of rum, having ftruck on a place called the Hog-Styes, in the windward paffage, both fhip and cargo were totally loft. The captain, crew, and feveral of the paffengers, were faved by taking to the boats, and getting to a rock, on which they lived for ten days, with nothing to eat but fome raw beef and pork that they faved out of the hip; when they were providenttially taken up by a small veffel, 'carried to Providence, and put on board the Charlotte, Green, who has brought them home.

Capt. O'Kelly lately fold one of his Eclipfe colts for 1000 guineas down, and 500 more, if he wins the first time he starts.

An important queftion be29th. tween the Stationer's company and Mr. Carnan, of St. Paul's Church-yard, concerning the right of printing Almanacks, was determined, by the unanimous opinion of the judges of the court of common Pleas, in favour of Mr. Carnan; and, the Friday following, being the 2d of June, the injunction obtained by the Stationers company in the court of Chancery, November 29, 1773, to prevent Mr. Carnan's printing and felling almanacks, was diffolved by the Lord Chancellor.

A caufe was tried in the Com. mon Pleas, in which Mifs Davies, formerly a finger at the Operahoufe, was plaintiff, and Richard Yates, Efq; manager of that houfe, defendant. The trial lafted from ten in the morning till fix in the evening, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 15001. her falary for a feafor, and 500l. for a benefit which he was befides to have, and which the va

lued at that fum; both, exclufivé of cofts.

The two unfortunate Perreaus, (of whom we fhall take the proper notice in another place) were removed from Newgate by a writ of Habeas Corpus to the court of King's Bench, in order to be examined as wineffes, in a trial upon an action of Trover, brought by Mr. Belliard, jeweller, again ft Sir T. F. It appeared, that the plaintiff had lent Daniel Perreau a diamond ring of 500l. value, till he, the plaintiff, fhould be able to make one of the fame value of a different fashion for him; that, on the detection of the late forge. ries, Sir Thomas, as principal creditor, feized the ring in queftion as part of Daniel Perreau's real property, After a fhort confultation, the jury found for the plaintiff with one fhilling damage, which intitles him to cofts of fuit.

Three placarts have been lately published at Copenhagen; the first prohibits the exportation of potter's clay from the lle of Bornholm; the fecond, the importation of foreign fuftians, called there Olmerdugg, or Parchents; and the third, the importation and use of foreign tin-plates in Denmark, Norway, and the principalities of Slefwick and Holstein, except what are called the large black iron plates.

The following advertisement appeared in the Penn- 31. fylvania Gazette.

"A gentleman, who ferved as an officer all laft war in the King of Pruffia's army, offers his fervice to the province of Pennfylvania. The men that will be entrusted to his care, he obliges himself to teach,

in a very fhort time, the most useful and neceffary manoeuvres, especially quick firing, even without a rammer, for which purpose he knows how to prepare fuitable car. tridges, befides the art of advancing and retiring properly; and, lafly, how to avoid all confufion in an engagement. Enquire," &c. There was now to be feen, as a fhew, in London, what the owner was pleased to ftile a Syren or Mer maid: and though, by its not being fubmitted to the examination of the college of Physicians, or the Royal Society, the proper judges of fuch uncommon fubjects, we have reason to doubt of its genuineness, and therefore took no notice of it in our article of Natural History, we cannot prevail on ourselves totally to omit it. It differs materially from that fhewn at the fair of St. Germaine, fome years ago: fo that there is reason to believe, there are two distinct genera, or, more properly, two fpecies of the fame genus, the one refembling the African blacks, the other the European whites, That which was formerly fhewn had, in every re. fpect, the countenance of a Negro; this has the features and complexion of an European. Its face is like that of a young female; its eyes, of a fine light blue; its nofe fmall and handsome; its mouth fmall; its lips thin, and the edges of them round like that of the codfish; its teeth are small, regular, and white; its chin is well-fhaped, and its neck full. Its ears are like thofe of the eel, but placed like thofe of the human fpecies; and behind them are the gills for refpiration, which appear like curls. Some are faid to have hair upon the head; but this has none, only rolls instead of

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hair, that, at a distance, may be mistaken for fhort curls. But its chief ornament is a beautiful membrane or fin rifing from the temples, and gradually diminishing till it ends pyramidically, forming a foretop like that of a lady's headdrefs. It has no fin on the back, but a bone like that of the human fpecies. Its breafts are fair and full, but withont nipples; its armp and hands are well proportioned, but without nails on its fingers; its belly is round and fwelling, but no navel. From the waift downward the body is in all refpects like the cod-fifh. It has three fets of fins, one above the other, below the waift, which enable it to fwim erect upon the fea; and it is faid to have an enchanting voice, which it never exerts except before a ftorm.-The proprietor fays it was taken in the Gulph of Sanchio, in the Archipelago or Ægean Sea, by a merchantman trading to Natolia, Aug. 1774.

