Life has its cafe, amufement, joy, and fire, Hid in itself, as mufic in the lyre; And, like the lyre, with all its pow'rs impart, When touch'd and manag'd by the hand of

art:

But half mankind, like Handel's fool deftroy,

Through rage and ignorance, the strain of joy, Irregularly will their paffions roll

Through Nature's fineft inftrument, the foul: While men of fenfe, with Handel's happier skill,

Correct the taste, and harmonize the will,
Teach their affections, like his notes, to flow,
Not rais'd too high, nor ever funk too low;
Till ev'ry virtue, meafur'd and refin'd,
As fits the concert of the mafter-mind,
Melts in its kindred found, and pours along
Th' according mufic of the moral fong.
EPIGRAM on Mr. WILKES's unwearied at-
tention to the Public Cause.

Each nymph of fixteen, who would fain be a wife,

Shall foon have a partner to bless her for life; Then laffes hither come,

To the found of the drum,

I have fweethearts in ftore, fuch as never were feen ;

Hafte, hafte let us rove,

To the Island of Love,

Where Cupid is Captain and Venus the Queen.

III.

T

WEDNESDAY, July 24: HIS day the lord-mayor of London received from the Cofferer's office, warrants for four bucks with the following note. Cofferer's Office, Old Palaceyard, July 24, 1771. The Cofferer of his majefty's houfhold preefnts his compliments to the lord-mayor of London, and is extremely forry not to be able to iffue his lordship's warrants for the ufual quantity of venifon; but the great Auguft, 1771.

diminution in the stock of his majesty's deer, and the particular unkindness of this feafon, have rendered the returns fo deficient, that it has proved unavoidable to retrench, for the prefent, part of that allowance which yfed to pass through this office: very particu lar care will be taken to restore it to his lordfhip as foon as there shall be a fufficient stock of deer.'

It has always been cuftomary to prefent the lord-mayer of London with fix incks; which confidered as matter of right; and Iii

A report of the fame committee was alfo read, for granting to the parishioners of St. Botolph, without Bifhopfgate, fome pieces of ground in the faid church-yard, which was accordingly ordered.

Alfo a report from the fame committee, on confidering the petition of Edward Stratford, Efq. for building a renewable leafe of the lord-mayor's banquetting-house, which was alfo ordered accordingly.

A report from the committee of Bridgehouse lands, refpecting a tenement in the Old Change, was read, and it was referred to the faid committee to agree about letting the fame on leafe.

A bill for regulating the company of Sadlers was a fecond time read, and was referred to the committee appointed for that purpose.

At the fame court the refolutions of the livery of London on Midiummer-day were read, touching the filver cups to be prefented to the right honourable the lord-mayor and Aldermen Wilkes and Oliver, which was adjourned to the next court.

On the refignation of the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, late fecond mafter of Westminster school, the king's fcholars prefented him with a piece of plate of exquifite workmanship, with a Latin infcription thereon, expreffive of the great regard and efteem they have for that gensleman.

Qui (fi quando neceffe fuit) leniter
Et invita manu castigarit,

Regii Alumni
Grato animo poculum hoc
Pignus amoris & defiderii
Dant, dicant, dedicant,
Anno Domini 1771.

FRIDAY, August 2:

This day the purfer of the Vanfittart EaftIndiaman, Captain Lewin, came to the India-houfe with advice of that fhip being fate arrived off Beachey-head from coaft and Bay. She left St. Helena on the 7th of June, and brings an account that the Northington, Capt. Seal, from Bombay; the Wocefter, Capt. Hall, from Bengal; and the Bridgewater, Capt. Skotto, from China, were all arrived at St. Helena. The Vanfittart failed on her voyage from the Downs the ift of Feburary 1770.

SATURDAY, 3.

This day the purfer of the Grovesnor East Indiaman, Capt. Duran, came to the Indiahoufe with the news of the above fhip being fafe arrived at Portsmouth from Cafco Bay.

Alfo the Purfer of the Refolution Eafte Indiaman, late Capt. Atkyns, with an account of her fafe arrival in the Downs, from China.

