ON this leaf of our 26th volume, that for 1764, a letter was printed, 1 how ufeful our lifts of Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Preferments, wo if diftinct notes of the particulars were regularly fent us; and recommendi Magazine as a public record, from which one might learn what iffue were 1 and who were the relations of, the perfons whofe deaths are inferted; which obferved, would not only be acceptable at prefent to the relations and acqua ces of the deceased, but might probably be very useful to posterity. fifting those who approve of this propofal, and would contribute to its being r to practice, we fhall here tranfcribe the form of fuch a note as it is propofed be fent us for a nobleman or gentleman who dies in the country, viz. died, at his feat of, in the county of "On the day of. in the year of his age, "and title, and the offices he held, if he held any]. By his lady, [Here infert his name, fu deft, fecond, &c. or youngeft] daughter [or child] of (only [Her "the name, furname, and title, of the lady's father], deceased), who furviv 46 has left iffue, fons, viz. and daughters, viz [mentioning the names of all the children, in the order of feniorit "the marriages of fuch as are married, and the offices or employments of the แ they are fettled in life.]. This note is fent by,"ablence of. "Scots Magazine." -], [or by eldest fon and heir of the deceased, to be inferted The proper alteration, our correspondent adds, m made, when it happens that the lady is dead, or her father alive; and the may be easily varied, fo as to answer any other cafe. As an authority for telling at whofe defire the note is inferted, our correfpo appeals to the notice given of Sir John Schaw's death in 1752, the first of the that appeared in our news-papers. In it none of the above particulars were ted [xiv. 156.]; and it concludes thus: "Hew Dalrymple of Drummore, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Sir John's brother-in-law, to miftakes which probably might happen in giving particular notice to the num relations of the deceased and of his widow, takes this method of acquainting of their friend's death."-His Lordship's example was followed for fome but we have by degrees fallen into the form now in use; which our correspon thinks not fo fatisfactory to the public, nor so respectful to the memory of th cealed, as that ufed by Lord Drummore, Pag. col. lin. 23. 2. 505. 2. 532. 597. I. ERRAT A. 52. for Mr Janies Bofwell, read * Mr Alexander Murray. [Running title] for S. read N. 2. for By a Lady. read From Dr I. Watts's Hora Lyrica. 23. for defroys read destroy 25. for deck read dress 26. for joys read joy 36. for comforts read conforts ult. for Cupid yokes read Cupids yoke This poem was taken from a news-paper. We thank our kind correfpor DIANTHE for detecting the plagiarism. By comparing the copy in the newswith the book, the preceding errors were discovered. To the BINDER. CUT away all the blue covers, and the advertisements stitched in with fome o between pages 20. 8 to front p. to front p. THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1767. ISTORICAL AFFAIRS. A fummary of the public affairs of last year 1.-10. Foreign affairs 45. American 48. Eng- 7. of the general affembly 1966, anent the form of COMMISSIONS to members e of affembly 11. The claufe of the act 9. af 1712, now altered ib. New form of tommiffions by presbyteries ib. The claufe in the form prefcribed by the ac May 17. Ja. 1715, now altered 12. Formula in AGE-ACT 12. Supplement, proposing a method of calling minifters 14. tal effect of DUELLING IS. 30 Tech of an effay on STYLE 15. Three Dr Hope's account of the true RHUBARS 19. His letter in the Philosophical Trans, actions ib. Botanical description 20. A Nature and effect of Dov E-MANURE 20. DOUGLAS caufe. An impartial investiga tion of the question propofed 21. A lift of the lawyers, &c. 23. A precedent for the propofed investigation 24. MEDICINE, &c. Fatty fubftances voided by stool 25. A collection of matter in the liver evacuated by ftool ib. An uncom mon tumor cut from the labia vulvæ 16. Account of EMIN, a Georgian youth 26. An inundation at MONTAUBAN 28. Political COACH-HORSES advertised før POETRY. The bullfinch and fparrow 36. On content ib. The new-year's ode 44. Tummary or recapitulation of the PUBLIC AFFAIRS of the year 1766. HE TURKISH empire had Greek church. As a part of their te to the Porte, they had long been fish the fhocking custom to which they had been forced to fubmit. Heraclius, one of their chief princes, a man of an enterprising genius, who feveral years a- go made a great figure in Perfia for fome time, who afterward travelled in most of the countries in Europe, where he ftudied the art of war, confidering this difpofition of his countrymen, sent a number of his best vaffals also to Europe to learn military difcipline, who on their return instructed the people in it. Rec- koning himself at length able to difpute the cafe by arms, he took the field, and had foon a powerful