and commanding all our loving fubjects to take notice hereof, and conform them. felves thereunto accordingly. Given at our Court at St James's, the 2d of July 1784, in the 24th year of our reign. GOD fave the KING.

The above was followed by another proclamation, appointing and commanding, that a General Thankfgiving to Almighty God for these his mercies be obferved throughout England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, on Thursday the 29th inftant July. Alfo a fimilar proclamation for a public Thankf giving to be observed in Scotland the fame day.

On Tuesday June 29. Capt. Stephens of the Monkey cutter, on the Leoftoff ftation, having received information of a large cargo of contraband goods being intended to be landed that night, immediately put off to fea, and having cleared the land, foon fell in with two fmuggling cutters, one of fourteen, the other of eight guns. A fevere action enfued,

which lafted upwards of four hours. The Monkey, in this unequal conflict, being much difabled, her Captain, in the course of the first twenty minutes of the engagement, lofing his left arm, and having feveral of his men wounded, was unable to prevent the fmugglers from landing their cargo, which they did in open day, and in triumph. The fmuggling cutters were well manned. The Monkey carries 12 guns and 60 men.

On July 15 the Oreftes floop of war feized two fmuggling luggers, in ChriftChurch harbour, of great value; but unfortunately loft the mafter (Mr Allen) in the attack, who was shot dead by the fmugglers from the fhore. They had landed and carried off a large cargo of tea and fpirits, with which they had loaded forty waggons, and more than 100 horses.

London, June 30. As the Prince of Wales was going on a vifit on horfeback, a few miles from town, two carriages paffing the road together, his horfe got between them, by which his Highnefs was much bruifed, and narrowly escaped with life.

Copy of a Note from Lord G. Gordon to Mr Pitt, Firft Lord of the Treasury, &c. "Lord George Gordon prefents his compliments to Mr Pitt. He has juft received freth instructions from Glasgow, against the tax on linens and cottons. VOL. XLVI.

Alarming fymptoms are breaking out. The following extracts of intelligence will advertise Mr Pitt of the fituation of government: "Sorry to inform your Lordship, that if the new tax paffes into a law, it will not be in the power of the civil magiftracy, in different places of Scotland, to keep the peace; as they are already affembled in different places, and purpofing to do as Ireland has done: your Lordship will take the trouble to wait on your brother, the Duke of Gordon, to go to Mr Pitt, and inform him of the dreadful profpect we have of mobs and tumults from the workingpeople in this country."-Thefe letters are dated July 22.

"Lord George Gordon is extremely forry to have occafion to addrefs the Prime Minifter in fo fhort and abrupt a manner. The nature of the fubject, and the ticklish ftate of the peace of thefe kingdoms, muft apologise for it. The Duke of Gordon being gone to Gordoncafle, the task has neceffarily devolved on Lord George.-Lord George has the honour to return Mr Pitt many thanks for his polite and immediate reply to his laft note on this fubject; though the anfwer, indeed, was not decifive. Lord George hopes to hear again from Mr Pitt, before the poft goes out this night." Welbeck-Street, Tuesday, July 27.

Mr Pitt's Answer.

"Mr Pitt prefents his compliments to Lord George Gordon, and is much obliged to his Lordship for the honour of his note.

Mr Pitt has reafon to be

lieve that the Lord Advocate has fent to Glafgow all the information that can be neceflary, and has therefore nothing to trouble his Lordship with on the subject."

Downing-freet, Turfday night, July 27.

An advertisement to the following purport, dated, General Poft office, London, July 22. and figned by the Secretary, was published in the London papers.

By an act of the laft and also one of the prefent feffion of parliament, regulating the poftage of letters and packets between Britain and Ireland, to take place on the 1st of Auguft next, all letters and packets are to be charged according to the prefent rates of poltage in Britain and Ireland, except to and from perfons who, by virtue of their offices, now fend and receive letters free from ac

poftage,

poftage, provided that all fuch letters and packets fhall relate to the bufinefs of their respective offices, and that there fhall be certified on the outfide, under the hand-writing of fuch officers refpectively, to be On His Majesty's Service, and fuch letters fhall be fealed with the feal of the office or officer fending the fame. And in cafe any fuch officers fhall receive under cover to them any letters intended for other perfons, they are required to fend them to the general poft-office in London or Dublin, that fuch letters may be charged with po. ftage.

All perfons may fend printed votes, proceedings in parliament, and printed newspapers, to and from Britain and Ireland, at the rate of 1 d. only for each printed vote, &c. in covers open at both ends, to be paid when put into any poft office in Britain; but the 1 d. need not be paid before hand in Ireland, as it can be received on the delivery in Britain.

The Poftmasters-General may authorife certain perfons to fend and receive printed votes, &c. to and from Britain and Ireland, at the rate of 1 d. only for each printed vote, &c. above the printed price thereof.

All perfons therefore who wish to be fupplied with newspapers for Ireland, or from Ireland for Britain, may have them regularly fent, by applying to the clerk of the Chefter road, at the general poftoffice, London, or to the postmaster of any town in Britain where a newspaper is printed; or to the Secretary of the general poft office, Dublin.

