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‘ gimcr.t will always ^ with a Dignity fndi
•• Patriotifin becoming the military Profeffion, |
& - acquitting &mfc!v§s, and ading on every
'Occasion confident with the Oath and fo
'' lemn Engagement, they have this Day en=
" tercd into, and not only transmit theii
i < Honor and Colours unsullied to I'oßerity,
" but also individually confider, they are en
•' titled, nay bound to atchieve Feats, worthy
" of shining in the Page of History.
Cfe And farther, to mark, to encourage, and|
^ to reward Merit,----As an inticement to
46 Virtue and Worth, to correct Errors, and
'' to attempt at lead reclaim ng all those, not
" incorrigibly addicted to Vice-—An Order
" of Merit will be cfmbldhed in this Corps ;
'' Those who will fortunately acquire the
b< Honor of being admitted to that rdpedablel
<: Situation, will be dißinguifned by Medals, I
" which as soon as prepared, will be ^pub-|
“ lickly (and in the molt Mattering Manner).
“ bellowed on all those, who have served one
" Year in the Battalion, without ever having;
'' been confined, tried, or punished, to thole
“ who have been confined and tried, tho not]
" punched, and who will behave unexceptional
“ bly for the Space of Hx Month: from this .
“ Date ;-^And to those who have been only
" confided, but neither tried, or purified,
" who will behave unexceptionably for three
'' Months from this Date respectively, the
'' Medals and Admission to the Order will %
' also be granted.
" And net to exclude all hopes from even
“ the unhappy Delinquents, whole Conversion ;
66 and Recovery from the Errors <f their for- ]
" mer Conduct is ardently willed, (as the ;
" Circumßance cf nailing under the Gohurs, I
*' which is now to take Place, is considered as I
D'Nrfer the Prince and Priftceßes cf Brazil
are hl at prefect. The Queen found herfelf
LGifunfed laß Saturday, and the next Day the
fen des appeared, but the Physicians declare
Gro be so good a Sort, that they do not pre-
KrTe Bleeding, and that her Majeßy has
c.nrv Symptom cf a speedy Recovery.
Unrest, A;ril 17. The last Letters from
IR me mention, that fume frefa Attempts of
r.',- lefuirs to resume a Sort of Re-exigence
Ite been discovered. They secretly chose
rhe Abbot Buxas, a Jesuit and Confeffor of
Church cf SoPeter, to be their General: |
The Vifeount di Ponte di Lima is appointed
Minifrer and Secretary of State, vacant by the
.Difmiffion of the Marquis de Pombal.
Llarcb 23 The Infanta Donna Maria Anna
is entirely recovered from Lie Measles, of which
“ On Account of the great Regard and
F.\.nn that the late King my Father had for
the Marquis if Pombal, and the said Marquis
having represented to us, that his great Age
and Infirmities preventing him from being able
to continue any longer in our Royal Service,
he desired his Difmiffion from all his public
Employments, and to retire to bis Estate of
Pombal. Touched with these Reasons, we,
grant him his Difmiffion ; but we will that he
should erjy all the Appointments he poffoffed
as Secretary of State, and by a special Favour
we grant him the Order of St. Chrirt, in
the ArchbiPnoprick of Brague, vacant by the
Death of Francois de Mellole Castro."
Marquis of Pemb 1 left this Capital
fl the 6th of this Month to pass the rest of
bis Days at his EBate of Pombal. Before his
Departure he received the following Note from
the Queen :
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L I J B O N, March 11.
Their Epißolary Coriefpondence Las also been
discovered, and the Abbot Buxas has been
forbid to assume that Title any longer. The
Court of Rome did all they could to keep this
Affair secret, but molt of the Circumßances
have tranipired, and have been the Occalion
of many Satires againit the Holy See: THs
is not the only Affa r which chagrines the
Pope ; the famous Valcntano has made fits
Holiness very unealy, by predicting that he
would not live above two Years and four
Months; and it is in vain that they attempted
to hide this Prediction from the Holy framer,
who it is thought is very uneaiy, left it Ihouid
be accomplilhed as it was with his Preucceßur.
