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fortrefs of Orfova befieged by them. Notwithftandim between Spain and England. "It mutt indeed, be con the Difficulties which are likely to attend this fds'd, that it looks like a Miracle, or at Icaii from the Turks being advantageoully polled in the De ibtyething Ominous to Us, that we who may with Jul fiL'S that the Army to pals through, jet our Troops ticc look upon our lelves to be the belt Seamen in the Ihew great Eagernels to undertake it. The German De World, Ihould fuller lb much, and the French lo little, by ferters are. now lo well received by the Tuiks, that, con that Storm.

The French meddling in our Affairs with trary to their Cultom, they not only enrol them, but give Snuin, alio bodes us no good. What have we to do with them better Pay than their other Troops. that Mediation don't want it, we have not call'd Vienna, Juie 21. We are certainly aflur'd that the for it and if we accept ir, the Nation will have Caule Negotiates of Pcac at Conttantin'ple continue to be and Leifure enough to rue fuch a Step, carried on with Enrgy and that the Ambaffadors of Cardinal de Flcury is relolv'd to immortalize his Name, Gieat Britain and Hilland take great Pains therein, the and make his Memory ador'd by hisCountry as the Mediation of which two Powers has been folemnly ac lureft Way to do lb, he ipares no Labour, no Coft, to cepted by the Grand Signior. Advice is arrived, that encourage the Trade of it 5 and the Improvements he has the Town of Orlova vigoroufly defends itielf againfl the made in every Branch or Commerce within thefe dozen Tuiks, who l'ufYer greatly in carrying on that Siege, and Years, would be incredible, were they not vifible to our may, it's thought, eafily be oblig'd to raife tt which Eyes: Vifible indeed, they are, but too fatally fo for pofTibly may have given Occafion to the Report of the Britain.

No Minifter ever ihew'd a girarer Love to his Turks being retir'd Ircm before that Place, and of their Country 5 no Minifter ever was mofe jealous of the Ho having blown up theirs Works at Meadia. nour ot his Matter nor did eve any Minifter fb thorough Letters from Temeiwaer fay, that the rediculous Opi ly underftand the Art of throwing Duft in the Eyes of nion of Vampires, which was lb much talkM of fojr or his Neighbours, or praclife it with greater Succefs. five Years ago, is agairn reviv'd. The common People's A Gnftitution by the Pope is publifhed at Rome, Notion of Vampires is this, that dead Bodies rife out of which forbids the affceiating of. the Free Mafons, upon tneir Graves and fuck the Blood of People aflcep; after Pain of Excommunication 5 and that in the mean time, which they conclude, that the Perlbns luck'd become in tiofe Societies at Florence and Leghorn, which were iup their turn Vampires 3 and to prevent any ill Effeclsfrom prefs'd in the Reign of the late Duke, have open'd their Bodies that are lulpecled to be of this Sorr, they drive a Lodges again without fear of the Inquifition, becaufe the Stake through the Heart and cut off the Head.

Thele prelent Great Duke is a Brother. And they write from fupeittitiou Follies are luppos'd to arife not only from Conltantinople, Smyrna, and that the Societies the Ignorance of the Inhabitants of the Bannat, but to the there are very mucn incrcaled 5 and that they have ad Calamities it at prelent iurYcrs, which occalions Panicks mitted ieveral Turks of Diftinction. to prevail. Vienna, June 25. Advice has been receiv'd from London, Jue 18.

