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of his moft Chriftian Majefty, the places in the cathedral at Rheims, where the ceremony was to be performed, were filled at five in the morning. At fix the Queen made her appearance, and in about half an hour after his moft Chriftian Majefty. The ceremony was performed by the Cardinal de la Roucheaumon, and ended a little before one; the whole having been conducted with the greatest regularity as well as magnificence. The throne was no less than fixty feet in height.

An advertifing conjuror, being convicted before the Lord Mayor, of defrauding a poor fervant maid out of place, of fourteen pence, on pretence of telling her her fortune, thought he might efcape punishment by being a houfe-keeper, and as fuch not coming within the meaning of the vagrant act; but, as that act exprefsly mentions perfons pretending to be killed in phyfiognomy, &c. or to tell fortunes, fhall be deemed vagrants, the Lord Mayor over-ruled that objection, and committed him to Bridewell to hard labour for the space of one month; and declared that, for the next offence of the like nature, he would commit him as an incorrigible rogue, and have him tried as fuch at the feffions.

M. Brizio Guiftiniano was 14th. crowned doge of Venice with the ufual ceremonies.

The fenate of Milan lately received a fupreme order, abolishing for ever the tribunal of the inquifition; and applying the effects of it to the ufe of the hofpital for orphans.

17th.

The Americans before Boston were driven by the

King's troops from fome works which they had thrown up, the preceding night, on one of the heights of the Peninfula of Charles Town, called Bunker's Hill.

Ended the drawing of the Mufeum Lottery.

Between five and fix in the afternoon, the following melancholy accident happened in Chifwellftreet. One of fome houfes building on contract for Mr. Gilbert, grocer, fell in, occafioned by the flightnefs of the workmanship, and buried twelve perfons in the ruins; three of whom were killed; the reft were taken out alive, but feven fo much hurt, that they were fent to St. Bartholomew's hofpital with very little hopes of recovery.

The town of Lenczno, in Poland, belonging to the grand General Branicki, and famous for its horfe markets, was, fome time fince, entirely burnt to afhes on the first day of the fair.

Appeared in the public. 18th. papers, the copy of a proclamation, iffued by General Gage, at Bofton, on the 12th of last month, offering his Majefty's pardon 'to all perfons who fhould immediately lay down their arms, except Samuel Adams, and John Hancock; declaring all thofe rebels, who should not comply with these terms; and all perfons to be traitors, who should aid and affift, or hold any correfpondence with the rebels; and moreover, ordering martial law to be in force within the province of Maffachufett's-Bay, fo long as the prefent unhappy occafion fhall require it.

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brought home fome of the greatest curiofities of the animal and vegetable kind that ever were feen in Europe. The following are a few of the most furprizing: The kin of a large Oranoutang, which died on the paffage; this creature came from a remote part of the Island of Sumatra; one would take them to be a fpecies of the human creation; they have many of the actions of man; and even feem to have a kind of government and police among themselves; but their fpeech, if it may be called fuch, is not intelligible.-A large Brandafornia, from the diamond mines of Golconda, fomething refembling a monkey, with a large white beard, fierce, ftrong, and terrible, yet very tractable: this kind of creatures are made use of by the natives of Golconda as coolys or flaves in the mines. During a very hard gale of wind, being put in the cable tier below, he drew the fplice of the fheet-cable; which is almoft incredible. A fmall black amphibious animal, in every part refembling our cat, only it has no tail; caught on a reef of rocks near Princefs's Inland, in the Straits of Banca, where it lived on flying-fish, which it is very expert in catching; it now lives on fmall fish or fresh meat; it is very docile and tractable.-A large horned dog, by the natives called Picrobus, made every way like a dog, all to it's horn and claws. An exceeding.beautiful Crown-bird, and two Cockatories, who have been fo well trained, during the voyage, that they will anfwer fome little questions, and even ask them.Among the plants there is the famous Maribolus, or walking plant; being in a fall basket of earth, when the fun shines

on it, once a day, it will gradually move about by the help of its branches; a tea-tree, with a few bloffoms on it; a real tallow-tree; a nutmeg and cinnamon tree; and feveral other exotics; befides a number of fmall birds.

When the learned and ingenious Doctor Franklin arrived fome time ago at Philadelphia, the General Affembly of the Province, which was then fitting, on hearing of his arrival, immediately afked his confent to be chofen one of their delegates to the Continental Congrefs; and, on his confenting, elected him accordingly.

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At a Quarterly General Court of the proprietors of Eaft-India ftock, the half-yearly dividend from Christmas to Midfummer was declared to be 3 per cent.

