the faid will was made? After a hearing, which lafted till four o'clock on Sunday morning, the jury, being a fpecial one of Gentlemen of the county of Hants, brought in for the defendant, being of opinion Mr. Norton was a lunatick at the time of making his will. The Commons have order'd L. 5000 to be paid to Solomon Merrit for the fhip Santa Ifabella, taken by the Spaniards in 1718.

The Lords, in the caufe betwixt Geddes and the creditors of Roseberry, affirmed the decree in favour of the creditors.

The Lord Santry was lately tried at Dublin for the murder of Laughlin Murphy, one of his domefticks. The whole trial was carried on with a great deal of ftate. The Peers unanimously found him guilty; and he received fentence to be executed on the 23d June. Since that time great intereft has been made at court in his behalf; and a reprieve is granted till the 18th day of Auguft next.

The 31ft inftant ended the General Court Martial at Whitehall, on Lieut. Col. Cochran, and Capt. Mackay, both of General Oglethorpe's regiment in Georgia. And

General Oglethorpe, we hear, is ordered home.

According to a lift taken in the years 1732 and 1733, there were in Ireland at that time 105,494 Proteftant families, and 281,423 Popifh families.

Advices from Jamaica give account of a fmart engagement that lately happen'd between the Negroes and a party of foldiers commanded by Capt. Gutteridge and Lieut. Sadler, in which feveral were killed and wounded; but the English overpowered them at laft, and having purfued them to their town fituated in the mountains, foon brought them to capitulate. They offered to clear the woods of deferted negroes, if they themselves might have the liberty of that town, and planting about

it.

An extraordinary instance of conjugal affection lately happened in London. A boat on the Thames, in which

were fix paffengers, being overloaded with goods, funk down; when a man fuddenly took his wife, and a child about three years old, laid them cross his belly, and fwim'd on his back to shore.

Á duel was lately fought at Sligo in Ireland, between Quarter-Mafter Graham, and Quarter-Mafter Douglas, in which the latter was killed.

On the 23d inft. happen'd at Braintree in Effex, the greateft ftorm of rain and hail, attended with a high wind, thunder and lightning, that has been known in the memory of man. It has done a great deal of damage to the hops, beans, peafe, and fruit, which are cut off as if cut by a knife. The water rose fo high in the town, which stands upon an acclivity, that a boat might swim in the middle of the town.

The 19th inft. There was the most furprising storm of thunder, lightning, rain, and hail, at Bath, that can be remembered in this age.

The 24th inft. the new-born fon of Count Stanburgh, Chief Minifter for the affairs of Hanover, was baptiz'd by the name of George: Auguftus Schutz, Efq; Privy-purfe to his Majefty, stood Godfather, as Proxy for the King.

MARITIME AFFAIRS.

Capt. Otter, bound from Hull to Riga, was loft on the coaft of Norway.

The Succefs, Capt. Main, bound from Bourdeaux to Dublin, is loft near Wexford, and fix of the passengers and failors were drowned.

The Providence, Spencer, bound for Holland from Cape de Verd Islands was loft.

The Trial, Capt. Dolin, bound from Jamaica to Bofton, was loft near Jamaica.

The K. George, Capt. Kelley, bound from Lisbon to the Western Islands, was lately loft near one of the faid iflands.

The Eaft-India company's fhip, the Anglefia, Capt. Studholm, bound for Bombay, was beat to pieces on the coast of Malabar, but the captain and crew were all faved, and the company's fil

ver

236
George Mackenzie, Efq; brother to
the Laird of Gairloch.
Mafter John Gower, fon to the Lord
Gower, about nine months old.
Lady Anne Pierpont, fifter to the Duke
of Kingston.

DOMESTICK HISTORY.

Sir Cecil Wyche, Bart. his Majefty's
Minister to the cirle of Lower Sa-

xony.

John Hollings, one of his Majefty's
Phyficians, and very eminent for the
cure of a fiftula.

The only fon of the Lord Dillon.
Sir Roger Martin, Bart.
Lady Anne Langdale, widow of Sir
William Langdale, Bart.
Major de Ladle, who had been in that
ftation 60 years.

Jeremiah Dummer, brother to Wil-
liam Dummer, Efq; late Governor
of New-England,

Mr. Thomson, an eminent Lisbon merchant, at Hackney.

John Newenton, in Suffex, faid to be the greatest grazier in England, or perhaps in the world.

Capt. Hamilton, of the foot guards, a near relation of the Duke of Hamilton.

Provoft John Campbel, aged 75. He was thrice Lord Provost of this city, and reprefented it in three fucceffive parliaments.

