One of your Majefty's illuftrious race to perpetuate the bleffings we derive from your aufpicious reign. Permit us, moft gracious Sovereign, to embrace this opportunity of humbly affuring your Majefty, that no hoftile threats can intimidate a people animated by the love of liberty, and inspired with a fenfe of duty and affection to your Majefty; who, A confiding in the Divine Providence, and the experienced wisdom and vigour of your Majesty's councils, are refolved to employ their utmoft efforts towards enabling your Majefty to repel the infults, and defeat the attempts, of the ancient enemies of your Majesty's Crown and Kingdoms. His Majefty's Answer. THE cordial expreffions of your conftant attach- B ment to my Person and Family, are very agreeable to me; and I return you my hearty thanks for this fresh mark of your zeal and affection. I bave the firmeft confidence in the fidelity and spirit of my people, and I truft I fhall be well enabled, under the Divine Providence, to defeat and frußrate the most daring attempts of the ancient enemy of my Crown. SATURDAY, 9. The Lord Mayor, &c. of London, waited on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and made their Compliments in the following Speech. May it pleafe your Royal Highness, YOUR Royal Highness having happily attained your age of twenty-one years, the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the city of London, in Common-Council affembled, humbly beg leave to compliment your Royal Highness upon an event fo pleafing to the King, and fo very interesting to his Majesty's faithful fubjects. C D But permit us, Sir, at the fame time, without offending the modesty which fo eminently distinguishes and adorns your character, to express the yet greater pleasure we enjoy in beholding your Roy- E al Highness poffeffed of every virtue and accomplishment which we had reafon to prefage from the Excellence of your genius, and the goodness of your difpofition. When we confider your Royal Highness's exemplary piety, your dutiful deportment towards the King, your refpectful affection for your auguftMother, your early knowledge of the conftitution and F true interefts of thefe kingdoms, and your folicitude for the happiness and profperity of the people, we form the most agreeable profpects, and reflect with gratitude upon the wisdom and attention that have been employed to cultivate thefe noble fentiments in your princely breaft. May it pleafe your Royal Highness, THE Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common Council affembled, warmed with the moft dutiful affection for his Majefty, and with gratitude to your Royal Highnefs for the early and repeated marks of your regard, humbly beg leave to compliment your Royal Highness upon the happiness of feeing your illuftri ous Son the Prince of Wales arrived at the age of 21 years, endowed with every noble quality which thaternal fondness could hope, or a free people with in the Heir apparent to the Crown. These, Madam, are the fruits, these the glorious reward of your Royal Highneís's pious inftructions and example. By having thus laid the foundation of our future happiness and profperity, your Royal Highness has fecured the bleffings of the prefent age, and a name of diftinguished honour in the future annals of Great Britain. Her Royal Highness's Answer. My Lord and Gentlemen, I return you many thanks for your most obliging compliment; my utmoft ambition bas ever been to fee my fon anfaver the expectation of bis country; if I bave fucceeded in that, all my wishes are compleated. SUNDAY, 10. His Majefty's meilengers brought to town from Briftol the three young Frenchmen, who were taken up there on fufpicion of being fpies. There were found upon them a quantity of papers, containing plans of all the ports and harbours on the coaft of Ireland, and a great many of the harbours in Wales, with their respective fituations, ftrength, &c. TUESDAY, 12. The Cuftom-house Officers made a feizure on board an outward-bound ship in the river Thames, of a great number of new fword blades, which were concealed in the hollow of five large trees, cut about twelve feet long, that were artfully contrived for that purpofe; and the better to cover the deceit, had the bark and roots on them, being newly felled, and were fo well cemented together with glue, it was a mere accident that the dif covery was made; for an officer, ftriking a large stick against one of them, found it was hollow, and ordered the whole to be opened, where the fword-blades were found, and the fame night landed at the Custom-house. Some perfons are taken into cuftody on this account. THURSDAY, 14. In the parish work houfe belonging to St. Botolph, Alderfgate, one Ifabella Brans, born at Aberdeen May they more and more endear your Royal Highness to his Majefty, and hereafter be exerted Gin in a higher fphere in preferving the religious and civil rights, happily entrusted to the protection of his Majesty's