Method of ordering BEES in Greece. the fwallow, though not far at a time. And in very windy, or rainy weather, are more dull, and fooner caught. They have fix legs, the two hindermoft are armed with a double row of serrated A C 365 think, allowed on all hands: For Goe-" SIR, The Method of ordering the BEES at the prickles, which being longeft and largeft enables them to ipring like our common grafhopper, though with more ftrength, and to a greater diftance. They are 3, and fometimes 4 inches in length, of a brown colour, the wings with deeper brown spots checquer-like, they have an hard tegument, or collar round the neck, two antennæ on the head; B each fide the jaws, is of a blueish, or purple colour, which is more confpicuous when they feed, and they are downy on the breaft. Comparing them with the figure of the common locuft of Barbary, given us by Dr Shaw in his book of travels, or obfervations, &'r. I can obferve no difference: Saving that the antennæ of these are in very minute joints, and smooth: But in the doctor's figure, they feem pennated. We are much obliged to this learned gentleman, who in the abovementioned book page 257, hath described them the most accurately of any writer I have met with. D Charlton indeed, in his Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium, and Injectorum COLEOPTERORUM Claffis, or Clafs of the Sheath-wing Species, page 45, mentions a locuft brought by Mouffer from Barbary, five inches long, of the cucullated kind, with a pyramidal head, and, almost on the top, two little broadish erect horns, near an inch in length, reprefenting the lofty double Turkijb plumage, worn by the Janizaries. This must be different from ours, as, I think, may be gathered from fo fhort and imperfect a defcription; for he takes no notice of the colour of the F infect: tho' it is not improbable, but that the colours of ours may, in fome measure differ from those in Barbary, and other countries, by reafon of the alteration of climate, or herbage whereon they feed. Many people imagine them to be our large grafhopper, which is a It is true, I have G very great error. fometimes feen one that hath very nigh equalled these in fize; but then our large grafhopper is of a grafs green, with a long horn at the tail, is feldom feen in gardens, and carce more than one at a time, probably it elcapes our fight, by reason of its fimilar colour with the leaves and grafs whercon it refts. Goedartius de Injectis, Num. 121, hath a figure very much resembling this grafhopper. That the locult is ovipaand to a very great incicale, is, I Tous, TH HE bee-hives are made of willows, or offers, fhap'd like our pails or buckets, and plaistered with clay both within and without: Across the top, which is the widest part, they lay broad flat flicks, covering them with clay and straw to fecure them from the weather. To these sticks the bees fasten their combs, fo that they may be taken out whole, one by one, with the greatE eft eafe imaginable. To prevent the bees from fwarming and flying away, in March and April, they feparate the fticks to which the combs are faften'd, taking out those on each fide firit, and placing them in the fame order, in another hive, untill they're equally divided. Then, having furnished each hive with freth sticks,and cover'd them again with plaifter, they let the new hive in the place of the old one, removing that to iome neighbouring ftand. This they do in the middle of the day, when the greatest part of the bees are abroad,who, at their return home, divide themselves pretty equally, fome taking to the new, and others to the old habitation. In Auguft the honey is taken out pretty much after the fame manner; that is, they leparate the flicks by a knife, and take away the combs, beginning at each fide, until they have left only fuch a quantity in the middle, as they judge fufficient for the whole maintenance of the bees in winter (without giving them any thing ele, as they erroneously do in England) brufhing thote on the combs What durber into into the hive again, and covering it a new with iticks and plaifter. To give the bees the lefs disturbance, this is likewife done in the day-time, when most of them are absent from the hives. By this means the bees are never deftroy'd, as in England, with taking the honey, which therefore increase and multiply prodigioufly, and make them ample amends for the honey they leave to fuftain them in winter. Befide, the honey has a finer flavour, and the wax a greater fragrance, than where the bees are destroy'd by the offenfive fmoak of fulphur. Bees fhould always have their place of