On Monday, May 28. died at his house in Effex-court in the Strand, London, the reverend and learned JAMES ANDERSON, D. D. a member of the Church of Scotland, and native of this kingdom, author of the Royal Genealogies, and feveral other works; a Gentleman of uncommon abilities, and moft facetious conversation: But, notwithstanding his great talents, and the ufeful application he made of them, being, by the prodigious expence attending the above mentioned work, reduced to flender circumstances, he has, for fome years, been expofed to misfortunes, above which the encouragement due to his merit would have eafily raifed him. But the remembrance of his qualifications, and the many hardfhips under which he was publickly known to labour, will ferve to fhew

fucceeding generations, There was a
time when Italian fingers, by English
contributions, were favoured with 5 or
6000 l. per annum, and a Gentleman
who, by more than twenty years fudy,
the world a book of inconceivable
gave
labour, and univerfal ufe, was fuffered
to fall a victim to his attempts to ferve

mankind!

Died within the walls of the city of Edinburgh, and buried in the Gray-friars church-yard, May 1739.

Men 19, women 19, children 55. In all, 93. Decreased this month, 15. AGE. N°. DISEASES. N°.

Betwixt

Under

2 & 5 23
5 & 10

10 & 20

Old age

4

Confumption 33
Fever

33

4 Small-pox 7 4 Teething!! Chin-cough 20

3 Suddenly 3 Convulfion

20 & 30

30 & 40
40 & 50
50 & 60
60 & 70

5

7

12

170 & 80

W

Apoplexy
4 Strangury
Gravel
Child-bed
Still-born

2

3

I

FOREIGN HISTORY. Hether the feasons are less neceffary to be observed in our time than in the days of our ancestors, in martial, as well as in affairs of another kind, feems at prefent, from the general face of affairs in Eu rope, to admit of ferious enquiry: for though from hiftory it appears February and March were, for ages, efleemed the proper months for taking the field; yet now July and Auguft ferve for the fame purposes, with this very confidecable advantage, That if our modern armies fhould not much approve of hoftilities, the near approach of winter will furnish a very natural neceffity for being obliged to march home with out rifquing the uncertain fate of a battle: And as among the antients themfelves caution was reckoned as valuable

as

as courage, it is to be prefumed this Porte and his Imperial Majefty, by

age will reach pofterity clear of the fmalleft imputation of rafhnefs in military exploits, unlefs on account of the hafty expedition of the French into Italy in 1733; which yet ought to be excufed in confideration of their making full as much hafte back again.

The depofition of the late GRAND VIZIER Mehemed Jagia Bafhaw,is confirmed from all parts; and it is certain he is fucceeded in that high office by the Seraskier of Widdin; a man thoroughly acquainted with the interefts of Europe, a good officer, and one who in all refpects enjoys an amiable character. His elevation has given great joy to the Janiffaries, who were much offended at the violence and vain-glory of his predeceffor; who was certainly one of the moft enterprifing minifters the Porte has had for many years. By this change the Bashaw Count de Bonneval will be re-inftated in full favour and reputation, he being a favourite of the new Grand Vizier, and always united to his interests.

Letters from Conftantinople fay, That Achmet Bafhaw, who was fent to Natolia to take upon him the command of the Grand Seignior's troops in that province, is returned to that city, after having difperfed the rebels, and forced their commander, Sare-BeyOglou, to abandon the castle to which he had retired; and that the Grand Seignior, in reward for this fervice, had reftored Achmet Bafhaw to the poft of Kiamaikan, or Governor of Conftantinople, of which he had been defted by the intrigues of the late Grand Vizer.

Accounts very much vary as to the Ottoman armies taking the field; tho' it feems most generally apprehended their main force will be affembled on the Niefter, from Choczim to Bender, from their marching great bodies on that fide; and it is expected the new Grand Vizier will command them in perfon. Notwithstanding which, it is reported, with fome circumftances of probability, that a peace is on the carpet, and near a conclufion, between the

the influence of the mediating hand of France; as a proof of which, it is faid, the Emperor has fent the Marquis de Villeneuve, the French Ambassador at Conftantinople, a prefent of a very fine diamond, valued at 1000 Lewis-d'ors.

Some advices fay the RUSSIAN army begins to affemble along the Nieper; but the expectation of a fleet in the Baltick may be fuppofed in a great measure to retard the motions of the Ruffian army on the fide of Turkey; it being improbable, notwithstanding the boafted politeness of the French nation, that they would carry twenty or thirty fhips of war into the Baltick, merely to pay her Czarian Majefty a vifit. However, it is faid that the inhabitants of Livonia, and of the other provinces conquered from Sweden, difcover, on every occafion, their defire of remaining under the Ruffian government, being now in the full enjoyment of their ancient rights and privileges.

