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VOL. II.]
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1772.
[NUMB. 57.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER, January 21.
HIS Day his Majesty came to the House of Peers, and being in His Royal Robes seated on the Throne with the usual Solemnity, Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, was sent with a Message from his Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their Attendance in the House of Peers: The Commons being come thither accordingly, His Majesty was pleased to make the following most gracious SPEECH:
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"IT gives Me much Satisfaction, that nothing in the Situation of Our Affairs, either Foreign or Domestic, has obliged Me to require your Attendance earlier than might have been consistent with your private convenience; and that now you are met together, you will find yourselves at Liberty to give your whole Attention to the Establishment of wise and useful Regulations of Law, and the Extension of our Commercial Advantages.
"The Performance of the Engagement of the King of Spain, in the Restitution of Port Egmont and Falkland's Island, and the repeated Assurances I have received of the pacifick Disposition of that Court, as well as of other Powers, promise to My Subjects the Continuance of Peace; and We may, with the greatest Confidence, hope, that We shall not be disturbed in the Enjoyment of this Blessing, as there is no Reason to apprehend that We shall become involved in the Troubles which still unhappily prevail in one Part of Europe.
"The Danger of the farther Spreading of the infectious Sickness in Europe is, I trust, very much abated. But I must recommend it to you not to suffer our Happiness, in having been hitherto preserved from so dreadful a Calamity, to lessen your Vigilance in the Use of every reasonable Precaution for Our Safety.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"I have ordered the Estimates for the Service of the current Year to be laid before you. I make no Doubt but you will see the Propriety of maintaining a respectable Establishment of My Naval Forces: I am pleased however, to find, that I shall be under no Necessity of asking of you, at this Time, any extraordinary Aid.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"The Concerns of this Country are so various and extensive, as to require the most vigilant and active Attention; and some of them as well from Remoteness of Place, as from other Circumstances, are so peculiarly liable to Abuses, and exposed to Danger, that the Interposition of the Legislature for their Protection may become necessary. If in any such Instances, either for supplying Defects, or remedying Abuses, you shall find it requisite to provide any new Laws, you may depend upon My ready Concurrence in whatever may best contribute to the Attainment of those salutary Ends."
[London Gazette.
The humble ADDRESS of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, in reply to the King's Speech.
"Most gracious Sovereign,
"WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne.
"Permit us, Sir, to offer to your Majesty our most dutiful congratulations, on the happy event of the increase of your Royal Family, by the birth of another Prince; and to assure your Majesty, That every addition to your Majesty's domestic happiness must always afford the highest Satisfaction to your faithful subjects.
"We beg leave to express to your Ma-
esty our most grateful sense of your Majesty's regard for our private convenience, in not commanding us to an earlier attendance; and to declare to your Majesty our determination, to give our most diligent attention to the promotion of the domestic interests of these kingdoms, and the extension of our most commercial advantages, by the establishment of useful regulations of law.
"We return your Majesty our humble thanks for your goodness and condescension, in acquainting us from the throne with the restitution of Port Egmont and Falkland's Island, on the Part of the King of Spain; and with the assurances your Majesty has received of the pacific disposition of Foreign Powers. We are made happy by learning, That your Majesty had no reason to apprehend that the peace, which we at present enjoy, will be disturbed by our being any wife involved in the calamities of war, which still unhappily prevail in one part of Europe.
"Your Majesty's paternal care in recommending to us a due vigilance in the use of every precaution to preserve this country from that most dreadful contagion, from which, under the divine providence, it has been hitherto our happiness to remain free, calls for our sincerest acknowledgments, and commands our utmost attention.
"We beg leave to assure your Majesty that our most diligent endeavours, that be employed to frame such laws as shall, in our judgment, tend to supply the defects, and remedy the abuses, which may appear to have been introduced in any branch of the various and extensive concerns of this country: and we look upon your Majesty's gracious assurance of your ready concurrence, in whatever may best contribute to the attainment of those salutary ends, as a fresh proof of the desire, which has constantly been shewn, by your Majesty, to promote the welfare of your people."
His MAJESTY'S ANSWER.
"My Lords,
"I THANK you for this loyal and dutiful address. I receive with pleasure your congratulations on the increase of My family, and the assurances of the attention you will give to those objects which I have recommended to you for the public good. Nothing can be more acceptable to Me, than the sense you express of My desire to promote the welfare of My people."
[The ADDRESS of the House of Commons is not yet come to hand.]
The following is his Majesty's most gracious ANSWER to the Address of the House of Commons:
"Gentlemen,
"I THANK you very heartily for this most dutiful Address. Your affectionate congratulations on the birth of another Prince, and the regard you express for the Queen, are highly acceptable to Me.
"I receive with pleasure and approbation the assurances you give Me of your zealous endeavours for the extension and security of the national interest and advantages.
"I have nothing so much at heart as to see My kingdoms flourishing in commerce, and My people happy under My government."
[Lond. Gaz.
LONDON, January 6. The public may be assured, that a plan for a new administration lies now upon the table of the cabinet-council.
They may be equally assured, that any change in administration will not affect the following personages, viz. Lord North, Lord Sandwich, Lord Rochford, Lord Barrington, Lord Hillborough, and Baron Apsley, who are to keep their places.
The following are the offices, at present, talked of to be vacated:—Secretary for the Southern department—Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland—Ambassador to Russia, and it is whispered, that the President of the Council will be removed.