abode as near as poffible to Howering fhrubs, and aromatic herbs, efpecially thyme, which they are very fond of. The Petition of the Burghers of Amfterdam to their Magiftrates. WE the underligned burghers and ci A ftablished by their noble and great migh tinelles, in the resolution of the 11th of November 1747, and the 31ft of January, 1748, and that for the future, places be bellow'd only on natural or naturaliz'd citizens, inhabitants. III. We beleech your noble and venerable lordships, that the burghers, ac-. cording to the tenor of antient charters, be restored to their privileges and prerogatives, of which they have been fo long deprived; and that in like manner, to prevent all murmurs, and farther B diforders, your noble and venerable mightineffes would deign to refolve, that for the future the colonels and captains of the burghers be chofen out of the body of the burghers them elves, and be incapable of the magistracy or regency; and if they are elected to the latter, that then they fhall be under an obligation to furrender their military employment, previoufly to their acceptance of the other. The ANSWER. C D tizens of the city of Amfterdam, reprefent, with all poffible refpect, that having deliberated together upon the dilagreeable state of our country, exhaulted of its finances on one side, and on the other fide,upon the loss of our pri vileges and prerogatives, of which we have long been deprived; thought it our indifpenfable duty to endeavour, as much as in us lies, to co-operate towards the redress of the faid points. For thefe caufes, we have unanimously agreed to lay before your noble and venerable lordships, for the prefent, three F falutary articles, befeeching you, as our duty is, to have the goodnels to approve and find them juft, as they are in effect, and to grant us a gracious anfwer. I. We demand, that your noble lordships would at laft be pleased, in imitation of the other cities of Holland, voluntarily to deliver up the poft-offices to his ferene highnefs, and leave them in his difpofition, trufting entirely as we do, that this father of his country neither defires to make, nor will make, any other ufe of them, than what is for the good of the country in general, and this city in particular. F G II. That you would be pleafed alfo, as fathers of the burghers, and inhabitants of this city, in conformity to the nervous propofition made at the Hague the 25th of June last, by his ferene highness to their noble and great mightineffes, to remove as foon as pollible all lawful fubjects of complaint, with H respect to the abuses that are crept into the collation of places, by introducing, without delay, the means of redress e Hague, Aug. 23. The magiftrates of Amfterdam have flued a declaration, in which they fay, that tho' they might have looked upon the petition lately prefented to them by a deputation from the burghers, as a thing that deferved no manner of regard, fince it was figned by no body, and the original of it was never fhewn to them; yet they were willing, for this once only, to believe what the deputies afferted; and tell them, in antwer to the firft article, that they had already, by their deputies, adjusted with the P. of Orange the affair of the post-offices, as far as depends upon them, and hoped to terminate it foon to bis highness's fatisfaction. As to the fecond point relating to the difpofal of employments, they had long fince conJented to the refolutions of the States of Holland on that head, and would, together with the other towns, fend in the lifts of the employments in their gift, at the time appointed for that purpose. In respect to the third article they lay, that they have always, to their utmost, maintained their city and burghers in the pofjeffion of all their rights and privileges: that they have nothing to do with the election of the officers of the militia, which depends on the council of war; and that the demand of the burghers, relating to the exclufion of their officers from the magitracy, is unprecedented, and directly contrary to the conftant practice of all times fince P. William the first put their city in Poliefion of its prefent rights and prici leges. Lond. Gaz. LIST of SHIPS taken. SHIPS taken by the French and Spaniards, August 1748. 