Brety^s, April M. An Ordinance lias been
published here for prolonging, during the Perm
of one year, the Ordinance of tne 27th of
April, 1776, prohibiting the applying tne
B.itiih Colonies in America with warlike
Stores; and it is to continue in Free until
the .7th of April, 177^
Madrid, A/A 5. It was thought that the
Diimifuon 01 the Marquis of bomba, frame
Minihei of the couit'f Lilbon, would have
quietted the Portuguese Nation ; but we are
informed that the Nobility inliit upon having
the Prosecutions under his Minihry reviled.
The Liberty which has been restored to many
great Families does not ie&m to content them:
The cnl) Remnant of the Family of Tavora,
moll of whom died upon tne Scaffold, on
Account of the Attempt againit the Lite of
the late King, has refufed his Pardon, and
joins with tne Commander Andrada in de
manding a publick Satisfaction of the Mar
quis of Pombal.
April 29. We have been favoured with the
following Particulars of the extensive Plan now
carying into, execution by Colonel Watson,
near Calcutta, which will ffiew its great Im
portance to the British Nation. 1. A Marine
Yard, near a Mile and a Half in Extent.
2 Four dry Docks, two of which are to be of
Efficient Capacity for receiving at any Spring
Tide any of his Majesty's Ships of War.
3 Two Slips for building fuca Ships as may
be warned for the Commerce of Asia. 4. A
wet Dock Efficient to contain fifty fail of Ships,
thi- will be a work of the most ufeful Kind to
the Merchants of Calcutta in particular, as
their Ships will lie here in perfect Security,
free from Rifque by Wind, Current, or Tide.
5. g Saw Mill, worked by Water. 6. Ten
Store H >ufes, each one hundred and fix Feet
long, and forty Feet wide. 7. A Brick Build
ing, eight hundred and sixty Feet long, and
fifty fix Feet wide, contiguous to the Slips
April 26. A Letter from Paris, dated the
14th inst fays, “ The principal Prize in the
French Annuity Lottery is fallen to the Lot
of an English Gentleman and is worth 400,000
Livres.
April 22. A curious Crocodile has lately
been sent from Calcutta, and presented to the
Royal Society. It was an Inhabitant of the
Ganges, has a small narrow Beak like a Bird,
and a Paunch, or open Purse, in the Middle
of the Belly, in which it is fid it receive its
Young in the Time of Danger, in a similar
Manner to the American Animal caded the
Opoflum. This Crocodile is a Non-defcript,
and is likely to furnish great Matter of Spe
culation to the Virtuosi.
April 17. On Tuesday was tried at Chester
Samuel Thoiley, a butcher's follower, at
Congieton, in tnat county, tor the murder of
Ann Smith, a balland-iinger, aged twenty-two.
It appeared in proof, that the prisoner met
the Geccafed in a footway near Congleton, and
prevailed ors her to accompany him to a hol
low place at a small durance from the road ;
where he feverea her head from her body ;
cut her arms, legs, thighs, aim bleaks off ;
tooks her bowels and tongue out ; and, alter
having cut off the calves of her legs, and
other Beihy parts, he threw what remained of
the carcAsinto a brook. His motive for thus
disjointing her was, very probable, a perfua
fon that thele small parts wuum be ipeeaily
carried by the flood into a river that was at
no great diltar.ee from the biook. Having by
thele means, as he thought, iecured himfelf
from a possibility of detention, he placed the
parts he cefigned for food in his apr 11, car
ried them to the nouie cf an old woman, and
told her, tear he had received from a butcher,
who had been driving pigs on the road, the
Hifh of tne hat died, which he desired she
would put up for him. The next morning he
called upon her, and asked leave to boil, what
he called, his pork; which being granted,
after dressing, he eat part of it for breakfaft ;
finding it disagree with him, he desired the
woman to throw, the remainder away. But
her daugh er, who looked upon it as real pork,
boiled it for the greafc.---Soon after, some
men, who had occalion to pass the brook, ob
served a petticoat in the water, which awaken
ing their suspicion, they searched attentively,
and found all the limbs, the breaks and tongue,
of a human Body, and removed them to a'
barn. The head and face being Den by an
old woman in the neighbourhood, she inflant
ly exclaimed, " It is poor Anu bmith, the
ballad-finger.'' The prisoner alhftedin learch
ing for the remains of the body, and exprefied
a ttrong deicltation of the unknown murderer.
