There was lately brought to the Duke of Bedford, by the Britannia, Capt. Maffan, from Leghorn, a beautiful caft of the famous model of an ancient Roman galley, which ftands before the Villa Malteri, in Rome, fuppofed to have been made 2000 years ago.A great curiofity. Capt. Jasper, of the Prince Henry man of war, lately arrived from Jamaica, has brought with him the best collection of birds and wild animals ever seen in Bitain. Letters from Cork in Ireland, of July 30. bear, that there was then in that city, one Cornelius Magrath, born in the county of Tipperary, within five miles of the filver mines, a boy of 15 years and months old, who is feven feet nine inches three quarters high; that he is clumfily made, talks boyish, and fimple; that his hand is as big as a middling fhoulder of mutton; that the laft of his fhoe, which he carries about with him, measures fifteen inches; and that he bathed in falt water a year at Youghall, for rheumatic pains, which had almoft crippled him; but which the physicians now think were growing pains, as he has grown furprisingly within that time. A great number of French Proteftants are lately come to Ireland from France, and have taken the oaths to naturalize themselves, in the court of chancery. In confequence of the experiments lately made in France purfuant to Mr Franklin's doctrine of thunder and lightning [246.], and his fuggeftion of draw ing off gradually the electrical fire from clouds by pointed bars, an apparatus was erected at the top of St John's gate [very like that defcribed p. 354.]. Wednefday Aug. 12. from about one till three in the afternoon there fell fome fmall fhowers of rain, without any found or appearance of thunder or lightning; during which the apparatus was fo ftrongly electrified, that fparks were drawn at the distance of more than an inch from the plummet at the end of a defcending wire fupported on filk within doors, and the ftroke jarred from the fingers end up to the fhoulder. Mr J. Canton, F. K. S. who had found the experiment to fucceed VOL. XIV. once before, did so again this day, at his academy in Spital-fields. And Mr. Benj. Wilfon being at the fame time near Chelmsford, and unprovided of a proper apparatus, bethought himself of flicking a piece of a curtain-rod into the mouth of a glafs bottle; which he held in one hand, ftanding on the ground in a garden; and prefenting a finger of the other hand to the rod, drew fparks from it.The public would be greatly obliged to all gentlemen who take the laudable pains of keeping meteorological journals, if they would be diligent in watching what fort of clouds do chiefly affect the machine, and communicate their obfervations. It is cafy to annex two little bells to the wire of the machine, with a clapper between, which without further trouble will give notice when it is electrified. L' EDINBURGH. Eith races began on Saturday Aug. 15. That day the King's plate, value 100 guineas, was run for by Sir William Scot of Ancrum's bay gelding Buck, Sir William Middleton of Belcher's bay mare Camilla, and William Carr of Etal Efq;'s gray ftoned horfe Tom Jones; and was won by Camilla. On the 17th, a purfe of 10 guineas was run for by five horfes, and was won by a horfe belonging to Thomas Tydieman refidenter in Leith. On the 18th, the town of Leith's plate, value 201. was run for by the Hon. Francis Charteris of Amisfield Efq;'s brown gelding Single Peeper, the Earl of Dundonald's bay mare Sweetest when he's naked, and Thomas Tydieman's gray mare Gallant Janet; and was won by Single Peeper. On the 19th, a fubfcription-purfe of 40 guineas, given by the noblemen and gentlemen for encou raging the breed of horfes in Scotland, was run for by George Lockhart of Carnwath Efq;'s dark-bay ftoned horfe Vidorious, John Hamilton of Bargeny Efq;'s bay mare Fanny, Robert Rutherford of Fairnilee Eq;'s bay ftoned colt Blood and all Blood, Sir William Maxwell of Monrieth's gray horfe Don del Combo, and Lieut. Robert Carter's gray toned horfe Badger; and was won by Victorious. On the 20th, the city of Edinburgh's 39 plate, plate, value 30l. was run for by Mr Charteris's Merry Harry, Mr Heriot at Ladykirk's Highland Lajjie, and Mr Pain Hunifman