Woman (a)!-Who, rich in knowledge, knows no pride, Can boaft ten tongues, and yet not satisfied? Woman (b)-Who lately fung the fweetest lay? A woman, woman, woman (c), ftill I fay. Well then, who dares deny our power and might? Will any married man difpute our right? What are you filent? then you are content; (a) Mrs. Montague, Author of an Essay on the Writings of Shakespeare. (b) Mrs. Carter, well known for her skill in ancient and modern languages. (c) Mifs Aikin, who lately published fore excellent poems. TRANSACTIONS. W regarding the enterprife of our fleet E have received the following particulars tended him, and for which magnificent preparations had been made. On Friday morning the Emprefs, accompanied by the great Duke and Dutchefs, and attended by the great officers and ladies of the court, the knights being in the habits of their respective orders, walked in grand proceffion from the old palace in Kremlin to the cathe the archbishop of Petersburgh, and Te Deum fung for the conclufion of the war; after which the five first claffes of the nobility had the honour of kiffing her majesty's hand. The keeper of the privy rurfe then read aloud a lift of the gratifications and rewards, which the emprefs was pleased to beftow upon this occafion. Amongst the principal ones were, against Algiers: The fleet arrived the 1ft of this month on the coaft of Africa; but the ftormy weather prevented the troops from landing till the 7th, on which day between 7000 and 8000 men were landed with ammunition, but the cavalry and artillery could not be landed.dral, where folern mals was performed by No fooner were the troops on fhore, but they were attacked by the Algerines with great fury, notwithstanding which our troops would certain ly have gained a very advantageous poft on an eminence, if the most advanced corps of them, animated by an inconfiderate ardour, and carried away by the impetuofity of their courage, had not too closely engaged the enemy against their General's orders, which obliged the fecond corps to fly to their fuccour, as foon as they landed, in order to attempt gaining the poft, or to make the best retreat they could. The action then became general, and lafted all day. The heat of the weather, the fatigue the troops had fuftained, and the fuperiority of the enemy, whofe numbers increafed every moment, rendered it impoffible to refift the infidels. The commander in chief therefore gave orders to re-imbark the troops, and they left behind them three field-pieces and most of the ammunition. The lofs of the king's troops is 800 killed, and 1800 wounded. Among the former are two or three Officers of rank, and among the wounded is Lieutenant-general O'Riely, Don Ricardus, and five or fix other General-Officers. The lofs of the Algerines is not known. They were fo cxafperated, that they cut the heads off from thofe wounded perfons who could not reach the ships, and burat their bodies. Mofcow, July 24. N. S.] Marthal Romangow arrived at Kolominski on Thursday laft; and was received by the emprefs with every poffible mark of fatisfaction: He declined the honour of a tripmphal entry, which was in To Marihal Romanzow an estate of 5000 peasants, 100,000 roubles in money, a service of plate, a hat with a wreath of laurel, enriched with precious ftones, to the value of 30,000 roubles, a diamond star and shoulderknot, a Marshal's ftaff, and a diploma adding to his furname that of Sadounafkoy, which may 'be tranflated The Ultra-Danubian. To Count Alexis Orlow 60,000 roubles and a fword enriched with diamonds of very con fiderable value, and a diploma granting to him the furname of Chefme. To General Potemkin, a diploma of Count of the Ruffian Empire, and her Imperial Majefty's picture set with diamonds to be worn by him. To General Panin, 60,000 roubles, with a fword and diamond star. he fame to Prince Dolgoronki. 1 Count Soltikow, the second order of St, George. To Count Ivan Czernichew, the order of St. Andrew. Several ribbons of St. Alexander Newky were conferred, and military promotions made. Admiral Greig was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and appointed commandant of On Saturday the Great Duke bestowed ele- T occafion, have been diftributed to the FeldtMarshals, Generals in Chief, and foreign minifters; and fome of a smaller fize to the reft of the nobility of the five first classes. