Mrs. Boyce, aged 107, at Guildford, in Surry, fhe retained her fenfes to the last. James Dickie, near Slains Castle, Scotland, aged 109. Ralph Coulfon, at Grimstone, Yorkshire, aged 107. Mr. Taunton, a farmer at Norwich, aged 108. MA Y. The Select Committee, for vit. examining into the cause of the obstructions to the authority of the Lower Affembly, made their report, which was as follows: Your Committee have felected a few cafes from among the many referred to in the margin of this report, which, from the nature of their circumftances, or the importance of the doctrine which they illuftrate, or the confequences which they produced, feemed to your Committee fit to be more fully ftated than the margin would admit, and are therefore added as an appendix to this report. Your Committee beg leave to obferve, that in the diligent fearch they have made in the Journals, they have not been able to find an inftance that any court or magiftrate has prefumed to commit, during the fitting of Parliament, an officer of the House for executing the orders of the House. They further beg leave to obferve, that they have not been able to find that there has ever been an inftance wherein this House has fuffered any perfon committed by order of this Houfe, to be difcharged during the fame feffion, by any other authority whatsoever, without again committing fuch person. As therefore, with regard to J. Millar, who was delivered from the cuftody of the meffenger, by the Lord Mayor, who, for the said offence, is now under the cenfure of the Houfe; as it appears to your Committee that it highly concerns the dignity and power of the Houfe to maintain its authority in this inftance, by retaking the faid J. Miller; The Committee recommend to the confideration of the House, Whether it may not be expedient that the Houfe fhould order, that the faid J. Miller be taken into the custody of the Serjeant ap Arms attending this Houfe; And that the Serjeant at Arms his deputy, or deputies, be strictly injoined to call upon the magiftrates, officers of the peace, and other perfons, who, by the terms of the Speaker's warrant, are required to be aiding and affifting to him in the execution thereof, for fuch affiftance as the faid ferjeant, his deputy, or deputies, fhall find neceffary to enable him, or them, to take into cuftody the said J. Miller. [The Select Committee have fat examining the Journals, &c. &c. the 28th of March laft, to April every day, Sundays excepted, from 30.] The appendix to the report above, confifts of precedents, refolutions, &c. of the House, for many years back, and is totally uninterefting to the present difpute. A pottle of green peas was 2d. brought to Covent-garden market, and fold for two guineas. [H] 3 A A committee of the ward of Broad-street met, in order to take the advice of counfel, how to proceed against their Alderman, for refufing the inhabitants the mace, when they waited on the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver: The mace was a prefent of the late Sir J. Barnard to the ward. The gentlemen of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's newly appointed houfhold, met at the Queen's Palace for the first time. A feparate table is kept on the occafion. "The laft letters from Paris advife, that the Duke d'Harcourt has refused to take the command of the troops in Normandy. They write from the capital of that province, that on the 15th of April, the day after the laft bed of justice, the parliament affembled and iffued an arret, which declares the members of the new parliament Intruders, Ufurpers of the Effects of other People, Enemies of the State, and Violators of their Ŏaths, and strictly forbids the acknowledgment or execution of any of their arrets: this proceeding will probably coft the parliament of Rouen very dear. Eleven members of the great council, who compofed part of the great chamber, and the Tournelle of the new parliament, have refigned their places. Two of them, viz. Meff. Michael de Montpefat, and M. de Bonnaire, being magiftrates of great integrity and capacity, are much regretted. It is ftill uncertain what part the Chatelet will take in the prefent conjuncture." A grant of licence paffed 3d. the feal unto William Gibfon, of Liverpool, Gent. for twenty-one years, from Midfummer next, to eftablish a theatre, and to form, entertain, govern, privilege, and keep a company of comedians, for his Majefty's fervice, in the town of Liverpool. They are to be called his Majesty's Company. Sir Robert Barnard, Bart. was fworn in at Bedford, recorder of that corporation, in the room of the late Duke of Bedford. The commiffioners for victualling his Majesty's navy, contracted for 10,400 hogs, to be delivered at 800 hogs per week, for the months of June, July, and Auguft next, at 50s. 6d. per hundred weight; they alfo contracted for 2600 oxen, to be delivered in the fame time, at 200 oxen per week, at 36s. per hundred weight; the carcafes of the former to weigh not lefs than one hundred weight, and the latter not lefs than feven hundred weight each. There was a disturbance among the prifoners in the King's Bench, when they deftroyed upwards of 50 butts of beer belonging to the tap: It is faid there was a quantity of fmall beer mixed with the ftrong. Near three hundred poor prifoners have not been in bed for three nights paft. At Worcefter market, 206 pockets of hops were fold; the general prices from 41. 