army, with which counts from different places last year, of The King of POLAND's election to the throne having been readily acknowledged by the powers which promoted or wifhed his elevation to that dignity, acknowledgements to the fame purpose were made, in 1765, by the Ottoman Porte and the court of Vienna. The following of that example by the courts of Versailles and Madrid, with fome others of lefs confequence, was ftill wanting. Additional to the chagrin which the Poles gave to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, by paffing by the family of Saxony in chufing their King, a hafty difference happened between his ambaffador at Warfaw and the Prince Primate of Poland during the inter-reign, which the French King highly refented. Early laft year we received advice of a minifter having fet out from Warsaw for Paris, with full powers to make ample reparation, on the Prince Primate's part, for what had given offence. As no further accounts were given of the embaffy, there is reafon to think that it had not the defired eff-&. Pursuant to a refolution of the coronation-diet in 1764, his Polish Majefty ap plied to the Pope last year, for his co fent to the levying of a tenth upon t revenues of the clergy; which was gran ed. The produce of that is to be appli towards augmenting the troops of t state. A decree had been made by the co vocation-diet, in 1764, during the inte reign, in regard to all diflenters from t Roman-Catholic religion, particularly t Proteftants, and those professors of Chi ftianity according to the prêtices of t Greek church, which is established Ruffia, abridging them in the exercise their religion, and wholly excluding the from all places and ports under the g verument. That decree was confirm by the coronation-diet held after prefent Majesty's election, notwithstan ing remonstrances by the courts of F tertburg and Berlin, backed by the i fluence of G. Britain and Denmark, to which powers the diffenters in Pola bad applied for their good offices. had advice in 1765, that th fupre court of Great Poland had granted Lutheran Protestants full liberty to ex cife their religion, as had been allow formerly. This did not hinder the Bil of Cujavia from caufing the Proteft church at Rauden, in the province Polish Pruflia, to be fhut up last ve We were told, indeed, that it was opt ed again by a higher authority; but the religious liberty of thofe people very precarious, and they were fubje be disturbed on every occafion, throu out all parts of the kingdom. At length an ordinary diet affembl at Warfaw, on the 6th of October 1 Declarations by the courts of Petersb London, Berlin, and Copenhagen, w not long after prefented to his Polish 1 jefty, requiring the re-establishment the diffenters in their civil rights privileges, and the peaceable enjoym of their own modes of worthip, fecure them by laws of the kingdom which were ferved during two centuries, and confi ed by the important treaty of Oliva, cluded for all the northern powers, wi could not be altered but with the g ral confent of the contracting parties. Bishop of Cracovia propofed, that the fhould confirm the decrees made ag the diffenters in 1717, 1723, and 1 though the foreign powers already n tioned had obferved, in their declarati that thofe decrees paffed in the mid inteftine troubles, and were contrad For the formal proteftations and exprefs thedarations of foreign powers. He also antet his nephew to Rome, to give an aclint of his zeal, and receive the Pope's thetractions on the fubject. When the alian declaration, and the others become taken notice of, were read in the tet, on the art of November, the afatly became very tumultuous, and ty of the members impetuously deChanded, that the Bishop of Cracovia's total should be figned. The ferment inged fo violent, that both his Maand the Prince Primate thought theper to retire. Next day upon a moemade by the King, and feconded by Primate, the affair was referred to bilhops in general, and the senators, their opinion. After a very long fitot on the 30th, the diet came to the eing refolution. J spre We have received, with all poffible Poderation, the declarations which the afador of her Imperial Majefty of all Ruthas the Prince de Repnin, the After-plenipotentiary of his Majesty King of Pruffia M. Benoit, the Eng minifter Mr Wroughton, and the Bath minifter M. de Saint Saphorin, the prefented in writing, on the part of cer refpective fovereigns, in favour of Greeks and Diflidents in the kingdon Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania. affure thofe minifters, that we will le maintain the faid Diffidents in all the ats and prerogatives to which they are ruled by the laws of the country, parerly by the conftitution of the year me. and by treaties. je her of Pruffia had ordered fome of his forces also represented, that the last diet of con- clared the inveftiture of Prince Charles COO va, e charge the Chancellors of the two hes to report this refolution to the fadors and ministers of the courts