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purfuant to the defire of the house. On the 11th, Mr Secretary Rigby acquainted the house, that his Grace would be attended the day following, at two o'clock.

The 12th, the house, with Mr Speaker, attended the Lord Lieutenant; who was pleased to give the following anfwer,

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"The matter contained in thofe refolutions is of fo high a nature, that I cannot fuddenly determine whether it be proper for me to transmit them to his Majefty."

On the Speaker's return, the answer being reported, Mr Secretary moved, that the fame fhould be entered in the ` journal of the house: which was immediately oppofed, as not being explicit or fatisfactory; and being debated, and the queftion put, Mr Secretary apprehending the majority to be against the motion, defired leave to withdraw it, which prevented a divifion at that time. On the 14th, the house being met, a motion was made, that all orders not proceeded on, fhould be adjourned to the next day, the house not having received an answer from the Lord Lieu tenant, relative to tranfmitting the refolutions of the Commons the ift of November, in respect to penfioners.

liament, by depriving the fubjects of the parliamentary means of laying their grievances before the crown: And the queftion being put, upon a divifion, those for the adjournment carried it by a majority of twenty-one voices, 85 to 64.

In confequence of the foregoing queftion, on the 15th, Mr Secretary informed the house, that he was commanded by his Grace the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint the house, that their refolutions of the 1ft inftant November, fhould be forthwith transmitted to his Majefty.

Had not this meffage been delivered to the house, it is hard to guefs at the confequences that might have enfued; but the inftant it was received, the houfe proceeded on business, and the moneybill, granting the fupplies to his Majefty, paffed the fame day, nemine contradicente.

The steadiness and refolution of the majority who attended the bufinefs of their country on this occafion, cannot (fay their friends) be over-rated, and in particular that Hon. Gentleman who now prefides in the chair, immoveably fixed, not only to fupport his Majesty's juft prerogative, the dignity and privileges of parliament, but alfo the liberties and known rights of the people."

The following refolutions were reported to the Commons of Ireland, Nov. II. vix.

That a fupply be granted to his Majesty towards fupporting the feveral branches of the establishment, and for defraying the other neceffary expences of government for two years, from Dec. 25. 1757 to Dec. 25. 1759 inclufive.

Here the grand debate arose; as those who declared for the adjournment, were for fupporting the refolutions, to have them laid before his Majefty; and those who were for fuppreffing the refolutions, were against the adjournment; the fate of which was, in fact, a determination of the main queftion; which (one party faid) was of no lefs importance in its confequences, than whether the people And the feveral fums following, for of Ireland were to be free-men or flaves, the particular purposes to which they are as it infringed on the privileges of par- refpectively annexed, viz. To the trustees of the linen-manufacture, to encourage the railing fufficient quantities of hemp and flax in this kingdom, per annum, for two years

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To ditto, to encourage the hempen and flaxen manufactures in the provinces of Leinster,
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The feveral fums granted to these trustees, to be exempted from the payment of all fees. To the corporation for carrying on an inland navigation in Ireland, to be expended towards carrying on an inland navigation from Dublin to the river Shannon To ditto, to be applied in erecting a pier in the bay of Bangor, in the county of Downe To the fociety for promoting English Proteftant fchools in Ireland, to build a nursery in each province in the kingdom, for the reception of 100 children under fix years of age, in each nursery

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To ditto, to enable them to perform their contracts, and for the ufe of the charter-fchools To the governors of St Patrick's hofpital, to enable them to provide furniture, and admit a greater number of patients

To the governors and guardians of the hospital for the relief of poor lying-in women in
Dublin, to finish the faid building

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To Bartholomew Moffe, mafter of the faid hofpital, as a reward for his great care in at-
tending the lying-in hofpital in George's lane thirteen years, and fuperintending the new
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To William Deane, and Hugh White, and company, manufacturers of glass bottles, and other glafs wares, in Dublin, to enable them more effectually to carry on the faid manufactures

