"Anat for enabling his majefty to make provifion for fupporting the dignity of the queen, in cafe fhe fhall furvive his majesty.

"To which your commons, with all humility, befeech your majetty's royal affent."

The fog was fo very thick in and about London, that even chairmen loft their way in the ftreets, and carriages run againft carriages, by which much mifchief was done.

His majesty went to the 4th. houfe of peers, and gave the royal affent to the land and malt tax bills, the bill for repealing the compulfive claufe in the laft infolvent act, and to one private bill.

By the above at for repealing the late compulfive claufe, &c. thofe that have already had the benefit of it, are ftill to enjoy it, it being only enacted,

"That from and after the 19th day of November, 1761, fo much of the faid act as relates to creditors compelling prifoners charged in execution to deliver up their eftates, and to fuch prifoners being thereupon discharged, fhall be repealed to all intents and purpofes whatsoever.

"Provided, That this act fhall not extend, or to be conftrued to extend to pardon, indemnify, or difcharge any perfon who hath incurred, or before the faid 19th day of November 1761, fhall incur any penalty or forfeiture, by committing any offence againft the faid act made and paffed in the faid first year of his prefent majefty's reign; but that every fuch offender fhall be liable to the forfeitures and penalties incurred, or before the faid 19th day of November 1761, to be incurred, under the faid act, made and paffed in the

faid firft year of his prefent majefty's reign, as if the faid act had not been repealed, and had continued in full force."

Paris, Nov. 26. At a meeting of the academy of belles letters of Paris, held the 13th inftant, thefe ́ two questions were propofed for the fubject of the prize to be given at Eafter 1763. 1. What were the rights and prerogatives of the fovereign pontiff of ancient Rome, over the priests of the city and provinces? 2. Whether the authority of that fovereign pontiff extended to the priests, and the temples of the Roman deities introduced in. conquered countries, and to thofe of the national deities?

They write from St. Reine, a village in Burgundy, that as fome workmen were digging in a fmall eminence near that place, they dif covered a ftrong work of mafonry, and on demolithing part of it, they found that it ferved to mask the entry of a fubterraneous paffage extending feveral leagues.

9th.

Several lords and ladies of the firft diftinction, were prefent at the debates in the house of cominons, on the expediency of the German war. The houfe was fo crowded with ftrangers; that it was with difficulty the members could take their places, which we hear has produced an order, that no ftrangers fhall be admitted this feffion.

Extract of a letter from New-York, 0&. 3.

"The fociety of Scotch mer. chants here have taken the laudable refolution of employing all fuch poor women belonging to this town as are capable of working, and who, for want of employ, are in great diftrefs; a large houfe is taken for [N] 4

their

their reception, and they are to be eployed in knitting and pinning. Several public fpirited perlons are already become benefactors to this charity, in order to make it the more extenfive. Bills have been fuck up in public places of this city, advertifing thote poor people to apply to the faid charity, and they will be admitted to immediate cipley, and have good wares."

The feffions ended at the 19th. Old-Bailey, at which the following petions received fentence of death.

Daniel Loorey, for the murder of captain Shanks, by heating him with a loaded gun. Leoney was the wafter of a trading veffel belenging to Shanks, with whom L tony's wife lived as a houfecper; the quarrel happened in a jealousy. The prisoner had a creme good character, and was ach piti d.

Robert Greenftreet, for the murder of his matter, to whom he had ferved his time, and actually lived withe, jeuneyman, pleaded guilty. Thomas Afton, argen, who guetded the Brittel mail, for rebbing the Bath floge waggon on te highway. All of when have been executed. Defies three women for theft, who were pardoned on condition of transportation for

Nineteen were çaft for tranfpertation, ten of whom have fince reolved the king's pardon, en condition of ferving his maly in the regiment of fect now at Jamaica ; three ordered to be privately le privately whipped, one to be burnt in the Fool, and die to be publickly whopi.

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This day the following advertisement appeared in the

public papers. "Any nobleman, gentleman, or other, potfelfed of tithing royalties, are earnestly required to tranfmit a defcription of the thore each of them refpectively hold; a gentleman having, thro' intenfe application, and at a great expence, found out an eafy and advantageous methed of catching fifh in all weather; which, when put in practice, will not only turn out of great emoluments to fuch gentlemen's cfiates, and afford comfortable fupport and employment to the induftrious inhabitants, but will foon prove of univerfal fervice to the public; which information fhall be gratefully acknowledged, and due refpect paid to: and fuch deferiptions as anfwer the author's intention, shall certainly have in anfwer an explicit account of the invention, and reafonable propofels offered.

