103 INSCRIPTION. Feb. His natural genius, cultivated by a liberal education, Made him fond at all times of literature ; He ftored his mind with every branch of ufeful knowledge; You beheld the gentleman and admired the fcholar; Qualified, as he was, to adorn a public ftation, He was contented with being as ferviceable as he could in a private one. Not, that he was without a laudable ambition to ferve his country; But his health was not equal to his withes or abilities; And had he appeared in a public character, His behaviour would have been suitable to its importance; No finifter motives would have moved his in tegrity, But the public weal would have been the conflant Object of his attention. In fhort, though he was not the greateft, A delicacy of conflitution, deprived the pub- His domestic lic of the labours Of this excellent phyfician; But he did not altogether forego a profeffion, By the exercife of which he became So remarkably eminent: His heart was too good, To let him fee the diflreffes of his fellow creatures, Without offering a willing hand to relieve them; And his difpofition too liberal, To let him accept a fee, when providence Had biefied him with a genteel independency: If his health would permit, He grudged not his trouble in vifiting the fick, And even when confined, through indifpofition of body, His mind was active in confidering cafes laid before him, And his advice given with chearfulness and exa&nels. But his charity was not confined within fuch narrow limits, It extended itself were phyfic alone would have been infignificant. The poor were fhewed a remedy for their difeafes, And the purfe liberaliv opened to make it effectual; The frequency of vifiting beds of fickness was so far From feeling his mind against the imprefhons of humanity, That he fympathized with thofe in pain and anguish, Whilt he was confisering by what means he could Moft effe&tually relieve them. Nor was he only fill in the fcience of me dicine, Virtues will ever make him revered As the hufband, and the inafter, And his fociable difpofigon, qualified him For the kind friend and cheatful.companion. Depart de la Holland pour la Danemark le 1. de Ianvier 1769. Ode profaic dedie a la Csa telle d' Effex. L ES deftins nous conduisent quand et ou ils veulent a cette heure, (Ennemie du froid} je port mes pas, a des pays approchant Greenland. Adieu nymphes de ces pres humides; adieu Sbeveling, ou fouvent expofè au vent et au froid, jai refpire le zephyr falutaire de la mer; je n' Entendré plus le bruit Sourde de ces Vagues: nous Seront bientot a la Vue terrible, de la Mer du Nord; ou les Tourbillions impetieux renvérfent les Vaitleax brifles dans Air. Deja une vent impeticux, a pontlee notre barque rapide au travers de. l'Elbe, vite comme une hirondelle vole au to d de 1 Eau, ou les Columbes, effrayes fendent la voute azureè O Angleterre, la Gloire de Neptune! le fejour de la fageffe chez toi (on dit) Refide la divine liber:ee. Sauveur de la grande Brittagne; Sauveur de la grande Bretagne; Sauveur de Bacckus et la Reine de Cypre Mers tout puillantes foez propices. Eleve toi Celefte Deefie fur les Hotts, tourne vers l'Albion, une doux regard, et pla è tes Temples, fur ces champs benignes; Ton fleur favorite, la Rof: fe trouve par tout notre ifle; tes Myrters fragrantes, croiffent en abondance dans nos jardins chaque Libre Berger, chaque belle Bergere, tout les fciences, les quelis ardonent notre Empire, feliciteront votre arrivee-Chantons Hallelujah a Bacchus! Chantons Hallelujah a Venus de Victorie. que Mars Exterminateur de notre Race; fe 1769. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. retire au Rivages du Pont Euxine; ou quil fonne fon Trumpett fur les plaines de Thrace; Que tes Turkes, & les Ruffer recoivent cette Diete Barbare, mais l'Angleterre Content des la Grandeur de fon Empire, fans aucune dification, jouira de la Paix, des la Richeffe, d'Harmonie, et des Plaifirs. Chantons, Hallelajab a Barcbus! Chan'ons Hallelujab à Venus de Victorie, que le Nectar abondante coufe fur nos tables, que des fetes nuptials, B 109 emblems de l'union, et dela Paix, foient, celebrees a tout heure: jufque as que la force des Anglois Etant redoubleè, par le Temps, et la concord. Si des Enemies advancent, pour notre perte combinee, Nous ajouterons a nos conquetes, des nou- A les loix de Neptune, tout doit etre foumis, THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. Sheriffs appointed for the Year 