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James Grenville, Efq;] to be commiffioners of the treasury.

To grant to vifc. Barrington, the office of chancellor of the Exchequer, [in the room of H. B. Legge, Efq;]

To appoint lord Anfon, Dr. Hay, John Forbes, and Hans Stanley, Efqs; lord vifc. Villiers [in the room of admiral Bofcawen, deceafed] and Tho. Pelham, Efq; [in the room of G. Elliot, Efq;] commiffioners of the Admiralty.

To appoint lord Sandys, [in the room of the earl of Halifax] Andrew Stone, Soame Jenyns, Edw. Elliot, and Edw. Bacon, Efq; together with John Yorke, Efq; Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart. and George Rice, Efq; [in the room of Thomas Pelham, W. G. Hamilton, and Wm. Sloper, Efqrs;] commiffioners for trade and plantations. Tregoney in Cornwall, March 15th. As fome of our tinners were lately employed on a new mine, one of them accidentally ftruck his pick-axe on a stone. The earth being removed, they imagined, from its fize, that it was a rock; but fome characters being perceived on a more clofe inspection, together with its fhape, and hollow found when ftruck, made them conclude it to be (what an opening it proved) a coffin, On removal of the lid, they difcovered the fkeleton of a man of gigantic fize, which, on the admiflion of the air mouldered into duft. One entire tooth remained whole, which was two inches and half long, and thick in proportion. The length of the coffin was eleven feet three inches, and depth three feet nine inches. 210.

Whitehall. His majefty having been pleafed to appoint the right hon. William Pitt,

Efq; to be one of his majesty's prin cipal fecretaries of ftate, the oath of fecretary of ftate was this day, by his majesty's command, adminiftered to him in council.

Wednesday fe'nnight came ashore, about ten miles from Swanfea, a whale; the country people obferving the approach of it, concluded it to be the hull of fome very large veffel; but when the tide left it, the fands being uncommonly fhallow, they perceived it to move, which ftrange and unexpected fight induced them to come nearer, and then they were convinced it was a fifh; which with very little difticulty they deprived of life. When entire fhe measured 63 feet in length and 16 feet in breadth, the fan of the tail was 18 feet, and the jaw bones 15 feet: the country being ftrangers to fuch a thing, it is thought the profit will not exceed 301. but if among people of underftanding, would undoubtedly yield 10001.

Being Eafter funday, his ma22d. jefty and the royal family went to the chapel-royal, and heard a fermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Newton. After which his majefty received the holy communion from the bishop of Durham, affifted by the fub dean.

Died at Verfailles the duke 23d. of Burgundy, eldest son of the dauphin, aged 9.

Ifaac Darking, alias Dumas, (fee Characters, p. 51.) was executed at Oxford. Having declared that he valued not death, but only the thoughts of being anatomized, a large body of bargemen attended on the occafion, and carried off his body in triumph, and conveyed it to the next parith church, where, while fome rung the bells others open

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minfter-abbey, to the memery the late worthy Dr. Jofeph Wilcox, bishop of Rochester and dean of Weftminfter. It is ornamented on each fide of the base with the figures of Piety and Hope: and above the bafe, in relief is a north view of the abbey on a fcroll held by two cherubims, is a Latin infcription, fetting forth his feveral ecclefiaftical employments during the reigns of the two laft kings: on one fide is the mitre, and higher is his coat of arms. In order to caft the greater luftre on this monument, the Gothic pillars of the abbey, on each fide of it, are coloured black.

The Ajax Indiaman, of 26 guns, and 100 men, commanded by Capt. Lindley, very richly laden, is taken by one of the French king's fhips of war.

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St. James's. His majefty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. John earl of Bute to be one of the principal fecretaries of ftate : his lordfbip was this day by his majesty's command, fworn one of his principal fecretaries of ftate, and took his place at the counfel board accordingly.

Cambridge, March 21.

