Tuesday 11.

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This day his Majesty went in the ufual ftate to the House of Peers, and gave the royal affent to the crown lands bill, the fhip owners bill, the diftillery bill, the excife duties bill, the bill to rectify a mistake in the finking fund bill, the bill to prohibit the exportation of tools, the bill for fettling an annuity on Lady Carlton and her two children, Mr. Brook Watfon's annuity bill, the bill for licenfing places kept for flaughtéring horfes, and Mrs. Trefufis's naturaZization bill: after which his Majefty clofed the feffon with the following most gracious fpeech:

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I CANNOT clofe this Seffion of Parliament without expreffing the particular fatis faction with which I have obferved your diligent attention to the public bufinefs, and the measures you have adopted for improving the refources of the country.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I thank you for the fupplies which you have granted for the service of the current year, and for the provifion you have made for difcharging the incumbrences on the revenue applicable to the ufes of my civil government. The maft falutary effects are to be expected from the plan adopted for the reduction of the national debt; an object which I confider as infeparably connected with the effential interefts of the public.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

The affurances which I continue to receive from abroad promife the continuance of general tranquillity.

The happy effects of peace have already appeared in the extenfion of the national commerce; and no measures fhall be wanting on my part, which can tend to confirm thefe advantages, and to give additional encouragement to the manufactures and industry of my people.

Then the Earl Bathurst, by his Majefty's command, faid;

My Lords and Gentlemen,

IT is his Majefty's royal will and pleafure, That this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday the 14th day of September next, to be then bere holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued, &c.

The Houfe of Commons have fat this feffion 101 days, which is thirteen fhort of what they did last year. The longeft fef fion that has been known for many years was 135 days.

Friday 14.

A caufe was tried before Lord Loughborough, in the Court of Common Pleas, between Mr. Macquire, husband of La Belle Efpagnolle, now acting at Sadler's Wells, plaintiff, and Mr. Wroughton, the manager of that place of entertainment, defendant.

The action was brought for damages a gainft the defendant, in confequence of his having engaged La Belle Efpagnolle with;

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out the confent of her husband. In the courfe of the trial it appeared, that Mr. Macquire had given notice to Mr. Wroughton, that, if he engaged his wife, he should expect a falary of twenty guineas per week for her performances. Mr. W. in defiance of this notice, engaged her at the ufual falary fhe had before, of four guideas per week. The marriage therefore being proved, a verdict was given for the plaintiff. Saturday 22.

At the Quarter Seffions for Middlesex, Mrs. Elizabeth Wade was tried for fetting fire to her lodgings near Cold-bath-fields. Many refpectable witneffes were examined, who proved, that large quantities of guapowder, and other combustibles, were found loofe in boxes, drawers, &c. in her apartment, which the had left about half an hour before, under a pretence of going into the country; and one confiderable explosion had actually taken place, when the fire was dif covered, and happily extinguished, by which the houfe, and the people therein, narrowly escaped from being blown up. It was allo proved, that he had, a fhort time before the accident, infured 1500l. with the London Affurance Corporation, and that her pro perty found on the premifes was not worth twenty pounds, fo that her guilt was, after a trial of feveral hours, fo clearly established, that the jury inftantly found her guilty. The Chairman proceeded to pass fenience directly on her for this offence, by which the neighbourhood was in danger of being deftroyed, and the London Affurance defrauded of a large fum of money; and directed that the thould pay a fine of one thilling, and be imprisoned for twelve months. Wednesday 26.

The feffions at the Old Bailey, which began on the 19th, ended, when 12 convicts received fentence of death; among whom was Samuel Burr, for forgery. This man,. when he was asked what he had to fay why. judgment to die fhould not be paffed according to law, addreffed the Court as follows:. "My Lord, I am too fenfible of the crime which I have committed, and for which I justly deferve to fuffer; my life I have forfeited, and with to refign it into the hands of Him who gave it me. To give my rea.. fons for this, would only fatisfy an idle curiofity; no one can feel a more fenfible, heartfelt fatisfaction in the hopes of fhortly paffing into cernity; wherein, I trof, Í thall meet with great felicity, I have not the least defire to live; and, as the Jury and the Court on my trial thought proper to recommend me to mercy, if his Majefty should, in confequence thereof, grant me a refpite, Í here vow, in the face of Heaven, that I will put an end to my own existence as foon as I

can.

