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having concluded a peace with the Mahrattas, &c. This motion was oppofed by Sir H. Fletcher, Mr. More, and others, on the ground that enquiry ought to precede praife. On the contrary, thofe who fupported the motion were for giving praife first, and enquiring afterwards whether it was merited or not. He faid, there were fome points, relative to the Mahratta Treaty, that required elucidation. It had been proposed to give to Madajee Scindia one half of the city and territory of Baroche, but it was found, after the conclufion of the treaty, that the whole was furrendered to him, without any caufe affigned. Baroche yielded a revenue of near £200,000 a year.

Saturday 8.

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This day Robert Peckham, Efq. Lord Mayor elect, went, accompanied in the ufual manner, to Weftminster-hall, where his Lordship took the oaths of office at the Exchequer-bar, and-returned in grand proceffion to Guildhall, where a most fumptuous dinner was provided, at which were prefent feveral of the nobility, and fome foreigners of diftinction.

This day, Mr. Bembridge being perfonally prefent in the Court of King's Bench, Mr. Bearcroft moved the Court for a rule to thew caufe why the verdict, by which the defendant was found guilty, fhould be fet afide, and a new trial had. The point of law which Mr. Bearcroft infifted on chiefly was, that the Court was not warranted, by any cafe or principle in law, to say, that this place of accomptant is fuch an office, for the omiffion of the duties of which the officer might he proceeded against, criminaliter, by indictment or information.. rule however was not granted.

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A woman who had left her husband and cohabited with another man, having been claimed by her husband, returned home,, when the man the had lived with went to her apartments to take his leave of her on going away, he defired a kifs at parting, to which the confented, when, having a razor concealed in his hand, he cut her throat, but the knot of a ribbon round her neck prevented her windpipe being cut through The

man was fecured, and lodged in the Poultry Compter.

Tuelday 11.

This day his Majelly opened the four h feffiou of the prefent Parliament with the following most gracious fpeech:

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I HAVE the fatisfaction to inform you that Definitive Treaties of Peace have been concluded with the Courts of France and Spain, and with the United States of America. Preliminary Articles have been also ratified with the States General of the U. nited Provinces. I have ordered thefe feveral Treaties to be laid before you; and I am happy to add, that I have no caufe to doubt but that all thofe powers agree with me in my fincere inclination to keep the calamities of war at a great diflance.

The objects which are to be brought under your deliberation, will fufficiently explain my reafons for calling you together after so thort a recefs. Enquiries of the utmost importance have been long and diligently purfued, and the fiut of them will be expected. The fituation of the East India Company will require the utmost exertions of your wifdom to maintain and improve the valuable advantages derived from our Indian poffethons, and to promote and fecure the happinefs of the native inhabitants of those piovinces.

The feafon of peace will call upon you for an attention to every thing which can recruit the strength of the nation, after fo long and expensive a war.

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The fecurity and increase of the revenue in the marner leaft burthenfome to fubjects, will be amongst your fift obje&». In many effential parts it has futered: dangerous frauds have prevailed, and alarming outrages have been committed. Exertions have not been wanting to reprefs this daring fpirit, nor pains to enquire into its true caufes. In any inftances in which the powers of government may not be equal to its utmost care and vigilance, I have no doubt that the wisdom of my Parliament will provide fuch remedies as may be fourt wanting for the accomplishment of purposes, in which the material interests of this nation are fo deeply concerned.

Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons,

I have ordered the efimates of the expences for the year to be laid before you. From thofe you will perceive the reduction which I have made in all the establishments, which appear to me to be brought as low as prudence will admit; and you will participate with me in the fatisfaction which I feel in this ftep towards the relief of my fubjects. At the end of a war some part of its weight must inevitably be borne for a time. I feel for the burthens of my people: but rely on that fortitude which has hitherto fported this nation under many dif ficulties, for their bearing those, which the

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prefent exigencies require, and which are fo neceffary for the full fupport of the national credit.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

In many refpects our fituation is new. Your counfels will provide what is called for by that fituation; and your wisdom will give permanence to whatever has been found beneficial by the experience of ages. In your deliberations you will preferve that temper and moderation which the importance of their objects demands, and will, I have no doubt, produce; and I am fure that you are unanimous in your defire to direct all thofe deliberations to the honour of my crown, the fafety of my dominions, and the profperity of my people.