The Dukes of Northumberland and St Albans will be in the new administration: Lord Shelburne will not.
Lord Townshend will be in the new administration: Lord Chatham will not; Lord Camden will not—at least till Lord Mansfield retires.
Sir George Macartney, who is very soon to come over from Ireland, will certainly be nominated ambassador to Russia.
We hear the terms offered the Duchess of Cumberland, to renounce her public title, are, ten thousand pounds in money, and four thousand pounds a year jointure; the last being the same sum which has been settled on the Countess of Waldegrave. This proposal has been rejected.
It is beyond a doubt, that a certain member of Parliament, lately deceased, committed an Anglicism . It seems on his return from a ride, he desired his servant to prepare for dressing him. The man accordingly left him for that purpose. It about half an hour after, a servant going into the yard saw his master, (the stable door being open) suspended by a cord close to one of the racks. Shocked at so unexpected and terrible a sight, the poor man was at first deprived of every faculty; recovering, however, in a few minutes, he called to people in the kitchen; when being heard by a coachman belonging to Miss Brown, of St. Mary Axe, who had called to see one of Mr. F.'s servants, he ran up stairs and cut him down. Three surgeons were immediately sent for, by one of whom he was bled, and afterwards put into a warm bed. Their endeavours to restore him to life were unhappily without success, notwithstanding every part of him was warm, except his hands, when he was cut down.
The Kitty, Shaw, from Liverpool to Virginia, is totally lost off Cape Charles.
January 17. By letters from Captain Vandervold, of the Middleburgh snow, lately arrived at Rotterdam from St. Eustatia, we learn, that being on the Spanish Main, on the 13th of August last, he was boarded by a guarda costa, the crew of which grossly insulted him and his people, and carried the snow into Carthagena, where he was detained three days, under pretence of his being concerned in a contraband trade, before Don Juan de Solis, the Lieutenant-Governor, allowed him to depart: There were upwards of 400 subjects of Great-Britain confined in the fortress when Capt. Vandervold came away, most of whom, he says, were in want of the common necessaries of life.
We are desired to inform our readers, that on Tuesday night last dispatches arrived in a great office at the west end of the town, confirming the late account that a large Spanish ship of war had carried a number of small British trading vessels to Cuba, on pretence of an illicit trade.
When one of his Privy Counsellors told Oliver Cromwell, on his being about to conclude a treaty with the Court of France, that they never kept their word: "let them do as they think proper," said he, "it is my business to look to that; if they are not willing to keep their word, it is my duty to make them do it."—The case is now altered; for the Court of Spain forgets its promises to Great-Britain at least once every month; and when our Minister remonstrates with them for it, "he hopes they will consider of their infraction of treaties and of peace, and disavow what they have done."
On Tuesday morning died, at his seat at the Grange in Hampshire, the right hon. Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, Lord Henley, Baron of Grange, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Hants, Recorder of Bath, and a Governor of the Charter-House, and late Lord High Chancellor of Great-Britain.
No advice of the Duke of Gloucester's death has yet been received, however we are assured that an authentic account of his Royal Highness's illness arrived on Tuesday from Dr. Jobb and Mr. Adair, surgeon general, it seems the dysentery has entirely left his Royal Highness, but he is very low spirited and weak, and afflicted with a slow, depressed, hectic, intermittent, irregular fever, with a morbid affection of the lungs, from which he throws up stony concretions about the size of a pin's head. From this deplorable state all hopes of the re-establishment of his Highness's health seem vanished, and we are extremely sorry to say, we hear that a fatal prognosis has accordingly been made.
Yesterday died Mr. Roberts, bookseller, in Paternoster-row, in partnership with Mr. Robertson.
On Wednesday Count de Guignes had audience of his Majesty at St. James's, and delivered his credentials.
January 18. We are assured, that a very humiliating circumstance has lately occurred at court. On the Lord Chamberlain's officially announcing the ensuing commemoration of the Queen's birth-day, and that the Peeresses who intended to dance minuets were desired to send their names in writing to his office, in order that the proper tickets may be made out according to their rank, the Duchess of Cumberland declared her intention of writing to the Lord Chamberlain, that she proposed to dance a minuet at court on that day. This declaration got wind—the King's friends were alarmed at the consequence—Precedence of all the Peeresses, or a public interdiction from court, must have followed—The former was too mortifying, and the latter too imprudent—No middle way could be hit upon; and at last the most submissive, abject intercession was obliged to be made, that "Her Royal Highness" would "for the present" wave her intentions; and the humiliating application concluded with a distant hint, that the concession might possibly be the means of facilitating that restoration to Royal favour, which the Duke of Cumberland was so very anxious of attaining.
We are assured that the Duchess of Cumberland is pregnant; and that her Royal Highness's situation has been notified in form.
Some overtures have been lately made to allow Lord Holland into active life again, but his Lordship has peremptorily refused. He has, however, promised, on terms of high advantage to his favourite son, his utmost assistance to the measures of Administration through the whole of the ensuing sessions.
It is said, that the hon. Charles Fox will shortly be called to the department of the treasury.
We are told, it is a fixed point that the affairs of America shall be taken under consideration soon after the meeting of Parliament.
We have the pleasure to assure the public, that the congregations of such churches as are warmed by Buzaglo's patent machines enjoy, during the service, as comfortable warmth as they do in their houses, for no coughing or sneezing is heard, and their dread of catching colds by the damp of such churches is thereby totally removed: we therefore cannot avoid wishing that all his Majesty's subjects would follow so wholesome and laudable an example, as it preserves health and promotes religion.
