viz. a chaplet of gold, made in manner of a garland, a gold ring, and a verge, rod, or fceptre, of filver: and for the bet ter fupport of his eftate as Prince of Wales, granted him feveral lands, particularly enumerated in a writ, to be delivered to this prince, or his attorney, with this dignity. In the 16th year of his age, this prince (commonly diftinguished by the name of the Black Prince, from the black armour he used to wear) accompanied the King his father into France; where, at his landing, he received the honour of knighthood from that martial king's hands; and at the battle of Creffy, which was fought on the 26th of August 1346, leading the vanguard, he there flew John of Luxemburg, King of Bohemia, and then deplumed his cafque of thofe oftrichfeathers, which, in memory of this victory, became his cognisance; fometimes ufing one feather, fometimes three, as appeareth by his feals and on his tomb, with fcrolls containing this motto, ICH DIEN; alluding to the words of the apoftle, that the heir, as long as he is a hild, differeth nothing from a fervant: and thele feathers and motto have been ever fince borne by our Princes of Wales, with the addition, by the more modern kings, of an open coronet, in which the three feathers are ftuck, and by the vulgar are called the Prince's arms; though the ancient arms of the Princes of Wales, whilft they were fovereigns, were, Quar terly, gules and or, four lions paflant, counterchanged; but now the arms of that Prince differ from thofe of the King, only by the addition of a label of three points, Luna in chief, and the creft and dexter fupporters are crowned with a prince's coronet, and gorged with a label of three points as in the arms; and alfo the omiflion of Charlemaine's crown borne in furtout, being carried uncharged by the late Prince, to exprefs his being heir-apparent alfo to the office of Arch-Treasurer of the Roman Empire *. Edward V. was born Nov. 4. 1470, the 10th year of his father's reign, and was created Prince of Wales, July 26. 1471 t. Arthur Tudor, eldest fon of K. Henry VII. was born Sept. 20. 1486, the 2d year of his father's reign, and was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chefter, British compendium, vol. 1. p. 22. + Sandford's Geneal, Hist, p. 22. October 1. 1480, at three years of age *, Edward VI. was born Oct. 12. 1557, the 29th year of the reign of his father Henry VIII. and in Jan. 1546, when all things were prepared for creating him Prince of Wales, his father died, and he fucceeded him at nine years of age †. Charles II. was born May 29. 1630, the 6th year of his father's reign; and in May 16,8, being then eight years of age, he was ftyled by order, not creation, Prince of Wales . As in the preceding account no mention is made of the pretender, though he was born, whilft his father was on the throne, we fhall here infert what is said of him in Smollet's hiftory. 66 -Great part of the nation began to perceive, that the kingdom would infallibly be reduced to flavery, and the Proteftant religion extinguished, unless they fhould engage in fome speedy and effectual measures for their own prefervation. They turned their eyes upon the Prince of Orange; and fome were inclined to wait patiently, until the Princess fhould fucceed to the throne by the course of nature. But they banished those forbearing maxims, when a proclamation was publifhed, [in 1688], declaring the Queen's pregnancy, and ordaining a day of thanksgiving for the occasion. These tidings filled the Catholics with exceffive jov, and the reft of the nation with the moft difimal prefages. The Jefuits were bold enough to prophefy that the Queen would bring forth a fon. They pretended her conception was the miraculous ef fect of vows made by her and her mother to the bleffed Virgin, and our Lady of Loretto Addrefles of congratulation were immediately wafted to the King from all corners of the ifland, as if the whole nation had thought the birth of a prince would be a public bleffing. But thefe ad drefies were procured by the emiffaries of the miniftry. All the Protestants in the kingdom were alarmed, as at the eve of a terrible calamity A great number fondly believed that the Queen's pregnan cy was counterfeit. She had been for fome years in an ill ftate of health; and this circumftance, confidered through the medium of pallion, fuggefted the belief of an impofture. Before James afcended the throne, this lady had been pregnant, and at that time her enemies circulated a report Aug. 1762. A lift of the Princes of Wales, &c. eport of the fame nature: but as the inant proved a female, they took no step o confirm or extend the fufpicion. On the 10th day of June [1688], the