Dec. 29. At Stockholm, aged 90, Count Guftavus David Hamilton, Field-Marfhall of Sweden. He entered the army in 1716, and has been in feveral chief battles under different powers since that period. Lately at Antwerp, aged 104, Philip Coets He was a foldier from his youth, and ferved in all the campaigns of Prince Eugene againft the Turks. In 1717 he was at the capture of Belgrade; at 40 years old he married, and lived with his first wife 12 years, by whom he had fix children and ten grand-children. At 60 years of age he married again, and had eight children, from whom prang 30 grand-children. He was fo ftron, that, at 73 years of age, he lifted a butt of beer from a cart without the leaft trouble. Having loft his fecond wife, at 92 he married again, but had no children. He was always in health, and preferved all his fenfes, except his hearing, till his death. Lately, at Linton, in the county of Northumberland, aged 81, Richard Jewitt, Efq; The whimficalities of this venerable gentleman may be conceived by his making ufe of the coffin in which he was buried, as a corner cupboard in his bed-chamber, depofiting therein bread and cheese, wines, fpirits, &c. with the pictures of Adam and Eve at the head, and Darby and Joan at the feet. Jan. 2. 1789. At Niece, John Kinloch, Efq; of Kinloch. Caferta, Jan. 6. On Thursday laft the Infant Don Genaro, fecond fon of their Sicilian Majetties, died of the fmail-pox, in the ninth year of his age. Lond. Gaz. 21. At Feu, Robert Gardiner, Efq; of Feu. 22. In her 75th year, Mrs ifabel Symonton of Stenhouse. 23. In Petty France, aged 80, John Cleland, Efq; He was the fon of Col. Cleland, that celebrated fictitious member of the Spectator's club, whom Steele defcribes under the name of Will Honeycombe. A portrait of him hung up in the fon's library till his death, which indicates all the manners and d'aboard of the fathionable town-rake, in the beginning of this century. The fon, with the fcatterings of his father's fortune, and fome fhare of his diffipations, after palling through the forms of a good education in Weltminster-college, where he was admitted in 1722, at the age of 13, and was contemporary with Lord Mansfield, went as conful to Smyrna, where, perhaps, he firft imbibed thofe loofe principles which in a fubfequent publication, too infamous to be particularifed, tarnithed his reputation as an author. On his return from Smyrna he went to the East Indies, but quarreling with fome of the members of the prefidency of Bombay, he made a precipitate retreat from the Eaft, with little or no benefit to his fortunes. Being without profeffion or any fettled means of fubfidence, he foon fell into difficulties; a prison and its miferies were the confequences. In this fituation, one o those booktellers who difgrace the profeflion, offered him a temporary relief for writing the work above alluded to *, which brought a ftig. ma on his name, which time has not obliterated, and which will be configned to his memory whilst its poisonous contents are in circulation. For this publication he was called before the privy council; and the circumftance of his diftrefs being known, as well as his being a man of fome parts, John Earl Granville, the then prefident, nobly rescued him from the like temptation, by getting him a penfion of 100l. per year, which he enjoyed to his death, and which had fo much the defired effect, that, except "The Memoirs of a Coxcomb," which has fome fmack of diffipated manners, and "The Man of Honour," written as an amende bonourable for his former exceptionable book, Mr C. moftly dedicated his time to political and philolo gical publications, and was the author of the long letters given in the public prints, from time to time, figned A BRITON, MODESTUS, &c. &c. and of fome curious tracts on the Celtic language. He lived within the income of his penfion for many years, in a retired fituation in Petty France, furrounded by a good library, and the occafional vifits of fome literary friends, to whom he was a very agreeable companion. In conversation he was very pleasant and anecdotical, understanding molt of the living languages, and fpeaking them all very fluently. As a writer, he fhewed himself beft in novels, fong-writing, and the lighter fpecies of authorship; but when he touched politics, he touched it like a torpedo, he was cold, benumbing, and foporific. 26. At Bebeggie, in the parish of Kinnoul, aged 106, John Patullo. He retained his faculties to the laft. 27. At Leith, Mr Hugh Cheape, merchant. 27. At Glafgow, Mr Lang fenior, merchant, and formerly one of the magistrates of that city. 27. At London, aged 106, Mrs Jean Rofs, a native of Scotland. She retained her faculties to the laft hour, and read with ease the fmallest print. 