general enumeration, according to the most authentic accounts yet received:

Arrived in London : Robert Price, Barney Larey, John Warmington, and Thomas Lewis.

Gone to Copenhagen-William Hubberly, John Hynes, Francis Feancon, and De Larfo,

Left at the Cape -Jeremiah Evans, and fome of the Laf

cars.

The following perfons were left with captain Coxon, of whom no accounts have been received:-Mr. Logie, chief mate; Mr. Beale, third ditto; Mr. Harris, fifth ditto; Mr. Haye, purfer; Mr. Nixon, furgeon; Robert Rea, boatfwain; John Hunter, gunner; William Mixon, quarter-mafter; George M'Daniel, carpenter's first mate; James Manleyerer, fecond ditto; John Edkins, caulker; William Stevens, butcher; Frank Mafoon, Dom. Kircanio, Jof. Andree, Matthew Bell, Roque Pandolpho, John Stevens, John Pope, feamen; Jof. Thomfon, chief mate's fervant; James Vandefteen, boatswain's fervant; John Hill, gunner's fervant; Ant. da Cruza, captain's cook; Patrick Fitzgerald, and John Hudson, discharged foldiers from Madrass; colonel D'Espinette.

Paffengers left with captain Coxon :-Colonel James, Mrs. James, Mr. Hofea, Mrs. Hofea, Mrs. Logie, Mr. Newman, captain Walterhoufe Adair; Mifs Dennis, Mifs Wilmot, Mifs Hofea, Mafter Saunders, Mafter Chambers, children.

Black fervants :-George Sims, Reynel, Dow, Betty, Sally, Mary, Hoakim, M. Plaideaux de Lifle, J. Rouffeau.

The following perfons died on their way to the Cape :-William Thomfon, midshipman; Thomas Page, carpenter; Henry Lillburne, fhip's fteward; Mafter Law; Thomas Simmonds, quarter-master; Robert Auld, cooper; William Couch, captain's fteward; Lau. Jonefqua, the boatswain's yeoman; All. Schultz, Thomas Parker, Patrick Burne, R. Fitzgerald, and John Blain, feamen; Mr. Williams, Mr. Taylor, and John Suffman, passengers.

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Left in different parts, exclufive of thofe who remained with the captain James Thomfon, quarter-mafter; Geo. Reed,. armourer; Mr. Shaw, fecond mate; Mr. Trotter, fourth mate; George Creighton, caulker's mate; Lau. M'Ewen, Edward Monck, John Squires, Ifaac Blair, Wm. Fruel, Charles Berry, James Simpfon, Jacob Angel, John Howes, and John Brown, feamen; William Ellis, Edw. Croaker, and James Stockdale, difcharged foldiers.

An Account of the late EARTHQUAKES in CALABRIA, SICILY, &c. Communicated to the ROYAL SOCIETY S WILLIAM HAMILTON.

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Naples, May 23, 1783.

AM happy to have it in my power to give you, and my brethren of the Royal Society, fome little idea of the infrite damage done, and of the various phænomena exibited, by the earthquakes (which began the 5th of February laft, and continue to be fenfibly, though lefs violently, felt to this day,) in the two Calabrias, at Meffina, and in the parts of Sicily neared to the Continent. From the most authentic reports, and accounts received at the offices of his Sicilian majefty's fecretary of fate, we gathered, in general, that the part of Calabria, which has been moft affected by this heavy calamity, is that which is comprehended between the 38th and 39th degree; that the greatest force of the earthquakes feemed to have exerted itff from the foot of thofe mountains of the Appenines called the Monte Deio, Monte Sacro, and Monte Caulone, extending weftward to the Tyrrhene fea; that the towns, villages, and farm-houfes, nearest thefe mountains, fituated either on hill or on the plain, were totally ruined by the first fhock of the 5th of February, about noon, and that the greatest mortality was there; that in proportion as the towns and villages were at a greater diftance from this centre, the damage they received was lefs confiderable; but that even thofe more distant towns had been greatly damaged by the fubfequent fhocks of the earthe quakes, and efpecially by thofe of the 7th, the 16th, and 28th of February, and that of the 1ft of March; that from the firft fhock, the 5th of February, the earth continued to be in a continual tremor, more or lefs, and that the fhocks were more fenfibly felt at times in fome parts of the afflicted provinces than in others; that the motion of the earth had been various, and, according to the Italian denomination, vorticofo, orizontale, and ofcillatorio, either whirling like a vortex horizontal, or by pulfations, or beating from the bottom upwards; that this variety of motion had encreafed the apprehenfions of the unfortunate inhabitants of thofe parts, who expected every moment that the earth would open under their feet, and fwallow them up; that the rains had been continual and violent, often accompanied with lightning, and irregular and furious gufts of wind; that from all thefe caufes the face of the earth of that part of Calabria (comprehended, as above-me. tioned, between the 38th and the 39th degrees,) was entirely altered, particular y on the weffward fide of the mountains above-named; that many openings

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and cracks had been made in thofe parts; that fome hills had been lowered, and others quite levelled; that in the plains deep chafms had been made, by which many roads were rendered impaffable; that huge mountains had been fplit afunder, and parts of them driven to a confiderable diftance; that deep vallies had been filled up by the mountains (which formed thofe vallies) having been detached by the violence of the earthquakes, and joined together; that the courfe of fome rivers had been altered; that many fprings of water had appeared in places that were perfectly dry before; and that, in other parts, fprings that had been conftant had entirely disappeared; that near Laureana, in Calabria Ultra, a fingular phænomenon had been produced; that the furface of two whole tenements, with large olive and mulberry trees therein, fituated in a valley perfectly level, had been detached by the earthquake, and tranfplanted, the trees still remaining in their places, to the diftance of about a mile from their first fituations; and that from the spot on which they formerly flood, hot water had fprung up to a confi. derable height, mixed with fand of a terruginous nature; that near this place alfo fome countrymen and fhepherds had been fwallowed up, with their teams of oxen, and their flocks of goats and sheep in fhort, that beginning from the city of Amantea, fituated on the coaft of the Tyrrhene fea, in Calabria Citra, and going along the weftward coaft to Cape Spartivento, in Calabria Ultra, and then up the eaftern coaft as far as the Cape d'Alice, (a part of Calabria Citra, on the Ionian fea,) there is not a town or village, either on the coaft or land, but what is either totally destroyed, or has fuffered more or lefs; amounting in all to near four hundred, what are called here pacfes, (a village containing less than one hundred inhabitants is not counted as a paefe)..

