portunity of returning his fincere thanks to thofe acting Magiftrates in the country, who have from time to time favoured him with their correfpondence, on their committing of fufpicious perfons; and allo, for their affiftance in making in quiries after perfons fled from London to efcape juftice; and does affure them, that this plan has been the means of bringing many notorious offenders to condign punishment and as the difficulties of escaping are much increafed by this reciprocal correfpondence, it is hoped that it has already deterred fome, and will in the end deter many from becoming offenders; a circumstance most devoutly to be wished for: And if the civil power does continue to act with fpirit and vigour from the centre to the extremes, and from the extremes back to the centre again, this happy prevention must be obtained; for in procefs of time, it must be impracticable for any offender to escape juftice; which will conftitute a police quite confiftent with, and agreeable to the dignity of the English conftitution, as it is nothing more than animating and keeping alive that great fecurity of our lives, liberties, and properties, the civil power, in all its parts. The letters fent by Sir John Fielding to the Magiftrates in the country, either in answer to them, or to defire them to make inquiries, are either franked or paid for; and all in quiries defired to be made in London by the Magiftrates in the country, are, if poffible, execated within twenty four hours, always without expence to them, and the letters anfwered by return of poft, or, if neceffary, fent by exprefs.

P. S. If any letter is omitted being anfwered longer than fhould appear ne reflary, it is to be hoped that the Magiftrates will write again, as from the multiplicity of business, a letter may be miflaid; and as inquiries in London, in confequence of this correspondence, have been remarkably useful, 'tis to be wifhed, that the Magistrates, in their examinations in the country, would be particularly attentive to the lodgings and connections in London which prifoners may give an account of.

"London, April 28. The Marine fo ciety has prefented to Mr Hanway, as an acknowledgement of his diftinguished labours from the beginning to the end of the Jaft war, and his indefatigable attention to their object ever fince, a filver gilt medal, (the coft being only about five pounds), the fame being engraven as follows, viz. on VOL. XXXI.

one fide the Anchor of Hope, with the following infcription: The Marine Society, inftituted in London, July 1756, during the war with France and Spain, by voluntary fubfcriptions, cloathed and fitted out 5452 landmen as feamen, and 4787 boys to be bred feamen, for the lervice of the Royal Navy, and allo provided for all the boys who applied to them at the close of the war in 1762." And on the reverfe Britannia standing under an oak, which fupports her fhield, a lion ftanding ou her right fide. She leans with her left arm on a boy in a tattered garment, who holds out his hand towards cloaths lying on the ground, and the points to a cannon and a buoy, as implements of War and Navigation, with this infcription:" To Jonas Hanway, Efq; as a token of the high sense which the Marine Society entertain of his public spirit in propofing, and unwearied affiduity in methodizing, this defign." Motto, "Charity and Policy united."On the exergue, "Robert Lord Romney, Chairman, and John Thornton, Efq; Treasurer."

"London, May 29. On Friday, Mr Ramfay, in the name of Earl Stanhope, now at Geneva, made a donation to the Britifh Mufeum of the original articles prefented by the Barons in Runny Mead to King John in 1215, as the groundwork for his Magna Charta; of which the original, part of the Cottonian collection, had been already depofited in the Mufeum. By a comparison of these articles with the complete ratification of them in the Great Charter of King John, it appears, that the parliamentary rights of the smaller freeholders, and the liberty of the boroughs, were established by the King, in oppofition to the views of the Barons, who only meant to make themfelves independent of the crown, without any regard either to the liberty of the people, or the fafety of the ftate. This wife policy of the King, though ineffectual during the weak and turbulent reign of his fon, fhone forth under his grandfon Edward I.; who, upon the principle of King John, gave a regular form to the houfe of Commons, and an opening to that balance of power which produces liberty, and equal laws, without losing fight of that due fubordination by which alone the feveral powers of the state can be called forth, united, and exerted for the common good.-Dr Blackstone has given a very correct edition of these articles, in his hiftory of the Great Charter." 4 Y

The

The LONDON General Bill of Christenings and Burials, from December 13. 1768, to De-
cember 12. 1769; with the difeafes and cafualties, &c.

Christened Females 8145

Between

2 and

30 and 40
40 and 50

2041

1998

70 and 80 921
80 and 90

383

General Bill of Mortality for 1769, in EDINBURGH, and WEST-KIRK parish.

N. B. When different pages are referred to at any article, if the numbers are disjoined by a com-
ma, the first figure or figures in the preceding numbers are fuppofed to be repeated in the fubfequent.

engagement 286. American
grievances ib. 287. 402. Ap-
of 13
plication to remove the for-
ces at the election, &c. ib.
Air, method of fupplying coal- The general's anfwer ib. A
mines with 188

fhip feized ib. 327. Grie-
vances about their naviga-
tion 327. Difputes in N.
England ib. Goods fent
from London ftored, &c. ib.
Decrease of the duty on Eu-
ropean goods ib. Five re-
gulators brought to Charlet-
town ib. Outrages commit-
American petition to the King_ted by the regulators ib. 328.

