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152] ANNUAL REGISTER for the YEAR 1772 [153
the company's warehouses, and the 600,000l. went to Holland and Denmark. That non-importation, or loss of market, has now continuued, for five years, it makes three millions difference in their cash account-is the true cause of the great quantity now on hand-is an immense loss to the revenue, to the merchant, to the state, and has operated very considerably towards producing the present searcity of money, and universal stagnation to all business. This is not all ;-the same motives which prevented our colonists from consuming the company's tea, also prevented to the purchase of many other valuable articles-'tis difficult to ascertain the amount, but it is very considerable, and makes a monstrous difference in the state of their affairs. In short, it has been the principle cause of their approaching dissolution.
Stockholm, Dec. 5. The importation of salt, used for salting herrings, &c. into the ports and provinces of Gottenburgh and Bahus, which hitherto has been confined to Swedish ships only, has, by a reseript, dated the 3d instant, been allowed to any foreign ships, notwithstanding an ordinance made in the year 1724, which forbids the entry of any foreign vessel into any of the ports, of Sweden with that commodity.
Prague, Dec. 18. According to the informations received by the government, relative to the progress of the epidemical distempers which prevail in Bohemia, there have died in that kingdom, from the 1st of January to the 1st of Sept. 1772, 168,331 persons, during which time there has been but 82,050 children born; so that the depopulation amounts of 89,281 persons; and we apprehend that the four following months will present us with an account still more terrible. The ravages of the preceding year were greater still.
Algiers, Oct. 31. The Winchelsea English frigate, Capt. Wilkinson, which failed from hence the 27th September, returned the 27th instant. The English gave it out that she had only been to Marseilles, to put some dispatches into the post for London, relative to the differences between the commander and this regency, which the Algerines affected to take no notice of. After the usual salutations, the Dey signified to the commandant, that he as at liberty to have an audience whenever he pleased, provided he did not bring with him the consul, whom he was determined not to see again, for reasons which he had given to his Britannic majesty. The commandant made answer, that as the consul was an officer appointed by his majesty, he could not dispense with introducing him ; and rather than not bring him, he would have no audience himself. The Dey persisting in his resolution, Captain Wilkinson was equally determined, and went away again without an audience. During the time that the English frigate was here, all the christian slaves were chained, for fear they should recover their liberty, and go on board her. 
Petersburg, Nov. 13. The senate passed sentence the 16th ult. against the fabricators of some false bank-bills. Their punishment was as follows : The two Puskins were degraded from their rank of nobles, and are sent to work in the mines of Siberia, together with a foreigner. 
reigner, who calls himself an Italian, and one other person concerned with them. And M. Sukin, chief of the college of commerce at Moscow, has been condemned to serve at Orembourg, in quality of a private soldier, for the remainder of his days.
29th. At the Close of the ballot at the India-house on the question, that the dividend for the last half year shall be at three percent. the numbers were, for the question, 131 ; against it, 12.
Extract of a Letter from Paris,
Dec31.  
'On Tuesday last, about ten o'clock at night, a fire broke out in the Hotel Dieu, occasioned by the melting of tallow, which caught fire, and burnt with too much rapidity to be be stopt. The Governor of Paris, and all the chief magistrates attended, and strong detachments of guards were planted at all the avenues. Three rooms, occupied by sick people, were burnt, and a great number of the miserable objects therein lost their lives. The nuns sleeping-room, the laundry, and all the old chapel, fell a prey to the flames, which rage still ; and several of the firemen and soldiers were killed. The cathedral of Notre Dame is filled with beds and sick people from the hospital, who are visited and relieved by ladies of the highest distinction. Great numbers of the sick are daily removed in covered carriages to the hospital of St. Louis, out of Paris. All the avenues to the Hotel Dieu are stopt. It is now midnight, and the fire is not yet extinguished. We have, however, the satisfaction to assure the public, that not near so many lives are lost as was first reported.' 
Genoa Dec. 26. On the 22d instant, at two o'clock in the morning, died, of an inflammation in his stomach, the Serene John Baptist Cambiaso, Doge of this republic, after a short illness of five days. His death is generally lamented by all ranks of people in this state, for his amiable qualities, and his extensive charities to the poor, to whom he distributed annually near twelve thousand pounds sterling. The body has been exposed to public view in one of the rooms of the palace, where four alters were erected for celebrating masses ; and this morning it was brought from the palace, and placed on a scaffold erected for that purpose in the middle of the cathedral church, and is to be interred tomorrow in the church of St. Siro. 
The following is an account of the toll collected at Blackfriars Bridge.
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|    | l. | s. | d. |
|---|---|---|---|
| From Sept. 1770 to 1771, | 1400 | 16 | 8 1/2 |
| Sept. 1771 to 1772, | 5996 | 4 | 2 1/2 |
Mrs. Mansel, wife of Mr. Mansel, silver polisher, in Corbet-court, was safely delivered of two boys : and next morning about four o'clock, she was delivered for a girl ; the children and mother are likely to do well. 
Peter Paul Puget, grandson of the famous painter and sculptor of that name, lately died at Marseilles in the 94th year of his age. He had enjoyed for 42 years a pension of 500 livres, in consideration of a fine piece of Bas relief in marble, representing the plague at Milan, which was left him by his grandfather. He has a present of 12,000 livres, besides the pension above-mentioned, for that fine piece of sculpture.
Died, John Story, Esquire, in Greek-