The price of a paper fix times a week, at 3 d. each, with 1 d. for the pottage, will be 51. 4 s. per ann.; three times aweek, 21. 12 s. per ann.; and fo in proportion for the London gazettes, other papers, &c. And by an act of the laft fellion of the parliament of Ireland, each British newspaper, &c. will in all parts of Ireland be delivered at the rate of 1 d. poftage for each; all which, upon an average, will be lefs than the prices here. tofore paid for newfpapers furnished by the public offices in Britain and Ireland.

Another advertisement, dated July 24. alfo appeared in the London papers, viz.

General PR-office, July 24. His Majefty's Pottmafters-General, being inclinec to make an experiment for the more expeditious conveyance of the mails of

letters by ftage coaches, machines, &c, have been pleased to order that a trial fhall be made upon the road between London and Bristol, to commence at each place on Monday the 2d of August next, and that the mails fhould be made up at this office every evening (Sundays excepted) at seven o'clock, and at Bristol, in return, at three in the afternoon (Saturdays excepted), to contain the bags for the following poft towns, and their diftricts, viz.

Hounslow. Between 9 & 10 at night from London; between 6 & 7 in the morning from Bristol.

Maidenhead. Between 11 & 12 at night from London; between 4 & 5 in the morning from Bristol.

Reading. About 1 in the morning from London; between 2 & 3 in the morning from Bristol.

Newbury. About 3 in the morning from London; between 12 & 1 at night from Bristol.

Hungerford. Between 4 & 5 in the morning from London; about II at night from Bristol.

Marlborough. About 6 in the morning from London; between 9 & 10 at night from Bristol.

Chippenham. Between 8 & 9 in the morning from London; about 7 in the evening from Bristol.

Bath. Between 10 & 11 in the morning from London; between 5 & 6 in the afternoon from Bristol

Briflol. About 12 at noon from London.

All perfons are therefore to take notice, that the letters put into any receiving houfe in London before 6 in the evening, or before 7 at the general postoffice, will be forwarded by this new conveyance; all others, for the faid poft towns and their diftricts, put in afterwards, or given to the bell-men, must remain until the following poft, at the fame hour of 7 o'clock.

Letters alfo for Colnbrooke, Windfor Calne, and Rambury, will be forwarded by this conveyance every day; and for Devizes, Melksham, Trowbridge, and Bradford, on Mondays, Tuefdays, Wednefdays, Thurfdays, and Saturdays; for Great Bedwin and Pewley, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; and for Henley, Netilebed, Wallingford, Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton, Froom, and Warminster, on Mondays, Wednefdays, and Fridays. Letters from all the

b: fore

before-mentioned poft towns, and their diftricts, will be forted and delivered as foon as poffible after their arrival in London, and are not to wait for the general delivery.

All carriers, coachmen, higlers, newscarriers, and all other perfons, are liable to a penalty of 51. for every letter which they fhall receive, take up, order, dif. patch, carry, or deliver illegally; and to 100L. for every week that any offender fhall continue the practice, one half to the informer: And that this revenue may not be injured by unlawful collections and conveyances, all perfons act. ing contrary to the law therein will be proceeded againft, and punished with the utmoft feverity.

By command of the Poftmafters-General, ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

IRELAND.

The parliament met on the 11th of May, pursuant to adjournment [p. 261.] -In the House of Peers, Lord Longford moved an addrefs to the Lord Lieutenant, for his wife, juft, and prudent adminiftration. This was oppofed by Lord Mountgarret, as, he said, many things injurious to the trade and policy of the country had paffed in the prefent adminiftration, and the fituation of the manufacturers was truly wretched. Ld Mornington declared, that he was well affured every proper regulation relating to commerce would take place, divested of English and Irish prejudices.-The addrefs was agreed to.

In the House of Commons, Ld Kil, warlin moved a fimilar addrefs.

Mr Jones declared, that it was with the utmost concern he found himself obliged to make any oppofition to the cu ftomary complimentary addrefs; "But (faid he) I cannot concur in an addrefs of thanks, where my heart vents only reproach and cenfure. For what, I pray you, are we to thank the Duke of Rut. land? Is it for oppofing the wishes of the nation for a parliamentary reform? Is it for a dereliction of an equalization commerce? Is it for the post-office bill, that takes away our privileges, and taxes the people in an exorbitant manner? Is it for oppofing an abfentee tax? Is it for filling the ftreets of our capital with a ftarving populace? Is it for repeated injuries? Is it for making the House of Commons of Ireland a court of ftar. chamber? Or, is it for making the Caftle

of Dublin a French Baftile? As a reprefentative of the people, as a man, I must disapprove of any addrefs that does not contain a cenfure on the administration of the Duke of Rutland; and for thefe reafons the present motion shall have my hearty negative."

