from Plymouth, on the 14th of November following, with the fleet under Sir Charles Hardy, on a cruize to the weftward, and, on the return of that squadron, arrived the 13th of December at London, where he chiefly refided till June 30, when he fet out on a tour to different parts of England, as he had done the three preceding fummers, and was every where received with the respect due to his rank.

At the baptifm of his nephew, prince Frederick, September 19, 1753, his royal highness flood godfather, by his proxy the earl of Huntingdon, being then on his way to Plymouth, to embark for foreign parts. He fet fail from that port September 22, on board the Centurion, commanded by commodore Harrison; and as he chose to travel incog. he took the title of Earl of Ulfter, in which character he was received at the court of Lisbon, where he arrived October 3. From thence he departed in the fame fhip, October 28, for Gibraltar, where he ftaid but two days, and then failed to Portmahon, where he remained till November 17, and then fteered for Genoa, which he reached on the 28th.

After refiding there about ten weeks, he visited Turin, Florence, Leghorn, Rome, Parma, Venice, Padua, Milan, and other noted cities in Italy; and was entertained, with great magnificence, in every place; but did not proceed to Naples, as there was a malignant diftemper raging in the Neapolitan dominions. On Friday, August 17, 1764, his royal highnefs, re-embarking at Genoa on VOL. X.

board the Centurion, landed on the 20th at Nice, in the king of Sardinia's territories, from whence he went to Antibes, the first town from Italy in the French dominions; and from thence through Aix, Avignon, Valence, Vienne, Lions, Villefranche, Maçon, Tournées, Chalon, Dijon, Langres, Chamount, St. Dizier, Chalons au Champagne, Rheims, Laon, St. Quintin, Peronne, Arras, and St. Omer, to Calais; without touching at Paris, where magnificent preparations were made for his reception.

The reafon of his not coming through Paris, was faid to be a coldnefs which then fubfifted between the courts of London and Verfailles, on account of fome late infractions in the treaty of peace, by the French. He croffed the straits, and landed at Dover on the 31st of Auguft; from whence he pro. ceeded to London.

On the 5th of December, 1764, he was elected prefident of the London hofpital. He had before been made a fellow of the royal fociety.

In the fummer, 1765, his royal highnefs made the tour of feveral parts of Holland and Germany. On the 12th of June he arrived at the Hague, and was complimented by a deputation from the StatesGeneral. In July he vifited the court of Berlin, where he was received and entertained by the king of Pruffia with particular marks of diftinction and favour. About the beginning of Auguft he returned to England, and immediately visited Tunbridge and other parts which he had not feen before.

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and knowledge of, maritime affairs, might have put the nation under as great obligations to him, as they had been to his royal uncle for his military fervices. He died univerfally lamented, and the great tenderness, refpect, and regard, which was fhewn upon that melancholy occafion, and during the whole courfe of his illness by the prince of Monaco, deferve every tribute of praise and gratitude. His eftablishment was 20,000l. fterling per annum, viz. from the king his brother 9000l. from the public 8000l. a penfion on Ireland 3000 %.

A narrative of the extraordinary diftreffes which were fuffered at fea, by the furviving part of the crew of the brig Sally, captain Tabry, bound from Philadelphia to Hifpa

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N the 8th of Auguft laft, in latitude 25, having a ftrong gale of wind, the brig was laid to under her main-ftay-fail till ten o'clock the next morning, when the was hove on her beam ends, and in lefs than five minutes turned keel upwards, fo that they had only time to cut away the lanyards of her main-maft. There were on board Anthony Tabry, mafter; Humphry Mars, mate; Jofeph Sherver, Samuel Befs, John Burna, mariners; who were drowned: fix other mariners, viz. Peter Toy, Daniel Cultain, John Davis, Alexander Landerry, Peter Mayes, and William Hammon, having got hold of the top mafts which floated along fide, tied it to the ftern, and fupported themselves by it, till

above five o'clock in the evening, when the cabbin-boy swam to the hull, and threw them a rope, by which they got on the bottom of the veffel, where they were ftill in a difmal plight: the firft want that invaded then was drink; this drove away all thought of meat. The main-maft with all the rigging, the lanyards having been cut away, came up along fide, alongfide, from which they got the wreath, (a fquare hoop which binds the head of the maft) with which, and a bolt of a foot long, they went to work on her bottom, in the mean time keeping their mouths moift, as well as they could, by chewing the ftuff off her bottom, the not having any barnacles, being lately cleaned, and fome lead which was on her bow, and drinking their own water. In four days

time Peter Toy died raving for drink, whofe body they threw off the veffel the next day. In this manner did they work for fix days, without meat, drink, or fleep, nor daring to lie down for fear of falling off the veffel, the fixth day they got a hole in the brig, where they found a barrel of bottle beer; this they drank very greedily: they foon got another parcel, when one of them put the others on an allowance. The eleventh day of their being on the wreck, they got a barrel of pork, which they were obliged to eat raw. As to fleep, as foon as they got a hole through the veffel's bottom, they pulled out a great number of ftaves and fhingles, and made a platform in the fame place; but fo fmall it was, that, when they wanted to turn, they were obliged to wait till the fea hoifted the veffel, and when she fell again with [0] 2

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the fea, they were almoft froze to death. Thus did these poor miserable fellows live for thirteen or fourteen days. After they got the pork, they made a kind of net with a hoop, fome fhingles, and ropes, which they got from the maft this they let into the sea, with fome pork, and caught a few fmall fish, which, with two or three mice they caught on board the brig, afforded them feveral most delicious repafts, raw as they were: this lafted but a few days, as they could not catch any more; when they were obliged to return to their pork, which was become quite putrid by the falt water getting to it. To their great joy, on the ift of September, in lat. 26, 15, long. 70, 10, at four o'clock in the afternoon, they could juft preceive a veffel to windward of them, which feemed to ftand fome time for them, but foon put about and ftood from them: it was then they defpaired, as that morning they had drank the laft bottle of their beer, and that one was all they had; for that day they worked hard to get at the cafks of water in the hold, but they were fo far from them, that they could not have got at them in a long time. About fun half an hour high, the veffel ftood for them, and came fo near that they perceived a piece of canvas that they on the wreck fupported on a board, bore down for it, and about feven or eight o'clock took them on board; the was the brig Norwich, captain Robert Noyes. Thus were they relieved, when death stared them in the face, by a captain who used them very kindly, gave them food and cloaths, as their own were rotted off their backs, washed their

fores, and gave them plafters, as they were almoft raw from head to foot with the heat of the fun and falt water, which, in many places, had eaten holes in their flesh.

The following piece is said to have been found lately among fome papers that formerly belonged to Oliver Cromwell; and is fuppofed to be a copy of the very words which he spoke to the members of the long parliament, when he turned them out of the house. It is communicated by a person, who figns his name T. Ireton, and fays the paper is marked with the following words;

Spoken by O. C. when he put an end to the long parliament."

T is high time for me to put

an end to your fitting in this place; which ye have difhonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.-Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would, like Efau, fell your country for a mefs of pottage, and, like Judas, betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a fingle virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice ye do not poffefs?-Ye have no more religion than my horfe.-Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered away your confciences for bribes ?-Is there a man amongst you that hath the leaft care for the good of the commonwealth? Ye fordid prostitutes! have ye not defiled this facred place, and turned

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