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S-jrAit* *Fir ifomranfty L hotwH ;«tfileqr iad JMmfijf. meg•moo*-. Uicroi tfcat ftfey «*rlTartan fildiifirill their at^mpttunfoccefsfuf...... .. . eyeralOUf l’ght -trpOpS.• -. During th^ie attacks • large detachment ofthe befieged made a (ally from Cbpczim, in order to havour thedefign of fhofe who came to their affiftance, but were driven back with lofs.. The lofs of the enemy upon the whole mu if have been yefy confiderable, Mid itappeared by the drefi of thofe who were killed, that many of thefti belonged to the confederates; Our lofs confided only of foij]e hu/fora killed and Wounded.There are none-of the enemy now near, ourcamp* the light troops which .were fen t in pur-fuit the next day, not having ■foundany. within ?o werfters. Choczim cdntihuts ftill to be blocked up and bombarded.N(ijs, Aug. 26. Laft night the Emperorpaid a vifit to the Prince of Pruffia; and hisImperial Majefty and the King of Prufti a. afterwards fupped together in the King’s apar.ment. When fupperwaa over, their Imperial and Pruf-fian MajelHes continued in cohveffation together till midnight.This morning the Emperor faw the troops exercifed, and expiefled great admiration at the quicknefs of their firing.ellau. Aug. yo. The day before* yefterday)t Sovereign arrived here from Neifs,Walcott^ regime _of- a tompany;in the i^me^^ t|^ ;ro«iofMajor jjVakott,I *toifrom Bombay*V **v: ; *are nowt^ out an .the prxjicithat kingdomj faiif to be lnjten»4*6,by the rnnce c [flia* and Che Mar.bourg Anfpach. -_Bajlia, Aug. 14. Twenty-two battalions 6fthe King’s troops are returned to France, and Count Marbceuf has embarked with his re:inuefor Toulon, after having been five years m this ifland. The Corfican roalecon tents are yet very troublefome in the mountains.BruJJels, Sept. 4. As we have* had a very plentiful harveft this fummer; the government has iffued an, ordinance, dated the 26th of laft month, to permit the exportation of corn; in confequence of-which the merchants are going to load feveral Ihips with that commodity.Hague, Sept. 7. General Paoli is arrived here, and lodges.at the hotel eailed.the Parliament of England.Some letters from the frontiers c£ Poland fay, that Prince Gallitzin has defitted from his attack upon Choczim. and rena/Ted theNeifter.Ruffian Admiral in the - We- Jea^'from Vefai .,ly brokd through ‘ the roof of tlM?. TfcehfteFeltri, where above 6bVperforisa ad killed fix perfons, befides wo lidding tJT do ng confiderable damage; . .. •• v.. -Letters from Berlin: dated ffeok *; fii*r r . Emperorf.t out from thence the 2i way of Glatz and Konigfgrat^ to tne campCollin. His - Imperial Majefty during His ftay at-.-..Neils, appeared always m a militaiy uhifpro^ J)without, any embroidfcry or the, mirk of any-or*cJer” * . *. •* . r ■■ •They Write from Edipbufgh, ‘ that Marlt;Sr fCharles Tod, df that city, in the fervjeojof| Ten (X ti. ■ . - -__Zm l'sl 1/V ft ;• • •*!laftColonel; and that he has /incegot ament, and is now Commander in Chief-of the Company's forces ui feveral provinces, -A fetter from Stratford tipdn Avon Inform's*that the mafked ball on Tnurfday evening laic-was extremely crouded. DretTes of thefort were hired at. four guineas each. Tfiolfhowever who could not be accommodaick itt their minds, were admitted with mnfJcs only, and there were many ' prefent even withont mafks. Among the moft -difHriguiflied ch'^., , liMk vifcy, ill tuc ICi-VEaft-.India Company waS'promo:^ cm h*i •arrival in Indiay to the ritnk of Liedtenaiftnrgt-racrers in tne maiqueradei ^Lady rembrc Mrs. Bouveae, ana Mrs- Crewe, habitedAMERICAN NEWS.Bojlon, New-England, July 27. We hear from Newport, that laft Monday the, floop Liberty, Capt. Reid, brought in there a brig and a floop belonging to Connedicut, thatthey hadfeized in the found, which, together with the Imprudent behaviour of the captain and fome of his people, fo exafperated a number of per-fons- there, that on Wednelday they went on board the Liberty as Die lay at anchor in theharbour, and cut her cables, and let her drift aftiore, they then fet her on fire, but,being informed a confiderable quantity of powder was on board, for fear of endangering the town, they extinguished it again ; they then cut away her maft, threw her guns and -ftore# overboard,entered the cabbin and deftroyed the Captain’s and his wife’s cjoaths* bedding, c. broke the rabies, chairs, china-ahd otherthings therein, and did not quit her till three cfclock the next morning, when after fcuttling the veffel, they Jefc her a meer wreck, and fhe now remains fimk near, one of the whair there; The brig that was feized we hear was legally difcharged on Thurfday, but that the floop made her efcape in the confufion the evening before.witches, exdted the general attention; new •did MHs Ladbroke, as a fhepherdefi, and IVKf3 Nancy Ladbroke, as Dame Quickly, in the Merry Wives of Windfdr, pafs without