Mr Molineaux, after following Mr Jones in reprobating the addrefs, faid, That if any adminiftration was calcu lated to fow diffention between this kingdom and England, it was affuredly the prefent. As to the Chief Governor, I think him a good and amiable character; but he has confided the affairs of this kingdom to a man who has a bad head and a worse heart; and therefore I think the Right Hon. Secretary is only an fwerable for what has happened, parti. cularly for at this time conferring bonours on a man marked with public reproach. I call upon him to inform the Houfe, at what expence the Chancellorfhip has been purchased for a man who fcarcely has put his foot in the kingdom fince his appointment? Is the office of Mafter of the Rolls likewife to be pur chafed? Is a Prefident of the Council to be appointed with a large falary? No anfwer being made, he concluded with faying, relief I fee must be found in ourselves; I therefore honour the people for the remedy they are taking; I admire their fpirit. [Here there was a cry of or der from the Treafury Bench.] Mr Molineux continued, “I admire the spirit of the people, for determining to wear only their own manufactures, a refolution that muft have the defired effect."

Mr Griffith rofe not to oppose paying the customary compliment, but withed this addrefs accompanied with fomewhat expreffing the fituation of this kingdom. He therefore moved as an amendment, "To intreat his Excellency to take into his confideration the distress of the poor manufacturers, and reprefent the fame to his Majesty, to the end that a more liberal fyftem of commercial regulation, on the footing of reciprocity, may take place between the kingdoms.'

The Attorney General, Mr Daly, and Mr Brownlow, faid that the motion was informal; but Mr Griffith persisted on putting it; when it was negatived, Ayes 32, Noes 94. The motion for the addrefs was carried without a divifion, and a committee appointed to draw it up. Next day it was read to the Houfe; when Mr Forbes oppofed it, and reprobated 3 C 2

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the measures of the prefent adminiftration, particularly the prefs-bill, and their oppofition to promoting any manufacture except that of peerages: he recommended the Lord Lieutenant to adopt other measures than those he had pursued. I will not, faid he, make a bugbear picture of our starving manufacturers, but only obferve, while they offer one hand to England for a community of interefts, they point to America as an asylum.

Sir Ed. Newnham. I fhould ill deferve the confidence of the county of Dublin, if I thanked a Viceroy, under whofe administration a reform of reprefentation and protecting duties were denied in the most ungracious and infulting manner; by denying protecting duties, you are famithing or forcing thoufands to emigrate; by refufing the plan of reform, you will render this country a nation of slaves, impoverished by the taxes which will be raised to support corruption.

On the question being put on the addrefs paragraph by paragraph, there were negatives thereto, even to the very title; but it was carried.

On May 13. Mr Griffith moved an addrefs to his Majesty to the following purport.

After affuring his Majefty of their gratitude for the many bleffings they enjoy under his wife and benignant govern ment, they beg leave to exprefs the deep concern they feel for the diftreffes which affect many of the lower ranks of manufacturers in this kingdom:-That they are deeply impreffed with his Majefty's paternal care and affection; and they entertain the warmeft hopes that the interval between the clofe of the prefent feffion and the beginning of the next, will afford fufficient opportunity for forming a wife and well-digefted plan for a liberal arrangement of commercial intercourfe between Great Britain and Ireland, which would be the most effectual means of ftrengthening the empire at large, and cherishing the common intereft and brotherly affection of both kingdoms.

Mr Hartley feconded the motion, and faid, that the emigrations from this country were arrived to a moft alarming height; that the tranfporting of emigrants was become a very profitable mercantile branch; all which could only be prevented by giving employment to our people at home; and hoped that England would not continue to treat us as a foreign country, as was now the cafe, in

regard to its interpretation of the act of navigation, by which all the produce of America, and the Weft Indies, was precluded in England, if thipped in this kingdom. -The addrefs paffed nem. con.

On May 14. the Ld Lieutenant went in state to the Houfe of Peers, and after giving his affent to feveral bills, made a fpeech from the throne, which concludes as follows.

"I have a fure confidence, that, during your refidence in your refpective counties, you will feek to direct and encourage the induftry of your neighbourhood in the pursuits beft adapted to their fituations, and by which the community at large may be, most effectually benefited. You will point out to them the real refources of a free and fertile country, under the bleffings of peace and the mild protection of the laws; and you will not fuffer mifapprehenfions to perplex, or falfe informations to mifguide them.

It is my happiness and pride to reflect, that our united attention has been and is directed to the fame objects, of maintaining and advancing the rights, the dignity, and the profperity of Ireland, and the general interefts of the empire."The parliament was then prorogued.

Dublin, June 7. A general meeting of the principal inhabitants of this city was this day convened at the Tholfel, to take into confideration the moft effectual means of obtaining a more equal representation of the people in parliament; when an address to the inhabitants of Ireland, for their co-operation in the measure, together with a petition to the throne for a diffolution of parliament, were unanimously agreed to. It was at the fame time propofed that the Roman-Catholic fubjects fhould have equal privileges with the others in elections, which met with univerfal approbation.

SCOTLAND.

On Wednesday July 7. James Jack aged twenty-four years, condemned at laft circuit court held at Glasgow, for robbing on the highway, was hanged in the Caftle yard, the place of execution in former times being now the termination of the Monkland canal. The morn ing of the day of his execution he attempted to deftroy himself with a knife, but was prevented, though not till he had wounded himfelf in different places. He was put in a cart with his fetters on, and in that condition was carried to the place

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