were ordered immediately to replace it on board the fhip. And certainly it must be allowed, that voyages of this kind, with no one ufeful purpofe in view, and calculated folely to gratify idle curiofity, and promote diffipation, deferve no encouragement. The principle is now fufficiently known, but the ufe is yet to be difcovered; and voyages of experiment, were any fuch fet on foot, by men of science, would be laudable; while thefe, which call the multitude together, ought to be fuppreffed. 26. Clutterbuck, though condemned to the galleys, (Jeep 65.) has obtained the liberty of refiding on fhore; but, according to the custom of convicts, is obliged to wear the flave's habit, and a large iron ring round his right leg. Peterburg, Nov. 10. The ordinance of the emprefs for fettliug the police of all the cities of the empire, has for its principal object their interior administration, their profperity, and their increase. Each city keeps a register of its citizens, which is divided into fix parts: the firft contains the names of the inhabitants of property; fecondly, the corporation of merchants; thirdly, thofe of tradefmen; fourthly, foreigners; fifthly, refpectable citizens, who have filled fome poft in the administration; and fixthly, thofe of the lower clafs. The new towns raised under the prefent reign, amount to 216. - Paris, Dec. 22. The edict of a new loan was yesterday registered in parliament, not in confequence of an exprefs order from his majefty, but with certain inuendoes, and after three fucceffive remonftrances. This loan, though looked upon as a fatal blow to trade, is indifpenfable, on account of the large fums unavoidably expended in the course of the current year. The affair with Holland coft France forty-five millions, and it was more honourable to make that facrifice than to fuffer the continent of Europe to be, involved in the horrors of a long and bloody war. The Baftile is to be made a civil prifon, when the cardinal's affair is brought to a conclufion. The prifoners will have the fatisfaction of feeing their friends, and procuring themfelves every means of juftification. This is the first beam of liberty that has fhone on France for many years; it is hoped its beneficence will not stop here. My Gloucefter, Dec. 26. On Tucfday about noon, two men and a woman, well dreffed people, went into the kitchen of Mr. John Fowler, in the Bolt-lane, in this city, and feeing only his houfekeeper, Anne Favel, they told her, that they wanted to fpeak with her. She defired to know their bufinefs; the woman faid, "We are fent by a lady for two or three of your teeth; the lady will not regard giving two or three guineas for them." teeth," faid Mrs. Favell, "I will as foon part with my life as my teeth:" "We muft and will have them," faid the woman, "and I am come to hold you whilst these men take them out." "But I will bleed you before you draw my teeth," faid Mrs. Favell," for this fword fhall be through your body this moment;" and running to the chimney-piece, where hung a naked fword, he took it down. The ftrangers feeing her thus refolute,, made a precipitate retreat. The neighbours were immediately alarmed, but the people made off fo expeditiously, that they could not be traced. It is fuppofed they in tended tended to have clapped a gag into her mouth, and then to have plundered the house. 29. A General Bill of all the Chriftenings and Burials, from Dec. 14, 1784, to Dec. 13, 1785. Christened, Males In all Females Buried, Males - Females In all } 9085 8534 9447 9472 18919 and others their means of fubfiftence. The caufe of this terrible inundation is attributed to the valt quantities of fnow upon the Tyrol, Saltzbourg, and upper Auftrian mountains. Among other remarkable circumftances that were obferved in this fatal inundation, were the following. The guard-houfe of the Red 17919 Tower at Vienna was filled with water fo rapidly, that the foldiers were obliged to make their efcape with the utmost precipi ation. The fuburb of Roflan, though laid under water, took fire twice by the heating of unflacked lime. Thefe fires were however foon extinguifh6177 ed. A village confifting of twenty 1626 houfes, near Marienzel, was en716 tirely fwept away by it, and the 653 vines torn up by the roots. Among 1481 the foil which the inundation left 1772 behind it, there was a prodigious 1966 number of ferpents and dead fish, 1586 fo that the stench was almost infup1399 portable. The great quantities of 1019 mud heated and fermented raifed 454 fwarms of infects equally trouble67 fome and mifchievous, and caufed a i kind of epidemic diforder among thofe of the inhabitants whofe houfes fuffered moft by the inundation. 