lation of the facred privileges of foreign We therefore take the liberty humbly to intreat your Excellency, that you will permit us to have your Excellency's portrait painted by the moft eminent Irith artift; that we may preferve the reprefentation of fo exalted a friend to this country to future times, in grateful remembrance of the advantages which this nation has obtained, from the judicious efforts of your Excellency's prudent and just adminiftration." ambaffadors. For this was a cafe that ftood on very particular circumftances. Monf. Pizzoni was understood to be no longer a public man: he was fucceeded by Monf. Cavalli in his public capacity, and ftaid afterwards more than eight days in this kingdom; confequently he had a reasonable time to depart; and the defendants, confidering him in the character of a private fubject, had been (if wrong) milled in their own judgements: That on being told by the folicitor of the treasury of the mistake, Monf. Pizzoni was inftantly released. The court determined, That it was a violation of the pri vilege of Monf. Pizzoni, notwithstanding his fucceffor had arrived. They faid, there was no time limited for the departure of ambassadors, who were to have no restraint on their perfons: but they allowed, many extenuating circumftances appeared; and though they condemned the conduct of the defendants, postponed judgement fine die. IRELAND. At a poft-affembly held at the Tholfel, Dublin, Jan. 6. when the addrefs to the King [49.] was voted, an addrefs to John Earl of Buckinghamshire, the Lord Lieutenant, was likewife voted, fealed with the city-feal, and dated Jan. 6. viz. "WE, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Commons, and Citizens, of the city of Dublin, in Common Council affembled, fenfible of your Excellency's uniformly virtuous and upright administration, and convinced of the faithful and efficacious reprefentations which you have made to his Majefty of the fituation and diftreffes of this kingdom, take this early opportunity to convey to your Excellency our grateful acknowledgements of the advantages lately obtained for Ireland, in advancement of its trade [41.665.], to which your Excellency's interpofition muft have greatly contributed; and for the unremitted attention which your Excellency has conftantly fhewn to our general profperity and welfare. Though we have little reafon to doubt, that your Excellency's upright conduct, and the benefits derived from it to this kingdom, cannot fail of making the deepest impreffion upon the mind of every good Irishman; yet we are defirous to convey to our pofterity every circumstance by which thofe impreflions may be rendered lafting. To which his Excellency gave the following anfwer." I feel myfelf moft happy, that my conduct has been fuch as to meet the approbation of the citizens of Dublin. This kingdom can receive no benefit from the which I fhall not derive the fulleft fatisfaction. The complying with your requeft will be an honour to myself." On the 24th of December the Lord Lieutenant gave the Royal affent to the following bills. An act for granting unto his Majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, frong waters, wine, tobacco, hides, and other goods and merchandifes therein mentioned; and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and filver lace, and of all cambrics and lawns, except of the manufacture of Great Britain. An act for granting unto his Majesty the feveral duties, rates, impofitions, and taxes therein particularly expreffed, to be applied to the payment of the intereft of the fums therein provided for, and towards the dif charge of the faid principal fums in fuch manner as therein is directed; and for fuck other purposes as are therein mentioned. An act for granting to his Majesty, his heirs, and fucceffors, feveral duties upon flamped vellum, parchment, and paper. An act for the advancement of the trade of this kingdom. An act for establishing a lottery, and for granting to his Majesty a fum of 200,000/ to be raised thereby; and for such other purposes as are therein mentioned. On the 10th of January was made, at the cuftom-houfe, Dublin, the first export-entry of woollen goods from Ireland, fince the restrictions of the trade of that kingdom were taken off [41.665.]. The entry was made by W. Worthington, Efq; and confifted of 1300 yards of ferge for Lifbon. A bafon is digging at Carilcron, in Ireland, out of the folid rock, which is reckoned one of the moft wonderful things in its kind. This bafon will contain twenty-four docks, covered over head 1. head, where fhips will be dry in all weathers, and by means of fluices may be conveyed in or out with the greatest ease and expedition. Near 1200 men are conFantly employed on it, yet it is computed the completion of it will take up thirty years.