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for feloniously making a revolt on board the faid fhip, turning pirate, and running away with the fame, the cargo of which he and Brown fold to two merchants, who came on board near Trinidada, and delivered at Curaflow; after which, returning to the Granades to receive the money, he was, on the information of one of the mariners, apprehended and brought to England. On this indictment he was capitally convicted, and received fentence of death; and was foon after executed at Execution Dock. Brown efcaped out of the Marfhalfea. A mate of the York Indiaman was tried for the wilful murder of Robert Patterson, on the high feas, about three leagues from Bencoolen, and acquitted. 9th.

His Grace the Duke of Grafton refigned the feals. Mr. Wilkes, on going out of office this day at Guildhall, made a long speech to the livery, full of the fevereft reflections on two great affemblies and the miniftry. He charged the first with endeavouring to establish defpotifm, in NewEngland; and popery, in Canada: the fecond, with an attack upon every commoner of England, and the effential privileges of London, in the perfon of a citizen of London, Mr. Randal, whom they ordered, unheard, into cuftody, without any appeal to a jury, only for difrefpe&ful words against a member of their house; and the miniftry, with advising the King not to receive their petitions and remonstrances on the throne. Then, after expatiating on his oppofition to all thefe measures, and his diligence in the discharge of all his other duties, as Lord Mayor of the city of London, he renounced the ufual exemption

from public bufinefs during the enfuing twelvemonth.

12th.

Being Sunday, about feven in the afternoon, three villains got into the house of a baker in Winchefter-street, by means of a pick-lock key; but the house having been attempted for feveral Sundays paft, nearly about the fame hour, a proper guard was kept; and the robbers hardly entered, when the foremost of them received a fhot in the head, which killed him on the fpot; upon which the other two immediately made off, though it is thought one of them was wounded by the fame fhot which killed his accomplice. A pair of piftols, four guineas, and three half guineas, were found in the pockets of him that was killed; who proved to be one Armitrong, formerly employed in the EaflIndia warehouses, but who had been tranfported fome time ago for a theft. The fellows had got a mourning-coach in waiting to car ry off the effects.

The town of Montreal, in Canada, furrendered, by capitulation, to the Americans under General Montgomery.

General Gage arrived in town from Boston. 13th. The lottery began drawing at Guildhall.

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Hague, Nov. 21. The effects of the late form of the 14th inftant appear, by accounts from all parts of this province, to have been much more dreadful than was at firft apprehended. Commerce has fuffered greatly by the many veffels loft on our coafts, near the Texel; in the Zuyder fea; at the mouth of the Maëfe; and more particularly on the fea coast of Holland, which is in many places covered with wrecks and merchandize. The violence of the north-west wind (which blew on the 14th the whole day) had raised the tide in the morning to a very uncommon height; and the waters on the ebb being prevented, by the continuance of the form, from returning, in the evening were increafed to fuch a degree, as to occafion in undations in many parts of North and South Holland, and even in the Province of Utrecht. Among the towns partly or entirely overflowed, are thofe of Amfterdam, Munikendam, Edam, Horn, Dort, Rotterdam, Beverwyk, Delfshaven, and Maafsluys. All the diftricts in the neighbourhood of Heufden were under water, as alfo the country bordering on the river Y, between Haarlem and Amfterdam, and on the oppofite fhore of that river in North Holland, and the country lying at the mouth of the Maefe near Rotterdam, particularly the iflands of Blackenbourg and Roofenbourg. The force of the wind and waves was fo great, that a fhip at Amsterdam, bound to Petersburg, was carried over two dykes between Muiden and Amersfort, and carried to the diftance of 200 yards on the land. The dykes are da maged in many places by this tempeft; but, wherever there appeared

any breaches, the inhabitants, by their great diligence and activity, immediately repaired them, and by that means prevented the ruin of the country. But, notwithftanding their vigilance, the waters rofe above the level of the dykes, and overflowed the country, carrying away, with the torrent, houfes cattle, furniture, &c. and fome perfons have perished. The fishingtowns have alfo fuffered greatly by the lofs of their boats, By the moft exact enquiries it has been found, that the rife of the waters was, at this time, eight inches higher than in the year 1682, and two inches higher than they were in the year 1717. Workmen are employed in repairing the damages; and the communication between Haarlem and Amfterdam, which had been interrupted, is now opened. [So far the London Gazette.]

