The prayer ordered by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was as follows:

"O Father of Mercies, and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need, we fly unto thee for fuccour in behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, and of the people committed to his care; befeeching thee to restore him to his former health, and to prolong his days on earth, that he may live to thee, and be an inftrument of thy glory, by continuing to ferve thee faithfully in piety and wifdom, and to maintain amongst us the bleffings of true religion, civil liberty, and public

peace.

"Favourably, O Lord, extend thy mercies to the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family; and comfort and fupport them in this their heavy affliction. And we beseech thee, that we thy fervants, duly fenfible of the manifold bleffings which thou haft ex tended to us under his mild government, may, in thy good time, be enabled to give thanks to thee, in thy holy place, for having reftored our gracious Sovereign to the ardent prayers of his people. Grant this, O Lord, for Jefus Chrift's fake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen."

At the fame time that the Lord Lieutenant ordered the above form to be ufed in the Established Church of Ireland, he fent a very refpectful meflage to the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters of Dublin, expreffing a firm conviction that, from their experienced loyalty, the Prefbyterians of that kingdom will, in their respective congregations, unite their public and private prayers with their fellow fubjects of the established church, for the recovery of our most gracious Sovereign from his present unhappy malady. The Diffenting Minifters, in return, were happy, they faid, to affure his Excellency that they had anticipated the wishes of Government in this refpect, and that they and their brethren in the country would not fail to offer up their moft earneft fupplications to Almighty God, that he would fulfil the united wishes of these kingdoms in speedily reftoring his Majefty to perfect health.

The Roman Catholics alfo have, much to their honour, displayed a laudable forwardness, and, on the occafion, given the ftrongest proofs of their zeal, loyalty, and affectionate wishes, for the recovery of their auguft Sovereign. They early adopted a form of prayer, and with the most unfeigned and fympathetic forrow

lamented his Majefty's diftreffing illness.

In Scotland thofe of the Episcopal communion used precisely the form with that prescribed for England. And those of the Church of Scotland, and the Dif fenters of all denominations, who ufe no fet form, united in offering up, with the greateft fervency, their fupplications to the Throne of Heaven, for the reftoration of all his Majefty's faculties, both of body and mind, to their former state.

The different fects of Jews had each a different form, which they used in the moft folemn manner, in their Synagogues. The Synagogue in Denmarkcourt, Strand, used the form already inferted, p. 565.

Even the churches of our Allies 2broad, fuch is their veneration for the virtuous character of his Majesty, offer up their prayers for his recovery. The following is the form used in the Dutch churches.

"Almighty God! be graciously merciful to our friend and neighbouring ally, whom it hath pleased thee to afflict with a dangerous illness; and, O Lord! if it is confiftent with thy all-wife decree, fpare his life, not only for the welfare of the land over which he reigns, but of thefe Provinces, and the whole Protestant religion.

"O Lord! with thee nothing is wonderful; thou haft but to speak the word, and the King fhall recover."

In the Prince of Orange's private chapel, a prayer on the fame occafion was ufed in the prefence of the Stadtholder, his confort, family, and household.

Minutes of the daily progress of bis Majesty's ie difpofition, continued from p. 566.

Nov. 28. 8 at night-Paffed the day bet ter in every respect than for several days be fore.

19. No alteration fince yesterday.

30. At half after five arrived at Kew in good fpirits; bore the journey extremely well.

Dec. 1. Health the fame; 9 at night, more compofed than on Saturday or Sunday. 2. Sleep at intervals-disorder continues. 3. Reftlefs night-10 at night, diforder rather increases.

4. 10 at night, more compofed this day.

5. Reftless night, and much indisposed-day, exceedingly ungovernable. 10 at night, much disturbed and restless all

days; in other refpects the fame; at night 6. More quiet than for fome preceding unquiet.

ter.

7. Sleep 4 hours at intervals, but no bet8. Some

8. Some hours quiet fleep; more compofed.

9.-7 hours quiet fleep; quiet this morn. so. Quiet night, and continues quiet. 11. Slept 4 hours laft night; continues quier.

