1749.

-James Penoroy, for a rape on the body of: an infant between 9 and 10 years old.Katherine Conway, for uttering a forged will, knowing it to be fo.-And Jobn Rogers, for robbing Jofeph Oats and Mary Howard in the fields near Illington.

We had terrible accounts this month, from Westmoreland, Northumberland and Yorkfire, of the diftemper among the horned cattle raging violently in or about those parts.

Sir John Phillips, of Pembrokeshire, bart. about this time founded a fellowship and scholarship in Pembroke-College, Oxford, (where he had his education) for the bene. fit of his country; and William Howell, M. A. was admitted the firft fellow on that foundation, and William Rogers scholar.

The following is an account of the elethat has gant and magnificent monument, been fome time erecting in Weftminster-Abbey, and is now finish'd, in honour of the late duke of Argyll. (See p. 95, 96.)

On the front of the pedestal, in baffo relievo, appears Liberty feated in her temple, and two Genii offering the sword and fhield of the deceafed duke to the goddess. The pedestal is fupported by two grand figures; on the right fide, that of Eloquence, with the works of Demofthenes, Cafar's Commentaries, and the emblems of fice lying by; on the left fide, that of Pallas, with the emblems of Wisdom and Valour. The cornice of the pedestal is ornamented with various trophies, alluding to his grace's different titles, honours and employments. Above is placed a Sarcophagus of black and gold marble, on which refts the ftatue of the duke, fupported by a figure representing Hiftory, whofe left hand points to a book, in which is recorded, Born October the 10. MDCLXXX. died Oober the 4. MDCCXLIII. while the right hand is employ'd in writing upon an obelisk the following infcription:

Briton, behold! if patriot worth be dear, A fhrine that claims thy tributary tear; Silent the tongue, admiring fenates heard ; Nerveless that arm, opposing legions fear'd; Nor lefs, O CAMPBELL! thine the pow'r

to please,

And give to grandeur all the grace of eafe. Long from thy life, let kindred heroes

trace

SATURDAY, 27.

Their royal highnetles the prince and princess of Wales, fome others of the royal family, and a great number of nobility and gentry, were at the new chapel at the Foundling-Hofpital, to hear the feveral pieces of vocal and inftrumental mufick, compofed by Mr. Handell.-Three days before, it was fignified to the committee, that his majefty intended to give 2000l. towards fupporting and promoting that charity. See the first inftitution of this hefpital, and Capt. Coram's speech at the first general meeting of the governors and guardians, in our Magazine for 1759. p. 627,628. It was for fome time kept in Harton-Garden, till the fpacious fabrick was erected in Lamb'sConduit Fields, of which we have given the front view, as alfo the effigies of Capt. Coram, in our Magazine for this month. TUESDAY, 30.

Was celebrated the birth-day of their royal highneffes the princeffes Amelia and Caroline, when the former entered into the 38th, and the latter into the 36th year of her age.

MARRIAGES and BIRTHS.

April 28. coinfbire, Efq; to mifs Black-
Accb Dobyns, of Burgh, in Lin

well, daughter of the late Sir Henry black-
well, Bart.

29. Mr John Coalfon, of Southwark, an eminent brewer, to mifs dana Carberina Lane.

May, 4. Hɔn. Rickard Barry, Efq; member for Wigan, to mifs Hyde in Ireland.

Mr. William Hurford, a coal-merchant,

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Everal letters from Drefden by the last

S foreign mail advife, that the king had

just received an exprefs from the primate of Poland, with an account, that the states of Courland had agreed to elect marshal count Saxe for their duke, and waited only for his majefty's confent to proceed to the election in form. And to this the fame letters add, that upon receipt of this advice, orders were iffued to the troops of Saxony to hold themselves in readiness to march on the first notice. If thefe advices be confirmed, we may look upon a war in the north as unavoidable; for the Ruffians will certainly oppofe this election by force of arms, if they have any hopes of being fupported by their allies; and it feems to be as certain, that the election will be supported by Sweden, Poland, Pruffia, Saxony, and, if neceffary, the whole houfe of Bourbon.

Towards the end of last month, the ftates of Holland and Weftfriefland published a placaert, importing, That having confented by their placaert of July laft, that the provifional tax appointed, to fupply the produce of the abolished farms or pachts, should fubfift but for one year, in hopes, that by that time other taxes might have been introduced; but as this has hitherto been found impoffible to be effected, their noble and great mightineffes find themselves under a neceflity, for feveral reasons, to prolong the provifional tax to the end of the current year. And by the faid placaert it is ordered, that two thirds of the arrears of the faid tax for the whole year, beginning the ift of July, 1748, and ending the 1st of July next, fhall be paid on or before the ift of August, and the other third by the ift of September; and that the tax for the other fix months, which begins the ift of July, and ends the laft of December, fhall be paid at two terms, one moiety by the first of November, and the other by the firft of February next.

