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he may chance to come home in a very different predicament; either thro' the changes of men that may be in administration, or the change of opinion, fentiment, and feelings of the fame men, if continued in power. How different is their treatment of Gentlemen when their backs are turned, from that they afford them when prefent, or upon their outfet to a government! What has happened to fome before, may happen to others hereafter.

Some part of the Budget, after lying dormant for fome time, was brought forward by Miniftry again under two titles, arrears of Civil Lift thirty thousand pounds, and a mortgage of one hundred and eighty thoufand pounds in form of Exchequer bilis, together two hundred and ten thousand pounds; the difcharge whereof is eagerly preffed by mini., fterial men, while the Patriots are as clamorous and preffing for an annual augmentation of another Royal provifion, profelfedly from a greater and more urgent neceffity than the former. Which of thefe claims will preponderate we know not; but fhould be happy to fee Minifters and Oppofitionifts vie with each other who fhall be mott frugal and faving of the public money; then we thould entertain fome faint hopes of paying or confiderably diminishing the national debt: 'till then, let us hear no more boafts on that fubject.

Our Minifter feems to be too polite a Gentleman to difpute with our phlegmatic neighbours the Dutch fuch a trifling affair as the home-fishery of turbot, cod, &c. We think, however, fome good reafon ought to be given to the public for taking up that bufinefs in fuch a warm and vigorous manner as we have lately feen it; and a ftill stronger reafon ought to be adduced for dropping it fo abruptly, and leaving that lucrative branch entirely in the hands of the Dutch, no longer our friends and allies, but thofe of the French nation, our conftant rivals and hereditary enemies.

We are not without our fears that the whale fithery will be foon ceded to the fame plodding people, after throwing away fome millions of public money in bounties to fet on foot, encourage, and rear, that branch of fishery to its prefent adult ftate. It is too barefaced to do it all at once, as that would alarm the nation to a pitch; but one itep leads gradually on to anothe, until the fubject becomes a matter unworthy of notice, and fo dies a feemingly natural death.

If we are not mistaken, fome strokes are aiming at our Newfoundland fishery, heretofore univerfally confidered as one of our grand fources of wealth and naval strength. We are the more confirmed in this fufpicion by the reprefent.tions of the gentlemen concerned in that fifhery living in the Weitern norts of the Channel, reirecting the injurie

they are like to fuftain from fome new propofed regulations in Newfoundland.— Indeed on our firft looking over the late Articles of Peace, we thought we difcovered a latent defign of, or tacit confent to, our gi ving up that fishery to the French and Ame ricans between them. Whether there was or was not a fecret article tantamount thereto, a little time will probably discover, to which the above mentioned regulations are not a little conducive. It is no wonder therefore the parties concerned take the alarm.

Our Eat-India Directors, and their new, masters the Commiffioners of Controul, hav ing agreed to fend out one Governor-General invested with extraordinary dictatorial powers, to fuperintend all our pofietsions in the Eaft; our Minifters have followed the example, by fending out one. Univerial Governor over all our remaining dominious on the western continent of America, at the expence of three other Governors, removed from their respective departments, to make room for this Bathaw of three tails, to extend his influence wherefoever the British fceptre fways in North America, How the people of the other provinces will relifh their receiving the law from the centre of a province more than half popish, we cannot at prefent decypher, therefore must leave time to determine: but we have heard it whifpered that if the Quebec Act had never pafied, the Americans would never have revolted from this country- Verbum fut fapientibus.

The continent of Europe is at prefent in a kind of unknown ftate.-Holland confuled and difturbed-Germany divided and diftrust. ful one part of the other; the Imperial Party against the Pruffian party. If this latter party fhould lofe its head by death cr total and r recoverable imbecility, greater commotions till might be expected to arife among them -France intriguing with them all, practiting chiefly upon Russia, to draw her into the fchemes of French policy, in oppofition to Great Britain, at the fame time has the effrontery to carry on a pretended friendly com mercial treaty with the English Cabinet, wlich the is endeavouring to fubvert at every other court in Europe. It is much to be feared, that our Cabinet is unequal to the task of coping with the French court, led on by the artful, defigning, and fophiftical veteran the Count de Vergennes.

Among all the powers of Europe, and thote verging on it, the Grand Turk's cafe feems the moft lamentable and pitiable. We have not forgot our engagement of pointing out the radical defects of the French court's prefent plan of forming alliances; but our own internal politics take up too much of our attention to admit of our going a rge into that subject at present,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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Hague, March 17.

