of the royal and military order of St. from the governour of Barbadoes, should have been about a month fince at the faid ifland of Tobago, and there clandeftinely stuck up to trees, in different parts of the fame, a pretended proclamation, importing, That Mr. Greenville, governor of Barbadoes, who in the fame proclamation calls himself, without any foundation, governor of St. Lucia, Dominico, St. Vincent's and Tobago, together with all the other iflands, colonies and plantations in America, commonly called or known by the name of The inland of Tobago, commonly called the Caribbee iflands (which islands and Tobacco, one of thofe under our govern- plantations nevertheless belonged indifpument, indifputably belonging to his matably to his majesty) had ordered the inhajefty, and the property which he has in it, bitants of Tobago, who are all fubjects to having been authentically acknowledged by his majefty, to quit the fame in the space treaties, and no prince, or fovereign power of thirty days, giving them to understand, whatfoever, laid any pretenfions to the that they must expect military execution in fovereignty or dominions of the fame ; cafe of their non-compliance; the nature has obliged us to give no credit to an in- of fuch an act, and the terms in which it formation we have received, That a small is conceived, puts it out of all doubt that frigate, ftiling herfelt English, and autho- it could never have proceeded from the rized by certain pretended powers iffued C governor of Barbadoes, but is the work of B Ilands of TOBAGO, BARBA DOES, &c. fome N. B. For the bearing of these ifles with respect to the reft of the British ifles and plantations in the Weft-Indies, fee a Chart of the Atlantick ocean, &c. in our MAGAZINE for 1740. Pt of the WINDWARD ISLES Testigos Lamberts Vincent BridgeT I.de Becouya I.del'Union Cariouacou Granada Islet de Revere Miles $1015 30 Barb Tobago fome evil-difpofed perfon, and determines us to wave the demanding any satisfaction from the pretended author of it, who, in all probability, had no hand in it. Nevertheless, it being neceffary to hinder any perfon, of what quality, condition, and nation foever they may be, from falling into the fnare laid for them: We A declare to all the subjects of his majesty, who are fettled upon the faid island of Tobago, as well Whites as Indians, Negroes, Mulattos, Meftees, and all others that it may concern, That we will defend them against the attempts that any nations, ftrangers to us, may form against the said inland; and that we will fend them fuch a quantity of ammunition and provisions as they may ftand in need of. B We prohibit their having any correfpondence or dealing with neighbouring colonies, belonging either to the English, Dutch, or Danes, nor to fuffer any of them to continue among them, or to permit their coming on fhore in the faid island of Tobago, until fuch time as we fhall have fent C a commanding officer with regular troops for their protection and defence. It is our will, that these presents be read, published, and fet up in all the quarters of the faid inland of Tobago, that no perfon whatever may plead ignorance of the fame. Given under our feal at arms, and the counter-fign of our first fecretary at. Martinico, the 7th of December, 1748.D Le Marquis de CAYLUS. By his lordship's command, MOURET. How this affair will terminate, time only can discover: But immediately upon the arrival of these advices, all the merchants, planters, and others, interested in the fettlements and trade of Jamaica, E Barbadoes, and the Leeward Islands, were, by a publick advertisement, defired to meet, (and they accordingly met at the time and place appointed) to confider of a proper and effectual application to recover the neutral iflands of St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Dominico, out of the bands of the French, and to check their progress in fettling Tobago, F and violently depriving the crown of Great Britain of that important place. The Remembrancer of April 1 and 15, lays before the Publick fome Papers relating to the Conduct of Brigadier-General Ingoldsby at the Battle of Fontenoy; and all that is I fit to be added concerning them, he says, is, that they were fent to him, accompanied with an anonymous Letter, fignifying, that they contained nothing but unquestionable Truth, and that Gen. Ingoldby neither knew of, nor was concerned in the fending them. The first is the CASE of the Brigadier-General, published with Leave of bis Royal Highness the Duke, which our Readers may fee, with Remarks, in our Magazine for 1745, P. 294, 295. And to this we shall now add the two following Pieces. The former is by Way of Supplement to the CASE, by a Friend of General Ingoldfby's, of which it is fufficient to give our Readers an Abftra&t. The Writer begins thus: T was very remarkable, that at the battle of Fontenoy the 4 regiments under the command of gen. Ingoldfby, were diftinguished for their bravery, while he, their gallant commander, was