As the republican or antiftadtholder party in Holland, are daily refigning or forc'd to refign their posts, M. Gillis, the grand penfionary, on Saturday the 3d inft. N. S. defired leave to refign, which was immediately granted; but no one has as yet been appointed in his room. And M. Van Citters, reigning burgomafter of Middleburg in Zealand, has fince refigned that office, which he had filled upwards of 40 years.

May 14, N. S. The prince ftadtholder, accompanied by her royal highness the princefs, and the young prince and princess, fet out from the Hague, for their palace of Log in Guelderland, where they are to stay for fome time; but his ferene highness, fome time before his departure, deliver'd to the affembly of the ftates of Holland a pro

pofal in writing relating to the taxes to be eftablished in lieu of the abolished pachts, in the preamble of which he complained heavily of their delays; and he concluded with obferving, that there were but two methods for answering the end propofed. The first, by the introduction of a general · poll-tax on families, according to every one's confumption, retinue, calling, and The fecond, by levying by means of collectors, the impofts which were formerly farmed out to the pachters.

means,

From Paris we hear, that the dauphinefs has again mifcarried; that the count de Maurepas, his majesty's minister and fecretary of state for the marine, has been divefted of all his employments, and banisked to Bourges, and M. Rouille appointed to fucceed him in the department of the marine; and that his majefty has from the ift of January next abolished the tax called the tenth penny, or 25. in the pound, and eftablifhed in its ftead a tax called the twentieth penny, or 1. in the pound, which is to continue as long as the publick neceffity fhall require.

From Madrid we are advifed, that the king of Spain has made a new regulation in his houfhold, by which the number of officers is very much reduced, and all the advantages formerly accruing to them under the name of perquifites, are entirely cut off.

The Algerines and other Barbary pirates feem of late to have gathered fresh spirits, and have fent out fuch a number of piratical hips and floops, that they have not only taken a great number of Italian Chips, but keep the whole coaft in a continual alarum, that divided country not being able to enter into any general concert for its own defence; but what is moft extraordinary, thefe pirates had the prefumption to seize upon the British packet-boat from Lisbon. called the Prince Frederick, and to carry her to Algiers, where he was detained from he 12th of March till the 4th of April, and all the money and jewels taken out and confifcated, under pretence of its belonging to Jews and Portuguere.

April 23, N. S. Prince Charles of Lorrain governor and general of the Auftrian Nether lands, arrived at Bruffels from Vienna ; and has fince been complimented by deputies from the feveral provinces.

Since the young pretender's departure from Avignon, as mentioned in our Magazine for March laft, we have had no authentick accounts of him; but advices from Germany fay, that he paffed incog. through Leipfick to Berlin, in his way to Poland, where he is to be married to a rich heirefs.

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4. A plain Account of the Ordinance of Baptifm, pr. 1s. Owen.

5. A Proteftant's Reasons why he cannot turn Papist, pr. 3d. Oliver.

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8. An Introduction to the Religious Study of Nature, pr. 1s. 6d. Payne.

9. An Attempt to prove, that no Time ever was, or will be, fo convenient as at prefent, for introducing a further Reformation into our national Church, Universities and Schools, pr. 15. Bourn.

10. The Hiftory, or Book of Job, paraphrafed, with explanatory, mifcellaneous, and practical Obfervations, in 4to, pr. 51. Tewed. Baldwin, jun.

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on the Pav'd-Stones, Moorfields, to mifs Mitchener, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Mitcbener, rector of Woolfen, near Coventry. (See p. 238.)

Capt. Jeffreys, of the horfe-grenadiers, to mifs Prevereau.

9. Newman Philips, of Banftead in Surrey, Efq; to mils Fonnerau, of Richmond.

Herbert Croft, of the chancery-office, Efq; to mifs Young, of Midburft in Suffex, an heiress.

13. Mr. Richard Hamilton, an eminent furgeon in Bloomsbury-Square, to miss Nicholfon.

James Farril, of Montferrat, Efq; to mifs Huddlefon.

