Weobly, Heref. And. Bayntun r. J. Scott r. Weftbury, Wills. S. Eftwick r. C. Arcedeckne. Weftloe, Cornw. Maj. J. Scott n. J. Lemon n. Weftminster, Midd. No return, a fcrutiny being demanded. Weftmoreland county, Sir M. le Fleming r. J. Lowther r. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Welbore Ellis r. Gab. Steward r, John Purling r, Sir T. Rumbold. Whitechurch, Hamp. Visc. Middleton r. W. Selwyn r. Wigan, Lanc. J. Cotes r. Orlando Bridgemann, Wilton, Wilts. Ld Herbert r. W. G. Ha milton r. Wiltfire, C. Penruddocker. A. Goddard Winchelfea, Suff. C. J. Nesbitt r. W. Nedham. Winchester, Hamp. H. Penton r. R. Gamon, jun. o. Windfor, Berks, J. Montague r. P. P. Powney г. Woodstock, Oxf. Sir H. W. Dafhwood n. F. Burton. W. Lygon r. Worcesterfire, E. Foley r. Chipping Weycombe, Bucks, Vifc. Mahon г. Yarmouth, Norf. Sir J. Jervis r. H. Beaufoy r. Aberdeenshire, A. Garden r. Bute and Caithness fhires, Col. J. Stuart n. Haddingtonfire, H. Dalrymple r Invernessfaire, Lord W. Gordon Elgin, Cullen, Banff, Inverury, and Kintore, W. Adam. Aberdeen, Inverbervie, Montrofe, Aberbrothock, and Brechin, Sir D. Carnegy n. Forfar, Perth, Dundee, Couper, and St Andrew's, G. Dempster r. Graill, Kilrenny, Anstruther-Eafter, Anftruther Wefter, and Pittenweem, J. Anftruther r. Dyfart, Kirkaldy, Kinghorn, and Burntisland, Sir C. Prefton n. Inverkeithing, Dunfermline, Queensferry, Cule rofs, and Stirling, J. Campbell.r. Glasgow, Renfrew, Rutherglen, and Dumbarton, Ilay Campbell n. Haddington, Dunbar, North Berwick, Lauder, and Jedburgh, F. Charteris r. Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow, and Lanerk, J. Moore r. Dumfries, Sanquhar, Annan, Lochmaben, and Kirkcudbright, Sir J. Johnston n. Wigton, New-Galloway, Stranraer, and White horn, Maj. Gen. W. Dalrymple n. Ayr, Irving, Rothefay, Campbelltown, and Inverary, Sir Ar. Edmonstone r. A Singular IMPOSTURE. A Portly well-drefed man, lately walking along the Strand, London, fuddenly dropped down in an apoplectic fit; and though no less a man than Sir J—a E—tt was coming by at the time, and was willing to give every affiftance the Materia Medica could afford, it was all in vain; the body was dead beyond the reach of any physician. A corpfe in the Strand unowned, foon drew a crowd; among them came a well-dreffed, goodlooking young gentleman, who was curious to fee the dead man. He had no fooner made his way through the mob, so as to get a full view of the corpfe, than he was ftruck with amazement; he remained fixed, his counte nance changed, and the tears began to flow down his cheeks, As foon as he could recover himself fo far as to gain utterance, he exclaimed-"Oh, God! my poor uncle! Is he gone? Is he?-Well," faid he, with a deep figh, “so perish my hopes! I am happy, however, that I luckily passed at this awful moment, to refcue his poor remains, and fee them decently interred." Accordingly, the forrowful youth called a coach; and the charitable mob, who pitied the difconfolate nephew, affifted to put the corpfe in the coach; where the pious young man foon stripped the body, and defiring to be fet down at a famous furgeon's, very confcientiously fold his pretended uncle for two guinças. Thofe glorious exiles brows my hands fhall crown, Who nobly fought on distant coafts to find, With Britain, Gallia drops the pitying tear; Announc'd our veffels but their cannons roar, And tears and bleffings fill'd thy parting fail, The froft-bound fea, and twice the burning That by winds, waves, and ev'ry realm re- Safe, only fafe, thy facred veffels steer'd ; Fierce fons of Britain, who lament his fate, Victoria now bids tardy Peace advance. Twas spoken extempore whilft the fub- THIS tomb-fone is a mile-stone, and why fo? A little man he was-a dwarf in fize: [lies. Here's Miles in length and breadth, and room X. IN RIDICULE OF THE PREVALLING Men long have built castles in air ; how to reach Montgolfier has now firft the honour to teash them. ftuft pillions! 'Twill ruin all our coachmen and postillions, Will quickly feel the lofs in-empty pockets. The scheme's not novel, 'faith, for by the I long have thought our gentry meant to fly, Our grandfathers were pleas'd, poor ten- "To waft a figh from Indus to the poles ;" Nor will their travels be to earth confin'd, feen us ; The ton will foon be to elope to Venus: Whilft gentler dæmons, in the rhiming fit, "John, fill the large balloon," my lady "I want to take an airing-in the skies." from it Then ftops to warm her fingers-at a comet. Trade too, as well as love and diffipation, rear, And roll her thunders through each distant Cse MAY. M A Y. AIREST daughter of the day, Each evening the playhouse exhibits a mob, And the right of admiffion's turn'd into a job. By five the whole pit us'd to fill with fubfcribers, And those who had money enough to be But the public took fire, and began a loud jar, mettle The God of good liquor with fervour they Woo, [fou And before the fifth act they are a' greeting And still, as a maxim, they keep in their eye This excellent adage," that forrow is dry;" Though