fix weeks before the election, an extract of his pedigree under the feal of the Heralds Office, with an authentic copy of it attefted by a public-notary, which was to lie in the common room of the faid College, that the whole fociety might have the greater liberty of examining into it, and making the proper objections against his clair; together with feveral other teftimonials of his age, and certificates of his flanding and his morals, all regularly figned. At the time of election he offered himself as a candidate, and fubmitted himself to the common examinations: after which, it was thought proper, both to fupport his claim, and as a piece of refpect to the College, that his father fhould appear in his behalf. Accordingly, he came to Oxon, Nov. 1, 1722, accompanied by Dr. Harwood, his friend; and, the next morning, with the faid Dr. Harwood, waited on Dr. Irish, who was one of the deans of the College, to whom he had introductions from feveral private friends; and, in difcourfe, gave him a good account of his fon's performance, and which he afterwards confirmed in a letter to Dr. Wood. From him they went to wait upon the Warden, about noon, who received them very kindly, objected nothing to the young gentleman's performance, but feemed to lead them into an expectation of his favour. Upon taking leave, the Warden invited them to dine in the hall with him; but, it being their great commemoration-day, when the tables were likely to be full, and they strangers to the rest of the company, which might likewife have given fome umbrage to the difadvantage of the young gentleman (ás matters food between the warden and many of the fellows), they thought it moft advisable to wave the civility, and defired to be excufed. The next day, being Saturday, they began their ferutinies, and met three times to no purpofe; but on Sunday about noon they made their election, and Mr. Winn and Mr. Wilbraham were declared. Upon which Dr Harwood waited upon Dr. Irish to get their Chriflian names, in order to fill up the appeal they had brought with them ready from London, in cale the College fhould drop the confanguinity. Having obtained them, they called on Mr. Cooper, the Univerfire Regifter, and a Public Notary, to faith the matter, and attend them in their proceedings, and, having filled up

and figned the appeal about three o'clock, the young gentleman, with a Public Notary, Dr. Harwood, and Mr. Le Hunt his tutor, went with it to the warden's lodgings, in order to deliver it; but the warden fent word by his fervant, he was then very bufy, and defired them to call after. prayers, which accordingly they did, and about five o'clock the young gentleman lodged the appeal, offering either to read it to him, or that the warden might perufe it himself; but the warden replied, he did not take it to concern him, and therefore would not fee it; the young gentleman then defired that the perfons elected might not be admitted, in prejudice of his right, till matters were fettled by the visitor, to whom he had appealed. To which the warden replied, he should be directed by the Society; and Dr. Harwood returned. The young gentleman was not to be blamed to affert his right, and that, if the Society came into any trouble, they might thank themfelves; for, the young gentleman's friends were refolved to fee it out. The warden to this anfwered, they had done what they thought fit, and that he might do fo too. The young gentleman then defired of the warden, that, fince they had rejected him, he would be pleafed to deliver back all his papers, which he promised to do, but that he could not conveniently meet with them till Tuesday, and therefore appointed him to come to him on Tuesday morning, and he should have them. On Tuesday about eleven o'clock he waited on the warden accompanied by Dr.' Harwood, and demanded his papers. The warden then delivered him the heralds extract of his pedigree; but faid, he was ordered by the Society to retain the reft, for, fays he, if we muft be attacked, it is reasonable we should have fomething to defend ourselves with. The young gentleman infifted upon having his teftimonials, as what was neceffary to be laid before the vifitor; but the warden told him, if they were neceffary, he might with no great trouble have them afresh from the fame hands, but that he was ordered to keep them, and he determined to act nothing in this cafe but with the confent of the Society. Upon which they were left with the warden; and the young gentleman and the Doctor took their leave of him without any feeming refentment.

(To be continued.)

Mr.

