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of the rights of the people, fubverfive of all legal liberty, and utterly irreconcileable to every principle of the Conftitution.

We fincerely lament that any measures fhould have been taken to discountenance the conftitutional mode of complaint to the Throne by petition, as it is one of the most indifputable rights of the subject, and no lefs the intereft of the Prince to encourage than the people to prefer.

Bound as we are by duty as well as inclination, to fupport your Majefty, we confider ourfelves no lefs bound to fupport the Conftitution; a Conftitution which has hitherto been preferved by the blood and treasure of our ancestors, and which, in juftice to our pofterity, at the rifque of all that is dear to us, we will tranfmit unimpaired to our defcendants.

The prefent national difcontents lead us to look back with horror on the general confufion in the last age, which arofe from the pernicious counfels of wicked and corrupt Minifters, who after violating the liberties of the people, flighted their just petitions and remonftrances, and by thofe means brought on the calamities, which at length involved Prince and people in one common ruin.

A brave and free people, poffeffing the higheft notions of liberty and veneration for their privileges, can never be at reft whilst their own free choice of a Reprefentative is taken from them. This is the only inftance of any man being impofed upon them with a confeffed minority of votes: If one man can be fo impofed, all may; and we dread the confequences, unless your Majefty fhall be pleased to listen to the cries of your people, and relieve them in their prefent diftreffed fituation.

Deign then, most gracious Sovereign to liften to the earnest remonstrance of a loyal, though mifreprefented people; remove those Ministers who advised a violation of our privileges; difcountenance that over-ruling influence which has been the fecret fource of all our grievances, and, by diffolving the prefent Parliament, afford us an opportunity of returning fuch Reprefentatives as will be equally attentive to the honour of the Crown and, the rights of the people.

And your Majefty's petitioners shall every pray, &c. Signed by eleven Gentlemen, in the name of the freeholders affembled at the county meeting at Guildford, on Wednesday May 30, 1770.

June 20.

St. James's, June 19. Laft Sunday evening her Royal Highness the young Princess was chriftened in the Great Council Chamber by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury: Her royal Highness was named Elifabetb. The fponfors were, the Hereditary Prince of Hefle Caffel, reprefented by the Ear) of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain of his Majefty's Houthold; the Princefs Royal of Sweden, reprefented by the Countess of Hol.

derneffe, and the Princefs of Naffau-Wei!burg, reprefented by the Counters Dowager of Effingham.

June 21.

This morning at five o'clock died, at his houfe in Soho-fquare, much lamented by every lover of his country, the Right Hon. William Beckford, Efq; Lord Mayor, and one of the Representatives in Parliament of the city of London.

June 22.

Paris, June 13. The dreadful accident that attended the rejoicings in this city on the 31st of May, was owing to two caufes, which, if our Magiftrates had taken the neceflary care to guard againft, would have been prevented. In the first place, there was no fcaffold erected for the convenience of the fpectators; and in the next, the communications between the Place de Louis and the Boulevards, which confift of three streets, were in a manner blocked up; that on the left hand, the Rue la Bonne Morue, being narrow, was rendered impaffable by the coaches; that on the right called Rue St. Florentin, in which the Count St. Florinton, Secretary of State, has his refidence, and in whofe department the care of this metropolis is, and by whofe order the fireworks were exhibited, for the conveniency of himself and friends his Excellency would not permit the populace to pass, and this being the principal thoroughfare from the Place de Louis, where the fireworks were exhibited, to the Boulevards, there was only the middle ftreet free for the toot-paflengers, and all the croud preffing at once after the fireworks were over to fee the booths illuminated, in croffing the Rue St. Honore the melancholy catastrophe began. The pickpockets and robbers availed themselves of the confufion; and many Ladies, had their ear-rings torn out of their ears. A fcaffold erected, near the palace of Bourbon, broke down with the over weight of the fpectators, who all fell into the river. There have been already taken up above a hundred drowned at St. Cloud, but many bodies have been driven beyond that place. It is computed that not less than 3000 are either killed, wounded, or rendered cripples during the remainder of their days.