The Horfendon Eaft-Indiaman, Captain Jamefon, from London, is arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.

The Endeavour, which carried Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander round the world, failed many hundred leagues with a large piece of rock fticking in her bottom, which had it fallen out muft have occafioned inevitable deflruction to them all.

THURSDAY, 8.

This night between twelve and one, a fire broke out at Cooks-Hall, in AlderfgateStreet, which confumed the fame, with a large quantity of timber in Mr. Hatton's tim ber-yard adjoining; it likewife burnt the greateft part of the Nag's Head alehoufe, with a table and outhoufes belonging to it, and damaged the back part of feveral of the dwelling-houses that front the street. FRIDAY, 9.

The court of directors of the East-India houfe took up the following twenty-five ships for the prefent feafon, viz. the Granby, Johnfton; new fhip, Capt. Monney, for China directly; new fhip, Capt. Hamilton Lionefs, Larkins, for Madeira, Coaft and China; Fox, Mitchell; Norfolk, Buggen Earl of Afhburnham, Pearce; Earl of Lin coln, Todd; Duke of Grafton, Sampfon, for Coaft and China; new fhip, Capt. Fortefcue; Havannah, White for Bencoolen and China; Triton, Elphinston; Greenwich, Carr, for Madeira, Coaft and Bay; Prince of Wales, Court; Anfon, Lenaet; Duke of Albany, Stewart; Nottingham, Stoakes:

Neptune, Gone, for Coaft and Bay; Royal Charlotte, Clemments, for Bombay and China; Britannia, Rous; Devonshire, Hore; Hector, Williams; Speaker, Scott, for Bombay; Duke of Cumberland, Savage, for Madeira, and Bombay; and Earl of Middlefex, Rogers, for St. Helena and Bencoolen. SATURDAY, 10.

Dr. Slaonder and Mr. Banks accompanied by Sir John Pringle, by his majesty's defire, attended at Richmond, and had the honour of a conference with his majesty, on the difcoveries they made on their late voyage. TUESDAY, 13.

This day the lord-mayor gave a grand entertainment to the aldermen and common council of the city of London, with their ladies. That none but the wives of common council might be introduced to dinner, fuch of them as were bachelors or widowers received fingle tickets only.

Alderman Trecothick's lady did the honours of the table as Lady Mayorefs. There were only seven of the court of Aldermen prefent, viz. Aldermen Kite, Trecothick, Efdaile, Nash, Shakespear, Peers and Wilkes. In the piece of confectionary was a representation of the Tower. The gentlemen and ladies invited to the ball, were admitted from eight o'clock in the evening till ten. The ball was opened by Mr. Alderman Shakespeare and Lady Trecothick; the dancing continued till three o'clock, and by four the whole company had left the Manfion-Houfe. It is computed that there were upwards of five hundred gentlemen and ladies.

SATURDAY, 27.

Public orders were fixed up at the war-office, for the officers belonging to regiments now on duty in Ireland, to repair immediately to their refpective corps, in order to be reviewed by the lord lieutenant, after which a draught is to be made for the Weft-Indies. TUESDAY, 20.

This day at one o'clock, the purfer of the Huntingdon Eaft-Indiaman, came to the India-house with the news of the above fhip being safe arrived off the isle of Wight: fhe left St. Helena the 15th of June, and left the Worcester, Capt, Hall; and the Northington, Capt. Sealy, from Bombay.

A few days fince was married at Ifleworth, the king of the Gipfies' daughter to a fecond hufband: fhe is about 22 years of age, and the man 17. About 20 couple walked from the Bell to the church, and returned in the like manner to the fame place after the ceremony was performed; only as they went the women leant on the men, but on their return back the men leant on the women. The dinner was ferved under the four elms on Hounslow-Heath, and 40 Gipfies fat down together. There was great plenty of all kinds of provifion, fowls not excepted,

and liquor in the fame manner. When they had dined, the ftanders-by regaled themselves with what they had left, whofe number amounted to fome hundreds. The bridegroom's pockets were well lined with gold, and the father declared he could give him a thousand pounds. WEDNESDAY, 21.

