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a matter of arts of Oxford, who had been induftrious in purfuit of fome parts of Natural Philofophy,' 'and defired the faMyour of fome little converfation with him, The profetfor asked him how long he 1 Aayed at Altena. He replied, Only that day: Upon which he told him, that the profeffor of Natural Philofophy was gone out, and would not be at home thefe two days. A very clear way of luding ignorance. From hence we went in a skiff to Harburgh, a fortress given up to the French at the Convention, and retaken by prince Ferdinand in four days; nor *** could it poffibly hold out long, let who would detend it, as there is a long hill entirely commands every part of it. The 15,1 churches here too are tawdry, adorned

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with crucifixes and wax candles in abun dance, like Roman Catholic churches. We returned from Harburgh, and as we paffed the river, faw the dominions of feveral ftates Arangely intermixed. Sometimes ive were on Hanoverian ground, the next moment on the Pruffian, then on Danish, then in Hamburgher, and foon on HanoVerian again. We then went to Hamburgh, and the firft fight that prefented itfelf after paffing the gates, and taking a walk round the fortifications of that opulent city, as a boy crying grafshoppers in little paper cages like doll's houfes for a penny a-piece. Thefe the inhabitants buy up, and at night if they ftun you with their chiriping, it is ungenteel to take any notice; but fure they are the most difagreeable finging birds in the universe. Here we met with the politest entertainment both from the town and factory; faw the burgomafter Greeve's moft amazing collestion of pictures; one head valued at 700 guineas, and the Syndic Klefeker's no lefs furprizing collection of maps: the very catalogue of which, with his judicious obfervations upon them, makes a large quarto. Their coaches are drawn into their halls upon a large flight of Reps by machinery at the top of the houfe. Their phyfician's fee is but a mark.

Their foldiers are extremely neat, but their fireets dirty and horridly paved. Their theatre is tolerable, and their actors indifferently good; but their stage flopes up like the ridge at a houfe, and must be as dithcult to tread as the quarter-deck in a gale of wind. We went to the Rath Keller, or Council Cellar, where were feverai velfels that held above a hundred

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hogfheads, and we tafted wines of the following dates out of these immenfe tuns : of 1724...of 1712....of 1684....of1666.... of 1644...of 1614; in the last of which we drank the Flore at Stadt Hamburg, and all agreed it was the beft; that of 1684 came the nearest to it in goodness. Here we amufed ourfelves, and our furlow being almoft out, dropped down the river, which is taken excellent care of, and numbers of buoys placed at the Hamburgher's expence, one of which with its apparatus cost above 601.

Aug. 22, Saturday. In the afternoon the queen elect made her entry with fix coaches and fix, and a guard of 30 horfe in green. All the cannon on the walls were fired, bells, tho bad ones rung, and at night very pretty illuminations. At the queen's entry the town militia were drawn up; but fure even London militia men are not half fo unhandy. The comman der was in doubt whether his men ought to ground or shoulder their firelocks, and gave. feveral contradictory orders. The queen therefore was received by them, half one way and half the other. There was a very beautiful triumphal arch erected at the end of the street, with pretty emblems and Latin mottos, which I did not understand; but was told they were prettily conceived. The queen-elect has fine eyes, teeth, and hair, and an open and moft fenfible countenance.

Aug. 23. The queen-elect refted at Stade this Sunday.

Aug. 24, Monday. At half an hour after nine, a very fine morning, the queen fet out from Stade, upon which the garrifon fired above 120 cannon: in about an hour's time the fort in the Creek faluted her: as did the Hanoverian man of war. At half past ten the came in fight in the Admiralty barge, with the royal ftandard of England flying in the bow, preceded by lord Anfon's barge with the union flag in her bow. The Royal Charlotte yacht was dreffed up in all the different colours of ail nations to receive her; and the moment The came on board, they were down in an inftant, and the royal ftandard was hoifted on the maintopmaft-head; the anchor of hope, or admiralty flag, on the foretopmaft-head, and the union on the mizentopmaft-head, and made the fineft fight I ever faw. The Lynx now hoisted the admiral's flag, and gave the fignal, on which all the ships faluted with a royal