Ceremonial of the Introduction of bis Royal Highnes George Auguftus Frederick Prince of Wales, into the House of Peers. His Royal Highness having been, by letters patent dated the 19th of Auguft, in the fecond year of his Majefty's reign, created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chefter, was in his robes, with the collar of the order of the Garter he had put on in the Earl Marshal's room. introduced into the Houfe of Peers in the following order; Sir Francis Molineux, Bart. Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod with his ftaff of office; Earl of Surrey, Deputy Earl Marthal of England; Earl of Carl fle, Ld. Privy Seal; Ralph Bigland, Efq. Garter Principal King of Arms, in his robe, with his fceptre, bearing his Royal Highness's patent; Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain of England; Viscount Stormont, Lord Prefident of the Council.

The coronet on a crimfon velvet cushion, borne by Vifcéunt Lewithant, one of the Gentlemen of his Royal Highness's Bedchamber. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, carrying his writ of fummons, fupported by his uncle his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, and the Dukes of Richmond and Portland. And proceeding up the Houfe with the ufual reverences, the writ and patent were delivered to the Earl of Mansfield, Speaker, on the woolfack, and read by the Clerk of the Parliament ar the Table, his Royal Highness and the rest of the proceffion ftanding near: After which his Royal Highnefs was conducted to his chair on the right hand of the throne, the coronet and cushion having been laid on a ftool before the chair; and his Royal Highnefs being covered as ufual, the ceremony ended.

Some time after his Majefy entered, and was feated on the throne with the ufual folemnities, and having delivered his moft gracious speech, retired out of the House.

Then his Royal Highness at the table took the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and made and fubfcribed the declaration; and alfo took and fubfcribed the oaths of abjuration.

Wednesday 12.

The Lords waited on his Majefty with their addrefs, to which he was pleased to say: "My Lords,

"I thank you for this dutiful and loyal addrefs. I receive with pleafure your congratulations on the birth of a Princefs, and the recovery of the Queen, as renewed proofs of your affection to my perfon and family. The affurances you give me of your attention to the objects recommended for the welfare of my fubjects, are highly acceptable; and I regard the unanimity with which they are offered, as an earneft of the fuccefs which, I trust, will attend your endeavours to establish the honour of my crown, and the profperity of my people."

General Smith, in the Houfe of Commons, complained that though, in confequence of a refolution of that House, an order for recalling Sir Elijah Impey had been tranfmitted to Calcutta, yet he understood that, fubfequent to that order being received, Sir Elijah, had actually appeared in his feat on the bench as ufual; a measure of the more ferious moment, as all the judgments he had pronounced fince the receipt of that order were ipfo fatto null and void. The House was moved to addrefs his Majefty to give directions for copies of their orders to be laid before the House.

Both Houfes of Convocatin met in the Jerufalem Chamber, Weftminster Abbey, and adjourned to the 21ft of January next.. Thursday 13.

Lord John Cavendish reported his Majefty's answer to the Commons address. "Gentlemen,

"I thank you for this very dutiful and affectionate addrefs, and for the fresh mark you give of your attachment to me and my family, in your congratulations on the happy recovery of the Queen, and the birth of another princess.

"I receive, with the utmost fatisfaction, your affurances of piomoting fuch measures as may tend to the fupport of the nationel credit, and to the welfare of my people; and I confider the unanimity with which they are offered as a happy earnest of the fuccefs of your endeavours."

Friday 14.

