The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-04-03

MS NlaItH1 WIZ
the 4th infant, at Hanau.
IoSpeN, January II. A motion will
be made, daring the coulle Of this week, IN
the Houls Of Commons in favour OF the
rtition, praying an addition to the officers
IN half pay, which it is thought will be
granted.
! On. Friday the Princefs Dawager was d'n'
IL FIVE puineas, to receive one hundreds IN
caie The died within ten days,
Adyices have been received at St. James,
from Gibraltar, that hoitilties have COM
menced between the Spaniards and Moors
at Gran and Ceuta that leveIal fmart en-
gagemenrs have happened /; and that ii is
like TO terminate in an open rupture.
Our correspondent from Vienna, dated
the 1scendo of January, gives US advice a"
akJaints certainty, that his imperial MaJetfy
had difpatched fpecial courier to his Pruf-
iiaa Majeay in Berlin, with PLAN OF
PAcIFIcATIoN and that his Pruiiian Ma
Unity having approved Of the fame, had for-
warded it to St. Peteiiburgh with all Poilibie
diligence. This article of intelligence, ne
obferves will appear in the different Gazettes
of Amaerdam, the Hague, Cologn, and Pa
ris, in the comfe of this week.
Our correspondent from Peteriburgh ha-
wing fent US detail of the vietoTyOf the Ruff
ans over the Turks, which takes up i've or
fix pages, we have only copied the clofe OF 1t,
by which we are informed that the Ruiians
had taken, at the city of Girfow, feventy
pieces of cannon, 1000 priloners in the gar
rilon, belides many other cannon, which be-
ing too heavy for carrying off they had fpi-
ked up. In the harbour they alto took two
galiots, twenty xebecks, beficts many othc'
fmal crafts luch as they could not get out
of the harbour, to the amount at lcah OF one
hundred, they fet on fire. The Rufiians
having alto retaken the fortrels of GeorgaVo,
found in it fifty brafs cannon, great guam
lily Of ammunition, befides 1000 Jacks of bif
e6itAS together with 1890 Jacks of -four, and
z9IS 03en; the ref was given as plumber,
70 s6SHlight troops, who, on this occaiion,
t0aded 1000 wagons upon the ipoi', a.
mOng which were many equipages belong
ing to the Bafhaws.
. From Lewarden we learn, that the fog
was 70 great there on the gar of December
that the like had never been known in Hol-
land and that teyeral coaches drove into
the canals, notwithstanding they were lighted
with double and treble Gsmbeauxs.
Our correspondent at Prague, the capital
city of the kingdom of Bohemia, informs US,
that 10 great great has been the fcaTcity OF
bread-corn throughout that whole fate, that
the poorer part of the people, for feveral
months patt, have been compelled to live
without bread, and that 70 great is the ia
mine there at preient, that neither cat nor
dog were to be found alive in any part of
that kingdom, the city of Prague excepted,
the whole of thofe TWO diffiHa lpecies of a.
nimals having fuppIied the place of other a.
nlmals for feveral weeks.
On Saturday morning, between one and
two O'Clock, after the mourners, &c. had
retired from attending the body of Lord Bal
timore, which lay in fate in Exeter exchange,
a great mob aAembIed, broke into the room
where the body lay, ftripped it of eCcufche-
ons, hangingS, and every thing that was por-
table, and were preparing to throw the coTpfe
and coffin out Of the window, had they not
been prevented by the piquet guard going
to be relieved at the Savoy.
On Friday came on before Lord Mans
field, in the Court of Kings Bench, caufe,
wherein a gentleman from Jamaica was
plaintiff, and his negro fervant defendant.
The cauie o. trial was, to know how far a
black lervant was the property of the pur-
chafer by the laws of England, as the black
Iefu(ed to go back with his matter to Jamai-
ca. But as this was thought by the Court
very important decifion, it was poRponed
I'LL towards the end of the term, when his
LordihiP iaid he would take the opinions of
the ref OF his brother Judges.
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