1769. ERKS. John Cooke, Efq; Bedf. William Farrer, Efq; Bucks. John Lane, Efq; Cumb. John Robinfon, Eq; * Chefh. Philip Egerton, Efq; Camp & Hunt' James Collier, Efq; Cornw. John Blewett, Efq; Devon. Thomas Northmore, Efq; Dorfet. Will Thorpe Holder, Elq; Derb. Brabazon Hallows, Efq; Effex, Daniel Mathew, Efq; Gloucef. William Singleton, Efq; Hertf. Jeremiah Rayment Hadley, Efq; Heref. William Nourfe, Eq; Kent, Will. Wheatlev, Eq; Leiceft. Sir Charles Halford, Bart. Liac. J. Hopkinfon, Elq; Monm. Geo. Duberly, Eiq; Northumb. Mich. Pierfon, Eq; Northampt. Tho. Langton, Efq; Norf. Edmund Rolfe, jun. Efq; Notting. Robert Fofter, Efq; Oxf. William Draper, Efq; Rul. Edmund Sifmey, Efq; Shrop. John Owen, Elq; Som. William Rodbard, Efq; Staff. Clement Kynneilley, Efq; Suff. Edward l'ac Jackfon, Efq; Southamp. Tho. Prier, Efq; Sury, John Thornton, Esq; Suff, Joba Laker, Efq; Warw. George Lucy, Efq, Worceft. Edward Knight, jun. Efq; Wiltf, Wm Talk, Eq; Yorkh. Sir James Ibbetfen, bart. SOUTH WALES. NORTH WALES.. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25. The convocation met, and chose a proļo cutor. THURSDAY, Feb. 2. Weftminster. This day the lords being met, a meffige was fent to the honourable House of Commons by Mr. Quarme, yeoman usher of the black rod, acquainting them, that the Lords, authorized by virtue of his majesty's commiffion, for declaring his royal assent to one public act agreed upon by both houses, do defire the immediate attendance of this Honourable Houfe in the House of Peers to hear the commiffion read; and the commons being come thither, the faid commiffion, impowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Lord Prefident of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal the Duke of Grafton, and fevetal other Lords therein mentioned, to declare and notify the royal affent to the faid act, was read accordingly, and the royal affent given to An act to continue an act, made in the eighth year of the reign of his prefent majefty, intituled, An act to continue an act made in the 5th year of his prefent majef ty, intituled, An act for importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from Ire and, for a limited time; and for allowing the importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from the British dominions in America, for a limited time. FRIDAYS 410 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER FRIDAY, 3. Capt. A-, (fee p. 46.) was committed to Newgate, for challenging a member of a certain A-y. SATURDAY, 4. John Wilkes, Efq; aiderman, and member for Middlefex, was expelled the House of Commons, MONDAY, 6. The convocation of Canterbury, as ufual once in feven years, addreffed the king. (See p. 6.) THURSDAY, 9. Came on at the Eaft-India-Houfe the ballot on the queftion for agreeing with the public, and granting 400,ocol. per annum' for five years, out of their territorial revenues in India: At fix o'clock the glaffes were clofed, and at feven Thomas Alian, Eq; chairman of the fcrutineers appointed to infpect the votes, made his report to the general court, when there were 200 votes for the queftion, and 250 against it. (See p. 53.) MONDAY, 13. His majefty returned the following anfwer to the joint-address of both houfes of partia ment: "My lords and gentlemen, THE fincere fatisfaction you exprefs in the measures which I have already taken, and the ftrong affurances you give of fupporting me in thofe which may be fiil neceffary to maintain the just legislative authority, and the due execution of the laws, in my province of Maffachufets Bay, give me great pleafure. I thall not fail to give thofe orders, which you recommend as the muft effectual method of bringing the authors of the late unhappy diforders in that province to condign punithinent." TUESDAY, 14. At a very numerous meeting of the freeholders of the county of Middlefex on Tuefday, at the Mile End Affembly-room, it was unanimously refolved to confirm their former choice by re-electing John Wilkes, Efq; their reprefentative in parliament. George Bellas, Efq; was called to the chair. James Townsend, Etq; member of parliament for Weftioo in Cornwall, recommended the re-election of Mr. Wilkes in a very elegant and animated fpeech; in which he obferved, that he had never feen or spoken to Mr. Wilkes before his late expulfion; that he regarced his caufe folely as the caufe of the people, divefted of every perfonal confide. ration or connection; that the oppreffion