N. B. This new method of taking ffb, will only answer where there is a good bottom, and the fhore net rockv. Pleafe to direct (poft free) to Mr. James Hamilton, at Jacke's coffee-houfe in Dean-fireet, Soho, Londen."

It is not improbable that this method of catching fifh is by the machine already mentioned, pages

99, and 111.

Paris, Nov. 4. M. de Chamoufet, ever fertile of invention, hath propofed the eftabiiling in Paris, en the footing of the hackney ccacles, ene horfe chaifes, to be hired at the rate of fix fols the hour [three pence ftorling.) Cur penny, or Tenny polts, as 'tis called here, was a fcheme of that gentleman's. It is faid that it brings in 7 or 8 livres daily to the farmers general, who, we hear, allow M. de Chamoufet a penfion of 20,000 livres

The nobleite, and clergy of the province

province of Languedoc, at their general meeting on the 26th past, worked up by a fpeech of the archbishop of Norbonne, refolved to appropriate the penfions they receive from the king, to pay the intereft of the money that will be neceffary to build a fhip of 74 guns, of which they intend to make a prefent to the king; and their example has been followed not only by feveral of the lay and ecclefiaftical communities of that kingdom, but even many individuals, who have fubferibed large fums for that purpose. Perhaps, as the Dutch obferve, the king has put fums of money into the hands of fome wife men privately, that with fuch fums they might begin a fubfcription, in order to induce fools to follow their example. A man was executed on

14th. board the Duke, at Spithead,

for the murder of the mate, of the Burford, captain Gambier, by ripping up his belly on his ftriking him with a rattan, at grumbling to do his duty.

21ft

Joihua Ward, Efq; fo well known by the name of Doctor Ward, died, at Whitehall, aged 76. This gentleman was formerly a member of the houfe of commons: but on account of a particular affair, was obliged to go abroad, whore he remained fore years; but at last received his late majcity's pardon. He then came to England, where, foon after his arrival, he purchased three houfes at Pimlico, near St. James's park, which he converted into an hofpital for his poor patients; over the door of which he had infcribed moft fignificantly in large characters.

by all ranks and degrees of people. Meeting with great fuccefs in his practice, and the poor from all parts flocking to him for relief, he took part of a houfe in Threadneedle-street, for the better diftribution of his medicines to the poor, which he gave generously to all who afked his advice: that, as well as his houfe at Whitehall, was every day crowded with objects of charity, to whom he always gave, with the greateft humanity, his medicines, and advice gratis, and often relieved them with money. Of late years he was particularly applied to by the nobility and gentry, even after they had been given over by regular phyficians, upon which account he ufed facetioufly to call himfelf the fcavenger of the faculty; and it was well known that many who have been pronounced dead, have been reftored to life (sub Deo) by his medicines. So that all allow he richly merited the great fortune he died poffeffed of.

Paris, Dec. 14. Of forty prelates to whom it hath been referred by the king to take into confideration the affair of the Jefuits, one part is for leaving them on their prefent footing; another part is for giving them a vicar general independant of the general at Rome, and forming new conftitutions for them free from all dangerous doctrines, and agreeable to the liberlies of the Gallican church; and a third part is for expelling them the kingdom.

M. Cambalufier has lately publifhed a very feasonable piece on the Poiton or the Painters Cholic. In part I. is a narrative of a poiton cholic, occafioned by fome lattice wood painted green, which the duke de la Valiere's gardener, at his feat at Montrogue,

Montrogue, ufed for baking bread and cooking the victuals. Nine perfons were feized with the cholic, and one died before the difcovery of the caufe. The hiftory of the diftemper is followed by that of the cure, with, an account of the medicaments by which it was effected.

The count de St. Florentin lately prefented to the queen two young gentlemen, born deaf and dumb, who have been brought to their fpeech by M. Pereire, a Portuguese, who at the fame time had the honour to be prefented.

We learn from Mittau, that the new duke of Courland practifes every method, in order to acquire the esteem, and captivate the affections of his fubjects. He has given a penfion to two learned men, to write the history of the duchies of Courland and Semigalia. He has fent two or three young men to travel at his expence, and is extremely affiduous in the introduction of agriculture, and in all the manufactures to which timber can be applied. But we do not yet hear that he is at all tractable in the point of religion.