On his being questioned what could induce
him to commit lo horrid a crime, he answered,
J hat having frequently heard that human
fiefh rtftmbled young pig in taste, curiosity
prompted him to try if it was true. After
full proof of the above fact, the Jury found
.the prif ncrgu Ity ; and he was sentenced to be
hanged in chains on a heath near Congleton,
not far frt in the place where the fact wao com
mitted. He was on Ihurfday executed agree
able to his sentence.
LONDO N,
and dry Decks, containing a Range of v>yrk
ihops for Carpenters, Sawyers, and Smiths,
with Houles for Plank and Naval Stores. 3.
Two Squares, surrounded with Rooms, one
for the Men, and the oilier for the Women,
Artificers, and Labourers, fufficient for lodg
ing 600 People; besides a Sluice for landing
rich Merchandise; which it is apprehended
will prove of great Advantage to the Company.
Letters from Venice, dated March 30, men
tion, that accounts had been received from
Conhantinople of two Ruffian Men cf War
having been wrecked on the Coast of Asia Mi
nor, ihe Beginning of last Month; and that
only 30 of their Crew had been saved, who
were treated with great Hospitality by the
Ottomans, and lent to Smyrna, where a Ship
from Peterfburgh had received them on board.
Extras of a Letter from a Gentleman at Crom
bie Punt, near 1 orryburn, April 1.
“ On the Night between Monday and
Tuesday fe'nnight, several Acres of Ground,
whe^e Coal had been wrought below, funk,
and threatened the immediate Deflrudion of
both the Coal and Sal: Works of this Place,
by an Inundation of Water. The Salt Works,
1 am afraid, are loft for some Time : Fifty
Hories and 150 Men have been employed
ever since; but when they thought they had
got the better of it, another Sink happened
on Saturday Night last ; and this Morning,
when one of the Gentlemen belonging to the
Work was going over the Ground he heard a
Noise refcmbling Thunder, and the Earth
trembled as from the Shock of an Earth
quake; in a few Minutes alter he found the
Ground on which he walked going down ;
and in an Instant, the Face of a Rock, of 14.
Feet, Shewed itfclf at his Back. Luckily,
however, no Lives have been loft; for, as
the Giouud falls down in large Spaces, and
is much agitated before it finks, the People
employed in the Works have Time to retreat."
Extras of a letter from MaLfone, April fr
" James Franklin, for robbing Mrs. Har
vey and two other Ladies, was executed here
on Thursday last ; his Behaviour was remark
ably undaunted ; he would put the Halter
round his Neck himfelf; after which he de
sired the Spectators to take warning, and
jumped off with a Force that was enough to
pull his Head off, giving three more severe
Plunges afterwards.
" At the Place of Execution he gave to the
Chaplain a written Confeffion, wherein he
declares the Innocence of one William Davis,
now in Newgate, in robbing John Sawbridge,
Esq; on the Brentford Road, but that he was|
the Robber ; and that he also robbed the Do
ver and Canterbury Machines, two Post-
Chaises and a Chariot, about eight Months
ago, one after the other, between Shooter's
Hill and Blackheath ; and had robbed on the ,
Highway between five and fix Years."
