Robes, feated on the Throne with the usual folemnity, and the Commons being come, his Majefty was pleafed to make the following moft gracious Speech.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

The events which have taken place in the course of the prefent year, and the fignal fuccefs which, by the blefling of Providence, has attended my arms, have been productive of the happieft confequences, and have effentially promoted the profperity and glory of our country.

The unexampled feries of our naval triumphs has received fresh splendour from the memorable and decifive action in which a detachment of my fleet, under the command of Rear-Ad. Lord Nelfon, attacked and almoft totally deftroyed a fuperior force of the enemy, ftrengthen ed by every advantage of fituation: by this great and brilliant victory, an enterprize of which the injuftice, perfidy, and extravagance, had fixed the attention of the world, and which was peculiarly directed against fome of the most valuable interefts of the British empire, has, in the first inftance, been turned to the confufion of its authors; and the blow thus given to the power and influence of France has afforded an opening which, if improved by tuitable exertions on the part of other powers, may lead to the general deliverance of Europe.

The wifdom and magnanimity fo eminently displayed at this conjuncture by the Emperor of Ruffia, and the decifion and vigour of the Ottoman Porte, have fhewn that thofe powers are impreffed with a juft fenfe of the prefent crifis; and their example, joined to the difpofition manifefted almoft univerfally in the different countries ftruggling under the yoke of France, muft be a powerful encouragement to other flates to adopt that vigorous line of conduct, which experience has proved to be alone confiftent with fecurity or honour.

The extent of our preparations at home, and the demonftrations of zeal and fpirit among all ranks of my fubjects, have deterred the enemy from attempt ing to execute their vain threat of invad. ing the coafts of this kingdom.

In Ireland the rebellion which they had inftigated has been curbed and repreffed; the troops which they landed for its fupport have been compelled to furrender; and the armaments fince deftined for the fame purpofè, have, by the vigilance and activity of my fquadrons,

been captured or dispersed. The views and principles of thofe who, in concert with our inveterate enemy, have long planned the fubverfion of our conftitution, have been fully detected and expofed, and their treafons made manifeft to the world. Those whom they had. mifled or feduced, muft now be awakened to their duty; and a juft sense of the miferies and horrors which thefe traitorous defigns have produced, muft imprefs on the minds of all my faithful fubjects, the neceffity of continuing to repel with firmness every attack on the laws and eftablished government of their country. Gentlemen of the House of Commons.

Under the unavoidable preffure of protracted war, it is a great fatisfaction to me to obferve, that the produce of the public revenue has proved fully adequate to the increase of our permanent expenditure; that the national credit has been maintained and improved; and that the commerce and induftry of my fubjects have continued to increase and flourish in a degree hitherto unknown.

The fituation in which we are placed, unhappily renders the continuance of heavy expences indifpenfible for the public fafety. But the ftate of our refources, and the good fenfe and public spirit which prevail through every part of my kingdom, will, I truft, enable you to provide the neceffary fupply without effential inconvenience to my people, and with as little addition as poffible to the permanent burdens of the ftate. The progress made towards fuch a fyftem by the measures adopted in the laft feffion, and the aid given to public credit by the plan for the redemption of the land tax, have been attended with the most beneficial effects, which you will, 1 am perfuaded, omit no opportunity to confirm and improve.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I rely with confidence on the continuance of your exertions to enable mé ultimately to conduct the great conteft in which we are engaged to a safe and honourable conclufion.

We have furmounted many and great difficulties. Our perfeverance in a juft caufe has been rewarded with diftinguished fuccefs; and our prefent fituation, compared with that of other countries, fufficiently proves how much, in a period of general danger and calamity, the fecurity and happiness of the British nation have depended (under the bleffing of providence) on its own conftancy, its energy, and its virtue..

IRE

IRELAND.

Londonderry, Nov. 13.

