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Rh posals that were offered with regard to his exchange: and the colonel, we hear, set out yesterday for Albany.

A woman, who used to pass for a person of quality, and went by several different names, and kept servants in livery, was committed to the Gate-house for embezzling the goods entrusted with her in her ready-furnished lodgings in Dean-street, Soho. She was carried to gaol in a chair, attended by one of her footmen.

A quarrel happening in Thomas-street, Drury-lane, between John Garland, a bricklayer's labourer, and Thomas Lockwood a fruiterer; the former used the latter so cruelly, that he left him for dead, and made his escape. Lockwood was carried the same night to the Middlesex hospital, where he died yesterday morning.

A man was observed to walk to and fro at Tower-wharf for near an hour; and when it was quite dark he went into the farthermost boat, threw himself from thence into the river, and was drowned. He was a tall, thin, well dressed man.

A servant maid at Execution-dock, delivered herself of a child, which being soon discovered by the people of the house, search was made, and the infant was found torn in two, wrapt up in a flannel petticoat, and hid under the bed. She is secured.

A remarkable carriage set out from Aldersgate-street for Birmingham, from which town it arrived the Thursday before, full of passengers and baggage, without using coomb, or any oily, unctuous, or other liquid matter whatever, to the wheels, or axles; its construction being such, as to render all such helps useless. The inventor has engraved on the boxes of the wheels, these words,, and it is assured that the carriage will go as long and as easy, if not longer and easier, without greasing, than any of the ordinary stage carriages will do with greasing. If this answers in common practice, it is perhaps the most useful invention on mechanics that this age has produced.

A dispute happened between some officers of the customs and the master of a vessel arrived from Ireland with salt beef, pork, bacon, and neats tongues, which two last articles were objected to, as being an infringement of the act of parliament passed for allowing salted provisions to be brought from Ireland; but the same being referred to the proper commissioners, it was agreed, that the intent and meaning of the said act was, for importing all salted pork and beef whatever from that kingdom; and that bacon, tongues, and hams, were parts of beef and pork. [This is a mistake, but the point is now settled by an amendment to the act this sessions.]

Between nine and ten at night, a fire broke out among some new cordage, very near the store-house in his majesty's yard at Deptford, on which all the alarm bells were rung, and the gates set open, when great numbers of the artificers went to give their assistance, by whom it was soon extinguished. There is great reason to believe that this fire was not accidental; the spot where the discovery was made is not 25 feet distance from a new 74 gun ship on the stocks, and within 16 feet of great quantities of com-