384 HISTORICAL CHRONILE, in the prefence of God, folemnly, and in a good faith, covenant and agree, 1. To fufpend all commercial intercourfe with Great-Britain till the faid aft is repealed, and reftoration made of our chartered rights. 2. Not to purchafe or confume, in any manner whatever, any goods, wares, or merchandize, which half arrive from Great-Britain, from and after the last day of August next. 3. To have no dealings whatever with perfons who shall break this agreement," &c. &c. Salem, June 29. His Excellency Governor Gage caufed a proclamation to be iffued, cautioning all perfons what foever, within his jurifdiction, againft figning the aforefaid folemn league and covenant, or any league and covenant fimilar thereto, or in any manner entering into, or being concerned in, fuch unlawful, hoftile, and traiterous combinations; and ftrictly enjoining and commanding all magiftrates and other officers within the province of Maffachusetts-Bay, to apprehend and fecure for trial all and every perfon who may hereafter prefume to publish or offer it to others to be figned, or fhall themfelves fign the aforefaid or a fimilar covenant, or be in any wife aiding, abetting, advifing, or affifting therein. Seve Williamsburg, June 13. An exprefs arrived in this city from Colonel Hite, with advice of the determined refolution of the Indians to declare war against us. ral families have already been found murdered and fealped, and the inhabitants in the Back Settlements never were in greater confternation. In confequence of this news, writs have been iffued for the election of a new affembly to meet as foon as poffible. Writs are likewife iffied by Governor Penn, of Pennsylvania, for the fanie purpose. [This account will be continued while the affairs of America continue intereffing.] HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. H IS Danish Majelly, to increase the commerce of his dominions, has declared Gluckstadt a free port. He has, at the fame time, prohibited the importation of woolen cloth, in order to encourage that of the home-manufacture. General Conway is charged with an important commitlion at the two principal courts of Germany. At Berlin he has already concluded his bufinefs; but át the court of Vienna he is fill negociating. July 12. In the night, the abbé Fabris, brother to the Count of that name, was mordered in his bed, at Venice, by a man whom he thought his friend, affifted by a girl who kept his toufe. They are both apprehended, July 18. The island of Corfica is ceded to the July 20. The Empress of Ruffia received the melancholy account of the lofs of the Prince of Holftein. His Highness, about a month ago, embarked as a volunteer on board the Commodore's fhip of the ficet now cruifing in the Baltic; and on the 3d inftant, in coming down from the main-top, he unfortunately miffed his hold, and fell into the fea; three failors jumped over-board immediately, but too late to fave his life. July 25. In a fifth part of the Memoirs of the Society formed at Amfterdam for the Recovery of Perfons fuppofed to be drowned, it appears, that 58 of thofe unfortunates have been restored to life fince their laft publication, for whofe recovery premiums have been given. Since this fociety was eftablifhed, of which an account was given in our XIIId. Volume, many people have been reflored to life in England who would otherwife have been thought paft recovery. July 26. At Afton, Clinton, Buckland, Drayton, and Ivingoe, in the county of Hertford, there fell fuch a violent form of hail as was never remembered by the oldest man living in thofe parts. It cut off the corn as if with a fickle, and has done incredible damage to the fruit-trees and fruits of the earth, infomuch that many little farmers will be ruined. A HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. fhipped at Woolwich, for his Majesty's MONDAY, AUG. 1. A farmer near Carrickfergus, whofe name was Doron, being inftigated, as is fuppofed, by jealoufy, (for no other reafon can be affigned), fent his wife out on fome frivolous pretence, and then murdered three of his children, and afterwards ftabbed himself. He is fince dead in gaol, Saturday 6 now em 385 Ha mw 386 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. were all feized with sickness, violent purging, vomiting, and pains in their bowels; the mother and one child died next day, and the father and the other three children the day following Tachday 16, The King has been pleafed, on the humble petition of the merchants, tradefmen, and freeholders of, the borough of Hellefton, in Cornwall, to re-incorporate the fame, by the name of the Mayor and Commonalty of the borough of Hellefton. and