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governor, with the advice of his
majeflyk council.

john Cotton, Dep. Sec.
th By order of the houfe of
15 ' commons, the fpeaker gave
notice, that one third part of the
capital flock of 4. per cent. annui~
ties for 1763, lhall be reduced
and paid off on the 5th day of July
next. ' .
An order of council was at the
fame time ilTued, for putting the
laws in force againft artificers leav-
ing their country, and exercifing
their refpeftive callings in foreign
countries; for which purpofes
thofe laws are recited in the Lon-

don gazette.

The fociety of arts came to a
refolution to give the gold medal
of the fociety to Charles Dingley,
Efq; for his public fpirit, in
erecting at a very confiderable ex-
pence a {aw-mill at Limehoufe.

A molt {hocking murder was
committed at Portfmouth 0n a
marine, by a foldier who came to
his quarters, and decoyed him
out. The next morning the man
was found with his head beat al-
moft to pieces, the fcalp almofl:
torn off, flabbed in feveral parts
of the face and eyes, fuppofed

, with a bayonet. He came home

in the Montreal man of war, and
had jufl: received the money due
to him. The murderer has fince
been apprehended, and committed
to Winchefter gaol.

Came on in the court ofKing’s-
bench, Guildhall, a trial between
a captain of an Ealt-lndiaman,

and a furgeon of the fame fhip,

for the former beating and con-
fining the latter fome time during
the voyage; when a verdict was
found for the furgeon, with 901.
damages, and colts of fuit.

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Ata court of common council
zoo l. a year additional falary was
voted to the recorder of London;
and r 501. a year to the common
ferjeant.

They write from Bridgewater,
that a mofi extraordinary phaeno-
menon has lately appeared in the
villages of Limpefham, Burnham,
Brent, and feveral other parifhes
near this place, the fields of which
are over-run with an incredible
number of mice, which do infi-
nite damage; the dogs and cats
have killed great numbers, but
are cloyed with them: The
cattle will not touch the grafs
where thefe vermin are, and we
expect no relief but from a fever-e
frott, which, it is hoped, will de-
Rroy them. A fimilar circum-
Ptance is not remembered by the
oldelt perfon in thefe parts.

A poor woman in Kingfwood,
near Briflzol, hanged herfelf in a
liable, and was not difcovered
till the was quite dead. It feems
the canfe of her committing this
rafh action was owing to her huf-
band, who is a collier, having loft
feveral of his horfes by the prefent
epidemical dilitemper, which 0c.
calioned his going behind-hand to
the amount of four pounds to the
coal-pit: She had with great dif-
ficulty that morning raifed two
guineas, in order to help to dif-
charge the debt, but the creditor
declared his refolution not to take
lefs than the whole, and arref’: hcr

hufband immediately, unlefs it
was paid. Struck with the im-
pofiibility of raifing the (um

wanted, and dreading the confe-
quence of her hulhand’s confine-
ment, having three very frnall
children to lhpport, the returned
home, and after weeping over.

and