peace for the county of Middlefex: Honourable Edward Willes, Honourable George Byng, Admiral Barton, Mr. Jolliffe, Honourable R. Neville, Mr. Tuffaell, Mr. Montagu, Mr. Wood of Lyttleton, Mr. Holt, Mr. Dickenfon, &c. The commiffion will be the most respectable ever seen in the country. About forty new juftices are to come in, and twenty-fix of the old ones, more commonly diftinguished by the notorious name of trading juftices, are to be left out of this new commillion. A new commiffion is also preparing for the county of Surrey, in which there will alfo be fome material alt rations. By this means the metropolis, at least, and it's fuburbs, will be under a moft refpectable and powerful magiftracy, which is the most fure and certain protection for it's inhabitants, at a time when the utmost exertions of wife, able, and upright men, are wanting, to fupprefs the commiffion of thofe notorious villainies which have fo long and loudly called for a particular attention of the supreme legislature. 30. The Court of Aldermen have given orders to the proper officers, to take up all prostitutes, beggars, and vagrants, found in the ftreets, that they may be paffed to their refpe&tive parishes, the court being determined that the streets of this city fhall be kept clear of thofe fort of people. Twenty taken up yesterday were all paffed, and were told if they appeared again in the streets of London, they fhould be taken up and feverely punished, and afterwards fent back again to their refpective parishes. On Tuesday, fome of the city officers received orders, that they and the fix marfhalmen are to go at least twice a week to all the watch-houses in the feveral wards of the city, to fee if the conftables and watchmen are upon duty, and if they are not, to make a report to the alderman of the ward; that they are to vifit all public-houfes, to fee that good order is preferved; to vifit brandyvaults, and to fee they fell no fpirituous liquors by retail; to examine houfes of ill fame, and gaming-houses, and report the fame to the Court of Aldermen, that they may be fuppreffed; to be ready at all times in affifting the conftables to stop any riots and disturbances that may happen within the city; and to be present at all fires, to see the unhappy fufferers are not plundered of their property. Seaton's prize at Cambridge, the subject of which, for this year, was Hope, is adjudged to the Reverend Mr. Hayes, of Trinity College, and one of the ufhers of Westminster School. 31. At twelve o'clock Alderman Peckham, the lord-mayor elect, was prefented by Mr. Adair, the recorder, to Lord Loughborough, at his houfe in Bedford Square, who fignified his Majefty's approbation of the choice the livery had made; after which the new mayor, fheriffs, recorder, and company present, were entertained with wine and cake as ufual. A meffenger was fent from Lord North's office, with a refpite to a Mr. Chiesham, of Inver nefs, who was fome time fince fentenced to death for having bought goods knowing them to have been ftolen. The evidence on trial made their affertion fo ftrong within the eye of the law, that no room was left for the judge but to pafs fentence agreeable to the cuftom of the country; but it being a circumftance of notoriety, that a fair price was paid by the buyer to the feller of the goods; and that the culprits, as foon as they found they must be detected in the purfuit made after them, came to the prefent object of royal mercy, and begged that he might not only deny the purchafe, but alfo conceal the goods which he had purchafed of them. Shortly after, the officers of the magistracy being detached to the houfe, the goods were denied, as well as all connections with the parties; of courfe a fearch enfued, and the whole of the goods were found. The deluded man was carried to prifon, tried, and condemned; but, by the mercy of his Majesty, he is refpited to the 19th of December next, to give time for a more full investigation into the circumstances of his guilt or innocence. The act of parliament which lays a duty on waggons and carts, takes place on the 1ft of November; after which day, all waggons,wais, carts, &c. with three or four wheels, not already charged, are to pay a duty of 4s. a year; two-wheel carts, &c. 2s. a year: and the owners of all fuch carriages are to give notice to the ftamp-diftributor in the county where they refide, of the number of carriages they