The Caledonian Mercury from Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland • 2

Upon the Match lareiy made batweeti OM-Yux, Lady-Thlghs, Favourite, fitit and fecondbesi for the seven Mile Course. tbere was raore run for than fcarce ever known Old-Fox not run-Siing for his owu Moncy, and beirfg several King's Piares in Pocket, jnr.de the Stsk.es as dcep as he could, thinkmg io deter Favourite from starring, who he knew had grcatly the Advantage of hirn in Breath, hough not upon io good a Foot so that the least Slip Yhuit have tbrown him oot; this made the Odds at starting Seven to One on Oid Fox againsi the Field; yet for all this Favourite would most cerrainly have beat him, but for a Smock-faced young Levite; -who being mounted upon a warm Filicy, got by an old Run-away Hun-. ter, and riding Neck or Noihing after a Fat-Living, ciols'd the Course just az Favourite was come up to Old-Fox, and would have given him the Go-by but for this rlccident, by which he lost one, ar leafl, if not two Horse's Lengths, and so Old-Foz with great Diinculty carne in first. Lady-Thighs and Favourite Were so near together that the Judges could not decide it, but decrfed fhey fhould haveanotherHe.it; which to the great Joy of the Spect. was got by Favourite by one Horfc's Length nctwithstaudlng was agreed upon by Lr.dy-Thighs and Old Fox's Grooros, who stuck jse to hirn, to jostle Favourite (if postible) or.t of the Courfle.

havmg befort, witbout cfcen attempred 10 bribe Favourite's 1 Rider with .5000 1. to play Booty, by going 01: the vtong Lide of the Post. Last Nighr was a great Appearance of Nobility and Gentry to ste Phormio performed by the Westminster amGng whom wert the Right Hon. sh Marquis of Lothian; the Marquis Lord Hobard, as cn the other Hand t'ie fofant JDuke of Pai ma a an inon-esta. ble Right to rhe Succeillon, our PoHticians that the Way to reconciie rhesc reciprocal Pretensions, would b-v- to rake from thi Monarch the Stf.te Pridii.

and je ir io Tuscuny. in order to make a Settleinent ior tne Don Philip, Return. rbr which thk Piiuee stiould give up his Dutthles of Parma, Piacentia, and Guafteiia, to the mpreis-Queen the Emperor have an E-qnivaknt In Moncy for the Cestion of Tutcany, and the Klug of dinia being indemnified in the farae Ilhner, upon Condi.ion that hs slioidd conient to renounce Ins Right to the Reverslon of Dutchy of Piacentia This is the Plan upon which our Ppltricbtis preten i to settie smportanr Iurerests. arul ihey even give out, iha this Regulation has been propol' by the ContraTVing Powers of the. Treaty of Aix-la-Ghapelie.

Pttersbsurgi Nhv 30 The Emprefs hss caused lirge Pemitfances to be made tc. aU her Ministers at foreign Courts, in order to eckbiate the Birth of the Prince Paul-Petrowitz, which Event her Impetial hab likewise celebrated with leveral Acts tf The Rcvenues of this Fmpire re so prudenrly manviged, thai the Demunds of the State have not been enhauced, notwithstand-ing the great Experte upon' this happy Otcasion, nor does the cur-rent 5 tutier any Interruption. Hemburghf Dec. 13. Lerters from Copenhagen advife, that th rrfagnirieent Hotel, which rhe of Schach hrely in that City, wc? burnr to the Ground a few Day stnec.

Dcc. 16. The seur Grand Vicars of thcArch-bilhop of Paris, not being witfitxg to have any Qjiarrel, either wirii the Farliament or with tiie Archbimop, have given up thtir to him. Some private Letter from Italy instnuare, thai moilof the Courts in that Country cannot help espressing a Dt of at the late Advantages gair.ed by that of Naplcsin Point of Com-meroe, which are very confiderable, and from by the Administration to encourage Industry, to open rTarbpcm aad to irhprove rhe Old is like to increasc and extend every Dajf, Some Polirkians in Germany difeern, or think they dlfcerUj, fbme singular Appearances in Foland, from when.ee they pretend to predict, that whenever rhe Throne becomes vacant, a new Candi-date will appear, but with the old Credeniials, an Abjuratibi) in one Hand, a Purfe in the other, and a numerous Bedy of Ttoops be-hind. They write from Hanovcr, that the two eidest Son 5 of Prince Frederick of Heile are arrived Kt the University of Gottingen, and, that the rheir Mother is expecied at about the Time of the King's Arrival.

