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A MEMENTO for PRINCES.
IN a monarchy, rhe Prince and people may be
both cheated ; the Prince chufes the ministers,
and the people are to look after them. If the
Prince makes a bad choice, which is but too often
the case, and those who aft for the people fuffer
them to go on uninterruptedly in their iniquity,
nothing but ruin can be the event of such a con
duct ; every man who has been conversant with
courts, mutt have feen,that all the little cunning
m:nifters possess is employedto hide the true state
of affairs from their matter, and to palliate and
difguile their own rogueries. When the nation
calls aloud for justice against them, they treat the
whole nation as a faction, and call their v^ry
blunders and robberies his Majesty's measures.
Thas it Sometimes goes on till the people can bear
no more, till at last the Prince himfelf fuffers for
the crimes of his perfidious servants. Among
the many fatal examples of this kind, there is
one very attending io the Hiltory of China, of
which I Ihall give a drort account.
Junchin, the last Emperor, had every good
disposition requisite to incline him to govern mild
ly, yet he cannot be called a wife man who was
so injudicious in the choice of his ministers and
officers. These creatures made use of his autho
rity to gratify their own padions and extend their
ambition; the consequence was, that the people
were oppressed, but their grievances and com
plaints never reached the ears of the Emperor,
the ministers had filled the court with their tools
and dependents, and flopped all passages of com
plaint to the Emperor. Thus they went on to
abuse his good inclinations, and may justly be said
to have fold both the empire and their master.
A rebellion was begun by Ly and Chum, who had
both been Generals in his army, and had been
ill used by the ministers, probably for no other
reason but because they would not be (laves to
'theft power; they knew they (hould not be op
posed by the common people, who would not fight
to keep scoundrels in the administration, and ren
der them more insolent. As to those who had
the guard of the Emperor's person, and the go
vernment of the state, Ly, the rebel, was sure he
could gain them over at any time ; and accord
ingly, when the officers and magistrates put in by
these bad ministers, saw the rebellion lock a little
formidable, they entered intoa conspiracy for se
curing themselves. Ly sent some of his people
disguised as traders to treat with those fellows—
and traders they were : When the city was deli
vered up, and the unhappy Emperor retired within
his palace, he firft, with his own hands, put to
death his only daughter, then he and his Empress
hanged themselves. Before he dispatched himfelf,
he writ, wih his own blood, what follow\:
" The Mandarians are traitors, they hav\ per
fidiously betrayed their Princes, and all of them
deserve to be hanged. It will be a glorious action
to execute this piece of justice upon them, for it
is inoft nt that they should fuffer death, that those
who succeed them may be intruded by their ex
ample to acquit themselves with fidelity of their
trust. As for the people they are not criminal,
and deserved not to be punished; therefore to use
them ill would be injustice. I have loft that great
empire which descended to me by inheritance from
my ancestors, by the treachery of the Mandarians.
In me is finished the royal line which so many
Kings, my progenitors, continued down to me
with all the grandeur and fame suitable to their
dignity. I will therefore for ever close my eyes,
that 1 may not fee the empire, so defeended to me
from successive generations, ruined and ru'ed by
a tyrant. I will go and deprive myfelf of that
life, for the continuance of which I will not be
indebted to the basest and vileftof my fubjeds. I
have not the confidence to appear before them,
who, being born my natural fubje&s, are become
my enemies and traitors. It is fit the Prince
should die, since his whole state is now expiring;
and how can I endure to live, having seen the loss
and deftruftion of that which was dearer to me
than life."
Thus died the monarchy of an Empire as large
as all Europe. He who commanded an hundred
millions of fubjefts was reduced to destroy himfelf
and family, all brought upon him by the villainy
of his ministers, at only thirty two years of age.
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L E GH 0 R N, November 3.
LETTER S from Lisbon advise, that the
King of Portugal is going to ereft a monu
ment to rhe memory ofthe late Pope Clement XIV.
Marfan, Nov. 9. Although the Baron de Stack
elberg, Minister from Russia, has announced to
the delegation, in the name of the three allied
powers, that they must finifli all their business by
the 15th of this month, we forefee that it will be
a difficult matter to adjust every thing by that time.
Berlin, Nov. 15. His Prussian Majesty has or
dered a new regiment of Grenadiers to be raised
in New Prussia.