N Wednesday laft the States affembled, and immediately adjourned the meeting till the following day, for the purpose of affording an opportunity of impreffing the minds of the people with an idea of the majefty of their fovereign affembly: In confequence, the garrifon was ordered to range themselves, being clothed in the beft uniforms, before the door of the hall of the States. This being done, the President ordered the Stadtholderian gate* to be opened, and a piquet of grenadiers immediately advanced to execute that command. On this occafion between three and four thoufand people were affembled, appearing to be ftrongly difpofed to tumultuous behaviour, but they were deterred from proceeding to acts of violence by the firm behaviour of the troops, who had their bayonets fixed. The door remained open during the fitting of the Senate, and the meeting was diffolved without any tumult. But the fame good order was not maintained this day; the corps of Burghers, raifed to fupport the cause of the Prince, had fecretly contrived to oppose the fatal door being opened, and particularly to prevent any of the members pang by that avenue. When the affembly was preparing to adjourn, and when M. de Gyzelaar, the Penfionary of Dordrecht, was proceeding in his coach towards the gate, two desperate perfons, fupported by fifteen or fixteen adherents, interrupted him, discharging against him the most opprobrious execrations. A dreadful malfacre was expected to be the con quence; but the troops

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atrocious murders ever committed. rence had for a confiderable time fubfifted between G. R. Fitzgerald, and Patrick Randal Macdonald, Etqrs. An, advertisement appeared lately, relative to the latter gentleman being fhot at by a party of affaffins; for the difcovery of which Mr. Macdonald and nu. merous gentlemen of Castlebar offered a confiderable reward. Since that circumftance, Mr. Macdonald kept much on his guard, and laft Monday evening went for greater fecurity to the house of a Mr. Martin, in the neighbourhood of Castlebar, in company with a Mr. Gallaghan and Mr. Hipfon. He and

performed their duty without proceeding to extremities, and a company of cavalry rushed upon the fanatics, fword in hand, and fecured one of them, but the other efcaped; the rest of the Orange party then difperfed. The miferable victim to his enthufiafm for the Stadtholderian gate was conducted to prifon, and it is expected will be hanged on Monday. M. de Gyzelaar paffed in his coach through the gate, and may boast of having first made free that famous paffage. The prifoner is a mafter peruke-maker.

Hague, March 25. The peruke-maker, who diftinguished himself by his infatuated conduct in the late tumult, and who was apprehended, was condemned to fuffer on a fcaffold. His execution was fixed for this day. His wife, accompanied by fix children, kneeled down to feveral of the Magiftrates, and in the name, and for the fake, of thofe helpless innocents, begged mercy for her husband: this had the desired effect, every one promifing to use his endeavour to obtain a pardon. This morning the whole garrifon was under arms, and marched towards the place where the scaffold was ere&ted. An immenfe crowd of people affembled at the place of execution; the criminal at length made his appearance; at the foot of the fcaffold he was flopped, and sentence of death read to him, which was accompanied by a pardon: this circumftance occafioned tears of joy among the furrounding multitudes. He is, however, to be imprisoned for life.

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was furrounded by a party of armed men, who inftantly broke in, bound Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Gallaghan, and Mr. Hipson, and immediately carried them off to the house at Rockfield. After a short stay here, during which they were treated with the utmost degree of infult, fcoff and reviling, an armed party led out the unfortunate Gentlemen into the park. In a few feconds a platoon was fired, and laid one of the devoted victims dead on the fpot. Mr. Macdonald and Mr. Gallaghan were ordered to go on about 50 yards further, when a fecond platoon was fired. Mr. Macdonald inftantly fell dead,

The Stadtholder passes through a grand gateway in his approach to the Senate Houfe, which his carriage alone was allowed to enter. Till the prefent time, this gate has been kept shut, except to admit the Stadtholder.

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upwards of fifty ́flugs paffing into his body, Mr. Gallaghan received also several flugs, and was brought back in a very wounded state to Fitzgerald's house. They had returned here but a few minutes, when the house was furrounded by the army from Castlebar, many of the Volunteers, Gentlemen, and immenfe crouds of people. They fpeedily got into the house, delivered Mr. Gallaghan in a critical moment, feized several of the murderers, and after a very strict and long fearch found Fitzgerald locked up in a large cheft, and hid under two blankets. Hé and feveral of his people were immediately conducted to Castlebar, and fafely lodged in the gaol.

