1769. Extraordinary Advert.-Cafe of a Murder. mas Fenn, the elder, Efq; receivergeneral of the land tax for part of the County of Suffolk, and one of his majefty's juftices of the peace of the faid burgh, to aid and allift me herein, fhould it become neceffary, as by the duty of his office of a juftice, as aforefaid, he ought and is required to do, and not to countenance, approve, and encourage fuch tumultuous, diforderly, and unlawful affemblies, as he was prefent at on the faid 9th day of March, to the great difgrace of magiftracy, and to the evil and pernicious example of the common people of the said burgh. Sudh. March 28, DANSIE CARTER, 1769. Mayor of the faid burgh. Cafe of Murder in the Year 1759, being a Parallel to one in the Year 1768. AWO foldiers box in the street, one Two in the is in mediately carried to the Westminster Infirmary; the wound was given about nine o'clock in the evening, and the deceased lay, with his inteltine hanging out, till eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the next day. The prifoner in his defence produced a furgeon, who declared upon his oath, that if the wound had been enlarged immediately, and the inteftine returned, as it was not wounded, it was more than probable the man would have done well; another furgeon in court feemed to be of the fame opinion. [See Seffions Paper, No. VII. Part II. for the year 1759, p. 291. Richard Lamb's trial for the murder of William Kendal.] The prifoner was tried before the prefent Mr. Baron Adams, who, in delivering his charge to the jury, obferved, that it was a very grofs negleft in the furgeon, whole duty it was to attend the Infirmary, and that he ought to be feverely reprimanded for it; but that it did not at all extenuate the guilt of the prifoner, for had the deceated received no wound, the inteftine would not have been liable to mortification. I fpeak this from my own knowledge, being present at the trial. N. B. The prifoner was refpited fome time, and afterwards executed. The reader is left to obferve upon and compare this cafe with that of Balfe and M'Quirk, To the PRINTER, &c. SIR, 195 NE cannot help lamenting the blindners and giddine's of the mob in this nation. A ferious and edifying fpectacle has been lately exhibited in the principal streets of this metropolis, which, inftead of affecting our unthinking countrymen in the manner it ought, excited them to feveral ludicrous and indecent actions. To the great difgrace of all order, they pelted with dirt, and broke the carriages of feveral of the principal actors in this auguft and awful cere mony. The misfortune is, that the multitude feldom look further than to the hufk, the hell, the mere outfide of things. Brought up at the feet of the great Warburton, I have been enabled to go deeper. By the rules of hiero glyphical decyphering, I have found this city cavalcade full of the highest myfteries; I have found it to be a proceffion in the manner of wife antiquity, of great dignity and fignificance, and beautifully typical of the prefent condition of the kingdom. The first object that truck me, as I viewed it from the window of an upper ftory at Charing-cross, was the herfe. This herfe, with it's accompanyments, compofed a fine emblem of the prefent adminiftration. The black and white horfes which drew it, together with the black and white fides of the driver, admirably characterized the whimsical and motley mixture of the miniftry, and the irreconcileable difcords which fubfift amongst them. This mixture of colours alfo ferved to point out the ability of the great court lawyers in proving black to be white, and white to be black; an ability never more exerted, and never more neceffary, than in this age; and for which reafon the highest rewards have been lately beftowed on those who have fhewn a good difpofition, with adequate talents for this fervice: Nor was that party-coloured robe less particularly characteristical of the dexterous change of principles in a great man of that profeffion, one half of whofe life was cloathed in the pure white of patriotifm, the other in a robe of the fullest dye of arbitrary prerogative, Bb 2 It 196 Ufes of a late melancholy Spectacle. It is generally known that thofe who die maids and batchelors have their herfes decorated with white, marrried people with fable feathers. As the black and white horfes marked the political, in the fame manner the black and white plumes, which folemnly nodded on the top of this hierogly phical herfe, denoted the moral fituation of the great men who govern us, and the ambiguous ftate in which they live, as it is extremely hard to fettle whether they are batchelors or married, while other men cohabit with their wives, and they cohabit with the wives of other men. Perhaps too it meant to fignify that doubtful ftate in which great lords and ladies ftand while a divorce bill is depending; it being impoffible to fay, until the royal affent is given, whether they are to be confidered as in a ftate of celibacy or married, in