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To Jonathan Siffon, of Lucan, in the county of Dublin, linen-printer, to reimburse him
his expences in repeated trials to bring the manufacture of printed linen to a further
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To Francis Ozier, of Dame street, Dublin, filk-weaver, to enable him to carry on the
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To Robert Randal, of Dublin, paper-maker, to enable him to carry on the said manufacture

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To Robert Calderwood, goldsmith, and Joseph Weld, gold and filver lace maker, to enable them to carry on the manufacture of gold and filver lace

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To William Byrne, damafk-manufacturer, for his encouragement in that manufacture
To Michael Macdaniel, paper-maker, to enable him to carry on the faid manufacture
To Thomas Wyfe, Efq; upon his giving fecurity that the fame fhall be expended in
carrying on the copper, lead, brafs, iron, and hard-ware manufactures in this kingdom

Alfo, That the fupply granted to his
Majesty be a fum not exceeding 116,850l.
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That the further supply granted to his Majefty, for the encouragement of Englifh Proteftant schools in this kingdom, be a fum not exceeding 1000 1. per annum, for two years, from June 24. 1758 to June 25. 1760.

That the further supply granted to his Majefty, for the ufe of the governor and company for carrying on the cambrickmanufacture in Dundalk, or elsewhere in this kingdom, be a fum not exceed ing 13751.

A motion was made, and the queftion put, to amend the first resolution, by expunging the words two years, and inferting in their room the words three months; but it paffed in the negative: and that and all the reft of the refolutions were agreed to by the house.

On the 5th of December, the Commons ordered, that a committee fhould be appointed to inquire into the state and management of the revenue for twenty years laft paft; the committee to be thirty-one in number, and to be chofen by balloting.

And on the 15th they resolved, nem. con. That the exorbitant price of corn is occafioned, not by fcarcity, but by the ingroffing, foreftalling, and regraVOL. XIX.

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rent, in which the manfion-house, wood, &c. were not included. The fale was in four lots, viz. 1. The barony of Langton. 2. The eftate of Simprim. 3. The half of the lands of Kidcleugh, part of the barony of Langton. 4. The heritable office of Usher to his Majefty, with 250 1. falary, and perquifites va lued at 8 1. 6 s. 8 d. yearly. The firft lot was bought by David Gavine, Efq; the fecond, by Lord Elibank; the third, by Mr Thomas Cockburn writer in Edinburgh; and the fourth, by Mr Alexander Coutts, of London, merchant. The prices, in Sterling money, at which the feveral fubjects were fet up, and fold, follow.

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6500 On the 15th of December was heard, in the house of Peers, an appeal brought by John Cuming, Efq; Provoft, and others, magiftrates of Irvine, against James Boyle, Efq; late Provost, and others, appealing against two interlocutors of the court of feffion, which annulled the election of the prefent magiftrates, and decerned them in expences. The Lords unanimouíly reverfed the interlocutors, and gave cofts to the appellants. On receiving the news at Irvine there were great rejoicings.

EDINBURGH JOURNAL, Dec. 22. SIR, Jedburgh, Dec. 15. 1757. To what you inferted from this place of the 7th inftant [610.], you will be pleased to add, That after Mr Bolton gave in a demiffion of his charge as minister of Oxnam, to the prefbytery of Jedburgh, (on which occafion there was fo great a concourfe of people as broke down the most of the pews in the old church), he read a paper, as his fpeech, containing his reafons for doing fo: in which he declares his diffent from the prefent church-judicatures, and at the fame time his willingness to hold minifterial and chriftian communion with all who faithfully avouch the gospel-fyftem, and aim at a fincere difcharge of its du

