apt. Cottineau had an engagement among the rocks; many foundered imthe Countess of Scarborough, and mediately, and from the feverity of the her, after an hour's conteft. The weather afterwards, the wind being W. antefs of Scarborough is an armed N. W. right in upon the fhore, with a el, mounting 20 guns fix-pounders, heavy fea, there was reason to believe, was commanded by the Lieutenant that hardly any of them would be faThe King's fhip. ved." [567.] forgot to tell you, that immediately the captain had come on board the Homme Richard, the middle, miand fcuttle maft of the Serapis fell the fea." etter from the British ambassador to Mrs Burnot, a failor's wife at Burlington. "Mrs Burnot, Hague, Nov. 26. 1779. As foon as I received your letter of 7th instant, I loft no time in making juries after your gallant husband, Mr chard Burnot; and have now great afure in congratulating you upon his ng alive and well, on board the Couns of Scarborough, at the Texel. I. d he had been burnt with an explon of gunpowder, but now quite recored. He fends me word, that he, as u know, could not write, and therere hoped I would let you know he was ell, which I do with infinite fatisfacon. It will ftill be greater, if I can get m exchanged, which I am doing my ft endeavours for: but as the people ho took him are fometimes French and metimes rebels, as it fuits their conveence, that renders this affair more difcult than it would be if they allowed emselves to be French; because I could en fettle the exchange at once. I am appy to be able to give fuch agreeable ews to the wife of my brave country man, and I am very fincerely, your moft aithful humble fervant, JOSEPH YORKE." "Admiralty-office, July 9. [formerly mitted.] Capt. Farmer, in a letter, lated, Quebec, Guernsey, July 6. gives an account, that on the evening of the th, being off Morlaix, with the Unicorn and Cabot, and seeing a fleet fteerng along-shore to caftward, under convoy of a frigate of 20 guns, and several armed veffels, amounting in the whole to 49 fail; he stood in upon the said fleet: and although they crouded all the fail they could, clofe in with the rocks, to fecure the port of Morlaix, the Quebec and Unicorn got the whole into fo fmall a compass, that, both fhips keeping a conftant fire, the frigate, armed vellels, and about 43 fail, ran on hore upon and "London, Dec. 25. The following East-India fhips, from St Helena, are arrived off the Isle of Wight, under convoy of the Warwick man of war only, viz. the Hillsborough, Collet; the Glatton, Doveton; the Royal George, Foxall; the Godfrey, Reed; the Queen, Douglas; the Gatton, Chisholme; the Mountftuart, Stewart; the Royal Admiral, Huddard; and the Shrewsbury, Coggan. They all failed from the Downs on their voyage in January, February, and March 1778." The drawing of the ftate-lottery ended on the 29th of December. [629.] On Saturday, Dec. 11. Aldermen Crofby, Sawbridge, Halifax, Hayley, and Newnham, with the reft of the committee, (in their respective carriages, all their fervants with blue cockades), also the Chamberlain, the City-Remembrancer, the Town Clerk, and other officers, escorted by the two City-Marshals on horfeback, and Under-Marshalmen to clear the way, proceeded from Guildhall to Audley fquare, and prefented to the Hon. Auguftus Keppel, Admiral of the White, the freedom of the city in a box made of the Heart of Oak, of curious workmanship. After Ald. Crosby had prefented it, and made a genteel fpeech on the occafion, the Admiral returned a polite anfwer, and then entertained the whole company in an elegant manner. [257.] IRELAND. [630. 666.] "Dublin, Dec. 4. On Thurfday last, the Rt Hon. Walter Huffey Burgh, his Majefty's Prime Serjeant at Law [548. 571.613.], refigned his gown to the chief Governor of this kingdom.”—On the 5th of December above 300 of the most respectable attornies in the kingdom met at Dublin, and entered into an addrefs of thanks to the late Prime Serjeant, for his fpirited, upright, and patriotic conduct in parliament, and refigning his gown at a time that holding an office under the crown feemed to combat with the deareft interefts of his country." "London, Dec. 7. We hear, that, for fome time paft, agents have been 4 % a employed in Ireland in buying up large quantities of coarse blanketing, which have been carried from the counties of Kilkenny, Carlow, &c. to the northern ports of that kingdom, for the purpofe of exporting to America; and we are thoroughly informed, that a