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and iilewfror forthwith rating an Independent Regl I TweVre Clock at Mi At, and felt at i till the tf w. U' ternoon. At Two Clock the Paifonage Houfe at Hufewig, and tnentof Scotch Highlanders. twelve were thiown down from the The In It aDDears bv the French Mail Iaft Tueidav. that Kir Winter Provifions are they in Readinefs.

A'Swedilh Ship, with Cannon, bound to France, is brought into the Downs by the Stirling Caftle. We hear that a Perfon of Diftinclion is appointed to go in a publick Character to Poland, upon fome Matters of Importance; at this Juncture. It is certain that the Toulon Sauadron is arrived at Shocks. clear and our, fa rtian tn the Colour of Milk. The Proclamation iffiied the ioth of Oflober laft, which prohi bits the Exportation of Gun powder, for the Space of three Months Our Letters from Leghorn fay, that a Mifunder from the Date thereof, is prolonged for fix Months, to commence ftanrlinfT li string orHin Kt.iPon thr SrtP of onrl from the Expiration of the aforementioned Term of three Months.

AmurJ.nf fofrm By another Proclamation tbe Bounties tor Sailors that freely enter I unis. an Ambaiiador was lent from trie former to the XT mnrMi 1 Breft. They did not fail together, but ftole thither by tnjtatrLccfon i'T Z. to Marquis de Statnvtllet his Mofl Qbnfiian Majejly Arr.bejfador A Squadron is preparing for the Mediterranean and we hear, that three Commodores will fhortly be ap pointedi Capt. Peter late of the Medway, is appointed to the Command of a large Ship now fitting for the "Sea and' it is faid he will be appointed one of the Commodores.

Dec. 20. Thurfday his Grace the Duke of Marlbo rough killed his Majefty's Hand, on being appointed Palace. We learn from Paris, that the Ambaffador of a certain Court has received Orders to retire from bis Mafier. The fime Letters fay, tbat the Squadrons at Brefi and Rocbtfort have been djfarirted, in order to equip eight Frigates, which are to fail with all pfjjible Expedition xvitb Supplies for their Colonies in North America.

cibe River Soane, which runs tbrougb Lyons, cw flowed on the Firfi tf November fo fad denly, and with fo much Violence, as to do much Mifchief. Amongfi the at Rome, and bis Di patches are alfo, loft, wbicb are faid to relate to Mat' ten of great Importance. a 4 Accsrdng 10 fome private Letters from tbe Hague, his Catbolick Ma jefiy has fent an Order to Cadia to furr.ijb bis Brother of Portugal with a Million of Dubious, in hit prefent Diflreft, as focn as fcjjible. By feveral private Letters from Lifbon, it appears that many treat. jetty's Ship tancaflcr the Hen.

John Hamilton, Efq; Comniandery coming on Shore from the faid Ship, with the Captain, his Foot man, the Coxfwaih and fix Men in her, the Sail being gvbed, broach to and fill'd, by which Accident the Captain, Coxfwin, uawitautv uiiku Vfllll lUtll vk" i i neither the Breft nor Toulon Fleet are failed nor are entirely fpoihf The. Day before Yefterday we feH two ether flight and one of the Men were unhappily drowned, the othen were ks. The Water of a fmall Rivulet, wnicn was oeiore very uvea uy uui vuuuB iUI, on. Gentleman is great, he being much efteemed for his naval Abilities and exemplary Piety (having Divine Service performed twice a Day at Sea to the Ship's Company, to whom he was a Father) his whole Behaviour was uniform, and fhewed both the Chiiftian? and the Gentleman. Plymouth, Dec.

19... The Ship mentioned in my jaft to have lof her Main and Fore top Maft appears to be the Thirteen Cantons, latter, to complain of their efcorting Dutch Ships, re r.Am the tft of December to the 11ft of French Ship from Senegal, fent in by the Sheernefs, wht) took hCA fufin? Provifions to their Gallevs. and feirJno fome of Tanuarv next theiuh Indant. after a running Fight of foor Hours, whicli a 3 their frizes. But the Dey of Tunis uavmg a Sufpi cion thev true Defign of this AmbafTador was to enter into Intrigues with, and excite Confpiracies amongfthis Subjects, refolv'd to cut the Matter fhort at once, ordered the Ambaffador to depart in Twenty four Hours, and feems determined to treat the Algerines as Enemies, and is fitting out a confiderable Naval Force with that View.