my mufe to write fatire's reluctant and loth, [Goth This custom, I think, favours frong of the As for Siddons herself, her features fo tragic Have caught the whole town with the force of their magic; Her action is varied, her voice is extenfive, Her forrows in Shore were fo foft and so still, fo dumb: [any And, to tell the plain truth, I have not seen Thing yet, like the tumble of Yates in Man dane: creature. For acting fhould certainly rise above nature, Isabella too rofe all superior to sadness, From all fides the house, hark the cry how ftrike, [alike, They are beauteous all, and all beauteous Began very foon both to cool and to fettle; tears; And fome things I'm fure that you'll like L Your true friend, MARY B HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. EAST INDIES. Whitehall, May 15. The following in telligence from the Eaft Indies, received by his Majesty's fhip Crocodile, has been tranfmitted to Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the home department. Bombay Castle, Dec. 30. 1783. His Majefty's fhip Crocodile arrived the 26th in ftant from Bengal and Madras. She left Bengal about the middle of November, but has brought no advice from the Governor General and Council. A letter received by her from the Select Committe at Madras, dated the 4th inftant, gives an account of the progrefs of Meff. Sadlier and Staunton, and of fome steps actually taken in the mutual evacuation of the conquefts. The general of Tippoo Saib's army in the Carnatic was in full march to the Changamah pafs, accompanied by thefe gentlemen; and their arrival is mentioned by Tippoo Saib in his letters to Gen. Macleod as an event that will bring with it a certainty of peace. Some boats with fepoys having been wrecked near Cannanore, in the late bad weather upon the Malabar coaft, and about zoo of them feized and detained by the Biddy, notwithstanding repeated applications made for their release, both by General Macleod, and the Refident at Tillicherry; and the Cannanore government being on all occa fions inimical to the Company, the General, immediately after the relief of Mangalore, declared his intention to take fatisfaction for thefe injuries. In a letter received within these few days, we are advised of the place being taken, and promifed further particulars in a fhort time; but in this letter the General mentions that the Nabob Tippoo Saib had de fired him to defift; and claimed the Biddy as his ally. The General however affures us that no bad confequences will ensue. The feparate treaty with Mhadjee Scindia is arrived. The Prefident and Select Committee have juft received a letter from the Peshwa, in answer to theirs, wherein he expreffes his full acquiefcence in the treaty, and his readiness to join with the English in offenfive measures against Tippoo Saib, fhould he fail in performing the conditions required from him. Bombay Caftle, Jan. 10. 1784. Late laft night dispatches arrived from Brig. Gen. Macleod, dated on board the Ranger fnow, off Mangalore, the 28th and 29th ult. In the firft the General gives a parti cular detail of the capture of Cannanore; and in the second advifes, in general terms, that the negotiations for peace were going on, and that Tippoo Saib had not refufed permiffion to revictual Mangalore, which fervice the General was then performing, the boats being in the river, and the veffels under way with the provifions for Onore. ENGLAND. At the final clofe of the poll at Covent Garden, May 17. for two members to ferve in parliament for the city of Weft. minfter, the numbers were, for Lord Hood, 6694; Mr Fox, 6233; Sir Cecil Wray, $998. Before the members were declared duly elected, Sir Cecil Wray and thirteen electors demanded a fcrutiny; which the High Bailiff granted. But as there was not time for proceeding in the fcrutiny before the meeting of par liament, the bailiff made the following return to the fheriff of Middlesex: against which Mr Fox protefted, and infifted that he should return the two candidates who ftood higheft on the poll as duly. elected. "Thomas Corbett, bailiff of the liberty of the dean and chapter of the col legiate church of St Peter, at Westmin er, doth hereby certify unto the fheriff of the county of Middlefex, that, by virtue of the precept, dated the 26th of March laft, and on the fame day delivered to him the faid bailiff, by the faid sheriff, for the election of two citizens to serve in the enfuing parliament for the city of Weftminster, and by virtue of the writ therein recited, he the faid bailiff did proceed to the election of two citizens to ferve in the enfuing parliament for the faid city of Westminster, on the ift of April now laft paft, on which day appear. ed and were put in nomination the three candidates herein after mentioned; and a poll being demanded, he the faid bailiff did forthwith proceed to take the faid poll, and continued to take the fame day by day, during fix hours each day, viz. from nine in the forenoon to three in the afternoon, until the day of the date of these prefents inclufive, on which