upon windows or lights.-An act for enabling his majefty to raife certain fums of money towards paying off and discharging the debt of the navy, &c.—An act for charging certain annuities granted in the year 1760, on the finking fund, &c. &c. And to two private bills. ten sheep hearty and well out of the fnow, after. they had lain there about four weeks. In fhort, at land, and on the fea coafts, fuch devastation is not remembered, by the present race, in England. rifhed, in different parts of the kingdom, by a great, fudden, and unufual fall of snow, which, in fome places, was ten and twelve feet deep. Near fifty people who were caught in the open fields, roads, plains, heaths, and commons, loft their lives. In the hurricane that acAccording to the above act, every companied it, large trees, coaches, house containing eight windows or houfes, chimnies, and barns, were, lights will now pay 11 s. for nine, in many places, levelled with the 12s. for ten, 13 s. for eleven, 145. ground, and churches damaged ; for twelve, i 1. 1 s. for thirteen, 11. many fheep and cattle likewife pe2s. 6d. for fourteen, 11. 4. for rifhed. It is faid, however, that a fifteen, 11. 5 s. 6d. for fixteen, 11. farmer at Water-on-the-Wolds, in s. for feventeen, 1 1. 8 s. 6 d. for Yorkshire, recovered I eighteen, 11. 10 s. for nineteen, II. II s. 6 d. and for twenty and upwards the fame as before, viz. 18. 6d. per window, and 3 s. the house; and all houfes and cottages, that have no more than feven windows, to pay 3s. for the house, unless on account of their poverty excufed from parish rates; but no houfes, having more than seven win dows are to be exempted from this tax upon that account.-As many perfons have, and will alter the number of their windows on account of the additional duty, it may not be improper for them to know, that the act of parliament directs, that no window, or light, will be deemed to be stopped up, unlefs it be stopped with brick or ftone, or plaifter upon lath, or with the fame materials of which the outfide of the houfe doth chiefly confift; and the furveyors in their respective divifions have exprefs orders from the board of taxes to charge all windows that are not stopped up according to the direction of the act. On this and the follow21ft. ing day, great damage was done, and numbers of people pe A little girl, daughter to Mr. Giffard, late of Covent-garden theatre was lately burnt in a very fhocking manner, and died in great agonies. A perfon in the houfe was fubject to fits, and amongst the methods practifed to recover her, it was ufual to burn feathers, rags, papers, &c. under her nofe-this ftriking the child, fhe was fuppofing her doll in the like circumftances, and burning fomething under its nofe, by which means her own cloath's caught fire, whilft her mamma's back was turned. From Faulkner's Dublin Journal. Whereas a lady, who called herfelf a native of Ireland, was in England in the year 1740, and refided fome time at a certain village near Bath, where the was delivered of a fon, whom the left with a fum of money, under the care of a perfon in the fame parish, and promised to fetch him at a certain age, but has not fince been heard of: now this is to defire the lady, if living, and this fhould be fo fortunate as to be seen by her, to send a letter directed to I. E. to be left at the Chapter Coffee-house, St. Paul's churchyard, London, wherein she is defired to give an account of herself, and her reasons for concealing this affair: or if the lady fhould be dead, and any person is privy to the affair, they are likewife defired to direct as above.-N. B. This adververtisement is published by the perfon himself, not from motives of neceffity, or to court any afliftance (he being, by a feries of happy circumstances, poffeffed of an easy and independent fortune) but with a real defire to know his origin.P. S. The ftricteft fecrecy may be depended on. 22d. In the evening, in the midst of a great shower of hail and fnow, with the wind at north, four loud claps of thunder were heard at Valenciennes in France, preceded by very frightful lightening, by the violence of which the wood work of St. Gray's church was fet on fire; and fix or feven of the workmen fent to extinguish the flames were fo terribly fcorched by a fucceeding flash, that it is fcarce poffible they fhould meeting they agreed, that no clergyman be permitted to fubfcribe annually more than one guinea for each benefice he fhall hold, nor less than five fhillings. The marine fociety have collected, equipped, and cloathed, for the fea fervice, 5452 men, 4511 boys, in all 9963. This fhews the utility of that noble inftitution. The right hon. the earl of Buckinghamshire, for the encouragement of matrimony, propofes to give an annual bounty of ten guineas, to five young women, daughters of freemen of Norwich, upon their marriage to the fons of freemen, on the following terms: They must not be above 25, nor under 18 years of age. The perfons they marry muft be induftrious freemen of Norwich, refident there, and