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A way to preserve the face from being pitted with the small pox.

After the eruption, and when the pustles begin to swell and be filled with the pus or matter, take chalk thoroughly pulverized, and mix it with fresh cream, so as to make a kind of liquid pomatum, that it may the more easily be laid upon the patient’s face, for which purpose a feather is to be used ; and as the pomatum dries, the anointing is to be renewed; thus the patient will not be tempted to scratch, the coolness of the cream preventing the itching, and the chalk with which it is mixed insensibly drying up the matter of the pustles, hinders it from penetrating into the flesh, and consequently from pitting: This precaution has benefitted all on whom it has been practised.

By an extract of a letter from the master of the Bear inn in Basinghall-street it appears, that Mr. Hinchcliff, who keeps the Leeds waggon, has made four journeys from Leeds, in Yorkshire, to the said Bear inn in Basinghall-street London, and back again to Leeds this summer, with a waggon whose wheels are nine inches wide, according to act of parliament ; that he performed the several stages with this waggon in the same time he .used to do with the common waggons; that the carriage is made with double shafts, drawn with eight horses; that 14 miles of the way is not turnpike-road; that he found the carriage bear a little harder than common on the horses going down hill, but not in proportion heavier than other waggons going up hill ; that he brought up five tons- Of goods at one time ; and, that it is his opinion that the broad-wheel act is the best act of parliament that was ever passed for the interest of the carrier, and the preservation of the roads. This act commences this Michaelmas.

Towards the end of Aug. was tried at Bridgewater a cause relating to malpractices at the late election for members of parliament at Minehead, wherein Henry Shiffner, Esq; candidate for that borough, was plaintiff, and Mess. Ball and Coffin, returning officers, defendants. The trial lasted eight hours and produced a verdict in favour of the plaintiff, for full damages and costs.

On Aug. 21, between one and two in the morning, there was at Gloucester (by the accounts from thence) the most violent storm of thunder, lightning and rain, that had ever been known, which put the Inhabitants under the most terrible apprehensions, tho’ no damage was done but to a house in the Bolt-lane, the main beams of which were shivered in a very surprising manner, two or three doors thrown off their hinges, and the glass forced out of all the windows.

The parliament of Ireland, which stood prorogued to Aug. 27, was further prorogued to April 12.

At the assizes at Carlisle, two men for forgery, one for stealing a mare, and five women for felony, received sentence of death. At Bristol, two men and two wo-men, for highway-robberies.

Marriages and Births

Aug. 30 Edward Coddard of Cliffe-Pypard, Esq; in the commission of the peace for Wilts., to Miss Read, of Crowood.

Arthur Weaver, Esq; of Twickenham, to Miss Papillon, of Lee, in Kent.

Charles Van, jun. Esq; of Landwern, in Monmouthshire, to Miss Kitty Morgan, daughter of Col. Morgan, member for the county of Brecon.

Mr. Williams, surgeon, to Miss Freke, only daughter of Mr. John Freke, senior surgeon of St. Bartholomew’s hospital.

Deaths

25. Mr. Draper, who for many years enjoyed several lucrative employments under the commissioners of excise.

26. His grace the duke of Bolton, lieut. gen. of his majesty’s forces, lord lieut. and custos rotulorum of Hampshire and Glamorganshire, and knight of the most noble order of the garter.

Brabison Aylmer, Esq; clerk of the peace for the county of Essex, and a bencher of the Middle Temple society.

Aug. 26. Mr. Bridgwater, of Covent-Garden Theatre

Christopher Tancred, of Yorkshire, Esq; whose death we mentioned in our last, has left his estate for the founding 4 exhibitions for the study of the law, in Lincoln’s inn ; 4 for the study of physick in

Gonvill and Caius college, Cambridge and 4 for the study of divinity in Christ-college, Cambridge ; and has ordered his mansion house at Whixley to be converted into an hospital for 12 decayed gentle-men.

Mr. William Cleghorn, professor of moral philosophy in the, university of Edinburgh.

Rev. J. Cole, M. A. archdeacon of St. Alban’s, and preacher at the Abbey church in that town.

30. Edmund Browne, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.

3^d Week of August, 1754, from the London Magazine

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Deaths

19. Mr. Jacob Alvarez Pereira, an eminent Jew merchant.

William lord Ross, aged 34., whose father died in June last. (

John Pringle, Esq; of Haining, in the80th year of his age, one of the senators of the college of justice in Scotland. He sat in the Scots parliament before the Union, and was a member of the British parliament from that period to the year 1729, when he was appointed a lord of session.