Amferdam, Nov. 2 1. Letters from Rome men
tion a commotion among the people, occasioned
by their being refufed an audience which they de
manded of the Conclave. This news merits con
firmation.
LONDO N, November 23.
Improbable as such intelligence may appear to
some readers, we are informed that the King and
Queen of Denmark certainly intend being in
London the beginning of next summer, when
all their differences are to be adjusted, and a
reconciliation entered upon. This would have
been done before, but the Queen Dowager has
hitherto had such an afeendant over him as to
prevent it. He has now broke her charm; the
consequence of which will be her degradation, the
restoration of his peace of mind, and the exalta
tion of his much injured, amiable consort.
As soon as it was known that the King of Spain
had declared war against the Emperor ofMorocco,
'tis said, orders were given for calling in all the
recruiting parties in England.
The Spaniards have lately embarked a great
body of troops at Cadiz on board a number of
rarTports, which are to proceed with all expedi
tion to the Philippine iilands.
A gentleman just arrived from the North fays,
that in Derbylhire, Stafforrifhire, and the northern
parts of Yorkshire, the distress of the manufac
turers, owing to our disputes with America, is
beyond all description. The poor, he lays, are
within one degree of starving; so that 10,000 men
might have been entered in either county, at the
late meeting of the militia, merely for the fake of
a month's pay, and food for that time. He adds,
that the poorer people envy the driver of a poft
chaife as a money-getting man.
A letter from Norwich, November 19.
" What, in the name of wonder and common
sense, are the Ministry after? Are they unaltera
bly determined to make every Englishman their
enemy, and to kindle the flame of war in this
kingdom, as they have done in America? If they
are, a continuation of the present violent measures
cannot possibly fail of success. Neither the mer
chants nor warehoufemen in London, who have
large sums due to them from the Colonists, nor
the home manufacturers here, whose orders fron?
them for sundry articles used to employ thousands
of our industrious poor during the winter,' will
tamely submit to be ruined, I fay ruined, for no
thing less than ruin is before us. The woollen
manufactory is the foie support of this great city ;
and if we want employment, milery and bank
ruptcy muftenfue. Would to God the Ministry
were in our situation only for a few months ! Would
to God they knew what it is to be deftiute of or
ders, and diftreTTed for remittances ! They would
not then think it juftifiable to involve all America
in the most terrible calamities, because the inno
cent inhabitants of a town or province refufed to
pay for a quantity of tea destroyed by a few of
their rabble, nor of fubjeCting us to innumerable
evils and anxieties, for the gratification of their
humour. What his Majesty and his new Parlia
ment must think of proceedings that excite abhor
rence and aftoniihment in the mind of every good
man, may be conjectured from the spirited oppo
sition that was made to them by the wifeff and best
men in this kingdom in the last. Should it prove
otherwise (which God forbid I) let us all fervently
pray for the removal of all those wicked counfel
lors who have been so long and loudly complained
of, and whose late fix infernal ads have disgraced
religion, alienated the affections of his Majesty's
fubjeCts both at home and abroad, and injured
the trade and navigation of his country. A dis
tressed manufacturer."
Nov. 25. They write from Paris, that the or
dinary guards of the French King, who have for
many years been Swils, are changed to that of
the Irilh brigade.
The death of Lord Clive is a fatisfaAion to his
best friends, who were but the daily witnesses of
his miserable exigence. From what cause we
will not venture to determine; but his Lordship
dreaded the idea of being alone, worse than that
of death. He was never without company, day
or night, nor without two or more fitting up with
him in his bed chamber during his intervals of rest.
At last, however, it has pleased Providence to
ease them of this unwelcome taft, and we hope
his Lordship, of all his inquietudes.
The Red Ribband now to dispose of on the
death of Lord Clive, is promised to a Veteran
General Officer:—Of late days the old fools seem
fonder of a gewgaw than the young ones.
Nov. 26. It is said that the Queen of Denmark
was actually at Kew this summer incog, and that
she gave such a fatisfaAory account of herfelf and
her late conduct in Denmark, that next summer
will restore her to the pleasure of breathing her
native air without constraint. What truth there
is ic this report we cannot determine.
