** A large spanifh privateer has taken and de- ftroyed the foilowing vefi'els, viz. the Bafilisk, Bomb, from the H vannah, taken ; the Charming Poliy, from Newfoundland to Pool, taken and ran- fomed ; two fhips from Virginia to Glafgow taken ; the Intrepid from Liverpool for Afr

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ries of State, Who departed this life Auguft 21. 1763. £1)15 3D % <& <£. OF THE NORTH BRITON is dedicated by The AUTHO £.' "Jf thit the hind that f mote me ? Heav'r.t hcvi pile I " And art thou dead? fo is my tmmutj. " I wiit not -ai-.th the duji. " Tsi; was ?? only method ts tu

ExtraEl of a letier from Paris. **■ An odd accident has lately happened here, which makes no fmall node. A Sco*s officer, in the French fcrvice, acccfted an Engiifh gentleman at the playhoale, and abruptly defired to know if his name was Wilkes, and whether he was the au- thor o

From the London Papers, Feb. 17. L O N D O N. On Tuefday evening -Richard-Neville Aldfworth, Efq; Secretary to the Enib:dfy to his Moft Chrifti- an Majefty, arrived in London with the Definitive Treaty, which was figned at Paris on Thurfday lait, the ioth inftant. A letter has b

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Arrived 'fie mails from France, holland, and Flanders. From the London Gazette, March 8. IVarfarw, February 12. T-'HL King ot Poland's health is now happily te-cltablifhed ; the humour in his leg bavin-*, formed an abl'ccfs. which has been opened by ih, phyiici us ; and is now in

bufinefs again. Whitfundav* next, or looner, if possible, tak-es this method ol informing the public, tha: his ftock in trade Will be felling be- tween and that time, at and below prime eoit. He defire: tbofe to whom he is indebted, to call upon him for payment ; and, likewife,

Port Royal in Jamaica, Ocr. 30. On Monday- lift arrived Ids Majefty's fhip Cerberus, Charles Webber, Eg; Commander, from the Havannah, by which we have the following melancholy ac- count : That on the 9th infta.it, about noon, the briganti.re Polly. Capt. Darby, a tranfport, und

Your inierting the following letter of Capt. For- bes to Mr. Wilkes, will, I perfuade myfeJf, enter- tain many of your readers. Tlie Public may be allured that it is genuine ; it feil accidentally into my hands, and I delayed fending it yon fooner, ima- gining Mr. Wilkes might p