In great favour under Q. Anne 296 ibid ibid. His behaviour during the war, particularly at the battle of Malplaquet He commands the king's forces against the rebels in 1715 297 His behaviour in relation to the adminiftration in that and the prefent reign ibid. A meditation in the fields, on seeing the duke of Montagu's herfe fetting forward for his interment in the country ibid. B. Ceremonies obferved at the installation of the knights of the Bath 298 Defcription of the grand Dutch theatre for the fireworks 300 The JOURNAL of a Learned and Political CLUB, &c. continued 301-317 Debate on the queftion about granting to his majefty 10,000l. for reimburfing the City of Glasgow the fums extorted from them by the rebels ibid. SPEECH of Bojorix against the question 301 The behaviour of the city of Glasgow at the revolution, and in the two late rebellions, compared with that of other places ibid. &c. The loyal and zealous behaviour of Newcafile in the last rebellion The fufferings of Glasgow in that rebellion, compared with those of other places 303 Of the confequences of agreeing to the motion ibid. SPEECH of Julius Florus, by way of answer to the foregoing 305 The merits and fufferings of Glasgow dif played ibid. &c. 302 Abstract of Mr. Dodwell's Free Anfwer to Dr. Middleton's Free Inquiry 318 321 ibid. An effay upon vifion, or a curious question in opticks difcuffed, and addreffed to the royal fociety Admirable structure of the eye Account of the diffection of a fish's eye 322 A fummary of the most important affairs that happened laft feffion of parliament 324 Account of the controverted elections 325 Refolutions of the committee of fupply, with an exact account of the fums granted, and for what purposes 325, 326 How they ought to be diftinguished 326 Refolutions of the committee of ways and means for raifing the supply 327 Rife and condition of the three piratical ftates of Barbary ibid. 328 A geometrical question folved POETRY. Ode performed in the fenatehoufe at Cambridge, at the duke of Newcofile's installation as chancellor Epilogue to the town A country quarter feffions 329 330 ibid. On Mr. Stanley, the celebrated blind or ganift ibid. Charity, being a paraphrafe on 1 Cor. xiii. 33× An ode to folitude ibid. A new fong, fung by Mr. Lowe at VauxHall Gardens 332 An ode occafioned by reading Mr. Weft's tramlation of Pindar From Anacreon 333 ibid. ibid. 334 On the late duke of Montagu ibid. ibid. Court-martial for trying the men belonging to the Chesterfield man of war. Riots in the Strand and Old-Bailey ibid. Malefactors executed Ceremony of inftalling his grace the duke of Newcastle in the chancellorship of the university of Cambridge Seffions at the Old-Bailey Deaths 334, 335 ibid. 335 Marriages and births 337 ibid. Perfons declar'd bankrupts ibid. Prices of ftocks; wind, weather Monthly bill of mortality 338 ibid. FOREIGN AFFAIRS 389 340 bill 313 The lords protest in relation to a road N. B. The Paftoral on the Death of Adonis fhall be in our next. As alfo the Remarks on the Queries in relation to Electricity, and the Reccifs for the Staggers in Horfes. "We have received fome Geometrical and Disiling Queftions. THE LONDON MAGAZINE. JULY, 1749. MEMOIRS of the Life of the late J * OHN duke of Argyll andGreenwich, lately deceated, (whofe monument in Weftmin- A fer Abbey is here prefixed,) was the reprefentative of one of the greatest and moft antient families in Scotland. He was born, October 10, 1678, and confequently was not feven years old, when his grandfather Archibald earl B of Argyll was beheaded at Edinburgh, June 30, 1685, about which time he fell out of a window at Dunybriffel, (the feat of his aunt, the countess of Murray) three ftories high, without receiving any hurt; and this ac- C cident the fuperftitious have fixt not only to the very day, but to the very minute his grandfather's head was ftruck of at Edinburgh, as an omen of his revenging the death of his grandfather, and great grandfather, who was beheaded at the fame place, D May 27, 1661. By this means the family of Axgyll became deeply engaged in the revolution, for upon the unhappy catastrophe of the late duke's grandfather, his father Archibald, then called lord Lorn, retired to Holland, where he remained till the prince of Orange, afterwards king William III. July, 1749. E came to England, by whom he was, in 1701, created duke of Argyll, marquefs of Kintyre and Lorn, earl of Campbell and Cowal, viscount of Locbow and Glenyla, and lord Inverary, Mull, Morven, and Tyrie; and as he had always great intereft with king William, in the year 