4. This morning early the convicts under fentence of transportation in Newgate, about 80 in number, (upwards of 50 of whom had received the royal mercy on that condition) were taken from Newgate, and put on board a lighter at Blackfriars Bridge, which proceeded with them to Blackwall, where they were fhipped on board the tranfport-veffel provided by Meffrs. Campbell. In their way from the prison they behaved in a most unrufy and daring manner; and, when put on board, began to break the collars by which they were fastened, which they did with much seeming ease, declaring for liberty, and exhorting each other to refift lawful authority, and threatening deftruc tion to all oppofers; on which a fort of engagement began, in which three of the ringleaders were fhot, two of whom are fince dead, and the other wounded dangerously through the neck: the rest were with difficulty fecured under the hatches. The sheriffs, with fome military, attended them from the gaol to the fhip; and, by their care and circumfpection, the public are again rescued from the depredations of a lawless banditti.

One of the convicts who was foremost in making a refiftance during their removal to the transport-veffel, had the audacity to tell Mr. Sheriff Skinner, that if he could come at him he would tan his bide for him.

This evening at half paft fix o'clock, another meteor, equally beautiful with that which happened on the 18th of Auguft, but not near fo large, was feen in the air, and took almoft the fame direction as the former: the air was fo exceedingly light, whilst it lafted, as almoft totally to obfcure the moon.

The above meteor was very confpicuous at Barnet; where a gentleman, who was returning in a fingle-horse chaife from St. Alban's, faw it's whole progrefs; which he defcribes as follows. The evening was clearer than for fome nights paft, there being no appearance of fog in the atmosphere; the moon was well up, and fhone exceedingly bright. About ten minutes before feven, a fmall cloud, much like those small ones which float about the fky in fevere weather, feemed to defcend, when there broke from it a light as of a ftar falling, which gradually increased for the space of a minute,

when it seemed to have arrived at it's meridian of brightness, and difpenfed fuch a vivid light, as not only totally to obfcure the flars, but the moon appeared of a dull white, as she is feen when under a cloud. The duration of the light was near two full minutes, when the vapour seemed to defcend in ftreams towards the earth till it was wholly diffipated, and the moon and ftars immediately fhone with the fame luftre as before.

6. During the hurry of proclaiming the Peace, a perfon came to the Bank for cash for 14 fiftypound notes, which was paid him. The next day, when the notes came to the accomptant's office to be examined, they proved to be forged, though the imitation was fo nice that it could fcarce be detected.

10. Sir Hector Munro, lately arrived from the Eaft Indies, had a long conference with his Majefty before he went to the levee.

16. Both Houses of Parliament met, pursuant to their laft prorogation, and were farther prorogued till the 11th of November next, then to meet for the dispatch of bufinefs. The Lords Commiffioners, who fat in their robes, were, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Amherst.

20. This morning, at feven o'clock, Mr.Munro, of the 16th Dragoons, and Mr. Green, with their feconds, met in a field near Battersea Bridge, for the purpose of fettling a difpute which took place a few evenings fince: they took their ground at the distance of about fix yards, and fired three piftols each, the laft of which wounded Mr. Green in the fide; upon which the feconds interfered, and asked Mr. Green if he was fatisfied. He faid, No; unlefs Mr. Munro made him a public apology. That, Mr. Munro replied, he now would not do. Mr. Green replied, "One of us, then, must fall.” They, therefore, again took their ground, and fired each two pistols more, when one ball entered Mr. Munro's knee, and Mr. Green received a mortal wound a little above the groin. He was taken to the Swan at Knightsbridge, where he died next morning.

The following are the particulars relative to the Caiffe d'Efcompte, at Paris.