The fame night the gaol door was opened by fix gentlemen, who knocked down Mr. Clark, the fub-sheriff, the gaoler, and one of the centinels; they fired five shots at Mr. F. one of which took place in his thigh, and he received feveral wounds of fmall-fwords, one of which broke in his right arm; they then took a brafs candlestick, and battered his head in a fhocking manner, leaving him for dead. Mr. F. however, recovered, and has fworn pofitively against Dr. M. Messrs. H. and G. There are about 26 of F's men in gaol, among whom are the principal murderers, two of whom have turned King's evidence. The inqueft have brought in their verdict Wilful Murder against F. and party.

By accounts from the province of Connaught, a Mr. O'Connor, who is faid to be defcended from the race of ancient Irish kings, has affumed the rights of royalty, and mufters a very powerful force both of horse and foot. He has taken possession of estates to the amount of many thousands of pounds, but without the leaft injury or violence. He turns the tenants out, and takes poffeffion in

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MARCH 28.

N the Houfe of Commons in Ireland, on Tuesday laft, a meffage was brought from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, fummoning the Houfe to attend his Grace in the Houfe of Lords; which meffage being complied with, the Speaker addrelled his Grace the Lord Lieutenant in the following speech:

"May it pleafe your Grace,

"The expences of this kingdom had for a series of years, as well in time of peace as war, conftantly exceeded its revenue, and debt increased on debt.

"Where fuch a fyftem is fuffered to prevail, manufactures must at length give way, trade will decline, and agriculture eeafe to produce wealth or plenty; the Commons therefore, in the laft Seffion, wifely

due form; then admits them again to hold their lands as under him. It is faid, the old Crown was in the poffeffion of the family until very lately, that the above gentleman's father fold it, being hard run for cash.

To this account we thall add, from the debates in the Irish Parliament—" Mr. Ogle. "I am now to afk the Hon. Gentleman who fpeaks of trifling breaches of the peace, Did he never hear of Mr.O'Connor? They say, indeed, he is a madman; but, if a madman, there is a good deal of method in his madness.

"Mr. R. Dillon is perfectly acquainted with the particulars-O'Connor has for many months had several hundred men under arms, to maintain his claim. In December he gave notice to a herd [ a keeper of cattle], that if by the ift of January a certain fum of mo ney was not paid him, the cattle found on his premises should be driven where they fhould be no more heard of. In the course of the last week in January he affembled 1000 men under arms, and planted a piece of cannon on an eminence, in order to noti fy to his party the approach of an enemy. A track of bog furrounds the land in question; fo that, on the fhortest notice, he can retire to the mountains, where it is dangerous for the civil power to follow him."

A letter from Mountmellick mentions, that the unhappy caufe of quarrel between Counsellor Pr, who was killed there on Saturday laft, in a duel with Enfign B, was a difpute about the pronunciation of a Greek word. After fome farcaftic obfervations on each other, they agreed to retire to a room, and decide the difference with pistols across a table. They were fuffered to do fo, and Mr. P. received a ball under the left breaft, and died in a few feconds,

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determined to put a stop to fo ruinous a fyftem, and with a fpirited attention to the true intereft of their country, and the ho nourable support of his Majefty's government, they voted new taxes to increase the revenue of the year, in the fum of 140,000l.

"The effort was great, and the event has proved its wildom. No farther addition is now wanting; no loan or act of credit is neceflary; a fituation unknown to this kingdom for many feffions paft, and marking with peculiar force the happy æra of your Grace's administration.

"Animated by this fuccefs, and determined to perfevere in the principle of preventing the accumulation of debt, his Majefty's faithful Commons have in this feflion continued the fame taxes, and granted all

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the fupplies that were defired to the full amount of every estimated expence ; nor have they omitted at the fame time to provide for the speedy reduction of the national debt by a confiderable finking fund, and to continue to the agriculture, the fisheries, and the rifing manufactures of the kingdom, the bounties neceflary for their fupport.

"Great as these taxes are, they are liberally and chearfully given, in the most firm and full confidence that from your Grace's experience, wisdom, and affection for this kingdom, they will be found effectually to anfwer the end propofed, of supplying the whole of the public expence, and preventing any further accumulation of debt."

