Konig berg, Sept. 3. The wife of a merchant in this city exhibits an uncommon example of fecundity, She was brought to bed of five children, three fons and two daughters, all likely to do well, and the mother fuffered no more than is natural to expect in fuch a labour.

4. A treaty of commerce and boundary was lately concluded between the Ruflian commiffary and that of the duke of Courland, by which future difputes will be happily prevented between the two ftates.

5. A proclamation was iffued for taking off the embargo in Ireland,

on veffels laden or to be laden in the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, with provifions; and that the feveral regulations contained in his majefty's order of the 18th of Auguft, 1780, fhould ceafe and determine.

The parliament, which flood prorogued to Tuesday the ninth day of this inftant, September, was farther prorogued to Thursday the fixteenth day of October next.

As his majefty was taking the air, about five miles from Windfor, he met accidentally with the hounds which had been fent to fcour the fkirts of the foreft, to pick up any ftray deer that might have got out of their limits. A chace took place, and the king joined in the purfuit, when coming to a little wooden bridge clofe by a mill, which was going, the horfe took fright at the noife and appearance of the fails, and plunged into the river with his royal rider upon his back, who, from the rapidity and depth of the current, must have inevitably been drowned but for the immediate and active affiftance of his attendants.

Captain Warner arrived with the preliminary articles between his majefty and the ftates general, figned at Paris on the ad inftant; as alfo

the definitive treaty of peace between his majesty and the most chrif tian and catholic kings, figned at Verfailles on the 3d inftant, by his grace the duke of Manchester, his majefty's ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and by the refpective plenipotentiarics of their moft chriftan and catholic majefties, and the ftates general.

The definitive treaty with the united states of America was alfo figned at Paris on the third.

7. Was executed at Hardwick common, near Lynn, Robert Fox, for robbing Ifaac Levi, a Jew lad about 16 years of age.

8. Letters from Liverpool give an account of a violent hurricane there, which lafted four hours, during which nothing was able to withstand its fury; the largest trees were torn up by the roots, many houfes unroofed, and almost all the flips driven from their moorings, but none, except one from New. foundland, loft. Fortunately the ftorm happened in the night, or many perfons must have been killed by the falling of chimnies, tiles, &c.

There has been more tempestuous weather all over the globe within thefe fifteen months paft than was ever known before during the memory of the oldeft man living; to recapitulate the remarkable forms only would be endlefs; the lofs of our shipping in the Atlantic Ocean amounts to an incredible fum; and in the East Indies they have had two perfect hurricanes, whofe vio, lence an European can have no conception of, unless he has been in the Weft or Eaft Indies to fee their operation.

9. Were executed at Kennington Common, the two following convicts, viz. George Wood, and William Smith; the first for robbing a

deaf

deaf and dumb man, in Peckham fields of his watch and fome filver; the latter for a burglary at Vaux, hall.

9. As fome men were emptying the lead mills, at Temple Mills, Hackney, which were repairing, they found an urn full of Roman coins, fome of them in high prefervation, with the impreffion of Julius Cæfar and Conftantine the Great, together with feveral medals; like wife a ftone coffin, with the skeleton entire, meafuring feve feet, nine inches long; the infcription on the coffin is unintelligible, in removing the old foundation a vault was difcovered, in which were feveral urns, but quite imperfect: what is very remarkable, the vaults, for centuries paft, are fuppofed to have been fix teen feet under water. 、n

Edinburgh, Sept. 9. An order ar rived from the lords of the Treafury for 5,cool. in addition to the 10,000l. formerly given, for the relief of the poor in the northern counties in Scotland. This last donation is to be dif. pofed of in a different manner from the former. The grain purchafed with the 10,000l. was diftributed among the poor without any price being exacted for it. The oatmeal bought with the 5,000l to be fold at 6d. per peck. t

W

10. The feffions began at the Old Bailey.

This evening was a remarkable total eclipfe of the moon.

1

The lord mayor, attended by aldermen Crosby, Peckham, Clarke, Sainsbury, Kitchin, Gill, Saunder fon, and the fheriffs, deputy recorder, city counfel, remembrancer, and town clerk, and about one hundred of the council, went to St. James's, with the following addrefs:

To the King's most excellent Majefty. The humble Addrefs of the Lord

Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Common Council affembled.

May it please your Majesty, "We, your majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, beg leave to approach your majefty, with the fincereft congratulations on the birth of another princefs, and on the happy recovery of your illuftrious confort.

