that kingdom, that incredible numbers of the inhabitants have perifhed. It is added, that the country thips which used to supply them with provifions have not arrived, and that the fruits of the earth are all destroyed by bad weather. The Lapwing failed from Bengal on the 20th of September, and from Madrafs the 14th of October, when no advice of the Aurora, with the fupervisors on board, had been received. MONDAY, 25. This afternoon the right hon. the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, went through the city to the House of Commons, in confequence of an order of the house to attend in their places. The Lord Mayor was attended in his coach by his chaplain (Mr. Evans) and Mr. G. Bellas. They were ac companied by the Aldermen Stephenfon, Turner, Kirkman, and the feveral commoncouncil that were ordered of the committee. TUESDAY, 26. This morning, about two o'clock, their debates ended, when Richard Oliver Efq. Alderman and member of parliament for this city, was ordered to be fent to the Tower, but was indulged to lie at his own houfe in Fenchurch-Street, where the ferjeant at arms attended this morning between the hours of seven and eight o'clock and conducted him in a coach to the above prifon. WEDNESDAY, 27. About one o'clock the lord mayor, attended by the aldermen Wilkes, Stevenfon, Turner, and Trecothick, his committee, a vaft number of citizens, merchants, and independent gentlemen, fet out for the Houfe of Commons. The row of carriages reached from St. Paul's to Charing Crofs. The city was all in motion; and by its acclamations teftified its fatisfaction with his conduct. His lordship feemed as before, extremely ill, and was defended against the effects of the cod with his ufual precaution the ufe of fannels, &c. He was fupported to the door of the House of Commons by his friends: the city committee went with him, in order to afft him in the defence of his conduct. The houfe was in fuch a confufion, that they could not go upon the order of the day till past eight o'clock. They then proceeded to the Lord Mayor's Bufinefs, when there was only one divifion, which was 202 to 39 for committing him to the Tower. They would have confidered his illness and only committed him to the cuftody of the ferjeant at arms, but his lordship told the house he defired no favour of them, and was prepared to go where his honourable friend Mt. Oliver was.-About half past twelve his lordship returned to the Manfion Houfe, where he lay down to reft till four o'clock, when he fent for a hackney coach and went to the Tower. Extract of a Letter from Dublin, Feb. 27. "This day, however, has afforded an "Whilft free access to parliament was thus interrupted, the Lord Chancellor fent an account of thefe proceedings to the Lord Lieutenant. Soon after a detachment of the military was requfted by the mayor and fheriffs, who had repaired to the caftle. The Lord Lieutenant first afked them, whether they could quell the riot by the aid of the civil power alone; on their answering in the negative, the troops were fent. On their appearance the mop difperfed, and peace was foon reftored when lo! the ftorm arofe within doors, for the patriots largely expatiated on the terrors of an armed force furrounding the houfe, and have been debating whether the troops fhould be removed or not, before they proceeded to bufinefs, and whether there really had been a riotous mob affembled, though feveral members ftood up and declared they had been infulted and threatened when luckily, juft as the celebrated Mr. Flood was proving the only danger to be apprehended was from government, and a mercenary foldiery, and not from a mob, the door behind the fpeaker's chair was fuddenly forced op n by fome rioters, who broke into the hot c. This accident, notwithstanding that gen 2man's eloquence and abilities, convinced the houfe of the actual existence of the net. "Two of the ringleaders, raid with ent laffes, who attempted to fwear the poẻ, with a manual, for popish prayer Lock) we taken and lodged in Newgate, by order of the House of Lords. "Their confeffion was taken down by the Lord Mayor; it is faid they have made fome material difcoveries. This mob confifted of the weavers, from whom a charitable contribution was carried on by our patriots for fome months paft. The speaker fubfcribed one hundred pounds to this fcheme, two days before the opening of the feffions, "P. S. fince writting the above, an address of thanks to the Lord Lieutenant, for his conduct this day, was moved for and carried by 105 to 31." The proteft of the lords in Ireland against that part of the addrefs to the king, which returns his majefty thanks for continuing Lord Townshend in the vice-royalty. DISSENTIENT. First, because the repeated proofs we have of his majesty's paternal tenderness towards his people