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The French have at Rambouillet, a national flock. They have lately reſerved ſome of theſe unſhorn for the(pace of two years“ The fleeces at the end of this time, were twice the weight of a fleece of one year?s growth; and were with advantage, manufactured into excellent kerſeymeres, Their philoſophers conclude, that it is not natural and uſual tor ſheep it Jeit un» ſhoarn to drop thelr fleeces annually.—We have obſerved many fas which make us greatly dovbt the certainty of this concluſion.

The natives of New Caledonia, and the Ottomaguas in South-Ameyriîca, eat in caſes of extreme want and huncer a2 certain greeniſh earth. Specimens ot that carth have been analyſed by M. Vangnelin at Payis. Tt is 37 parts of magneſia, 36 of ſclex, 17 of metallic oxide, three cr four of water, and two or three of lime or copper: four parte were loft in the analyhe.

Mr. Hammer is ſaid to have brought to this country an Arabian manu ſcript furniſhing a complete key to the hieroglyphics. Readcr dor?t beli this ſtory too haſtily,

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E Sel total number of houſes in Stockholm, is about 1,000. Tés popula= tion was, in 17753, about, 55,700 ſouls; in 1772, about 72,444;' and

amounts at preſent to above 80,000. It is very\mhcaltiy. The deaths are

eſtimated at 4,000 annually, or one out of every 20 of the whole population,

Governor Joſeph Wall was, on the morning of the 28th of January, exe- cuted at Newgate, for the crime of ordering without the authority of à Court Martial, that a Sérjeant ſhould be flogged with 800 laſhes, of whick, and perhaps drinking his grogunſe-ſonably, he atfcerwards died. The mob be- havéd at Mr. Wall’s exccution, with a blocd: thirſty feracity worthy of che allaſſins in the:naſſacres at Paris,

Sir Edward Hamilton, one ofthe moſt gallant'oflicers in the Britih navy, has been diſmiſſed by the, ſentence ot a Court Martial, from the command of the Trent frigate and from the King?s ſervice, for tyranny and oppreilion in ſending a gunner to remain in the mizen-malt, amidſt 2 ſeverity of(torm, tuat in the courſe of an hour and a half bad nearly chilled the mán to death.

Ten or twelve ſailors were lately executed at Portſmouth, in virtue of the ſentences of two Courts Martial; becauſe they had mutinouſly refuſed obe- dience to their commanding Ofûcers,' en‘the coaſt of Treland henfion that they were to be ſent to the Weſt-Indies.

Tt is extremely to be regretted, that: the negligence of parents to inftruCt their children in the principles ot religion/and of moral Boneſty Mould be ſuch as to occaſion in London, the molt enormous profligaty and faithléſs- neſs to truſt, among the Xoung- people who are brought UP, in this metro- polis, to trade and to manuf 1 i Meſſ. Combe and Co. being on: the-i6th oſ ÖAobzr laſt, intrufted with z check by which to receive at their banker's 4561. to be applicd in a pay- ment; took the money; eloped to the haunts of vicious pleaſure; and. eluded all ſearch till he was, on the 2d’of Janüaty, apprehendèd, in the evening, at the Theatre, in company with a woman of eaſy virtue. Hc was examined before the Lord Mayor, and committed to priſon for trial.

A father and his ſon, of the name of the Mooney, were convicted, at the laſt aſſizes at Naas in Ireland, of mail robbery. They were ordered for ſpeedy execution.

The Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, continue their bene- ficent labours and enquiries, in many inſtances, with the happieſt effÆdC.

A Tragedy under the name-of ALFonso, by M. G. Lewis, is the emy new dramatic piece of any diftin&tioz- which has been brought under repre-

ſentation at any of the Theatres, during thé preſeút ſeaſon, Its luccels has been far from ſplendid,

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