Family, with which you express your faction on the birth of my third fon, your concern for the lofs I have fufed by the death of the Duke of Cum and. The COMMONS Address, Dec. 19. loft Gracious Sovereign, E your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Great ain in parliament affembled, beg leave eturn your Majefty the thanks of this afe, for your most gracious fpeech from throne; and to affure your Majesty, we will not fail, when this houfe l be fupplied with its members, to ap ourfelves with the utmost diligence attention to those important occurces in America which your Majesty remends to our confideration; and to rt our most zealous endeavours for the our of your Majefty's government, the true intereft of your people, in all ts of your extended empire. Permit us, at the fame time, to contulate your Majefty on the late inafe of your royal family by the birth of rince. Your Majesty's happiness and ■t of your people are one; and every reafe of your Majesty's illuftrious fay is confidered by your faithful Comns, as a further fecurity to that relion, and thofe liberties, we enjoy under r Majefty's moft aufpicious govern nt. We also beg leave to offer to your Maty our fincere condolence on the great Is which your Majesty and this kingdom ve fuftained by the death of his late yal Highness the Duke of Cumberland; hofe private and public virtues, whofe ty and affection to your Majesty, and hofe diftinguished merits and fervices to is country, as they made his perfon dear this nation while he lived, fo they canot fail to render his memory facred to the test posterity. The KING's Answer. Gentlemen, Return you dutiful addrefs. The fatisfaction you exprefs in the ineafe of my family, and the affectionate are you take in the great loss I have fufined by the death of the Duke of CumErland, are fresh proofs of your zeal and yalty. thanks for this loyal and Your refolution at the fame time to "pport the honour of my government, and to provide for the true intereft of all my people, cannot but be most acceptable to me. My conduct thail always fhew that I confider their interest as infeparable from my own. Extracts of private letters from London. Dec. 19. A motion being made in the houfe of Commons, and the question put, That the American papers be laid before the house? after debate, it paffed in the negative, 70 against 35. Dec. 21. On Friday, the question was Put, That the houfe, at rifing, fhould adjourn to the 14th of January? which question carried in the affirmative, 77 against 35. "London, Nov. 22. Yesterday a per fon was fummoned before the fitting alderman, for attending mass, contrary to law; and was obliged to enter into a recognifance of 400l. for his appearance at the enfuing fellions of the peace. The increase of Popery in this metropolis is very alarming." The drawing of the ftate-lottery of 1765 began at Guildhall, London, Nov. 13. and ended Dec. 24. The SCHEME of the LOTTERY. Which they had taken so much trouble for the general good of this nation: That for this effect the Faculty fhould recommend it to their Dean, to tranfmit a copy of the heads for a bill prepared by them [201] together with a letter to be wrote by him, to such of the Peers of Scotland as have a feat in the Most Honourable the Houfe of Peers, to fuch of the members of the Faculty as are of the house of Com mons, and likewife to the Lord High Chancellor of England, Lord Mansfield, Lord Cambden, and the Hon. Charles Yorke, Efq; Attorney-General, request ing their affistance in obtaining fuch alteration in the law respecting tailzies as fhall appear to the wisdom of parliament to be most conducive to the general in tereft of this part of the united king dom." At the fame time a motion was like wife made by Mr John Dalrymple in the following words: "Moved, It was his opinion, that this matter was not yet ready for going to parliament; and that the tranfmiflion thither of the draught of the bill fhould be delayed, till the returns from all the different counties be laid upon the table, to be perused by the Faculty." Both motions being feconded, the question was put, "Proceed, or Delay?" and the house being divided, there appeared only fix members in fupport of Mr Dalrymple's motion: all the rest of the meeting, which was pretty numerous, were for, Proceed." Accordingly the Faculty recommended it to the Dean, to write letters, and to tranfmit copies of the heads for a bill, as in my Lord Advocate's motion, quamprimum, that