1749. the first fashion may eat, drink, fwear, talk fcandal, quarrel, and fhew their teeth, without the leaft indecency, inconvenience, or hesitation whatever. He deals only for ready money with the quality and members of parliament, but will give reasonable credit to citizens, tradesmen, and gentlemen of the inns of court. Enquire for the faid Sieur Rocquet, furgeon, at the bar of Old Slaughter's coffeeVivat RE X. house. MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. R. Richard Stevens, an March 30. Meminent foap-boiler in Thames freet, to Mifs Hannab Sheafe, niece to Alexander Sheafe, Efq; one of the directors of the Bank. Mr. Bond, fon of Mr. Bond, merchant, in Leadenball-freet, to Mifs Chitty, daughter of Mr. Thomas Chitty, an eminent wholefale grocer in Thames-freet. Benjamin Lane, Efq; of Hampstead, to Mifs Clarke, of Red-Lion-fquare. April 1.-- Cox, Efq; of a plentiful eftate in the Weft of England, to Mifs Weftley, daughter of the late Sir Robert Wefley, alderman of London. 4. Mr. Jobn Adolph Schroder, an eminent merchant of this city, to Mifs Anne Migbell's, daughter of the late admiral Mighells, Mather, Efq; of Tooting, in Surrey, to Mifs Goodwin, of Carshalton. 13. Abraham Craifteyne, Efq; an eminent and rich merchant, to Mifs Colbourn, of Bath. 17. Thomas Ryves, of Ranfton, in Dorsetfhire, Elq; to Mifs Abdy. April 1, The lady of the Hon. George Carpenter, fon to the lord Carpenter, deliver'd of a daughter. 4. The lady of Sir Francis Parker, of a fon and heir. 8. The lady of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. of a fon and heir. The lady of Sir James Ashford, 26. The lady of Mr. Bluett, of Devon- 2. Lady Kinloch, in Scotland. 3. Tho. Foley, Efq; eldest (on of the late 5. Afh Windham, of Felbrigg, in Norfolk, 10. Mr. Samuel Boyfe, fon of the late 12. Charlotte, lady Lovelace. 13. Mr. Henry Siffon, an eminent drug- Sir Alexander Donn, of Newton, near Sir Thomas Wynne, Bart. one of the prin- 17. Rt. Hon. lady dowager Semple, in Scotland. 18. Thomas Warkboufe, Efq; counfellor af law, and steward of great Yarmouth. Rev. Dr. Burroughs, vicar of Cheneys in Bucks, fuddenly. John Way, Efq; counsellor at law, first commiffioner, and receiver of the revenue, arifing from hackney coaches and chairs, and one of the commiffioners of bankrupts. 20. Thomas Lilly, Efq; in the commiffion of the peace for the city and liberty of Weftminfter. Rev. Mr. Archdeacon Shackerley. 21. Mr. Salvadore, a very eminent and wealthy Jew merchant. Abstract of the London WEEKLY BILL, from March 28. to April 25. Christened Buried Males 493 Males Females 977. Died under 2 Years old } 1004 1002 1979 2 and 648 5 5 59 10 154 30 203 40 223 195 166 A FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1749. S the affairs of the North feem now Letter from the King of Pruffia to bis Britan- Sir and Brother, You OUR majesty's intereft and mine are the fame with regard to the tranquillity of the North. Reports are spread all over Europe, that this tranquillity may be disturbed. For my part, I fee no likelihood of it; and it feems, that nothing but reciprocal diftruft, and ill-grounded fufpicions, can hitherto have gained those rumours any credit. But as the fmalleft objects may, by increafing, become material, as one ought to neglect nothing for the maintenance of peace, and that every thing becomes important to those who are fond of preferving it, I apply to your majesty, whom I know to be in the fame fentiments, to the end that, by our joint endeavours, we may fo much the more effectually contribute thereto. The fufpicions which Sweden's neighbours entertain of her can reft only on two objects. The firft, which is manifeftly frivolous, regards the dangerous projects which they feem refolved to impute to that power against her neighbours. Your majesty's difcernment is too quick not to perceive the falfity of it at the very first glance. The other falls on the change of the prefent form of government in Sweden; a project which they father on the prince fucceffor. Methinks the declaration, which the prince and the fenate lately made on this head to the Ruffian court, is fo clear, so positive, and fo prudent, that it leaves nothing farther to be defired by the powers who intereft themselves in maintaining the prefent government of that kingdom. The defenfive alliance I have made with Sweden, to which France has acceeded (and of which count Keyferling, the Ruffian minifter at my court, faw the original, copies whereof I also caused to be communicated in due time to your majefty's ministry at London) does not turn upon innovations : But it does not the lefs engage both France and me to maintain the fucceffion actually eftablished in Sweden, and mutually defend ourfelves against any that would attack us. God forbid that I thould fuppofe fuch black defigns in friendly powers, or dare to fulpect them of fuch dangerous projects. But I entreat your majefly to join your endeaYours with mine, in order to bring the two parties to eclairciffements that may prove equally falutary to both. I pray you take into confideration all the points I have juft laid before you, and to employ your credit and good offices