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. HIS morning, about two o'clock, fome villains broke into the parlour of Copped Hall, near Epping, Effex, the feat of John Conyers, Efq; member for that county. The following account of this remarkable robbery was given in evidence at the Public-Office, Bow-Street, on the following Wednesday. John Edwards (Mr. Conyers' butler) depofed, that three men entered the pantry where he flept; that one of them laid a fword across his throat, and faid if he stirred he was a dead man. They then threw the bed cloaths over his face, and two other men (as he apprehends) came into the room, opened the cheft, and put the plate into facks. They asked him if the candlesticks were folid filver. He faid he believed they were. Two of the robbers advised the murdering the butler, to prevent a difcovery; but the others oppofed it; and on the butler's pleading that he had lately dislocated his fhoulder, and that if they locked him in, he could not alarm any one, they left him, faying that one of them would guard the door for an hour, while the others rode off.-Soon after they were gone, he threw open the window, and alarmed the family. The butler faw the plate at Sir John Fielding's, and fwore to it. Willian Stevens (a coachman) depofed that one White came to him on Sunday morning, with Taylor, (the prisoner) to his coach; that White hired it, and fent him to Guildhall, where he waited till they came; that he supposed they were going upon a smuggling fcheme; that they dined together, and then Taylor ordered him to drive to London-Wall, where he took up two men. Thence he went to Mile End, where Lambert Reading and two others got into the coach. They then, fix in number, proceeded to Epping Foreft, driving very flow; watered the horses near the Bald-face Stag, but did not ftop at any public house. At midnight they stopped, when five of the men went away, leaving Taylor and the coachman, who flept in the coach. After two hours, as he fuppofed, they returned with three facks, which they put in the coach, and bid him drive flowly to London, At Stepney two of the parties left the reft; and the coach went on to London-bridge, where Taylor left them. Thereft went on to Dulwich; dined at the French Horn there, and ftaid till near eight in the evening, when they were driven flowly to London, and stopping in Brick lane, Old ftreet, a man came out of a house, and affifted them in taking the facks out of the coach. Mr. Bond (Clerk to Sir John Fielding) depofed, That about two o'clock on Monday afternoon, a letter was received by Sir John Fielding, from a Magistrate at Stratford, informing him that a hackney coach, No. 44, was feen to pass that way from the foreft to London, early in the morning; that the blinds were drawn up, and that a fecond perfon fat on the box with the driver; that upon the receipt of this letter Sir John Fielding fent to the coach-office, and learnt there that the coach, No. 44, was one among others belonging to Mr. Mountaine, a man of property and reputation in Oxford-road: that he (Bond) applied to Mr. Mountaine, and was informed, that the Number had been in his poffeffion and his father's near fifty years; that the driver had not brought the coach home on Sunday evening, which gave him great uneafinefs, and that he could by no means account for his abfence. Bond went then to the coachman's lodgings, left officers there, and returned to his master's juft as the man came home; and finding he prevaricated, fearched the fleeves of his coat, where the turnpike tickets were found. The man (Stevens) was now conducted to Bow-street, and after much hefitation confeffed where he had put down his fare; in confequence of which Reading and his woman were taken in bed in Brick-lane, all the plate in three facks being in the room, and a pair of fheers, three hangers, and ten loaded piftols round the bed. Reading begged hard for the woman's difmiffion, but in vaih. Some of the plate was kept to be produced in evidence, and the reft was ordered to be delivered to Mr. Conyers. [For this offence Reading was on Thursday tried at Chelmsford, and executed on Saturday (See our laft Magazine, p. 500.) Chapman, another accomplice, has been alio tried, condemned, and executed for the fame robbery. It is remarkable, that Mr. Conyers loft only a fingle tea spoon of the very great quantity of plate, valued at 3000l. taken away by these rogues.] Saturday, Aug. 5.] The following are the ftaff Officers lately appointed by the Continental Congrefs in America. General and Commander in Chief