keep, and to pay the duty at the next market-town, under a penalty of 51. On payment of the duty a licence is to be given. No perfon to pay for more than one carriage employed in agriculture only; nor more than three for any other purpofe, unlefs employed for hire. BIRTHS. Lady of Sir George Cockburne, a daughter. At the Deanery Houfe, St. Paul's, the lady of the Bishop of Lincoln, a daughter. Countess of Rofcberry, a fon. Lady Grantham, a fon. Lady of Sir John Taylor, a fon. MARRIAGES. James Whyte, Efq. of Denbies, in Surrey, to Mifs Catharine Hildyard, youngest daughter of the latè Sir Robert Hildyard, Bart. of Wineftead, Yorkshire. Captain Prickett, of the 77th regiment, to Mifs Wyvill, only daughter of Hale Wyvill, Efq. of the city of York. David Murray, Efq. nephew of Lord Elibank, to Mifs Harley, fourth daughter of the Right Honourable Thomas Harley. Captain Maud, to Mifs Mary Gervais. H. Desborough, Efq. of the General Poft Office, to Mifs Luther, of Soho. William Cracraft, Efq. of the Exchequer, to Mifs Hawkes. At Ealing, in Middlesex, the Rev. Mr. George Pickard, younger fon of Jocelyn Pickard, Efq. of Bloxworth, in the county of Dorfet, to Mifs Payne, daughter of Edward Payne, Efq. of Ealing. At Old Windfor, Horace Churchill, Efq. of the first regiment of Foot Guards, to Mifs Mo digliani. The Rev, Allen Fielding, vicar of Shepherd's Well, Kent, fon of the late celebrated HenryField ing, Efq. to Mifs Fielding, of Canterbury. At Shields, Yorkshire, Walter Spenfer Stanhope, Efq. member of parliament for Haflemere, in Surrey, to Mifs Pulleine, only daughter and heirefs of the late Thomas Babington Pulleine, Efq. of Carleton, in Yorkshire. At Edinburgh, Sir Andrew Lauder, of Fountain Hall, Bart. to Mifs Brown, of Johnftounburn. Richard Marnel, Efq. to Mifs Walton, daughter of Major General Walton, of St. James's Park. At St. Margaret's church, Westminster, the Rev. Mr. O'Beirne, fecretary to the first lord of the Treasury, to Mifs Stuart, only furviving child of the Honourable Colonel Francis Stuart, brother to the Earl of Moray. DEATHS. In Hanover Square, the Right Honourable Lady Delaval, lady of the prefent baronet, and mother of Lady Tyrconnel. She was buried in Weftminster Abbey, on the 11th of October, with great funeral pomp. At Deal, aged 62, Robert Linch, M. D. an eminent phyfician of Canterbury. He was eldest fon of the late George Lynch, M. D. and was fome time fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford, and one of Radcliffe's travelling phyficians. In Villiers Street, Strand, Mr. James Cunningham, late pilot to the fleet under Lord Howe's command in America, and an American loyalist. At Paddington, aged 81, Mr. Beresford. In Northumberland Court, Strand, the lady of Sir William Deffe, late clerk of the cheque to the band of penfioners. At Leicefter, aged 100, Mrs. Bancart, who could read without fpectacles till within a fortnight of her death. She buried her husband in 8765, aged 104. Mr. Alexander Keyser, jun. one of the twelve Jew brokers in London. At Bow, Captain John Pickett, one of the elder brethren of the Trinity Houfe. The Right Honourable Lady Ann Dufign, wife of Gertrude Dufign, Efq. and fifter to the late Earl of Hyndford. At Dublin, Henry Brooke, Efq. barrack-mafter of Mullingar, in the county of Westmeath. As a writer, he acquired great reputation by the Farmer's Letters, published in Ireland, during the rebellion, in imitation of Swift's Drapier's Letters. He was alfo author of The Fool of Quality, a novel of great merit. His dramatic works, of which the most celebrated are Guftavus Vafa, published in 1738; and the Earl of Effex, in 1761; were collected, together with his other writings, in 4 vols. 8vo. 1780. At Beak bourn, in Kent, aged 82, the Rev. William Bedford, M. A. vicar of that parish from 1726, and rector of Smarden from 1727. At Fitzwalter Houfe, Effex, in her 48th year, the Honourable Catharine Heneage*, relict of George Heneage, Efq. of Hainton, in the coun ty of Lincoln, and fifter to the Right Honourable Lord Petre. In Holles Street, Cavendish Square, Dowager Lady Frankland, mother of Sir Thomas Frankland. At Wooburn Farm, in the parish of Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, aged 85, Mrs. Southcote, relict of Philip Southcote, Efq. She has left her eftate at Wooburn to Lord Petre; the bulk of her fortune and eftates, amounting to 4000l. per annum, to Sir William