It is death that I with for, because nothing but death can ex ricate me from, the troubles which my follies have involved me in."

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Saturday 29.

A gentleman, not far from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire (of the Antiquarian Soci ety) has difcovered three rooms of teffelated pavement, in digging among the ruins of a large Roman building, one of which being fix yards fquare, and half of it perfect, is allowed, by thofe who have feen it, to be the most curious and beautiful of the fort ever beheld in this part of the kingdom; it is paved with quarter-inch squares; the whole length of the foundation is 20 yards by 14 odd measure, confifting of 9 or io rooms, ftanding in the middle of a corn-field. It is now filled up, to prevent further damage being done to the premifes and corn-fields, till after the harveft is in, when further refearches are expected to be made. The above is about a m le north of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire.

Monday 31.

The change that has lately happened in the conduct of the Prince of Wales will probably be handed down to pofterity as oue of the most extraordinary events that is to be met with in the annals of Royalty. Pretending to no other information than what is to be gathered from the public papers, wha'l endeavour to collect, with our ufual impartiality, thofe particulars relative thereto that appear to us the most authentic.

The Prince, finding his affairs embar raffed by the fmallnets of his income, applied to his Majefty for afftance; affuring his Majesty, that, if any part of his conduct was thought improper, he would, upon its being made known to him, alter the fame, and conform to his Majesty's wishes in every thing that was becoming a gentleman. The King ordered a state of the Prince's affairs to be laid before him. A ftate of the Prince's debts was made out, amounting in the whole to about two hundred and thirty thousand pounds, to which was added twenty four thousand pounds for cempleating Carlton-houte, making in the whole two hundred and fifty thoufand pounds; which account was laid before his Majesty. On the 4th inftant, in the evening, Lord Southampton received his Majefty's anfwer, which was a direct and pofitive refufal. His Royal Highness, upon being informed of this anfwer, took his refolution to retire to a private station.

In confequence of this determination in his Highnefs, letters were on the 7th written to the gentlemen of his hafehold,

ftating, that their fervices would for the prefent be difpenfed with.

The conduct of Lord Southampton, dur ing the whole of the negociation, has been exceedingly honourable and correct. The meffages which paffed between his Majesty and the Prince were all in writing, and the noble Lord conducted the bufinefs in the most impartial manner.

The four gentlemen whom his Highness Has chofen to retain in Kis household, and to whom the management of the funds to be fet apart for the payment of his debts is intrufted, are Col. Hotham, Col. Hulfe, Col. Lake, and Henry Lyte, Esq.

Tatterfal received orders to go to Newmarket, and take inventories of the horses which make up his Highness's ftud, together with his carriages, &c. and to bring the whole to the hammer with all convenient fpeed; which was accordingly done on the 24th and 25th inftant, when the whole ftud confifting of Brood Mares, Horfes in Training, Yearling Colts, Yearling Fitfies, Hunters and Hacks, and Coach Horfes, fold for the fum of seven thoufand two hundred and twenty-five guineas. The grand rooms, the furniture, &c. of Carlton-houfe; are to be cafed, and the whole locked up, except two or three fmall apartments for his Highness's ufe when he may occafionally come to town.

The expence of his Royal Highness has been chiefly confined to his building and his Aud; the latter of which coft him 30,000l.

per annum.

The household of the Prince is now to be reduced from 25 to 5,000l. per annum ; and it will amount to this fum in confequence of his Highness having fettled small penfions on a number of old domestics, who depended upon him for fubfiftence. His fla bles, instead of 30 000l. will not now colt him more than 2,ocol, per annum. His table, which was always managed with great oeconomy, and which, notwithstanding his fuperb entertainments, never cost more than between 9 and 10,000l. per annum, will be now confined within 2 or 3,000l.

The conduct of the Royal Father on the prefent occafion has been governed by the emergency of the times; that of the fon proves the felicity of a ready fubmiffion to the dictates of his fuperior. The former, being convinced that his fubjects were already fufficiently burthened by an unavoidable impofition of numerous taxes, was very naturally induced to advise his fon to adopt the most eligible plans of oeconomy retating to his expenditure. The latter, feeling the propriety of the admonition, has very readily acquiefced; and, in confequence, the various retrenchments in his household eftablishment have taken place. No language can fufficiently praife the motives of the father; and every panegyrie is inadequate to the honourable principles of the

the mortal part of

RICHARD CONYERS, LL.D.
ten years rector of this parish.
In his ministry,

with fingular, wisdom and fimplicity, with equal fidelity and tenderness, he most fuccefsfully difplayed and enforced the glorious Gospel of the Lord JESUS CHRIST,

his God and Saviour,
and the tendency and power of it,
exemplified in his conftant practice.
While publickly engaged in his Master's
work,

on the Lord's day, 23d of April, 1786,
ætat. 62,

he was fuddenly called away
to behold his glory.
Bieffed is that fervant,
whom his Lord, when he cometh,
fhall find fo doing.

