historical chronicle. 



the houses near. Nothing was 

 saved but a few benches and a 

 little stage property^ — and this 

 large fabric is now one entire 

 fliell. 



Nothing is talked of in great 

 circles but the winnings and lo- 

 sings at the faro table. Tho' 

 this game is common in most 

 countries, it is no where carried 

 to so criminal an extreme as in 

 England. 



Wq. immense bounty given 

 at this time on sugars export- 

 ed, amounting to 3 1 s. 6d. per 

 cwt. empowers the West India 

 merchants, and their friends, 

 the grocers and refiners, to vend 

 goods to foreig-ners of thu same 

 quality sold here for 1 1 2 s. at 

 90 s. 6 d. by which there is a 

 gain of 10 s. per cwt. more than 

 selling here at H2s, and the 

 foreigner receives the produce 

 of our colonies, at a guinea and 

 sixpence lefs price than the 

 linglilhman. 



Longevity. — Near Tuam, in 

 Ireland, lately died, Thomas 

 Wims, in the 117th year of his 

 age. Pie fought in 1 701 at tiie 

 siege of Londoi:!derry 



high grounds of Scotland, have 

 been lost in the snows. The 

 severity of the weather, and 

 tiie drifting of the snow, have 

 also been fatal to many iu the 

 south, as well as the w6st and 

 and northern parts of the coun- 

 try. 



The Duke of York has sig- 

 nified to his friends, that he ex- 

 pects daily to be called on ur- 

 gent affairs to his principality 

 in Germany j and farther tiiat 

 he is likely to be appointed to 

 a ptincipal command in the 

 Pruisian service, Ihould that 

 power take any active part in 

 attempting a counter-revoluti- 

 on in France. 



Mascin, the poetical veteran, 

 has at length put an end to the 

 impudent usurpations of hisi 

 merits, by confefsing himself 

 the author of the heroic epistle 

 to Sir William Chambers. 



A more critical winter for 

 the underwriters has not been 

 witnefsed for many years. Al-^ 

 most every port on the coast, 

 from the number of vefsels put 

 in for succour, gives evidence of 

 the disastrous effects of the late 



It is said that the produce of tempestuous weather. Dover, 

 the Excise in the year 1791, | Ramsgate, Dartmoutli, and Ply- 

 exceeds that of the preceding | mouth harbours, are crowded 

 year, in no lefs a sum than with nearly an equal proportion 



L. 1,234,000. 



The re:nainde"r of Mr Farrer's 

 estate is now finally sold. It 

 was bought in the year 1703 

 for L. 27,00. It was sold for 

 L. 90,500 ! 



of distrefs ; and in Cov/es no 

 lefs than tv/enty foreign fhips 

 are now unloading to repair da- 

 mages sustained. 



Upon liis Royal Highriefs 

 the Prince of Wales entering , 



A number of flieep, in ^he the audience -room on \Ve4- 



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