and injuries which Mr. Wilkes had fuffered were fufficient to rouze the indignation of every man that had one generous fentiment in his breaft, or the leaft fenfe of freedom and regard for the constitution: and that he would affert the right of the freeholders to the choice of their reprefentatives, by going to give his vote for Mr. Wilkes in cafe of Feb. future expulfion, as long as he should have a filling left, or one leg to hop down ta Brentford. John Sawbridge, Efq; member for Hithe in Kent, feconded this motion with great fpirit, concluding with the words of Mr. Wilkes's addrefs;-that if once the miniftry fhall be permitted to fay whom the freehold. ers fhall not chufe, the next ftep will be to tell them whom they fball chufe. Mr. Horne, Samuel Vaughan, Efq; Sir Francis Blake Delaval, Eyre, Efq; Jones, Elq; and many other gentlemen of property and character, fpoke to the fame effect. -- The freeholders in general manifefled a fpirit, and a decent firmness, that cannot fail, with perfeverance, to obtain a redress of all their grievances. THURSDAY, 16. Mr. Wilkes was re-elected at Brentford member for the county of Middlesex, by the unanimous voice of above two thousand of the most respectable freeholders, who, notwithstanding it proved a very wet day, attended at their own expence early in the morning, to fupport the re-election, left any candidate in the oppofite intereft fhould have been, by a party, attempted to be surprized upon the county at the huftings. Every thing was conducted with the most ftrict and fingular good order. He was put up by James Townshend, Efq; member for Weilloo; and when the re-election was declared, they all around teftified their joy by the most loud and unanimous fhouts or applaufe. It may be truly faid that this re-election has not coft Mr. Wilkes a fingle fhilling, to unanimous and fo hearty are the people in his favour -Depressus refurgam. MONDAY, 20 At a very large and refpe&table meeting of gentlemen at the London Tavern, (friends of Mr. Wilkes and the conftitution) and at which meeting many members of the Houfe of Commons attended, a fubfcription was fet on foot to fupport the caufe, when the sum of 3340l. was immediately subscribed, and a committee appointed to carry the fame throughout the kingdom.-The preamble to the fubfcription paper runs in the following manner: "Whereas John Wilkes, Efq; has foffered very greatly in his private fortune, from the fevere and repeated profecutions he has undergone in behalf of the public, and as it seems reasonable to us, that the man who fuffers for the public good, fhould be fupported by the public, We, &c, &c." 1769. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. fore the expiration of his time; Jafper Webb and Edward Williams, for robbing James Dorfe of a great coat and a fnuff-box in the highway near Kentish town, were, purfuant to their fentences, executed at Tybura. Cooper, Wilks, Perkins, were refpited and Balfe and M Quirk postponed till further enquiry. (See p. <2.) Earl Percy, now in Ireland with his regiment, has had the freedom of Dublin voted to him in a gold box. Four of the Haftings pyrates have died in the Marshallea, of the fmall-pox. A fcheme is now carrying into execution by Sir John Fielding, for establishing an alyJum for young boys, whofe total want of parental and parochial protection, expofes them early to the temptation of every vice. In this alylum they are to be cloathed and maintained till they are put apprentice to the fea-fervice, and a premium of five pounds is to be given with them when put out, as well as an additional fum of five pounds to fupply them with neceffaries. Many focieties and private perfons have fabfcribed largely to fupport this fcheme, and feveral vagrant boys have already been clothed and put apprentice to mafters of fhips. Mr. Bingley (fee p. 52.) in one of his late North-Britons, has published a very extraordinary affidavit, that he will never anIwer to interrogatories as long as he lives, unless he should be put to the torture. A man, his wife, and two children, lately perished of abfolute want of the neceffaries of life, in one of the poor houses Ditchworth, in Hertfordshire. An enquiry is making into this scene of cruelty, by the intervention of fome public-fpirited gentlemen, and fubfcriptions for the relief of the poor of that parish have been bestowed. The telons in Chelmsford goal lately fet fre thereto, to facilitate an escape, but were