VII. Publick Revenues, you purfue fuch Men At length, with grave, yet cheerful air, fures, as will most conduce to the present Repentance came, feverely fair, As fummer's evening fun : At fight of whom extatic joy If join'd in confort, with one voice, I heard their joy expreft. If there be mufick in the spheres, That mufick ftruck my ravish'd cars, And charm'd my foul to rest. My Lords and Gentlemen, It is a great Satisfaction to Me, that the prefent Situation of Affairs, both at Home and Abroad, makes it unnecessary for Me to lay before you any other Reafons for my calling you together at this Time, but the ordinary Dispatch of the Publick Bufinefs, and that I may have an Opportunity of receiving your Advice upon fuch Affairs as may occur to you, and fhall require the Care and Confideration of Parliament. Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, I will order the proper Officers to lay before you the Estimates for the Service of the current Year, and I make no doubt, but that you will, with the fame Chearfulness, as I have always experienced in you, effectually raife fuch Supplies, as you shall judge neceffary for the Honour, Safety, and Defence of the Kingdom; and I cannot but recommend it to you as a Confideration worthy the Commons of Great Britain, that in all your Deliberations, as well upon raising the annual Supplies, as the Diftribution of the and future Eafe of thofe you reprefent. My Lords and Gentlemen, You must be fenfible, that it is very defirable to give all poffible Dispatch to the Publick Bufines, and that nothing can give more Weight and Credit to all your Refolutions, than to avoid unreasonable Heats and Animofities, and not to fuffer yourselves to be diverted by any Specious Pretences from ftedfaftly pursuing the true Intereft of your Country: Let that be your firft and principal Care, and the People will be fenfible of the Benefits they shall receive from your Wisdom and Refolution in preferring their Eafe and the Publick Good to all other Confiderations. WEDNESDAY, 17. The Right Hon. the House of Peers prefented their Addrefs of Thanks to his Majefty, for his faid Speech; to which his Majefty reAnswer: turned the following moft gracious My LORDS, I thank you for this Dutiful and Loyal Addrefs. As the Eafe of my People and the Publick Good have always been My chief Care and Concern, the Zeal that you fhew for the promoting of them cannot but be very acceptable to Me, and will most effectually recommend you to My Favour and Protection. THURSDAY, 18. The Hon. the House of Commons prefented their humble Addrefs to his which his Majefty return'd the folMajefty on the fame Occafion; to lowing most gracious Answer: Gentlemen, I return You my Thanks for these Dutiful Aurances of your Zeal and And I make no Affection for me: Doubt, but that your Refolutions to pursue parfue fuch Measures, as will most conduce to the Eafe and Intercft of all my Subjects, will as effectually recommenȧ You to the good Opinion and Esteem of my People as they are acceptable to Me. FRIDAY, 19. At a general Court of the S. Sea Company, it was agreed, to addrefs his Majefty, humbly praying him to continue their Governor : And refolv'd, That the Dividend for the half Year ending at Christmas fhould be 2 p. Cent. Sir John Eyles, the Sub-Governor, then acquainted the Court, that Sir Thomas Geraldino had deliver'd in a Representation explaining his former Proposals to the Company for giving them an Equivalent, for the yielding up the Alfiento Trade, and defired to know whether that Paper, or the Attorney-General's Opinion on the Cafe relating thereto, fhould be first read; and the Court chufing to read the latter, the fame was read accordingly; and the Court deeming it a Matter of the greatest Importance to the Company, thought it required a very serious and full Confideration, therefore deferr'd it to a farther Confideration, at the next general Court. The Sub-Governor then made a Speech to the Court, concluding thus: My Want of Health for fome Time paft having determin'd me to think no more of being a Candidate for this Station, which I have held for fo many Years thro' your Favour; I lately acquainted your Directors with the Refolution I bad taken; I am now obliged to declare the fame to you, and to defire that fome other Perfon may be thought of to fupply my Place at the approaching Election. At the fame Time I beg Leave to affure you, that in all Situations, I hall be as inftrumental as I am able to the Profperity of this Company. SATURDAY, 20. reft of the Aldermen of Coventry (except Alderman Kelley, who is Puft-Master) and fent to each of their Reprefentatives in Parliament, viz. SIR, We being apprehensive that a Motion will be made during this present Seffion of Parliament, to convert fome of the Cuftoms into an Excife on home Confumption; and having duly confi der'd the pernicious Confequences that will enfue, fhould the fame take Effea, not only to the Trade of this Kingdom but to the Liberties of the SubjeƐt, thought it our Duty to let you know onr Sentiments on this important Occafion, earnestly requesting you to oppose any