Queen was fuddenly feized with labour ains, and delivered of a fon; who was aptized by the name of James, and delared Prince of Wales. All the Cathocs and friends of James were transportd with the most extravagant joy at the birth of this child; while great part of the iation confoled themfelves with the noion that it was altogether fuppofititious. They carefully collected a variety of cirumftances, upon which this conjecture was founded; and, though they were inonfiftent, contradictory, and inconcluve, the inference was so agreeable to the iews and paffions of the people, that it nade an impreflion which, in all probabiity, will never be totally effaced. Cerain it is, the pride and haughty difpofiion of James and his Queen, hindered hem from taking fuch precautions as would have prevented, or effectually difroved this calumny. Great rejoicings vere made through the whole kingdom, and another set of addreffes prefented, ome of them replete with the most extraPagant adulation The King's private counfellors having nfused terrors into the Queen, fhe refolved to retire immediately into France with the Prince of Wales. On the roth of December [1688], at night, fhe croffed the river with her infant in an open boat, exposed to the wind and rain; and wait ed in the fields at Lambeth, until Lazun rovided a coach for her accommodation. In this fhe travelled to Gravefend; where The imbarked on board of a small veffel that conveyed her and the Prince of Wales n fafety to Calais. From thence the hatened to Verfailles, where Lewis received er with the most cordial hofpitality. Dr Burnet, who seems to have been at uncommon pains to establish this belief, and to have confulted all the Whig nurfes in England upon he fubject, first pretends to demonftrate that the Queen was not with child; fecondly, that the was with child, but mifcarried; thirdly, that a child was brought into the Queen's apartment in warming pan; fourthly, that there was no child it all in the room; fifthly, that the Queen actualy bore a child, but it died that fame day; fixthly, that the fuppofititious child had not the fits; feventhly, that it had the fits, of which it died at Richmond: therefore the Chevalier de St George must be the fruit of four different impofures. Smollet's note. 403 A lift of all the Princes of Wales of the Royal family of England, from the first creation of that kind, by King Edward I. 1. Edward of Caernarvon, fon of K. Ed ward I. afterwards K Edward II. 2. Edward of Windfor, fon of K. Edward II. afterwards K. Edward III. 3 Edward the Black Prince, fon of Edward III. who died in the lifetime of his father. 4. Richard of Bourdeaux, fon of the Black Prince, afterwards K. Richard II. 5. Henry of Monmouth, fon of Henry IV. afterwards K. Henry V. 6. Henry of Windfor, fon of Henry V. afterwards K. Henry VI. dered by Richard Duke of Gloucester. 8, Edward, fon of Edward VI. afterwards K. Edward V. and murdered by order of his uncle, the faid Richard Duke of Gloucester. 9. Edward, fon of the faid murderer Richard III. who died in his father's lifetime. 10. Arthur, eldest fon of Henry VII. who died likewife in his father's lifetime. 11. Henry, younger fon of Henry VII. af terwards K. Henry VIII. 12. Edward, son of Henry VIII. afterwards K. Edward VI. in his father's lifetime. 14. Charles, younger fon of James I. afterwards K. Charles I. Charles II. 16. James, son of James II. acknowledged in 1688, but since abjured. 17. George II. the late King. 18 Frederick Lewis, his fon, who died in his father's lifetime. 19. George III. the prefent King. 20. George Auguftus Frederick, born Aug. 12. 1762. An account of a REAPING-MACHINE, the prefent war, and of confequence the great increase of the price of labour, have been for fome time a moft general complaint, in this much depopulated country, that perfon muft furely deferve well of the public, who fhall difcover a method to fupply the one, and reduce the other. Now that the feafon is approaching which is appointed to crown the labours of the year, and in which the induftrious farmer hopes to reap the fruits of his toil, this penury of hands, in a climate fo variable as that of Scotland, may foon be felt in the fevereft manner. The high prices of grain, Brain, and the profpect of a plentiful crop, are certainly very urgent motives for em bracing every mean that may facilitate the cutting down of the corns with speed and fafety. It is with a view to remedy, in a great meafure, this univerfal complaint, that I communicate, through the channel of your paper, my having, at a confider able expence, invented a machine, which, I am able to demonftrate, will, in the hands of a fingle man, do more execution in a field