12. Paffed the night quiet; walked in the garden this day with his phyficians".

13. Unquiet morning; quiet before night. 14. Unquiet night, much indifpofed. 15. Good night; quiet all this day. 16. 6 hours quiet fleep; unquiet evening. 17. Bad night, and much difturbed morn. 18. A good night, and quiet this morning. 19. Not a good night, but quiet this morning; disturbed in the evening.

20. A very bad night.

21. A quiet night, and better this morning; difturbed towards evening.

22. Has had a good night.

23. A bad night; compofed this morning. 24. Quiet night, but little fleep; quiet morning.

25. A good night, and quiet this morning 26. An indifferent night, but calm this

morning.

27. Very quiet yesterday; between 2 and 3 hours fleep in the night; undisturbed morning.

28. Whole day yesterday better in every refpect than hitherto; a good night, and calm this morning.

29. A good night; but this morning not quite compofed.

30. Paffed yesterday quietly, had not a good night, but calm this morning.

31. Had not much sleep last night; as ufual this morning.

*This day fome of his Majesty's ufual attendants were withdrawn, and phyfical affiftants fupplied their places, for obvious reafons. Difeafe pays no refpet to perfons.

Oxford, Dec. 30. On Tuesday laft, the mercury in a thermometer exposed to a North-Eaft afpect in the open air, in this city, was obferved to be fo low as 13 degrees of Fahrenheit's fcale at feven in the morning, which is the loweft degree it has been seen at here this feafon, and is exactly the fame as the greatest cold obferved in the hard froft 1739-40; but the thermometer has been noticed lower than this in England at different periods fince that time.

Feb. 12. 1771, at Cambridge, Fahrenheit's Thermometer ftood at fix degrees above o, and at Lyndon, in the county of Rutland, on the fame day at four de grees: once during the froft in 1776 at 9; and on January 18, 1767, at Derby,

even fo low as nearly one degree below o. Laft Sunday quickfilver was reduced here to the state of a perfectly folid metal, by the ufual means for generating artificial cold, which is prefumed to be the firft inftance of this kind upon record in Britain and on Tuesday following frozen (which is ftill more extraordinafome quickfilver was again completely ry) in a frigorific mixture, composed of powdered falts (ufed in the ftead of fnow) diffolved in a diluted mixture of mineral acids.

SCOTLAND.

Nov. 24. Came on before the High Court of Jufticiary, the trial of James Dick, late fhip-mafter, John Willox, innkeeper, and Thomas Howie, journeyman watchmaker, all of Dundee, indicted for breaking into the office of the bank in that place, on the night between the 16th and 17th of February laft, and ftealing therefrom 4231. 7s. 6d. Sterling, or thereby; the fame crime for

which Falconer and Bruce were condemned [p. 411.7. The libel was found relevant, and the court proceeded to the examination of witneffes. Howie clearly proved an alibi by refpectable witnes les. The Lord Advocate addreffed the jury on the part of the crown, as did Mr Alexander Wight for Howie, and Mr George Ferguffon for Dick and Willox; and they returned their verdict next day, finding, by a plurality of voices, James Dick guilty of the crime libelled, and all in one voice finding the libel not proven against James Willox and Thomas Howie, who were difmiffed from the bar. Dick was fentenced to be executed at Edinburgh on Wednesday Jan.7. 1789.

The following notice was published in the newspapers, by authority.

There is juft erected on the pier-head of Port Patrick, a fmall light-house, with a reflector-lamp, 30 feet above the level of the fea, which will be lighted the 1ft of December, and continue to be lighted till the 1st of May. In future it will be lighted from the 1ft of September to the ift of May. The bearings of which are as follow, viz. The Mull of Galloway bearing from faid light, South and by Eaft. The Copland or Donagadee light on the Coaft of Ireland, Weft and by South. The Mull of Kintyre in Argyleshire, N. N. W.