"We are concerned to ftate, that on the night of the 3d inft. his Majefty's tender, the Margaret, J. Poliinfon, Lieutenant and Commander, Colin Rofs, mafter, was unfortunately wrecked off Ballyconnell, and four fine young men and a woman were caft afhore, drowned. The circumftances which took place at this unhappy occurrence, are marked with the most favage cruelty on the part of the inhabitants along the coaft. A gun having been fired from the veffel as a fignal of diftrefs, ferved only to collect thofe mifcreants for cruel and rapacious purposes. They plundered the veffel of almost every article that was on board; and notwithstanding the melting fupplications that were made to them for relief, by a poor fellow, who was lying alive on the ftrand, with the waves dafhing over him, they inhumanly fuffered him to perifh in the fand, and immediately after they tripped him of his clothes!-In confequence of the Dunfanaghy Yeoman Cavalry having proceeded to the wreck, feveral articles and papers have been preserved; and we fincerely truft that meafures will fpeedily be adopted to detect and bring to condign punishment the barbarous wretches who wickedly committed thefe cruel ourrages against every principle of juftice and humanity.

"On Saturday laft a Court-Martial was held in this garrifon for the purpofe of trying Robert Mitchell, of Curryfree, Andrew Hamilton, of Killymallagh, and William Jeffries, charged with endea vouring to feduce Wm. Cófh, of the Breadalbane Fencibles, from his allegiance, and wanting him to become an United Irishmen. The charges against Mitchell and Hamilton being fully proved, they were fentenced to receive 500 lafhes each, but no evidence appearing againft Jeffries, hs was of courfe acquitted. Yefterday being the day appointed for carrying the fentence into execution, the feveral regiments, together with the Yeomanry Corps, paraded upon the occafion, under the command of the Earl of Breadalbane, when Hamilton not only confeffed the truth of the evidence produced on the Court-Martial, but acknowledged that he and Mitchell were implicated in further guilt than that of which they had been accufed; in confequence of this confeflion the Earl of Breadalbane very humanely poftponed the punishment of Hamilton until his cafe

fhould be taken into confideration, but Mitchell, with confiderable hardihood and effrontery, perfifted in a declaration of his innocence until he had received about two hundred lafhes, when begging to be permitted to fpeak, he owned his being concerned in the crime alledged against him, and corroborated, on being examined apart, every circumftance confeffed by Hamilton.

"When we look back to the criminal infatuation which poffeffed many of this and the adjacent neighbourhoods, at a period when defigning and malignant traitors diffeminated all the attrocious fyftem of the United Irifhmen; when we reflect on the perpetrated night burnings, robberies and murders, the effects of that horrid fyftem; and when we compare the confequent terrors which then inceffantly perturbed the breafts of the helplefs and peaceable, with the happiness and tranquillity which have prevailed fince the reftoration of good order, we can confider thofe who would again at tempt to introduce the infamous united oath but as the moft depraved wretches that ever were permitted to exift in civil fociety, whom, if lenient measures will not reclaim from a perseverance in their wickedness, we are authorised to state that the fevere but falutary punishment of the law, will be immediately inflicted upon all fuch delinquents as would thus dare to difturb the peace and public confidence of which we are now so happily in poffeffion."-Londonderry Jour.

Yesterday and this morning the French prifoners confined in our gaol, were fent off, ftrongly guarded, on their way to Newry, to be immediately fhipped for England. Thirty-five of their wounded, who had been left on board the Hoche, have been landed within these few days at Fahan, and are now under the care of humane and skilful furgeons, and they gratefully acknowledge the attention with which they are treated.

The Hoche is undergoing a temporary refitment, which will enable her to get to England. It is a curious circumftance that when we took poffeffion of Toulon in the year 1793, this fhip was then on the ftocks, and the British Tars having poffeffion of Toulon, chiefly contributed to complete her. She was at that time called Le Pegafe, and after being honoured by several names of diftinguished republicans, (among others Barras), the received her prefent appellation, rather an unfortunate one; Hoche himself being baffled in his attempt on this coun

try,

try, poifoned in his own, and his deare friends Simone, Tone, &c. who accompanied him in his expedition to Bantry Bay, captured in this veffel, which they confidered invincible, and named accordingly.

