the United States and the Weft India lands. He was for removing bars from the door of trade, but leaving a latch. After a long and tedious converfation, the Houfe went at length into a committee, and Mr. Eden requested a difpaflionate communication between both fides of the Houfe, to facilitate the progrefs of the Bill; which was agreed to. March 12. proceed under an indulgence that could not be continued, and therefore ought not to commence. The plan therefore that he would propofe, would be by a Bill to the following effect. 1 To eftablish the Independence of the Colonies. 2. To repeal the Acts which prohibit all intercourfe. 3. To fubject A all imports in American fhips to the fame duties and regulations as other European nations. And 4. The fame refpecting exports. This plan, Mr. Sir Henry Fletcher brought up the Eden faid, would make no convulfion Report of the Committee to whom the in the commercial fyftem at prefent fet- E. I. Company's Petition was referred, tled between Great-Britain and Ireland: B which was read a firft and fecond time; it would give no offence to foreign but, there being no fettled Administration, States; nor would it repeal important it was ordered to lie on the table. Acts refpecting Navigation, the end of March 13. which no man could forefee*. Lord Advocate read a bill which he had sketched out, and which he thought would anfwer the end the Right Hon. Gent. who brought in the Bill had in view. He advifed the Houte to lay afide their fears for the carrying trade, which, in his opinion, had fo unneceflarily taken poffeffion of the Houfe. In his Bill he would adopt the preamble of that be-D fore the Houfe, and throw out every word that tended to remind the Americans that they were not British fubjects. He fupported this on the ground of mutual policy; and, to enforce it, cited the fuffrages of the merchants of Glasgow, who had given it as their opinion that Parliament would be mad if they did not adopt it. Sir Robt. Herries difliked the Bill, though as an individual he could increase his fortune by it. He differed from the Lord Advocate as to an intercourfe with the West India Islands; but agreed with Mr. Eden as to the expediency of opening certain free ports. He was againft the Speaker's leaving the Chair. Sir Grey Cooper was for canvaffing the Bill in a Committee. He was of opinion, that if the Prohibitory Acts were repealed, the trade would fall into the old course. He did not, however, by any means approve of the free trade between In his propofed Bill, he wished to introduce a claufe to repeal the Alien Duties, which produced little (Bocol.), and gave much trouble. He took occalion to re-. mind the Houfe, that the Act refpecting Dominica was expired, and he could fee no reason why it thould not be revived, as well as fome other places made tree ports for the United States. F Maj. Gen. Rofs moved, That there be laid before the House a lift of all the officers of the lately established American corps, fpecifying the military commillions they refpectively held, previous to their having been appointed to thofe corps; as likewife copies of the ftipulations, under which thofe American corps were originally formed. The Maj. Gen. faid, he was not prefent the day on which he conceived the American corps had been put upon the eftablishment. That he was entirely ignorant of the nature of the compofition of thofe corps, and even did not know the names of the officers who commanded them. That there was an annual lift of the whole British army, militia, fencibles, and provincial regiments, &c. But there was not one of thole corps he then alluded to in that lift; therefore, the tendency of his motion was to procure information to the House and to phimfelf. He faid, he could have no doubt of their being formed with wifdom, nor could he entertain any doubt of their being put on the establishment from principles of juftice and humanity. And as to the loyal Americans, no man thought better of them than he did, or would more heartily and fincerely G concur in every measure of compenfa tion to them, by way of rewarding their merit and relieving their diftrefles, as far as might be confiftent or compaible with the prefent circumftances of this exhaufted Kingdom. He then the immediate motion; but, with leave Hfaid, nothing more occurred to him on of the Houfe, he entered into a large field of wide difcution on the conduct and management of the army at large, from the beginning of the late unfortu nate there was no fixed or regular fystem of proceeding, and any officer that might fancy himself to be foremost in rank, would find himfelf disappointed. nate war, to the prefent moment; a field through which our limits will not permit us to follow him. He adverted to