CHRONICLE. |, 
Laneashire, andthe fine county of 
Nottinghamshire, along the Der- 
went, have suffered exceedingly, 
_ A Mr. Herbert has obtained in 
Ireland, a verdict of 15,000I. a- 
gainst Major Daff, of the 48th re- 
giment, for criminal conversation 
with his wife. OY 
_ 22d, Mr. Paine, author of “ The 
Rights of Man,” is elected a Mem- 
ber of ‘the National Convention of 
France, by the district of Versailles, 
and also by that of Calais. Mr. 
Paine, in consequence, set off for 
Paris on Monday last. 
Asa young man, named Thomas 
Foster, son|of an eminent gardener 
of Mickleton, in Gloucestershire, 
was walking in their own garden 
he-saw an adder. He laid hold ofa 
garden-rake, and struck it; upon 
which, with a sudden spring, it fas- 
tened round his left arm, bit him up- 
on the pit-of the stomach, and then 
dropped off. The place bitten be- 
gan swelling immediately, with an 
uncommon degree of pain, which 
baffled every effort of an expe- 
rienced surgeon for the space of 
six hours, when the young man died 
in the most excruciating pain. 
. The American Honeysuckle. 
which bearsso pretty a flower in 
most gardens:in this kingdom, after 
its blossom closes, instead of going 
to seed, the pod ripens: into very 
fine cotton, which it produces in 
abundance.— This is acircumstance 
which, if not worthy the attention 
of the cotton manufacturer, at least 
‘merits notice from the curious. 
Diep, 8th, aged 120, Mrs. John- 
son of Deritend, Birmingham. 
aan ~ 
hr; ~ ae +4 OC TOBE R. 
i! t fi The total number of F rench 
landed at all the ports in 
3Q 
this kingdom, between the 30th of . 
‘August and the Ist of October, igy, 
3772. ; 
The subscriptions received byt — 
the committees for the relief of the, 
suffering clergy of France, amount, 
to upwards of 15,000!,. This re. 
flects the highest honour on the 
English nation. { 
24. The Vice-Chancellor, Proce 
tors, Public Orator, Registrar, and 
other officers of the university of 
Oxford, with a deligacy of the 
convocation, set out for High Wy- 
combe, Bucks, in ten carriages, 
suitably attended, and having dined 
and slept that night at the Red 
Lion, next day proceeded to Bul- 
strode, in their formalities, and im 
stalled his Grace the Duke of Port- 
land Chancellor of that University, 
with the usual ceremonies; in the . 
course of which his Grace addressed 
the deputation in a very polite and 
elegant speech, expressing, in the 
highest terms, his gratitude tothe 
university for the distinguished 
honour he had received, and proé 
mising his most active zeal in-de- 
fending its privileges, and promot- 
ing its prosperity. The company 
were afterwards most elegantly en- 
tertained by his Grace at dinner 
upon services of massy gold and 
silver table-sets of plate, in a state 
of splendour and magnificence too 
difficult to describe; at whieh 
were present, Lord Viscount Stor- 
mont, Lord Malmsbury, the Lord 
Bishop of Oxford, the Dean of 
Christ Chureh, Sir William Scott, 
Mr. Burke, Mr. Welbore Fllis, 
Mr. Wyndham, and several neigh- 
bouring gentlemen, : 
12th, This day the. Right Ho- 
nourable the Lord Mayor, the, Al- 
dermen, Sheriffs, and Common 
Couneil of the city of Lendony 
waited upon his Mujesty (being in- 
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