rived here from a cruife. Capt. King brought in with him La Coquette, a French frigate of 28 guns, commanded by the Marquis De Grafs: fhe was taken off Turk's Inland after firing her guns. Came on to be tried, before Judge Heath, in the court of Common Pleas, the long-contefted cause between several French feamen, who were taken prifoners in the fquadron under the command of Count de Graffe, and the owners of the fhip Keppel, Capt. Gooch, to receive wages for the time they were compelled to work on board that fhip; when the caufes were finally determined in favour of the French feamen, who were ordered to be paid 20 guineas each for their fervices during the voyage. This day an exprefs ar7th. rived to one Edward Whitmore, a private foldier in the 9th regiment of foot, quartered in Norwich, informing him of the death of his father, by which event he came into immediate poffeffion of a fortune of more than 50,000l.-The above exprefs was brought to Norwich by his lady, who arrived in her own carriage and four. The feffion ended at the Ioth. Old-Bailey, when fentence of death was pronounced on 22 capital convicts; 11 were fentenced to be tranfported; 19 to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the honfe of correction for different terms, feveral of whom are alfo to be whipped; 18 were fentenced to be whipped and difcharged; four to be imprisoned in Newgate; and 25 difcharged by proclamation; 13 detained for trial at the enfuing affizes for the counties of Devon, Suffolk, Effex, Surry, and Kent. Dublin, June 19th. A poor woman at Dungannon went to a houfe where oatmeal was fold, and took her petticoat to pledge for fome meal for herself and her children (of which fhe had four, one of them fucking): the man to whom he went happened not to be at home, but late in the evening he returned and went to bed; when in bed his wife told him that a woman (naming her) had been with her to get meal, and had brought a petticoat to pledge for the fame, but that he gave her. none; the feared, however, the woman was in a very bad fituation; upon this the husband got out of bed inftantly, and took a bowl full of meal to the house of the poor woman; when he came near it he heard the children crying bitterly, and on entering the cabin found the woman dead with hunger, the infant fucking the corpfe, and the others crying round her. A petition from the 18th. merchants, bankers, and traders of London, Westminster, and Southwark, were prefented to the House of Peers, against the ftamp duty on receipts. The Duke of Portland prefented to the Houfe of 23d. Peers the following meffage from his majefty, which was read by Lord Mansfield, as fpeaker of the house: relies on the experienced zeal and affection of the Houfe of Lords, for the concurrence and fupport of fuch meafures as fhall be moft proper to affift his majetty in this defign. The Duke of Portland, after a fhort introductory fpeech, moved, That an humble addrefs be prefented to his majesty, to return the thanks of this houfe to his majefty for his moft gracious meffage; and to affure his majefty in the mot dutiful manner of the hearty zeal of this houfe, to teftify their earneft defire to concur in fuch meafures as fhall be most proper to affift his majesty in fulfilling his defire of making an immediate and feparate establishment for his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales. The fame upon the queftion put was agreed to, and ordered nemine diffentiente, and was prefented to his majesty by the lords with white ftaves. The like meffage was delivered to the commons, who voted that the fum of a hundred thoufand pounds be granted, towards enabling his majefly to make a feparate eftablishment for his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales." The bill laying a ftamp 24th. duty on bills of exchange and receipts-the mutiny billthe bill for regulating the office of paymaster-general of his majefty's forces, together with thirty other public and private bills, received the royal affent, by virtue of a commiflion under the great-feal for that purpofe.. The judges of the dif25th. ferent courts, met in the King's Bench chamber, and ap pointed the circuits for the fummer affizes as follows: Home. Lord Mansfield, Mr. Juftice Gould. Oxford. Lord Loughborough, Mr. Midland. Lord Chief Baron, Skin- Weftern. Mr. Baron Perryn, Mr. The Dublin bank opened for tranfaction of bufinefs; when the king's orders, communicated thro' the lord-lieutenant, that all public money in that kingdom, payable on his account, by taxes, aids, duties, &c. fhould be from thenceforward depofited in that bank, were made public. 