There are now living, in the parifh of St. Bees, Cumberland, two brothers, and three fifters, whose ages are, 87, 85, 83, 81, and 715 in all, 407 years.

And in the workhoufe at Camberwell in Surry, a woman named Jones, aged 125 years, who remembers her being at service when King Charles the fecond was crowned in 1660, and at this time enjoys her perfect fenfes: and, what is full as obfervable, the nurse who attends her is aged 101. The tendereft care imaginable is taken by the governors and masters of that charity to preferve the lives of two fuch remarkable perfons.

DIED lately, at Sheltington near Tamworth, in Warwickshire, aged fifty-fever, Mr. Spooner, farmer,

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of that place. He was thought to be the fatteft man in England, weighing, four or five weeks before his death, forty ftone and nine pounds. He had not been able to walk for feveral years, but had a little cart and able horse to draw him abroad for air. He measured, after his death, four feet three inches across the shoulders. He was drawn to the church-yard in the cart he used to ride in. His coffin was made much longer than his body, on purpose to give the bearers room to carry him from the cart to the church, and from thence to the grave. Thirteèn men carried him, fix on each fide, and one at the head. His fatnefs, fome years ago, faved his life; for, being at Atheritone market, and fome difference arifing between him and a Jew, the Jew ftabbed him in the belly with a pen knife; but the blade, being fhort, did not pierce his bowels, or even pafs through the fat which defended them.

And, on the 1ft inftant, Doctor Rutty, one of the people called quakers, an eminent Phyfician in Dublin, and author of fome very learned and ingenious pieces.

Mr. Ifrael Lyons, eminent for his extraordinary genius and extenfive knowledge, particularly in botany, mathematics, &c. He accompanied Capt. Phipps in his voyage to the North Pole, as principal aftronomer; and was the author of the tables annexed to the account of that voyage, and of feveral other ingenious publications. He has left many valuable notes and obfervations, for an edition of Dr. Halley's works collected into a volume, which he had just prepared for the prefs, with the fanc tion of the Philofophical Society.

Humphry Coates, Efq; late candidate for Westminster, and remarkable for his fteady adherence to Mr. Wilkes.

On the 13th, Doctor Nicholas Robinson, at Iflington, a celebrated Phyfician, author of many learned pieces.

On the 19th, Jonathan Howes, in Eat-Smithfield, aged 106.

On the 24th, Michael M'Laughlin, aged upwards of one hundred, at Athlone in Ireland. He had five wives, the laft of whom he has left with a child not above a year and a half old.

JUNE.

During the Montem, a year- ift. ly feftival celebrated on this day by the Eaton scholars, at Salthill, there fell the most violent ftorm of hail and rain ever remembered in that part of the country. The hail-ftones were as large as playing marbles, and the fudden flood was fuch, that several perfons were up to the ancles. Moft of the many noblemen and gentlemen who were prefent, were as wet as if they had been drawn through a river.

This day came on at Weftminfter-hall, before Lord Mansfield, an action in which the Earl of Briftol was plaintiff, and the prin ter of a morning paper defendant, for a libel in the faid paper on the 5th of December laft; when the jury gave a verdict for his Lordfhip with 3ool. damages.

A man was carried before the Lord mayor, for attempting to bribe the two blue coat boys, who drew the Museum lottery, to con ceal a ticket, and bring it to him, promifing he would next day let them have it again, when one of ⚫ them

them was, it seems, to convey it back privately into the wheel, but without letting go his hold of it, and then produce it as if newly drawn; the man's intention being to infure it in all the offices against being drawn that day. But the boys were honeft, gave notice of the intended fraud, and pointed out the delinquent, who, however, was dif charged, as there is no law in being to punish the offence.

At a meeting of tradefmen at the King's-arms tavern in Cornhill, it was unanimously agreed to contribute to the ftopping of the circulation of bad halfpence, by refufing to take any.

