MARRIAGE. Nov. 24. AAdvocate, Judge of the high T Edinburgh, Mr James Philp, court of Admiralty, married to Mifs Peggy Monro, only daughter of Dr Alexander Monro fenior, Professor of Anatomy in the univerfity of Edinburgh. BI RTH S. Nov. 12. At London, the Lady of Lord Feverfham, delivered of a daughter. fon. 13. At London, the Countess of Effex, of a fon. 13. At London, the Lady of Lord Hyde, of a 27. The Lady of the Rev. Alexander Home, Efq; brother to the Earl of Home, of a son. At Acton, the wife of Mr Camfield, of three fons, baptized Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all Likely to live. P. S. Dec. 5. At Dunkeld, Lady Charlotte Murray, only child of the Duke of Athol, and wife of the Hon. John Murray of Strowan, Efq; of a fon. DEAT H S. Aug. 31. At Elifabeth-town, New Jersey, Jomathan Belcher, Efq; Governor of that province. The administration of that government devolves upon John Reading, Efq; Sept. 2. At his feat on Potomack river, in Fairfax county, Virginia, Col. William Fairfax, PreLident of the Council of that province. 0. At Albany, Capt. James Mercer, of the 48th regiment of foot. In his paffage from Halifax to New York, Major Dougal Campbell, Chief Engineer in North America. 18. At Paris, in the 77th year of his age, M. de Reaumur, member of the royal academy of fciences, of the royal fociety of London, &c. well known by his treatise on infects. 25. At the abbey of Senones, in France, aged 86, Father Auguftus Calmet, a Benedictine. He published near fixty volumes in his lifetime. 29. At Conftantinople, Sultan Ofman III. Grand Signior. He fucceeded to the throne of Turky, on the death of his brother Mahomet, Dec. 13. 1754. He is fuccceded by Sultan Muftapha, who is faid to be in a languishing condition. 31. At Hammersmith, Mr David Millar, a diffenting minifter. Nov. 2. At London, the Lady of Sir Thomas Brand, gentleman-ufher to his Majesty. At his feat near Drogheda, Lord Gormanftown, an Irish Peer. 9. At London, Edmund Charles Blomberg, Efq; Avenor, Clerk-Martial, and one of the Equerries to his Majesty. 10. At Canongate, Edinburgh, Mrs Eleonora Dunbar, daughter of Sir James Dunbar of Mochrum, deceafed, and widow of David Lidderdale of Tors, Efq; 13. at London, John Waller, Efq; member for Wycomb. At Pennyburn, in the 75th year of his age, Mr David Maitland, a minifter of the Epifcopal church of Scotland, His father and grandfather were minifters of Inverkeithney, Aberdeenshire. bed. Afterwards he was couched of a cataract, blind for fome years; but continued to execute his About the year 1734, he loft his fight, and was at Edinburgh, by the late Mr George Lauder, furgeon, by which he recovered his fight. 16. At Drefden, fuddenly, of an apoplectic fit, Maria Jofepha, Queen of Poland, and Electress of Saxony. Her Majesty was eldest daughter of Jofeph late Emperor of Germany, who died April 20. 1711, and confequently coufin-german to the prefent Emprefs Queen of Hungary. She was born in 1699, and married to Auguftus III. the prefent King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony, in 1719; by whom the has left iffue five fons and five daughters. The Queen of the Two Sicilies, the Electress of Bavaria, and the Dauphinefs of France, are the three eldest of these daughters. [iii. 494.] 17. At Edinburgh, in the 64th year of his age, Mr William Lawfon, teacher of mathematics in that city.This gentleman had an extraordinary memory; one remarkable instance of which he gave, upwards of twenty years ago, while he was preceptor to three fons of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Upon a wager laid by his patron, that the numbers from 1 to 40 inclufive, could, by memory alone, be multiplied continually; i. e. I mulphed by 2; the product thence arifing, 2, by 3; the next product, 6, by 4; the next, 24, by 5; and fo on, 40 being the last multiplier; Mr Lawson was, with reluctance, prevailed upon to attempt the tafk. fle began it next morting at feven o' clock, taught his pupils their Latin leffons in the forenoon as ufual, had finished the operation by fix in the evening, and then told the laft product to the gentlemen who had laid the wager; which they took down in writing, making a line of 