The greatest mortality fell upon thofe towns and countries fituated in the plain, on the western fide of the mountains Dejo, Sacro, and Caulone. At Cafal Nuovo, the princefs Gerace, and upwards of four thousand of the inhabitants, loft their lives; at Bagnara, the number of dead amounts to three thoufand and feventeen; Radicina and Palmi count their lofs at about three thousand each; Terranuova about one thousand four hundred; Seminari ftill more. The fum total of the mortality in both Calabrias and in Sicily, by the earthquakes alone, according to the returns in the fecretary of state's office at Naples, is thirty-two thoufand three hundred and fixty-feven: but I have good reason to believe, that, including ftrangers, the number of lives loft must have been confiderably greater; forty

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thousand at least may be allowed, and, I believe, without żny éxaggeration.

From the fame official intelligence we likewife heard that the inhabitants of Sicilia, on the firft fhock of the earthquake, the 5th of February, had escaped from their houfes on the rock, and, following the example of their prince, taken fhelter on the fea-fhore; but that in the night-time, the fame fhock, which had raised and agitated the fea fo violently, and done fo much damage on the point of the Faro of Melina, had acted with still greater violence there, for that the wave (which was reprefented to have been boiling hot, and that many people had been fcalded by its rifing to a great height,) went furiously three miles inland, and fwept off, in its return, two thousand four hundred and feventy-three of the inhabitants of Scilla, with the prince at their head, who were at that time either on the Scilla ftrand, or in boats near the shore.

All accounts agreed, that of the number of fhocks which have been felt fince the beginning of this formidable earthquake, amounting to fome hundreds, the moft violent, and of the longeft duration, were thofe of the 5th of February, at nineteen one-half (according to the Italian way of counting the hours); 1 of the 6th of February, at feven hours in the night; of the 27th of February, at eleven one-quarter in the morning; of the firt of March, at eight one-half in the night; and that of the 28th of March, at eleven one-half in the night. It was this lat fhock that affected most of the upper part of Calabria Ultra, and the lower part of the Citra; an authentic description of which you will fee hereafter, in a letter which I received from the marquis Ippolito, an accurate obferver, refiding at Catanzaro, in the Upper Calabria. The first and the laft fhocks mat have been tremendous indeed, and only these two were fenfibly felt in this capital.

The accounts which this government has received from the province of Cofenza, are lefs melancholy than those from the province of Calabria Ultra. From Cape Suvero to the Cape of Cetraro, on the western coaft, the inland countries, as well as thofe on the coaft, are faid to have fuffered more or lefs, in proportion to their proximity to the fuppofed centre of the earthquakes; and it has been conftantly obferved, that its greateft violence has been exerted, and still continues to be fo, on the western fide of the Appenines, precifely the celebrated Sila of the antient Brutii, and that all those countries fituated to the caftward of the Sila had felt the fhocks of the earthquakes, bút without having received any damage from them. In the province of Cofenza there does not appear to be above one hundred

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lives loft. In the laft accounts from the moft afflicted part Calabria Ultra, two fingular phænomena are mentioned. At about the distance of three miles from the ruined city of Oppido, there was a hill (the foil of which is a fandy clay) about five hundred palms high, and one thousand three hundred in circumference at its bafis. It was faid that this hill, by the fhock of the gth of February, jumped to the distance of about four miles from the fpot where it flood, into a plain, called the Campo di Baffano. At the fame time the hill on which the town of Oppido ftood, which extended about three miles, divided into two, and, as its fituation was between two rivers, its ruins filled up the village, and stopped the course of those rivers two great lakes are already formed, and are daily encreafing; which lakes, if means are not found to drain them, and give the rivers their due courfe, in a short time must infect the air greatly.

[To be continued.]

Some Account of the ENGLISH MUSTAPHA, who now ranks So high at the OTTOMAN PORTE.

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HIS extraordinary perfon was born in Staffordshire, and defigned for the artillery. He was fome time in the military school at Woolwich; but, poffeffing a romantic turn of mind, he quitted his preceptors, and wandered through different counties of England. In this erratic manner he proceeded fome time, performing menial offices for fubfiftence, until, fatiated of drudgery, he returned to his friends in Staffordshire, and, being addicted to the military line, they proposed to procure him a commiffion. The defire of travelling, however, rendered him too impatient to wait the regular progreffion of things; and, obtaining a fum of money, he fet out tor London, proceeded from thence to Dover, and embarked for the Continent. He travelled through a confiderable part of France on foot; and when his money became nearly expended, he proceeded to Marfeilles, refolving to embrace adventures as they arofe. At this port he embarked in a veffel bound for the Mediterranean; from whence he went to Greece, where he remained fome time as a trader of the lower order.-Forming an 'acquaintance with fome Turks who were going to Conftantinople, he prevailed on them to let him accompany them; and retaining a prevalent propenfity for arms, and poffeffing a genius For tacticks, he got acquainted with fome French officers, to

whom