An house-keeper of the Duke of — at his country-seat, while the family was in town, received a visit from a nephew, whom, after entertaining, it being rather too late for him to return, he desired to stay till the morning. He was laid in a very good room and bed; but, in the middle of the night, being taken with a

LONDON. A correspondent who has the cholick, he got up, and us with the following piece, which he had cur- the speech was to some cordial-water kept Irish house. As to some cordial-water kept 25th of his way to it in the dark: On opening on the smell of the spirituous liquor con- firmed his imagination. In the violence then of the fit, and in hope of some miti- gation of torture, he puts the bottle to his mouth, and dispatches its contents in a few gulps; but could not help observing that something rather stuck in his throat, which he supposed was a preserved apricot or some other fruit. However he got it down. In the morning, at breakfast with two or three more, he mentioned the accident to him in the night, and his recourse for relief to the bottle on the chimney-piece. At which his aunt clapping her hands, in a kind of agony, cried out, "I will be hanged if he has not swallowed the Little Lord! " And what should this Little Lord be but an embryo, preserved in spirits, be- ing the Lady Duchess's last miscarriage. The Irish Parliament is adjourned until the 4th of February next.
A commission is preparing to pass the Great Seal, for appointing a new Board of Trade and Plantations.
January 20. It is said that Governor Bernard (having put Lord Hillsborough into the hands of Mr. Hutchinson, the present Governor of New-England) is now entirely done with the guidance of all kind of American affairs; and that his Lordship for past services, has exerted his utmost secret interest to get his Governor to the Board of Trade, in the room of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, but that his Lordship's utmost and final efforts have not been crowned with success.
January 21. We hear that Lord Hillsborough, supported by the Premier, pro- poses to bring in a bill for the repeal of the tea duty in America.
We are credibly informed that Colonel Luttrell intends getting up in the House of Commons this day, and reading his re- cantation. We are told that he means to declare, that he is not the legal represen- tative of the county of Middlesex; that he was imposed upon by Administration, and that the whole kingdom has been imposed upon, by their seating him there as one of the representatives of the county of Mid- dlesex, in direct contradiction to the sense of the electors; that he is convinced of his error, and is therefore determined no longer to hold what he has now no doubt be- longs to another, and then quit the house. Should the Colonel pursue such conduct, he must retrieve himself in the eye of the world.
January 22. By a letter from Manheim, dated Dec. 29, it has been calculated, by the observations made in the year 1769, respect- ing the Transit of Venus, that the Sun is 1,358,809 times bigger than our globe; and that the planet Venus bears a proporti- on with our globe as 23 to 25.
A private letter was received at the Ad- miralty Office on Monday (by the way of Holland) from Serville, which brought in- formation that eight Spanish ships of the line were at one of the Spanish Ports fully fitted out, and were waiting for sailing or- ders; their destination was a secret, but it was generally thought they were for the West-Indies.
Information likewise came from Brest, that four ships of war were ordered to be in readiness for sailing at a day's notice.
It is remarkable, that the address moved for yesterday, passed both houses without the least debate. In the house of commons in- deed a single NO burst forth before the speak- er had got to the end of nemine contradicente , which occasioned, according to custom a burst of laughter. The principal speakers in the opposition were present, and the house was very full. The business of the day, af- ter admitting the new members, did not be- gin till ten minutes after two, and ended in about an hour.
January 23. By a private letter from Pa- ris there is advice, that the illness of the French King was supposed to have been occasioned by some poison being conveyed into a glass of wine; for his Majesty soon after drinking it, felt shooting pains all over his body; but something being given him immediately to ex- pel it, he is now in a fair way of recovery.
A new invention of great public utility, is now under the consideration of a committee of the society for the encouragement of arts and sciences, in the Strand, the following ac- count of which we have been favoured with, viz. In the whale-fishery the practice now is for the man who is called the Harpooner to stand at the head of the boat, with a large dart, or harpoon in his hand, with a rope fas- tened to it, which he throws with all his strength, and great dexterity. The whale,
on being wounded, immediately swims a- way with amazing celerity, with the harpoon sticking in him, to the very imminent danger of the whole boat's crew, who are obliged to go within a few yards of a fish who could instantly sink them with a slap of his tail. The present invention is adapted to remove the hazard of such a situation, and to add more to the certainty of the operation, which the seamen call striking the fish ; it is a dart or harpoon, of much the same nature as that now in use, but, instead of throwing it with a man's arm, it is so contrived that it can be fired at the whale out of a small swi- vel gun, with the rope fixed to it at the dis- tance of 70 yards: The gun may be pro- perly pointed, and occasionally fixed on and taken off, and three of them may be very conveniently and readily fixed to a boat. An experiment was made last week, at the Greenland dock, Deptford, before some gen- tlemen of the committee of Arts and sciences, some commanders in the Greenland trade, and other gentlemen, merchants, &c. by firing in at a tub, or butt, in full motion when it was found to answer very well, and it is thought it will be used in actual business by the first ships that go to the Greenland fishery.
January 24. That part of the Royal Speech which recommends an attention to abuses in the remoter dominions of the British Empire, is peculiarly directed to the East-Indies.
The patriotic party intend to set up Mr. Sheriff Bull, as a candidate for the county of Essex.
