vate bills received the royal affent by commiffion.

By late general returns of mufters from New York, the number of men killed in the British fervice amounts to 43,633 men rank and file, exclufive of the offcers which fell in the field, or loft their lives either naturally or accidentally.

Congrefs and the ftate of Vermont have had a ferious conteft. Congress for a time refused to admit a delegate from the fourteenth state, but were at length compelled to fubmit.

The American congrefs have declared prefbyterianism the establifhed religion of the United States, but with toleration to all other religions.

In Scotland there was fuch a dearth of fodder, as reduced them to the neceffity of trying every expedient for the fupport of their cattle; and in their diftrefs the branches of firs were found a good fubftitute. Lord Howe fet off for Portsmouth in confequence of fresh irregularities having prevailed among the feamen.

Dover, March 15. This day came to this place in their way to France, Gen. Melvill and Mr. Young, deputies on the part of the British proprietors of eftates in Tobago, in order to folicit, and if poffible, obtain fome conceffions from the court of Verfailles for that ifland, ceded by one of the provifional articles of peace, without any ftipulation whatever in favour of the perfons immediately concerned.

17. The affizes for the county of Devon began this day at Exeter, when no less than 86 prifoners were tried, moftly for capital offences.

The Knights of St. Patrick were inftalled in Dublin. See State Paperso

A petition was prefented to the houfe of commons from Chipping Wycombe, complaining of the counterfeit copper coin.

18. Were prefented addreffes to his majefty from the lord provoft, &c. of Edinburgh, and Kingstonupon-Hull, expreffing their congratulations on the restoration of peace.

At Leicester aflizes William Auftin and John King were convicted.

Was a total and visible eclipfe of the moon. It began at 31 minutes past 7 o'clock, and ended 14 minutes past 11 o'clock.

19. Advices were received at the India-houfe, by a letter arrived over land, via Bombay, of Sir Edward Hughes having had two engagements with the French; one on the 5th of July laft, in which he had 77 killed and 233 wounded; amongit the former was his caprain, Maclairan. The other engagement in September, in both which (though undecifive) Sir Edward had the advantage. That afterwards the French failed for Trincomalè, which they took, in confequence of their finding it in a defenceless state; that Sir Edward had followed them and blocked them.. up in that bay, in which fate they remained when the advices came away,

21. A petition was prefented from Portsmouth to his majesty, on the abufes practifed at the VictuallingOffice.

The fame day the Quakers prefented their addrefs, on the peace, ta his majefty..

This day the mutiny bill-The West India trade bill-The Gibraltar head-money bill-The Scotch bankrupt bill-Mr. Whitehill's bill -The bill to prevent frauds in the dying trade-The Maidenhead road bill-The Lawton road bill-The Newcastle inclosure bill-And Mr.

Piffard's

Piffard's naturalization bill received the royal affent by commiffion

Guernsey, March 24. A most daring mutiny broke out in the 14th regiment, quartered in Fort George in this iflaad.

25. The affizes ended at Kingfton, when the foll wing convicts received fentence of death, viz. Jofeph Cox, Stephen Broadftreet, Griffith Jones. William Stuckley John Hill, James Garrott, and B. Heaviring.

26. An inhabitant of Clerkenwell fired at an eagle in a field at Battle-Bridge, and though his gun burft, by which accident part of two of his fingers were torn away, the bird was brought to the ground, being wounded in the wing.

In the morning, about two o'clock, a terrible fire broke out at the Bell and Griffin alehouse, on Rotherhithe Wall, which burnt that and feveral others to the ground.

About twelve o'clock, James Seal and William Harding were carried from the New Jail in the Borough, and executed on Kennington Com

mon.

27. This evening the late arch bishop of Canterbury was buried at Lambeth, when a coffin found in the grave where he is interred proves, by the infcription, to be one of the bifhops of Ely, who lived in the reign of queen Mary, and died in that of Queen Elizabeth, The date of the coffin plate is 1570, which makes it 213 years fince his interment; the body and cloaths were perfectly found; the corpfe had a hat under one arm, and a cap on the head.

28. Another terrible earthquake in Italy, which destroyed the remains of Meffina, &c.

At Gloucefter affizes a pig drover, charged with murder, was

found guilty, and received fentence of death.

In Lincolnshire they had fo much rain and fnow that the fens were all covered with water for many miles round; the lower part of the houses were overwhelmed with water, and the inhabitants lived up stairs, and had a boat fastened to their windows, by which they went from house to houfe.

Great damages have been fuftained within thefe few weeks in France by inundations, particularly by the overflowing of the Rhone, the Loire, Seine, &c.

31. The affizes ended at Warwick, when the following perfons received fentence of death, viz. James Knight, Jofeph Knight, Mofes Whitehoufe, Walter Bakewell, William Randle, and John Hewitt. James Smith, alias James Bromwich, was ordered for tranfportation, as were David Williams, John Horne, and John Holte.

At the fame affizes, John Clay was convicted of the wilful murder of his apprentice, Anne Hands, by beating and starving.

31. A Scotchman was alive in the country of Antrim, in Ireland, who was preffed into the fea fervice in 1688, and was on board the hip which broke the boom at the fiege of Londonderry. His age is 120 years, and he retains the perfect use of all his faculties.

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Died. At Preston, Mr. Thomas Poxton, aged 108.-At Shrewfbury, Mr. Roger Yeomans, painter and undertaker. He was fuppofed to be one of the largest men in England, weighing near forty stone. His coffin measured fix feet and a half in length, three feet three inches over, and two feet four inches in depth. Mr. Yeomans was in the 39th year of his age, and till very lately was as active as most men.