By a gentleman just arrived from Boston we
are informed, that the Congress cannot well agree
about the articles proposed by the several provin
ces, the demands of one much interfering with
another; in short, there is no probability of their
being unanimous in any one thing, except the
non-importation of some particular articles. Be
sides this general difagteement, he fays, there is
a great defection among the better kind of people,
from what is called the public cause, they not
chufing to live any longer in a state of mortifica
tion, though by it the preservation of their liber
ties is held out as the object.
Were all the sworn enemies of Great-Britain,
assisted by the full fuffrage of pandemonium to
have united together in one common plan of de
ftruAion against the welfare of this devoted coun
try, they could not have fixed on one so effectu
ally ruinous to its interest as the present inglo
rious Boston campaign.
Our unnatural warfare with the Americans (fays
a correspondent) is good for nothing but to create
famine, ruin our manufactures, cripple our com
merce, facilitate the designs of our natural ene-,
mies, by weakening our mutual strength, promote
emigration, and in a word, render us the scorn
and derision of not only all Europe, but all the
world, for our invincible ignorance and impolitick
folly.
There is a man now living as a livery servant
in Somerset-house, who is in the 119th year of
his age. Hehas lived in that station 98 years.
Nov. 28. Lady Ermine, filter to Mr. Wedder
burne, and widow ofthe late Sir Henry Ermine,
has lately got her pension augmented to one thou
sand pounds per annum.
As the affairs of America will greatly interest
the public, and as in all probability every frefh
article of intelligence which arrives will more and
more expose the weakness and absurdity of mini
sterial measures, it is the determination of the ca
binet to gag the press as much as possible. The
heavy sentence inflicted on the two Woodfalls last
Saturday, for printing a letter (of so stupid a na
ture that it is matter of much wonder that it should
become an object of serious prosecution) is meant
as a terror to other publishers. The extravagant
severity of the punishment in proportion to the
offence the cabinet are in hopes will prevent the
news papers from putting it in the power of an ar
bitrary judge to mislead a jury and obtain an op
portunity of crushing at once the rising hopes of
the worthy and industrious.
The late Lord Clive had long been afflicted with
a nervous disorder in his stomach, which grew
exceedingly bad for some months before his death.
He came from Bath a few days before his dissolu
tion, on purpose to consult Dr. Fothergill with
refpe&to his complaint: when that able physician
directed all opiates (which his Lordship had long
been accustomed to, to be laid aside, and prescri
bed a very different method of cure. The de
ceased Nobleman, however, unhappily persevered
in his former regimen, and was found dead the
next day in the water closet.
The fate Lord Clive has left by will to his Lady
20001. per annum, and io,oool. as also the feat
at Claremont, during her Ladyship's life.
Commissions are received from the African fac
tors and merchants to ship over a number of swivel
and other guns, to arm the boats which cruize up
thefivers Senegal and Gambia in the slave and
gum trade, and it is become dangerous to venture
up without them.
New inftruAions are preparing to be sent off to
all his Majesty's Consuls in the Mediterranean, on
account of the rupture between the King of Spain
and the Emperor of Morocco.
We are eternally boafling of our excellent con
stitution and the wife and equitable dispensation
of our laws. Is the sentence passed on two print
ers by the Court of King's Bench, on Saturday
last a proof either of one or the other? The King
on all prosecutions by information is the plaintiff;
and consequently when he obtains a verdiAhe ap
plies and proportions the remedy to his own wrong
in passing sentence himfelf. Does there exist a
human being who is a righteous judge in his own
cause? It is impossible in the nature of things that
there should be one. The unmerciful sentence of
Saturday favours strongly of star-chamber tyranny
and oppression. There is not a lawyer of any of
our courts who does not hold up his hands in asto
nishment and cry shame on ye, ye advocates for
prerogative and despotism.
Nov. 30. A correspondent assures us that Mr.
Cruger, who is returned by a very great and ref
pe&able majority for Bristol, is a violent opposer
of every ministerial measure; and from his con
sequence as a merchant, and popularity at Bristol,
must carry great weight asa member of Parliament.
He is the colleague ofthe celebrated orator Burke,
and it is expeded by all parties, will turn out as
inflexible a patriot.
Out of the forty-five members chosen for Scot
land, nineteen are new ones who did not fit in
the last parliament.