ftigmatized and ruined, by an unjust accufation of dif obedience of orders, in the Fatality piece published in the Gazette, May, 1745 *. Then having fhewn bow thefe orders were mifreprefented in the faid Gazette, and what the true orders were, be proceeds thus : As foon as the brigadier heard he was accused of difobeying orders, which was not till 8 or 10 days after the battle, he wrote his CASE, (as above-mentioned) which he prefented to his royal highnefs, and, at the fame time, made it his humble request, That his royal highness would firft peruse, and then give him leave to print it t. In his royal highness's poffeffion it remained about 3 or 4 days, and then he had the goodness to fignify to the brigadier, by Sir John Ligonier, that his faid request was granted: And, furely, if any one article contained in it, had been liable to any, the leaft exception, it cannot be fuppofed, that his royal highness would have given it the fanction of his authority. It was but natural, therefore, for the brigadier to conclude, That his royal highnefs had admitted his juftification, and that he fhould hear no more of the charge: But, notwithstanding all that had passed, he was brought to a court-martial, where Sir Robert Monro, in particular, and the rest of the officers, under the brigadier's command, at the battle, gave the strongest evidence in his favour, as the minutes of the trial, which he could never obtain a copy The main point on which *See London Mag. for 1745, p. 230 D, and 231 B. the CASE turns, is this, That the brigadier was ordered to attack 6 pieces of the enemy's cannon, fituated in a Wood; that upon reconnoitring their fituation, be found fome pieces of cannon would be abfolutely neceffary to flank them, and upon bis fending to acquaint the duke with it, be ordered 3 fix pounders, which did not arrive fo foon as they might have done, by reafon of the badness of the road; and that upon bis preparing to attack, upon their arrival, the duke came up, altered bis difpofition, and gave him fresh 'orders, which were immediately exccuted. copy of, would plainly fhew, if they were to be produced. Among the witneffes there was one the general had no knowledge of before the trial, viz. Mr. Stevens, furgeon to the late col. Duroure, at the head of whofe regiment the brigadier was the whole time of action: He (the colonel) lived long enough to hear, that the brigadier was accused of not having done his duty, and thereupon declared to the faid Mr. Stevens, that the brigadier behaved as well as general officer could do, and was greatly furprized that he fhould be accufed: And col. Cosley, major of the faid regiment, in a letter to the brigadier, corroborates, in all respects, the evidence of his dying colonel. Laftly, Sir - L~~, (who, if he was to be confidered as any more than a by-ftander at the trial, was the brigadier's accufer) was pleafed to brow-beat, and endeavour to intimidate, one of the witnesses, by saying to him, in a harsh manner, Take B him, without any confideration for it ; and he had orders to fell his company, which he had bought upwards of 30 years ago, for 500 lefs than he had been offered by feveral gentlemen for it: So that he is now in a worfe fituation in point of fortune, than when he firft entered into the army 43 years ago; to fay nothing of the time he has spent, and the blood he has loft in the fervice: And under all these preffures has no other confolation, but the consciousness of having done his duty irreproachably; and that every officer in the army, as well as thofe under his command at Fontenoy, must do him the justice, if called upon, to acknowledge it. A true Copy of Col. Cofsley's Letter, Major to the late Col. Duroure, at the Battle of Fontenoy, to General Ingoldby; as referred to above. Dear Sir, HE troubles we have met with here, care rubat you fay! for you are in the eye of TI do fuppofe, is the reafon that I but the whole army! or to that effect: Words C which might have biaffed an inferior officer, who could not but reflect, how much his preferment depended on the countenance of him who used them. Upon the iffue, the general was fufpended by the court-martial, during the duke's pleasure, for remaining near an bour in the hollow way, before he began to march in order to attack: But could he, D at the time of his trial, have represented, that this delay was occafioned by his waiting for the cannon, which, as it appears, were held abfolutely neceffary to the fervice by the duke himself, he might undoubtedly have avoided the cenfure he has fince incurred: And that he was fo far wanting to himself, must be imputed to lowness of E fpirits, occafioned by the lofs of blood from his wound, and the fenfe he had of an accufation that fo nearly concerned his honour; which double weight had fuch an effect upon him, that it almost deprived him of the ufe of speech. F For what remains, the duke approved the fentence, and fufpended the brigadier for 3 months: And now, the court-martial having exprefly