A premium of ten fhillings a ton will be given upon all home-made falt which fhall be confumed in curing fifh upon the north weft coaft; and fifteen fhillings a ton upon all imported falt confumed in like manner, from the 30th of June, 1775, to the ift of June, 1776; provided the feveral fums to be adjudged shall not exceed the fum of 200l. otherwife to be rateably divided among the claimants. To be adjudged the 13th of June, 1776. A premium of one fhilling a barrel will be given upon every barrel containing thirty-two gallons of well-cured fifh, exported to, and actually fold in foreign parts, from the 30th of June 1775, to the Ift of June, 1776; provided the claims which fhall be allowed, exceed not the fum of 400l. if they fhould, the said fum of 400l. to be rateably divided among the claimants. To be adjudged the 13th of June, 1776. N. B. All matters for which the focietyoffer premiums, muft be begun after the publication of fuch premiums, unless there be a particular exception in the publication. The fociety referve to themselves a power in giving in all cafes fuch part only of any premium as the performance shall be judged to deferve; or in cafe of want of merit, no part. A candidate for a premium, or a perfon applying for a bounty, being detected in any difingenuous methods to impofe upon the society,fhall forfeit all fuch premium or bounty, and be incapable of obtaining any for the future; and if any perfon fhall be detected in offering any forged inftrument in evidence to the society, or in committing wilful perjury in proof of any claim, a profecution will be carried on against fuch offender with the utmoft rigour of the law.. ty; but every fuch perfon fhall be put upon the fame footing with the members, and fhall be intitled to receive a golden medal in lieu of a premium of 10l. or more; and a filver medal in lieu of any premium, under 10l. and if any doubt fhould arife, touching the value of any fuch real or perfonal property, that the fame fhall be ascertained by the affidavit of the perfon claiming to be intitled to fuch pecuniary premium, or other reward. This bye-law not to extend to any claim of premiums for manufactures, or of any premium, established by act of parliament. All claimants of premiums are to send in their claims at least fourteen days before fuch premiums are to be adjudged, directed to the rev. Mr. Thomas Lyfter, at the fociety's house in Grafton-street. All premiums offered by the Dublin Society are defigned for Ireland only, unless in any article mention be made to the contrary. The Dublin Society being defirous of promoting fuch inquiries as may tend to the information and fervice of the public, and also of diffufing as generally as poffible, the knowledge of fuch useful difcoveries as may be communicated, as well as thofe which are locally known and practifed, request the affistance and communication of the ingenious and experienced. The following Plan for establishing Local Committees of Correfpondence is agreed upon by the Dublin Society. HAT the members of this fociety (togeth ther with fuch members of parliament, and refident clergymen as fhall annually pay the fum of one guinea) fhall, in their respective counties, be a committee to correfpond with this fociety, and to receive the claims of the poor renters of land in their refpective counties, and to certify the merits of fuch claimants to the fociety, and to pay their premiums when adjudged to them; and that five of fuch mem The fociety being defirous of avoiding as much as poffible the multiplication of oaths in difpofal of their premiums, request that the nobility, magiftrates, gentry, and clergy in their feveral diftricts, will give their attention when ap-bers be a quorum for this purpose. plied to for certificates of the merit of any candidate for a premium, to examine the pretenfions of fuch perfon, that the fociety may not be under the neceffity of tendering an affidavit to him; which they apprehend has fometimes occafioned the mifapplication of the fund, and the guilt of perjury. No perfon will be admitted a candidate for any premium offered by the fociety, who has obtained a patent for the exclufive right of making or performing any thing for which fuch premium is offered, or for which premium there might not have been a fair competition. Any manufacturers detected in entering into any illegal combination of raising the prices of their goods or labour, are for ever excluded from receiving any premium or bounty from the fociety. No perfon who shall be feized of an eftate or inheritance, or for life, with remainder to his first and every other fon, of the clear yearly value of 500l. or upwards; or who shall be feized or poffeffed of a real or perfonal eftate, or of both together, of the clear value of 10,000l. or