Jerningham, Bart. Mr. Southcote was a defcendant of Judge Southcote, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; whose laft male heir, Mr. Edward Southcote, a clergyman of the Church of Rome, died a few years fince. Mrs. Southcote was a daughter and co-heir of Sir John Andrews, Bart. At Orwell Park, in Suffolk, the Right Honourable Francis, Earl of Shipbrooke, and Vif count Orwell of the kingdom of Ireland. In Buckingham Street, York Buildings, Pa trick Leflie, Efq. late captain of his Majesty's fhip Torbay. On her paffage to Bengal, on board the Eglan tine East Indiaman, Mrs. Cargill, (late Mifs Brown) the celebrated finger. At Lincoln, the Honourable and Reverend Dr. Cuft, dean of Lincoln, rector of Belton and Ful beck in that county, and uncle to the prefent Lord Brownlow. At Simpfon's Place, Bucks, in the 65th year of his age, Sir Walden Hanmer, Bart. fenior bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and member in the two laft parliaments for Sudbury, in Suffolk. He is fucceeded in title and eftate by his eldest fon, now Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. In Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, At his feat at Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, Sit Charles Turner, Bart. In 1759, he was sheriff for the county of York; in 1768, he was elected one of the members of parliament for that city, which he has continued to reprefent ever fince; and, in 1770, he was elected one of the aldermen of the corporation of York, over which he prefided as lord-mayor in 1772. He married first, Mifs Elizabeth Wombwell, youngest daughter,, and one of the co-heireffes of William Wombwell, Efq. of Wombwell; who, dying without iffue in June 1768, he afterwards married Mifs Mary Shuttleworth, one of the daughters of James Shuttleworth, Efq. of Forcet, by whom he has left iffue one fon, aged eleven, (now Sir Charles) and two daughters. In Sackville Street, Dublin, the Right Honourable Sir William Ofborn, Bart. one of his Majeffy's most honourable privy-council. In Brook Street, Ratcliff Highway, in the 87th year of his age, Lynnell Lea, Efq. many years lieutenant-colonel of the fecond regiment of militia belonging to the Tower Hamlets. At Bath, where he went for the recovery of his health, the Right Honourable John Spenfer, Eart * See Elegiac Stanzas on this Lady, p. 299. Spenfer, Spenfer, Vifcount Althorpe, high fteward of St. Alban's, and prefident of the British Lyingin Hofpital. His lordship was born December 18, 1734; and on December 27, 1755, married Georgiana, eldeft daughter of the late Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, and by her ladyship had iffue George John, Viscount Althorpe, (to whom the title and eftate devolve) born Sept. 1, 1758; Lady Georgiana, born June 7, 1757, married to the Duke of Devonshire; Lady Henrietta Frances, born July 16, 1761, and married to the Right Honourable William Ponfonby, Viscount Duncannon in Ireland, only fon of the Earl of Besborough, one of the lords of the admiralty, and member of parliament for the borough of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire; and Lady Charlotte, born August 25, 1765. His lordship was created Viscount Spenfer, and Baron of Althorpe, April 3, 1761; and advanced to the dignities of Viscount Althorpe, and Earl Spenfer, Oct. 5, 1765. In Howard Street, aged 75, Richard Palmer, Efq. the laft furviving brother of the late Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart. and uncle of Sir John Palmer, Bart. of Carlton, in Northamptonshire. -At Bath, Mrs.MaryRaleigh, only furviving defcendant in a direct line from Sir Walter Raleigh. At Sudbury, in Middlefex, the Honourable Mifs Howe, fifter of the late and aunt of the prefent Lord Chedworth. At Peterburg, Monfieur Euler, who was reckoned the greatest mathematician fince the days of Newton and Leibnitz. He acquired his high fame under the patronage of the King of Pruffia, who made him prefident of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; but having had fome difference with that monarch, he applied to the Emprefs of Ruffia, who gave him the fame honour5 able charge in the Imperial Academy of Peterfburgh, with a princely provision. When he left Berlin, he was fucceeded by a gentleman from Turin, in Piedmont, called Signor La Grangia, who ftill holds the place of prefident in the said Academy of Berlin, and has given repeated proofs