367 HE June galley, from Philadelphia; the Foxwek, Johnson, from Africa; and a veffel, The William and Hannab, Derton, from Jamaica, taken on the African coaft by 2Fr. m. of w. The Polly brigantine, Reefe, from Philadelphia for St Euftatia ; and the Profperity floop, Young, for Gibraltar, both taken in their paffage. The , Evans, from Sattertudas to N. York, taken by a French frigate of 36 guns, from Miffifippi to the Cape, and ranfom'd for 280 1. The Atkins, for Philadelphia, carry'd into Martinico. The Charles and Anne, Andrews, from Gibraltar to Carolina, taken in her paffage. The Gibraltar, from Gibraltar; the Duke of Cumberland, Allen, from Belfast; the Speedwell, Tryon, from New London; and the Swift loop, Gely, from Dartmouth, ali for Barbadoes; the Prince of Orange, Turner, from Rhode Island; the Charlotte, Veizie, from N. York; and the Carolina, Combes, from Boston, all for Antigua; the Duke of Cumberland, Falla, from Barbadoes for Guernsey; the William and Agnes, Martin, from Barbadoes for Dublin; and the Chever, from Selim for Santa Crux, all carry'd to Martinico. The Lydia and Mary, Babfon, from the Leeward Inlands for Bofton, carry'd into St Thomas's, The Rofe, Houfton; and the Dove, Appleton, taken on the coaft of Virginia by a Spanish priv, The Industry, Smith, from Marblehead for Lifbon, carry'd by a Spanish privateer into Spain. The Kings of Brentford, from Liverpool for Carolina, taken July 5, by a Spanish privateer, 125 leagues weft of Cape Clear. The Hampton, Tanner, from Newberry for the Leeward Islands, carry'd into Martinico. The Hannab, Watson, for Lisbon, taken 50 leagues from the Capes of Delawar, by a Spanish fchooner of Leogan, and fent into St Augustine, A cartel fhip, with French prifoners for Leogan, having only a French país, taken in her passage by a Spanish privateer. The Samuel, Swan, carry'd by a French letter of marque fhip into Cyprus. The Swallow, Pottle, from Newfoundland for the West Indies, long miffing, carry'd by the Bellona privateer into Port Louis. The Dispatch, Guy, from Montferrat for Dublin, carry'd into St Thomas's. The Londonderry, Grove, from Gibraltar for London, cut out from near the Mole, by a Spanish privateer, and carry'd into Algezira. The Ifabella, Parks, from Swanzey for Bofton, carry'd into Bilboa. The Mayflower, Steel, from Ireland for Barbadoes, taken May 21, by a privateer of 20 guns, 100 leagues weftward of Cape Clear, and carry'd inte Bayonne. May 4 laft, A French priv. of 14 car, and 20 fwivel guns, and 150 men, went over the bar of North Carolina, and carry'd out of harbour two floops belonging to that place, a floop bound for Bofton, and a brigantine for London. The Norfolk, folk; the Inow the floop , of Whitehaven, plunder'd and difmiffed; the John, Ingham, of Nor- Conyer, of Bermudas, all taken by a Spanish priv. on the coaft of Virginia. The Hoop George, of, and from Middletown in N. England for Barbadoes, taken July 16, by a frigate from Cape Francois for France, and ranfom'd for 400 1. The Indufry, Bailey, of Ramfgate, loaded with corn, from Yarmouth for Marseilles, taken Ju-, by 13 by a Spanish privateer off Tariff, and carry'd into Old Gibraltar. The Two Friends, of Bristol, from Bofton for Antigua, taken by the enemy. The Coventry brigantine, Austin, from Jamaica for Cape de Verd, carry'd by a Spanish galley into St Jago de Cuba. The hips of Capts Morrifon and Worfdale, from Philadelphia for Jamaica, car, to Trinidado. The York, Sanders, from Virginia for Briftol, taken by a Spanish privateer, and loft at the bar of St Auguftine, but the captain and crew faved. The Pearl, of Gla gew, lying off Point Comfort, 10 leagues within the Capes of Virginia, tak, by a Spanish priv. which afterwards coming down the bar, met and took the Margaret of Glasgow, just arrived, and another fnow on the back of the horie fhoe. The Manfell, Crow, from Barbadoes for Philadelphia, taken in her paffage. The Samuel and Hannab, Oldham, from Africa and Antigua for Jamaica, taken by 2 Spanish pr, Several prizes taken by a fleet of private ers fitted out at the Havanna. Six prizes taken in a few days by a French priv. of 14 car, and 30 fwivel guns, and 180 men ; befides 11 more, 5 of them cut out of Ocricot in Carolina, taken by the Clinton privaucer, formerly English, from Cape Francois. Three floops, Succefs, Crifpin; Mary, Hafkell, and the Burgess, Billings, from Boston for Maryland, chafed by a Spanish priv. of 14 guns, and 160 men into the Capes, where running v to Reedy Inland they anchor'd fecure ; but in the night the privateer fent in his boats, and took them all; after which ftripping the crews, 55 in number, almoft naked, they turned them adrift in a boat without fails or oars, in which they at laft arrived at Philadelphia. The Jofeph and Mary, Ambler; a sloop, Capt. Bly, from Bermuda to Philadelphia, and another floop, all taken by a privateer from the Havannah, Capt. Vincent de Lopez, the crew con fifting