1694, he procured for his fon, the late duke, the command of one of the Scottis regiments in the Dutch fervice, tho' then but 16 years of age. The late duke was then at his ftudies in the university of Leyden, where his father defigned he fhould have continued for a year or two longer, and left the regiment to be commanded by the lieutenant colonel; but as the war was then in its greateft fury, the lord Lorn, as he was then called, had, notwithstanding his youth, too nice a fenfe of honour to fubmit to the will even of his father in fo tender a point; therefore, as foon as he heard of his being appointed colonel of that regiment, he left the univerfity, went to Flanders, and put himself at the head of his regiment, foon after which an affair happened, which we fhall give an account of, because we have it from undoubted authority, and becaufe nothing can contribute more towards giving us an idea of the true character of this great man. Pp z ftalled one of the knights of that noble order, which, in 1710, he refigned, on his being made a knight of the Garter. As the parliament of Scotland had, in 1703 and 1704, appeared As every captain of a regiment in the Dutch fervice has the paying, recruiting, and cloathing of his company, a captain's poft in that fervice is much more beneficial than in this, and of courfe the poft of a colonel much lefs. This had introduced a A to be in an ill humour, his grace, tho' custom, that when a new colonel was appointed to any regiment, the captains always raised, by a voluntary contribution among themselves, and prefented to their new colonel, a handfome purfe of gold, to enable him to provide an equipage fuitable to his character and ftation in the army. When the lord Lorn arrived, and took the command of this regiment upon him, as the captains knew his high quality, and likewise that his father kept him at a pretty fhort allowance; and as they were C not full 27 years of age, was thought the moft proper perfon for bringing them into a better temper, therefore he was the next year appointed her majefty's high commiffioner, to reprefent her in the parliament of Scotland, and he managed matters there fo much to her majefty's fatiffaction, that upon his return the created him a peer of England by the titles of baron of Chatham, and earl of Greenwich; and having been advanced to the rank of a brigadiergeneral in the army, he affifted as fuch next year in the battle of Ramillies, and all the glorious fucceffes of that year: In 1708 he affifted in the battle of Oudenard, the fiege of Lifle, Ghent, &c. as a major general; and in 1709, when the confederates Drefolved to attack the French in their ftrong camp near Malplaquet, he commanded that body of troops which was ordered to dislodge the French from their almost impregnable poft in the wood of Sart, where he behaved with fuch conduct and refolution as gained him great reputation in the army both as a ge charmed with his behaviour, and the early fenfe of honour he had fhewn, they collected a much larger purfe than ufual, and fent one of their number with it to their young colonel. The captain explained to him the custom, and the meffage on which he was fent; to which he anfwered, "Sir, the custom you have explained to me I look on as a very bad one, and am refolved, if I can, to break the neck of it: Give my fervice to the gentlemen: Tell them I think myself very much ob. E liged to them for this mark of refpect; but as to money, I will have none of theirs, and I am refolved they fhall have none of mine." At the head of this regiment he gave fignal proofs of his courage during the remaining part of the war, and continued in that command till his father's death, in 1703, whom he fucceeded in his titles and efstates; foon after which he was fworn of her majesty queen Anne's privy-council, and appointed captain of the Scottish horfe guards, and one of the extraordinary lords of feffion in Scotland. Next year, her majesty having revived the order of the Thijle in Scotland, his grace was in F G neral and foldier. Upon the change of the miniftry in England, his grace was, in 1710, appointed her majefty's ambaffador extraordinary to Charles III. king of Spain, and captain general of the British forces in that kingdom; where he commanded during the campaigns in 1711 and 1712; but having, foon after his return, declared openly against the measures of the then adminiftration, he was difmiffed from all his employments in March, 1713-14. Upon the acceffion of the late king, his grace was restored to feveral of his pofts, and was made commander |