ceffion began at Northumberland houfe about eleven o'clock; the number of coaches was fo great, that the first coach was got to Covent Garden church before the laft left Northumberland house. Twelve butts of beer were placed within the rails of Covent Garden, to be given to the populace; but before it was half out, fome foldiers that were drunk overfet the butts, and let what remained run to waste. After which a terrible fray happened between fome Irish chairmen, who were flushed with the election liquor, and fome foldiers and failors; which was at length quelled by the arrival of a party of the guards from the Savoy. A foldier and failor were dangerously wounded. Three others were greatly hurt and carried to the infirmary. The king's Head alehouse in James-Street, (which was a house of call for chairmen ; and from whence, it is faid, they were supplied with offenfive weapons, fuch as pokers, tongs, &c.) was demolished. Letters from Ireland bring melancholy accounts of the mischiefs committed by thofe people called Levellers, in the county of Tipperary; by levelling park walls, breaking down fences, &c. They cut out the tongue, and cut off the lip of a poor man at Caftle-Otway, and have greatly abused several other people in that neigh bourhood. The lords-juftices have ordered their proclamation, with the reward of 10001. for discovering any person concerned in cutting out the man's tongue; and they have fent down a company of an independent troop of horfe militia, with feveral ftand of arms, to Thomas Otway, Efq; who hath been very active against these Levellers. WEDNESDAY, March 16. The king of Pruffia has appointed prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, to be governor of Silefia; the duke of Bevern, governor of Prufia; and the prince of Wurtemberg, governor of Pomerania. This day, Parfons, concerned in the affair of the Cock-Lane ghost, stood in the pillory at the end of Cock-Lane, SnowHill; when the populace not only treated him with great clemency, but extraordinary generofity, by collecting a handfome fum of money for him. FRIDAY, March 18. At the affizes at Nottingham, Elizabeth Morton of the parish of Walkrington, a girl of about fixteen years old, was found guilty of the murder of Mary Oliver, an infant of two years of age, by ftrangling it on the 4th of August laft. The child was the daughter of the perfons with whom he lived fervant, and the is fuppofed to have destroyed another of their children in the fame manner, and attempted the life of a third. She is a most hardened wretch, confeffes the crime, and fays he did it because they cried, and were troublesome. She was ordered for execution, but is fince reprieved for three weeks. SATURDAY, March 19. On Thursday laft at noon, John Rice, the broker, was brought to the manfionhoufe, having been delivered up by order of the court of France, at the instance of that of England; when after a long examination before the lord-mayor, in the prefence of fome gentlemen of the Bank and South Sea company, he was committed to the Poultry compter. He declared that no perfon had any concern with charged with; and that having destroyed him in the feveral forgeries he stands his papers before he went away, he was unable to give fo clear an account of his affairs as he could with. He was quite compofed, and answered every question without hesitation. And this day he was re-examined before the lord-mayor, when he made a full confeffion of his whole tranfactions; declared, as before, that there was no one concerned with him in the feveral forgeries on the Bank and South-Sea companies, amounting 45,000l. which money, together with his own fortune, he had loft in the Alley, excepting what was found upon his wife, and about 300l. he carried off with him, which he had expended. That the first lofs he had in the Alley was 5000 1. being the difference of fome ftock which he had to agreed for on account of a gentleman who would not take it of him, and not having money to make good that difference, in order to keep up his credit in the Alley, first induced him to practice forgeries : this transaction happened about two years ago, and meeting almost every day with loffes, he went on in forging, till at twelve different times he had obtained the fum above-mentioned. He readily figned his confeffion, begged that the lord-mayor would be pleased to indulge him with liberty to remain in the Poultry-compter till the next feffions, and that his wife might be with him; both which his lord. Chip granted, upon condition that his wife did not go out after she was admitted; if he did, not to be fuffered to go to him any more. He told the lord mayor that his guilt fat heavy on him, that he had not enjoyed one happy hour during his abfence, and he was glad to return to England, that he might suffer that punishment which he most justly deserved. The lord-mayor recommended to him, in very moving terms, to make the best use of his time to prepare for a future ftate; for that the nature of his crime was fuch, that he could not hope, after conviction, to receive the royal mercy. A great number of failors went up to St. James's for an answer to a petition they had presented to his majesty the day before, for having the R's taken off; which his majefty was pleased to grant. MONDAY, March 21. By the KING. A Proclamation. GEORGE R. "Whereas a definitive treaty of peace and friendship between us, the most Christian king, and the king of Spain, to which the king of Portugal hath acceded, hath been concluded at Paris on the 10th day of this inftant March; in conformity thereunto, we have thought fit hereby to command, that the fame be published throughout all our