His moft Chriftian Majefty has ordered 100,000 livres to be expended towards the relief of the unfortunate perfons who were hurt, or have loft their relations in the confuflon on the night of the city fireworks. The Dauphinefs and the Mesdames have alfo contributed.

The number of dead, on that occafion, is faid to be in all 712. Among which were, four monks, two abbés, and twenty-two perfons of condition. It does not appear that. there are any English among the number.

Yesterday afternoon the fittings in term began, when cleven caufes were tried, among which was an action between a Gentleman and Mifs J-s, on a bond granted by the former to the latter for 3000l. Several bonda

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had been granted and cancelled, but that in January 1769, was the bone of contention. A noble Lord gave evidence to the reality of the deed, as he himself had been a fubfcribing witness thereto. The Judge obferved, that if Mifs J-s had been a common pe, he would inftantly have fet afide the bond as void and null, but as it was granted for value, and that the lived with the Gentleman at that time, giving her company to none other, the point of law was on her fide, and the bond fell to be fuftained; and fo the jury, with out going out of Court, decided in her favour, with cofts of fuit, and other damages.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

Lord Chief Justice Wilmot and Mr. Baron

Adams.

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City of Norwich, fame day, at the Guildhall.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT,

Mr. Juftice Afton, and Mr. Baron Perrott.
City of York, Saturday, August 4, at the
Guildhall.

Yorkshire, fame day, at the cattle.
Durham, Tuesday the 14th, at the caftle.
Town of Newcastle upon-Tyne, Monday the
20th, at the Guildhall.
Northumberland, fame day, at the caftle of
Newcastle upon-Tyne.
Cumberland, Friday the 24th, at the city
of Carlife.
Weftmoreland, Wednesday the 29th, at Ap-
pleby.

Lancaster, Saturday Sept. 1, at the castle.

June 22.

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On Saturday was finally determined by the Lords Commiflioners in Chancery, the longdepending caufe between the Earl of Chatham, as reprefentatiup of the late Sir William

Pynfent, Bart. and Daw, Efq; when the
decree obtained by his Lordship was reversed"
in favour of Mr. Daw. The fum contended
for, with cofts of fuit, &c, will amount to be-
tween 14 and 15000).
June 23.

A Common-hall was yesterday held a Guildhall, for the choice of a Lord-Mayor of this city, for the remainder of the year, in the room of the Right Hon. William Beckford, Efq; deceased. At one o'clock precifely Sir Robert Ladbroke, as Locum Tenens, attended by the two Sheriffs, the Recorder, Barlow Trecothick, Efq; Brafs Crosby, Efq; Alderman Wilkes, and eight more Aldermen, the proper Officers, &c, afcended the huftings; and after the bufinefs of the meeting was opened by the Common-cryer, as ufual, Mr. Recorder came forward, and addressed the livery to the following purport:

Gentlemen of the Livery,

It is my province to open the business of this meeting. I have therefore to acquaint you, that you are now called together to elect a Chief Magiftrate for the remainder of this year, in the room of William Beckford, Efq;

deceased.

Your late worthy Magiftrate, Gentlemen, was one who ferved this city in three fucceffive Parliaments, and ever appeared to act fteadily and fpiritedly. He always profeffed the greatest veneration for the liberties of the people, and was a zealous promoter, upon every occafion, of those laws that guarded them. In his magifterial capacity, he fupported himself fo much to your fatisfaction, that you twice conferred the honour of Chief Magiftrate on him; nor did he, at any time, forfeit your confidence. He was active, vigilant, and attentive to your interefts; the name of CITIZEN, was his higheft ambition; and he directed his immenfe fortune, and great connections, to support that title with fplendor and magnificence. He had many manly virtues; perhaps, fome failings; but he is now dead, and I have forgot them.

There will be now read to you a respectable lift of Gentlemen, for your nomination of two of them; you will therefore, I have no doubt, choose those who appear to you to be the most deferving and most respectable."

