From the LONDON PAPERS.

Extract of a letter from Rome, Feb. 10. "His Holiness, and all the confiftory, feem to intereft themselves much in the expected fate of Poland, and leave no poffible means untried to fave fuch a number of Roman Catholics as there is in the Polish dominions from being obliged to fubmit to the exercife of the reformed religion, as it is confidently faid here, that the king of Pruffia is determined to introduce Proteftantifm at all events into that part of Poland which he has feized; and it is like wife feared the Emprefs of Ruffia will command the religion of the Greek church to be observed in her part of Poland. A very conftant correfpondence is kept up between the Prince Primate and Bis fhop of Poland, and his Holinefs, who means to interest every Popish power in their behalf."

Samples of feveral mineral ores have been lately received here from North America, faid to be the produce of fome mines lately difcovered, which are expected to prove acquisitions of infinite value.

We hear from Monmouthshire that an iron mine has been lately difcovered in the neighbourhood of Pontypool, which promifes great advantages to the owner, a quantity of which has been taken out, and yielded for every pound of ore, 13 ounces of iron.

Yesterday the Earl of Bellamont took an airing for the first time in Hyde-Park.

The Duke of C has already begun his fyftem of economy, and 5 of his horfes, which were trained for Newmarket,are now to be fold by pub-' lic auction. Auctions of Royal" pro-› perty are known in no country of Europe but this.

A bill is ordered into the House of Commons for building a bridge over the river Thames, at Richmond, and to enable his Majefty to grant the inheritance of the Ferry at Richmond! to certain perfons to be therein named.

The petitions prefented to the Houfé of Commons on Friday, relative to the manufactory of linens, were from the Buckaback table linen manufactory at Darlington in the county of Durham, and from the manufacturers in the north riding of the county of York, Wilts, Dorfet, and Somerfet; fetting forth, that for many years paft the linen manufactories in thofe and feveral other places have greatly declined, and that the petitioners are in great diftrefs, and the manufactories in danger of being loft, owing to the increafed importation of foreign linens, praying the house' to pafs fuch laws as may encourage the manufactory of home-made linens. And the faid feveral petitions were re ferred to the, committee appointed to enquire into the state of the linen trade in great Britain and Ireland.

The bill for the more effectual execution of the criminal laws in the two parts of the united kingdom, fets forth, that as it frequently happens that felons and other malefactors committing crimes in England, efcape into Scotland, and others allo guilty of felonies or divers misdeeds in Scotland, to fcreen themselves from punishment, efcape into England. The bill therefore enacts, that if any perfon or perfons, a gainft whom a warrant is infued by a Juftice of the Peace for any county in England for an offence committed therein, fhall escape into Scotland, it fhall then be lawful for the Magistrate of the place wherein fuch perfon refides to indorfe his name on the faid

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warrant, which shall be sufficient to authorize the proper Officer to whoni fuch warrant is directed, to execute the fame, by apprehending the perfon or perfons against whom it was granted, and convey him, her, or them, into that part of England in which the crime was committed, to be there dealt with according to law. And in cafe the crime was not committed in a country next adjacent to Scotland, then fuch perfons may be conveyed into any county of England next adjacent to Scotland, and being carried before a Jultice of the Peace, he is authorized to proceed against fuch perfons in the manner directed by the 24th Geo. II. as if the faid perfons had been appreheaded in the county wherein the offences charged against them were committed. The like inconvenience arifing from the escape of perfons guilty of crimes in Scotland into England, is alfo provided for by this act in a manner fimilar to that above recited. The expence of removing fuch perfons is to be repaid upon the conviction of the offenders to the party defraying the fame, in England by the Treafurer of the county; in Scotland by the Sheriff, Steward, Deputy, or Subftitute of the county in which the crime was committed; an eftimate of the expences being previously afcertained upon oath before two Juftices of the Peace of the county, who are required to attek by figning the fame. This bill further enacts, that as it has been common for perfons committing theft, robbery or burglary, to carry the things fo ftolen into Scotland, when the of fence was committed in England, or vice verfa; and as doubts have arifen whether fuch offenders could be legal ly tried in that part of the united king dom wherein the original offence was not committed, this bill clears up all fuch doubts by enacting, that it fhall be lawful to indict and try every perfon fo offending in that county where the goods have been carried, kept or VOL. IV.

fold, as if the faid goods had been fo feloniously taken in the faid county.

