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Oct. 6 The court went into mourning for three weeks, for the death of the queen dowager of Portugal.

Oct. 7 Great damage was done to the shipping by a storm of wind, which arose about midnight, and the wind’s blowing hard for some days after.  A large ship, laden with iron and deals from Stockholm, ran aground at Orford-Ness, and was beat to pieces by the rage of the sea; but the crew were happily saved.

His majesty having been pleased to direct, that the following officers appointed to the regiments of foot to be raised in America, under the respective commands of col. William Shirley, and Sir William Pepperell, Bart. do repair forthwith to their posts.  Notice is given, that such of the above officers who are in Great Britain, do immediately repair to London, and embark on board the transports provided for their passage to North America.  And that such of those officers who are in Ireland, do immediately repair to Cork, and embark on board the transports provided for carrying Sir Peter Halkett’s and col. Dunbar’s regiments to America.

Oct. 10 A court of common-council was held at Guildhall, when the report of the bridge committee being taken into consideration, a motion was made, and carried, for referring it back to the said committee, to examine how far the construction of a new bridge over the Thames may affect the navigation of the river and the commerce of the city.

A fire broke out at Larling, in Norfolk, which entirely consumed two houses, and two women were unfortunately burnt to death in endeavouring to save their furniture.

Oct. 11 We had the melancholy account that two vessels from Leith were cast away in Yarmouth Road, and that the passengers to the number of 36 all perished; but the crews saved themselves in their long boats.

Marriages and Births

Oct. 9 Mr. Yerraway, jun. timber-merchant, in the parish of St. Alban, Woodstreet, to Miss Ennis, daughter of Mr. Ennis, deputy of Walbrook ward.

Mr. Charles Hoskins, only son of William Hoskins, of Barrow-Green, in Surrey, Esq. to Miss Carr, of the county of Durham.

Oct. 12 Nicholas Vivyan, of Cornwall, Esq. to Miss Chudleigh, a 12,000l. fortune.

William English, Esq. of New Bond Street, to Miss Atkins, of Barwood in Lincolnshire.

Deaths

Oct. 5 Anthony Pollett, Esq. under treasurer of the chamber to the King, and deputy comptroller of the Mint, by a fall from his horse.

Rt. Hon. the lord Ranelagh, of the kingdom of Ireland, aged about 90.

Oct. 6 Sir Charles Moore, Bart. keeper of the records in Birmingham Tower, in the castle of Dublin.

Oct. 12 Sir Richard Hoare, Knt. and Alderman of the ward of Farringdon Without, who was lord mayor of London in 1746.

Rev. Dr. Hugh Wynne, chancellor of Bangor, prebendary of St. Paul’s and Sarum cathedrals, and chaplain in ordinary to his majesty.

Mr. Jacob Powell, of Stebbing, in Essex, remarkable for his uncommon size.  He approached the nearest bulk to the late famous Mr. Bright of the same county, and weighed as much within a trifle, his weight being near 40 stone, or 560 pounds.  His body was upwards of five yards or one rod in circumference, and the rest of his limbs in proportion, and had 16 men carry him to his grave.

1^st Week of October, 1754, from the London Magazine

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On Saturday, Sept. 28, a proclamation was published in the Gazette for the parliament to meet on Nov. 14, and to sit for the dispatch of business.

On the 30^th, in the afternoon, four drays belonging to an eminent brew house, which were loaded with beer, each dray being drawn by four horses, were stopped at Islington Turnpike, having forfeited 5 l. each, according to the penalty of the late act of parliament for preserving publick roads, which took place Michaelmass Day; and notice being sent to the brew house, a person went from thence to the Turnpike, and was obliged to pay 20 l. to release the drays.

There are very few travelling waggons on the roads with broad wheels, most of them drawing four horses only, which they may do with the narrow wheels, as formerly; and carts may likewise go on the turnpike roads with narrow wheels, as formerly, if drawn but with three horses.

Marriages and Births

Sept. 24. Robert Phillips, Esq.; upwards of 80 years of age at Ewe-Withington, near Hereford, to Miss Anne Bowdler, almost as old, after a 60 years courtship.

Hon. William King, Esq. son of lord Kingston, to Miss Burroughs.

Oct. 3. John Rayner, Esq.; clerk to the skinners company, to Miss Collier.

Deaths

Sept. 26. Sir Walter Montgomery, of Kirktournholm, Bart. in Scotland.

9. Roger Wilbraham, Esq. at his seat at Townsend at Namptwich, Cheshire.

Oct. 1. Gent Unwin, Esq.; one of the directors of the Royal Exchange Assurance Office.

2. Owen M’Swinney, Esq.; examiner of the office securities in the Custom-house, and store keeper at the King’s Mews.

3.  Rt. Hon. James earl of Northampton. He was summoned to parliament, Dec. 31, 1711, by the title of lord Compton, his father George earl of Northampton then living. His lordship is succeeded in the title of earl by his brother the Hon. George Compton, Esq; memb. of parl. for Northampton. The barony of Compton goes to lady Ferrers, the deceased, earl’s daughter, and lady of the Hon. George Townshend, Esq;

Barnaby Backwell, Esq; member of parliament for Bishop’s-Castle. His father died in July last. (See p. 333)

4. Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, Bart.

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18. This morning several informations came on to be tried against Joseph Hazard and William Henry Shute, for publishing the Dublin scheme of chances, to be determined by the drawing of the present Dutch lottery, and also against Richard Bulkley and John Seal, for selling Irish vouchers, in pursuance of the said scheme, contrary to several acts of parliament ; of which they were all four convicted.