All the Aldermen below the chair, who had ferved the office of Sheriff, were put up, and the livery returned, almost unanimously, the Aldermen Trecothick and Crofby, to the Court of Aldermen for their choice of one but a poll was demanded in favour of Sir Henry Bankes, by Deputy Wilkinson, Mr. Read, Mr. Burfoot, Mr. Oriel, Mr. Millaway, and Deputy Grafton; which began yesterday afternoon at two o'clock.

At a previous meeting of the inhabitants of the ward of Billingsgate yefterday at Baker's-hall, Thomas Oliver, Efq; and George Ward, Efq; were feverally nominated for Al derman of the faid Ward, in the room of the late Lord-Mayor: The new of hands was in favour of Mr. Oliver,

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June 25.

Yesterday a Common-hall was held at Guildhall, for the election of Sheriffs for this city and county of Middlefex for the enfuing year, when all the Aldermen who had not ferved the office were put up; but the livery expreffed their difapprobation of each of them except when Mr. Ald. Wilkes was named, The Commoners who had been nominated by the Lord Mayor were then put up, but little notice was taken of them by the hail; at Jaft William Baker, Efq; and Jofeph Martin, Efq; were put up, when there was a general holding up of hands, followed by a general plaudit, and they were declared duly elected.

The City Officers were then put up as ufual, and were all continued; and Francis Greenway, citizen and bowyer, was chosen one of the aleconners, in the room of Mr. Pace, deceased.

After the elections were over, Sir Robert Ladbroke, who fat as Locum Tenens, and the rest of the Court of Aldermen, came upon the hustings to receive the Sheriffs report, which being made, Mr. Samuel Vaughan applied to Sir Robert to permit him to make a motion refpecting future polls, but Sir Robert did not think it proper to comply, alledging that he was only Locum Tenens. His intended motion, we hear, was as follows: That when ever the Sheriff's declaration is difputed, and a poll is demanded, the candidates, or thofe who demanded a poll, ought to agree to pay the Sheriffs the neceffary expences attending the fame.' June 28.

Yesterday morning, about half an hour

fonable pamphlet in a public fhop, fixed the
guilt upon the mafter? The eleven answered
in the affirmative; fo that in the whole jury
there was but one diffenting voice, Mr.
Serjeant Glynn was the laft to speak for
the fecond time upon the fubject, in answer
to Mr. Moreton. By this time it was one o
clock, when the Court refufed the request for
a fecond trial, and fo the verdict ftands con-
firmed. One of the Judges obferved, that if
the motion was fuftained, then every book-
feller might, by fuch fubterfuges, efcape, after
fetting the whole country in a flame.
June 29.

This day at noon was finally closed at
Guildhall, the foll for the election of a Lord
Mayor for this city, when the numbers were,
For Alderman Trecothick,
Alderman Crosby,

Sir Henry Banks,

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After the declaration of the numbers by the Sheriffs, they returned the names to the Court of Aldermen, who declared AldermanTrecothick duly elected. The Alderman, after his election, addressed himself to the li very in a very handsome speech, in which he paid a high compliment to the great abilities of the late Lord Mayor, and acknowledged how unequal he was to fucceed fo worthy a Magistrate.

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BIRTHS.

Son to the Lady of Sir William Stapleton, Bart. in Lower Grosvenor-street. A fon to the Lady of Sir William Max well, of Springkell, Scotland.

MARRIAGES.

EV. Dr. Frampton, to Mifs Arbuth not, of Cambridge.