bondage or in freedom, a ftate of things almoft unknown to our ancestors, but now grown common, and which adds not a fittle to the reverence fo remarkably paid to the great ftation, and even to the legislative authority itself. As to the body of the herfe, and what it contained, there were various opinions: fome fay it held the departed freedom of elections; fome, that it was fuppofed to contain the facred remains of our dear mother Britannia; while others thought that it meant to typify the miniftry, dead to all fenfe of honour, of fhame, of duty, and love to their country. The paintings on the fides of the herfe were remarkably well executed: they were lefs myfterious than the reft, and indeed to the leaft difcerning eye difplayed, in the moft lively colours, an adminiftration, which being equalJy void of goodnefs and of wifdom, unpolitic, ignorant, rafh, and brutal, are acquainted with no method of governing but by force. On one fide is thewn the employment of their irregulars, and their method of deftroying the people by hired mobs: on the other the fyftematic abuse of the military power, with all it's pleafing and natural confequences. This funeral apparatus was in ano. ther refpect full of propriety: There is a strong analogy of character, and a clofe connection of interefts, be April tween the worshipful society of undertakers for funerals, and the prefent undertakers of our political affairs; both are extremely odious to the people, and both thrive by public diftrefs and calamity; both are employed to decorate corruption, and to fet up rottennefs in dignity and state. Pericles in his laft hours congratu lated himself that no Athenian had ever worn mourning on his account: our minifters have another fort of glory-they are minifters in a trading nation, and are too good friends to the manufacture of their country to endeavour at fuch ridiculous merit. I am told that the fociety of undertakers are fo fenfible of this, that they intend an handfome addrefs to his Ge the De of Gn, to L-d V-t W-m-h, and to L-d B-t-n, for the large increate of business during their adminiftration: it is to be attended by a joy ful proceffion of fifty-fix mourning coaches. I do not intend to be pofitive, but I must fubmit it to the learned prelate whom I mentioned (honoris caufa) in the beginning of my letter, whether his friend Pope, the laft but one of the poetic and prophetical line, had not this time and thefe events clearly in his view when he wrote the following excellent verfes: "On all the line a fudden vengeance And frequent berfes fhall befiege their And curs'd with hearts unknowing how If your readers like the explanation of the emblematic herfe, I may shortly lay before them my obfervations on the reft of the late fignificant proceffion. I am, fir, Your humble fervant, To the PRINTER, &c. I deftroying wafps and hornets, 1769. Method of deftroying Wafps and Hornets. "M, de Reaumur thinks that all the males of the wafp kind perish in the winter; and of the females, fcarce a dozen remained of two or three hundred, which lived in the fame nest in the fummer. A female wasp becomes, in fpring, the foundress of a republic, of which the is, in the ftrict fenfe of the expreffion, the nurfing mother. Hence appears the importance of defroying thefe females at their firft appearance in the fpring, before they have laid the foundation of numerous republics, who are declared enemies to the bees, which will naturally draw upon them the refentment of every owner or friend to bees. When the females make their firft appearance in spring, flies, their ufual food, are scarce; and they are therefore the harper fet on any food laid for them. Honey, and all fweet things, are agreeable to them. If the fragrance of fach things is heightened by the addition of fome fermented liquor, fuch as wine, cyder, or ale, they become the more tempting. The mixture fhould be put into phials, which being about half full, are fufpended on trees then in bloom, or in other places to which the females refort. They enter the phials in fearch of food, but as they cannot again afcend to the mouth of the phial, they are drowned in the liquor; and thus many rifing colonies are cut off in their bad. For this purpose, I would recommend to gentlemen to give a bounty of a fixpence or fhilling for every mother-wafp, or mother-bornet, brought to them alive, if poffible, or dead, provided they look fresh and moift, and have not the appearance of having been long kept and this from the beginning of February to the beginning of May, when they will have made their nefts; and then the lives of the mothers are not of fuch confequence. This inconfiderable reward would excite the poor as well as boys to keep a sharp look out for them; by which means greater havock may be made in the breed one year, than can be done in feveral years, by deftroying their nefts," 197 Abftra&t of an A&t for repealing so much of an At made in the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William III. intitled, An