a multiplicity of other combinations. From almost all its combinations it may be transferred to inflammable matter, and from the inflammable matter to iron: from the brimstone which it forms with the one, the acid may be obtained by barn. ing, with a proper apparatus, and from the vitriol, which it forms with the other, by diftillation. 4. An account of the culture of Carrots, and their use in feeding and fattening -cattle. By Robert Billing, farmer, at Wea-fenbam Norfolk. Published by defire of the fociety for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce at London. ·Dodfley, 6d. and there they grew confiderably bigger. This 13 acres and a half produced 240 cart loads of carrots; and the 17 acres about 270 loads, in all 510; equal in ufe and effect to near 1000 loads of turnips, or 300 loads of hay, as experience has eA vinced, by the various ways in which they have been tried. The feafon for drawing the carrots, is a little after Miebaelmas, Mr Billing, fays, that the best way of drawing them is by a man with a four pronged fork, who breaks the ground about fix inches deep, & little boy follows him to pick them up; but B this method being tedicus in large plantations, he found it neceffary to plow them up with a narrow- shared wheel plow, which going flow turned them up without much injury to the carrots; and the cattle being put into the field, eat them up without wafte the first plowing does not throw them all up, but thofe thrown up by a fecond and third plowing, are equally good, with thofe thrown up at first. Mr Billing fays, that the culture of carrots for the winter feed of cattle, has been long practifed in the eastern parts of Suffolk, but never in the county of Norfolk, where turnips has hitherto been preferred. The premium offered by the Society of C Arts encouraged him to make trial of them in the latter county, and in 1763 he fowed 30 acres and a half in three fields; one of 13 acres, one of half an acre, and one of 17 acres. The piece of 13 acres, was a cold loamy foil, fhallow, and underneath it a loamy gravel; the half acre a mixed foil upon a moist clay; and the 17 acres, a light dry foil, newly improved with a marte, 14 acres of which were a thallow black fanti upon a kind of imperfect grit ftone, called in that county carr flone. Mr Billing advises plowing the land for carrots early, before the Winter begin, that the ground may have all the benefit. of the froft for mellowing the foil, and fitting it in the fpring for the reception of the feed. The ground for carrots, every body knows, cannot be made too fine, and where dung can be had, the crop will be much increased by it. He fowed 4 pounds of feed upon an acre, in the fame manner as turnip feed is fow ed, only paffing it first thro' a fine chaff fieve, to make it feperate. He recommends late fowing as a means of checking the weeds and leffening the expence of hoeing; for as carrots lie long in the ground before coming up, the weeds are apt to get the better of them; but this feems to have little weight, the land being well cleaned, early towing, in March, is moft undoubtedly the most proper feafon; and every man's experience muft direct him in the hoeing of them, He owns, that harrowing the weeds out, after the carrots come up, will not hurt the carrots. D E With this crop of carrots Mr Briling fatted 33 neat beafts, and 49 thearing weathers. At first, he gave the cattle with the carrots a mixture of cabbages, 40 load of which grew on half an acre of arable. This 40 load of cabbages, he computes to be equal to 18 loads of carrots; the cattle were fondent of thefe at first, but having gradually taken to eat the carrots, they foon preferred them. To the 33-neat beatts, & 49 weathers, he allowed one load of turnips when his cabbages were spent, and 3 loads of carrots each day, and they fatted as faft upon these, as upon 7 loads of turnips, as experience taught him. He computes the profits of this fmall flock to be about 128 /. He, alfo fed 16 working horses with thefe carrots, without hay or corn, during the Winter, except when they carried F and to the team employed in this fervice, corn to Brancafier, at 16 miles diftance, he allowed only a bushel of oats a day, Peafeftiaw, chaff. & carrots yielded all their ordinary food. For the horfes, Mr Billing had the carrots washed, their heads and tails chopp'd off, which ferved the hogs, and fometimes they had a cut or two befides. The 16 horfes eat two loads of G Of the carrots on the 13 acres, many (when dug up, meafdred two feet long, H and from 12 to 14 inches round, at the Thefe were fown on wheat upper end. ftubble, dunged the year before; the half acre was cloverlayedung'd for the carrots, carrots a week, equal to more than a load of hay. Mr Bulling has not given fo exact an ac· count, as might be wished, of the manner of drawing his carrots, and feeding his cattle, tho' the omiffion does not proceed from defign, but inadvertency. It should feem, that at firft he pulled up his carrots, by a man and a boy, carried them to a feeding