among the most neceffitous. Being afked who had fent it? he faid it was his own gift. Being further preffed to tell his name, he took his leave as if in hafte, and faid, he was going to Northampton. The fame perfon has fince vifited feveral other prifons, and given money to poor objects that he has met on the road.

An inhuman murder was lately committed at Lampeter in Cardiganfhire, on a poor woman who by industry and care had got together a little money, and lived in a little cot by herself, which was broke open in the night, her money carried off, and herself left a dreadful spectacle of favage cruelty, being ftabbed in feveral parts of her body; her dead corpse half broiled on a heap of turfs, which it is fuppofed had been fet on fire to burn her cot, and her in it, to prevent fufpicion.

DIED. Lately, in Portugal, in the parish of St. Joannes de Godini, in the diocese of Oporto, aged 117, Verefimo Nogueira. He ferved as a foldier from the age of 17 till he was 37, and was at the battle of Almanza: after he had obtained his discharge, he married, had feve. ral children, and maintained his family by his own labour and fome little independency which he poffeffed. He always enjoyed the beft ftate of health, and it is not unlikely that he might have lived fome years longer, had it not been for a fall, in which one of his legs was broken in three places, which occafioned his death. He had all his teeth, and all his hair, a few of which only were grown grey; and he enjoyed all his faculties to the laft. This old man is a proof that an advanced age is not confined to the northern cli

mates.

NOVEMBER.

Came on before lord Mansfield and lord Loughborough, at 4th Serjeant's Inn-hall, the second argument in error brought by Governor Johnftone against Captain Sutton, when Mr. Erfkine was heard at full length for the defendant; and Mr. Scott, the governor's counsel, rifing to anfwer, was told it was quite unneceffary, as nothing had been faid which could induce their lord- · fhips to alter their opinion, that the judgment obtained by Capt. Sutton in the court of Exchequer should be reverfed. The cafe was fimply this :-Capt. Sutton obtained a verdict for 5,000l. against Commodore Johnstone. A new trial was granted by the court of Exchequer: a fecond trial had-afecond verdict for 6,000l. -A motion was then made, grounded on feveral points of law, to arreft judgment. The court confirmed the verdict. The Commodore brings a writ of error on the fame points his motion in arreft of judgment was founded on. This writ of error, by act of parliament, is in the judgment of the Lord Chancellor ; but his lordship referred the argument to the two chief juftices, who have reverfed the judgment of the court of Exchequer. At prefent, therefore, the matter ftands thus : four judges have decided for Capt. Sutton, and two for Commodore Johnftone. The queftion, it was well known, would eventually go into the house of lords: it remains, therefore, to be known, what the Lord Chancellor and the other judges think on the fubject. The facts of the cafe are totally unaltered and unalterable. The question is reduced to a point of law; but though their lordships reasons are not yet

public,

public, it is fuppofed to be, whether a common-law action will lie at the fuit of an inferior officer against a commander in chief, though it be grounded on express malice? The cause will certainly go to the house of lords, being of no lefs importance to the parties, than to the navy of Great Britain.

10th.

About two o'clock in the afternoon, the Countess of Strathmore was taken from the house of Mr. Forster in Oxford-street, under pretence of a warrant to take her before lord Mansfield; but in fact to carry her off by a company of armed ruffians. She was forcibly thrust into her own carriage, her own coachman taken from the box, and a ftranger put in his place, who drove off at a moft furious rate, and did not stop till he arrived at Barnet, where the carriage was met by a company of armed men: that in paffing through one of the turnpikes, the lady was feen to ftruggle much, apparently gagged, and in great diftrefs: but no farther intelligence could then be obtained.

11th.

Came on in the court of King's Bench a trial at bar, in the remarkable cause between the natural daughter of the late Ch. Mellifh, efq. and his niece. The cause had already been tried, when a verdict was obtained by the daughter, which was fet afide by a fubfequent one in the Common Pleas. The deceased made two wills, one in 1774, which gave place to one in 1780. There was alfo a codicil in 1781; and the contest was, to which of the wills it applied. The will in 1780 being established by weight of evidences, the codicil of courfe must refer to that, and fo it was determined.

22d. Yesterday, Edward Aylette,

the attorney, ftood in the pillory n New Palace Yard, Westminster, for wilful and corrupt perjury.

23d.

This day, juft before the fitting of the court of King's Bench, Lady Strathmore was brought into Westminster-hall; and immediately on the arrival of the Judges, Mr. Law, her counsel, moved, that fhe might be permitted to exhibit articles of the peace against Mr. Bowes, and feveral others; which being granted, he then moved for an attachment against Mr. Bowes, and feveral of his accomplices, which was likewise granted.