abfolved him in point of courage, he thought the worst was over, and that when the term of his fufpenfion was expired, he should be reinstated in his command, and have his commiffion of major-general (which had been already made out and figned by the king) delivered to him: But, to his great furprize, on his G return to England, he found himself expofed to a fecond condemnation, without fo much as the pretence of a fecond fault, or the form of a fecond trial: For his majority in the guards was taken from just now received yours, which I could with you had favoured me with fooner, by reason I fear the poft is not to be depended on; but as I hope this will get fafe to you, I fhall mention in it what particulars I can recollect the day of the battle of Fontenoy. First of all, when our regiment parted from the army that morning, in order to march to the wood, you was at the head of us; and, as I remember, we marched fome way thro' a dirty lane, where the Higbland and the Hanoverian regiments joined, and fell into the brigade; there were fome fraggling houfes in this lane, which when we had paffed, the fame road continued pointing towards the wood, that was to be attacked: But as we marched up it, it became a hollow way, with steep banks on each fide, and inclined to the left, on which you ordered our regiment to halt, I fuppofe with defign to bring up the brigade, and to reconnoitre where we were: You was, as well as many of us, on the bank, and found this carried us rather parallel to the wood, which we was about a quarter of a mile from: When you had furveyed this, and the fituation of the enemy, I re. member very well, tho' I cannot be pofitive to the exact words, but col. Whitmore and I were together, when I heard you fay to this effect, viz. As the duke may not be fo well acquainted with our present fituation, I think, before we go any further, it would be prudent to let him know it, and allo that 2 or 3 pieces of cannon would be of great service to us: You then went a little back, and fent major Barnard to his royal highness. This is all I know in regard to that affair. As Oxford. B N Wednesday, April 12, the duke of Beaufort, the earl of Oxford, Sir Walter Wagstaff Bagot, and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, barts. and Edward Smith, Efq; member of parliament for Leicesterfire, trustees of the will of that celebrated phyfician, the late Dr. Ratcliffe, honoured the university with their prefence, in order to the opening of the library erected there, C in pursuance of the doctor's will. The univerfity, on this occafion, thought proper to express their gratitude, by granting (at the recommendation of the trustees) degrees in that faculty, wherein Dr. Ratcliffe fo eminently excelled. Accordingly the folemnity began, by conferring the degree of doctor in phyfick by diploma, on Dr. Pitcairn, Dr. Conyers, and Dr. Kennedy. D At the fame time the degree of doctor in the civil law was conferred by diploma, upon that famous antiquarian Brown Willis, Efq; grandfon of that skilful physician Dr. Willis, and himself a confiderable benefactor to the univerfity, by his writings, and a large prefent of Saxon and English E coins. On the fame day, an honorary degree of doctor in the civil law was conferred upon the lord Harley, Sir John Philips, Sir John Shaw, barts. Peregrine Palmer, member for the university, Pennyftone Powney, member for Berks, William Drake, member for Agmondefham, John Willes, member for Banbury, and Norbone Berkley, member for Gloucefter fhire, Efqrs. and at the same time, an honorary degree of mafter of arts, was conferred on William Bagot, Efq; gentleman-commoner of Magdalen-College; and alfo on James Gibbs, Efq; the celebrated architect of this library. The trustees afterwards gave an entertainment to the vice chancellor, heads of G houses, the young noblemen, and the new created doctors. In the evening the oratorio of Eftber was performed in the theatre, to the fatisfaction of a crouded audience. On Thursday, the vice-chancellor, heads of houses, young noblemen, doctors and proctors, bachelors in divinity, law and phyfick, and masters of arts, met in their respective habits at St. Mary's, and from thence went in proceffion to All-Souls College Hall, to wait on the trustees, who returned with them in a moft folemn and grand proceffion, to the Ratcliffe library, where the duke of Beaufort delivered the key to the vice-chancellor for the ufe of the university, who returned their thanks, in a fhort, but elegant fpeech: From thence they walked in the fame order to the theatre, where the honorary degree of doctor in the civil law, was conferred on the earl of Westmoreland, lord vifcount Burleigh, Sir Francis Dafood, member for New Romney, Sir Charles Sidney, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir Lyfter Holt, barts. and Jon Anftis, Efq; garter king at arms, being presented to the fame by Dr. Brookes, regius profeffor of the civil law. After their admiffion Wm. Lervis, M. D. and student