The Active, Miller, from Quebec, is arrived
at Barcelona, after throwing part of her cargo
overboard.
We hear that no fewer than seventy-eight pe
titions, against gentlemen returned Members of
Parliament, will be presented to the House of
Commons; seventy-two of them are from Eng
land, and fix from Scotland. It is thought they
cannot be all determined in one session.
Dec. 8. On Tuesday Lord Lyttleton made his
motion in the House of Peers for the Handing or
der of that House so far to be dispensed with, that
the Members of the House of Commons, might
be admitted into the House of Peers during the
fitting thereof. His Lordship gave many reasons
for dispensing with the order, and admitting the
other House to hear their debates. Lord Suffolk,
the Duke of Manchester, Lord Sandwich, Lord
Weymouth,Lord Gower, and several other Lords
spoke upon the occasion ; and upon the question
being put, 28 were for the doors being opened,
and 36 against.
A regulation will be made this session of Parli
ament for limiting the ports and places where Irish
wool, woollen yarn, &c. (hall be imported into
this kingdom, in order to prevent smuggling
these commodities into France and other foreign
parts.
Every idea of a reconciliation between the three
royal brothers is totally banished; in consequence
of which it is said the two Dukes are now deter
mined to strengthen the present minority with their
interest.
This morning a bill of indictment was present
ed to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex,
at Hick's Hall, against the Dutchefs ofKingfton,
for felony, in marrying the late Duke of King
ston, at the time she was actually the wife ofthe
honourable Augustus Hervey, when the jury found
the bill to be a true bill, in consequence of which
she must appear to take her trial at the Old-Bailey
as a felon, or an outlawry will be issued against
her.
Upon a motion made yesterday in the House of
Commons for the further confederation of his Ma
jesty's Ipeech, the house was ordered to be put
into a Committee this day, to confiderof a supply
to be granted to his Majesty.
Lord North was yesterday somewhat better.
The fall his Lordship received on Monday even
ing, in one of the outward apartments belonging
to the House of Commons, has greatly bruised his
knee, and the fide on which he fell.
Yesterday Earl Temple attended the Levee at
St. James's, for the firft time rthis winter ; and
presented his nephew the Hon. George Grenville,
member for Bucks, to his Majesty.
They write from Gibraltar, that an armed Spa
nish bark, with a few resolute men on board, ran
into the harbour of Tetuan, and set fire to two
large galliots and a half galley, belonging to the
Moors, which were burnt to the water's edge,
and upwards of 100 of the crews perished.
A letter from Brest mentions, that on the 16th
of Lft month two ihips of the line, and three fri
gates, all with troops on board, failed out of that
harbour for the East-Indies
Dec. 10. Thursday night the Right Hon. Earl
Temple had a levee at his House in Pall Mall, at
which his Royal Highness the Duke of Glouce
ster, the Dukes of Portland and Richmond, Mar
quis of Rockingham, Earl of Chatham, and
many other Noblemen and Gentlemen were pre
lent.
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CHARLES-TOWN, (South-Carefra.) fa. 24.
Th'e General Assembly of this province is to
meet here this day, agreeable to the last proro
gation.
South-Carolina.
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.
Char/es-Tovon, Monday, Jan. 16, 1775.
RESOLVED,
THAT it is the unanimous opinion of this
Congress, that no action for any debt shall
be commenced in the Court of Cordon Pleas in
this colony, nor any such action depending there
which was commenced since last September re
turn, be proceeded in, without the consent of the
committee of the parish or diftrift in which the
defendant resides, until it shall be otherwise de
termined in Provincial Congress. That the said
committees refpedively, or a majority of such of
them as shall meet (provided they are not less
than three in the country parishes and diftrids)
DO, upon application, give permission for the
bringing or proceedingon such suits, in the follow
ing cases, that is to fay, where the debtors refufe
to renew their obligations, or to give reafoaable
security, or are justly fufpeded of intentions to
leave the province, or to defraud their creditors,
or where there (hall appear, to the majority of
luch committee, as aforefaid, any other reasonable
cause for the granting such permission : Which
committees fliall meet and fit on the firft and third
Saturdays in every month, at twelve o'clock at
noon, in the country, or oftener if it fnall be found
necessary, for the purpose of hearing and deter
mining on such applications. That feizurcs and
files, upon mortgages, (hall be considered on the
fame footing as actions for debt. That it be re
commended to the committees for each pariffi and
diftria, that they use their best endeavours to
preventany debtors removing their effects out of
the province, without the knowledge and consent
of their creditors. That the Congress will in
demnify the committees for so doing. And that
no summons (hall be issued by any magistrate, in
small and mean causes, without the like consent.