ties:- he profeffes his utmost averfion at dividing the congregations of his brethren bearing that worthy character; and juftifies this his partial feceffion, by the almost universal conduct of the prefent judicatures, in intruding pastors upon reclaiming congregations, contrary to fcripture, to our ecclefiaftic laws, and to found reafon; at the hazard of alienating the people from our happy conftitution in church and ftate, and fetting up their own corrupt practices, as of equal or greater authority than the old ftanding unrepealed laudable laws:- he further urges the indifpenfable neceffity laid upon minifters, of endeavouring to keep up and perpetuate a faithful gofpel-ministry, and of relieving the Lord's oppreffed heritage; who, without following such a courfe, would be left in a great measure deftitute of the food of their fouls; and anticipates an answer to feveral objections made without doors to the part he is now acting.-The repetition of these, or indeed of any thing precifely as it occurred, will not be pretended, having only had a fingle hearing of that long pa. per; nor is this neceffary, as it is expect ed Mr Boston will fhortly publish the fame. One objection, however, I will take the freedom to touch flightly, becaufe it puzzled my felf most of any thing I had heard fuggefted; and it is this. As Mr Bofton is allowed to teftify his diflike of the conduct of our judicatures as freely as he pleafes, is connected with a pref bytery whofe oppofition to the courfes complained of is notour, and is not forced out of the church by depofition, as fome others have been; how comes he to demit his charge in the establishment for one out of it? To this his answer is, in effect, That the town of Jedburgh (who alledge that the right of presentation, when Mr Douglas got it from the crown, was jure devoluto in the prefbytery) having offered to bear the prefbytery's expence in obtaining a declarator of the court of feffion, and, if fruftrated, to give fecurity, to their contentment, for a ftipend to a minifter whom they chufed; the prefbytery would do nothing in thefe matters:-that were he, Mr Bofton, to teftify in jndicatures to his life's end, this

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could not, as the times go, afford any relief to the oppreffed congregation of Jedburgh: and he fabmits, whether he who voluntarily gives up with a certain living in the establishment, for a precarious fubfiftence out of it, and undertakes the relief of the oppreffed, purely for the fake of relieving them; or he who ftirs not to their relief till he is forced to it, and is reduced to the fame fituation with themfelves, acts the moft worthy part? The one he compares to a man, who being informed that his neighbour is drowning, runs out of his warm house, in the midft of a ftorm, and, by throwing him a rope, becomes his deliverer; and the other, only to a plank of wood floating on the waters, at which the drowning paffenger grafps for prefervation. The comparifon is too plain to require illuftration. It remains to be observed, that Mr Boston, who was the choice of the people of Jedburgh before ever a prefentee came on the field, (which ought reasonably to remove the odium of their after oppofition to the worthy minister first prefented), takes now the charge of them, on a call from the town-council, the feflion, and heads of families, (none oppofing him except the five callers of Mr Douglas); and his admiffion was performed, the 9th inftant, with as much order as the circumftances of the cafe would permit, by Mr Roderick Mackenzie, a diffenting minifter lately from England, but who is fhortly to accept a charge in the fame way at Nigg in Rofsfhire: a prefbytery was conftituted ad hunc effectum; and the queftions ufually put to minifters at their admiffion were put to Mr Bofton on this occafion, with a small variation in one or two of them, arifing from the peculiarity of this cafe, which was fo fupplied as to bind him to hold communion with, and be subject to his brethren in the Lord, if an opportunity fhall be afforded him; and he was moreover taken bound against Epifcopacy and the fupremacy on the one hand, and Sectarianifm on the other; and to maintain the fucceffion to the crown of these realms in the illuftrious houfe of Hanover. Mr Bofton having anfwered all thefe queftions agreeable to the ecclefiaftic conftitutions of the church

of Scotland; the town-council, the feffion, and whole body of the people,were defired to declare their adherence to the fame principles, and to Mr Boston as their minifter; which all of them did, by the ftretching out of their right hands; and then they joined in humble and fervent prayer for God's bleffing on him who was thus fet over them as their minifter. In fine, the day was religiously obferved, in fafting, prayer, and fermons adapted to the occafion, and the whole performed with as much folemnity and decency as hath been known in these parts on like occafions.

To the author of the SCOTS MAGAZINE.