48 figures, and found to be just. The fhortnefs of the time rendered the work the more difficult, as each multiplication was in its turn fo far to be forgotten as not to interfere with thofe that fucceeded. When the operation was over, he could perceive his veins to ftart, like a man in a nervous fever; the three following nights he dreamed conftantly of numbers; and he was often heard to fay, that no inducement would ever again engage him in a like attempt. A fair copy of the whole operation, attested by the fubfcriptions of three gentlemen, parties in the wager, was put into a frame, with glass, and hung up in the patron's dining-room. [xvi. 325.] 19. At London, of a dropfy, Henry Swayf land, Efq; a Rear-Admiral on half-pay. 19. At Edinburgh, Mr Archibald Eagle, merchant, feediman to the agriculture-fociety. 19. At Comb-hay, near Bath, aged 107, Anne Gay. She retained her fenfes to the laft. 21. At London, in childbed, the Lady of Lord Feverfham. [xviii. 524.] 24. At Edinburgh, in the 66th year of his age, Dr George Young, phyfician in that city; author of a treatife on opium. ·25. At Edinburgh, Mrs Katharine Hepburn, daughter daughter of Adam Hepburn younger of Humbie, Efq; deceased. 26. At St George's workhouse, London, aged 104, Mary Davis, a penfioner. She had the use of all her faculties till a week before fhe died. 27. At Craigleith, near Edinburgh, William Morifon of Craigleith, Efq; At Chelsea, Lady Harriot Lumley, aunt to the Earl of Scarborough. 30. At London, Edward Digby, Lord Digby, an Irish Peer, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, and member for Wells. P. S. Dec. 7. At Gogar, Mrs Erfkine, wife of Capt. William Erskine of Torry, and daughter of Sir Robert Myrton of Gogar. A duel was fought at Perth, Dec. 2. by Meff: Robertfon and Ever, officers of the artillery. The latter died of his wounds an hour after, and the former was fecured. to conftitute Henry Hill, Efq, Rouge Dragon Purfuivant Windfor Herald at Arms, in the room of Thomas Thornbery, Efq; deceased. P. S. Dec. 3.Richard Lord Vifc. Molefworth, and Sir John Ligonier, to be Field-Marfbals of his Majesty's forces; and Sir John Ligonier to be Colonel of the first regiment of foot-guards, [in the room of his Royal Highness the Duke]. Taken from other papers. 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Austrian accounts of the battle of Breslau 644Pruffian accounts of that battle and other operations 645. and of the battle of Lifla 648. M. Richlieu's letter to Pr. Ferdinand 650. Manifefto of the Elector of Brunswick-Lunenburg 651. Motions of the Hanoverians 653. Hanoverian memorial to the diet of the empire 657. Acts paffed 661. An abstract of that to prohibit the exportation and diftillation of grain 662. Dr Smollet's character of Mr Pitt 663. Princefs Caroline's funeral ib. Her will ib. Proceedings of the Irish Commons 664. Grants ib. Sale of Langton eftate 665. Settlement of Mr Boston at Jedburgh 666. LISTS, TABLES, &c. 668–672. The history of the last session continued. [568] F the important bills paffed laft feffion into laws, the next in order is the famous militia. bill. It was moved for, Dec. 4. by the Hon. George Townshend; and thereupon it was ordered, nem. con. that leave fhould be given to bring in a bill, for the better ordering of the militia forces in the several counties of that part of G. Britain called England; and that the faid Mr Townshend, the Lord Strange, Mr Edward Vernon, Mr Northey, the Marquis of Granby, the Lord George Sackville, the Lord Pulteney, the Earl of Egmont, Sir Armine WoodVOL. XIX. : brace, Mr Gybbon, Sir John Philipps, house, Sir John Turner, Sir Cordel FireMr Martin, Mr Stanley, Mr Bacon, Mr Crowle, Mr Hanger, the Lord George Manners, Sir John Armitage, Sir John Cuft, Mr Nicholson Calvert, Sir Henry Erskine, Mr Vyner, jun. Mr Bagor, Mr Wilmot Vaughan, Mr Hardinge, and Mr Pryfe Campbell, fhould prepare and bring in the bill. And to thefe gentlemen were added, Jan. 10. Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Grenville, Mr Charles Townfhend, Mr Gilbert Elliot, Mr Samuel Martin, Mr Wortley, Mr Rice, Mr Bouverie, Mr Colebrooke, and Mr Banks. The bill was prefented, Jan. 25. by 4 U Mr Mr Townshend: it was read a first time, and ordered to be read a fecond time, and to be printed. It was read a fecond time, Feb. 1. and committed. The houfe were in a committee on this bill, Feb.22. 