PRICES of STOCK for the Year 1795. N. B. The highest and lowest Prices of each STOCK in the Course of any Month are put down in that Month. Lottery 1795 Bank 13 per 13 ditt. 14 p. c. 5 per | Long Short | India | India IS. Seal Old | New) Navy Exchequer Stock c.red. conf. conf. cents. ABR. Ann. Stock Bonds. Stock. Ann. Ann. Bills. Bills. Tickets. June § 1681 661 681 817 98187 162 66 66 79 97 181 8-2 194 4 July 165/701 83100 1981 204 5 pre. 1651 67 66 67 66 714- 70 81 96718 811967 18 8511001201 667 82 97 19 3 dif. 2003 I pre.. 667 4 dif 4 4s. pre. 8 dif. 661 27 5s. dif. 69 3 dif 4s. pre. 8 1961 23 3s. dif. 703 69 2 dif. 6s. pre. 722 687 681 13 25. BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS. ANECDOTES OF CARDINAL ALBERONI. [From the fecond Volume of ANECDOTES of fome DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, chiefly of the Prefent and two Preceding CENTURIES.] CA ARDINAL Alberoni was the fon of a gardener near Parma, and when a boy, officiated as bell-ringer, and attended upon the parish church of his village. The rector, finding him a fhrewd fharp lad, taught him Latin. Alberoni afterwards took orders, and had a fmall living, on which he refided, little thinking of the great fortune that was one day to await him. M. Campiftron, a Frenchman, fecretary to the duke of Vendôme, who commanded Louis the Fourteenth's armies in Italy, was robbed, and stripped of his cloaths, and of all the money that he had about him, by fome ruthians, near Alberoni's village. Alberoni hearing of his misfortune, took him into his houfe, furnished him with cloaths, and gave him as much money as he could fpare for his tra velling expences. "Campiftron, no lefs impreffed with his ftrength of understanding than with the warmth of his benevolence, took him to the headquarters, and prefented him to his general, as a man to whom he had very great obligations. M. de Vendôme finding Alberoni to be a man of parts, gave him a petty employment under him, and took him with him to Spain. By degrees he obtained the marthal's confidence, and propofed the daughter of his fovercign the duke of Parma to him, as a fit match for the king of Spain. Alberoni's propofal was attended to, and the princefs was demanded in marriage by that monarch, then Philip the Fifth. The duke of Parma confented with great readiness to a match that was to procure for his daughter the fovereignty of fo great a kingdom as that of Spain. When every thing was fettled, and immediately before the princefs was to fet out for her new dominions, the miniftry of Spain had heard that the prince's was a young woman of a haughty imperious temper, and extremely intriguing and ambitious. They therefore prevailed upon the king to write to the duke, to request another of his daughters in marriage, to whole quiet difpofition they A 2 could |