upwards; fhall ever receive any pecuniary premium or reward whatsoever from the focie That whenever poor renters of land shall be claimants for any of the premiums offered by the Dublin Society, fuch claimants fhall, at leaft four months previous to their demand, fignify their intention of demanding fuch premiums, to fome member of the committee appointed by the fociety for receiving fuch claims, (to be communicated by him within one month, to the faid committee, that each member of the fame may have three months time perfonally to examine fuch improvement) and shall produce fuch evidence before such committee (affidavits excepted) as such committee fhall require. No premiums to be granted, or paid, for reclaiming of bog, mountain, and moore, by poor renters of land in any county where a quorum of the faid committee do not meet, for the first time, on fome one day of the next fummer aflizes in the, affize town. All perfons fubfcribing one guinea annually (to be difpofed of for the encouragement of agriculture, by faid county committees) to be eligible into faid committees, and to continue members of the fame, as long as they fhall continue to pay their fubfcription. Th The faid committee are requested to communicate to the fociety their obfervations on the premiums propofed by the fociety, for the encouragement of agriculture, and to offer fuch as they may judge to be moft proper and adapted to the foil and circumftances of their refpective counties. Abstract of the A&s of Parliament for the better Prefervation of Corn. HE sum of 250l. will be given to each T county of end, we premiums to three claffes of landholders, diftinguished as follow: The first clafs confifts of four premiums, viz. 401. for not less than 4000 ftones of wheat, or 8000 of any other corn; 30l. for not lefs than 3000 ftones of wheat, or 6000 of any other corn; 201. for not less than 2000 ftones of wheat, or 4000 of any other corn; and tol. for not less than 1000 stones of wheat, or 2000 of any other corn, to be payable the ift of January, 1775, to the landholders or farmers of each county, having in their poffeffion and Occupying not less than 250 acres of land, who fhall on that day have refpectively the greatest quantities of corn, not less than the quantities aforefaid, reaped the harvest precedent, from lands occupied by them, preferved upon ftands in the open air, four feet at leaft from the ground, fo built that the air may have free paffage under the corn, with projecting flags or flates to preserve the corn from vermin. If any of the higher premiums in the foregoing clafs, fhould remain not claimed, they fhall be difpofed of in paying premiums to fuch perfons as may refpectively have in that county the greateft quanties of corn, not less than the quantities aforefaid, for the lower premiums of that clafs. The second clafs confifts of five premiums, viz. 301. 251. 201. 151. and 10l. to be payable the faid first day of January, to the five landholders or farmers in each county, having in their poffeffion and occupying not lefs than 40, nor more than 250 acres of land, who fhall then refpectively have the greateft quantities of corn reaped the harvest precedent, from lands occupied by them, and preferved upon such ftands as aforesaid. The third clafs confifts of five premiums, viz. 15. 121. fol. 81. and 51. to be payable on the faid ift day of January, to farmers in each county, holding not more than 40, nor lefs than 5 acres, who shall then refpectively have the greatest quantities of corn reaped the harveft precedent, from land occupied by them, and preferved upon fuch ftands as aforesaid. Landholders or farmers in the county of a city or of a town, fhall be confidered as inhabitants of the county at large, within which fuch city or town lies. Every perfon intending to claim any of the aforefaid premiums, is one month in that year, before the 1ft of January, to fend notice thereof in writing to the fecretary or affiftant fecretary of the Dublin Society; in which notice must be fet forth of the parish, barony and county where his corn ftands are erected, the number of barts of corn (reckoning twenty fheaves to a bart) diftinguishing the fpecies of corn placed upon each stand, and if there be more than one fpecies of corn upon the fame ftand, the number of barts of each species; and that every claimant may afcertain the quantity of corn in his poffeffion, he is to keep an exact account of the number of barts of each fpecies of corn placed upon each stand, and before he fends fuch notice, he is to caufe ten barts of each species of corn to be taken without any choice of the largest sheaves from the ftand, or from each of the stands, if more than one, as the corn making up, if more one, is threshed, winnowed and cleaned; and in the notice