Yesterday morning some dispatches were sent down to Gosport, to be forwarded by the St. John schooner, to the Governors of Boston and South Carolina.
January 25. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland attended his duty on Thursday in the House of Peers for the first time this session.
No persons, since the first day of meet- ing, have been admitted into the galleries of the House of Commons, without an order from the Speaker.
Two Lords, not less distinguished for their tried integrity than high political knowledge, and who are of no particular party, are determined, it is said, to decline all attendance in parliament until certain doors are set open.
At a court of Common-Council held yesterday at Guildhall, to consider the ad- journed motion relating to silver cups, af- ter many warm debates and altercations, the following motion was moved for and seconded, viz.
That a silver cup, value 200l. be pre- sented to Bras, Esq; our late worthy Lord Mayor; and two others, value 100l. each, to Mr. Sheriff Wilkes, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, for the noble stand they made in the business of the Printers against an ar- bitrary vote of the House of Commons, for the preservation of the rights and liberties of our fellow-citizens, as well as the sub- jects in general.
After the motion was read, the follow- ing amendment, to take place after the word That in the motion, was moved for and seconded: A piece of gold plate, of the value of 400l. be forthwith provided at the city's expence, to be kept and used with the city's other plate, with an inscription engraved thereon, to perpetuate this Court's approbation of the conduct of the three worthy Magistrates, Alderman Crof- by, Wilkes and Oliver; who, to their immortal honour, asserted and maintained the franchises of their fellow citizens, in discharging Mr. Miller, a citizen of Lon- don, apprehended and detained under an il- legal warrant of the present House of Com- mons; thereby setting an example worthy the imitation of present and future Magis- trates. And the question being put, on holding up of hands, there appeared no near an equality, that the Lord Mayor could not determine. A division was then demanded and the tellers appointed for the amendment were, Mr. Deputy Grafton and Mr. Deputy Ellis; against the amendment, Mr. William Cams. Upon the division there were, for the amendment, 11 Aldermen, 85 com- moners. Against the amendment, 98 Com- moners. Majority against the amendment two.
This day at noon the remains of the Right Honourable Lord Baltimore will be carried in grand funeral pomp, from Exeter change in the Strand, to Epsom, where his Lordship will be buried to-morrow.
PROMOTED. John Garnier, Esq; to be Deputy pay master of his Majesty's forces in North-America, in the room of Isaac Bevan Esq; deceased.
ST. JAMES'S January 25. This day arrived Monsieur Koch; Secretary to his Serene Highness the hereditary prince of
Hess Cassel, with the melancholy account of the death of her Royal and most Serene Highness the Landgravine of Hess Cassel, his Majesty's aunt, who departed this life on the 4th instant, at Hanau.
LONDON, January 27. A motion will be made, during the course of this week, in the House of Commons in favour of the petition, praying an addition to the officers on half pay, which it is thought will be granted.
On Friday the Princess Dawager was done at five guineas, to receive one hundred, in case she died within ten days.
Advices have been received at St. James's from Gibraltar, that hostilities have com- menced between the Spaniards and Moors at Oran and Ceuta; that several smart en- gagements have happened; and that it is like to terminate in an open rupture.
Our correspondent from Vienna, dated the second of January, gives us advice of an absolute certainty, that his imperial Majesty had dispatched a special courier to his Prus- sian Majesty in Berlin, with a PLAN OF PACIFICATION; and that his Prussian Ma- jesty having approved of the same, had for- warded it to St. Petersburg with all possible diligence. This article of intelligence, he observes will appear in the different Gazettes of Amsterdam, the Hague, Cologn, and Pa- ris, in the course of this week.
Our correspondent from Petersburg ha- ving sent us a detail of the victory of the Rus- sians over the Turks, which takes up five or six pages, we have only copied the close of it, by which we are informed that the Russians had taken, at the city of Girsof, seventy pieces of cannon, 2000 prisoners in the gar- rison, besides many other cannon, which be- ing too heavy for carrying off they had spi- ked up. In the harbour they also took two galiots, twenty-xebecs, besides many other small crafts; such as they could not get out of the harbour, to the amount at least of one hundred, they set on fire. The Russians having also retaken the fortress of Georgavo, found in it fifty brass cannon, a great quan- tity of ammunition, besides 1600 sacks of bis- cuits, together with 1650 sacks of flour, and 1015 Oxen; the rest was given as plunder, to the light troops, who, on this occasion, loaded 1000 waggons upon the spoils, a- mong which were many equipages belong- ing to the Bashaws.
From Lewarden we learn, that the fog was so great there on the 31st of December, that the like had never been known in Hol- land; and that several coaches drove into the canals, notwithstanding they were lighted with double and treble flambeaux.
Our correspondent at Prague, the capital city of the kingdom of Bohemia, informs us, that so great great has been the scarcity of bread-corn throughout that whole state, that the poorer part of the people, for several months past, have been compelled to live without bread, and that so great is the fa- mine there at present, that neither cat nor dog were to be found alive in any part of that kingdom, the city of Prague excepted, the whole of those two distinct species of a- nimals having supplied the place of other a- nimals for several weeks.
On Saturday morning, between one and two o'clock, after the mourners, &c. had retired from attending the body of Lord Bal- timore, which lay in state in Exeter exchange, a great mob assembled, broke into the room where the body lay, stripped it of escusheons, hangings, and every thing that was por- table, and were preparing to throw the corpse and coffin out of the window, had they not been prevented by the piquet guard going to be relieved at the Savoy.