Resolved, That any eleven members of the
committee for Charles-Town, assembled together,
be a fufficient number to receive and determine
upon applications relative to law processes there.
TUESDAY, fan. 17, 1775.
Resol ved,
TH AT a Aria conformity to the resolves of
this congress, be recommended to the Gen
tlemen of the Law who pra&ife in the country,
as well as in the town, in regard to the issuing of
writs, and proceeding on suits and mortgages.
/ true copy from the journals.
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
Charles-1 oQ\:n, fan. 18. 1775.
THE committee for Charles-Town, in obedi
-1 ence to the resolves of the Provincial Con
gress, think it necessary to give this public notice,
That they have fixed upon every Thursday, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon, to meet and fit at Mr.
Ramadge's tavern, for the purposes aforefaid: And
they request the parties making applications, to
give their attendance, that the committee may be
the better able to judge of the propriety of ap
proving or disapproving thereof.
By order of the Committee.
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
N E W - YOR K, February 6.
Extract from the votes and proceedings of the Ge
neral Assembly of this Colony.
Die Martis, 10 ho. A. M. the gift of January, 1775.
A motion was made by Col. P. Livingfon in the
words following, viz.
Mr. Speaker,
I MOVE that a day may be appointed to take
the state of this colony into consideration, to
enter such resolutions, as the House may agree to,
on their journals ; and in consequence of such re
solutions, to prepare a humble, firm, dutiful and
loyal petition to our most gracious Sovereign.
On the question, whether the House agreed to the
said motion ? it passed in the affirmative, Nemine
Contradi cente.
And then a motion was made by Mr. De Lancry,
in these words, viz.
Mr. Speaker,
IM OVE that a memorial to the Lords, and re
presentation and remonstrance to the Commons
of Great-Britain, may be prepared together with
the petition to his Majesty.
On the question, whether the House agree to the
said motion ? it passed in the affirmative, Nemine
Contradicente.
His Majesty's Ministers at the foreign Courts,
having acquainted the principal Sovereigns of Eu
rope with the confufions in several of his American
provinces, assurances were given to the former, that
no fort of assistance should on any account be af
forded to them ; and a vessel loaded with arms,
ammunition, &c. for New-England, on her depar
ture from Amsterdam, was flopped, and all her
cargo landed.
We hear that a man in Dunftable, in the pro
vince of Massachusetts-Bay, owing another man
about 1001. O. T. he went to him for the money,
but he told him, that as there ^as no Lave in the
province, he was resolved not to pay the debt :
Upon which the creditor exp.ftulates with the debt
or—tells him his necessity, that he wanted the mo
ney to pay an honest debt, which he had promised
to do by that time, and must have it ; the debtor
ftdl persisted in his resolution not to pav the money,
repeating that there qvas no Lavo in the province :
The creditor begged him not to take advanto^e of
the times to evade the debt; but the debtor'Aill
periled in his resolution, and they both walked to
the door ; the creditor lays to him, you said there
cwas no Law in the province, and immediately
knocks him do^n with his fid ; the debtor gets
"P again, and again is knocked doun by the cre
ditor, who repeats, you fay there is no Law.
This being thrice repeated, the debtor begs the
creditor to defitt ; assuring him, that if he would
return with him into the house, he would pay the
money, vluch he accordingly did
By a velij fiom Cape Nichola Mole, we learn,
that on tile Bth of December there was a ruedt vio
lent gale of wind off Hifoani^l , in which a sloop,
Capt. Williams, belonging to Newbury, was drove
out cf Turks Island, but returned again, having
one man k ; lled.—Capt. Martin, of Maryland, in
a fioop, was drove out ofthe fame place, and left
his boat, caboufe and rudder, on the Caicos Bark,
and ptit into the Mole to refit.r-Capt. Cunningham,
in a schooner belonging to New-York, w.s,