26th. This morning, about 11 o'clock, Thomas Davenport, Efq. was conducted to the Court of Chancery, between Edward Bearcroft and Richard Jackfon, Efqrs. two of his majesty's counfel, when Lord Loughborough, as firft lord commiffioner, acquainted him that his majefty had been pleafed to call him to the dignity of a ferjeant at law; his writ was then delivered in, and the ufual oaths administered. His Royal Highness 27th. Prince William Henry arrived from the Weft-Indies about two o'clock at Windfor. Mr. Recorder made his report to his majesty, of the convicts under fentence of death in Newgate, who were tried in April feffion, viz. Collin Reculeft, Sarah Leech, John Brown, Thomas Richards, John Wharton, Alex ander ander Smith, Robert Forrester, Richard McDade, Anne Lovell, John Higginson, William Ruthey Pratt, William Harcourt, John Hafleworth, Thomas Davis, Robert Cullum, George Wood, and John Miles; when John Higginfon, Alexander Smith, John Mills, William Ruthey Pratt, William Harcourt, John Hafleworth, and Robert Cullum, were ordered for execution. The court of Exchequer 30th. gave a final decree in the important caufe between the leffees of the vicarial tithes of Fulham, and a parishioner, occupier of a common garden, in favour of the leffees, with full costs. The particulars of this long contefted caufe cannot be uninterefting to fuch of our readers as are concerned in vicarage tithes, and may ferve as a caution against hafty references, as by a curious decifion of one, the greatest injury has been done to the leffees, and may, if not guarded againft, be done to others. For inftance: the fame leffees, in 1776, requested a compofition of 41. a year for the lands in queftion, about 10 acres, which reafonable demand was refufed by the occupier, and when the cafe came before a fpecial jury, it was referred to a neighbour, who gave it as his opinion, that 31. 11s. was a full compofition, and condemned the leffees in all cofts, amounting to about 1000l. The leffees, greatly alarmed, and conceiving themfelves greatly injured and oppreffed by fuch an extraordinary decifion, in 1776 they, for the fake of public juftice, renewed their action for the fucceeding tithes, exactly upon the fame VOL. XXVI. grounds as the former, and on Monday, 30th of June, the defendant made an offer in court of 151. a year for the tithes of thofe very grounds for which the arbi. trator lately awarded only 31. 115. The 41. firft required fhews the moderation of the leffees, and the 151. afterwards offered, fhews the injuftice of the award against which they were determined to appeal. DIED.-AtMarfeilles, aged 112, Alexander Mackintosh. For the laft ten years he lived entirely on vegetables, and enjoyed a good ftate of health till within a few days of his death. He was born at Dunkeld, in Scotland; but being in the rebellion in the year 1715, was obliged to leave his country, and refided at Marfeilles ever fince, on a fmall penfion allowed him by fome of the Pretender's family. In Cockfpur-ftreet, Charingcrofs, aged only 22, Mr. Charles Byrne, the famous Irish giant, whofe death is faid to have been precipitated by exceffive drinking, to which he was always addicted, but more particularly fince his late lofs of almost all his property, which he had fimply invefted in a fingle bank note of 700l.-In his last moments (it has been faid) he requested that his ponderous 1emains might be thrown into the fea, in order that his bones might be placed far out of the reach of the chirurgical fraternity; in confequence of which, the body was fhipped on board a veffel to be conveyed to the Downs, to be funk in 20 fathom water. We have reafon, however, to believe, that this report is merely a tub thrown out to the whale.-Our [0] philo philofophical readers may not be difpleafed to know, on the credit of an ingenious cerefpondent who had opportunity of informing himfelf, that Mr. Byrne, in August 1780 measured eight feet; that in 1782 he had gained two inches; and after he was dead he measured eight feet four inches. Neither his father, mother, brother, nor any other perfon of the family, was of an extraordinary fize. JULY. Cambridge, July 2d. The four annual prizes, of 15 guineas each, given by the Hon. John Townend, and James Mansfield, Efq. members for this univerfity, were yesterday determined in favour of Dr. Dampier, of King's college, and Dr. Catton, of St. John'scollege, fenior batchelors; Dr. Reine, of Trinity college, and Dr. Sparke, of Pembroke-hall; one prize of a former year being left undetermined, is this year given to Dr. Michell, of King's college, junior bachelor. Subjects for the fenior bachelors was Utrum plus boni an mali Europæis