Act to encourage the bringing of Plate into the Mint to be coined, and for the further remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom, as refrains any Perfon keeping an Inn, Tavern, Aleboufe or Victualling-Houfe, or fellling Wine, Ale, Beer, or any other Liquors, by Retail, from publickly using any wrought or manufactured Plate, or any Utenfil or Veffel thereof, except Spoons; and for putting an End to Profecutions commenced for Offences against fuch Part of the faid A&t. T HE preamble to this act recites the claufe of the above act reftraining innkeepers, &c. from the public ufe of any wrought or manufactured plate, and the laid restriction having been found very inconvenient, and productive of many frivolous and vexatious fuits, and being alfo detrimental to the revenue; it is hereby enacted, that, from and after the parfing of this act, fo much of the faid. act is repealed, as reftrains inn-keepers and others from publickly ufing wrought or manufactured plate; and perfons fued for penalties incurred by reafon of the faid act are indemnified by paying fuch ccfts of fuit as have been incurred, except in cafes where final judgment has been already obtained for the penalty.-Perfons fued, from and after the paffing of this act, may plead the general iffue, and, upon their defence, give this act, and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon. Among the late Proceedings of the Colony of New-York is the following excellent Addrefs to the KING: To the KING's most excellent MAJESTY. Moft gracious Sovereign, YOUR majefty's most loyal and dutiful fubjects, the general affembly of the colony of New York, beg leave With all humility to fhew Th HAT the allegiance due from the fubject to his fovereign beAPIS. ing infeperably annexed to his perfon, and AN EXCELLENT 198 and his indifpenfible duty even in the remoteft parts of the dominions of his prince, and the protection and defence of his conftitutional rights and privileges being the fource of his allegiance; your petitioners humbly hope that as no diftance from the mother country can abrogate their duty, loyalty, nor will ever abate their affection to their fovereign, they will never experience, among the other infelicities unavoidably confequent on fo great a distance from the belt of kings, the infringement of these rights and privileges, without the liberty of fupplicating your facred majefty for that redrefs which your majefty will ever be ready to grant to any of your majefty's. injured fubjects, however remote their fituation from your illuftrious perfon. That your majefty's royal predeceffors have not only authorized the emigration of their fubjects into thefe parts of the British empire, but from the earliest fettlement thereof, to the prefent day, conftantly acquiefced in their enjoyment of thofe rights and privileges, on the fame tenure of fubjection by which their ancestors, the firft emigrants, held them in their native country, and by which your majefty's British fubjects do ftill continue to hold and enjoy them. That ever fince the year one thoufand fix hundred eighty-three, there has been a regular legislature in this colony, confifting of a governor and a board of council, both appointed by the crown, and of the reprefentatives of the people, which, befides the power of making laws hath conftantly enjoyed and exercited the exclufive right of taxing the fubject. That under fuch provincial conftitution this colony has been fettled by great numbers of your majefty's proteftant fubjects from Great Britain and Ireland; and being originally modelled with the intervention of the crown, and perpetually countenanced by the realm of England before, and of Great Britain fince the union, the inhabitants of this country entertained the moft folid hopes that they were not only entitled to, but had gained, by uninterrupted ufage, by the conceffions of the crown and the British parliament, fuch a civil conftitution as would remain fecure and permanent, April and be tranfmitted inviolate to their lateft pofterity. Your majesty's most humble petitioners beg leave to affure your majefty, that their conftitucnts are fo far from affecting an independency on their mother country, the profperity of which they are ever difpofed to the utmost of their powe to promote, that they confider their union with, and dependence upon, Great Britain as the molt durable fource of their fecurity and happiness, and do mot chearfully fubmit to the authority of parliament in making laws for preferving a neceffary fubordination. But notwithitanding this their loyal fubmiflion, and unfhaken attachment to their parent country, they do not conceive the power of impofing taxes upon them without their confent any ways effential to that falutary purpofe. Nor do they arrogate to themselves, as they humbly prefume, any unconftitutional right, by claiming the privilege of being exempted from all taxes but those that are laid upon them by their own reprefentatives, which they efteem fo