prevented, and the flames extinguished without much damage. The two annual premiums left by the late Dr. Smith, to the university of Cambridge, have been affigned to Mr. Atwood of Triaity, and Mr. Parkinson of Chrift-colleges. The following fubje&s are proposed at Oxford for the chancellor's prizes for the prefent year, viz. for latin verfes," Ars Meend." For an English oration, "The utility of public infirmaries." The first of the above fubjects is intended for fuch gentlemen of the univerfity as have not exceeded four years, from the time of their mat-iculation; and the other for fuch as have exceeded four but not compleated feven years. The exercifes to which the prizes are adjudged, are to be repeated in the theatre at the enfuing public Encenia. At a feffions held in January by adjourn ment from Wakefield) a: Dorcafter for the Welt-Riding of Yorkshire, William Garlick, of Featherstone, near Pontefract, one of the high contables for the Wapontake of Of golderofs, was indicted for extorting money, by colour of his office, to the amount of up. wards of 1250. from 25 town-ips within the faid Wapontake, and upon his pleading guilty to the first indictment, (which was preferred against him by the conftables of Pontefra&) and agreeing to pay all the muney back to the faid feveral towns, with intereft due for the fame, and all charges of the profecution, the court fined him 6s. Ed. and ordered him to be imprisoned for one month in York-Cafle, and turned him out of the office of the high conftable, and appointed Mr. Matthew Ah, of Tanfhelf, high conftable in the place of the faid Wiiliam Garlick. Letters from Philadelphia, of Nov. 18, fay, "We are like to have fome uneafinels here, on account of a fearcher appo nted for this port, laft fummer; who on the merchants refufing to pay him his fees, left us; and, about ten days ago, returned with letters from the commiffioners to the collector, and an account of the fees paid to the fearcher at New-York. A few days ago a merchant went to clear out a vefiel for Madeira, and was afked by the collector, if the fearcher had indorfed the fufferance; being answered in the negative, he told the party he could not give him his papers till that was done. The fearcher, upon this, was fent for, indorfed the fufferance and demanded his fees, which the merchant refufed, faying, there was no act of parliament which gave him any, and that his falary was his pay for his fervices. The collector. fill hefitating to clear out the veffel, the merchant made his cafe known in the public coffee houfe, and immediately thirty or forty of the principal merchants, in a body, waited on the collector, and threatened to commence an action against him, if he delayed any longer clearing the vellel out; that with regard to the fearcher's feer, they were willing to try his right to them at law, and would give fecurity in cafe of judgment against them, to pay from his first appointment; the collector not caring to be fued, told the fearcher that he muft collect his own fees, and if he thought he had a right to any, recommended to him to get a warrant against any erfon that thould refuse. The fearcher difappointed in throwing the burden on the collector's shoulders, is fet out for Bofton; and we expect the collector will be displaced and a number of men of war fent heie; the traders are, however, to a man, determined to fupport what they think the r right and to make it a common caufe. Mr. Dickenfon, on being contuited, has given his opinon clearly in favor of the merchants, and adifes them by no means to give up the matter." 112 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. Extract of a Letter from Charles-Town, South-Carolina, Dec. 19. "The French inhabitants of New-Orleans affembled together in a large body on the 30th of October, determined to expel Don Antonio d'Ulloa, the Spanish goverpor, and the other Spanish officers; accordingly on the 2d of November they fent them on board a large Spanish fhip in the harbour, with orders to leave the island immediately; previously to the above exploit they confined M. Aubry, who was commandant while the place belonged to France. The occation was, the Spaniards wanting to introduce their commercial regulations, which the inhabitants fay they will not fubmit to, and will be either French or British fubjects, but never Spanish; they are failed for the Havanna. They left in. the harbour a Spanish frigate with the marines, not in a