626 The Lords Addrefs, and bis Majelly's Answer. the birth of an heir to your crown, which thods for the fettlement of our new acquifitions; for improving their commerce, and thereby rendering them ufeful to the mother country. Truly fenfible of the merits of thofe gallant men, by whofe valour thefe acquifitions have been made, we fhall be ready to concur in every reasonable propofition for rewarding them; lamenting at the fame time, as we do, the lofs of fo many of our fellow fubjects, by which the national Atrength is mire that wisdom, which feized the fortunate greatly impaired. We cannot fufficiently adhour of reaping the advantages of our victories, while we were yet on the fummit of our glory, and before we had experienced any reverle of fortune. In grateful return forthofe many bleflings, which your majefty's royal wildom and fortitude bave procured for us, your majefty may depend on our warmest C zeal, on our conflant endeavours to promote that unanimity your majefy recommends in all our proceedings, and on our attention to thofe measures of economy, which are the peculiar bafinefs of times of peace, and which alone can relieve your majefty's faithful people, from the oppreffive burthens of fo long and fo expenfive a war. It is with the utmoft gratitude that we acknowledge your majefty's unwearied attention to the profperity and happiness of your peo- B ple; which made your majefly conftantly follicitous, even amidft the glory of your victories,to deliver them from the butthens of war, by a juft and honourable peace. Ar the fame time, we cannot but admire the wifdom, which pointed out to your majefty the moft vigorous efforts, as the fureft means of procu-, ring this blefling for your people. D We beg leave to offer to your majefty, our humble congratulations on the fignal fucceffes, which have attended your majefty's arms in the courfe of the prefeat year; on the reduction of the ftrong island of Martinico; on the conqueft of the Havanab, the bulwark of the Spanish colonies, and on the acquifition of fo much treafure, and of fo great a part of the Spanish marine; on the rany advantages obtained in Germany over the arms of France, although fuperior in numbers, by the able conduct of your majesty's General Prince Ferdinand of Brunfrei k,and by the valour of the troops under his command; and on the prefervation of Portugal from the dangers which threatened inftantly to overwhelm that kingdom, & which could not have been fo long with floud, but by the firmness of its fovereign, by the military talents of the reigning Count La Lippe, and by the valour of the troops employed in that fervice. Thefe atchievements must be acknowledged to be equal to whatever has been performed in any former year, even of this profperous war; though a new enemy neceffarily made our military operations more extenfive, and added new difficulties to thofe we ftruggled with before: Atchievements which reflect the F highest honour on the councils that planned them, on the commanders who carried them into exe ution, and on the fleets and armies, whofe intrepidity no dangers could difmay. His Majeffy's maf gracious Anfever. THIS very affectionate and loyal addrefs gives me the trueft fatisfaction. I thank you beartily for it; as well as for your congratulations on the birth of the prince, my fon; and for the regard you exprefs on this occafion, for the Queen, The chearful and feady fupport of my parlia Et throughout the war, has been attended with uninterrupted fuccefs: And the ratification of the preliminary articles will, I truft, foon be followed by the completion of the peace on jafe and bonourable conditions. Allow us to exprefs, in the most fervent and grateful manner, our joy and congratulations, that, by these repeated efforts, your maje y has at length compelled your enemies ta con- G fent to terms of peace; as well as to offer to your majefty our fincere thanks, for your ha hg informed your parliament, that preliminary articles are already figued by your majefty's minister, and by the fe of France and Span'; for your majety's most gracious, affurances, that you will caule these articles in due time to be laid before them; and for the, Tights your majey has been pirated, in gove concerning the conditions of them, which efford to your people, the faire, prefpect oftture happisefs, profperity, and fecurity Your majelly may be lured, that we will not fan on our part, to take, as foon as pollibir, into our confideration, the proper me H My only wifh is, and ever will be, to premole the lafting happiness, profperity, and fecurity of my faithful people. The bumble Address of the House of Commons to Mof Gracious Sovereign, loyal fobjects, the Commons of Great Britain in parliament caffembled, beg leave to return your majesty the most humble and hearty thanks of this houfe, for your mon gracious Speech from the throne. Permit us, at the fame time, to congratislate your majesty on the aufpicious birth of his royal highness the Prince of Wales, and the recovery of your royal confort, endeared to this country not only by this important vent, but by her own perfonal virtuestion tude, your majesty's great attention to the We acknowledge, with the utmoft gratiwelfare of your people in the vigorous profecution of the wary and congratulate your majefty on thaztappy effect of it, the profpeet of fuch a peate as may give ftability and permadency to the bfeffings we promife ourselves under your majefy's mot afpicious reign. We allure your majesty, that your faithful Commons are truly lentibles of the wildom Address of the H. of Commons, and bis Majesty's Anfwer. 