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Being the day appointed for keeping the anniversary of his Majefty's birth day, who entered into the 38th year of his age on the 4th inftant, it was celebrated with the ufual joy and fplendor. Lord Stormont's St. Andrew's cross, fet round with diamonds, and appended to his ribbon of the order of the Thittle, was cut from it, at court, by fome fharpers, who made off with it undifcovered. It was worth feveral hundred pounds.

The fame day, his Majesty's birth-day was celebrated with bonfires and illuminations of a new kind, at Mr. Hartley's, at Bucklebury. The bonfires were made within doors, not without; and the illuminations were made upon the floors of the feveral apartments. Their Majeties healths were drank round a great bonfire in one room; in another thirty-feven large faggots, anfwering to the years of his Majelly's age, together with a

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quantity of pitch and tar, were burnt. As this room was too hot for company, the following toafts were drank in the room above, while the fire below was burning in its utmoft fury, viz. the king, queen, and royal family, peace and unanimity, &c. Several other fires were made in different parts of the floors, ftair-cafes, &c. which were all left to burn out; yet no damage happened to any parts of the building, but where the fires were actually laid.

An entertainment, called a z3d. Regatta, borrowed from the Venetians, was exhibited, partly On the Thames, and partly at Ranelagh; and, as it was quite new in this country, we shall give a more particular account of it in our appendix to this article.

The inhabitants of So25th. merset-houfe feceived written notices, to quit their apartments by Michaelmas-day next, figned by the folicitor for the affairs of his Majefty's treafury.

This day a caufe came 26th. on in the court of Common

The long-contested difpute between the poft-mafter-general, and the Eat-India company, was at length amicably fettled. All letters from India directed to private perfons, are for the future to be fent to the Poll-office, and regularly delivered from thence as other foreign fhip letters are; fo that all perfons, who have relations or friends in India, may be fure of receiving their letters from them regularly, without applying fo many times at the India-houfe as they were formerly obliged to do.

The two prizes annually given by the Chancellor of the Univerfity of Oxford, for two compofitions in profe and verfe, were refpectively adjudged to Mr. Grattan, fellow of New College, and Mr. Warton, fcholar of Trinity.

28th.

Yesterday and this day came on to be argued in the court of Chancery, a plea putin by the Dutchefs of Kington, to a bill filed by Lady Meadows, the fifter and heir at law of the late Duke of Kingston. Her Grace pleaded a fentence of the Ecclefiaftical-court, by which fhe was de

the late Duke married her, and alfo the probate of the late Duke's will; when, after a long and folemn debate of the matter, the Lord Chancellor was pleafed to allow her Grace's plea.

Pleas, Guildhall, between a gentleman, plaintiff, and a lottery-clared to be a fingle woman before office-keeper in the city, defendant; the caufe of this action was as follows: the gentleman, paffing by the lottery-office, obferved a woman and boy crying, on which he afked the reafon of their tears; they informed him, that they had infured a number in the Lottery the night before; and, upon inquiry at another office, found it to have been drawn five days before, and there. fore wanted their money again; the gentleman, taking their part, was affaulted and beat by the officekeeper. The jury gave a verdict in favour of the gentleman, with five pounds damage,

Was tried before the Barons of the Exchequer, a caufe wherein the Rev. Mr. Bateman, vicar of Wha. plode, in Lincolnshire, was plaintiff, and his parishioners defendants. This gentleman, in 1770, filed a bill for the accustomed ty the of fheep, of barren and unprofitable cattle, and for the tythe of lands before held untytheable, as formerly belonging to the abbey of Crowland;

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Crowland; and, on that ground, he gained a decree in his favour, April 4, 1774. But, to prevent the effect of this decree, the parishioners filed a cross-bill in November last, in the court of Exchequer, on the ground of eftablifhing modules, and obtained an injunction to ftop proceedings against them in the fpiritual court. To diffolve this injunction the prefent trial commenced, and the court has diffolved the fame accordingly. Was held at the Old Bailey 29th. a high court of admiralty for the trial of capital offences committed on the high feas, when five mariners were tried for mutiny on board the ship Little Will, whereof Jofeph Spence was mafter, and in which mutiny the faid Spence loft his life, the ship was feized by the mutineers, and afterwards refeized by the officers. The prifoners, however, not appearing to be ringleaders, were all acquitted.

The mafter of a veffel on the flave trade was alfo tried for the murder of one of his men, by ftriking him on the head with a crow; but it appearing that the man died of a putrid fever, and that the whole charge was an infamous fcheme to extort money, the mafter was honourably acquitted.