infeparable from the idea of British liberty, that the deprivation of it must neceffarily terminate in their total ruin. Permit us, therefore, moft gracious fovereign, to approach your imperial throne with the greatest concern at certain laws lately enacted by the parliament of Great Britain, manifestly tending to divest your majesty's fubjects of this colony of this, the most inestimable of all the bleffings they have long and uninterruptedly enjoyed, and which they had reafon to hope would have been fecured and perpetuated to the remoteft period of time. Among these laws, your majesty's most humble petitioners beg leave, with the greatest deference to the justice and wisdom of a British parliament, to particularize the late acts impofing duties on the colonies, with the fole view, and for the express purpofe, of railing a revenue, as utterly fubverfive of their conftitutional rights, because as they neither are, nor, from their peculiar circumftances, can be reprefented in that august assembly, their property is granted away by your majefty's commons in Great Britain without their confent, The PETITION 199 1769 The act for fufpending the legifla-T. 149.) having been attacked tive power of the reprefentatives of this colony they confider as ftill more dangerous and alarming, as their conftituents can derive no advantage of their right of chufing their own reprefentatives, if fuch reprefentatives, when chofen, are not permitted to exercise their own judgment in a mat. ter fo important to their conftituents as the difpofition of their property. Nor is it an inconfiderable addition to their concern that those acts of parliament imply a cenfure on the reprefentatives of this colony, for which, as they humbly conceive, no inftance in the whole tenor of their conduct has adminiftered the leaft occafion; becaufe at no time whatsoever have they been unwilling to exercife their right of taxation, either for the particular benefit of the colony, or the public emolument of the mother country;fo far from this, that their conftant provifion for the fupport of government, and the ample fupplies granted by them during the late war, upon the feveral requifitions made by your facred majefty and your royal grandfather, afford the moft indubitable proofs of their alacrity in contributing, to the utmost of their ability, towards every measure advancive of the national glory. And we humbly befeech your majefty to do us the juftice to believe that the people of this colony, to judge from their former conftant and invariable practice, will on no future occafion fail to demonftrate their inviolable fidelity to their fovereign, and their warmest attachment to the intereft of their mother country. Permit us, therefore, moft gracious fovereign, humbly to implore your majefty to take our calamitous circumstances into your princely confideration, and to grant your majefty's loyal and dutiful fubjects, the inhabitants of this colony, fuch relief in the premifes as to your majefty, in your royal wifdom and clemency, fhall feem HE letter of the masterly Junius in a whole pamphlet, by an anonymous To his grace the Duke of * Have to good an opinion of your grace's difcernment, that when the author of the vindication of your conduct affures us that he writes from his own mere motion, without the leaft authority from your grace, I fhould be ready enough to believe him, but for one fatal mark, which feems to be fixed upon every measure, in which either your perfonal or your political character is concerned. Your firft attempt to fupport Sir William Proctor ended in the election of Mr. Wilkes; the second enfured fuccefs to Mr. Glynn. The extraordinary step you took to make Sir James Lowther lord paramount of Cumberland, has ruined his intereft in that county for ever. The houfe lift of directors was curfed with the concurrence of government; and even the miferable D-y could not escape the misfortune of your grace's protection. With this uniform experience before us, we are authorised to fufpect, that when a pretended vindication of your principles and conduct in reality contains the bittereft reflections upon both, it could not have been written without your immediate direction and affiftance. The author indeed calls God to witness for him, with all the fincerity, and in the very terms of an Irish evidence, to the beft of his knowledge and belief. My Lord, you should not encourage thefe appeals to heaven. The pious prince, from whom you are fuppofed to defcend, made fuch frequent ufe of them in his public declarations, that at laft the people alfo found it neceflary to appeal to heaven in their turn. Your administration has driven us into circumstances of equal diftrefs; beware at least how you remind us of the remedy. You have already much to answer for. You have provoked this unhappy gentleman to play the fool once more in public life, in fpite of his years and infirmities, and to fhew us that, as you yourfelf are a fingular inftance of youth without fpirit, the man, |