dominions: and we do declare to all our loving fubjects our will and pleafure, that the faid treaty of peace and friendship be observed inviolably, as well by fea and land, and in all places whatfoever; ftrictly charging and commanding all our loving fubjects to take notice hereef, and to conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given at our court at St. James's, the 21ft day of March, 1763, in the third year of our reign. GOD fave the KING." It appears from an account, which feems calculated with great exactness, that no more than 1514 failors and marines have been killed during this laft war, in their different and glorious engagements against the enemy; and the amazing number of thofe dead of diseases and missing, amounts to 133,708; half, at leaft, of which, without exaggeration, may be supposed to have perished by the inclemency of the weather, the fcurvy, or by living on falted provifions. A moft alarming circumftance! that 152,196 more fhould die of diseases, than all the united efforts of our mortal enemies could destroy in a long fix years war; and certainly it merits the moft ferious confideration of thofe in power, to think of fome expedient hereafter to preferve the lives of our brave failors and foldiers, always a terror to the enemies of Great Britain. TUESDAY, March 22. Peace was proclaimed, purfuant to his majesty's royal warrant figned for that purpose: the ceremony of which was as follows: At ten o'clock the officers of arms affembled at St. James's gate, properly apparelled, on horfeback; when proclamation of his majesty's declaration of peace wat made, with the ufual folemnity. From thence they marched to CharingCrofs, in the following order, viz. Guards to clear the way. Conftables and beadles, two and two, hare-headed, with staves. The high conftable. The officers of the high bailiff of Westminster. The high bailiff. The grenadier guards. Knights marshal men, two and two. The king's trumpets. The ferjeant trumpeter, bearing his mace. Purfuivants and heralds, two and two. Norroy king at arms, having on each fide a ferjeant at arms with a mace. Garter, principal king at arms. A troop of horfe guards. At Charing Crofs peace was proclaimed a fecond time. From thence they proceeded to Temple, Bar, where the officers of Weftminster retired, and within the gate the lord mayor aldermen, and fheriffs performed the ufual ceremony, at their entrance into the city. Then proclamation was made a third time at the end of Chancery-Lane; then at the end of Wood-Street in Cheapfide, where the cross formerly stood. And the fifth and last time at the Royal Exchange, during Change time. Their majefties, and most of the royal family, were at the windows over the gate-way at St. James's, to hear the proclamation read. It is faid the peace was proclaimed the fame day by agreement, in Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon, as well as London. THURSDAY, March 24. His majesty went to the house of peers, and gave the royal affent to The The bill to punish mutiny and defertion; For better regulating his majesty's marine forces when on shore; To enable officers, foldiers and marines to exercife trades, &c. The bill to apply the fum granted to pay and cloath the militia for the prefent year. The bill for granting annuities to fatis fy navy, victualling and tranfport bills, and ordinance debentures. To amend an act for the due making of bread, and to regulate the price thereof in Scotland. To amend an act for the due making of bread in England. For hightning, cleanfing, and paving the Areets, in the city of Coventry. To rectify mistakes in the names of the commiffioners appointed by the land-tax act, of the laft and prefent feffions. To diffolve the marriage of Mr. William Hazeland from his wife Mary Whalley, to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes. And alfo to feveral bills to inclofe lands, to repair roads, to feveral, naturalization and road bills. This day Peter Roberts, Efq; remem'brancer of the city of London, delivered to the right hon. the lord mayor, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Sir Richard Glynn, and the hon. Thomas Harley, members of parliament for this city, a reprefentation which was ordered to be given them by the court of common council, to ufe their endea.. vours in parliament to prevent the further extenfion of the excife laws. When the representations were made against the excife fcheme, during the adminiftration of Sir Robert Walpole, the following letter was fent to a borough from one of their reprefentatives. "Gentlemen, "Yours I received, and am very much furprized at your infolence in troubling me about the excife. You know, what I know very well, that I bought you. I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, that you are about felling yourfelves to fomebody eife; and I know, what perhaps you don't know, that I am about buying another borough.And now may the curfe of G.