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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
r LONDON . May 23 , 1793 . UPWARDS of 300 , 000 quarters of American wheat have been imported into this country since the order of the Privy Council for taking off the prohibition . By this judiciary measure Government has effected two important objects , the relieving the distresses the poor of this country experienced from a scarcity of corn , and depriving the French markets from such considerable
supplies . v GA ixsBonouoH has furnished 40 / . towards the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of such seamen . and soldiers as may fall in the course of the war . A treaty is on the lapis between America and Spain , relating to the navigation of the Mississippi , which is laid open fo all nations . The French , since the commencement of their assignat coinage , haveiburned 745 millions .
An accident singularly melancholy and we believe unprecedented happened fast week , at a colliery at Tipton , in Staffordshire ; . two young men about to be married to two young women sisters , on the day set apart for the celebration of then- nuptial rites were both crushed to pieces by the failing in of a quantity of coal .
The cold has lately been uncommonly severe in many parts of the country ; at Eerkemstead in Herts , the water was covered with ice nearly as thick as a crown piece . The fruit trees have suffered much from the late drought and severe weather . The early crops of potatoes , French beans , and indeed vegetation in general has experienced a severe check . A number of shipwrights , caulkers , blacksmiths , & c . are about to be sent to Gibraltarto be read
, y to afford such repairs to our vessels on that station as ther Way require . The Rev . John Parkinson , M . A . is instituted to the rectory of Healing , Lincolnshire , on his own petition . The Rev . Christopher Howe , curate of Ncwland , in Cumberland , is appointed to the living of GIossop , in Derbyshire , on the presentation of Earl Fitzwilliam . The Rev . Thomas BarlingBAof Pembroke collegeis instituted to the
, . . , rectory of How in Norfolk , on the presentation of Granville Hastings Wheeler , Esq . The Rev . Charles Carver , B . A . of Cains college , is licenced to the perpetual curacy of Allacton in Norfolk on the nomination of Mrs . Mary Bo ciham , of Bungay . ^ The new Bishop of Quebec , with his suits sets off for Canada about the middle . of next month .
A stall in the Cathedral of Winchester , the rectory of Houghton , Hants , and the vicarage of Blandford , are vacant by the death of the Rev . Mr Nott . The vicarages of Shamford and Little Peatling vacant by the death oftheRev ; Mr . Horton , are in the gift of the Crown . The Bills brought this year before the Houses of Parliment , exceed by some hundreds those of any preceding session . The Greenland whale fisheryaccording to the most recent accountsis
, , likely to prove still less productive tlian last season . Forty-two weather sheep were lately sold at Market Raisin , for 128 I . i ' t ^ StHte ofNort Carolina , by a census last taken year , contained 393 , 751 inhabitants , of whom 101 , 571 were slaves ; both numbers this year have experienced a considerable increase .
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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
r LONDON . May 23 , 1793 . UPWARDS of 300 , 000 quarters of American wheat have been imported into this country since the order of the Privy Council for taking off the prohibition . By this judiciary measure Government has effected two important objects , the relieving the distresses the poor of this country experienced from a scarcity of corn , and depriving the French markets from such considerable
supplies . v GA ixsBonouoH has furnished 40 / . towards the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of such seamen . and soldiers as may fall in the course of the war . A treaty is on the lapis between America and Spain , relating to the navigation of the Mississippi , which is laid open fo all nations . The French , since the commencement of their assignat coinage , haveiburned 745 millions .
An accident singularly melancholy and we believe unprecedented happened fast week , at a colliery at Tipton , in Staffordshire ; . two young men about to be married to two young women sisters , on the day set apart for the celebration of then- nuptial rites were both crushed to pieces by the failing in of a quantity of coal .
The cold has lately been uncommonly severe in many parts of the country ; at Eerkemstead in Herts , the water was covered with ice nearly as thick as a crown piece . The fruit trees have suffered much from the late drought and severe weather . The early crops of potatoes , French beans , and indeed vegetation in general has experienced a severe check . A number of shipwrights , caulkers , blacksmiths , & c . are about to be sent to Gibraltarto be read
, y to afford such repairs to our vessels on that station as ther Way require . The Rev . John Parkinson , M . A . is instituted to the rectory of Healing , Lincolnshire , on his own petition . The Rev . Christopher Howe , curate of Ncwland , in Cumberland , is appointed to the living of GIossop , in Derbyshire , on the presentation of Earl Fitzwilliam . The Rev . Thomas BarlingBAof Pembroke collegeis instituted to the
, . . , rectory of How in Norfolk , on the presentation of Granville Hastings Wheeler , Esq . The Rev . Charles Carver , B . A . of Cains college , is licenced to the perpetual curacy of Allacton in Norfolk on the nomination of Mrs . Mary Bo ciham , of Bungay . ^ The new Bishop of Quebec , with his suits sets off for Canada about the middle . of next month .
A stall in the Cathedral of Winchester , the rectory of Houghton , Hants , and the vicarage of Blandford , are vacant by the death of the Rev . Mr Nott . The vicarages of Shamford and Little Peatling vacant by the death oftheRev ; Mr . Horton , are in the gift of the Crown . The Bills brought this year before the Houses of Parliment , exceed by some hundreds those of any preceding session . The Greenland whale fisheryaccording to the most recent accountsis
, , likely to prove still less productive tlian last season . Forty-two weather sheep were lately sold at Market Raisin , for 128 I . i ' t ^ StHte ofNort Carolina , by a census last taken year , contained 393 , 751 inhabitants , of whom 101 , 571 were slaves ; both numbers this year have experienced a considerable increase .