river, are intirely gone. About a quarter of a mile below the town, a corn-mill, with out-houfes, and ftabling belonging to the Rt. Hon. Lord Darlington, is alfo taken down by the impetuofity of the current. At Gretnabridge feveral houfes, along with the bridge, is taken away; likewife the bridge between Morton and Rookfby-hall. We have difmal accounts of what has happened below us. At Yarum one half the town is intirely fwept away, and unfortunately forty-fix perfons mifling. We have received divers accounts of the fame accidents happening in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Weftmoreland: In fhort, this place difcovers a fcene of horror and defolation too dreadful for humanity to behold, or words to exprefs."

Advice is received from the Isle of Ely, that the floods have been out fo much, that all the lower grounds in one night were overHowed, by which many head of cattle were drowned, and a great deal of other damage done.

This morning John Do29th. naldfon for forgery, and John Freel, and Michael Murray for a highway robbery, were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence; they were all young men, fcarcely exceeding twenty-two years of age, and behaved with great penitence and devotion; Donaldíon made a very pathetic Speech at the gallows, exhorting the fpectators to take warning by his untimely end; Murray and Freel acknowledged the juice of their fentence, and faid they died unworthy members of the church of Rome.

From Warfaw, we are informed that on the 4th of November at night, his Polish Majefty had a very narrow efcape as he was returning to his palace, from the houfe of Prince Czartorinski, grand chancellor. The king was not escorted as ufual by his guards. His Majefty was attacked by Capt. Koczwiski at the head of fix confederates. After they had wounded the King's attendants, and himself in the head in two places (but not mortally) they conducted him into a wood, the captain having taken an oath to deliver the King dead or alive to the confederates; but meeting with fome Rufian piquets, Koczwifki, feized with fear, or repentance, begged the King's pardon, and his Majefty efcaped into a cottage near Marimont, from whence he arrived here at four this morning.

His Serene Highness the Stadtholder, on being made acquainted with the laborious and expenfive undertaking of Dr. Kennicott, who is collating all the printed and manufcript copies of the Hebrew bible, was pleafed to direct, that a yearly donation of thirty guineas be remitted to that gentleman whilft the fubfcription is on foot.

Died lately, Mr. Jofeph Ofborn, of Hampstead-Bury, a farmer, reputed to be worth ico,000l.

Mrs. Chandler, aged 108, near the Seven Dials.

Solomon Raphael Levi, aged 198, at his lodgings in St. Giles's. John Allen, at his lodgings in Fleet-lane, aged 104.

Mrs. Probe, aged 104, in Tottenhamn-Court-Road; he has left a fifler aged 101.

Hyacinthe la Rofa, at Alquerinas, in Spain, aged 117..

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Mr. John Gough, aged 129, at Castle-town, in Ireland.

John Miles, aged 109, a labourer at Comeford, near Litchfield.

The Oneida Chief, at Charlestown, South Carolina, well known to the British traders by the name of Thomas King.

DECEMBER.

All the letters from the north of England are filled with the moft melancholy accounts of the late dreadful inundation. There is not one bridge standing on either north or fouth Tyne, out of about thirteen or fourteen, except one, called Corbridge, three miles below Hexham, and that was damaged. At Bywell, a country village, about fix miles below, the whole village is almost destroyed, and several families have perifhed there, the houfes being carried away, and wrecks of fand left inftead of them. Part of one of the churches was washed away, the graves were opened, and the living and dead were intermixed, and all floating together.

At Ovingham, a village eight miles below Hexham, a very tragical misfortune happened at the ferry boat houfe there, the fame fatal night, between the 16th and 17th inft. After the water had got into the dwelling houfe, the family (ten in number) retired to the upper chamber, and continued there till it was two feet deep. They then broke through the wall into the ftable, thinking it a place of greater fafety, both by its strength and fituation. They made themfelves a temporary place to fit on,

by putting a deal board and a ladder betwixt the binding balks, and there they remained till one o'clock in the morning, at which time, perceiving the dwelling houfe gone and the table beginning to yield to the impetuofity of the flood, three men broke out upon the top of the house, and the boat-man, his wife, mother, and two children, the man fervant and maidfervant remained as before, when in an inftant the houfe fell, and they were all swept away by the torrent, and carried down, along with the thatch of the house, &c. the distance of two hundred and fifty feven yards, into a wood, where the boatman, his brother, and maid, got upon trees, and continued in that fituation ten hours, before they could be relieved, and the maid died foon after she was got to land. The unhappy boatman, when he feized the tree with one hand, catched his wife with the other; and after holding her two or three minutes, fhe was wrefted from him in fifteen feet and a half depth of water, and in the midft of a rapid current. boatman and his brother are the only two furvivors, and the boatman lives a burthen to himself, having nothing left, without bread to eat, or cloaths to put on.