Sent by their Lord on purposes of grace,
Thus angels do his will, and fee his face;
With out-fpread wings they ftand, prepar'd
to foar,

Declare their meffage, and are seen no more.

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had at all times three manfion-houses, and of Jate four, in occafional ufe. He spent immenfe fums in different forts of very coftly decorations; pictures by every mafter-even for copies he gave 500 guineas each; gardening by Browne; buildings by Adams. In the two laft articles he is fuppofed to have fpent fixty or eighty thousand pounds. In conftant bounties and eleemofynary donations, both public and private, his munificence was too large to be concealed. In fupport of his friends' elections his out-goings were at times very large; and yet, notwithstanding all these calls upon him, fo efficacious was order and management, that the eftate accumulated confiderably. More than fifteen years ago he was able to purchase the property on which Lord Percy had his feat in Yorkshire; and, a few years ago, the manfion, manors, and boroughs of Humphry Morice, in the Weft, all were fold to the Duke. In fhort, the rental, with the Dukedom, he left at above 50,000l. and to his fecond fon 10,000!. per annum. The Duke had negociated a further improvement of the Northumberland eftate, but did not live to fee it compleated: this was, the change of property with the Crown, the ground about Tynemouth barracks, indeed the barracks themselves, for they had fallen into him as ground landlord, for an equivalent allotment of land in Scotland-yard. P. 530. Mr. Winbolt was aged 64.

BIRTHS.

HE Hereditary Princess of Baden

and life:

Refipui,

Peccavi,

Confidi, Amavi, Requiefco,

Refurgam,
Et gratiâ Chrifti,
utut indignus,

regnabo.

P. 528. His Majefty of Portugal, Don Pedro Clement, was brother to the late King of Portugal; and married his niece, Maria Frances Ifabella, daughter of the late King, by whom he had iffue, Jofeph Francis Xavier, Prince of Brazil, now King of Portugal, who married his aunt, Maria Francifca Benedicta, third daughter of the before-mentioned late King. The Queen Dowager (for fo the must now be called, in confequence of the death of her husband) has retired to a convent. Her Majefty's fon and fifter are now King and Queen of Portugal. His Majefty Peter III. was F.R.S.

Ibid. Lady Malden was Mrs. Stephenson. Ibid. Mrs. Wolferftan died Feb. 2, of an apoplectic Aroke.

P. 529. The Duke of Northumberland was a very confpicuous inftance of what great things may be done by common care, working upon large property. The establishment of his Grace was as magnificent as it was poffible for any English nobleman to be. He GENT. MAG. July, 1786.

Charles Frederic Louis.

17. The lady of the hon. and rev. Jacob Marfham, a fon.

Inter 17 et 18. The Infanta Donna Mariana of Portugal, (married last year to the Infant Don Gabriel,) a prince, fince chriftened Peter Charles Anthony Raphael Jofeph January Francis John Nepomucene Thomas Mark Marceline Vincent Raymont Nonat l'eter of-Alcantara Ferdinand.

The lady of Sir Ja. Lake, bart. a fon. 29. Lady of Richard Mafter, efq; M.P. for Cirencester, a fon.

30. The lady of Richard Shubrick, efq; of Enfield, a daughter.

The wife of Mr. James Percy, fugar-baker, Friday-street, a daughter.

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Thorthorpe,

29. At Windfor, Capt. Allen Cooper, commander of the Eaft India fhip Atlas, to Mifs Sufannah Maria Moula, of their Majefties' household.

Bv special licence, Lord Fairford, to Mifs Sandys, niece to Lord S.

30. Hon. Mr. Baron Gordon, to Mifs Baillie.

July 1. Col. Trelawny, of the Coldstream reg. of foot guards, to Mifs Hawkins.

Andrew Barkeley, efq; a captain in the navy, to Mits Willis.