at Ayr's Tupin; and was BIRT H S. T Schonbrun, the Emprefs Queen Aug. 2. A of Hungary delit ered of an qucm duchefs, baptized Mary-Charlotte-Louife-Jo jephewon by Merry Harry at one heat, the Jeanne-Antonine. The King and Queen of France were fponfors by proxy. other two declining a second. Inputs of three and five guineas were run for every day by feveral horfes, and were all won by a galloway belonging to James Boyd ftabler in Canongate. There was the greatest take of herrings at Anftruther, about the middle of Auguft, that has been for twenty years patt. About 500,000 were taken in fight of that town in one day. A youth from Suffex, only eighteen years old, of feven feet and two inches high, is now at Edinburgh, and made a thew of. P. S. Mr George Whitefield arrived at Edinburgh from London, Sept. 2. and preaches morning and evening every day, in the Orphan hofpital park, having begun the evening of the day on which he arrived. The fcheme for applying to parliament for an augmentation of the incomes of the established fchoolmafters, is laid afide for the prefent. Two thirds of them never contributed, fo that their funds were found infufficient for profecuting it. The annual meeting held at Edinburgh, Sept. 2. recommended to their brethren all over Scotland, as an interim remedy, to raise their fees for teaching; fixing the minimum, per quarter, at eighteen pence for English, two fhillings for reading and writing, half a crown for arithmetic, and five thillings for Latin. And in order to raise a fund for profecuting any future fcheme for better ing their circumftances, they recommend ed, that each fchoolmafler fhould pay fix pence per quarter, two fhillings a-year; that the fchoolmatters of every prefbytery fhould chufe a collector for uplifting their quarterly payments; that thefe collectors hould tranfmit the money to the general meeting, held annually at Edinburgh on the firit Wednesday of September; and that the general meeting fhould lay it out at intercit, on undoubted fecurity, till it amount to a fum fufficient for effectuating their defign. Exiii. 452.] 17. At London, the Viscountess Gallway, of a fon. Ꭰ E A T H S. July At Lifbon, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, Major Frankland of Ligonier's dragoons. Aug. 2. At London, in the 81ft year of his age, John Cartledge, M. D. Among feveral other charitable legacies, amounting to 74601. he has left 1000l. to the fociety for propagating the gofpel in foreign parts. 10. At London, Sir Henry Penrice, LL. D. Chancellor of the diocefe of Gloucefter, and official of the archdeaconry of Middlefex. He had been judge of the high court of admiralty upwards of thirty years; which he lately refigned in favour of his fon-in-law Sir Thomas alifbury. 11. Richard Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke. His Lordihip was defcended from William de Vernai, who flourished in the reign of Herry I. about the year 1119; and the first Baron Willoughby de Broke was created in 1492. He is fucceeded by his nephew, John Peyto Verney, Efq; a minor, only fon of John Verney, Efq; late Matter of the Rolls, deceated. 12. At Windfor, Major Robert Rich of the first regiment of foot-guards, eldeft fon of Sir Ro bert Rich. 12. At Stoke-Newington, aged 80, Tho. Cooke, Efq; formerly a Turky merchant, three years governor and many years a director of the bank, and one of the trustees of Sir John Morden's college, Blackheath. He ordered by his will, that he fhould be attended to the grave by twelve poor houte-keepers, belonging to the box-club at Newington, of which he had been long a member; and bequeathed to each of them a guinea and a fuit of cloaths, and as much victuals and drink as -- they would have; but ordered, that if any of them appeared to be fuddled after his interment, they thould forfeit the legacy, and only get half a crown for their day's work.