24. & 28. and March 2. and the amendments were reported March 7. The bill was recommitted with refpect to the number of militia-men to be raised for the tower-hamlets and the rest of the county of Middlesex; and the houfe immediately resolved itself into a committee upon it. The amendments were reported, and agreed to, all on the 7th. The further confideration of the reports was then adjourned, and refumed on the 17th; when the bill was ordered to be ingroffed, and leave was given to offer a claufe on the third reading, with regard to the affembling of the parliament in cafe of actual invafion, or imminent danger thereof, and in cafe of rebellion. It was read a third time on the 25th; a claufe was added by way of rider, feveral amendments were made by the house, and the bill was paffed, and fent to the Lords. but not one more from any who called themselves of the church of England. And indeed it is furprifing there should have been one. It is not to be wondered, that the fanatical pharifaical spirit of fome of the diffenters, especially the most ignorant fort, fhould prevail with them to oppofe exercifing the militia after divine fervice on Sunday; but it is to be hoped, that the members of the church of England are generally of opinion, that the ferving of mankind, or our country, is a ferving of God; and that a man who spent one half of his time on Sunday, in qualifying himself to defend his country in time of danger, would be a better Chriftian, than he who spent the whole of it, in attending prayers, finging pfalms, or hearing even the beft fermons, and thereby neglecting that other duty which he owes to mankind, and his country, as well as to his creator*. However, the house fhewed such regard to these petitions, as not only to refer every one of them to the committee upon the bill, but also to appoint the days for exercifing the militia to be on the first and third Mondays of every month from March to October, both inclufive, and on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, in Whitfun week, yearly; and as they were refolved that no man fhould have a pretence, from On the 17th of February, before the Commons had gone into a committee on this bill, four petitions, from feveral Proteftant diffenting minifters of the three denominations, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, in behalf of themselves and the refthat he called religion, to oppofe or of their brethren ;- from the Proteftant object to the bill, proper claufes were indiffenters in Shrewsbury; from the ferted for the relief of the Quakers. Proteftant diffenting minifters in the county of Devon ; and from the gentlemen, clergy, and other inhabitants, as well of the church of England, as of the several denominations of Proteftant diffenters, being freeholders or burgeffes of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, were feverally prefented; expreffing the apprehenfions of the petitioners, that in the militia-bill then depending, it might be propofed to enact, that the militia forces fhould be exercised upon the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday; and praying that no claufe for fuch purpofe might pafs into a law.- There were feveral more petitions prefented from the Proteftant diffenters, and all to the fame purpofe; In the house of Lords the bill itself met with no oppofition: but it underwent a very material alteration; for the number of militia-men to be provided was reduced one half by their Lordships. As this defign would, of courfe, require many amendments in that claufe, as well as fome of the fubfequent clauses; as foon as the bill was read a first time, their Lordships ordered it to be printed; and after a fecond reading, they spent several days in the committee, and upon the report, in making the neceffary amendments. With these amendments the bill was at laft, upon the third reading, a [This argument we think carried a great deal too far: for it would feem to juftify the doing almost every kind of work on the Lord's day.) greed |