pentance is fincere; but thrice happy they who have no need of this repentance.

This night being the eve of a Sunday, on which a general communion was to be at the cathedral church of Zurich, in Switzerland, called Munfter Kirk; and many thousands were expected there to partake of it; the wine was prepared and brought to the church, to be ready against morning; but, in the mean time, an incarnate devil dared to lay hands on the fanctuary of the Lord, and poifoned all the wine. In the morning, when the facrament was administered, there was a horrid confufion; feveral fainted away on the fpot; feveral vomited; feveral were taken with a violent cholic; and, in fhort, the whole city was thrown into the utmoft confternation. Upon this, an experiment was tried, and the poifon difcovered. About eight had died of the poifon when this account came away; and had not the bad taste of the wine given early notice of the intended mifchief, many more must have perished: ftill fome hundreds were dangerously ill. After a ftrict examination, it was difcovered, that one Wirtz, a gravedigger, was the perpetrator of this diabolical deed, with a view to promote his bufinefs, which had been flack for fome time. The villain was immediately apprehended; but what is become of him, we have not as yet learned. The King's troops, un 15th. der General Howe, landed at Kepps-bay, in order to attack New-York; but, on their approach, found the city abandoned, and the Provincials fled; upon which they took poffeffion of the

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city, after a flight fkirmish with the rear of the provincial army, with the lofs of fix or eight men killed and wounded.

A fire broke out at the corner of Rood - Lane, in Fenchurch ftreet, which burnt three houses in front, and damaged several others. Two men were killed, and one miferably bruised, on the occafion. This morning, a high16th. wayman was fhot dead, on Finchley-Common, in attempting to rob the Derby machine.

At the meeting of the three choirs at Worcester, the collection amounted to 5061.

The feffions ended at the 17th. Old-Bailey, when eleven convicts received fentence of death, viz. one, for coining; four, for houfebreaking; one of them while the family of the house was in the country; two women, for fhoplifting; one, for horse-stealing, of which he made a practice, in order to kill them, and boil their flesh, &c.; one, for ftreet-robbery; one, for forgery; and one, for returning from transportation; thirtyfour were ordered to hard labour for three years on the river Thames, among whom were nineteen capital convicts, who had received his Majefty's pardon on that condition; five were ordered to be fent to the houfe of correction; twelve to be imprifoned in Newgate for different terms; three to be branded in the hand; fourteen to be whipped; and forty eight were discharged by proclamation.

At this feffions a gentleman was tried for perjury, in polling twice for Mr. Wilkes at the late election for chamberlain; but it appearing. that what he did was the effect of an habitual intoxication, or rather [M] 2

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permanent fupidity thereby produced, he was acquitted. At this feffions were likewife convicted two more of the fellows concerned in the murder of the custom-house officer (fee May 25th) and executed the 16th. At the place of execution, they owned being of the company, but denied having any hand in the murder; and behaved with great compofure of mind. Moft of the other criminals were pardoned; fome of them, on condition of working on the Thames; and the reft were executed fome weeks after.

Lord Howe, and Gene19th. ral Howe, caufed a declaration to be circulated, promifing, in his Majesty's name, a revision of all fuch inftructions as might be conftrued to lay an improper reftraint on the freedom of legislation in the colonies; and alfo to concur in the revifal of fuch acts as they might think themselves aggrieved by, &c. And foon after the iffuing of this declaration, the people flocked in great numbers to his head-quarters, and made their fubmiffion.

The greatest and finest 20th. part of the handsome town of Gefle, the capital of the province of Geftricia, in Sweden, was burnt to afhes.

A perfect rainbow was feen at Lower-Halfton, in Kent, about nine at night.

Between this and the 23d. next day, at midnight, a moft horrid attempt was made by a number of wretches to burn tho town of New-York, in which they fucceeded fo well, having fet it on fire in feveral places with matches and combustibles that had been prepared with great art and ingenuity, that about one

quarter of the town was confamed; and the reft must have fuffered the fame fate, had it not been for the exertions of MajorGeneral Robertson, the officers under his command in the town, and the brigade of guards detached from the camp.

