we are affured, been divefted of all his employments at court, by special command, in order to difcourage vice, and banih from the palace, agreeable to the royal proclamation [xxii. 548.), all fuch as fhould be found guilty of immorality. The fair partner of this young nobleman's inconfiderate flight, is fomewhat above twenty years of age; her perfon eafy, elegant, and fhowy; her difpofition fprightly and vivacious; and her face, though not strikingly handfome, yet engagingly agreeable. It is faid, that the nobleman and young lady who lately disappeared, arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle the 25th ult. [February]: where thev remained only two days, having fet out thence the 28th; but for what place, is not known. Yesterday [i. e. Feb. 26.] Lady Pembroke fet out for Blenheim houfe, the feat of the Duke of Marlborough, her Ladyfhip's brother. Capt. Moore, who was aid-de-camp to the Earl of Pembroke, is appointed aid de-cainp to the Marquis of Granby. A letter to a friend And fo, as I was faying, it was quite a premeditated affair, and by no means the effect of a fudden fit of pallion, or inconfiderate precipitation. You are to know, they were together at a private public rout, or ball, the night before they actually went off; that very night was intended for the execution of their project. They danced together. About two in the morning, fays fhe to her mother, "My dear Madam, I am forry to be the cause of keeping you here so long beyond your ufual hour of repofe; but really I am in fuch fpirits, and find myfelf in fuch a humour for dancing, that I fear it will be late before I fhall be able to perfuade myself to give over. Do, good Madam, let me perfuade you to retire without me."-"O! by no means, my dear, (replied the kind mother), I have not the least inclination to go home; fo don't make yourself at all uneafy about me: Your time thall be mine." This unexpected and fuperabundant goodnefs difconcerted their scheme, and obliged the gentleman to have recourse to a fecond plot. About four in the morning, the company broke up. The mother's chair appeared at the door; but that of the daughter was not to be found. Upon which, her partner very naturally defired the young lady to accept of his. The. prudent matron thanked him for the offer, and told him, that he would put Mifs in 109 to her chair, and that the herself would make use of his. This the accordingly performed, and by that means added one restless night more to the duration of her daughter's fufpenfe. The next morning the young lady took it into her head to vi fit her uncle, ftept into her chair, and quitted her father's houfe. The chairmen fet her down at a certain house, in a certain street, which houfe was previ ouly prepared for the purpose. She told the fellows to come again at a certain hour, and fo difimified them. The chair returned according to order; but on inquiring for the lady, the men were told, that he had been gone from thence a confiderable time. This was reported to her father; who, the next morning, received a letter, which, by the hand-writing on the direction, he knew to be his daughter's. He took the letter, read the fuperfcription, and then returned it to the bearer; telling him, that he might give it back to the perfons from whom it came. The lover alfo wrote a letter to his wife, in which he informed her, that though he had lived with her fo many years, it had never, notwithstanding all his endeavours, been in his power to bring himself to love her as the deferved; that Mifs was the only perfon for whom he had ever felt a real affection; and that with her therefore he had determined to spend the reft of his days. They immediately imbarked for Germany, in their way to Italy; where, according to the fashion of that country, they are determined to live together, till they grow weary of each other. E LAND. R I On the 26th of February, the Commons refolved, nem. con. “That an address be prefented to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, that he will represent to his Majefty the fenfe of this house, that the entertainments and appointments of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland are become inadequate to the dignity of that high office, and to the