There is an Account from St. johii'i Newfouivdland, th-t in the Begtnning of October William Keen, -dge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, was murdered there; that ths Perlons conceru-d in that inhuman Aktion have since been taten, tried, con-icted, ancl executed, and two of their Bodics bong in C'-nnz-. They write from Charles Tovm in Sourh-Carolina, that a Num-ber of French and Indians had aflembied at a Place the Chr-raws, near 200 Mtles on the Back of Charles Tovvn, had kif-led near 20 Perlons. Lctters from New-York of the 21 st of Oktober ininrm us that Cant. Thomas, who was arrived there in lix Veefcs from the Musketo Shore, brought Ad vice that the Week befert h.

be-ingin Company with Capt.Jermrün, in aSnowbeiongingto Antigua, Capt. Askin, in a Brig of Rhodc-Iiland, Capt. Morrison, in a Sioop cf the Bay, and Capt. Jones, Ina Sloop of New-York, t. chafed, going into Honduras Bay, by a Fleet of thirty (-fels, among which were two laige Ships, one Snow, one whole Galley, and the other HalT-Galleys, See.

Th kven Sail chaied him in particular, from Day-lighi to Five P. M. when they gave over Chacet That Capt. Jones was taken by the Galley the lam Afternoon, after O.arters of an Hour Engagement, and ic was imagmed by Capt. Jermain that be mull have damagc-d the Galley mueb, as himself was but a fmall Distance oif at the Time, and lhe did not think rzt to cha him.

Capt. Thomas firther That there were ltxty Sp? i Vefl fels lytng at Key-Bokcll when the thirty -two gave Chacc; that he was informed at the Shore, that the Spanilh Fleet had Fand lies on board, in order to settie the Bay, and that they exlpeed an Attack daily at the Shore stom them. On the 4t! In lim was drove into in Ircland by cf Weather, difmasted, rhe Saiiy of and from w'ah Tar and Mails, from Liverpool. The Caprain, William Carey, was wastied overboard and drowned, t.venry Days beibre ibev made the Land. The Ship aud Crew ar" itt a ciost miscrabt: I Since our arrived a Frencb and a Holland Mai! From ihn London Gazette Dtc.

24- Naples 2t. 'TpHE King having taken into Confsderation the fatal attending the many Duels and Rencontres which happenc4 in this Ccuntry, has canscd an Ordonnance tobe pubiistied, by which all Duelists are fbr the future to be puuished with the fimc Rigour as they are in France. Vienna, Dec. 4. On Saturday last, beirfg the Fcast of St.

Andrew, the Archduke Joseph appeared for the first Time in the Habit of the Order of.the Golden Fleece, and dined with the Errt-peror the resi of the Knightsof that Order who were prescnt, moun-ting to Twens y-four, dining at another Table in.tiie tarne Hall. The Emprefs Queen bas given Orders for xhe Establifmnent of a third Military Academy in which the Childrenof all Perlons ferving thie Court, eil her in a Civil or Military Capacity, who are upwards of 15 Yesrs of Age, are to be taughr, besides what remesto the. Mi-Iifary Art, the soilowihg Languages, viz. the Hungarlan, Bohe-inian, Italian, Engiifh and Freu eh and her Imperia! Mujesty has appointed Field Marihai Leopold Daun to have the principai Di-: -jci; PHSlrSE Der. 13.

By Lcttcrs recetved stom Copenhagen, dated the 71h Instant, vv.e are informed, that the grand Edlfice, which the of Schach has Jately trefted in the new Square of i iutircly reduced to Albes. Hagnvy Dcc. 17. Count Golofkin, the Rulfia Am-baUidor, gavea mpsl Entertainmenr, and afterwards a Ball, on Occaflon of the BkhS of the young Prince Paul-Petrowitz, Son tc the Great Duke and Great Outchefs of Rustia to whieh.th Fo-reign Ministers ai-d of boh Scxes, were invited. The Post of Major af the City of Utrecht, vacant by the Dealh of M.

de Campcnliuylen, having been conserred on M. van Bercheyck, he has taken the uiual Oaths to the Cotmci! of State, to qualify himfeif for taar Employmenr. M. van Oyen, Lieutenant General of Horte, and Major of the Regiment of Horte Guards, died here this Morniug, in the 6oth Ycar of Age. i'.

james''iy Dtc. 11. This Day Baron Rantzau, Envoy ex-traordinaiy from the King of Den mark, had bis first private Au-diepee of his Roya H'gbneis the Duke; to which he was introdu ot-d by Sir Clgmeat Cotrell Dormer, Knt. Master of the Qetfr moaies. JT From the Whltehall Evehittg Dec.

24. Naples, iStQv. 26. The frequent Couriers which pafs betweeu this Court and that of Madrid, cccasions auundance of Corjcclures concerning in Hand. It given out that a nevv R.trü- lation i'j on Foot in relation to ine eventual SuGcelBon to.

the Crown rhe Two Steines. As the King Sovereign cannot corrlemt thue it pals Deccafe to any other buf hib eldest Suh end.