mentioned.” ies. withstanding the fevere orders iffued by his Polish Majefty, and the threatening fia caufed to be made, with the view of declarations which the Emprefs of Rufproducing a change in their conduct. Nay, not a few of them fummoned Duke the mean time, a body of between relation at Warfaw, to answer feveral Biron to appear before the tribunal of 3000 Ruffian troops had marched articles of accufation which they had dy thin two miles of Warsaw, near formed against him. That court had the aratit was fuppofed they would remain affair for fome time under confideration, me iffue of the affair fhould be and fome fuppofed that it would be laid trac and we were told, that the King before the diet of Poland; but towards the e ag nd the the end of last year advice was received, that all the nobles of Courland had at length fubmitted to Duke Biron, and paid him the proper homage. The court of RUSSIA having ordered an expedition to be fet about, in the fummer of 1765, for making difcoveries towards finding out, if poflible, a paffage by the north-east, to China and the East Indies, through the narrow fea fuppofed to divide Afia on that fide from North America, it is to be hoped that the public may ere long be informed concerning the fuccefs of it. Another expedition by land was undertaken in the fpring of last year, by the way of Kamchatka, for profecuting discoveries to the north-east, all the neceffaries being furnished at the Emprefs's expence. Her Imperial Majefty invited Dr Brown, an Englishman, to go to Pete fburg, in order that, by conferences with herself, and infpection into the manners and ge nius of the people, he might be enabled to compose a fyftem of laws as a standard for the future improvement and civilization of that great empire. It was faid, that he fent fome general outlines of the work to the Emprefs, which the approved of; but death prevented his intended journey, fo that the finishing of the fcheme must fall to another. Two men of war, of fixty guns each, were lanched at Petersburg in June, and it was reckoned that by the fpring of 1767 the Ruffian fleet would confift of thirty-four fhips of the line, befide frigates and other smaller veffels. A new treaty of commerce between Ruffia and G. Britain was figned at Peterfburg on the 20th of June O. S. In confequence of it, a company of British merchants was to be eftablifhed at the city of Aftracan on the river Wolga, for carrying on an extensive trade to Perfia, the Daghestan, and other countries bordering on the Cafpian fea. According to advices received towards the end of the year, many British manufactures had lately been shipped for Ruffia, our merchants were carrying on a brisk trade from Petersburg to Aftracan, and it was computed, that our manufactures which will go to that Empire for the future, will ex. ceed those formerly fent by 200,000l. in value annually? An extraordinary diet of the ftates of SWEDEN aflembled on the 15th of January 1765, and continued fitting till the 18th of September laft. According to a received during the year under re a treaty of alliance and friendship G. Britain, was renewed; a law a luxury was enacted, confifting_of teen articles; the rewards affign the royal ordinance of February for encouraging the manufactures o kingdom, were suppreffed, as ufele not pernicious; grants of feveral pe made by former diets to fenators a ther persons of distinction were reca and the clergy were deprived o tenths they had long raifed from fo ftates belonging to the crown, a having been applied to the purpol which they were originally granted, ly, the exercise of hospitality, those being at the fame time annexed t other revenues of the ftate. came to a refolution in their last fit to exclude the nobility from their to which the burghers and peafan greed. The nobility, after finding remonftrances made by them coul obtain an alteration of that refol wrote to the King, praying him n permit the palling of the arret of t ther three orders, and at the fame injoined the Marfhal of the diet, fuch of the members of their ord compofe the deputation called exped not to fign any thing which should the leaft relation to the affair in que This happened but a little before diffolution of the diet, and we hear thing further about it. The The hereditary prince was marrie Stockholm, to the princefs Sophia dalene, his Danith Majefty's fifter the 4th of November laft. Frederick V. King of DENMARK the 14th of January last year, a peaceable reign of near twenty employed for the good of his fubject was immediately fucceeded by hi Chriftian VII, who came to the year of his age on the 29th of that month. Not long after that, we told of a new treaty being conc with G. Britain, in virtue of which Danish navy is to confift of a c number of hips of the line, for co ting of which new ones were buil His prefent Majefty's marriage to Princefs Caroline Matilda, his Brit Majefty's youngest fifter, was folem with great fplendor, at Copenhagen the 8th of November. In reviewing the affairs of GERM |