arned in publifhing fuch schemes, or in Lying or felling fuch chances or tickets. The Induftry, Jones, feized on the ver the 16th of December laft, was condemned by the juftices for Middlefex, 20. as legally forfeited. She was brand from Cork in Ireland, and had en board 4704 yards of Irish woollen Auf called camblets, to be carried beyond fea, contrary to statute. A letter was read in the fenate-house, Cambridge, Jan. 24. which is to be fent to the King of Naples, to thank his Majefty for a prefent he made the univerfity, ofthe history of the antiquities found in the ruins of Herculaneum. ated At a meeting of the fociety at London for the encouragement of arts, manufacteres, and commerce [xvi 546], Jan. thirty-fix boys and eight girls appared as candidates for the premiums drawings. They were divided into o claffes, i. e. thofe under the age of teen years, and thofe between fourten and feventeen; and 151 was diftri among five of each clafs, in preums of 5, 4, 3, 2, and 11. Henry Cheere, Efq; and Meff Dalton, Strange, and Boneau, were judges. The 41. premium of the oldeft clafs, and the 21. ee of the youngest, were gained by James Scouler of the oldeft clafs, Richard Cofway of the youngest, ged the 51. premiums. Colway is the fon of Mr Richard Cofway fchoolmater in Tiverton; his prize-fubject as Compaffion, taken from an original Le Brun's; and the following verfes, ed TIVERTONIENSIS, are writon the occafion. fene GENIUS from her gloomy grot, ere long he'd lain neglected and forgot; patriots, born to raife BRITANNIA's name, noble zealas for their country's fame, 'd, rewards and honours fhould be paid the children of the heav'n-born maid. triumph'd GENIUS- and, on CosWAY'S breaft, bright image ftrongly the impreft; ent him forth, in all her ftrength, to move ye to wonder, and each heart to love; him be ftedfaft in her gen'rous cause, Britain foon fhould give Italia laws! To fuch perfection is the art of proting vegetation arrived in this king 4 dom, that a large plate of fine ripe duke cherries was ferved up at his Majefty's defert after dinner on the 1st of January. At the admiffion of poor women to the lying in hospital in London, Jan 9. a Scotfwoman drew a white ba 1, which intitled her to be received into the house. An Englishwoman, near her time. It nding next to the former, drew a black ball, which excluded her. The Scotfwoman, fecing her ready to fink at the difappointment, ran up to her at once; faying, "Do not lofe heart, mittress; I will change bails with you;" and accordingly cia fo. The governors, truck with the poor Scotfwoman's humanity and generofity, gave orders that the fhould be admitted whenever the should apply. Mr Cholmley, who died lately at Newington, has left all his fortune, ex. cept a few fmall legacies, to a boy of about fourteen years of age, who fhall be chofen by his executor from among those at the foundling-hofpital If the boy first pitched on die before he arrives at the age of twenty one, the executor is to chufe another, and so on; but if the executor die before a proper lad be fixed on, or before the lad arrives at the age of twenty one, the choice devolves on the governors of that charity. SCOT The number of the members of the fociety lately established at Glasgow, for fuppreffing vice and wickedness by a due execution of the laws [xvi. 548.], is now increafed to near a hundred.- -This fociety is called, The Glafgow Friendly Society. Each member pays at least half a guinea entry-money. The management is committed to a prefes, a clerk, a treasurer, and fix directors. Thefe, with the magiftrates and minifters, who are directors ex officio, meet the first Tuesday of every month, or oftener if the pretes fees it needful; and they are judges what offenders are to be profecuted at the fociety's expence. The officebearers continue fix months, and are chofen by the general meetings; of which there are two in the year. Angus Baan Kennedy, a piper, was fentenced, fentenced, at Inverness, Jan. 10. by the fheriff depute, to be hanged there the 28th of March next, for theft. On the 27th of January came on before the high court of judiciary, at Edinburgh, the trial of Nicol Brown flefher in Edinburgh, for the murder of Janet