future is only to confift of 150 perfons, inftead of 400 or 500, which was a great expence to the people under his government. And this order, it is thought, will be made univerfal with regard to all the pachas, BIRTHS. On the 25th inftant, the wife of Mr. Ladenberg, winemerchant, in Caftle-ftreet, Leicefterfields, in the 54th year of her age, was brought to bed of twins. Mrs. Ladenberg, though married upwards of 30 years, never had a child before. JULY. A grand Spanish Armada, zd. which had been preparing for fome months paft, and which many perfons affected to think too ftrong to be intended against any part of the world but Great-Britain, arrived before Algiers; and, on the 7th, mifcarried in an attack upon that place. The burning mountain, called Pacayita, in the province of Guatimala, in New Spain, after threatening an eruption, for fome time, by fubterraneous noifes, and earthquakes, actually broke out, after a molt violent report; when a lava of nitrous and fulphurous matter poured down the fide of the mountain, whilft it threw up clouds of cinders and fmoak, which confumed near 40 leagues of the diftrict of St. Antonio Cuchutepeque. The town of St. Chriftoral Amaticlan was intirely deferted; from nine cavities in this mountain the flaming lava continued to run till the first of Auguft following, to the South Sea; and it was then fear ed that the Pecaya Grande would alfo break out, as it was in vast agitation; which would finish the deftruction of the valley of Panchoi, in which flands the town of St. Jago, the capital of the province. Two men, concerned in trepanning a tradefman's daughter, about 18 years of age, from the house of her father, a tradefman in this city, on board a fhip in the river, and fending her abroad, were examined before the lord- mayor; the hearing lafted three hours; counfel being employed; after which the prifoners were remanded back to the Poultry-compter for a further examination; and, after fuch examination on the 10th, were recommitted to the fame prison, with time till next January, to return the girl to her parents, on pain of being tried for the offence at the following feffions. And, in the mean time, a profecution was ordered to be commenced against the mafter of the fhip for receiving her on board. Lord Chief- Juftice De 7th. Grey, Lord Chief- Baron Smythe, Mr. Juftice Afton, and Mr. Juftice Afhhurf, the commiffioners appointed to review the proceedings on an information of dif franchifement filed against Mr. Alderman Plumbe, met, according to adjournment, at Guildhall, and delivered their judgment, which was, That they were unanimously of opinion, that the information was erroneous in many particulars, which they feverally fpecified; and that Mr. Alderman Plumbe, by neglecting to fummon the livery of the goldfmith's company, of which he was prime warden, to attend Alderman Beckford, when lordmayor, at a common hall, had not been guilty of any offence against his oath and duty as a freeman; confequently the judgment of diffranchisement pronounced against him in the mayor's court by the recorder was by them reversed. The Ruffian fquadron, 8th. under the command of Admiral Bafsballe, failed from Portfmouth for Ruffia. Joth. The royal regiment of artillery, quartered at Woolwich, were reviewed by his Majesty on Blackheath, Part of the exercise consisted in an attack by fome of them, on a kind of fort garrifoned by the reft, on the oppofite fide of a temporary bridge. About a quarter before eleven the fight began, and lafted an hour, in which the engineers, &c, acquitted themselves with fatisfaction to his majesty, and a prodigious number of spectators. The Duke of Gloucefter was prefent, Two caravals, bound from Tetuan,with a reinforcement of Turks, for Algiers, happening to fall in with two Maltele frigates, there enfued a very long and fierce engagement, in which 800 Turks were killed. The caravals were likewife taken, and conveyed to Malta. The feffions ended at the 11th. Old-Bailey, when fentence of death was paffed on four convicts; two, for houfe-breaking; and two, for robbing on the highway; and of tranfportation, on fixteen; feven were ordered to be privately whipped; two, branded in the hand; one of whom was John Walsh, for bigamy, who is also to be imprifoned fix months in Newgate; thirty-nine were discharged by proclamation; and, on the fixteenth following, the two houfe-breakers, and one of the highwaymen, were executed at Tyburn. This morning a fire broke out at a foap-boiler's, in the Lower- fireet, Dorchefter, nearly oppofite the gaol, which raged with great fury for feveral hours, taking very irregular directions, making great havock among the thatched houses, and paffing those which were roofed with tiles or flates; water was fo fcarce for fome time, that one of the engines, in a narrow lane, was obliged to be abandoned by the men who worked it, and by means of the falling thatch caught fire, and was totally deftroyed; the whole town muft have been burnt down, had it not been for a detachment of dragoons belonging to fir John Cope's regiment, who happened to be quartered there. Both officers and common men were indefatigable in extinguishing the flames, which, after confuming 35 or 40 dwelling houfes, chiefly the habitations of poor people, were at length got under. This day a cup, value 12th. twenty guineas, given by his royal highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, was failed for from Weltminster-bridge to Putney, and back again. The Aurora, belonging to Mr. Parkes, late of Ludgatehill, having won the prize, his royal highnefs, who honoured the fport with his prefence, filled the cup with wine, drank out of it, and delivered it to Mr. Parkes. 