"London, Dec. 27. Mr Deputy Pi per has left a legacy of 200l. to Ald. Wilkes." On the 3d of July was tried at Guildhall, before Sir William De Grey, and a fpecial jury, an action for damages brought by Stephan, an Armenian merchant, against Gov. Verelft, for falfe imprifonment, and other injuries. After a trial of three hours, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2500l. damages. [xxxviii. 154.] At Cambridge affizes, in July laft, Judge Afhurft gave the charge to the grand jury; in the courfe of which he noticed the good effects of the prefent mode of punishing convicts by hard labour upon the Thames 344.], the felons in general dreading that punishment much more than transportation. His Lordship informed the grand jury, as it was inconvenient, and indeed impracticable, to find accommodations and labour upon the Thames for all the convicts in the kingdom, a bill had been in agitation, and would probably be brought into parliament the next feffions, for houfes of labour and confinement to be erected in every county, in which it was proposed to employ the felons in the hardeft works, fuch as treading in a wheel, fawing wood or flone, rafping logwood, or fuch other fevere labour as the juftices fhall judge most advantageous to their respective counties; the felons to be divided into three claffes; the firft extreme hard labour; the fecond not quite fo fevere; and the third ftill eafier than the fecond; fo that thofe convicts who behaved well, and fhewed a due fenfe of their crimes, might, under the direction of the juftices, be removed from the fevere to the easier claffes, and fuch as behaved ill into the feveret. His Lordship obferved, that he mentioned this matter thus publicly, that gentlemen might turn their thoughts to the fubje&t, and give fuch hints as they may think neceffary to forward fo falutary a plan. The ftate lottery ended drawing on the 30th of December. [620.] "London, Nov. 23. On Saturday last was laid before the commiffioners of longitude folar and lunar tables, by Mr Charles Mafon, of Sapperton, in Gloucefterflire. Thefe tables give the place of the fun and moon, both in longitude and latitude, within 15 feconds, as appears by comparing them with a regular feries of above 1000 obfervations made by the late Rev. Dr Bradely, aftronomerroyal. Upon thefe undeniable evidences of the accuracy of the tables, Mr Malon claims the reward of 5000 1. offered by aa act of parliament 14° Geo. III. for tables that fhall fhew the distance of the moos from the fun or ftars, to 15 feconds of a degree." London, Dec, 16. We are inform ed by a correfpondent, that Mr Peter Allafon of Cotherston, in the part of ! Romaldkirk, hath finished an ekgant and curious Orrery, contained in three feet diameter, of a fingular conftruction: fhewing the various motions, maga tudes, distances, &c. of the planet, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; the diurnal parallelifm and annual motion of the earth; the different length of days and nights; the vici tudes of seasons, diftinguished by repeat-i ed strokes on different bells; the fynoci cal motion of the moon, its age and de ferent phases; the retrograde motion of the nodes of the moon's orbit, and £ the folar and lunar eclipfes, &c. M Allafon was never bred to any mechanic art, and barely knows the first four rules of vulgar arithmetic." "Fort L'Orient, Nov. 16. I think it my duty to make known, as far as it is in my power, the generosity of Ld Mulgrave, commander of the English man of war the Ardent; who being on a cruife off Finifterre, was chafing two veffels, when he perceived a fhip without any mafts in great diftrefs: he immed ately gave up the chace to affift the vetle, which proved to be a fhip from Bourdeaux, called the Huron, Capt. Boret. As foon as the Ardent was near enough, his Lordship fent off his boat with twenty men to the French ship, to pump cat the water, and to bring the crew of the French veffel on board his fhip to refre them. Ld Mulgrave then offered Capt. Boret any affiftance he wanted to refit his veffel. His Lordship daily fent twenty fresh men on board to relieve thofe that he fent before, and affured the Captain, that he was very much affected at his diftreffed fituation, and that he would not leave him till he was out of danger. The Ardent carried a light in her ftern every night, that Capt. Boret might not lofe fight of her; and defired him, if be wanted any particular affiftance in the night, to hoift two lights, and he would immediately fend off to him. This ge nerous behaviour was continued by Ld Mulgrave Madrid Stockholm Pekin in China 340,000 ditto about 823,276 and increasing Lift of veffels feized as prizes, and of recaptures made, by the American Squadron, between May 27. and O. 24. 