On Friday came on before Lord Mans- field, in the Court of King's Bench, a cause, wherein a gentleman from Jamaica was plain- tiff, and his negro servant defendant. The cause of trial was, to know how far a black servant was the property of the pur- chaser by the laws of England, as the black refused to go back with his master to Jama- ica. But as this was thought by the Court a very important decision, it was postponed till towards the end of the term, when his Lordship said he would take the opinions of the rest of his brother Judges.
January 28. It is certain, that the death of the Princess Dowager of Wales is now hourly expected. The Sacrament was ad- ministered to her Royal Highness last week, when she drank some of the wine, but her throat was so bad that she could not swallow the bread.
The article in a morning paper of yester- day, asserting that the Princess Dowager of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Brunswick, went on Friday last to the Bri- tish Museum, has not the least foundation in truth.
The House of Commons broke up yester-
day before three o'clock, having had very little business to do but receiving petitions.
Mr. Sawbridge has deserted making his intended motion, for shortening the duration of Parliaments, until after the call of the House, which will be on the 25th of next month.
Two great Lawyers, who were consulted on the legality of the late marriage, have de- livered their opinions without reserve, that it amounted to no more than what, in the ancient law, is termed an effence .
Last Saturday the Rule was made abso- lute in the Court of King's Bench, with re- spect to the inhabitants of Sudbury, so that complaints will be exhibited, against more persons, for violating the Freedom of Elec- tion, then at first was thought of.
There will be a levee at St. James's eve- ry Monday during the sessions of Parliament.
The mourning for the Princess of Hess- will be only for six weeks, for first and se- cond mourning, for the better promotion of trade.
Her late Royal Highness the Princess of Hess-Cassel, was very near 52 years of age, being born March 5, 1720. She was rec- koned the handsomest of all the daughters of the late King.
By the death of the late Princess of Hess- Cassel, her Royal Highness the Princess A- melia becomes the only remaining person of the children of George II.
January 29. It is asserted, that a change will happen very soon in the most capital departments of Administration.
We hear, that the state of the navy will be taken into consideration in the House of Commons this day.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mercurii 22 die Januarii, 1772. Ordered, That the serje- ant at arms attending this house do, from time to time take into his custody any stran- ger or strangers that he shall see, or be in- formed of to be, in the house or gallery, when the house, or any committee of the whole house is sitting; and that no person so taken into custody be discharged out of custody without a special order.
A gentleman, who was present at the o- pening of the pantheon, has favoured us with the following account:
On Monday evening the pantheon, which for some time past has raised the expectati- ons, and engrossed the conversation of the polite world, was for the first time opened. There where present upwards of seventeen hundred of the first people of this kingdom; among whom were all the foreign Ambas- sadors, the Lord Chancellor, Lord North, Lord Mansfield, Judge Aston, the Duke and Duchesses of Grafton, the Duke and Duchesses of Ancester, the Duke and Duchesses of Richmond, the Duke and Duchesses of Man- chester, the Duke and Duchesses of Bolton, the Duke and Duchesses of Buccleugh, the Duke and Duchesses of Montague, the Duke and Duchesses of Argyl, Lord and Lady Hert- ford, Lady Waldegrave, Lady Almeria Car- penter, and her beautiful sister, Lady A- melia D'Arcy, Lady Craven, Lord and Lady Albemarle, Lord and Lady Clive; Lady Har- rington, Lord Stafford, Lord Thomond Lord Coventry, Lord Buteman, Lord Aber- corn, General Conway, &c. &c. &c. The whole building is composed of a suite of four- teen rooms, all of which are adapted to par- ticular uses; and each affording a striking in- stance of the elegance and splendor of these times. Imagination cannot well surpass the magnificence of the apartments, the boldness of the paintings, or the disposition of the lights which are reflected from gilt vases, suspended by gilt chains. Beside a great number of splendid ornaments that decorate the rotunda or great rooms, there are a number of statues in niches below the dome, representing most of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses, suppos- ed to be in the ancient pantheon of Rome. To these are added three more of white pro- phry, the first two representing the present King and Queen, the last Britannia.—Not- withstanding the late order for mourning prevented that brilliancy, which would other- wise have appeared in the dress of the ladies; yet the presence of a very great number of the most celebrated beauties, in a place in it self so uncommonly splendid, and beautiful created a scene which must beggar all de- scription.
January 30. This day were published, Reasons against the intended bill for laying some restraints upon the liberty of the press, wherein all the arguments yet advanced by the promoters of it are unanswerably an- swered.
The ministry have proposed that twenty- five thousand seamen shall be employed for the ensuing year.
By the death of the late Earl of Northing- ton, Ireland is eased of a pension of 4000l. per annum.

April 3.
The MASSACHUSETTS SPY for
1772.
DUBLIN, January 18. Yesterday the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-council, in respect to the memory of the late Dr. Lucas, his great merit, and behaviour in Parliament for the city of Dublin, granted a pension of 50l. a year to his widow Mrs. Lucas and his three youngest children, to commence from the 4th of last November, on which day he died.
