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and all the expence incurred 

 made good by him. 



•From the steps that are now- 

 taking, we are hopeful, that 

 the present high price and 

 scarcity of coali will be re- 

 medied before the severity of 

 the winter sets in — The quan- 

 tity of coals brought into this 

 city, from 15th August 179 1, 

 to 19th August 1792, was 

 177.144 carts, exclusive of 

 wiiat came from Leith. 



On the 27th current, the 

 corporation of hammermen of 

 Edinburgh, at a full meeting, 

 having taken under conside- 

 ration the present high price 

 of coals, resolved unani- 

 mously, to provide themselves 

 with coals from coalleries more 

 distint than the usual supply, 

 and continue to do so until 

 the coal owners in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the city Ihall re- 

 duce them to the usual price. 



Lord Thurlow had k pri- 

 Tate interview of three hoUrs 

 with his royal highnefs the 

 prince of Wales at Garleton 

 house, on the arrangement of 

 the prince''s affairs. 



Oct. 26. The Dutch and Flan- 

 ders mails, arrived this morning, 

 which bring accounts down to 

 the 23d, contain no certain in- 

 formation relative to the ope- 

 rations of the army under ge- 

 neral Custine against Metz 

 and Coblentz 3 but they men- 

 tion, that since the arrival of a 

 ier at Berlin, the speedy 



historical chroh'tcfe. 



return of the king, andapeacls 

 with France, have been the 

 topics of common conversation 

 in that city. 



The family compact, whick 

 was lb England and Holland 

 a league of hostility, is now; 

 by the declaring France z re- 

 public, and by a commence- 

 ment of war between that re- 

 public and Spain, so complete- 

 ly broKen and annihilated, as 

 to destroy even the fhadow of 

 a hope in the Bourbons of its 

 ever again being establiihed. 



A vefsel which arrived last 

 week at Liverpool from the 

 gold coast, mentions, that con- 

 siderable disturbances had a- 

 risen there in the month o£ 

 July last among the slaves be- 

 longing to several of the mer- 

 chant factors, which had been 

 productive of some bloodlhed,- 

 before order was re-cstablilh- 

 ed. 



Further accounts mention, 

 that trade is exceedingly dull,- 

 numbers of vefsels being obli-- 

 ged to r-eturn with not one- 

 quarter of their cargo. - 



At a meeting of the sub-; 

 scribers for making a canat 

 from near Heath to Barnsley, in 

 yorkfliire, the sum of 6o,oo-ol. 

 was subscribed in a few hours. 



Wiliam 1 ucker, esq. is e- 

 lected a third time mayor of 

 of Trenton ; it is remaik'able, 

 that he is the father cf twenty- 

 two children, and uncle to se- 

 venty-five nephews and nieces. 