tBi applaufe of the company. Lord magnificently drefled in an eaftem habir,' hot the principal part of thlt;f nobili ty ere m donn-i nos. Mrs. Yates pdrfona:ed a petiy maitre. Mr. Yates, as a waggoner, gave hivch fatisfoc^ tion; as did a gentleman from Oxford in Lord Ogleby.' Mr, Bofwdl, the friend of Pioli, apt pearecf ih a Corfican habit; with piffols in hjibelr, and a muflcet ;.t hif back; in gold letter^/-in the front of his csfp, were the words f’aotf and Liberty.Laft Monday. fe’nmgHt heihg.the day for theeleion of a mayor ank other officers in[ Geip chefter,' the following gentlemen were, ^hoferx for the year enfuing, vit; Mt.. Alderman-mayor, Thomas' Wiltfhife,' ankTbomas Etqrs; juftices, Mr. John Fifit was; cbhtiuuedin the'office of Chamberlain. . „Laft Friday came onthe elediofi ofbahlfSTCOUNTRY NEWS1Northampton, Sept. 11. The title and eftate pf ifir .George Smith, Bart, whodied on Tuef-lay at his counttyfeat at Stoke, near Newark,nNottinghamfhire, defcends to his only. Jon, about 14 years of age, whom he had by his wife.A few evenings ago a fiiocking murder wascommitted at Lincoln CafHe on James Luibyya' prifoner tjhere, who. at the laft afiize, received Sentence of death for fheepftealing, but fome favourable circumftances spearing on his trial, vas reprieved and left to be tranfported for , 14 yeajrs; the mercy thus extended towards this .unhappy man induced him to make fome ufeful difcpveries of a inoft notorious gang of thieves, j who have for three years paft been a terror to the Interior parts of Lincoihlhire. The 22d ofAuguft John Lary, one of the gang, was com-.mitted for' ftealing.'corn; . no -fooner was he brought to the cattle,.than he entered into a .wicked confederacy with. William-Matthews' » • • j • ,j • _ • » .(who ftands charged by the grand jury with poifoning Mr. Cook, of Normaady, and three ptheri^pithis fanily) to deftroy poor Lufby: This they efFeed in theievening, by knocking him down in the pit, and immediately jumping on his- bddy, by Which they broke his ribs and burft his heart. The villains confetted theirguilt, and laid they; ffiould die with pleafare;and WP iince are. informed that Matthews has 'made a. full cpnfeffion of poifbning Mr. Cook’s family, by arfenick mixed with butter.of John Gravenor and Robert Goodwin,* gen-* tleraen, at the clofe of which fhe numbers were for Mr. Wallis 274.1, Mr. Clarke win 177, Mr. Gravenor 1^4.A correfpondent at Woolwich has favdurta .us with the following deforiptiorf of his Ma-^Jefty’s fhip the Q^een, of ninety-four guns; that is to be launched on Mohday next^. the 18th inft.—The head is a .lion; very' richly ornamented; the ftera in the foiddlb 6f tht' tafferell is . a bufto of her Majefty, under a rjdf canopy, together with two Gehii, one regre-lentingFame, the other Dignity; on the’ dextif fide is Minerva, bn the finitter is Britannia^ each with proper ornaments ; the cove is. ea-riched with royal trophies, and a Phbenix, iri the middle. To the quarter pieces, board fide is. the. figure of- Jupiter,; with/hii armour bearer; the figure over him is Mars,with his proper attrib.ites: the larboard ifide i9 Neptune; over him. is valour, with his attributes : the top parts of each is a boy fuppqft-ing a Ihield; biffides which, the whole dftbe ftem is very, richly ornamented with painting, c. and is thought, by judges, to beVuie jSSSnilhed piece pf nayrf aropiteftrird'-'i^eif con^ittrudfed. deck an*forbutdfrries01 three decks, Which is a Jhip of her clafcj and is fhe reaion /he i» built of fuch an extraordinary fiZe.- fouph Jargerie, rate.- As^gteat pre the*Docfc and' the War/L O N D O N.Yefterday. fprne 'extraorcfinay dlfpatches were fent off front the Secretary of State’s office, forhis Excellency Gol. Boyd, Governor of Gibral-'mandefoFfii* Majeftyranean» m . . w w -w v ^ w ’w moffice from LordMajeftyV ArtJbaffador at thenar*■ • . • r, stit is thought fheir Majefties inteftd hosounn^ the place with their prefenee; particularly; as feveral pieces of Ordnaftce are ordcrecf eb ;.be got on the Common, which makes it ponjeSbred there will he a revfew .of the arrilhSy wards; ;‘Oh Sunday night abbut ten 6’cfoclf, as.-Mr. WallwOrth was eroifing Camberwell-green, he was.robbed pf about feven poundiatid his watch jy a villain' Wafted and arnjed wich a eiitlafs.Sunday a gentleman was robbed in JBellfojjt' lane; by two highwaymen,- pT'»Bis-pdrFtf pf ( guineas and his fiiyer watch; One'of itVem wasr faidto be the rhan that foot at the joft-bo$r a few days ago; they tVefe bothyxefeedihgly well mounted and both young men; y ‘njaniwRichmqnd| Shute SfermpSone the Soujh - D*•4..Berk/hird,' v -r - —. x • • * • * ■ -■ n\ -n w ..Pitt, Siftyr to jbirtt Pittf Efqf ft/eet.;-^On Sunday atvhef : ft feet;, Hanbver-fquare; .Mri.. 1•-..V'—■Av. gartmcaltk. n*.^ !T'- c
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Sat, Sep 09, 1769
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