of English renegadoes. The Rofe, with a valuable cargo; a veffel from Virginia for the W. Indies, and another laden with tar for Whitehaven, all taken off the coaft of Virginia, by a Spanish priv. who gave a boat to 15 of the Rofe's crew, which was caft away, and all drowned but one. A fhip, Capt. Buck, from Philadelphia, taken in June by a Spanish privateer. The Endeavour, Thompfon, from Virginia for Aberdeen, carry'd into St Auguftine. The Tauton, Tickner, from Cowes for Marseilles, carry'd into Old Gibraltar. A SHIPS taken by the ENGLISH, August 1748. Spanish fettee, loaded with wine, carry'd by his majesty's polacca Magdalena to Gibraltar, A French polacca, 250 tons, with bale goods and rice, to the value of 17,000 dollars, carry'd by the Swift, Capt. Brooks, into Leghorn. A French prize of 8 guns, and 18 men, with feveral tons of cocoa, coffee, bale goods, &c. from Martinico for Cape Francois, carry'd by the Antelope priv. of N. York inro that province. A large French privateer run down by the Centaur privateer Capt. Tyrrel, off Martinico, and only three of her hands faved. SeveralFr. veffels, one valu'd at 30,000l. taken by the English on the French fide of Hifpaniola, A French fhip for Hifpaniola, of 18 guns, 45 men, worth 20,000 l. taken by a little schooner of New York, 6 guns 45 men, Capt. Eafom, and carry'd into Jamaica. Two Spanish privateers, one a fnow from the Havanna, with 15 car. and 15 fwivel guns, and 344 men the other a floop from St Auguftin, with 2 car. guns, 25 fmall arms, and 42 men, carry'd by his mejefty's fhip the Loo, Capt. Norbury, into Virginia. A French fhip, 250 tons, with fugar, indigo, &c, with a small Spanish priv. taken, and an English bilander, Capt. Heafeley, from Virginia to Bristol, retak. by his majesty's fhip the Worcester, en the coaft of Virginia. Three prizes, two of them with fugar, the other a Fr. priv. brig, with above 100 men, car, by the Royal Katherine priv. Capt. Burges, into N. York on the 6th of June laft. A French schooner, from Oroonoko for Martinico, with flaves, pieces of eight, &c. taken in her paffage, and carry'd into N. England. A French schooner of great value, taken by the Nelly brig priv. Capt. Percival of N. England, and fent into St Kitts. A Spanish priv. of 8 car. guns, befides fwivels, and 120 men, funk, and all but 19 drowned, 2 fmall French priv. taken, and another drove on fhore, all after 3 hours engagement, by Capt. Arnold ia a Rhode Island priv. in company of a floop, in which was Capt. Purcell, governor of Tortola, one of the Virgin islands. A Spanish priv, of 11 guns, and 100 men, taken by a man of war, convoy to the Virginia fleet. A polacca, from Cadiz for La Vera Cruz, worth above 20,000 /. carry'd by his majesty's fhip, the Mary galley, of 40 guns into Barbadoes. A large French fhip of 12 guns, and 40men, a valuable prize, taken by Capt. Hall, in a privateer of Bermudas. A rich thip, with 60,000 pieces of eight, befides cocoa, indigo, and other valuable goods, taken by his majesty's fhip the Fowey in the bay of Honduras. A large French fhip of great value, carry'd by the Pandour priv. of Philadelphia into Jamaica, Two French fhips, taken by a privatcer of Rhode Island, Capt. Snelling, and two more taken by two privateers of Providence. A French prize, taken by a fhip confign'd to Major Tucker, and car. into Norfolk. Ten prizes from Martinico, fix of them of value, taken on a cruise by the Antelope privateer of New York. The Jefus Maria Jofeph, Borgos, from La Vera Cruz for the Havannah and Europe, with 161 chefts of filver, and 2 chefts of gold, is taken by the Bethell frigate, Cant. Freeman, from London and Leghorn for Boston, and carry'd into Fyall, one of the Western Ilands.- -The Spaniard had 110 men, and the Bethell 38. The Portuguese mafters of that ifland detained the Capt. because the fhip was taken by furprize, as going into that harbour; but the next morning, on the demand of the captain of an English man of war, fhe was releas'd, and fail'd immediately with her prize for N. England. 