Caldwall, his wife. The libel bears, That he had frequently beat, and other. wife maltreated his wife; that on fuch occafions fhe had been heard to cry out, Murder! Murder! and fhewed her neighbours the marks made on her body by the blows he had given her: That on the 13th of November last he had threatened to beat her, because the refused to give him fome rings fhe wore; and that in the night immediately following, he forcibly held her to the grate in his own houfe, by which her cloaths taking fire, fhe was fo horribly scorched in the belly, breast, and other parts of the body, that she died of the burning next day: That while he was perpetrating this fhocking crime, the neighbours hearing her cry out, Murder! Murder! or, God forgive you, Nicol Brown, I am burnt! or words to that purpofe, came to rescue her; and finding the door fhut, knocked loudly; that on this a candle which was feen in one of the windows, difappeared for fome time, and her fhrieks ceafed; and that in about ten or fifteen minutes he opened the door, calling out for help, or for God's fake to bring water, for that his wife was burnt: That the neighbours rufhing in, found her ly. ing on the floor, burnt in a grievous manner, and no body in the houfe but him and her; and that upon their afking her how the affair had happened, the anfwered, that the murdering dog her huf band had thrown her into the fire. After debate, the Lords found the libel relevant to infer the pains of law; but allowed the pannel a proof of all facts and circumstances that might tend to exculpate. The proof was immediately taken, which employed the court till about twelve o'clock at night. The jury fat till between fix and feven next morning; and on the 29th gave in the following verdict. "All in one voice find it proven, that, at the time and place libelled, Janet Caldwall, fpor to Nicol Brown the pannel, was bur of which burning fhe died the next da and further find it proven, that the was no perfon in Nicol Brown's hou but her, and the pannel Nicol Brow her husband, when the faid burning ha pened; and that the neighbourhood t ing alarmed with the dreadful cries Murder! run to the pannel's house, a knocked loudly, but did not get adm tance for about the space of a quarter an hour; and on their entering the pa nel's house, found the forefaid Jan Caldwall lying in the floor of the roo in a moft miferable condition." Jud ment is not yet given. P. S. James Robertfon tenant in Ni dery, was committed to Edinburgh pr fon, Feb. 4. by a warrant of the Lord] ftice-Clerk, accufed of endeavouring fuborn James Squire flefher in Edinburg and others, to fwear falfely as exculpat ry witneffes in the above trial; but was liberated upon bail on the 6th. The enfuing fpring circuit-courts down on the days following, viz. The weft circuit, the Lords Strich and Drummore, at Stirling, on Tuelda April 1.; at Inverary, on Wedneda April 9.; and at Glasgow, on Thurida April 17. The fouth circuit, the Lords Kilke ran and Preftongrange, at Jedburgh, Thursday April 3.; at Dumfries, Friday April 11.; and at Air, on § turday April 19. The north circuit, the Lords Juftic Clerk and Minto, at Perth, on Wedn day April 30.; at Aberdeen, on Thu day May 8.; and at Inverness, on S turday May 17. An account of the rife and progress of infirmary at Aberdeen. Fter infirmaries were erected at dinburgh and Glasgow, for the lief of the difeafed poor, the town Aberdeen, finding, that the people of th northern counties, by reason of the great diftance, could reap little or benefit from thofe noble inftitution came to a refolution of erecting an 11 firmary at Aberdeen, for the benefit the difeafed poor in all the northern parts putation to the Aberdeen infirmary, that great numbers pretented themselves to be admitted, from all parts north of the Tay, and fome from the moft diftant northern counties. The managers, in order to relieve the crying neceffities of their poor afflicted fellow creatures, were obliged to have recourte to voluntary contributions, through the panhes of this, and the neighbouring counties. Providence favoured the defign; fo that even poor country people, fenfible of the advantages the whole country reaped from the infirmary, contributed