CHRONICETE. 
amiably pourtrayed; an affecting 
display of public benevolence; a 
grateful tribute to the memory of 
our generous ancestors, who esta- 
blished them ; and an animating in- 
centiye to the present age to patro- 
nize and transmit to posterity these 
excellent institutions, so ornamental 
to this country, and unrivalled in 
any other. 
A woman, who has for several 
years travelled the country as a, 
pedlar, with four children, bare- 
footed and in rags, called on Mr. 
Kerridge, at Stow-cum-Quy, Cam- 
bridge, and begged permission to lie 
in his barn, on account of illness, 
which was granted. On Friday May 
27th, she died, when, on examining 
her baskets and clothes, property 
was found to the amount of 800l. 
28th. A proclamation is just pub- 
lished by the elector of Hanover, 
stating that the differences between 
the crown of England and France, 
are of sucha nature, that they con- 
cern only the former, and can, in 
no ways, relate to his majesty as 
elector, and a state of the Germanic 
empire. His majesty, in that parti- 
cular quality, abides by the treaty 
of Luneville, and, has a right to 
expect that the treaty will procure 
’ perfect safety for his Germanic states, 
in a war foreign to the empire. ‘The 
preparations he has made are there- 
fore merely defensive ; and his ma- 
jesty, in his quality of elector, will 
take no part in the war. 
29th. ‘This morning, at a quarter 
before one o’clock, a dreadful fire 
broke out in the house of Mr. Davis, 
No. 2, Union-row, Limekilns,Green- 
wich, which consumed that and six 
adjoining, besides materially da- 
maging two others; from the vio- 
lence of the wind, and searcity of 
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water, the flames were not got un- 
der till four. 
Letter from capt. Mansfield, of 
the Minotaur, dated at sea, 
May 30, to admiral Corn- 
wallis. 
S¢ Sir, 
“<< T beg leave to acquaint you, for 
their lordships’ information, that 1 
this evening saw the French repub- 
lican frigate, la Frangaise, safe off 
the Dodman, agreeably to signal 
made by the hon. adm. Cornwallis. 
She was captured by his majesty’s 
ship under my command, on the 
28th of May, in company with his 
majesty’s ship Thunderer, having 
chased from the fleet, and during 
the chase was joined by the Albion, 
which ship had parted from the fleet 
some days before, in the thick wea- 
ther. The prize proves to be the 
republican French frigate la Fran- 
caise, from Port-au-Prince 35 days, 
capt. Jurien. She is pierced for 28 
twelve-pounders on the main deck, 
and 16 nine-pounders on the quar- 
ter-deck and forecastle, 10 of which 
were in her hold, and had on board 
187 men.” 
31st. The duke of Norfolk has 
bought, by auction, at Mr. Jeflery’s, 
Pall-Mall, a beautiful manuscript on 
vellum, intituled the Golden Legend, 
or Lives of the Saints, translated 
from the Latin into French by Jean 
de Vignay, at the particular request 
of Jane, daughter of Robert the se- 
cond duke of Burgundy, and wife to 
Philip de Valois: it was knocked 
down to his grace at sixty-four 
pounds. 
Astronomers for a long time sus- 
pected there was an error in the 
measurement of a degree of the me- 
ridian, eftected in 1736, in Lapland, 
by Maupertuis, Lemoinier, Outhier, 
and 
