Befides the bounty to the crews of the Suffolk, Godolphin, and Houghton Indiamen, the company have fettled an annuity on the man who loft his leg, faid to be gol. a-year. [322.]

The Duke of Cumberland arrived at Kensington from Germany Oct. 11. at fix o'clock in the evening; and on the 15th his R. Highnefs refigned all his commiffions in the army.

In fome counties the militia-act has begun to be put in execution quietly, but in others it has occafioned great difturbances [430.].At Bofton, Lincolnshire, the populace committed great outrages, Sept. 3. broke Lord Vere Bertie's windows, and defigned to go to Lincoln races, in order to attack fome of the nobility, who, they think, were the occafion of paffing this act. The like happened at Northampton.At Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, when the gentlemen were proceeding to bufinefs, Sept. 5. a mob of about 500 came to the house, and demanded the lifts which the conftables had given in; and being refufed, took them by force, and carried them in triumph through the town. Ld Robert S-v-le had like to have been ftifled by the mob; but by civility and kind intreaty he at last prevailed on them to let him have a little air, that he might recover himself. Several of

the mob collared Sir G. S. and threatened to ftrike him. In fhort, none of the gentlemen prefent escaped without receiving marks of their refentment.

-On the 13th, the populace of about forty townships in the weapontake of Buckrose, in the east riding of Yorkshire, armed with guns, fcythes, and clubs, went to Birdfall, the feat of Henry Willoughby, Efq; the high fheriff, and demanded a repeal of the militia-act. After many hours parley, the fheriff promised to write to Lord Irwin, lord lieutenant of the riding, and that his Lordship's anfwer fhould be communicated to them; which was done accordingly, printed copies of it having been fent to the chief constables, to be difperfed among the people.- On the 15th, the populace of upwards of thirty parifhes, came to the Cockpit-houfe,

without Bootham bar, York; forced the lifts from the conftables in attendance there; and after drinking all the liquors in the houfe, proceeded to pull it down. Then they went to Mr Bowes's houfe, within the suburbs, and ftripped and gutted it. The lord mayor of York, and the high fheriff of the county, went in perfon among the rioters; and having afked the reafon of their affembling, they answered, "That the militia-act was a great hardfhip upon the country, by compelling the poor to contribute equally with the rich; that they were as willing to ferve their king and country as others, if matters were put upon an equal footing; but that they would not, at any rate, fubmit to the act as it now flood." The mayor and the fheriff ufed all poffible arguments to convince the people, how wrong it was to attempt relieving themselves from any thing they thought a grievance, by fuch unlawful methods; and affured them they would ufe all the means in their power to remove any juft occafion of complaint: upon which they difperfed.

After this the citizens of York took up arms, formed themselves into four companies, headed by the lord mayor and aldermen, and kept guard by turns, to prevent a repetition of fuch outrages.

One cause of thefe difturbances, particularly in Nottinghamshire, is faid to be, that when recruits were raising in that county for one of the new regiments, the men who inlifted were pro mifed not to be fent abroad; notwithftanding which they were fent abroad [xviii. 388.], and many of them have been killed by the enemy. This is mentioned in a printed letter from Sir W.- -, deputy-lieutenant of the county of, to his tenants and neighbours, as follows. "I muft fet you right as to fome notions that I find are induftrioufly spread among you by the enemies of our country, as though the militia was to be carried out of the kingdom, and forced to ferve abroad. But this is a wicked falfehood: for you fee by the act itfelf [351, 2.], that unless there is an actual invafion, you are

not

not to march even out of your own counties; but that you are never to be fent out of the kingdom upon any pretence whatsoever. Our regular army is to fight your battles abroad: you are only to defend yourselves, your wives, and your children, at home. I have heard indeed, that when fome regiments were raised in the beginning of this war, promises were made them that they fhould not ferve abroad. But what are fuch flying promifes to the unfhaken faith of an act of parliament! Befides, you all know, that thofe troops received lifting money; they were raised, paid, officered, and were in all things exactly like the reft of the regular forces. But in the militia you are not at all to be raifed on the fame principles, nor in the fame manner. You receive no money at engaging, for you engage only by the common duty of all Englishmen; and you are not to be officered as others, but to be commanded by the gentlemen of your own county; who, if what you are wickedly told were the cafe, would think it as hard to be decoyed out of the kingdom, or to be laid under any unreasonable difficulties, as you poffibly

Can."

The camps in feveral places in the kingdom broke up about the beginning of October, and the troops went into winter-quarters.