after ten, the cafe of Mr. Almon, bookfeller, RE

craving a new trial, came on before the Court of King's-bench, Westminster, when Mr. Sollicitor-general fpoke in behalf of the Crown; he was answered by Mr. Serjeant Glynn, and Mr. Leigh; to whom Mr. Sollicitor-general and Mr. Morton replied, and then Mr. Leigh again replied to thefe. In the course of the debate, Serjeant Glynn offered to produce an affidavit from Mr, Mackworth, the foreman of the jury, fetting forth, that he was not fatisfied with refpec to Mr. Almon's fervant felling the feditious pamphlet in queftion with the privity, conient, and knowledge of his mafter;' and if fo, Mr. Almon could not be guilty of the crime laid to his charge, One of the Judges obferved, that though no man was answerable for the criminal actions of his fervant; yet, in the cafe of a fhopkeeper, the matter was otherwise, and it was the duty of every bookfeller to take particular care that nothing fhould be fold on his premiffes that was obnoxious, and without the verge of the law; that with regard to affidavits from jurymen, he looked upon the admitting of thefe to be of the most dangerous confequence, as paving the way for endless litigation and debate, Another of the Judges faid, that when Mr. Mackworth, the foreman of the jury, put the question, Whether a fervant's felling a trea

Harboard Lee, Efq; of Mortimer, ftreet, to Mifs Francis Bishop, of New Bond-ftreet." John Ogle, Efq; of Cockfpur-ftreet, to Mifs Williams, of Pall-mall.

John Fenwick, Efq; of Upper Grosvenorstreet, to Mifs Cave, of Curzon-street. James Whitfhed, Efq; Member of Cirencefter, to Mifs Henry, of the fame place. Jofeph Bowland, Efq; of Clapham, to Mifs Scott, of Greenwich.

Edward Benton, Efq; of Lincoln's-inn, to Mifs Noyes, of Southcot.

Bennet Langton, Efq; of Langton, Lincolnshire, to the Countess of Rothes.

George Terry, Efq; of Dover ftreet, to Mifs Dorothy Reeves, of New Bond-ftreet.

Col. Clement, to Mifs Webb, daughter of Gen. Webb.

Sir George Cook, Bart. to Mifs Middleton, fifter to Sir William Middleton, Bart, of Belfy caftle, Northumberland.

Barlow Trecothick, Efq; Member for the city of London, to Mifs Meredith, fifter to Sir William Meredith, Bart.

Richard Thorne, Efq; of Queen Annftreet, to Mifs Grove, of Lower GrosvenorAtreet.

Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Shute Barington, Lord Bishop of Landaff, to Mifs Guife, neice to the late Gen. Guife.

DEATHS

DEATH S.

OSEPH Smith, Efq; of Battersea.

J.James Collings, Efq; of New Bond

freet.

Rev. Mr. Charles Goodwin, vicar of marktey, Effex.

Thomas Mills, Efq; at Mile-end.
Daniel Boone, Efq; at Lambray..

Hon. and Rev. Mr, Howe, brother to Lord Chedworth.

William Holmes, Efq; in Long-acre. Mifs Elifabeth Weatherly, at Hackney. Robert Friend, Efq; of Spital-fquare. Sir Jofeph Yates, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of Common-pleas.

Right Hon. the Earl of Cholmondeley, in Piccadilly.

Right Hon. William Beckford, Efq; Lord Mayor of the city of London.

Theophilus Brown, Efq; at Greenwich. Richard Fryer, Efq; at Norton, Shropshire. Mifs Sophia Barlow, at Acomb, near York. Fountain Wentworth Ofbaldiston, Efq; Member for Scarborough.

William Clement, Efq; at Bath.

James Hardcastle, Efq; at Hackney. William Bristow, Efq; in Chancery-lane. Joshua Burton, Efq; at Hackney.、 James Mafley, Efq; in Welbeck-ftreet, Cavendish-fquare.

William Alexander, Efq; in FenchurchStreet.

Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. at Rochforest, Corke.

Thomas Tracy, Efq; Member for the county of Gloucester.

PREFERMENTS.

EV. Mr. Ellis, to the living of Great

R Leck, Huntingdonshire.

Rev. Mr. William Clubbe, to the vicarage of Brandefton, Suffolk.

Rev. Mr. John Hume, to the vicarage of Gillingham, with the chapels of Motcombe, Eaftover, and Westover, in the county of DorLet.

Rev. Mr. William Barford, to the dignity of a canon or prebendary of the cathedral church of Canterbury,

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

IRST reg. foot guards, Enfign Joshua

FIRST res; foot guards, Enfin Joshua

and Captain, vice Charles M'Carthy deceased. 4th reg. foot, Lieut. Nifbet Balfour to be Captain, vice Scipio Rey; by purchase.