1

We would exprefs, with more than ordinary effufions of joy, our feelings, upon this, occafion, that providence has been, pleased to an fwer the prayers and wifhes of every order of your majefty's loyal fubs jets, in preferving the invaluable life of our most gracious queen; life fo eminently useful, and fo con⚫ fpicuously exemplary

It is our warmest wish, that the throne, thus adorned, may be strengthened and bleffed by every addition to your royal house, and that a long and eafy reign may be accompanied with every domeftic felicity.

At the fame time, we heg lenxo further to congratulate your majefti upon his royal highnefs the prince of Wales having attained his age of 22 years, and hope that he, being called to the great council of the nation may contribute to its profperity! protection, and fafety.

To which his majefty was pleafed to give the following anfwer.

I return you my hearty thanks for your dutiful and loyal congra tulations, on the happy recovery of the queen, and the birth of another princefs; and upon the prince of Wales having attained the age of 21 years.....

Nothing can be more acceptable to me than thefe teftimonies of af fection to me and my family on the

part

part of my faithful fubjects. It is the warmest with of my heart, and has been the conftant object of my life, to promote their honour and happinefs.

13. A remarkable inftance of fer tility from a grain of red Lammas wheat, which grew at Upper Areley, in Staffordshire. It produced 68 ears, and, upon an average, each ear contained 75 grains, amounting to 5,100 in the whole,

13. William Marston Rothwell alias William Rothwell, and Mary Child; a woman with whom Roth well cohabited, were tried at the Old Bailey, and convicted of coining the copper coin of this kingdom called halfpence, the punifliment for which offence is imprisonment for one year. The course taken with the above two prifoners was this: immediately after conviction they were afked, being (as is ufual on fimple felonies wherein the benefit of clergy is allowed) on their knees, what they had to fay why judgment of death fhould not be paffed on them according to law? They were, by the ftatute admitted to pray the elergy, i. e. the benefit of efcaping death. Mr. Silvefter, counfel for the crown, then objected against their receiving the benefit of clergy, and that they might be punished as capital convicts, arguing, that they had had their clergy allowed them for a former felony, and the fame offence for which they now ftood convicted; and that by the ftatute of 4 Hen. VII. they were not entitled to it a fecond time. On this objection raised on behalf of the crown, the judges allowed the crown time to draw up fuch counterplea to the prayer of clergy, which was tendered to the court this day. The above is the first inftance of the prayer of clergy being objected to, on the part of the crown.

15. Orders were fent from the War-office to the Herald's-office; Doctors Commons, for the heralds to be at the War-office this day at 12 o'clock, to proceed in form to the different places, and proclaim the peace; on which occafion a party of the Horfe Guards were on duty to attend the heralds.

16: Advices have been received over land from Fort William, Bengal, dated the roth of March last; which confirm the accounts of the treaty with the Mahratta ftate being concluded on the 17th of May, 1782, and ratified at Fort William on the 6th of June following; that it was completely ratified by the pailhwa, and minifters at Poona, on the 20th of December; and that the original counterparts of the treaty were fi nally interchanged, with every pub' lic formality, between Mr. Ander: fon and Madajee Sindia, on the 24th of February last:

His majefty to fhew the teftimony of his approbation towards thofe of his Hanoverian fubjects who were employed in the defence of Gibral tar, ordered a donation to be pre! fented every foldier belonging to the feveral corps. It confifted of a fearf to be worn on their arms, with a indtto; defcriptive of the glorious fervice for which it was bestowed: His majefty farther ordered, that all the men concerned in the above occafion; when they fhall come to the fituation of penfioners, fhall fe ceive double the allowance permitted to ordinary foldiers: The gre nadiers belonging to the fame body are to bear upon their caps a filver plate, given by his majefty; with the word GIBRALTAR infcribed upon it in large letters.

18. By a letter from America we find several gentlemen, on the 8th of Auguft, waited on his excellency Sir Guy Carleton; the commander

in chief, with a memorial, in which are the following paffages:

That your memorialifts having been deprived of very valuable eftates and confiderable perfonal properties without the lines, and being alfo obliged to abandon their poffeffions in this city, on account of their loyalty to their fovereign, and attachment to the British conftitution, and feeing no profpect of their being reinftated, had determined to remove with their families, and fettle in his majesty's province of Nova Scotia, on the terms which they understood were held out equally to all his majefty's perfecuted fubjects.

That your memorialists are much alarmed at an application which they are informed fifty-five perfons have joined in to your excellency, foliciting a recommendation for tracts of land in that province, amounting together to 275,000 acres; and that they have difpatched forward agents to furvey the unlocated lands, and felect the most fertile fpots and defirable fituations.

