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(as they call it) was held, the man
was tried, and nothing appeared
againll him but bare furmife; after
reading a fermon, he was hung up at
the yard-arm, with all the coolnefs
and deliberation imaginable. They
afterwards made the ifland of Hif-
paniola, where they cut the ihip’s
malts and rafted themfelves on fno:e,
where molt of them got fhipping for
New England, and from thence to
Old England. The boy was like-
wife detained to give evidence.

The above George Wood arrived
at London from New-York, in the
{hip Duchefs of Gordon, with Mar-
tin Gow, \Villiam Bolton, and
James Appleton, three ofhis bar-
barous companions; and as they are
all well known upon the river, and
2o l. reward is offered for each, it is
hoped they will foon be taken, that
their horrid offence may be punilhed
as it deferves.

The following gentlemen
waited on his majetty at St.
James’: with the petition from the

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i freeholders of the county of Surry ;

the hon. Peter King, fir Francis
Vincent bart. fir jolieph Mawbey,
bart. jofeph Martin, efq; Anthony
Chapman, efq; and jofeph Clarke,
efq. Sir Anthony Andy, bart. met
the above gentlemen, previous to
their going to court, at the Thatch-
ecl-houfe tavern; but, being greatly
indifpofed with the gout, could not
attend them to the palace.

On the king’s return from the
drawing-room, fir Francis Vincent,
bart. the worthy reprefentative of
the county, prefented the petition
to his majefly, which was mofi gra-
cioufly received.

An interview was this day
held at Neifs, between the
einperor of Germany and his Pruf-
lfian majeilyzthe chief object of which,

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it is faid, was to defeat the machi-
nations of France for involving the
court of Sweden in a war with the
Rullians. Thefe auguil: monarchs
{upped together, and afterwards
continued in clofe ccnverfation till
midnight.

Sir joieph Yorke delivered a me-
rnorial to their High hIightinefi-es
in favour of the claimants of a long
litigated eFtate at Surinam, where
the moll flagrant injufiice was done
to a Britilh fubje-Ft, and jullice de-
manded evalively protrafted. The
Dutch, it is laid, have referred the
enquiry to the College of Dircfiion
at Surinam, who were the oppref-
fors ; the fame as if ajudge were to

"all: a thief whether he were guilty

or not, and take his word in oppo-
fition to the clearefi evidence. lt is
charafleriftic of the Dutch, that they
never fuifer a national injuftice done
to a {object of theirs to pal-s unno-
ticed; it is charaéierillic ofthe Eng-
lifh, that they for ive the national
injuries done to theigr people, from a
principle of good nature.

Confiantinople, July i7. On
Monday the 10th inftant a fire broke
out in this city, which raged with

reat fur for twelve hours. lt burnt
for near Z mile in length; and as it
happened near the Eiippodrome, St.
Sophia, and the porte, it confumed
a great number of the principal
palaces, fome {mall mofques, and
near fix hundred houfes.

This day, at eleven dclock,
the eleilors of Weliminfier,
to the number of about (even thou-
fand, allcmbled in XVeIIminIier-hall.
to petition his mnjellj/ for redrefs of
grievances. At twelve o'clock iir
Robert Barnard, bart. was called to
the chair, which was laced on the
fieps of the court of ctiimmon pleas.
It is not a little remarkable, that the

chair

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