The 3d inft. died at Vienna, Prince Poniatowski, brother to the King of Poland, faid to be in confequence of his troubles on account of the fituation of his native country; his lady arrived time enough to take her laft farewell of him. The Court of Vienna will fuftain a great lofs, he being one of their greatest Generals, had been diftinguished on many occafions, and had received no less than eighteen wounds in their fervice.

On Thurfday fe'ennight died Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Bart. of Howletts in Kent, and Brymore in Somersetfhire, one of the Reprefentatives in the prefent parliament for Dover; whofe ancestor, Sir Robert Hales was created a Baronet at the Restoration; dying without iffue male, the title defcends to his only furviving brother, Philip, one of the Grooms of his Majesty's Bed-chamber.

The Dalrymple, Fairweather, from Liverpool to Africa, is loft on the isle of May. Great part of the cargo is faved, and carried into Barbadoes by the Eleanora of Bristol.

Samples of feveral mineral ores have been lately received here from North America, faid to be the produce of fome mines lately difcovered, which are expected to prove acquifitious of infinite value.

A few days ago a young woman about feventeen years of age, appeared before a Court of Confcience in the out-parts, whither he was fummoned by an elderly Gentleman, who charged her with a debt of 16s. 6d. being the value of a ring he had given her in order to be married, but the match was afterwards broke off. The Court determined the affair in favour of the young woman.

A few days fince, Mrs. Lampard, wife of Mr Thomas Lampard, at Skidmore's Upton, near Warminster, intending to take a purging powder, ad

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vifed for a rheumatic complaint, miftook where the laid it, and in a hurry took about a quarter of an ounce finepowdered Spanish flies in its ftead, which were bought three quarters of a year before, to apply, with an cintment, to a horfe's neck. She foon difcovered her mistake, by finding the purging powder; but before true intel-, ligence could be got what was taken, and the Apothecary's affiftance procured, an hour elapfed; and notwithstanding all poffible means were then adminiftered, fhe languished in excruciating agonies twenty-two hours, and then expired.

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Extract of a Letter from St. Vincent's, to a gentleman at Antigua, Oct. 30. "We were this morning alarmed by a conftant firing, occafioned by a party

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"Some extraordinary matters are conjectured to be in agitation with the French Miniftry, by the orders which have lately arrived and are now executing here with the most prefevering affiduity. Six fhips of the line, as many frigates and floops of war are now fitting out with the greateft difpatch, and as foon as they are finished they are to take on board their full compliment of men, with twelve months provisions, and then are to wait for failing orders. Various are the opinions refpecting the defign of this armament, but most people feem to imagine it is intended for the Eaft-Indies."

Advices of a very melancholy nature are faid to be received from St Vincent's; among other misfortunes, a Colonel with his whole party' is mentioned to have been cut off by the Caribbs; and the general bad fuccefs of the expedition, joined to the calenture of the climate, makes it highly probable that we shall relinquish the island, after burying not only many large fums of money in it, but after making it the grave of many gallant Englishmen.

The woods in which the favages refide at St Vincents, are fo impenetrable to our foldiers, that though the force of the former is very small, it can act with great vigour; whereas large

of the 1ft regiment under the command of Capt Crafton, who had been left behind fick. They killed, feven men and a ferjeant, and wounded three. Crafton's party, however, put them to flight, and found five of their carcafes in the woods, alfo several fuzees, haberfacks, handkerchiefs, &c. thrown away in their precipitation.