of the most transcendent abilities, in every branch of the mathematics. The first president of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin was Maupertuis, the great antagonist of Voltaire. Euler was made prefident after the decease of Maupertuis. F 4 At Paris, on the 27th inftant, Monfieur D'Alembert, fecretary to the French Academy, &c. who was one of the ableft mathematicians of the age; and, what is rather extraordinary, he joined to his profound and truly aftonishing skill in the abstract fciences, all the accomplishments of an elegant, vivacious, and entertaining writer. He was one of the principal editors of the Encyclopædia; and, befides his numerous mathematical works, which will tranfmit his name to the remoteft pofterity, though within the reach of very few readers, he has produced feven volumes of Melanges Literaires, containing various tracts on different topics. In thefe productions, learning, genius, and wit, feem to go hand in hand, like the graces, forming an immortal wreath for the author. It is impoffible to bestow a fufficient encomium on his tranflation of Excerpta from Ta citus: he has equalled the arduous precifion of the original, and attained what a prodigious number of literati before him attempted in different languages, without any fort of fuccefs. He was honoured with the patronage and friendship of feveral monarchs, a circumftance that could never awake the leaft fymptom of vanity in his untaint ed heart. The Emprefs of Ruffia wishing to entruft him with the education of the Grand Duka her fou, propofed to fettle on him four thousand pounds sterling per annum for life, besides the rank of an ambaffador-extraordinary, while he should refide at her court. D'Alembert thanked her Imperial Majefty, and declined her intended favour in modeft and fubmiffive terms. This fact is well known, and will ever be recorded as a fingular inftance of philofophical fortitude, againft the powerful incentives of gold and ambition. Monfieur D'Alembert had not the pedantic parade of virtue, but poffeffed the actual fubftances and while, in his intellectual faculties, he ap peared a fuperior being, in all his worldly con cerns he discovered the meekness of a lamb, and the fimplicity of a dove. CIVIL PROMOTIONS. William Lucas, Efq. to be his Majesty's chief juftice of the Islands of Grenada and the Gre nadines, in America. Afhton Warner Byam, Efq. to be his Majesty's attorney-general, and Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, Efq. to be his Majesty's solicitor-general, in the faid iflands. George Phillips Towry, Efq. to be one of the commiffioners for victualling his Majefty's navy, in the room of Jonas Hanway, Efq. who retires. The Right Honourable Lord William Cavendifh Bentincke, to the office of clerk of the Pipe, in the room of Sir John Shelley, Bart. deceased. Henry Murray, Efq. to be enfign of his Majefty's guard of the yeomen of the guard, in the room of John Benjafield, Efq. who has refigned. Charles Hawkins, Efq. to be furgeon of his Majesty's houfhold, in the room of George Hawkins, Efq. deceased. Mr. Needham, late furgeon of the second troop of horse-guards, to be furgeon to the houshold of the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, in Hanover. Rogers, Efq. fecretary to Lord Keppel, to be one of the commiffioners of the navy. The Right Honourable Lord George Auguftus Henry Cavendish, to be colonel of the Derbyshire militia, in the room of his Grace the Duke of Der vonshire, who has refigned. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. War Office, Otober 7, 1783. 2d Regiment of Foot. Love Parry Jones, from half-pay of Major Waller's late corps of foot, to be captain of a company. War-Office, O&tober 11, 1783. If Troop of Horfe Guards. George Mercer, to be exempt and captain. Newdigate Poyntzy clerk, to be chaplain. War-Office, October 18, 1783. 60th Regiment of Foot, 3d Battalion. Bla den den Tinker, of the 38th regiment, to be captain of a company. 62d Regiment of Foot. James Vincent Mathias, from half-pay of the 62d regiment, to be Captain of a company. Royal Garrison Battalion. Robert M'Ginnis, to be captain of a company. War-Office, October 25, 1783. 