-The life of Voltair; with
notes 82. His behaviour in
his laft moments 83
-The wrongs of Africa; a
poem: The preface 84
Genuine memoirs of Den-
nis O'Kelly 86
-Tranfactions of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, vol
1. Hiftory of the fociety
127. O instinct 129 Col.
lins's ode on the popular fu-
perftitions of the Highlands
194
-London medical journal:
Cafe of an extra-uterine fœ-
tus 131 Of the infect found
in the itch 393
-Gilpin's obfervations on pic
turefque beauty: Account of
the echoes at Ullefwater 133
-The court and character of
Elifabeth Boucher, common-
ly called Protectress Joan,
inquired into 133.
-Grefe's fupplement to the
antiquities of England and
Wales: Account of the bap
tifmal ceremony 135
-Andrews's appeal to the
humane on behalf of the
chimney-fweepers 136
-Bentham's defence of ufury
233.289
-The question of wool truly
stated 291
-Holt's characters of the kings
and queens of England 292
-The country book-club; a

poem 293
-Dalrymple's memoirs of G.
Britain and Ireland vol. 2.
330. Account of an intend-
ed expedition to the South
Seas 384.438

-

492

Sir H Moncrieff Well-
wood's sketch of a plan for
augmenting the livings of the
minifters of the church of
Scotland by means of vacant
stipends 495
—Humanity, or the rights of
nature, a poem. Beautiful
apostrophe to Humanity sot,
Pathetic defeription of the
flave-trade, 502.

Beaver hunting; a modern
fable 505
-Peter's penfion; a folemn
epifle to a fublime perfon
age By P. Pindar 506
Encyclopædia Britannica;
or a dictionary of arts and
feiences, &c. vol 1.507
-Letters on Greece, by M.
Savary $37

A letter to Lord Rodney on
the St Eustatia prize-money

555

Letters from Simkin the fe-
cond to his dear brother in
Wales; containing an humo-
rous defcription of the trial
of Mr Haftings 556

Rechearches Philofophiques
fur les Grecs. Par M. de Pauw
598 On the fovereignty of
the fea ib

On

-Cumberland's obferver, vol.
4.333. On the paffions 334.
The love of fame ib. Sen-Philosophical tranfactions,
fibility, &c. 335. Politenefs vol. 77. part fecond.
336
numerous births 599
-Memoirs of Jofeph Borouw. -Arabian letters from Abdal-
lafki, the dwarf, 336
Jah, a native of Arabia, to
-Keate's entertaining account his friend at Moca: Rigour
of the Pelew inlands 389 451. and abfurdity of our game
548. King of Pelew com- laws 600
mits his fecond fon Lee Boo
to the care of Capt. Wilfon
553. The Prince dies at
Portsmouth 554. Monument
to his memory ib
-An effay on the bite of a
mad dog 396

A fhort account of the na-
val actions of the laft war,

Cardonnel's picturesque an-
tiquities of Scotland 601

Memoirs of the American
academy of arts and sciences:
Cafe of a gun-fhot wound

602

-Variety: a collection of ef-
fays, written in 1788. Rev
Mr Hewett's gratitude to his
patron's heirs 602

Brunswick, account of Lewis
D. of 317

Buchanan, George, obelisk to
be erected to his memory 358
Budget, heads of the 216
Buffon, Count de, account of
257

Burghley, Lord, ten precepts
to his second fon by 382
Burghs. royal, convention of
contribute 300 I. towards im-
proving North Berwick har
bour 409 and 400 l. for
Rothfay harbour ib. Im-
power their committee to
oppofe the bill for regulating
the internal government of
the burghs ib. Recommend to
the Treafury to establish a
cuftomhouse at Banffib
Burials at Edinburgh 52. 104.
156. 208. 260. 312 364, 416.
468. 520. 572. 624
Cairo, Hon. E. W. Monta-
gue's journey from Sinai to
423

Calculation by memory, ex-
traordinary powers of, pol-
feffed by a Negro 580
Calonne's addrefs to the En-
glish and French nations 36
Cancer, cures for a 141. 318
Canterbury, Abp of, his plate
ftole 513

Cafos, an ifland in the Archi-
pelago, defcription of, and
its inhabitants 538
St Chad's church, Shrewsbury,
falls 355

Chaffing occafioned by ri-
ding, cure for 280
Children, natural, obferva-
tions on an afylum for 65
Chimney-fweepers boys, ap-
peal on behalf of 136
Chimnies from smoking, di-
rections to prevent 212
Circuit-trials 201.-205. 618
Cleavers or clivers, a cancer
cured by 141
Clergy. See Scots
Cloth, quantity of, made in
Yorkshire 244
Clyde,