hisloricni chi 

 ■engagement. We have every 

 T;hing ready for action at a 

 iRoment's notrce, and conse- 

 quently exercise our men e- 

 very day at the great guns. 

 However we can do them but 

 iittle mischief, unlefs we meet 

 a iliip of our own rate." 



The keels of three new 

 fliips, designed for the East 

 India company's service in 

 the Bengal and China trade, 

 have been lately laid down 

 in the river, whose tonnage 

 very much exceeds that of a- 

 ny merchant ihips heretofore 

 built in this kingdom. 



Among the improvements 

 intended in the Covent Gai-- 

 den new theatre, the one fliil- 

 ling gallery is to be omitted. 



Tlie commilsioners for re- 

 ducing the national debt, since 

 the new powers given them 

 by the late act have been put 

 in force, purchase on an ave- 

 rage about L. 14,000 stock 

 fici- day, which is just double 

 the quantity they used to 

 buy in before the additional 

 L. 400. GOO surplus of the 

 public revenue was appropri- 

 ated to that purpose. 



The {herirfs and the grand 

 uiries of Lancalhire and Che- 



iic have taken some decided 

 'eps in opposing the imposi- 

 tions of several inn-hoidero who 

 have raised the price of post- 

 horses to IS. ^^d. ficr mile. 



The rife was supposed to 

 be the more extortionate, as 

 it was vtttcniDti-d at a time 



when corn was faning iu its 

 price. 



By the Alfred Indiaman 

 accounts hom our infant co- 

 lony, in New South Wales, 

 have been received. Tho 

 ground, by uncommon labour, 

 had iu some places been fer- 

 tilized. Several bipeds, and 

 a few quadrupeds, bad been 

 discovered iu the interior 

 part of the country; bat tiie 

 natives continued so Ihy, that 

 governi>r Phillips was . afraid 

 to venture far on discoveries. 

 A complaint, which ended in 

 diarahcjea, had, we are sorry 

 to learn, been prevalent 

 throughout the colony, and 

 carried otf several persons, 

 chieHy convicts. 



The Etonians intend pre- 

 senting Dr Davies, their late 

 head master, with a supeib 

 piece of plate, in testimony 

 of their grateful venerati- 

 no. 



Xlie mackarel fiHiery on- 

 the coast of Cornwall has been 

 abundant. Near thirty boats 

 loaded with i-iackarel, sailed 

 from Penzance about a foit- 

 night ago, for Southampton, 

 to be fiom thence coiueved 

 to town. The common price 

 Ligh'.pence per doz,«fi. 



The pope has just i.lued a 

 thundering bull aguinst tlie 

 French constitutional clergy. 

 He allows them 120 da-, s, 

 during which if they do r ot 

 abjure their errors, he thnat- 

 ens to excommunicate then . 