'Tis thought each private man's share will be 6 or 7001. A French prize laden with white fugar, indigo, &c. and 5000 pieces of eight, taken by a privateer of Rhode Island. Two prizes of great value, one bound to St Auguftine, carry'd by the Cartwright privateer into Charles Town, South Carolina. RETAKEN.] The Betty, Taylor, from Waterford to Newfoundland; a brigantine, of and for Whitehaven from Virginia; the Mercury, Hargrave, from Mahone for Ireland; the fnow of Capt. Hayward, from Philadelphia tur Carolina, as he was carrying into the Hayannah. Conduct of the War, and Negociations. From the Craftsinen, Aug. 6, and 13. TH A Ꭰ HE author enquires into the conduct of the war, in order to judge of the abilities and intentions of the various managers of affairs. He blames the not purfuing the victory at Dettingen; the difmiffion of adm. V whofe conduct the principal men in the government had approv'd under their hands, in feveral letters (See p. 306 E 309 E.) Hopes that we fhall not give up Cape Breton, by treaty, fince it cannot be taken from us by force; and that as the miniftry had but little fhare in B taking it, they ought to have no hand in restoring it. Obferves, that it was trifling with the understandings of Englifhmen, when, to reduce the 16000 Hanoverians in our pay, 8000 more were put into the Q of Hungary's, for which purpofe her majefty had a fubfidy; fo C that it was making bad worse; for tho' those troops were not under British command, yet they were paid with British money. That the charge of bread waggons was much increased be yond what the D. of Marlborough paid, whofe troops had as great appetites as others. That the rebels inScotland wree fuffer'd to get ftrength; a noble lord in his letter to adm. Vernon, then doing his country real fervice, treats the rebels as a fet of vagabonds and banditti, but fpeaks a little feelingly of Cope's affair; yet the fame troops who behaved fo fcandaloufly were employ'd again at Falkirk, with the fame fuccefs. After this, Cope was try'd by a court martial and acquitted! We took into our pay 6000 Dutch, who being under the capitulation of Tournay were not in a capacity to act, and thofe being retranfported, we had 6000 Heffians, when a difpute arofe about a cartel for exchange of prifoners, tho' a cartel is never made with rebels. These troops were landed in the north, but our own troops, who alone acted, landed in the fouth, as if it was not intended to fupprefs the rebellion too foon. As to the expedition to port l'Orient; when Adm. Leftock lay windbound at Plymouth, troops were fent him from the Thames round by fea, who were to wait for the fame wind which he wanted; whereas they might have reached him fooner by land. When they came to France, they had no guide, and the ridiculous foldiership made us a laughing flock to H our neighbours; to mend the matter, thofe men of diftinguilh'd abilities, general Wentworth and general St Clair, were fucceffively fent to the K.of Sardi(Gent. Mag. AUGUST 1748.) E G 369 nia, which fhews that their conduct was agreeable. The journalist next cenfures the treaty of Silefia, the prefent negotiations; the method of raifing and profufion of the public money; and taking the field without a due complement of men; and then comes to our marine, where he complains of feveral things, especially the great navy debt; and fays, our brave feamen have had the mortification to fee themselves neglected, and cowards 'meet with reward inftead of punishment; and concludes -France is increafing her marine as faft as fhe can, and I dread the confequence, if "French agents do hire our fhipwrights and failors as faft as difcharged, fome perfons are highly culpable for not putting an immediate itop to fo dangerous a practice. is now a pretty while fince I troubled you with any of my thoughts, and I fhall always be filent when I do not fee great cause of provocation: But, when I behold my country trampled, infulted, thrown in the rear in all public tranfactions, can I forbear crying out with the fatirift, Semper ego auditor tantum, nunquamne repo nam? To vent our indignation in words may be fome relief to the spirits: for while we fupprefs our forrow for Britain's difgrace, and inwardly contemplate her prelent ftate, Quis temperet a lacrymis? I formerly took notice of the little ceremony our minifter was treated with at the opening of the conferences at Aix, or rather, of the great ceremony and deference with which be treated the miniftry of every other power. The indignity then thrown on the reprefentative feems to be now levelled directly at the nation, as I think particularly appears in the inftances of the reftitution of Cape Breton, and the return of the Ruffians. I know there are other cafes of the fame kind, which I fhall not now ftand to recollect, thefe two being fully fufficient for my purpole. We have been repeatedly told, that the French king will not evacuate all his conquefts in the Low Countries, 'till the news arrives that Cape Breton is actually reftored Spirit of our fathers! is it not enough that a war, begun upon the declared principle of take and hold in America, thould end with the reflitution A a a of |