The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

LONDON. April 16.

By accounts from China, we learn that every part of that vast empire is desolated and torn by civil dissensions, which rage with the most ungovernable fury: the same accounts also describe, in the most pathetick terms, a mortality occasioned by famine through most of the provinces, particularly in that of Canton, where the miseries of the people are indescribable.

Such were the calamities occasioned by famine in the province of Canton, that contrary to the jealous spirit of the people, the English then in that port were invited into town, and permitted to explore the adjacent country, that they might behold; and report to the British settlements, the distresses which reigned there; but unfortunately for their own preservation, the settlements were compelled to deny them that relief which at any other time humanity would afford and dictate.

May 6. Mr. Jonathan Hartop, an extraordinary instance of longevity, is still living at Aldborough, in Yorkshire. He is now 137 years old, being born in 1653, and perfectly remembers the great fire of London, in 1666.