It is a fact well worth the attention of the inhabitants of this country, that no military cheft, or, in other words, money for the pay of the troops, was on board the French fquadron captured by Sir John Warren; there were four thoufand foldiers amongst them; had they landed, who then was to have paid for all the provifions they would have eat? The unfortunate people of Ireland, the infamous traitors of which invited them

over.

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH.

Nov. 12. The Royal Phyfical Society elected the following gentlemen to be Prefidents for the enfuing year, viz.Alexander Frafer, of Inverness, late of Virginia,

James S. Stringham, New York, Anthony Todd Thomfon, Edinburgh, and John Owen, Maryland.

Andrew Fyffe, Treasurer. 14. The Lord Provoft, Magiftrates, and Council, in confequence of a petition from Dr Monro, with the unanimous confent and concurrence of the other Profeffors of the Medical Faculty of this University, were pleased to nominate his eldeft fon his colleague and fucceffor in office.

14. Between three and four o'clock, this morning, a fire broke out in a houfe in Baron Maul's clofe, Netherbow, occafioned by the carelessness of a fervant throwing the fnuff of a candle on the floor, which communicated with fome fhavings under a bed in the room.-By the timely affiftance of the neighbours, it was extinguifhed, with the lofs only of the furniture of the room.

24. This forenoon, a man on horfeback, called at a public houfe at Morningfide, (two miles from this city,) for fome fpirits. He alighted, and was thewn into a room, where he drank a gill of fpirits. Having paid for the liquor, he remounted his horfe, and rode off towards Edinburgh. A few minutes after his departure, the woman of the house having occafion to go into the room, found her drawers picked, and 141. in cath and notes taken away.

Kilmarnock Nov. 11. A fire broke out in the byre of Mr Adam Galt, near this place, occafioned by the carelessnefs of a

boy in bringing a candle into the byre, which kindled some ftraw. We are forry to add that the fire burnt with fuch fury for two hours, that five cows, a horse, a mare and a foal, with a number of cheefes, and other articles, were confumed. The lofs is estimated at 200l. The Kilmarnock volunteers and the Angus and Kincardine militia attended, and were of much service in preferving order, and affifting the operations of thofe employed in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, and preferve the property.

Greenock, Nov. 16. One of the wretches who was concerned in the murder of the gallant officers of the Hermione frigate, is now in irons on board the Polly tender. This monfter, who affumes the name of Jacob Fuller, and is a native of Bremen, came home a feaman on board the Margaret, Captain Killock, arrived at this port from New Providence; on board of which veffel he endeavoured to inftigate the crew to commit the fame crime as had been done on board the Hermione; holding out as a temptation to them, the plunder they would get on board her; but this infernal machinations were difcovered by the cook to Captain Killock, who, till his arrival, was obliged to keep a watchful eye over him, and kept always loaded fire arms in his ftate-room, in case of the worst. It is fincerely hoped that this infamous villain will be speedily brought to juftice.

George Ofwald, Efq. of Scotftown, is re elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.

MARRIAGES

Oct. 23. at Gortneorn, Argyleshire, Alexander Cameron, Efq. Captain, Argyle volunteers, to Mifs Jeffey Campbell, daugh ter of Archibald Campbell of Lerag, Ely.

25. At Liverpool, Mr William Macmurdo Duncan, merchant there, fon of the Rev. George Duncan of Lochrutton, to Mifs Mary Anne Tobin, daughter of the late Patrick Tobin, Elq of the Isle of Mann.

At Liverpool Lieutenant William Rowe Dunbar, eldeft ion of George Dunbar, Efq. to Mrs Ranald on, only daughter of William Copland of Colliftoun.

28. At Bristol, Capt. Barrington Parerfon, to Mils Rooke, daughter of Lieut.

Gen. Rooke. M. P.

30. At Largs, Mr William Lang, cabinet maker, Greenock, to Mifs Mary Dunf. more, daughter of the late Mr John Dunfmore, of Gallowgate,

Lately. J. Gunning, Efq. to Mifs Gilpin. Mr James Gordon, merchant in Aberdeen, to Mary Dyce, daughter of the Jate Robert Dyce, Efq. of Newpark.

