16a] ANNUAL" REGISTER, 1767.

cefs for Italy will take place towards
the fpring, as foon as the public
roads [hall be paffable.

A fire broke out next a
cabinct-makefls in Hourtdll
ditch, which conlumed that houfe,
a large liock of timber, new fur-
niture, &c. and alfo two other dwel-

25th.

sling-ironies adjoining, with many

outhonfes, worklhops, and ware-
houles. Among the goods con-
firmed was 1,0001. worth of furni-
ture, jolt finilhed for Mr. David
Barclay, and intended to have been
carried home in a few days.
remarkable that a fire broke out the
fame day at the laid Mr. Barclay’s
{tables at Hackney, and deliroyed
two fine hunters, with three or four
other horfes.

His majeiiy having been,
gracioully pleafed to fignify
his intention of filling up the va-
cant {tall of the principal compa-
nion of the molt hon. military order
of the Bath, in the room of his late
royal highnefs the duke of Cumber-
land :

This day

30th

feveral of the olii-

cers of the order attended at St.

]:1mes’s.

The fovereign wearing the rib-
bon, with the fymbol of the order
pendant to it, Henry Hill, Efq;
gentleman ufher, bearing the {car-
let rod, and habited in the mantle
of the order, and Samuel Horfey,
Efq; Bath King of arms, in his
mantle, bearing on a cufhion the
ribbon, with the badge of the or-
der, preceded his royal highnefs
prince Frederick, fupported by
the earls of Cholrnondley and
Breadalbane, the two fenior knights

-of the order, a gentleman ulher,

daily waiter, carrying the (word of

Rate. The {word being delivered

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It is'

by the earl of Breadalbane to the"
fovereign, his royal highnefs,
kneeling, was knighted: then the
earl of Cholmondley, having re-
ceived the ribbon from Bath king
of arms, prefented it t0 the {ove-
reign, who put the ribbon over
his royal highnefs’s right lhoulder:
after which his royal highnefs killed
his majelifs hand; and, tiling up,
retired.

The ceremony was performed’

after the levee, in his majeltfs
clofet, feveral great oflicers of the
court being prefent.

His majefty has been graciouily
pleaft d, in conlideration of the
tender years of his royal highnefa
prince Frederick, to grant a dif-
penfation under ‘his royal {ign-
manual, and feal of the order,‘ de-
claring it to be his royal pleafure,
that the conferring the degree of
knighthood by the fivord of fiate,
lhall be fufiicient to invelt his royal
highnefs fully and effeftually with
this order, in as ample manner as
if his royal highnefs had perfonally
performed all the accultorned f0-
lemnities. [Gazette]

As the hon. Mifs Finch, daughter
of lady Charlotte Finch, was fitting
in her apartments at St. ]ames’s, a
{park from the grate fet ‘ire to her
apron, which in an initant burllinto
a flame. Her cries having alarmed
the fervants, it was happily extin-
guilhed jufi time enough to fave her
life. -

The frolt was f0 fevere in th
welt of England, that a carpenter,
at work for Mr. Robbins, of Did-
barton in Gloucefierlhire, having

put a key into his mouth, loft the

{kin of his lips by taking it out
again. The cold at Hudfon’s Bay,
and in Greenland, is f0 fevere at

certain