clofe, and difperfed them about for the cattle to pick up but afterwards, finding perhaps, this way tedious, he made wfe of his plow, turned his cattle into the famg fame field, where the carrots grew, and 5. A dialogue in the Elysian fields, between two d-kes. 6d Hooper. C The characters are, the Dukes of D-g and B-7, and the defign of the dialogue feems to be, to account for the death of the latter. The writer makes him give this account:-"I have much caufe to regret my rashness, although at the fame time I must declare, my treatment was such as might juftify the deed. Upon the repeated conferences lately held at St 7-'s, I began to grow uneafy at the referved behaviour of D my compatriots, Upon hearing that a new arrangement of off--.rs was preparing by the D-of C-, I fignified my expectations of being included in the number, I found then my importance diminished, and that I fhould be obliged to fit down with my lofs. I was told that it was quite a new plan; that L-d T- and Mr Pwould fhew, by their difinterested behaviour, that they were worthy the appellation of patriots, and that I had been looked upon in that light. I flew to Hs, and intended at least to recover what I had been forced to quit, but it was with difficulty that I got accefs, The fhy reception I met with permitted me not to hope much, I asked only for my lieutenancy, and from his MS defigned for the press, by T, Gibbons, D.D, 6s Buckland. 8. An honeft man's reafons for declining to take any part in the new administra tion. 6d Wilkie. (See p. 331.) The Commiffary, a comedy of three acts, as reprefented at the Hay Market; by S, Foote, Efq; Is 6d Vaillant. (See p. 253.) 10. Minutes of the proceedings of the commithioners of the longitude. 6d Bil ling fley. (See p. 303.) 11. A fhort, feasonable, and plain ad drefs, from an honeft old man to the good people of England. 6d Wilkie, This pamphlet is written to introduce the following character of the Marquis of R▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬m.—This nobleman, fays the writer, was very early in life the only male heir of an illustrious and powerful family; and at an age when, too frequently, other youths of quality are left to the care of a dancing mafter, or under the tuition of fome miferable pedant, my lord, about the age of fourteen, appeared at the head of a regiment, raifed by his father, in defence of his country, at the time of the late unnatural Rebellion; and was impatient to expofe himself to the moft imminent danger, under his R. H. the D, of Cumberland, at Carifle; if the Duke had not had more regard to the anxieties of his lordship's relations than the young hero had to his own fafety, when engaged in fo good a cause. The campaign being ended, he was fent to travel abroad, I am his witness, that for fome years he applied himself to the acquifition of all kinds of ufetul knowledge, with an ardour uncommon even to thofe who are to live by their learning. When his travels were finished, he came, by the death of his father, into the poffeffion of one of the ampleft and greatest estates in the kingdom, which he has employed in a manner that does him honour, to the nobleft purposes, in the encouragement of learning and learned men, and the cultiva. Ftion of letters, and the polite arts. One in and a bir-bb-d, the latter of which I 6. A letter to the Rev. vicar of Savoy, 7. Reliquæ fure; or, meditations on feveral paffages of (cripture; by Mr Pearf all, late minifter at Taunton; published (Gent, Mag. JULY 1765.) flance, amongst many others, muft not be omitted; to his munificence and patronage the world is indebted for the publication of a work (the antiquities of Athens) which will be efteemed as long as any fparks of true tafle and genius thall remain in this nation, and will be a lafting honcur to our country. He is brave, manly, re folute, unfhaken, endowed with excel'ent natural parts, a clear comprehensive understanding, an upright mind, and well placed heart; a real friend to liberty and his country: If he perfifis in the fame laudable pursuits, of which you need not entertain a doubt, you will have reafon, my dear countrymen, to render bearty thanks to his majesty, who has called him to a publick exertion of thefe talents for the emolument of his fellow-fubje&is, which which have fhined to confpicuously in a private lite, full of dignity and honour: In short, I will conclude his character in the words of Motaire peaking of Henry IV. of France: His foibles are the weaknetfes of an amiable man, and his virtues thofe of a truly great one." You all know, adds the writer, how this Toor unhappy country has for fome years heen torn to pieces by the animofities and diffentions of our leaders; at laft our good King has made his choice of this man to place A REMARKABLE EVENTS. Few months ago, a Monk in one of the Capuchin convents at Rome was found dead in his bed, with a crucifix in his hand, and a paper lying by him, with thefe words: • Let fathers and mothers from ⚫ hence learn, how dreadful a thing it is for them to aflume