Mr. URBAN, Heidelberg, July 2. Heidelberg, July 2. N°7 OT knowing whether the Elector of Cologne's letter to M. Dumourier has appeared in our prints, I have fent you a hafty tranflation of it, in the hope that you will deem it worthy a place in your Magazine; it appearing

to me to coincide with the fentiments of every honeft man, who has reflected upon the conduct of Dumourier, from the time of his acting as minifier at war down to the laft public act of infamy of which he was guilty. I will add, that, in his paffage through this part of Germany, he gave manifold proofs that his vanity and arrogance were equal to his worthleffnefs. At Heffe Darmstadt, in particular, he told the Landgravine that he had indeed failed in the execution of his projects, one of which was, the humiliation and annihilation of the petty princes and defpots of Germany. He dined at the table of one of the princes of that houfe; and a parcel being brought to him during dinner, he opened it, and diftributed amongst the company feveral prints of himself, which were the contents of the parcel, and which he had probably ordered at that time, and for that purpofe. But he received a fevere and well-timed repartee upon the subject of the execution of Louis XVI.; for, having faid fomething relative thereto, and having at the fame time put his hand to his head (perhaps as a token of affected forrow), the Prin cefs Frederica of Mecklenburgh, who is betrothed to Prince Louis of Pruffia, faid to him with fome vivacity, "Quoi, Monfieur, vous y fongez déja?" At Stuttgard and other places his conduct was equally vain and ridiculous; and he has left behind him in the Empire no other character than that of an unprincipled man of talents, accompanied by a more than common mixture of French vanity, infolence, and inconfequence. Yours, &c. VIATOR A.

"I have received, Sir, your letter of the 12th, and am much furprized to find that you are ftill at Mergentheim. I had hoped that you would have done juftice to the moderation which I had obferved in the orders which I gave to my ftadtholder, to engage you to feek another place of abode. But you appear, by your letter, to require a more ample explanation of my fentiments,

which I therefore make no delay in commu

nicating to you. France, difturbed in its interior by different factions without principle, at first inspired me with pity, which a faction of worthless wretches has fince, by their crimes, converted into horror. I had

confidered what paffed there as the effect of momentary madness; and, although myself and the Teutonic order, which is intrufted to my direction, there fuffered confiderable

loffes, I regarded them fimply as a misfortune; and I flattered myself with the hope of seeing a new order of things established

at the moment of amendment and repentance. Every fpecies of government and of order was overturned in France, but the rest of the world was in the enjoyment of peace; and it is to you alone, Sir, and to your admini Atration, that the greater part of the univerfe is indebted for being drawn into the prefent unhappy circumstances. You firft induced France to carry her arms into foreign countries, to attack her neighbours, and to en deavour to diffeminate thofe doctrines and evils to which the herself was a victim. The blood which is thed, and the impositions and vexations attendant upon a war fo general and fo difaftrous to France as well as to the whole world, fall upon you as the author and origin of thefe calamities. The diftin guished and brilliant manner in which you commanded the armies can neither excuse nor obliterate the memory of the evils which you have brought upon humanity.

"I fpeak not of the manner in which you quitted the French army; my opinion,, wholly directed, like that of a private perfon, by fentiments of loyalty, probity, and honour, could by no means be agreeable to you; and I am happy that you can have of the publick to fee the author of their misconfidered as a mark of efteem the curiosity fortunes, and the object of their apprehenfions, no longer capable of injuring them.

"Your principles have not changed, but circumftances are altered; and, if the great powers think that you may be useful to them, or if you conceive that they are indebted to you, I affure you that, as for my felf, as a fimple individual, charged with the adminiftration of fome countries who have elected me for their chief, I cannot be of that opinion, nor can I enter into any intercourse with you; but I am the rather bound to repeat the orders given to my stadtholder, to accelerate your departure. fentiments with which I am, &c."

Mr. URBAN,

Thefe are the

Aug. 16..

R. WALPOLE difcovered the MR. portrait of Sir Samuel Luke when he was vifiting a friend at Adderbury. 1f Mr. Copley wished to borrow or obtain a drawing from ir, probably your correfpondent, Mr. Woolfton, who is much efteemed, and keeps a boardingfchool on a very refpectable footing in the fame village, would be able to procure it for him.

