nown'd, Effays for O&tober, 1774. 488 And may our glorious Champion rife re[crown'd, Through Time's late annals, by fair Vict'ry Whilft,greatly daring,midst his faithful bands, FIRM IN THE GLORIOUS ENTERPRIZE he stands. An EPIGRAN on Modern Marriages. WHEN Phoebus was am'rous, and to be rude, [wood; Mifs Daphne cry'd, Pith! and ran fwift to the And, rather than do fuch a naughty affair, She became a fine laurel to deck the god's hair. The nymph was, no doubt, of a cold conAtitution; For, fure, to turn tree was an odd refolution! Yet in this the behav'd like a Coterie fponfe, As he fled from his arms to diftinguish his brows. He marks them, and their wild petition grants; The various ordinances of the sky Stand forth his glorious witnefles on high; Summer and Winter, Autumn, and the Spring, For him, by turns, their atteftations bring: Unblemith'd, his great league with Nature ftands, And full reliance on his truth demands; Nothing that breathes a fecond deluge fears, When in the clouds the radiant Bow appears. Can the Most High, like Man, at random Speak? Forfeit his Honour, and his Promife break? Does he that falfely fwears, his vengeance claim? And thall he ftain his own tremendous Name? + The motto. Or breathing duft his folemn Oath reverse ? And men expect the rifing fun in vain ; [bow'rs Angels themselves their brightest hopes recline On nothing more unchangeable than mine. mine. But, oh! I dare the glorious venture make, And lay my foul, and future life, at stake; Be Earth, be Heav'n, at defp'rate hazard loft, If here my faith fhould prove an empty boast! Whate'er your arts, ye Pow'rs of Hell, fuggeft, The Truth of God, undaunted, I atteft. Produce your annals, with infulting rage, Bring out your records, thew the dreadful page, One inftance, where th' Almighty broke lis word, Since first the race of men his name ador'd; In gloomy characters point out the hour, Exert your malice, fummon all your pow'r; With rites infernal all your pomp display, And mark with horror the tremendous day: -Confus'd, you fearch your dreadful rolls in vain, Th' Eternal Honour (hines without a stain; Unblemish'd shines, in Men and Angels view: -Just are thy Ways, thou King of Saints, and true! ACCOUNT Proceedings of the American Colonies. ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS of BScarborough man of war, in twenty Y authentic letters received by the four days, from Boston, it appears, that The lateft private letters and newspapers received are to the 2d of September, which is the feafon for the annual mufter of the militia of that country. Whether the General, from fome hints given him by Col. Brattle, or from the jealous fears fo natural to one in his difagreeable fituation, was apprehenfive of their doing fomething more than going through their common exercife, is uncertain, but he thought proper to demand of Col. Brattle the provincial ammunition and ftores under his care, which were delivered to the General, who then fent two Companies of his foldiers up the river, by night, and feized a large magazine of powder at the town of Medford, in which there happened to be private property, as well as provincial, to the latter of which he, as Captain General, had a right. Upon hearing of this, the next morning, the inhabitants of the neighbouring towns, to the amount of feveral thoufands, as the letters fay, affembled at Cambridge, moftly in arms, with a design to go to Bofton, where the powder had been carried and ftored, to demand the fame, and, if neceffary, to attack the troops; but, upon the importunate follcitations of the principal gentlemen of the town, they defifted, and, for that time, contented themfelves with going to the houfes of Mr. Sewal, the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Phips, Colonel of the Provincial Horfe, Mr. Hulton, a Commiffioner of the Cuftoms, LieutenantGovernor Oliver, feveral of the new Council, and fundry other Crown Officers, who they thought had fhewn themfelves unfriendly to the province; fome of thefe they obliged to refign, and to declare that they would no more act un. der fuch arbitrary laws: others fled for their lives, and were concealing themfelves, from houfe to houfe, when thefe Jetters came away, their own houfes heing much damaged by the people, and, it is faid, fome pulled down. Upon opening the courts at term time, the juries throughout the province unanimously refufed to take the oaths, or to act at all under their new Judges, and new laws. The clerks of the courts have, in the news-papers, declared their forrow for having iffued the warrants for fummoning the faid juries according to the late acts, and declare they will no more do fo, let the confequence be what it GENT. MAG, 08, 1774. 