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his pocket a news-paper, and read out of it
the following paragraph, viz. "On Sunday
the 18th of January, two ponies run on the
Uxbridge road, 20 miles for 20 guineas, and
that one gained it by about half a head, both
ponies were ridden by their owners.' Allo
another paragraph of the like kind, of a
race on the Rumford road on a Sunday. He
made an apology for reading part of a newf-
paper in the pulpit, faid he believed it to be
the first inftance of the kind, and he fincere-
ly wished that there never might be occafion
for the like again. He then pointed out the
heinous fin of fabbath-breaking, and what
a fcandal it was that fuch actions should be
practifed in a Chriftian country by men of
property, who ought to fet a good example to;
the lower clafs of people, and pass unnoticed
by those who had authority to punish such of-
fenders; he added that fuch wickedness,
would have been feverely punished by Maho-
metans, how much more ought it to be by
Chriftian magiflrates 1

TUESDAY, 20.

A new regiment of light infantry is now raising to be fent to America: a ferjeant in the faid regiment, in a new uniform, was prefented to his Majefty on Friday last, and went through the whole manual exercise on an entire new plan, before his Majefty and feveral general officers, in the King's ridinghoufe, which gave univerfal fatisfaction.

Letters by the Woodbridge, Capt. Pote, who is arrived at Liverpool from Jamaica, bring advice, that a veffel put in at Kingston from the island of Hifpaniola, the mafter of which reported that there had been another fevere fhock of an earthquake, followed by an inundation of the fea, which had destroyed the buildings lately erected by the Spaniards, and that many lives were loft. FRIDAY, 23.

On Tuesday a caufe was tried in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, before Lord Mansfield and a fpecial jury, wherein Mr. Towley, of Clement's-Inn, was plaintiff, and a gentleman of the county of Worcefter, defendant. The caufe was brought by indictment against the faid gentleman for wilful and corrupt perjury on a late occafion. After a hearing of near feven hours, the judge fummed up the evidence, and gave his charge to the jury, who withdrew, and in half an hour returned and delivered their verdict, finding the defendant guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. He was ordered to be brought up the firft day of next term, in order to receive fentence. Great numbers of perfons of diftinction, and feveral members of the lower affembly appeared in behalf of the prifoner.

A captain of one of the tranfports which

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had 156 fheep brought in five, and all as thin as you could expect, and as the failors fay, only fit for lanthorns; and that feveral coal and porter fhips are taken by the Americans; and out of 40 fail of Transports only eight are yet arrived. I can fee the American camp very plain, whose colours a little while ago were entirely red; but on receipt of a certain fpeech (which they burnt) they have hoifted the Union flag, which is here fuppofed to intimate the union of the provinces."

MONDAY 26.

A letter from Montreal, dated Jan. 16, fays, "General Montgomery made an attack upon the city of Quebec, between the hours of four and fix in the morning of the 31st of December, which, notwithstanding its being bold and refolute, by fome means or other proved not fuccefsful. The letter does not mention how the attack was made; but it is probable that about 500 of our troops entered the city, but were overpowered by numbers, and heavy cannon; the brave general Montgomery, his aid de camp McPherson, capt. Cheeseman, and Henderick, of the riflemen, two or three fubaltern officers, and between 60 and 80 privates, the number not exactly known, fell in the action, and near 300 officers and foldiers were taken prisoners, amongst whom were lieutenant colonel Green, major Biclowe, major Meigs, and a number of captains and inferior officers. Col. Arnold fucceeded in his attempt in taking poffeffion of the Lower Town, but was wounded in the leg in the beginning of the action, and major Ogden in the fhoulder, and carried to the general hofpital. In all probability the action was defperate, and a great number of the enemy killed. Gen. Woofter from Montreal, and col. Warner from the Green Mountains, and a great number of recruits from Albany, and the Western Towns, are on their march to their affiftance. We are told, that our army before Quebec, when the attack was made, did not confift of above 1200 men." Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, dated Feb. 23.

"This morning arrived at Spithead the Canceaux armed fhip, capt. Mowat, from Bofton. She left Bofton fume few hours after admiral Graves and the Trident transport; and brings advice that the Provincials had laid fiege to Bofton, and were firing very brifkly on the town when the came away; fo that it is imagined that something decifive has happened, as the men of war were rendered incapable of affording the army any relief, by reafon of the ice, which entirely prevents their moving."