In the year 1776, thirteen bankers, the moft eminent in France, funded five and twenty millions, for the establishment of a Caiffe d'Efcompte, or Difcounting Bank; the purport of which was, to discount bills of exchange, part in cash, and part in notes, in imitation of our bank notes, for the purpose of facilitating trade, and at the fame 'time fupplying the occafional wants of government. This scheme had the defired effect, and answered the public expectation till the 25th of laft month, when an extraordinary and unexpected run of creditors put the directors under the neceffity of ftopping payment. The deficiency is not yet afcertained, but it must be very confiderable, as they were hardly able to pay feven hundred thousand livres. The event being foon fpread abroad, occafioned an universal alarm; upon which the miniftry made ufe of every political measure to prevent any bad confequence. Soon after appeared four edicts of the king, which 2 S 2

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they had the precaution of antedating five days, The first forbidding all notaries to protest the notes iffued from the faid Caiffe d'Efcompte, under the penalty of a mulet, befides corporal punishment; the fecond ftopping all the demands on the aforefaid bank till the first of January 1784; the third enjoining all perfons to receive the above notes in payment, without any fort of difficulty; and the fourth laying a very heavy duty on all the fpecie exported. In the mean time, orders were difpatched to all the mints throughout the kingdom, to enable the bank to continue it's payments.

A new edict of the King of France afterwards appeared, dated the 4th inftant, for opening a loan of four and twenty millions of livres, for which his Majesty offers 60,000 tickets of a new lottery, price four hundred livres each, which makes in all the four and twenty millions wanted. The purchafers of the faid tickets have the option of paying half the four hundred livres in notes, if feed from the late Caiffe d'Efcompte. The lottery is to be drawn during the space of eight years, and the adventurers are to run no rífque, as the holders of blanks will be allowed the principal and intereft of their money.

21. The court-martial appointed to fit on the trial of Captain Sutton, late of the Ifis of 50 guns, for the affair of Port Praya, in the Island of St. Jago, after the fquadron had been attacked by De Suffrein's fleet, is to be held on board the Queen, of go guns, Admiral Montagu's fhip, at Portfmouth. The charge againft him by Commodore Johnstone was a delay in joining the fquadron, as appears by the Admiralty difpatches, for which purpose he was fufpended, and went prifoner to the Eaft Indies; where Sir Edward Hughes gave him leave to come home, that he might clear up his conduct.

This evening a powder-mill at Ewell, near Weybridge, by fome misfortune took fire, and blew up. The explofion was fo great, that the houfes within the space of five miles, and even to the extent of ten, were fo fhook, that the people were terrified with the apprehenfions of an earthquake. One man was killed by the explosion, and fome others were flightly wounded. The fhock was felt in many parts of the metropolis.

22. The report was made to his Majefty of the convicts under fentence of death in Newgate, when the following were ordered for execution.

William Moore, for feloniously coining and counterfeiting the current coin of this realm, called fhillings; John Burton and Thomas Duckfon, for burglary in the house of Robert Simmonds, Efq. in Charlotte Street, and stealing a quantity of plate; John Pilkington, for a burglary in the houfe of Richard Hubbard, at Endfield, and ftealing a quantity of filver-plate; Thomas Smith and John Starkey, for stealing a box containing two bank-notes, value 30l. about 81. in money, fome apparel, &c. the property of Edward Souch, in the dwelling-houfe of Sir Peter Burrell, Knt. James Neale, alias Nowlan, for ftealing a large quantity of filver-plate, in the dwelling-houfe of George Eaton, in Brook Street, Ratcliffe; John Anderfon, for feloniously perfonating and affuming the

name of Jeremiah Sames, quarter-master on board the Nemefis, and receiving his prize-money; Jofeph Scott, for forging a feaman's letter of attor ney, in order to receive his prize-money; Matthew Daniel, for feloniously uttering and publishing as true, a forged letter of attorney, in order to receive prize-money due to Edward Taylor and others, late feamen on board the Raisonable; John Francis, for forging a letter of attorney, in order to receive prize- money due to one John Francis, a feaman on board the Panther; and John Booker, alias Brooker, for robbing Thomas Tildefley on the highway, near Gunnersbury Lane, of two guineas.

Mary Parry, and Robert Mott, received his Majesty's free pardon.

The following are pardoned on condition of transportation, viz. Thomas Limpus, for life; William Marton Rothwell, for fourteen years; and William Blunt, Jofeph Abrahams, John Bennyman, alias Benyman, Morgan Williams, William Mac Namara, William Sharman, Andrew Ronan, William Glanville, John Barker, and Peter Williams, each for feven years.

The following were ordered for hard labour on the River Thames: John Wright, John Fuller, Robert Steward, and Thomas Sutton.