489 will; that they did not confider what they were about, and that, if the people fhould forgive them, they could never forgive themfelves. The Governor's company of Cadets, confifting wholly of gentlemen of the town, and who are moftly on the fide of Government, difbanded themselves, and returned to General Gage the ftandard, which, on his arrival there, he, according to custom, had prefented them with, This was done upon the General's taking away Mr. Hancock's commiffion, as Colonel of the company. Governor Gag fhewed himself to be much out of temper when the committee returned the colours, alledging, that Colonel Hancock had used him ill, Out of the thirty-fix new counsellors, only thirteen had been prevailed with to take the oaths; and, of thefe, five or fix had refigned, fome voluntarily, others through fear. But what moft irritated the people, next to feizing their arms and ammunition, was the apprehending fix gentlemen, Select Men of the town of Salem, who had affembled a town meeting, according to the old cuftom, though contrary to the new acts of parliament, to chufe fome public officers; upon which General Gage fent for, and cautioned them, threatening them that he would enforce the acts if they perfifted to carry matters to the laft extremity. He was anfwered, that they fhould be governed by the laws of the province, and accord ingly went on with the bufinets of the meeting mean time, a company of fol diers were ordered into the town, who came prepared as for an engagement; but, before their arrival, the meeting had got through with their bufinefs, and were broke up. The Select Men, however, were apprehended, and three of them admitted to bail, to ftand trial at the next court, and three were fent to gaol, who, on their arrival, were by the keeper refufed admittance, and remained under arreft when the Scarborough failed.Thefe are the most authentic accounts that have yet been made public; upon the receipt of which, orders were given for the march of an additional number of troops to reinforce the army under General Gage, which are now preparing to embark at Portsmouth with the utmolt expedition. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Sept. 23. Hilrow, in the Ife of Ely, four mares 490 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. by which incredible damage has been done, and many farmers abfolutely ruined. Sept. 24. Three new windows of ftained glafs, which have been long in painting, were at length compleated, and fixed up in the north fide of New College chapel, Oxford. They contain 24 figures of patriarchs and prophets, as large as life, cach within a nich, upon a pedestal, and under a canopy of Gothic decoration. The defign and execution do equal honour to the painter; and the brilliancy, as well as variety of the colouring, which promifes to be lafting, exceed any thing of the kind hitherto done in this kingdom. Sept. 25. Mr. Taylor's powder-mill on HonflowHeath blew up, and one man perished by the explotion, whofe head was found at the diftance of more than a quarter of a mile from his body. Sept. 27. At a court of aldermen held at Guildhall, the debates ran high in regard to a bill brought in by the committee who were last fummer appointed to furvey an eftate in Yorkshire, of which the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London are the trustees. This eftate was left by Lady Dacre, for the ufe of Emanuel hofpital in Weftminster, to which charity the court of aldermen of London have the appointment, though the objects entitled to it must be of St. Margaret's parifh, and limited to fuch as receive alms. This eftate, which, from 350l. a year, had 'been gradually raifed to 950l. a year, was again to be let, which gave occafion to the furvey in queftion; and the old lef fee having confented to a farther advance of rent, viz. to 1000l. a year, clear of all deductions, the committee, on their return, made their report accordingly, and charged for their expences in the furvey 1741. 14s. 8d. Though the majority of the court of aldermen were of opihion that the eftate was underlet, and therefore did not agree to that part of the report of the committee, which they, as citizens of London, unwilling to give countenance to the prefent ruinous prac-. tice of rack-renting tenants, and thereby adding to the calamities of the poor, by inducing a neceffity of railing the price of the neceffaries of life, to enable tenants to pay thofe exorbitant rents, had thought reafonable; yet, at the time the report was received, they made no objection to the charges attending the furvey. But the prefent Lord Mayor and Alderman Crosby being of the committee, and both thefe gentlemen having declared themfelves candidates to reprefent the citizens of London in parliament, it has been thought a fit time to bring this tranfaction before the public, and to charge the committee with pilfering from the poor, and fpending more on their pleafures than on the neceffary business of the truft; a charge, however, which feems, as Alderman Turner has obferved, to carry more the face of party-prejudice than of fenfible concern for the poor, otherwife the exception would have been made in the first inftance, when the gentlemen concerned would rather have paid the whole, money than have fuffered the leaft imputation of character from the abuse of a trust, which they had bestowed both their time and their talents fo eminently to improveThis feems to be a fair reprefentation of the facts relative to this difpute, fo far as the public have yet been made acquainted with them; but fomething more seems to be hinted at in Alderman Turner's letter, of which we fhall take notice in fome future Magazine. Sept. 30. Advice has been received of the lofs of a great part of a Ruffian fquadron in the Archipelago, by a form which happened on the 26th of Auguft laft, which came on fo fuddenly, that all the fhips were either driven from their anchors, or perifhed in the road. In the St. Paul, of 60 guns and 500 men, the Vice-Admiral, with 400 of the crew, perifhed; two ships, of 50 guns each, foundered, and every foul on board went to the bottom; others were driven on shore, and only one rode out the ftorm, who gave the above melancholy account. The