1 1 1000 this year 30. To the accounts of calamitous events this year in various parts of the globe, may be added the inundation of the Danube on the 22d of June. That river overflowed its banks in fo violent a manner as to carry away bridges, houfes, people, and even whole villages. This unexpected inundation did incredible damage, as no meafures could be taken to prevent the effects of it; vast numbers of cattle were drowned; but the greatest misfortune is, that of feveral hun dred perfons, fome loft their lives, To the account of this inundation may be added, that great part of the town of Writzen, on the Oder, together with 100 villages and farms, were inundated; that the Sleine, near New Gliezen, and the dykes above Custrim, were both broken down, and the torrent that iffued was irrefiftible; many of the ftrengeft edifices were carried before it, with whole families therein, who had no poffible means of efcaping; and both sheep and cattle without number perified. Thefe inundations were followed by fo general a drought as fearce ever had a precedent. Part of Ger many many, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, and Holland, and as far as the 46th degree of latitude, have felt its effects. In the internal provinces of France, not only the ponds and lakes, but the living fprings, were in a great meafure dried up, infomuch that the farmers, feeing the calamity that was likely to enfue, killed most of their spare cattle while they were yet fit for meat, fo that beef was felling in Normandy about the latter end of June for a halfpenny a pound. In Brittany and Piedmont the effects were fimilar. In England and Ireland they were but flightly felt; and, what was remarkable, in the Little Palatinate of Hambourg, and the New March of Brandenburg, they never had more favourable feafons, nor more plentiful crops. Though the more northern climates have not felt the calamitous effects of thofe vicifiitudes, they have been vifited by diftreffes ftill more fatal. Iceland has almost been depopulated by famine and difeafe; the internal provinces of Denmark have fhared in the adverfity; and in Sweden, to fufferings in common with her neighbours, may be added a fire, which broke out on the 29th of June at Chriftianburgh, their principal arfenal for ftores, which communicated from one magazine to another, till 140 of them, built of wood, and filled with combuftibles, fuch as flax, hemp, oil, fulphur, &c. were all in a blaze together. The royal custom-houfe, newly built, was reduced to afhes with all its contents; and the adjoining magazines fhared fimilar fate, fo that of all thofe next the fea not a trace remained. 31. This year has been diftin guifhed by the great increase of Sunday fchools; an inftitution ori ginally fet on foot by Mr. Raikes, printer, of Gloucester, in the year preceding. Its object is to prevent poor children, efpecially in great manufacturing towns, from spend ing the fabbath in idlenefs and pro fligacy, and to employ that facred day in impreffing on their minds the principles of piety and virtue, and the love of induftry and good order. The effects of this inftitution have been in the highest degree beneficial; infomuch that they arp very generally patronized by the affluent and humane. Many have been established in the metropolis and its vicinity, as well as in various parts of the country; and they all bid fair to make a confpicuous figure in the annals of virtue and virtuous inftitutions. Sce Public Papers. 20. Countess Percy, twins, a fon the hon. mifs Roper, daughter of and daughter. lord Teynham. 22. Lady Saltoun, a fon. May 24. Countess of Tankerville, a daughter. fon. Lady Louifa Macdonald, a June 4. Lady Mahon, a fon. 6. Lady Hereford, a daughter. 10. Lady Maitland, a fon. 22. Lady Balgonie, a fon. July 1. Lady of John Robinfon, efq. a fon. Auguft 29. Duchefs of Devonfhire, a daughter. 26. Lady of lord Brownlow, a fon. 30. Lady of the hon. William Wyndham (late mifs Harford), a fon and heir. September 8. Duchefs of Marlborough, a daughter. -Lady of lord Monfon, a fon and heir. 13. Viscountess Townfhend, a fon. 16. Countess of Leicester, a fon. 19. Duchefs of Grafton, a fon. 26. Lady of the right hon. Charles Townfhend, a fon. October 1. Lady of fir Gregory Page Turner, bart. a fon and heir. 8. Lady of lord St. Afaph, a fon and heir. 18. Countefs dowager of Granard, a fon. 31. Lady St. John, a fon. Nov. 13. Vifcountefs Duncannon, a fon. 16. Countess of Radnor, a fon. December 31. Countess of Harrington, a fon. MARRIAGES in the Year 1785. January 2. Sir Gregory Page Turner, bart. to mifs Howell. 