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the eredion of the three noble and fpacious new ftreets named Bridge 

 flreet, Parliament flreet, and George flreet, befides adorning the Pa- 

 lace-yards, &c. greatly to the embellifliment of the city of Weftminfter, 

 which, inflead of its former dirty and narrow ftreets, now lifts up its 

 head with grandeur and majefty on every fide. 



The long dii'pute between the king of Denmark and the free impe- 

 rial city and republic of Hamburgh was at length adjufted this year, 

 and, as ufual, to the difadvantage of the weakeft, on the terms follow- 

 ing, viz. I ft, That the Hamburghers fliall pay his Danifh majefty, once 

 for all, half a million of Danifli crowns *. 2dly, That they ftiall in a 

 year's time aboliih their bank current ; whereupon the money of Den- 

 mark ftiall be on the fame footing with that of Hamburgh. 3dly, That 

 the merchants and artificers dwelling in the quarter or ward of .Schawm- 

 berg at Hamburgh, and who are fubjedts of his Danifti majefty, ftiall 

 not be fubjed to the jurifdidlion of the city of Hamburgh, and ftiall 

 not pay the fame poll-taxes as the other inhabitants of that city do ; 

 neither ftiall Danifti military officers of rank, living at Hamburgh, be 

 lubject to its jurifdiclion, nor the office of the royal pofts eftabliftied 

 there. 4tlily, That the commerce of Hamburgh v/ith the Danifti do- 

 minions fliall be reftored, and put upon its former footing : the king of 

 Denmark, at the fame time, caufing all the ftiips and effeds of the 

 Hamburghers, which he had feized, to be releafed. 5thly, Juftice ftiall 

 be done to the creditors of banki'upts of Hamburgh taking refuge at 

 Altena, or other parts of Denmark. 6thly, The rights of the Ham- 

 burghers, concerning veflels that may chance to be wrecked on the 

 Danifli coafts, fliall receive no prejudice. 



Mr. Drake, in his Hiftory and antiquities of York (publiftied in 

 1736), has fupplied us with the following notices of that city. 



I ft, There are 4.2 gentlemen's coaches, 22 hackney coaches, and the 

 like number of hackney chairs, in full employment in the city. 



2dly, A medium of feven years births and burials, from 1728 to 

 1735, is 398 births and 495 burials per annum. And, as York is deem- 

 ed a healthful place, we ftiall fuppole that only i in ^3 ^^ ^^^ inhabit- 

 ants die annually ; fo that the number of fouls in the city and fuburbs 

 of York may be eftimated at 16,335. 



^dly, York, within its gates, is two miles and almoft three quarters 

 in circuit, as furveyed in the year 1664. And, in his notes, he adds, 

 that the city of London is very little bigger within its walls, being but 

 barely three miles in circumference; yet the later probably contains 

 fix times as many inhabitants as York does, owing to the many more 

 void fpaces in York than in London. 



It was at this time computed that the Portuguefe in Brazil produced 



* How often Lave fucli once for alli been repeated ? j4. 



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