of Chrift-Church, made an elegant Latin oration; after which a fine piece of mufick was performed, which being ended, Dr. King, principal of St. Mary-Hall, made another elegant oration. The vice-chancellor afterwards, in the name of the univerfity, returned thanks to the trustees for the faithful execution of their trust; and then the following anthem was fung. Let thy band be ftrengthened, and thy right band be exalted. Let juftice and judgment be the preparation of thy feat mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Hallelujah. And the affembly were difmiffed. The vicechancellor afterwards entertained the truftees, heads of houfes, and new created doctors, at his lodgings; and in the evening, the oratorio of Sampfon was performed in the theatre. On Friday morning the vice-chancellor, the trustees, heads of houfes, and doctors, met in their scarlet robes in the theatre, where an honorary degree of doctor in the civil law, was conferred on the lord James Manners, Sir Robert Burdett, Sir Charles Chefter, Sir Robert Jenkinson, Rev. Sir Philip Hobby, Sir Richard Atkyns, barts. Nath. Curfon, Wrightfon Munday, Francis Page, James Dawkins, John Rolle-Walters, George Lucy, Jobn Moreton, Jobn Robinson, and William Meredith, Efqrs. after which the univerfity profeffor in musick, Mr. Hayes, was created a doctor in that faculty; and Mr. Hodges, a gentlemen commoner of Magdalen-College, was admitted to an honorary degree of master of arts; and then the ceremony was concluded with the coronation anthem: In the evening the facred oratorio was performed with great appleause in the theatre. The The IDEA of a PATRIOT KING. Continued from p. 107. I. How to conduct himself with regard to Parties, 1. Even in the greatest Extremities; and, 2. After a contrary Conduct in former reigns. II. A Digrefion, applying this to the Cafe of the Jacobites. B UT fhall a PATRIOT KING never favour one party, and difcourage another, upon occafions wherein the ftate of his kingdom makes fuch a temporary meafure neceffary? Yes, he may for a time favour, but he will efpoufe B none, much lefs will he profcribe any. He will lift no party, much less will he do the meanest and most imprudent thing a king can do, lift himfelf in any. It will be his aim to purfue true principles of government independently of all: And by a fteddy adherence to this meafure, his reign will become an undeniable and glorious proof, that a wife and good prince may unite his fubjects, and be himself the center of their union, notwithstanding any of thefe divifions that have been hitherto mentioned. C he is the conqueror, he will be the father too of his people. He must purfue in arms thofe who prefume to take arms against him; but he will pursue them like rebellious children whom he feeks to reclaim, and not A like irreconcileable enemies whom he endeavours to exterminate. Another prince may blow up the flame of civil war by unprovoked feverity, render those zealous againft him who were at worst indifferent, and determine the difaffection of others to open rebellion. When he has prevailed against the faction he helped to form, as he could not have prevailed if the bent of the nation had been against him, he may be willing to afcribe his fuccefs to a party, that he may have that pretence to govern by a party: Far from reconciling the minds that have been alienated from him, and reuniting his fubjects in a willing unforced fubmiffion to him, he may be content to maintain himself on the throne where the laws of God and man have placed him, by the melancholy expedient that ufurpers and tyrants, who have no other in their power, employ; the expedient of force. But a PATRIOT KING will act with another fpirit, and entertain nobler and wifer views from first to last, and thro' the whole courfe of fuch a conjuncture. Nothing less than the hearts of his people will content fuch a prince, nor will he think his throne established till it is established there. That he may have time and opportunity to gain them therefore, he will prevent the flame from breaking out, if by art and management he can do it; if he cannot, he will endeavour to keep it from fpreading; and if the phrenzy of rebellion disappoints him in both these attempts, he will remember peace, like the heroick king X D E 1. Let us now view the divided ftate of a nation in another light. In this the divifions will appear more odious, more dangerous; lefs dependent on the influence, and lefs fubject to the authority of the crown. Such will be the flate, whenever a people is divided about fubmiffion to their prince, and a party is formed of fpirit and ftrength fufficient to oppofe, even in arms, the eftablished government. But in this cafe, defperate as it may feem, a PATRIOT F KING will not defpair of reconciling, and reuniting his fubjects to himself, and to one another. He may be obliged perhaps, as Henry IV. of France was, to conquer his own; but then, like that great prince, if April, 1749. 1. Even in the greatest extremities, |