fpecting libels in general, and faid, whatever opinion the defendants might have entertained of the fact which was proved against them, they were most certainly, under the law, criminal and accountable. His Lordship alfo remarked upon the confequences of the libel in queftion, as it related to the fentiments of the people of America; and recommended a verdict against the defendants, which was complied with; but the fentence put off till next Term. The council for the profecution were, the Attorney General, the Salicitor General, Mr. Wallis, and Mr. Bearcroft; for the defendants, Mr. Dunning, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Harding. See the 7th. Mr. Miller's attorney had received, on the preceding Sunday, the following letter from Mr. Horne. "SIR, "In anfwer to your letter, which I this moment receive, in forming me that- The gentle men under profecution for printing and publishing my advertifement, beg the favour of my attendance on the first trial at Guild hall, on Tuesday next, at nine in Your humble Servant, A grocer in Edinburgh has lately made fuch improvements in the Diving-Bell, that the perfons in it may lower them felves with the machine, from the furface of the water to the bottom, independent of all other affiftance, and reafcend at pleasure. The dangers of being overturned by rocks, ftumps of wrecks, &c. are hereby avoided. Befides, except in rapid currents, or on a very unequal bottom, the men in the machine can proceed with it to a confiderable distance from the line in which they go down. It is thought this improvement will be of great utility in lakes and rivers, as well as at fea, for the difcovery of marle, mines, &c. And, accordingly, the fociety in London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, have teftified their approbation of it by an handsome bounty to the ingenious improver. A plot to kill the Pope and his attendants, by load19th, Angelo with the best powder, and ing the guns of the Castle of St. chain fhot; and pointing them down a ftreet, through which his Holiness ufually paffes every evening at feven o'clock, was difcocourfe fruftrated; but the perfons vered by mere accident, and of concerned in it, have not as yet been found out. Being Chriftmas Day, ufual. was every where observed as 25th. Particularly, their Majefties went to the Chapel Royal; and, after fermon, received the holy facrament, and made their offerings. made prifoners, except a few, who escaped by a timely retreat, or cut their way through the enemy. The lofs on this occafion, in prifoners and miffing, was found, a few days after, to amount to about feven hundred, not to mention the field pieces, which the Provincials likewife carried off. The crew of the Hope31ft. well, of Whitehaven, bound to Jamaica, were fome time ago reduced to fuch diftrefs, that, after killing their cat and dog, they had caft lots who fhould be put to death for a fupply of food for the reft, when providentially a fhip came in fight, and let them have provifions enough to reach Lifbon in queft of a further supply. The fhock of an earthquake has been lately felt at Manheim, Worms, Spiers, and the neighbourhood of Mentz; but though rather violent, it happily did no damage. Its direction was from the north-west to the fouth-east, and lafted fifteen feconds. In a lift of all his Pruffian Majefty's forces, lately laid before him at Potzdam, the totals were as follow: In the course of this year, 4773 fhips have been cleared at the cuftom-houfe of Newcastle, of which 4343 were coaftwife, and 430 for foreign parts, being, upon the whole, however, 270 less than last year. If we have not, in the course of this our Chronicle, taken any notice of the various engagements between the fhips of Great Britain and her North-American colonies, with the captures and recaptures on both fides, it was because a detail of them would fill a volume; and ftili more, because, the importance of thefe tranfactions, confidering the nature of the quarrel, the condition of the parties, and their interefting relation to one another, cannot but engage the able writer who favours the Public with the hiftorical part of this work, to take fuch a general furvey of the matter, as muft more than fuperfede any thing that could come from our feeble pen on the occafion. DIED, the 10th inftant, Mr. John French, painter and