by complying with the new regulation. The fame edict alfo abolithes the -celebrated Bull Featts (fo long the favourite divertion of the Spaniards) except in particular cafes, where -the profits arifing from that exhibi-tion have been appropriated to pious or patriotic ufes, and where no -fund has yet been fet afide to foply the deficiency that would be the confequence of the fuppref-fion. The motive affigned for thefe prohibitions, in the preamble of the edict, is the great deftruction of cattle, which might be better employed in agriculture and other ufcful occupations. Lond. Gaz. Yefterday came on before the barons of the exchequer at Serjeants-inn-hall, the long depending caufe between Mr. Charles Rennett, attorney, in the Temple, and Meffis. Longman and Broderip, of Cheapfide, London, mufic-fellers, charging Meffis. Longman and Broderip with having printed and published a great number of mufical works, his property, and claiming a right in the mufic of the Pad lock, Jubilee, and fundry other publications, which were Meffrs. Longman and Broderip's property, and purchafed by them originally of Mr. Dibdin, but to which Mr. Rennet claimed a reverfionary right as affignee to Mr. Dibdin, under a deed which took place at the expiration of the first fourteen years after the publication. Mr. Rennett having gone through the whole of his cafe and proofs, the barons, without hearing one word of evidence on the part of Meflrs. Longman and Broderip, difmiffed Mr. Rennett's fuit with cofts. Salisbury, Dec. 12. Monday laft col. Jofeph Brandt, the celebrated king of the Mohawks, arrived in 1785. this city from America, and after dining with col. De Peifter at the head quarters here; proceeded immediately on his journey to London. This extraordinary perfonage is faid to have prefided at a late grand congrefs of confederate chiefs of the Indian nations in America. He took his departure for England immediately as that affembly broke up; and it is conjectured that his embaffy to the British court is of great importance. This country owes much to the fervices of col. Brandt during the late war in Ame rica. He was educated at Philadelphia, is a very fhrewd intelligent perfon, pofleffes great courage and abilities as a warrior, and is inviolably attached to the English nation. 15. At a respectable meeting of the retail fhop-keepers of London, at the London-tavern, purfuant to advertitement, to receive the report of their committee, Mr. Alderman Skinner took the chair, and in a fpeech of fome length gave a very circumftantial account of what had paffed at an audience which he, and three others of their committee, had obtained of Mr. Pitt; the refult of which was, that having acquainted the chancellor with what the committee, from general report, had been led to believe, "That it was his intention, early in the en. fuing feflion, to move for the repeal of the fhop-tax;" he denied ever having, in public or private con verfation, given the most distant intimation, that he would either move for the repeal of the fhop-tax him-felf, or fupport any motion for that purpose, if made by any other member. And after hearing all the ar guments which he (the alderman), and those who accompanied him, had urged, on breaking up the con ference, he declared himself not at all (G) соде convinced, and evaded a direct anfwer to every question put to him, relative to his future conduct on the bufinefs of their commiffion. Having stated at large every circumftance of the conference, which we have only recited in brief, and given due praise to the minifter for their very polite reception, he concluded with recommending firmnefs, and the most vigorous purfuit of every legal means to accomplish their wishes, and by no means to trust to any affistance from the minifter, or from those with whom he acted. The refult of the meeting was to petition, and to endeavour to make that effort general throughout the kingdom. See p. 81. 16. The church of Enfield, Middlefex, was broken open, and robbed of two filver Haggons, one marked Enfield Parish, 1637, a filver chalice and cover, gilt, 1592; another, 1587; a filver plate, marked Ralph Garrett, Edward Hundfon, J. Moore, churchwardens, 1713; another ditto, L. Done, Rob. Pierfon, 1733; a filver falver, 1638. - By advices from Breft, we are informed of the iffue of a council of war held upon the chevalier de la Martoliere, lieutenant in the navy, who commanded one of his majesty's frigates. The charge brought against him, was for having quitted his ftation off the coaft of St. Domingo, for the purpose of taking in goods at Jamaica, and felling the fame to his profit in the French colony; alfo for having faluted the Englifh fhips in a manner degrading to the dignity of the French flag; and latily, for treating cruelly, and in an ungentleman-like manner, a female paflenger he had on board, lady to the profecutor, Monf. Regnier, one of the richest fattlers at St. Domingo. The facts being fully proved, the lieutenant was fentenced to be cafhiered, and then to be imprifoned twenty years and one day in the caftle of Angouleme. Charlestown, South Carolina, O8. 