10s. to 5 l. 12 S. per hundred.'" At a court of common council held at Guildhall, a petition to the King, relative to the bill for the embankment at Durham-yard, was read and agreed to; and the fheriffs, attended by the city remembrancer, went to St. James's, and prefented the faid petition to his Majefty. It was ordered that the fum of thirty thousand pounds be laid out in three per cent. confolidated, and vested vested in the names of the chamberlain, town-clerk, and comptroller, as a security in lieu of the toll, and other matters refpecting the Bridge-house estate. It was moved that this court, with the city officers, be defired to attend the Right Hon. Brafs Crosby, Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, in their gowns in proceffion from the Tower to the Manfion-house, on their enlargement from the prefent confinement, and on being put, was carried unanimously. Turin, April 24. The 8th inft. the French ambaffador here made his public entry. He went from his own houfe to court, attended by the mafter of the ceremonies, &c. and was introduced to his Sardinian Majefty and the royal family; on his return, he was conducted to a houfe provided for him by his Sardinian Majefty, where he was entertained for three days at the expence of the court, and had a table at dinner and fupper of forty-fix covers. On Wednesday, the 10th, his Excellency made a demand in form of the Princess in marriage with the Comte de Provence, in the name of the King his mafter. On Monday the 15th, the contract of marriage was figned. On Sunday the marriage ceremony was performed, the Prince of Piedmont being proxy for the Comte de Provence. There were feveral grand dinners, fuppers, and balls, given every day on the occafion, with fuperb illuminations at night. On Monday morning the Princefs departed from this place for Versailles: She went in a coach with the King of Sardinia and the Duke and Duchefs of Savoy, and was followed by the Prince of Pied mont and the Duke of Chablais in another, attended by 435 perfons in coaches and on horfeback, and efcorted by a troop of horse. At Rivoli, the King of Sardinia, the Duke of Chablais, and the Prince of Piedmont, took their leave of the Princefs, and returned to Turin. Their parting was very affecting, and moved all the fpectators. This day judgment was given by the Lord Chancel- 7th, lor in the House of Peers, in Lord Chatham's appeal, in favour of his Lordship; the Lord Chancellor first took the opinion of the judges on a point in law, and eight judges out of eleven fpoke for his Lordhip. Lord Chatham firft gained his appeal in law before the Master of the Rolls, against the heirs of Sir William Pynfent, fome time fince, and afterwards in an appeal in which Henry Daw Tothil, Efq; one of the heirs at law, and who was in this caufe one of the refpondents, was then plaintiff, caft his Lordship before the Lords Commiffioners of the Seals in the Court of Chancery, in 10,000l. but his Lordship now has gained the decree before given by the Mafter of of the Rolls, fo that the affair remains finally decided in favour of Lord Chatham. Hamburgh, April 23. We hear that the lands of forty-fix villages have been overflowed in the lower marshes of Brandenburgh, by the upper Elbe's having burft the dykes in three places, owing to the fame kind of accident that occafioned the overflowing of the Wefer. Several of the nobility were obliged to fave themselves in their garrets, and remained four days without affittance. They had [H] 4 no no other resource for faving their cattle, but by driving them into the apartments of the firft ftory. This misfortune has ruined many families, and increases the diftrefs which the uncommon length and feverity of the winter had univerfally spread in thefe parts: the prices of every kind of fuftenance having rifen fo much in proportion thereto, that many peasants were under the neceffity of unthatching their houfes to maintain their cattle. Dublin, May 4. We have caufe of complaint on account of the dearnefs of provifions as well as the English; prime pieces of beef and mutton are here 6d. per pound, lamb 8d. veal 7d. and butter 10d. per pound. This day his Majefly went 8th. to the Houfe of Peers, in the ufual ftate, and gave the royal affent to the following bills, viz. The bill for granting to his Majely, a certain fum out of the finking funds, and for applying