The great caufe between Mitchel and Grey, plaintiffs in error, and Lord Rodney and the Hon. John Vaughan, defendants, came on before the House of Lords, when it was decided in favour of the two latter.

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Wednesday 26.

Pursuant to repeated notice given by advertisement in the publick papers, M. Biag gini launched an air balloon in the Artillery-ground, in imitation of thofe fo much fpoken of in France. It is certainly a moft curious discovery, but what practical ufe may refult from it cannot yet be fore feen. Its firft afcent was about one o'clock. It rofe very flowly, and continued its progrefs towards the South, fill rifing as it went, and apparently increafing in velocity, till quite out of fight. Its fall will probably be in the counties of Kent or Surrey. The number of people who went to the Artilleryground, and its environs, to fee it launched, was almost incredible. It was made of yellow taffety, appearing as if gilt with gold, and when illumined by the fun made a most beautiful appearance; at other times it prefented a duiky object, not unlike a paper kite.

Thursday 27. Came on in the Houte of Commons, one of the most important debates that has ever been agitated in that houfe.

Mr. Fox opened the debate by juftifying his pofition, which he had in a former fpeech ftrongly infifted upon, That there were demands upon the Eaft India Company for eight millions more than they bait immediate funds to fatisfy. He rediculed the estimates of the credits which the Company had produced to invalidate his charge: he at once ftruck off an article of four millions, which they had charged to the account of the public, proving, incontrovertably, that this debt tood upon the fame footing with the foms in the other funds, and could produce no more than the bare intereft to liquidate the fams which were at prefent in demand. The Company's ftatement of 730,000l. to the account of Dowla; of 130,000l. to that of the Rajah of Tanjour; of 700,000l. to that of the Nabob of Arcot; and that of goo,ocol. to the renters from the Company would be found, he fad, to stand upon a ftill worfe foundation

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than that on the publie, when the mode of levying payment, which was by he ex irpation of the human race, was laid before the Houfe. When an unfortunate native prince was in debt to the Company, po matter w, a military force was fent to feize his P ffeffions, his territories were plunde cd, and he was defpoiled of the common appendages of his dignity; nay, even the common neceffaries of life; and thould his fubjects relift the injuries of their matter, ruia and defolation followed, their houfes and lands were burnt and wafted, their families were carried away into flavery, themselves extirpated and deftroyed, and their lands, &c. fold to gratify the rapacity and avarice of their plunderers.

Having, by objections to items of a fimilar kind, reduced the Company's estimate more than twelve millions, he could not help afking, he faid, what the Houfe would think of a minifter, who fhould have dared to lay before them an account fo fallacious, as that which he was now detecting? He defended the meafore he had adopted, on the inevitable neceffity that urged it, and the fair principle upon which it was founded. The neceffity he decided on was that invincible neceffity, paramount to all law; a neceffity, growing out of the fpirit of the conftitution; a ne. ceffity grounded on the falvation of the

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He was replied to with great feverity by Mr. W. Pitt, who concluded his fpeech, with moving, that the farther confideration of the bill be put off till to-morrow.

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This was ftrongly coatefted; and on the quefiion being pur, the numbers were, for Mr. Pitt's motion rog, against it 220. jority in favour of the bill 111. The queftion was then put that it be committed, which was carried without a divifion.

Previous to the above debate, Lord North brought forward a fubject of very great national concern, namely, the neceflity of a new regulation in the department of the Poft-office.

"Ireland," his Lordship faid, "as an independent kingdom, claimed a right to an independent Poft-office. The Poft-office n Ireland, with all its appurtenances, was the fole property of the Poftmafter-general in England. It was, therefore, become neceffary to qualify him by act of Parliament, to difpofe of it to the Poft master-general there." He purpofed the correspondence to be carried on in British packets, which were to be regulated by equivalent. The privilege of fanking from one kingdom to the other, he thought, fhould be abolished, except that of news-papers, votes, &c. which were to pay a fmall confideration-a penny, or fome fuch trifle. Other exemptions were mentioned, ard in conclufion, his Lordship moved for leave to bring in a bill for the establishment of certain new regulations in the poft-office, which was agreed t6.