Nov. 7. At Glafgow, John Wilfon M. D. of the Inland of St Martin's, to Mifs Catherine Thomfon, daughter of John Thom fon. Efq. of the Inland of Jamaica, dece afed.

9. At Dalkieth Houfe, the Earl of Home, to the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Montague fecond daughter of the Duke of Bucdeugh.

11. At Ogel, George Ruffel, Efq. writer to the fignet, to Mifs Jane Simpfon, eldeft daughter of William Simpson, Efq. of Ogel. 12. At Gafk, Dr Stewart of Bonfkied, to Mifs Oliphant of Gask.

15. At Kintore, the Rev. Mr James Shand, minister of the gospel at Aberdeen, to Mifs Margaret Farquar, daughter of Baille Alexander Farquar of Kintore.

At Glafgow, Mr Alexander Black, to Mifs Catherine Campbell. daughter of the deceafed James Goodlet Campbell, Efq. of Auchline.

16. At Falkirk, Captain Borthwick, Brigade Major 71ft foot, to Mrs D'Allan, a native of France, and one of the firft families in that kingdom.

17. At London, Capt. Erfkine, of the 31st regiment of foot, to Mifs Elizabeth Erskine, fecond daughter of the Hon. Thos. Erfkine, M. P.

At Thumiter in Caithnefs, David Brodie, Efq. of Hopeville, to Mifs Helen Sinclair, daughter of James Sinclair, Efq. of Harpfdale.

19. At Dundee, Mr Andrew Thoms, merchant in Montrofe, to Mifs Jean Robertfon, daughter of Mr James Robertfon,

merchant in Dundee.

22. At Edinburgh, John Smith Bradshaw, Efq. to Mifs Ogilvy, eldest daughter of Sir John Ogilvie, Bart.

22. A Harvieston Mr Young Trotter, to Mils Jane Cranston, youngest daughter of George Cranfton, Efq. of Dewar.

At Dublin, General Craddock, to Lady Theodofia Meade.

26. Mr David Hill of Claybraes, to Mifs Martha Marshall. daughter of the deceased Mr John Marshall, late merchant in Glafgow.

At Glasgow, Captain Kennedy of Springhall, to Mifs Sarah Glen, daughter of M. George Glen, merchant

27. At Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alexander Kellock, M. D. of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to Mifs Forfter, daughter of Ralph Forster, Efq of the fame place.

28. At Edinburgh, John Dalyell of Lingo, Efq. to Mifs Jane Melvill, fecond daughter of the late Major John Melvill of Cairny DEATHS.

1797. Dec. 19. At Chicacole, Robert Seton, youngest fon of the late Daniel Seton, merchant in Edinburgh, Lieuten ant in the East India Company's fervice.

1798. March. On his paffage from China, John Kincaid, Efq. younger of

Kincaid.

Aug. 1. At Jamaica, Capt. Wemyss, of the 63d regiment.

15. At Roaring River, Jamaica, Mr George Scort, fon of the late Mr Thomas Scott, merchant in Glasgow.

Efq. Lieutenant in the 3d regiment of 22. At St Kitt's, Edward Fullerton,

foot.

Od. 12. At Tain, Mrs Rofs, wife of William Rofs, Efq. late of Invercharon, and daughter of the deceased David Rofs of Inverchafley, Eiq.

22. At Berwick, Watfon Balderfion, Efq. of New-water-baugh.

23. A Brentford, William Campbell, Efq. in th. 84th year of his age,

18. At Perth, Patrick Duncan, Esq. of Damfide

30. Ar Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Maclean, widow of the deceafed Mr Nell Maclean of Lochmaddy.

31. Mrs Gordon, relict of Charles Gordon of Black, aged 90.

Nov. 1. At Edinburgh, after a linger ing nefs, which he fuftained with be Coming fortitude, Serjeant George Mackay of the ad battalion of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers. His death was occafioned by a misfortune he received about 18 months ago, from the vulgar annual amusement in Edinburgh termed making. burghers, at which time alfo, from the ame caufe, a gentleman belonging to the corps of artillery unfortunately received his death.