War office, OSicber 29, 17 S3 Charles Hotham is appointed § to be Colonel of the 15th reg ment of B 1 foor, in the room of Lieutenant Gene- *&-~>» ra l Sir Jeffery Amherft, who has re- fe* cd- "The Honourable Major General Thomas Gage is jppoimed to be Cotosel in Chief of the 60

■" The committee -appointed t>y the late Synod, met here on Monday laft. Befides elders, there were about twelve minifters prelent, tho' none of the Presbytery of Irvine would concur in carrying on the proccls with them. After long reafonmg they found, that the zeal of the drumm

from ths Loudon Papers, November 3. Providence Sept. 24. The Honourable General Aflemblv of this colony, convened at Newpon this week, preferred an addrefs to bis Majeily, let- ting forth the grievances the colonies labour under by chelate act of Parliament, impofmg duties rati

Extra fi of a Idler from London, Nov. 8. " This day his Majefty went in itate to the houfe of Peers,- and opened the feffioii of pai liamcnt with a moft gracious fpeech from the throne, (which l.iall appear in our next.) Extraß of _. letter from jVacklins, Nov. 6. ** There was a

f J ?? 6,^ V <&_ * ?? Num. 2 p~\ Edinburgh, Saturday Noveruher 12, 1768.

Leith, AND «„\!fs. M'KAIN. La«n-m-rket, Edinburgh. W of All Sizfs, and any Quanritv at One Shilling and Nine Pence per Pound.. ?? X- ?? V __ S S RF FINED SPERIv-ACRTT OIL, -A'bicii is free from Icnell, at One Shilling and Four Pence per Pint. v B Country r__*i«rillioo. ihali be

SIR," Inclofed you have a fiiort account of the proceed- ings of the laft meeting of the proprietors of the canal now cutting betwixt the Forth and Clyde, held at Edinburgh the rft of November rnflanr, ■which I delire you will nfert in your paper, and caufe tranfmit a copy of it

According to fome letters from Genoa, a treaty is or. foot with the court or" Verfa. lies, for ced- ing back to the republic the Sovereignty of Cor- gca. The French court is going to fend a further rein- forcement of 25 battalions to Corlica. They write from Vienna, that the Emp

ot Ja/aes „ November. B. ; ?? N Wednefday ! Ift h. : s Mijefty Was p'eafed to ?? appoint Div.id Vifcount Stormont to he on ofthe Knights of the moft ancient and mole nob) Order ot the fli'dlle ; and his Lor fih p, being Alll- Kilfador Extraordinary and Pleuipoteirrftary at th- c

" La'l week a melancholy affair bapeoed in rt>u town ; a perfon who keeps a pabiic houfc i, ;rf " fent. for 2d. worth of nrf.ii...k to a Doctor's ___» but was refufed it, tiil he wouid fen 1 a line, iaCwn. ing the ufe he intended it for, when he wrote t;.. Doffor it was for the