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SoiitLanii'lon, May n.^Vind S. S. £■ Arrived the St. Okie, Matrhewf n. from Chriftiana.Deal, May 13. Wird E N. E. Came down the Moritague, Boffom, for Plymouth, and remain with his Majeiiy’s fhip Dover, with the three victuallers, and the Ealt-India yacht Ro-binfun. Came down, and failed, the Nancy, Gray ham, for Quebeck,Arrived,Speedwell, Stewart, from Anfgua, at Kinfale. Las:ca:hire Witch, Ratcliffe, irom London, at Seanderoon, in 44 days.Betty, Henderfon, from Yarmouth, at Cadiz. Hungerford, Walker, from Turkey, at Genoa.L O N D O N.We don’t find there is certain advice of the Spanifh fleet being pet into Toulos.By yeflerday’s mail, we have an account that a large French privateer is ctuiirig olF the mouth of the Elbe, and has already taken two Englifh (hips.Two or three lug-fail privateers, of two or three guns each, have taken, off P-dftow. fundry coalers and final! 'crjift, and ranlbmul them. Amor.g*hc number are, Capt. Hughe.-;, from St. Ives, with copper ore ; a Hoop1, Capt.Rowe, from- to Briftol; another floop andtwo brigs, names unknown.The William and Mary, Nichols, from A r. con a to the Baltick ; the Cavendifh, Jones, from Zant-to Briftcl, and the Seaforth privateer of Gibraltar, are all taken by the Vidtoire and Aurora frigates in the Mediterranean.Commodore Gwynn* with four men of war--from Gibraltar, is cruizing off Cagliari.Ext racl of a letter from Ireland\ tc We are very forry to acquaint you that' Thu rot’s fate has not deterred the French from vifiting our coafls.. Here- are two very ft our, French privateers on our north well coalf, of r8 1 guns and 200 mien each ; they have been only eight days on the Ration; and had then taken ten prizes; the two laft were Liverpool men whom they ranfomed, as they did r.ot care to leffen their crews. The Captain’s name of onfc of the Liverpoolmen is Richards, and is put inro Limerick. I fear the confequence, as we , have many rich fhips that come and go this way, and no (hips of war to protect our trade. One of thrie privateers is a fine fhip, and was concerned in taking a very rich prize, -called the Thames, xbelong ng to London.”• According to*letters from Naples, a marriage is talked of between Don Philip, Duke of Parma, and the Princefs of Beyra, prciumptive he Ire fs of the Crown of Portugal. Other letters fay, that the Infant Don Lewis is to have her,, • --■■■. 1 ■The Duke de Villars, Governor of Provence, hath founded an hoipital at Aix,. for the inno-cuJation of the final!-pox.The Count de Fuentes, Minifter from the Court of Mktjrid, for the Court of Lor.don, arrived at Paris the 5th in Rant in his way to England..The laborious authors of the Encyclopedia, have been ridiculed on the ilage at Paris, in a piece, intituled, Les Philcfophes ; which, not-withftanding a criticifm ^ that was nr-de on it beforehand/was played without any difturbance, and even roceiyed with ayplaufe.The author of the BruiTels Gazette tells us, that- the perfon 11 yling himfelf Count de St. ' Germain, who lately arrived here from Holland, was born in Italy in 1712. He fpeaks the German and French as fluent as Italian, and ex-preTes himfelf pretty well in Engllfli. He has a imattering of all the arts and fciences, s a good chemift, a virtucib -in mafic, and a very , agreeable companion. In 1746 he was on the point of being lu'.r.cd in Englandone who* was'jealous of him with a T.*dy, il’pt a letter into his pocket, as from the young Ps:tender(rhankfeg him for his advices, and defiring, him to c ntinue them) and immediately had him tykon up by a meffenger. His innocence being fully proved on his examination, lie was riijf-cliaiged out of the cuffody of the mefler.ger, and afk-d to dinner by Lord H. J h-fe who know him will be forty (fays M.ManbeA) to hear that he has incurred the Muff Chriftian King’s difpleafure.We hear that the Receivers General of the feyeral counties in South Britain will be appointed in a few days.Yefterday the eleion ended at Weftminfterc School, when . Meff. Abel Mofey, Samuel Goodenough, Muhon Parry, John Perry, and Henry For re ffer. were defied to Oxford.Mcff. John Ifippefiy Coxe, W’iiiiam Cane, and John Barweil, to Cambridge.And Me if. Lyrill Jackfon, Efjah Bifliop, Archibald MackdonaM. Jofelin Flood, Jcflroa Pickering, Johrfon YVeily Chari es Grant. William Lally, and Cecil Taylor, were elted In the room of the former into the aforcfafd fchorjfOn Tr.£;fday evening at Mr. Langford’s f:de of Mr. Anus’s books, a copy of die nanfLtun or fuc New Teftaivunt by Tindall, and fup-puLd to be the only one remaining which ef-capcd the ilam-; s, was foi A for fo u r t ee n gui neas and n hair. This very book was picked .up by one of the late Lord Oxford's collectors * aqd Mr. Oflujrrc of Gray’s inn having after wards pa;chafed his Lordfhip’s fbrary, marked it at 15s for which price Mr. Ames bought it.Wc hear that a duel Hus been lately fought in Warwickfhire, between a. peifon of diftinc-tion and a great commoner of this kingdom, occahoned by a difpete concerning railing the militia, ar.d that the latter was run through the body.Thu r ft! ay the Lady of Sir Edward Tweifden, Bart, was farely delivered of a fun, at His houfe in Conduit ffreet.Mr. Fernvhough, of Newcafflc, Clerk of the Peac* for the-County of Stafford, was married the 3d inffant to' Mils Honor Snevd, fiffer to Ralph- Sneyd, Efq; of Keel in that countv.Laff Friday died at Chippenham, Mr. Chrif-tcpher Holland, Vicar of that, place. • -Some clays ago died the Rev. Mr. George Marfh, Recior of Ford, nea r Benv i rk, i n No r-thumberland. The living-is in the gift of Francis Blake Dclaval, Efq;A few days fince died the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, Reor of She’d ;n, War wick (hire.Monday fe’nffght died, in the 90th year of his age, Marmaduke Tunftall, Efq; at Iris feat at .Wycliff, in York fh ire. In the courfe of lt;5o years he never advanced nr removed a tenant, but the farms run from father to fon, as an inheritance.Yefterday afternoon one Foulkes a Beadle, of V-eie-ftreet, Clare-market, being in liquqr, fell from the upper gallery at D.ury-lane Play houfe info the Pit. and was fo hurt by the fall that he expired immediately. * ,Yefterday as a bnv, about five years of 2ge, was ftanding in Bifnopfgate-ffreet to fee the charity children pafs by, by a fudden Rart pf the hprfes in a gentleman’s chariot, he w#as thrown under the wheels,’which went over his. neck and head, and kill’d him on the fpot.D. L. Tancred and Siii-mnnd^, with the Apprentice. C. G. Sir Courtly Nice, wirh Flora.To be -,L E T T,On reasonable Term?, For Six Months,Aid OUSE gen'eeilv furnifhed,' confifiing cF tv,o Rooms and a.Ciofeton a Finer, fitoakJ on the Wed Side of Eerkely Sq-are, next Door to the Duke of Mncliefler’s ; a till on die Door. _ Or.enquire of Mr. Tavlor, Upholderer, at the Crown' and Ctihion over-ug.unff Lord ?*IonTonV in Piccadilly.
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