that island, and three fhips that lay in the harbour were totally loft. This hurricane happened on the 10th of September, and it is feared has done a great deal of damage on other islands. On Saturday the fecond of Septembera most alarming hurricane threw the whole island of Barbadoes into the utmost confternation. About eleven at night, when the ftorm was at its height, a ball of fire, of a very terrifying and luminous appearance, was obferved in the S. E. iffuing from a dark cloud, and fpreading its diverging rays to a vaft circumference, and continuing with unabated fplendor near 40 minutes. In the morning of the 3d, Carlislebay exhibited the most shocking picture of defolation that could be conceived, not a veffel having rode out the ftorm. And in the country, had the hurricane continued a little longer, it is thought that univerfal defolation must have enfued. The buildings on many eftates have fuf. fered, and great damage has been done to the fruits of the earth, plantane-walks, corn, cotton, and canes. The negro-houses are mostly blown down, and many of their inhabitants killed. In fhort, nothing can be reprefented more deplorable. Paris, Oct. 3. They write from Befiers, that fome workmen employed in digging a well at Antignac, a village three miles from thence, got to the depth of about fix toifes the third of laft month, when, obferving water to rife, they redoubled their activity, and were prefently astonished by a moft violent fubterraneous explofion. Having recovered from their furprize, they again approached the pit, at the bottom of which they perceived one of their comrades, to whom they called, but received no answer. One of his brothers being apprehenfive for his fafety, defcended in a bucket, in order to yield him affiftance; but this man fhewed no figns of life after he had reached the bottom. He was followed by a third, who experienced the fame fate. A fourth had the courage to defcend, his companions taking the precaution of faftening a rope to him; and following him with the eye, as he was gently lowered, they foon perceived his head to droop, and his whole frame to be violently agitated. Being immediately drawn up, he continued without motion for two hours.-Re courfe was now had to experiments which ought to have been first adopted. They let down a cock in a bucket, and on being drawn up it was found on the point of expiring, with its feathers burnt. The fame was done with a cat, which was almoft dead when drawn up. By means of hooks and other implements the three perfons were railed out of the pit, being quite lifeless, and all their fkin appearing to be calcined. The letters farther fay, that the fubterraneous noife fill continues, and that chemifts are endeavouring to discover the cause of the explosion, and of the vaporous gas, which has proved fo fatal in its effects. It is added, that vitrified matter has been taken from the pit, which, it is fuppofed, must have been in a state of fufion. About the 15th inft. a person who had the appearance of a drover went into York caftle, and told the turnkey he wanted to give a little money among the felons. On being asked how much? he put his hand in his pocket, and pulled out a handful of filver with some gold, and gave it the turnkey to be distributed [0] 2 among among the most neceffitous. Being afked who had fent it? he faid it was his own gift. Being further preffed to tell his name, he took his leave as if in hafte, and said, he was going to Northampton. The fame perfon has fince vifited feveral other prifons, and given money to poor objects that he has met on the road. An inhuman murder was lately committed at Lampeter in Cardiganfhire, on a poor woman who by induftry and care had got together a little money, and lived in a little cot by herself, which was broke open in the night, her money carried off, and herself left a dreadful spectacle of favage cruelty, being stabbed in feveral parts of her body; her dead corpfe half broiled on a heap of turfs, which it is fuppofed had been fet on fire to burn her cot, and her in it, to prevent fufpicion. DIED. Lately, in Portugal, in the parish of St. Joannes de Godini, in the diocefe of Oporto, aged 117, Verefimo Nogueira. He ferved as a foldier from the age of 17 till he was 37, and was at the battle of Almanza: after he had obtained his discharge, he married, had feve. ral children, and maintained his family by his own labour and fome little independency which he poffeffed. He always enjoyed the beft ftate of health, and it is not unlikely that he might have lived fome years longer, had it not been for a fall, in which one of his legs was broken in three places, which occafioned