Extras of a letter from the Hague, April 8. [
" The last letters from Madrid mention,
that after the ftiideft researches to find out the ;
authors of the pretended conspiracy against
the life of the King, it was found to be a<
falfe alarm of one of the guards, whom ava-,
rice had engaged to invent this Rory, inl
hopes cf being well rewarded. He has been ;
arreiled, and has confeffed all ; but though he [
deserves death, the King has mitigated his|
punishment to an exile at Porto Rico, and has;
I graciouily promised to maintain his wife aud;
fix children."
Extratl of a letter from Paris, April 21.
" The Blocking and execrable machinati-i
ons of Buri des Rues, so called from his two |
names ot Buri and Rues, the imprisonment of
whom and his Wife, for the fuppoled murder |
of Madam de la Mothe and her lon, has been
several times mentioned, are at last discovered.
Madam de la Mothe is found, but actually 1
murdered, and the following account of that 1
inhuman affair is just come to light.
" A woman who lived in Mortellerie-greet,|
at the sign of the Pewter-pot, having let to a :
person unknown a cellar, two months since,,
into which on'the 2d of February last were i
brought two large hampers, which she thoughtj
were tilled with wine, being uneasy at not §
feeing the person again, to whom hie let thej
cellar, and Bruck with the Bory of Madam |
de la Mothe and her fon's sudden disappear-,
ance, went to a commissary and related the 1
tranfaftion. On Friday last, the commiffary,|
with proper assistants, went to the aforefaidl
cellar, and putting his project into execution, !
found, four feet and a half below the furfacel
of the earth, the entire body of a woman, |
which was immediately known to be that of
Madam de la Mothe. As the cellar had been
new foiled, and Madam de la Mothe put in a
very sandy place, the body appeared as frefh
as if it had been interred but a short time.
The surgeons of the Chatelet were called,
and upon opening the body, immediately de
clared Madam de la Mothe had been poisoned.
Des Rues was conduced the fame evening to
the cellar, where he denied that it. was the
body of Madam de la Mothe, and infilled on
it, even in contradiction of the woman of the
house and her two daughters, that he never
was in the cellar or the house. Thus the af
fair remains at present. We are ignorant as
yet what is become cf the child ; but the
common report is, that he was assassinated and
buried in Boulogne wood, where it is known
Des Rues tool; the child out to walk with him.
“ Scarcely a generation has given an ex
ample of such a deep and villainous design,
executed with all possible cunning and human
precaution. A thousand Bratagems of the
most ingenious fort Des Rue: made use of to
engage the confidence of the unfortunate Ma
dam de la Mothe, and to attract her to his
houle. Before the period arrived convenient
to carry his execrable design into execution, 1
he had engaged a cellar in a distant part of
the town, he had provided himfelf poisons,
and furnifhed himfelf with hampers to convey
away secretly the deceased body of the person
he was to facrifice. He found it necessary to
separate the mother and child, and to dis
charge the Servants ; he deceived even Mons.
de la Mothe for a month, and confufed the
magistrates by falfe declarations, which he had
contrived at Lyons. Such mongers make hu
manity bluih, and if we did net reflet that
such barbarians are nursed in the bosom of
the capital of a kingdom where luxury and
libertinism prevail to the utmost stretch of
corruption, we might be apt to be too gene
ral in our condemnation, and cry out with
Le Sage, “ All mankind are alike bad."
" Particulars may blame the severity cf our
laws, but the world must rejoice we have racks,
wheels and tortures, for such a savage as Buri
de Rues."
Thursday Mr. Dodwell, cf Golden-Square,
attended in the Court of King's Bench, to re
ceive the Sentence of the Court, for challenging
and assaulting Mr. Boucher, late President of
the Council at Madras. It appeared by the
Affidavits, that the Cause of Quarrel arose in
Consequence of a Decision againit Mr. Dodwell
in India, where Mr. Boucher presided. Mr.
Dodwell upon coming to England made a
Claim upon the Company, who grounded their
Refufal upon the Decree given against him
abroad. Mr. Dodwell upon this applied to
Mr. Boucher, and desired he would declare to
the General Court, that the Decision was
founded upon Error and Injustice. This Mr.