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The remains of Lady Pennington (fee p. 804), wife of Sir Jof. P. bart. of WalterHail, Yorkshire, were interred on the 12th of Sept. in the parish church of Fulmer, Bucks.

20. Mr. Steph. Kemble, to Mifs Satchell, both of Covent-Garden.

DEATHS.

This lady, whofe extraordinary abilities, long LATELY, at Dublin, right hon. Sir Win.

fince difplayed to the world, in her excellent and much-admired writings, which could only be equalled by her piety, charity, and benevolence, united to that patient and unreferved refignation, with which the fuftained (through the courfe of many years) a series of very fevere and uncommon afflictions. The numerous kind and charitable offices which a good heart, affifted by even a small income, can perform, were evidenced in her daily benevolence, and render her death a public lofs to the poor of an extenfive village, where the long refided. But by those who long and intimately knew her fuperior excellencies, and enjoyed her friendship, her death will be deeply lamented to the lateft hour of their lives.

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MARRIAGES.

ATELY, Sir Tho. Wallace, to Mifs

Gordon.

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07. At Sheering, Mis. Feake, fitter of the late Gov. F. aged 70, to Mr. Cor, her under gardener, aged 27.

08. 14. Rev. Mr. Monckton, R. of Pangborne, co. Bucks, to Mrs. Kingman.

21. Walter Spencer Stanhope, efq; M P. for Hafelmere, to Mi's Pulleine, only dau, and heiress of the late T. B. P. efq; of Carleton, co. York.

31. Lieut. Wollafton, to Mifs H. Gulifton, dau. of Ri. G. efq: of Weft Clandon, Surrey.

Nov. 1. At St. Margaret's church, Weftm. rev. Mr. O'Beirne, fec. to the Firft Lord of the Treafury, to Mifs Stuart, only furviving child of the hon. col. Fra. S. brot. to the E. of Moray. 3. Rev. Luke Hucknall, R. of Golby, co. Leicester, to Mifs Ralph.

John Grubb, efq; of the patent office, to

Mits Cranwell.

4. Rev. Fra. Clifton, of Alverftoke, to Mifs R. C. Bingham.

Cpt. Cha. Thompfon, of the navy, to Mifs Jean Selby.

Cfborn, bart. one of his Majefty's privy

council,

Ch. Craffe, efq; coroner for co. of York. At Tiverton, Devonth. Mr. Dav. Hitchcock; and the fame day, fuddenly, at Halberton, His half-brother, Mr. Hooper.

In America, Jonath. Trumbull, efq; gov. of Connecticut.

At Middleton Tyas, near Richmond, Yorkfhire, the fon of the rev. Mr. Watfon. He had been juft admitted of Benet College, Came bridge, and was a youth of great merit.

At Macclesfield Foreft, in his 1038 year, George Goodwin, yeoman. He could repeat, without book, any paffage in Scripture, and retained all his faculties till his death.

At Bruffels, Mr. Breflaw, the noted conjurer.

At Apfley, aged ro5, Mrs. M. Worfley. At Dublin, in child-bed, Lady of rt. hon. Luke Gardiner.

At Troup, near Banff, in Scotland, Eliz. Clark, aged 104. She had refided in the parifh of Slains for years.

Suddenly, in his 60th year, Mr. Wm. Hall, ufher to the free grammar fchool of Old Malton, and late ufher to the rev. Mr. Jackson and Jofeph Kerr. He has bequeathed by will a yearly charitable donation to the poor of his parish, fo long as the moon and ftars endure.

