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to the Jews, great numbers of those people have fet
tled in that city and at Tubingen. The state of po
pulation in the above Dtitchy, taken in May last,
from the nicest calculation, amounted to 645,827, of
which number upwards of 1100 were of the Jewilh
religion.
July 8. Letters from Trieste of the rith of
June, advise, " That the Bafhaws of Scutari and
Bosnia are in full rebellion against the grand Seignior,
and are marching at the head of a considerable army;
, and that by their motions they seem to carry devasta
tion where-ever they go."
The Prince Royal of Denmark, who is now in his
eighteenth year, will visit England next spring. He
will make his voyage in a beautiful yacht, which is
building in Deptford yard, and is meant as a present
from his Majesty to the Danish Prince.
July 19 —30. Commodore Levefon Gower, takes
out one of his own sons in his voyage with Prince
William.
The Prince, besides the immediate objed of his
profeffion, is to pass some time at the principal places
in the Mediterranean; so that the usual accomplish
ments of foreign travel 'to the south of Europe, poli
cy, commerce, and the imitative arts, will be going
on, as well as the pursuits of the nautical science and
experience.
The Lord Mayor, some days ago, had an agreea
ble party of musical friends to dine at the manfion
houfe. Mr. Boswell was one of the company; and
rung in the magnificent Egyptian Hall an instrument
which his lordship, and all his guests but one, had
never heard before. This was a Chinese gong, or
vibrating bell, which, when struck with a kind of
baton, having its end covered with a clue of cordage,
or some other foft fttiff, produces a very noble found,
louder than that of the great bell of St. Paul's, but
more melodious. Mr. Boswell's gong is one of the
largest and best that ever was brought to England.
It was promised to him as a gift by the late Charles
Foulis, Esquire, of Woodford, in Essex; but he
having died without delivering it, or making any
deed concerning it, his intention was liberally fulfilled
by Robert Preston, Esquire, member for Dover, late
high-fheriff for Eflex, and the heir of Mr. Foulis's
estates and extensive East-India interest. It is
thought that this instrument, which yields a wonder
full swell and prolongation of the found, may by
some of our eminent musicians be modulated so as to
have an important effed in concerns of a solemn or
warlike cast.
, hey write from Peterfburgh, that the Empress,
with the grand Duke and Duchess, in a train of
eleven coaches, and upwards of forty horsemen, set
out on the Bth ult. on a grand tour, in which they
were to be absent two months or more. The Czari
na is going to show herfelf in her new acquired do
minions. Caravans of provisions, &c. have been sent
forward, and every possible pains taken to accommo
date the illustrious travellers.
Letters from Cadiz, dated June 4, mention, that
authentic accounts had been received from the Ha
vannah of an epidemical dysentery having, during the
months of March and April last, broke' out in that
city, and carried off upwards off 1000 of the inha
bitants.
The fame disorder, the above advices mention, had
desolated the town of Santa Cruz, about thirty miles
from Havannah, and prevailed in most of the settle
ments on the Island of Cuba.
Extras of a letter from Paris, July 1.
“ Two Turks, persons of rank, and their ladies
with several servants, have arrived in this city with
in these few days; and we find they have fled
hither on account of the late beheadings at Constan
tinople. One of them was an officer of the Kaha
zine; and one day, on the opening of the Divan,
forgetting to give the keys of the former to the Vi
zir, he was seized and thrown into prison, but found
means to escape, and got to Europe. This is the
story as it passes here. In the Kahazine the registers
of receipts are kept, as well as a great part of the
Grand Seignior's wardrobe; and on particular days
this treasury is opened for the purpose of putting in
or taking out something. The principal officer be
longing to it breaks the wax that seals up the key
hole, and carrying it to the Vizier, the latter kisses
it, and then they proceed to business."
Ihe city of London police-bill consists of three
heads :
First. To establish a board of commiflioners, who
{hall attend solely to the execution of the laws
throughout the metropolis.
Secondly. To establish publick offices in different
parts of the town, where justices should do business -
all the fees being to be payable as a stamp duty, and
not to the justice or his clerk.
Thirdly. To establish a more frequent session at
the Old Bailey; that those who are innocent may be
speedily difeharged, and those who are guilty as
speedily puniffied.'