aforefaid, he is to fend the exact produce of the barts fo threshed; and if there fhould be more than one species of corn upon the fame ftand, the proof barts must be taken from each fpecies, and the produce thereof returned in the notice as before directed. Where there are not more than 400 barts of corn upon a ftand, or of one species of corn together, there it will be fufficient to take only fix barts to thresh, and return an account of the produce as aforefaid. Every perfon at the time of his claiming any of the aforefaid premiums, is to fend to the fecretary or affiftant fecretary of the Dublin Society, his own affidavit, if he himself has affifted in the stacking and management of his corn, and the affidavit of one other person employed by him in that bufinefs, fworn before two justices of the peace, fetting forth the quantity of land tilled by him or by his order, the parish, barony and county where the fame lies, the number, heighth and di menfions of his ftands, of what materials conftructed, the number of barts of corn, difftinguishing the fpecies of corn upon each ftand, the produce refpectively of fuch barts as were taken from each stand and fpecies of corn and threshed, and that the barts were taken without any choice of the largest sheaves, the number of barrels of each species of corn, which to the best of their judgment, such stand or ftands contain, and that they were produced the harvest precedent from lands occupied by the claimant; twenty ftones of wheat, rye or meslin, sixteen stones of bere or barley, and fourteen of oats to be reckoned to a barrel. If the claimant should not himself affift in the ftacking and management of his corn, then the affidavits of two perfons who have been employed by him in that business, fworn before two justices of the peace, and fetting forth all the particulars aforefaid, must be produced; and in that cafe, it will be fufficient, if the claimant's own affidavit fets forth the quantity of land tilled by him or by his order, the number of barrels of each species of corn, which to the best of his judgment, are preserved upon his ftands, that they were produced the precedent harvest from land occupied by him; and that he verily believes the faid affidavits of the two perfons employed by him in the ftacking and management of his corn, to be in every particular ftrictly true. To thefe affidavits must be added a certificate figned by the minifter and curate of the parish where the corn grew, or by a neighbouring juftice of the peace, that he hath viewed the stand or stands of corn mentioned in the faid affidavits, and that he believes the contents of the said affidavits to be true. If any person fhall be found to have fworn falfely, or to have forged any certificate, he hall be liable to the fame penalties as perfons convicted of corrupt and wilful perjury or forgery. Bere or barley may be taken from the ftand and threshed, as foon as the owner may think neceffary, and he fhall be allowed the fame premium (the other requifites being performed) as if he had preserved his bere or barley upon ftands until the 1ft of January. The Dublin Society are required, in adjudging the above premiums, always to confider one stone of wheat as equal to two stones of any other grain. The like premiums to be continued for feven years from the 1st of January 1769, and to the end of the then next feffion of parliament. All perfons intending to claim the premiums granted by the acts of parliament for the pre fervation of corn upon ftands, are to fend into the affiftant fecretary of the Dublin society the previous notices mentioned in the said acts, and containing a return of the quantity of each perfon's corn, at least one month before the ft of January in every year, otherwile their claims will not be admitted; and the affidavite for the fame are to be sent to the affiftant fecretary before the 1ft of March in each year, otherwise they will not be admitted. And the Dublin Society will not admit of any notices or affidavits from claimants of the faid premiums, except the quantities of corn specified in fuch notices and affidavits, be expreffed in words at length, and not in figures. Printed forms for the affidavits and certificates to be fent in by the claimants of the foregoing premiums for preferving corn upon ftands, may be had at an easy price of Mr. Sleater, printer and bookseller, in Castle-street, Dublin. By order of the Society, THOMAS LYSTER, Affiftant Secretary. POETRY. The following Poem was wrote by the late Mrs. Pilkington a few Months before her Death. [Now firft printed.] Confcience: a Poem. TILL beds, or aromatic flowers, Stung with remorse, the plund'rer dreads the weight Of rigorous juftice, and avenging fate; Will downy de dades, or smaranthine The toiling peafant's breaft no cares