fons of freemen refident, and their age not above 31, nor under 21. No perfons who have received collection, or who are deformed in their perfons, fubject to fits, in general unhealthy, or in whofe family there is any fufpicion of madnefs, can be entitled to this charity. The candidates must be recommended by gentlemen and ladies of credit, refident in Norwich, who from their own knowledge, will vouch for their characters; and also that they have good reason to believe that they neither of them have contracted any debts, or are liable to any of the above objections. The marriages are to be celebrated on the 1st day of July yearly, and to commence upon the ift day of July next; upon which day the new-married c uples are to dine together, and his lordship will allow one guinea for the dinner. It is [F]4 expected expected that the couples fixed upon will, fome days previous to the marriage, fignify to the perfons who may recommend them, how best it may be laid out for their advantage, except one guinea, which will be paid the day after the wedding. On occafion of two young children 'lately poifoned by taking bearsfoot for the worms, at Fisherton near Salisbury, the following caution has been published in the St. James's Chronicle. To prevent the destruction of more children, please to inform the public there are two kinds of bearsfoot in England, One is a plant of two feet high, with dark leaves, and a multitude of whitish flowers ; fome times a little purpled at the edge. This is common in gardens, and is now in full flower. It is a poifon, and was known as fuch to Tragus, Dodonæus, and all the old writers. The other is a low plant, fcarce a foot high, with fish-green leaves, and only one or two flowers: the flowers of this are green. This is the true bears foot; which is recommended with great juftice againft worms. The other being more common, has been used by mistake in its place, and to this the death of thofe infants was owing. There is the more reafon for caution, becaufe the poisonous one is the kind now fold in our markets. J. HILL. They write from Paris, that as a wealthy citizen of Paris was lately walking in the Thuillieries, a perfon came up to him, and bid him be upon his guard, for that night he would be murdered. The citizen retired after fupper, as ufual, to his bed-chamber, having furnifhed himself with fire-arms. At mid night three men actually entered the room. One of them he shot dead, and with a fecond fhot broke the arm of another. The third ran away. The perfon killed proved to be his own fon, and the wounded perfon his nephew, who is now in prifon along with the third affaffin. This, fays the writer, is the fecond inftance of the kind that has happened at Paris within these three months; to fuch a height is licentiousness risen in that capital! The fame letter adds, "The fieur Maffonet, renter of the abbey of St. Antony, in the parish of Montfalcon, in Viennois, has a fon, which (though but five months old) is actually two feet feven inches and a half high: the circumference of his waift is two feet three inches three lines [a line is the twelfth part of an inch] and over the breaft he measures two feet three inches. The circumference of his head, at the fore part, is eighteen inches and a half; and that of the calf of his. leg eleven inches. His wrift is fix inches and a half round, his arm eleven inches, and his thigh seventeen inches three lines. When he came into the world, he was of the ufual fize of a new-born infant. His bones are not of a fize proportionate to his body: those of his fingers, feet, and hands, are very small. His weight is 41 lb. mark [equal to our averdupois] and he begins to walk. fucking at eight in the evening, he wants nothing more till eight the morning; never cries, nor often laughs. The father is thirtyfive years old, and of a thin and meagre form. His wife is about the fame age, and of the fame complexion. They have three After other other children of the common fize." In confequence of the new duty upon malt liquors taking place, the publicans have at last been, in general, quietly permitted to raise their porter to three pence halfpenny a quart. Died lately. In the parish of St. Leonard's, two old men, brothers, who a little before lodged in the parish of Cripplegate, but lived there in fo miferable a manner, as to be discharged their lodgings. On their death it appeared that the intereft of 4000l. which they had before left to Cripplegate parish, was now left to the poor of St. Leonard's for ever. A caveat was entered by a third brother against the will, but we hear it is finally determined in favour of the poor. Mifs Charlotte Mercier, faid to be skilled in painting and engraving, and daughter of the late prince of Wales's librarian, in St. James's workhouse. Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Efq; aged 100. Babua Solyman, a Turk, in Hampshire, aged 105. Thomas Nixon, of the county of Cumberland, aged 108. At Tiefenau, in the neighbourhood of Groffenhayn, Gafpard Balcke, aged 12 years, three months, and 27 days. He married two wives, by whom he had fifteen children. He was 85 when the youngest child was born. He lived to fee his pofterity to the number of 66. He was confined to his bed only two days. Catharine Brebner, in Aberdeenfhire, aged 124. John Noon, of the county of Galway, in Ireland, aged 129. A peafant in Poland in the 157th year of his age; till within 12 day of his death, he worked as a day labourer. MAR ̊C H. By a fall of a house near Holloway-mount, feven perfons were killed. 5th. 12th. Being the day appointed for a general fast and humiliation, it was observed in the accustomed manner. Copy of a refolution of the Irish parliament, refpecting the revenue of the lord lieutenant. Veneris, 26 Feb. 1762. Refolved, nemine contradicente, That an address be presented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, that he will reprefent to his majesty the fense of this house, that the entertainments and appointments of the lord lieutenant of Ireland are become inadequate to the dignity of that high office, and to the expence with which it is, and ought to be, fupported; and that it is the humble defire of this houfe, that his majefty will be graciously pleafed to grant fuch an augmentation to the entertainment of the lord lieutenant for the time being, as with, the prefent allowances, will in the whole amount to the annual fum of fixteen thousand pounds. And to exprefs that fatisfaction which we feel at the pleafing hope, that this just and neceffary augmentation fhould take place during the adminiftration of a chief governor, whofe many great and amiable qualities, whofe wife and happy administration in the government of this kingdom, have univerfally endeared him to the people of Ireland. E. Sterling, H. Alcock, } Cler. Dom. Com. Copy Copy of the answer of the lord lieu tenant to the addrefs of the house of commons, prefented to his excellency pursuant to the foregoing refolution. "I fhall take the firft opportunity of laying before his majefty the fenfe of the house of commons contained in this addrefs, I enter fully into the truly liberal motives, which have influenced your conduct in this unanimous refolution. That you are folicitous not only to fupport his majefty's government, but to fupport it with becoming grandeur and magnificence, reflects the highest honour on yourselves; that you have chofen the time of myadminiftration, that you have diftinguished my perfon as the object of your favour, reflects the highest credit on me; and I must ever confider this event as one of the most fortunate and honourable circumftances of my life. Whatever merit you afcribe to me in the government of this kingdom, in reality arifes from your own conduct, though your partiality would transfer it to mine. Your unanimity has firft created this merit, and your liberality would now reward it. : I am fenfible of the obligation you confer And I can in no way properly demonftrate my fenfe of it, but by being, as I am, unalterably determined to implore his majefty, that I may be permitted to enjoy it pure and unmixed with the Jucrative advantages you propose fhould attend it. This affectionate addrefs is intended as an honour to me: that intention has on your part been fully answered; to make it truly honourable, fomething is ftill neceffary on mine. It becomes me to vie with the generofity of parliament, and to keep up an emulation of fentiment. It has been my duty, in the courfe of this feffion, to propofe large plans of public expence, and to promife an attention to public ceconomy; and I could not without pain submit, that the establishment, already burthened at my recommendation, fhould be ftill farther charged for my own particular profit. But while I confider myself at liberty to facrifice my private interefts to my private feelings, I must confider myself as bound likewife to confult, in compliance with your enlarged and liberal sentiments, the future fupport of the ftation in which I am placed, to the dignity of which, the emoluments are, as you reprefent them, inadequate. I fhall tranfmit, therefore, the fense of the house of commons, that the augmentation which your generofity has propofed, may, if his majefty fhall think fit, be made to the estabishment of my fucceffor, when he fhall enter on the government of this kingdom, and when, it is probable, the circumftances of this country may be better able to fupport fuch additional burthen. But while I muft decline accepting any part of the profits, I rejoice to charge myself with the whole of the obligation: abundantly happy, if when I fhall hereafter be removed from this high, and, through your favour, defirable fituation, I should leave it through your liberality, augmented in its emoluments, and by my inability not diminished in its reputation,' 6th. At fix in the morning an earthquake was very fenfibly felt at Wexford in Ireland. It was preceded by a loud rumbling noife, and was fudden, and of fhort duration. at At the anniversary fermon, St. George's, Hanover 18th. fquare, |