A few days ago Capt. Don Daval, a young and gallant fea-officer in the Spanish fervice, in a frigate of 34 guns, in company with another Spanish frigate of 28 guns, fell in, near Tetuan, with four Moorish zebecs, when a bloody fcene was exhibited. The barbarians boarded the Spaniards nine times, and, although fuperior, almoft three to one in number, were every time repulfed with great loss. At length, after an engagement fix hours, the Moors were obliged to ftrike to the Spanish flag. The lofs of the barbarians, in killed and wounded, was upwards of 260; and that of the Spaniards, 38 feamen and 3 officers killed, and 90 men and officers wounded; amongst the latter was Capt. Daval.

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Lord North, in taking an airing in Bufhy-Park, had the misfortune to be flung from his horfe, and break one of his arms, which put a stop to fome very material parliamentary bufinefs till he recovered. In the mean time, his Majefty did his Lordship the honour to fend daily to enquire after his health; and even frequently to go in perfon to fee him, but without ever speaking of bufinefs to him, least any application of mind fhould retard his cure. The Aldermen Plumbe 28th. and Thomas were chofen fheriffs; and Alderman Halifax lord-mayor, for the year enfuing.

The Landgrave of Heffe-Caffel has returned the contribution which

his fubjects had paid to the military cheft, and declared that he would do fo as long, as the Heffian troops continued in the British fervice; and the hereditary prince, his fon, willing to follow fo good an example, published an ordonnance, by which he declared, that all the parents of foldiers, and the foldiers themselves, of the regiment of Heffe-Hanau, (the territory settled on his electoral highnefs, as an establishment during his father's life) gone to America, fhall be free from any duty, either in money or product, upon any land they may poffefs in that landgraviate, from the day that regiment fet out till its return. Moreover, by the indulgence of the court of London, all the letters written by the officers or foldiers of the German troops employed in the fervice of GreatBritain, in North-America, their friends in Europe, and to them from fuch their friends, are to be exempted from poftage. General Howe iffued a pro30th. clamation, promifing a full pardon to all deferters from the British troops in America, who fhould furrender themfelves on or before the 31ft of the next month: And, towards the end of November, upwards of forty of those who had furrendered in confequence of the faid proclamation, arrived in London, in their way to the coaft of Africa, to make part of the corps lately Colonel O'Hara's on that ftation.

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The French king had juft received the collection of ancient me. dals, which the Sieur Pellerin had been fo many years making for his majefty, whofe cabinet before this acquifition was celebrated throughout Europe, but now may

very truly be faid to be the richest and most useful; especially for the affiftance it may lend by throwing new lights on ancient hiftory.

DIED, the 7th inftant, Eric Guftavus Queckford, Knight of the Sword, and a lieutenant-general in the Swedish service, aged 88. - He was the last surviving officer who attended Charles XII. at Bender. Mrs. Kennedy, in the 110th. year of her age, at Dumfries, in Scotland.

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The 17th, Capt. Thomas Forbes of the royal navy, aged 102, at Harwich.

The 22d, Monfieur Lewis Chambaud, author of feveral useful works in French and English; particularly a French Dictionary in folio.

Mafter Chivers of Rotherhithe, of the bite of a mad dog. He had drank the falt water; been bathed in it; returned feemingly well; and continued fo for more than a month; but, on the 17th inftant, he was feized with the hydrophobia, for which no cure could be had.

William Dale, aged 101, at Auftry in Warwickshire.

The 27th, Francis Marsh, Efq; at Lambeth, aged 84 years. At the age of 60 he had his coffin made, and kept it by him ever fince.

The 29th, Alderman Ogden, of Leicester, aged 96.

Lately, At Chichester, Mr. George Smith, landfcape painter, and furviving brother of three, who all cultivated that enchanting art. He gained the premiums given by the fociety for the encouragement of arts, &c. in 1760, 1761, and 1763.

Mr. Robert Weft, father of Mr. Weft, hiftorical painter. He was [M] 3

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born at Long-Crandon, Bucks, in 1690; went in 1715 to Penfylvania, where he had three brothers fettled, who went there with William Penn; married and raised a family of ten children in that province; and came over in 1764 to vifit his native country, and fee his fon, where he has continued ever fince. He was one of the people called Quakers, univerfally esteemed. Jofiah Van Rochle, Efq; who had made nine voyages to the Eaft Indies.

At Chelfea, Edward Northorpe, Efq; worth 40,000l. of which he has left 5000l. to portion ten maidens, in the choice of his execu

tors.

In Spitalfields, Mr. James Pointhoufe, who ferved with King George I. in the allied army, previous to that Monarch's fwaying the British fceptre.