illuftrious Houfe. His Royal Highness's Anfwer. My Lord and Gentlemen, I return you my hearty thanks for this mark of your duty to the King, and attention to me. You may H always depend upon my warmest wishes for the profperity of this great City, and for whatever can in the leaft promote the Trade and Man factures of my native Country. They afterwards waited on her Royal Highness the Princefs Dowager of Wales, and made their Compliments in the following Speech. Scotland, is this day 111 years of age, has the perfect ufe of all her fenfes, never used spectacles; and can read very fmall print; worked for her bread till fhe was upwards of 110, has none of the infirmities which are the ufual attendants of old age, was in her youth a very fine woman, and has ftill the remains of it; has a flow of fpirits, which, perhaps, none of her age ever had, and is still a comely woman; nature in her feems far from be ing exhaufted, and had fhe a better provifion than workhouses generally allow, 'tis very probable the might live yet many years. Pity it is that fome care is not taken of fo extraordinary a woman; he has had eighteen children by two husbands, and CHRONICLE of OCCURRENCES. 369 and has had many fits of illness, but is now in perfect health, and can walk four or five miles better than most women of fixty. FRIDAY, 15. This day his Royal Highness Prince Edward was fworn a Poft-Captain in the Royal Navy, and appointed Captain of the Phenix man of war. SATURDAY, 16. A A letter from the North mentions a very uncommon fort of infect, which within these few weeks has made its appearance, and done confiderable damage to the grafs and corn in feveral parts of that country. It bears a near resemblance to the caterpillar or kail-worm, is of a dark colour, with white stripes from the head to the tail, and is about two inches long. Thefe infects feem to a- B bound most about the head of the Tweed, where feveral farms have been in a manner totally deftroyed by them. They are fo very numerous, that they cover fields of many acres ; and in fome places are fo close together, that 100 of them have been found on little more than a fquare foot of ground. Very different conjectures are formed as to the caufe of this calamity. Moft people are of opinion, that they are caufed by the late exceffive drought; tho' feveral old men remember much greater droughts without any fuch appearance. It has been obferved, that fince the late rains, many of them have been found dead, fwelled to a confiderable bigness. The following Addrefs of the Officers of the two battalions of the Norfolk regiment of Militia was prefented to his Majefty, and graciously received. May it pleafe your Majefty, a motion was made, and unanimoufly agreed to, that the thanks of the Company should be given to Adm. Pocock and Comm. Steevens, for their wife conduct and gallant behaviour in the East Indies. THURSDAY, 21. Between five and fix in the evening, there fell at Norwich the most violent fterm of hail that was ever seen in that city, fome of the hail ftones (or more properly pieces of ice) were very large, and one was taken up that measured better than two inches long, and an inch and a half broad, weighed three quarters of an ounce, and was very much jagged. The gardeners in Norwich have been confiderable fufferers by the ftorm, fome of them having had as many glaffes broken as will cost 20 or 301. to repair, befides the damage done to the fruit-trees and plants. WEDNESDAY, 27. The Lieutenant of a cutter dispatched by Sir Edward Hawke, arrived at the Admiralty, with advice that, when he left the fquadron, the men of war in Breft-water were under weigh, and that a great number of troops were embarking all that day on board the French fleet, which is now faid to confift of twenty fhips of the line, all in fine condition, well officered, and full of men, which is to be joined by eight others from Rochefort, befides feveral ftout frigates. Copy of the Lift of Adm. Hawke's Line of Battle. The Mars to lead with the ftarboard, and the Hero with the larboard tacks. D Ships F WE your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Officers of the two battalions of the Norfolk regiment of Militia, humbly beg leave to lay at your Majefty's feet the earliest affurances of our zeal and affection for your facred perfon and go- E vernment. The happiness which this nation hath enjoyed during your Majesty's glorious reign, intitles you to every poffible inftance of duty from all your fubjects. But we rejoice in the hopes of having it in our power to realize those profeffions of allegiance, with which we humbly approach your throne. The arms, with which we are intrufted by your Majefty, fhall never be employed in any other caufe than the defence of your royal perfon and government, which is the defence of the religion and liberties of this country. We are impatient to manifeft our zeal in fo glorious a caufe, and fhall be ready to obey