27. At Newcastle, after an illness of 24 hours, John Ward, a young man, about 16 years of age, an apprentice to a fhoe-maker, after eating, as is fuppofed, a larger quanti ty of tobacco than ufual, of which he was remarkably fond, and a practice he had pursued from the 4th year of his age. For fome time before his death, when he had eaten much at once, it generally brought on a ftoppage of urine. On being opened next day by Mr Irving, furgeon, the inteftines, which were diftended to about three times their natural The fum given for the copy of this work was twenty guineas. The fum received for the fale could not be less than 10,000l. fize, fize, were found to contain near three gallons of a brown liquor, then in a state of fermentation, which was fo great, that the fwelling of the abdomen encreased much after his death. The boy eat an orange a fhort time before he began to complain. 28. At Crunan, in Perthshire, Mrs Blair of Crunan. 28. At Aberdeen, Mifs Sufan Gordon, fecond daughter of the late Alexander Gordon of Aberdour, Efq; 29. Robert Rankine, Efq; of Coldon. 29. At Glasgow, Miss Elifabeth Macgrigor, daughter of the late Grigor Macgrigor of Glengyle, Efq; 31. At Edinburgh, Mifs Jean Lythgow, boarding-miftrefs. 31. At Chelfea, Robert Drummond, Efq; Major of the lare fecond battalion of New Jerfey Volunteers. This gentleman brought into the field upwards of 200 yeomanry, his neighbours, and embodied them in that active corps, a very large proportion of whom became victims to their loyalty, having either fallen in action, or by the diseases of the torrid climates of South Carolina, Georgia, and Eaft Florida. 31. At Aberdeen, Mifs Jean Gordon, eldeft daughter of the deceafed Charles Gordon of Buthlaw, Efq; 31. At Pau, in France, Mifs Barbara Ag. new, daughter of the late John Agnew of Seuchan, Efq; Lately, at the Hot-wells, Briftul, Mr Diller, the celebrated philofophical fire-worker. (See vol. 50. p. 164.) Lately, at Aberdeen, aged 102, John Bruce. He was formerly a travelling huck fter, but for the last twenty years of his life was a common beggar, and followed this occupation till within a day or two of his death. Feb. 1. At Bath, Archibald Fraser, Efq; Naples, Feb. 2. Prince Lewis died last night of the fmall-pox, aged five months and fix days. 2. At London, Major Henniker, fecond fon of Sir John Henniker, Bt. 3. At Glasgow, Robert Macfarlane, Efq; of Burn-head, in the county of Lanark. 5. At Limerick, in Ireland, at the great age of 116 years, Patrick Murphy. He ferved as a foldier in many wars at the beginning of the present century. 7. At Bath, Lady Bangor, Lady of Lord Viscount Bangor, and last surviving fifter of the late Earl of Darnley. She was a lady of a moft eccentric chara&er.. For the first forty or fifty years of her life fhe was a pattern of every conjugal and private virtue, and brought up a large family with the most amiable attention. Without any affigned caufe whatever, fhe fuddenly refolved to quit her Lord and family, and was never afterwards prevailed upon to hold correfpondence with either of them, except with her daughter, Lady Clanwilliam, to whom, it is faid, fhe hath bequeathed the whole of her property. She delighted in acts of private generofity: yet for a tradefman's bill, or the arrears of her lodgings, fhe would bear perpetual dunning. She had an utter averfion to the faculty. At her own earnest command her coffin has been filled with lime. 7. At London, Sir Thomas Halifax, Alderman, banker, and M. P. for Aylesbury. 7. At Oban, Duncan Campbell of Glenfeachan, Efq; Collector of the customs. 8. At Edinburgh, Sir John Sinclair of Murkle, Bt. 8. At Edinburgh, Mrs Sufan Bethune, relist of the late Henry Stark of Rumgally, Efq; 8. At Leith, Mr James Cundel, brewer, and many years one of the refident magi ftrates. 9. At Fountainbridge, near Edinburgh, Mrs Sarah Irving, daughter of the deceased George Irving of Newton. 10. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr William Martin, one of the miniers of that city, and chaplain of Stirling caftle. He had been prefented to the Tron Church, but died before the fettlement took place. 10. At Murthly, Dame Clementina Stewart, wife of Sir John Stewart of Grandtully, Bt. 10. At Langton manfe, Berwickshire, the Rev. Mr Andrew Smith, minister of Langton, in the 48th year of his age, and 23d of his ministry. Io. At Invernefs. Major James Chisholm, formerly of the 21ft, and late of the Duke of Gordon's fencible regiment. 11. At Aberdeen, Alexander Milne, Efq; of Crimonmogat, merchant. 12. At Glafgow, Mrs Helen Webster, spouse of Mr John Duguid merchant. 14. At her houfe near Brompton, in her 81ft year, the Rt Hon. Lady Henrietta Gordon, eldest daughter of Alexander fecond Duke of Gordon and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt, only daughter of Charles Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth. 15. In the neighbourhood of Exeter, RearAdmiral Whitwell. 