morning, notawithstanding his divine 
mission, taken up at his house by the 
king’s messengers, Messrs. Ross, 
Higgins, and assistants. He re. 
ceived them with his usual com- 
plaisance, and expressed his know- 
ledge of their commission. 
shewing their authority he sabmit- 
ted, without opposition, to have 
all his papers seized. They then 
requested him to attend them to a 
coach, which was in waiting, and 
were cheertuily obeyed; but, on 
coming to the coach door, he re- 
fused to enter it unless compelled 
by force. Brothers is a very strong 
and powerful man; but gave the 
messengers no occasion to proceed 
to any extreme violence; for, on 
being pushed forward, he entered 
without putting them to the neces- 
sity of using any harshness what- 
ever. They had, however, much 
more danger to apprehend from the 
fury of the multitude; but even 
that, with some difficulty, they 
escaped; and he was conducted 
safely to the house of Mr. Ross, 
the messenger, in Crown-street, 
Westminster, Brothers’s arrest 
seeme the more urgent, as, from 
the nature and object of his visions, 
there is reason to believe that he 
was become the tool of faétion, 
employed to seduce the people, and 
tO spread fears and alarms. Go- 
vernment has therefore very pro- 
perly secured the person of the 
Prophet, in order to prevent this 
Nephew of God [ashe styles himself] 
from doing the qwerk of the Devil. 
The warrant on which he was ap- 
prehended was grounded on the 
r5th of Elizabeth ; and in which 
he stood charged with ¢ unlawful- 
ly, maliciously, and wickedly writ- 
ings publishing, and printing vari- 
ous fantastical prophecies, with in. 
CHRONICLE, 
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tent to cause dissentions ‘and? other 
disturbances within this realm, ard 
other of the king’s dominions, con- 
trary to the statute.’? 
A young woman, servant 
to a lady in Liverpooo), was 
engaged to marry a sailor on his ar- 
rival from the West Indies ; whence 
however he never retuined.... Being 
there seized with the yellow fever, 
he died, leaving to her his clothes, 
wages, watch, and about twelve 
guineas.. The generous maid, 
learning that he had a mother, old 
and indigent, sent to her this lega_- 
cy, praying, that this unexpected 
supply might in some measure con. 
tribute to support her woder “the 
loss of so good a son, trusting to her 
labour for her own support. 
‘his afternoon 3 fre’ 
broke out at Edinburgh, in 
the printing-house of Mr. Mundell, 
On the first alarm, the magistrates 
came oat of the church, and gave 
their attendance, as also a party of 
colonel! Ferrier’s regiment, the. 
city guard, and town Gilicers ; and, 
by their mutual exertions, with the 
assistanée of the fire engines, it was 
speedily extinguished, though not 
without cousideradle damage to the” 
valuabie stock of books. ‘he pre. 
mises were covered hy the Edin. 
burgh Friendly insurance office. 
The body of a plain dressed man 
vas found dead in a field near Bea. 
consfleld, Bucks, supposed to have 
lain there a week, und whose do 
remained with the corpse : the dog 
would seareely permit any person to 
approach it: yet so famished by 
hunger as to have eaten away all 
the upper part of the poor man’s 
face, some of his neck and one of his 
shoulders, 
27th, 
14th. 
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rgth, 
A commission was held 
this day at tae king’s arms, 
in 
