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1 .'if .which it, baaiUa&ptth aps topr Jate J&cflU, found3neceflary to put a ftop to by authority ; for provifions'were rifen in England to. a price greatly, beyond what :was 'wet kriqWn before fo thajt great numbers of poor, people were, in danger of beingftarved or ruin'd Tho'lhis to bne town-lot. weight-hundred-acres m eachz r paruh to be reterved tor poor lettiers, to oe ai yided into lots not lefs than ten,: or more than thirty acres each j x sto be granted in fee fimple; The iand to be occupied and entered upon in three months after the grant. ' No lands grant ed to poorfettlers to be alienable by fale, or diftrefs was thought to be as much , owing tp otherwife, for feven years, except for the chil-Vzthe villainous arts of engroflers, as to real ;dren of the firft fcttlers j : and all mines of gold; fcarcity The corn exported, was expe&ed and filver to be relerved for the. crown. The 'to fellfor very high :prices, but by the laft fale is to be in June nextif-furveys can be mails from Lifbonnhere were advices, that the made fo fooh;" '"r-'T'" - ----- 2 ' : 7 cort;of-Portugal had flopped alUliips lbadcd lt-appears froj there,. tho- that i has been . a great icarcity ot gram jn ,mpit parts .market was 10 exceinveiy glutted by the num- oriiurope, eipccuiiy in inc xccienauiciix iiaics, uci uj ujips.ainvcu m a mure lpace or time. and other places on the Mediterranean where K the people had lufrcred great: dqtreUes,- and were thfeatenedvith all the horrors of famine ; the governments were ufing all the means in theirrpo wer to. procure jrclief,- by-diftributing the grain in their ftores, purchafingfrom other -ihtes,' and encouraging 'its' importation, yet, notwithstanding, the fupply that had then arrived was fo inefficient, tharthereHvere great clamours anddifturbanccs among the that the lofs muft be immenfe to . the Britifa traders $ - who, by advices from; the Spnifll and Italian markets had rea(onl to expe the moft inviting fuccefs, if their fhips)were not ftopped at : Lifbon j for vyhich the .officers pro duce thevKing's decree, pafled in the year 1757, never heard of before. - " . ; April 7, Oh Wednefdaevening the thanks ;of . the Society of Arts, hci- in the S trand , were given to Lord. Southwell, for communicating: people; and the famine was increafmg : Tur- a piece of handkerchief, made bV fdme of oia key corn,l (the fame as Indian) beans and l American Ihdiansof Tweed called Silk Grafs. pmev were employed to make breaa,which A manufacture, the ingenuity: of which wa the-people came in tumultuous crowds to-re- very much admired. ceive. For iive days the churches had:beehExtral-oFa-Letter-fromFranckfo filled, at Naples, &c. with penitents implor YefterdaV the folemnity of the coronation . ing heaven to remove the , public calamities. oUheing of the Romans was ptrformpd GreatTTUjnbersijRvbmena ftreets in prbceffion, barefooted; their hair . .dignity "and order. The three r. EcclefiaJtick! loofe, and halters vabruJlhiGikVi.t allni and blood of St. Januarius had been cxpofed, mantles j Morned , with gold, lace, .went to the and public prayers were ordered, " &zct-" Dprne between nine and ten in the morning. Confidtiing the great droughts and unfeafon-" The-Emperor andthe King of the Romans, sble weather, the ftorms,- tempefts and floods preceded by , a, numerous train, repaired thi- with which moft parts of Europe have been ther an hourlifferr" : vifited for fome years paft, together with the ceived at the gate by their Ele&oral Highnefles, defolating wars which not'only took ofF great' The Trabans of -Saxony being ported as a Tnumbers from the bufine(V guafd "thTfeT T?Thh"urcJfwas' hUng withrich prevented or acuroyea .ine laoours or moie employcJ in it, it is no yonder there fliould be a fcarcity of grain and provifion, biit rather vthat itjs not more general and dillreffing-In - England, tho' appearances in the fpring were very alarming, yet the weather afterwards proved fo favourable, T that : the . harveft was plentiful beyond expedation ; yet the demand lor grain abroad4 being fo ;cxtraoruiniiry, ha: tapeftry, reprelenting ""the"; great Siphs of tlyr eroro of the Augiift-Houfe -.of Aurtria,;Be- fore the-gate of thechoir was. anT altar righly. ayorned;;-o EmperbrV throne ; on the left, that of the Eleftor:; and oppofiter-'that of the King of the Romans. The feats of the two other Ele&ors, and for , the Plenipotentiaries-, were ranged about in a, halNcircle. The. corona- qccafroh dthe .exportationToLian:.ama7jn; tkarwa$:performed:.by.hisEleft6r -ouantity : and allo or proviiionsw To "- o. mi s I 4f " .i n "r H ' . ' a;
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