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Carlisle, Esq. ; F. Douce, Esq. ; Sir IT. C. Engle field, Bart. $ 

 A. Hamilton, D.D. ; S. Lysons, Esq.; C. Ord, Esq. 5 

 M. Raper, E*q. ; J. Windham, Esq., (eleven of the Coun- 

 cil,) were rcchosen of the New Council ; and — 



George Earl of Aberdeen; J. Caley, Esq.; W. Hamil- 

 ton, Jim. Esq. ; A.B. Lambert, Esq.; Charles Lord Bishop 

 of Oxford: R.Pearson, M.D. ; T. B. Richards, Esq.; Sir 

 I.T.Stanley, Bart. ; J. Symmons, Esq. ; H. N.Willis, Esq., 

 (ten of the other members of the Society,) w^re chosen of 

 the New Council : and they were severally declared to be the 

 Council for the year ensuing. And on a report made to the 

 officers of the Society, it appeared, that — 



The Most Noble George Marquis of Townshend and Earl 

 of Leicester was elected President; William Bray, Esq., 

 Treasurer; William Hamilton, Jim. Esq., Director; Rev. 

 Thomas William Wrighte, A.M., Secretary; and Nicholas 

 Carlisle, Esq., Secretary for the year ensuing. 



The Society afterwards dined together at the Crown and 

 Anchor Tavern in the Strand, according to annual custom. 



LX. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



\Js the 25th of March as Mr. John Barnes, a Gravesend 

 pilot, was proceeding in his boat to the Nore, he observed 

 the sea unusually agitated a few miles below Gravesend, and 

 approaching the spot, he perceived a whale struggling in the 

 water: he immediately fired a swivel three different times; 

 the second shot struck it in the tail, and the third wounded 

 it mortally in the body, when, by a violent and sudden 

 plunge, it threw itself on the beach, and was left nearly 

 dry at low water. Four hours elapsed from the time it was 

 wounded until it was perfectly dead, and it was towed next 

 tide to Gravesend, where it was exhibited during four days. 

 It was then brought up the Thames above London Bridge 

 in a large barge, into which it had been previously put by 

 the barge being scuttled and sunk, and afterwards floated to 

 the surface, the whale having been first towed over it at high 

 water, so that on the ebb of the tide it was left m the barsje. 



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