The Royal Affent being given to the feveral bills which were ready, and the Houfe returned, a vote of thanks to the Speaker, for his excellent speech, was unanimously agreed to.

APRIL 1. At the final close of the poll for the borough of Lancaster, yesterday, the numbers were-For Sir George Warren, 1166; for Mr. Lowther, 1140: Majority for Sir George, 29.-A fcrutiny being demanded by Mr. Lowther, the returning officers having beard the arguments of all the Counsel on both fides, and having advised with their Counsel, were unanimously of opinion, that a fcrutiny was unneceffary and inexpedient, and therefore refused to grant the fame; and Sir George Warren was declared duly elected.

4. Came on the election of a Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for the year enfuing, when

Geo. Peters, Efq. was chofen Governor, and Edward Darell, Efq. Deputy Governor.

And on Wednesday came on the election of twenty-four Directors, when the following gentlemen were chosen : Sam. Beachcroft, Efq. Daniel Booth, Efq. Tho. Boddington, Efq. Roger Boehm, Efq. Sam. Bofanquet, Efq. Lyde Brown, Efq. Richard Clay, Efq. William Cooke, Esq. Bicknell Coney, Efq. Thomas Dea, Efq. William Ewer, Efq. Peter Gauffen, Efq.

Daniel Giles, Efq. John Harrison, Efq. T.Scott Jackfon, Efq. Richard Neave, Efq. Edward Payne, Efq. Chrift. Pullen, Efq. Thomas Raikes, Efq. Godf. Thornton, Efq. Sam. Thornton, Efq. Mark Weyland, Efq. Benj. Winthrop, Efq. J. Whitmore, jun. Efq A few days fince the Albion Mill, on the Surrey fide of Blackfriars-bridge, began working. This mill, the largest in the world, has been erected by the proprietors for fapplying this great metropolis with four, and of course reducing the price of bread. The machinery is worked by the operation of steam.

Extrait of a Letter from Yarmouth, in Norfolk, April 3.

"Yesterday fe'nnight a moft extraordinary circumftance occurred here. A coun

tryman wanting to cross the river, cafually got into a boat, with an intent to convey himself over; but not knowing how to manage the boat, he drove to fea, and actually arrived at Calais on the Tuesday following, from which place an account was received laft Saturday of his being safe and well.

"The following remarkable circumstance happened at Defning Lodge, near Gazeley, in this county. Mrs. Bridgeman, wife of Mr. Bridgeman, farmer, refident at the above place, having for a confiderable time been ftrongly prepoffeffed by dreams, that a perfon was buried in their wash-house, determined to examine the place; and about a fortnight fince employed fome people for that purpose, who, after digging a confiderable time, found a hair trunk, or portmanteau, in which were contained the bones of a grown perfon, and a child of about ten weeks old, fuppofed to have been buried twelve or fifteen years, and from the fingularity of their being depofited in a box, there is great reafon to apprehend that they are the remains of perfons who were murdered."

5. A letter from Philadelphia fays, "Those who went formerly by the denomination of Members of the Church of England in this part of the world, can now be no longer diftinguished by that name, having framed a new religious fyftem to themselves, under the title of the Epifcopal Church. An affembly of the Clergy of this infant church has been held in this city, in which Mr. Wharton, late Chaplain to the Catholics of Worcester, prefided, for the purpose of reforming the Church of England. They lopped off nineteen of the Thirty-nine Articles, blotted the Nicene and Athanafian Creeds from the Liturgy, and expunged the article "He defcended into Hell," from that of the Apoftles."

12. The following malefactors wer brought out of Newgate, and executed facing the debtors door, viz. Thomas Tatum and Samuel Francis, for breaking open the house of John White, in Holywell-ftreet, St. Clements, and ftealing a quantity of filks, value 2001. and upwards. William Houghton and Thomas Horton, for breaking open the houfe of Mary Humphreys, in Bainbridgeftreet, and ftealing divers goods. Cornelius Croome, for breaking into the house of Elizabeth Bell, in High-treet, St. Giles's, and stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Jofeph Kirkman. John Howes, for breaking open the house of Richard Hucknell, and flealing four or five fhillings in money. Thomas Burdett, for breaking open the houfe of John Chancellor, at HolywellMount, and ftealing a quantity of watches, a 101. Bank Note, &c. George Lyons and Thomas Hopkins, for breaking open the houfe of T. Bower, in Cable-ftreet, Whitechapel, and stealing a pocket-book, contain

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ing a tol. Bank Note, a Bill of Exchange, &c. And John Kitfall, for robbing James Gray, near the Spaniard's, at Highgate, of a gold watch. They all behaved in a manner that became perfons in their unhappy fituation. One dying a Roman Catholic, was executed with his back towards the reft of his fellow-fufferers.

