Mynheer Slingelandt, our new Counsellor-Penfionary, applies himself with great affiduity to the Affairs of his Office, fo that we have ground to expect he will anfwer up to the most fanguine of our Wifhes. His Integrity, joined with his publick Spirit, and confummate Experience in Business, especially that Part of it which relate to the Finances, make his Country promife itself great Things from his Administration. I had almost forgot, that this Gentleman's Friends had much ado to perfuade him to accept of the Of. fice, when chofen, because the keeping of the Seals, and the Stadholdership of the Fiefs of the Province were lopt off, in Favour of Mynheer Van Boutselaer, • Prefident of the Counsellors-Deputies. The Oftend Company begin to be in pain fortheir Ships expected home from the East Indies,having heard nothing of them a long while, tho' they were instru cted to touch at Brazil,and wait for Orders which way to proceed on their Voyage. As for the faid Company's • Removal from Oftend to Trieste,the Imperial Court will not come to a final Resolution in that Affair,till they fee what will be done therein in the Congrefs. Mean while, their Stock droops, for the Reafon above, and becaufe our EaftIndia Company will make a Sale of the Cargoes of their Ships laft arrived, before the Oftend Company can poffibly be ready with theirs, HAGUE, Sept. 5, NS, (Aug. 25 O S) The Emperor has actually confented to the Propofal made to him on the Part of France, to change the Place of Congrefs from Aix-la-Chapelle, as fettled in the Preliminaries, to Cambray. The Pretence for this Request was, that the Cardinal de Fleury might more commodioufly repair to this laft Place than to Aix, to remove all Difficulties by his Prefence, and pave the Way to a fpeedy as well as general Pacification. Count Zinzendorf. the Emperor's High Chancellor, is appointed his Imperial Majefty's first Plenipotentiary for the faid Congrefs, Count Windischgrats is the fecond, and Baron Pentenriedter the third. But the Congrefs will hardly be form'd till the Beginning of the New Year, the C King of Spain having declared, that his Plenipotentiaries will not be ready till then. Some Some Letters fpeak very pofitively of the Chevalier de St. George's Arrival at Nancy the 18th of July, under the borrowed Name of the Abbot Zangardi; where having waited till he found he had nothing to expect either from the Emperor or France, he contented himfelf with difperfing a Manifefto, and was returned to Bologna. Mean time, the Pope is trying all his Strength to have a Nuncio admitted in the enfuing Congrefs, to bring the Roman Catholick Powers to an Agreement about the Chevalier's Maintenance, that the Apoftolick Chamber may be eafed of fo heavy a 'Burden. . Mynheer Vander Meer, Ambaffador of this State at the Court of Madrid, gave Hopes, in his laft Letter to their High Mightineffes, that it would be followed very foon by an Exprefs, with the new Convention he was treating about with the Spanish Minifters, in Rek moval of the Difficulties fo often mention'd to retard the opening of the future Congrefs: But that Ex prefs is not yet, arrived, which caufes great uneaffnefs here, and makes us apprehenfive that Affairs are not yet fo ripe for Conclufion, as could be wifhed. We are even confirm'd in this Appreohnfion by fome private Letters from Madrid, which fay the King of Spain infifts, that the Englifh fhall leave the Fortifications of Gibraltar in the Condition they now are, till 'the General Peace is fully concluded, without repairing the Damage done by the laft Siege, much lefs making any new Works: And as for the Ship Prince Frederick, belonging to the South-Sea Company, these Letters tell us, the Court of Spain will not hear of reftoring it, at least till the Galleons are returned home. Mean while, the Marquis de Fenelon having received an Exprefs from his Court, had a long Conference with their High Mightineffes Committee for Foreign Affairs on Wednesday laft, at which Mr. Finch the English Envoy, was alfo prefent; and it was, to communicate fome new Proposals (which favour much of the Moft Chriftian King's Mediation) as well for terminating the Differences between Great "Britain and Spain, as for opening the Congrefs of Cambray of which more another Time, . 