If we may depend upon private Letters from Berlin, there is fomething of very great Importance upon the Carpet at Potxdam, the St ate men and Generals (moft in his Majeftys Favour being often fent for thither, and rlnfetef fn' TV hut it thr SenCari is very fever there is no Mention made of putting any 1r oops in Motion. Our reheft Advices from Brujfels fay. that they are Earl Guwer fucceeds the Duke of Marlborough as Lord Privy one Man on board the Sheernef. was to be Mr. Paige, herA Sea'.

The Right Hon. Lord Sandys' and Welbore Ellis, Efqrs. are appointed joint Vicp Trtafurer of Ireland, in the Room of the late Sir William Ycnge together with the Earl of Cholmondely, the other Joint Vice Treafurer." They write from Leghorn, that Paoli, General of the Corfican Malecontents, has raifed fix Companies of Guards4 for his Perfon, and is actually railing and clpathing a complete Regiment, to be commanded by fome Perfon of Diftinclion not yet named. This fame General fpends about a Thoufand Chequins a Month, though draws nothing from the People, which renders him very acceptable but whence he draws thefe Supplies is a Que ft ion the wife Senate of Genoa cannot refolve, We learn from Nantes, that almoft all the Rirers in Bretagne have ove; flowed their Banks, and done incredible Mifchief, fo that the People were obliged to forfake their Houfes, and recire to the higher Grounds but at the Departure of the Poll the Waters began to fail. forminz Magazines, and making other neceffary Prepa the Penzance Man of War, th for forty Days fucceedmg the fL ft aL r4, crhr Earthquake, on the firft of November, they had one or more (one rations for the Reception of a great Corps of Troops tn Day tfae aft of tfaJ jQlh of tWf roe oprtng pur ivoetoer taeje iroafs are tout jjujirium or Auxiliaries, or come by Land or by Sea, is not yet known.

By the moft authentic Accounts from Lijbon vje are affured, that the Number of our Countrymen and Women, twh'i by the late Earthquake paid their indijpenfible Tribute to Nature, does not exceed 14, of which Number Mrs. Lake, TP'ife. to an eminent Merchant, was one. Trade and Commerce is renewed in the Remains of that City Wines have been flipped and Bills negotiated, and thi Vnr'e nf Thinvs is in as a View as can be ex A t'. At a xt.

natural Dtffentioni in tbii Kingdom are hoppih a fjipatta bii the patriotic peeled tn tpetr prefent Lircumftances. A Lrentieman of tr 7 T'l Mcojitres of btt Excellency, the prefent Lord Lieutenant, ivbo it every cur Acquaintance, who has been at Ltjbon, Jays, he is rbig tha( is amiahlet ye are byjfed under bis Admtnipration. Our not at all furprized at the Behaviour of the Priefts, Entertainments are rational. We have no Difputet about French Dancers altbo' they bave thirteen Parts in twenty of the or Italian Singet as I fr.d has been the Cafe ivith you. We are Lands of the Kingdom in their PofeJion, do yet, by all Vfi an Enghjb Opera, called which is VJ 1 irLt performed ivitb uncommon Applaufet and ivbtcb tt btgbly mtritt, as it artjui ana.

jmifier lYietaoas yajjiuic, eturt, jyuccc, force all the Money they can from the poor deluded Lltity nor can we hope to fee an Abolition of the In quifition, the King himjelf being too much under the Influence and Dominion of the Church, and, by the funda mental Laws of Portugal, muft be an Eye witnefs of their moft inhuman Burnings and Roajlings of poor Jews and Hereticks. One of the Inhabitants told him, that Jhould the Kin fay away from one of thofe Maffacres, he would be infulted and called Jew, the' nrxt he appeared in Public. The late Queen, who was Sifter to precipitately into the Fields, notwirhftanding wmch the the Emperor Charles, being a German, was fo touched wcm wlta, greateft Jfteadirufs and CemPo c. rr lure of Mind imaginable, and afterwards retired unhurt to his WHO tve noma oigat, mat aa tve jzncrui unu gr cut Officers in thjt. Church could not prevail upon her to be prefent a fecond Time.