condition to put to fea, and two hostages for payment of debts due to the, French. Four of the principal French gen tlemen were to embark in three or four days, to lay their affairs before the court of France, and folicit redrefs of fundry grievances." By letters from Grenada, of Dec. 31. Humphry Euden, Samuel Harris, and Charles O'Gara, are faid to be imprifoned for the murder of one Obrian, on the coast of Guinea, and running away with a schooner, belonging to their ship, Richard, Capt. Eagle. Extralt of a Letter from Jamaica. "Our acounts from the Havanna, relating to the late hurricane, are very contradictory. Some fay that the damage done is fo confiderable, that it cannot be repaired in feveral years; others, that their whole lofs may be repaired for about fix millions of piaftres. By the moft moderate calculation, ninety-fix public edifices have been totally ruined, among which are reckoned the great cathedral, the custom houfe, the great tobacco magazine, St. Jaques's fort, the principal jail, and the convent of St. Auguftine, befides 4048 houfes. What is very remarkable, not above 110 perfons were buried in the ruins, though a great number of lives have been loft in the plantations. Sixty-nine hips were run on fhore, moft of which were entirely beat to pieces. The hurricane began on the 15th of October laft, at the fouth end of the island of Cuba, and died away in the north. Early and authenti: Abri es from India. By an exprefs arrived over land from India, which left Baffora on the 26th of October laft, the following advices have been received from Surat and Bengal, of a fresher date than any which came by the last ships of this feafon. From Surat they write that the principal chiefs of the Morattas were engaged in a war amongst themselves.-Thefe civil commotions of the powerful race of people will Febi fecure the English from being annoyed by them in the war they are now carrying on in the Decan against Hyder Ally. The news from Bengal is rather unfavour able, as they feem to entertain ftrong apprehenfions of a rupture with Suja Dowla: This intriguing prince has, it feems confiderably increafed his army, and difciplined them upon the plan of the English Seapoys: he has alfo made a great addition to his artillery, from his own founderies, where he employs Frenchmen, who caft as good field pieces as any that are brought from Europe; and what appears ftill more alarming, he has been lately circulating letters amongst the neighbouring Rajas, fetting forth how difgraceful and ignominious it is to the whole empire, to fee the Great Mogul in the hands of the Engifh Eat-India company, who dictate all his councils. It is thought, however, by intelligent people returned from India, that if a war fhould happen with this ambitious neighbour of our's, he must foon falla facrifice, as his force is ftil inferior to our's, and his troops not commanded by European officers; the only inconve nience therefore which can probably ensue, will be a temporary increafe of expence to the company. By letters from Jamaica, we learn, that the affembly of that flapd met the 13th of Sept. and, after a feffion of nine days, was diffolved by the lieutenant-governor, on the house refufing to comply with the royal requifition for re-payment of the monies advanced by the treasury of Great-Britain, for the island fubfiftance of the troops ftationed there, during the late discontinuance of the fitting of the affembly. Writs being itfued for calling a new affembly, most of the mem bers were elected, among whom are, Mr. Gale, Mr. Cuthbert, and feveral other gentlemen of Jamaica. Charles Price, Efq; for many years Speaker of the Alfembly of Ja maica, on the 7th of October received by the hands of his excell ncy Sir William Trelaw ney, governor in chief of that ifland, his majetty's patent conferring on him, and bis heirs male, the dignity of a baronet of GreatBritain. Governor Trelaw.ey made hi” publick-entry into Kingston on Thurfday the 20th of October. A circular letter has been fent from Lord Hilborough, to the governors of the different provinces in America, to command them, in his m→→y's name, to affil the commiffioners of the customs, in the ci charge of the duties of their refpective office!, to the utmost of their power. The temporary importance of many per inferted this month, bas obliged us to trespas upon many of our ingenious correfperdents, end to defer the Foreign Affairs, the Liffs, & to our next. |