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charge of having accepted of a 

 prefent of iio,ooo!. Sterling 

 trom a fingle donor. 



MrEdward Joh:-.HoIlondhas 

 has given in his bail for400,oool. 

 The gentlemen who have ftep- 

 ped forward on this occafion 

 are Mr Francis Fowke, of Win 



On the 15th of June, an ac- 

 tion wastried before LordKeny- 

 on in the Court of King's Bene!:, 

 at the inftan«e of Mv More- 

 fom, merchant in Whitby, a- 

 gainft Mr Clarke, a gentleman 

 of property in the fame town, 

 for feducing and carrying off the 



pole ftreet, and Mr William ' wife of the former, when the 

 Holland, late of Bengal. I jury gave a verdid-, 3500I. da- 



Accounts are received by ■ mages. The defendant is 50 

 Government, that Tippoo Saib , years of age, and has a wife 

 has made propofals to Earl • and family. 

 Cornwallis for a pacification.} Not long fince, Lady Auck- 

 The terms are underftood to be j land was delivered of a fon at 

 moft eminently advantageous j the Hague ; and, what is not 

 to the welfare of this country. ' a little lingular, her ladyfhip 

 The mother, brother, and j can now produce f.x children 

 fifter of the Duke of Orleans ar- born in as many' different king- 

 rived at London the 17th ult. doms. 

 The falary, including per- j A new coinage of guineas 



quifites, &c. of Principal Se- 

 cretary of State, is computed 

 at 8000I. a-year. Befides this, 



and half-guineaf, from dies of 

 the prefent year, is now going 

 on at the tower to a very large 



he has apartments in all the j amount, by an order from the 



Royal Houfes, as well for his 

 Own accommodation, as forthat 

 of thofe who attend upon him ; 

 he has likewife the appointment 

 of two Under-Secretaries and 

 Clerks, v/hofe places are of 

 confiderable profit. Before the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth, the 

 Secretary ot State (there being 

 but one at that time) did not 

 fit in the Privy Council : he 

 only prepared bufinefs for the 

 Board in an adjoining room, 

 and then produced his papers 

 ftanding. 



The employment of a King's 

 meffenger was once very mode- 

 rate in eftimation and profit. 

 Since we are become the •rjjeigb- 

 majlfrs of the balance of Eu- 

 rope, it has increafed very con- 

 fiderably in both refpcdts, and 

 is now little lefs valuable than 

 ibat of a Colonel in t!ie army. 



treafury ; but no orders have 

 been given, nor are there any 

 preparations for a filver or cop- 

 per coinage. 



The celebrated repvbliean 

 hiftorian, Mrs Catharine Mac- 

 aulay Graham, died on the 22d 

 of June, at her houfe in Wind- 

 for Foreft. 



A plan has been fubmitted 

 to the confideralion of Go- 

 vernment, for raiQng a perma- 

 nent fund for the fupport of 

 the widows and children of 

 clergymen in Ireland. One of 

 the principal parts of the plan 

 is, the appropriation of one 

 year's revenue of every bifliop- 

 ric that may become vacant by 

 deceafe or tranflation, to this 

 very ufeful purpolV, until the 

 fund nrifing from thcle accumu- 

 lated lums amountto loojoool. 

 and the intereft to be difpofed 