SHERBORNE, January 13. On Monday last several persons in this neighbourhood, about ten o'clock in the morning, heard a noise or concussion in the air, and the same time a shaking of several things about them, and concluded it to be an earthquake, and spoke of it as such immediately. This was done in several different places, before their could possibly be any communication, whereby the imagination of one might be raised by what another reported. A person at Westhall, about two miles from hence, heard the noise, and thought it like the firing of cannon at a distance; on the same time there was a sensible shaking of the windows and things in the house. A person of undoubted credit at Milborne Port, about two miles east from hence, declared he heard the sound divided into five or six proportions of a minute's time, like the report of cannon, fired with such an interval of time between. Several other persons in the same place heard a rumbling noise in the air, but did not distinguish these intervals. Those who were out of doors when they heard the noise, felt no motion of the ground; but those within not only heard a noise, but were so alarmed by the shaking and rattling of the furniture, that they ran into the streets, thinking it was an earthquake; and every one concluded it so, till the news arrived here of the blowing up of the powder mills at Hounslow, which so coincided in time and circumstances, that it is scarce doubted but it proceeded from that cause, though the distance from the spot was upwards of 100 miles; and what makes it more extraordinary is, that the wind was West by North, which was a contrary direction.
LONDON, January 31. On Wednesday just as the levee at St. James was going to begin, an express arrived from a Northern court, with an account that a revolution had happened there. The Queen it seems, had, for some time been intriguing with her physician. Her growing power, and conduct, occasioned a general alarm, and disaffection among the citizens of C. They suddenly rose, and surrounded the palace; and as suddenly possessed themselves of every apartment in it. The Physician was instantly put into an iron cage. The Queen was made a prisoner. And the King they carried directly to the Senate; whose deliberations they were attending, when the express came away. Though the King of Denmark is one of the most despotic Sovereigns in the world, yet he must submit to his people. He is now in their possession. When the express left Copenhagen conditions to the King were preparing; which, as there is no material accusation against him are said to be moderate.
Another account says, the situation of a Northern court, is truly unhappy, the intrigue with the queen we are told, was with her physician. The King hath not been well for above a year, and his illness was owing to this physician, who intended to destroy him by slow degrees; happily there was a suspicion, bureaus were opened, and proof sufficient found of the criminality of the parties, upon which the Doctor was immediately dispatched to the other world, and the Lady confined.
Not one person was suffered to be in the gallery of the house of Commons on Wednesday to hear the debates; even Sir Wm. Maynard was refused, though several members applied for him; nor were even members sons admitted.
The Rev. Dr. Nowell, who preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, took his text in these words, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy.
The Constitutional society have voted the sum of 250 l. to be immediately paid Mr. Bingley for his sufferings in the cause of liberty and the press.
February 1. It is reported, that instructions were on Thursday sent from St. James's to the English Ambassador at Copenhagen, to make a demand of the Queen to be given up to her friends, with the dowry; that the Fubbs yacht at Deptford is ordered to be fitted for the sea with all expedition; and that a squadron will be sent with it.
Lord Chatham intends to remain in Somersetshire till March; and it is doubtful whether he will come to the house of Peers this session.
It is a scandalous truth that a Frenchman, is at this time Governor of Tilbury Fort.
With regard to the extraordinary reports from Denmark, a gentleman who knows much of foreign affairs informs us, that he looks on the whole as a state trick, in order to take an advantage of the youth and inexperience of an amiable young couple. That every reformation, or innovation (as they ill-naturedly term it) made by the King of Denmark since his return home from visiting England, has been represented as coming from his consort, and a party has been long forming to hurt her, and the King through her, in the opinion of the people: and, no doubt, the late ferment on reforming a regiment of guards is ill-naturedly attributed to the same agent: that there is a Queen Dowager in that kingdom, who is said to have been ever intriguing during the life of the late King, in favour of a son by herself, who is now grown up: that as to the part attributed to the physician, jealousy will go great lengths; and as the Queen was unhappily debarr'd from having any natives of England near her, except this physician, the most innocent meetings, when ill-naturedly and wickedly misrepresented, will serve to blacken the brightest characters.---On the whole, as few of the matches of our Princesses abroad have turned out happy, it may serve to intimidate the rising generation from engaging in foreign marriage connections, but, after the examples of their uncles, to seek that happiness at home, which is not to be found among more high-sounding titles in foreign countries.
By a private, but authentic letter from Belgrade, we learn, that the late Russian victory has been much greater than the account of it given by the Russians themselves; and that the garrisons of Cracova and Nicopolis have hung out the white flag, and surrendered themselves prisoners at discretion; and by the same letter there is authentic advice received there from Constantinople, that a treasure of many millions of louis-d'ors have been discovered within these few days in a well, which have been hidden there many hundred years, by a certain Emperor of the Turks, during a dangerous riot that prevailed in that metropolis. By the same channel we are informed, that the Russian prisoners are ordered to be publicly led through all the principal streets in Constantinople, in order to convince the populace, if possible, that the Russian victories have not been so great, as generally they are rumoured to have been.
Several gentlemen of the first fortune in Denmark, quitted that country two months ago, through an apprehension of a revolution; and some of them, who are resident at this moment in London, are even much surprized that the convulsions in the state happened no sooner, as the conduct of a Great Lady was profligate to public notoriety.
The Queen of a northern nation is reckoned the boldest rider in all the dominions of her royal consort; and it is said, notwithstanding the care which was taken to give her a delicate education, that she now frequently appears astride on horseback, with buckskin breeches and long spurs. The fashion of boots indeed prevails among the ladies in England, but the buckskin breeches continue hitherto unknown, and will require in all probability the countenance of a diametral before they are generally adopted.