of all the American Forces, Geo. Washington, Efq; of Virginia. Major Generals, Arternus Ward, Efq; of Maffachusetts-Bay; Charles Lee, Efq; Philip Schuyler, Efq; of Albany, in New York Province; Ifrael Putnam, Elq; of the Massachufetts-Bay. Adjutant General, Horatio Gates, Efq; At Dorchefter, Mr. Mortimer profecuted the following perfons, for notoriously bribing, and endeavouring to bribe, at the last election for members for Shaftesbury, and recovered damages in every action, viz. Mr. P. Brown 500l. Mr. John Good, 1000l. Mr. J. R. Everett, 500l. M. R. Hunt 5ool. M. R. Gough 500l. Mr. R. Buckland 1500l. Four actions were entered againft Mr. Mortime's friends, one of which was tried, and Cccc2 a verdic a verdict given for the defendant, Mr. Parker; upon which they withdrew the records of the other three, well knowing their foundation. At Salisbury were tried three several actions depending against an agent to one of the candidates at the late Hindon election, who gave money to the electors through a hole in the wall; when the charge being fully proved in every inftance, the defendant was fined 1500l. conformable to the statute. The widow Champion, miftrefs of the George-inn, at Wanstead, was found murdered, with a Cooper at Lime-houfe lying by her fide. This man had for fome time courted her, and had nearly gained her confent, but upon fome occafion or other a difference had arifen between them that had extorted from her an abfolute denial. However, he called upon her on Saturday, and they continued together till all the company went away, and the family were gone to bed. In the morning they were found together fide by fide, he lying on her arm with his throat cut, fcarce cold, and the ftabbed in the neck, quite dead. The coroner's inqueft have fince fat on the bodies, and brought in their verdict wilful murder by fome perfon or perfons unknown. Lincoln, Aug. 4.1 This day William Farmery was hanged in this city for the murder of his mother. As this execution was for a crime of an extraordinary nature, it drew together great crowds of people. He owned that he was guilty of the murder of his mother, and faid that he wished for death, because he knew he fhould be happy; but nothing elfe could be got from him. He was a moft ftupid, melancholy, and gloomy wretch, a great reader of books before and after he was in prifon, averfe to all manner of labour, prone to taciturnity, disagreeable and unfociable. Several Clergymen pressed Farmery, during his confinement, to affign a caule why he murdered his mother; with much intreaty he told them, it was because the corrected him when he was a little boy. War-Office, Auguft 5. All Captains, Lieutenants, and Enfigns, reduced with their corps, at the laft peace, and still remaining on halfpay on the English establishment, who defire to be again employed in their prefent rank, are directed to fignify the fame to the Secretary at War. Auguft, 15.] Seven Officers and 150 private men, all difabled in the firft engagement near Boston, arrived in town. The foldiers were ordered to Chelsea. 16.] General Haldimand, just arrived from America, was introduced to his Majefty, and graciously received; being fent for, as it is faid, to give his Majefty true information. 17.] This day the heralds and proper officers read the Proclamation for fuppreffing Rebellion and Sedition, in Palace Yard, Westminster, at Temple Bar, and at the Royal Exchange. There was only a Sheriff's officer and the Common-crier attended in the city on the occafion. Extract of a Letter from Caerwent, Men mouthfoire. "Laft night was buried here, amidst the tears and lamentations of his poor neighbours, Benjamin Pritchard, farmer, who for many years, without the leaft altercation and difpute, collected the tythes of this parish, as tenant under the rector; and whofe epitaph, written by a neighbouring clergyman, I fend you underneath. You may imagine a man in so low a ftation of life is not worthy your notice, but it is in that line you are in thefe days to look out for examples of virtue. His was exemplary, and deferves the notice of the public. Here reits for ever old good-natured Ben, Who rested, when alive, but now and then, And liv'd by gathering only one in ten. Born to no title, heir to no eftate, Yet drove no hungry belly from his gate. That he was kind and juft, ao churl nor knave, The poor have prov'd by weeping o'er his grave. Let many a rich man blush, if blush he can, And lea n his duty from this poor