this affair might be brought into parliament this winter-feffion. Mr Dalrymple, in his own name, and of those who hall adhere to his fentiments, has given in to the Faculty of Advocates, and to their clerk, the following reafons of diffent: 1. Because the tranfmitting to such a number of Peers, and members of the house of Commons, a draught of a bill, unbinging one fifth of the private fettle ments of land-eftates in Scotland, which has not been countenanced by the judges of the court of fefsion*, and not approved by the fociety of writers to the fignett, The Propofals for amending the law concerns ing failzies in Scotland, inferted [404-407.] above, entire, have been ascribed [414.] to them. + Their refolution [445.] was in thefe words: "The Society are unanimously of the other two hadies of the college of ju ftice, though the concurrence of both ha been asked to it, is unprecedented, and will be looked upon, by the landed intereft, as officious, and of dangerous ex ample. 2. Because we understood, that this draught of a bill was not to be fent to those who have weight to promote it in parliament, unless it was known to be a greeable, in general, to the counties of Scotland. It was in order to gather the voices of those counties, that copies of the draught of the bill were fent, by the Faculty, to all of them, and that returne have been received by the Dean of Fculty, as we are informed, from many of them; but as these returns have not been laid before the Faculty by the Dean, and as it has been refolved to tranfmit the bill to the Peers and others mentioned in the motion above agreed to, without lay ing the returns on the table, for the per ufal of the Faculty, though moved ad infifted for, it is impoffible for the Fculty to know, from those returns, what the voice of this country is, with regard to their draught of a bill. We under ftand it to be the common course of bat nefs, in all societies, that when a fociety gives directions to their preses to write fr intelligence of any kind, the intelligenz which he receives ought to be commusi. cated to the fociety. 3. We are afraid, that letters WTOCH to so many men in high rank, in the name and by authority of the Facaly declaring, that the law of entails is de greeable to this country, and tranfmitting a draught of a bill framed by fo refped ble a body as the Faculty of Advocate for altering that law, may give a credi and authority to the draught of the b to which it is not intitled, in the opini of the landed intereft of this country, far as we are enabled to judge of t We can form no judgment of the voic of county-meetings from returns to the Dean of Faculty which have not been laid before the Faculty; but we are informed, that of the very few county-meeting which approved of the draught of the F culty's bill, the meeting of one county was attended only by three or four, m opinion, that the act 1683, concerning u zies, as it now stands, is attended with many inconveniencies, and that an alteration ther of feems to be both neceffary and expedien and the Society humbly fubmit fuch abo tion to the wildom of parliament.” inother, only by fix or feven members he county; that the county meetings eneral were attended by a very few e members of the counties; and that, Come inftances, the approbation of the ulty's draught was carried by a very row majority; and, if we can truft news-papers, in which the declaraIs of many, though not all of the coun, have been inferted, we must think not to be true, that the Faculty's ught is agreeable in general to the ded intereft of this country; for tho' ew county-meetings have approved, y near as many have difapproved of the ntial parts of the plan of it, and moft them have left a bill affecting them es, their pofterity, and their country, e adjusted by the wisdom of parlia it, and not by the wisdom of the Fay of Advocates." hands of a fon or fucceffor whom he fees to be viciously disposed; but adding, that the imbargo fhould go no further. They conclude with naming two of their number who refide in Edinburgh, to meet with the gentlemen named by other counties to concert a proper application to parliament on this fubject. Edinburgh, Dec. 14. 