On Wednesday night the 24th inft. upwards of 300 perfons affembled in a barn of Laurence Cooke's, at Bottisham Load, a hamlet belonging to Bottisham, in this county, to hear one Broun, a methodist preacher, who was fome time fince a fhepherd. About nine o'clock in the evening fire was cried; the hurry and confufion was fo great, that many were trampled under foot, who were pulled out of the barn for dead, but fome time after recovered; great numbers were hurt and bruifed, and carried home in carts the next day; they lay

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near fix feet deep one upon another. The men loft hats, wigs, and fhoes; the women their fhort cloaks, part of their gowns, packets, ftockings, and fhoes, and were ufed with many other indecencies.The author of this fright, fome fay, was a perfon on the outfide of the barn who broke a hole in the clay wall behind the preacher, through which he put a pipe, filled with tobacco lighted, and pulling it, the fmoke was perceived, which occafioned the alarm of fire.

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Admiralty office. His majefty's fhip the Vengeance, of 26 guns, (9 and 4 pounders) and 200 men, commanded by captain Nightingale, is arrived at Plymouth with a prize named the Entrepres nant, pierced for forty-four, but now carrying only 26 guns, (12 and 6 pounders) with 203 men, being equipped for war and merchandife, and loaded with various kinds of goods for St. Domingo, with which fhe failed, from Bourdeaux on the 8th inftant. Captain Nightingale gives the following relation of his engagement with the Entreprenant; That he got up clofe along fide of her at five o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, when the action immediately began, and continued for three quarters of an hour, in which time the Vengeance was five times on fire, (twice, as was imagined, from the enemy's wads fetting fire to the main rigging,) that the Vengeance's rigging and fails being then fo much fhattered, that the fhip was not under command, the enemy ran his bowfprit over her taffarel for boarding; that he was therein prevented, and the Vengeance theered off, to repair her rigging and fails. As foon as the fhip was in condition, Captain Nightingale got

up again clofe to the enemy, when the engagement was renewed for an hour, when the Entreprenant sheered off, and bore away that the Vengeance being a fecond time difabled in her mafts and rigging, was fome time in wearing that at length fhe wore, and captain Nightingale got again within piftol thot of the enemy, and renewed the enengagement, which continued for an hour and a half, when the enemy called for quarter. The Entreprenant had five men killed, and 24 wounded. The Vengeance had fix killed and 27 wounded moft of them dangeroufly, and two of them are fince dead.

His Majefty's fhip the Bedford of 64 guns, commanded by captain Deane, has taken and fent into Plymouth the Comete French frigate of war, of 32 guns and 250 men, which the Bedford fell in with on the 16th inftant, 30 leagues S. W. from Ufhant, and, after a chafe of nine hours, took her. She failed from Breft on the 9th infiant.

A letter from Hampshire, in New Jerfey, dated the 10th ultimo, contains the following remarkable piece of intelligence; "A few days ago feven or eight men dug out of the fide of a hill, from whence iffued a fine fpring, 76 large rattle fnakes, and 36 black fnakes, all twined together in one bunch or knot. The cold weather prevented their making any refiftance, though the rattle-fnakes were fo lively as to be able to rattle pretty brifkly. They cut the heads of the rattlefnakes off, and then fkinned them. The digging was purpofely after them, as great numbers had been feen near the fpring the fummer before, and feveral men, women, and

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children received their death by being bit by thefe venomous and deftructive creatures."

All the French in Canada, of any diftinction, went into mourning for the late king; and governor Gage received the following addrefs from the officers of the militia, and of Montreal, on the lofs of our fovereign.

The addrefs of the officers of the militia, and the merchants of Montreal, to general Gage, governor of that place.

Cruel deftiny then has cut fhort the glorious days of fo great and magnanimous a monarch. We are come to pour out our grief into the paternal bofom of your excellency; the fole tribute of gratitude of a people, who will never ceafe to exult in the mildnefs and moderation of their new mafters. The general who conquered us has treated us more like victors, than vanquish ed, and has left us a precious Pledge, by name and deed, of his goodness to us. What acknowledgments are we not bound to make for fo many favours? They fhall be for ever engraved on our hearts in indelible characters. We intreat your excellency to continue to us the honour of your protection. We will endeavour to deferve it by our zeal, and the earneft prayers we fhall offer up to the Almighty Being for your health and prefer

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at the Old Bailey, when there were only two perfons brought before the court, viz. Martin Alexander, detained in Newgate at the last Admiralty feffions, for robbing on the high feas a neutral fhip, called the City of Rotterdam, of divers quantities of linen, wearing apparel, &c. the property of Le Marquis de Pignatelli; but no profecution being commenced against him, he was discharged.