For hard labour in the house of correction: Margaret Ann Smith, alias Gibbs, Ann Farmer, Elizabeth Jones, and Thomas Tanner.

24. Richard Neave, Efq. governor of the Bank of England, and George Peters, Efq. deputy-governor, waited on the Right Honourable Lord John Cavendish, refpecting the ftate of the funds.

26. An experiment was tried in the River on a coal barge, to work it against the tide, by means of an apparatus fixed to the fides, fo contrived that when put in motion, (which was done by a fireengine) it rowed three pair of oars, and required only the affiftance of one man to steer. rather too complex a business in it's prefent ftate; but the plan appears very practicable; and fhould it fucceed, by fome judicious alteration, it must prove of immenfe advantage to the trade.

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28. This morning, about a quarter paft nine, the eleven following malefactors were brought out of Newgate, to be conveyed to Tyburn, in order to be executed according to their fentence, viz. John Burton, Thomas Duckfon, John Pilkington, and James Neale, alias Nowlan, in the firft cart; John Booker, alias Brooker, Thomas Smith, and John Starkey, in the fecond cart; John Anderfon, Matthew Daniel, and John Francis, in the third cart; and William Moore was drawn on a fledge. At the end of Swallow Street the proceffion was ftopped by a meffenger, who brought a reprieve for Thomas Duckfon till the 7th of November. He was taken out of the cart, and conveyed back to Newgate.

29. A new commiffion of the peace is now preparing to pass the Great Seal for the county of Middlefex, preparatory to fome very material alterations of the police for the more fpeedy and certain apprehenfion of offenders, and alfo for preventing burglaries, footpad-robberies, &c. The following gentlemen qualified on Tuesday for taking on themfelves the offices of justices of the

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peace for the county of Middlefex: Honourable Edward Willes, Honourable George Byng, Admiral Barton, Mr. Jolliffe, Honourable R. Neville, Mr. Tuffnell, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Wood of Lyttleton, Mr. Holt, Mr. Dickenfon, &c. The commiffion will be the moft refpectable ever feen in the country. About forty new juftices are to come in, and twenty-fix of the old ones, more commonly distinguished by the notorious name of trading juftices, are to be left out of this new commillion. A new commiffion is alfo preparing for the county of Surrey, in which there will alfo be fome material alterations. By this means the metropolis, at leaft, and it's fuburbs,will be under a moft refpectable and powerful magistracy, which is the most fure and certain protection for it's inhabitants, at a time when the utmoft exertions of wife, able, and upright men, are wanting, to fupprefs the commiffion of thofe notorious villainies which have fo long and loudly called for a particular attention of the fupreme legislature.

30. The Court of Aldermen have given orders to the proper officers, to take up all prostitutes, beggars, and vagrants, found in the streets, that they may be paffed to their refpective parishes, the court being determined that the streets of this city fhall be kept clear of thofe fort of people. Twenty taken up yesterday were all paffed, and were told if they appeared again in the ftreets of London, they should be taken up and feverely punished, and afterwards fent back again to their refpective parishes.

On Tuesday, fome of the city officers received orders, that they and the fix marfhalmen are to go at least twice a week to all the watch-houses in the feveral wards of the city, to fee if the conftables and watchmen are upon duty, and if they are not, to make a report to the alderman of the ward; that they are to vifit all public-houses, to fee that good order is preferved; to vifit brandyvaults, and to fee, they fell no fpirituous liquors by retail; to examine houfes of ill fame, and gaming-houses, and report the fame to the Court of Aldermen, that they may be fuppreffed; to be ready at all times in affifting the conftables to ftop any riots and difturbances that may happen within the city; and to be prefent at all fires, to fee the unhappy fufferers are not plundered of their property.

Seaton's prize at Cambridge, the fubject of which, for this year, was Hope, is adjudged to the Reverend Mr. Hayes, of Trinity College, and one of the ushers of Westminster School.

31. At twelve o'clock Alderman Peckham, the lord-mayor elect, was prefented by Mr. Adair, the recorder, to Lord Loughborough, at his house in Bedford Square, who fignified his Majesty's approbation of the choice the livery had made; after which the new mayor, fheriffs, recorder, and company prefent, were entertained with wine and cake as ufual.

