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LONDON, March 22.
ACCORDING to private letters from Senegal, there is advice,
that the French had offered a powerful Prince or the African
coal* a very large sum of money to exclude the Englifli from
trading in any part of his dominions.
..v; spwH Marti 26 VVe hear the fortifications of Jersey, Guern
sey, and Scilly iflandi, are ordered to be surveyed this summer, and to be
thoroughly repaired.
j. Letters from Corsica mention, that General Paoll has efiablilhed a na
'vafMnaglhine and dock yard at Porto Ferragio, where three flips of fixty
feven guns on the Englifli model are now building.
Marti Letters from Amsterdam of the 19th instant inform, that
,jh*re will fail thii year for the whale fifhery in the Greenland Teas izj
.Dutch (hips, 24 from Hambourgh, two from Altona, one from the
£oa(t of the Baltick sea, and five from Bremen ; in all 155.
On Friday lalt. died in Bailcy’s-Alley, near Bull-inn-court, in the
Strand, Mrs. Thornton. During the long period of her life, she appear
ed in a (law of poverty ; but on examining her trunk there was found to
the amount of near 50001. in cafli and bank notes.
Marti 29. Th writ of eleAion for the county of Linlithgow, which
comprehends likewise the burghs of Linlithgow and Queensfcrry, in
Scotland, is said to be miffing, and not delivered to the bheriff-depute.
Friday a person was convicted at Kingston for buying a hunter for fif
teen (hillings which cost the owner seventy guineas; on the ownor hearing
of it, the purchaser immediately killed it and fed dogs with it.
A letter from Waltham Abbey fays, “ The following entertainment
was provided at the Cock Inn here on Saturday last/ for Mr. Harvey.
Mr. Houblon, and their friends, via. ao hams, io dozen of turkeys, to
dozen of gecle, 30 dozen of ducks, 40 dozen of fowls, ao buttocks of
beef, 30 fillets of veil, and as many calves heads, all covered, 50 veni
son pafiies, witk a variety of tarts and pies, 4 hog (heads of wine, a do
gen of brandy and rum made to punch, and ten hogsheads of old beer.—
All the broken victuals was served to the populace on a table ereAed for
that purpose, with 10 hogiheads of beer.* .
Marti 30. The King ofPrufia has wro|j|a complimentary letter to the
Empress concerning a plan fora ucw code of laws, which has
been drawn*up by her Imperial Majesty, and lately remitted to the Pruf.
fian Monarch. In the dispatches to his Miniiler at Peterlburgh, which
accompanied this letter*, his Prussian Majesty writes thus: ** I have read
with admiration the work of the Empress. I have not been willing to
fay all that I thought, because (he might fufpeA me of flattery : but to
you £ guy fay, without offence to modefly, that it is a mafeuline, ner
vous, performance, and worthy of a great man. Hiflory tells us, that Sc
mi ram is commanded aimies ; that Queen Elizabeth palled for a good po
litician; that the.Emprefs Queen (hewed great firmnefs in the commence
ment of her reign ; but we have never yet heard of any female being a
lawgiver. This glory was reserved for the Empress of Russia.”
Last night, about eight o’clock, a mob of apprentice-boys, with cat
calls, Icc. came along tire publick (Ireets, and made all the inhabitants
illuminate their houies. Many of the persons concerned were Glaziers
gnd Tallow-chandlers apprentices, but whether by their mailers orders or
got, we will not at pretend to fay.
_ April 1. We hear that in the course oflaft year, a great number of
North-American built ve ‘els were fold in different parts of the Mediter
ranean, where New England (hips are in great domaad.
We hear the following qutftion will be (oon debated in the Robin Hood
Society.—Would not the toleration of Popery be less detrimental to the
inhabiunts of this than the toleration of narrow-wheel carria
ges ? * *
April 5. Mr.* VPRltes’s Committee having been ccnfured by a great
perfnnage in the. city, in aferibing to them tho mnft daring insult that
(Could he offered to civil Aagiftracy, for their patrolling the city of Lon
don and liberties of Weflininfter. The “gentlemen in quellion differ
(o much in their sense of this matter, that they arc ready, when called
upon, to avow the fail, difeover the names, and exult in their honoft and
fuccefsful endeavours, (although not Magiflrates) in preventing riot and
disorder in the Bret ts, by tht ir addreficS recommending utodaMjpn and
difperfiop. to the aflembled populace, who heard with tcmdjjv rad cor
dially a(Tente,d, And tl.e gerstiemerv apprehend that ihcyWlave thereby
•flea the pirt both ofloyal fuhjeAsand good citizens, in using their en
deavours'to preserve peace aid good order, foellential for support of law
and government. Upon the whole, it mav be presumed, if not asserted,
that had Mr.. Wilkes’s enemies been as fo’.icitous for, and taken the fame
methods his friends have done, upon everyoccafion, to preserve peace,
the damage and (hameful dilgtace to this city would have been effeAually
prevented.
It is certain Mr. Patcrfon’s friends had printeJ hand-bills, and
cd porters to deliver the fame, to intrrrat the votes and intrrrft of the free
holders of the county oi Middlefcx ; and as they had been dilappointed in
his not being returned for theritv of London, they did wiihwhat the ci
ty refufed might be accepted in the county ; but when it came tu the know
ledge of Mr. Paterfou, he absolutely refufed to (land a candidate for the
county ; and left his friends (hou’d not be convinced of his refolulion, he
Wrote to the flieriff to iafbiin him that he would not Hand if he was put up.