3. It being neceffary by the Laws of Ireland, before any Parliament be called for that Kingdom, that the Lord Lieutenant and Council fhould certify to the King, that der'd to call a fome particular Bills are requifite for the Parliament in Good of the Country; the Lord Lieute Ireland. nant and Council did accordingly, certifie Commiffion or dation of a new Fort at Inverness. this Month, two Bills, the one, for the Encouragement of Tillage; the other for Impowe ring the Fudges to determine of the Sincerity of Juch Converts from Popery, as fhall apply to be called to the Bar ; and that a Commiffion was thereupon order'd to pass the Great Seal for fummoning a Parliament in Ireland, Gen Wade On Monday the 7th of Auguft, General lays the Foun- Wade attended by the Magiftrates of the Town, the Lieutenant Governor, chief Engineer, and other Officers of the Gartifon of Inverness in the North of Scotland, went to the Caftle and performed the Ceremony of laying the firft Stone of the new For. tification, calling it after his Majesty's Name, Fort GEORGE: When feveral loyal Healths were drank under the Difcharge of the Cannon of the Old Castle. makes great Rejoycings on the Birth of Two Princefces in France. On Wednesday the 30th of August, Count The French de Broglio, Ambaffador from the most Chri Ambafador, ftian King, made a fumptuous Enrertainment at his Houfe in Piccadilly, on account of the Delivery of the Queen of France, of two Princeffes; at which were prefent the foreign Minifters and chief Nobility. In the evening a fine Firework was play'd off, and the out fide of the Houfe was illuminated with near 2000 Lamps placed in curious Devices, viz. Over the Door; the SUN (being the Device of France) on one Side the King of France's Cypher, with a Crown, over it; on the other the Queen's, with a Crown, and the rest of the Front ftrewed with Flower de Luces. Оп On Monday Night, the laft Day of July, Deaths, Births was buried at St. Giles's Cripple-gate, Mrs. and Marriages Palmer a rich Widow Gentlewoman, who of eminent died fome Days before, and who among Perfons. other Legacies, left 4000 l. for Increafing Mrs Palmer Chriftian Knowledge in the Highlands feveral Legan and Iflands of Scotland 2000 I. to be added to Queen ANNE's Bounty, 2000l. to the Hofpital of Bethlehem ; 500 1. to the Charity School of St. Andrew's Holborn; and 500 l. to poor Widows that receive no Alms from the Parish, &c. dies and leaves On the 4th of Auguft, died Charles Bowles Mr Bowles Efq; at his Houfe in Charles Street, Southwark.dies. The Day before, died the Lady of John Barber Efq; Daughter to the Rt. Hon. the And MrsBar Lord Stawel of Somerton, in the County ofber. Somerset as did alfo, two Days after (August 5th) Mrs. Spinckes, who furvived her Husband, the Rev. Mr. Nath Spinckes, the Non And Mrs. juring Clergyman, about 8 Days; they Spinckes. were both upwards of 70 Years of Age. And George On Sunday the 6th died alfo George St. Amand Efq; Judge of the Court within the St Amand Jurlfdiction of the Tower of London. Efq; About the jame time, died at Long Mil And Sir ford in Suffolk, Sir Charles Firebrace Bart, and Charles Fire was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his brace Bart. Son, now Sir Cordell Firebrace, a Youth of about Fourteen Years of Age. Ou Wednesday, the 9th of Auguft died alfo And Mr Henry Lovibond Efq; one of the Masters in Lovibond: Chancery, at his Seat at Petersbam, near Richmond. About the Beginning of this Month, the The Earl of Rt. Hon. the Earl of Sutherland, was marri- Sutherland ed to the Relict of the late Sir John Travel, ma i. a Lady of a very great Fortune. On Tuesday, the 8th of Auguft, the Right The Countess Hop, the Countess of Inchequin, was deli-of Inchequin deliver'd of er'd of a Son. C & On Son Rob. Cocks On the 12th Robert Cocks Efq; Nephew to Efq; married. the late Sir Richard Cocks of Dunbleton in the County of Glocefter was married to Mrs. Cholmondley of Lincolnshire, a Lady of a confiderable Fortune, The Hon. The fame Day (Aug, 12th) died the Hon. Tho. Leve-Thomas Levefon Gower Efq; fecond Brother to the Lord Gower. fon Gower Efq; dies. And Mr. Ramfden. Charles Baldwyn Some time before Thomas Ramsden Efq; late Sheriff for the County of York, died of a Confumption. About the fame Time, Charles Baldwyn, of Lincoln's Inn, Efq; was married to the Efq; married. Reli&t of Sir Patrick Strahan, late Barrack Mafter General in Scotland, Rob.Mitchel On Tuesday, the 15th of August, died in the 77th Year of his Age, Robert Mitchel Efq; who for many Years was a Director both of the East India and South Sea Companies. The fame Day, died alfo Sir Thomas Gery, And Sir Tho. formerly Member of Parliament for Coven Gery. try, and one of the Mafters in Chancery. 'And Dr.. Crofts. .... The Hon Mr Compton married. Sir John Packington Bart, dies. And Fufice The Day before, died at the Bath, the eminent Dr. Crofts, Organiff and Compofer to his Majefty, Mafter of the Children of the Chappel Royal, and Inftrument Keeper and. Organi of St. Peter's Westminster. About the fame Time, the Hon. Charles Compton Efq;was married to the only Daughter of Sir Berkley Lucy. Some Days before, Sir John Packington, Bart. who for many Years was one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Wor. cefter, died at his Seat of Westwood in the faid County; and was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his only Son, now Sir Her bert Perrot Packington, lately return'd one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Worcester, in the enfuing Parliament. On Saturday the 19th died Mr. Juftice Clithero, at his Seat near Brentford. About |