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MARRIAGES.

arrived at Boston, in New-England, on the JAN. 4. SR Martin Folkes, Bart. of Her,

of January, writes thus to his owners, dated Bofton, Jan. 17.-" I brought about fourteen hogs alive, and another ship that

lington-Hall, to Mifs Turner, youngest daughter to Sir John Turner, Bart, -10. Francis Dugdale Aftley, Efq; High

Sheriff

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Sheriff of Wilts, to Mifs Mary Buckler, youngest daughter of William Buckler, Efq; -15 Sir John Abdy, of Hanover-Street, to Mifs Gordon, of Brewer-Street.-At Edinburgh, Mr. Mackenzie of the Exchequer, to Mifs Pennel Grant, daughter of the late Sir Ludovick Grant, Bart.-18. In Dublin, on the 31ft of December, the Right Hon. John Blaquiere, Knight of the Bath, to Mifs Elinor Dobfon, heiress of Robert Dobfon, Efq,-Feb. 4. Nigel Bowyer Grefley, Efq; (only fon to Sir Nigel Gresley, Bart.) to Mifs Greflay, of Drakelow, in Derbyshire.-18. Charles Warwick Bampfylde, Efq; eldest fon of Sir Richard Bampfylde, and Member of Parliament for Exeter, to Mifs Moore, eldest daughter of Sir John Moore, Bart.-22. In Ireland, the Right Hon. Lord Erne, to Mifs Harvey, eldeft daughter of the Bishop of Derry.

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DEATHS.

T Saltram, in Devonshire, the Hon. Mrs. Parker, wife to John Parker, Efq; one of the reprefentatives for the county of Devon, and fifter to Lord Grantham, ambaffador at Madrid; her death was occafioned by a ftroke of the palfy, foon after her lying in of a daughter: of this the appeared to be recovering, but receiving a fecond stroke, and foon after a third, it put an end to the life of one of the most valuable of women; her amiable difpofition, and foftnefs and gentleness of manners endeared her to all that had the happiness of knowing her. Her whole pleasure and ambition centered in a conscioufnets of properly difcharging all the duties of a wife, a mother, and a fifter, and the neither fought for nor expected fame out of her own house; as she made no oftentation of her virtues, fhe excited no envy, but if there had exifted fo depraved a being as to wish to wound fo fair a character, the most artful malignity muft have searched in vain for a weak part. Her virtues were uniform, quiet and habitual; they were not occafionally put on, the wore them continually, they feemed to grow to her and be a part of herself, and to be im poffible for her to lay them afide, or be other than what she was. Her perfon was eminently agreeable, but the expreffion of her countenance was far above all beauty that proceeds from regularity of features only; the gentleness and benevolence of her difpofition were fo naturally impreffed on every look and motion, that without any affected effort or affumed courtefy, the was fure to make every one her friend that had ever spoken to her,or even feen her. In fo exalted a character it is fcarcely worth mentioning, her skill and exact judgment in the polite arts; the feemed to poffefs by a kind of intuition that propriety of taste and right thinking which others but imperfectly ac

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quire by long labour and application.-Jan. 2. John Barker, Efq; of Guildford, RearAdmiral of the red.-3. The Rev. William Pinkney, A. M. Sub-Dean of St. Paul's, and one of the pries in ordinary, at the Chapel Royal.-4. Chriftopher Griffith, Efq; Knight of the Shire for the county of Berks.-5. Mifs Mary Ann Bunce, only daughter and heirefs of Sir James Bunce, of Kemfing, in Kent, Bart.-7. At Efkine, Scotland, the Rt. Hon. William Lord Blantyre.-8. The Hon. William Hervey, fon of John, Earl of Briftol, and uncle to the prefent Earl.-The Rev. Peter Smith, rector of Melbury, near Shaftesbury, Dorfet. -12. William Strode, Efq; Lieutenant General of his Majefty's forces. - 13. Mr. Bradshaw, agent in the Six Clerks Office. John Ives, jun. Efq; Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and Suffolk Herald extraordinary.-14. The Hon. Edward Cornwallis, Lieutenant General of his Majesty's forces, and governor of Gibraltar.-16. At Webfborough, in Ireland, Mary Coen, aged 112 years, Mr. Thomas Wefton, comedian, John Owen, Efq; Lieut. Gen. of his Majesty's forces.-17. Lieut. Colonel James Provost, Colonel Commandant of the first battalion of the Royal American regiment of foot.-18. Mr. John Leach, mafter-builder, in the 106th year of his age he retained his memory to the laft.

19. In the 73d year of his age, Mr. John Oliver, printer, of Bartholomew-Clofe.--22. Mrs. Catherine Blunt, fifter of Sir Charles Blunt, Bart.-24. Nathaniel Hammond, Eiq; formerly General Accomptant of the Bank of England.-Feb. 1. The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Radnor,-7. Francis Hayman, Efq; Librarian to the Royal Academy.-10. Mr. William Horsley, aged 75, well known by his writing a periodical letter, entitled the Fool.-12. Counsellor Lucas, at his chambers in King's-Bench Walks, in the Temple.-14. Thomas Radcliffe, L. L. D. Judge of the Confiftory Court of Dublin, and Member of Parliament for the Borough of Canice.-17. Mrs. Tyrwhit, fifter of the late Sir JohnTyrwhit, of Stainfield, in Lincolnshire.-18. The Right Hon, the Countess of Salisbury.19. Mrs. Corbet, a maiden lady, daughter of the late Sir Richard Corbet, Bart.-20. The Hon. Richard Rochford Mervyn, Efq; brother to the Eari of Belvedere, one of the members for the Borough of Philipftown.-21. The Right Hon. Robert Carteret, Earl Granville, Viscount Carteret, and bailiff of the ifle of Jerfey.-At Bath, Sir William Hanham, of Winburn, in Dorfetfire.-23. Jofeph Collyer tranflator of the Mefliah and Noah from the German, and author of many learned works.-24. At his feat at Picton-Castle, near Haverfordwest, Sir R:chard Philips, Bart.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

COUNTRY NEW S.