a right of forcing their children to a way of life no ways adapted to ⚫ their inclinations.' A few weeks fince, the teeth of some monftrous animal was found near South Tyne fide, near Adleflon, Cumberland; for a particular defcription of which, we should think ourfelves obliged to any correfpondent on the spot. The grand V zier, Mufapha, having been lately condemned by the Divan, on account of fome late infurrections in Georgia, suffered death with a magnanimity that difcovered the inoft elevated fenfe of honour, His Imperial inafter, the Grand Signior, convinced of his fidelity, intimated a defire to fave his life; but Muftajba replied, that he had rather fail a facrifice bimfelf to the refentments of a seditious people, than expofe his fublime highnefs to the hazard of a general defection: He prayed him, therefore, to think no more of faving him, but befeeched his highness to transfer his benevolence to his unhappy children, who would otherwife be expofed to the vengeance of his enemies. There have lately happened several instinces of the murder of innocent children by enthufiaftic parents and friends; one in North America is worth recording.-In New York one Godfrey Swan, a man in good circumftances, fearing he should not be faved, took the opportunity, while his wife was at market, to murder his own fon, an infant of three months old, which he took from the cradle, and laying it on his left arm, cut its throat with a penknife. The neighbours being alarmed came in, and found him with the child yet bleeding in his arms; bu instead of being difconcerted, he deliberately wiped his bloody hands, and the knife with which he did the execrable deed, and with perfect compofuse faid, He had long been greatly dif treffed in mind, was weary of life, and had taken th method of making the foul of at happy, and dying himwhich he hoped God on would have mercy, on him as on a repentant 'finner.' He talked very religiously, and, except on the particular fubject of his unea finefs, very fenfibly. A moft defolating fpecies of villainy feems to gain ground among the abandoned crew, that infeft this metropolis, who, by fetting fire to old buildings, theds, and work-fhops, burn down dwelling houses, and thereby facilitate the means of robbery, on the profits of which they fubfift. No lefs than 7 or 8 dif coveries of trains laid for this defperate purpofe have been difcovered and defeated within a few weeks. It is hoped, therefore, that fome fevere law will be made to prevent a crime, which, one would think, the moft profligate wretch in the world would tremble at the confequences of committing. Letters of good authority bring advice of the referved behaviour of the Spaniards in the West Indies, where they keep a friet watch to prevent all commerce with the English. On the inland of Cuba the British subjects are preparing to depart, no English fhips are permit ted to enter the port of the Havannab except in diftrefs, and then to proceed no farther than the Moro Caffle at the entrance of the harbour; all contracts with refpect to trade are diffolved, fo that the Americans, by the lofs of this traffic, and the late impofitions, are in a manner reduced to a ftate of inactivity, which has already produced a visible effect on the commerce of Great Britain. There have lately been other indignities offered by the Spaniards to the Brit fb traders, particularly to Capt. Glass, who was feized in one of the Canary Isles, and thrown into prifon, tho' going to form a fettlement under the protec tion of his Britannick Majesty. A letter from the Havannab, brought by the laft packet from America confirms this account, and adds, that three 74 gun fhips are on the ftocks there, and the hip-yards all as full as can be of timber for building. Every inhabitant is obliged to mufter under arms from nine o'clock in the morning to twelve at noon, and from three to fix in the afternoon; and the militia is near as well difciplined now as the regulars. They have 7000 regulars. A few months ago they had a ham battle upon that part of the ground bc. between the city and the village, (which is laid as level as a cockpit). They drew out about 10,000 men, and divided them into two bodies,one under the denomination of the English army, and the other the Spanish army. They engaged for about three hours, and underwent all the evolutions fuppofed in an engagement. At laft the English divifion gave way and ran; upon which the other purfued' with great precipitation, and cried out, they would ferve the English dogs the fame, were they to come again. In this State of mifunderstanding with the Spaniards, it were wisdom in our colonics to turn their attention to objects of more certain advantage both to themfelves & mother country, than a precarious not to say clandeftine trade with any power whatever. In this particular, his excellency Gov. Franklin has led the way, and pointed out to the people of New Jersey over whom he has the honour to prefide, the means of enriching themselves by a proper application of the productions