This day a pathway close to the haberdafhers alms-houfes at Hoxton, which has been a foot-path for a great number of years, was entirely stopped up by a brick-wall, and paling on the top of it by that company. And in the afternoon a freeholder and inhabitant making demand of the paffage, and being refufed, part of it was immediately pulled down; and the iffue will be determined in Weftminfter hall.

The purfer of the Bridgewater Eaft-Indiaman, Capt. Skottoe, came to the East-India houfe with the news of the above ship being fafe arrived off the isle of Wight from China; and the purfer of the Northington, Capt. Seally, came with the news of that fhip being fafe arrived at Portsmouth.

MONDAY, 26.

This morning, at three o'clock, an exprefs arrived at the French ambaffador's, and at half past five his excellency fet off for France. IRELAND.

His majesty has ordered the names of the earl of Westmeath, and William Pole, Elq; member for Queen's County, to be ftruck off the lift of his privy counsellors in Ireland, for their conduct in oppofing Lord Townfhend during the last feffion of parliament there; and the names of the earl of Granard, who does not live in Ireland, and Lord Sudley (fon of Lord Arran) to be added to the lift in their room.

AMERICA.

Bofton, New-England, June 3, 1771. Wednesday last being the anniversary of the day appointed by the royal charter for the election of counsellors for this province, the great and general court or affembly met at Harvard college in Cambridge, in the morning; when the ufual oaths were administered to the gentlemen, who were returned to serve as members of the honourable house of reprefentatives, who alfo fubfcribed to the declaration the house then made choice of Mr. Samuel Adams for their clerk; after which they chofe the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Efq. their speaker.

:

The houfe of reprefentatives, before they proceeded to bufinefs, fent a message to the governor, with a renewal of their old complaint relative to their being obliged to affemble at Harvard college, Cambridge, inftead of the town-house in Bofton; to which the governor fent the following answer: "Gentlemen of the House of Represen tatives,

You may depend upon my reprefenting

fenting to his majefty, by the firft veffels, the inconveniencies which you mention, in your meffage of yesterday to attend your fitting in any other place than the town of Boston. I am reftrained from holding the court there without his majesty's exprefs leave: I hope before another feffion to obtain this leave: I will endeavour that every obftacle may be removed, and, upon this and every other occafion, to convince you that Lam defirous not merely of preferving to you the enjoyment of all your just rights and privileges, but of procuring every conveniencie fo far as fhall confift with my duty to the king.

"Camb. May 30, 1771. T. HUTCHINSON.' Cambridge, July 4. This day his excellency the governor was pleafed to fend the following meffage to the house of reprefentatives.

Gentlemen of the House of Reprefentatives,

The Secretary has laid before me an engroffed bill intitled an act for apportioning and affeffing a tax of 15,000l. &c.

"I find that this bill is of the fame tenor with the acts which of late years have been annually paffed by the general court. By virtue of thofe acts the affeffors in feveral towns have taxed the officers of the crown who have been refident in fuch towns for the profits which they receive from their commiffions, although their offices have no peculiar relation to this province. I doubt whether this could be the intent of the former acts, but as this conftruction has been put upon them, I cannot fign another act in the fame form, being exprefsly forbid by his majesty's 27th inftruction from giving my confent to fuch an act upon any pretence whatsoever. I cannot doubt of your being of the fame fentiment with me, that fuch a general claufe as is now in the bill, which impowers the affeffors to tax all commiffions of profit, needs fome qualification, and that it should extend no farther than to commiffions which peculiarly relate to this province, otherwife any of his majefty's fervants who may occafionally refide here for a short term may be taxed for the profit which they receive from their commiffions and places in GreatBritain and every part of his majefty's do

into confideration your excellency's meffageof this day.

The reafon you are pleased to agn for with-holding your affent to the tax-bill, is furprizing and alarming.

We know of no commiffioners of his ma jefty's cuftoms, nor of any revenue his ma jefty has a right to establish in North-America: we know and we feel, a tribute levied and extorted from thofe, who if they have property have a right to the abfolute disposal of it.

