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taken by the English. These letters came last post from Copenhagen, by a ship ar◄ rived there from Tranquebar, which called at the Cape.

man did not pay the porter a fhilling for his trouble of carrying it to the gentle man's house. It appearing to the Jury that the porter had charged as much more as he ought to do, and that the carrier had no right to stop the goose for the porterage, the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff of three fhillings damage, and cofts of fuit.

This day the price of porter was raised to three-pence half-penny ; a pot but great difturbances having arifen thereupon, the publicans have thought proper to reduce it to the old price of three-pence again.

THURSDAY, June 25.

A committee of merchants waited on the earl of Halifax, to return thanks for his lordship's unwearied attention to, and moft fatisfactory dispatch of business, during the time of his prefiding at the board of trade; which his lordship received in the most obliging manner, and assured the committee, that, in every station of life, he should efteem it the highest honour to be deemed a friend to the commercial in. terests of his country.

This day feveral publicans in Weftminfter were carried before a magiftrate, and fined 5s. each for raifing the price of beer, contrary to an act paffed in the reign of king William III. which fixed it at 3d. per quart.

FRIDAY, June 26.

We have the following account from Bath, dated June 18th. On Sunday laft the most barbarous murder that has been heard of for many years, was committed between Hilperton and Trowbridge, on the body of one Mary Allan, by feveral men, who are yet unknown. It is thought they wanted to be rude with her, and her refusing to confent, provoked them to be guilty of this horrid crime. A large quantity of blood was fpilt on the place where he was found, and a stick of an amazing fize was taken out of her body, on its being opened by order of the coro

ner.

Jofeph Brice, Efq; for the murder of Richard Jafper, Efq; in May last, at a tavern at Charing Cross, was tried this day at the Old Bailey, and found guilty of manslaughter.

SATURDAY, June 27. Letters from the Cape, dated the 9th of February, mention, that Pondicherry was

By advices from Georgia, in SouthCarolina, we learn, that about 100 Creeks, and Chicafahs, had been there lately, all profeffing a good difpofition: that on the 28th of March, 39 more Creeks were at Savannah: that, upon the whole, things wore a better face in that nation than they did a month before. It is faid, that a confiderable number of Norken Indians are marching in large parties, to aft against the Cherokees.

BIRTHS.

THE Sultanefs at Conftantinople, of a princefs.

The Lady of Char. Northey, Efq; of a fon. The Lady of..... Pleydell, Efq; of a daughter.

A Jewefs in Agate's paffage, Houndf ditch, of two boys and two girls.

DEATHS.

THE Rt. Hon. Earl Shelburn. The Rt. Hon. Lord Edgcumbe. Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Montague. Dr. Jofeph Walker, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford.

Rev. Mr. Greenwood, Vicar of HighamFerrers.

Lady of William Melmoth, Efq; of Great Ealing.

Mr. Coles at Kingston, near Taunton, worth 30,000.

Mrs. Norton, at Athy, in Irel. aged 109. David Montelieu, Baron of St. Hipolit. The Lady of Alex. Thistlehuayte, Efq; Dan Burr, Efq; at Hatcham House, Surry.

Mifs Eliz. Bland, daughter of Sir J. Bland, of Kippax, Yorkshire.

Mark Pringle, of Creighton, Efq; Rev. Mr. Laws, in St. Martin's ChurchYard.

The Lady of Stephen Kennel, Efq; of Croydon.

Digby Dent, Efq; in Dover ftreet. James Lyon, Efq. at Brompton. Duke of Montmorency, in France. Lady of Sir Rowland Stanley, of Hooton, Bart.

Rev.

Rev. Mr. Robinfon; Rector of Norton, Kent.

Rev. Mr. Midgeley, at Coxwold, Yorkshire.

John Ray, of Wenfton, Hampshire, aged 110.

Hon. Hen. Finch, brother to the Earl of Winchelsea.

Dr. Nesbitt, fenior Fellow of the College of phyficians.

Baron de Wafenaer, at the Hague.

Mr. Edw. Wilks, merchant at Boston in

New England, aged 109.

Sir Hen. Ibbetfon, of Leeds, Bart.
Countess of Coningsby.

Rt. Hon. Lady Mansfield.

Rt. Hon. Lady Piercy, eldest daughter of the Earl of Northumberland.

Dr. Frewin at Oxford.

Mr. James Stachby, at Wednesbury, Staffordshire, aged 109.

Rt. Hon. dowag. Marq. of Rockingham. Rev. Mr. Letfom, Rector of Halford, Oxfordshire.

Mrs. Celia Sims, aged 107.

John Aynesley, Efq; at Threepwood, Durham.

MARRIAGES.

Berney Brograve, Efq; to mifs Hawker, of Baddow, Effex.

William Maude, Efq; to mifs Wilfon, of Wakefield, Yorkshire.

Cuthbert Fatkin, aged 76, to Rebecca Milburn, aged 81, at Newcastle.

Rev. Mr. Drake, of Hythe, in Kent, to mifs Carolina Brockman.

Will. Hen. Lyttelton, Efq; governor of Jamaica, to miss Macartney.

---Bilfen, Efq; to Mrs. Eliz. Nutt, a widow lady.