fettle at St John's 601. Bo-
fton affembly to meet ib.
Officers affaulted by the mob
at Boston ib. Trial between
an Indian chief and the co-
lonifts ib. 602. Indians
complain of incroachments
on their lands 602. High-
landers fettled in N. Carolina
ib. Affembly of S. Carolina
refufe to make barracks ib.
Men of war and tranfports
arrive at N. Orleans ib. Lt
Gen. Vaughan made gover-
nor of W. Florida ib. Goods
prohibited by an affociation
660. Boundary between N.
York and N. Jerfey ib. Qua-
kers give freedom to their ne-
gro flaves ib. Delaware and
Mingo Indians murdered 661
A congrefs with the Indians
ib. Governor of Virginia's
fpeech to the affembly ib.
Shoes, ftockings, and hats,
manufactured in Virginia ib.
Petition of the affembly of
Antigua 665

America and G. Britain, cafe
of 146

Books,

Anecdotes 144. 305. 414
Animal reproductions, on 423
Ancient pronunciation, de-
licacy of 420

Arguin, ifland, account of 511
Afgill, his expulfion 185
Affembly. See Formula, Ge-

neral.

Balf and Quirk, rioters, fen-
tenced 49. pardoned 164
Banks. See Air.
Barley-grain, great increase

of 613

Barr, confederates of, their
manifefto 159
Barren-lands, cultivation of

241

Beatty's tour among the In-
dians 426

Bd, Duke of, Junius to
531. Inftances of his bene-
ficence 573, 4, 5. 665
Berkeley's maxims 188
Bernard, Gov. arrives at Lon-
don 445
Bible, revision of the English
text of $79

Bill of rights. See Supporters.
Bingley committed 49
Blayney's correction of the

Bible $79
Bolton, D. gives a grand en-
tertainment 387, 8
Book which cannot be rand
575

Campbell, Mungo, his indist-
ment 613, 4

Canal between Forth and
Clyde, number of men em-
ployed at 334. 670
Canals, defeription of, with
a copper-plate 527
Caterpillars, method to de-
stroy 296
Cattle-diftemper cure for 621
Charles V. Robertson's history
of 145

extracts from,
Thoughts on government 29.
Pownal's administration of
the colonics 32.
Four per-
fons starved 96. Rights of
the colonies ib. Shall I go
to war with my American
brethren 97. Neville's 14th
fatire of Juvenal imitated 98.
Robertson's history of Charles
V. 145. 247, 54, 5. The
cafe of G. Britain and A-
merica 146. Grounds of
the process against Mr Fer-
guffon 151. Foot's appeal,
Ingram's blow, &c. 204, 5.
Case of the Middlesex election
309. On the conduct of
the Sanhedrim, &c. 311,
Warden's fyftem of revealed
religion 312. Pott on frac-
tures and diflocations 369.
Sheridan's plan of educa-
cation 421. Spallanzani on
animal reproductions 423.
Beatty's tour 426. Welth
spoke by the Americans ib.
Dickfon's agriculture 427.
The Mufes bloffoms 429.
Maikelyne's obfervations of
the tranfit of Venus 431.
Garrick's dedication-ode at
Stratford 480. Hiftory of
ancient Greece 538. Muf-
grave's reply to D'Eon $41.
Refutation of an afperfion
on Mr Vaughan 543-
gufon's moral philofophy
582. Speech on expelling
Mr Wilkes 585. Letters
between several eminent per-
fons and Mr Wilkes $91.
Dr Cullen's finopfis 594.
Bostonians appeal 648. On
affairs in Grenada ib. Ad-
vice to landholders and far-
mers 651

Fer-

Bostonians appeal 648
Bougainville difcovers an i-
fland 714

Braine, Thomas, bill of in-
dictment found against 162.
Acquitted ib.
Brefcia, damage done by
lightning at 495, 6
Bread, Edinburgh affize of
670
Brecknock against a late de-

cifion 363, 4, 5
Burton, Allen, committed to
Newgate 162
Bute E. of, returns to London
444. Sets out again 675
Caithness, Earl, W. Sinclair
of Rattar ferved heir to s

Choczim abandoned by the
Turks 547

Circuit courts 332
Clarke, G. on his death 204,5
Clement XIII. Pope, account
of the death of 103.212
Clive, L. letter to 245. An-
fwer and reply ib.
Colbert, mistakes of 14
Colonies, adminiftration of 32.
Letter to the governors 268
Comet, accounts of 675. af-
frights the Turks 550
Conclave account of 193
Cook on inoculation 81

on the gout 166
Copper-mine at Ecton-hill,
description of 65
Corn, Du Hamel on the pre-
fervation of 24
Corfica, Paoli attacks the
French quarters 46. hath
Scots highlanders in his fer-
vice ib. The French defeat
near the bridge of Bivinco ib.
Several French tartans taken
ib. 47. Dutch man of war
lands in Corfica, with arms,
money, &c. 471. English and
Scots gentlemen volunteers
in the Corfican army ib. A
36 gun frigate taken by the
Corficans ib. Corficans re-
ceive a blow at Oletta 203.
Orminio furprised by the
French ib. 40,000 men to
be fent to Corfica ib. 1300
Corficans inlift in the French
fervice ib. Ships from Tu-
nis arrive at
ney, &c. ib. Skirmishes be-
tween the Corficans and
French 211. Corficans re-
ceive a blow at Barbaggio ib.
M. Colonna taken prifoner
ib. A medal fent by the
King of Pruffia to Paoli ib.
French make an attempt on
Oletta ib. repulfed ib.
Sar-
dinia deferters join Paoli ib.
Corficans fupplied with pro.
vifions ib. Count de Mar-

Corfica with mo-

2