moft readily according to their ability. By thefe contributions, and the inter eft of feveral donations made fince to the infirmary by fome excellent perfons, the managers have been enabled to increafe the number of patients every year and thefe laft three years they have fupported within the houfe no less than thirty conftantly, and fometimes more; befides giving medicines and affiftance to numbers, whom they could not admit for want of room; and even to fome who were judged incurable, in order to alleviate in fome measure their calamity, and fo make their lives lefs uncomfortable. As greater numbers do ftill prefent themfelves, than the prefent funds can fupport, or the house accommodate, the managers found it neceffary, for carrying on this truly noble and useful inititution, to enlarge the building; and a plan being fixed upon, they have agreed with two undertakers, to have the new building entirely finished against Whitfunday enfuing, for the fum of 500 1. Sterling. By this addition, the house will be rendered much more compleat and ufeful; as there is to be a public operation-room, and several other neceffary apartments, befides thofe that are allotted for the accommodation of an additional number of patients. Managers or directors were appoint ed; so were, at the very firft, obliged brow money, for furnishing the houfe, and fitting up the apartments proy, for the reception of patients. The difeafed poor were admitted from parts of the country; and none were ed, when there was any place for but fuch as were judged incuraor improper, by two phyficians, the furgeon who attended the hol; and thofe who could not be rered on their firft application, had names, and the date of their aprance, entered into the minutes, and admitted in their order, as other ents happened to go out. For further fatisfaction, an abstract The phyficians and furgeons in town is here fubjoined of the number of paroully gave their affiftance, and at- tients admitted into this infirmary, every ded punctually. Their great fuccefs year, fince its firft inftitution, taken from the patients (many of them in very the public regifters of the infirmary. perate cafes) foon gained fuch a reVOL. XVII. H [Go to p. 54.] N. B. оооооо-оо-оо-оо-ооо-ос I 8 10 I 8 I о 2 о 41000 NOTONOMOTHO O ON 100TH WHSm 3 2 2 I I I 50 A TABLE, fhewing the number of patients in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1754, the difeafes they respectively laboured under, and the fuccefs of the means of cure ufed. |Total | Cured Relie. Dif.|Incu || Died Rem. о Blood, monthly flux of, from the bladder Cancer of lip extirpated of breast amputated Catarrh and Hæmoptoe and Dysentery Erysipelas periodical Excrefcence on eye-ball extirpated Exoftofis on hand extirpated 6 I 7 I Leprofy mum In this Table, the first column fhews the difenfes; the fecond, the total patients i e those in the house at the beginning of 1754, and those ad relieved, though not wholly cured; the fifth, the number difniffed, for irregula rities, or at their own defire; the fixth, the number dismissed as incurable; the Difeafes. Brought forward Obstructed menfes and Hæmorrhoids Ophthalmia Pain of back and Palfy and Albugo Total Cured Relie. Dif. Incu. Died Rem, - Pleuro-peripneumony of ra femper is commonly feveral foldiers in the houfe, anong w the venereal diflemper is the reigning calamity; but none labouring under that ditenfe are ever admitted upon the charity fund. Stone or gravel Suppuration of guts Lithotomy performed of epigaftrium of leg with caries amputated Testicle cancerous extirpated mortified extirpated fcirrhous Toe cancerous amputated Tumour glandular Ulcers cachectic cancerous with carious bones Amputation performed White swelling Amputation performed oooo oo oo o o ooo oooo ooo oo - o ooooooo о 1 6 2 I 34 20 2 69 VALUE, Sterling. L. 406,816 8 0 7 12ths, 38,505 10 0 6 12ths. By looking at the places regularly referred to for five years back, our readers will fee the rapid progrefs made in this manufacture fince the appointment of the commissioners and trustees for improving fisheries and manufactures in Scotland, in 1727; and that the decrease last year was much greater than ever happened before. [xv. 651], 1 1 |