A meffenger was fent from Lord North's office, with a refpite to a Mr. Chiefham, of Inver nefs, who was fome time fince fentenced to death for having bought goods knowing them to have been ftolen. The evidence on trial made their affertion fo ftrong within the eye of the law, that

no room was left for the judge but to pass sentence agreeable to the cuftom of the country; bug it being a circumftance of notoriety, that a fair price was paid by the buyer to the feller of the goods; and that the culprits, as foon as they found they must be detected in the purfuit made after them, came to the prefent object of royal mercy, and begged that he might not only deny the purchafe, but also conceal the goods which he had purchased of them. Shortly after, the officers of the magistracy being detached to the house, the goods were denied, as well as all connections with the parties; of course a search enfued, and the whole of the goods were found. The deluded man was carried to prifon, tried, and condemned; but, by the mercy of his Majesty, he is refpited to the 19th of December next, to give time for a more full investigation into the circumstances of his guilt or innocence.

The act of parliament which lays a duty on waggons and carts, takes place on the 1st of November; after which day, all waggons,wairs, carts, &c. with three or four wheels, not already charged, are to pay a duty of 4s. a year; two-wheel carts, &c. 2s. a year: and the owners of all fuch carriages are to give notice to the ftamp-diftributor in the county where they refide, of the number of carriages they keep, and to pay the duty at the next market-town, under a penalty of 51. On payment of the duty a licence is to be given. No perfon to pay for more than one carriage employed in agriculture only; nor more than three for any other purpose, unless employed for hire.›

BIRTHS.

Lady of Sir George Cockburne, a daughter.
At the Deanery Houfe, St. Paul's, the lady of
the Bishop of Lincoln, a daughter.
Countess of Rofeberry, a fan.

Lady Grantham, a fon.
Lady of Sir John Taylor, a fon.

MARRIAGES.

James Whyte, Efq. of Denbies, in Surrey, to Mifs Catharine Hildyard, youngest daughter of the late Sir Robert Hildyard, Bart, of Wineftead, Yorkshire.

Captain Prickett, of the 77th regiment, to Mifs Wyvill, only daughter of Hale Wyvill, Efq. of the city of York.

David Murray, Efq. nephew of Lord Elibank, to Mifs Harley, fourth daughter of the Right Honourable Thomas Harley.

Captain Maud, to Mifs Mary Gervais.

H. Defborough, Efq. of the General Poft Office, to Mifs Luther, of Soho. William Cracraft, Efq. of the Exchequer, to Mifs Hawkes.

At Ealing, in Middlefex, the Rev. Mr. George Pickard, younger fon of Jocelyn Pickard, Efq. of Bloxworth, in the county of Dorfet, to Mis Payne, daughter of Edward Payne, Efq. of Ealing.

At Old Windfor, Horace Churchill, Efq. of the first regiment of Foot Guards, to Mifs Mo. digliani.

The Rev. Allen Fielding, vicar of Shepherd's Well,

Spenfer, Viscount Althorpe, high fteward of St. Alban's, and prefident of the British Lyingin Hofpital. His lordship was born December 18, 1734; and on December 27, 1755, married Georgiana, eldest daughter of the late Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, and by her ladyship. had iffue George John, Viscount Althorpe, (to. whom the title and eftate devolve) born Sept. 1, 1758; Lady Georgiana, born June 7, 1757, married to the Duke of Devonshire; Lady Henrietta Frances, born July 16, 1761, and married to the Right Honourable William Ponfonby, Viscount Duncannon in Ireland, only fon of the Earl of Besborough, one of the lords of the admiralty, and member of parliament for the borough of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire; and Lady Charlotte, born Auguft 25, 1765. His lordship was created Viscount Spenfer, and Baron of Althorpe, April 3, 1761; and advanced to the dignities of Vifcount Althorpe, and Earl Spenfer, Oct. 5, 1765.

In Howard Street, aged 75, Richard Palmer, Efq. the laft furviving brother of the late Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart. and uncle of Sir John Palmer, Bart. of Carlton, in Northamptonshire.