Whatever squibs may be thrown out refpeding
Mr. Adams, that gentleman conducts himfelf with
great good sense, in not regarding them. As the re
presentative of what should be the freeft country un
der Heaven, he can never be offended with the free
dom of the press, or any other freedom of a free
people.
A letter from Antwerp, dated June 16, fays, " we
have accounts that some alterations have taken place
in the destination of the Austrian troops, some of
whom are ordered to remain at Namur, and others
to remain at Tirlemont; nevertheless, no war is ex
pe&ed; on the contrary, it is universally said, that
an accommodation of all the differences is fettled, the
conditions of which will soon be made publick."
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American Intelligence.
K I NGST O N, (Jamaica) July 27.
After a trial of many hours, Johnson, the notori
ous pirate, so long confined in the goal of this town,
was, on Monday, condemned to be hanged in chains,
on the fame gallows with Keating, the accomplice in
his atrocious crimes. Great merit, no doubt, is due
to the zeal and force with which pleaders defend the
causes of their clients : but surely the world must fay,
that wit and ability are sorely prostituted, to make
humanity revolt at the exercise of them. The coun
sel's pleadings in his defence, long, forcible and in
genious, had that effe& upon the court. The axiom,
that 6 no person is guilty before he is condemned,'
found no room in the breast of any present. Such
were the natural effeds of those black crimes, pi
racy and murder!
Bost o n, August 29.
Friday last died, much lamented, in the 54th year
of his age, captain John Gill, for many years a
Printer in this metropolis.— A friend to his country
and mankind, whose integrity and industry were e
qually conspicuous, and not to be unnoticed.
Sept. 15. While our fair ones bestow every at
tention to the enlarging, decorating and loading their
heads with unnecessary and ridiculous ornaments;
they, on the other hand, seem as studious (contrary
to all ideas that real modesty inspire) to expose in
pure nature, ano less love-inciting part, their fa,
bosoms to publick view.—But, as the guardians of
publick virtue, we are bound to pay as much attenti
on to the heart as to the bead, we will lay before
these dear fair ones the words of the learned Dur
ham; and what is said by him is the sentiments of all
wife and virtuous persons on this immodest practice.
His words are, " how many do openly profefs their
inward uncleanness, by laying open to the common
view their naked breasts, as though it were a bill
affixed to the deor-pofts, to lignify to the passers by,
that within that place dwells an unclean heart; and
that wliofoever will, may buy honesty and chastity at
an easy rate.""
N E W-Y O R K, September 15.
Last week a child of three years old was run over
through wanton cruelty, by a Carman of this city,
and its head crushed in a shocking manner, which
terminated its life instantly. she disconsolate mother,
a poor widow, had about ten days since buried two
other children ; this fatal event, added to her other
calamities, so preyed upon her spirits, as to deprive
her of reason, and on Sunday, in a lit of lunacy, threw
herfelf into the river and was drowned.
It is said that two of the criminals who escaped out
of goal previous to the fitting of the present court
are re-taken, and properly secured in their former'
lodgings; one of them proves to be the Mulatto fel
low, Benson, a notorious thief and house breaker, he
made a Rout resistance, and his assailants were obliged
to fire at, and wound him before he surrendered.
To such an alarming height has burglary arrived in
the outsorts of this city, that fcarely a night elapses
without some depredations being committed. A hint
to houlholders, and the conservators of the peace.
Sept. 17. Last Tuesday evening was married, by
the Reverend Dodor Rogers, the Honourable Jacob
Read, Esq one of the delegates in Congress from
the state of South-Carolina, to Miss Catharine
Van-Horne, third daughter of the late worthy Da
vid Van-Horne, Esq.
' " A matchiefs pair,
“ With equal virtue form'd and equal grace
" The fame, diftinguifh'd by their sex alone-'
" Her's the mild luftre of the blooming mo^n,
And his the radiance of the risen day."
nThomson. —
Ihe ffiips Hendricks, captain Clarke, the Mont
^™ e %y' captain Bunyan, and Jenny, captain Smith,
with Supplies of winter goods, were to fail from the
river 1 hames on or about the firft of August, for this
port. °
A letter from Salem, dated September 11, menti
ons, That the schooner Amity, the property of capt.
James Duncanfon, which was lately seized and wreft
by the piratical crew (as lately menti
oned in this paper) 1S taken and carried into Salem.
