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24 said the King won 600 Guineas, the Queen 360, Princess Amelia 20, Princess Carolina 10, the Earl of Portmore and Duke of Grafton several thousands."

The same night a notorious gaming-house behind Gray's Inn Walks was searched by the High Constable of the Holborn division with several of his constables, but the gamesters, having previous notice, had all fled.

We have also an account of a duel fought on the 25th of January in the new walk in the upper park at St. James's, between Lord Hervey and the Right Hon. Wm. Pulteney, Esq.

On the 27th of February two publishers were taken into custody for publishing a libel entitled 'The Divine Catastrophe of the Royal Family of the Stuarts.'

On the next day the new church at Bloomsbury was consecrated by the name of St. George, as was also the burying-ground in the Fields adjoining.

On March 8th Charlforth and Cox, two solicitors convicted of forgery, stood in the pillory at the Royal Exchange, and on the same day five malefactors were executed at Tyburn.

On April 26th the death of "Mr. Daniel de Foe, Sen., eminent for his many Writings," is recorded; and among the appointments on the 29th of the same month is that of William Cowper, Esq., to be clerk to the Commission of Bankruptcy.

On the 7th of May the royal assent is given to a number of Acts, including one for raising 1,200,000l. by annuities and a lottery, and another directing that all proceedings in courts of justice in England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shall be in English, and shall be written in such a legible hand as Acts of Parliament are engrossed in, not court hand.

On August 18th Edw. Mitchel was executed at Nottingham for forgery, made felony by a late Act of Parliament.

On Sunday, September 5th, a man of sixty years of age stood in a white sheet at the cathedral church at Norwich as a penance.

In the September number it is also stated :—

" From Mosco 'tis advised, that Ewdokia Foedorowna Lassuckin [sic], first Wife to Peter the Great, died in a Monastery near that City, Aug. 2 last. She was separated from his Czarish Majesty, and confin'd in a Prison for several Years; during which Imprisonment, she lost her only son the Czarowitz. When her Grandson Peter II. ascended the Throne she was taken out of Prison, and a little after had the Grief to see her Granddaughter, the Princess Natalia, depart this Life; who was soon followed by her Grandson Peter II."

On September 3rd it is reported from Moscow that "ambassadors are on the Road from the Emperor of China to demand the Czarina's Assistance against the Great Cham of the Tartars, who