The fame day, General Harvey and Sir William Erskine had the honour of prefenting to the king a very curious dragoon-faddle, which was honoured with his majefty's approbation for its peculiar lightnefs and conftruction, as it affords a much easier feat to the rider, and the means of carrying hay and corn enough for three days, with a complete fet of camp equipage, &c. without any material inconvenience. The hay cenfifls of two

truffes; one beat into the length of 3-4ths of a yard, placed under the cloak-bag; the other beat equally clofe into two balls, and hung like kettle-drums before the rider. This faddle was made by Mr. Gibfon, Saddler, in Great Windmill-ftreet, St. James's; and the merit of it had been previously afcertained, by actual experiment, before General Harvey, who ordered an handfome reward to the men employed for that purpofe.

The king has been pleased to order letters patent to be paffed under the great feal of Ireland, for conftituting one body politic and corporate, by the name of the Hibernian Marine Society in Dublin, for maintaining, educating, and apprenticing the orphans and children of decayed feamen in his majefty's royal navy, &c.

The filver medals annually given by the hiftorical fociety in the univerfity of Dublin for the beft English compofitions, were this year obtained by the Rev. Mr. Scott, for profe; for verfe, by Meffieurs Ball, Charles Henry Coote, and Edward Synge.

His imperial majefty ar30th. rived at Luxembourg, from a tour of fome weeks he had been making, incognito, through Italy.

Four veffels, containing about 700 emigrants, have failed for America from Port Glasgow and Greenock, in the courfe of the prefent month, most of them from the north Highlands.

Whilft the diet of Poland was granting new liberties to the Diffidents, the Jews, whofe numbers and credit were very great in Poland, have been treated very rigoroufly. They are forbidden from carrying on any public trade in the

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Areets; and, as this is depriving them of all the ufual means of fubfiftence, they are leaving Warfaw. They were offered warehoufes for their goods, which they refufed. Prince Poninski, willing to engage them to fettle on his eftate at Wola, about half a league from Warfaw, promifed them his protection, as did likewife Prince Sulkowski, if they would eftablish themselves there.

Count Alexis Orlow, before he left Leghorn, publifhed a manifefto, the fubftance of which was, "That the Emprefs of Ruffia, his fovereign, pardoned the republic of Ragufa the hottilities committed against her, on condition that that republic would, for the future, obferve the moft fcrupulous neutrality,

and allow the Ruffian conful the

fame prerogatives that the other confuls enjoyed; particularly that of having a chapel in his houfe, for the exercife of the Ruffo-Greek religion.

The fame princefs, at the folicitation of the inhabitants of the new acquired province of WhiteRuffia, to have their taxes put upon the fame footing on which they were before it came into her hands, inftead of barely granting them their requeft, was graciously pleafed to reduce their taxes ftill lower, by taking off one half of what they were rated at.

Moreover, to encourage trade in the Black Sea, lately opened to her by the treaty with the Porte, where she will not meet with thofe hindrances which nature has placed in the Baltick, the climate of which puts a top to trade the greatest part of the year, and the dangerous coafts caufe numberlefs fhipwrecks during the remainder; her

imperial majefty had been pleased to allow fhips freight-free to Mr. Goufetnikoff, a Ruffian merchant, who has raifed a capital for that undertaking; and alfo to promife to make good all his loffes, leaving, at the fame time, the whole profits which may accrue from fuch trade to himself. To confirm part of what has been obferved concerning the Baltick, it may not be incurious to obferve, that, this laft winter, the ice prevented any foreign fhips from reaching the road of Revel till the 15th of May, and that of Cronstadt till the 21ft. And that the 25th of May, when the fquadron that conveyed the King of Sweden to Finland arrived at Abo, the trees there were without any figns of verdure.

Accounts from Conftantinople mention pofitively, that the Grand Signor, having received complaints from his fubjects of the grievances they fuffer from the governors of the different provinces of his empire, thought himself obliged, not only to iffue feveral firmans to most of his pachas and other officers, with regulations for the establifhment of good order throughout the Ottoman empire, and very favourable to the Chriftians and Jews; but likewife to make examples of fome of the governors. Accordingly, one was ftrangled and beheaded by his highness's orders, and his head expofed at the door of the feraglio; and more than seventeen others, of three tails, were depofed, and fent into exile, among whom was Achmet Effendi, first favourite of the emperor. Among the above firmans was one particularly addreffed to the pacha of Salonica, enjoining him to reform his houfhold, which for the

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