i riority of your majefty's fleet to that of the enemy in almeft every part of the globe. The landed property throughout the kingdom has been depreciated in the most alarming degree. "The property of your Majefty's fubjects vested in the public funds, has loft above one-third of its value. "Private credit has been almost wholly annihilated by the enormous intereft given in the public loans, fuperior to that which is allowed by law in any private contract. Such of our brethren in America as were deluded by the promifes of your Majesty's minifters, and the proclamations of your generals to join your Majefly's standard, have been furrendered by your Majesty's armies to the mercy of their victorious countrymen. "Your Majey's fleets have loft their wonted fuperiority, "Your armies have been captured, "And your Majefty's faithful fubjects have been loaded with a burthen of taxes, which, even if our victories had been as fplendid as our defeats have been difgraceful, it our acceffion of dominion had been as fortunate as the dimenberment of the empire has been cruel and difaftrous, could not in itself be confidered but as a great and grievous calamity. "We do therefore, meft humbly and earnefty implore your Majefty to take all thefe circumftences into your royal confi deration, and to compare the prefent fituation of your dominions with that uncommon ftate of profperity to which the wildom of your royal ancestors, the fpirit and bravery of the British people, and the favour of Divine Providence, which attends upon principles of justice and humanity, had once raised this happy country, the pride and envy of all the civilized world! "We beseech your Majesty no longer to continue in a delufion from which the nation has awakened; and that your Majefty will be graciously pleafed to relinquish entirely, and for ever, the plan of reducing our brethren in America to obedience by force; a plan which the fatal experience of paft loffes has convinced us cannot be profecuted without manifeft and imminent danger to all your M jefty's remaining poffeflions in the Western World. "We wish to declare to your Majefly, to Europe, to America itself, our abhorrence of the continuation of this unnatural and unfortunate war, which can tend to no other purpose than that of alienating and rendering irrecoverable the confidence of our American brethren, with whom we still hope to live upon the terms of intercourfe and friendship, fo neceffary to the commercial profperity of this kingdom. We do theretore further humbly implore your Majesty. LOND, MAG. APP. 1781. that your Majefty will be graciously pleafed to difmifs from your prefence and councils all the advifers, both public and fecret, of the measures we lament, as a pledge to the world of your Majefty's fixed determination to abandon a fyftem incompatiable with the intereft of your crown and the happiness of your people. TH "Signed by Order, "WILLIAM RIX." PROMOTIONS. HE King has been pleafed to promote the Rev. Richard Cuft, D. D, to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, void by the refignation of the Right Rev. and Hon. Dr. James Yorke late Dean thereof, now Bishop of Eiy.-The Rev. William Hayward Roberts, D. D. to the proveftfhip of the College of Eton, void by the death of the Rev, Dr. Edward Barnard. -The Right Hon. Thomas Lord Grantham, the Right Hon. William Eden, Andrew Stuart, Edward Gibbon, and Hans Sloane, Efqrs. Sir Adam Ferguson, Bart. Anthony Storer, and John Chetwynd Talbot, Efqr. to be his Majesty's commiffioners for Trade and Plantations.