1765. In the night between Wednesday the 11th and Thurfday the 12th inftant, and in the two nights following, numbers of riotous perfons did forcibly enter the houses and poffeffions of feveral inhabitants of this city, and in the neighbourhood, on pretence of feeking meal and grain; and, after committing great wrongs and mifdemeanors, did forcibly and theftuously carry off meal, barley, household furniture, linens, ftockings, and other effects belonging to thefe inhabitants and their he counties of Fife and Caithnefs families." This account is taken from e published their resolutions concern- an advertisement publifhed by authority entails [614]. The gentlemen of the Lord Provoft of Edinburgh, and Fife do not approve of the Advocates the theriff-depute of the county, by 1, but are of opinion, that our en- which they offered a reward of 501. Ster-laws require fome amendments, which ling to any perfon who would difcover one y fubmit to the wifdom of the legifla or more of these offenders, fo as they :.. Thofe of Caithnefs think en might be fecured; to be paid on conviction, s a great grievance; and that, if at and the informer's name carefully concealauthorifed, every heir of entail thould ed. -The incorporations of Mary's impowered, to provide for his younger chapel, by an advertisement of the fame dren, and for his widow; for the date, gave notice, That if any of their dren to the extent of three years rent fervants fhould be concerned in fuch rióis eftate, to be divided as he thinks tous proceedings, they fhould, if apprener; or, if he neglects to make fuch tices, forfeit their freedom; and if jourvifion, that every younger child be in-neymen, be forthwith discharged, and d to half a year's rent; and that the never for the future employed. fucceeding be obliged to find bail, or eftrate a part of the entailed eftate, the payment of thefe provifions; for the widow, a liferent of a third, at leaft a fourth of the free eftate, if is not properly provided for otherwife onlent: that heritors ought certainly to fpend more than their yearly in e; nor need any body give too much it to perfons fubjected to entails; but eople marry, and have children, their sand children ought to be provided according to their stations: that the rring heritors from giving long leafes great inconveniency attending enand that, on the whole, entails it to be abrogated entirely; at least, it ought not to be lawful to entail an e of a yearly rent under rocol. Ster, or to entail too great an eftate in family; acknowledging, nevertheless, it is rational in a man to tie up the On this occafion, as on a fimilar one [ii. 577.], an act of council was paffed, formerly [624.] mentioned, for iniuring grain and meal coming to the city-markets against mobs; which was read in all the churche the Lord's day next after its date: and thefe prudent measures had the defired effect; for all has been quiet fince. viz. We infert the act of council entire, "At Edinburgh, the 21ft day of December 1765 years. The Lord Provost, Magiftrates and Council of Edinburgh, taking into their serious confideration the manifeft inconveniencies that may arise to this populous city, if the markets are not fufficiently supplied with meal and other grain, and a timely ftop put to the riots and tumults which for fome time past have prevailed in this city and neighbourhood, which may occafion a great lc city of grain in this city and country, unless fufficient CT Sufficient fecurity is given to fuch as are where it may be intended to be lodge city, HAVE RESOLVED, AND ARE TERMINED, to carry on profecutions the utmoft rigour, against such perf perfons as fhall be guilty of any t or diforders relative to the matter specified; and that either before the giftrates themselves, or High Court Jufticiary, in order to condign pa ment: AND DID, and hereby DO CLARE, That this a fall continue, be in force till the first day of April: and no longer. AND ORDAIN their fents to be printed and published in the fual manner, and read by the precentes each church within this city and its ties, next Lord's day, immediately divine worship, in the forenoos. appoint this to be extracted withrat biding a reading in council," Males 8431 LONDON general Bill of Chriftenings and Burials, from December 11. 1764, to De- tened Females 794316374 Buried 1927 and 70 1638 1875 30 and 40 2212 70 and 80 1166 80 and 90 1774 IS. Iliac paffion 1 Inflam. of the 2 blood 101 King's evil 4 Teething 238 5 Meafles Born 19,439: Died 18,034- ENHAGEN. MANCHESTER. Chriftened 866: Died 723. Born 2541: Died 1601: Married 1033 couple. PSICK. Born 1437: Died 1048: Married 314 couple. 1 | Palfy Increased 213 31 Water in the Rheumatifm I head Small pox 239 Stillborn 31 1250 Suddenly 5 43 Tympany |