14th. The lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, waited on his majesty, with an humble address and petition; which, with his majefty's most gracious anfwer, we fhall give in their proper place, in the following sheets. Came 18th. Came on before the court of feffion in Scotland, a cause between Mr. Dodfley, of London, book feller, plaintiff, and Meffrs. Ch. Elliot and Colin M Farquhar, of Edinburgh, bookfellers, defend ants. The action was brought for re-printing Lord Chefterfield's Letters, the copyright of which had coft the plaintiff 15751. On the 26th, their Lordships were pleafed to determine in favour of Mr. Dodfley, by continuing the interdi&t he had obtained against Meffrs. Elliot and M Farquhar, by a majority of nine against five. Marshal Romanzow ar20th. rived at Kolomiski, near Mofcow, and was received by the Emprefs with every poffible mark of fatisfaction he declined the honour of a triumphal entry, which was intended him, and for which magnificent preparations had been made. The next morning, the Emprefs, accompanied by the Great Duke and Duchefs, and attended by the great officers and ladies of the court, the knights being in the habits of their respective orders, walked in grand proceffion from the old palace in the Kremlin to the cathedral, where folemn mass was performed by the Archbishop of Peterburgh, and Te Deum fung for the conclufion of the war; after which the five first claffes of the nobility had the honour of kifling her Majesty's hand. The Keeper of the Privy-Purse then read aloud a lift of the gratifications and rewards, which the Emprefs was pleafed to bestow upon this occafion. Amongst the principal ones were, To Marshal Romanzow, an eftate of 5000 peasants, 100,000 roubles in money, a fervice of plate, a hat with a wreath of laurel, enriched with precious ftones, to the value of 30,coo roubles, a diamond-ftar and fhoulder-knot, a Marshal's ftaff, and a diploma adding to his furname that of Sadcun koy, which may be tranflated The Ultra-Danubian. To Count Alexis Orlow 60,000 roubles, and a fword enriched with diamonds of very confiderable value, and a diploma granting to him the furname of Chefme. To General Potemkin, a diploma of Count of the Ruffian empire, and her Imperial Majefty's picture fet with diamonds to be worn by him. To General Panin and Prince Dolgorouki, 60,000 roubles each, with a fword and diamond star. To Count Soltikow, the second order of St. George. To Count Ivan Czernichew, the order of St. Andrew. Several ribbons of St. Alexander Newsky were conferred, and military promotions made. Admiral Greig was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and appointed Commandant of Cronitadt. Next day the Great Duke beftowed eleven ribbons of the order of St. Anne. Large gold medals, ftruck upon this occafion, were likewife diftributed to the Field-Marshals, Generals in Chief, and foreign minifters; and fome of a fmaller fize, to the reft of the nobility of the five first claffes. Her Imperial Majefty was likewife pleafed to recal fome noblemen from their banishment in Siberia, two of whom had refided there ever fince the year 1746. About About the fame time, ten veffels laden with wine, having on board fome Christian emigrants from the Morea, appeared at the Dardanelles, to pass from the Archipe. lago to the Black Sea, in order to go to the Ruffian territories, on the borders of the fea of Azoff. The commandant of the Dardanelles fent an officer to fearch them, and, upon the Captain's refufing to let them, he obliged them to anchor under the castles, and fubmit to be vifited. Colonel Peterfon, Chargé des Affaires from Ruffia, being informed of this violence, demanded fatisfaction immediately, as a violation of the 11th article of the treaty of peace; and the Porte difpatched a firman, by which the commandant was ordered to let thofe veffels pafs freely.