have done their duty, may, I think, fave annually to the ftate, on a low computation, 500 fubjects. I fuppofe the number of infants under 12 to 18 months old, being fuch as are in the most imminent danger of their lives, to be near 1500: that, upon the whole, a very small proportion of these has, for time immemorial, been preferved: that taking into the account, all contigencies, in 3 may be eafily kept alive and, I conclude, that fome parishes will hereafter preferve 1 in 2, or 3 in 5. Notwithstanding the moral impoffibility of finding proper nurses for 4000 infants annual ly crowded, in the wildeft manner, upon the Foundling Hofpital, the managers of that hofpital have preferved in 3, past the dangerous part of life."

There is in Berlin, and in every great town in the Pruffian dominions, a certain edifice, properly furnished and properly attended, to which any young woman, who has the misfortune of being with child, may repair, before her fhame becomes public. The utmost secrecy is preferved; fhe is treated with all poffible care and indulgence; and a month after her lying-in difcharged, with 50 crowns in her pocket, if fhe has had a fon; and 10 crowns if she has had a daughter. By this means the murder of battard children is effectually prevented, by removing every temptation to it. The children are preferved to the ftate, and fuch children only as are proper objects of its care. The unhappy women are covered from fhame, and return again into fociety without fcandal. All this is fo far from encouraging proftitution, that

it has the very contrary effect; for every fhameless common woman is feverely punished; and thofe only that are unhappily feduced receive the benefit of this benevolent charity.-An inititution of the like kind is to be met with in the city of Copenhagen.

This day died the right hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, mother of the countess of Bute: fhe was daughter of the firft duke of Kingston, and was the introducer of inoculation for the fmall-pox, into this kingdom, the usefulness of which method, and confequently the obligations of the nation to her ladyfhip, will appear by turning to page 78.

About ten at night a moft 24th. dreadful ftorm of thunder and lightening began at London, which greatly alarmed the inhabitants; about eleven it was accompanied by a heavy rain, which, with fome intermiffion, continued till near four the next morning. The flashes of lightening were particularly pale: thefe flashes were very frequent, and fometimes there were fix or feven of them fucceflively, almoft without intermiffion. They caft

fuch a light that objects in the adjacent parts of this metropolis were plainly diftinguished at two or three miles distance.

His royal highness the

duke of York atrived in 25th.

town from Sir Edward Hawke's fleet which is returned to England.

The British herring fithery off Shetland has been very fuccessful this feafon under Mr. George Tymewell, the fuperintendant; the Bri tifh jaggers having got the first market both at Hamburgh and Bremen,

though

though the Dutch employed (as ufual) a great number of veffels on the above fishery, and the English but few.

At the affizes at Winchester, 5 criminals received sentence of death; at Worcester 1, for the murder of his daughter; at Norwich 1; at Durham 2, one of them for murder; at Maidstone 2; at Warwick z, one for murder; at Bary 2; at Chelmsford 2; at Exeter 1; at Bridgewater 4.Bodmyn, Gloucefter, Dorset, Abingdon, Salif bury, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Cambridge, Huntingdon. Bedford, Guildford, Hertford, York, Northampton, and for Suffex and Northumberland, proved maiden affizes.

Oxford, Aug. 7. The fubjects appointed for the current year, for two orations to be spoken in our theatre, for the prizes of four fiveguinea pieces, given by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Wilfon, prebendary of Westminster, are,

For the Latin Oration, Nunquam Libertas gratior extat, quam fub Rege Pio.

For the Englith Oration, Que Domus tam ftabilis, Qua tam firma Civitas eft, Que non Odiis atque Diffidiis funditus poffit everti.

The following is a lift of the fhips, and the fuccefs of the whale fishery -The Dutch fleet of 154 fhtps have taken 43 fish. London fhips: Young Eagle 2, Duke of Bedford 1, Providence 1, Keading 1, Adriatic 1, Parnaffus 1, Britannia 1 very small. Two Hull fhips both clean; four Newcastle 1, two Liverpool fhips 1, one Exeter fhip 11 very fmall; four Leith fhips ; Boroughftonnefs fhips clean. Anftruther fhips, Hawke

Dundee

loft, Rifing-fun clean; fhips, Grand Tully, 2 very fmall, Dundee clean; three Dunbar fhips I each; Aberdeen one ship, 1. This day the following letter was received by the right hon. the lord mayor. To the right hon. the lord mayor. My lord,

30th.

"I have the earl of Egremont's directions to acquaint your lordship, that, in confequence of his most chriftian majefty's nomination of the duke de Nivernois to come here to treat of peace, the king has been pleafed to name the duke of Bedford to go to Paris for the fame purpofe; and his grace's appointment will be declared on Wednesday next, the first of September. My lord Egremont thinks it may be of use to make this public in the city as foon as poffible.

I am, with the greatest respect,
My lord,
Your lordship's most obedient,
humble Servant,

R. Wood."
A Dutch man of war,

with four merchantmen un- 31ft. der her convoy, failed lately from Amfterdam, but were feparated in a gale of wind. Soon after one of them was brought to by one of our frigates from the Downs, and was found to be laden with fhip timber, fuppofed to be for the French; upon which the commodore in the Downs ordered two frigates to cruize off Goree, who fell in with the man of war and the other three fhips, and demanded to fearch them, which the captain of the Dutch man of war having refuled, fome broadfides were exchanged between them, in which feven Dutchmen were killed; after which they

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ftruck their colours, and were all brought into the Downs for farther examination.