The jame account of Sir B. Rudyard's portrait from Mytens, by Hollar

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ation of the Eaft India Company's affairs. That meafure had been attended with the moft falutary confequences. It had produced a regular tranfmiffion of accounts from India, an increased degree of caution and accuracy, and a watchful jealoufy in all the different eftablishments. Hitherto his ftatements had related only to the fituation of the Company's affairs as far as it refpected their foreign poffeffions. The prefent katement would be made with a different view, and a different object. would be infinitely more comprehenfive, inafmuch as it would implicate both the Company's affairs at hoine and abroad. He then opened the grounds and the refult of all the propofitions which he had intended to fubmit to the Committee, without taking into his view any probable increase of the territorial revenues or the commercial profits, which he might have been justified in doing; and fo convinced was he that his ftatement was unattackable, that he meant not to call for the decifion of the Committee on any one of his propofitions till they had full time to confider and compare them with the documents. He meant to do more; adventurous as it might feem, he meant to print them all together, with the remarks he had now made upon them. It might be faid, that all his calculations were founded on the project of peace, and that we were now actually at war; but the enemy with whom we were now at war was not very likely to disturb the peace of our Eaft-India poffeffions; and our na val firength was fuch as to prevent, if not all accidents, at least any confide. sable evils. He then concluded by mo. ving, that the following refolutions fhould lie on the table, and a fufficient number be printed for the use of the

members.

land a-float, and including quick 17. Company's effects in Engftock in China, calculated exclufive of fome old debts £.13,015,449 18. Affets in India, by laft advices, amounted to C. Rs. 4,09,84,051 Exclufive of debts due to the Company, amounting to C, Rs. 3,51,83,932 Current Rupee at 25.

Pagoda

8s.

Bombay Rupee 25. 3d.

Mr. Hulley faid, the triumph at the India-houfe was perhaps dearly bought at the expence of two per cent. additional dividend; and, as he understood, a renewal of the charter for 20 years.

H. OF LORDS.
February 26.

Went down to Westminster-hall to the trial of Warren Hastings, elq, i where

where Capt. Groom was examined by the counsel of Mr. Haftings on the Begum charge, and cross-examined by the Managers. After which the mutiny. bill was read the first time.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Wilberforce thought it unneceffary, after the formal and very deliberate decifion of the last feffion, to make an attempt of enforcing the motion, he was about to make, by argument, unless any obferva tions fhould be offered which he might have occafion to reply to. He then moved, "that the Houfe refolve itself into á Committee, to confider of the state of the flave-trade, on Thurfday next." The motion was feconded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and fupported by Mr. Montague, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. Fox, and oppofed by Sir W. Young, Mr. Cawthorne, Mr. Eaft, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Gascoyne; after which the House divided, Ayes 53, Noes 61.**

inform that House of their intention to proceed at fuch unusual hour; the confequence was, that the Commons were not prefent; and he, preferring the furtherance of fubftantial justice, to the forms of legal procedure, proceeded to the Hall, to fupport the impeachment. Having thus ftated his conduct, he fubmitted it, as he felt it his duty to do, to the opinion of the House.

The Speaker lamented that the Lords had not intimated their intention of proceeding at an earlier hour than ufual, and complimented Mr. Burke on his conduct, on which he observed there could be but one opinion in the Houfe.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, "That, under the circumftances, this Houfe doth highly approve the conduct of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, and the other managers, for having taken fuch steps as enabled the Commons to proceed in the trial of Warren Haffings, Efq."

· Carried Nem. Con.

Mr. Burke returned thanks to the Houfe for their support of himself and brother-managers.

Major Mailland brought up the report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the best mode for expediting the impeachment carried on against Mr. Haftings; in which report it was fuggefted to foliow the precedent of the impeachment of Earl Stafford.

Mr. T. Grenville faid, that, in confequence of what he had proposed on a former night, he did not mean to prefs any thing that may operate to the inconvenience of thofe gentlemen, whose avocations rendered it impoffible or inconvenient for them to attend a Call of the House. He concluded by moving, "That His Majefty's Ministers, the Lord Mayor, the Mafter of the Rolls, the Attorney and Solicitor General, &c. &c. fhould be excufed from attend. ing on the days fpecified for the call; alfo all those who could offer good and fubftantial excuses with respect to fick. nefs; which was agreed to. "Adjourned.

H. OF LORDS.

March 1.

The House met at an early hour, and immediately proceeded in the accuftomed ftate and folemnity to the High Court of Judicature.

In the Commons the fame day, Mr. Burke begged to be informed from the Chair, whether the Managers might or