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falute of 21 guns each. The queen nobly faid, Can I be worthy, all these ho nours!' and fhewed she was so in reality. This was faid to draw tears of joy from the dutchels of Ancafter, to whom and the dutchefs of Hamilton, when they were introduced and were kneeling to kiss her hand, the as nobly faid, She hoped friendship might take place of ceremony between them; and faluted them. When the queen was got on board, the wind be gan to blow fresher. The yacht lay at anchor all that day. The queen's fecond brother, a very fine youth, was with her in the Royal Charlotte.

-- Aug. 25, Tuefday. Sailed about nine in the morning, came down to Giukstadt, a Danish fort, which did not falute us: we were about to lie-by, but kept on till nine at night, and then anchored.

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Aug. 26, Wednesday. Weighed and failed at four in the morning, were faluted by Ritzbustle and Cuxhaven at eight, which we returned. The prince went on fhore, and we were pushing out to the Red Buoy, but the wind being directly in our teeth, the admiral very judiciously returned to anchor in Cuxhaven road, and there came on a very fevere gale with fquails...

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Aug. 28, Friday. Sailed at five in the morning, joined the large hips at eleven, who faluted the royal yacht, and the Nottingham hoifted the admiral's flag.. I'

Aug. 29, Saturday, Blew a storm to N. W...all night, and greateft part of the day. Few of the ships but what received fome damage. The Royal Charlotte outfailed us all. It grew calmer towards night.

Aug. 30, Sunday. Fine weather, light gales. The queen was not at all affected with the form, but bore the fea like a tru ly Bri-ifh queen: kept on as good a courfe as the wind would permit this and the two following days.

Sept. 2, Wednejday. Blew very hard all the morning; in the evening at eight faw Flamborough-head, and stood again out to fea, an E. S. E. courfe.

Sep. 3, Thursday. Fine breezes in the morning, and a hard fquall in the evening. ·Sep. 5, Saturday. Stood in to the land again, and in the afternoon parted company with the large fhips.

Sept. 6, Sunday. The admiral arrived at Harwich. The queen was extremely well the entire voyage; but the dutcheffes of Ancaster and Hamilton were faid to be very much out of order. The reft your papers will inform you of. Your's, JOHN LYON.

The Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of Lon

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BE pleafed, moft gracious Sovereign, to

accept the cordial and refpectful congratulations of your majefty's ever dutiful and loyal subjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common-council affembled, on the folemnation of your majesty's most aufpicious nuptials,

Warmly interested from every motive of gratitude, as well as duty, in whatever can affect your royal mind, we enjoy the highest fatisfaction in the completion of our wishes, by your majesty's happy union with a princefs of the moft exalted merit... a princefs, who by her defcent from an illuftious lineage, (refpectable for their firm and constant zeal for the Proteftant religion, and dear to us for their particular attachment to your majefty's royal houfe)

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enjoy the fruits of this bleffed marriage, in an uninterrupted course of conjugal felicity, and in a numerous offspring, resembling their illuftrious parents in every public as well as private virtue; and may the Imperial crown of these realms be worn with undiminished lustre by their defcendants, till time thall be no more.

To which Addrefs his Majefty was pleafed to return this most gracious answer. "I thank you most heartily for your dutiful and affectionate addrefs. This fresh mark of your attachment to my perfon, and particularly the warm fentiments of joy and fa isfaction, which you exprefs on, the happy choice I have made of a queen for my confort, are most pleasing to me, The city of London may always depend on my unceafing care for their welfare and prosperity."

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the fame time to congratulate your majefty's most happy nuptials with a monarch, whofe early wisdom, fortitude, and piety, add luftre to the diadem he wears, and render him the darling as well as father of his people.

We do, with that honeft warmth and fincerity which charasterize the British nation, humbly affure your majesty, that as

the many virtues and amiable endowments which your majesty poisesses in fo eminent a degree, cannot fail to bless our beloved fovereign with every domestic happiness, fo will they ever endear your majesty to a people, not more distinguished for their love of liberty and their country, than for their inviolable loyalty and gratitude to thofe princes from whom they derive protection and profperity.

