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132] ANNUAL REGISTER  For the year 1772 [133

bales of coffee, have been lost in the conflagration. The whole loss is computed at twenty millions of dollars. It did not affect the English quarter."
7th. Lord Carysford attended the levee at St. James's, and delivered up the ensigns of the order of the Bath, with which his late father was invested; as did the Hon. Mr. Dillon the staff of the late Earl of Litchfield, which he possessed as captain of the band of gentlemen pentioners. 
At the meeting of the justices of Surry, being the quarter sessions for Surry held at Kingston, application was made for a license for a new Sadler's-Wells, when the same was unanimously rejected.
The report was made to his majesty of the malefactors under sentence of death in Newgate, when the following were ordered for execution: John Jones and John Sunderland, for burglary; John Chapman, for housebreaking; Benjamin Rogers, for forgery; and John Creamer, for returning from transportation. 
The other ten convicts were respited.
8th. This day a court of aldermen met at Guildhall, for the sheriffs to make their report of the numbers on the poll for the election of a lord-mayor for the year ensuing, which ended on Tuesday last; and Messrs. Wilkes and Townsend were to be returned to the aldermen, as having the majority of votes, for them to make choice of one; but a scrutiny was demanded in favour of Messrs. Hallifax and Shakespeare.
9th. The Right Hon. Simon Earl Harcourt was this day declared by his majesty, Lieutenant-general and General-Governor of his majesty's kingdom of Ireland.
Lord Viscount Stormont was appointed his majesty's ambassador extraordinary to the court of Versailles.
13th. At the general sessions of the peace for King's-Lynn, in Norfolk, William Pulling, near fixty years of age, found guilty of ravishing a child under ten years of age, received sentence of death, and was ordered for execution.
The statue of his majesty on horseback, erected in the centre of Berkeley-square, was opened, and makes a fine appearance.
Several workmen were this day employed at the Old-Bailey, in making a new ventilator, and other necessary precautions, to prevent the effects of any malignant distemper at the ensuing sessions, several persons having died who attended the last sessions. Among other precautions, a contrivance is made by a pipe, to carry the fumes of vinegar into the sessions-house, while the court is sitting.

Extract of a Letter from Paris.
"A Swiss, who had been hired before the vintage, in a neighbouring province, to take care of the vines, took advantage of the absence of the husbandman to attempt the seduction of his daughter; but, not being able to effect this by persuasion, he satisfied his brutal appetite by force. To prevent detection, he then killed the young woman and fled. Being immediately pursued, he was overtaken, and delivered up to the justice of his own nation; (for the Swiss nation, by treaty, have a sovereign right to decide in all causes civil and criminal, relative to their own nation in France.) He was adjudged, after trial, to the usual punishment in the like cases, viz. to be sawed alive in two. He was accordingly jammed in (all except his head) between two large logs of wood hollowed for that purpose, and in that posture underwent the dreadful punishment. He was then exposed to public view, as a warning to others whose passions are stronger than their reason."
14th. John Jones, John Creamer, John Sunderland, and John Chapman, were, pursuant to their sentence, executed at Tyburn. Rogers, who was to have suffered the same punishment, died in Newgate.
His Grace the Duke of Marlborough was chosen president of the Radcliffe infirmary at Oxford, in the room of the late Earl of Litchfield. 
A poor man at Waterbeach, in Cambridgeshire, being very desirous of his children having the small-pox, got some matter for that purpose, and putting it between two pieces of bread-and-butter, gave it to them to eat. They took the small-pox and are now perfectly recovered.
Rome, Sept. 20. The Romish seminary so well known, which has subsisted 200 years under the direction of the Jesuits, and where four popes, and 96 cardinals were educated, besides great numbers of bishops, generals, doges, and men of learning in every rank of life, was shut up the 17th instant. The debts of this house amount to 378,000 scudis. The Jesuits and their scholars were sent awat very humanely, except five of the latter, who wait for an answer from their realtions, to know how they are to be disposed of.

Extract of a Letter from Stockholm.
Sept. 28
"The pardon which the kings of Sweden have been accustomed to grant, on occasion of their coronation, had been hitherto suspended, on account of the difficulties arisen with regard to some public officers, who had been accused of having prevaricated at the election of deputies of the diet. Circumstances having changed by the late revolution, a pardon hath at length taken place, and the act has already been signed by the king."
The finishing stone was laid of the tower near Sutton, Wilts, erected by Henry Hoare, Esq; in memory of King Alfred, who, on the spot it stands upon, erected his standard in the year 871, to make head against the Danes, and soon after gained a great victory over them. It is a building of brick, 155 feet in height, and commands a most fine and extensive prospect; over the door-way, in a niche, properly ornamented, stands the statue of Alfred; and under, the following inscription cut in marble: "In memory of Alfred the Great, who on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders. He instituted juries, established a militia, created and exerted a naval force: a philosopher and a christian, the father of his people, the founder of English monarchy and liberty."
23d. A prodigious concourse of people assembled on Towerhill, where a temporary stage had been built, with back-seats, on which appeated eight divines, seven of whom had been educated at the
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