old man. The nearer the grand affair of the Jefuits draws to a conclufion, the more vigilant they are with regard to the prifoners in the Caftle of St. Angelo. They are put into close confinement, for having abufed that Liberty which was given them of walking an hour or two in the day, and letters have been intercepted which fome people wanted to get conveyed to them by thofe who waited on them, who have been taken up, in order to discover who wrote the faid Letters. It is reported that the fentence against them is paffed, and that they are condemned to perpetual imprisonment, without the hope of ever being released; (which report is confirmed by Letters from Rome of the 2d of August.) It is affirmed that in looking over the papers of the late Earl of Chesterfield, there was found wholly written in his lordship's own hand, an entire Burletta, on a very 'comical subject; which having been perused by fome gentleme of great judgment in the drama, they have pronounced it to abound in both Wit, Morals, and Humour. What could have induced his lordship to with-hold it from the Stage, cannot now be afcertained; but it is hoped it will now find its way there, as there never was a greater dearth of wit than at prefent; fince for fome time paft Sentiment hath banishred humeur (the characteristic of comedy) from the theatre. The following extraordinary tranfaction may be depended upon as fact: Jonathan Jewit, of Swinton, having fold his wife to William Taylor, of the fame place, for 21 guineas, (one guinea to be returned to the purchaser for luck with his bargain) on the 7th instant she was led to Wath Wood, and delivered in a halter upon the Bowling-Green, in the midst of 1000 or 1200 fpectators. The husband attended, and wore a large pair of gilt horns on the occafion; between which a board was fixed with these words upon it-Cornuted by William Taylor. Extract from the Will of the late Sir Gregery Page. FIRST he directs to be buried privately in his family vault in the parish church of EaftGreenwich, in Kent. Gives to Lord Howe, his fifter-in-law Juliana Page, Sir John Shaw, Bart. Bart. and Henry Wilmot, Efq; rool. a-piece. To the poor of the parish of Eaft-Greenwich, 400l. and to the poor belonging to the Baptift meeting-house in Devonshire-iquare, 200!. Te the trustees of Morden-college, for repairing or ornamenting the chapel, 300l. To Chrift's hofpital, St. Thomas's hofpital, and the Smallpox hofpital, 500l. each. And feveral pecuniary legacies and annuities to particular perfons. and his fervants. To the faid Lord Howe, 5000l. and 2000l. to be paid at his, the teftator's death: And alfo 15000l. Eaft-Indian ann. to be transferred to the faid Lord Howe after the death of the faid Juliana Page. To Lady Shaw, 2001. and 100l. a-piece to her two fons. To the two daughters of the late Sir Edward Turner 2000l. a-piece. All the refidue of his personal estate (supposed to be about 20 or 30,000l.) to the two younger fons of Sir Edward Turner. And gives his houfe and eftate at Battlefden in Bedfordshire, (of about 2000l. a year) with the ufe of the furniture in fuch house, or in any house he may have in town at his death, to the faid Juliana Page for her life; to whom he allo in like manner, gives the use of his houfe in Spring-gardens. And after changing his faid eftate in Bedfordhire, at Mrs. Page's decease, and all other his eftates in Kent and Middlefex (which latter are of the yearly value of 20001.) with the payment of 4000l. a-piece to the two younger fons of the faid Edward Turner, and 1ocol. apiece to his two daughters, in cafe they shall be then refpectively living, he intails fuch real eftate (as well that in Bedfordshire, devited to his faid fifter for her life, as all others) upon Sir Gregory Turner and his heirs male; and dirccts that the furniture in his houfe in Blackheath, and in any town-houfe, fhall be uled with the fame refpectively by the perfons in poffeffion; and appoints Lord Howe fole exe cutor. A letter has been fent by Major General Lee to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Barrington, his Majefty's Secretary at war, of which the following are the principal paffages: "My Lord, Although I can by no means fubfcribe to the opinion of divers people in the world, that an officer on half-pay is to be confidered in the fervice, yet I think it a point of foldier of a free ftate, to exert my utmost to defeat them." He then concludes, praying that measures may be directed more