new Excife, or any Extenfion of Excife Laws whatsoever. (See p.38.) Letters of the fame Import were fent from feveral other Corporations in the Kingdom to their Reprefentatives; and among the reft were the following Inftructions given by the Corporation of St. Alban's, under their Common Seal, to their Reprefentatives in Parliament, at the late Election of a Member for that Borough. SIR, We have chofen you to be our Reprefentative in Parliament, which is the highest Truft we can repofe in you; and in Returu for fo great a Confidence, we expect you will have a conftant Regard for the Interest of your Country, and efpecially of this Borough; but as this is a very critical Conjuncture, we think it neceffary to give you more particular Inftructions. In the firft Place, Sir, as we are in profound Peace, we are furpriz'd to find no Reduction of the Land Forces, which we conceive to be dangerous to our Conftitution, and we feel to be very burthenfome and opprelive to us. In the next Place, we are alarm'd with an Attempt to be made this Seffion of Parliament, for extending the Excife Laws to Commodities not yet excis'd. We hope, however, that these Reports are false, and rais'd by the Enemies to to our Conftitution, and to his Majefty's Government. But if any one who calls himself an Englishman, Should be fo much an Enemy to his Majesty and us, as to propofe fuch a Scheme, we expect, Sir, from you, the most vigorous Oppofition to it; for we shall look upon the Continuance of fo great a Body of Land Forces, and an Increase of Excife Officers, under our present Circumftances, as a fure Prefage of an entire Subverfion of our ancient Conftitution, and all the valuable PriviLeges belonging to it, which have so Long diftinguished us from our neighbouring Nations. A Conftitution, Sir, that our Forefathers have, at the Expence of their Lives and Fortunes, delivered down fafe to us, and which, we hope, we fhall have the Virtue and Courage to deliver to latest Pofterity, under a Succeffion of Princes iffuing from his prefent most facred Majefty, whofe Family came in on the Principles of Liberty, and who can be maintained on no other; whoever, therefore, tries to fap the Foundations of Liberty, is at the fame Time undermining his Majefty's Title to the Crown, which Thoughts give us the utmost Abhorrence; and we expect from you, Sir, a conftant and steady Purfuit of fuch Measures as will keep our Conflitution, as near as may be, in the fame Situation under which it bas long flourish`d, and we don't doubt but in fuch Conduct you will have the Affiftance of our other worthy Member, and of all boneft Englishmen. MONDAY, 29. Of the 16 Malefactors, whereof 6 were condemn'd laft Seffions, and the other 10 the two Seffions before, 12 were this Day executed at Tyburn. Catherine Saunders, John Booker, John Jenkins, and William Roberts, were repriev'd for Transportation. (See p. 39, and Vol. I. p. 367, 484.) TUESDAY, 30. The Lord Bishop of Chefter preached this Day before the House of Lords, the Rev. Dr. Mawfon before the House of Commons, and the Rev. Dr. Berriman before the Lord Mayot, &c. WEDNESDAY, 31. A Court of Lieutenancy was held at Guildhall, when they prefented the Artillery Company with 500 l towards building a new Armory in the Artillery-Ground: His late Majefty K. George I. gave the like Sum before his Death; fo that the faid Building will be erected with the utmoft Expedition. Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS. Mr. John Ingram, prefented to the Living of Stoneham in the County of Southampton, void by the Death of the laft Incumbent. Mr. Richardson of Black - Heath, appointed Reading Chaplain atWhiteball, in the room of the Rev. Mr: Carleton, now Sub-Dean of his Majefty's Chapel Royal. Dr. Butts, Dean of Norwich, made Bishop of Norwich in the room of the late Dr. Baker, deceased. Dr. Cecil, Rector of Hatfield in Hertfordshire, made Bishop of Bristol, in the room of Dr. Bradshaw, deceafed. Dr. Conybeare made Dean of ChriftChurch, in the room alfo of Bishop Bradshaw. Dr. Atwell, appointed Rector of Exeter College, in the room of Dr. Conybeare. Dr. Baptift Noel Barton prefented by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Wing in the County of Durbam. Mr. Woodman, Vicar of Chiswick in Middlefex, by the Earl of Burlington, to a Living near Grantham in Lincolnshire, worth about 300l. per Ann. William Hunt, M. A. by his faid Lordship, to the Rectory of St. Peter in Norfolk. The Rev. Dr. Tyrwhit, Son-inLaw to the Bp. of London, is appointed Canon-Refidentiary of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in the room of the Rev. Dr. Godolphin, deceas'd. His Majefty has appointed the Rev. Dr. Bland to be Provoft of Eaton College, in the Room of Dr. Godolphin, deceased, worth 1500l. p. Ann. The Lord Chancellor prefented the Rev. Mr. Woodford to the Living of Allhallows London Wall, in the room of Mr. Richardjon, deceased, worth 200l. per Ann. PROMOTIONS Civil and Military. Henry Bowater, Efq; chofen Trea- The Lord Cathcart appointed one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to his Majesty, in the room