The committee appointed to take into consideration the repairing of London-bridge met at Guildhall, when the estimates of the expence were laid before them ; according to which it is computed, that the pulling down the houses on both sides, and rendering the bridge useful and commodious for carriages and foot-passengers, will amount to upwards of 40,000l.

Marriages and Births

19 The lady of Thomas Taylor, of Denbury, Esq; of a son and heir.

The lady of Sir George Vandeput, of a son.

Deaths

19. Rt. Hon. the countess of Stratford, mother to the present earl, at her seat at Twickenham, in Middlesex.

Admiral Charles Cotterel, at Scarborough

20. Sir John Colleton, Bart, at his seat at Exmouth, in Devonshire.

Mr. Castelle, library-keeper to the Cottonian library.

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2^D Week of September, 1754, from the London Magazine

Sept. 12 Charles Flemming was tried at the Old-Bailey for robbing Mrs. Hughes, of Ealing, in her chariot. The chief evidence of the identity of his person was a black servant, who not having been baptized, the court refused to take his oath, and the prisoner was acquitted.

Saturday, 14.

The sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when the five following criminals received sentence of death, via;. James Young, for stealing upwards of 40I. in a dwelling house ; John Haines, for robbing a lady of eight guineas on Hounslow- heath; Robert Hoggard, an out-lawed smuggler ; Edward Brocket, for stealing two horses from Mr. Bell, a farmer, near Hatfield ; and ‘William Hambleton, for returning from transportation.

Marriages and Births

8. Probert Morgan, of Horst, in Gloucestershire, Esq; to Miss Oliver, of Enfield.

12. Robert Baker, of Twickenham, Esq; to Mrs. Owen, of the fame place.

15 Robert Randoll, of Whitthall, Esq; to Miss Lane, of Charles-street, St. James’s Square.

8. The lady of the Rt. Hon. — Bertie, Esq; of a daughter.

11. The lady of William Harvey, Esq; knight of the shire for Essex, of a son.

12. Lady Monson, of a daughter.

The lady of Matthew Ridley, Esq; member for Newcastle upon Tine, of a son.

Deaths

10. Justinian Champneys, Esq; of Westenhanger, in Kent.

12. Thomas Green, Esq; at his seat at Crondall, in Hampshire, formerly a soap-boiler in Thames-street, who a few years ago paid the usual fine to be excused from serving the office of sheriff of this city.

14.S amuel Henry Eyre, Esq; merchant, in New Broad-street, brother of the late lord chief justice Eyre.

1^st Week of September, 1754, from the London Magazine

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Letters from the Morea [Peloponnese peninsula] advise, that on the 15th of last July, about eight at night, a violent shock of an earthquake was felt along that coast, particularly near Lepanto, where some populous villages were swallowed up, and a great number of persons, as well as cattle, lost.

Some time since, seven quarry men in the island of Portland being at work on a cliff 90 yards high, to loosen a large stone with iron levers, the ground on a sudden give way, and they all fell to the bottom on a heap of rubble: Four of them were beat to pieces, but the other three, providentially, were only bruised, and are recovered.

By the accounts from Virginia, about 150 of the English were killed on the spot in the late engagement, and almost all the rest, with major Washington and several other officers taken prisoners. Our men likewise lost all their baggage, &c. The commandant of the French ventured to attack the English in their intrenchment, upon information that major Washington was to be joined in a day or two by a body of 500 men. The said major and the other officers, taken prisoners have been released on their parole, upon condition that they shall not serve for a twelvemonth in those parts against the French, and arrived at Williamsburgh some days before the Resolution, Capt. Garratt, left-York-river, which was on July 13. Divers planters of the most westerly parts of the colony, have abandoned their lands, and are removed towards the east for safety.

Sunday, Sept. 1.

A fire broke out in the housekeeper’s room, at the earl of Tilney’s, at Wanstead, occasioned by a chafing-dish of coals being left there to keep the sweet-meats dry; by this accident a great part of the household linen was burnt, the pewter melted, and much china destroyed. ‘Tis computed the damage amounted to considerably above 1000l,

Wednesday, 4.

Several aldermen, deputies, &c. of the bridge committee, met at Guildhall, who came to a resolution, that Mr. Dance, the city-surveyor, should prepare an estimate of the expence of building a new bridge; and appointed a sub-committee so receive the same.

Marriages and Births

Sept. 2. William Brockett, of the Middle-Temple, Esq; to Miss Mary Markham, of Pater-noster-row.

3. Lord George Sackville, second son to the duke of Dorset, to Miss Diana Sambrooke, of Dover-street.
4. Gilbert Knowler, Esq; of Hearn, in Kent, to Miss Presgrave, of Abingdon-buildings.

Deaths

Sept. 2. Rt. Hon. Alexander earl of Leven and Melvil, cue of the lords of police in Scotland, one of the senators of the college of justice, and for 13 years his majesty’s commissioner to the general-assembly there.

3. Sir Tancred Robinson, of Newby, in Yorkshire, Bart. elder brother of Sir Thomas Robinson, knight of the Bath, and one of his majesty’s principal secretaries of state. He is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir William Robinson, Bart.

5. James St. Amen, Esq; whose father was apothecary to K. James II. has left his whole fortune, except six small legacies to his executors and servants, to Christ’s-hospital, upon condition that a fine painting of bishop Juxton his grand-father be preserved in that hospital, on failure of which it is to go to the university of Oxford, to which he has left his valuable collection of books.

Lord Maitland, only son of the earl of Lauderdale.

Rev. Mr. Dolben, minor canon of Windsor.

Lieut. Col. Thomas Rainsford, of Col. Waldegrave’s reg. of foot.

William Churchill, jun. Esq; at Redruth, in Cornwall.

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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.