An advertisement, dated, Office for fick and wounded feamen, and for exchanging prifoners of war, Od. 24. lets forth, That efcapes of prifoners of war in this kingdom, as well from among thofe confined in prifon, as those permitted to refide in towns upon their parole, have of late been very frequent, but chiefly among the latter; threatens a rigorous profecution of all perfons who fhall be any wife inftrumental in facilitating fuch efcapes; and promifes a reward for gi ving proper information of offenders, or apprehending prifoners who attempt to escape.

Above 30,000 quarters of oats, and 250 tuns of wheat, with upwards of 100 tuns of butter, having been fhipped, at the ports of London and Lynn, for Hamburg, an imbargo was laid thereon

Oct. 14. and it was relanded next day. Orders of the fame nature were fent to other ports.

In a

A gang of coiners were examined before Juftice Fielding Sept 15. cellar in one of their houses there was a prefs fixed for ftriking off moidores, which weighed 900 weight, and was in as good order as any at the mint. The folicitor of the mint directed it to be carried to the tower. The date of thefe móidores is 1721, The drawing of the ftate-lottery ended O&. 15. A poor woman who had laid out her all in the purchase of a ticket in this lottery, on inquiring at an office on Sunday Oct. 2. found it had been drawn a tool. prize. The sudden news had fuch an effect upon her, the fhe fell fenfelefs on the floor, and it was with difficulty fhe was recovered by bleeding, &c.-The Abbé de la Ville has wrote a learned treatise on the paffions, which contains a curious difquifition on the confequences of fudden grief and joy, in which he proves the latter to be more fatal to the human frame than the former. Amongst the many inftances he brings to enforce his arguments, he relates a ftory of a lady in Languedoc, who was married to a gentleman, between whom and herfelf there reigned a reciprocal and paffionate fondness. One day at dinner the hufband fell dead upon the floor. The lady made a dreadful shriek. The family were alarmed; they ran to know the caufe; and found them both feemingly in the fame fituation. All poffible means were used for their recovery. After many efforts the lady's fenfes returned, but the gentleman was declared no more. She aban

doned herself to the most pungent forrow: but whilft the neceffary preparations were making for the hufband's funeral, her relations and confeffor used every means to perfuade her to be reconciled to her fate. Their arguments at length alleviated her grief, and fhe feemed refigned to the will of Heaven. Three days were now paft, when a relation in the practice of phyfic, who refided at a confiderable distance, arrived, being fent for exprefs the day the un

happy

happy accident happened. After he had been in the houfe a few hours, and paid his refpects of condolence to the widow, he defired one of the fervants to fhew him the corpfe. The lid of the coffin was removed; he gave a look or two, and then ordered it to be replaced. But happening to touch the flesh with his hand, he thought he felt a warmth unknown to a body fo long dead. He applied, but there was no pulfe. Yet not fatisfied, he waited fome time; then touched, and obferved the heat to gain confiderably. Within an hour he plain. ly found the pulfe to beat: he directly ordered a warm bed, and had the body put into it. Whilft this was doing, he went to the lady, "My dear niece,' fays he, entering the room, "be of comfort: I have feen the corpfe, touched, and discovered warmth in it, watched the gradations of returning life, am fatisfied of its certainty, and come to give you joy that your deareft hufband lives." All this while the lady liftened to him with an attentive furprise, mixed with a feeming pleafure; but as foon as he had finished, she stood fome time motionless, her eyes were bent on vacancy, and before he could catch her in his arms fhe dropt upon the floor, and never spoke afterwards, but was interred in the very grave intended for her hufband; who recovered from the trance he had laid in, was restored to health, and is now alive; but from the moft volatile, changed to the moft melancholic difpofition of any man living. Thus (fays the Abbé) we fee this lady deprived of life by fudden joy, when fudden grief could not effect it.

At a late quarterly court of the British lying in hofpital for married women, London, it appeared, that from Dec. 7. 1749, the time of firft admitting women, to Oct. 19. 1757, 2854 women had received orders of admiffion. Great part of them were the wives of foldiers and failors; the reft those of reduced tradefmen, poor mechanics, labourers, &c.

A letter from Guernfey, figned J. TUPPER, gives the following account. "I have had a furprifing production in

my walled garden. A fingle grain of wheat that was fet in November, produced in Auguft laft 142 ears, from three to fix inches long, and the product of thefe ears was 5600 grains. The governor and abundance of people have been to see the stalk and the produce, both which I preferve as a curiofity for the farmers and naturalifts."is perhaps equally extraordinary, from one flice of a potatoe set last spring by Simon Machoy, a farmer at Park, near Tuam, in Ireland, there proceeded 84 ftalks, which produced 965 potatoes.

What

Baron Rantzau, envoy-extraordinary from his Danish Majefty, had his audience of leave of the King O&t. 18.; and the fame day Baron Bothmar, his fucceffor in the fame character, had his firft private audience of his Majefty.

