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The North-Carolina M A KZ l idr 1764. ihall have a right to add we are .happy; Xf it pleafes. Providence to preferue this. aoguft monarchy which we (hall ever pray, for with the greatefr fervency, thofe who (hall be affembled. here this day twelvemonth will fee the firft jubilee df the. glorious ireignirito the 25th yeafof which we are juft now entering, . ; V In an uninterupted profperity tnay glide away, the 2; following years, which will lead to the iecond and grand jubilee, at ;the end of which the Pruf- Uin mpnircny wiiinnve iiOTieiST-iounaauon 10 7 ex-, tol the age of Frederick than all ' the other monar chies ancient and: modern, have had to 7 glorify ; the - a 2cs b f rCy r u s Alexander, Ca:far,- Charle - b - j . macne, and Louis. They write from Bourdeaux, , that within a fortnight 1 ; French (hips; were arrived there from. the French colonies from the Weft Indies, ,buc -' ' " 1 V -rr - W wt w 1 Jiadjnot an tneir run ladings. they infer fronr thence your Opulency which 15 further confirmed by the extra vagint Expences of , y6uyouthUfent here for Education,, and there- fpre you are well able to bear " Part of the Ex pences your Defence has coft the Nation ; anf cah yoir blame them for fuch a Coriclufiion ? Is it not natural to infer it from the Premifes ? This V the Ejfcfi -'tis true of our oivn: Prodigality ; iutnve are torrefied by thofe who receive A&i-Ben&F-it of iti C H A R L S T 0 W Ny Oflober 19: CambrUielAuitM hear from Hunting don, that at the Races there laft Week, a certain nohle E--. who. though placed in one. of' the higheft Offices of State, has cbndefcenfion enough to put himfelf upon a Letfel with the.meaneft of his Majefty's Subjedls; entertained a Company of Foreigners and Friends, by way bf filling up fome vacant Houjre "not defined to the Circus, with the fnllnwino triipiv rjoiite and claflical Amufemcnrs Firft, Ibe Hunting of the Hen performed by a Set of Men with their Harids- mufHed the firft that pulled a Feather to be declared 'the Viftor, and to have the Hen "for his Reward. Secondly other. Piece of Money, was placed at the: Bottom of a Tub of 'Water to.be dived for by Men with their Hands tied behind them, (if the Conipeti- K iV V UilU Ml 4 V (4UU IIS IIIMVU UIW (UWkbVI the Perfon who" could firft bring it up in His Mouth to have ir for his Pains. ' Thirdlyr v Race by 'Men tied up; in Sacks X What an. Improvement :upon this lalt Diverfion would it be to have.it perform-, td bv "a Set of "ourhobblinizUhiverfity-Doflors:" nmnp'rlv flr'pvvprWl tin in thpxr ' rrtnaroratinnal Kobes, which are fo peculiarly fuited for this Pur pofe !. May not one hope if ever a Perfon of his L-.p's Tafte (hould gain a proper Degree of In.r fluence amongft us, ; to fee this Hint put in Prac- -ticel iV. B, The above being undoubted Eadl is recommended to the moral-and entertaining Mxi Srrrititnr. -to he inferted ' as a Parapranh in his ....ST, ". , ;: ' v . . . ..-. next juytflg jnTumui:. . N E W-T O R Kf October j -, r1 - Etrafi of a Letter from England dated July 17, " There have been feveral Things before our Houfe of Common, very perniciau to America ; fome have been dYpt, fome purfued, and fome lependiBg7 Luxury, has reached your Moxher Country arid A great many mortars, cannon,;&c, and a: large quantity of ordnance ftores for Eaft Florida, . are arrived here ' in the Friendfhip, Ball, fi orri Lon don : alfo a number of pa(Tengers;TorthVTanie;-' province. ' ; ; B O S T O N, Oftober 1. On Monday laft-in the Afternoon a very for. rowful Accident happcn?d in Crofs? Street,, at the -North Part of '-.theTzFawm: Two rLnds ; playing i.v a Chamber withya: Gun,, not knowing it to.be loaded, ; prefented it out of the Window, 'to fnap it," t he" Gulf "wen t 6 f-an d : the" S h 16 1 "e n t efed -Tin 1 6 a neighbouring Window, hear which feyeral Wo men were fitting at a Tea:T,able ; one of them, Mrs. Wheaten, a Widovv was (hot-in the-Headv in fuch a Manner that (he expired inThree Hours: afjter, another- was confiderably-:vi'ounded-,Tin vthe Back part of her head, but not mortally f a third was flightly touch'd each fide of her Head Tby fome Shot Scattered. Ir is faid this Gun bad been: loaded; wjth DuckShot about 5 Months ; the Perfon who ufed it laft returned from Fowling with Titrioaded ; . emptied the. pan.of jhepriming,and' then vlaid it by, and never was racdled with unciL this (hocking Occurence happened. ' - -. While this Town is blefs-d with Gentlemen of. Fortune, to exhibit Examples of Frugality, ye have no Reafon to fear that Luxury will-ever be our.:Ruin. We have the pleafure of aflyring oui Readers, that befides the Inftance mentioned in our laft of-the Family that confiormed to the hew, -Prefcription refpefting Drefs at Funeral?, two Families of Diftinftion having loft relations, thet one a Parent; the other a Child, have pubflually conformed thereto; asdid;alfd"Relatives of the Woman1 who was accidently (hot, mentioned above. - . ; i.v: ' We alfo hear" .that this laudable Praftice is in troduced in the ;Town of Charleftown, and at 3 Funeral there; the ; Beginning of this Week, the LRelationslalKattendcdwithout; vany..,jMourring ;Drefs.: Happy "will, iti be for this zCommunity, when , all the former 'Extravagance of Mourning Habitf : f? deflrufliv'e not only to the Purjes of the People but even to their mor ah too i (houldbe totally abolibed. We hear a further Regulation is vpropo(ed with Regard to Frugality at Funerals, which will .makelnofmall Saving to the Community, vigt to giv? no other Gloves than-are of the Manuftfture
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