Boucher refufed, faying he knew of nothing to
induce him to alter his Opinion ; but if he
was publickly called upon, would give his
Beatons. This Behaviour Mr. Dodwell looked
upon as deferring personal Resentment, and
accordingly challenged Mr. Boucher, who very
properly declined accepting of it, faying he
acted officially, and was net to be called to an
Account by any Man. This not fatisfying Mr.
Doawell, on meeting him at the India House
he committed the Assault complained of.—Mr.
Drdwell b, his Council, begged Leave to have
a Defence he had prepared lead, in which he
had admitted th .Charges exhibited againit him
and endeavoured to extenuate the Offence,
from the Wrongs he had fuffered in his Person
and Charader; and gave an Account of him
felf “ even from his boyish Days ;" he very
modestly submitted to the Court his Provoca
tions and hoped he ihould not be retrained
from prosecuting his Claim by the Detention
of his Person. Lord Mansfield declared he
never heard of so great an Outrage committed,
as there was no personal Quarrel between the
Perlons; said, no Man was fafe in Courts of
Juitice, if every person who fancied themselves
aggrieved, went with Violence to assault a
Man for his official opinion. Hec dered Mr.
Dodwell to Band committed and to be brought
up the last Day of Term to receive Judgment.
Auvices from Madrid fay theCourt is resolved
on fupprefling the contraband Trade with the
maraume States on the Coaßs of South Ameri
ca, and that the Court of Lilbon will join them
in the necessary Regulations.
May 3. The Differences between Spain and
Portugal, it is said, are entirely accommodated
so far as could be done in'Europe, and a Vessel
has been sent from Cadiz, and another from
Lilbon, to the different Settlements, with Or
ders to the Governors to put in Force the
Inßrnflions brought them, The Retirement of
the Marquis de Pombal has helped to bring
about this Accommodation.
Extras of a letter from the Hague, April 29.
“ The last Accounts from Paris mention,
that many have been the Conjectures of People
in general with Regard to the Journey of the
Emperor of Germany into that Kingdom ;
aud that a Report is now current there, that
a Marriage is on the Carpet between that
Monarch and the Princess Elizabeth of France,
youngeß Sifter of the King.
" Last Tuesday the Prince and Princess of
Orange went to Haerlcm to fee the Flower
Gardens, which are now in their higbeft Per
fection, when the following melancholy Event
happened in the Garden of M< Krebs: That
Florist presented a very elegant Nosegay to
the Princess, and among the rest there was one
new Hyacinth, which had no Name, and the
Prince named it a Present to the Princess ; and
just as Mr. Krebs was acknowledging the Ho
nour done to his Flower, he fell down dead,
woich alarmed the Prince and Princess of
Orange very much."
SCOTLAND.'
Edinburgh, April 23. We hear from Aber
deen, that on the Night between Friday and
Saturday last, an Attempt was made to mur
der a young Gentleman of that Place in the
following Manner: About three o'clock in
the Morning he heard the Curtain at the Foot
of the Bed drawn, and several Stabs made
with a Sword through the Bed Clothes, all of
which miffed him, although the last was so near
that he felt the Blade, pass down close by his
Side; on which he foiled the Sword by the
Blade, and was dragged out of Bed and round
the Room, Bill holding it faft, till at last after
much Struggling, the Assassin made off, leav
ing the Sword behind him. The Gentleman's
Hand is much cut by grasping the Sword : and
the Stabs made through the Bed-Clothes are
nine in Number. On Saturday a young Man
was taken up on Suspicion, and examined ; he
denied the Fast, but acknowledged the Sword
to be his. He was afterwards admitted to
Bail,
By Letters from France we hear that the
Marquis de Fagcl, with all his Retinue, are
confined at ?aris, for attempting to go to
America, with Intention to join the American
Army.