parliament of Great Britain was diffolved by royal proclamation, being the only parliament that has received its diffolution before the expiration of the term of feven years fince his prefent Majefty's acceffion to the throne. There was but one fuch diffolution during the long reign of George II. viz. in 1746. For feveral months paft there has reigned an epidemical diftemper among the horned cattle at Bearn; and, as yet, no remedy has been difcovered to put a stop to it, SATURDAY, OCT. 1. About four o'clock in the morning a dreadful tempeft arofe, attended with thunder, lightning, and rain, which did confiderable damage among the shipping in the river, unroofed feveral tenements in the borough of Southwark, and blew down nine uninhabited houfes. A letter-carrier belonging to the postoffice was committed to prifon for fecreting letters, with bank-notes and bills, be longing to different people. His maid proved, on his examination, the receipt of the money for one bank-note, which The gave a porter, by her master's orders, to carry to the bank, for which he made her a prefent of three guineas.— This man, it feems, had been fervant to a nobleman, where he had behaved fo well as to be thought worthy the place he HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. he held, as a reward for his faithful fervices. Monday 3. This day writs, directed to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, paffed the Great Seal, for the election of members to reprefent the clergy in convocation for their refpective provinces. At a meeting of the livery of London at Guildhall, Mr. Stavely in the chair, Frederick Bull, Brafs Crosby, John Sawbridge, and George Hayley, were put in nomination to reprefent the city in parlia ment, previous to which they all figned a paper, in fubftance like that figned by Mr. Wilkes and Serjeant Glynn (fee p. 444). Mr. Oliver and Mr. Baker were likewife nominated, but refufed to fign the above paper. Tuesday 4. At a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster, the Lords Mountmorres and Mahon were put in nomination as proper perfons to represent that city in parliament; and, at the fame time, Humphry Cotes offered his fervices. They have ince been opposed by Lord Percy, and Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton. Lord North was robbed by a single highwayman, who fired at and wounded the poftilion. The villain has fince been taken. At Stirbitch fair, hops in bags fold from 50s. to 41. in pockets from 31. 10s. to 41. 45. cheefe from 30s. to 425. per hundred weight. Thursday 6. The poll for Lord Mayor for the city of London ended, when the numbers were as follow: Th. Fr. Sat. Mon.Tu.W. Th. Tot. Wk6.192|109|301|468|364|285:238 1957 Bull 191112 302 474 364 257 223 1923 Efdl. 112 118 328 364 26c181 811474 Ken. 108 116 342 351|251169 731410 The next day John Wilkes, Efq; was, declared duly elected. On this occafion the joy of the populace was fo great, that they took the horfes from the coach, and, in the struggle for the honour of drawing it to the manfion-houfe, one man lolt his life, and another was much hurt. Friday 7. The Rev. Dr. Thonras Fothergill, provoft of Queen's College, Oxford, being again nominated by the Chancellor, was 491 invested with the office of Vice-Chancellor of that university for the year enfuing. Saturday 8. A man was carried before Mr. Alder man Wilkes, for breaking the windows of Mr. Alderman Harley, on the evening of the day when Mr. Wilkes was chofen Lord Mayor, when that magiftrate ordered him to give bail for his appearance at the feffions houfe in the Old Bailey, to take his trial at the next feffions for that offence. The fame day the Coroner's inqueft fat on the body of the man who was trampled to death in attempting to atlift in drawing the Lord Mayor's coach, as already mentioned, and brought in their verdict Accidental Death. The law, nevertheless, exacts the forfeiture of the moving body towards the death of a subje&t; in confequence of which the jury adjudged the near fore-wheel of the Lord Mayor's coach the moving body, and valued the fame at 40s. Wednesday 12. A difpute which has long subsisted between the court of Sardinia and that of Great Britain, on account of Mr. M'Namara's daughter, who was intrusted to the care of the Countefs of Lozelli, of Nice, is at laft terminated. This is the profelyte whom the Bishop of Nice abjured, confeffed, and adminiftered the facrament to, at the age of nine years three months; which conduct, approved by the cafuifts of Turia, though contrary to the canons of the church of Rome, has been condemned by the Pope, and all the excommunications and anathemas de ipfo fatto, pronounced by this court against those who favoured the restitution of the child to her parents, have been declared null by the court of Rome: the epifcopal functions of the Bishop of Nice are fufpended during two years, and the cafuifts and theological doctors of Turin are forbidden to fupport and countenance fuch doctrine for the future, under pain of excommunication. The King of Sardinia entirely difapproved of the proceedings of his clergy, but he would not take upon him to decide the queflion, without the authority of the court of Rome, that he might give his fubjects a proof of his fubm on to the decifion of that court. His conduct in this refpect, has fo well fatisfied the court of Great Britain, that it has given him time to make fatisfaction, without any difputes with his clergy. The girl is returned to