den Tinker, of the 38th regiment, to be captain of a company. 62d Regiment of Foot. James Vincent Mathias, from half-pay of the o2d regiment, to be captain of a company. Royal Garrifon Battalion. Robert M'Ginnis, to be captain of a company. War-Office, October 25, 1783. 10th Regiment of Foot. William Dick, of the rft 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 Irish Regiment of Artillery. Matthew Young, to be captain. Jofeph Shewbridge, to be captain-lieutenant. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Thomas Heardfon Wayett, to the rectory of Sutterby, in the county and diocese of Lincoln. The Rev. Thomas Lloyd, to the rectory of Langoedmawr, in Cardiganfhire. The Rev. John Ramfay, to the rectory of Barton St. Andrew, in Norfolk. The Rev. Dr. Kaye, fub-almoner to his Majefty, to the deanery of Lincoln, in the room of Dr. Cuft, deceased. The Rev. Erafmus 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 hold the rectory of Lowther, in the county of West moreland and diocefe of Carlifle, together with that of Diflington, in the county of Cumberland and diocefe of Chester. The Rev. Edward Wilfon, D.D. to hold the rectory of Hartfield, together with that of Athhurft, 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 Royfton, Herts; together with that of Feltham, Middlesex. 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, deater and chapman. Edward Merfon, of Ilminster, Somerfetfhire, shopkeeper. Benjamin Bateman, late of Woodstock Street, Hanover Square, wine-merchant. Richard Edwards, late of Chefter,linen-draper. late of Great Ruffel Street, Bloomsbury, car penter. Daniel Bamford, late of Ipfwich, Suffolk, coffee-houfe keeper. William Gould, late of Alport, Derbyshire, wool-ftapler, but now a prifoner in the custody of the sheriff for the county of Derby. William Burlton, late of Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, merchant and falter. William Underwood Wilfon, of Green Walk, Chrift 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, Gloucefterfhire, tanner. John Brown, late of Oxford, dealer in fpirituous liquors. George Attley, of Jermyn Street, St. James, Westminster, linen-draper. Benjamin Marfhall, 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, Middicfex, dealer and chapman. William Hartley, of Newgate Street, London, cabinet-maker. Samuel Beale, of Wribbenhall, Kidderminfler, Worcester, trow and barge owner. Thomas Miller, of Kirby Kendal, Westmoreland, ironmonger. James Gowen, of Sunderland, near the fea, grocer. John Lane, of Sittingbourne, Kent, apothecary. Robert Taylor, of Southwark, dealer in horses. Lawrence Lee, of the Minories, London, pinmaker. Daniel Fitch, late of Kilburn, Middlefex, jeweller. Robert Mather and Anthony Mather, of Wooler, Northumberland, linen-drapers and haberdashers. James Tozer the younger, of Kentifbear, Devonshire, dealer and chapman. Robert Andrews, of Bristol, innholder. Thomas Skey, of Bristol, cyder-merchant. William Argent, of Great Warley, Effex, farmer. John Hawkins, of Friday Street, London, mer ant. Francis Holmes, of Warwick, grocer. THE OR, UNIVERSAL MISCELLANY, NOVEMBER 1783, Enriched with the following truly elegant ENGRAVINGS: , A most delightful VIEW of LUXBOROUGH, in Effex, the Seat of Rear Admiral ŞIR EDWARD HUGHES, K.B. 2. An interesting 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, M ASTER Lenox has begged us to apologize for delaying the Conclufion of his Fairy Tale, which he promises to compleat in the first Week of his enfuing Holidays. Amintor's elegant Verfes to the Rev. Mr. Mavor, on not lately feeing any Production from the Pen of that Gentleman, cannot be inferted, the Propriety of their Appearance being precluded by a very beautiful little Piece, which appears in the prefent Number. The Lines, however, will with Pleasure be tranfmitted by the Editors to the Perfon to whom they are infcribed, and who well merits the handfome Eulogiums with which he has been complimented by kindred Genius. Amintor will foon receive a private Letter refpecting the Production about which he enquired. The Editors of the British Magazine and Review cannot condescend to reprint a Paper which has been published in another Mifcellany, however interefting originally, and how greatly foever it may have fince been improved by the ingenious Author. O. S. will readily difcover for whom this Obfervation is intended. The Elegy written in Auburn Church Yard contains little or no Novelty: indeed, though we doubt not that the Author is a Man of Senfe, from the Teveral Specimens of his Poetry he has occafionally tranfmitted us, we are of Opinion that he is not likely ever to become any confiderable Favourite of the Mufes, • The Married Man's Soliloquy,' inferted in our Poetical Department for October, and which was tranfmitted by the Gentleman who favours the Editors with the elegant Productions of Matilda of New York, fhould not have been printed with that Lady's Signature. TO THE EDITORS OF THE BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. "Hos ego I OBSERVE in your laft Number for October, a Poem, or Ode to Senfibility, under the Name of J W-d, Namptwich; which is really the Production of your old Correfpondent ORDOVIX PHILOPATRIS. "Verficulos feci, &c."