his death. He had all his teeth, and all his hair, a few of which only were grown grey; and he enjoyed all his faculties to the laft. This old man is a proof that an advanced age is not confined to the northern cli mates. NOVEMBER. Came on before lord Mans 4th. field and lord Loughborough, at Serjeant's Inn-hall, the fecond argu ment in error brought by Governor Johnftone against Captain Sutton, when Mr. Erfkine was heard at full length for the defendant; and Mr. Scott, the governor's counfel, rifing to anfwer, was told it was quite unneceffary, as nothing had been faid which could induce their lordfhips to alter their opinion, that the judgment obtained by Capt. Sutton in the court of Exchequer fhould be reverfed.-The cafe was fimply this:-Capt. Sutton obtained a verdiet for 5,000l. against Commodore Johnstone. A new trial was granted by the court of Exchequer: a fecond trial had-afecond verdict for 6,000l. -A motion was then made, grounded on feveral points of law, to arrest judgment. The court confirmed the verdict. The Commodore brings a writ of error on the fame points his motion in arreft of judgment was founded on. This writ of er ror, by act of parliament, is in the judgment of the Lord Chancellor ; but his lordship referred the argument to the two chief juftices, who have reverfed the judgment of the court of Exchequer. At prefent, therefore, the matter ftands thus: four judges have decided for Capt. Sutton, and two for Commodore Johnstone. The queftion, it was well known, would eventually go into the house of lords: it remains, therefore, to be known, what the Lord Chancellor and the other judges think on the fubject. The facts of the cafe are totally unaltered and unalterable. The queftion is reduced to a point of law; but though their lordships reafons are not yet public, public, it is fuppofed to be, whether a common-law action will lie at the fuit of an inferior officer against a commander in chief, though it be grounded on exprefs malice? The cause will certainly go to the houfe of lords, being of no lefs importance to the parties, than to the navy of Great Britain. 10th. About two o'clock in the afternoon, the Countess of Strathmore was taken from the house of Mr. Forster in Oxford-ftreet, under pretence of a warrant to take her before lord Mansfield; but in fact to carry her off by a company of armed ruffians. She was forcibly thrust into her own carriage, her own coachman taken from the box, and a ftranger put in his place, who drove off at a most furious rate, and did not ftop till he arrived at Barnet, where the carriage was met by a company of armed men: that in paffing through one of the turnpikes, the lady was feen to ftruggle much, apparently gagged, and in great diftrefs: but no farther intelligence could then be obtained. 11th. Came on in the court of King's Bench a trial at bar, in the remarkable caufe between the natural daughter of the late Ch. Mellish, efq. and his niece. The cause had already been tried, when a verdict was obtained by the daughter, which was fet afide by a fubfequent one in the Common Pleas. The deceased made two wills, one in 1774, which gave place to one in 1780. There was also a codicil in 1781; and the conteft was, to which of the wills it applied. The will in 1780 being established by weight of evidences, the codicil of courfe muft refer to that, and fo it was determined. 22d. Yefterday, Edward Aylette, the attorney, flood in the pillory in New Palace Yard, Westminster, for wilful and corrupt perjury. 23d. This day, juft before the fitting of the court of King's Bench, Lady Strathmore was brought into Westminster-hall; and immediately on the arrival of the Judges, Mr. Law, her counsel, moved, that the might be permitted to exhibit articles of the peace against Mr. Bowes, and feveral others; which being granted, he then moved for an attachment against Mr. Bowes, and feveral of his accomplices, which was likewise granted. Mr. Bowes appeared in the 27th. court of King's Bench, when his counsel moved, that he should be discharged, on the ground that he had not been legally ferved with the habeas corpus; but the court rejected this motion, confidering the fervice as good. A fimilar motion was likewife made, on the ground' that Mr. Bowes was actually haftening to town to make a return to the habeas corpus, but was prevented by the attack upon his perfon, and other unavoidable circumstances; but the court confidering this affertion as contradicted by the affidavits of other perfons, rejected this motion alfo; and Mr. Bowes was finally committed to the King's Bench prifon till the judges determine what fecurity he fhall be obliged to find to keep the