- -His corpfe was wrapped in a clean blanket, fewed up; and being put into a common coffin, was conveyed, with the above attendants in three coaches, to the grave at Morden college; where the corpfe was taken out of the coffin, and buried in a winding-facet, accor ding to the eastern cuftom. The cuttin was left in the college for the next penfioner it would fit. 16. At Charlton, Kent, the Countess of Fg the reign of Lewis XIV. and ferved three campaigns in Flanders. He then went into the Dutch fervice under the Prince of Orange, came to Ireland with Duke Schomberg, inlifted under K. William, and diftinguished himself in molt of the battles against K. James II. for which he was well rewarded. He then quitted the army, and took a farm. He has left three fons; the eldeft of which is near 60, and the youngest but 22. 20. At Greenwich, Lord Clinton, eldest fon of the Earl of Lincoln. 21. At Edinburgh, in the 75th year of her age, Mrs Chriftian Leflie, daughter of the late Lord Newark, and widow of Thomas Graham of Balgowan, Elq; 22. At Aldermanbury, Mr William Whifton, fome time Profeffor of the Mathematics in the university of Cambridge. He was born Dec. 9. 1667, admitted a ftudent of Clare-hall in 1636, and chofen a fellow of that college in 1693. In 1700 he was appointed by Sir Iaac Newton to read lectures for him; and in 1701 was, by the recommendation of that great philofopher, chofen Mathematical Profeffor, on his own refignation. In this profefforfhip he continued till 1711; during which time he fo clearly explained the Newtonian philofophy in his mathematical an aftronomical lectures, which he then publifhed, as to introduce into the univerfity a noble fyftem, which till then was underflood but by few, and thofe deep geometricians. 30. At Gloucester, after a lingering illness, Dr Martin Benfon, Bishop of that diocele. He was confecrated Bishop of that fee in January 1734. P. S. Sept. 19. N. S. At his feat at Culrois, a bachelor, Charles Cochran of Culrofs, Efq, Advo Prices of flocks, &c. at London, Sept. 14. N. S. Bank stock 146 1 qr. India ditto 189. Southfea flock :21. Ditto old annuities, 1ft fubfcript. 108 half. Ditto 2d fubfcript. 106 3 qrs. Ditto new, ift fubfcript. 107. Ditto 2d fubfcript. 105 3 qrs. Three 1 half per cent. Bank-annuities 1746, 1ft fubfcript. 106 7 8ths. Ditto 2d fubfcript. 105 3 qrs. Ditto 1747, 1748, and 1749, ift fubfcript. 1077 8ths Ditto 2d fubfcript. 106 3 qrs. Lottery 1747, 1ft fubfcript. 106 7 8ths. Ditto 2d fubfcript. 105 3 8ths. Ditto India annuities 106 5 8ths a 3 qrs. Three per cent. Bank annuities 104 3 qrs. Ditto 1751 104 5 8ths a 3 qrs. Ditto India annuities 105. Bank-circu lation 41. 10s. India bonds 71. 10. a 11. GOOD S. Wheaten peck-loaf 1 s. 11 d. Hops 5 l. 10s. Coals per chaldron 33 s. Hay per load 48 s. The London bill from July 28. to Aug. 25. Chriftened Buried Bear, Oats, Peale, 81. 10 s. 8 1. O S. 71. 165. Edin. Sept. 22. N.S. Oat-meal 10 d. Peale-meal 6 d. Bear-meal 7 d. Barley. 14 to 15 s. qr. oo to oo s. Bear-key, Bafingfloke, Reading, 91. IO S. The Edinburgh bill of burials for August 1752. city Aged 7° Athma No. Chincough 4 I I 8 The Impertinent, printed in the manner of the Rambler] for 7. Bouquet. 2 d. Of this piece, Dr Hill, in his Infpector of the Tuesday followDISEASES. NO. ing, fays, "Of all the periodical pieces fet up in vain during the last 18 months, I fhall mention only the molt pert, the molt pretending, and fort-lived of any. I have in vain fent to Mr Bouquet for the fecond number of the Impertinent. There must have been indignation fuperior even to curiofity, in the fentence pafled on this affuming piece; and the public deferves applante of the highet kind, for having crushed in the bud fo threatening a mifchief. It will be in vain to accufe the town either of patroniling dullness, or illnature, while this inftance can be produced, in which a load of perfonal fatyr could not procure purchafers enough to promote a fecond number. It will not be eafy to fay too much in favour of that candour, which has rejected and defpifed a piece that cruelly and unjustly attacked Mr Smart, 20 Confumption 10 Fever - 5 14 1 8 10 20 Flux 4 20 30 3 30 A fyllabus of the contents, and order of a courfe of lectures on the animal economy, with the introductory lecture. By Malcolm Flemyng, M. D. Millar, and Wilson. An inquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bath water, and the indications of cure. By George Randolph, M. D. 1 s. Noarje. MISCELLANEOUS. Memorial of Payba, against Taaffe and Montague. 