His Majefty has been pleas'd to ap Hungary, tnat the Grand Duke ot Ti.lcany, and Prince point the Right Hon. the Lord Viicount Gage, Member Charles, his Brother, had happily join'd the Army1 but of Parliament for Tcwksbury, to be Governor and Com that the Counts Lutherer, Kilc.u, nd Ahheim, who mander in Chief of the Iflanc; of Barbadoes, in the Room were of his Royal Highntfles Retinue, bur went by of Sir Orlando Bridgman, Bart. Land from Belgrade, were taken Priloness by the Turks, The Fleet appointed for the Weft Indies, confifts of 14 and that Prince Lobkowitz was actually let from Men of War. Trani)lvania, with 12,000 Men, and marching with all hear that an Officer of fome Importance, of the Speed towards Orfova. The fame etters add, that the Garnlbn of Port Mahon, has been called upon to anlwer Overflowing of the Danube, had ruin'd great Part of to ibme Heads of Accuiation drawn up againft him 5 the the Batteries and other Works rais'd by 'the Turks a Principal of which is, for having held unlawful Corref gainlt Orfova 5 which, however, bad not difcourag'd pondence with the Spanifh Governor of Majorca, them from carrying on the Siege with Vigour.

The romuntick Story from Bengal, of an Alligator's Letters from Copenhagen by way of Hamburg bring, making a Meal of three Sailors on board a French 6hip that aSwedilh Man of War had convey 'd through the that wasloltmthe late Hurricane, hisengrols'd the Con Sound a large Veflel Dden with Arms, which the verfation of almoft all the whole Tdwh, and furnifh'd Crown of Sweden had, it's laid, engaged to lend theOt all our ffee Houfe Conmffeurs with Dilcourie, variouf toman Porte, in Order to acquit the Debts contracted by ly aifeiHng them according to their different Complexions the King, during rm Continuance at Bender. to the Jocular and Gay affording Mirth and Jollity to From the 'Paris Gazette, June 5c. the Phlegmatick credulous, yielding Hoior and Surprize, The Accounts we have already received' of the late fcrious Debates and dull Reaioningj of which latter fort Hurricane at Bengal, are terrible enough but the a round Company atone of the mott eminent Coffee Defcription of the Defolation occafion'd thereby, given Houfes in the City, learnedly debating about the Table, by the People of the Duke of Dprfet India Man lately and not entirely agreeing in their they took arriv'd, has fome tragical Additions, of which our Let Occafion to ask a iprightJy )oung Gentleman, who calu ters mike no mention, viz. That after the Winds and ally dropt in at that Time, his Sentiments of the Tale Rain were abated, there was nothing to be feen Handing To which he merrily anfwer'd, ht look'd upon the riter for five Miles together, (except the Duke 'of Dorfet, to be an ill natur'd Fellow, that envied the Author of who out rid the Storm nay not a Tree, a Houfe, a Ship, the old Engliih Ballad, Moor cf Moor Hal his terrible or a Boar, but all overwhelm'd in the common Deluge: Defcription of the Dragon of Wantley, in the following That the River was cover'd with Wrecks of Ships, Boats, Lines: and Thoufads of Carcafes, moitly human, in fuch a Devoured he Manner that a Perfon might have walk'd on Shore on 'Poor Children "Three, dead Bodies, and that they were fore'd to employ many That could not with him grapple, of the Natives feveral Days to fink them, for fear of any An at a Sup ill Conlcquence from their Stench. He eat them up, 'Paris.

We look upon it here as a fort of Miracle, that As a Man would eat an Apple. the French Port and Ships at Chandernagor, on the Ganges, met with little or no Difafter by the late great And therefore he makes his Monfter fr.ap up Three Men Hurricane in India. Our Court has received an Expreis in a Trice, and eagerly gape for more no doubt the from Calais, with Advice, that the Engliih Squadron Whole Ships Crew. Upon this, one of the, Principals under the Command of Admiral Haddockwas fail'd for role from his Seat, and declared he was inclined to be of the Mediterranean 3 but it is hoped that the fending ot that the Gentleman's Opinion, which the reft affented, tho' Squadron thither, To Content TheEkclisii one of them laid he had feen an Alligator a Yard and Nation, ill not hinder the Succefs of'tke Pains half long 5 a convincing Proof of the Probability of the tur Court is taking to prevent jiqiv Mifunderjfandings Narration. This.