14. Henry Gore, Efq; a capt. in Flemming's reg. to Mrs. Nefbit, of St. James'sPlace, a widow lady of 20,000l. fortune.

Henry Leicefter, of Stamford-Hill, Efq; to mifs Amelia Sloper of Clapton.

16. Hugh Slater, of Fenchurch - Street, Efq; to mifs Anne Jelf, only daughter of the late Sir Jacob Felf, knt.

Mr. William Pindar, an eminent linendraper in Cornbill, to mifs Baker of Worcester.

Rev. Dr. Lifle, late publick orator of the university of Oxford, to mils Philipps, of Low-Layton, in Effex, a 20,000l. fortune.

24. Abrabam Atkins, of Clapham, Esq; to mifs Crawley, of the fame place.

25. William Yalden, of the Middle Temple, Efq; to mifs Mofely, of Effex-freet.

26. Rev. Mr. Arthur Johnson, of Kingfreet, Hanover Square, to mils Venables. April, 29. The lady of Sir Michael Hartop, deliver'd of a fon and heir.

May 1. The lady of Wm. Folkes, Efq; daughter of Sir W. Brown, of a fon and heir.

5. The lady of John Gibbons, Efq; of a fon and heir.

Countess of Nortbek, of a fon.

9. The lady of Sir Humphry Bludworth, bart. of a daughter.

10. Rt. Hon. the lady Windfor, of a daughter.

12. The lady of the Rt. Hon. the earl Brooke, of a fon.

14. The lady of Sir Thomas Egerton,

bart. of a fon.

15. The lady of the Hon. William Monckton, Efq; fon to the lord Galway, of a fon. 16. The lady of Charles Gore, Efq; memb. for Hertfordshire, of a fon.

The lady of Coulson, Efq; of a fon and

for Montgomery fire and Shropshire,

30. John White, Efq; high fheriff of Bedfordfbire, in 1741.

May, 2. Richard Harringten, Efq; one of the agents of the Leeward Islands.

Sir Edward Lawrence, of St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, Bart.

4. The lady Dorotby Hooper, one of the daughters of Anthony Afbley Cooper, fecond earl of Shafifbury.

Robert Cater, Efq; fon to the late Sir Robert Cater, knt. and alderman of London. 8. Richard Grabam, Efq; comptroller of Weftminster-Bridge, and F. R. S.

Lady Jane Compton, fifter to the earl of Northampton.

13. Rt. Hon. James Butler, lord Vifc. Mountgarret, first viscount in the Irish parliament, and a branch of the Ormond family.

17. The Rt. Hon. the counters dowager of Sunderland, and wife of Sir Robert Sutton, knight of the bath.

18. Eliakim Palmer, Efq; an eminent Weft-India merchant.

Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS,

MR. Elphinflone, prefented to the li

ving of Eaftern-bridge, in Warwickshire. Mr. Robert Robinson, to the perpetual curacy of Sheen, in Staffordshire.

-Charles Plumptree, M. A. to a prebend in the cathedral church of Norwich.-Mr. Forbes, to the rectory of Stanton, in Notting bamfhire.-Dr. Samuel Nicholls, affiftantpreacher at the Temple-church, to a prebend in the cathedral church of St. Paul's.Mr. Charles Church, to the vicarage of Bellon, in Kent--Thomas Price, L. L. B. to the rectory of Norton Davie, otherwife Greens Norton cum Whittlebury, in Northamptonfbire.-Mr. Dudfon, to the rectory of Shakerby, in Hampfbire.-Mr. Hume to the rectory of Hallicombe, in Shropshire.-Mr. Archer, to the rectory of Wickham-bridge, in Buckinghamshire.-Mr. Brett, to the rectory of Martin cam Bury, in Cumberland. -Edward Bennet, M. A. to the vicarages of Kirby and Walton, in Effex, together with the commiffaryfhip thereto annexed. -Mr. Burdieu, to the vicarage of Prefeot cum Abwich, in Dorfetfire. - Mr. Arthur, to the living of Belfond, in Dorfetfbire.-Mr. Cartwright, M. A. to the rectory of St. Martin's, Worcester.-Ricbard Wynne, M. A. to the living of Denbury, in Devon.

PROMOTIONS Civil and Military.

Jer in ordinary to his majefty, in the OHN Shakleton, Efq; made principal pain

room of William Kent, Efq; deceafed.-Serjeant Silk, late of first reg. of foot-guards, who had a hand fhot off at the battle of Fontenoy, made lieut. of a company of invalids at Portfmouth.-Dr. James Pringle, made phy