627 with which your plans have been concerted, as well as of the fuccefsful zeal with which they have been carried into execution by your fleets and armies. A B The refolution and intrepidity of your majefty's army in Germany, and the military fkill and diftinguished activity of your general, Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, which have obtained fo many fignal advantages over an enemy fo fuperior in numbers, are objects of our highest admiration. The ftopping the progrefs of the French and Spanish arms in Portugal, and the prefervation of that kingdom, by the firmness and refolution of its fovereign, and by the fuperior talents and able conduct of the reigning Count la Lippe, feconded by the valour of the troops under his command, are events of the highest importance to this nation and its commerce. The reduction of Martinico, fo glorious to your majefty's arms, and the ftill more glorious and important conqueft of the Havannab, by which great treasure, and a very confiderable part of C the navy of Spain, are fallen into your majefty's hands, fpeak the wifdom of your coun cils, and the valour of thofe employed in the execution of these great commands, and fill our hearts with gratitude and fatisfaction. The publick testimony which your majefty has, therefore, graciously given to the unwearied perfeverance, and unparalleled bravery of your officers and private men, by fea D and land, to which, under God, thefe glorious atchievments are to be attributed, is a no lefs honourable than deserved reward of their fervices, and must be an additional recommendation of them to the esteem and gratitude of their country. from Allow us, fir, to thank your majesty for having promifed to direct the preliminary ar- E ticles of the peace to be laid before us. And we receive with the greatest fatisfaction the information which your majefly has condefcended, in the mean time, to afford us which we promife ourselves, that, with your majesty's dominions, our trade will be encreafed; and that, all occafions of future difputes being removed, the bleffings of peace will be thereby rendered permanent and fecure, We return your majesty our most fincere and humble thanks for your great goodneís and tender regard for the welfare of your fubjects, in proceeding without delay to the conclufion of the negociation of peace, fo expedient for this country; and for your gracious intentions, as foon as it fhall be concluded, to redace the public expences. Your majefty may be affured, that your faithful Commons will chearfully afflift in the fupport of fuch expences as may be still neceffary, with due regard to that economy, which your majefty recommends to us, as far as may be confiftent with wisdom and true policy. We will not fail to confider of the most effectual methods of fettling our new acquifitions, of fecuring those countries to us, and of improving out: commerce and navigation. And, lamenting the lofs of thofe many brave men who have fallen in this glorious war, we will pay all due attention to the fervices of thofa who yes remain, by whofe valour those F acquifitions have been made, And we will continue to cultivate that union to which we greatly owe the fucceffes of the war, in order thereby to make the best advantages of peace, and lay the foundation of that economy, which we owe to ourselves and to our poterity. Return you my hearty thanks for this very dutiful and affectionate address; and I receive your congratulations on the birth of the prince, my Jon, as a free proof of your attachment to my perfon, and of your regard for the Queen. The affurances of your ready fuppart in juch expences" as may be fili neceffary, afford me the bigbeft fatisfaction; and the ratification of the preliminary articles gives me the pleasing hope of foon eafing my faithful fubjects, by a jafe, bonourable, and permanent peace, of the beavy, but unavoidable burdens they have fo chearfully born during the war. The bumble Address of the Re Hon. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament «affeñx=" bled, Dec. 9, 1762. Mof gracious Sovereign, E, your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in parliament aflembled, beg leave to return your majefty our fincereft ack nowledgments, for the important communication, which your majefty has been gracioufly pleased to make to us, of the prelimi nary articles of peace, concluded the third day of last month at Fontainbleau, with the crowns of France and Spain: And to exprefs, in the moft dutiful manner to your majesty, the fatisfaction which we have received, at the foundation laid by thefe articles for a treaty of peace, which will greatly redound to your majesty's honour, and the real benefit of your kingdoms; and our entire reliance, that the fame care and attention will be fhewn for the perfecting of this great work by the definitive treaty. We think it our indifpenfible duty to lay before your imajefty this early teftimony of our warmest gratitude; feeing the great object of the war to fully anfwered, all proper attention fhewn to your majefty's allies, a vast extent of empire added to the British crown,new fources opened for the trade and manufactures of this nation, and stability and duration infored, under the bleffing of providence, to Gwe are no lefs fenfible of the prudence and thefe great and national advantages. wildom which has guided your majesty's con duct on this great occafion, than of the hu mane difpofition and paternal affection to your fubjects, which your majesty has fhewn, in putting a fafe and honourable end to a burthenfome and expenfive war. Η We beg leave to athure your majefty, that we shall immediately apply ourselves to improve the bleffings of peace, by promoting that economy which your majesty has wifely recommended, and which is fo necellary to the dignity of the crown, and the profperity of thele your kingdoms. 628 Address of the Convocation of Canterbury. His Majefty's most gracious Anfwer. My Lords, Return you thanks for this very dutiful að- . drefs. The fatisfaction which you exprefs, in the A points agreed by the preliminary articles towards a final pacification, is very acceptable to me. In what remains to be done, you may depend upon the utmost care and attention on my part, to fettle every thing, which concerns the interefts of my kingdoms,upon a folid and durable foundation The bumble Address of the House of Commons to the King. Moft Gracious Sovereign, Wloyal, fubjects, the Commons of "E your majesty's most dutiful and Great Britain in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majefty our most humble and hearty thanks for your most gracious condefcenfion, in ordering to be laid before us the preliminary articles of peace concluded between your majefty on the one part, and their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties on the other; and to affure your majefty that we Have confidered them with our best attention. And, although to make peace and war be your majesty's just and undoubted prerogative, yet, knowing how agreeable it must be to your royal mind to be informed of the grateful fenfe your people entertain of the juftice and wifdom of your measures, and of your unwearied attention to their welfare, your faithful Commons are impatient to exprefs their approbation of the advantageous terms upon which your majefty hath concluded preliminary articles of peace, and to lay before your majefty the hearty applaufe of a faithful, affectionate, and thankful people. While we admire your majefty's prudence in availing yourself of the fucceffes with which Divine Providence hath blefied your arms, whereby your majesty hath procured fuch folid, and, in all human probability, fuch pers manent advantages for this kingdom, we are no less fenfibly affected with that humane difpofition which induced your majefty to put an end to a long, bloody, and expensivey tho' glorious and fuccefsful war AD Your faithful Commons will take the earlieft opportunity to examine înto the fate of the public revenues, in order to establish the best economy for the future, fo wifely recommended by your majefty, and so neceffary to maintain the kingdom of Great Britain in that great and refpectable fituation in which your majesty's fortitude and wildom have how placed us. We are convinced that pofterity, from their own experience, will hereafter agree with us, B C D of the people in you, which your majefty hath already fo very defervedly acquired from your conduct in the prefent most important junc ture. His Majefly's most gracious Answer. Your approbation of the measures I have taken for refloring peace, and of the terms on which it is to be concluded, gives me the bigbest fatisfaction. The affection and gratitude of my people are the moft pleafing return I can receive for my endeavours to promote their happiness. The Address of the Archbishop, Bishops, and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury, in Convocation affembled, presented December 4, 1762. Moft gracious Sovereign, Ε WE your majefty's moft loyal and duti ful fubjects, the Archbishop, Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury in Convocation affembled, beg leave to take the firft occafion of jointly congratulating your majesty on the bleffing, for which we have feparately offered up our fervent thanksgivings to God, of his vouchfafing, and that fo early, to you and your excellent confort the Queen, a fon to inherit the crown of thefe realms. We feel a very fenfible pleasure from the increase of your majefty's domestic felicity, in the addition of paternal to conjugal tendernefs. But our views extend much