Capt. Ingersoll, from this place for Salem, spoke her on
the coast, and on his arrival gave information, when
Mr. Elias Hafket Derby, merchant, with sundry
other gentlemen, went in pursuit of said schooner,
fell in with her near the land, captured, and con
ducted her fafe into port. In consequence of this a
greeable intelligence, captain Duncanfon yesterday
morning set off from this city for Salem.
Sept. 20. A brig lately arrived at Halifax from
Glasgow, with a number of convi&s; but they were
not buffered to land at that place. Upon which Ihe
immediately took her departure for Shelburne.
The many instances of gallant actions performed in
shrubberies, seem to call to remembrance Eve tempt
ing Adam in the garden: while others think that the
ladies choose a garden, in order that their consciences
may not accuse them of having defiled the marriage
bed.
A French brig from Oftend, bound to Philadel
phia, foundered in light of the ship faithful Steward
(related in our last) but the crew were saved by tak
ing to their boat.
Ihe ship Congress, capt. M'Clenachan, from Lon
donderry, with near five hundred pafTengers, is ar
rived at Philadelphia.
Last Friday the sloop Unity, captain Nicholas
Bailey, arrived here from New-Providence, where
the captain, having sprung a leak at lea, had put in
in distress, and immediately waited on the governor,
who ordered him to the collector; and notwithstand
ing he was short of water, and in a leaky condition,
the collector told him he could not repair until he
went to the judge of the admiralty and got a warrant
of survey of three mariners and two fhip-ca/penters;
which he obtained, and the surveyors judged her not
fit for sea, yet he was allowed only one day to refit,
and informed if he did not depart in forty-eight hours
he ffiould be seized, and vessel and cargo confifeated:
This severe injunction compelled him to return here
again with the whole of his cargo, except so mucl^
as was necessary to defray the expences, which were.
70 pieces of eight to the judge of the admiralty and
surveyors; 21 to the governor; to his secretary ft
puppy <wl)o damn'd him and all the Americans for
a rebellious set of rascals) 15. —
September 21.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman at Barbados, da
ted Augif 11, to his friend in Portfmoutb, Neou-
Hampshire.
" We have been much distressed lately, and are still,
for want of corn, which has been up as high as two
dollars per bushel, and is now from Bs. 9 d. to 10s.
There is a miserable profped for the ensuing crop;
having had no rain of any consequence since you left
us so that the canes are almost dead, and in fad,
little or nothing of any thing on the earth; the crop
of corn is entirely loft. Lumber is high, but must
be higher very soon if the report is true that no Bri
tish yelTel will be admitted into your ports—in short
the inlands will be involved in the utmost distress.
Ihe captains of the men of war, and the cus
tom-house officers, are all very ftrid here, and in
deed all over the Weft-Indies. Several veflels that
were registered, and absolutely owned here, have
been seized on account of their having been built on
the continent, and not navigated according to law,
10 you may judge what a disagreeable situation we are
in at present."
n ^JI" ° ELPHI A, September 17.
Thurfda X the Honourable the General Affem-
L I a r c ° mmittee > consisting of the Speaker and
a Member from each county, presented the following
Address, which was read by the Speaker.
To the Honourable Benjamin Franklxn, Esq.
L. L. D.&c.
THE representatives of the freemen of the com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met,
in the most aftedionate manner, congratulate you on
your fafe arrival in your native country, after so longan
absence on the most important business.—We likewise
congratulate you on the firm establishment of the in
dependence of America, and the settlement of a ge
neral peace, after the interesting struggle in which we
were 10 long engaged.
We are confident, fir, that we speak the senti
ments of this whole country, when we fay that your
Services, in the publick councils and negociations,
have not only merited the thanks of the present gene
ration, but will be recorded in the pages of history,
to your immortal honour.—And it is particularly
pleating to us, that while we are fitting as members
of the assembly of Pennsylvania— we have the happi
nels of welcoming into the state, a person who was
10 greatly instrumental in forming its free and ex
cellent constitution.
May it please God to give you a serene and peace
ful enjoyment of the evening of life, and a participati
on of that happmefs you have been so inftiumental in
lecuring to others.
Signed by order of the house,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
To which the following answer was received:
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,
I AM extremely happy to find by your friendly and