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In Mcéhanics.—T6ô Mr. Thomas Reſtall, for a pariſh or family Mill— Forty Guineas.

To Mr. George Davis, for a method of preventing perſons, in carriages» being injured when the horſes have taken fright—Thirty Guineas.

/ To Mr. Richard Arkwright, for a lock, on a new conſtru&tion—PFifteen Guineas.

To the widow and children of the late Mr. Richard Bayes, for ſpecimens ef mill(ones, and accounts of a miné thereof, near Conway—One Hundred Pounds./

To Mr. S. Holnzes, for a cheap and uſeful family Oven—Fifteen Guineas.

To Mr. William Bullock, for a lever for à lock bolt—Ten Guineas.

To his Grace the Duke of Bridgwater, for his great exertions in inland navigation—the Gold Medal. Y

Iz Colonies and Trade.—To Mr.-Alexander Mackenzie, for having diſ- covered a paſſage, by land, from Canada to the South Sea—the Gold Medal,

After the diſtribution of Society, adjourned to the 4th of Ofober next.

Morals and Manners.

À Gentlemán, of Fulham, was fined five pounds for employing a man, with an unlawful net, to fiſh în the Thames. An Attorney attended to exculpate the offence; but the Lord Mayor told him, that he was under the meceſlity of fining poor fiſhermen for ſuch ofénces, and therefore he could not initigate im this caſe.|\

We are glad to obſerve, that, in ſeveral of the country towns, the people have turned their pleaſures to the purpoſes of charity. At Frome, and other places, benefit plays have been given for the poor; which, we are happy to hear, have been well attended.

At Briſtol, an inſtance of profligacy has appeared, which, we fear, is to often praiſed. Many joints of meat have been found in the river; which zhere is reaſon to believe, have been kept till they grew too bad for fale, and then thrown there.

A club of porters, who were employed by ſome of the principal wholeſale dealers in London, have been detected. They’had all concurred im robbing their maſters; and kept a houſe, whither they carried the goods they ſtole for ſale;‘and kept a perſon, who they employed as agent, to ſell them.

The Benevolent Society, at Carliîle, have opened a magazine to ſupply the poor with flour, ât a reduced price,

The Eaſt India Company have agreed to allow ftipends to clergymen to propagate Chriſtianity in the Iſland of Ceylon; and we hear the Gentlemen 50w employed have 220 ſchools under their care.

A Benevolent Society is. eſtabliſhed at Briſtol, which now educate three hundred children

The Biſhop of Worceſter, in a charge, delivered at his laſt viſitation, reconmmehñds the education of poor children, as one df the firſt objets for reforming the morals of the people.

At Crofſsland Hedge, near Huddersfield, an induſtrious huſfbandman had ihe following increaſe in his family, in one day:—His cow brought him two calves;. his heifer, one calf; a ſow brought him eleven pigs; and his wife lay-in with twins. f

In the Court of King's Bench. Trinity Term—When the two Grand Juries for the county of Middleſex were ſworn in, before Mr.‘Juſtice Groſe. His E ordſhip took the opportunity to make ſome remarks reſpeéting the crimes | uf foreſtalling and regrating. He faid, the ſtatutes againſt foreſtalling were A repealed; but that and regrating fill exiſted, as crimés at common law.—|

N He made this obſervation for the dire&tion of the Grand Jury, as ſevéral| N people ſuppoſed the ſtatutes ill in being, and as the preſent price of pra-| i vißons called aloud for'cvery fair exertion to keep them down.