By letters from Confiantinople we are informed, that Muly Muftapha Aga, first phyfician to the Grand Signior, viewing, with concern, the vaft havock and devastation lately made in that metropolis, and its fuburbs, by the peftilence, had collected a quantity of laudable matter from fome peftilential eruptions, and tried the effects of inoculation on feveral perfons, of whom fome were perfectly recovered, and the others were in a fair way. This may juftly be looked upon as the greateft, and moft valuable difcovery of the moderns; as many thoufand lives will be thereby annually faved.

Hague, Dec. 10. Yesterday, between eight and nine in the morning, the princefs of Nassau Weilbourg, the Stadtholder's fifter, was fafely delivered of a prince; and both mother and child are as well as can be wifhed.

The powder magazine near the Bruffels gate in Maeftricht, a strong town on the frontiers of Holland, blew up with a terrible explosion. The guard of the magazine, confifting of 11 foldiers, were all killed, The houfe of the princefs of Heffe Philipftahl was very much fhattered, and her highness buried under the ruins. The house of baron Salis, that was nearer the magazine, was quite deftroyed, and not one of the family, except the coachman, efcaped. A breach of 130 feet in length was made in the rampart, and fome of the outworks were alfo damaged. Stones of two and three hundred weight were thrown almoft a mile from the town. About 18 perfons perished by this difafter, which was occafioned by a cannonier plundering the magazine in the night.

23d.

His majefty went to the houfe of peers, and gave the royal affent to the bill for an additional duty on fpirituous liquors, that for the free importation of Irish falted beef and pork, and Irish butter, for the navy, and to two naturalization bills.

They write from Hamburgh of the 11th, that the froft there is fo fevere, that they begin to compare it to that of 1740; and that the Elbe having been frozen over for fome days, the magiftrates thought proper to double the guards, both of the regulars and the trained bands, on account of the fhoals of French and Hanoverian deferters who flock

there,

there, in fo much that they think that if the froft fhould continue, they should foon have in the neighbourhood of that city above 10,000 deferters of different nations.

The magiftrates of Hamburgh ordered a general collection to be made in all the churches of that city on the 13th inftant, for the relief of the unhappy fufferers in the war in Germany.

Neufchatel, Nov. 15. The fatal controverfy which has lately diftracted the church of this country (on the duration of the fufferings of the wicked in a future ftate) has produced a very acrimonious paper war: there are, however, not wanting fome who furmife that a political drift is at the bottom of thefe feuds; and that the commonwealthfman, whatever his private fentiments be, fhould obferve a filent neutrality. One writer concludes in this myfterious manner: "The hiftory of our differences is indeed a very fingular riddle; but the key to it partly lies in the fcheme of fetting up a fchifm long fince concerted, in flow and clandeftine advances to the execution of it by the best means poffible, but the time of its breaking out moft ill chofen."

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Germany to his friend in England.

Magdebourg, Nov. 22, 1761. "I must give you an account, Sir, of a very extraordinary woman we now admire here, and who deferves to be known abroad. Her name is Rarfchin; Heaven has endowed her with a moft aftonishing poetical genius. I really believe there was never any thing like it heard of either among the ancients or moderns. She excels in differ

ent forts of poems, but chiefly in odes and tales. She is a very dif agreeable figure, was born in Silefia, of the loweft extraction, and had never any kind of education or inftruction. Her parents forced her to marry a taylor, who treated her in a very barbarous manner; the compofing verfes while he made fuits. She is now feparated from her husband, and lives at Berlin, from whence he came hither to fee the court. Every body is curious to fee her, and a volume of her poems will foon be published, by fubfcription. She not only furpaffes by far all our German poets, but even the ancients. The most admirable ode only cofts her a few minutes, and the one day made twelve in one evening on different fubjects, all alike furprifing. She even fpeaks verfes, but without any enthufiafm, ufes the nobleft expreffions, and is full of lofty fentiments. All this is very much like a fable, you will fay; but were you to fee the rapidity with which the writes her fublimeft odes, you would think it still more a fable. Ceste inconceivable femme donne bien a penser a nos meilleures tetes, et detruit les meilleures theories du genic. A great many people think he has a dæmon, for, I affure you, the is a fingular phænomenon."

We hear from Newfoundland, that an ugly accident happened at Carpoon, a little island at the entrance into the firaits, of Belleifle, and the most northern parts of our fisheries.

The Indians from the main come there once every year (the firaits being very narrow) in order to trade with the Europeans, and to reb them, if they can. Thefe Indians, who are a tribe of the Efkimaus,