Whatever may be the intention of the French, her Czarian Majefty, who is no lefs remarkable for her politenefs and complaifance, than for her numerous other qualifications, is making all neceffary preparations for giving the French a fuitable and very gallant reception; in order for which fhe is fitting out no less than one hundred ftrong gallies, feven large men of war, and providing 50,000 men in the neighbourhood of Petersburg to affist in the ceremony.

The conclufion of a peace between his IMPERIAL Majefty, and the King of France, calls the attention of feveral of the European courts, and gives new fpirit to the laft advices from Vienna, and may be fuppofed to widen the growing coldness and indifference vifible between the Emperor and the Czarina; which will, in all probability, greatly facilitate a peace between the Porte and the court of Vienna, exclufive of any regard to Ruffia; for which the court of France has long laboured, by infifting that while the Em

peror

peror would agree upon no peace in which Ruffia was not included, none could be expected.

Count Wallis has, fince his arrival in the neighbourhood of Belgrade, vifited all the adjacent fortifications, and done every thing neceffary to put that part of the country in a state of defence; to which his Imperial mafter has likewise contributed a little, by obliging fome officers, who were fo tenderly attach'd to his perfon as to appear in his court when he fuppofed them in the rough camp, upon pain of being cashier'd, to repair to their pofts. The military preparations in SwEDEN are continued with the utmoft vigour fince the arrival of Captain Sinclair at Stockholm from Conftantinople, whither he had been difpatch'd on affairs of importance. The general diet of the kingdom is now diffolved, in which, though fome warm difputes had occurred, every thing was at length concluded with a general approbation of all parties.

It is faid the minifters of Sweden use their utmost endeavours to bring the King of Pruffia into her intereft, fince his Danish Majefty, on whom she relied, has failed her. It is affirmed from Stockholm, that Mr. Finch, the British Ambaffador there, in a conference with fome of the Senators, had given them to understand, that his Britannick Majefty, being very well informed that France had refolved to fend a fquadron into the Baltick, would not fail to have a fufficient flect in readinefs to preserve the trade and tranquility of the North:-and that Mr. Finch and the Ruffian minifter are frequently together; and the Imperial Envoy often with the French minifter.

While the French have any thing to do with the island of CORSICA, there is no probability of our being able to rely on one word of advice we receive from thence:- At prefent, tho' from feveral places confirmed accounts are received of the convoy lately fent to the Marquis de Mallebois being parted by a ftorm, and half the fhips loft, yet the Paris A-la-main, with an air of

inconcern peculiar to that nation, af-
fures us that every plank of them arri-
ved fafe; which had enabled the Mar-
quis to mend the road to Cafinea, &c.
and to cut down all the Olive and o
ther trees, upon the produce of which
the nation is known principally to de-
pend: A ftrong mark of affection for
the ifland! In fpite of which the Re
bels, as the French modeftly term them,
have the affurance openly to conveen
in their own country, and prohibit
communication with their enemies (tho
they came from France) on the feve-
reft penalties, and even death itself,
having, in confequence thereof, pofted
three detachments to fecure their paf-
fes. And, as an example of the un-
expected fuccefs of the French arms,
the fame A-la-main afferts, that advices
have been received from Calvi, That
a party of loyal Corficans, i. e. who had
deferted the cause of their country to
be vaffals to France, had made an
incurfion towards Monte Maggiore;
where, with very inconfiderable lofs,
they left dead upon the plain Two
MEN who were watching fome cows,
and brought off the cattle!

It is allowed on all hands, that the Baron de Droft, nephew to Baron Newhoff, is arrived in Corfica, and by the natives appointed Generaliffimo of their forces till the arrival of his uncle, who is daily expected with powerful fuccours. But in the mean time the French court has fecured the three Corfican hoftages who had been some time at Toulon, in the castle of St. Nicholas, it being faid at Paris that the conduct of the Corficans has not at all anfwered his Christian Majesty's expectations!

The Genoefe have fo exhausted their publick treasure in the war with Corfica, that they are obliged to load the people with fresh taxes; at which the people loudly murmur, and labels have been fixed up in the moft publick places in Genoa, with these words: Our fathers have finned, and we bear their ini quities! revenge thy people, O Lord!— Letters from Corfica acquaint the re

publick,