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 moft 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 send several of thofe handbills to the prefent members of administration, 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-Newski, St. George of the fecond clafs, St. Woldmir of the first 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 Peterburgh by water, and there interred with great funeral pomp in the Cathedral church of St. Ca therine, where a monument is to be erected.

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 Mulgrave, 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 eiq. Samuel Prime, efq. Robert Wefton, efq.

And the officers were, fir Jofeph Banks,bart. president; Samuel Wegg, efq. treasurer; Jofeph Planta, etq. and Charles Biagden, M.D. fecretaries.

8th.

The recorder of London had a long conference with lord Sidney, on the fubject of the prefent fituation 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 fending 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.

12th. The poll for the contefted election for Colchester clofed, when the numbers were-for Mr. Tierney, 640-for Mr. Jackfon, 640. The mayor made double return.

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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 around me, to teftify my fatisfaction at the zeal and application which you have obferved in the examination of the different objects which I laid before you. I fhall weigh with attention the refult of your deliberations, and shall prepare every thing which may accelerate the asfembly of the States General; a period that I wish for with much impatience, being affured they will provide an efficatious remedy for the evils of the state."

16th.

A ballot was held at the Eaft-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 lacks of coals to be diftributed among the families of the married men of his regiment, and the fame to be continued every week duringthe feverity of the weather.

DIED. At Paris, in his 62d year, Peter Andrew de Suffrem Saint Tropes, bailey and knight of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, vice-admiral of France, knight of the king's orders, ambaflador at Malta to his Moft Chriftian Majelty, general of that order, commendeur of feveral priories, &c. He greatly diftinguished himself in many gallant actions during the late

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war in the Eaft Indies -Being a knight of Malta, he was buried in the Temple, on the 11th inftant.

In Princes-ftreet, Hanover22d. fquare, Percival Pott, efq. F.R.S. late principal furgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital. He was among the favoured few who are indulged with early eminence. He fucceeded Nourfe, his mafter, at St. Bartholomew's, where, man and boy, he had been occupied above fifty years; and yet, in all that time, who ever found him wanting in any pursuit of urbanity and elegance? He was an interefting converfer; he had cultivated literature; he was fond of art. But his best praise was in real life, in the relative duties, and more trying efforts of active lite. In the pecuniary parts of character, happy is he who can be as liberal. His life had been, if health and comelinefs are fo, uncommonly reputable to his skill. He looked 50 though at 75. He was fent for to a patient out of town. Catching cold, he caught his infant death. He was delirious before night; and before the next night, notwith landing Dr. Millman's affiftance, he was dead. The following is as correct a lift of his publications as we can obtain: 1. "An Account of Tumours which foften the Bones." Phil. Tranf. 1741. No. 459. 2. "A Treatise on Ruptures,' 8vo, London, 1756. 3. "An Account of a particular Kind of Rupture," 8vo, ibid. 1757, 4. A Treatife on the Hydrocele," 8vo, ibid. 1762. 5, "A Treatife on the Fiftula Lachrymalis," 8vo. ibid, 1763. 6. "An Account of a Hernia of the Urinary-Bladder, including a Stone." Phil. Tranf. vol. LIV. for 1764. 7. "Remarks

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on the Fiftula in Ano," 8vo, ibid. 1767. 8. "Some few general Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations," 8vo, ibid. 1768. 9. "Obfervations on the Nature and Confequences of thofe Injuries to which the Head is liable from external Violence," 8vo, ibid. 1768. 10. "Obfervations on Wounds of the Head," 8vo, ibid. 1760 and 1771. 11. "An Account of the Method 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 Nose, 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 Chelsea College. His character and humour bore a striking resemblance to that of the celebrated Dean Swift. By his will he has directed that his body shall not fuffer any funeral 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. Forster, of Union-court, Broad-ftreet.-In purfuance of the doctor's fingular will, Mr. Forfter has fince given a dif

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courfe, in the theatre of Guy's Hofpital, to the medical ftudents and a confiderable number of intelligent vifitors, on the diffe&tion of the body. He introduced the fubject by a fketch of the mental powers of Dr. Mounfey, obferving, that his understanding was very compre henfive, that his genius and wit ranked him high in the literary world, that his company was courted by men of the firit character for talents and diftinction, and that he retained the strength of his judgement, and the liveliness of his fancy, to the very advanced period at which his life ended.-Mr. Forfter then vindicated the doctor from all affectation, vanity, or whim, in having ordered his body for diffection, and prohibited all funeral ceremony, ftating, 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 unneceffary form.

10. Lady Carysfort, of a daughter.

18. At Copenhagen, her royal highnefs princess Sophia Frederica, of a princefs.

24. Lady Boynton, of a daughter.

26. Lady of Gerard Edward Noel, efq. of a daughter.

27. Right hon. lady Kin naird, of a fon. March 10. Lady Macdonald, of a fon.

21. Right hon. Lady Boston, of a fon.

24. Right hon. lady Louvaine, of a fon.

29. Her royal highness the princefs of Afturias, of a fon. April 4. Lady of fir Paulett St. John, bart. of a daugh

Jan. 14. Edward Miller Mundy, efq. of Shipley, member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, to the right hon. lady dowager Middleton. 23. The hon. fir Francis Drake, bart. admiral of the blue, to miss Onflow, only daughter of George Onflow, efq. many years member of parliament for Guildford, Surrey. 26. Sir John Rous, bart. member of parliament for Suffolk, to miss Wilfon, only daughter and heiress of the late Edward Warter Wilfon, efq. of Bilboa, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland. Samuel Whitbread, efq. junior, to mifs Grey, daughter of fir Charles Grey, knight of the Bath and Thiftle. Lately, in Dublin, the right hon. lord vif count Jocelyn, to miís Bligh, of Merrionbuildings, eldest daughter of the dean of Elphin.

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2. Lord viscount Wentworth, to the countefs Ligonier.

14. The earl of Aylesbury, to lady Ann Rawdon. March 4. Lord Glasgow, to lady

E. Hay, third daughter of the countess of Errol.

6. Sir John Sinclair, bart. to the hon. mifs Macdonald.

11. Richard Grofvenor, efq. member of parlia

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