During this ftorm, the Cranbrook, of London, burthen 500 tons, Charles Suttie, mafter, laden with cloth, bales, and fundry other merchandize, bound for Jamaica,having been wrecked about eight o'clock in the forenoon of the 14th, on the Goodwin Sands off Deal, Mr. Suttie with four others betook themfelves to the pinnace, whilft the reft of the crew and the paffengers got into the long boat; which laft was, between three and four in the afternoon of the fame day, driven afhore on the coaft of Sangatte, off Fort Lapin, near Calais, having on board thirty perfons, mariners and paffengers. As foon as the people on thore discovered the long boat in the road, driving at the mercy of the winds and waves, they flocked to the coaft, in order to be ready to give immediate affift.

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ance to the unfortunate people, and by their diligence and activity molt of them were faved, after having been exposed for fix hours to all the violence of the ftorm.

Monfieur Porquet, the Commiffary of the marine at Calais, attended by a furgeon, with the greatest humanity, afforded all poffible affiftance to the unhappy fufferers; and by the use of proper methods, a failor and a negroe, who were taken up with little figns of life, were with great difficulty perfectly recovered. The Phyficians, furgeons, and the inhabitants of Calais, behaved likewise, on this occafion, with the utmost tenderness to thefe unfortunate people.

There is great reafon to think, that above 2500 fouls perished on fhip-board during this and the late

ftorm in October.

But perhaps one of the most remarkable events which attended them, is the ftilling of the waves during the laft, by means of oil, as defcribed in the following let

ter;

Leyden, Jan. 20, 1776. In confequence of a premium of thirty ducats offered by a citizen of this place, to whoever shall moft effectually try the experiment of appeafing the waves which furround a fhip in a ftorm, by pouring oil into the fea, the following letter has been 'received;

"We left the Texel the 3d of November, 1775, on board a mer. chant ship, Capt. Jurrien Jurrenfon, commander, and arrived the 14th in the evening, on the coaft of Jutland in Denmark. Our intention was to enter a determined port, but the Captain thinking it Icarce poffible to make it, on account of the great quantity of ice, we put out to fea to make another:

the night following a great tempeft arofe, which continued till the next morning, and drove us towards the coat, where we found a road, and were near a port. This fituation feemed to flatter our hopes, but the waves ran fo high and ftrong, that we had no command of the fhip. The Captain alarmed at our fituation, and feeing no other way to prevent a fhip-wreck, gave orders for fix barrels of oil, which he had on board, to be brought on the deck, and ordered them to be poured out flowly on each fide of the fhip, by which means the waves were by degrees abated, the fhip began to answer her rudder, and foon afterwards entered the port in fafety." See p. 70.

Their Majesties and the

Royal Family came to the 15th. Queen's palace for the winter.

The House of Commons went into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of a Petition from the province of Nova Scotia, when they came to the following refolution, which was moved by Lord North: "That the propofitions contained in the addrefs, petition, and memorial, of the Council and Houfe of Affembly of the province of Nova Scotia, of granting to his Majefty, in perpetuity, a

duty of poundage, ad valorem, upon all commodities imported into the faid province, not being the produce of the British dominions in Europe and America (bay falt excepted), the faid duty to be under the difpofition of Parliament, is fit to be accepted; and that the amount of the faid duty fhall be eight pounds per cent. upon all fuch commodities."

Nine old women were burnt at Kalifk in Poland, charged with having bewitched and rendered un

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fruitful the lands belonging to a gentleman in that Palatinate.

At a court of common 17th. council held at Guildhall, it was refolved, at the inftance of Mr. Wilkes, that the proceedings at the Seffions of Oyer and Terminer and gaol delivery of Newgate, for London and Middlefex, be published by the Recorder, and authenticated with his name: and that 1301. be paid out of the chamber of London to the Lord Mayor, in lieu of the profit arifing from the Seffions Paper; that the fhort-hand writer fhould be allowed 150l. per annum; that the Seffions Paper fhould be printed on fine paper, in two numbers only; and that a copy of the faid proceedings be fent to every member of the court, and the judges, and to thofe officers of the city who have ufually received the fame.

Letters from Nantz, by a fhip just arrived from St. Domingo, advife, that they have had a moft terrible ftorm there, which had damaged all the buildings on the ifland, destroyed many fhips, and totally washed away the fugar in the warehouses.