The memorial was figned by fix hundred and thirty perfons. His excellency returned an answer to the following effect:

That his excellency, within these few days, has had reafon to believe, that no one perfon will obtain a larger grant of land in Nova Scotia than one thousand acres. That the power of iffuing patents for lands there refides folely in the governor, to whom his excellency would immediately forward the memorial; which, he apprehends, will arrive before patents can be made out for the tract of land mentioned in it. And that it was his opinion, no perfons fhould be allowed to take up lands in that province but those who mean to refide there, till the loyalifts are firft ferved; and that his excellency would do every thing in his

power for the memorialists, and believes they will have no caufe to complain.

The committee were also informed from the moft refpectable authority, that the report of all the lands being occupied about Port Rofeway was groundless; governor Parr, who is extremely folicitous to do justice to every individual, having made a referve of a fufficient quantity of land there, for the accommodation of thofe loyalifts who fhould propofe to embark for that place.

Berlin, Sept. 19. The following proclamation does the highest ho nour to the feelings of the king of Pruffia, who therein pays the most commendable regard to the dignity of man:

Whereas his majefly the king of Pruffia, &c. our moft gracious fovereign, will not permit that any of his fubjects delivering into his hand petitions or addreffes, fhould kneel to his majefty (an honour due to the divinity, but which is no ways neceffary when his faid fubjects have any thing to deliver to him); his majefty is therefore graciously pleafed to order by this prefent, that the confiftory of Breffau fhall cause this refcript to be read from the pulpits of the evangelic churches in this province of Silefia, and the fuffra gant of Roth Kirck to do the fame in the Roman Catholic church, that all and every one may be informed it is his majefty's pleasure that no kneeling fhall in future be practifed in honour to his perfon. The fu preme confiftory fhall therefore take the neceffary steps to the above pur. pofe.

(Signed) FREDERICK. Given at Bettlern,

Aug. 30, 1783.

New York, Sept. 20. By a gen. tleman juft arrived from Canada, who came over the lakes, we learn,

that

that the great houfe of magazine, fituated within the fort of St. John, on Lake Champlain, was fet on fire by a flash of lightning, on Saturday evening, the 22d of Auguft, and, together with the ftores that were in it, confumed to afhes, except about 600 barrels of gun-powder in a vault under the house, which received no damage; the garrifon, dreading an explofion, fled to the woods a few miles above and below the fort till Sunday morning, when returning to clear away the rubbish, they perceived fresh danger, and retired again, more alarmed than before; but no accident happened on that day; and on Monday morning a bout ten o'clock, the garrifon returned, and were employed under the direction of the commanding officer, the chief engineer, who arrived from Montreal, and the commanders in the lake fervice, in clearing away the rubbh, collecting fuch materials as were not of an inflammatory nature, and getting all things into order. The intrepidity of two British foldiers deferves particular notice; the covering of a fmall ftore-houfe, containing filled bombs, cartridges, &c. within a few feet of the great houfe, during the conflagration, had taken fire, yet they had the refolution to ftrip off fuch part of the fhingling as was on fire, and extinguished it, and the wind blowing a contrary way, the houfe was faved; and on Monday afternoon, no apprehenfion of dan ger remained.

Eight new peers were created.

The malefactors, being ring leaders in running the Swift cutter on fhore near Rye, in Suflex, on the 30th of laft Auguft, who were convicted last week at the Old Bailey of being found at large, after receiving fentence of tranfportation, were executed at Tyburn.

3

22. The feffion ended, when 58 convicts received fentence of death; 97 were fentenced to be tranfported, 73 of whom were capital convicts who had received his majesty's mercy on that condition; three or dered to hard labour on the river Thames; two to be kept to hard labour in the houfe of correction, and three on the Thames; 12 to be publicly whipped, feven ordered to be privately whipped; fix to be impris foned in Newgate; and 32 were dif charged by proclamation.

This feffions exhibited a far more melancholy spectacle than ever was recited in the annals of the Old Bailey.

23. A dreadful fire broke out, at Bigglefwade, in Bedfordshire, about four miles from Potton.

Rome, Sept. 23. After different experiments made to extract oil from grape ftones, a new manufacture of that production has been established, with the approbation of his holiness, who at the fame time, ordered, that the procedure of the Sieur An toine Chinozzi, who is the author of the proper machine for extracting-the oil, be made public...

24. About half past ten o'clock a terrible fire broke out at a distiller's at Gun Dock, Wapping, which burnt very furioutly till near:one o'clock, before the engines could be fupplied with water; upwards of 30 houfes were entirely confumed to afhes, and about 12 more greatly damaged before it was extinguifhed; feveral people were miffing, and fome firemen greatly bruifed by the falling of two houfes. It was near fix o'clock the next morning before it was.got under.

Extract of a letter from Dublin,