20. The fupreme legislative affembly of this province have lately entered a refolution on their journals, ftating, that they will never confent to the establishment of epifcopacy in that ftate, but will give every affiftance to preferve the prefent independent church to the latest times. The Georgians and North Carolinians are equally refolute on that head. See p. 70. The following Bath, Dec. 12. infcription, written by Mr. Anfty, was lately put over the pump at the King's Bath. "The hofpital of this city, ap propriated folely to Bath cafes, and open to the poor and afflicted of every part of the world (Bath only excepted) being deftitute of a fund in any degree adequate to its fupport, is most earneilly recommend ed to the patronage and protection of the humane and liberal part of mankind. Oh paufe awhile whoe'er thou art, That drink'ft this healing ftream; Think on the wretch whose distant lot, Hither th' afflicted stranger bring, Relieve his heart-felt woe; So be thy years from want and pain, Portfinouth, Dec. 14. The con victs which arrived here on Sunday from London, and were put on board the the Ferme prison ship (an old French fhip of 60 guns, fitted for that purpofe), are all ordered to be new clothed to prevent difeafes, their fituation at prefent being very wretched. The Ferme has had appointed, befides the officers to fhips in ordinary, a guard of marines, and as the lies near the men of war, there is no danger from infurrection. Thefe unhappy men are to be employed in the fpring in picking oakum, &c. on board in wet weather, and on the fortifications on fhore in dry weather. A hundred more are expected in fix weeks. 17. An account of fugar and rum imported from March 25, to October 19th, 1785. 18,184 2881 112,2721 -Wednesday a poft-mafter of Greenwich, in Kent, was convicted before Timothy Brett and John Ruffel, efqrs. two of his majesty's juftices of the peace for that coun ty, in two feveral penalties of ten pounds each, for offences against the poft-horfe duty. This ingenious gentleman of the whip contrived to iffue his pofting tickets (which are left at the toll-gates) for two or three miles each, when the horfes were hired to go twenty miles; by which means he pocketed the remaining part of the duty: The above conviction fhews the neceffity of gentlemen looking at the tickets, in order to fee if the true number of miles is thereon, as that would be. an effectual means to fecure the re venue. - A new fpecies of fraud; committed on the Bank; was difcovered, A perfon paid 10l. in money into the Bank, for which the clerk, as ufual, gave him a ticket, in order to receive a bank note of equal values This ticket ought to have been carried immediately to the caflier to make out the note; inflead of which he took it home, and cu riously added an o to the original fum, and returning, prefented the fame fo altered to the cafhier, for which he received a note of one hundred pounds. In the evening, the clerks, in making up their accounts, found a confiderable defici ency, but how to account for it was the difficulty; and it was fome time before a method was hit upon to make it out. At length it was propofed to examine the tickets of the day, when not only that but two others were found to have been al tered in the fame manner. In one the figure i was altered to a 4, in another to a 5; by which the artist received, upon the whole, near 1000l. and has not yet been difco vered. 18. The excellent Mr. Howard is gone to the continent, intending to visit the plague hofpitals at Marfeilles, to communicate fome difcoveries, and try fome experiments, to fave the lives of thofe unhappy patients. 19. Tuesday afternoon; about four o'clock; as Mr. Chipman, bricklayer, of Stoke Newington, was returning home, he was attacked by four footpads, in the Deptford-road, near Peckham Gap. They were walking in the high coach road; when Mr. Chapman's horfe came almost up to thein, they (G 2) feparated two and two on each fide of the road to make way for his horfe, but he not choofing to ride between them, turned his horfe to go on the outfide of them; his horfe made a trip, and at that inftant one of them, without fpeaking a word, ftruck him on the head, and knocked him off his horfe, and was making up to him with a cutlafs, when Mr. Chapman, being an active, ftrong man, jumped up, guarded off the blow of the cutlafs, knocked the footpad down, and ran to take up the cutlafs, in order to defend himself against the four. As he was ftooping for it, he was knocked down by one of the other men, and three of them fell upon him, and beat him in an unmerciful man ner with the cutlafs over the head, and robbed him of about fix pounds, and one of the footpads cried, "Damn him, make an end of him at once." But providentially two gentlemen were feen coming on the road, upon which the four footpads ran up Peckham Gap, and got clear off. The two gentlemen very humanely took care of Mr. Chapman, and conducted him home to his wife and family in Church-street, Stoke Newington, where he lies dangeroufly ill of the wounds