artist, long known for his beautiful scenery at Drury-lane Theatre. The 11th, Mr. John Robertfon, formerly mathematical mafter at Chrift's-Hofpital; afterwards head mafter of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth; laftly, for several years paft, librarian to the Royal Society; and author of feveral ingenious mathematical pieces. The 12th, Mifs Margaret and Mifs Judith Hodges,, two maiden twin fifters. They died, as they were born, within a few minutes of each other, at the age of 53. The 26th, Mr. Jofhua Platt, of Oxford, well known to naturalifts by his Treatife on the Belemnite, published published in the Philofophical Tranfactions, in his 88th year. His manners gained him the refpect and esteem of all who knew him; and he died univerfally regretted. The 31ft, Lately, in the South of France, Eglin Powes, Efq; who, when Sir Robert Walpole impeached Lord Bolingbroke of high treafon, impeached alfo the Earl of Oxford. In Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, Mr. Nathaniel Carden, aged 98, fer. vant to the Duke of Marlborough during his laft campaign in Flanders. Mr. Dahl, first painter and fcene director of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. William Pavorth, a tenant of the Hon. Mr. Dawney, at Hatton, near York; a village remarkable for the longevity of its inhabitants. Had he lived to the 27th of this month, he would have completed his 99th year. There were now in the fame town, two widows; one, in her 96th; the other, in her 103d or 104th year; she was not certain to a year. About four years ago, Wright, of Merfton, in the fame parish, died at the age of 102. Pattifon, Efq; in the hundredth year of his age, near Edinburgh. Marie Magdaleine, at Brache, near Mondidier, in France, aged 103. She had a fifter who died at the age of 104. Marguerite de Coeg, of Trouleville, near Dieppe, in France, aged 194. Mrs. Cahier, a relation of the late Duke of Ormond, in the 108th year of her age, in CharlesStreet, Westminster. Mawbey, Bart. of a daughter, at Vauxhall. Lately, the Duchefs of Buccleugh, of a fon. 32 Feb. 1. The Lady of the Hon. 6 8 3 5 353 3 5 Total 277 We pay no regard to the accounts of the kind and number of difeafes given in the yearly Bills of Mortality, for the reafons affigned in our last volume. We cannot conclude this article without heartily wifhing, that the great number of the drowned, among the above cafualties, may awaken the zeal of our readers to promote the views of the Beneficent Society inftituted for the recovery of perfons apparently dead by drowning, &c. See p. 196. BIRTHS for the year 1776. Jan. 1. The Lady of Governor Verelft, of a daughter, in St. James's-Square. 15. Her Royal Highness the Duchefs of Gloucester, of a Prince, at Rome, See the Chronicle. Lady Shelly, of a daughter, at Putney. 16. The Lady of Sir John Smith, Bart. of a daughter, in Pall-Mall. 31. The Lady of Sir Jofeph Achmoody, Efq; Judge of his Majesty's 13. The Lady of Sir Edward Mar. 2. The reigning Duchefs of Deux - Ponts, of a Prince. 9. The Grand Duchefs of 11. Lady Boston, of a daughter, and published in the Philofophical A General Bill of all the Christenings Tranfactions, in his 88th year. His manners gained him the refpect and esteem of all who knew him; and he died univerfally regretted. The 31ft, Lately, in the South of France, Eglin Powes, Efq; who, when Sir Robert Walpole impeached Lord Bolingbroke of high treafon, impeached alfo the Earl of Oxford. In Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, Mr. Nathaniel Carden, aged 98, fervant to the Duke of Marlborough during his last campaign in Flan ders. Mr. Dahl, first painter and fcene director of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. William Pavorth, a tenant of the Hon. Mr. Dawney, at Hatton, near York; a village remarkable for the longevity of its inhabitants. Had he lived to the 27th of this month, he would have completed his 99th year. There were now in the fame town, two widows; one, in her 96th; the other, in her 103d or 104th year; she was not certain to a year. About four years ago, Wright, of Merton, in the fame parish, died and Burials, from December 12, 1775, to December 10, 1776. The kind and manner of cafualties among the foregoing deaths, were as follows: Bit by a mad dog I 2 2 13 Bruifed Burnt Choaked Drowned Exceffive drinking 5 Executed 112 |