13. The following moft barbarous and inhuman murder was committed on Tyler's Green, near Godftone, in Surrey: A vil lain, a pauper belonging to the latter place, having conceived fome diflike to Mr. Burt, an apothecary there, meditated his death, which he effected by attacking him fuddenly, firft knocking him down, and then chopping him about the head, face, and other parts, with a hand-bill, which he had concealed for that purpose The horrid perpetrator was immediately purfued and taken. When in cuftody, he appeared totally unmindful of the confequences, and feemed to exprefs great fatisfaction that he had fo amply gratified his diabolical revenge. Mr. Burt, who was a man of unexceptionable character, has left behind him fix children, with a widow pregnant of the feventh. Soon after the murder, one of the deceafed's gloves was found on the road, with his thumb in it. One of his hands was alfo nearly chopped off, and his skull broken in a fhocking manner.

It appears that the above villain is between 50 and 60 years of age, and that under pretence of being maimed and decrepid, he had for a long time received pay from the parish; but having been reprefented by Mr. Burt as a proper object to work for his livelihood, and his pay being stopped, he vowed vengeance against Mr. Burt, and alfo against the overfeers. Mr. Burt's little boy was with his father when he was murdered; was feized with terror, fhrieked and ran away; his cry, however, raifed an alarm, which produced the villain's capture.

16. John Ancell, a poor labourer at Sacket's-hill in Thanet, Kent, was found in a field adjoining to Drapers, near Margate, with his fkull fractured in a fhocking manner, and many parts of his body terribly bruifed. The following are the particulars of this horrid affair. The deceased went from Margate on Saturday evening about eleven o'clock, when he parted with an acquaintance near the church-yard, to go home to Sacket's-hil', and he was then much in liquor. Soon afterwards Charles Twyman, of Bromftone, near St. Peter's, was feen to go the fame road on horf-back, with a boy who lived with him behind him; a fufpicion therefore fell on the faid Charles Twyman, which was strongly confirmed by its being known that there had been a difpute between him and the deceased fome time fince, and that Twyman had threatened to be revenged ou the deceased. The boy who rode behind

Twyman was examined on Sunday afternoon, but for a long time denied any knowledge of the murder, and though only twelve years of age, kept to one account fo artfully that it was with the greatest difficulty he was made to confefs the truth; at laft he owned that C. Twyman did kill Ancell, and gave this relation - Twyman was on horse-back, and overtook the deceafed about eleven on Saturday night a fhort distance from Margate church-yard, on the road to Drapers; that he first attempted to take a bag from Ancell, and told him that he was an excifeofficer, but Ancell, knowing Twyman, called him by his name, and refufed to give up his property; on this a fcuffle enfued, and Twyman knocked Ancell down by a blow on the head with a ftout club ftick. Ancell recovering a little, got as far as Drapers, near half a mile from the place he was first ftruck; but Twyman then came up with Ancell again, and knocked him down a fecond time. After this, the poor wretch got on his knees and begged for mercy. Twyman difmounted, fhook hands, and promifed he would not ftrike him any more, but almost at the fame inftant the blood-thirsty villain gave the unhappy man feveral violent blows on his head, which fractured his skull, then made him (the boy) ftrike the deceased feveral times, while he was bleeding on the ground, and afterwards Twyman walked his horfe two or three times over the body." Thus finifhed the bloody scene.

It is much to be lamented that this cruel murdener is not yet taken, but strict search is making after him, and every step pursued to hinder his getting away by water; being well known in the Ifle of Thanet and on the feacoaft, it is thought he cannot long escape the punishment due to his crime. The deceafed has left a wife and eight children, and the murderer has left a wife and five children. Monday afternoon the Coroner's Inqueft fat on the body, and brought in their verdict Wilful Murder against the said Charles Twyman.

19. Came on the election of Six Directors of the Eaft-India Company, in the room of the fix who went out by rotation, when on cafting up the ballot, about ten o'clock, the number were as follow:

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Same day the Court of Directors of the Eat-India Company granted an annuity of

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