he received. Conftantinople, Nov. 4. The advices which the Porte receives from time to time refpecting the progrefs of the fanatic Scheich Manfour, in Upper Afia, become daily more alarming, which has occafioned fresh inftructions to be fent to the bafhaw of Erzerum, that he might take the most effectual meafures to reprefs that evil in its beginning. Scheich Manfour, fhaping his conduct on the founder of the Muffulman worhip, is at the fame time both prophet and foldier. The principal teness attributed to him are, I. That God, according to his eternal decrees, has fent him, Scheich Manfour, to put a stop to corruption amongst men. 2. That his miffion has put an end to the power of Mahomet, and that himself alone ought to be looked upon now as the true prophet. 3. That in confequence his fectaries must abftain from the journey to Mecca, and from all other pilgrimages in honour of the old prophet. The number of Scheich Manfour's adherents was inconfiderable at first, but now they form a little army, with which he has made himself mafter of feveral trong posts, where he feems determined to defend himfelf in cafe of an attack on the part of the government. See Dec. 12. 20. Some gentlemen courfing in the neighbourhood of Caftleton, in the High Peak, Derbyshire, started a hare at the foot of the celebrated Mam-tor, a mountain elevated near 800 feet above the valley, in which the town of Cafileton is fituated. She ran directly up the steep afcent, and was followed by a leafh of greyhounds; when they came to the top, the hare found herself so closely purfued, that he had no other alternative but death by the dogs, or leaping directly down the precipice at least 150 feet deep. She made choice of the latter, and the dogs after her; the fate of all was what might be expected-they were found dead at the bottom. plaintiff's goods therein. The queftion for the court to determine was, whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover. Lord Mansfield stated, that a common carrier is in the nature of an infurer; and that he is liable for every thing, except the act of God and the king's enemies; that is, even for inevitable accidents with thofe exceptions. Judgment was therefore given for the plaintiff. - About feven in the morning of the 17th, a large flip was feen two leagues weft of the Land's End in apparent diftrefs, the wind then very hard at eaft. Thirty people, from a fmall village called Sunning, went out, in two boats, to her affiftance. Between the fhip and the shore they were met by two boats from the veffel, who told them they were from Port-au-Prince, bound to Dunkirk; that they had been out 56 days, and had met with very hard weather; that the flip was leaky, and, when they quitted her, had fix feet water in her hold, and they fuppofed fhe would go down in lefs than a quarter of an hour. This did not stop the Cornish men: they boarded her, and found very foul play had been used, and great pains taken to fink the fhip. Three augers were found, with which they had bored two holes under the cabin-floor; alfo the rigging cut away, and the principal pump-geer tied. They flopped the holes as faft as poffible, and, in a few hours, got her fate into St. Mary's in Scilly her cargo is coffee, fugar, and indigo. The perfon who calls himfelf captain, fays, his name is Francis Cardon; the hip called the Sarah; and that they left the real captain fick in the West Indies. They brought fifty chefts of dollars with them. 21. The fefsions at the Old Bai. ley, which began on the 14th, ended this day, when fourteen perfons received fentence of death; viz. Michael Druite, for forging the or der of George Holmes, on Mefirs. Hankey and Co. for 12l. 105. payab'e to William Thenfon or bearer, and publifhing the fame as true, with intent to defraud Mr. Ifaac Brown, haberdasher in the Strand; Thomas Scrivener, for ftealing in the dwelling-houfe of William Young a draft for 61. 138. 1d. on Mefirs. Prefcott and Co.; John alias James. Murray, for forging a feaman's will; John Harris, for theep-ftealing; John Bateman, Abraham Boize, Benj. Rogers, Jo feph Leonard, George Wilfon alias Jackson, Charles King, and Thomas Thompfon, for burglaries ; George Dunian, for houfe-breaking; Thomas Shipley, for stealing fundry things out of the house of Dr. Warren; and Charles Seymour alias Moore, for ftealing in the chambers of Edward Poore, efq. in Lincoln's-inn, fome wearing appa. rel, a 2o1. bank note, and a bank poft bill for 41. Plymouth, Dec. 20. Yesterday at 12 o'clock, A. M. the execution flag was hoifted on board the Standard of 64, in the Hamoze, when Moffatt, boatfwain of the Fortune floop of war, who was fentenced by a court martial to be hanged for ftriking his lieutenant, was executed purfuant to his funtence. Hague, Dec. 16. The ftates ge. neral having on Monday last ratified the definitive treaty concluded the 8th instant with the emperor, baron Hop fet out yesterday for Bruffels to refume his poft of mini, fter from the republic. See Public Papers. Marseilles, Dec. 10. The whole converfation of this city is on the (G 3) heroic |