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118] Annual Register
the flair-cafe leading into the Marine-Society's office over the Royal Exchange:
"In 1763, William Hicks, Esq; of Hamburgh, left a generous token of regard to this his native country, worthy to be recorded to the latest posterity: He bequeathed to this Society a sum of money which produces 300l. per annum, for fitting out poor boys, in time of war, to serve the officers on board the royal navy, in order to be brought up as seamen: In time of peace, one half of the produce to be expended in fitting out poor boys as apprentices to owners and masters of ships in the merchants-service and coasting vessels; the other half in placing out poor girls to trades, whereby they may earn an honest livelihood. This memorial was given by Thomas Nash, Esq; citizen of London."
Extract of a Letter from Marseilles, June 19.
"A young man of this town, who was violently in love with a girl whom he despaired to succeed with, on account of the great disproportion of fortune between the two families, lately poisoned his father, mother, brother, and sister, at one meal, in order to get all their fortunes. The precaution he had taken to bring two eggs for his own supper, was the means of discovering his crime; but he found means to make his escape."
Extract of a Letter from Paris. "Mad d'Orcay died here lately, of a distemper little known in this country, but distinguished in Poland by the name of the pliqua. One of the symptoms of this distemper is looked upon as incurable, which is, that blood issues from the hair."
Copenhagen, June 23. The Counsellor of Justice Struensee set out on his departure from hence this day for Lubec. The king has restored to him his effects, which are valued at 6000 rixdollars, including the presents he received before his imprisonment, from his majesty, and the late Count Struensee, his brother. Colonel Falkenschiold sent a request of some kind to his majesty before his banishment to Munkholm, but it was not complied with. The report was made to his majesty of the convicts 24th. under sentence of death in Newgate, when the following were ordered for execution, viz. George Lovell, Robert Aystrop, John Devine, James Dempsey, and Robert Jones, on Wednesday the 5th of August next: Thomas Masey, John Rogers, Richard Cole, John Fryers, and James Assent, were respited during his majesty's pleasure. A cause was tried before Lord Mansfeld, for criminal conversation, brought by a watchmaker against an agent to an attorney. It appeared, that a familiar intercourse being disclosed to the plaintiff, to have been carried on between his wife and the defendant, he charged her with it, and she declared that the defendant had committed rape on her, and that she would swear it, which she did before the lord-mayor, and preferred a bill of indictment against the defendant for an actual rape, which was found ignoramus. On this the defendant brought his action against the plaintiff for a malicious prosecution, on which he recovered a verdict for 50l. damages. The watchmaker in this last suit proving clearly the criminal conversation between his wife and the defendant, the jury, after half an hour's consideration, gave him a verdict, with 300l damages.
Came on a cause to be 29th. tried before Lord Mansfield at Guildhall, by a special jury, in which the assignees of a bankrupt were plaintiffs, and a merchant of London defendant, for the recovery of 500l. East-India capital flock, which had been transferred to the brankrupt for the purpose of voting at an election for East-India directors, and which the said bankrupt had re-transferred to the said merchant after the statute of bankruptcy had taken place. The jury shewed their detestation to this practice, by giving a verdict to the plaintiffs, with 1272l. damages, besides cost of suit.
The same day a tythe-cause came on to be tried before the barons of the Exchequer, wherein the Rev. Mr. John Glasse, Rector of Pencombe, in Herefordshire, was plaintiff, and his parishioners defendants. The question was, When ther notice given ten days, previous the the expiration of the year 1769, was sufficient to make void a composition in lieu of tythes, that had subsisted in the parish many years; which the court determined in the affirmative.
The pregnancy of the princess, consort to the young pretender, was declared at Rome. This princess is grand-daughter to Thomas Bruce, Earl of Aylebury, father of Charles Bruce, the left Earl of Aylebury, in whole person that title became extinct. The said Thomas, being a papist, settled at Brussels, in the low countries, where he married to his second lady Charlotte, Countess of Sanna, of the noble house of Argenteau; by whom he had an only daughter, Charlottle Maria, who married in 1722 the Prince of Horne, one of the princes of the empire; by whom he had five children, the youngest of whom is the abovementioned Princess of Stolberg, who, as appears by the foreign accounts, is first-cousin to her Grace the present Duchess of Richmond, (her grace's father and the princess's mother being brother and sister) second-cousin to his Grace the Duke of Chandos, and allied to the principal nobility in this kingdom.
 Extract of a Letter from Stockholm,
July 3.
"We have just received advice from Avafaæa in Lapland, that the wood on mount Horrilakers had, by some accident, had set on fire on the night of the 22d of June, which burnt with such amazing rapidity, that the flames soon communicated to the forests at the foot of the mountain, and the trees being dried by the hot weather, were in less than half an hour in one continued blaze. The light was soon seen from Avafaæa; and the inhabitants immediately ran to some villages that were near the forest side, but the little wooden huts that formed those villages, were soon reduced to ashes: happily no lives were lost. The flames continued ravaging the forests till the 24th in the afternoon; when a heavy shower of rain falling, it was almost immediately extinguished. This is the fourth fire of the kind that has happened on the Horrilakers since the year 1736."
Died lately, aged upwards of 70, Mr. Richard Child, farmer at [I4] Colfall,