Month, totally defiroyed three Cjiurches which were left ftanding, but greatly mattered, together with the Remnants of feveral Houfea, which thereby were rendered level with the Ground. It is faid that the Hampton Court Man of War, that is eff Ply mouth, was within a few Leagues of Lifbon, when a Meteor pa fled fiiot, and three Men on ooara tne rrize. Dublin, Dec. 16. Laft Friday a new light Brafs Six Pounder, caft by John Pounden and Co.

was fiVd in the Phoenix Park, 300 Times in lefs than three Hours, with a ferviceable Charge of Powder and Ball, and flood the Fire perfectly we'll which was oftener than any Cannon of the fame Dimenfion was ever fiVd in the fame Time. ANNAPOLIS, March is. By a Letter from Virginia, we are informed, that Capt. Arbuth not arrived at Hampton in Virginia, the 9th of this Month, and brought in three Prizes he took off of Hifpaniola, one of them aluab'e. He fpoke with a Snow from Liverpool two Days before his Arrival, which had been out five Weeks, the after of which acquainted him, that Affairs in England remained in the fame doubtful State ai to Peace or War, as they were in when we heard laft ftom England.

BOSTON, March 22. On the i2.h Inftant, a Coafting Slocp, Samuel Goodwin, Mav fter, bound to Newberry from the Eaftward, was orove on Shore Yeflerdav the nhvprnmsnr received as Account from Lifljon bv at Plumb Ifland. and biieed. The Mafier and the i 1 1 I i ur 1 1 laved, out aimort periinea witn wet ana i oia. Men were We have the Pleafure to acquaint our Readers, that Capt.

Metcalf, in a large Sloop, who failed from Halifax for this Port abcut a Month ago, and for whom we have been in great Pain (as we knew he had very bad Weather) is fafelyr arrived at New London in Connecticut. We have certain Advice, that feveral Shocks of an Earthquake hive lately been felt at different Times in moft of the Towns in over her, which took the Virtue of the Needle away, fo that they the Eaftern Parts of this Province, and that of New Hampfhire. mxr ww knew not where they were. On Wednefday the Commifiioners of the Victualling Office contracted with Meflieuis Carter and Woodward for 3000 Oxen, to be killed for the Service of his Majefty'a Navy, at 26 and 3d, per Hundred. Extract of a Letter from Dublin, December o.

i ivitb great Pleafure we can acquaint you, that the late un breathes (be true Spirit of Liberty and it exprtffive of the utmofl Loyalty to the prefent happy Eflibhjhment" We learn from recerfburgb, that a great Council was lately held there, at which the Czsrwa, and the Imperial Prince affifted, in which the definitive Rcfolutions were taken for the Security of the Empire on aiiS'des, during the prefent critical Situation of Affairs in Europe but the Particulars have not at yet tranfpired to the PubHck. They write from Turin, that on Ail Saints Day, the firft of November, the Cardinal Archbiihup was faying Maft in the Cathedral, a very fevere Shock or an Earthquake was felt theie, upon which the People in general quitted ther Devotions, and fled and no lejs uncommtn than cruel Depredations, in tbe late mc ft dreadful at Times, exert my utmoft, in faithfully ferviog my God, and alarming Calamity of Lifbon, bave bstn committed bi tbe Subittls of Kng and my Country, as an honeft Soldier; and hope to all Nations Glad fhouldwebe, if we could fay the Seamen on board tne PJeaftire of feeing our French and Indian Ecemy fubdued tbe Britifh Ships in that Harbour were in no wife chargeable therewith but according to thefe Letters three (otherwife courageous Tars of ours are detained, and likely to make an ignominious Exit, amon? tibwards of Matter ot the Ordnance, in tne ioom or tne jJuKe 01 7oli Montague deceafed. that 4th cf February is fiVd for a rrn. rs Falling and Humiliation, to beg a Continuance of the r.f. TheRight Hon.