Long may your majefty live to share the felicity you are formed to infpire: and may your majefty prove the happy mother of a race of princes, to transmit the glories of this diftinguished reign to the latest of our pofterity.

To which addrefs her majefty was pleased to return this most gracious answer,,

"I thank you for your kind congratulations, fo full of duty to the king, and af fection to me. My warmeft wishes will ever attend this great city."

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They had all the honour to kiss her majefty's hand.

They afterwards addreffed her royal highness the princess dowager of Wales, and were most graciously received.

The Address of the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars, of the University of Cambridge, to his Majefty, on their Majesties Nuptials.

Mof Gracious Sovereign,
WE your majefty's most dutiful and

loyal fubjects, the chancellor, mafters, and scholars, of your univerfity of Cambridge, feel the warmeft fentiments of joy and affection, in offering our congratulations to your majesty, on this most aufpicious and happy occafion. We cannot but afcribe it to a principle of the most tender regard for your people, fo confpicuous in every part of your majesty's conduct, that your majefty should turn your earliest thoughts to a matter fo highly enterefting to the happiness of your

kingdoms, and fo neceffary to make that happiness permanent to pofterity. Your choice of a princefs for your confort, endowed with fuch virtues, and diftinguished for fuch personal accomplishments, as will add luftre to a throne, while they alleviate the cares of it, gives the sureft prospect of domestic happiness to your majefty, and of univerfal fatisfaction to your loyal and affectionate people.

As her majesty's illuftrious line has fhewn its invariable zeal for the protestant cause, we have the firmest hopes, under God, that this alliance will perpetuate to

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us the most valuable bleffings, which a race of British kings, immediately defcended from your majefty, can secure to Britons; the free exercife of their holy religion, and the full enjoyment of their civil rights.

ment, are extremely acceptable to me; and can never be more fo, than upon the present occafion; which, I trust, will be as conducive to the happinefs of my people," as it is to my own.

You may always depend upon my protection and favour."), (

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That wonderful series of providential events, which has appeared in the happy progrefs of your majesty's arms, affects us with the greatest joy ; and cannot fail to excite our devout acknowledgments unto him, who is the God of armies. As thefe The Address of the University of Cambridge, fucceffes render your majesty's reign truly glorious, and your kingdoms universally respectable; so the particular impression they must make on your enemies, by their feeling the weight of British power, and feeing the hand of heaven in fupport of your caufe, will difpofe them, we hope, to concur with your majesty, in the defirable work of establishing a lafting peace in every quarter of the world; and we, as particularly bound by our office and cha racter, shall not cease to implore the Great Difpofer of all events, that he would graciously affift your majesty's truly Christian difpofition, and earnest endeavours for that purpose.

We gratefully acknowledge your majefty's regard for and protection of those ancient feats of learning, which your royal progenitors fo amply endowed, and fo generously encouraged; and we most humbly entreat your majesty's gracious acceptance of these our faithful affurances of our affectionate and zealous attachment to your majesty's royal perfon and government; of our conftant attention to answer the good ends of our inftitution, by inftilling into the minds of the youth, placed under our care and inspection, such principles of religion and loyalty, as may make them dutiful fubjects to your majefty, and useful members of the community and our most earnest petitions shall be offered at the throne of Grace, that God would grant your majefty a long and glorious reign over us, as the fum of our wishes for the public profperity, and the fureft means of happiness to people..

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bridge, ever zealous to express their duty to his majesty's royal perfon and family, their most fincere congratulations on this joyful occafion; which gives them the great fatisfaction of feeing the domestic happiness of their most gracious fovereign, improved by an alliance with a princess of fuch distinguished virtues and accomplishments, and opens the fairest profpect to all his majefty's fubjects, that the various bleffings, which they enjoy under his aufpicious reign, will be continued, and secured to their posterity.