Dr Bradley viewed the prefent comèt [489.] with his inftrument which he calls a fector, on Sunday morning, October 9. before fun-rifing, and found it near the equinoctial, with upwards of eleven hours right afcenfion; and that day declared, that it is not the comet about this time expected, having neither the motion nor the inclination of its trajectory the fame with that comet.

It was reported on 'Change, Oct. 24. that a cartel-fhip, arrived at Dover from Calais, had brought an account, that orders had been given at all the feaports of France, to ftop every ship which came from Lisbon, as the plague had broke out there Oct. 2. and carried off 4 or 500 people a-day. Next day appeared in the papers the following copy of an affidavit." Dover, Oct. 23. Sunday evening. William Star, master of the Minerva cartel-floop, juft arrived from Calais, maketh oath, That about half an hour after fix o'clock in the morning, being about an hour before his departure from the fame place, he was made acquainted by Monf. Pourquet, the French commiffary, that the plague was broke out at Lifbon; and that in order to make it the fooner known in France, about thirty expreffes had been difpatched from Paris to all the French fea-ports; and faid that it would be proper that he the faid William Star fhould

make

IRELAND.

On Sunday, Sept. 25. the Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arrived at the castle of Dublin, where his Grace received the fword of ftate from the Lords Juftices, and afterwards the compliments of the nobility, &c.

The parliament of Ireland met Oct. 11. The Lord Lieutenant, in his fpeech to both houfes, fays, among other things, "Heavy as the expence of this war has been, I have nothing in command from his Majefty to ask, but the ufual fupplies. -You will confider the ftate of the charter-schools, and what further fteps may be taken to strengthen the Proteftant intereft, and to promote the linen manufacture, which must be confidered as the ftaple of this kingdom. It were also to be wifhed, that fome method might be found out, to prevent the calamities which are the neceffary confequences of a want of corn in Ireland, which have been, in part, felt this last year, and to which this country has been too often expofed."- A fuitable return was made in the addreffes to the King and the Lord Lieutenant. In the latter mention is made of his Grace's attention to the neceffities of the poor [320.]. On this head the Commons exprefs themfelves thus." The Proteftant charter. schools, and our linen manufacture, fo ftrongly recommended to us by your Grace, deferve our utmost attention, and cannot fail to be attended with improvement and fuccefs under your Grace's influence and protection. Your Grace's early and charitable attention to the neceffities of the poor of this country in their late diftreffes, and precaution to guard against the like cala mities for the future, have clearly fhewed, that in that heart where true notions of liberty are firmly rooted, humanity and every amiable virtue must refide."

On the 10th of October a proclamation was published by the Lord Lieutenant and council, for continuing a proclamation of Dec. 13. 1756, to prohibit the exportation of corn, malt, meal, flour, bread, bifcuit, and ftarch.

The hofpital founded at Dublin, by - VOL. XIX.

Dr Swift, for the fupport of idiots and lunatics, was opened on Monday, Sept. 26. at which time four female patients were admitted [vii. 494]. This establishment, fays Lord Orrery, is remarkably generous; as the unhappy perfons who receive the benefit, must for ever remain infenfible of their benefactor.

The draughts for America failed from Corke, in fifteen tranfports, on Sunday Oct. 23. confifting of 2500 men..

The following exhortation was read lately in the feveral Roman-Catholic chapels in Dublin.

Τ

IT is now time, Chriftians, that you

return your most grateful thanks to the almighty God, who, after vifiting you with a fcarcity which approached near unto a famine, has been graciously pleased, like a merciful father, to hear your prayers, and feed you with a plentiful harvest. Nor ought you to forget thofe kind benefactors, who, in the fevereft times, mindful only of the public good, generally bestowed, without any distinction of perfons, thofe large charities, by which thousands were preferved, who otherwife muft have miferably perished the victims of hunger and poverty. We ought especially to be moft earneft in our thanks to the chief governors and magiftrates of the kingdom, and of this city in particular, who on this occafion proved the fathers and faviours of the nation.

But as we have not a more effectual method of fhewing our acknowledgments to our temporal governors, than by an humble, peaceful, and obedient behaviour; as hitherto, we earnestly exhort you to continue in the fame happy and Chriftian difpofitions; and thus by degrees you will entirely efface in their minds those evil impreffions which have been conceived fo much to our prejudice, and induftriously propagated by our enemies. A feries of more than fixty years, fpent with a pious refignation under the hardships of very fevere penal laws, and with the greateft thankfulness for the lenity and moderation with which they were executed ever fince the acceffion of the prefent royal family, is certainly a fact which mut 4 L

outweigh,