expence with which it is and ought to be fupported; and that it is the humble defire of this houfe, that his Majefty will be graciously pleased to grant fuch an augmentation to the entertainment of the Lord Lieutenant for the time being, as, with the prefent allowances [computed at 12,000 1.], will in the whole amount to the annual fum of 16.000 l.; and to exprefs that fatisfaction which we feel, at the pleasing hope, that this this just and neceffary augmentation fhould take place during the adminiftration of a chief governor, whofe many great and amiable qualities, whofe wife and happy adminiftration in the government of this kingdom, have univerfally endeared him to the people of Ireland " Accordingly, Mr Speaker, with the house, attended the Lord Lieutenant next day at the Castle with this addrefs; and there upon his Excellency was pleased to return the following answer. "I fhall take the first opportunity of laying before his Majefty the fenfe of the houfe of Commons contained in this addrefs. I enter fully into the truly liberal motives which have influenced your conduct in this unanimous refolution.-That you are folicitous not only to fupport his Majefty's government, but to fupport it with becoming grandeur and magnificence, reflects the highest honour on yourselves; that you have chofen the time of my adminiftration, that you have diftinguifhed my perfon as the object of your favour, reflects the highest credit upon me; and I must ever confider this event as one of the most fortunate and honourable circumstances of my life. Whatever merit you afcribe to me in the government of this kingdom, in reality. arifes from your own conduct; though your partiality would transfer it to mine. Your unanimity has first created this merit, and your liberality would now reward it. I am fenfible of the obligation you confer: and I can in no way properly demonftrate my sense of it, but by being, as I am, unalterably determined to implore his Majefty, that I may be permitted to enjoy it pure, and unmixed with the lu crative advantages which you propofe fhould attend it. This affectionate addrefs is intended as an honour to me: that intention has on your part been fully answered; to make it truly honourable, fomething is ftill neceflary on mine. It becomes me to vie with the generofity of parliament, and to keep up an emulation of fentiment. It has been my duty, in the courfe of this fellion, to propose large plans of public expence, and to promife an attention to public oeconomy: and I could not without pain fubmit, that the establishment, already burthened at my recommendation, fhould be still further charged for my own particular profit But while I confider myself at liberty to facrifice my private interests to my private feelings, I must confider myfelf as bound likewife to confult, in compliance with your enlarged and liberal fentiments, the future fupport of the station in which I am placed; to the dignity of which, the emoluments are, as you represent them, inadequate. I fhall tranfmit, therefore, the fenfe of the houfe of Commons, that the augmentation which your generosity has propofed, may, if his Majefty fhall think fit, be made to the establishment of my fucceffor, when he fhall enter on the government of this kingdom, and when it is probable the circumstances of this country may be better able to fupport fuch additional burthen. But while I must decline accepting any part of the profits, I rejoice to charge myself with. the whole of the obligation: Abundantly happy, if, when I fhall hereafter be removed from this high, and, through your favour, defirable fituation, I thould leave it, through your liberality, augmented in its emoluments, and, by my inability, not diminished in its reputation." Dublin, Feb. 9. John de Courcy, Lord Courcy and Kinfale, has taken his feat in the houfe of Lords, as premier baron of this kingdom; fo that that ancient dignity ftill fubfifts in the family of De Courcy, who enjoy the peculiar privilege of appearing covered [xxi. 639.] in the royal prefence. From Faulkner's Dublin Journal. Whereas a lady, who called herself a native of Ireland, was in England in the year 1740, and refided for some time at a certain village, near Bath; where fhe was