your Majesty's commands, in any part of the kingdom, with the alacrity and vigour of fubjects who have no intereft feparate from that of their Prince, and of foldiers who are determined to hazard their lives in oppofing all attempts that fhall be made against your Majefty, your Royal Houfe, and the happy Conftitution upon which your Throne is established. G Mr. Beardimore was brought to the Court of King's Bench in Westminster-Hall, to receive fentence for a misdemeanor in the affair of Dr. Sheb H beare's standing on the pillory at Charing Cross; (fee Vol. I. p. 317.) when he was fined 50l. and ordered to be imprifoned in the King's Bench prifon two months. Revenge Temple Union Rates Commanders Guns Men Divifion Kingston Hercules Dunkirk 60 400 SirCha.Hardy Capt. Evans 90 770 74 600 64 480 SirCharles 70 520 74 600 70 420 64 480 3 Dennis 70 520 4 Lendrick 60 420 64 500 3 Keppel 74 700 SirEdward SirEdw Hawk 90 880 the Blue. Monmouth 3 Harvey Dorsetshire *Belliqueux 3 Saumarez * Torbay 4 Barrington 60 420 3 Byron 74 600 Hawke, Admiral of * Magnanime3 Lord Howe 74 700 * Achilles * Fame Efiex 3 Campbell 64 480 Nottingham Marshall • Firme 4 Ferguson Royal George i Dorrill Refolution 3 Com. Geary 74 600 Commod. Chichester 3 Willet Anion Bienfaifant Hero 4 Whitwell 3 Balfour 60 42060 420 100 880 70 520 Geary. 60 420 60 500 3 Edgcumbe 74 6co FRIGATES. Sir Charles Hardy's divifion. * Colchester *Thames Sapphire Pallas SATURDAY, 30. Advice was received, that at the very inftant when A the Allied army and that of France were ready toengage, the advanced pofts being scarce half a league diftant, the face of things entirely changed, the French, tho' greatly fuperior in number, not having thought proper to quit their advantageous pofition to attack the Allies in a camp not lefs ftrong by art than by nature. The Allies had their front covered by the valley thro' which runs the rivulet B of Alme, and the head quarters were at the castle of Brenken, near Ehr-Berenbourg. To fecure their flanks they had drawn entrenchments fortified with batteries of cannon. While both armies remained in inaction, Prince Ferdinand was informed that a body of about 15,000 of the enemy, under Prince Xavier of Saxony, was marching towards Paderborn, and that on the 18th it had ad- C vanced by Lichtenau to Nordborcken, with a defign, by means of fome forced marches, to cut off the communication of the Allies with the Wefer, and with that part of the Bishoprick of Munfter which is fituated on the river Ems. To defeat this defign, his Serene Highness refolved to march, with his whole force, to Rittberg, which was D effected on the 19th, when the army returned to the neighbourhood of Lipftadt, and encamped in two lines. and thousands miferable; detefted fruit of conqueft, that cannot be obtained without the ruin of thoufands. Was it for this that God gave underftanding beyond the brute? Do they wage deftructive war against each other, and deftroy their fellow creatures without provocation? When hunger or luft without this wretched excufe, deftroys his kind. affails, then indeed they fpill blood; but man, Take warning, my friend, by our calamities. I can no more-Heaven give us Peace." F The following MANIFESTO is copied from the The condition of the inhabitants of the country, thro' which the two armies purfue each other is truly deplorable. The following letter from a German to his Correfpondent tn Holland, gives a pathetic defcription of their unhappy circumstances. E "Oh, my friend, how happy is your lot! Providence has placed you in a fpot where you may with eafe and fafety enjoy the fweets of your labour; here all is in confufion; no man can call what he has his own furrounded by numerous armies, expofed to the fury of a licentious foldiery; unable to atlift our friends, and having every thing to dread from our enemies, our cafe is truly deplorable; taxed by friends and foes beyond our abilities; threatned with military execution for not doing impoffible things; friends, relations, and countrymen, butchered daily before our eyes; no fafety at home, and no fecurity in flight if that were practicable. How long, Great God! wilt thou please to puhith this infatuated country with the dreadful fcourge of war? Fathers armed against their Sons, Sons against their Fathers, and Brothers against Brothers; unanimous but in one thing, the deftruction of their country. If the defcription is fhocking to you, what must it be to me, who have the reality hourly before my eyes? What a dreadful tale muft we tell children yet unborn, how paint the miferies of a civil war? See, my friend, the H mifchiefs arifing from the ambition of a few men, Minigers fporting with their Mafters whims, and the repofe of millions facrificed to the caprices of a few a few inches of territory the object of debate, and millions laid waste to obtain that end: the fhadow purfued, and the fubftance neglected. Whoever conquers, a few only can be made