royal highness Mademoiselle, daughter of his royal highness the count d'Artois.

{This Gazette contains a further enlargement of the term of the proclamation, relative to our trade with the American states,, to the 20th of next April.]

Whitehall, Dec. 30. The king has been pleafed to grant to Thomas Pitt, Efq. and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, the dignity of a baron of the kingdom of Great-Britain, by the name, ftile, and title of lord Camelford, baron of Boconnoc, in the county of Cornwall.

The king has been pleafed to conftitute and appoint the Right Hon. Richard vifcount Howe, Charles Brett, John Jefferies Pratt, and John Levefon Gower, Efqrs. Henry Bathur, Efq. (commonly called lord Apfley,) Charles George Percival, and James Modyford Heywood, Efqrs. to be his majesty's commiffioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the dominions, iflands, and territories thereunto refpectively belonging.

The king has been pleated to grant to the Right Hon. William Wyndham Grenville, the office of receiver and pay-mafter-general of his majesty's guards, garrifons, and land forces.

Alfo to grant to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, the office of treasurer of 'his majesty's navy.

And to William Smith, Efq. the office of treasurer and pay-master of his majefty's ordnance.

Conftantinople, Nov. 25. The plague diminithes daily, and its effects are so much abated as to be hardly perceptible. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

Lord Clarendon, who is again restored to the high office of chancellor of the dutchy of Lancaster, received the appointment without the fallet application upon his part. His lordship, we are happy to hear, like his immediate predeceffor lord Derby, takes the office without any of the great emoluments heretofore annexed to the ap pointment.

Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Dec. 25.

"Yesterday we had another general meet ing of Citizens in St. Mary's Chapel, about the propofed application to Parliament for a reformation of the prefent contracted and arbitrary fyftems of election in the Burghs. The meeting took under confideration a report of progrefs by their committee, and unanimoufly approved of it. The 25th of March next is now fixed for the convention of delegates from the different Burghs. The.com! mittee are determined to puth on this bufinefs with vigour, and have printed and circulated, gratis, a great number of pamphlets on the fubject of reformation. They are well fupported by the burgelles of the dif

ferent Burghs, who are exceedingly eager for a change of fyftems. Indeed, a confummation of the prefent fyftem is devoutly to be wished for; fuch a mafs of abfurdity, oligarchy, and tyranny, is difgraceful to a free country."

Letters by the last mail from New York affure us, that the affection formerly fhewn to this country by America is daily reviv ing, and that the French intereft lofes ground every hour. In the commercial line, Great Britain has every where the preference.

His majefty's floop Orestes, commanded by Capt. Ellis, has had the good fortune to fall in with, and capture a very capital fmuggling cutter. The Oreftes was lying at Weymouth a few hours before, repairing her rigging, which was not quite com pleated, when Capt. Ellis gave orders to weigh and put to fea; his object was to cruize for two fmugglers who had escaped him in a fog a few days before. On the fmuggling cutter above-mentioned appearing in fight, they gave chafe to her, when the fet all the fail fhe could poffibly go under. The Oreftes, however, came up with her at five in the evening, and fired a shot at her, after which a running action commenced that continued for three hours, whenthe fmuggler ftruck her colours. Capt. Ellis fent an officer on board to take poffeffion of her, and carried her immediately into Yarmouth port, on the western coaft of the Ifle of Wight, and the next morning brought her to Spithead. The above cutter had feveral men wounded in the action, many of whom have fince died. She did not strike, till her canvas and rigging were entirely rendered useless by the fire of the Oretes. She is faid to be the finest feaboat that has been taken fince the war, being near 300 tons burthen. She mounts 22 fix pounders. Her cargo confifts of teas, brandy, filks, and lace, and is eftimated at upwards of thirty thoufand pounds.

Letters from the north, and various parts of the kingdom, bring melancholy accounts of the diftrees and dainages done by the late very fevere weather and the fudden thaw, many bridges have been broken down, much cattle loft by inundations, and many lives loft by accidents, &c. particularly in the Ifle of Ely, where the inhabitants of the fens have fuffered beyond defcription.

The number of common beggars which infeft the streets at this feafon of the year, feem greatly increafed, notwithstanding the prodigious fums annually applied to the fupport of the poor. In Holland, the diftreffed part of the inhabitants have no refource but in their own labour, and yet there are no beggars in their streets.

Upwards of thirty lottery-office-keepers have been convicted within the last fortnight, upon the statute against infuring; many of

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them have paid the penalty of fifty pounds,
and a few have been committed for fix
months to hard labour.

