August 11. Kilham (in the East Riding, Yorkshire) July 17. On Saturday laft, at a quarter paft eight in the evening, the atmofphere being perfectly ferene and calm, a fiery body of a furprifing afpect paffed over this town. The head of it appeared to me, computing myself at about fifty yards diftant from it, to be a globe of five or fix inches diameter, and more bright and fparkling than the morning ftar. It drew after it a tail of a duller and more blood-coloured flame, feemingly, four or five feet in length, broad next to the head, to which it was closely joined, and gradually terminating in a point. It flew about thirty yards from the ground, in a steady ftrait courfe, and with the velocity of a very fwift bird. Its motion was nearly from weft to eat. It was feen at Helperthorpe, five miles west of Kilham, fpeeding this way; at Oranfmire, five miles eaft of us, ftill purfuing its courfe; and in all the intermediate villages, (that is, for ten miles in a direct line) by numbers of people, who confeffed, they had never beheld fuch a fight in the heavens before; and in all thefe places it appeared, as far as I can gather intclligence of it, in every refpect as it did here. Whether it was difcovered at greater diftances on each fide of us, I have not yet had an opportunity of enquiring. A like phenomenon appeared at Penrith in Cumberland, in the fhape of a fword, to the amazement of feveral fpectators. London. Several fhop-keepers having within thefe few days been convicted before a Magif trate for felling French cambricks, contrary to act of Parliament; one of our daily papers has publifhed fome remarks on the advantages of this at, and confiders how far it is of fervice to the commonwealth, by faving a large balance of fpecie at home, that must otherwife be paid to France; and may be the means in time of ripening our own manufactures into perfection. The violation of a law of fuch public utility the writer looks upon as unpardonable, becaufe by this means the profits arifing from this branch of trade are vefted in the hands of a few bold adventurers; the honeft tradefman is deprived of dealing in the commodities which that law permits to be worn in ftead of cambricks, a new fcheme of fmug- From the Paris A-la-main, Auguft 10. Worcester, Aug. 13. We are affured from a perfon, who was partly an eye-witness of the calamity, that on the 11th of last month four people that were haymakers in a ground near Brampton in Oxfordshire, dropped down thro' the exceffive heat of the weather; three of whom died on the spot, and it was feared the other could not recover. August 17. Extract of a letter from Gofport, dated Au guft 15. On Wednesday in the afternoon the Prince and Princess of Wales, with three of their Royal Highneffes children, arrived in the harbour from Southampton, in the Commiffioner's yatch. Before they went on fhore, they did Sir Edward Hawke the honour of a vifit on board the Monarch Man of War; from thence they went on fhore to the dock to the Commiffioner's houfe, where they lodged that night. Yesterday morning his Royal Highness furveyed the dock and yard, and then went on board the guard-fhips, which were all made clear to receive him, where the exercise of the great guns was performed in his prefence, at which he expreffed much fatisfaction: His Highness afterwards landed at the Sally Port, Portsmouth, and walked round the fortifications, attended by one of the Engineers, with a plan of them; his Royal Highness made a nice inspection, and very judicious remarks on the plan, and execution of it: from thence he went in the Commiffioner's coach, attended by Sir Edward Hawke, the the Commiffioner, and Engineer, to fee Cumberland Fort; and about three o'clock he embarked on board the yatch at South-Sea Caftle, and failed in her for the Isle of Wight. Words cannot exprefs the joy and pleafure all ranks and degrees of people expreffed at his prefence amongst us. Aug. 18, Southampton. We having this day received an account, that their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princefs of Wales, with Prince William and Prince Henry, and the Princess Augufta, would honour this town with a visit in the evening, in their return from the Isle of Wight; the churches, towers, gates, caftle, and other public places, were thereupon decorated with colours, ftreamers, pendants, and other ornaments; and before night the Council-chamber and houfes were handfomely illuminated; and about nine their Royal Highneffes, with the Princes and Princefs, landed at our key, attended by his Grace the Duke of Queensbury, and Capt Bludworth, Equerry, and Capt. Douglas, Mafter of the Houfhold, and the Rev. Mr. Caverly, one of the Chaplains to his Royal Highness: And our Mayor, Richard Purbeck, Efq; being confined to his bed by a fit of fickness, they were met on their landing by our deputy Mayor, Robert Sadleir, Efq; and the rest of the corporation in their fcarlet robes, and by Mrs. Mayorefs, and feveral Ladies of the town, and conducted to the Council-chamber (where a collation of fweetmeats and wines of divers kinds was prepared) preceded by the town trumpet and the ferjeants bearing the maces and filver oar, attended with flambeaux and torches, in the midft of loud acclamations of the populace, the bells of every church ringing all the time of their continuing in the town. On their Royal Highneffes arrival in the Council-chamber the Prince faluted the Ladies prefent, and the Corporation and Gentlemen had the honour of kiffing their Royal Highneffes hands. Aug. 19. From the CAROLINA GAZETTE. To the PRINTER. Sir, I am commanded by the Commons Houfe of Affembly to fend you the inclofed, which you are to print in the Carolina Gazette as foon as poffible: It is the Negroe Cafar's cure for poifon; and likewife his cure for the bite of a Rattle-fnake: For difcovering of which the General Affembly hath thought fit to pur chafe his freedom, and grant him an allowance of 1001, per ann. during life May 9, 1750. I am, &c. James Irving. The Negroe Cæfar's cure for poifon. Take the roots of plantane and wild hoarehound, fresh or dried, three ounces; boil them together in two quarts of water, to one