Ireland with her mother and fifter, and her father remains at Villa Franca, by confent of the British court, to execute his engagements. Friday 14. Mention having been made (p. 489), that the Courts of Judicature at Bolton were fufpended because the juries refuted to be fworn, the following is the reason 492 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. which the petit-jury gave for their refufal: "We the fubfcribers, returned by this county to ferve as petit jurors this term, beg leave to acquaint your Honours, that, as the Hon. Peter Oliver, Efq; ftands impeached by the late Hon. Houfe of Commons of this province, in their own name, and in the name of the people of this province, of high crimes and misdemeanors, which impeachment, with the reafons therefore, as they are public, would be needlefs for us to repeat: "We would alfo beg leave to acquaint your Honours, that as, by a late act of the British parliament, the continuance of the judges of the fuperior court is, fince the 1st of July laft, m de to depend upon the faid act, which, it is apprehended, places their dependence entirely upon the Crown, and which is efteemed a great infringement of the charter-rights of this province : "Taking the above premifes into our moft ferious confideration, we beg leave to acquaint your Honours,that we cannot, in our confciences, from a fenfe of that duty we owe to our country, to ourselves, and to pofterity, act against the united voice of this people: Therefore, beg your Honours will excufe us when we fay, we decline ferving as petit-jurors for this court." Signed by thirty-three citizens After the court had read the papers, the clerk of the court, by order of the Chief Justice, asked them, feriatim, if they would be worn? and every one refufed. The court faid they would confider of their reafons, and the juries withdrew. The court then adjourned till ten o'clock next day, when they met, exclufive of Mr. Oliver, and, to the inexpreffible grief of their fellow-citizens, went on to fuch bufinefs as is ufually transacted, without juries. Monday 17. The board of finances in Auftrian Elanders have prohibited the exportation of corn both by land and water. Tuesday 18. The college of phyficians held their grand anniversary feaft, at their hall in Warwick-lane, when the Harveian oration was delivered by Dr, James. Wednesday 19. The Leeds canal between Liverpool and Wigan was opened with great folem nity. coaftwife, without first obtaining a fpecial licence for fo doing from the King or his privy council. (From this prohibition, however, the Mafter-General of the Ordnance is excepted.) By a letter from Plymouth it is likewife faid, that the Somerfet and Kent have taken on board their stores and pro-" vifions, and have fallen down into the Sound, there to remain for failing orders. They have each on board 60 marines more than their ufual complement, and it is imagined are to winter at Bofton, each fhip having a fwivel and mooring chain on board, fuch as are used for mooring fhips in Hamoaze. Thefe thips, it is faid, with fome others, have fince received orders to fail immediately. · Several ac counts fpeak of a fkirmish between the King's troops and provincials at Boston; but as they differ in the particulars, little credit is given to their report. Tuesday 25. Being the anniversary of the King's acceffion to the throne, who then entered into the 15th year of his reign, there was a numerous and fplendid appearance of nobility, &c. at St. James's, to compliment his Majelly on the occafion. The feffions, which began on Wednefday the 19th, ended, when nine convicts received fentence of death; viz. William Lane and Samuel Trotman, for affault-' ing and robbing Mr. Floyd on the highway, cutting him with a long knife, and attempting to tab him; Jofeph Fidbybay, for horfestealing; John Coleby and Charles Jones, for houfe breaking; Jane Munt, for fealing plate; William Lewis, for forgery; and John' Rann, otherwife Sixteen-tring-Jack, for robbing Dr. Bell on the highway. Thurflay 27. Elizabeth Grieve, commonly called the Hon. Mrs. Grieve, was tried at Hicks's Hall for defrauding divers perfons of fe veral fums of money, under pretence of procuring them places under the government, and fentenced to be tranfported for feven years. This is the woman who a year ago rendered herself fo famous at Bow-frect, having pretended to be the friend of the prime minifter, coulin to the Duke of Grafton, and to have various other connections of the first rank, Friday 18. This day the following advices were The artificers in the dock-yard at Portf-/received from Button, dated Sept. 24mouth are in the greateft hurry imaginable, in fitting thips for fervice; 300 mapines were put on board thofe in readiness; and orders have been given for making draughts from Ireland for reinforcing the troops in America: add to thefe appearances, that a proclamation was this day iffued, forbidding the exportation of gunpowder, arms, or ammunition, from any part of Great Britain, for fix months, and even prohibiting the carrying of any Four 24 pounders, and eight 9 pounders, have been transported from CleWilliam, by order of General Gage, and placed against the fortifications of this town. he 59th regiment is arrived from Salem, and ftationed on 'Eofton Necke The Seled Men of Boston have waited on General Gage, defiring to know what he means by placing cannon at the ave nues of the town, and digging trenches round the town; to which he returned for |