1 s. 6 d. Remarks on the fentence in favour of Meff. The family-library. In numbers. 4 d. Owen. c."This character of the Impertinent, and account of its reception, however quaint and inaccurate the expreffions, as they are indifputably jaft, might be thought a fufficient gratification of public curiofity; but there is yet an interesting a necdote behind, with which "the world has a right to be acquainted."— The man who thus refents the cruel treatment of Mr Smart in the Inspector, and he who thus cruelly treated him in the Impertinent, is known to be the fame. The worthy and ingenious Dr Hill, who every day obliges the world with a moral or a philofophical eflay. and on Saturday with a lecture on religion, is the fcribbler who publifhed the load of perfonal abuk, that excited the indignation of the public, and produced the moft pert, affuming, and short-lived of all the periodical pieces which have lately appeared; and in this abuse and pertnefs he would probably have perfitted, till the work had fwelled to a volume; but that the contempt and indignation him from rifking the necellary expence of paper with which his attempt was treated, difcouraged and printing, and induced him to join in the pa blic cenfure; as a detected felon, when he is purfued, cries out, Stop thief, and hopes to escape in the croud that follows him. Gent. Mag. All the acts of parliament paffed in the 25th year of the reign of his prefent Majesty; alfo an abftract of the fame. Horral. POETRY, ENTERTAINMENT. An ode performed at the fenate-houte, Cambridge, at the inftallation of the Duke of Newcattle. The words by Mr Mafon; the mufic by Dr Boyce. 11. 1 s. A narrative of the affair between Simons the taire]. 2 vols 12mo. Jew, and Athley., 1 s. Clay, Hamilton&Balfour. THE POLITICS. Speeches in the debate on the bill for annexing certain forfeited eftates to the crown, by A. Pofthumius 417. and C. Plinius The QUERY, Whether a perfon of one church may communicate in another? answered in the POETRY. Tityrus and Mopfus, an eclogue on RAMBLER. The first paper 432. The last 434. The EXPORTS and IMPORTs between London CLAIMS. Charles Mercer's for the estate of Le- thindy 438. Lady Mary Drummond's on the Act of SEDERUNT, anent tranfmitting the re- cords of the abrogated jurisdictions to the courts of the refpective theriffs and ttewarts 442. The BOUNTY on CORN exported alledged to be prejudicial to the trade and wealth of the nation Of the NEW STYLE, the throwing out eleven Of the WEATHER and DISEASES 456. HISTORY Difcontents in Constantinople 450. Earthquakes in Turky ib. in Italy 452. and in France 453. Of the north-weft paffage into the South feas 451. A confpiracy in Tripoli 452. A new metal for ordnance 453: Af- fairs in the plantations 453,4. Proceedings of the free British fishery 455. A wood of French buffes on the English coaft ib. A lottery in Du- blin fuppreffed ib. French Proteftants arrive there is. The judges and couníel on the trial of James Stewart for Glemure's murder 456. The particulars of that murder as laid in the li- bel 456-460. The interlocutor on the re- levancy, the jury's verdict, and the sentence paffed 460. Other trials before the circuit-courts 461. The method to be obferved as to fairs, and as to the management of the fund for mi- nifters widows, c. with regard to the new style 462. A perfon taken up on fufpicion of trea- fon, difcovered to be a deferter ib. Poceedings of the POLITICAL CLUB, continued from p. 388. The fubftance of feveral Speeches made upon the motion for committing the bill for an- SI had a jealoufy of this bill from the first time I heard of it, I took the firft opportunity after it came up to this houfe to perufe it; which I did with great at- tention: and I must fay, that the more I confider it, the more I am against its. is an opinion in which many of your Lordships may at prefent differ from me; therefore I fhall beg leave to give my rea fons: and that I may do it in fome fort of method, I fhall endeavour to fhew, 1. That what is propofed by this bill is impracticable; 2. That it is dangerous; and, 3. That the utility to be expected from it can never be worth the expence. The preamble, I fhall admit, my |