Declarations were delivered 31ft.

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the part of Vienna, Petersburgh, Verfailles, Stockholm, and Warfaw, propofing the affembling of a congrefs, in order to put an end to the prefent deftructive war, which declarations, and the answers of the courts of London and Berlin thereto, &c. the reader will find among the State Papers for this year.

At the Alizes at Hunting-31ft. don, 1 convict received fentence of death; at Bedford I; at Oxford 1, viz. the famous Dumas, alias Darking, (fee p. 88.) at Reading 1; at Aylesbury 3, who were all reprieved; at Chelmfford 7, 4 of whom were reprieved; at Dorchester 2; at Gloucefter 1; at Winchester 10; at Hertford 1; at Worcefter 1, who was reprieved; at Bury 1; at Thetford 1, who was reprieved ; at York 1; Cambridge and Salifbury were maiden affizes.

At the aflizes at Kington in Surry, Mary Davis was indicted for the murder of her male infant, by cutting its throat, and throwing it into the Thames, at Billinfgate. She had confeffed before a magistrate that he could rot be eafy, having murdered her child, which haunted her day and night, and appeared to

Gage in French fignifies a Pledge.

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her wherever she went; that she cut its throat on some rubbish near the Grange-road, Southwark, and afterwards threw the body into the Thames, and this confeffion fhe voluntarily made and figned; but on her trial it appearing that at times fhe was out of her mind, and that she never had had a child, and that this confeffion was the effect of a diftempered brain, fhe was acquitted. This poor creature has been fince fuffered, it feems, to Tamble about the country, and perplex other courts of juftice with the fame groundlefs accufation of her

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Died lately, Benjamin Schultz, a proteftant miffionary from the court of Denmark, at Tranquebar, in the Eaft-Indies. He refided twentyfour years in the town of Nagapatan. He tranflated the Old and New Teftament, and the Pfalms of David, into the language of the country, for the use of the natives.

Father Charlevoix, the celebrated Jefuit miffionary.

Farmer Hapgood, near Crayford, in Kent, aged 101. Anne Tyler, of Rewdly, Shropshire, aged 101.

John Crawford, a farmer, Northumberland, aged 104.

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Mrs. Eliz. Williams of Wrexham, in Denbighshire, aged 103. The widow Dallett, of Boulogne, in France, aged 103.

George Lockhart, jun. of Carnwarth, Efq; at Paris.

This day an earthquake was 31ft. felt in very different and remote parts of the globe, the accounts of which, for the fatisfaction of our readers, we have collected into one point of view in the order they arrived in London.

Extract of a letter from FortAuguftus. "A very uncommon phænomenon happened here the 31st of March. About two in the afternoon, Loch Nefs rofe on a fudden above two feet in perpendicular height, and continued alternately rifing and falling, for the space of three quarters of an hour. Mr. Gwyn, commander of the king's galley, with feveral others, were juft by the galley, when by the violence of the water, the broke from her moorings, and drove into the loch; at the fame time, by the fame fhock, feveral boats were caft very far upon dry land. In the middle of the loch, the water fwelled up, like a mountain, and during the whole time appeared extremely muddy and dirty. What makes it ftill more extraordinary, it was a perfect calm for feveral hours before and after. The motion was attended with a very uncommon hollow found."--The fame happened during the laft earthquake at Lif bon, but never before for 50 years.

Corke, March 31. A quarter after twelve this day a fhock of an earthquake was felt here in the Exchange, in the Merchants Coffee-houfe,, and from the beginning of the Red-houfe Walk, to the Eaft Marth, between the gates only, juft as it was in November 1755; but allowed to have been more violent by all that felt it. It did not continue above one minute, undulating from east to west, and vice verfa.

Dublin, April 7. A letter from Kinfale runs thus: "As to what is mentioned in the Cork newspaper, about the fhock of an earthquake on Tuesday laft, there might be one felt there: but

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