-The Right Hon. Robert Earl Nugent, the Right Hon. Charles Townshend, and the Right Hon, Richard Earl of Shannon, to be joint vice-treasurers of Ireland. The Right Hon. Philip Earl of Chesterfield to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Bucks, Dec. 2. MARRIAGES. TH HE Right Hon, the Earl of Aylesford, to Mifs. Louifa Thynne, eldest daughter of Lord Viscount Weymouth. -9. Mr. William Jones, of Chelsea-Colleg, to Mifs Potter, of Brompton, daughter of Mr. Hanbury Potter, of the Treasury.20, Thomas Cecil Maunfell, of Thorp Malfon, Efq. lieutenant-colonel of the Northamptonshire militia, to Mifs Hill, eldeft daughter of George Hill, Efq. ferjeant at law. In Ireland, Thomas Hughes, Eq. of Tipperary, to Mifs Dorothea Newenham, daughter of Sir Edward Newenham, Bart. Keneth Rofs, of Ashburton, in Devonshire, dealer. iron-founder and money fcrivener. William Herring, now or late of Hampstead Road, in St. Pancrais, viapaller. Richard Brooke, of Exeter, woollen-draper. Benjanin Goodman, of Hinckley, in Leicestershire, malifter, John Thorne, of Weymouth in Dorsetshire, rope maker. John Clarke, D. D. provoft of Oriel College, William Mynd, late of Ros in Herefordinare, Oxford, and a prebendary of Rochefter.The Hon. Edmund Butler, brother to the late Lord Dunboyne.-Lately, at Lisbon, where he went for the recovery of his health, the Right Hon. Lord John Pelham Clinton, fecond fon of the Duke of Newcastle, member for Eaft Retford, in Nottinghamshire, and one of the gentlemen of the bed chamber to the Prince of Wales.-At Romfey, Hanis, Mr. Cotton, of that town, aged 91; it is remarkable he died on the anniverary of his birth, and scarcely knew any illness till that which was the caufe of his death. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM GOSLING, late of Welbeck ftreet, St. both late of Carlife Houte, St. Anne's, Soho, John john on. of Ashburn, in Derbyshire, grocer. William Stephens, of Croxton Kerrial, in Leicesterthire, graz er. Michael Wainhouse, of Hallifax, in Yorkshire, merchant. Heary Phillips, of Bath, innholder. John Jaques, of Portman ftreet, St. Mary la John Kay, of Manchester, money-fcrivener. Willam Peddie, of Great Bandyleg walk, Southwark, dealer. Thomas Mitchel, of Three Tun-court, Miles'slane, Cannon-fireet, London, merchant and dry. alter. James Baskerville, Llanvareth, in Radnorshire, carpenter. George Walker, of Rode, in Somerfetfhire, clothier. James Dowdell, of New-Court, Little Bell-alley, Jofeph Lovek n, fate of Rupert-ftreet, but now of Thomas Lawrence, late of the Devifes, in Wilts, Richard Stocks, now or late of Bradford, in York- George Longstaff, of Monk Wearmouth, in the Samuel Smith, of Bedminler, in Somersetshire, James Falkener, of Sh-p-Yard, Temple Bar, baker, and dealer in flour Clement Olivant. of Sowerby Row, in the Par f William Crawley, of St. John's Atreet, Weß-Smith- John Henshaw and James Sunderland, of Willenhall, in Staffordshire, copartners and factors. Richard Glover, Thomas Harris. Thomas Less, and William Bosworth. all of Yardley, in Wor. ceftershire, brickmakers, builders, and copert ners Samuel Johnfon, late of Liverpool, ironmonger. Henry Walker, late of Thurmafton, in Leicefter. thire, dealer. Robert Weeding, now or late of Hadle gh, in Suffolk, grocer. Mark Craner, of Broad freet, London, merchant. Thon as Belchamber, of Godtione in Surry, timbermerchant Richard Weft, of the Borough High fireet, South- Andrew Spoulton, of Milton, near Sittingborne, in John Green, late of Corhow, in the Parish of Lor- John Johnton, late of Birchin lane, London, mer- Walter Pearce, of Hereford, furgeon and apothecary George Wallett, of Sutton St. Mary's, in Lincoln- Thomas Fricker, late of New street square, St. John Newcomb and John Ball, of Dean's court, James Gibert of Waithamstow, in Effex, dealer in Thomas Pittman, formerly of Litchfeld-street, Henry Page, now or late of Great Queen-street, George Champion of Bristol, and of Clifton, Glouceite f.re, merchant, Thomas Gill, of Pontefra& in Yorkshire, linea- John Pearfon, of Kirton, in Lindsay, Lincolnshire, Obadish Moore of the Parish of Handsworth, in Peter Hawkefworth, now or late of Grays-inn Henry Payne, of Pall Mall, St. James's, Weftmin- Robert Platt, late of Deptford, in Kent, mariner. Jasper. Bavertock, late of Sutton Vezy, and ince Mary Parker and Fell Parker, of Wapping, mer Charles Mackclarey, of Norris-freet, St. James, Thomas Young late of Lemon-fireet, Goodman's- Jcha John Newton, of Windmill Hill, near Moorfields, the teftator, leaving a fon: the teftator brewer. Peter Andrews, late of the Borough of Southwark, now a prisoner in the King's Bench Priton, platterer. John Overton of Tooting Graveney, in Surry, carpenter and builder. Marlowe Sidney Marlowe, of Gracechurch ftreet, London, grocer. Henry Anderfon, of Great St Thomas, Apoftle A general Bill of all the Chriftenings and Bu rials from Dec. 10, 1780, to Dec. 11, 1781. Buried. 