Mr. Curtis, father of Mr. Curtis, a fishmonger in Newgate-street, aged 102.

Christopher Tancred, of Whixley, in the county of York, Esq;

Rev. Mr. Brent, senior fellow of Pembroke college, Oxford.

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Tuesday, 13

The jury at Edinburgh returned their verdict against Nicklas Cockburn, indicted for poisoning her husband and step-mother, finding her guilty all in one voice. In the course of the trial it appeared, that upon the 18th of March last this unhappy woman did poison her own husband, at Newton, near Dalkeith, where they then dwelt, by mixing a quantity of arsenick with his broth at dinner, of which he died betwixt 9 and 10 that night, in the greatest agony. This past at that time without any suspicion, and the husband was buried. About a fort-night thereafter Alexander Cockburn, her father, forester to the earl of Hopetoun, having died, she went there, seemingly with an intention to assist Susan Craig, her stepmother, on the occasion ; and there, on the 3d of April, while her father’s body was yet unburied, she perpetrated the fame crime upon her stepmother, by the fame means, by mixing a considerable quantity of arsenick in her pottage ; soon after the eating of which the poor woman was seized with the most violent pains, and died about 5 in the afternoon in inexpressible agony and torment.

At the assizes at Abingdon-for the county of Berks, 3 received sentence of death, one for house-breaking and the other for stealing a cow. At Winchester 3, one for murder, one for stealing a black mare, and the third for stealing several things from a woman. At Worcester, 2 for the highway, and 1for sheep-stealing. At Salisbury, 1 for house .breaking. At York, 1 for stealing goods out of a warehouse, and a woman for forgery. At Huntingdon, 2 for house-breaking. At Exeter, 1 for the highway. At Stafford, 1 for house-breaking, and another for horse stealing. At Chelmsford, a woman for murdering her own child, and aman for sheep-stealing. At Norwich, 1 for assaulting a gentleman in his dwelling-house, by presenting a pistol to his breast and demanding his money, and 2 for divers felonies. At St. Edmund’s-Bury, 1 for the high-way, and 1 for forgery. At Durham, 1 for sheep-stealing, and 1 for felony. At Shrewsbury 1 for stealing oxen. At Hereford, 1 for house breaking, and 1 for horse-Healing. At Monmouth, 1 for stealing a mare. At Maidstone, four for horse-stealing, and three for the highway. At Gloucester, 1 for stealing four heifers, and 1 for horse-stealing. At Warwick, a woman for robbing shops at Birmingham, two men for the highway, another for sheep-stealing, and one for horse stealing. At Bridgewater 7, one of which was for murder. At Newcastle, -a man (or burglary, and a woman for murdering her bastard child, for which she was executed, but denied the fact to the last. At Guildford, 10, viz. two women for private thefts, two men for housebreaking, three for the highway, one fora private theft, one for stealing a grey Gelding and one for sheep-stealing. *

At the assizes at Nottingham, before Sir Thomas Birch, was tried a cause wherein Mr. Francis Turner, an attorney-at law, at Mansfield in the County of Nottingham, was plaintiff, and Richard Turner Becher, of Southwell in the said county, register of the chapter court of Southwell, defendant; for refusing the plaintiff a sight of a will, which he had in his custody as a publick officer of the said court 5and, after a trial of several hours, the jury brought in a verdict, with damages, for the plaintiff.

An action was lately brought by the associators for preserving the game, at the suit of one of their informers, against 3 young men of Great-Baddow, near Chelmsford in Essex, to recover the penalty of 20l. for having and using nets to destroy the game ; which cause was tried by a special jury of gentlemen of the said county, at the instance of the informing plaintiff, at the last Chelmsford assizes; when, after a full and fair trial of about 7 hours, a verdict was given for the defendants: Upon which there were great rejoicings.

Marriages and Births

Deaths

9. Sir John Wodehouse, Bart, at his seat at Lexham in Norfolk, succeeded by his only son, Armine Wodehouse, Esq; knight of the shire for that county, now Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart.

John Samuel Longuet, Esq; nephew of Benjamin Longuet, Esq; one of the directors of the Bank.

Rt. Hon. the countess of Strathmore, in France.