the manner of forming and compofing the army after the peace of Aix la Cha- Gen. Conway faid, the five corps latepelle, when the Duke of Cumberland ly put upon the British establishment commanded; and proceeded to fhew the A were fuch as fairly entitled them to every first falling off under that great and good mark of diftinction that could be given. officer, the late Gen. Ligonier, whofe them. One of thefe, that of Col. Dalinfluence, notwithstanding his great abi- rymple, had diftinguished itself at Omoa lities, was not equal to the importance that of Col. Duncan at the battle of of his truft. He fpoke next of the Cambden; Col. Fanning's had diftinarmy at the begining of the war guished itfelf in general fervice through which is juft concluded, where it might out the war, particularly at Rhodehave been exp.cted, he faid, that the war B Iland, when attacked by the Americans: levies would have been conducted ac- with fuperior numbers. Col Simcoe's cording to the model, and agrecable to was almost above praife; no regiment. example, of the late Duke of Cumber- ever deferved better of the Crown. The land; but they were quite the contrary. He fifth corps was that of Col. Tarleton, then went into the confideration of that whofe fervices he thought it totally unwar, its rife and progrefs; and without neceffary to mention in a British Squate meaning, he faid, to infinuate theThere was not a corner in Europe to, fmallest or moft diftant reproach to any Cwhich their fame had not reached. one, compared it to the hiftory of Can- Such were the merits of the different did (fee Vol. XXIX. p. 234), who was corps, and fuch were the grounds on happy in being guided by a noted phi- which he had advifed his Majefty to lofopher, Dr. Pangios, whofe great place them on the establishment. But, maxim and belief was, that every thing if he understood the Hon. Gent, rightly that happened in this world was for the he did not merely wish to fee the terms beli. and ftipulations upon which the five proLaft of all, he came to fpeak of mili- vincial corps, alluded to in the motion, tary brevets, together with the ill con- were originally railed, but that an enquiry fequences of local and temporary rank. fhould be inftituted into the conduct of He compared officers holding rank by the army during the whole of the war.. brevet to bithops without diocefes, and He could not take upon him to fay, that, golden prebends without ftipends; to during fo long and expenfive a war, and chancellors without feals, and judges E while there was fo large an army to diwithout falaries; not but that fome gen- rect (near 200,000 men on different fertlemen of the long robe could occafi- vices), there had been no ground of onally accommodate themfelves by en- complaint. It feemed to him impoicroachments even on the navy, and could fible that there hould not, Howthape themfelves to employinents appro- ever, if the Houfe fhould think fit to go. priated in former times to none but the into an inveftigaion of that business, he ancient Nobility of the Kingdom. F thould meet it with confidence; for no man had ever a more anxious regard for. the interefts of the army, nor more fincere and earnest defires to do what was right to the best of his ability, than. himself. He would fay but one word more, and have done. In looking over the lift of the army, a firanger would imagine we had generals enough to command half the armies of Europe, and he believed ably; yet, frange as it might feem, as if we could not fpare any of them from home to the now contracted foreign fervice, two field officers, Maj. Gen. Ross, in reply, faid, He had he spoke from report only, had lately no view, in the immediate motion, but been appointed Major Generals for the to procure information. And with repurpofe of being fent out to the Eatt gard to the idea of parliamentary en-. ladies. Here, the Major General againg quiry, his only motive was, that, if there, declared, he could have nothing to ob-hould appear to have been errors com ject to the merits of thofe officers, but they had not, as far as he knew, arrived at the rank of Major Generals in Great Britain. Sec. at War [Sir G. Yonge] wifhed. G. to know with what view the motion was made? In short, he faid, it fhould feem as if mitted, they might, but in a liberal. manner, be pointed out, and put upon parliamentary and conftitutional record, for the benefit of succeeding ages. Mr. 566 Additional Obfervations on uncommon Armorial Bearings. Mr. Burke faid, the motion was of infinite importance in the eyes of military men; that he had received a letter to that effect from a general officer of refpectable character, and wifhed the putting the five provincial corps on the British establishment, might undergo a full