Lord Gage is appointed Pay mailer Providcnce and Bieffin gt of the Ahnighty upoa hia Cfeatim in pf the Penfion Office, in the Room Ot the Won. Lharles general, but more efpecially thefe Realmi, for his late Mercies Comptbn, Efq; deceaTed. vouchfafed, in preferving us from the almoft general Devaftation, 1 The Earl of Darlington, and the Lord ViiCOUnt afioned bj the late Earthquakes in many Parts of the Globe. 'TV v. jcv kic nfo We are atiured that the Right Hon.

the Lord Anfon has received Duplin, whonow ad as Paymafter General of his Ma much Benrfic by his Tour to Bath, and ereativ recovered from A N. March ao. The following melancholly Accident happened at New Chefhire, on the firft Inftant, a Son of Ebenezer aged about fix Yeats, fell backwards into a Tub of boiling hot Beer ail hit Body, and as high at his Chin, was covered with the Liquor, which brought off the Skin wherever it touched, and in about five Houis and an Half put an End to his Life, March 29. The Beginning of laft Week a Report prevailed, that a Number of French Troops had appeared near the Great Carrying Place on the Road to Ufwcgo, and had cut. off feme of our Carpenters who were going thither that thereupon the Honourable Sir.

William Jchnfon, Bart, immediately fet out with a Number of our Forces, and Indians, to meet' them But we fince hear, that the whole appears to have been a falfe Alarm given by the Indians, to fee whether the Englih would be ready to relieve them in cafe they fhou really be attacked by an Enemy. About two Weeks ago, the Barn of one Weftfall, at Minifink, was burnt by the Indians, with 24 Cows, 9 Horfes, and about 400 Bufhels of Wheat. ExtraS of a Letter from Madeira, dated fanuary 25, 1756. I think we have had only three Englifh Veffeis here finer you left us, which is fomething extraordinary at this Seafoa of ihe Year We judge they are ftaying for Convoy, as well, aa the Eaft lncia Men, which in one Refpect has happened well, as our Wines ere felling cheaper than laft Year. Yefter day arrived a Ship ftom Gibraltar, the Captain of which reports, that Letters of the 19 of December were received there from London that Preparations for War continued as before but that the Parliament would determine nothing till after Chriftmas and thst there were in Gibraltai Twenty five Sail of French Prizes' Laft Week Mr.

Sullivan, alias Johnfon, the famous Money maker, was ought to Town, and committed to cur Goal He was detected and taken in Dutchefs County, in this Government, by the extraordinary Addrefs and Refo.ution of Cornet Eiiphalet Bsecher. ExtraEl of a Let ter from Captain Rogers to the General Affcmbfy) dated at Fort William Henry March 1 5, 1 756. Gentlemerif et I leturn ycu my hearty Thanks for the particular Irjftance of your'Favour of the 25th of February laft, in bellowing One Hunched and Twenty five mill'd Pieees of Eight on me, as you were leafed to fay, for my good Services done nigh and about Crown Point againft the French and Indians. I know not how to make a fufficient Acknowledgment for this Act of Generality, but (hall, my have this Spring. May God blefs your bounteous Hands, and profper your Eftatet.

Robert RogeksV jefty Land forces, have appointed Jonn rage, Hlq; his late Iudifpofition, to the jy of his Friends as well as the dian fome Diflance from tbe Town, be took an Opportunity of killinr tO be their LepUty. ruonc ia general. ana jcaiptng mm, ana maae ms Jijcape. "ibe JXumber oj tTarrtors in Harman.Lec.ee Efq; is appointed one of the prin Ij faid that his Grace the Duke rf Leeds is appointed Cofferer that Town, by does rot amount to a Hundred, of which Plprlrc War flfirP in the Pnnm nf Tnhn t0 8 MaJc2y the Hon. Jamei Deputy Cofferer.

a Party Twenty fix, under Shingts, fet off Jxteen Dayt before he Cipal Of the War Ufcice, in the KOOm Ot John It is laid that the Hon. Richard Edgcumbe is appointed one of tb i Jacobs, with fixteen Men more, foliwed them Calcraft, Efq; who has reflgned. the Lords of the Admiralty, and that Henry Furnefe, Efq; is ap four Days after, in order to all upon the Conrgocbeague Settlements VVe hear that Or the two iroops or none Ljrena pointed one of the Commilhaners of Trade and Plantations, in cna turn Home, to annoy the' Forts Littleton and Shirley. dier Guards, one is to be made into a Regiment of tne ioom or iwr. tdgcumbe.