to grant and confirm to them, and their ficcellors, their ancient powers, authorities, liberties, and privileges. ..Dederic Woolbert (a person who a few days Since, was fuppofed to be drowned, but who was restored to life by means fed for his recovery), attended at a general meeting of a new fociety lately eftablished, for the recovery of drowned perfons, held at the London coffee-house, to return thanks to the Lord Mayor, and the other gentlemen of that humane society, for their being the happy means of his recovery. It was, full half an hour before the perfons employed in his recovery, could perceive any figns of life in him; but, perfevering, in hopes of the reward given by the fociety, they at length. fücceeded, though most of the byllanders judged it labour in vain. Wednesday 17. The ladies of Worcester prefented to Lady Lewes à fuperb piece of plate, a dorned with many curious emblematical devices, of which the following is an exact defcription, viz.r A field furrounded with a wreath of palm, inclosing the following group of bgures : 1. In the middle, Fortitude, the prin→ cipal figure, standing on a rock, an helmet on her head, and leaning against a pillar, whole top reaches to the extremity of the thield, and feems there as if lost in the clouds. 2. Beneath Fortitude, Britannia, with her ufual emblem's, Magna Charta in her handa 3. Juftice, defcending in a cloud, arme ed with a thunderbolt, and lightnings flying from her, as deftroying Bribery, a graveling figure, which lies truck to the earth, a bag of money in his hand, the money falling out.. - Temperance chaining down Licen cioufnefs, reprefented by a Satyr, in whote band is a goblet inverted, the liquor pouring from it. Supporters.. Eloquence, on the right fide, ftanding in the attitude of an orator, her left hand at on her breaft, as holds ing her loofe flowing robe together, her right hand extended; at her feet a cadu wards the shield, looking forwards, her eyes rather elevated; in her right hand a cup, with this infeription, SPES P. B. or, The Hope of the People of Britain; her left hand leaning upon an anchor. Creft. Fame, beautitally furrounded by a giory. On the bafe, on the right fide, in an oval compartment,-a dove perched on an olive branch, and a cornucopia. On the left, in an oval compartment, three pears, depending from one very, flight thread, a fword in a hand of armour held over them, in a threatening posture, as just ready to cut them off. Motto, in an qual compartment, FIRM IN THE GLORIOUS ENTERPRIZE. Infeription, "The ladies of Worcester prefent to Lady Lewes this mark of their eflcem, in acknowledgment of the noble and difinterested efforts of Sir Watkin Lewes to destroy the influence of bribery and corp ruption in the election of members to reprefent their county in parliament, and, particularly to restore to the citizens of Worcester their rights and privileges." Thursday 18. The Court of Eaft India Directors ftationed the fifteen fhips taken into their service for the year enfuing in the following manner Hillborough, Capt. Pref ton; Salisbury, Bromfield; Ankerwyke, Barwell; Godfrey, Reed; Colebrooke, Morris; and Nottingham, Stoakes, for Coaft and Bay: Granville, Abercromby; and Talbot, for Bombay: Queen, Stainforth; and Grofvenor, Saunders, for Coat and China: Lord North, Hambly, and Rochford, Bird (Hunt does not go the voyage), for Bencoolen and China Hampshire, Taylor; and Offerly, Fortefcue, for St. Helena and China & Gatton, Capt. Money, for, Bombay and China. Friday 19. 1. Levy Barnet, Patrick Madan, and William Waine, three convicts, were car Tied to Tyburn to be executed, according to their fentence. At the place of exccution, one Amos Merrit addreffed hims felf to the under-fheriff, and declared that Madan was innocent of the crime for which he was about to fuffer; for that he himself was the guilty perfon. Mr. Reynolds, the under-theriff, defired that he would look at the prifoner, and decla e the fame aloud. He declared the man was innocent, but declined acknowledg ing him felf guilty. Merrit was thereupon taken into cuftody, and Mr. Reynolds was, by order of the theriffs, difpatched to the Secretary's office, to report what had happened, where he obtained a refpite for Madan. When he returned, the execution of Barnet and Waine was per formed, and Madan, amidst the acclama tions of many thousands, was reconduct cd HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. ed to Newgate. Amos Merrit, before William Addington, Efq; at the office in Bow-treet, voluntarily confefied that he was the perfon who committed the robbery for which Madan liad been con Victed. a Mr. Garrick gave a fplendid entertainment, or