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ing from a vessel lying at the Rock, 
who were all drowned. 
A notice appeared in the Gazette 
of this evening, for carrying into ef- 
feét the act for abolishing all fees 
and holidays in the Custom-house 
department; excepting only the 
following hotidays, viz. Sundays, 
Christmas-day, Good Friday, the 
anniversaries of the restoration of 
king Charles the second, of the 
coronation of the king, and of the 
birth-days of their majesties, and 
the prince of Wales 
A gentleman who had lost 301. to 
a fashionable lady at play, presented 
the amount in Bank notes. This 
drew from the lady an affected re- 
mark, ‘* that at the great houses she 
frequented, nothing but gold was 
used.” —** In the little houses I 
frequent, madam,” replied the gen- 
tleman, ‘* nothing but paper is 
used.”— Honi soit, &c. 
It was decided lately in the court 
of king’s bench, in a cause, The 
King 2, Wilson, that all foreign let- 
ters to English merchants, although 
brought by their own ships, must go 
through the Post-oflice. 
Last week a malster of Wher- 
well, near Andover, Hants, was 
fined in the penalty of 2001. for 
making a quantity of malt in an un- 
entered room, And an inhabitant 
of Chilbolton, in the same neigh- 
bourhood, was informed against, for 
having in his possession a supply of 
malt, “the duty on which had not 
been paid. 
John Tasker, ostler at the George 
Inn, at Spilsby, and Rebecca Smith, 
of that place, lately went on foot 
940 miles together, to Gretna 
Green, to be married. Having 
made this experiment of their fitness 
to tug through the rugged road of 
life together, te their mutual satis- 
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faction, the Vulcan of the Borders 
riveted them into one, and, turning 
their faces homewards, they re-trod 
their steps—whether with the same 
harmony as they went, ‘¢ this depo- 
nent saith not.” 
In a late report made to the 
Central Vaccine Committee, at 
Paris, it is stated, that by the exer- 
tions made throughout France, for 
propagating the vaccine inoculation, 
the number of individuals who 
underwent the operation in the 42 
departments, during the last twelve 
months, amounts to 125,992, which 
gives a total of near 400,000 for all: 
Krance; and by supposing, as in 
the last year, that number to be 
1,088,157, it will appear, that one- 
third of the infants born last year, 
have been vaccinated. From a 
number of experiments which have 
lately been made in France, it has 
uniformly resulted, that the small 
pox has never had any effect upoa 
those who have regularly gone 
through the vaccine infeetion. 
22d. A fire broke out in the 
Dock-yard, at Portsmouth, which 
threatened alarming consequences. 
Between four and five o’clock the 
flames were seen to burst from the 
house in which the rope is baked, 
and the twine tarred, for the use of 
the sail-makers. The wind was 
high, and blew directly towards the 
rigging and sail lofts, between which 
and the fire was a quantity of light 
dry timber. Lieutenant Smith of 
the Audacious, hastened on shore 
with a party of sailors, to assist in 
extinguishing it;  but.no buckets 
were at hand: a supply was imme- 
diately procured from the Auda- 
cious ; and, by the exertions of the - 
seamen, the fire was prevented from 
spreading farther. 
The same night the following 
dreadful 