annoys bowers, Blunt the keen anguish of a troubled breast, Why starts Lyfander thus—at ev'ry.noife? Where are his tranfports fled? his home-felt joys? Wherefore, in vain, her notes does mufic pour? Or fortune all her glitt'ring favours show'r ? T HISTORICAL Monday, July 24. HEIR Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchefs of Gloucester, with one of their children, fet out with a very grand retinue from Gloucester-house for Dover, in order to embark for Calais, and after a fhort stay there are to fet out for Italy. A Correfpondent has favoured us with the following circumstances relative to the death of Mr. Scawen, uncle to one of the members for the county of Surry; Mr. Scawen had, for fame confiderable time in his family, a female domeftic, of whofe fidelity he entertained the highest opinion, and had, by his will, not only made a decent, but affluent provifion for, with which he was well acquainted; her impatience to become mistress of the liberality of her patron fuggefted to this ingrate a design, that, but to think of, fhocks humanity: Her first attempt to effect it was some months fince, when Mr. Scawen, finding himself strangely discomposed, fent for a physician, who difcovered symptoms not unlike thofe occafioned by mercurials; but, by proper applications, restored him to his for His life is labour, and his labour joy; Grant then, thou pow'r divine, whose fin gle nod Can make the trembling world confess its God, That guilt my honeft heart may never stain, Nor pungent confcience dart afflicting pain: Turn me, O turn me, from the path impure; In thee I trust, thy aid alone is fure. CHRONICLE. mer ftate. In fome few weeks after, Mr. Scawen feeling the like symptoms, in a more violent degree, fent again to his phyfician, who was greatly alarmed at his fituation, and then, for the first time, fufpected the real cause of complaint, but by medicine once more recovered him. The wretch, finding her intentions fruftrated, refolved the potency of the third dofe the adminiftered should bid defiance to all affiftance. The phyfician was again fent for, who informed Mr. Scawen that it was neceffary, for the preservation of his life, inftantly to quit where he then refided: Mr. Scawen confented, but defired time, that his fuppofed faithful attendant might prepare to accompany him. This was objected to: He changed his habitation, and was with difficulty convinced of the cause of his indifpofition, and from whom it originated; but, receiving fatiffaction in these particulars, he changed the dif pofition of his fortune, and foon after expired in moft excruciating pain. July 28.] At the Public-Office in Bowftreet, before Sir John Fielding and the reft The clergyman attended him at his execution. He was perfectly compofed and refuled to pray; again thanked him and said, you fee, Sir, I am the fame man I was yesterday, and this is the happiest day I ever knew. He behaved with great decency, bowed and took leave of the spectators, fixed the halter to his neck, and bid this wicked world adieu. His wife put him in a hearse, and brought him to London. August 5.1 A fpecial commiffion of Oyer and Terminer, directed to the Lords of the Privy Council, the Judges, the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen, for the trial of Capt. Roche, at the Old Bailey, paffed the Great-Seal. At a meeting of the Livery of London, in Common-Hall affembled, on Saturday the 24th of June, 1775. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. of the magiftrates, Jane Butterfield was ex- morrow. amined on a charge of fufpicion of poifoning the late William Scawen, Efq; with whom the lived: The principal person examined was Mr. Sanxy, an eminent furgeon, the substance of whofe evidence was as follows, viz. That in the beginning of May laft, the deceased complained to him of an ulcer in his arm, which he attributed to fome quack medicines he had taken fome time before: That this deponent prescribed a regimen of life, and fuch medicines as he thought proper to remove his complaint; that fome time after, the deceased informed him that he was much better; but in the beginning of laft month he came to him again, and complained of his former disorders returning; and obferved, that the medicines prescribed by this deponent, had such a copper tafte, that it was with the utmost difficulty he could fwallow them; on which Mr. Sanxy confulted with fome gentlemen of the faculty, who joined in opinion with him that Mr. Scawen was poifoned. Mr. Sanxy then communicated his fentiments to the heir at law, and likewife to Mr. Scawen, recommending it to him, at the fame time, either to remove from his houfe, or discharge all his domeftics. Mr. Scawen was alarmed at this information, and declared he took no medicines, or any nutriment whatfoever, but what were administered to him by the prifoner (or, as he called her, Mrs. Scawen) which the acknowledged; that Mr. Scawen continued in this state for three weeks or a month longer, and then died, and he believes, through the effects of poison. Mr. Sanxy delivered his evidence with the greatest exactness and precifion. The person who fold the first medicines above-mentioned attended, and fwore that nothing was contained in them that could cause the diforder Mr. Scawen complained of; and two eminent gentlemen of the faculty, who analyzed the medicines, corroborated his evidence.