certain fums therein mentioned, for the fervice of 1771. The bill for granting to his Majefty 650,000l. to be raised by lottery for the fervice of the prefent year. The bill to explain and amend an act of last feffions for regulating the trials of controverted elections, or returns of members to ferve in Parliament. The bill to prevent counterfeiting the copper coin of the realm. The bill for repairing, amending and fupporting the feveral harbours and fea ports in the ifle of Man. To the bill for incapacitating feveral clectors of new Shoreham. To the bill for the DurhamYard embankment. To the laftage and ballast bill. The bill to prohibit the importation of foreign wrought filks and velvets, for a further limited time, and to prevent the unlawful combination of workmen employed in that trade. The bill for prohibiting for a limited time the exportation of live cattle, and fresh provisions. The bill for continuing the bounty on the tonnage of thipping employed in the Greenland whale fishery. The bill for reducing into one act, the feveral laws relating to the keeping and carriage of gunpowder, and for more effectually preventing mischiefs, by keeping or carrying gunpowder in too great quantities. And alfo to feveral other publick and private bills. After which his Majesty was pleafed to make a moft gracious fpeech from the throne, and the Lord Chancellor, by his Majesty's command, prorogued the parliament to Tuesday the 23d of July next. As foon as it was certainly known that his Majesty would go to the Houfe, to put an end to the feffion of Parliament, fummonfes were iffued out from Guildhall, to the aldermen and common council, defiring their attendance, (the aldermen in their scarlet gowns) and from thence to proceed to the tower, to conduct the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver to the Manfion-house, in the ftate coach. Accordingly, about two o'clock, part of the court of aldermen, and almoft the whole common-council, preceded by the city marshal and his deputy, went from Guildhall to the Tower. There were fiftythree carriages in the train. The hon. members of the artillery company accompanied the proceffion in their uniform, which made a very fine appearance. On the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver's being brought to the Tower gate by the proper officers of that fortress, they were faluted by twenty-one pieces of cannon belonging to the artillery company, and received by the people with the greatest acclamations, which were continued all the way to the Manfion-house. On their arrival at the ballu ftrades fronting the great gate, the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver bowed in return to the people affembled, and were again faluted with loud and univerfal huzzas. Sir William Stephenfon, and the aldermen Townfend, Sawbridge, Wilkes, and Trecothick, were in the proceffion. The Lord Mayor invited the aldermen and committee to dine with his Lordship at the Manfion house. The city was grandly illuminated. The populace broke down the iron gates at Serjeant's Inn Fleet-ftreet, and obliged the inhabitants to put up lights. They likewife affembled about the houfe of Sir Fletcher Norton, fpeaker of the honourable House of Commons, and were very outrageous, breaking all the windows, together with thofe of feveral other houfes which were not illuminatéd. Of the addreffes prefented by the different wards to the Lord Mayor during his confinement, we fhall infert the following remarkable one. To the Right Hon. Brafs Crofby, Efq; The humble Addrefs of the Fore- May it please your Lordship, We beg leave to approach you with the warmest fentiments of gratitude, for the manly, firm, and conftitutional exertion of your authority, in fupport of the liberty of the prefs, the rights of a free people, and the franchises of this great city, over which your Lordhip is legal prefident. We feel that gratitude glowing with a greater degree of ardour, when impofed upon your Lordship, by we contemplate the illegal restraint men who having fold themselves to work evil, endeavour to include every other man in their bargain. We abominate their iniquity, and will not partake of their infamy. We are determined, with the bleffing of heaven, to be free; and while we remain fo, your Lordship may depend upon the utmost exertions of our power, in the support of the true interefts of the King, of the people, and of the only juft rule of both, the laws of Britain.' The four malefactors under fentence of death, were taken from Newgate in two carts, and executed at Tyburn; they behaved with a becoming decency at the place of execution. Hewitt, the coachman, had a white cockade in his hat, thereby infinuating his innocence in regard to the murder of the woman in fig-lane; in which he perfifted to the last. Orders were given from 11th. the Lord Chamberlain's office for a chaplain in waiting to attend |