Long may your majefty poffefs the affec tions of that people, whom your prefence has filled with fuch uncommon joy and may heaven vouchsafe so to bless your royal nuptials, that, from this happy union, a race of princes may arife, who, endowed with the same hereditary virtues, and eduTM cated in the fame generous principles, for the fupport of the proteftant caufe, may tranfmit the renown of British monarchs, and the liberties of the British nation, entire and uninterrupted to remotest ages.

The Queen's most gracious Answer.

"I return you my thanks for this mark of your duty to the king, and affection to me, and I feel most fenfibly your kind congratulations.".

They were receiv'd most graciously, and had the honour to kiss her majesty's hand. royal highness the princess Dowager of They also prefented an address to her Wales, and met with a moft gracious re ception.

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The Addrefs of the University of Oxford, prefented at St. James's, September 16th 1761, to his Majefty, on their Majeflies Nuptials.

To the King's most Excellent Majefty.

Meft gracious Sovereign, WE your majefty's most dutiful and

loyal fubjects, the chancellor, mafters, and scholars of your university of Oxford, zealously attached to your royal perfon and government, and fenfibly affected with every occurence tending to the increase of your majefty's gloryand happiness, beg leave to express our unfeigned joy on the muchwish'd-for occafion of your majesty's marriage with a proteftant princefs; a princefs illuftrious by defcent, and still more distinguished by such personal accomplishments, and fuch amiable virtues, as are truly worthy of a British crown.

With the utmost fatisfaction we reflect, that your facred majefty, ever fince your happy acceffion to the throne of thefe kingdoms, hath fully answered the most fanguine hopes and expectations of all your loving fubjects; and nothing feemed wanting to fill up the measure of their felicity, but the prospect of stability and perpetuity to the bleffings they enjoy.

The prefent occafion affords us this pleasing profpect, and abundant matter of the jufteft exultation. We are now led to carry our views to future ages; and rejoice to confider the intereft of lateft pofterity, under the bleffing of God, happily fecured by this important event.

Itis therefore our ardent with, and daily prayer, that there never may be wanting a race of princes, defcended from your majefty and royal confort, worthy their auguft parentage, and inheriting all thofe excellent endowments, which establish and adorn your throne: favourers of learning and merit; friends to liberty both civil and religious, making the glory of God the end of their government, and laying the foundation of their own greatnefs in the happiness and affection of their subjects ; always recommending to them and enforcing the facred obligations of virtue and religion, by, that most engaging of all human fanétions, the royal countenance and example.

Given at our houfe of convocation this

ninth day of September, in the year of

our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fixy-one.

To which his Majesty was pleased to give the following moft gracious Answer.

"I return you my hearty thanks for this proof of duty and affection to my person : and I take a very fenfible fatisfaction in fuch a cordial teftimony of joy from my university of Oxford, on an event fo truly happy to me. That ancient and famous feat of learning may depend on my protection and favour, and may be affured of my kind acceptance of their exemplary care to form my youthful subjects to a due reverence for the laws, and to a juft fense of this excellent conftitution, by enforcing moral, civil, and religious discipline."

They were moft graciously received, and had the honour of kiffing his majesty's hand.

An Addrefs to the Queen, as delivered by the chancellor of the Univerfity of Oxford. Madam,

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Have the honour, in the name of the university of Oxford, to approach your royal prefence with an humble offering to your majefty of their most faithful duty and homage; welcoming your majesty's fafe arrival in these kingdoms, and felicitating your marriage with our moft gracious fovereign.

On this aufpicious occafion, his majesty hath given the strongest demonstration of his zeal for the public welfare, by refolving to place the Imperial crown of Great Bri tain on the head of a proteftant princess, whofe perfonal merits, fuperior to her illuftrious birth, will give an additional Jufre to the diadem fhe wears. It is, indeed, a circumftance peculiarly glorious to your majefty, that the elevated station to which you are called, is owing folely to your own royal accomplishments, and to our auguft monarch's just difcernment and eftimation of them, who is proud of laying his honours and his laurels at your majesty's feet; and of sharing with you, what he valueth more than a crown, the unbounded

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