Fete Champetre, at his gardens at Hampton. Signor Forre conducted moft brilliant fire-work; and an elegant concert of mufic was performed. The Temple of Shakespeare, and gardens, were illuminated with 6000 lamps, and the Forge of Vulcan made a fplendid appearance. Saturday 20. Some workmen, digging, in order to make fome alterations at Lord Hilliborough's, at Weftram, in Kent, found the fkeleton of a man compleat, and five other skulls and human bones, which are fuppofed to have been buried there during the great rebellion in King Charles's reign. The canals between Ghent and Bruges, and between Bruges and Oftend, began to be drained, in order to deepen them before winter, with a view to prevent the inundations that fometimes overflow the country. The veffels and men that have been employed at Plymouth, in the attempt to weigh the hip funk with Mr. Day, were this day difcharged. The reafon 21figned is want of power. Monday 22. The Hawke East-Indiaman, Captain Cotton, from Bencoolen, arrived fafe at her moorings at Erith, Tuesday 23. At a meeting of the Bill of Rights, the following articles were recommended as the indifpenfible condition on which the independent electors of Great-Britain hould confer their fuffrages on candidates for reprefentatives of the people at their next general election: 1. You shall confent to no fupplics without a previous redrefs of grievances. 2. You thall promote a law, fubjecting each candidate to an oath against having afed bribery, or any other illegal means of compaffing his election. 3. You half promote, to the utmost of your power, a full and equal reprefentation of the people in parliament. 4. You shall endeavour to restore annual parliaments. 5. You hall promote a pension and a place bill, enacting, that any member who receives a place, penfion, contract, lottery-tickets, or any other emolument whatfoever, from the Crown, or enjoys profit from any fuch place, penfion, &c. Thall not only vacate his feat, but be abfolutely ineligible during his continuance ander fach undue influence, 6. You shall impeach the minifters 387 who advised the violating the right of the freeholders in the Middlefex election, and the military murders in St. George's Fields. 7. You hall make strict inquiry into the conduct of judges, touching juries... 8. You shall make ftrict Inquiry into the application of the public money. 9. You shall use your utmost endea yours to have the Refolution of the Houfe of Commons expunged, by which the magiftrates of the city of London were arbitrarily imprisoned, for strictly adher ing to their charter and their oaths; and alfo that Refolution by which a judicial record was crafed to stop the course of justice, 10. You fhall attend the grievances of our fellow fubjects in Ireland, and fecond the complaints they may bring to the Throne, 11. You shall endeavour to restore to America the effential right of taxation, by reprefentatives of their own free elec tion; repealing the acts pafled in viola tion of that right fince the year 1763; as well as the univerfal excife, fo notoriously incompatible with every principle of Britih liberty, which has been lately substi tuted in the colonies, instead of the laws of customs. John Harrington, of Poplar, fell into the Thames; he was carried a confiderable way down the river by the tide; the body was at last taken up to all appearance dead, and carried to the Three Cranes. Mr. Patten, furgeon, of Rat cliff-crofs (one of the Medical Afiftants to the Society for the Recovery of drowned Perfons), was immediately fent for, and after fome time the young man was reftored to life. Wednesday 24. William Nelthorpe, Eiq; is appointed a Commisioner of Customs in Scotland, in the room of Jofeph Tudor, Efq; decealed. The Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgefies, of Abingdon, Berks, have obtained a grant to chufe, every year, two perfons out of their body to execute the offices of Juftices of the Peace, within the faid borough and its liberties, for one whole year. Gazette. The first one of the new bridge to be built at Richmond was laid, on which a brafs plate was fixed with the following infeription: The first tone of this bridge was laid by the Hon. Henry Hobert, on the 23d of Auguft, Anno Domini 1774, and in the 14th year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third." At a farm houfe, near Amersham, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, the family were alarmed by a noise in the yard, which they imagined was occafioned by fome perfons endeavouring to break 388 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. into the houfe, The mafter went up ftairs with a loaded blunderbufs, and looking