10th Regiment of Foot. William Dick, of the 1ft Foot Guards, to be captain of a company. African Corps. Robert Monckton, of the 3d Dragoon Guards, to be captain of a company. Major General Edward Matthew, to be lieutenant-general in the West Indies only. Royal Irife Regiment of Artillery. Matthew Young, to be captain. Shewbridge, to be captain-lieutenant. Jofeph ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Thomas Heardfon Wayett, to the rectory of Sutterby, in the county and diocefe of Lincoln. The Rev. Thomas Lloyd, to the rectory of Langoedmawr, in Cardiganshire. The Rev. John Ramfay, to the rectory of Barton St. Andrew, in Norfolk. The Rev. Dr. Kaye, fub-almoner to his Majefty, to the de nery of Lincoln, in the room of Dr. Cuft, deceated. The Rev. Er fmus Druery, to the rectory of Mundefley, in Norfolk. The Rev. Mr. James Bannerman, to the ehurch of Cargill, in the prefbytery of Perth, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. James Gow. The Rev. William Lowther, M. A. to holdthe rectory of Lowther, in the county of Westmoreland and diocefe of Carlisle,together with that of Diflington, in the county of Cumberland and diocefe of Chefter. The Rev. Edward Wilfon, D.D. to hold the rectory of Hartfield, together with that of Ashhurft, in the county of Suffex and diocefe of Chichefter. The Rev. Jofeph Hudfon, D. D. to hold the vicarage of Warkworth, together with that of Newburne, in Northumberland. The Rev. Henry Woodcock, LL. B. to hold the rectory of Coffington, together with the vicarage of Bothley, both in the county of Leicester and diocefe of Lincoln. The Rev. John Hewit, M. A. to hold the vicarage of Royston, Herts; together with that of Feltham, Middlefex. The Rev. Nathaniel Bridges, B. D. to hold the rectory of Waddenhoe, with that of Orlingbury, in the county of Northampton. BANKRUPTS. Matthew Hibberd, late of Andover, Hants, dealer and chapman. Edward Merfon, of Ilminster, Somersetshire, Shopkeeper. Benjamin Bateman, late of Woodstock Street, Hanover Square, wine-merchant. Richard Edwards, late of Chefter, linen-draper. late of Great Ruffel Street, Bloomsbury, carpenter. Daniel Bamford, late of Ipswich, Suffolk, coffee-house keeper. William Gould, late of Alport, Derbyshire, wool-ftapler, but now a prifoner in the cuftody of the fheriff for the county of Derby. William Burlton, late of Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, merchant and salter. William Underwood Wilfon, of Green Walk, Christ Church, Surrey, coal-merchant. William Gafkill, of Bread Street, Cheapfide, London, ironmonger. Charles Lindegren, Andrew Lindegren the younger, and Claes Grill, of Dunfter's Court, Mincing Lane, London, merchants. Richard Ledger, of Ropemaker's Alley, Little Moorfields, cabinet-maker. James Cole, of Bath, innholder. Edward Lucas, of High Holborn, St. Giles in the Fields, dealer and chapman. Henry Gooch and Thomas Cotton, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, merchants. Andrew Lindegren the younger, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, merchant. Thomas Parfons, of Cirencester, Gloucesterfhire, tanner. John Brown, late of Oxford, dealer in fpirituous liquors. George Attley, of Jermyn Street, St. James, Westminster, linen-draper. Benjamin Marshall, of Goodman's Fields, cornfactor. Alexander Graham, of Watling Street, Lon. don, merchant. William Gooch, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, beer-brewer. Samuel Butler, of St. Clement Danes, Middlefex, dealer and chapman. William Hartley, of Newgate Street, London, cabinet-maker. Samuel Beale, of Wribbenhall, Kidderminfter, Worcester, trow and barge owner. Thomas Miller, of Kirby Kendal, Weftmoreland, ironmonger. James Gowen, of Sunderland, near the fea, grocer. John Lane, of Sittingbourne, Kent, apothe cary. Robert Taylor, of Southwark, dealer in horses. Lawrence Lee, of the Minories, London, pinmaker. Daniel Fitch, late of Kilburn, Middlesex,. jeweller. Robert Mather and Anthony Mather, of -Wooler, Northumberland, linen-drapers and haberdafhers. James Tozer the younger, of Kentisbear, Devonshire, dealer and chapman. Robert Andrews, of Bristol, innholder. Thomas Skey, of Bristol, cyder-merchant. William Argent, of Great Warley, Effex, farmer. THE OR, UNIVERSAL MISCELLANY. NOVEMBER 1783. Enriched with the following truly elegant ENGRAVINGS: 1. A most delightful VIEW of LUXBOROUGH, in Effex, the Seat of Rear Admiral SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K.B. 2. An interefting Scene in ELIZA; or, The FAIR FUGITIVE: a Moral Tale, Printed for HARRISON and Co. No. 18, Paternofter-Row; by whom Letters to the EDITORS are received. |