About 700 old Roman coins were lately found in a ford in the river Pettarel near Carlisle, They appear to be of eleven different reigns, fome very fresh, and fome 1650 years old. Many are as large as crown-pieces, and fome no bigger than a farthing; of a base metal, but fold at a high price to the curious.

A letter from a jefuit miffionary in China, dated October 20, 1761, gives an account, that in the preceding fummer, they had in that country fuch prodigious rains, as to cause the waters to rife, and overflow whole provinces, by which fome millions of people were drowned.'

Extract of a letter from Paris. "Monfieur de Voltaire, the prince of our poets in this age, is preparing for prefs, a new edition of the works of the great Corneille the prince of French poets in the laft age, with notes. This undertaking is the more laudable, as the profits of it are to be applied for the benefit of a girl of eighteen or nineteen, the heiress of the name of Corneille, whom M. de Voltaire has generously taken into his house, and treats as his own child. Her father defcended from one Peter Corneille, uncle to the great poet, is a very honeft man, but very fimple, and has at prefent a pretty good place belonging to the hospital of the French ariny. The work is printing at Geneva in 12 or 13 volumes in octavo, price two Louis d'ors. Voltaire fends his remarks from time to time to the French academy. The king of France has fubfcribed for 200 copies; other fubfcribers are the infant duke of

Parma, almost all the princes of the blood, the duke de Choiseul, madame Pampadour, most of the Quarante Immortels of the French. academy, and many other perfons of diftinction. The duchess of Grammont is moft induftrious in promoting this work. M. de la Borde, banker to the court, hath got above an hundred subscribers to it. M. de Voltaire hath generously fubfcribed for an hundred copies. In the lift of the fubfcribers there are also the names of feveral English and German noblemen.

Died lately. Mrs. Easton of Mitre court, Fleet-ftreet, who understood nine languages.

Mr. Leggatt, cornfactor, at Hemnal, Norfolk, aged 100.

At Birr, in Ireland, Mr. Timothy O'Mara, aged 100.

Relict of the Rev. Mr. Pope, at Burftock, Dorsetshire, aged 106. At Bremen, Mrs. Jane Burlow, aged 109.

SEPTEMBER.

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Was opened in Westminster Abbey, a fine new monument, erected by Mr. John Wilton, ftatuary to his majesty, at the expence of the princefs dowager of Wales, to the memory of Stephen Hales, D. D. and F. R. S. clerk of the closet to the princefs dowager, minifer of Teddington in Middlefex, and rector of Farringdon in Hants; grandfon of Sir Robert Hales, of Beaksburne in Kent, Bart. and uncle to the prefent Sir Thomas Hales. He died in January 1761, aged 82 years. See our last vol. p. 46.

At the anniversary meeting of the fons of the clergy, held atNewcastle, the collection amounted to upwards of 288 1.

An

5th.

7th.

The duke of Bedford set out for France, to negotiate a peace. A fire broke out, at two in the morning, in the Prefs-yard in Newgate, which caufed great confternation in the neighbourhood. It raged for two hours and an half, and deftroyed a building next to the college of Phyficians. Capt. Ogle, a lunatic, confined for a murder committed fome years fince, and one Smith, confined for robbing the ftables of ald. Mafters, perished in the flames. None of the prifoners efcaped in the confufion.

The following melancholy accident happened lately in the parish of Aberlour, in Bamff hire: A fervant lad, fond of a little boy of his mafter's, took the child in his arms to dandle him; unfortunately paffing by a boiling cauldron, the child by a fudden fpring, leap'd out of his arms, and fell into the boiling liquor; and before it could be got out by the unhappy and almoft diftracted lad, was fcalded to death.

At the triennial meeting at 9th. Hereford, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the poor clergy of the three diocefes of Worcefter, Gloucester, and Hereford, the collection amounted to 2571. Two little boys, one five, 11th. the other three years of age, fons to a gentleman in Pilgrimftreet, Newcale, being tempted by the beautiful appearance of the fruit

of the deadly nightshade, as it grew in the garden, eat of it. The eldest died the night after, and the youngeft, after continuing 16 hours in convulfions, by taking oil, was happily recovered. (See before p.[85]) A German phyfician gives the following fpecific: take two ounces of lavender vinegar, and two ounces of water, mixt, and drink them at one draught; repeat the dofe if there be occafion.

A fea-monfter was caft afhore at Newhaven near Leith. It is fuppofed to be of the shark kind: is about 15 or 16 feet long, has 3 rows of very ftrong teeth, an extensive mouth, and furprisingly wide throat. It has alfo 5 rows of an aftonishing hard and rough skin, on each fide, which feems to ferve as a coat of mail for its defence.

A fine bronze buft of the E. of Halifax, is put up at the Senegal and Goree coffee houfe in Cornhill, on which is the following infcription:

Some days

GEORGE DUNK, Earl of Halifax, under whofe moft aufpicious patronage the plan for conquering the French fettlements of Senegal and Goree on the coast of Africa, was happily carried into execution, in the year MDCCLVIII. Tivoli, Auguft 11. ago, as workmen were digging the foundation for a houfe on the eminence of Saracinefo, they found a fubterraneous edifice, confifting of ten chambers, paved with beautiful marble; and in one of the chambers three ftatues fix feet high, one reprefenting Antoninus Caracalla, the other Julia his ftepmother, and the third Geta his brother. On the firft was this infcription; Antoninus imperator Romanorum decus. On the fecond; Julia in honeftate [H]4

excellens