' HISTOkl<*Al, CHRONICLE. 



XXIX 



Peyroufe, the great Gallic ! 

 circumnavigator, is fafe. Ac- 

 counts are received from him, ; 

 with Maps, Charts, &c. bt his I 

 courfc down to his arrival at I 

 Botany Bay. j 



Mr Matra, Ambaflador from 

 the Court of England, is an'iv- 

 ed at Tangier in an Engiilh 

 frigate, with forr.e prefents for 

 the King of Morocco, confift- 

 ing of bombs and balls. 



Two captives, an old man 

 and his daughter,lately redeem- 

 ed at Fez, report, that in the in- 

 terior parts of Africa, the chrit- 

 tian (laves arc fo numerous, as 

 to have formed a fort of colony, 

 under the infpecflion, and for 

 the profit of their mafrers, v. ho 

 debar them from any commu- 

 nication with the towns on the 

 coaft. 



In an account, which has 

 been taken of t he births and 

 deaths in Auftria, the follow- 

 jngremarkable circmiftance ap- 

 peared. In the village of Go- 

 teifchen, which contains three 

 hundred and fifty inhabitant?, 

 there have been no deaths for 

 thcfc two years part:. 



Letters from America flate, 

 that Congrefs are preparing to 

 fend a powerful force againft 

 the Indians, who are now 

 making war on the United 

 States ; the Chippaws, Dela- 

 wares, and other Tribes, hav- 

 ing joined the hoftile Savages. 

 Since the retreat of the federal 

 troops under General Harmar, 

 the Miami Indians have com- 

 mitted unparalleled cruelties. 

 A large body of them, on the 

 ad of February, attacked the 



Settlement called Big Bottom, 

 twenty miles from Fort Har- 

 mar, on the Mulkingnm, which 

 they entirely deftroyed. Ele- 

 ven men and two children were 

 maflacred, two efcaoed, and 

 three were taken pr Toners. 



An American paper has the 

 following extraordinary article : 

 On Tiiefdsy the 14th of 

 January, Mrs Cooke, of Caro- 

 lina, county of Maryland, was 

 delivered of a dead child, which 

 (he had carried for upwards of 

 ten years. The child appeared 

 to have been of the fize of a 

 full grown one of nine months 

 old, and was extradted througfi 

 an opening made in the fide of 

 its mother. 



Died, lately, near Dumfries, 

 in the back fettlements of Vir- 

 ginia, nged 106, Mrs Henrietta 

 Marliel, a native of Hanover. 

 She lived in the fervice of 

 George I. 15 years, in Hanover 

 la, in England 3, in Jamaica 

 13, and in Virginia 53. She had 

 ten c'.i'lldrei!, two ct whom are 

 ftill living, a5 grand-children, 

 and 43 great grand-children, 

 one of whom died the fame day 

 that the former v. as interred. 



Tiievalue of the exports from 

 the United Stares of America, 

 for the laft thirteen months, 

 amounts to 20,100,000 dollai3. 

 An immediate remedy fcr 

 the bite of a mad dog is faid 

 to have been accidentally dif- 

 covercd, at Venice, in vineaar. 

 It was actually tried on three 

 fubjcifts, who drank feveral 

 pints. A remedy fo fimple 

 and ufcful cannot be tou uui- 

 verfally kr.own. 