As to the operation of law mentioned in your excellency's meffage, the law of this province, at least in this refpect, has rightly operated, as it ever ought: and we know of no reason, nor of any femblance of reafon, why the commiffioners, their fuperior or fubordinate officers, who are equally protected with the other inhabitants, fhould be exempted from paying their full proportion of taxes for the fupport of government within this province.

The fame day it was unanimously agreed by both hoafes that a remonstrance be fent to his excellency the governor, relative to his refusing to give his affent to the grants that have been made for their respective agents."

On Friday noon, the two houfes by his excellency's direction, gave their joint attendance at the town-houfe in Cambridge, when his excellency was pleafed to close the feffion of the general affembly with a fpeech, which concludes as follows:

"I fhall only obferve upon your meffage prefented me this day, in anfwer to my mef fage to you of yesterday, that whatever may be the rights of the general affembly in mat ters of taxation, the crown has certainly referved to itself the prerogative of difallow, ing every law of what nature foever; and as the difallowance of a tax act, after it is in part executed, would caufe great perplexity, I think that his majesty's inftruction pointing but to you, through me his fervant, thofe parts of your tax acts which he disapproves of, fhould be confidered as an inftance of his tenderness and paternal regard to his subjects, and that it is not liable to the leaft exception. I fhall tranfinit my meffage to this your "extraordinary anfwer to be laid before his majefty.

Gentlemen of the council, and of the
Houfe of Reprefentatives,

I have given my confent to the bills and votes which have paffed the two houtes this feffion, as far as I could confiftent with my duty to the king, and with the interest of the province.

Upon mature confideration of the grants made to William Bollan, Efq. and alfo to the executors of Dennys de Berdt, Efq. by the laft affembly, I refufed my confent. I cannot yet fee reafon to alter my fentiments, and the objections to my figning the grants

made

made this feffions to the fame perfons, to which your meffage of the forenoon refers, are rather increased than leffened.. T. HUTCHINSON.

Turner-Francis Parry, Efq; of the navy, to Mifs Fanny Eames-Charles Centre Efq; to Mils Elizabeth Soane,

August. Whitfhed Keen, to the hon.

fon.

July 7. Her majefty, the queen of Denmark, of a princess-11.The hereditary princefs of Heffe Caffel, of a daughter-Lady of Col. Hale of a daughter-16. Lady of Nicholas Winford, Efq; of a fon-22. Lady of Sir Brownlow Cuft, Bart. of a daughter24. Lady of Richard Myddleton, Efq; of a daughter-Lady of the Right Hon. Brownlow Bertic of a daughter.

Auguft 11. At Weymouth in Dorfetfhire, the lady of John Smith of Sydling in the fame county, of a boy.

MARRIAGES.

OL, Cullen in the Dutch service, to Mrs. Kettleby William Orde, Els; to Mifs Ward-Thomas Graves, Efq; to Mifs Williams-Benjamin Upton, Efq; to Mifs Steel -Robert Barew, Efq; to Mils Fanny Boyce -Thomas Martin, Efq; to Mifs Collins.

June 24. Francis Wye, Efq; to Mifs A melia Carteret-25. Jonathan Edwards, Efq; to Mils Vane-23. John Biggs, Efq; to Mifs Phillips-29. John Martyn, Efq; to Mifs Skryme-30. Robert Auftin, Efq; to Mifs Mary Stevens,