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8,074 11 o An account was received from Tulles in the Limofin, in France, that a most dreadful and astonishing accident happened to the caftle of Montaignac, about three leagues from that town. At eleven in the morn ing of the 17th of March, there fell a violent rain, accompanied by a most impetuous wind, and followed by a fingle but most terrible clap of thunder which ftruck the caitle, which is of confiderable extent, in almost every part. The walls of this ancient edifice, remarkable for their folidity, and for being from eight to nine feet thick, were in fome places thrown down, and lean in others. In fhort, the whole caftle appears a heap of ruins.

By another account we learn that part of a very high mountain tumbled down, and stopped up the river Ardes, till five o'clock the next day, fo as not to fuffer the leaft drop to pafs through. On the part fallen unfortunately ftood a mill compofed of two buildings, which was fwallawed up.

Some letters arrived in town,

give the following account of the lofs of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, viz. that the fhip was driven on fhore near the river St. Chriftopher's, on the African coaft, about 40 leagues to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, on or about the 10th of October; and on the 11th of December laft, four of her crew arrived at Mofelle Bay, and gave an account to the council of the Dutch Eaft India company, that the Caffres had come down upon the people, carried off the female paffengers, and had killed several of the men who attempted to protect them.

2. This day there was a general change of the miniftry.

Extract of a letter received from Venice. In the night of April 11th, by the most violent hurricane in the memory of the oldest man living, the fea rofe fo very high, as to overflow the whole city. Several boats moored in fight of Sr. Mark's-fquare, were driven by the force of the wind on the quay called the Efclavons. It is hitherto impoffible to ascertain the damage occafioned by the hur ricane in the neighbouring iflands; but if we may judge from what we have fuffered here, it must have been very confiderable.

Charlestown, via St. Auguftine. On the 14th of April, this town was evacuated by the British, and poffeffed by the Americans.

By letters from Kingston in Jamaica we find the fleet left Charlestown bar on the 18th of April, confifting of more than 130 fail, great and fmall, part of which having on board loyalifts and their negroes, was conducted to St. Auguftine by the convoy which arrived at Kingston; part" went to New York with his majesty's fhips Affurance, of 44 guns, Bellifarius 20, and Carolina 16, having on board troops and inhabitants many families of the first distinction

in Carolina, went to England in a fmall divifion of the fleet, under the protection of his majesty's fhip Adamant of 50 guns; and the remainder of the fleet feparated for St. Lucia, having on board the troops and lovalifts, conducted by his majesty's fhip Narciffus of 20 guns.

About 1,600 veteran troops, un der the command of brigadier-general Stewart, upwards of 400 white families, many of them of confiderable property, and about 4,500 flaves, arrived in the fleet.

On the third of January, that part of the fleet bound to Kingston fell in with a French American convoy, confifting of 17 fail, efcorted by a 64 gun hip, armed en flute, and a frigate from Cape Francois, 15 of which were bound to Bofton, and two to old France. His majesty's fhip Endymion, of 44 guns, and Magicienne, of 40, then in company, were, by fignal, inftantly ordered to chafe the enemy, while the fleet lay to, waiting the event. Next day the former fhip joined her convoy, with the Celerité, a French merchant man, having a cargo of rum, fugar, indigo, and cotton, valued at 20,cool. fterling; and it was reported that the Magicienne brought the French frigate to clofe action, and foon carried her; but immediately being attacked by the 64, armed en flute, all her mafts were fhot by the board at the second broad fide, and the appeared to be a mere wreck, lying at the mercy of the enemy.

10. A petition from Portsmouth, for a more equal representation, was prefented to the house of commons.

Paris, April 10. Dr. Franklin, minifter from the United States of America, had the honour of prefenting to the king a medal, ftruck here by order of the commiffioners of the congrefs, on occafion of the independence of their country. This 1783.

medal will tranfmit to the remotest ages the epoch of one of the most remarkable revolutions in the hiftory of mankind.

Ludlow, April 12. A body of colliers, from the Clay Hills, un expectedly hurried into town, and démolished the infide of feveral flour mills, throwing the meal into the river, before the magiftrates could affemble and read the riot act.

Dublin, April 13. The privy council fat upon the establishment of the Genevefe emigrants, whofe names and numbers being given in, the fettlement of their afylum was then determined upon to be at Paffage, next the confluence of the rivers Barrow and Suir, in the coun ty of Waterford. A very confiderable tract of land in that district fhortly retracts to government, which it is intended fhould be appropriated and granted in fee to the Genevefe.

18. The bill to repeal fo much of two acts made in the 16th and 17th years of the reign of his prefent majefty, as prohibits trade and intercourfe with the United States of Ame rica-the bill for preventing and removing all doubts which have arifen, or might arife, concerning the exclufive rights of the parliament and courts of Ireland, in matters of legiflation and judicature, &c.-the mutiny bill, the indemnity bill, the bill for allowing further time for unaltering the deeds and wills of Papifts, &c.the linen bounty bill→→→ the Trent and Merfey navigation bill-the Lechlade canal bill-the bill relative to the city hofpitalsand twenty-four other public and private bills received the royal affent by virtue of a commiffion under the great feal for that purpose.

About 2,000 feamen affembled on Tower-hill, and proceeded in a detached body to the Admiralty, to infift on an explicit anfwer from the (B)

board,