1777 (356), according to the returns received by Vice-Adm. Ld Vifc. Howe. Mulgrave from the 31st of October to the Paris Sir William Meredith, on a motion by Mr Charles Fox, Dec. 2. for an inquiry into the state of the nation, divided with the minority, and foon after refigned his white wand, as comptroller of the King's Household. On Tuesday, Dec. 23. a patent paffed the great feal of a grant to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, of a penfion of 2400 1. per ann. payable at the exchequer, to commence from the date of his refignation. [624, 29.] A treatife has lately been published in France, in which a calculation is made of the population of the moft remarkable cities in the world, the inhabitants of which the author computes to be as follows. [In the London gazette of Dec. 6. we have an account of the names of the ships and mafters, whence come, whither bound and fent, with what loaded, and date of the capture-we infert only the number of vcffels.] PRIZES. Taken by the Brune - by the Daphne - by the Haerlem by the Raifonable by the Roebuck and tenders - by the Senegal - by the Chatham's tender - by the Ambufcade - by the Solebay - by the Sphynx by the Amazon - by the Orpheus - by the Lizard 4 Y 2 Vegels medicine-money, would, it was fait, to the lecturer, a small fee, in named chearfully paid by every student atten ing the lectures. At the commenceme of the winter-feffion 1776-7, Dr Ducz began a course of clinical ledures in th manner above propofed; and he colles ed, as medicine-money, above fifty neas. This defign has taken place, Sum of the quantity and value of Lines fempi for fale in Scotland. [xxxviii. 119] From Nov. 1. 1776, to Nev. 1. 1777Quantity 14,793,898 1 half yards. Value L. 710,633: 18:7:14th. Medium Price 11,2 4ths d. More this year than the preceeding: Quantity 1,221,940 yards. Value L. 71,760 : 8:11:14th. The number of patients in the royal infrae ry, Edinburgh, in 1777. [xxxviii. 919] In the hospital, Jan. 1. 1777 Admitted that year Particulars of the above fum. Ordinary patients Supernumeraries Servants Soldiers Of whom, 135] 1595 Cured in the year 1777 = 1260) Relieved, though not fully cured 157} Ariel [624] for 32 guns, read 20 SCOTLAND. [621.] An act of the town-council of Edinburgh, dated April 9. 1777, for keeping clean the Atreets, and preventing nuisances, was duly published foon after its date. As it was found, that the profecuting of fervants had not answered the intention of former [xxxii. 712.] regulations, the procurator-fiscal is by the laft act injoined to cite the mafters or miftreffes of the families; and in questions between mafters and fervants, the fervants having transgreffed this act is to be held a fufficient ground for dismission. In March laft, propofals were publifh. ed, by Dr Andrew Duncan, phyfician in Edinburgh, for eftablifhing, in that city, a public difpenfary, for the relief of the poor, when fubjected to chronical or tedious difeafes. It was proposed, to conjoin with the practice of medicine which this charity would afford, lectures on the cafes of the patients who fhould reap the benefit of it. Befides a gratuity Difmiffed by defire Difmiffed for irregularities Difmiffed as incurable hriftened Male 9333 18300 Buried The LONDON General Bill of Christenings and Burials, from December 10. 1776, to De- General Bill of Mortality for 1777, in EDINBURGH, and WEST-KIRK parish. Burnt Childbed Dropfy 4 Meafles 54 Teething 1 Accidents 413 52 17 65 147 Mortification 1 Water in head r The burials in the Canongate and Calton burial-places are not included. A Cadwallader, Col. released fwer, and reafons for ti 12 Campbell, Brig. Gen. his o- -- - Canada, account of its in- 457-521 Cademy of arts to be - - &c. Armies, British and Pro- Blankets, how the provin- His - Captain, a provincial one Captures on both fides 356 fufal 365 — Danbury, magazine a ėj Count 286 Washington 288. 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