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142] ANNUAL REGISTER 
such a rapid manner, that it overtook above 250 persons who ran up to the mountains to save themselves. At Christianstadt 460 houses were thrown down, besides the houses which were built upon the plantations, which are computed at 63. All the magazines, stores, and provisions are quite ruined; ships which were expected here with provisions, are lost in the hurricane. No planter has provision for his negroes; so that we are under a perpetual fear of an insurrection amongst them. All the ships at the different harbours were cast ashore, fifty or an hundred yards on the land. The damage at St. Croix is computed at 5,000,000 of dollars, and at St. Thomas's at 200,000 dollars. 
26th. This day his majesty went in the usual state to the House of Peers, and opened the present session of parliament with a most gracious speech from the throne. 
27th. The keeper of a private mad-house, and his wife, were brought to the Court of King's-Bench, to receive sentence for confining and ill-treating two women, who had been sent to their house by their husbands, under pretence of lunacy, (see p.90) when the court fined them six shillings and eightpence, ordered them to pay fifty pounds to each of the women, and all costs of suit on both sides. 
This day Mr. Capon, of Lowestoffe, who had been formerly subject to fits, and who about twenty months before had forcibly swallowed a crown-piece, which was placed between his teeth to prevent his biting tongue, brought up the same, but was almost choaked in the effort. He has enjoyed a 
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continued state of health, which before was frequently interrupted with pains in the stomach, and a disagreeable taste in his mouth. The piece, when brought up, was so black that the inscription could not be read, and it still continues very much discoloured. 
The wreck of the Brotherly Love, was driven with such violence against Dunhurch wall, near Dover, in Kent, that it beat down a part of the wall, and the sea rolling furiously in, had rendered the same impassable. It will cost more than two thousand pounds to repair the damages. 
A ship from Newfoundland with fish and oil, was wrecked upon Lydd beach, the captain and crew saved, but a man and his wife, passengers on board, not being able to get into the boat, joined hand in hand, and perished together. 
Codiz, Oct. 6. The Emperor of Morocco has ordered all christians to quit the town of Tetuan, and those who were charged to put these orders in execution, went about it with so much rigour, that one would have thought the place had been taken by storm. The foreign merchants were to go and settle at Tangier, where there were no houses for them; but the emperor means to force them to build their own habitations. The Spanish vice-consul, and the English, were obliged to depart upon very short notice; the former went to Larrache, and the other retired to Gibraltar. The European jews must undergo the same fate, unless they will take the black habit, like those of the country; and in that case, the emperor will take them for his subjects and slaves. 
Ratisbon,
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Ratisbon, Oct. 19. The accounts we receive from Bohemia are very melancholy. The putrid fevers that prevailed there are succeeded by a dysentery, which carries ess great numbers of the people; and the mortality among the horned cattle increases. The harvest has likewise proved very indifferent this year; and to complete the misery of that country, it is over-run with mice to that degree that every thing upon the ground is destroyed, by which the price of provisions is considerably increased. 
We learn from Teschen, that the Marchioness of Wielopolska, after having formerly sold all her jewels in support of the confederates, and since borrowed 1,200,000 ducats upon her estates, that are situated in the part which is fallen to the lot of the house of Austria, threw herself in to a well in a fit of despair; but was taken out again, against her consent, with only her arm broken. 
Aarbus, in Norway, Oct. 9. The celebrated Christian Jacobsen Drackenburg, of whom mention has been so frequently made in the public prints on account of his great age, died here this day at seven in the morning, aged 146, having been born Nov. 11, 1626. 
Died, the 12th inst. near Monmouth - Edmunds, Esq; who hath bequeathed a fortune of upwards of 20000 l. to one Mills a day labourer, near that place. Mr. Edmunds, who has so amply provided for this man at his death, would not speak to or fee him whilst he lived. 
Daniel Legro, Esq; aged 103, at Leeds. 
John Richardson, of Truro, aged 107. 
John Johes, of Horton-lane, near Shrewsbury, aged 102. 
Mary Butler, of Shrewsbury, aged 102. 

DECEMBER. 
1st. Was held a general court of proprietors at the East In-India-house, when the chairman acquainted the court, that the secret committee of the House of Commons, were then sitting under the same roof for the benefit of receiving information from the direction; upon which Mr. Mackworth expressed his disapprobation of the company's application to parliament for redress of grievances, and declared it next to infatuation in the directors to suffer the books and papers of the company to be carried before a set of gentlemen in general unacquainted with mercantile affairs, and wholly incapable of judging of things at so great a distance. He therefore moved for a committee of 25 proprietors to be appointed, previously to inspect the company's affairs, and to report their proceedings and informations to the committee appointed by parliament, which was agreed to, and Mr. Mackworth was requested to retire and prepare a list of 25 fit persons; in the mean time Governor Johnson moved for a petition to parliament, expressing the privileges the company derive from their charter and the laws of the land, and praying the inspection into their affairs may be in as public a manner as possible, which motion was also carried, and when Mr. Mackworth returned, the list he produced was approved, to which Governor Johnson, with the consent