north about, and probably bound to India.

Geneva. We have ac

ioth. counts from Turin, that

6000 French troops, and 4500 Sardinians, are marching towards this place; the latter are commanded by Count Ferfero de Mafinara, who is to act as command er in chief, and is charged with the orders of both courts. This officer is to fummmon the feditious to re-establish order, and to receive the legiflative plan with which he is charged. If any refiftance is attempted, no truce will be granted. If the plan is agreed to, it is to be guaranteed by the two powers; and as our fortifications, garrifon, &c. only ferve to fhelter the feditious, they are to be annihilated.

At the rehearsal of the 14th. mufic at St. Paul's previous to the feaft of the Sons of the Clergy, the collection amounted to 1771. 95.

This day the four pirates, as they are deemed, for the execution of whom an order came down on Saturday, were refpited by another order.

At the anniversary meet16th. ing of the Sons of the Clergy, held this day, the collection at church amounted to 2411. 1s. 6d. At the hall to 532l. 118. which, with 1771. gs. as above, made the whole collection for the prefent year 9511. 1s. 6d. in which fum is included 50l. given at the hall by the lord chancellor.

18th.

A proclamation offering a reward of 500l. for ap.

This evening there was a gene ral illumination throughout Lon don for the fuccefs of Admiral Rodney.

The feffions at the Old Bailey, which began on Wednesday, ended, when three convicts received fentence of death. At this feffions the Weftons were brought to the bar; but the witneffes (more than 100) not being got together, their trial was put off to next feffions.

Came into Torbay Adm. Kem penfeldt's fleet from a cruize.

1oth.

The thanks of the Houfe of Commons were unanimoufly voted to Sir Geo. Bridges Rodney, for his gallant and fpirited conduct on the 12th of April laft.

Alfo to Sir Samuel Hood, Admiral Drake, Commodore Affleck, Sir Charles Douglas, and the reit of the captains of the fleet;

And likewife to all the feamen and marines, to be communicated to the captains of their refpective ships.

The Houfe of Commons 23d. voted a monument to be erected to the memory of Captain Bayne of the Alfred, Captain Blair of the Anfon, and Captain Lord Robert Manners of the Refolution, who gloriously fell fighting for their country, in the late ac tions in the West Indies, on the 9th and 12th of April.

27th.

This day the thanks of the House of Peets (verbatim with thofe of the Houfe of Commons) were voted to Sir Geo. Bridges Rodney and the other admirals, captains, feamen, &c. Vienna. There happen

the village of Dieuhepole, on the frontiers of Moravia, a form

which entirely deftroyed fiftythree houfes, forcing them into the river Waag, with furniture, cattle, and inhabitants. Thirteen other houses were blown down. Only thirteen dead bodies have been yet found, the river having carried off the reft. The famé day the whole horizon of Peft, a city of Hungary, was in violent agitation; many thousands of glafs windows were broken, trees torn up by the roots, roofs blown off, houfes deftroyed and fwept away for the most part, by the torrents which the waters had prodigiously fwelled. However, in the laft mentioned calamity only one child of twelve years of age loft its life.

DIED, Mr. Daniel Bernouilli, phyfician and profeffor of natural philofophy at Bafil, the celebrated Swifs philofopher.

The Right Hon. James Fortefcue, member of parliament for the county of Louth, in Clareftreet, Dublin.

Richard Wilfon, Efq. at Clomen-du, in North Wales, one of the royal academicians, and librarian to that fociety.

ing part of the Charles-Town fleet, being arrived there; the failors on board thefe fhips will be of great fervice at the prefent crifis.

7th.

The difpatches which have been received at the Earl of Shelburne's office from General Elliot, brought by the Cerberus frigate from Gibraltar, contain the agreeable affurance that the garrifon is in good health, but fpeak very feelingly of the hard duty which the troops experience, from the fmallness of their num ber and the immenfe fortifications they are compelled to attend. With refpect to fresh provifions, the governor fays, they are well fupplied by the Barbary ftates; but they are purchased at fo dear a rate, that the private men are erý barely furnished

with them.

Letters by the Lisbon mail fay, that a diforder (fimilar to the prefent influenza) prevails over that country, with which all ranks of people have been severely afflicted; and that the crops are in great backwardnefs, owing to the feverity of the season.

