MV hiitorica, 



for the titlie on hops, and a de- 

 mand Is now made of no lefs a 

 sum than h. ^ : I2 : 6 per acre. 



Tuesday, Feb. 7. exhibited 

 an extraordinary scene on 

 Change. Several merchants of 

 emintnce were arrested at the 

 suit of government for money 

 due on Custom-house bonds ; 

 on account, as we understand, 

 of some disputed duties. One 

 of the (heriffs attended in his 

 carriage to witnefs the executi- 

 on of the writs. 



A beautiful monument is just 

 completed intended to be e- 

 ,1-ected in Cliichester cathedral, 

 to the memory of Collins the 

 poet j it consists of a striking 

 Lust to the memory of that ele- 

 gant writer, with a simple in- 

 sciiption, and underneath ap- 

 pear the Pafsions in bals relief, 

 jnost exprcfsively copied from 

 the inspiration of his own pen. 



A few nights ago, four old 

 liouses in Virginia-street, Rat- 

 c'.iffe-highway, fell down. For- 

 tunately the wall made a cralh, 

 the noise of wiiich awoke the 

 •inhabitants, who had been in 

 bed some hours. 



Forty thousand a-year aa'di- 

 f'wnal iiic'jtne is talked of for a 

 certain young Gentleman. It is 

 to be wiflied that some person 

 might be appointed to controul 

 the application, and that, as the 

 revenue will then be princely 

 indeed, the .expenditure may be 

 in a manner, and on matters 

 •worthy a prince. 

 ,'.,<. -A singular mistake. — J.Wat- 

 '^"n. es"]; of Mansfield, in Not- 



/ chronicle. 



inghamlhire, one of the gentk" 

 men named as a flierifF for that 

 county, has been dead these 

 three years past ! 



By the last accounts from St 

 Domingo, it appears that the 

 disorders there have not yet 

 subsided. 



The earl of Glasgow lately 

 ordered 400 hutches of coals to 

 the poor of Paisley. 



M. Talleyrand de Perigord 

 spent one of his first days in 

 this country thus actively : — In 

 the morning he had an audience 

 of Mr Pitt •, after which he di- 

 ned with the Duke of Leeds ; 

 and then called separately upon 

 Mr Fox and Mr Burke. 



One purpose of M. Talley- 

 rand's mifsion to his country, is 

 said in Paris to relate to the sale 

 of the forests in France, to a 

 body of Englifli merchants who 

 have offered to purchase them. 



A Mr Wilson, said to be up- 

 on the half-pay of the Englilh 

 Navy, has just presented to the 

 National Afsembly of France, a 

 muiket, which may be dischar- 

 ged seven times in succefsioii 

 upon one loading. 



It is rumoured that th': mi- 

 nister has in his pofsefsion some 

 letters (written by a leading 

 member of opposition) during 

 the late negociationwith Rufsia, 

 which are said to be of a very 

 exceptionable if not treasonable 

 nature — but like many other 

 rumours of late, this is probably 

 without foundation 3 or at least 

 exaggerated. 