difcuffiop. The motion, with fome fmall amendment, was agreed to. March 14. A petition from the Deputies of the Patent-Officers, &c. of the Cuftoms, whose places were to be abolished, were read, and ordered to lie on the table. Sir Cecil Wray moved for copies of all papers relative to promifes of half-pay from the War Office, to officers of corps raifed in América. Agreed to. The House went into a Committee on March 17. Mr. Eden ftill faw many objections. March 18. Mr. Coke gave notice, That if no Administration was formed by Friday, he would on that day move to addrets his Majefty on the fubje&. The Houfe went into Committee on the American Trade Bill. claufe for opening à trade with the Weft When the India Inlands came to be debated, Lord Sheffield obferved, that if the words in manner heretofore ufed were to ftand part of the Bill, it was obvious America would foon have the Rum trade, the Sugar trade, and in a few years the Provifion trade from Ireland. His Lordfhip withed to have stopped at the first claufe, which opens our ports to and from Ameica. It was foon enough, he faid, to give America peculiar advantages, when we have an opportunity of trading with her for advantages in return. At prefent carrying trade, for the fake of ourn umerwe should exert ourfelves to preferve the ous failors out of employment, as well as for other reasons. (To be continued. ) MR. URBAN, Huddersfield, July to. nicated through your u'ef Magazine, TO the very curious lift of bearings in Feffe, which Mr. Roufe has commu-' you may pleafe to add, from a small fwords in Fefs, Azure, for Clark. Or, 3 MS. which I have feen, Gales, 3 Foxes heads erafed in Fefs, Gules, for Foxlove. Gules, 3 Bees in Fefs between 5 Rofes Argent feeded, Or, 3 in chief, Lions in Fels, Gules, for Wild. Though and 2 in bafe, for Rubby. Arge t, 3 I do not understand much of Heraldry, yet the fubject pleafes me; and whenever I meet with any thing curious re-1 fpecting it, or when any old feals are affixed to the writings which fall under iny notice as a profeffional man, nerally notice thein: I fav, old feats of of which are affumed, and engraved by arms, for as to very modern ones, many ignorant artifts, they are not of fufficient authority, nor, indeed, worth notice. It' raldry if Mr. Roufe's "bufinefs or enwill be a great lofs to the lovers of Hegagements" prevent him from purfuing the Bearings in Chief, Pale, Bend. &c. the fubject, and from communicating He is indeed amply qualified, and I hope tranfpofition of the Fefs-dancette into will endeavour to do it. His idea of the fufils or lozenges by glass-ftainers is new, probable, and ingenious. gc Samfon, to which Mr. Rouse refers, I were THE Bir mentioned in the Gent. Mag. p 308, as having formerly been feen at Mechlin, and faid to have been much careffed by the Emperor Maximilian (fome account of which was defired by your correfpondent) was undoubtedly. a Pelican, the Pelicanus Onocrotalus of Linnæus, though he feems to be miftaken in fayi g it was quite white, as they moftly have black feathers in the wings. His defcription in other points is tolerably exact. A good figure of this bird may be feen in Edwards's Natural Hiftory of Birds, vol. II. p. 92 —Buffon, in his 9th volume of Birds, mentions fome fingular anecdotes of the very bird mentioned by your correfpondent, as related by one Culman in Gefner's birds. -The Pelican is rare in moft parts of Europe, though fome have been killed in France, in Dauphiny, and on the river Saone, as alfo in Switzerland, Poland, Ruffia, and fome parts of Germiany, particularly in the fouthern parts on the Danube, which have been long noted for them. They, as well as moft of the large aquatic birds, are ufually efteemed to be very long livers.-I fend you also some hiftoric anecdotes of two perfons, in fpeaking of whom Mrs. Macaulay, in her last volume, feems not to have been accurately informed. Faiber Petre, the famous Jeluit, called erroneously Peters by Mrs. Macaulay, p. 131, who made fo much noife in the reign of James II. and was entered of his Privy Council, was an Edw. Petre, third fon of William 2d Lord Petre of Writtle, by Catharine Somerfet, daughter of Edward Somerfet, Earl of Worcefter, brother to Robert third Lord Petre, and uncle to William fourth Lord Petre, who died a prifoner in the Tower on account of Oates's plot about 1683, from a brother of whom the prefent Lord Petre is third in lineal defcent. It feems fome extenuation to the abfurd conduct of this unfortunate monarch, that perhaps it was not entirely on account of Father Petre's being an Ecclehaftic and a Jefuit, that he promoted I him; but as being of a noble family, both by father and mother's fide, and indeed by the latter (Somerfet) descended from the