Middlefex Hofpital, and treasurer of the fociety of patrons of the anniversary meeting of charity fchools. At half pafl fix in the afternoon, died at her feat, Bulftrode Park, Buckingham fhire, the Moft Noble Lady Margaret Cavendith Haricy, Duchefs Dowager of Portland, in the feventy-first year of her age. Her Grace was only daughter of Edward Earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer by his Countefs the Lady Henrietta Cavendish, only daughter and heir of John Holles, Eq. The Duchefs was born Feb. 11, 1714, and married to the late Duke in 1734. By her death the duke receives an acceffion to his income of a clear 12,000 guineas a year. Her grand mufeum, in which the expended fo much of her fortune, it is expected will be fold. Her Grace has left to her fervants confiderable legacies. The loweft has not got lefs than two hundred pounds. They were all brought up to her chamber after her death, and the will was read to them by the Duke. Her Grace never, but on death, changed a domeftic for many years paft. The payment of 12,000l. a year to the late Dutchels of Portland, was a rent-charge, clear of all deductions whatever: and it took place in confequence of the jointure, which was 14,000l. but subject to taxes, &c. being given up; and ail parliamentary influence accompanying the property, being alfo ceded to the Duke. 18. At Margate, after a few days illness, John Fullager, Efq; of Hackney. At Peterborough, the Rev. Mr. John Stevens, formerly of St. John's College. He had been lately prefented by Earl Fizwilliam to a rectory of 1501. of which he did not live to take poffeffion. * 19th. After a few Woodward, one of the Warehouse, Parker's chapel. hours illness, Mr. elders of the India Gardens, White 22d. At Barn Green, near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, Mrs. Cloudfley, wife of Mr. Cloudfley, an opulent Farmer there. Her Death was occafioned by fwallowing a pin, about three months ago, which perforated the coats of her fiomach. 23d. At his houfe near Blackheath, Robert Wigly, Efq. 23d. Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend, wife of Mr. John Townthend, of Wandsworth, Surry. 3d. Mrs. Holt, of the King's Head, in Cannon Alley, Pater-nofter-row, 29th. At Bath, in the 89th year of her age, Mrs Jane Bowdler, fifter to the late Thes mas Bowdler, Efq. of that City. BANKRUPT S. June 25. George Chapman, of Lough borough, Leicester, linen-draper. Thomas Cooper, late of Dofton, Weftmoreland, dealer. Jonathan May, of Brook-Areet, Hanover-fquare, Weftminfter, taylor. Hortio Kime, of Milford-lane, Strand, Middlefex, coal-merchant. James Niven and Ar thur Gibbons, of Abchurch yard, London, merchants. William Humphreys, of Rumford, Effex, broker. Charles Sladen, of Briftol, block-maker. 29. William Cheyney, of Leadenhallfreet, London, cabinet-maker. Stephen Fricker, late of the city of Bath, Somersetfhire, coal merchant July 2. Edward Clode, Newgate-freet, oled fik manufacturer, and umbrella-maker. Robert Moxham, of Somerset, timber-merchant. Jofeph Welth, of Somerset, baker. George Hall and Charles Leneve Martin, of Artillery-lane, St. Botolph Bithopfgate, hatdreffers. Jean Nicole, of Conduit-street, St. George, Hauover fquare, perfumer. 5. Ifaac Alman, of Briftol, filversmith. Thomas Lacon, of Maetbrook, in Shrop fhire, malfter. Thomas Cole, now or late of Bristol, clothier, cloth worker, and victuallerGeorge Hutton, of Southwark, Surry, linen draper. Joseph Spackman and James Spack. man, of Jewry-freet, London, pewterers. 9. John Nowell, late of Bishopfgate-fireet, London, infurer. William Halliday, now or late of New Church, Roffendale, Lancafter, linen-draper. Thomas Naifh, of Bristol, broker. 12. Stephen Grav, late of Beverley, Yorkfhire, tallow chandler. James Luckman, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, dealer and chapman. John Hillyer, of Froyle, Southampton, thopkeeper. Richard Remfey, of Weft Peckham, otherwife Little Peckham, in the County of Kent, thopkeeper. John Dawson, of the city of York, linen-draper. POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS. N Addrefs to the King and People of A Addrefs to the King and People o justment, contained in the Twenty Propofitions which have paffed the British Houfe of Commons, and are now before the British House Lords. Written by a noble Earl, of the Kingdom of Ireland. Author of a Letter ad dreffed to the Earl of Shelburne, in 1783, upon the Subject of Final Explanation, re fpecting the Legislative Rights of Ireland. rs. Delbrow, St. Martin's-court, Leicester-fquare. A Letter from an Irish Gentleman in Lon. don to his Friend in Dublin, on the propofed System of Commerce, 15. Debreit. 1 THE AND Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary For AUGUST, 1785. 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THE A Table of the total annual Amount of the French Taxes and Expences of the State, annual Importation and Exportation, Intereft of their National Debt and Charge of the Army, &c. (From the Celebrated Work of M. Necker on the Finances of France; a great and unquestionable authority.) The English Reader Should be informed that the French Government takes upon itself the care of lighting, watching and cleaning the Streets; as alfo keeping the roads in proper repair; all of which are taken into M. Necker's account-In France there are no poor's rates, (2) The amount of the debt itself is not given. (3) The ordnance expences are included in this, and the next article. The eftimate in English money is made at the rate of twenty four livres, to the pound fterling, and as this is the exact par of exchange, it will be an eafy operation to divide any of the inferior fums contained in the details, in order to know their amount in English money. 24. Royal State of the Population in the Kingdom of France. WE have at present a more certain, and The calculation least liable to error, is that which refults from the number of births. For an epidemical fick nefs, or an emigration may occafion flight differences in the general bills of mortality; besides it frequently happens, that the country parish curates neglect to mention in their regifter-books, the death of children who die very young, when thefe children belong to poor peafants, and there is a moral certainty that certificates of their death, will never be called for. The number of marriages has always been reckoned a very incorrect rule of comparifon, and the depravity of manners must certainly ftrengthen this opinion, Laftly, the proportion betwixt the number of births, and that of the inhabitants, does not exist in every part of the king dom; the ufcful occupations nec firy to fupply the luxury and opulence of great cities, attract to them a great number of inhabitants born in other places; and their population is neceffarily above the proportion of the number of births: the contrary happens in thofe country villages, which are deprived of refources, because a great part of their indigenous inhab tants leave them as foon as they can get a livelihood by their labour. The various degrees of falubrity of a country likewife, caule a difference in the ufual proportion between the number of births, and that of the inhabitants; thus, we fee that wherever mortality is more conftantly accelerated, the number of births, cor refpouds more nearly with a small num. ber of Inhabitants, than in thofe places where neither the bad quality of the air nor of the climate fhorten the lives of the people: all these differences however, and many more, acquire a kind of uniformity, when collectively confidered, and in the immenfe extent of fuch a kingdom as France: it has therefore been practicable after various researches to lav down a general rule of comparison. The number of births is in proportion to that of the inhabitants, as one, to twenty three, and twenty four, in the districts that are not favoured by nature, nor by moral cir cumftances: this proportion is, as one, to twenty-five, twenty-five and a half, and twenty-fix, in the greatest part of France; laftly, each birth correfponds with twenty |