peace. fhops for the United States. The Rev. Dr. Griffith, of Virginia, is to be made a third, to complete the government of the epifcopal church in those States. On Wednesday morning, the 9th. St. Auftle, Capt. Colmer, from Eaft Loo, was driven on fhore about a mile to the weftward of Newhaven pier, and dashed to pieces. The captain and crew, four in number, quitted the wreck in time to fave themselves; but Mr. and Mrs. Giles, a young couple, paffengers, who could not be prevailed on to leave the veffel, perished. The captain fays, fo averfe was Mr. Giles to leave the wreck, that after he (the captain) had got fafe to land, he lashed himself to a rope, fwàm again to the wreck, and having boarded her, faftened a rope round Mrs. Giles, for the purpose of having her hauled on fhore; but her husband immediately caft it off again, and exclaimed, "My dear Bella, don't leave me!" She ftaid!-This un. fortunate lady was a distant relation of Lord Courtney's. The failors were treated with the greatest humanity at Newhaven, A remarkable inftance of prefcience lately happened at Naples: an eminent phyfician in that metropolis one evening called up all his domeftics, and informed them he had provided for them all in his will; after which he took his last farewel, telling them, that though he felt himself in as good a state of health as he could wish, he was certain that the next morning, precifely at ten o'clock, an apoplectic ftroke would occafion his diffolution, which the event verified in every particular, The Montego Bay paper, 19th, of October 23, mentions a dreadful hurricane at Jamaica, în the night of the 19th, which has done great mischief in many parts of the island. In Weftmoreland, in particular, the appearance every where denoted the fuperior violence of this guft over all that had been experienced fince 1780. The trees, ftripped of their leaves, exhibited an appearance as if fire had devoured their verdure; the shores were covered with duck, teal, and other aquatic birds, that had been driven with irrefiftible impetuofity against the trunks of the mangroves, and dashed to pieces. Vienna, Nov. 20. An emir of the Turkish empire, escorted by 12 fpahis (or Turkish horfe) has juft arrived in this capital from Conftantinople, with prefents of confiderable value and magnificence to his Imperial majefty. Among the prefents are fome fine Greek urns of the ancient fculpture, and a large marble ftatue of Jupiter Tonans, lately found in digging the ruins of an old temple near Adrianople. To this figure are appended four filver labels, one on each fhoulder, and two on the head; on each the word Dios" is ftrongly marked, and the other parts of the infcription are now under the investigation of a priest of Buda, in Hungary, who is eminently fkilled in antiquities. The tenor of this ambaffage from the Ottoman Porte is to establish a pofitive and fpecific boundary between the Imperial and the Turkish provinces, particularly on the confines of Hungary, where much disagreement has lately arifen on the building of fome forts by the Emperor's governors on the Ottoman territories. It is, however, certain that affairs will be amicably settled, and that the agreements between the the two empires will be fo firmly made, as to render permanent and full advantages to both. With the efcort have arrived four French priests, who had been captured in a veffel from Marseilles by a Tunifian xebeck, claimed there by the French consul, and sent from Tunis to Conftantinople. DIED. Lately, at Old Conftantinow, in Volhyrica, in his 124th year, a gentleman named Hodol. When he was twenty-one, he ferved under Sobieski, before Vienna: he was never married, nor felt fickness. At 108 he became a Capuchin, and died in that order. 7. Lady of Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart, a daugh ter. 14. Lady of the Hon. George Viscountess Hinton, a fon. 14. Lady Margaret Beckford, a daughter. June 15. Lady of Sir John Lake, Bart. a fon. 17. The Infanta Donna Mariana Victoria, of Portugal, confort of the Infant Don Gabriel of Spain, a prince. July 9. Her moft Chriftian Majefty, a princefs, named Sophia. 12. The lady of Col. George Auguftus North, a fon. 14. Lady Catharine Graham, wife of Sir John Graham, Bart. a daughter. 20. Lady of Sir William Maxwell, Bart. a daughter. Aug. 22. Lady of Sir John Borlace Warren, Bart. a daughter. Sept. 5. Countess of Sutherland, lady of Earl Gower, a fon and heir. Lady Clive, a fon. 6. Marchionefs of Graham, a fon and heir. 16. Lady of Lord St. Afaph, fon of the Earl of Afhburnham, a fon. 20. Lady Harriet Elliot, wife Oct. Lady of Viscount Mait- ter. Lady of Sir Carnaby Hag[0] 4 gerstone, |