G@HRON ECL E, 
gary size and weight. Within these 
few weeks, she has laid three eggs, 
each of which measures, in diame- 
ter, 64 by 74 inches, and weighs 
full $4 ounces, and generally, on 
the day before she lays the large 
egg, she has an egg of an ordinary 
size, 
28th. The late tempest was in 
many paris of Wales particularly 
yiolent and extensive. At Mon- 
mouth, the elements seemed ta be in 
a perfect blaze ; though the claps of 
thunder, which followed the light- 
ning, were not soloud as might have 
been expected.—At Landoga-on- 
the-Wye, near Monmouth, a piece 
of meadow-ground was covered over 
with loose stones, which the con. 
yulsion brought down from the sur- 
rounding heights, amounting in 
weight to nearly 200 tons. 
A soldier lately returned from the 
Indies is now at Tuddenham, who 
says, he was present at the death of 
Joseph Clark, whilst abroad ; and 
that he confessed to him that he 
committed the robbery and set fire 
to the house of Mrs. Syer, at Had- 
leigh, for which Sarah Lloyd, the 
servant maid, with whom he in- 
trigued, and who admitted him into 
the house, was executed. 
29th. Seven waggons loaded with 
casks of specie have arrived at the 
bank of England, under the escort 
of a party of light horse. The 
casks contain the 400,000]. in dol- 
lars, sent some time since from the 
bank to Hanover, and which was 
Juckily got away before the Prus- 
sians took possession of that place. 
30th. The directors of the East 
India company took the sense of a 
general court of proprietors upon 
their late proceedings, which de- 
cided, by 18 agatnst 4, for the gon- 
tinwance of sir George Barlow, and 
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of course the rejection of the earl 
of Lauderdale. At the general 
court for this purpose, the fol- 
‘lowing resolution was taken by bal. 
lot :-— 
‘¢ That this court, having consi. 
dered the papers laid before it, most 
highly approves of the zeal mani- 
fested, and the conduct pursued, by 
the court of directors ; and regards a 
firm adherence to the principles 
maintained by the court of directors 
to be indispensibly necessary to pre- 
serve the salutary authority over the 
government of india vested by law 
in the court of directors, to restrain 
a profuse expenditure of public 
money, and to prevent all schemes 
of conquest and extension of domi. 
nion ; measures which the legisla- 
ture has declared to be repugnant 
to the wish, the honour, and the 
policy, of the nation. And this 
court doth assure the court of di- 
rectors of its most cordial and zea. 
lous support, with a view to pre- 
serve unimpaired the rights and 
privileges of the East-India com- 
pany.” 
At six o’clock, the glasses were 
finally closed and delivered to the 
scrutineers, whe reported the num- 
bers to be, 
For thequestion . 928 
Againstit . . . 195 
Majority . 733 
Dicyv.— At Brompton, after a 
short illness, aged 44 years, Mr. 
Palmer. He wasa man of uncom. 
mon corpulency, and was induced, 
about three weeks siuce, to go to 
London, in order to see that prodigy 
of bulk and fatness, Mr. Lambert. 
Mr. Palmer weighed about twenty- 
five stone, or 350 pounds ; and al- 
though five men, of moderate size, 
have been buttoned in his waistcoat, 
he was comparatively of diminutive © 
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