-This Ode appeared about a Year ago in one of the • Chefter Papers, under the Signature" PHILANTHROPOS;" and I beg the Favour of you to undeceive the Public in this Respect.' The elegant and well-authenticated Memoirs of her Royal Highness the DUTCHESS of GLOUCESTER, with which the Editors have just been honoured, will certainly appear in our next, accompanied by a fine Portrait of the Dutchefs, THE BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW; T UNIVERSAL OR, MISCELLANY. NOVEMBER 1783. MODERN BIOGRAPHY. DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. HIS renowned printer, philofopher, and politician, who has fo largely contributed to the difunion of the British empire, is the fon of a tallow-chandler at Bofion in New England, where he was born in January 1706. After receiving a very tolerable education, he was apprenticed to a printer at Boston, by fome faid to have been his uncle; and foon began to manifeft that disdain of the established government which has fince procured him a name, by fcribbling in flammatory effays on the conduct of the General Court, for which he was obliged to quit the province. Having for fome time wandered about the continent, he at length procured a paffage to England, and worked in London as a journeyman; particularly at Mr. Watts's, a celebrated printer, in Wild Court, Wild Street, where it is well remembered that he by no means difcovered the fmalleft trait of any extraordinary abilities. It was not for a man of his ambitious turn of mind to remain long in a fituation where he was incapable of ●btaining any pre-eminence; and, as he foon discovered that many hundred men of more brilliant talents than thofe with which Nature had endued him, were in London deftined to remain in inferior conditions, he took an early opportunity of recroffing the Atlantic. On his arrival in America, he contrived to establish himself in a fmall printing-office, and began to publish a newfpaper, which he for fome years conducted. As the Doctor was always a most rigid economist, he by degrees acquired a confiderable property; and the nature of his profeffion gaining him credit for fcientific abilities, he became a confpicuous member in the Philofophical Society at Philadelphia, which was honoured with the correfpondence of the late Peter Collinfon, Efq. and a few other members of the Royal Society in London. By means of thefe gentlemen, every European difcovery in the Arts and Sciences, as well as every new literary performance of eminence, was conftantly tranfmitted to America; and, as the Doctor firft took up his idea of electricity from productions fent in this way by Mr. Collinfon, who had procured them from Germany, where the fubject was firft handled with fuccefs, 2T 2 he he addreffed his well-known letters to that gentleman. But, notwithstanding his unwearied defire to be efteemed a great philofopher, Dr. Franklin never loft fight of the fuperior advantages which might be derived from political pur. fuits: and though, in April 1768, the University of Oxford was prevailed on to confer upon him the degree of LL.D. (his prefent moft important title) in addition to that of F. R. S. he perhaps received equal pleafure, on being appointed Post-mafter General for the Southern District of British America; an office which he has been charged with having most flagitioufly abufed, by putting one Hubbard, a relation, into the office at Boston, and thus conftantly informing himself of the correfpondence of the friends of government, many of whofe letters, the contents of which could in no other way have been obtained, were occafionally printed in the American newspapers. Dr. Franklin had himself not only planned fome of the chief regulations for the increase of the American Pofttax, but had alfo made many fruitless efforts to overthrow the proprietary government of Pennfylvania in favour of a royal eftablishment: he, however, warmly oppofed the Stamp-aft; though he had, at the fame time, the Audacity to folicit the place of ftampmafter for one of his adherents, who accordingly obtained the appointment. This adherent, on the repeal of the Stamp-act, was provided for in the American Customs through the Doctor's intereft, and is fuppofed to have been advised to fell his place, by the perfon who procured it for him, the moment it was confidered as certain that it would in a fhort time be of no value. On the reduction of Canada, Dr. Franklin came over to England, and artfully endeavoured to demonftrate the fuperior importance of that province to all our Weft India poffeffions; and it is not uncertain that this man, infignificant as he might appear, influenced the pacific negociation at that time carrying on at Paris, which has turned out to have been as impolitic as it was then unpopular. Every intelligent, unprejudiced politician, plainly forefaw, that when Canada fhould ceafe to be in the hands of the French, and of course be no longer a check on the neighbouring colonies, the termination of the British power in America would not be very remote. Among other means employed by Dr. Franklin to promote his views refpecting Canada on this occafion, was the publication of a pamphlet, in 1761, entitled, The Interest of Great Britain confidered, with regard to her Colonies, and the Acquifitions of Canada and Guadaloupe;' to which were added, 'Obfervations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c.' written in Pennfyl vania, in the year 1751. To fay nothing of innumerable effays in newfpapers and other periodical prints, continually promulged by the Doctor and his affociates; the management of which no perfons better understood. When the American Stamp-act was firft agitated, he procured the province of Pennfylvania to appoint him their agent in England, where he ftrongly remonftrated again ft the meafure. He published his Examination at the Bar of the House of Commons on this occafion, in 1766; and it has been afferted, that he had the auda city to introduce into his printed account, queftions which had never been asked, and answers which were never given. In the capacity of an American agent he contrived to remain some years in London; and though, during his refidence in the metropolis, much of his artifice was fufficiently apparent to the adminiftration for the time being, and indeed to all well-informed unprejudiced men, fuch was the temper of the times, and fuch the moderation or timidity of minifters, that he fill continued to hold the office of American post-master, under the very government he was every way feeking to fubvert, till he found himself obliged openly to avow hav |