At Greenwich, Thomas Randall, aged near 100, who was cabbin-boy on board Admiral Ruffel's fhip, in the famous battle with the French, under Tourville, in 1692, and continued in the fervice of his country from that time to the conclufion of the laft war.

Mr. Buck, aged 105, at Dublin. Near Nancy in Lorrain, M. Lancelot Chambellan, in his 109th year; a few days before his death, he walked upwards of ten miles.

Mrs. Dorothy Clarke, aged 112, at Weftorp, in Nottinghamshire. Mrs. Sarah Mendes Furdato, aged 109.

SUMMER ASSIZE S. At Dorchester, one was capitally 'convicted, but afterwards reprieved. At thefe affizes, Mr. Sykes, the late member for Shaftesbury, was convicted of bribery, and Mr. Mortimer, the prefent member, recoS

vered penalties to the amount of 11,000l. This is the most decifive caufe ever yet determined in favour of the landed interest.

The following point of law was argued at the faid affizes: "Whether the fetting out of grafs in cocks, from the fwath, without tedding, was or was not a good setting out of tythes?" After a full hear ing, the question was determined in the affirmative, and a verdict given against the rector for nót taking his tythe away.

At Cambridge, one was capitally convicted of horfeftealing, but afterwards reprieved.

At Stafford, two were capitally convicted, but reprieved.

At Nottingham, one, but re, prieved.

At Buckingham, one for murder. At Litchfield, one, for forgery. At Horfham, for the county of Suffer, an old woman, aged 74, was found guilty of murdering her husband, a butcher, at Brightling,. in that county, and fentenced to be burnt. She was generally fuppofed to be infane; but from the clear, artful anfwers fhe gave, and the defence fhe made, Lord Manffield was clearly of a contrary opinion.

At the affizes for the county of Devon, three were capitally convicted.

At Guildford, eleven; fix of whom, viz. four women for a robbery, and two horfe-ftealers, were afterwards reprieved; the other five were executed,

At Durham, two, one of whom, for a burglary, was executed.

At Newcastle, two, one of whom, for ftealing two bank notes out of a letter, was executed.

At the aflizes for the county of Northumberland, four, one of

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whom, for a highway robbery, was executed.

At Bridgewater, one.

At Bodmin, one, who was afterwards reprieved.

At Bristol, only one caufe, of a very trifling nature, was tried.

At York, two were capitally convicted, but reprieved. In the trial of one of them, John Sutcliff, for the murder of his wife and child, the Rev. Mr. Atkingfon deposed, the reafon Sutcliff gave for murdering his wife was, that, as fhe was in a miferable fituation, he thought it was proper to put her out of mifery. When asked, why he murdered his child, being in no mifery? he said, he gave it in facrifice to God, in return for fome bleffings he had received a few days before. The jury brought in their verdict infane.

At maidstone, four were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved, but the others for murder were executed.

At Shrewsbury, one, but reprieved.

At Salisbury affize, Mary Bower was charged, on the oath of her fifter, with taking from her bank notes to the amount of 990l. It appeared to be a family affair. At Norwich, two were capitally convicted.

a verdict was given for the defendant.

At Lincoln, three were capitally convicted, but reprieved.

At Appleby, one; but reprieved. At Clemsford, ten; eight of whom were reprieved.

At Oxford, two brothers, but reprieved.

At Abingdon, three, and reprieved.

At Northampton, one, for murder; and another, for a burglary; but were both reprieved; and the jurors verdict on the former referred to the opinion of the twelve judges.

At Worcester, two, but reprieved.

At Brecon affizes, one, for wilfully and premeditately firing a loaded piftol at an intimate acquaintance, in a fit of jealousy, on account of a young woman whom they both courted, and dangerously wounding him in the hip.

At Lancaster, two, of burglary, but both reprieved.

At Chefter, four, and all executed.

The affizes at Bedford, Warwick, Coventry, Salisbury, Huntingdon, Cowbridge, and Winchefter, proved maiden.

At the laft of the above affizes, an action was brought by farmer Mafkall, plaintiff, againft a neighbouring farmer, defendant, for debauching one of his daughters, under the common pretence of marriage. Many learned arguments were used by the plaintiff's counfel, in relation to the nature, criminality, and confequence of the offence; and the evidence being impartially fummed up by the learned judge, the jury, without hefitation, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2501. damages, and all cofts.

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