Horfe, and the other into one of Dragoons, Dec. 23. They wire from HimbuTgh, that the Letters received from Lifbon advife, that the Swedifti Conful was crufh'd by the Fail of hia own fome of the Officers belonging to the Court weie kilPd, ani among them two of the Secretaries of State, were in thir Offices when the Palace was thrown down. By 'pTivate Letters from Switzerland we learn, thai on the 10th Inftant, predfely at. Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, a violent Shock of an Earthquake was felt at Schaffhaufen.

At Bazil and in Plymouth, Nov. 30. Arrived the Deliverance, a French Ship from Newfoundland; fent in by the Weymouth, laden with Fih and Salt. Chatham, Dec. 2.

Yefterday arrived a very rich French Ship, fent in by Capt. Falkner, Commanber of the Wind for. Pertfmoath, Dec. 10. Monday came into the Harbour three Prizes, one from Newfoundland, and two from Martinicc.

All our Ships are getting ready with the utmoft Expedition. Thofe at Spithead, in Number thirteen, are ordered' to be ready to put to Sea on the fhorteft Notice. We are not able to form anv Judgment tne eignDouinooa a violent anccu. was icit mc lame uay ai inree wnac win oe tne event ol our prelent Naval Armaments carried Quarters after Three fome Houfes were damaged, and others much on with fuch uncommon Zeal and Spirit. fhaken.

The Lake of Zurich, which was greatly agitated at the Gofport, Dec. 19. Ever fince Monday we have had verv tem lime ct nun dettroyed JLiibon, was again agitated pettuous Weather, heavy Rains, and fuch uncommon Liehtnine on th'u and overflowec its Banks. By other Letters we and Thunder, that the oldeft Men living in thefe Parts do not re tnis laft Shock was aifo felr at and Stutgard. member; the like at this Seafon.

His Majefty'a Ships Yarmouth Advices nave teen receiTen at iopennagen Tiom and Cfaicnefter nave been dock and clean this Sorine Tide. Nofder Syffel in Iceland, dated Sept. ic, On the nth Inftant a violeo: Shock was felt here and in the Diftritl of Hufewig, It bt Yefterday the Monarch went into Dock, and is expefted out this Day, The fame Afternoon a fix oax'd Boat, beionging to hit Ma PHILADELPH I JVpril 1. Extract of a Letter from Fort Shirley, in Cumberland County, dated March 20, 1756. Jufl fiow arrived here John Baker, a Servant to Capt.

Croghan, who brings an Indian Scalp, and relates as follows: That about tbe 2jth of January lafi, being out of Sight of this Fort, upon fome Bu Jinefs, be was feixed by an Indian a Son of John Hickman, and ano ther Indian coming vp, be was carried off to Ksttatinnm, where be remained till about ten Days ago, when being ordered out with an In He informs us, that a great Body of the Cbippawaj and Tawaw Indians were daily, expeclcd to join the French at Fort du Suefne, and from thence fall down upon tbe'EngliJb Colonies The above Baker is fiace tome to Town, and has brought the Scalp with him. He informs that there are above a Hundred young People, belonging to this Province, at Kittatinnin, whom the Io dians intend to keep, in order to inereafe their Inhabitants tfuxl that the French buy their old Prifoners from them, for which tbey give a great Price, and employ them in their fervile Work. There is alfo come to Town, fines our laft, one John Cuig, who was taken and carried off by five Delaware Indians, on the Elerenth of February laft, as he was in Search of two Sons of the Wid ow Coxe, of Cumberland County, whofe Houfe was burnt on that Day by the Indians. He informs us, that they immediately firipped him, tied a Rope about his Neck, and drove him before them That on travelling towards the Cove Mountains the eave the War Halloo, which was anfwered by two Indians, to whom went, and there he faw the Widow Coxe' a Sons with Rooei about their Necks That at Night the three Prifoners were ftripped quite naked, and their Limbs ftretched out to the utmoft Extent, and tied to a Poft and Trcti, and then each had a Blanket thjowo.