-Mrs. Butterfield's counfel did not chufe to make any defence there, on which the was remanded for trial, and the respective parties bound to give evidence. There was fomething fingular in the behaviour of Lambert Reading, who was executed at Chelmsford, in Effex, on Saturday August 5, Refolved, that the thanks of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery in Common-Hall affembled, be given to the Right Honourable the Earl of Effingham, for having, confiftent with the principles of a true Englishman, refused to draw that sword against the lives and liberties of his Fellow Subjects in America, which has hitherto been employed to the honour of his Country. Lord Effingham's Letter to Mr. Rix. SIR, "I take the first opportunity of acknowledg ing the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult. inclofing a refolution of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of London in CommonHall affembled. "I beg leave by your means to exprefs to that refpectable body how deeply I am penetrat ed with a sense of the honour done me by their having approved of my conduct. "The independence and love of Liberty which have always fo remarkably diftinguished the City of London, are the cause that their approbation must be efteemed by every real friend to our happy conftitution, as the nobleft compenfation he can receive for any facrifice he makes to the obfervance of its principles. I am with great truth and regard, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant, EFFINGHAM.' BIRTHS. of Mr. Conyers. He was tried firft on Friday, and being head of the gang, Lord Mansfield told him, not to flatter himself in receiving mercy, for that he would be ordered for execution by two o'clock on the next day. He behaved with manly decency and replied, that it would be the happiest day he ever knew. On his being taken back to prifon, a clergyman offered to pray with him and prepare him for death; he replied, he could not pray nor ever did; never having been in a church in his life; no care having been taken of him in his early days, he had inlifted into a gang of idle diffolute fellows and bad company, and he defied any one who got in ever to get out. The clergyman expofsulated with him, but all to no purpofe; he thanked him with good manners, and told him he fhould continue to think as he did, and hoped to meet happiness in the next world; that he had none in this, and wished constantly for the 3. of Beaufort, a dau.-6. Countefs dowager of Rothes, of a dau.-16. Lady of Sir Wm. Wake, Bart, of a son.-19. Marchionefs of Lothian, of a fon. 29. MARRIAGE S. "M° June ONS. de Fitte, at Languedoc, lieu tenant of the Marthals of France, to Mifs Nancy Edgecumbe, niece to lord Edgecumbe.-11. Sir James Tylney Long, of Draycot, in Wiltshire, Bart. to the Hon. Mifs Harriet Bouverie, youngest daughter of the late lord viscount Folkstone, and fifter to the Earl of Radnor.-14. Capt. M'Bride, of the navy, to Mifs Folkes, fifter to Sir Martin Folkes, Bart.-17. The hon. Capt. Herbert, of the royal navy, to lady Carolina Montague, fifter to his grace the duke of Manchester. DEATH S. Deputy Master of the Trinity-houfe.-27. Right hon. Henry lord Willoughby, of Parham. He took his feat in the H. of Peers, in confequence of their lordships order on the hearing of his claim to the title, in March, 1767; his honours and fortune devolve on his only nephew, George Willoughby, Efq; late of Queen's College, Cambridge.-Right hon. Francis James Lefly, lord Lindores, in DOMESTIC July 22. T Scotland.-13. John Holwell, Efq; Commander of his Majesty's fhip Refolution, a guardfhip at Portfmouth.-Rev. John Ratcliffe, D. D. upwards of thirty-feven years Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.-21. Robert Pratt, Efq; of Cofcomb, Gloucestershire, nephew to lord Camden.-Mifs Maria Conftantia Howard, daughter to the earl of Suffolk. 