10499 10210 never altered his will; and died fome few years after. At his decafe, the grandfon and the fon both claimed the eftate; the former as heir to the teftator, the latter under the will. The difpute terminated in a fuit at law in the King's-Bench, or Common-Pleas, of Ireland, in which the grandfon obtained a decifion in his favour. The party nonfuited appealed to England, and the determination of the Irish court was reverfed by Lord Mansfield, on his appeal his reafon for reverfing it was, that though equity was clearly in favour of the defendant, ftill the law was as clearly in favour of the appellant; becaufe as the teftator's' eideft ion had never been in poffeffion of the eftate in queftion, having died before his father, his fon (grandfon to the teftator) could derive no right through him, to that which never belonged to him; the legacy, 7083 of course, was to be confidered in the light 2399 of a lapfed legacy, and the fecond fon, in point of law, became heir, under the will, 725 to the eftate, which, if no will at all had 1518 been made, muft neceffarily have gone to 1640 the grandfon. In all 20709 Whereof have died, Under two years of age Between two and five 882 1391 950 394 51 2 I I 202 1 But it feems, by fome accounts from Ire1649 land, that the fheriff of the county of Cork, in whofe bailiwick the eftate in queftion lies, will not execute the order of the Court of King's Bench in England, because that would be a complete avowal that Ireland was dependent upon England; an avowal which must clash with all the, late pretenfions of the I ifh to the fupremacy of their own legislature and judicature. Nay, it is faid, that the fheriff has exp effed a determined refolution not only not to execute the orders of the English Court of King'sBench, but alfo to oppofe the coroner, with the whole poffe comitatus, if any writ should be directed to the coroner for putting the appellant into poffeffion. Increased in the burials this year 102. 2 HE following instance of the increase of flax, it is thought, will ftimulate farmers to the more frequent cultivation of that ftaple article, which would fave much money to this country, and tend greatly to the encouragement of the linen manufacture. Thomas Hay, at Kirkcaldie, fowed five lippies of flax feed, the produce of which was ten ftone, four pounds, four ounces, each ftone yielding 14lb. of dretfed flax of as good a quality as is fold at rod. per lb. violent fhocks of an Earthquake had lately happened in the City of Tangiers, and other places contiguous which had demolifhed a number of houfes, and that the ramparts of the place had received confiderable damage. Orders have been received at Bruff-lls from the emperor to de nolith all the fortreffes and fortified places in thefe provinces, except Luxemberg, Namur, and Antwerp, together with Offend, which laft place will only remain fortified towards the Sea; the materials of the above demolitions will be publickly fold. All thefe places had Dutch garrifons, which will now be entirely ufelefs, and confequently a great faving of expences. The Turks feem to be more inclined at Letters from Warfaw, dated Nov. 15, fay, in the district of Huffyalin we e fo great, ஆம் de Rucks, first director of the difit, the The King of Poland is at prefent (Dec.) A circular letter has been fent through The last advices from Mahon fay, that INDEX INDEX to the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, to the ESSAYS on A . BSTRACT of the Dean of Gloucefter's 100 Bed of Justice, in Paris, an account of 411 118 99 246 nive 148 Clark, Alderman, ftands a candidate to re- of that vehicle Converfation, Reflections on the art of 409 559 Cornwallis, the Right Hon. Earl, memoirs ones 159 147 68 198 fire EARTH-Nut, botanical defcription of 338 |