ancient royal houfe of Plantagenet *. As no account of his being of this family is ufually inferted in the peerage, this anecdote, which may be depended on, is the more curious. Father John Huddlefione, a Benedictine Monk, whom Mrs. Macaulay allo erroneously calls one Huddlestone a Scotchman, p. 57, who had been highly infirumental in faving the life of Charles II. after the battle of Worcester, and attended him on his death-bed, was of the family of Huddleflones of HuttonJohn, in the county of Cumberland, a branch of the very ancient houfe of the Huddlefiones of Millum, in the fame county, though, fome fay, John himself was born in Lancashire. He was fecond fon of Jofeph Huddleftone, Efq; of Hutton-john, by Catherine daughter of Cuthbert Siffion, Efqs of Dacre, and was great great uncle to Andrew Hud-dleflone, Elq, the prefent proprietor of Hutton-John. The family for three generations has been Proteftants, as father Huddlestone's nephew, and Andrew Huddlestone, grandfather to the prefent, conformed to the established church before the Revolution, of which he was a ftrong promoter in Cumberland.-Father Huddlestone died about that period. He. was, for his extraordinary fervices and fidelity to king Charles II. in his greatest diftreffes, always excepted by name in all the rigorous acts and proclamations iffued in that reign against the religious and ecclefiaftics of the church of Rome. MR. URBAN, E. Y. July, 1783. A Correspondent would be exceed ingly thankful to any of your learned antiquarian readers (many of whom favour your excellent repofitory with valuable communications) who refpecting the natural children of King would give him any fort of information Richard IIl. Having lately heard of a family, who think themfelves defcended fiom a natural fon of that King, he of the family, if they have no objection would wish to know (through the favour to it, or through any other channel) on defcended. what grounds they think themfelves fo Sandford mentions only a daughter Catherine, as his natural iffue. But Mr. Walpole (in his Hiftoric Doubts) obferves, that every part of Richard's. flory is involved in obfcurity: we neither know what natural Not legitimately. EDIT. • children 568 Natural Children of King Richard III-Theatrical Regifter. children he had, nor what became of Your correspondent withes likewife The partizans of Richard being under perfecution in the preceding reigns, his children would naturally be amongst the firft objects of fuch perfecution; and they may posibly have left iffue, who, to avoid thofe difficulties which an avowal of their opinion would lead them into, night take fome other name, and their defcent be only kept up by tradition. Yet it is ftrange that, after all partyhatred to Richard and his followers was forgotten, the defcendants of his natural children fhould not then. have made known their origin. Though a bad man, or rather an over-ambitious man, (which in fome circumftances is perhaps the fame thing)*, Richard was fill a monarch, and people are apt enough to be proud of fuch a defcent, whatever the man may have been. If any fatisfaction can be given on this fubject, it will be very thankfully received, by yours, &c. R. J. Though Mr. Walpole has, perhaps, not wiped off every flain from Richard's character, he has vindicated him from many charges laid against him; and has proved him to be even a better man than his antagomitt, Henry VII. As a King, Richard had few equals; efpecially if we confider the times in which he lived. The whole account of this natural for, in Peck's Defiderata, has fince been fappuied to have been an impoffure on the credulity of that induftrious writer; which we with fume carefpondent would aftertain. EDIT. THEATRICAL REGISTER. DRURY-LANE. May 28, The Foundling-The Lyar. 30 The Chances-Rival Candidates. 29 The Weft-Indian-The Deserter. June 2, The Mourning Bride-The Lyar. 31 The Maid of the Mill-Belphegor. 3 Labella-The Apprentice. 4 Do. Do. Do. COVENT GARDEN. May 28, The Duenna-Lord Mayor's Day. 5 Do. 36 The Belle's Stratagem-Poor Vulcan! 29 K. Henry IV. 1ft Part-Waterman. June 3, Hamlet-The Golden Pippin. 31 The Mysterious Hufb.-Barnaby Brittle. 4 The Bufy Body-Tom Thumb. 6 The Man of the World-Rofina. HAY-MARKET. May 31, The Suicide-Agreeable Surprife. June 2, Love in a Village-Irith Widow. 3 Spanith Barber-Agreeable Surprise. 4 Love in a Village--The Author. 5 Son in-law-Agreeable Surprife. 6 Hamlet-Nature will Prevail 7 Love in a Village-Genius of Nonfenfe. 12 Spanish Barber-Agreeable Surprife. 17 Spanish Barber-Agreeable Surprife. 2 Son-in-law-Agreeable Surprife. 7 Do 8 Do. 9 - [Flitch of Bacoa. -Comus. -The Quaker. As You like It-Harlequin Teague. 16 Artaxerxes-Man and Wife. 25 A Friend in Need, &c-Agreeable Surp |