Sept. Mrs Cowling, upwards of 80, rel & of Mr. C. formerly an eminent cheesemonger in Bishopfgate freet, from whom the received a very ample fortune, of which she made a moft proper diftribution. Her legacies amount to 17,000l. among which are, 8ool. to the poor of Southgate, to be divided among a certain number of objects in equal portions; 5ool. to Mr. Barclay, curate of the chapel there; 500l. to Mr. Hunt, his affiftant; tool. for life to Mr. Redfhaw, formerly linen-draper in Cheapfide, but reduced by the extravagance of an elder fon, fince dead in the Eaft Indies; 1000l. to his younger fon; 50l. a-piece to each of her fervants; and rool, to her twa maids who attended her in her laft illness; the remainder between her husband's nephew and niece, the former, Mr. Cowling, formerly in his own bufiness, now a confiderable cheesefactor in Yorkshire; the latter, a fingle lady his fifter, who lived with her. Her fubfantial houfe, which the built at Southgate, to be

6. S. Knight, efq; of Stanwick, Northamp-fold. tonshire, to Mifs Eliza Spelman.

At Dover, J. P. Fector, efq; of AustinFriars, to Mifs Lane.

Rich. Dyott, efq; of Freeford, capt. in the Staffordsh. militia, to Mifs Atiley, dau. and heirefs of the late Chrift. A. efq;

11. At Fulham, Mr. Moody, of King ftr. to Mife Brinley.

17. Rev. G. H. Glaffe, fludent of Chrift Church, Oxf. to Mifs Fletcher, of Gr. Ealing.

Sept. 2. At St. Jean Pied de Port in Navarre, aged 118, Jas. Le Mefurier, born in that town, and never 20 miles from it in his lie. His common food for fome years was vegetables.

07. In Lower Grofvener-ftr. Mrs. Baldwin, mother of Lady Yates (lady of the Bp. of Rochefter), and Serj. Walker's lady.

At Chefter, Mr. John Golborne, engineer to the River Dee Company.

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Mrs. Bailey, in Charlotte-ftr. Bloomsbury. Mr. Lademan, furgeon, of Morpeth, by falling, as he was shooting, into a difufed coalpit concealed by bushes.

Oa. 2. At Beckingham, near Gainsborough, Mr. Wm. Flint, a worthy and refpectable farmer and grazier.

12. At Whichbury, Hants, rev. Mr. Morgan, beloved, respected, and regretted by those who knew him well, for his facetious benevolent temper and difpofition. It was his wifh to fteal out of life unnoticed, but this con tradiction to his inclinations is the tribute of truth to his memory.

14. Jacob Houblon, efq; of Gr. Hallingbury, Effex, major of the Hertford fh. militia.

15. At Orwell-Park, Suff. rt. hon. Francis Vernon, earl of Shipbrook, vifc. Orwell, and baron Orwell of Newry, co. Downe, in Ireland, He has two nephews under age, fons of Vernon, efq; at Bury St. Edmund's. His lordfhip was nephew to the celebrated Adm. Vernon, to whom he erected a monument in Weft minfler-abbey. His title is extinct.

Mr. Twaits, many years mafter of the London-stone tavern, in Cannon freet.

At Dilwyne, Herefordsh. Mrs. Evans, rel & of the rev. Tho. E. late vicar of that par fh, and of Bromyard, and aunt to Jo. Bacon, efq; of the firft-fruits office.

16. At the Deanery in Lincoln, the rev. Dr. Richard Cuft, fifth fon of Sir Rich, C. bart. by Anne, fifter of Lord Vifc. Tyrconnel, uncle to the prefent Ld Brownlow, and brother of the late Sir John C. bart. speaker of the H. of Commons, and R of Belton and Fulbeck, .co. Lincoln. He was fome time chaplain to the H. of C.; was, in Oct. 1765, appointed canon of Chrift Church in Oxford; was afterwards dean of Rochefter; and (in confequence of the tranflation of Dr. Yorke to the fee of Ely) was advanced to the deanery of Lincoln, Dec. 22, 1781. He married a daughter of the rev. Mr. Harris, of Eton, co. Bucks, by whom he had no issue.