fu ther; and, as we owe to your august house the prefervation of every thing dear to us as Emen or chriftians, and have found each of your illuftrious ancestors faithful guardians of all those diftinguished advantages, which we enjoy to the height under your majesty's gracious government; fo we truft, that Providente hath defigned us a pledge of the perpetuity of our happinefs, in giving us a prince defcended from fuch progenitors. For we know, that his hereditary good dispositions will be follicitously ftrengthened and improved by the daily inftruction and example of his parents; who will complete their merit to thefe nations, by forming his youthful mind to the love of religion, of liberty, of our civil and ecclefiaftical conftitution to a judicious zeal for the profperity of Great Britain, and a fincere benevolence to mankind a general. G May thefe pleafing labours be successful in the highest degree. May the royal infant grow up in health and frength, become the joy and boast of the publick by every valuas ble attainment, delight your majeflies by, the in efteeming that peace to be no lefs honour-most affectionate duty and gratitude, through able than profitable, by which there will be ceded to Great Britain such an addition of telritory, attended with so great in extenfion of ‹H Our commefee. Vadin We therefore beg have humbly to lay before your inately the Arongest féntiments of gratitude, and to aflure your majestyy that it hall be our study to improve that confidence an uncommon length of days mercifully granted you and, born at the dawning of peace, may he feefall his life, the people of this land reaping the beneficial fruits of it to the utmost. it thall be our confcientious care to remind our fellow subjects of the inestimable privileges which they poflets; and the glorious expectations Addrefs of the diffenting Minifters-The County of Norfolk's. 629 expectations which they may juftly entertain His Majefty's most gracious Anfwer. Your opinion of my fixed intention to educate bim in every principle of religious and civil liberty, is truly acceptable to me. B Be affured, that no endravour on my part shall be wanting to promote the facred interefts of C Chrißian piety, and moral virtue; and to tranfmit to pofterity our prefent most bappy conftitution. The Addrefs of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifiers, on the birth of a Prince, prefented October 6, 1762. To the King's moft excellent Majefly. Moft gracious Sovereign, W loyal fubjects, the Proteftant Diffent E your majefty's ever faithful and ing minifters in and about the cities of London and Westminster, humbly beg leave to approach your royal prefence with our unfeigned congratulations on the aufpicious birth of a Prince, and the happy recovery of the Queen. by the blefling of the Almighty on your majesty's paternal inftructions and engaging example, and the tender care of the Queen, his Royal Highness may grow up to the poffeffion of every amiable and useful accomplishment, t fo as to become, in his day, the friend of religion and virtue, the patron of genius, learning, and knowledge, the guardian of liberty, the triumph of Britain, and the delight of human kind. And when you, great fir, fhall have arrived at the fulness of years, profperity, and glory, then, and not till then, may he fucceed to the fame honours, and reign with equal dignity, happiness, and renown. His Majefty's moft gracious Anfrer. THIS dutiful addrefs, and your warm congratulations on an event which fo nearly concerns my private bappiness, and the welfare of my kingdoms, are extremely agreeable to me. These repeated proofs of your zeal for my perfon, and government, cannot fail to infure to you the continuance of my protection. Addrefs of the County of Norfolk, W E your majefty's moft loyal and obedient fubjects, the Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the county of Norfolk, ever fenfible of our duty to the best of fovereigns, beg leave to approach your royal perfon with our D tribute of congratulation upon the fafe delivery of the Queen, and the aufpicious birth of an heir apparent to your crown. Your majefty feels for your fubjects as your children; and we should be guilty of the moft criminal ingratitude, if we did not feel for you as our parent; therefore our fervent wishes are, that your majefty's unwearied labours for the publick good, may be continually foftened by every virtuous and endearing pleafure of domeftic life; and, upon this joyful occafion, we cannot but anticipate the happiness of our pofterity, governed through a fucceffion of ages, by Princes defcending from your majefty and your royal confort, the future defenders of the Proteftant religion, and the faithful guardians of civil liberty. 