delivered of a fon; whom the left with a fum of money, under the care of a perfon of the fame parish, and promised to fetch him at a certain age, but has not fince been heard of: Now this is to defire the lady, if living, and this fhould be fo fortunate as to be feen by her, to fend a letter directed to I. E. to be left at the Chapter coffee. houfe, St Paul's church-yard, London; wherein fhe is defired to give an account of hertelf, and her reafons for concealing this affair: Or, if the lady fhould be dead, and any person is privy to the affair, they are likewife defired to direct as above. -N. B. This advertisement is published by the person himself, not from motives of neceffity, or to court any allistance, (he being by a feries of happy cir. cumftances poflefled of an eafy and independent fortune), but with a real defire to know his origin. P. S. The strictest fecrecy may be depended upon. MA Feb.1762. Maritime occurrences, Marriages, &c. MARITIME OCCURRENCES. [Newithtanding all the care that can be taken to elled accounts of captures, the lift must be very defelim and erroneous, and fearce worth being preferfor the future, therefore, we shall still infert all the captures mentioned in the London gazette, and theft from other papers that seem to deferve particalar ustice, but content ourjelves with giving the rif a place occasionally on our cover.] Admiralty office, Feb. 19. Capt. Hotham, of his Majesty's fhip olus, gives an account, in his letter dated in Plymouth found the 16th infaat, that during his late cruize off Cape Finithere, he took two French privateers; the Pertier, of fix guns and 80 men; and the Elperace, of fix guns and 60 men; both belonging Bayonne, the former of which he carried into Lib a fome time ago, and the latter he has brought in with him to Plymouth; and that he retook an English hip from Jamaica, the Hungerford, which he paried from the 15th inftant, The not being able to fetch into Plymouth found. Gaz. Admiralty-office, Feb 20. Capt. Harrifon, of his Majefty's fhip Venus, writes thus to Mr Cleveland, the 13th inft." On Thursday, the 11th inftant, Cape Ortugal bearing S. S. E. diflant two miles, i fell in with, in the night, the Creole French privateer, belonging to Bayonne, of eight four-pounders and 84 men, who failed that evening from the Groyne, where the had been to clean and refit near three weeks. There wese on board her three Dutch paffengers, and one English prisoner, who lays, there are twelve Spah men of war in Ferrol, four of which are almott ready for fea; that two Venetian ips, one of 60, the other a frigate, had arrived a few weeks before, with men, in order to man the feet; that the remainder of them was not whalf manned, but rigged, except two, who were in the docks repairing; that the Spanish men of wars boats were every day at the Groyne ring for men; and that orders were fent all round the country for the bringing in of men. They alfo add, that two French men of war, e of 60 guns, the other of 64, who came from he river Vilaine fome time fince, failed last week for Breft, as was thought, not being in fit adition for a voyage. The French fquadron as never been at or near Ferrol. They are ng what troops they can in Galicia, but at ent have not more than 4000 men quarternear Ferrol, &c. As they imagine, there are any English ships detained in the Groyne, with ter rudders and fails on fhore, but the men ave leave to remain on board, I have dispatchthe privateer with this intelligence, as the fails u, and hope the will arrive fafe." Gaz. Extreft of a letter from a French officer, lately a prifoner on parole at Belfaft, to an acquaintance a that town, dated, Weymouth, Jan. 29. 