-About the fame time great and unexpected changes happened in the ministry at Conftantinople. The Grand Vifier, Iffed Mehemet Pacha, was depofed, and replaced by Derwifch Mehemet Aga, his Kiaja Bey. The Chiaoux Bafchi was difmiffed, and his place given to the father-in-law of the new Grand Vifier; and the Superintendant of the Cuftoms was replaced by Ifmael Aga, Governor of Cyprus. Sahih-Guerey, formerly Kan of the Tartars of Crimea, was banished to Rodofto. The news of the death of Mehemet Aboudahab was confirmed; but his army, fo far from being beat, had on the contrary feized on all the poffeflions of the old, Chiek Dahar. The Captain Pacha's arrival at Smyrna had put a ftop to the diforders there. Aivas Aga, and fourfcore more of the mutineers, had their heads ftruck off; and great numbers were condemned to the gallies. Though the Emperor of Morocco had accepted the prefents from the republic of the United Provinces, he nevertheless thought proper to continue the war against their High Mightineffes for three years, to be reckoned from the first of January laft. About the middle of this month, Col. Guy Johnson, his Majesty's Superintendant of Indian affairs, arrived at Montreal, accompanied by a confiderable number of chiefs and warriors of the fix nations: after which he held a general congrefs with the chiefs and warriors of the Canada Confederacy, to the amount of 1700, who, in presence of his Excellency General Carleton, unanimously refolved to fupport their engagements with his majefty, and remove all intruders on the feveral communications. 20th. Two executions in the houfe of Daniel Perreau, one by virtue of an affignment to Sir Thomas Frankland, the other at the inftance of the upholsterer who furnished the goods, were withdrawn, by virtue of the fheriff's claim, who, on the conviction of capital offenders are entitled to the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of the convicts, under the city's charter. Mrs. Rudd claimed an exemption of her goods, &c, in the fame houfe, fhe not being the wife of Daniel Perreau, nor yet a convict. The quantity of wheat at this time in Bristol was fo great, that, almost every warehouse, malthoufe, and granary being filled with it, they were obliged to lodge large quantities of it in private houses. At a court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common 21st. Council, Council, at Guildhall, a motion was made for an answer to be fent to New-York, on the addrefs received from thence, which had been laid before that court, when great debates arofe; but the question being put, there appeared 56 for fending an anfwer, and 69 against it. By letters from the inhabitants of New-York, the people of the if land of Bermuda are under the moft difmal apprehenfions of ftarving, in confequence of the prefent difagreeable fituation of public affairs; and, to prevent it as much as poffible, bad paffed a law, that no provifions should be fent off the island, at any rate whatsoever; and were about difpatching a veffel to Philadelphia, to request the continental congrefs to take their cafe into their molt ferious confideration. threatening, with horrid imprecations, that he would blow his brains out if he either role or called out for an hour to come. After remaining quiet near fifteen minutes, the butler got up, and finding that his door was locked on the outfide, he was under the neceffity therefore of breaking through a window-frame placed high in the wainscot; a circumitance of no little difficulty, as he was hardly recovered from having lately fractured his collar-bone: at length however he achieved it, and alarmed the family. A number of fervants were inftantly dif patched different roads in purfuit of the robbers, but in vain. It was luckily difcovered, that a fourwheeled carriage had stopped and turned round at the park gate, and from fome hay and oats which re About two in the morn-mained on the ground, it was evi24th. ing, fome villains broke in dent the horfes had been fed while to the parlour of Copped Hall, the carriage waited: two meffenDear Epping, Effex, the feat of gers were therefore fent to the pubJohn Conyers, Efq; member for ic office in Bow-ftreet, and that that county. From the parlour in the Curtain road, with all the they forced their way into the but- particulars of the robbery; the ler's pantry, where the butler lay butler himself coming to the forin bed. The noise of their entry mer, and giving a circumftantial waking him, one of the ruffians information of the whole affair. threw the bed-clothes over his head, Upon this the fcouts of both offices and with both his hands held a were difpatched, without delay, to cutlafs right across his throat, Houndfditch, Duke's Place, and fwearing that he would kill him if every ftreet, lane, and corner, where he offered to move or alarm the fa- perfons fufpected as melters of plate mily. In this condition he conti- were fuppofed to refide; but though nued for a confiderable time, dur- the fearch was diligent, it was withing which he heard the clock frike out effect. About two in the af three, and likewife heard the ternoon, a letter was received by thieves put the plate into facks. Sir John Fielding, from a magifAs foon as they had finished, they trate at Stratford, informing him all quitted his room, except the that a hackney-coach, No. 44. was fellow placed as a guard over him, feen to país that road in the way who taid a few feconds after his from the foreft to London, early in accomplices, and then left him, the morning; that the blinds were drawn |