Sir Richard Bickerton,

13th. who is fuppofed to have

arrived at St. Helena the latter end of May, had under his convoy the following Eaft Indiamen,. befides three ftore-fhips on account of government, and two on that of the East India company :-For Coaft and China, the Calcutta, Captain Thompfon; Ceres, Price; Earl Talbot, Taylor; Ganges, Dempfter; Hawke, Scott; Kent, Stokes; Major, Arthur; Morfe, Elliot; Alfred, Brown; Norfolk, Benham; and Royal Henry, Dundas :-For Madras, Bombay, [0]

and

and Bengal, Anne and Amelia, Popham; Naffau, Gore; Nottingham, Curtis; Warren Haftings, Larkings; and Worcester, Cook. The Royal Bishop, Cap tain Mayne, was the only thip for

Bencoolen.

Accounts are received

14th. from Breft, that the epidemic diforder reigns there with fuch violence, that more than half the hands employed in the King's arfenals are confined to their beds. The hofpitals are all full, and the crews of the men of war uncommonly fickly.

Extract of a Letter from Dublin, June 15.

"By a veffel (Captain Tripe) bound from Halifax to London, put into Dingle lat Monday, we learn, that three frigates and feven tranfports, with troops on board, had arrived at Boston from Breft the 234 of April laft. The land-forces were computed to amount to 2,000 effective men. Captain Tripe alfo mentions the extraordinary fuccefs of a New York privateer, of 22 guns, who in the courfe of three weeks had captured, between Rhode Island ́and Cape Sable, fourteen American and French veffels, and probably would have taken more, but for want of hands to man them. All the prifoners have been landed at Halifax."

A letter from Peterburg fays, that the diforder fiil rages in all the north part of the empire, and numbers die of it: on account of which it is found very difhcult to recruit the army, and to raife men for the navy; the latter of which are at this time much wanted.

A most severe storm of 18th. thunder and lightning ftruck the city of London and its fuburbs with terror. It was fol lowed by a luminous phænomenon, which appeared in the weft, in the form of a fpear, and continued vifible near five minutes; and on its difappearing, that part of the firmament became beautifully illuminated with an immense number of rays, projecting from a point, and fpreading like a fan, till, growing fainter and fainter, they wholly difappeared. Seen from different places, it affumed' different forms, and fome reprefent it as a vortex, with a circular motion of infinite velocity. One of the heaviest claps of the thunder burft over a house in the Borough, and forced down the roof, split the ftack of chimneys from top to bottom, twisted the iron-work of a cafement in feveral fhapes, and lifted the door of an upper room off the hinges, removing it to a confiderable diftance. A water-fpout burft near Clapham Common.

Triefte. The emperor has within fome time paft fhewed great marks of his attention to this place, by advancing four millions of florins to the merchants of this town for the increase of their commerce, not only in Afia, but in Africa, and alfo in America; and has alfo promifed them every fuccour in his power which their circumftances appear to require. With fuch a protection it is not aftonishing that this place has increafed fo much within a fort time paft.

19th.

This day judgment was given in the court of king's bench, in the important caufe re

lative to the market at Warwick. The franchife of the market-place belonged by an ancient prefcription to Sir John Mofely; and the feveral stalls have been accustomed to be rented of him. A perfon who had no right nor intereft in the market, lately erected fome ftalls and fheds on his own free hold adjoining to the market, without any real moleftation to any of those before erected. Sir John Mofely brought an action for a nuifance, in order to try his exclufive right to erect ftalls for vending of goods, wares, and merchandize, in that market. The court held, That the franchises of markets and of fairs, according to the common law, ought not to be infringed by any perfon erecting ftalls for merchandize, even upon their own freehold, without the confent of the legal proprietors of the market or fair.

At a court of common 20th. council Mr. Thorpe fubmitted to the court the following motion, which was feconded by Mr. Alderman Townfend, and carried unanimously:

Refolved, That the freedom of this city be prefented in a gold box of one hundred guineas value, to the Right Hon. Lord Hood, rear admiral of the blue, as a teftimony of the high opinion which the members of this court entertain of his judicious, brave, and able exertions in the various engagements with the enemy's fleet in the West Indies.