confonant to the intereft and honour of a great perfon, and more confonant to the happinels of the people. A letter from Glagow fays, 66 more than half a million of the debt due from America to Glasgow, have by the activity and prudence of the ftorekeepers, been recovered, and fent home in the course of a few months paít. What is owing to this country now is very trifling." The circumftance of the Provincial foldiers throwing off their clothes (during the late action at Charles-Town) in order to fight the regulars with greater facility, brings to mind the fimilar conduct of those brave fellows who ferved under the famous Sir John Norris, at the battle of Nimenhant, in the Low Countries in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Strada relates that the Spaniards had collected their utmost force, and on the decifion of that day depended the fate of the United Provinces ; (peaking of the allied army, he fays, the centre was compofed of three thoufand English veterans under the before-mentioned general, and the weather being exceeding hot, the English foldiers, previous to the oniet, threw off their clothes and fought in their fhirts; the battle was fo obftinately contefted, but with fuch uncertainty of fuccefs, that both fides challenged the victory, yet the Spaniards received fo compleat a check, that their interest declined ever after in the Netherlands. July 21. BIRTHS. HE lady of the Marquis of Caermarthen, of a fon, in Grovenor-fquare. Aug. 6. Her Royal Highness the Countess d'Artois of a prince, the Duc d' Angouleme. M ARRI A GE S. FlyHE hon. Edward Percival, brother 27. to the Earl of Egmont, to Mils Haworth, daughter of John Haworth, Efq; of Manchefter.-Mr. John Scott, of Dent's hole, in Northumberland, aged 60 years (four times married, and father to 19 children) to Mrs. Eleanor Hood, about 50 years of age, (thrice married and mother to 14 children.) DEATHS. delicacy to pay a deference to this opinion, er- 445 SIR Gregory Page, B. aged intan nie roneous and abfurd as it is. I apprize your Lordship in the most public and folemn manner, that I do renounce my half-pay from the date hereof. At the fame time Iteg leave to affure your Lordship, that whenever it fhall please his Majefty to call me forth to any honourable fervice against the natural hereditary enemies of our country, or in defence of his just rights and dignity, no man will obey the righteous fummons with more zeal and alacrity than myself; but the prefent measures feem to me fo fubverfive of the rights and liberties of every individual fubject, fo deftructive to the whole empire at large, and ulti-, mately fo ruinous to his Majesty's own perfon, dignity, and family, that I think myself obliged in conscience as a citizon, Englishman, and 4. He has left the bulk of his immenfe fortune to Sir Gregory Turner, B.-14. Sir Lynch Salisbury Cotton, Bt. member for Denbigfhire.-16. Jofiah Colebroke, FRS. treafu rer to the Antiquarian Society.-24. Mr. Green, af Mount-ftreet, Southwark, in bis 91ft year. He had been in 21 battles, and had received 11 wounds in the fervice of his country.-Mr. Clayton, at a little farm in Berkshire, formerly a wealthy farmer, in the 115th year of his age; before he left off the farming buanefs, he rented one farm 90 years, and retained his fenfes to the lait. He had two wives, and has left children and grand children 28; the eldeft, which is a woman, that he had by his first wife, is 82 years old. Belfof Carlow, Sept. 4.] This day, Dowling and Kavanagh, two notorious White Boys, were whipped from Frenagh to the church; the high and fub-fheriffs attended the execution, as did likewife the following gentlemen: Wm. Burton, and Clement Wollely, Efqrs. Governors of the county, Sir Edward Newenham, Sir Charles Burton, Mr. Vigors, Mr. Whelan, Col. Euftace, Mr. Perkins, Col. Bunbury, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Justice Carpenter, Mr. Cramer, and forty other gentlemen of property, by which means no rescue was attempted, though there was no military, and the place of execution was in the midst of the gang. Mr. Cook, an officer of excife (whole conduct on former occafions cannot be too much applauded) attended with fixteen proteftant tenants compleatly armed. They are to be whipped twice more, and we hear the fame respectable gentlemen will attend their worthy high fhe rift. Belfast 5.1 The tenants of the right hon. lord Viscount Glerawly on Bannfield eftate, have publicly returned fincere and unfeigned thanks to his lordship for confidering the high price of their lands, readily making an ample abatement, from two to fix fhillings an acre in their respective farms.