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The Elephant from Bengal.

A Defcription of the Elephant lately presented to her Majefly by Captain

Samfon.

THE exact dimenfions of the feveral parts of the young male elephant prefented to her majefty.

Height

Length from the tip of his trunk to the tip of his tail

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Length of his body from behind his ears to the root of his tail
Ditto of his neck, from between his ears to his shoulders
Ditto of his face, from between his ears to the beginning of
his trunk

Ditto of his trunk

Ditto of his tail

Ditto of the trunk of his body from his fhoulders to his tail
Circumference of his body behind his fore-legs

Ditto of the middle of his body

Ditto of his body juft before his hind-legs

Ditto of his neck

Breadth of his body in the wideft part
Ditto of his face between his ears

Ditto of ditto between his eyes

Feet Inch.

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The length of one of his hind-legs to his huckle-bone

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Ditto of his trunk in the largest part

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Distance between the two eye-brows

Breadth of the upper-part of the fore-head

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SIR,

Some droll Remarks on fashionable Words.

This somewhat very entertaining, tho' not very edifying, to obferve the rife and -progrefs of fashions, whether they be fashions in drefs, fashions in eating and drinking, fashions in physic, or fashions even in preaching and praying, curfing and fwearing, as well as in a thousand other things. I have often obferved particular words and pi.rafes come much into vogue, grow to be the mode among polite people, and in a fhort time become univerfally fashionable among the vulgar. This has lately been remarkable of the word rotation introduced by advertisements from the Police relating to the juftices fiting by retation, the felonyrotation in Bow-freet, and the patrole of thief taking retations, propofed to be eftablished on all the great roads. In fhort, nothing is done now but by rotation. At the card-playing routs, instead of cutting in to a party of whift, they play the rubbers by rotation: a fine Jady returns her vifits by rotation; and the parfon of our parish declared yesterday, that preaching every week was hard duty, and therefore he, his curate, the lecturer, and now and then a friend, would for the future preach by rotation., A famous politician at Geore's lately obferved, that the duke of Newcastle, Mr. Pitt, lord Bute, and Mr. G. Grenville, had each been minifters, and he did not doubt but they would all come in again in rotation. An oyfter wench t'other night, at the corner of White-Fryars, being preffed by two or three cuftomers at once, who were each in a hurry to be ferved first, very politely desired them to have patience, and the would ferve them all in retation ; and I heard a bunter at the Horfe-guards laft Friday evening fwear the would not venture into the Park, "for d-n my eyes (faid he) the justices have feat the conftables to go their routations with a fearch warrant." She affured her companion, at the fame time, that poor Ned Collins and Jack Simmons were that

morning caft for transportation by the routation at Guildhall.

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This morning business obliged me to enquire for a gentleman in Marlboroughfquare, Westminster, when I was told bis Worship was just gone out on kis re• tation, and might probably be found at the Checquers in Peter- ftreet, or the Horfe and Groom in Thieving-lane. In fhort, Sir, here is such a rout at prefent about rotation, that I am quite fick of it, and I hope, as it is got into fuch very low hands, it will fcon be out of fafticn. I remember the origin of humbug, which has reigned in high vogue for several years, but I hope this will not prove to be an other humbug.

The word police has made many bold attempts to get a footing. I have seen it more than once strongly recommended in the papers; but as neither the word nor thing itself are much understood in London, I fancy it will require a coníiderable time to bring it into fashion; perhaps, from an averfion to the French, from whom this word is borrowed; and fomething, under the name of police, being already eftablished in Scotland, English prejudice will not foon be reconciled to it. Not long ago, at a bagnio in Covent Garden, on my complaining of fome impofition, I was told by a fair North-Briton, that it was the regular established police of the houfe. This, I own, is the only time I have heard it used in any polite company; nor do I believe it has yet made any confiderable progrefs (except in the Newspapers) beyond the purlieus of CoventGarden.