At Guernsey, James de Havilland, efq; late a lieut. in the navy.

18. Andr. Fitzherbert, efq; of Barnes.

19. At Boynes, in France, Pierre Erenne Bourgeois de Boynes, minifter and coun ellor of itate, formerly fecretary of ftate for the marine department, and first prefident of the parliament of Befançon.

At Rotherhithe, aged 71, Capt. Kipperly, many years in the coafting and other fervice.

In Buckingham-ftreet, York-build. Patrick Leflie, efq; late capt. of his Majeft. ship Torbay.

The fon of Mr. Tho. Jones, grocer in Weftminster, Croffing the road at Knightsbriege, he dropped his cane, and while he was flooping to pick it up, a chaise ran over him, and killed him on the spot.

At Chefter, Mrs. Kenyon, moth. of Lloyd K. efq; chief juftice of Chefter.

20. At the Swan, Knightsbridge, Mr. Green, of the wound he received in a duel that morning. It is not unworthy of remark, that the

scene of action near Batterfes, where Mr. G. fell, is the very field in which Villiers, D. of Buckingham, fought a duel with, and killed the E. of Shrewsbury, in the reign of Charles 11.; whofe countefs, it is faid, held his antagonift's horfe, difguifed as his page.

At Sympfon Place, Bucks, in his 65th year, Sir Walden Hanmer, bart. fen. bencher of Lincoln'e-Inn, and reprefentative in the two laft parliaments for the borough of Sudbury in Suffolk. In him the public have loft a most active magistrate, in which office he had acquitted himself with the greatest honour and integrity for upwards of 40 years. He is fucceeded in title and eftate by his eldeft fon, now

Sir Tho. H. bart.

Mr. John Suett, one of the fervants at St. Paul's church, and father to the celebrated Comedian. He was fuddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy about nine o'clock, and expired at twelve. He was buried on the 26th under the tree in St. Paul's Church yard; with a particular mark of refpect from the dean [Bp. Thurlow], who remitted the ufual fees for the ground and the bell.

Alex. Chriftie, efq; late of Spitalfields.

22. Mr. John Brown, of Tanfield-co. Inner Temple, many years clerk of the Fen-office. In White-ftreet, Southw. Geo. Powell, efq; timber merchant.

At Dublin, in his 74th year, rt. hon. Jofeph Leefon, earl of Milltown, who is fucceeded in title and effare by his eldest son, Ld Rufhorough. The property of the late Earl was among the best-conditioned in Ireland. Ld Rufborough comes into the immeciate poffeffion of oool. per ann. His brother, Mr. Leeton, inherits an estate of 1800l. a year. The eldest fon by the prefent lady will have, when of age, another eftate of 200ol. and his two brothers 6ool. each. Their fifters ar: left 10,000l. fortunes, and Lady Milltown a jointure of 20001. befides the magnificent houfe on the Green, built purpofely for her refidence three years ago, and furnished in the first style of el-gance and expence. In how re'pectable a light muft commerce ftand in the eyes of all men, when they reflect that almost the whole of this vast property was accumulated by the founder of the family, the father of the late lord, by a diligent attention to his profeflion, which was a refpectable brewer on Stephen's-Green, Dublin, followed by that unremitting indufry which commands fortune, and enfures fucces! His lordship was one of the peers in Ireland whofe eftates are not encumbered.

24. In Lawrence-Pountney-la. Mr. Overbury, wine-merchant.

25. Phi. Delafield, eig; Kew-green, Surrey. Mr. Wm. Allen, fen. of Witham, Eflex, aged 77.

26. In Hatton-freet, Jof. Hughes, cfq; ne of the deputy auditors of the impreft

At Edinburgh, Sir Rob. Pollock, Lart. At Sudbury, Middlefex, bon. Mils Hove, fifter of the late, and aunt to the prefent, L Chedworth.

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