1762. On the 10th of January I failed from Havre de-Grace, on board his Majefty's frigate the Ze nobie, of 22 guns and 210 men, commanded by M. de Sage. We were attacked on the 12th by a mofl violent frorm; and finding all our refift ance to be in vain, and our fufferings at fea to be insupportable, as the laft effort for our lives, we ninfula of Portland; where, with great difficulty, were obliged to run our ship afhore on the pe71 of us were faved, and thefe in a very melancholy plight, being almost all wounded and naked; and, to complete our mifery, the barbarous iflanders, fecing our helpless ftate, flocked down upon us, and of the little coverings the merciless fes had left us, poor wretches! they with more hardened cruelty ftripped us every foul: and had not the generofity and tenderness of the Sieur Taver (Commander in Portland) interpofed, we fhould have all undoubtedly perished. When we had recovered ftrength enough to walk about, we were removed to this town, and then wrote to the Lords of the Admiralty, petitioning their Lordships, that in commiferation for our distresfes, they would not add captivity to our misfor tune. Their Lordships honoured us with an an fwer, That we were not at all regarded as prifone and farther, That our letter had been prefepted to the King, and that his Majesty, in compaffion for our deplorable circumstances, ordered, that we should be all cloathed at his expence; that a veffel should be equipped and victualled at his coft, to carry us home with all convenient speed; and that until the transport could be prepared, we should be quartered on the public houfes, he paying whatever we might call for. ers; 1 P. S. London, March 13. The humanity and generofity lately fhewn to the crew of the Zenobie frigate, from Havre-de-Grace, has been attended with the following good effect: On the night of the dreadful form of fnow and hail, or rather hurricane, the 21 ult. an English trading veffel was drove on fhore at Havre-de-Grace, and broke to pieces, but the crew faved. The commandant of the town being informed of the affair, and allowed the common men 30 fous per day, ordered them to be quartered at a coffee-house, while they remained there; and the latter end of last week they all arrived safe in England. MARRIAGES. Cork, Feb. 4. Laft Saturday, Mr Archer, blacksmith, aged 80, to Mrs Ruth Redding, a ged 70. The courtship began, the match was concluded, and the marriage confummated in a few hours. When his daughter came to him, and afked him if he was married, he answered her in the words of St Paul, ry than burn," It is better to mar 26. At Aikergill, in Caithness, Capt. Themas Dunbar, of the 31ft regiment of foot, reprefentative of the family of Grangehill, to Mifs Dunbar of Weftfield, daughter of Sir William Dunbar of Hemprigs, On the xvii. ides [16th day] of August 1759, was married, at Warfaw, the capital of Poland, David Viscount of Stormont, to H.nrietta Fre. derica, daughter of Henry Count Bunaw; and on the 18th of May 1760, was born, also at Warfaw, of this marriage, a daughter, named Elifabeth-Mary. DEATH S. Feb. 11. At the Abbey du Bois in France, aged 90, a daughter of the late King James She was fupported there by the King of France's munificence. Her corpfe was removed with great pomp, followed by many English, Scotch, and Irish Lords, to the church of St Anthony. This lady's mother was Arabella Churchill, fifter of The John the great Duke of Marlborough. iffue K. James had by her were, 1. James FitzJames Duke of Berwick, the famous French ge neral, ancestor of the prefent Duke of that name in France. 2. Henry Fitz James, born in 1673, commonly called the Grand Prior. 3. Henrietta, married to Lord Waldegrave, born in 1670. And, 4. the lady now deceased, born She in 1671, whofe name is not mentioned. died a nun. None of our hiflorians take the leaft notice of her, except Dr Anderfon, in his genealogical tables. 12. At Richmond, in Yorkshire, aged 99, Mrs Thornburgh, relict of Mr Thornburgh, of Selfidehall in Westmoreland, Efq; 13. At London, the Countefs-dowager of Suffolk, mother of the prefent Earl. 13. In Hampshire, Babua Solyman, a Turk, aged 105. 15. At his feat at Edmundthorp, Leicesterfhire, Edward Smith, Efq; member for the county of Leicester. 17. At his feat at Southall-common, aged 100, Matthew Featherftor haugh, Efq; father to Sir Matthew Featherstonbaugh, Bt. 17. At his feat at Chefhunt, Hertfordshire, Robert Cromwell, Efq; great-great-grandfon of the Protector. 19. At Edinburgh, in the 80th year of his age, and 59th of his ministry, Dr John Gowdie, principal of the university of Edinburgh [xvi.51.] 19. At his feat of Bredifholm, aged 86, John Muirhead of Bredifholm, Efq; the laft of the male line of the ancient family of Muirhead of Lachop, fettled in the fhire of Clydesdale refore He is fucceeded by his youngest the year 1122. nephew James Grofett, Eiq, a Lilbon merchant. 