-The chearful, humane, and generous manner his lordship fhewed on the occafion, feeing many of his tenants happy, teftifies the liberal intention of his lordship, which proceeds from a heart poffeffed of every focial virtue. Kilkenny, Sept. 9.] To fuch a height of audacity have the White Boys carried their proceedings, that a great number of them, well mounted and armed, came as far into this city as the pound in St. John's-ftreet, about one o'clock on Thursday morning laft, where they fearched feveral houfes for one Maher, a proctor, who having had notice of their intention, got away at the back part of his houfe, at the very instant they arrived at it. This difappointment exatperate this lawless rabble to the highelt degree: They confulted on what affair they fhould embark, and fixed on Stephen Rix, (formerly a bailiff in this city) as the victim to their difappointment and refentment, he being the perfon who owned the horse and car that brought the gallows to the Fairgreen of Caftlemorres, where Benjamin Stewart, the captain of the White Boys was executed on the fecond inftant. Accordingly they went to faid Rix's house near gallows-green in the fuburbs of this city, and taking him out of his bed, they threatened to take away his life if he did not tell them where his horfes were; which having complied with, they fent fome of their party for them; then putting Rix naked on horfe back, with one of the party behind him, they carried him to the Dinan bridge, about five miles from this city, where they cut off one of his ears, flit the other, and threw him into a dyke filled with water, where he remained for fome time; they then took him out, whipped him on the back with thornbushes; and swore him not to pay the contents of a note he had paffed to a proctor for his tythes, and that he would never furnish a gallows for the city or county of Kilkenny, for hanging White-Boys: They then fuffered him, to depart, in a most wretched condition. We hear the above Rix has given informations against above twenty of the faid White-Boys. The accounts are truly alarming, and demand particular attention from the gentlemen and farmers of this county in general, but in par ticular about Ballyragget, where the nocturnal meetings are fo frequent, that the peaceable and loyal part of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood are obliged to fit up every night to guard their lives and properties, as they expect an attack equal to that committed at Ballyragget in the night of the 21st of February laft; the White-Boys having collected arms in this and the Queen's county, for the purpose of attacking the honeft and industrious, against whom they level their refentment. Waterford, Sept. 12.] Saturday last John Cregan, a notorious White Boy, and brother in law to Benjamin Stewart, who was hanged at Caftlémorres on Saturday fe'night, gave him. felf up, and is now in Kilkenny goal. It is faid he intends informing against, and profecuting several of those wicked people called White-Boys.-The day Stewart was executed this Cregan concealed himself in a field conti guous to the gallows, from whence he intended discharging a blunderbufs loaded with flugs as the gentlemen who guarded Steward; but fome of his acquaintance perceiving his defign, happily forced it from him juft as the gentlemen appeared in view. It were much to be wifhed, that the fate of the county of Wexford White-Boys, may be a fufficient warning to the principal deluded furgents of this and the neighbouring county. It apparently removes that long conceived, but vulgar opinion, that none of these offenders and disturbers of the public peace can be capitally convicted on the White-boy act. The affize of the twelvepenny houshold loaf is 11lb. 3oz. 6dr. It must give uncommon fatisfaction to every true lover of this country, to obferve a circumftance which the oldeft inhabitant cannot parallel, that is fuch a large affize of bread from wheat the fole produce of this country. Corn has been often cheap, but it was an imported plenty; to pay for which, added to the too great confumption of foreign luxuries, the kingdom was drained conftantly of fpecie. The vaft increase of tillage in this fertile land is fuch, that exportations of grain, fuch as the most fanguine patriots would have deemed |