convince us, that a misreprefentation of his faithful commons could alone have determined his royal breast to exert his undoubted prerogative of proroguing his parliament, at a Crifis when the expiration of laws, effential to the well-being of this kingdom, feemed peculiarly to point out the most urgent demand for the affiftance of the legiBature: at a time when the commons had given a recent efficacious Teftimony of their Maremitting zeal for his majefty's fervice by voting an augmentation of his majesty's forces, a meafure which had been reprefented to parliament as highly acceptable to the king; at a reafon too when the fuddennefs of this unexpected mark of royal difpleasure rendered its confequences almoft irretrievably fatal to the nation, infomuch that we fee with the deepeft concern, an extraordinary deficiency in his majefty's revenue, proceeding from the declining fate of our credit, trade and manufactures, thereby occafioned. Secondly, becaufe.the unbounded confidence we repofe in his majefty's inviolate regard to the fundamental principles of the conftitution affures us that the attempt which has been Lately made to infringe that balance indefeaf ably infeparable from it's very formation, by entering upon the Journals of this house a proteft, animadverting upon the proceedings of the houfe of commons, was the refult of pernicious counfels infidioufly calculated to alicnate the affections of the moft loyal fubjects from the most amiable of princes; an opinion in which we conceive ourselves by fo much the better founded, as this unconftitutional extention is unprecedented, fave only in one inftance, which was followed by the just difapprobation of the fovereign, teftified by the immediate removal of the chief governor. We further conceive, that as the conftitution of this kingdom is in respect to the diftinct departments of the crown, the lords and the cominon', one and the lame with that of Great Britain, we should depart not only from our duty to our king and to this our country, but likewife from that which we owe to Great Britain, if in our high capacity, of hereditary great council of Ireland to the crown, we should acquiefce under an attempt which manifeftly tends to fubvert that reciprocal independance of the three estates, which is the bafis of it's fecurity. Thirdly, because the juftice and piety which hine confpicuous in our fovereign, as well in his domeftic life as on the throne, do not fuffer us to fuppofe that the difmiffion of trufty nobles and commoners from his majeity's privy council; the former only because they made a juft exercife of their hereditary birthright at Peers of the realm; the latter on account only of their parliamentary conduct can have proceeded from the truly informed intention of fo great and good a prince. Fourthly, becaufe moderation, firmness, confiftency, a due diftinctive regard to all ranks of perfons, a regular fyftem of adminiftration, being, as we conceive, indifpenfably requifite to the fupport and dignity of government, and to the conduct of his majefty's! affairs, we cannot, without violation of truth and juftice, return thanks to the king for continuing a chief governor, who in contempt of all forms of bufinefs, and rules of decency heretofore refpected by his preceffors, is actuated only by the most arbitrary caprice, to the detriment of his majesty's intereft, to the injury of this oppreffed country, and to the unspeakable vexation of perfons of every condition. Leinster, Longford, Bective, By an expreis from Ireland, we learn, that the right hon. the fpeaker of the Houfe of Commons, having formally refused to go up with the addrefs, refigned his office. A private letter from Dublin mentions, that fmall parties of horfe patrole the streets from fun-fet, with orders to difperfe any three people converfing together. The chief juftice of the king's bench has wrote to the stu dents of the college, which has been read to them hy the provoft; in fhort, that every precaution is taken to prevent any future riot, though it is much to be feared. A large guard mounts at Newgate, now full of rioters, A M E RICA. Extract of a Letter from New-York, Jan. 16. "Our affembly is now fitting. When the feffion began Mr. M.Dougall, author of a paper figned "a Son of Liberty," attended, among others, as a fpectator, and departed as others did, without any notice being taken of him in particular; but the next day the fer jeant at arms was ordered to bring him to the bar of the house. On his appearing there, the old paper, figned "Son of Liberty," was read to him, and, by order of the house, it was was demanded of him whether he was the author or publisher: he answered, that as the house had declared that paper to be a libel, and had voted a reward for apprehending the author or publisher, as he was apprehended