At Bath, Mrs.MaryRaleigh, only furviving defcendant in a direct line from Sir Walter Raleigh. At Sudbury, in Middlefex, the Honourable Mifs Howe, fifter of the late and aunt of the prefent Lord Chedworth.

At Petersburg, Monfieur Euler, who was reckoned the greatest mathematician fince the days of Newton and Leibnitz. He acquired his high fame under the patronage of the King of Pruffia, who made him prefident of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; but having had fome difference with that monarch, he applied to the Emprefs of Ruffia, who gave him the fame honourable charge in the Imperial Academy of Peterfburgh, with a princely provifion. When he left Berlin, he was fucceeded by a gentleman from Turin, in Piedmont, called Signor La Grangia, who ftill holds the place of prefident in the faid Academy of Berlin, and has given repeated proofs of the most tranfcendent abilities, in every branch of the mathematics. The firft prefident of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin was Maupertuis, the great antagonist of Voltaire. Euler was made prefident after the decease of Maupertuis.

At Paris, on the 27th inftant, Monfieur D'Alembert, fecretary to the French Academy, &c. who was one of the ableft mathematicians of the

age; and, what is rather extraordinary, he joined to his profound and truly astonishing skill in the abftra& fciences, all the accomplishments of an elegant, vivacious, and entertaining writer. He was one of the principal editors of the Encyclopædia; and, befides his numerous mathematical works, which will tranfmit his name to the remoteft pofterity, though within the reach of very few readers, he has produced feven volumes of Melanges Literaires, containing various tracts on different topics. In thefe productions, learning, genius, and wit, feem to go hand in hand, like the graces, forming an immortal wreath for the author. It is impoffible to beftow a fufficient encomium on his translation of Excerpta from Ta

citus: he has equalled the arduous precision of the original, and attained what a prodigious number of literati before him attempted in different languages, without any fort of fuccefs. He was honoured with the patronage and friendship of fe-, veral monarchs, a circumftance that could never awake the leaft fymptom of vanity in his untainted heart. The Emprefs of Ruffia wishing to entruft him with the education of the Grand Duke her fon, propofed to fettle on him four thousand pounds fterling per annum for life, befides the rank of an ambaflador-extraordinary, while he fhould refide at her court. D'Alembert thanked her Imperial Majefty, and declined her intended favour in modeft and fubmiffive terms. This fact is well known, and will ever be recorded as a fin gular inftance of philofophical fortitude, against the powerful incentives of gold and ambition. Monfieur D'Alembert had not the pedantic parade of virtue, but poffeffed the actual fubftance; and while, in his intellectual faculties, he appeared a fuperior being, in all his worldly concerns he discovered the meeknefs of a lamb, and the fimplicity of a dove.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

William Lucas, Efq. to be his Majesty's chief juftice of the Islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, in America.

Ashton Warner Byam, Efq. to be his Majesty's attorney-general, and Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, Efq. to be his Majesty's folicitor-general, in the faid iflands.

George Phillips Towry, Efq. to be one of the commiflioners for victualling his Majefty's navy, in the room of Jonas Hanway, Efq. who retires.

The Right Honourable Lord William Cavendifh Bentincke, to the office of clerk of the Pipe, in the room of Sir John Shelley, Bart. deceased.

Henry Murray, Efq. to be enfign of his Ma jesty's guard of the yeomen of the guard, in the room of John Benjafield, Efq. who has refigned.

Charles Hawkins, Efq. to be furgeon of his Majesty's houshold, in the room of George Hawkins, Efq. deceased.

Mr. Needham, late furgeon of the fecond troop of horse-guards, to be furgeon to the houshold of the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, in Hanover.

Rogers, Efq. fecretary to Lord Keppel, to be one of the commiflioners of the navy.

The Right Honourable Lord George Auguftus Henry Cavendish, to be colonel of the Derbyshire militia, in the room of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who has refigned.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

War-Office, October 7, 1783.

2d Regiment of Foot. Love Parry Jones, from half-pay of Major Waller's late corps of foot, ta be captain of a company.

War-Office, October 11, 1783. ift Troop of Horfe Guards. George Mercer, to be exempt and captain. Newdigate Poyntz, clerk, to be chaplain.

War-Office, October 18, 1783. 60th Regiment of Foot, 3d Battalion. Bladen