15. At Edinburgh, Mrs Leflie Dugud of Balquhan. 17. At London, Alexander Shairp, Efq; His father was long an eminent merchant in Edinburgh, as he was in Petersburg and 19. At Wauchope, Mrs Elifabeth Rutherford, wife of Mr Walter Scott of Wauchope. 20. At Aberdeen, Mr William Nicoll, Advocate in Aberdeen. 26. At Cunoquhy, George Paterson, Efq; of Cunoquhy. Lately, at Runham, near Yarmouth, aged 102, Samuel Ruffels, who within two years of his death, maintained himself by threshing in a barn, and other husbandry-work. PREFERMENTS. From the London Gazette. Carleton Houfe, Feb. 9. The Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Mr John Young, of New Store-ftreet, Bedford-square, to be his Engraver in mezzotinto. From other Papers. The University of Edinburgh have conferred the degree of Doctor in Divinity upon the Rev. Mr John Inglis, minifter of the parish of Kirkcudbright, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Jan. 31. The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh have admitted Dr Alexander Bertram, phyfician in Hull, an honorary member of faid Society. Feb. 3. The Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh admitted the following gentlemen as Fellows: Dr Charles Stuart and Dr Alexander Hamilton, physicians in Edinburgh; Dr Alexander Grant Clugfton, in the fervice of the East India Company, on the Bombay establishment; and Dr John Craigie, alfo in the fervice of faid Company, on the Bengal establishment Mr James Taylor is appointed sheriff-clerk of Linlithgow, in the room of Mr Smith deceased. 12. The Rev. Mr Anthony Dow was ordained minister of the parish of Kilspindy, in the prefbytery of Perth, in the room of the Rev. Mr Allan Stewart, deceased. 25. The Magiftrates of Edinburgh have prefented the Rev. Mr William Simpson, minifter of Lady Yefter's church, to be minister of the Tron church, in room of the Rev. Mr William Martin, deceased. The King's College and University of Aberdeen have conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on the Hon. Archibald Fraser of Lovat. BANK RUP T S. Jan. 31. Neil Lamont and William Macintofh, merchants in Greenock. Feb. 11. Alexander Miller, merchant in Staxigo, near Wick. 18. William Gray, merchant in Glasgow. 19. Robert Shand, distiller at Durris, Kincardineshire. 22. Hog, Copland, Sweet, & Co. manue facturers in Glafgow; and John Hogg, Thomas Sweet, and William Copland, as indivi duals. Dr FRANKLIN'S Address to the Americans || A Dialogue between Mr POPE and Mr Coron their difaffection to the new govern- FEY, Poets, in St James's Park 138. ment 105. Importance of the trade with RUSSIA 107. Account of JOHN CASPAR LAVATER concluded 108. K. of Pruffia on the BREACH of TREATIES, 110. Political state of BRITAIN in 1740 III. Anecdotes of Dr MONSEY concluded 112. PARLIAMENT. Limitations on the Regent, and care of the King's perfon: Speeches of Mr Pitt, Mr Powys, Lord North, Lord Belgrave, Mr Sheridan, the Speaker, Col. Fullarton, Lord Maitland, Mr Pulteney, Mr Grey, Mr Fox, &c. 113.-122. Lord Camden, Bishop of Landaff, Lords Carlifle, Fitzwilliam, Loughborough, Chancellor, &c. 122.-126. Proteft 126. NEW BOOKS. Confiderations on wit and morals 127. Dupaty's travels through Italy 129. Catalogue, &c. 133-137. Dr Percival's remarks relative to the improvement of the Manchester INFIRMARY 142. POETRY. Elegy on the death of Miss Caroline Campbell 144. On conftancy ib. To a very young lady ib. Ode on the recovery of his Majefty 145. Lines by Mr Thomson ib. Lines fuggefted by a moonlight evening ib. HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. Ireland: Proceedings of the parliament on the King's indifpofition 146.-148. -England: The Irish commiffioners wait on the Prince of Wales with the addrefs of the Irish parliament 148. His Royal Highness's anfwer ib. Illuminations on the King's recovery 149. Difpatches from Botany Bay ib. -Scotland: Mr Fennel against Mr Wylde, &c. 151. Sentence on Macfadzean and Dryfdale ib. Trial of T. Hall for fwindling ib. Illuminations at Edinburgh, &c. 152. LISTS. Marriages, Births, and Deaths 152, Preferments, &c. 155. 