of oats in one day, and to better purpose, than it is in the power of fix fhearers do. This machine is now completed, and is conftructed in fuch a manner, that where the corn is tolerably thick, it will cut down near a theaf at a ftroke, and that without fhaking the grain, or difordering the ftraw. Befides laying down the corn as regularly as the most expert fhearer is capable to do, it is attended with another advantage, that the fun, in a day's time, will fo dry the grafs and weeds, as well as win the ftraw and corn, that it may be fit either for putting into the ftack, or carrying into the barn. It is not from any principle of vanity or conceit, that I have expatiate on the properties of this machine; my fole aim by this letter is, to intimate my invention to the Honourable fociety for the encouragement of arts, fciences, &c. to any of whom I am ready to fhow the machine, and, if they fhall think proper, give them ocular demonftration of its anfwering the purpose intended, by my own hands. At the fame time, if they fhall approve of it, and be of opinion, that it may in a great degree contribute to remove the grievance complained of, I have reafon to hope, that the fociety will not with-hold a fuitable encouragement for the invention. that event, I propofe, for a moderate premium, to inftruct an overfeer, or principal fervant on a farm, how to handle the machine, fo that he may, with his own hands, cut down feveral acres of corn in a day.-I am, &c. In PETER WILLIAMSON. Edinburgh, Aug. 18. Within these few days feveral experiments have been made in different fields in the neighbourhood of this city, with the new-invented machine for cutting down of corn; when we can with truth affert, that the inventor gave a convincing proof of the utility of his ma chine, by cutting down, and laying in a moft regular manner, a confiderable quan tity both of oats and barley, in a very fhort in P.S. Edinburgh, Sept.1. On Saturday aft a farther experiment was made with the new machine for cutting down of corns; when, in prefence of many gentlemen of character, Mr cut the tee of an hour and twenty contes (including the time of whetting the machine), a full quarter of an acre of bar ley, meafured off for the purpofe, which he laid in the most regular order. At the fame time it appeared, to the conviction of all prefent, that as Mr Williamson is not now accustomed to labour, the fame machine, in the hands of a labouring man, perfectly instructed in wielding it, would have done confiderably more execution in the fame compafs of time. An explanation of the plate, and a defcription of the machine. The haft is 6 feet 2 inches long, and the handle is 2 feet 6 inches high from the heel. The cutter is 3 feet 7 inches long and 2 inches and a quarter broad. The finger next the cutter is 3 feet 5 inches long, the reft fhorten an inch gradually, fo that the finger farthest from the cutter is but 3 feet 1 inch long. The fin gers are an inch in depth at the braces, about three fourths of an inch in breadth, and about 3 inches and a quarter diftant from each other. They taper and bend upwards to the point. They are fixed in the erof bar, which is 18 inches and a half long. The point of the longest is on a level with that of the cutter: the points of the reft rife gradually fo that the point of the fhortest is inches higher than the point of the cutter They are railed to the proper height The braces are' small iron radi by the fcrews. which go between the ferews and the fingers. The yoke fupports the erofs bir, and joins it to the haft The cutter and the cross bar meet almoft at right angles in the haft; that the fingers are parallel to the cutter. The corn, on being cat, fals on the fingers, still made to at the end of the fweep. drop gently out of the machine upon the ground 7 The rifle, which tharpens the cutter, is 18 inches long including the handle hist PRO PROCEEDINGS in the SESSION of PARLIAMENT 1751-2; with an account of the debates occafioned by them without doors. Taken from the Votes of the house of Commons, the London Magazine, &c. [The remainder of the proceedings of the feffion 1760-61 [234], confifts of affairs which relate chiefly to England, and, which we inferted already [xxiii. 161.], the reciprocal compliments of the houfe of Commons, and their late speaker Mr Onflow.] addreffes of both houfes, on that occafion [xxiii. 605.]—The fupplies granted, and the fums ordered to be railed and applied, follow. HE feflion 1761-62, the first of the THE prefent parliament, began on the 3d of November. Our readers have already feen the King's fpeech, and the The SUPPLIES granted in the feffion I. For the NAVY, &c. of parliament 1761-2. [xxiii. 