We are informed that n gentleman of eminence and diflinAion in the
literary world is now preparing the heads of a bill to fecurc the rights and
property of authors,in their own works.
Yesterday morning a mm and bis wife quarrelling at their lodgings in
Cray'i-inn-lauc, the huiland declared that if his wife did not jump out
IV EDNES DA Y\ July 6, 1768.
of the window he would murder her; upon which the poor woman, to
avoid a sudden death, jumped out of a two pair of Hairs window, and
broke both her legs, and put out her hip.
ExtraS of a letttr from Port/mouth, Marti 30.
** Here is a very extraordinary account of a butcher in this town, who
has been either dead, or asleep, for thewe three weeks, there is no body
knows which, for he dill keeps his colour frefli at when alive, and is ra
ther warm than otherwise. The Doftors have ordered him not to be bu
riid yet, for he is not offenfive to the smell in the lead ; fomc fay he has
been in a all this time.”
By an arret of the parliament of Paris lately publifced, it is now enaA
ed, that no males fhalj be admitted to take the vows of a monaftick life
till they are twenty years of age ; and no females till they are turned of
eighteen. w
It is reported, that when the new Parliament meets, a plan will bo
proposed for new-modelling the militia it) England and Wales.
ExtraA of a letter from Oxford, dated March 3).
“ Some persons having had the difingenuity to misrepresent the affair,
which lately happened in the University hfere; the following is a true aud
impartial account of it.
“ Not long ago a knot of Methodists came to the University, and en
tered tnbmfelvcs of • Hall; forae of them being near 30 years of
age, hopfd, by the credit of an education in this place, to (leal into or
ders, for which one of them had already applied. They were summoned by
the Vice-Chancellor to appear before him, accompanied by four ufkiiors,
were examined, and found very illiterate, without any knowledge in the
Greek and Latin languages, in the last of which the laws are written,
which they had sworn to obfervo. They confeffed that they had all fre
quented a conventicle in a private house within the city, where the ferip
tures were expounded, and extempore prayers offered up by a low mtclia
nick. Some of these perfims owned, tbii they thcuifelves had preached
and prayed in the fa n€ manner to congregations in the country : one of
them acknowledged tha’ he had ojjfcatcd in a parish church, tho’ not in
orders. They having refufed tothe inrtruAions of their tutor,
and to conform to the fluutes of<Tbe tjpi lenity, fix 6f them were justly
expelled by the Vice Chancellor and bis assessors.”
Dnilin, Mard 19. The following am mg other Bills havo pa/Tcd an
augnll Assembly :
To ainead an AA made for the ereAing and eflablifliing publick Infir
maries or Hofpitab in this Kingdom.
For rqdWating the EleAion of Members of Parliament.
For thqpundni-ment of the J^aw.
For theTcliefof Debtors, with refpeA to the imprifonraent of their per
foas. • ,
For the further improvomentof his Majesty’s Revenue.
To empower the chief Governor, or Governors and Council, of this
Kingdom, to prevent the exportation and the diftiiling of Corn, for a
limited time. -
Leave is given to bring in heads of a Bill for the relief of infolrent
Debtors.
A few days ago died, at Ballyouarragh near Loughrea, aged 105, Mr.
Edmund White, Farmer.
ROSEAU, in DOMINICA, Fisrvarv 20.
A GENTLEMAN who arrived yerterday from Martinico, informs
us, that the French make not the lead scruple now of admitting
English veffeis to enter into the ports of that illand, notwithstanding the
late ediA to the contrary.
St. ‘John , in Antigua, April 13. By Capt. Cornilh who arrived at Do
minica the 4th inst. in 32 days from London, we hear that the memorial
in favour of a separate government for the island had met with the appro
bation of the Lords of Trade, but before their report was laid before the
council, another memorial appeared at the board of trade with the rea
fcns against the measure, and the argument* were enforced with foch
weight that Lord Hilllhorough declared there would be ne separate go
vernment there for fomc time.
May 2. The late Speaker of the House of Reprofentatives has
received a very genteel letter from the Speaker of the House of feurgefl'es
in Virginia, in answer to the circular letter of the House written in the
Jaft fcfSon of our General Aflcmbly, which got to Williaoilburgh in good
time, as their Aflembly was to fit in a few days. Their principle* of
liberty, it is laid, are so well eßablifhed, and the tendency of the late
ads of parliament impofmg duties and taxes on the colonics are so raaoi
feft, as to leave no doubt but they will approve of the mealines taken,
and readily concur in the plan proposed for the support of their conili
tutional rights. Their noble, timely and spirited refoLitions in the year
176;, fofatisfadlory to the people of America, afford abundant reason for
us ever to refped that province, and to speak of then* in the lame terms
in which the honourable gentleman is pleafid politely to mention this,
•* as’vi ry vigilant and (ledfart guardians of American right*.*’
From the BOSTON GAZE T T E. Amu. 18.
To the PRINTERS:
Gentlemen,
You are desired to publish the inclofed. Yours, A FARMER,
Gentlemen,
I 's is impofliblc for me to express the reverential gratitude with which
I receive the very great honour you have been plcafcd to confer upoa
nie by your late letter.
The rank of the town of Button, the wifdoa of her counsels, and the