out of a back-window faw a man in the yard, at whom he immediately tired, and lodged the contents of the piece in his body. The neighbours, hearing the report, inftantly aflembled, and on examining the body, it proved to be the mafter's own fon. The unfortunate young man had been in I.cndon, and was not expected home till the fucceeding day, but returning at the above time, and having the key of a garden gate, let himfelf in, which occafioned this lamentable catastrophe, Thurfday 25. Omiah, the vifitor from Otaheite, being perfectly recovered from the smallpox, accompanied Mr. Banks and Dr, Solander, and dined with the Royal Society, at the Mitre tavern in Fleet-street. He is not a native of that island, but of Ulates, from whence he and many others were driven out by the King of Bola-Bola, another neighbouring ifland, who conquered, and ftill holds a confiderable part of Ulatea. Tupia, who died at Batavia, on his way from Otaheite to Eng land, whither he was coming with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, was alfo a na tive of the fame ifland, wherein he had great poffeffions, and was a principal per fon, but he was in like manner driven out of it by the King of Bola-Bola, and took refuge in Otaheite, where, from his abilities, he had become a perfon of great confideration when Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found him there. Omiah had alfo fome eftate in his native island, but when he became a fugitive in Otaheite, being young, he was at first obliged to betake himself to fishing, and other fimilar employments, to gain a livelihood; but being wounded in one of the frays which Capt. Cook unfortunately had at his first arrival on that island, it was confidered as a merit that entitled him to fome better provifion, and he was put under one of the pricfts, according to the cuftom of the country, to learn that kind of fcience which qualifies for the priefly profeffion. Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander were acquainted with him during their ftay at Otaheite, whilst he was in this fituation; and it was his acquaintance with them, Capt. Cook, and other gentlemen on board the Endeavour, that most probably difpofed him to confent to the com ing hither along with Capt. Furneaux. Omiah's deportment is genteel, and rerefembles much that of well-bred people here. He has an implicit confidence in Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, of which he fhewed the strongest instance, in fubmitting, without the leaft hefitation, to be inoculated, on their recommendation of it to him. There is another inhabi tant of the South-Sea iflands, really a native of Otaheite, who is expected to ar rive here in the Refolution, Capt. Cook, the fhip which went on the fame expedi tion with the Adventure, and came away from Otaheite at the fame time, but was afterwards feparated from her, and went alone to purfue part of the views of the expedition, from whence it is expected The will return to England next year. Friday 26. A coach returning to Town from HamCommon, in which were Haftings, Efq; of Knightsbridge, and his lady, was ftopped by a highwayman in Kew-Lane, who, thrusting a piftol into the carriage, made ufe of this expreffion, "Your mo ney, or your life." The pecuniary de mand was complied with, but the highwayman, unfatisfied with the fum, faid, No trifling, this is not all," and was proceeding to fearch the coach, when a gentleman of the party, who was on horfeback, rode on towards town. The bighwayman, fufpecting he meant to raise an alarm, quitted the carriage, and pur fued him as far as Kew-Gate, when he fnapped a pistol at the gentleman's head, which flashed in the pan; he then prefented a fecond piftol, and fired, but miffed the gentleman. By this time the report of the piftol drawing together fome of the neighbouring people, the Highwayman fpoke to the gentleman asi follows," By G I'll blow your brains out another night for this." He then turned his horse about, and rode off. Saturday 27. The Bridgewater Eaft Indiaman, from Bengal, was fafely moored in the river Thames. By this hip advice has been received, that the Spanish Governor of the Manillas has fent a peremptory meffageto Mr. Harbord, Governor of the English Eaft-India Company's new fettlement at Balambanca, that if he does not immediately, on receipt of that notice, retire, with all the English who are with him on that island, he hall, according to the instructions of his court, fend a fufficient force to drive him away, and deftroy all fuch works and fortifications as fhall have been erected, Two houfes fell down in Mint-street, Southwark, and fourteen perfons were buried under the ruins. |