for totally damping a fire, which now lies fmothering under the afhes, and which, if it kindles up, will spread its flames from one end of Europe to the other. I am ready, and with pleasure offer, to join in all the measures which your majesty fhall judge capable of preferving peace; being perfuaded, that his most christian majefty, who has the peace of Europe, and the tranquillity of the North, as much at heart as we, will powerfully contribute to maintain it by uniting his efforts with ours. The opportunity that prefents itself to your majefty, is one of the most favourable for increafing the glory of your reign, maintaining the happiness of your dominions, and giving reiterated and authentick proofs of your fincere defire to preserve the peace of Europe. I am, with fentiments of the most perfect regard, and fincereft friendship, SIR, Berlin, March Your majefty's good brother, 18, 1749, N.S. FREDERICK. The fecond is a declaration made by the Ruffian minifter at Stockholm to the Swedish miniftry in thefe words: "That the general rumour of a defign to change, after the king's death, the prefent form of government in this kingdom, and to reestablish that of the preceding reigns, as alfo the refolution and invariable defire of her imperial majefty of all the Ruffias, to live in a good understanding with the neighbouring powers, particularly with the crown of Sweden, were the fubject of the difpatches he had just received from his court: That if there was a defign to change the prefent form of government, and thereby endanger hereafter the tranquillity of the North, her imperial majefty could not difpenfe with herself from taking cognizance of an affair of fo great confequence to all the powers of the North, inasmuch as it had been exprefly ftipulated in the VIIth article of the treaty of peace concluded at Nyfadt, that Ruffia fhould endeavour by all poffible means, to prevent any alteration whatsoever in the form of government, universally approved and fworn to by the ftates of the kingdom: That this claufe has been confirmed by all the treaties fince figned with Sweden; and therefore her imperial majefty of all the Ruffias could not hold, with indifference, fuch an alteration, much less permit it to be made; but on the contrary, would find herself under a neceffity to take the properest measures for preferving peace in the North. &c. T. Davies Or GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For MAY, 1749. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Month.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.) I. A Criticism on a famous Book lately publifhed, intitled, Letters on the Spirit of Patriotifm, &c. II. An occafional Animadverfion on the III. A Rhapsody to a Friend, to welcome XVI. Courts of Confcience recommended, XVIII. Novels and Romances cenfured. XXI. Account of the Duke of Argyll's Mo nument. XXII. Refolutions of the Afriran Company. XXIII. POETRY: The Fire-Side; to a the Gentleman addreffing three Ladies at once; the new Malquerade Song; on the Peace; Ode Chlorofis diéta; Cupid caught; two Welchmen, a Fable; an Elegy; Far Belinda, fet to Mufick, &c. &c. XXIV. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER : Duke of Modena arrives; Seffions at the Old-Bailey, &c. &c. &c. XXV. Promotions; farriages and Births; XXVI. Monthly Bill of Mortality. With a new MAP of Somerfet fire, from an actual Survey; the Head of Capt. Coram, and a Front View of the Foundling-llofpital, of which he was the Projector; curiously engraved on Copper. MULTUM IN PARVO. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, jun. at the Rofe in Pater-Nofter-Rou. Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Beginning to this Time, neatly Bound, or Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to complete Sets. A rhapsody to a friend, to welcome in the Ode Chlorofis difa 232 233 ibid. 234 235 To a gentleman, who makes his addreffes to three ladies at the fame time 236 The new masquerade fong, fung at Ranelegb, by Mr. Beard ibid. On a lock of hair, given by a young lady to put in a ring The two Welchmen, a fable, ibid. 237 Cupid caught, in imitation of Anacreon On Shakespear's monument at A fong ibid. Stratford ibid. ibid. 238 ibid. of the ibid. ibid. ibid, The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER African company Duke of Modena arrives in England Defcription of the monument erected to ibid. Marriages and births ibid. Some thoughts on the Northern fishery 217 Luxury the ruin of liberty, and how all the antient free ftates fell by it Reflections on the late fire-works An account of the Indians inhabiting the country on the Weft of Hudson's Bay, their manners, customs, way of living, language, religious fentiments, &c. 221 -225 Their great affection for their offspring, and an extraordinary instance of it 223 We have received the letter concerning a barbour for ships in the Downs, and a foort geome N. B. We are not always diffleofed to bear the judgment of our competitors commended; for the merit attributed to the laft Gentleman's Magazine, on account of Rules for PREACHING, we refer the publick to our Magazine for February, 1742. p. 96. trical queftion. |