happy, "It is well known, that at the laft peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, his Majefty, to preferve that equilibre, facrificed all the conquefts which the glorious fucceffes of his arms entitled him to. His Majefty has not met with adequate returns. England, without following the moderate conduct of their High Mightineffes, upon pretext of invading the territory immaterial to her, but indifputably belonging to his Majesty's crown, attacked the French fhips, and made captures of them, contrary to that good faith which is always preferved amongst nations the most independent of one another, and which is the bafis of the amity between fovereign Princes. Not content with that, the English, from a vain imagination, that they are the Sovereigns of the Sea, have, upon feveral occafions, infulted his Majefty's defenceless coafts, and have alarmed all Europe with their prepararions: they are now attempting to raife an idea in the Public, as if they would be able to make fome permanent conquests in France. "Notwithstanding his Majefty's pure intentions for the peace of Europe, and notwithstanding all the evident demonftrations he has given of his love for peace, he can be no longer an unconcerned fpectator of fuch proceedings on the part of the English, a nation for which he has always manifefted a regard, while they kept themselves within fuch bounds as the laws of nations and pofitive treaties prescribed. "The glory of his Majefty's arms, the infults his fubjects have fuffered, and the unprovoked attacks upon his dominions, oblige him to break through this moderation. France, great and refpectable in herself, calls upon his Majefty to retaliate fuch unprecedented infults upon his crown and fubjects. He is no longer fettered by those moderate confiderations, which his own views for the peace of Europe dictated, and therefore, without losing fight of that defirable pacific fyftem which is the object of all Europe, England and its Ally, he is now come to a refolution to reestablish the furprized glory of his arms, and to teach CHRONICLE of OCCURRENCES. 271 teach the English nation the respect that is due to his Majefty's crown and dominions. "Notwithstanding this, his Majefty wants no conqueft for himself; whatever acquifitions may be made by his victorious arms in Great Britain, =fhall never make him deviate from that moderation which has been always the character of his aufpicious reign. His forces, tho' landed now in A = Great Britain, are ready to relinquish all their profpect of conqueft, as foon as the English nation are difpofed to relinquish that haughtiness, and that immoderate defire of ingroffing to themselves the -fovereignty of the fea, and confequently of being dictators to all the powers of Europe. D "But his Majefty, depending upon his own B magnanimity, and the purity of his intentions, which have been already manifefted to all Europe, = cannot, confiftently with his own glory, alter the conquefts he has made in England, or abandon those views, which ever fince his acceffion to the Crown of France, have been the principal objects of his care, "You are therefore hereby directed and com=manded to fignify to your Court, that his Majefty, C far from making conquefts to himself, which the whole tenor of his reign fhews never was his in=tention, is difpofed to leave to the British nation the full enjoyment of all their properties, privileges, and poffefions, as foon as that haughty people can be brought, by the invincible force of his Majefty's arms, to confent to fuch regulations as may for ever after be a bar upon their prefuming pride. You are likewife to declare, that his Majefty has no view of =conquering Great Britain. His Majefty is too magnanimous to think of fubjugating the British nation. His inftructions to the Generals, and the officers who are to execute his Majefty's orders, in invading that kingdom, will prove that more demonftratively, and that all his Majesty's intentions are pure- E ly for the intereft of the British nation. He defires nothing for himself; but he thinks he has a right to exact from the British nation, that refpect which the Crown of France demands; and whatever the fuccefs of his arms may be, he is willing to leave them in poffeffion of all the power they can now lawfully claim, and to take no other advantage of his conquefts, but that of reducing that turbulent F people to fuch a conformity in government, as may not leave it in their power hereafter to disturb the peace of Europe. "In order to effect this agreeable end, fome alterations in their civil and ecclefiaftical policy are undoubtedly neceffary, and his Majefty appeals to all Europe, whether, in effecting thefe ends, he is not, in fact, a friend to the British nation. Many of them now complain of the fabrick of their conftitution; but his Most Christian Majefty,without intrenching upon that, has a pure intention of circumfcribing it to thofe