By fpecial Icence, in Dublin, the right hon. John Fitzgibbon, attorney general for Ireland, to Mifs Whaley, daughter of the Late Chapel W. efq.

4. Mr. John Bradney, apothecary in Cannon-ftr. to Mils Wathen, niece to Dr. W. of Clapham.

At Fulham, Mr. T. Baldwin, druggift, of Paternoster-row, to Mrs. Hanox.

5. At Gretna Green, Geo. Caswell, efq; of Lincoln's-inn, eldeft fon of Timothy C. ela; of Sacomb, to Mifs Newman.

8. At Enfield, Mr. Francis Califfe, to Mifs Elz Ottliffe, dau. of Mr. O. brewer.

1o. Capt. Leo, of the Royal Volunteers, to Mifs Letitia Davies, of Llandwich, co. Denb. Blackett de Chair, efq; to Mifs Ifabella Beauvoir, youngett dap. of Ofmund Beauvoir, D.D.

At Woodford, Edward Wilkinson, efq; of Leeds, to Mifs Anne Pearce.

Beefton Long, efa; to Mifs Neave.

11. Dr. Bane, phyfician to St. Thomas's hofpital, to Mifs Gardner.

12. Drummond Smith, efq; to Mifs Cunliffe, dau. of the late Sir Ellis C. bort.

13. John Farr Abbott, efq; of Lincoln'sinn fields, to Mifs Pearce.

Mr. Lonard Hampton, of Luton, to Mifs Smith, or Cardington.

15 Rev. Dr. Evans, of Harlev-fir. to Mils Hward, dau. of the late Gerard H. efq.

Ar Gretna Green, Jobn Fuller, efq; of Uckfield, Suffex, to Mifs Attree, of Newerk, in the lame county.

Edward Thurlow, efq; of Roll-by, near Yarmouth, fon of the late John F. efq; and nephew to the Lord Chancellor and the

Bishop of Lincoln, to Mifs Thomfon, of Norwich.

Anthony Ashley Earl of Shaftesbury, to Mifs Webb, dau. of Sir John W.

19. At Tilehurst, rev. James Collum, younger brother of the late Sir John and prefent Sir Thomas Geary Cullum, vicar of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, to Mifs Blagrave, niece to John B. efq; of Collect place, Berks. 20. Richard Corrie, efq; of Hertford, to Mrs. Jenkins, relict of the rev. Dr. J.

22. At Portfmouth, Wm. Fulden, efq; captain of Marines, to the hon. Mrs. Napier, relict of the hon. Col. N.

26. Thomas Walker, efq; late captain of the Lord Camden Eaft Indiaman, to Mits Ludlow, of Bristol.

Henry Davis, efq; of Cerne, co. Dorset, to Mifs Shuttleworth, daughter of the rev. Dig by S. of Sherborne.

Mr. Kennedy, a gentleman who had been near 50 years upon the ftage, and, if not of an eminent, had fupported at least the character of an useful actor, and an honeft man, His being well ftudied in a variety of cha racters procured him engagements in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, fome years fince; but this truly unfortunate man, in refolutely rushing through the flames to fave his wife (who was loft in the fire which happened in King-ftreet, Covent Garden, alout 20 years ago) was to much burnt in the face, that it did him confiderable injury in his profeffion; this misfortune was followed by a paralytic Atroke. From that time he by degrees fell into diftreffed circumstances, which were in part relieved by the liberality of his friend the late Mr. Henderson. On this gentleman's death, the fituation of poor Kennedy, who was a man of foirit and frict integrity, became infupportable; and he made his laft exit with a razor, in the 66th year of his age!

At Upfal, in his 74th year, Dr. Charles Frederic Menander, archbishop of that city, and vice chancellor of the univerfity.

At Spalding, in his 66th year, William Hawkes, treaturer to the body of adventurers in Deeping fen. He was of the fociety of Chriftians called Quakers-This diftinction was in him merely nominal, for he retained the moral pority of every feet without their formalities he had a foul fuperior to pride, for he deemed it a meanness in the creature, and the extinction of the Chriftian-ne difcharged a multiplicity of private trufts with a peculiar fagacity, an indefatigable industry, and a rare fidelity-he ftretched forth his hand to honest poverty with a fecret Iberality -he met with ardour the witbes of oppreffed merit--he was a man of fingular penetration in ufeful knowle 'ge-fo devoid of paffion, that he feemed not to feel it-he had his foes and his faults, because he was a man-

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