6. Francis Henry Tyler, efq. to February 3. James Everard Arundel, efq. count of the facred Roman empire, eldest fon of the hon. James Everard, of Afhcombe, Dorsetshire, to the hon. mifs Arundel, countess of the facred Roman empire, daughter of lord Aruudel, of Wardour. 15. Anthony Burlton Bennet, efq. to the hon. mifs Monckton, fifter of viscount Galway. 18. Luke Dillon, efq. to lady Margaret Augufta Deburgh, fifter of the earl of Clanrickarde. March 3. Marquis of Graham to lady Jemima Elizabeth, second daughter of the earl of Afhburnham. 17. Earl of Clanrickarde to mifs Powlett, only daughter of George Powlett, efq. 19. Hon. Jofeph Somers Cocks, fon and heir of lord Somers, to mits Margaret Nafh, daughter of the rev. Dr. Nafh, author of the Hiftory of Worcestershire. 24. Capt. Rowley, fon of admiral Rowley, to mifs Harley, daughter of alderman Harley. 27. The infant don Juan of Por tugal to the infanta donna Charlotta, eldest daughter of the prince of Afturias, heir-apparent to the crown of Spain. April 12. Rev. Geo. Wm. Au. riel Drummond, nephew to the earl of Kinnoul, to the daughter of capt. Marshall, of the navy. The infant don Gabriel of Spain, to the infanta donna Mari anna Victoria of Portugal. 18. George Hay, efq. to lady Hannah Charlotte Maitland, fifter of the carl of Lauderdale. May 19. Hon. Mr. Carpenter, brother to lord Tyrconnel, to mifs Mackenzie. 10. At Lisbon, the hon. Robert Walpole, Walpole, envoy extraordinary to the court of Portugal, to mifs Sophia Stert, daughter of Richard Stert, efq. of that city. June 9. Sir James Graham, bart. to lady Catharine Stewart, daughter of the earl of Galloway. 28. Sir. Wm. A. Cunyngham, bart. M. P. to mifs Udney. July 4. Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, bart. to mifs Hoare, only daughter of Richard Hoare, efq. of Barn Elms. 9. John Hay, efq. to the hon. mifs Mary Forbes. 16. William Clayton, efq. M. P. to mifs Eat, only daughter of fir W. Eaft, bart. 26. Sir James Tylney Long, bart. to lady Catharine Windfor, fifter to the earl of Plymouth. Auguft 8. John Grofett Muirhead, eiq. to lady Jane Murray, third daughter of the late duke of Athol. 18. Lord viscount Dyfart to lady Anne Brown, daughter to the earl of Altamont. 19. Edward Loveden, efq. M. P. to Mrs. Nath, fole daughter and heiress of the late John Darker, efq. September 5. James Dawkins, efq. M. P. to Mrs. Long, relict of the late Charles Long, efq. 8. Sir Thomas Geo. Skipwith, bart. to mifs Shirley, daughter of general Shirley. 12. Sir James Duff, M. P. to mifs Dawes. 16. Sir Robert Burnet, bart. to mifs Margaret Dalrymple, daughter of general Elphinston. 24. The hon. Edward James Eliott, for of lord Eliott, to lady Harriet Pitt, fifter of the earl of Chatham. 30. Hon. Geo. Aug. North to mifs Hobart. Lately, the hon. Geo. Petre, fe cond fon of lord Petre, to mifs Howard, daughter of Philip Howard, efq. of Corny Caffle, Cumberland. October 9. George Hatton, efq: of Wexford, to lady Ifabella Seymour Conway, youngest daughter of the earl of Hertford. 26. Sir John Chetwode, bart. to lady Henrietta Grey, daughter of the earl of Stamford. November 25. Hon. Lewis Thomas Watson, eldest fon of lord Sondes, to mifs Milles, daughter of Richard Milles, efq. late M. P. for Canterbury. December 15. George Finch Hatton, efq. first coufin and prefumptive heir to the earl of Winchelfea, to the hon. mifs Murray, only daughter, by his first wife, of viscount Stormont. 20. Hon. Edward Bouverie, brother to the earl of Radnor, to miss A. Ogle, daughter of admiral fir Chaloner Ogle. 31. Hon. Mr. Pratt, only fon of lord Camden, to mifs Molefworth, fole daughter and heirefs of the late W. Molefworth, efq. and fifter to lady Lucan. DEATHS in the Year 1785. December 29, 1784. The right hon. fir Thomas Parker, knt. late lord chief baron of the Exchequer, which office he refigned in 1772 January 2. Peregrine Cuft, efq. brother to fir John Cuft, the late fpeaker, uncle to lord Brownlow, and M. P. for Ilchester. 8. Lady Maria Coventry, daughter of the earl of Coventry. 11. The hon. mifs Frances Cuff, eldest daughter of lord Brownlow, by his fecond wife. 18. Thomas Wiggins, efq. M. P. for Okehampton. 20. The |