Mr. Bowes appeared in the 27th. court of King's Bench, when his counsel moved, that he should be discharged, on the ground that he had not been legally ferved with the habeas corpus; but the court rejected this motion, confidering the fervice as good. A fimilar motion was likewife made, on the ground that Mr. Bowes was actually haftening to town to make a return to the habeas corpus, but was prevented by the attack upon his perfon, and other unavoidable circumftances; but the court confidering this affertion as contradicted by the affidavits of other perfons, rejected this motion alfo; and Mr. Bowes was finally committed to the King's Bench prifon till the judges determine what fecurity he fhall be obliged to find to keep the peace.

fhops for the United States. The Rev. Dr. Griffith, of Virginia, is to be made a third, to complete the government of the epifcopal church in those States.

On Wednesday morning, the 9th. St. Auftle, Capt. Colmer, from Eaft Loo, was driven on fhore about a mile to the weftward of Newhaven pier, and dafhed to pieces. The captain and crew, four in number, quitted the wreck in time to fave themselves; but Mr. and Mrs. Giles, a young couple, paffengers, who could not be prevailed on to leave the veffel, perished. The captain fays, fo averfe was Mr. Giles to leave the wreck, that after he (the captain) had got fafe to land, he lafhed himself to a rope, fwam again to the wreck, and having boarded her, fastened a rope round Mrs. Giles, for the purpose of having her hauled on fhore; but her husband immediately caft it off again, and exclaimed," My dear Bella, don't leave me!" She ftaid!-This unfortunate lady was a distant relation of Lord Courtney's. The failors were treated with the greatest humanity at Newhaven,

A remarkable inftance of prefcience lately happened at Naples: an eminent phyfician in that metropolis one evening called up all his domeftics, and informed them he had provided for them all in his will; after which he took his last farewel, telling them, that though he felt himself in as good a state of health as he could wish, he was certain that the next morning, precifely at ten o'clock, an apoplectic ftroke would occafion his diffolution, which the event verified in every particular.

19th.

The Montego Bay paper. of October 28, mentions a

dreadful hurricane at Jamaica, in the night of the 19th, which has done great mischief in many parts of the island. In Westmoreland, in particular, the appearance every where denoted the fuperior violence of this guft over all that had been experienced fince 1780. The trees, ftripped of their leaves, exhibited an appearance as if fire had devoured their verdure; the thores were covered with duck, teal, and other aquatic birds, that had been driven with irrefiftible impetuofity against the trunks of the mangroves, and dafhed to pieces.

Vienna, Nov. 20. An emir of the Turkish empire, escorted by 12 fpahis (or Turkish horfe) has just arrived in this capital from Conftantinople, with prefents of confi, derable value and magnificence to his Imperial majefty. Among the prefents are fome fine Greek urns of the ancient fculpture, and a large marble ftatue of Jupiter Tonans, lately found in digging the ruins of an old temple near Adrianople. To this figure are appended four filver labels, one on each fhoulder, and two on the head; on each the word "Dios" is ftrongly marked, and the other parts of the infcription are now under the investigation of a prieft of Buda, in Hungary, who is eminently fkilled in antiquities. The tenor of this ambaffage from the Ottoman Porte is to establish a pofitive and fpecific boundary between the Imperial and the Turkish provinces, particularly on the confines of Hungary, where much difagreement has lately arifen on the building of fome forts by the Emperor's governors on the Ottoman territories. It is, however, certain that affairs will be amicably fettled, and that the agreements between

the

the two empires will be fo firmly " made, as to render permanent and full advantages to both.

With the escort have arrived four French priests, who had been captured in a veffel from Marfeilles by a Tunisian xebeck, claimed there by the French conful, and fent from Tunis to Conftantinople.

DIED. Lately, at Old Conftantinow, in Volhyrica, in his 124th year, a gentleman named Hodol. When he was twenty-one, he ferved under Sobieski, before Vienna: he was never married, nor felt fickness. At 108 he became a Capuchin, and died in that order.

7. Lady of Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart. a daugh

ter.

14. Lady of the Hon. George
Rodney, eldeft fon of Lord
Rodney, a daughter.
29. Duchefs of Beaufort, a
daughter.

Viscountefs Hinton, a fon. 14. Lady Margaret Beckford, a daughter.

June 15. Lady of Sir John Lake, Bart. a fon.

17. The Infanta Donna Mariana Victoria, of Portugal, confort of the Infant Don Gabriel of Spain, a prince.

July 9. Her moft Christian Majefty, a princess, named Sophia.

12. The lady of Col. George Auguftus North, a fon.