This night between ten 27th. and eleven o'clock, as Mr. Venables, a wholefale carcafebutcher, in Whitechapel-market, and Mr. Rogers, cabinet-maker, in Houndfditch, were returning from the Blue Anchor alehouse, at Stepney, they were attacked in Redman's grove by three footpads, who demanded their money; and on their making resistance, the villains fired at them, fhot Mr. Venables under the jaw-bone, and the ball went through the lower part of his head; Mr. Rogers was hot in the forehead just above his eye; they both expired immediately. The unfortunate deceased perfons ftaying after their friends to have another bowl of punch, occafioned their meeting with the fatal accident.

Paris, May 18. The prefents of jewels made by the King and the royal family to the Dauphinefs upon her marriage, are valued at three millions of livres, upwards of 130,000l. fterling.

The fix companies of merchants of this city celebrated the marriage of the Dauphin with a benevolence that does honour to that body. The 17th they vifited the prifons, and delivered fuch as had been confined for debts contracted for neceffary provifions.

William De Grey, Efq;

28th. his Majefty's attorney-general, moved the court of King'sbench, for the difcharge of Mr. Bingley; the court refused to do it; but the attorney-general, as law-officer to the crown, infifted upon it, as Mr. Bingley had fuffered two years imprisonment, which was fufficient for any offence he may have been guilty of. He was fet at liberty accordingly.

A very remarkable aft was lately folemnized at Newitadt, in the Queen of Hungary's dominions. The bones of the great Emperor Mximilian I. were again interred, after a fecond abfolution. The occafion was as follows: The Emprefs Queen, having ordered the imperial palace of that city to be fitted up for the use of the Therefian Military Academy juft established there, and the church thereto belonging, to be repaired and beautified, and new altars to be added, on the 21ft of February, when the workmen were employed in taking down the great altar, a coffin was discovered under the mafonry, very much decayed. Upon confulting the ancient archieves, it was found, that the body of Maximilian I. had been depoited in the church dedicated to St. George, the church in question ; upon which the farther operations were fufpended till after her Imperial Majesty's permiffion to open the coffin fhould be obtained; to do this, in order to confirm the truth of the ancient record, her Majefty was graciously pleased to give her confent; and accordingly, on the 11th of March, the mouldered coffin was examined, and the facred relics of that glorious prince were actually found. Her Imperial Majefty being certified of the fact, ordered a leaden coffin to be prepared, and inclofed in a coffin of wood, for the reception of thofe precious relics, in order that they might again be depofited in the fame place, now under the great altar, with the ufual ceremonies. Upon a nice examination of the body, before its fecond interrment, it appeared to have been first covered with quick-lime, and then

thrown; the Lord Mayor anfwered, there was no dirt in the ftreet; Sir Robert then faid, that the mob fpit in at the windows of his

coach.

In the Prefence Chamber, Mr. Rigby attacked the Lord Mayor, telling him he had promifed in Parliament to be anfwerable for the peace of the city, and that he was informed by Sir Robert Ladbroke, that there had been a great riot in the city, which his Lordfhip had taken no care to quell.

The Lord Mayor immediately replied, that he should be ready to anfwer for his conduct at all times, in all places, and on every proper occafion.

Mr. Sheriff Townfend ftanding by the Lord Mayor, told him, Mr. Rigby fays there has been a great tumult in the city; Mr. Rigby replied, Sir Robert Ladbroke fays fo. Mr. Townfend asked him, if Sir Robert Ladbroke was not a Magiftrate? And why he had not appeafed the tumult, if there was one? Mr. Rigby faid, the Magiftrates had been mobbed. Mr. Townsend replied, taking the whole together, in his opinion, the people had been mobbed by the Magiftrates, and not the Magiftrates by the people. For the address and bis Majefty's anfwer, fee the State Papers. This day the Lord Mayor, 31ft. attended by the two fheriffs, and fome other of the worshipful court of aldermen, proceeded in flate to the Old Bailey, where his Lordship laid the first ftone of a new jail, intended instead of the prefent very inconvenient one of Newgate. His Lordship, after laying the above ftone, made a prefent of twenty guineas to the work:

men, and then proceeded to the feffions-houfe to try the prifoners.

Edinburgh, April 25. Yesterday came on before the high court of Jufticiary here, the trial of Wil-' liam Harris, alias Harries, concerned in the forging and iffuing out falfe notes of the Thistle Bank of Glafgow: Upon the pannel's coming into court, his behaviour indicated fome degree of infanity; upon which his lawyer, Mr. Bofwell, fuggefted that he was not a proper object of punishment. That objection, however, being overruled, about two o'clock the jury for the trial of forgery, &c. were chofen, and the proof taken before the court of feffion was read to them. They inclofed about feven; and this day at ten returned their verdict, unanimously finding him guilty; upon which he was fentenced to be hanged in the Grafs Market upon the 30th of May next. The above William Harries, before his being found out, had iffued 452 forged notes; and when apprehended, there were found no less than 9677, all for 20s. each. The laft were, according to an order of court, com~ mitted this afternoon to the flames, and burnt.

The Pynfent cause, now depending in the Court of Chancery, and which has been heard three fucceeding Saturdays, in this Eafter Term, is founded on the doubtful right of the late Sir William Pynfent, to bequeath his real estates to the Earl of Chatham; the Rev. Sir Robert Pynfent, now rector of Killymore, in the kingdom of Ireland, contending that the teftator had no right to make fuch be queft to the prejudice of him, the heir at law. On this iffue is joined,

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feveral learned arguments have been urged on both fides, and the matter ftill depending, Isof 24,000l.

value.

