the number. The gentleman, after calculating the fame by figures, faid he was wrong." Stop maffa," replied the black, "you forgot the leap years ;" and on including them, the gentleman found the black was precifely right. This flave is a native of Africa, and could neither write nor read; neither could Jededia Buxton. The publication of thefe facts feems to have an end in view, which, however, will by no means leffen their credit, when reported by doctor Rush, on his own knowledge. Ireland. A most extraordinary circumftance occurred lately at Mullingar. A man about three years ago murdered his ftep-mother in the open day; and the alarm being given, a gentleman, with his attendant, properly armed, repaired to the place in order to apprehend him. While the party were engaged in breaking open the ftreet-door, he contrived to make his efcape backward, and going round, mounted the gentleman's horte, and rode clear off. He was not heard of for about three years; but on the 27th inftant, went to the fheriff of the county of Weftmeath, and voluntarily furrendered himself; though remote from punishment, and living orderly, he had acquired the reputation of an honest man. The following interesting 22d. point of law was argued and determined in the court of common pleas, before lord Loughborough. Mr. Williams, an auctioneer, was employed by Mr. Crown. of Brompton, to fell his furniture by auction, on the premises. A Mr. Millington, who had a claim of five guineas on Crown, had goods knocked down to him at the auction, for Was committed to the το to fhoot his wife and child, with a gun loaded with three flugs, which, though he fnapped it twice, fortunately miffed fire. In a fcuffle which enfued, the wife twisted the gun out of his hands, and discharged its contents on the firft pull of the trigger. 30th. Lord George Gordon, of whom we have heard nothing material for fome time, has lately taken occafion to caufe feveral hand-bills to be diftributed, in which many texts of Scripture are molt fcandaloufly applied to the unhappy ftate of the king. They are chiefly felected from the books of Deuteronomy and Kings. His lordship, in order to fhew government that what Mofes and the prophets wrote in refpect to the fovereigns of thofe days, would anfwer for any monarch in hundreds of centuries afterwards, thought proper to fend feveral of those handbills to the prefent members of adminiftration, avowing himself as the author. The applications evidently made, and the effects palpably intended, were to alienate from his majesty the affections of his people, by the moft fcandalous perverfion of the texts above-mentioned. As this proceeding was of a very criminal nature, orders were immediately fent to the fheriff to fearch his lordship's apartments, and difcover whether he had any means of printing fuch treafonable libels in Newgate. Accordingly fir Benjamin Hammet went, on Thursday, the 28th day of November, to lord George Gordon's apartment, on the felons fide in Newgate, and tore down two copies from the walls of the room. He informed his lord fhip, that thofe papers made a great difturbance in the city, and threatened to remove his lordship to a worfe room. Lord George told the fheriffs, he was under the power of his enemies, in a loathfome prison, and they might do as they thought most prudent for themselves; as to the printer, he was known to nobody but himself. DIED-Lately, of a violent fever, on board his fhip the Rotiflaw, at Revel, admiral Samuel Carlowitch Greig, chief governor of the port of Cronstadt, chevalier of the orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander-Newfki, St. George of the second clafs, St. Woldmir of the fird clafs, and St. Anne; and admiral and commander-in-chief of the em prefs of Ruffia's fleet.--His remains have been conveyed from Revel to Petersburgh by water, and there interred with great funeral pomp in the Cathedral church of St. Ca therine, where a monument is to be erected. DECEMBER. The royal fociety held their anniversary meeting, at their apartments in Somerfet-place in the Strand, when the prefident, fir Jofeph Banks, bart. in the name of the fociety, prelented the gold medal (called fir Godfrey Copley's) to Charles Blagden, M. D. Sec. R. S. for his two papers "On Congela tior." The prefideat on this occafion delivered the customary difcourfe on the fubjects contained in Dr. Blagden's papers. Afterwards the fociety proceeded to the choice of the council, and offi. cers for the enfuing year, when, on examining examining the ballots, it appeared, that the following gentlemen were elected of the council: Of the old council, fir Jofeph Banks, bart. Charles Blagden, M.D. Richard Brocklefby, M.D. Henry Cavendish, efq. the reverend Lewis Dutens, M.A. Thomas Emlyn, efq. the reverend Nevil Mafkelyne, D.D. Conftantine john lord Mulgrave, fir William Musgrave, bart. Jofeph Planta, efq. Samuel Wegg, efq. Of the new council, John Douglas lord bishop of Carlisle, Francis marquis of Carmarthen, Charles Combe, M.D. George Fordyce, M.D. fir Abraham Hume, bart. Thomas Barnard lord bishop of Killaloe, Francis Millman, M.D. John Peachey. elq. Samuel Prime, esq. Robert Wefton, efq. And the officers were, fir Jofeph Banks,bart. prefident; Samuel Wegg, efq treaturer; Jofeph Planta, eiq, and Charles