Rev. Mr. Jefferys, Rector of St. Nicholas Coleabby, to mifs Darell, of Richmond.

James Evelyn, Efq; of Godstone, to Mrs. Fane, fifter of Sir John Cuft, Bart. Philip Joddrell, Efq; of Bedford Row, to mifs Eliz. Gybbon.

William Clayton, Efq; member for Marlow in Bucks, to mifs Lloyd of Berkeley fquare.

Champion Dymoke, to miss Homes, late of Bombay.

William Harris, Efq; to mifs Dymoke, the Champion's fifter.

Mr. Young of Landogo, near Bristol, to Mrs, Williams, a fortune of 10,000l.

John Whitefoord, of York, to mifs Cartwright, of Offington.

PROMOTIONS.

The Hon. Henry Greenville, Efq; ambaffador extraordinary to the Ottoman Porte.

Earl of Nottingham, ambassador-extraordinary, and plenipotentiary to the republic of Venice.

Major Park Pepper, lieut. col.

Major general Craufurd, governor of Belleifle.

Earl of Bute, ranger of Richmond Park.

Thomas Wroughton, Efq; conful general of all Ruffia.

Nicholas Fenwicke, Efq; conful at Elineur.

Sidney Meadows, Efq; deputy ranger of Richmond Park.

Sir Henry Frankland, Bart. conful ges neral at Lifbon.

Major Wiliam Brown, lieut. col. Henry Frankland, Bart. conful general at Lisbon.

Ifaac Jamineau, Efq; conful general at Naples.

Stanhope Afpinwall, Efq; conful general at Algiers.

Jofeph Popham, Efq; conful general at Tetuan.

Charles Gordon, Efq; conful general at Tunis.

Robert White, Efq; conful general at Tripoli.

James Millar, Efq; conful at Barcelona. Burrington Goldfworthy, Efq; conful at Cadiz.

Jofeph Jordan, Efq; conful at Cor-'

runna.

John Sargint, Efq; conful at Zante. Lord Edgecumbe, lieutenant and cuftos rot. of Cornwall.

Earl of Powis, lieutenant and cuftos rot. of Montgomery.

Earl of Plymouth, lieut, of Glamorgan.

Howell Gwynne, Efq; lieut. and cuftos rot. of Radnor.

George Rice, Efq; lieut. of Carmarthen.

Sir Roger Moftyn, Bart. lieut. of Flin Duke of Queensberry, keeper of his majesty's feal of Scotland, in the room of the duke of Argyll, deceased.

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The Revd. Mr. Warton, re elected profeffor of poetry at Oxford.

Dr. Squire, bishop of St. David. Dr. Drummond, bishop of St. Asaph. George Smalridge, A. M. Rec. Bothall, with Rec. Shiprac, Northumberland.

Mr. John Clutton, Rec. Hangleton, and Rec. PortЛlade in Sussex.

Mr. Ed. Howman, Rec. Florden, and Rec. Giffing, Norfolk.

Mr. Thomas Hurdis, Vic. Sutton with Seaford, and Rec. Bafcombe in Suffex.

Mr. Taylor Rec. Norton in Kent. Mr. Warren, Preb. Gloucester, in the room of Dr. Burton, promoted to Preb. Durham,

Mr. William Lloyd, Rec. Lanengan

in Carnarvon.

Mr. John Moore. Rec. St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield.

Mr. William Dearling, Vic. of Matches, Effex.

Mr. Sam. Worley, Vic. Wolverley, Worcester.

Mr. John Gage, Rec. Upper Peverell, Cornwall.

Mr. Mathew Smith, Rec. Chadwell, Effex.

BANKRUPTS.

Jofeph Hawthorne, late of Manchester, Lancashire, dealer and chapman.

Robert Wife, of Alanby near Whitehaven, in Cumberland, merchant. Jonathan Beck, of Tothill Street Westminster, baker.

Jofeph Grantham of Carnaby Street, Westminster, linen-draper.

Thomas Holford and John Maydwel of London, dry falters.

John Key, of Priors Marston, in Warwickshire, dealer and chapman.

Gamaliel Walker, of Manchester, Lancashire, chapman.

Samuel Bradley, late of the city of Worcester, watchmaker and filver-smith.

Richard Holdfhip, late of the city of Worcester, glover.

James Boyes, of Pennington, Southampton, merchant.

James Armstrong, late of Midhurst in Suffex, dealer.

Obed. Porter, of Taunton St. James's, Somersetshire, ferge-maker.

Ferdinando Southam, of Winslow in Bucks, fcrivener.

John Ulric-Paffavant, of Exeter, merchant.

Jofeph Llewellin and John Harris, of Bristol, carpenters.

Walter Taylor the younger, of South. ampton, block-maker.

John Knell, late of St. Mary le Bone, now of St. George, Bloomsbury, Middlefex, coach, and coach harness maker.

Thomas Holford, of Dowgate Hill, London, dry-falter and diftiller.

Thomas Holderness, of Cookham in Berks, barge-master.

George Curling, of Ash, Kent, shopkeeper.

The Authors of the British Magazine acknowledge the Receipt of many valuable Pieces, both in Profe and Verfe, for which they are much obliged to their ingenious Correfpondents, who may depend on their being inferted as foon as poffible.

DR JUXON, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.

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