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148] ANNUAL REGISTER
[[aside from first two lines of text]] 21st.
His majesty went to the House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to the following bills:
The bill for granting an aid to his majesty by a land-tax, for the service of the snsuing year.
The bill to continue the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry.
And to three other bills.
Yesterday morning about one o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. Owen's, jeweller, in Fenchurch-Street, which consumed the inside of the house (leaving only the front standing), with the stock in trade and furniture; it likewise burnt the greatest part of Mr. Viner's house, chymist, next door, and two backwards.
An Esquimaux India captain, with his squaw or wife, appeared in town.  They were brought by Commodore Shuldham from New-foundland, in order to be presented to his majesty, to establish a lasting friendship with the Eglots, as these people call the English nation.  The Esquimaux nation inhabit the country on the north of the river St. Lawrence, between whom, and the inhabitants of Greenland, there has been found a remarkable affinity of language.
[[aside from text]] 23d.
This morning, during a great fog, two horses belonging to a dray-cart, got loose from their driver in the Hay-market, and running furiously along, beat down two men, and killed them on the spot.  One Mr. Wishaw, a taylor in Palsgrave-head-court, Temple-Bar, narrowly escaped the same fate.  A poor man in the Strand, taking up an old pipe, was run over, and taken up speechless, with little hopes of recovery.  The darkness was so great, that the carriages of the nobility and gentry were attended with lights, the same as at midnight; and in the morning, a man decently dressed was found dead near the Three Crowns, at the bottom of Gray's-Inn-lane, supposed to have perished through the inclemency of the weather.  A gentleman and a lady were overturned in a one-horse chaise, about one o'clock, from not being perceived by the driver of one of the western stages, by which accident the lady had one of her arms broke, and the gentleman's skull was so fractured, that he died before he could be brought to town.
Last night a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Neale, James, Fordyce, and Down, was held at Guildhall, to declare a dividend, when it appeared that the proofs and claims under the commission, amounted to 181,330l. 19s. 5d. and the assignees having produced their accounts, a balance remained in their hands of 33,019l. 15s. 2d. whereupon a dividend of 4s. in the pound was ordered to be made.
This day the following bills received the royal af-
[[Aside from text]] 24th.
fent by a commission, vix.
The bill for better regulating his majesty's marine forces.
The bill to allow the free importation of rice from America.
The bill to restrain the East-India Company from appointing supervisors, &c. for a limited time.
The bill for making a branch of the river Trent navigable near Newark. 
And to such other bills as were ready.
The East-India committee will sit during the recess of parliment, in order to prepare their report against the first meeting after the adjournment.
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By as report made in appears, that a great company have now in their warehouses, no less than 16,000,000 pounds of tea.
  It likewise appears, that the value of the company's estates in the city of London, that is, the India-House and the different ware houses, as estimated by surveyor expressly employed for the purpose, amount to about 214,000l.
  The long-depending cause between the colony of Connecticut, and the Mohegan Indians, which has been in a course of litigation upwards of thirty years, was determined in favour of the colony, by the lords of his majesty's privacy council, at the Cockpit, White hall.
  It appeared by the evidence given at the bar on Friday night last, that the rapacity of some of the company's servants in Bengal alone, for the last six years, company's affairs of no less than 3,200,00l.
  Mrs. Cornelys's house and furniture, in Soho-sqaure, was sold by auction for 10,200l.
  Paris, Nov.27.  Strict search is daily making after the authors and publishers of libels against the ministry.  Some officers of the police, suspecting them to be concealed in a convent, paid their visit there accordingly, but found only one of these publications in the possession of a monk, whom they immediately sent to the Bastile.
Copenhagen, Nov.17.  By an ordinance just published, his majesty, willing to conciliate the affections of his subjects in the kingdom on Norway, has converted the extraordinary imports on that country, into that of a free gift, for the term of six years. 
  [[?]] of St. Vincent, Oct I. The expedition against the Caribbees, or natives of the island, has taken place, some have been killed on both sides; and some taken prisoners.  The whole island is under arms, and it is expected that the event will be bloody.
  Boston, Oct.25.  A town meeting was held at Fannuil-hall, to enquire in to the grounds of a report, that salaries are annexed to the office of the judges of the superior court of judicature in New England, whereby they are rendered independent of the grants of the general assembly for their support, country to ancient custom: when it was resolved to prepare a message to the governor, humbly to request, that his excellency would be pleased to inform them, whether he had received any advice relative to a matter so deeply interesting to the inhabitants of the province.  To which his excellency gave for answer, "That it was by no means proper for him to lay before the inhabitants of any town whatsoever, any part of his correspondence as governor of the province, or to acquaint them whether he had or had not received any advices relating to the public affairs of government:" which answer being read, was deemed unsatisfactory, and a committee was appointed to prepare a petition to the governor, to call the general assembly together, at the time to which being presented, his excellency gave reasons why he could not comply with their request.  They then concluded to petition the king for redress of grievances, and to communicate their resolution to other towns.
  Dr. Kennicot has received advice from