of their own provinces; Part of this speech to the General Affembly deferves the highest regard. " It A B C D E would afford me, Gentlemen, favs he. the greatest pleasure to see the inhabitants of this province, now peace is fo happily established, turning their attention to the cultivation and production of fuch articles, as might serve for remittanges to the mother country; and which, at the fame time that they tended to her advantage, might prove beneficial to the colony. For this purpofe, I would recommend to you to grant a bounty to encourage the railing of hemp and flax, and the cutting of plank and timber, for exportation to Great Britain. The parliament have already granted fome encouragement to the two first articles, and the truly laudable fociety for arts, y manufactures and commerce, have fhewn a difpofition to promote the others. They have, for that end, fent into fever.1 of the colonies, boxes containing fpecimens of divers forts of fir timber, and deals, which are imported into England from Riga and Norway, with a defcription of the fame, and the prices they are fold at. One of thefe boxes and defcriptions I have received, and thail or- F der to be fhewn to any of the inhabitants of the colony who may incline to fee them. This you may depend on, that every species of timber has for many years been rifing in price in Great Britain; and that there is scarce any thing wanting to make a ready vent for oak, fir, pine, cypreís, and cedar from America, but a knowledge of the fcantlings wanted for each particular ufe, and to cut for that market good wood in the right season." War feems to be in earnest declared between France and the Salletines, one of those pyratical states that infeft the European trade on the coaft of Barbary in the Levant: The Sieur du Chauffet with a small fquadron has already begun to bombard Sallee, but without fuccefs. It is every day expected that he will be reinforced. A report prevails, that the courts of France and Spain have offered the ifland of Maurepas and the city of New Orleans on the Millippi as an equivalent to Great Britain for the ran fom of the Manillas, and the fums due on the Canada bills. G An account has been received, that the Dey of Algiers has lately been affaffinated by his own brother. His death is the more to be great humanity; a young Chriftian flave to regretted as he feems to have been a perfon of whom he had taken a liking, being lately ranfomed, he prefented him at his departure with a purfe of 1000 fequins, and two Arabian horfes, richly caparifon'd. Thefe horfes bave fince been prefented to his Neapelitan majesty, the youth being a subject of that monarch. Letters from Poland give a dreadful account of the villany of incendiaries in that country; they have had the audacity to fet the theate on fire while his Polish majefty was prefent, and had it not been timely discovered, the confequences muft have been fatal. A fire which lately happened at Montreal in North America, is faid to have confumed 18 houles; most of them inhabited by British merchants. The damage is computed at 180,000!. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Penlacola to his Friend in London, May 4, 1765. "Our furveying the fea-coafts here goes on rather mere flowly than I could with: I have remained in this place fince the latter end of January, when the Tartar failed for der the highest obligations to Captain Cotton Jamaica, during which time I have been unof his Majesty's fhip d'arm, for the great civilities he has fhewn me. "People begin to build here very fat, though I believe it will be a long time before the place comes to any persection. As for the harbour, it is certainly one of the beft in the whole world: It is very large, affords good anchoring ground, and is fheltered from all winds; the island of Santa Rofa lies acros the mouth of it, as a bulwark against the fea.. "The climate of Penfacola is remarkably healthy; the winter featon is agrecably cold, and adapted to European conftitutions. By a journal which I have kept of the thermome ter, I have found that, between the middle of October and the middle of April, taking the medium of feveral observations every day, the mercury had feldom been higher than o nor lower than 36. Part of that time I was at the bays of St Jofepb and St Andrew, and at Ship island; but there is very little difference in point of heat and cold. Sometimes, indeed, in the depth of winter, the air is rewhen the wind is northerly. The fumma's markably keen and fharp here, especially are very hot, though there is generally an agreeable cooling fea breeze, that happens every day. The worst of the fummers here, is, that it is very difficult if not impofiible, to get vegetables; tho' it is to be hoped, now that property begins to be fettled, and when industry may expect to be rewarded, that even this foil, fandy as it is, will proce fome greens and fruits all the year round. Gov. Jobnflone's garden is flocked with cabbages, greens, and fallads of all kinds; and likewife the gardens of feveral