In the afternoon, a fire broke out at the Blue Bell alehouse in Swaffham, Norfolk; the wind blowing very hard at North Weft, the flames were foon communicated to several contiguous dwellings, which burnt with fuch rapidity, that in a fhort time between twenty and thirty houfes were laid in afhes, and the families reduced to the greateft diftrefs. One man fell from the top of a house and was killed.

In order to fupprefs the pernicious practice of infuring tickets during the drawing of the Lottery, orders were given that there fhould

be no feats built for clerks to take down the numbers at Guildall; but it does not appear that this order has taken place; for what reafons, we are not able to determine. See page 188.

The Unity, late Neele, belonging to Sunderland, with troops from Stade for Gibralter, fprung a leak at fea about four days ago in the Bay of Biscay, in company with feveral other veffels bound from Hamburgh to Gibralter, with Hanoverian troops on board. Captain Neale, being apprehenfive fhe would fink, took to his boat with his mate, and all the officers of the troops, except the quarter mafter; but they had hardly left the fhip's fide before the boat overfet, and every foul on board her perished; as there remained but fix failors on board with the foldiers, and all ignorant of navigation, they ran her on fhore on the isle of Rhe, where Count Taube was foon after fent by his Majefty, to take care of the poor men, who thus fo providentially faved their lives, perhaps by being deferted by their officers; and conduct them to the place of their deftination.

One Smart, charged with 19th. coining, and likely to fuffer for it, the evidence against him being remarkably ftrong, contrived to make his efcape out of Clerkenwell Bridewell, by the following odd ftratagem. His wife went into the prifon cloathed in two gowns, two pair of ftockings, four petticoats, and in fhort an affortment of cloaths for two women; foon after which the husband paffed out, dreffed in what the wife had worn as the under fuit of cloths, and with his face painted. Soon after he was gone, the woman came down

stairs ;

ftairs; and meeting two men at the door, who afked how her hufband did, the faid, very ill in his room, and then went off with them. The woman, however, was foon after apprehended, and lodged in New Prifon.

His Majefty went to the 20th. Houfe of Peers, and gave

the royal affent to

The bill for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry ;

The indemnity bill; And to three private bills. 21ft.

At the first court of Lord Mayor, &c. held this day, the court returned thanks, with but one diffentient voice, viz. that of the Right Hon. Mr. Alderman Harley, to John Wilkes, Efq; late Lord Mayor of this city, for his indefatigable attention to the feveral duties of that important office; for the particular regard and po liteness which he has been pleafed at all times to fhew the members of this court; for his wife, upright, and impartial adminiftration of justice; for his diligence, on all occafions, to promote the welfare and true intereft of this city; and for his unblemished conduct, and exemplary behaviour, during the whole courfe of his mayoralty. The court likewife voted Mr. Wilkes 100l. to be fent him, for the care he took of the plate, furniture, &c. at the Manfion-house.

Wasdetermined, at Guild25th. hall, Westminster, a trial between Armie Garnault, Efq; of Bull's-cross, Enfield, plaintiff, and Eliab Breton, Efq; of Fourtreehill, in the faid parish, and lord of the manor, defendant. The caufe of action was, that Mr. Breton,

fome months before, riding by the plaintiff's door, followed by fome dogs, the house dog ran after them, to the great terror of the defendant's horfe. Upon Mr. B's return home, his youngest fon, attended by his coachman, went to the plaintiff's houfe; and, the gate being opened to them, fired repeatedly at the dog, without further notice, till he had difpatched him. The jury, after examining feveral very refpectable witneffes, who concurred in giving the deceafed dog a most excellent character, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 50l. damages.

Two propofitions having been made to the Irish Houle 27th. of Commons; 1. That 40co troops, out of the 12,000 voted for the defence of that kingdom, be spared for his Majelly's fervice abroad, the fame to be no charge to Ireland after quitting the kingdom. 2. That 40co foreign proteftant troops be received to replace the like number fent abroad; thefe likewife to be no charge to Ireland. The first propofition was agreed to; but the latter rejected by a majority of 106 against 68.

Came on to be tried before Lord Mansfield, at Guildhall, London, a caufe, the decifion of which materially concerns unfortunate tradefmen liable to become dupes to the defigning arts of the wretches diftinguifhed by the name of Swindlers. In the prefent action, a perfon in a public office under the Sheriffs of London was plaintiff, and a tradefman in the Strand defendant; the fuit was commenced to recover the fum of 100l. upon a note of hand drawn by the defendant, and indorfed over to the plaintiff, by a notorious Jew Swind

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