18th reg. Foot, Capt. Hugh Lord, from half-pay, to be Captain, vice Matthew Lane, deceased,

Ditto Lieut. Lewis Wynne to be Captain Lieutenant, vice Francis Wildman who refigns.

20th reg. foot, Major John Parr to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice John Maxwell; by purchase.

Ditto, Capt. David Parry to be Major, vice John Parr; by purchase.

Ditto, Lieut. John Stenhoufe to be Captain,

vice David Parry; by purchase,

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26th reg. foot, Lieut. James Sutherland to be Captain, vice Thomas Rigge; by purchase. 64th reg. foot, Enfign William Snowe to be Adjutant, vice James Stewart, who refigns. Ditto, Lieut. Thomas Armstrong to be Captain, vice William Smith; by purchase.

65th Reg. of Foot, Major Thomas Bruce, of the 60th regiment of foot. to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Charles West Roberts; by purchase.

Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant O'Hara's Corps, Thomas Cowper, Clerk, to be Chaplain to the Tower of London, vice Ifaac Cowper, who refigns.

Lieut. Richard Chichley Plowden, of the 70th regiment of foot, to be Fort Adjutant and Barrack-Mafter of Dominica, vice William Stuart, preferred.

Major Jofeph Goreham to be LieutenantGovernor of the Garrison of Placentia, vice Otho Hamilton, deceased.

Major-General John Clavering to be Governor uf Land-guard Fort, vice LieutenantGeneral Robert Armiger, deceased.

His Majefty hath been pleafed to appoint his Royal Highness Major General William Duke of Gloucefter to be Colonel of the firft regiment of foot-guards, in the room of Field Marshal John Earl Ligonier, deceased.

Lieut. Gen. John Earl of Loudon to be Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Foot, in the room of the Duke of Gloucefter.

Major General John Parflow to be Colonel of the 30th regiment of foot, in the room of the Earl of Loudon.

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John Perch, of Cudham, Kent, chapman. Peter Caron, of the city of London, jeweller.

Ralph Richardson and Jeffery Richardfon, both of Tockholes, in Lancaster, copartners, dealer and chapmen,

Elliott Elmes, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, merchant, dealer and chapman. John Clark, of Wood-street, London, warehoufeman.

Nicholas Clark, late of Goodman's-fields, in Middlefex, fugar-refiner.

Ephraim Brooks, late of Long-acre, fireengine maker.

William Merrick, late of Mincing-lane, in the city of London, scrivener.

Patrick Flannaghan, of Prefcot-ftreet, in the parish of Mary Whitechapel, in Middlefex, victualler.

William Clarkson, of Moorfields, London, broker.

Edward Ryley, of the parish of St. Leonard, Fofter-lane, London, dealer and chapman. Thomas South, of Swaffham, in Norfolk, fhop-keeper.

John Tanfley, of the Hamlet of Ratcliff, in the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, in Middlesex, taylor.

Meyer Cohen, otherwife Michael Cone, late of Amfterdam, in Holland, but now of London, merchant.

William Williams, late of Northampton, but now of the Old Bailey, London, dealer and chapman.

Richard Walker, of Wandsworth, in Surry, callico-printer, cutter.

John Hindly and Ellis Needham, of Milkftreet, London, copartners, warehousemen.

John Froftick, of the Old Bailey, in the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, in London, carpenter.

Charles Hindley, of Manchester, in Lancafter, woollen-draper.

William Leach, the younger, of the parish of St. George, Hanover-fquare, within the liberty of Weftminster, in Middlesex, carpenter.

Rupert Atkinson, of the Broadway, Weftminster, in Middlefex, linen-draper.

Samuel Gridley, late of the iflands of Magdalen, in the gulph of St. Lawrence, in North America, but now of Bristol, Merch.

Thomas Dunn, of Grinton, in Swaledale, in York, victualler.

John Barber, of Birmingham, in Warwick,

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