-- light upon you all! and may your houfes be as common to excifemen, as your wives and daughters The theriffs of London attended the Houfe of Peers, with a petition of the Common council, against the bill for laying an excife on cyder and perry. At the affizes at Burg, Margaret Bedingfield for the murder of John Bedingfield, her husband, was fentenced to be burnt; and Richard King, an accomplice in the faid murder, to be hanged, and afterwards to be anatomized. TUESDAY, March 29. Captain Houlcroft of the ship Fanny, arrived at Liverpool, from the Havannah, which he left Feb. 14th. reports, that the Spaniards behaved very infolently at the Havannah, fcarce a day paffing but they murdered fome of the English in cold blood, if they catched them unarmed, which made trade very precarious, and obliged the English to carry pistols loaded conftantly; the priests infused a notion into the Spaniards, that the king of Spain bad taken London, in revenge for losing the Havannah; and prayed for a continuance of the war, as they did not approve of St. Auguftine and Florida being ceded to the English by the peace. BIRTHS. Dutchefs of Hamilton, of a fon. The lady of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, of a daughter. Lady of lord St. John, of a daughter. The countess of Selkirk, of a fon. Lady of the hon. and rev. Dr. Talbot, of a son, Lady of Charles Wyndham, Efq; of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, of a son. The wife of Mr. Wright, baker of Chelsea, of two boys and a girl. MARRIAGES. John York, Efq; of Richmond, Yorkfhire, to Mifs Sophia Glynne. Captain Wirkelo, to Mifs Ayres, of Brighthelmstone. Savage Charles Rainsford, of lord Ancram's dragoons, to Mifs Freeman of Putney. DEATHS. Lady Jane Dalmahoy, near Edinburgh. Sir William Moreton, recorder of London. The lady of the bishop of Sodor and Man. John Waple, Efq; of Gray's-Inn. 000000 THE BRITISH MAGAZINE, For APRIL, 1763. A Relation of a moft extraordinary Adventure that happened to the Son of a Grandee of Spain, in the Year 1712; tranflated from the Spanish. I Y the adventure I am F going to relate had happened in China, or Indoftan; or were it even published under borrowed names, it would doubtlefs be confidered as one of those fabulous events that decorate the relation of imaginary heroes but the following account is fo clear, and fo well attefted, that the most incredulous must acknowledge it as a fact, however surprifing they may think the changes of fortune. The count of Alvarez, a grandee of Spain, thought himself happy in being blessed with a fon to inherit the honour and large eftate of his family; but his joy was of April, 1763. no long continuance, for his coun tefs dying three days after, filled his breaft with the most poignant grief: nor did he ever thoroughly recover from this fhock of nature; he languifhed ten months, and then yielded up his breath, leaving the young count of Alvarez under the guardianship of his uncle, who had only a small eftate, and many children. This unnatural uncle, covetting the fortune of his nephew to enrich his own children, formed the horrid defign of murdering the orphan committed to his care; but being hocked at the thought of fpilling the blood of his nephew with his own hand, he prevailed on his valet to undertake the inhuY man man office, by the promife of a mestic now, to calm the mind of his large reward. Accordingly the valet carried the child into an adjacent field, in order to perpetrate the barbarous action; but being a stranger to the practice of affaffination, he grafped the knife with a trembling hand, and giving the young count three wounds between the neck aud the fhoulder, none of which proved mortal, he was ftruck with remorse, and, instead of finishing the horrid defign, carried him to a furgeon to drefs his wounds, pretending they were given the infant by a company of banditti he met in the foreft. He was, however, unwilling to lofe his reward, and therefore filled a coffin with linen and earth, which he caused to be buried, and it was given out by the guardian and his family, that the child died by fudden convulfions. In the mean time, the young count was carried by the valet to a village at fome diftance, and there nurfed by a pealant, whom he paid for her care. Here he continued till he was fix years of age, when the fervant gave him to a merchant, then going into Turkey, with fome money, alluring him that he was the natural fon of a perfon of quality, but, for certain reafons, there was a neceflity for concealing his birth and family. Some time after, the children of the unnatural uncle died one after another, and the father, in his turn, fell dangerously ill. Thefe uncommon afflictions awakened him to the fenfe of his crime; he imputed all his misfortunes to the wrath of heaven, and lamented his enormous offence to the valet he had employed to murder his nephew. The do mafter, discovered the whole truth, and gave him fome reason to hope, that by proper care, and a confiderable expencé, his nephew might still be found. Don Alvarez, animated by this, difcovery, gave orders for making the necellary inquiries, and that no expence fhould be spared to make the happy difcovery, this child being now the only remaining branch of the Alvarez family. But their care was for fome time rendered abortive; no tidings could be heard of the unfortunate youth: at lait they were informed that the young count had been fold to a Turk, who had afterwards difposed of him to an English merchant, then refiding at Conftantinople, but foon after left that city and returned to London. On receiving this advice, an exprefs was immediately difpatched for England; but all in vain, the youth could not be found. They were indeed informed, that the young count having ferved his master faithfully fome years, he had put him to a French barber to learn that profeffion, as a reward for his diligence; that having made a fufficient progrefs, the count de Gallas, then envoy to the emperor at London, had retained him in his fervice, and carried him to Vienna; where they made freth enquiries, and at laft found, that this new barber, having been difcharged from the fervice of the count de Gallas, entered into that of count d'Oberstoff, in whose family he married the waiting-maid of the countefs, and was gone to fettle in Bohemia. Several years were spent in these enquiries; during which, the young count's |