in confequence of that vote, and was then actually under profecution, he could not anfwer the queftion; and as the house was a party concerned, he thought they ought not 20 afk it. One of the members propofed, that as he refused to plead, he fhould fuffer the peine ferte et dure, but this propofal was treated with contempt. The houfe, however, voted Mr. M.Dougall guilty of contempt, and a breach of privilege; and ordered him to ask pardon, which he refufed to do, as he was not concious of having been guilty of either. He was forthwith committed to gaol, where he now remains, and is vifited by perfens of all ranks." Feb. 16. MARRIAGES. IN N Ireland, Major Gen. Gifborne, to Mifs Boyde-26. James Boiffiere, Efq; to Mifs Daran-Mr. Boddington, merchant to Mifs HodfieldMr Sage, linen-draper, to Mifs RawdenJohn Butler, Efq; to Mifs King-Capt. Timms, of the guards, to Mifs Hughes. March 2. Mgaul do, gold button maker to Mifs Nancy Cooper-John Alcock, Efq; to Mifs Elizabeth Langley-4. Mr. Mufcett, to Mrs. Shuffield-5. John Aubery, Efq; to Mifs Colebrooke-7. Henry Scourfeld, Efq; to Miis Ewer, daughter of the bishop of Bangor-Thomas Place, Efq; to Mifs NealeRichard Cheflyn, Eiq; to Mrs. BainbridgeMr. Jofeph Morgan, merchant, to Mifs Mary Bedlecombe-12. John Norris, Efq; to the youngest fifter of Sir William Lynch, minifter at Turin-Jofeph, Chitty, Efq; to Mifs Cartwright- 17. John Thorold, Efq; to Mifs Hayford-22. The Rev. Wm. Stratton Liddiard, to Mrs. Jane Shuckburgh. DEATHS. 13 THE Feb. HE king of Sweden-At Paris, the 20th ult. in the 93d year of his age, John James d'Ortus de Mairan, one of the 40 members of the French Academy-24. Mrs. Margaret Adams, relict of Robert Adams, Efq, formerly governor of Tillicherry in the Eaft Indies- Edward Nichols, Efq;-Capt. William Neville, aged 98-Charles Dumbleton, Efq;- Mr. Fleetweod, formerly filk mercer-Sir Thomas Slade, Knt. furveyor of his majefty's navyMr. Hucks-Mrs. Romaine, mother of the Rev. Mr. Romaine-26. Philip Hazeland, Efq;-George Tyndale, Efq;-Lieut. Gen. James Patterson-John Ellis, Efq;-Aged 99, Mrs. Tyrrell, mother of the late Admiral Tyrrell-Lady Romney-The Rev. Mr. Beaumont, rector of Bulwell-Mofes Allen, Efq; Abraham Smart, Efq; 2 7. Richard Spencer, Efq-Mifs GollingMr. John Neale, Scarlet dyer-23. Col. Pattifon-Mrs. Tyres, Relict of the late Jonathan Tyers, Efq; proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens-William Mather, Efq. March 1. The Hon. Lady Ifabella Finch -James Arden, Efq-The lady of Sir Charles Seymour-Mrs. Harding-Mrs Northmore-Theophilus Donald Dunford, Efq;-Sir William Dalrymple, of Coufland, Bart-3. Sir John Inglis, Bart-Mrs. Hawkins, a widow lady-Dr. Taylor, an eminent physician-4. John Freeman, Efq;-Mr. Thomas Nicol The Rev. Mr. Weftall-5. Mr. Bates, mafter of the Castle tavern in HenriettaStreet, Covent-Garden-William Bird, Efq; -At Penfacola, Capt Phillips, of his majefty's fhip Trial-Sir Hans Fowler, Bart.Alexander Barclay, Efq;-7. Mr. John Poulteney-9. Her grace the duchefs dowager of Hamilton-Dr. Pemberton, profeflor of phyfick at Gresham College-Geo. Taylor, Efq;-Mr. Pettit, Mafter Gardener at Hampton Court Palace in the reign of George L. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. POLAND. WARSAW, Jan. 29. There Warrived herea courier from Peterbally charged with important difpatches, which have occafioned feveral conferences between the king and her majefty's minifters. A rumour hath thence arifen, that the Ruffians are upon the point of entirely evacuating the territories of the republick. FRANCE. Paris, Feb. 22. The parliament of Dijon has prefented a moft fpirited addrefs, or remonftrance, to the king, in which they tell him, "that he is a king by the law, and that he cannot reign but by the law." Extract of a Letter from Paris, Feb. 28, "The French king held a bed of justice here on the 22d of February laft, when he iffued an edit, which was registered the next day to the following effect, namely, that as the jurifdiction of the parliament was too extenfive, reaching from Lyons fouthwardly, to Arras in French Flanders northwardly, which great diftance occafioned much expence to his fubjects, who might be obliged to come to Paris for the profecution of their law affairs, his majefty has thought fit to branch the parliament of Parit into five diferent parliaments, under the denomination of fuperior courts, each parlia ment having fimilar jurisdiction; and that his majesty had appointed them their refpective falaries, on the underwritten eftablish 1 greffier civil } No falary. I greffier criminal 24 attornies 12, buiffiers Agreeable to this establishment the first fuperior court is that of Arras in French Flanders; the fecond Blois; the third Clermont Ferrand; the fourth Lyons; the fifth Poitiers. It is conjectured, that all the other parliaments