trade has already commenced with America, several veffels laden with linens, &c, hawing failed for the Western continent." "London, Dec. 4. A letter from Ireland fays, “James Horan, Esq; an alderman and merchant of Dublin, tendered at the Cuftomhouse an entry of fome bales of Irith woollens for Rotterdam: the inferior officer, furprifed at what he had never before experienced, fent for the commiffioners of the revenue; who acquainted Mr Horan, that they could not fuffer the entry to pafs, as an Eng. lifh ftatute prohibited them; and they produced the book of ftatutes. Mr Horan replied, that he hoped, upon confideration, they would not dare to give him fuch an illegal anfwer to his legal demand; and that he fhould call upon them the next day for their final determination. On a fecond application, the refufal being repeated, it was agreed to join iffue, and try the queftion in a court of law, fo as that it fhould be decided by a Dublin jury."But the British statute paffed fince [665.], will, we prefume, render the prosecution of this action unneceffary. In a letter from Ireland in the end of December 1779, it is faid, "I know not upon what authority P. W. fays [506.], that in the month of June laft there were 20,000 horse and foot, composed of independent Proteftant volunteers; or whether it is believed by any well-informed man, that the White Boys, Oak Boys, &c. were then, or now can be, counted upon as auxiliaries for any purpofe of real public utility, or for any purpofe whatever, other than what their own diabolical works fhow to be their inten. tions; for I never heard that any man of character (and of fuch our volunteers are compofed) owned, far lefs boafted of a confederacy with them. Befides, if information be good, we have not, my even at this moment, full 20,000 respectable volunteers armed and well diciplined in all Ireland." the foldiers of the Weft Fencibles v were concerned in pulling up the dra bridge of the caftle when that corps m at Leith [573.]; and fentence wa nounced; the former to be shot, and the latter to receive a thousand lathes. E both were pardoned, on condition of greeing to serve beyond feas where the King hould appoint, Brown forfa teen years, and Macleod for feven. At Glafgow there were public ra cings, illuminations, &c. Dec. 29. m receiving the refolutions of the pare ment of Ireland [662. — 666.], and the news of the fucceffes of the Britiú arca at Omoa and Savannah [666,673,], k The magistrates, the most refpectac tizens, the officers of the army, &c, me in the town hall; where many loya toats were drank. Sum of the quantity and value of Lisen janga for fale in Scotland, [40. 728.] From Nov. 1. 1778, to Nov. 1. 1913 Lefs this year than the preceeding: Difmiffed without relief The LONDON General Bill of Chriftenings and Burials, from December 15. 1778, to De- Christened {Females8129 Between Age. 2 and 5 Increased in the bu- Females 102125 20420 Irials this year 21. Males 10208 Age. No. Age. No. Age. No. 100 104 413 69 Evil 16 Palfy бо Difeafes. Fever, ditto malig- Abort, and Stillb. 511 nant, fcarlet, fpot- Pleurify Rath Ague 4 Fiftula 4 Rheumatifm 8 Bruifed Apoplexy and Sud. 197 Flux 32 Rickets Burnt 2 Afthma and Ph:hi- French Pox Gout 9 6 Strangury 2 Grief Bleeding Gravel, Stone, and S2 Scald-head 46 Scurvy Small Pox 38 Sore Throat 5 Sores and Ulcers 2 Thrush 2493 Excellive Drinking 18 Executed 12 Found Dead Killed by Falls, and 3 16 feveral other Acci- 181 Tympany 2 Vomit. and Loofness 8 48 Worms 99 Confumption Convulfions Cough, and Hoop- ing-Cough Droply 268 Miscarriage 4 198 128 - Clinton, Gen. reflected on High treafon, perfons fen- · Inhabitants, number of in - Maflachufet's-bay affembly - vost 497 - - Deane, Silas, his addrefs North river, fuccefs of the - - - Penobicot attacked by the - Pennsylvania aflembly re- Stono-ferry attacked by the - Tranfports with Briti Pritoners, ineffectual meet it 223. Of Germany: Active fpirit of - North America: Magazines 127. Circumfcribed limits of Gen. 297 31. - Portugal: Death of the - Ruffia: Rapid progress of See Books. Of Charles V. of Spain Afs and Pedlar, a tale 258 -- Bees, curious story of 238 - - Religion, &c. Lowth's tranflation of I- - Anfwer to Mr Burke's - Principal Campbell's ad- Faft Indies: Extraordinary - Confiderations on the Dif Beattie's effays on poetry Bons Mots 360. 467 Bounties to feamen and fol- Bowie. See Proteftant Intereft - True principles of Prote- - - Hiftory, &c. Byron, Adm. his engagement Campbell |