Oeconomy, patriotism, adequateness, privilege, and a few other fuch like words, have lately had their run, but now we hear no more of them. I should not wonder, however, if in a month's time they fhould all come about again, in rotation, at the polite end of the town.

TOM TIPSIT,

The

The following Advices, by an Exprefs from Sir Jeffery Amherst, Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Forces in North-America, dated Sept. 3, arrived at St. James's Oct. 14, 1763.

Detail of the Action of the 31st of July, commanded by Capt. Dalyell, against the Indian Nations, near Fort Detroit.

ON the evening of the 30th of July,

capt. Dalvell, Aid de Camp to General Amherst, being arrived here with the detachment fent under his command, and being fully perfuaded that Pontiac, the Indian chief, with his tribes, would foon abandon his defign, and retire, infifted with the commandant, that they might eafily be furprized in their camp, totally routed, and driven out of the fettlement; and it was thereupon determined, that capt. Dalyell should march out with 247 men. Accordingly we marched about half an hour after two in the morning, two deep, along the great road by the river fide, two boats up the river along shore, with a patteraro in each, with orders to keep up with the line of march, cover our retreat, and take off our killed and wounded; lieutenant Bean, of the Queen's Independents, being ordered with a rear guard to convey the dead and wounded to the boats. About a mile and a half from the fort we

had orders to form into platoons, and, if attacked in the front, to fire by freetfirings. We then advanced, and in about a mile farther, our advanced guard, commanded by lieut. Brown, of the 55th regiment, had been fired upon so close to the enemy's breaft-works and cover, that the fire, being very heavy, not only killed and wounded fome of his party, but reached the main body, which put the whole into a little confufion; but they foon recovered their order, and gave the enemy, or rather their works, it being very dark, a discharge or two from the front, commanded by captain Gray. At the fame time the rear, commanded by caprain Grant, were fired upon from a houfe, and fome fences, about twenty yards on his left; on which he ordered his own and captain Hopkins's companies to face to the left, and give a full fire that way. After which, it appearing that the enemy gave way every where, captain Dalyell fent orders to captain Grant, to take poffeffion of the abovefaid houfes and fences; which he immediately did and found in one of the faid

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houfes two men, who told him, the enemy had been there long, and were well apprized of our defign. Capt. Grant then afked them the numbers: they said, above 300; and that they intended, as foon as they had attacked us in the front, to get between us and the fort; which captain Grant told capt. Dalyell, who came to him when the firing was over. And in about an hour after he came to him again, and told captain Grant he was to retire, and ordered him to march in the front, and post himself in an orchard. He then marched, and about half a mile farther on his retreat, he had fome fhots fired on his flank; but got poffeffion of the orchard, which was well fenced; and just as he got there, he heard a warm firing in the rear, having, at the fame time, a firing on his own poft, from the fences and corn-fields behind it. Lieut. M'Dougal, who acted as adjutant to the detachment, came up to him, captain Grant, and told him, that captain Dalyell was killed, and capt. Gray very much wounded, in making a push on the enemy, and forcing them out of a strong breast-work of cord-wood, and an intrenchment which they had taken poffeffion of; and that the command then devolved upon him. Lieut. Bean immediately came up, and told him, that captain Rogers had defired him to tell capt. Grant, that he had taken poffeffion of a house, and that he had better retire with what numbers he had, as he, capt. Rogers, could not get off without the boats to cover him, he being hard pushed by the enemy from the inclofures behind him, fome of which fcoured the road thro which he must retire. Capt. Grant then fent enfign Pauli with 20 men back to attack a part of the enemy which annoyed his own poft a little, and galled thofe that were joining him, from the place where capt. Dalyell was killed, and capt. Gray, lieutenants Brown and Luke, were wounded; which enfign Pauli did, and killed fome of the enemy in their flight. Capt. Grant at the fame time detached all the men he could get, and tock poffeffion of the inclofures, barns, fences, &c. leading from his own post to the fort, which posts he reinforced with the officers and men as 7222 they

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