Bath, Jan. 29.

AST week Farmer Thomas, at Banwell, in this county, had 60 fheep Imothered in the fnow; and Farmer Coomer, at Breen-down, loft an ox and 20 sheep in the fame manner.

Canterbury, Feb. 14. We are well informed, that the lofs tuftained by the oystergrounds, in Kent and Effex, amounts to a very confiderable fum, by the late hard weather; and that the brood being chiefly deftroyed, will occafion a very great fcarcity the enfuing feafon.

From Evesham, in Worcestershire, melancholy accounts are received of the damage fuftained by the inclement weather. One farmer in that county loft upwards of thirty fheep; and a man fervant, who had been miffing two days, was at length found buried in the now within about three hundred yards of his mafter's houfe.

The country papers mention many other Joffes, befides the deftruction of near an hundred people, who perished in the fnow,

&c.

SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh, Jan. 20.

HURSDAY a ftout woman, dreffed

TH in mens cloaths, enlifted in the High

land regiment, under the name of Peter Mitchel, and was fworn before a magiftrate; a man came fome time after, and claimed her as his wife. She faid he was very wil Jing to ferve his majefty, and was much abler than many of the recruits who had enlisted; fhe was however difcharged.

Edinburgh, Jan. 24. This day came on at the palace of Holyrood-Houfe, in confequence of his majesty's proclamation, the election of a peer of Scotland, to fit and vote in the prefent parliament of Great Britain, in the room of Thomas Earl of Caffilis, deceafed. The earl of Dunmore was unanimoudly chofen.

AFFAIRS.

AMERICAN
Extra of a Letter from Savannah, in
Georgia, dated Nov. 29, 1775.

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HERE was a very hot engagement the
18th inftant between the rebels, and a

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party of the royalifts, which lafted three days
at which time the rebels were obliged to fur-
render the fort and prifoners; the lofs on either
fide I have not diftinétly heard, but imagine
it inconfiderable, namely, on the part of the
regulars. This engagement was the first we
have had in Georgia fince thefe difturbances
began; indeed it is the only one of confe-
quence we have heard of, on this fide Boston.
I am much afraid, however, it is only a pre-
lude to more bloodshed in this corner, for the
rebels are making preparations for another
attack, and if no foldiers arrived in Carolina,
to keep the Charlestown forces in play at
home, I dread the confequence; for the
other party are not fufficiently fupplied with
ammunition, nor can they poffibly collect to-
gether those who would readily join them,
they being difperfed up and down the country."

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ETTERS from Leyden mention, that in confequence of a premium of thirty ducats offered by a citizen of this place, to whoever shall moft effectually try the experiment of appeafing the waves which furround a fhip in a storm, by pouring oil into the fea, the following letter has been received:

"We left the Texel the 3d of November, 1775, on board a merchant ship, Captain

Jurrien Jurrenfon commander, and arrived

the 14th in the evening on the coaft of Jutland in Denmark. Our intention was to enter a determined port, but the captain thinking it fearce poffible to make it, on account of the great quantity of ice, we put out to fea to make another: The night following a great tempeft arofe, which continued till the next morning, and drove us towards the coaft, where we found a road, and were near a port. This fituation feemed to flatter our hopes, but the waves ran fo high and ftrong, that we had no command of the ship. The captain, alarmed at our fituation, and feeing no other way to prevent a shipwreck, gave orders for fix barrels of oil, which he had on board, to be brought on the deck, and ordered them to be poured out flowly on each fide of the fhip, by which means the waves were by degrees abated, the fhip began to answer her rudder, and they foon afterwards entered the port with safety."

To our CORRESPONDENTS.

CONSTITUTIONAL Obfervations-A Catechifm relative to the national debt-
It's Verses on Spring-and Lines to the Memory of an amiable Lady,
fhall be inferted in our next.

Mr.J.W.-ns's favour is received and shall be introduced the very firft opportunity.
Adelaide and Juliet fall foon be obliged.

Another Scripture criticifm-Menelaus, &c. a religious Tale-The forfaken Maid's Lamentation-F. Y's Verses, and other favours, shall have due attention paid to them.

The poetry, intituled Rebellious Times, is too imperfect for our Colle&ion.

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