Blagden, M.D. fecretaries. The recorder of London had 8th. a long conference with lord Sidney, on the subject of the prefent fitution of the prifons of the metropolis, and the number of convicts that are increafing to an alarming degree, owing to the delay of fending abroad thofe under fentence of tranportation. The feafon is over for tending them to Quebec and Nova Scotia; but affurances have been given, that two fhips, properly fitted up, fhall be ready, by the latter end of March next, to carry convicts to America. The poll for the contefted 12th. election for Colchefter clof ed, when the numbers were-for Mr. Tierney, 640-for Mr. Jackfon, 640. The mayor made double return. a The affembly of the Notables, which met at Verfailles on the 6th of November, was diffolved by the French king in perfon. The following is a tranflation of his fpeech: "Gentlemen, in terminating your meetings, I affemble you a round me, to teftify my fatisfaction. at the zeal and application which you have observed in the examination of the different objects which 1 laid before you. I thall weigh with attention the refult of your deliberations, and thall prepare every thing which may accelerate the affembly of the States General; a period that I with for with much impatience, being affured they will provide an efficatious remedy for the evils of the ftate." 16th. A ballot was held at the Eat-India houfe for the choice of a director, in the room of the late Mr. Michie: at fix o'clock the glaffes were clofed; and at feven the fcrutineers declared the numbers as follows: For Mr. David Scott, 568 Mr. Robert Jenner, 283 Upon which Mr. Scott was declared duly elected This day his royal highnefs the duke of York ordered 260 jacks of coals to be diftributed among the families of the married men of his regiment, and the fame to be continued every week during the feverity of the weather. DIED. At Paris, in his 62d year, Peter Andrew de Suffren Saint Tropes, bailey and knight of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, vice-admiral of France, knight of the king's orders, ambafiador at Malta to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, general of that order, commendeur of feveral priories, &c. He greatly diftinguifhed himfelf in many gallant actions during the late war war in the Eaft Indies -Being a on the Fistula in Ano," 8vo, ibid. 1767. 8. "Some few general Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations," 8vo, ibid. 1768. 9. “Oh. fervations on the Nature and Confequences of thofe Injuries to which the Head is liable from external Vi. olence," 8vo. ibid. 1768. 10. "Obfervations on Wounds of the Head," 8vo, ibid. 1760 and 1771. 11. "An Account of the M-thod of obtaining a perfect or radical Cure of the Hydrocele, or Watery Rupture, by means of a Seton," 8vo, ibid. 1771. 12. "Chirurgical Obfervations relative to the Cataract, the Polypus of the Nofe, the Cancer of the Scrotum, the different Kinds of Ruptures, and the Mortification of the Toes and Feet," 8vo, London, 1775. All thefe different works have been collected and published in one volume quarto. 26th. At his apartments at Chelfea College, in his 95th year, Meffenger Mounfey, M. D. For a confiderable time he was family phyfician to the late earl of Godolphin, and phyfician to Chelfea College. His character and humour bore a striking refemblance to that of the celebrated Dean Swift. By his will he has directed that his body fhall not fuffer any faneral ceremony, but undergo diffection; after which, the mainder of his carcafe (to use his own expreffion) may be put into a hole, or crammed into a box with "holes, and thrown into the Thames," at the pleasure of the furgeon. The furgeon to whom he has affigned this charge is Mr. Forfer, of Union-court, Broad-ftreet.-In purfaance of the doctor's fingular will, Mr. Forfter has fince given a dif- course, . re courfe, in the theatre of Guy's Hofpital, to the medical ftudents and a confiderable number of intelligent visitors, on the diffection of the body. He introduced the iubject by a sketch of the mental powers of Dr. Mounsey, observing, that his understanding was very comprehenfive, that his genius and wit ranked him high in the literary world, that his company was court- ' ed by men of the firit character for talents and diftinction, and that he retained the strength of his judgement, and the livelinefs of his fancy, to the very advanced period at which his life ended.-Mr. Forfter then vindicated the doctor from all affectation, vanity, or whin, in haying ordered his body for diffection, and prohibited all funeral ceremony, flating, that whatever of fingularity might appear in his will was refolvable merely into a zeal for knowledge, and a defire of benefiting mankind, as he conceived. that a diffection of his body would lead to the illuftration of much useful truth. He mentioned alfo the philofophic contempt in which the doctor held all funeral pomp, and every fpecies of unneceflary form. 13. Lady John Ruffell, of a fon. 19. Countess of Altamont, of a fon and heir. 21. Her imperial highness the great duchels of Tufcany, of a princefs. Lately, the countess of ter. 8. Lady Compton, of a fon. 11. Lady Swinburne, of a fon and heir. 19. Lady Calthorpe, of a daughter. 21. Right hon. Countefs Kinnoul, of a daughter. July |