Mr. Thorpe then moved, that the freedom of this city be prefented to Admiral Drake, in a gold box of one hundred guineas value, for his great and diftinguifh ed fervices to this country; which was alfo agreed to unanimously.

21ft.

Altena. The court of Denmark being informed that Sweden has admitted the King of Pruffia into the armed neutrality, has alfo confented to his admiffion.

23d. Verfailles. The merchants.

and traders of Marseilles, in common council affembled, having voted by proclamation 1,200,000 livres for the building a fhip of 110 guns, and 300,000 more to be applied towards the relief of the families of feamen belonging to that city and the whole county of Provence, who may have been fufferers by the prefent war; their deliberation was laid before the king by the Marquis de Caftries, when his Majefty, moved at fo fignal a mark of their patriotifm, was graciously pleased to accept of the offer, and ordered the fhip to be called, from the circumftance, Le Commerce Marseilles.

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Slavery is entirely abo26th. lifhed in Auftrian Poland, and joy is feen in every peasant's countenance, for that he can now reap the fruit of his labour unoppreffed by a tyrannical lord.

DIED, The princefs Sophia, of Mecklenburg Strelitz, her Majesty's fifter.

Her Royal Highness Maria, Princefs Dowager of Wirtemberg, daughter of the late Margrave of Brandenburgh Schwedt, at Berlin.

In Park - ftreet, Grosvenorfquare, Lloyd Dulany, Efq. a gentleman of a moft refpectable character, and large property in the province of Maryland. His death is faid to be occafioned by a wound which he received on Tuefday evening laft, in a duel with the Rev. Mr. Allen, in Hyde-park. The fecond of the former was [0] 2

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--- Delancy, Efq. and of the latter, Robert Morris, Efq. He was attended by Dr. Millman and Meffrs. Pott and Adair.

The magiftrates of Bow-ftreet having advertised a reward of ten guineas each for the apprehenfion of the Rev. Mr. Allen and Robert Morris, Efq. they were in confequence apprehended, and committed to Tothill-Fields bridewell.

2d.

JULY.

This morning, about eight o'clock, five felons made their cfcape out of Newgate, amongst whoin were the two Weftons. They had fawn their irons off, and, as foon as the turnkeys unlocked their rooms, they rushed on them, and fired two piftols, but happily milled them; they then took the keys, and let themfelves out, fome running towards Smithfield, the Fleet, and Newgate market. One of the Weftons was taken in Cocklane (after firing another piftol, and wounded a porter on the cheek) the other in Smithfield, and the other two in Fleet-ftreet.They were brought back, and ironed to the floor. One Nicolfon, a coiner, made his efcape.

Yefterday was tried before 4th. the Earl of Mansfield and a fpecial jury at Guildhall, the important caufe between two capital tradefmen, refpecting a draft for GC01. on a late banking-houfe, given at half past one on the day previous to the ftoppage of payment. Mr. Solicitor General, on behalf of the plaintiff who received the draft, and who brought his action to recover the amount from the defendants, of whom he received it, strongly contended that

the former verdict, declaring the lofs to fall upon the plaintiff, who ought to have gone the fame day, was exprefsly against law. Mr. Wallace, for the defendants, faid, he thould call the attention of the jury to the particular circumftances of the cafe, and from thence they were to judge whether there was not a reasonable time for the plaintiff, who received the draft at noon, to go into Lombardftreet before five o'clock, and take the money. He did not mean to fay, that a draft received fo late as four o'clock, or at York, was to be taken the fame day, but he contended the queftion lay with the jury, whether there was a reafonable time? Lord Mansfield declared it was a question of great commercial confequence, and fince the last trial he found it had been the fubject of much talk in the city. The court had therefore taken deliberation on it, and there was not a cafe, in print or manufcript, which had not been searched into. His lordship gave his opinion the fame as on the former trial, that the next morning was a reasonable time. But the jury gave a verdict for the defendants. 5th.

By an act juft paft, after the first of August next enfuing, all inland bills of exchange, promiflory notes, or other notes, payable otherwife than upon demand, of any fum less than 50%. must be drawn upon a fheet or piece of paper, charged with a ftamp duty of 3d: and all bills or notes of the like kind of 501. or upwards, must be drawn upon a fheet or piece of paper, charged with the ftamp duty of 6d.

Any bill or note as above, not ftamped agreeably to this act, and bearing date after the above pe