156, Addrefs by Dr BENJAMIN FRANKLIN to the United States of America, on the difaffection that has prevailed towards the fyftem of Government introduced in that country. Zealous advocate for the propofed Federal Conftitution, in a certain public affem bly, faid, that the repug nance of a great part of mankind to good government was fuch, that he believed, that if an angel from heaven was to bring down a conftitution formed there for our ufe, it would nevertheless meet with violent oppofition." He was reproved for the fuppofed extravagance of the fentiment; and he did not justify it. Probably it might not have immediately oc VOL. LI. curred to him that the experiment had been tried, and that the event was recorded in the most faithful of all hiftories, the Holy Bible; otherwife he might, as it feems to me, have fupported his opinion by that unexceptionable authority. The Supreme Being had been pleafed to nourish up a fingle family, by conti nued acts of his attentive providence, till it became a great people; and having rescued them from bondage by many mi racles performed by his fervant Mofes, he perfonally delivered to that chofen fervant, in prefence of the whole nation, a conftitution and code of laws for their obfervance, accompanied and fanctioned with promises of great rewards, and threats of fevere punishments, as the conР fequence One would have thought, that the appointment of men who had diftinguished themselves in procuring the liberty of their nation, and had hazarded their lives in openly oppofing the will of a powerful monarch who would have retained that nation in flavery, might have been an appointment acceptable to a grateful people; and that a conftitution framed for them by the Deity himself, might, on that account, have been fecure of an universal welcome reception; yet there were in every one of the thirteen tribes, fome difcontented, reftlefs fpirits, who were continually exciting them to reject the propofed new government; and this from various motives. Many fill retained an affection for Egypt, the land of their nativity; and thefe, whenever they felt any inconvenience or hardship, though the natural and unavoidable effect of their change of fituation, exclaimed againft their leaders as the authors of their trouble, and were not only for returning into Egypt, but for ftoning their deliverers *. Thofe inclined to idolatry were displeased that their golden calf was deftroyed. Many of the chiefs thought the new conftitu tion might be injurious to their particular interefts, that the profitable places would be engroffed by the families and friends of Mofes and Aaron, and others equally well-born excluded t. In Jofephus, and the Talmud, we learn tome particulars, not fo fully narrated in the Scripture. We are there told, that Corah was ambitious of the priesthood, and offended that it was conferred on Aaron, and this, as he said, by the authority of Mofes only, wthout the consent of the people. He accused Motes of having, by various artifices, fraudulently obtained the government, and deprived the people of their liberties; and of confpiring with Aaron to perpetuate the tyranny in their family. Thus, though Corah's real motive was the fupplanting of Aaron, he perfuaded the people that he meant only the public good; and they, moved by his infinuations, began to cry out, let us maintain the common li. berty of our respective tribes; we have freed ourselves from the flavery imposed upon us by the Egyptians, and shall we fuffer ourselves to be made flaves by Mofes? If we must have a master, it were better to return to Pharaoh, who at least fed us with bread and onions, than to serve this new tyrant, who by his ope rations has brought us into danger of famine."-Then they called in question the reality of his conference with God, and objected the privacy of the meetings, and the preventing any of the people from being prefent at the colloquies, or even approaching the place, as grounds of great fufpicion. They accufed Mofes alfo of peculation, as embezzling part of the golden fpoons and the filver chargers that the princes had offered at the dedication of the altar, and the offerings of gold by the common people‡, as well as moft of the poll-tax ; and Aaron they accufed of pocketing much of the gold of which he pretended to have made a molten calf. Befides peculation, they charged Mofes with ambition; to gratify which paffion, he had, they said, deceived the people, by promising to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey; inftead of doing which, he had brought them from fuch a land; and that he thought light of all this mifchief, provided he could make himself an abfolute prince §. That to support the new dignity with fplendour in his family, the partial poll-tax, already levied and given to Aaron, was to be followed by a general one, which would probably be augmented from time to time, if he were suffered to go on promulgating new laws, on pretence of new occafional revelations of the divine will, till their + Numbers vii. Exodus xxxv. 22. Numbers iii. and Exodus xxx. Numbers xvi. 13. Is it a small thing that thou haft brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in this wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? Numb. iii. Exod. xxx. whole |