February 2. We hear the following removes will be made in the Royal Navy, viz. John Montague, Esq; Rear Admiral of the blue, to be Rear Admiral of the white. Lord Edgecombe, vice-Admiral of the blue, to be Vice-Admiral of the white. James Young, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the white, to be Vice-Admiral of the red. Thomas Pye, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the red, to be Admiral of the blue. His Grace the Duke of Bolton, and Sir Thomas Frankland, Admirals of the blue, to be appointed Admirals of the white.
A correspondent informs us, that Colonel Keith, the British minister at the Danish Court, has shewn the greatest spirit and good conduct during the late revolution. It seems the senate, in the first transport of their fury, had given orders for putting the Queen to immediate death: They had (without hearing her defence, and without any form of trial) unanimously declared her guilty of adultery, and of poisoning her husband. Upon which Mr. Keith instantly repaired to the senate house, and solemnly protested against any act of violence being offered to the Queen; he in the strongest terms urged her innocence and the improbability of the accusations against her, and concluded with denouncing the vengeance of the British nation and the terrors of an English fleet against the senate and people of Denmark; if any act of violence and injustice was committed on a daughter of Britain, and the sister of the King his Sovereign.
February 3. We hear orders are given for four regiments of foot, and a company of artillery, to embark immediately for Ireland.
February 4. Yesterday the Earl of Hillsborough had a grand levee of Colony Governors, agents, and West-India merchants.
Died. Henry Cromwell, Esq; great-grandson to the Protector Cromwell.
February 5. On Friday next the following bills, it is expected, will receive the royal assent by virtue of a commission from his Majesty, viz.
A Bill to prohibit the exportation of corn, grain, meal, malt, flour, starch, &c. for a limited time.
The bill for allowing the free importation of salted beef, pork, butter and bacon from Ireland, and the British dominions in America.
[The above bills received the royal assent the 11th of February.]
Payment of bills are stopped between Denmark and London.
Baron Dieden, the Danish Ambassador, was sent for on Monday night, and attended at the Queen's Palace, where he had a long conference with a Great Personage.
It is said that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was so much affected with the news from Denmark, that he shed many tears.
If it be true that French gold purchased the late horrid disturbance in Denmark, all Europe ought to join to punish this most perfidious nation.
Monday evening some dispatches were received at the Secretary of State's office from Admiral Rodney at Jamaica. By the same vessel, it is said, there is advice that a frigate was dispatched from Jamaica, to reconnoitre the Havannah; that she saw there sixteen sail of the line and three frigates, all with their sails bent.
February 7. The House of Commons continued sitting in great debates at eight o'clock, on Sir William Meredith's petition from the clergy relative to the 39 articles.
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland was sent for on Wednesday night to the Queen's Palace, where he had a long conference with his Majesty; and it is said his Grace is pitched upon to go to Copenhagen.
February 8. On Thursday Sir William Meredith, at the bar of the House of Commons, presented a petition signed by 250 of the clergy, against the thirty-nine articles.
About six o'clock this morning died, her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales. She was the youngest daughter of Frederick II. Duke of Saxe-Gotha; born on the 30th of November, 1719. She was married at St. James's on the 27th of April, 1736, to Frederick, late Prince of Wales. Her children were, Augusta, born July 31, 1737, O. S. married to the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick. George, born, May 24, 1738, O. S. now King of Great-Britain. Edward, Duke of York, born March 14, 1739, died September 7, 1767, at Monaco in Italy. Elizabeth, born December 30, 1740, died September 4, 1759. William Duke of Gloucester, born November 14, 1743. Henry Duke of Cumberland, born October 27, 1745, married the of October, 1771, to Mrs. Horton, widow, daughter to Lord Irnham, and sister to Colonel Luttrell. Louisa, born March 8, 1748. Dead. Frederick, born May 13, 1750, died December 29, 1765. Caroline, born, July 11, (after the death of her father) 1751, married October 1, 1766, to Christian VII. King of Denmark.
February 6. The first Lord of the Admiralty and the Premier hold daily conferences with respect to some great amendments in the navy.
It is said the arrival of the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick to this kingdom, will not be so soon as was expected, on account of the late unhappy advices from Denmark.
This morning was married at Camberwell, Bras Crosby Esq; one of the Aldermen of this city, and member for Honiton in Devonshire, to Mrs. Pattersall, of Chelsfield in Kent.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, Jan. 18.
"Notwithstanding the revolution which happened in the night between the 16th and 17th of this month is no secret, through the couriers that have been sent from hence with this very important news, yet the following circumstances deserve to be mentioned."
"It is not true, as has been reported, that Counts de St. Germain and Reverdil conducted this affair; but the Queen dowager Julia Maria was at the head of it all. She brought over General Eichstedt to her side, and having founded Count Rantzau, and found him disposed to act against Count Struensee, who was his greatest enemy, she, by his means, persuaded Col. Koller, and the officers of his regiment,"
that night, to join her. She was intirely ignorant of all for his Majesty went from the which was given at court that twelve o'clock, where he had danced and played at quadrille with General Gahle, lady, and Councillor Struensee, Prince Frederick, the King's brother, was present at the ball, but not much attention was paid to him, and he did not stay to sup there.