gentibus attulerit Trans-Atlantici orbis patefactio?" For the junior bachelors-"Ex quibus præcipuè caufis in tantam magnitudinem creverit res Ro mana?" Two gold medals left by Sir William Browne, M. D. to be annually given, were on Monday laft determined in favour of Mefirs. Ramiden and Raine, of Trinitycollege. The chancellor's prize at Oxford for this year are adjudged as follow: to Mr. Barker, of Christchurch, bachelor of arts, for an English effay on the ftudy of hiftory; and to Mr. Bowles, of Trinity-college, for Latin verfes on Calpe obfeffa, or the fiege of Gibraltar. This day was a thunder form the most general throughout England that has been remembered for a long time, particularly in Wiltfhire, and moft of the northern counties; which killed a great number of sheep and black cattle, as well as doing other confiderable damage. This day was executed be. 3d. fore St. Andrew's church, Holborn, John Mills, on the Coventry act, for unlawfully laying in wait and wounding John Brazier in feveral parts of his body. The following were executed at Tyburn, pursuant to their fentence, John Wharton, William Rutley Pratt, Robert Cullum, John Hazelworth, and William Harcourt. This morning Lieutenant 9th. Charles Bourne received the judgment of the court of King's Bench for an affault on Sir James Wallace, and alfo for a libel; for the first offence to be imprisoned in the King's Bench prifon two years, and to give fecurity for his good behaviour for seven years, himself in 1000l. and two fureties in 500l. each, and for the libel 501. fine. He then addreffed the Court, and told them, that the applaufe of his brother officers in the whole affair would enable him to bear the fevere fentence of that court with refignation. The lords of the Admi ralty appointed twenty- 10th. four mailers from the half-pay lift, for the fole purpofe of look ing after the hips in ordinary, who are to make a report of their condition every three months to the board eight of them are to refide at Portsmouth, fix at Plymouth, eight at Chatham and Sheerness, and two at Woolwich. The projector began his operations on the wreck of the Royal George at Spithead, which ended without fuccefs. The Beer floop, which 11th. was funk with the Royal George, and lay clofe along fide her, was raised fix fathom from the ground, and towed to a confiderable distance. Lieutenant Elliot, of the 13th. Baracoota cutter, arrived with difpatches from his excellency Sir Roger Curtis, knight, his majesty's ambaffador to the emperor of Morocco, dated Gibraltar, June 13, in which he gave an account that the former treaties of friendship and commerce had been renewed and confirmed, and that additional articles for the better regulation of commerce between the two nations, were concluded and figned at Sallee on the 24th of May lait. A terrible fire, like that in 1742, almost entirely reduced to afhes the town of Attendarn, in the duchy of Weftphalia; only 20 houfes were faved out of 300. The convent of Francifcans and the parish church became a prey to the flames. Extract of a Letter from Lochgailhead, near Dunbarton, July 16. "The following melancholy accident has just happened in this place, as we were finishing the arch of a bridge. There were a number of people on the arch, curious to fee it finished, when the wood gave way, and all went down in an inftant. Several were much hurt, but none mortally, except one man, James Christie, who had one leg broke, and was otherwife fo feverely bruifed, that he died within fix hours after, notwithstanding every effort was ufed that medical skill could afford." Came on the election of 17th. a profeffor of anatomy to the Royal Academy, vacant by the death of Dr. Hunter, when Mr. Sheldon, of Great Queen-street, was chofen. Mr. Cruikshank, late partner with Dr. Hunter, was the other candidate. The trial of Mr. Atkin19th. fon, on an indictment for perjury, came on in the court of King's Bench, before the Earl of Mansfield and a fpecial jury. The indictment confifted of many dif ferent counts; and, after a trial of feveral hours continuance, Mr. Atkinfon was found guilty of all but three. The jury were out about ten minutes. The Irish parliament was 25th. diffolved, and the new parliament to meet on the 6th of September. This day the feffions began at the Old Bailey. His royal highnefs prince 26th. William Henry, attended by General Budat, his preceptor, fet off from Windfor on his way to Germany. This morning came on at the Old Bailey the trial of Mr. Ryland for forgery, which continued till three o'clock, when the jury, after a fhort conference, returned their verdict guilty. DIED. At Longford in Ire[0] 2 land, |