of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who refign'd. Capt. Charles Windham appointed Commander and Mr. Nathaniel Orris Lieutenant of the Falkstone: And Capt. Charles Fanshaw Commander and Mr. Mitchel Lieutenant of the Roebuck; both fixth Rates of 20 Guns. Henry Fox and Richard Bateman, Efqs; made Receivers General in the Counties of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Radnor, Brecknock, Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, and in the Town of Haverford Weft, in South Wales. - The King's most excellent Majefty chofen Governor, Sir Bybye Lake, Bart. Sub-Governor, and Charles Hayes, Efq; Deputy Governor of the R. African Company: And the following Gentlemen to be the Court of Affiftants, viz. Sol. Aftley, Efq; Mr. Peter Affelin, Tho. Bradshaw, Efq; Jofeph Bradshaw, Efq; John were N. B. Thofe marked with Sir John Jennings, Knt. appointed The Hon. Stephen Cornwallis, Efq; Brother to the Right Hon. the Lord Cornwallis, Member of Parliament for Eye in Suffolk, and Col. of a Reg. of Foot, appointed one of the Gentlemen of his Majefty's Privy Chamber, in the room of the late William Lewis Legrand, Efq;. The Rev. Mr Tho. Ridgley, and the Rev. Mr. John Guyfe two eminent Diffenting Minifters had lately the Degree of Doctors in Divinity conferred on them by the Univerfity of Aberdeen. Matthew Norris, Efq; Son of Sir John Norris, unanimously elected a Reprefentative in Parliament for the Town and Port of Rye, in the room of his Brother John Norris, Efq; whofe Seat was vacated by his Acceptance of the Place of Ufher of his Majefty's Custom-Houfe in the Port of London. Sir Charles Wager kifs'd the King's Hand, on his being appointed first Commiffioner of the Admiralty, in the room of the late Lord Torrington. At the fame Time his Majesty was pleased to appoint the faid Gentleman one of his moft Hon. Privy Council, Mr. Merryl chofen Member of Parliament for St. Alban's, in the room of Tho. Gape, Efq; deceafed. F2 Tho Thomas Saunders of Brill, Efq; appointed Sheriff for Bucks; and Charles Jones of Shrewsbury for Salop. Capt. James Winter unanimoufly chofen an elder Brother of the TrinityHoufe, iu the room of the Ld. Vifc. Torrington, deceas'd. On the 27th came on the Election of an Alderman for Cheap-Ward, in the room of Sir William Humphreys, Bart. who as Senior Alderman (and now Father of the City) has accepted of Bridge Ward-Without, in the room of Sir Gilb. Heathcote, deceas'd. The Candidates were Robert Kendall, Efq; and Robert Westley, Efq; The LordMayor declar'd the Majority of Hands to be for Mr. Weftley, but a Poll being demanded and granted, Mr. Kendall had 135 Voices, and Mr. Weftley 105. Sir Richard Hopkins, Knt. chofen Sub, and John Bristow, Efq; DeputyGovernor of the S. Sea Company. The Right Hon. Pattee Byng, Efq; now Ld. Torrington, continued Treafurer of the Navy. MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. Sir John Eggleton, of Rochampton, Bart. married to Mifs Langdle, eldest Daughter of John Langdle, Efq; of Putney, a young Lady of 150001. Fortune. Stephen Franks, Efq; of Great George-fireet, Hanover Square, to the only Daughter of Mr. Smith, of Bondfreet, a young Lady of 4000 /. For tune. The Rev. Dr. Thomas, Rector of St. Bennet's near Doctor's-Commons, to Mils Malfoe, a young Gentlewoman of 3000l. Fortune. Philip Pembroke of Natton, in Suffolk, Efq; Member of Parliament for Ipfwich, to Mifs Bowes, of Bury St. Edmund's, a Fortune of 15,000 7. Mr. Cade, Son of the late Dr. Cade, to Mifs Perry, Sifter to Mr. Alderman Perry, a young Lady of 10,000 Fortune. Mr. Anderfon of Bishopfgate-street to Mifs Simpfon, a Fortune of 20,000. The Hon. William Finch, Efq; his Majefty's Minifler Plenipotentiary to the States-General, to the Lady Anne Douglas, Sister to his Grace the Duke of Queensberry and Dover, a Fortune of 15,000l. The Lady of the Right Hon. the Lord Glenorchy, Knight of the Bath, Member of Parliament for Saltash, and Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Broadalbine, was brought to Bed of a Son and Heir. DEATHS. The Right Hon. the Countess of Clanriccard. Theophilus Yong, Efq; Sir Sam. Woodman, an E. India Mer. Madam Larocqne, Relict of Mr. Larocque, formerly a Spanish Merchant. The Rev. Mr. John Betts, Vicar of Little Wakering in Essex. John Hampton, Efq; of Whitby in Yorkshire. The young Lord Coningsby, only Son of the Countess of Coningsby, by Sir Michael Newton, Kt, of the Bath. Leonard Woodeon, Efq; Clerk to the Board of Works. Owen, Efq; a Gentleman of a great Estate in Hertfordshire. Sir Geofrey Palmer, Bart. Grandfon of the famous Sir Geoffry, Attorney-General to K. Charles II. Mr. Charles Snell, the molt eminent and ingenious Writing-Mafter and Accomptant of his Time, or that ever this Nation produc'd. Baynbrig Buckridge, Efq; formerly in the Service of the East-India Company at Fort St. George. The Rev. Mr. Huxley, Lect. of St. George's in the East, and Senior Fellow of Brazen Nofe College, Oxon. Chriftopher Rawlinjon, of CarkHall in Lancashire, Elq; The Lady Meyers, Relict of Sir Peter Meyers, late an eminent Hamburgh Merchant of this City. Mrs. |