relic of Sir Edward
Blackett, of Hexham, Bart. aged 84.
Rt. Hon. the counters of Inchiquin.

Sir William Foulis, of Ingleby-manor, in Yorkshire, Bart. fucceeded in title and eftate by his only fon, now Sir William Foulis, Bart.

Thomas Hoblin, of Cornwall, Efq;

8. Rt. Hon. William Stanhope, earl of Harrington, a general of his majefty's forces, governor of the Charter-houfe, fellow of the Royal Society, and one of the privy-council; whofe great abilities were fuccefsfully displayed in the cabinet and the field, thro' a long and profperous life. He is fucceeded in title and estate by his eldeft and only furviving fon William vifcount Petersham, now earl of Harrington.

Wardell George Weftby, Efq; a commiffioner of the cuftoms.

William Gill, Efq; in the commiffion of the peace for Devonshire.

10. Sir John Livefey, of Henwick-hall, in Bedfordshire, Bart.

Theodore baron Newhoff, fome years fince crowned king of Corfica, at his lodgings in'Chappelle-ftreet, Soho.

Dr. Thomas Brodrepp, of Netherbury, in Dorfetfhire, aged 81.

12. Mary Bayley, of Mortlake, in Surrey, aged 104, who could read and thread a needle without fpectacles.

13. Hon. William Levefon Gower, member for Staffordshire, uncle to earl Gower.

Edmund Strange, Efq; a superannuated rear-admiral.

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Mr. Sharpe, to the living of Trinity, in the James's, Nov. 27. At a chapter of

614 Alt. in the Lift of Parliament.-Bankrupts, &c. Dec.