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Foreign and Bailey, for putting off a note in Rofemary-Lane, knowing it to be ftolen out of that bag.

On Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, as a gentleman's chariot was paffing along Fleet-ftreet, with two ladies in it, facing the Globe Tavern, the ground gave way under one of the horfes, and he was inftantly out of fight, having fallen into a fhore. He remained there till three o'clock, when.. fome workmen being employed to clear the rubbish away, by the help of a pulley he was got out.

This morning the first ftone of the new building for the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi, was laid by Lord Romney, under which a plate, with the following infcription, was placed, viz. "The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacteures, and Commerce, inftituted at London 1754: this first ftone was laid by the Right Honourable Robert Lord Romney, Prefident: his Grace Charles, Duke of Richmond, his Grace Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, the Right Honourable George Henry, Earl of Litchfield, the Right Honourable Simon, Earl of Harcourt, the Honourable Charles Marsham, Sir George Saville, Bart. Sir Charles Whitworth, Knt. Edward Hooper, Efq. Owen Salusbury Brereton, Efq. Keane Fitzgerald, Efq. Vice-prefidents, on the 28th day of March, 1772. Robert and James Adam, Architects.

Copenhagen, March 10. Baron Diede de Furftenftein, Minifter from this Court at London, is faid to be recalled, in order to go and refide in the fame quality at Petersburgh.

Warfaw, March 7. Though we are affured preliminaries are figned between the Ruffians and Turks, yet both fides are bufy in preparing for war. However, we flatter ourfelves, that it is only making peace fword in hand.

Rome, March 1. The 26th ult. the Duke of Gloucester was at the church of the Holy Apoftles, to fee the ceremony

March 25.

"There never was known fuch a fleet

of Colliers in this and Sunderland Harbours, as at prefent, in the memory of man, upwards of feven-hundred fail are lying here, and about two-hundred fail at Sunderland, and if the wind does not come favourable for their getting to fea foon, we are afraid the confequence will be terrible, for provifions of all kinds begin to be very fcarce, and extremely dear one-hundred and feventy oxen, and large quantities of theep, &c. are killed weekly for the ufe of the shipping and fold at very high prices. The fitua tion of the poor keelmen would be really deplorable, were it not for the coal owners, who have already subscribed about three-hundred pounds for their relief.”

This morning the fubfcription, for reducing the price of meat at the Chapter Coffee-houfe, amounte to upwards of eight thousand pounds.

Her Royal Highness the Princefs Amelia, we are told, has fubfcribed three hundred pounds, by an agent, to the Chapter coffee houfe Affociation.

We hear also that the Duke and Duchefs of Cumberland has fubfcribed two hundred pounds to the fame laudable afsociation.

On Monday next the agents employed by the gentlemen of the Chapter Coffee houfe affociation, will begin to purchase bullocks and fheep at Smithfield Mar ket, in order to fupply the poor with thofe neceffaries on more reasonable terms than they have them at prefeat.

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HE experience of all times has fhewn, that husbands have fuddenly loft the affections of their wives, and women ceafed to poffefs the hearts of their husbands when they leaft apprehended it, without either one or the other being able to trace the fource of their misfortune.

Convinced that inftruction conveyed by example, is, of all other, the moft efficacious, I do not hesitate to lay the following story before fuch married men of our days, who complain of this evi common to several of their predeceffors, hoping by this means to bring back to the duties of the married ftate, fuch perfons as think themfelves authorized to neglect them to abolish, or at leaft bury in oblivion, a title reflecting difgrace, which is with reafon bestowed on fo many hufbands to enfure to them the poffeffion of a happinefs, which religion and the laws feem to have referved for them alone to reinitate peace and union in families, from which they are too often banished by inconftancy: reftore the gifts of fortune to thofe to whom they belong, which we fee frequently become the property of frangers; and to make pofterity believe, that they bear their right names.

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A Senator, defcended of one of the most noble families in Venicè, married the daughter of a man of his own rank, qual to himself in birth and fortune. This marriage was at first like most others. It was cemented as strongly by mutual VOL. VIII.

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affection, as by the authority of their parents; for three years they bore each other a tendernefs, worthy of the mot delicate lovers, and two children were the happy fruits of their nuptials.

The fourth year was fearce began, when their happinefs was difturbed by fome difgufts. The wife though remarkable for the most diftinguished virtue and fidelity, infenfibly foit that regard and affiduity fhe had formerly fhewn to please her husband, and did not lavish on him her wonted marks of affection. Their frequent feeing and talking to each other, begat a certain familiarity between them, which the hufband was easily induced to look on as a mark of indifference, he therefore fought in another woman for that affection which he imagined himself unable to obtain from his wife.

The time at length arrived which feemed to crown his wifhes. NINA, a celebrated courtezan of those days, tho' fix years older than his wife, who was then but twenty-four, was the perfon he pitched on to repair the lofs he thought he had fuftained. He accofted her one day, and entered into conversation: Every action, every look of her's promifed him fuccefs. He refolved to make an open, declaration of his love, and to offer a reward deferving of thofe pleafures and that felicity, which his affection for her gave him room to expect.

A bargain, as may be imagined, was foon ftruck. The fenator ufed fo little

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