22. Lieut. Col. Preston. INTELLIGENCE. HIS day came on the trial of Meffrs. Roberts and Bradford for the murder of a watchman, on the 19th of June last, when to the inexpreffible fatisfaction of the court, jury, and public, they were honourable acquitted. Mr. Baron Scot, who prefided, gave a moft impartial charge to the jury; which, as it contains a full ftate of the evidence, we are happy in laying before our readers: "Gentlemen of the jury, "The prifoners at the bar ftand indicted, for that they, on the 19th of June, did kill and murder, Robert Lawes, a watchman, in the execution of his duty; that Bradford Roberts gave the mortal blow, in the deceased's ye, and that the other prifoner Graham Bradford was prefent, aiding, abetting, and affifting. To this indictment the prifoners pleaded, not guilty: Gentlemen, the first witness that was called and examined, on behalf of the profecution, was Mr. Alderman Hamilton, who depofed, that being called on, he attended to take, and did take, the examinations of the deceased, in the watch-houfe; that thefe examinations were the words of the deceased, taken by his clerk, in the watch-house, in his prefence; and on his cross examination he faid, that the deceased was in his fenfes, and had the use of his reason, at the time he took thofe examinations. The watchman is fince dead: and therefore his examinations may be read; and he fwears there, that on a Monday morning, between one and two, as he was on his ftand, two young men paffed by him, and asked him the hour, and he said civilly, "between one and two; and that as they were breaking windows, they must go to the watchhouse.' This, gentlemen, is the evidence; but evidence, under the circumftances I fhall mention; for I must observe that in cases of this fort, the bare evidence of the deceased is not fufficient to bring the criminal in guilty; and I'll tell you why: the law prefumes, and that very justly, that a man under thofe circumftances, his body, and mind, will be in fuch a fituation, as to make him fufpect that his misfortune was defigned, and therefore his evidence alone will not be fufficient. The next witness that was produced to you was Thomas Ferguson, and he depofed, that he was on his duty on the 19th of June laft (for he's infpector of the watch) and he heard "watch" called several times, upon which he ran, and faw the deceased with a fword in his hand, which was that of Bradford, bloody about an inch and an half, or two inches, (you faw it yourselves) upon which they were taken to the watch-house; and upon his cross examination, he faid, that the deceafed was hardly able to fpeak; that he lay upon his back, at the watch-house, and he fuppofed had the use of his reafon and understanding, and that he died on the Wednesday following. The next witnefs was James Murphy, and he faid, that he was upon his ftand (he's a watchman) when the deceased called "watch," that he was the first man who came to his affiftance, that the deceased was bloody, when he came up; that he received the wound in his eye; and that there was a chairman by when he came up; his name was Flood as he believed; that the wound was given before he came up, as he faw no wound given; that the deceased and Bradford, the tallest of the two, were wrangling when he came up about the fword; he had it by his fide, with the point downwards, and he delivered it up very quietly to Fergufon; and on his crofs examination, depofed, that it might happen, when the boys were running away and the deceafed following them, the deceased might have fallen upon them, and in that manner be wounded, as he heard they fell, and as he faid heard it talked of; that the eldest when the youngest fell, put the fword under his arm, and endeavoured to raise him up, when the deceased came up and endeavoured to take them; and that the deceased received the wound under his left eye in that manner; but gentlemen, the witness whose evidence, in this cafe is most material, and confequently will have great weight with you, is Flood; and he depofed, what need only be mentioned now, as he swears he faw all that happened, that he was by when the two young men, as he faid (but you fee what kind they are) fell, that Lawes was running after them, and about ten yards behind them, when the leaft fell, and the tall one after; that the deceafed came up immediately, and collared the tallest; that the tallest had the fword under. his arm when he got up, and the point upwards, and the watchman appeared to be stabbed; that the deceafed while he was running, called out "watch," but, when he got up from the boys, cried, "murder, murder! his eye was out," from which he believed, he then received the wound. This gentlemen, is the principal evidence laid before you; I cannot however but obferve, that there is one circumftance which feems very extraordinary, and in my apprehenfion invalidates the deceased's evidence; and that is this, he fwears, that the little child had a stick, and beat him feverely after he got up; now, Flood fwears, (and indeed he feems as if he was to be credited,) that he never faw him ftruck; befides, gentle men, |