22. In the caftle of Edinburgh, Richard Coran, Efq; lieutenant-governor of that garrifon. 26. At Grange, near Kilmarnock, William Montgomery of Borland, Efq; aged 77. 27. At Cromarty, Lady Ardoch, widow of Alexander Gordon of Ardoch, Efq; John Noon, of the county of Gallway, in Ireland, aged 129. P. S. March 1. dowager of Haulkerton. 8. At his house of Kilbucho, William DickTon of Kilbucho, Efq; PREFERMENTS. From the London Gazette. The King has been pleased, Feb. 16. to appoint Robert Keith, Efq; voy-extraordinary to the late Empress of Ruf bis Majefty's Envoy-Extraordinary and Piens tentiary to the prefent Emperor. Thomas Wroughton, Eiq. bis Majefty's fident at the court of the Emperor of Ruffia. Hon. Edward Hay, his Majefty's Envoy I traordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of F tugal. Robert Colebrooke, Efq; his Majefty's M fter to the Swiss cantons. 20. to name and recommend, Charles Lit ton, LL. D. and dean of Exeter, to be elec Bishop of Carlisle, in the room of Dr Rich Ofbaldefton, tranflated to the fee of London. don, Dean of his Majesty's chapels-royal. 23. to appoint Richard Lord Bishop of L Edward Younge, Chriftopher Rigby, Jo Trenchard, John Fane, and George Quarr Eqs, together with Thomas Wyndham, F in the room of Henry Kelfall, Efq; deceat Commiffioners for taxes. From other papers, &c. The Hon. John Hamilton, member for W ton, Steward of his Majefly's manor of Shoreham in Suffex. Lieut. Thomas Symonds, Commander of Albany floop. P. S. Dr William Robertfon, one of the nifters of Edinburgh, Principal of the univer of Edinburgh in the room of Principal Gow deccaled. Chofen March 10. 6 Dropfy 9 Fever 14 Flux бо 18 Gravel 70 19 Meafles 14 Pally 80 & 90 90 & 100 2 Suddenly -。 Teething 30 40 ********** 50 60 & 70 & 80 Papers relative to the rupture with Spain 113. Petition of WIDOWS and SPINSTERS 120. Proceedings in the feffin of PARLIAMENT 1760-61. Of the infolvent bill 121. of that for punishment of offences committed in the East Indies 122. Of that relating to the importation of tallow from Ireland ib. Of that relating to the qualification of justices of the peace ib Remarks on our oaths 123. Of the Scots game-bill ib. ANOTHER JOSEPH. Mr Addifon to a lady 124. With my body I thee worship, explained 125. EARNEST on idleness and luxury 125. PROTESTANTS perfecuted in France 126. FRIENDSHIP exemplified affectingly 127.. An eafy method dy railing FLAX SEED 127. Of BANKING. An abstract of the act erecting. the bank of Scotland 128. The baneful infruence of paper-credit 129. Remarks on the Confiderations relating to the abridging of the bank cash-accounts 130. An impartial effay, on fpecie, paper credit, &c. 133. Regula tions propofed for banking 135. Hints relating to the ENGLISH language 136. T ENT S. NEW BOOKS, with remarks and extracts. Dr Storck on the hemlock, eff. 2. 137. Lord Kames's elements of criticifm 143. Longfword, Earl of Salisbury ib. POETRY. A warning-piece to drinkers 147Prologue and Epilogue to the School for Lovers 147, 8. Lord Lyttelton on reading Mifs Carter's pocms 148. Verfes occasioned by the fame ib. Verfes on a murdered man's grave-ftone ib. A thought on waking 149 Prologue on prologues ib. HISTORY 150.164, A pacific declaration by the Emperor of Ruffa 150. An answer by the French King 152. Accounts of the reduction of Martinico, with the capitulations, and lifts of the killed and wounded 152-160. Bravery of the British failors 120. 158. Acts paffed 160. The Cock-lane ghost 149Refolutions concerning a Scots militia 16 t. Money taken in at five per cent. by the Edin burgh banks 163. Maritime occurrences 165. PAPERS relative to the rupture with SPAIN, laid before both houfes of parliament, Jan. 29. 1762, by his Majefty's command. Publifhed by authority. [Thefe papers confift of letters that paffed between the British fecretaries of fate, first Mr Pite and afterwards the Earl of Egremont, and the Earl of Bristol, the British ambaffador at Madrid, from July 28. to Dec. 26. 1761, and fome papers by Gen. Richard Wall, a chief minister of the Catholic King, and the Count de Fuentes, his Majesty's ambaflador at London. We giva culy extracts.] |