rules, which the general law of nations, and the particular treaty between the two courts, now prescribe. G "All Europe knows, that his Majesty has no- H thing in view but what is for the good of the Britith nation, and even the invafion of his troops (hoftile as it may be thought) tends only to re-eftablish the antient fyftem of Great Britain, which always looked upon his Most Christian Majesty's ancestors, as its friends and allies. "You are likewife to declare, that whatever measures we may pursue with regard to the fucceffion of England, our troops fhall leave the fame to the full and free arbitration of the British nation; tho' we doubt not, that their Parliament, who cannot be ignorant of the purity of our intentions, will manifeft that regard to our Crown and Kingdom, which our importance demands. Signed, Louis." Copy of a letter from the King of Pruffia to the Go vernor of Schweidnitz, concerning Gen. Kiau, confined by bis Majesty, for bis behaviour at the battle of Hochkirchen. My dear Zaftrow, cident that has happened to my friend Kiau, I "It was with great furprize I heard of the acwonder you did not acquaint me with it. Go and fee him; tell him that as King I ought to punish him, but that my good will towards him is not leffened; and that I give him leave to go wherever he hath a mind, for the fake of his health, except to his eftate in Silefia, which the prefent circumftances of things will not permit. Affure him, that whatever may happen, I will not abandon him. Shew him my letter, if you think it will have any good effect. Write to me at Breslau, where I shall be to-morrow. Take care of yourself my, friend. I falute you. Feb. 4, 17.59. dear FREDERICK." Alterations in the Lift of PARLIAMENT, Dr. Simpfon, for Dover. Frederic Montagu Efq; for Northampton town, Thomas Adderley, Robert Cuningham, John Magil, and Charles Whitelock, Efqrs, and their Sur vivors or any three or more of them, Commiffios ners of Barracks in Ireland, Duke of Newcastle, Henry Bilfon Legge, Robert Nugent, and James Grenville, Efqrs. and Lord North, Commiffioners of the Treasury. Earl of Befborough, and Robert Hampden, Ely; Poftmafters General. William Yea, of Pyrland, in the Parish of Taunton St. James in the County of Somerset Efq; and his Heirs, to the Dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain. John Clavering Efq; one of his Majesty's Aids de Camp. Richard Cumberland, Efq; Provost Marshal, Clerk of the Peace, and Clerk of the Crown for South Carolina. Ralph Bigland, Efq, Somerfet Herald at Arms. John Ponsonby, William Champneys, John Bourke, Arthur Trevor, and Hugh Vallence Jones, Commiffioners of Excife and the Revenues in Ire land. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. CHARLES Wilkins, B.A. Uppington R. with William Baskett, Moulton, Cheshire, R. Henry Bathurst, Swanscombe in Norfolk, V. Dr. Markham, a Prebend in Durham Cathedral. Difpenfations to bold two Livings. LIST of BIRTHS. 28.SON to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Efq. Daughter to Lord Feverfham, Daughter to the Earl of Suffex. MR. Hugh Knoke, of Comb, Herefordshire. It C Áunt to the Dutchess of Berwick and Lady Vifcountess Vagh. May 18. Dr. Otho Theodore Sprægel, Phyfician 21. Col. Labord, at the Hot-Wells, Bristol. 25. John Dalton, Efq; Member for Weftmoreland. Samuel Faulkner, Efq; Captain in the Navy. June 1. Dr. Stephens, one of the Executors of the 6. Lieut. Gen. Bragg, Col. of the 28th reg. of fict 17. Charles Ackers, Efq; Printer, in the Commiffion of the Peace for Middlesex. D Tho. Potter, Efq; Member for Okehampton. 19. Jofeph Taylor, Efq; Clerk to Bridewell and Bethlem hofpitals. is remarkable that the fame family of the Knoke's have refided at Comb, upon their own eftate, as appears by feveral authentic books and records, from before the Conqueft. But this Gentleman dying a Batchelor, the name of : Knoke is extinct, and the eftate is transferred to E another family. Donald Cameron, in Scotland, aged 130. He Phillis Perry, at Bradport, Somerfetfhire, aged 95. Sir Tho. Tancred, Bart. near Boroughbridge. The Pruffian General Itfenplitz, flain in battle. April 8. Mr. Charles Carrol, a native of Ireland, Son to Dennis Carrol, Efq; Grandfon of Sir William Carrol, Bart. who enjoyed the vaft Eftate of the Leap in the King's County in Queen Elizabeth's Reign. His own Father enjoyed the Eftates of Dunkerau and Killalough. Mr. Carrol's Grandmother (who died in Mar. 1745) was Sifter to the Lady Dowager Clanrickard and G 24. James More Molyneux, Efq; Member for Haslemere. B -K -TS. WILLIAM Gibson, of Birmingham, Linendraper. Henry Dobbins, of Holborn, London, Milliner. William Penkett, of Chefter, Merchant. non-street, London, Merchant. WmBaker, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Weaver. Hermanus Waag, St. MaryAxe, London, Merchant. Ifaac Maidman, of Wallingford, Berks, Shopkeeper. Nicholas Butler, of Holborn, Midlefex, Upholsterer. END of the SECOND VOLUME. |