MONTHLY

Sheriffs peers.

GEORGE R.

His majefty receives with great fatisfaction the loyal addrefs of the House of Commons, and thanks them for their affectionate congratulations on the increase of his royal family.

His majefty accepts, as a new proof of their zeal and dutiful attachment to his perfon and government, their affurance of chearfully granting the neceffary fupplies for the public fervice; and fees with pleasure that they are determined to use their utmost endeavours to put a stop to fuch illegal outrages as have been lately committed in fome parts of Ireland.

Their attention to those two important ob. jects, the Linen Manufacture and Proteftant Charter schools, will always be approved by his majefty, and they may depend on his concurrence in whatever fhall tend to promote the profperity of his kingdom of Ireland. G. R.

Extract of a Letter from Dublin, Nov. 17. "Laft night the Houfe of Commons here divided, after a long debate, on a motion made by the country party, "That the feven commiffioners of the revenue of this kingdom had been always found fufficient for the conducting and managing the faid revenue." This was violently oppofed by the court, who, to fecure a majority, had promifed they fhould be increased to twelve commiffioners of Excife and Cuftoms to be divided into two boards, which, in its confequence, must entail an expence on the country of fifty or fixty thousand pounds in two years. On the divifion, it was carried for the motion by 129 againft 83, fo that the court was beaten by a majority of 46. The fpeakers on the occafion were, for the question, Mr. Anthony Malone, Mr. Flood, Mr. Huffey, Sir William Mayne, Mr. Fitz-Gibbons, Sir Lucius Obrien, Sir James Cotter, Col. Cunninghame, Mr. Bronlow, Mr. Longfield, Mr. Barry Maxwell, and many others; against

the queftion, the Attorney General, the Prime Serjeant, the Solicitor General, and a few others."

AMERICA.

Extract of a Letter from on Board Admiral Rodney's Fleet at Port Royal, Jamaica, to a Friend in London, dated Sept. 4.

"WE are now getting under fail to go down to Carthagena with a frigate and a floop' of war to inquire into fome infults the Spani ards have given us; they carried his majesty's armed floop, the Sir Edward Hawke, inte Carthagena by force, but have releafed her. On her arrival at Port Royal, Sir George ordered a court-martial on the officer and broke him, for suffering his majesty's colours to be degraded. The merchants have made great complaint of the ill treatment of the Spaniards. They have an hundred English subjects working in irons on their fortifications, whom we are going to demand; but what will be the confequence, God knows! On our return, I fhall be able to give you some further account.

A gentleman is just arrived from the inland fettlements of the province of SouthCarolina, in order to folicit the neceffary encouragement of government toward the culture of vines, of which his feven years experience has proved the practicability of their being brought to great perfection there. Some hundred plants of the three following forts were landed in fine order at Charlestown eighteen months fince, and procured for the purpose by William Bull, Efq; lieutenant governor, viz. Bourdeaux, Oporto,

and Madeira.

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where the infurgents had built hoafes, and, with great difficulty, getting to the top of the eminence, he attacked them with great bravery, and after a ftout refiftance put them to flight. In this attack, a ferjeant was killed and a private man wounded. The captain fearched their houfes, and found them extremely well stored with provifions, cloaths, and other neceffaries. Every thing that he could not carry away he burnt. The rebels are now quite difperfed, and two ftrong parties fcour the woods.

New York, Sept. 23. His Excellency William Franklin, Eiq; governor of New-Jerfey, has published a proclamation, dated Sept, 13, 1771, whereby it is notified, That his majesty, by two feveral orders in council at St. James's bearing date the 17th day of June laft, hath been pleafed, with the advice of his privy council, to declare his difallowance of two acts pafied by the legiflature of that province; one of which paffed in November, 1769, intitled, "An act to erect courts in the fevezal counties in this colony for the trial of caufes of ten pounds and under." The other paffed in March, 1770, intitled, “An aft to explain and amend an act of the General Affembly, intitled, An Act for the relief of infolvent debtors, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

FRANCE.

ARIS, October 25. They write from

P Chantelour, where the Duke de Chor

feul at present refides, that a wing of that castle fell down a fhort time fince before fupper. Happily there was no body in it but a baker, who had the prefence of mind to take refuge in the oven, the roof of which kept firm, and from which he was drawn out again fafe and found. This accident is attributed to fome drains they have lately been making there, in order to carry off the wa ters that paffed under the building.

By letters from Paris we have the following pleafant account: "As the king was alighting from his coach at Verfailles, a perfon who stood in one of the foremoft ranks of the crowd, as foen as his majefty fet foot to the ground, drew his fword, and feemed to prefs towards him; the guards immediately iecured and difarmed him, and brought him before a judge to be examined; when, upon a little enquiry, he was found to be a raw, young country fellow, who was come to Paris to fee fashions, and to Verfailles to fee the king; and finding on his majesty's alighting, the guards drew their swords, he thought he ought to do the fame as a mark of refpect to his majesty; upon which it occafioned a laugh, and he was difcharged."