"At four o'clock the next morning Prince Frederick got up and dressed himself, and went with the Queen Julia Maria to the King's apartment, who was asleep, they ordered the valet de Chambre to awake the King, when they entered, and told his Majesty, that the Queen and the two Struensee's were busy in drawing an act of renunciation which they intended to force him to sign. The Queen Dowager and Prince Frederick then told the King, that the only means he could pursue to prevent it, would be to sign orders to arrest the Queen and others, which Orders the Councillor of State Mr. Guldberg had made out some days before. The Queen Dowager informed the King that if he would not sign the orders she and her son would; and after some conversation the King signed them. In consequence of which Col. Koller, and Captain Maleulle, Frank, and Eiben, went to arrest Count Struensee, and coming to his hotel, though the Colonel had not the King's order about him, he told him his errand. Struensee asked him if he knew who he was? Koller answered, he was once the Minister of the Cabinet but now his prisoner. Struensee wanted to see the King's order; but Koller said he would answer with his life that the King had ordered him to be arrested."
"The Queen was informed of her disgrace by a billet, immediately after the receipt of which, Count Rantzau, accompanied with Lieutenants Bay, Peck, and Oldenbourg, entered her apartment. The Queen was almost distracted at her situation; she threatened Count Rantzau that she should lose his head, and would have gone instantly to the King; but Lieutenant Bay was posted at the door to prevent her. Count Rantzau then told the officers, that if the Queen was suffered to go to the King, it would cost them their lives. Her Majesty finding that her threats signified nothing, she said that her conduct had always been conformable to her duty, but that of the officers had always been against it: (referring as it is thought, to a design which was proposed by Col. Nunsen, and other officers of the light troops, last Summer, to pass an act of renunciation if she would have agreed to it.) Count Rantzau put her into a carriage, and she was conducted under an escort of thirty Dragoons to Kronenbourg."
"Prince Frederick is regarded at present as Prime Minister, and the Queen dowager holds the reigns of Government."
"Count Rantzau, Col. Koller, Gen. Eichstedt, and all the other officers who executed the King's orders for this night have been promoted."
February 11. Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia is greatly indisposed.
The House of Peers and the House of Commons have voted addresses of condolence to their Majesties.
Yesterday the Lord-Mayor, Gen. Paoli, &c. went to St. James's, as did great numbers of the nobility, with their compliments of condolence.
Many persons say, that a war with Denmark is at present, much more probable than either with France or Spain.
The Queen of Denmark was pregnant at the time of the late revolution at Copenhagen, and it is said she has since miscarried.
February 12. It is ordered, that in the morning and evening prayers, in the Litany, and in all other parts of the public service, as well in the occasional offices as in the Book of Common Prayer, where the royal family is particularly prayed for, the following form and order shall be observed, viz. Our gracious Queen Charlotte, his royal highness George Prince of Wales, and all the royal family.
Orders are issued for the Court's going into mourning the 16th inst. for her late royal highness, the Princess Dowager of Wales.
War-Office, Feb. 11, 1772.
HIS Majesty does not require, that the Officers of the army should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion, than a black crape round their left arms, with their uniform.
Admiralty-Office, Feb. 11, 1772.
HIS Majesty does not require, that the Officers of his Fleet or Marines should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion, than a black crape round their left arm, with their uniform.

LONDO
A correspondent with the ZETTER. the speech of HILLSBOROUGH. Irish house of Lords...
My Lord, this is the second attempt you have made to discredit the writings of Junius Americanus...
Among the proofs of that, is the resolve which your Governor, by your Lordship's direction I presume...
Suffer me then my Lord, to recall to your candid mind, very briefly, that proceeding on which this charge against Mr. Oliver was founded.
When the ever memorable massacre was perpetrated at Boston, by your Lordship's new formed peace officers...
When this affidavit of Mr. Oliver was known at Boston, the council took it into consideration.
Thus, my Lord, in these two capital points of Mr. Oliver's affidavit the oaths of eight men...
ture to affirm, that no unbiased man living, who considered the affidavit itself, the secret manner in which it was made...
My Lord, the council themselves have been as severe in their comment on this proceeding, of Mr. Oliver as I can be...
As the said deposition represents the council in an ill light, it could be no disagreeable present to Governor Bernard...
The council then unanimously vote him, Guilty of a breach of trust.
If then, my Lord, the man whom a full council have proved and recorded to have secretly made and sworn to a false representation...
If Mr. Oliver should receive any consolation from my acknowledging that the same words which I have used...
But, my Lord, what is it can justify your patronage of this bad man? He was charged on oath, by eight members of his Majesty's Council...
you were to re-act the force of Governor Bernard's trial, and procure against it the resolves of a much more dignified council than that of Boston.
And now, my Lord, how has this measure of you and of your Governor profited Mr. Oliver? it has compelled me to hold him up to twice recorded infamy.
My Lord it is not in your power to shake my good opinion of the council of Boston; and I trust you are as little able to injure me with them.
Your spies and sycophants, my Lord, have made you think you know me. I have some small doubt of that; but of this I am sure...
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
To the worthy LIVERYMEN of the CITY of LONDON.
THE dignity of the office, which your Lordship conferred upon me, forbids my engaging in a news-paper controversy...
I am accused of violating the laws by permitting the bailiffs to apprehend persons for debt, and afterwards continuing them in prison...
debtors in this city and county, imprisoned by the ancient process of law, I should have been liable to innumerable actions for escapes and to the payments of their respective debts.
The words of the great charter I hold sacred "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his freeholds or liberties, or free customs..."
JOHN WILKES.