On Thursday the 18th inftant, à fire
broke out in the dwelling-house of Mr.
Thomas Oates, of Sheffield, which burnt
with fuch dreadful rapidity that Mr. Oates
and an apprentice boy were confumed in the
Hames, and all the effects and the infide of
the house: Mrs. Oates, three fons, and two
fervant maids, escaped with great difficulty.
This accident was occafioned by leaving a
winter edge of cloaths too near the kitchen
fire.

Norwich, Dec. 26. On Friday the 19th'
inft. the right Hon. Charles Townshend was
attacked near Copped-hall, in Effex, by a
fingle highwayman, who prefented a pistol,
and demanded his money; Mr. Townthend
gave him three or four guineas; but the
fellow infifted upon his purfe, which he de-
livered, containing about fifteen guineas,
and à 10l, bank note, and the highwayman
immediately rode off.

On Christmas day the houfe of Mr. Scott,
ftay-maker, of Salisbury-fquare, Fleet-street,
as well as that of Mrs. Baker, of the fame
neighbourhood, were broke open and rob-
bed to a confiderable amount. The villains
were observed to knock at the above doors,
by which they found the families were out.
It appears by the doors they ufed a kind of
jack, by which they can force open the
ftrongeft door without any noife.

On the 31ft, early in the morning the
houfe of Philip Martin, Efq. near Epping,
was broke open by four villains, three of
whom entered the apartments, while the
other food centry at the door. Their faces
were all blacked; they were well armed,
and after behaving in a very inhuman man-
ner to the fervants, carried off plate and
other valuable articles to a very confiderable

amount.

The next day William Weft was examin-
ed before Sir Sampfon Wright, touching
the above robbery, and committed to New
Prifon for further examination.

The detection of the above Weft was oc-
cafioned by a very remarkable circumftance.
He had on Saturday laft paid half a gui-
nea for the lodgings of a girl in Mary-
bone, with whom he cohabited, and took a
receipt of her landlord for the fum, which
memorandum being found in Mr. Martin's '
houfe, after the villains had committed
their depredations, was tranfmitted to Bow-
freet, and in a few hours, by the fagacity
of Mr. Bond, the offender who refufes to
difcover his accomplices, was apprehended.

A few days ago two men were appre
hended at Newcastle, charged with ftealing
a pair of faddle bags from an inn at New-
caffle-under-line, containing rool. in cash,
7col. in bank notes, and fome weating ap-
parel.

A daring robbery was committed on Sun-
day at a houfe on Saffron-hill by three fel-
lows, who came to enquire after a fictitious
name, and getting admittance into the house
robbed the whole family, and stripped the
houfe of every thing valuable.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Samuel Raymond, B. L. to
hold by difpenfation the rectory of Middle-
ton, with the vicarage of Buliner and Bel-
champ annexed in the county of Effex and
diocefe of London.

The Rev. St. John Prieft to the rectory of
Weft Barfham in Norfolk.

The Rev. Thomas Decker to the rectory
of Wattisfield in Norfolk.

BIRTH.

The right Hon. Lady Kinnaird of a fon,
in Grofvenor-ftreet.

MARRIAGES.

At Dublin, lord viscount Valentia, to Mifs
Cavendish, daughter of the right Hon. Sir
Henry Cav dilh, Bart.

Capt. Conyers, of his majefty's marines,
to Mifs Sufanna Scott, of Painswick in
Gloucestershire.

Thomas Milbourn, Efq. of Shappen-
hanger, Berks, to Mifs Thiftlethwayte of
South Audley-street.

Capt. William Chambers, of the royal
nany, to Mifs Mead, eldest daughter of
capt. Mead, of the royal navy.

John Bond, of Hampstead, Efq. to Mifs
Ratcliffe, daughter of the late Charles Rat-
cliffe, of York, Efq..

Peter Wright, Efq. of Greville-street, to
Mifs Colville of Parliament-ftreet.

DEATHS.

Charles Rogers, Efq. fellow of the royal
and antiquarian focieties.

At Bath, Mr. John Heffe, of the com
miffary's office.

Mr. Chorley, many years mafter of the
Ram-inn, Smithfield.

Dan. Wray, Efq. in the 82d year of his
age: he was many years deputy-teller of
the exchequer under the earl of Hardwicke.

George Hart, Efq. of Newington Butts.
Mr. Young, affiftant furgeon to St. Bar-
tholomew's hofpital.

BANKRUPTS.
Peter Grant, formerly of Coleman-ftreet,
in the city of London, and late of the
itland of Jamaica, in the Weft-Indies,
but now of the Inner Temple, London,
merchant

Daniel Stephens, of the city of Bristol,
hofier."

Patrick Hanfbrow, of Martin's-lane, Can-
non-fireet, London, merchant, (carrying
on trade by the names and firm of Edmon-
fon. and Hantbrow.) ·