630 Cure for Worms and cutaneous Dforders. royal goodness, if we did not feel the moft loyal and grateful affection to your majesty's perfon and government. As peace, upon terms of fecurity and rad vantage, is always more eligible than war, in respect both to humanity and good policy, ef pecially for an industrious, trading and commercial nation we cannot fufficiently applaud your majesty's conduct in preferring peace to war, at this juncture, when your arms have been attended with the most unin. terrupted and glorious fuccefs, as it is a demonftrative proof of a mind fuperior to the delufive charms of unbounded ambition, and filled with the nobleft fentiments of equity, humanity, and patriotic affection for the welfare of your people. off the dead worms, that they may not lie te fot in the body, with as many grains of powder of jalap root, mixt up in a little of any warra herb tea, or fmalt beer, as the ! patient is years old under 30; and if the mallett quantity proves not brisk enough, the dofe may be doubled the next time of A off by drinking either warm water gruel, taking it, as occafion requires, working all mutton broth, or common tea, if it has work'd of itfelf once, as is ufual, in taking other purges. Had your royal prudence thought fit to withhold from our knowledge the preliminary conditions, which are to be the bafis of a treaty of peace, we fhould have had neverthelefs, an entire confidence in your royal word, that they are fuch as will form a fafe, honourable, and advantageous peace; but as your majefty has condefcended to communicate them to your people, we cannot forbear C to add expreffions of joy and triumph, at finding the power and infolence of your enemies fo fubdued, as to cede to your majefty the perpetual poffeffion of fo extenfive and valuable acquifitions. We know of no treaty extant in the annals of any nation, by which fuch immenfe territories, fuch places of importance, and fuch D advantages for the fettlement and fecurity of our colonies, and the extention of trade and commerce, were ever obtained. Countries not yet peopled fhall refound with the names. Nations not yet born fhall celebrate the memory of your majesty and your royal progenitors. Long may your majefly enjoy the dignity and fplendor of a vaft and growing Empire; the fweets of uninterrupted peace and tranquility; and the affections of a grateful, obedient, numerous, brace, united, and happy people. Dated at the Caftle of Norwich, Dec, 6, Mr URBAN, Leigh Jan. 10, 176 A Fter the faudable example of Dr Loeb, in your uferet Magazinet do here, alfo publickly propole to the poor patient, the following cheup, eafy, fafe, and effica cious medicine, which infallibly kills worms, punifies the blood, and clears, the ficin! Take four ounces of pure quickfilver, boilst in a glazed pipin'in aquat of fost wares an hour; pour off, and bottle it up for ufe: Boil the fame quick fiver again in the like quantity of water as often as you need a fupply. sides 'most won Children, may drink of it, and without fear, a gillat a time, (for whom it may be iweetened with honey, on fuga, to make it palatable), while aduits may drink there, ot as wifes nsty plan wars Bight and, many, the butt and last thing they. G Outwardly wash the parts affected with fome of this medicinal water warmed, with a linnen rag, of tponge, every night at bed B time, till the fkin is perfectly clofe and Tmooth. The leaves of fave atre powder'd and ftrew'd on the head, or elsewhere, will certainly kill lice, but this fafe lotion will deltroy all kinds, whatever, that breed upon the body. Yours, &c. J. Cook. An Account of a drowned Perfon recovered. Young fellow about one and twenA ty, a waterman at Pay in France, fell into the river about ten o'clock in the morning of the 24th of July 1757 as he was then near the thore, he received a blow upon his head in the fall which stunned him, and the tide immediately carried him out into the middle of the ftream, where he was ftopped by a great ftone in about 7 or 8 feet water. The people that faw the accident immediately called out for help, but it was half an hour before he was taken out, being dragged to fhore with boat hook without the leaft figns of life : He was carried into a neighbouring houfe and fappofed to be dead, but a phyfician happening to come by, blew up a great quantity of tobacco fmoke by the anus, with a ftraw, and blew alfo the fame imoke plen ifully into his mouth and noftrils; the man very foon gave figns of life, very flight indeed, but fufficient to encourage the good Samaritan to proceed; he caufed a vein to be opened both in his arm and his foot, and in order to restore the vital heat, wrapped him in the skin of a feep that was flead upon the pot for that purpofe? in a fhort time the patient recovered to far as to be able to peak and the Marquis of Courtieron, who has attefled this fact, faw him fix days afterwards in perfect health, though a little weak from the lots of blood. Inftances of drowned perfons Pec8vered are by no means to rare as is generally imagined; and they would be much more common if proper methods were bied for the purpose, e Vl. xix, p. 343-4.7 The Fan academy, by whom this fact is related, oblerve, that many perfons have recovered who have lain many hours in the water and the 4s perfons immerged in Water die oply because the Kardon is flopped, the blood bring evente from reforming 1k+5qsh |