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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



fleep for forty-eight hours : du- 

 ring this time he got the keys 

 of all his mafter's defies, and 

 made off with one hundree^ 

 Louis d'ors, all the filver plate, 

 and every article of jewel- 

 lery in the hcufe. To crown 

 all, he had the impudence to 

 leave a writing on his matter's 

 table, containing a couplet of 

 well pointed verfcs in German 

 to this effeifl : — " Adieu, my 

 dear Ahe, if you wifh to find 

 me, you muft come to Poland." 

 — The medicine was made fo 

 flrong that the gentleman's life 

 was in fome danger. 



On the 31ft May the King of 

 Pruffia gave a grand dinner at 

 Charlottenbourg to the Duke 

 of York, his Generals, and Mi- 

 nifters of State, and next day 

 returned to Potzdam. 



The King of Spain has given 

 orders to the Prtlident of Caf- 

 tile, to inform the inhabitants 

 of the kingdom and cities of 

 Spain, that the deputies at the 

 Cortes have received orders to 

 confider of means for relieving 

 the people, and to draw up a 

 lift of grievances, particularly 

 of thofe which may tend to the 

 general good, and reftore the 

 prefent fyftcm to the fpirit of 

 the Spanifti conftitution. 



The efre(fts of poorCaglioftro 

 have lately been burnt at Rome 

 bv the hands of the hangman. 

 This ceremony took place in 

 the fquare called Minerva ; and 

 as the patents, ribbon?, and 

 other eniigns of free mafonry 

 •were caft into the fire, the po- 

 pulace rent the air with their 

 JTiouts. The Italian? are weak 

 enough to imagine, that Cagli- 

 oftro was a conjuror, who held 



frequent communications with 

 the ^e-vil J 



We learn from Riga, that, 

 about the 20th May, four Britilh 

 veffels were wrecked on the 

 ifland of Olel, whereof the one 

 was the Hannah of Perth, Capt. 

 John Murdoch, for Riga — the 

 crew faved ; the names of the 

 others unknown. 



The laft winter in Arr.erica 

 was fo fevere, that ir.ofl of the 

 rivers were entirely frozen up. 

 On the Dclawaie, many lives 

 were loft, and multitudes fuf- 

 fered extreme diftrefs. 



DOMESTIC. 



Lord Grenville is appointed 

 Secretary of State for Foreign 

 Affairs, in room of the Duke 

 of Leeds, who religned fome 

 time ago. — Mr Dundas is ap- 

 pointed Secretary for the Home 

 Department. — Thomas Steele, 

 Efq ; is appointed Treafurer of 

 the Navy.- 



Dr Shute Barrington, Biftiop 

 of Salifbury, is promoted to the 

 See ot Durham, vacant by the 

 death of Dr Thurlow. — Dr 

 Douglas, Bifhop of Carlifle, is 

 promoted to the Biftioprick of 

 Salifbury — And Dr Vernon is 

 elpaed Bifliop of Carlifle. 



A Committee of Inquiry fat 

 in December laft, at Madras, 

 to inquire into the proceedings 

 of the Meflfrs Hollonds, when 

 it appeared that they had fold 

 places to the amount of many 

 lacks of rupees, and feveral 

 Englifh gentlemen, purchafers, 

 had been difmiffed the fervice. 



The Attorney General has 

 filed an information ex nffiilo, 

 upon the provifions of the laft 

 bill, againft Mr Hollond, latey 

 arrived in the Rodney, upona 