The

A letter from Sunderland, after mentioning the damage done there and in places adjacent, by the late floods, adds, "Thirty-four fhips were wrecked on Sunderland bar, and on the north and fouth fand many men and boys were drowned; three collieries are filled with water, one engine is intirely ruined, and others much damaged; and out of 700 keels belonging to the river Wear, not 100 are found in a state of

Safety.

fafety. Nineteen houfes were wafhed away at Briggate, Barnard Caftle. Lord Ravenfworth has fent 100 guineas to the churchwardens in Gateshead, to be diftributed among the poor fufferers by the flood in the parish. 4th.

A caufe was tried at Weftminster, before Lord Chief Juftice De Grey, and a fpecial jury of Middlefex, wherein John Schutz, Efq; eldest fon of Colonel Schutz, of Sion-hill, was plaintiff, and Francis Schutz, Efq; the Colonel's younger fon, was defendant. The action was brought against the defendant for criminal converfation with the plaintiff's wife; when, after a hearing of five hours, a verdict was given for the defendant, without examining a fingle witnefs. A number of refpectable perfons were fubpoena'd as witneffes for the defendant, and amongst others were, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir John Shaw, and Mr. Bacon, the member for Norwich, who were all in court.

The King of Spain gave orders for taking a yearly lift of all the foreigners fettled in his dominions. The defign of this order is, to prevent the natives from affuming the quality of foreigners, in order to enjoy certain privileges granted by treaty.

The two fhips intended for Mr. Banks's fecond voyage round the world, were commiffioned by the names of the Drake and Raw leigh; and the commands given to the Captains Cook and Furneaux; at the fame time Meffrs. Cooper, Clarke, and Pickergill, were appointed Lieutenants to the Drake. They will fail fome time in March

next.

Extract of a Letter from a Clergyman at Carlifle. You will, no doubt, hear from different parts many difmal accounts of the late violent rains; I believe that there is nothing fo furprifing, and were it not well attefted, fo incredible, as what happened at Solway Mofs, which lies on the borders of Scotland, about ten miles north of Carlisle. A great part of this mofs (at leaft above four hundred acres of it) began to fwell by the inundation, and rofe to fuch a height above the level, that at last it rolled forward like a torrent, and continued its courfe above a mile, fweeping along with it houfes and trees, and every other thing in its way: it divided itfelf into islands of different extent from one to ten feet thicknefs, upon which were found hares, moor-game, &c.

A letter from York, dated December 3, gives the following particulars of this extraordinary phonomenon:-"We learn from Carlifle, that the breaking of the Solway Mofs is looked on as the greatest incident that ever happened in that country; the quan tity of arable land covered by it belonging to the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Netherby, it is faid to be near 6co acres, and in different places lies from two to twenty feet deep of entire mofs; fo that a perfon, who had never known that country before, would have taken it for a mofs fince the creation. There are about 30 what they call villages, confifting of four or five houfes together, deftroyed; happily no perfon was loft, but great numbers of cattle and fheep were

fuf

fuffocated. It began to move on Saturday night, and continued in motion till Wednesday. Great numbers of people are daily flocking from all parts of the country to fee this furprifing phoenome

non.

Came on at the Old Bai

6th. ley, the trial of Afher Weil, Levi Weil, Hyam Lazarus, Solomon Porter, Marcus Hartough, and Lazarus Harry, fix Jews, charged with the wilful murder of Jolin Shaw, and of committing a robbery on the 11th of June laft, in the houfe of Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchins, at Chelfea. At fix in the evening the jury went out of court for about twenty minutes; when they returned they found Afher Weil, Levy Weil, Hyam Lazarus, and Solomon Porter, guilty; Marcus Hartough, and Lazarus Harry, not guilty.-The Recorder prefaced the fentence with a judicious and just compliment to the principal Jews, for their very laudable conduct in the courfe of this profecution, and hoped no perfon would ignorantly ftigmatize a whole nation for the villanies of a few, whom they had done every thing they confiftently could to bring to punishmentThe four found guilty were ordered to be executed on Monday, and their bodies delivered for dif. fection.