[Our correfpondent will excufe our leaving out fuch parts of his letter as are contained in that inferted immediately before it.]

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Jedburgh, Dec. 16. N Wednesday, Dec. 7. Mr Boston gave in to the prefbytery, under form of inftrument, a demiffion of his benefice and office as minifter of Oxnam. The demiffion contained no reasons of his leaving his charge; but he read to the prefbytery a long paper, as an apology for his conduct. The prefbytery refused to accept his demiffion, and required him to attend the duties of his office as formerly at Oxnam. But, notwithstanding, he was admitted on Friday, Dec. 9. minifter to the magiftrates, elders, and people of Jedburgh, who had given him a call, and had built for him a fpacious meeting-houfe in the town of Jedburgh, which they called the New Church.

On the day of admiffion, the bells were rung; and the magiftrates and council, in all their formalities, and the people, amounting to at leaft 2000, repaired to the new church; where Mr Mackenzie performed the ufual parts of divine fervice, preaching on thefe words, Rom.x.i. Brethren, my heart's defire and prayer to God for Ifrael is, that they might be faved; and then admitted Mr Boston.

On the fabbath following, Dec. 11. Mr Mackenzie preached in the new church before noon, to the magiftrates, elders, and people, on these words, Ifaiah xxvi. 4. Truf ye in the Lord for ever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting firengib 5 D 2

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Mr Bofton preached after noon, on these words, Ephef. vi. 18. 19. Praying always -that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel; and, in the application, faid, among other things, that as he had never entertained his hear ers with reflections on any fet of men, thofe who expected fuch things would be difappointed.

The audience was fo numerous, that many of them fat without, oppofite to the windows, which were opened; and about fifty, who could not hear, went to the old church, where Mr Rogers minifter of Hunam was preaching by appointment of the prefbytery; whofe whole auditory, it is faid, did not exceed eighty.

I am credibly informed, that fixty perfons have entered into a bond, bearing to be for love and favour, binding themfelves, and their heirs, to pay Mr Bolton, annually, as long as he lives, 2 1. each, inaking in all 120 1. Sterling. The ftipend of Oxnam, converting the victual at the ufual rate in the fale of lands, including the value of the glebe, and the fum allowed for communion-elements, is between 80 and 90 1-Mr Roderick Mackenzie, the minifter who assisted on this occafion, was ordained minifter of Lochbroom, by the prefbytery of Gairloch, on the 9th of February 1743; but on a complaint by the Earl of Cromarty, the patron, his fettlement was reverfed by the affembly 1743; and he has been for fome years paft in England.-I am, &c.

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privateer of Boulogne, of 6 carriage-guns, 4 swi¬ vels, and 50 men, carried into Portimouth.

By the Winchelfea: A French ship of 200 tuns, from St Domingo, carried into Charlestown, South Carolina.

By the Juno: The Heureux, a privateer of Dieppe, of 4 guns and 50 men, carried into Plymouth.

fhip, with wine, falt, &c. carried into Poole. By the Speedwell: The Surprife, a French

By the Augufta: A French fhip with fish and wine, from Cape Breton for St Domingo, carried into Kingston, Jamaica.

By the America: The John galley, Jervis, from Boston for London, retaken, fent into Plymouth.

By the Cormorant: The Sifters, Leadbetter, from St Kitts for London, retaken, carried into Portsmouth.

By the Winchester: The Orange, from Vir

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By two privateers of Rhode Island: A French letter of marque fhip, from Martinico for Bourdeaux, carried into Rhode Island.

Captures, &c. by the French. THE Nazareth, Lamb, from Poole; the Eli

fabeth, Parker, from Liverpool; the Plymouth packet, Payle, and the Charming Kitty, Wilfon, from Dublin; and the Bellica, Pyke, from Newfoundland for Lisbon; all carried into Cadiz.

A fhip of Placentia, and the William of Dartmouth, both from Newfoundland for Oporto;

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