Paris, Nov. 4. They write from Rennes

that on the 23d of last month, the day an which the members of that parliament had received orders to come there, great number of them arrived, and after mature deliberation, forty-eight figned a proteft agains whatever fhould be done against their body, and the next day twenty-four more joined in the fame proteft. In the afternoon of that day the Duke de Fitz-James, and Mr. Baitard, counsellor of state, arrived, and orders were given in the night for the parliament to meet the 25th. The gates of the palace were locked and guarded, that no perion, except thofe who had a right, might go in. As foon as the parliament met, the Duke de Fitz-James faid, that he came there in obedience to the king's commands, and to execute fome orders which Mr. Bastard would explain to them. This Mr. Bastard proceeded to do, and did not spare to tell them, that the behaviour of the parliament, and the difturbances in the province, which many of the members had contributed to, had brought upon them their difgrace. When he had nnifhed his fpeech, fome arrets of fuppreffion were read, and the members would have entered into debate, but Lettres de Cachet were delivered to them, forbidding them to to do. Afterwards fome erafements were made, and the above proceedings were regiitered, when the members went home; where other Lettres de Cachet were fent to them, ordering them not to ftir out, nor fee any body at home till further orders. On the 26th the magiftrates of the parliament received Letters of Exile, except twenty-feven of them, who make part of the new parliament; the edit for the creation of which was registered the fame day, in an afïembly which met for that purpose, and confifted of hxty magiftrates.

Marseilles, Nov. 20. Monday evening a bear, which had been brought here from Tunis, with feveral other animals, having broke its chains, got out of the place in which they were fhut up. It ran then upon feveral women, who were washing linen near a rivulet, put them to flight, and in their terror made them forget to carry off with them a little girl, twenty two months old, whom the beat devoured: The guards of a neighbouring office belonging to the farms, having run up, fired feveral fhot at the beaft, by which he was at laft tumbled into the rivulet, where they finished him. The next day the proprietor of the animals was obliged to quit the town, after making a recompence to the mother for the lofs of her child.

others by the ftrongeft oaths (which tranfaction paffed at Czenftochau) to deliver the king, dead or alive, to the confederates. He received his majefty's pardon, and then led the king out of the road amongst the bushes by Bilano. After they had travelled an hour in the dark and exceffive bad roads, they arrived at a poor cottage, where his majefty threw himself down quite exhausted on a miferable bed, and fell alleep. From hence advice was fent to general Cocceii, who came immediately with a party of horse, and had the pleasure to lodge his majefty, about four in the morning, fafe in the caftle. His majefty, befides the imminent danger of his life, had every diftrefs to combat with, and this aggravated by two wounds on his head, one by a fabre, and the other by a piftol-ball, which only grazed.

A general thanksgiving was offered up to God for the prefervation of his majefty's life, and Te Deum celebrated in all the churches, with the difcharge of 100 can

non.

The confpirators had been in the city fome days, having got in by means of fome waggons laden with hay.

CORSICA.

Beftia, Oct. 28. We have received a detail of the affair which happened a few days fince between the Mountaineers and a large detachment of French, who went from hence for Ajaccio, under the command of a colonel, lieut. colonel, and a major. This detachment having landed last week, and taking its route by land for Ajaccio, was unexpectedly attacked at the mouth of the Ecriate by a numerous troop of Mountaineers, pofted in ambufcade, who fired upon them fo briskly, that the French, who would have put themfelves into a state of defence, though they faw not the enemy, were foon driven into diforder. A troop of the robbers (fo the French, from whom we have this account,. Ayle thefe brave ijlanders,) then fallyed out of the wood, furrounded them and cut off their paffage, fo that they remained expofed to the fury of the latter, who fired on them on all des. The carnage was great, and the few that remained alive, were obliged to furrender at difcretion. The Corficans took from them their arms and horfe-furniture, after which they difimiffed them; the ftaff-officers and fome fubalterns were detained prifoners, and 6co louis are demanded for their ranfom. The French government, in order to obtain again the officers of diftinction, fome of whom are wounded, have offered 2000 louis, and liberty to feveral Corfican families which are in prifon, but these banditti will not abate of their firft demand. They have taken alfo twenty two mules, laden with baggage and provifion, together with the military cheft, which the detachment were conducting.

Progress of the War between the Ruffians and

the Turks.

Smyrna, Sept. 19. The mafter of a French

veffel from Salonica reports, that the Ruffians have taken the ifle of Negropont, where they found a great quantity of corn, and have broken down the bridge which formed a communication between that ife and the main land.

Conftantinople, Oct. 3. Count Orlow have ing carried off the cattle and corn from the Ife of Negropont, put again to fea with his whole fleet confifting of forty fail, and ar rived at Ofandra in Macedonia, probably in order to provide himself further with provifions, of which he ftands in great need, From thence he proceeded to Cavalla on the fae coaft, which he bombarded for three days, delivered up Orfana, another place on that coaft, carried away part of a large magazine of corn, and burnt the remainder. EGYPT.

Cairo (in Egypt) Aug. 18. Mr. Montague is returned hither, and propofes to fettle at Rolette, where he has ordered his family to join him. At an audience which he had lately of Ali Bey, he claimed the fame ho nours as the beys of the country, because in his firman [paliport] the porte gave him that title, which the Turks through politeness, give to all the officers of Chriftian powers in the Streights of the Levant, from an ambatfador to an interpreter. We know not how he was received in the governor's pa lace; but this is certain that he went thi ther on horfcback, a diftinction granted only to Confuls, other foreigners being obliged to ride on affes.

Letters from Cairo mention, that Ali Bey has renounced the conquefts he had made in Syria, to fecure thofe in Egypt and the Black Sea.