quart, and ftrain it; of this decoction let the patient take one third part three mornings fafting fuc ceffively, from which if he finds any elief, it must be continued, till he is perfectly recovered: On the contrary, if he finds no alteration after the third dofe, it is a fign that the patient has either not been poisoned at all, or that it has been with fuch poifon as Cæfar's antidotes will not remedy, fo may leave off the decoction. During the cure, the patient muft live on a fpare diet, and abstain from eating mutton, pork, butter, or any other fat or oily food, N. B. The plantane or hoare-hound will either of them cure alone, but they are moft efficacious together. In fummer you may take one handful of the roots and branches of each, in place of three ounces of the roots of each. For drink during the cure, let them take the following. Take of the roots of golden-rod fix ounces, or in fummer two large handfuls of the roots and branches together, and boil them in two quarts of water to one quart (to which also may be added a little hoare-hound and faffafras.) To this decoction, after it is ftrained, add a glass of rum or brandy, and sweeten it with fugar, for ordinary drink, Sometimes an inward fever attends fuch as are poifoned, for which he orders the following. Take a pint of wood-afhes, and three pints of water; ftir and mix them well together, let them ftand all night, and train or decant the lye off in the morning, of which ten ounces may be taken fix mornings following, warmed or cold, according to the weather. Thefe medicines have no fenfible operation, tho' fometimes they work in the bowels, and give a gentle ftool. The Symptoms attending such as are poi- A pain of the breaft, difficulty of breathing, a load at the pit of the ftomach, an irre, gular pulfe, burning and violent pains of the vifcera above and below the navel, very reftlefs at night, fometimes wandering pains over the whole body, a reaching and inclination to vomit, profuse sweats, (which prove always ferviceable) flimy ftools, both when coftive and loofe, the face of a pale and yellow colour, fometimes a pain and inflammation of the throat, the appetite is generally weak, and fome cannot eat any; thofe who have been long poisoned, are generally very feeble and weak in their limbs, fometimes fpit a great deal, the whole fkin peels, and likewife the hair falls off. Cæfar's cure for the bite of a Rattle-snake. Take of the roots of plantane or hoarehound (in fummer roots and branches together) a fufficient quantity, bruife them in a mortar, and fqueeze out the juice, of which give, as foon as poffible, one large fpoonful; if he is fwelled, you must force it down his throat: This generally will cure; but, if the patient finds no relief in an hour after, you may may give another spoonful, which never fails. If the roots are dried, they must be moiftened with a little water. To the wound may be applied a leaf of good tobacco, moistened with rum. An Extract of a Letter from Paris, dated Aug. 20. Some politicians here are of opinion, that, notwithstanding the pains which the Ministers of this court and thofe of Great Britain feem to take, in order to maintain the peace between the two nations, affairs were nevertheless in such a fituation, as that it would be almost impoffible to regulate them to mutual fatisfaction, without coming to an open rupture. One of the most important matters is, the trade which is carried on upon the coafts of Africa. The English pretend to have the right exclufive of other nations, particularly the French: Thefe laft do not acknowledge this right, but maintain, that the fea is free, and that they are at liberty to trade thither as well as any other nation. Preparations are therefore making in feveral of our ports to go and traffic upon the coaft of Guiney, and other parts of Africa; and it is doing in fuch a manner, as that the trade will be fupported by force in cafe of need. On the other hand, letters from London advife, that the English are firmly refolved, coft what it will, to oppofe the French in this commerce. This article, we are told, was one of the subjects of the long conferences which Mr. Durand, who is charged with the affairs of France at London, has had with the British Ministry. The other articles of that conference turned chiefly upon the limit of the provinces which the two crowns were in poffeffion of in America, particularly thofe of Nova Scotia; and upon the fatisfaction which this court demands for the infult, which, it pretends, was committed by the Governor of Nevis against the French fri gate, called the Galathea. The former of thefe two articles does not feem to embarrass the British court much, because fuch measures have been taken to put that colony out of the reach of being infulted by either the French in those parts, or the Indians, that the Englifh are not very anxious about fettling of thefe limits but the article of fatisfaction gives fome uneafiness; because on that depends the evacuation of the islands of Tobago, &c. or at leaft this court makes ufe of this pretence to delay it; and it seems as if the English were not at all difpofed to give our court the fatisfaction, which it thinks due to it. These circumftances, joined to that of the English' complaining that we have not yet fulfilled the article of the treaty of Aix, which regards the` demolition of Dunkirk, have but little tendency to establish a good understanding between the two courts. Auguft 24. London. They write from Newport in the Ile of Wight, that on Saturday the 18th of Auguft, their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince William, and Princefs Augufta, came to that ifland; and after viewing the caftle of Carisbrook, went to Newport, where their Highneffes were met, at their entering the town, by the Mayor and corporation in their formalities, and conducted to the Guildhall, amidst the acclamations of a numerous croud of people, when his Royal Highness did the corporation the honour to accept the freedom of the town; and about five o'clock in the evening went from thence for Southampton. August 25. Whitehall. 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