458.] 1. For 70,000 feamen, including 19,061 marines, at 41. per man per month, L. 3.640,000 for 13 months, including the ordnance for fea-fervice, for 1762 2. For the ordinary of the navy, including half-pay to fea-officers, for 1762 272,226 9 3. Towards buildings, rebuildings, and repairs, of his Majefty's fhips, for 1762 200,000 For completing the chapel of the hospital for fick and wounded feamen, at Haflar, near Gofport, and fuch other works as may be afterwards found proper to be performed before the whole work is put out of hand 5. For completing the works of the hofpital for fick and wounded feamen, building near Plymouth 6. For the charge of tranfport-service, between Oct. 1. 1760, and Sept. 30. 7. Towards paying off and discharging the debt of the navy 9. II. For the LAND-FORCES, &c. 1,000 6,000 o o o 835,025 3 8 0 1,000,000 1,500,000 O L. 7,454,251 12 9 0 For defraying the charge of 67,676 land-forces, including thofe in Germany, and on an expedition, and 4008 invalids, for 1762 10. For maintaining his Majefty's forces and garrifons in the plantations, Gibraltar, Guadalupe, Africa, and the Eaft Indies; and for provifions for the garrifons in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Gibraltar, Providence, Quebec, Guadalupe, Senegal, and Goree, for 1762 11. For defraying the charge of four regiments of foot, on the Irish establishment, ferving in North America, for 1762 12. For defraying the charge of an augmentation to his Majefly's forces, confifting of 9370 men, from Dec. 25. 1761 to Dec. 24. 1762, both inclufive 13. For the pay of the general, and general staff officers, and officers of the 14. For the charge of the office of ordnance for land fervice, for 1762 16. For defraying the charge of the embodied militia of the feveral counties 18. Upon account, towards defraying the charge of the pay of the militia of VOL. XXIV. 406 Proceedings in the feffion of parliament 1761-2. Vol. xxiv. Brought forward toon & mighty amerudita dunia 3,93915-99 no₫ 9: 19. For defraying the extraordinary expences of his Ma Majefty's land-forces and other fervices incurred, to Nov. 24. 1761, and not provided for 1.353.662 $20. ➡ from Nov. 24 1761 to Dec 24 following, and not provided for 21. Upon account, for the reduced officers of his Majefty's land-forces and maSluorines, for 17621! 4 ΙΟ 958,384 O 100 22, For allowances to the officers and private gentlemen of the two troops of ads to 11 1 horfe-guards, and regiment of horse, reduced, and to the fuperannuated ZAN 2,952 7031 4/1 2 mul ngentlemen of the four troops of horse-guards, for 1762 23. For penfions to the widows of fuch reduced officers of his Majefty's land- mot bewond forces and marines, as died upon the establishment of half-pay in G. Britain, and who were married to them before Dec. 25. 1716, for 1762 1 24. Upon account, for outpenfioners of Chelsea hofpital, for 1762 26. Towards enabling the Eaft-India company to defray the expence of a mi- 17. To be employed in maintaining and fupporting the fort at Annamaboo, 1.000.000130 7,461,871 16 III. For FOREIGN SUBSIDIES, pay to FOREIGN TROOPS, V 39. For defraying the charge of 39,773 men of the troops of Hanover, Wolfenbuttle, Saxe-Gotha and the Count of Buckeburg, together with that of general and staff-officers, actually employed against the commoncu enemy, in concert with the King of Proffia, from Dec. 25. 1761 to Dec. f 31. 32. 8. 00 4 0 24. 1762, both days inclufive, to be iffued in advance every two months, pauloo 2 yfai in like manner as the pay of the Heffian forces now in the service of G. Britain; the faid body of troops to be mustered by an English commifvoogdejs M fary, and the effective flate thereof to be ascertained by the fignature of them ab16wOT the commander in chief of the faid forces w A 465,638 16 23 of 2120 horfe, and 9900 foot, together with the general and faffiofed to of an additional corps of 1576 horse, and 8808 foot, &c. ditto troops of 1444 Cavalry, and 2330 infantry, the troops of the reigning Duke of Brunswick, in the pay of G. Britain, for 365 days, from Dec. 25. 32151761 to Dec. 24. 1762, both days inclufive, together with the fubfid, for faid time, pursuant to treaty ३३. of five battalions ferving with his Majefty's army in Germany, each battalion confifting of one troop of 101 men, and four companies of lose his de vol foot of 125 men each, with a corps of artillery, for 365 days, from Dec 25.1761 40 Dec. 24. 1762, both days inclufive, 34. Towards defraying the charges of forage, bread, bread waggons, train of artillery, and provisions of wood, ftraw, &c. and other extraordinary expences and contingences of his Majefty's combined army under the ZAWcommand of Pr. Ferdinand |