officers in the garrifen who have taken any pains. MONDAY 17. A More than 3:0 rioters affaulted the houfe of Jobh Webber, Efq; Mayor of Tiverton, deftroyed his furniture, ill treated his fervants, and threatened vengeance against him if he poffibly could have been found. They allo B deftroyed feveral cloth-tenters adjoining to his houfe, and did other confiderable damage. No reafon is affigned for this outrage. FRIDAY 28. The workmen employed in paving the Strand, on digging up the pofts, difcovered a large leaden pipe; which, proves to be a part of the great main which formerly con- C eyed water from Bayswater, to the city conduits; and, according to Stow's furvey, was laid down in 1336. Each yard weighs 112 lb. The continuation of this pipe from Templebar, thro' Fleet-fireet, was dug up about 20 years ago. SUNDAY 30. The tide in the river Thames, was fo teD markably low, that the ferry from SomersetPairs to Cooper's bridge, could not work, the fand banks being entirely bare. A tender from the Shetland herring fishery, arrived in the river Maes, with 52 barrels and a half of hertings, moft of which fold from 23. to 127. the barrel. The common price is40s. A wager of toco guineas was decided beween two nobleman, one of whom had confructed a machine which was to work a boat at the rate of 25 miles within an hour; a canal was prepared near the banks of the Thames, for that purpofe, but by fome fata lity, the tackle breaking, the wager was loft. E all the officers, except the captain and fecond mate; a moft remarkable mortality, as the fame voyage is fometimes performed without the lofs of a fingle man.The Pocock, and feveral other India ships, are also arrived from China. An Arabian Prince who lately arrived at this country, prefented to his Majesty a cu rious MS elegantly written and adorned, containing the hiftory of that country, and people. His commiffion is not publickly known. A court-martial was held at Portfmouth on three lieutenants, and the master of the Panther man of war, lately arrived from the Eof Indies when the first lieutenant was fentenced to be difmified the fervice, rendered incapable of ever ferving again, and mul&ed of his wages; the fecond lieutenant difmiffed; the third reprimanded; and the mafter and feamen were all acquitted, TUESDAY 2. The anniversary commemoration of bene factors to the university of Oxford, was cele brated with the ufval folemnities. An ele gant Latin oration was on this occafion (poken by Mr Wharton, poetry profeffor, and the ufual entertainments, concluded the ceremony. The anniverfary commencement was the fame day celebrated at Cambridge, at which, nine doctors in divinity, befides two previously by royal mandates, one doctor of laws, nine batchelors in divinity, and 53 mafters of arts were created. THURSDAY 4. A duel was this day fought between two brothers, Irish gentlemen, in Kensington gra vel-pi s, in which one of them received fo dangerous a wound, that his life is defpai red of. The quarrel happened from the unkindnels of one brother to a fitter, who had married an officer, against the family's confent. The filver arrow was shot for by twelve youths of Harrow School, and won by mafter Davies. Some Indian warriors were prefent. F A lady having fome time ago waited on his grace the Duke of Marlborough, with a pretended letter of recommendation from the Earl of Hertford, his grace at firft, received her with fuitable courtesy; but, her vifits being more frequent and troublesome than was confiftent with true politeness, his grace began to fufpect her of impofture, and, was therefore prevailed upon to write her a notce, fined with his own hand, by which the G was given to understand, that his grace had effectually put a stop to her future adm.fiion, A few days after this, one Vacheron, a Frenchmas, came to the Duke's, and prefented a nute for payment, value 20,000l. which appeared to have his grace's hand figned at the bottom of it; the villainy now became appa reat, and the victim was immediately taken into custody, and after examination committed to Newgate. MONDAY, July 1. The Lord Clive Indiaman arrived at her Korings in the river Thames, having loft in bus voyage 78 of her usw, among whom are An action was tried before Lord Mansfield, on a policy of inlurance against an underwriter; but it appearing that the ship was not fea worthy to perform the voyage; the plaintiffs were non-fuited. This caufe was of great confequence, by which a nice point has been determined. Seven female quakers, very neatly dressed, being defirous of feeing their Majefties come to court, were admitted into the royal apart ments; when her Majefty was fo condefcending as to order the lady in waiting to compliment each of them; which they returned in a very sensible and modeft manner. FRIDAY 5. The parliament which food prorogued to the 11th inftant, was further prorogued to the 17th of September. SATURDAY 6. John Prater, late a school-mafter at Hounflow, about three in the morning, while his wile and child were afleep, with a cooper's adze |