July 1. Rev. Dr. Coote, dean of Cilfenora in Ireland, to Mifs Bathurst-2. John Powell, Efq; to Mifs Leigh-3. James Kodwell, Efq; to Miss Elizabeth Franklin-4. Jofeph Whitefield, Efq; to Mrs. Ann Bratt→→ Samuel Premier, Efq; to Mifs Holden-6. Estcourt Creswell, Efq; to Mifs Anna Maria Wotton-7. James Nicholls, Efq; to Mifs Barnard-9. John Bodycote, Efq; to Mrs. Hornbuckle 10. John Ellington, Efq; to Mifs Harriott Anfon-11, Charles Saxton, Efq; to Mifs Bufh-14. Chriftopher Simmons, Efq; to Mifs Gordon-15. Sir George Amyand, Bart. to Mifs CornwallHenry Herbert, Efq; to the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Maria Wyndham-16. John Potter, Efq; to Mifs Polly Neville-18. Francis Charteris, Efq; to Mifs Sufan Keck, maid of honour to the princefs dowager-19. Benjamin Allbright, to Mifs Elizabeth Joyce -21. John Collier, Efq; to Mifs Maria Gregory-22. George L. Staunton, Efq; to Mifs Jane Collins-25. Thomas Heysham, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Drayton-Mr. Edward Roberts, furgeon, to Mifs Freemantell 28. Thomas Pitt, Efq; to Mifs Wilkinfon Robert Morris, Efq; to Mifs Sufan Broadfeld-Mr. John Selby, farmer, to Mrs.

to Mifs Addington-4. Thomas Wood, Esq; to Miis Elizabeth Crosby-Henry Midhurst, Efq; to Miss Sarah Downs Michael Barret, to Mifs Hart-William Nath, Efq; to Mrs. Bradley-7. Robert Thorne, Efq; to Mifs Hannah Grove-The Rev. Mr. Gibbons to Mrs. Blunt Thomas Noble, Efq; to Mifs Sally Fellows-The Rev. Mr. Bethel, to Mits Ann Clitherow-11. Thomas Hooper, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Grey-John Toolmin, Efq; to Mifs Mary Field-Bryan Bur rell, Efq; to Mifs Partridge-13. Archibald Hamilton, Efq; to Mifs Dinwiddie—14. Robert Manfell, Efq; to Maria Walker-16. George North, Efq; to Mifs Frances Elizabeth Davis-James Green, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Spooner-18. Robert Cartwright, Efq; to Mils Amelia Pierson-Mr. Pofter, coal-merchant, to Mifs Sarah MugridgeThomas Graves, Efq; to Mifs Bridget Bacon-22. Richard Vincent, Elq; to Lady Moore, relict of Sir Henry Moore, Bart. late governor of New York-George Stratton, Efq; to Mifs Sufanna Bellamy-22. James Hamilton, Efq; to Mifs Charlotte Williamfon-25. Charles Hooper, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Dale-Edward Jones, Efq; to Mifa Wife-James Coleman, Efq; to Miss Eliza beth Cumberland.

DEATHS.

Illiam Bettinfon, Efq;-Holmes, Efq; WMrs. Palmer, aged 101-Mrs Woolryche-Lord Auguftus Fitzgerald, Hon. George Barnewell,-Rear Admiral Long-Tho. Fletcher, Efq;-Thomas Clefter, Efq-Sir Tho. Peyton, Bart-Misa Talbot, niece to Lord Shrewsbury-Right Hon. Lady Frances Clifford-Bedingfield, Efq;-Mr. Jofeph Wright, at Pool, worth 150,000l-Rob. Wilmott, Efq; eldest son of Sir Eardley Wilmott, at Bengal-Mrs. Pinckney, aged 92-David Murray, Efq; at Georgia.

June 19. Lady Webb, at Paris-Mr. Sam. Milner, aged 105-24. James Swindell, Efq-Rob. Linfay, Efq-25-Lynch, EfqJames Cantrell, Efq-John Cox, Elq-26 Robert Oborn, Efq-27 Sir Wm. Richards, aged 97-Jofeph Wakelin, Efq-29 Amos Linfey, Efq-30 Lady Ann Barton,aged 92.

July 1. William Snelgrave, Efq-Mrs. Gale, Laundrefs to his majesty-Solomon Durell, Equerry of the crown ftables-2 John Percival, Elq-3 John James Wilkinson, Efq-Wm. Mantle, Efq~John Bowies, Eq -4 Dr. Cole, Phyfician-James West, Eq; Capt. Tho. Wilfon formerly in the African trade, aged 103-John Marsh Dickenfon Efq-Richard Ruffel, M. D.-6 Henry Saxby, Elg-James Frodsham, Efq-Wm. Ratcliff,