day the faid poll was finally clofed, when the numbers on the faid poll for the faid feveral candidates ftood as follow, viz. For the Rt Hon. Sir Samuel Hood, Bt, Baron Hood, of the kingdom of Ireland, 6694; for the Rt Hon. Charles James Fox, 6233; for Sir Cecil Wray, Bt, 5998. The The faid bailiff further fets forth, that on the final clofe of the poll a fcrutiny was duly demanded in behalf of Sir Cecil Wray; which fcrutiny the faid bailiff has granted, for the purpose of investigating the legality of the votes more accurately than could be done on the said poll; and the faid fcrutiny fo granted is now pending and undetermined; and by reafon of the premises, the faid bailiff humbly conceives he cannot make any other return to the faid precept than as herein before is contained, until the faid fcrutiny fhall be determined, which he fully intends to proceed upon with all practicable difpatch. In witnefs whereof, he, the faid Thomas Corbett, Bailiff of the faid Liberty, hath hereunto fet his hand and feal, the 17th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1784." The friends of Mr Fox, notwithstanding the above, infifted on his being chaired; which accordingly took place, and a grand proceffion, accompanied by thoufands of the populace, paraded the principal ftreets of Westminster. At night the windows were illuminated. St James's, May 25. Yesterday morn ing George Stone, Efq; arrived with the definitive treaty of peace between his Majetty and the States General of the United Provinces, which was figned at Paris on the 20th inft. by Daniel Hailes, Efq; his Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary, and by the Ambaffadors and Plenipoten tiaries of their High Mightineffes. L. gaz. As the commemoration of Handel has given rife to one of the most splendid mu⚫ fical exhibitions ever feen in this kingdom, the reader will be pleased to fee recorded the particular circumftances that firft led to its commencement. In a converfation which took place in the beginning of the year 1783, between Vife. Fitzwilliam, Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and Joah Bate, Efq; one of the commiffioners of the victualling-office, at the latter's houfe, it was lamented, that, as London contained a greater number of eminent performers on differ ent inftruments of mufic than any other city in Europe, there was not fome public periodical occafion which would bring them all together; by which means a performance might be exhibited on fuch a fcale of magnificence, as could not be equalled in any part of the world. The death of Handel naturally prefented itfelf to three fuch enthufiaftic admirers of that great mafter, and it immediately oc curred that the next (ie. the prefent) year would be a proper time for the introduction of fuch a cuftom; as it form ed exactly a fourth of a century fince his death, and a complete century fince his birth. The plan was foon afterwards communicated to the managers of the muli cal fund, who approved it, and promised their affiftance. It was next fubmitted to the Directors of the Concert of Ancient Mufic, viz. Earl of Exeter, Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Dudley and Ward, Vifc. Fitzwilliam, Ld Paget [now Earl of Uxbridge], Rt Hon. H. Morice [now at Naples], Sir Watkin Williams, Wynne, Bt, Sir Richard Jebb, Bt, who, with a readiness that does honour to their feelings of humanity as well as of mufic, vo luntarily undertook the trouble of mana ging and directing the celebrity. The defign at laft coming to the knowledge of the King, it received the fanction of his patronage. Westminster-abbey was fix, ed upon as the propereft place for the performance, as Handel was buried there; and application was made to the Bishop of Rochefter for the use of it, who readily confented, as the scheme was honoured with the King's patronage; and who only requested, that as the per formance would interfere with the anniversary of the Westminster Infirmary, a part of the profits might be applied to that charity. This was agreed to; and it was afterwards fettled, that the profits of the first day's performance should be equally divided between the mufical fund and the Westminster Infirmary. The profits of the other days are to be applied folely to the mufical fund. This grand harmonic fête was origi nally intended to have been celebrated on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of April; and, the 21ft being the day of the funeral of Handel, the mufic was in fome measure felected fo as to apply to that incident. But the fudden diffolution of parliament neceffarily induced the Directors to defer the feftival to the 26th of May, when the doors of Westminster-abbey, &c. were opened at nine o'clock. In about an hour and a half, the aisle and galleries were filled with company. At a quarter paft twelve, their Majefties made their appearance, accompanied by Prince Edward, the Princess Royal, the Princefs Augufta, and Princefs Elifabeth. Their Majefties, and the royal family, entered the abbey at the eaft door, and accompanied |