The grandeft fireworks that have ever been known, were this evening exhibited in the fquare of Lewis XV. at Paris, in honour of the Dauphin's marriage; but the fatal catastrophe that marked this exhibition, will long be remembered with horror and regret. It appears that the plan of the fireworks was fo vaft, that it exceeded the powers of the engineer to regulate all its parts, and to restrain its effects; and fome of the apparatus having exceeded his intention, or playing off untimely, threw fheets of fire upon the people. The dreadful confequences that enfued from this alarm, might in a great measure be imputed to the inattention of the magiftrates. In the first place, there was no fcaf fold erected for the convenience of the fpectators; and in the next, the communications between the Place de Louis and the Boulevards, which confift of three ftreets, were in a manner blocked up; that on the left hand, the Rue la Bonne Morue, being narrow, was rendered impaffable by the coaches; that on the right called Ruë St. Florentin, in which the Count St. Florentin, Secretary of State, has his refidence, and in whofe department the care of this metropolis is, and by whofe order the fireworks were exhibited, for the conveniency of himself and friends, his Excellency would not permit the populace to pafs, and this being the principal thoroughfare from the Place de Louis, where the fireworks were exhibited, to the Boulevards, there was only the VOL. XIII.

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middle ftreet free for the foot-paffengers. The aftonishing multitude that had crowded to fee the fireworks, being feized with a panic, upon finding a hurry and confufion; for which the greater part of them were unable account, endeavoured to escape through this narrow ftreet, which they foon jammed up in fuch a manner as to make it impaffable. The confufion increased to fuch a degree, that one trampled over another, till the people lay one upon another in heaps; thofe who were undermoft, ftabbed those who lay above them, in order to dif engage themselves. The pickpockets and robbers availed themfelves of the confufion; and many ladies had their ear-rings torn out of their ears. A fcaffold, erected near the palace of Bourbon, broke down with the over-weight of the fpectators, who all fell into the river. There have been already taken up above a hundred drowned at St. Cloud, but many bodies have been driven beyond that place. The carnage was dreadful. It is computed that not less than 3000 are either killed, wounded, or rendered cripples during the remainder of their days.

The humanity of the new-married pair on this melancholy occafion, cannot be fufficiently applauded. The Dauphin, in the firft tranfports of his grief, gave all the money allotted for his month's expences towards the relief of the fufferers, and in this act of generofity he was followed by the Dauphinefs, whofe mind was fo deeply impreffed with the relation of what had happened, that it was with difficulty fhe could be kept from fainting. His Majesty

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was alfo greatly affected, and iffued orders, that no expence might be fpared to fuccour and affift the miferable. In short, fuch a scene of real diftrefs never before prefented itfelf, and it is thought it will be a means of utterly abolishing that kind of entertainment for the fu

ture.

The number of the dead, fo far as the bodies that were drowned have been recovered, appears by the latest and best accounts to have been in all 712. Among which were four monks, two abbés, and twenty-two perfons of condition. It does not appear that there are any English among the number.

His moft Chriftian Majefty has ordered 100,000 livres to be expended towards the relief of the unfortunate perfons who were hurt, or have loft their relations in the confufion on the night of the city fireworks. The Dauphinefs and the Mefdames have alfo contributed.

At Grozette in Italy, there has been discovered at the depth of 8 feet, an ancient 'furnace, about which were found fome antique medals, but most of them fo effaced with ruft, that it was with difficulty the time of building the furnace could be made out. Upon the reverse of one of these medals, which appears to be of the Emperor Florio, the words Victor Orbis may plainly be read. This Emperor is not mentioned in the fupplement published by Muratori and Vallemont; but in the line of Emperors recited by others, we find him in the fecond century of the vulgar æra, about which time this furnace feems to have been conftructed. There is another medal of the Emperor Germanicus, but it

is impoffible to afcertain to which of the Emperors of that name it ́ belongs. About the fame depth, but in another place, there have likewife been difcovered fome fragments of baked earth, among which are feveral lachrymatory vafes that were antiently placed by the coffins of the dead, and even fome remains of the fepulchres in which thefe lachrymatories are fuppofed to have been depofited. Of the fame earth fome urns were found, about two feet high, one foot in circumference about the middle, and between fix and feven in the neck; but what was most remarkable, thefe urns were not made flat at bottom, but ended in a point, which were ftruck in the ground, in order to make them ftand upright. Within these urns were found fmall bones, almost reduced to powder, from whence it fhould feem, that they were formed for the prefervation of fome fragments of the dead.

York, May 22. There is now living in the parish of Wigan, in Lancashire, one Fairbrother, aged 138 years. The youngest of his four fons is now 104 years old, and the father ftill follows the trade of cooper.

Died lately, Chauncy Townfend, Efq; member for Wigtoun, in Scotland, (being the firft Englifhman that ever reprefented any place in Scotland.)

Mrs. Gordon, a maiden lady, fuppofed to have died worth upwards of 50,0col. great part of which fhe has left to charitable ufes; among the rest one thousand pounds for erecting an hofpital for the relief of indigent old maids.

At Bath, in the 103d year of her age, Sarah Defon, of that city.

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