As one of the charity boys of St. James, Clerkenwell, was bathing in a pond at Iflington, he was feized with the cramp, and funk; and his body was fo entangled in the mud at the bottom, that it was a very confiderable time before it could be found. It was then carried to a public houfe at Iflington, when Mr. Church, of that place, one of the medical affiftants to the Society for the recovery of drowned perfons, was fent for. It is generally believed that it was near an hour before any means whatever were used to restore this object to life; and it was an hour and a half more, before any pulfation was perceived; and what could then be perceived, was very feeble. This however was fufficient to make Mr. Church perfevere in the means he thought proper for full four hours, when the boy fell into trong convulfions, and after fome time became fenfible. He had a tolerable good night, and was pronounced out of danger next morning. This cafe is inferted to keep alive the attention of our Readers to the

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above most useful establishment; and to fhew, among many other cafes, that on fuch occafions, fcarce any circumstances can be defperate enough to excufe the not putting in practice their prefcriptions, or not perfevering in the ufe of them. See our first article under the head of Projects for this year.

The Ruffian admiral lately arrived at Spithead faluted the Englifh flag with fifteen guns, which were returned with thirteen. But he refufed this compliment, till he had received orders to pay it from her Imperial Majesty's ambaffador at London.

The magiftrates of Bruffels have iffued orders, that all Jews, fettling in that city for the future, thall pay 330 florins yearly to the receivers of the Emprefs Queen's revenue, or be banished; and that, if any Jews fhould, under pretence of be ing travellers, ftay there above forty-eight hours, they shall be obliged to pay the fame fum.

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Lord Sandwich, accompanied by Lord Seaford, Sir Hugh Pallifer, Mr. Banks, and Omiah, the native of Otaheite, began his annual furvey of the Royal Navy, by examining the ftate of Chatham yard. The artificers and workmen of the dock yards, with the officers of ships and feamen in ordinary, were muftered before his Lordship. Omiah was conducted by Mr. Peake, builder's affiftant, on board the Victory of 100 guns, now repairing. His furprize at feeing fo large a hip can scarcely be expressed. By this furvey, it appeared, that there were eighty-feven fhips then fit for fervice, including thofe al ready in commiffion; and alfo feveral frigates.

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A buttock of beef, which fome time ago had been fent from London to Charles-Town, in South Carolina, in the Pallas, Capt. Turner, as a prefent, would not be fuffered to be landed there. It was therefore brought back again, and this day eaten at the Jamaica coffee-house, Rotherhithe.

The reigning Prince of NaffauUfinguen, being willing to eftablish in a Catholic church in his country, the exercife of the Lutheran religion, and having fent thither for that purpose a Bailiff, accompanied by feveral armed men, the inhabitants, aflifted by fome peasants of the country of Mentz, opposed them; and the oppofite parties came to blows. The Bailiff was dangerously wounded, and fome of his companions were killed.

The feffions ended at the 7th. Old Bailey, when fourteen convicts received fentence of death, viz. the two unfortunate brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, for forgery; four, for ftreet, field, and highway robberies; three for houfebreaking, and houfe robberies; one, for theft; one, for firing a piftol at Walter Butler, one of the patrole, near the Foundling Hofpital, and wounding him in the neck; two, for coining; and one, for horfe-ftealing; one received fentence of tranfportation for fourteen years; fixteen, fentence of tranfportation for feven years; and nine convicted of coining halfpence, were branded in the hand, and fentenced to fuffer - an imprisonment in Newgate for twelve months. One, for a fraud, was fined is. and ordered to be imprifoned fix months. And on the 19th of July following, feven of the above capital convicts were

executed at Tyburn; among whom were the two coiners. But the two brothers were not so much as reported, in hopes the trial of Mrs. Rudd, fuppofed to be concerned with them, might produce fomething to exculpate them, or at least alleviate their guilt, without expofing them to the aggravated diftrefs of fuffering after a reprieve.

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Came on before Lord Manffield and a fpecial Jury,the well known caufe between Charles Morris, Efq. cornet of dragoons, plain. tiff, and the Rev. Mr. Charles Everard, defendant. The action was brought for the recovery of damages for a caning which the former received in the Hay-market from the latter. The defendant not denying the fact, Lord Manf field directed the Jury to find for the plaintiff what damages they thought proper. The Jury, after going out about fifteen minutes, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff with zol. damages.

His excellency Count de Guines arrived at his houfe in Great George-ftreet, from France, after gaining, on the ad, a decree of the Chatelet, against one of his fecretaries, who had accufed his excellency with ordering him to game for his, his excellency's, account in the English ftocks. His excellency, immediately on his arrival, was vifited by all the foreign minifters, the fecretaries of ftate, and a great number of the nobility.

Mrs. Ivy, of the Borough, in coming from Guildford, was stung by a gnat on the chin; which fo inflamed her jaw and head, that a mortification enfued, and the died in less than twenty-four hours. 12th.

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