This being the Jewish 7th. fabbath, an anathema was pronounced at the fynagogue in Duke's Place, against all the accomplices in the late robbery at at Mrs. Hutchins's,

On St. Andrew's day, was held the anniverfary meeting of theRoyal Society, at their houfe in Cranecourt, Fleet-itreet, when Sir God

fry Copley's gold medal, given annually for the most esteemed paper in their tranfactions of the preceding year, was prefented to the Hon. William Hamilton, envoy extraordinary to the court of Naples, he being prefent, for his curious enquiries concerning the Mounts Veluvius and Etna, and of Vulcanos in general.

Saturday his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland and his new-married Dutchefs arrived at his feat at Windfor Lodge from France, but have not yet made their appearance at court.

8th.

There was the most blowing weather at Dunwich, in Suffolk, that has been known. within the memory of man. Large trees were torn up by the roots, barns were blown down, dwellinghoufes unroofed, and fome cottages laid flat; but not many lives loft. The fea ran fo high, that great part of the low grounds were laid under water, and many head of cattle drowned; but the fea along the coaft prefented a more melancholy fcene, the wrecks of fhips and dead bodies being thrown up every tide. The damage at fea must be very great.

Lord Baltimore's will came over from Italy. It appears that he has left the province of Maryland, in tail male, to Henry Harford, Efq; a child now under the care of the Rev. Dr. Lorton, at Richmond school; remainder in fee to his younger fifter, the Hon. Mrs. Eden; 30,000l. to Mifs Harford; 20,000l. to the Hon. Mrs. Browning, and the Hon. Mrs. Eden, upon condition of their acquiefcence in this will; 4cool. to Sophia and Elizabeth Hales; 10col. to Mrs. Elizabeth Dawfon; to Charlotte Hope,

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an infant, 2000l. to Mrs. Hefter Rhelan, mother of Henry Harford, Efq; and Mifs Harford, 2001. annuities for life; 1500l. each to Robert Eden, Efq; Hugh Hamerfley, Efq; Peter Provoft, Efq; and Robert Morris, Efq; and alfo an annuity to each for their lives of 100l. The faid four gentlemen are appointed the executors of his Lordship's will. The refiduary property, which is fuppofed to be very large, is left to the executors, as trustees, to pay the fame to Mr. Harford and his fifter, if either of them fhall attain the age of twenty-one; and, in failure thereof, to the Hon. Mrs. Eden. His Lordfhip is to be buried among his anceflors at Epfom.

Levi Weil, Afher Weil,

9th. Jacob Lazarus, alias Hyam Drefden, alias Hyam Lazarus, and Solomon Porter, alias Solomon Mofes, were executed at Tyburn, for the robbery and murder at Mrs. Hutchins's, at Chelfea. Their wives and children were admitted into the prefs-yard to take their leave of them before they fet out. The priest did not attend at the gallows, but gave each of them a book in the prefs-yard. When they came to the place of execution, they prayed and fung about a quarter of an hour amongst themselves, and were turned off about half past ten. After they had hung the ufual time, their bodies were taken down, and carried to Surgeons-Hall for diffection. Levi Weil (the phyfician) is to be anatomized, and hung up in Surgeons-Hall,

On Saturday laft, the Grand Jury for the city of London, at the Old Bailey, found a bill of indictment against Dudley, for wilful perjury, in making affidavit efore the late Lord Mayor, that VOL. XIV.

he was concerned in the fire at Portsmouth, by fwearing he was at fuch and fuch places at Portsmouth, on July the 14th and 24th, in 1770, the contrary of which was fully proved by fome reputable gentlemen at that place.

Ioth.

Being the anniversary of the inftitution of the Royal Academy, a general affembly was held at the Royal Academy, at Somerset-houfe, when the premiums were given, and the offcers elected for the year enfuing.

After the medals were given by the prefident, he delivered a difcourfe to the ftudents, the fubject of which was to demonftrate, that the principle of taking only general ideas, which he had fhewn in his last discourse to be metaphyfically true, extended over every part of the art; that it gave what is called the grand ftile to invention, to compofition, to expreffion, and even to colouring and drapery. After he had gone through all thofe parts of the art, he expatiated on the file and character of the Roman, Florentine, and Bolognian fchools, and thewed how different the principles were which thofe fchools adopted, from what was the practice of the Venetian and Flemish fchools, and proved that they were incompatible with each other, however excellent in their different ways.

It is faid that the Lord Chamberlain has fignified to the Duke of Cumberland, by order of the King, that his Royal Highness's prefence at court will be difpenfed with; and it has alfo been fignified, by authority, to the minifters, and to all the fervants of the crown, that if any of them vint the Duke or Duchefs of Cumberland, they must not appear at St.

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