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terniiiiation of an important law- 

 suit. His eldest son is upwards 

 of 70. 



Mr. Robins, of Beverstone, near 

 Tetbury, lately lost 7yearlingbeasts 

 out of 18, by putting them into a 

 piece of pasture ground, in part of 

 which the colchicum autumnate 

 (meadow saffron, or tube root) 

 grew in great abundance. On their 

 bodies being opened, the food, was 

 found clogged together, in a crude 

 and undigested mass, incapable of 

 passing through the proper ducts. 



A New York paper contains the 

 following : " Henry Brown, a 

 native of New Jersey, residing 

 near Bevertown, was born January, 

 1C86; consequently is now in his 

 129th year. He is a black man, 

 with Ions: straiaht hair, and wears 

 It tied. He was in general Brad- 

 dock's defeat, in 1755, and then 

 was 59 years old. He has been a 

 slave 70 years, has been a free 

 man 58 years, is now in good 

 health, can walk pretty well, has 

 a good appetite at times, but is 

 getting weak. He was never 

 married ; and says he wishes to 

 die, but fears he never shall." 



17. Splendid provision is mak- 

 ing for the establishment of a 

 Presbyterian place of worship in 

 Kingston, Jamaica. Before the 

 be<;inning of February, upwards 

 of 8,0001. had been subscribed ; 

 smce that period large additions 

 have been made by contributions, 

 and it is expected that the annual 

 income of the minister will not be 

 less than 1,0001. or 1,2001. a year. 



About four o'clock in the morn- 

 ing some villains entered the 

 vestry of Paddington church, and 

 took away two large deal chests 

 containing the parish records, ac- 

 counts, plate, &c. As soon as 



the robbery was discovered, the 

 parish officers gave information at 

 Bow-street, stating that they were 

 anxious to recover the papers, 

 which consisted of the parish re- 

 cords for the last three hundred 

 years, and which could not be re- 

 placed. The Magistrate, from the 

 circumstance3,suspectedthe thieves 

 were not persons of experience in 

 their profes-sion, and dispatched an 

 officer to trace them. On going 

 to the spot he found that they had 

 entered the Vestry-room with a 

 skeleton key ; he also traced them 

 from place to place till he had dis- 

 covered the lost treasure in an out- 

 house, near the church. The 

 chests had been opened, and the 

 thieves were deceived by the glit- 

 tering appearance of the cups and 

 plates, which were only pewter. 

 The records were restored to the 

 parish officers. 



18. By accounts from Arch- 

 angel of the 17th of June, we learn 

 that the last winter had made 

 greater inroads into the summer of 

 that northern latitude than ever 

 had been known in the memory 

 of man. The ice of the Dwina 

 had not broke up till the 24th of 

 May, and even in the middle of 

 June the White Sea was full of 

 drift ice. No ships had then ar- 

 rived at Archangel from foreign 

 parts, but immense quantities of 

 flax, hemp, tallow, and grain were 

 expected from the interior of 

 Russia. 



The Greenland Whale Fishery 

 has this year been uncommonly 

 successful. By accounts from Hull, 

 and the other outports most in- 

 terested in this commerce, it ap- 

 pears, that almost every ship is 

 full. The South-sea men also 

 have been equally fortunate; 