"We are informed, the Caribbs fhot a centinel, as he was bathing in the river Niambou, and that a ferjeant, who was pofted at the head of a detachment at fome little diftance from the camp, was murdered in an inhumane manner by these favages. They cut off his nofe and right arm, and fcooped out both his eyes."

Extract of a Letter from St John's in Antigua, Nov. 11.

"We are affured by a veffel which left St Vincent's laft Wednesday, that nothing very material had happened between the troops and Caribbs, nor had the lofs on either fide been very confiderable in killed and wounded, but that the fick were numerous. The troops were at laft permitted to croís the river Niambou, and take poffeffion of the enemy's intrenchments on the other fide; a well-thrown fhell opened a free paffage in one place: and at another, where they hoped to

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amputation moft enfueAs a further proof of the falfe notions of ho nour duellifts entertain, and the bloody rules of offence and defence, which direct the mind of every man of honour in Ireland, where hardly any gentle man who has not fought is treated in a coffee-houfe with common civility; it is to be obferved, that this duel originated from an idle quarrel at hazard, in an hour of inebriation. Mr B having loft confiderably, fplit a die, which was found to be loaded, and Captain Kwas charged with intentionally introducing a loaded die; the gamefters not allowing themselves time to confider that the dies were at a late hour borrowed from a place of entertainment, and that, from their ap pearance, no perfon could have cheat ed their fenfes by producing a profita ble counterfeit.

On the 24th inft. In the afternoon, about two o'clock, died, at his houfe in Hertfordfreet, May-fair, the Right Hon. Philip Dornor Standhope, Earl of Chesterfield. He was born Sept. 25. 1693, and fucceeded his father the 27 of January, 1725-6; was elected Knight of the Garter May 18, 1730; and foon after made Lord Steward' of his Majefty's Houfhold, and Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States General; and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the year 1745. On the 15th of Sept. 1733, he married Lady Melenda, Countefs of Walfingham. His title defcends to Maller Philip Stanhope, a minor about eighteen years of age, now at Leipfic Uniyerfity, who was, till he went abroad, under the care of the Rev. Mr Dodd. General Sir Charles Hotham and Beaumont Hotham, Ffq; member of Parliament for Wigan in Lancashire, are his Executors.

being concluded, yet it is certain the demands of the Ruffians are fo very extravagant and arbitrary, that if the Porte was not circumftanced as it now is, the armiftice would be broke up with difdain. The Ottoman miniftry judge reafonably; they behold their feas fwarm with Ruffian fhips of force, their frontier towns full of foldiers, whofe hardinefs and fevere difcipline ftill wound the Turks; they know the alliances which the Empress has made, and are fenfible that a refiftance now would only draw on them a multiplicity of fresh enemies."

Extract of a letter from Warfaw, dated March 13.

"The Emprefs of Ruflia has iffued an ordinance in Red Ruffia, and in the grand dutchy of Lithuania, forbidding the holding of dyets, dyetines, or any public meetings without her particular approbation and leave, and has exprefsly fignified her pleafure, and all the Bifhops, Princes, Palatines, Starofts, &c. in thofe parts of Poland which fhe has feized,do take an oath of allegiance and fidelity to her before the 20th of May next, on pain of confifcation of their effects, and imprisonment of their per fons. Proper officers are appointed to take their fubmiffion, but few as yet have thought proper to make it. A very large body of Polish horse and foot has lately arrived here from Cracow, and have taken up their quarters in the fuburbs of Warfaw and Praug."

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Some letters from Vienna mention, that a great fcarcity of corn now prevails in the Hereditary countries, on which account the Emperor has forbid any diftillations from it.

We are informed that the Ruffian and Pruffian Ambaffadors have each of them remonftrated very ftrenuously by order from their refpective courts, against the conclufion of the treaty which has been for fome time negoci ating between our court and thofe of Verfailles, Madrid, and Lisbon, which till retards the ratification thereof.

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