of France will be new-modelled af. ter this regulation. The friends of the chancellor trumpet abroad this new regulation as a mafter-piece of politicks, which cannot fail, they think, of endearing him to the people; but they feem to forget the main point of the ftory, and that is, that the town of Paris, hitherto fo brilliant in equipages and magnificent hotels, will become, in a year or two, little better than any other of their towns in which parliaments are to be annually held. Versailles, March 6. The different provinces of France, over which the new tribunals, called fuperior councils, have lately been appointed by the king, have respectively remonftrated against that procedure with the utmoft fpirit, recognized declarations made in former reigns, and per, mptorily afferted, that the late edit was abfolutely fubverfive of private and public good, and prefented to the people no other view than that of the most enflaved defpotifm. The young princes of Sweden were at the Royal Obfervatory at Paris when the news came of their father's death; The aftronomy profeffor kept it a fecret 'till the lecture was over, but very ingenioufly during the lecture was expatiating on the influence the heavenly bodies often had in great human events, and then disclosed the melancholy news. Paris, March 11. Upon the count de Maillebois being appointed one of the directors general of war, the marshals of France reprefented to the king that that officer had rendered himself unworthy of the poft conferred upon him, by the affair with the late M, de Eftrees, which was decided by the tribunal in 1751. His majefty made answer, " if the count de Maillebois acted wrong, I punished him for it; but I have fince found that his military talents may be of fervice to me in the commiffion I have given him." Notwithftanding this anfwer, the Marfhals of France have repeated their reprefentations to the king, and his majesty has acquiefced with them. He has removed the count de Maillebois from the poft he had given him, and conferred it upon the lieutenant-general count de Muy, GERMANY. Hamburgh, Feb. 19. A fingular misfortune has happened at Bremen. The very large drifts of ice in the Wefer, occafioned by the late thaw, have formed a bag about two miles diftant from that city, which having stopped the course of the ftream, the city and adjacent country are overflowed. PORTUGA L. Lisbon, Jan. 22. Two edicts of the king are just ifflued, which prohibit the importation of hats, China and earthen ware, brought from any foreign country. Confines of Ruffia, Feb. 7. According to a state of our grand army for the campaign of 1771, it will confift of 140,800 men. The militia of Courlfk and Rifk, who, form a corps of 25000 men, with two regiments of dragoons and four of infantry, is destined to take poffeffion of the Crimea. There is at prefent at Kinkirmin a fleet of fourteen hips of twenty gnus cach, 36 tranfport Veffels nine bomb-ketches, and three fire-fhips, a fufficient force to fecure us the fovereignty of the black fea. The court is determined to join in no negociation for a peace with the Porte, unless the preliminary condition, which is a fine qua non, be made the bafis of it, to wit, that the empire of Ruffia fhall be directly put in poffeffion, for ever, of the Crimea. Taman on the Terra Firma, in the middle of the ftrait of Caffa, Afoff at the mouth of the Don, Kimbern at the month of the Dnieper, Oczakow oppofite Kimburn, Akerman, at the mouth of the Dniefter, Kilia Nova at the mouth of the Keli, Ifmail at the discharge of the Lake Kulugbere, Tamarowa oppofite Ifmail, and Ifaccia oppofite the fame place be yond Keli, with three ifles in the Archipelago. TURKEY. Conftantinople, Feb. 4. Prince Bajazet, brother to the Grand Seignor and next heir to the throne, died on the 24th paft, in the 54th year of his age. According to letters from Smyrna, the chevalier Montagu, fon of the celebrated Lady Montague, Ambaffadrefs to the Porte, who had retired with his fpoufe to the island of Metelin, was very near perishing there at the time of the maffacre of the Greeks by the Turks in that ifle: he escaped death only by paying the fum of two thousand piaftres.Thefe letters add that he is gone for Syria, and that he propofes to fix his refidence in the mountains of Caftrevan, which form part of Libanus, if the troubles with which that province is threatened do not hinder his project. NOTE to our CORRESPONDENTS. WE thank a noble earl for his kind inten tions but bis propofition is now out of time: We clearfully accept the effer of a corrif pondence from Antinous; Julia is in love, and the only afks our advice to obtain our ap probation: An unhappy girl;- Ariftides; Brutus, and a variety of correspondents are come to band, who shall be properly attended to in the course of the next month. |