-The engineer who has the conducting of this ftupendous work, has already diftinguished himself by two very carious inventions; one, a method of blowing up with gunpowder rocks that are under water; the other, perfpectives for difcovering the nature of the bottom of the fea. SCOTLAND. County meetings have been held all over the country, in pursuance of a letter circulated by direction of the county of Haddington, Nov. 4. [41.630.], concerning our internal defence. A letter from Lord Stormont, one of the fecretaries of ftate, to the Lord Advocate, was laid before one of these meetings, at Haddington, Jan. 17.; from which it appeared, that government proposed to furaith arms, and allow the county to raife men, on condition that the officers fhould be named by the King, the men to receive pay only when in actual fer vice. In confequence of an application from the Royal Boroughs, a letter was received in the beginning of December, by the Lord Provoft of Edinburgh, from the Admiralty, acquainting, that their Lordships had appointed three armed hips for regularly convoying the trade betwixt the Nore and Leith road, and thence to Buchannefs, or the bay of Aberdeen, and then fouth in the fame manand the commanders of thefe veffels are to advise with the Lord Provoft as to the time of failing and returning. A number of French prifoners who had been for a good time confined in Edinburgh caftle, were marched thence, Jan. 26. for Leith, there to be imbarked for France, and exchanged. The Carron company are training a number of their workmen to work the carronades [41. 452.]. For charging and priming the carronades the company furuith flannel cartridges and primers, much better than the cartridges and primers formerly in afe. On the 22d of January, the faculty of Advocates, who had been asked to pay their proportion of a contribution levying by the magiftrates of Edinburgh for paying the damages fuftained by the Roman-Catholics [41. 454.], refolved unanimously, that they had no exemption, more than any other of the inhabitants, from the payment of that tax. A Dutch company have lately bought a coal-hill about four or five miles from Inverkeithing, and intend to make a waggon-road from the coal-hill to that port, and there fhip off the coals for Holland and other places; which they had begun in November laft. According to a letter from Aberdeen, of Jan. 24. the farmers of that county have entered into an affociation for reducing the exorbitant wages of fervants, which was then fubfcribed by eightynine refpectable proprietors and farmers. An account of the cold at Glasgow, &c. . Wednesday, Jan. 12. the cold increafed all day; but fo gradually, that, at fun-fet, it was not more than 12 degrees below the freezing of water by Fahrenheit's thermometer. Thursday, Jan. 3. at one o'clock in the morning, the atmosphere being still and ferene, and the barometer at twentynine inches and nine tenths, a Fahrenheit's thermometer, when expofed at a high north window in the College court, funk to 26 degrees below the freezingpoint; and, in five hours afterwards, it fell fix degrees more, that is, to 32 degrees below the fr zing of water. The fame inftrument was then carried to the Obfervatory park, and there laid on the furface of the fac; in which fituation, it fell to 45 degrees below the freezing of water: and this great degree of cold was verified by another very accurate thermometer, which was made by a different hand. The cold increafed all this day, and obfervations were taken every halfhour from this evening till the fun rose on Friday morning. Friday, Jan. 14. at fix o'clock in the morning, two thermometers, when hung in the air in the Obfervatory park, ftood at 46 degrees below the freezing point in Fahrenheit's feale, and other two, when laid on the furface of the fnow, fell to 55 degrees below the freezing point in the fame fcale, while the fame fnow near the furface of the earth was only 8 degrees below the freezing point. At this time the air was perfectly calm; and tho' there was a little haze near the horizon, not a cloud was to be feen, and the stars one with a full and fteady light. The cold 54 Affairs in Scotland. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. Vol. 42 Gold became much lefs intense on Friday evening, and a thaw began on the Saturfollowing. The above degree of cold in the air is much greater than any that has ever been obferved in Britain. At Chatham, a feaport town in Kent, on the 31st day of January 1776, a Fahrenheit's thermometer ftood at 35 degrees and a half below the freezing of water. At Glasgow, in the year 1740, it is faid, that it was only 23 degrees below that point. And in the fame place, January 1768, it was at 34 degrees below it; but, on Friday laft, it was 12 deg. ftill lower; though the temperature of this place is, in general, very mild for its latitude. To the above a fact is added, viz. a conftant difference of temperature betwixt the fnow and the air, at a few feet from the furface; infomuch that for three hours, when the cold of the air was 13 degrees below o, that of the fnow continued 22 degrees below the fame point. At fome other times the difference of temperature was greater, and fometimes lefs. At Kelfo, on Thurfday, Jan. 13. at nine in the morning, the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer fell 22 degrees below the freezing point, and at eight in the evening it fell 27 degrees below it. On Friday the 14th, at nine in the morning, the mercury was 34 degrees below the freezing point. Height of the mercury in a thermometer made by Mr Wilfon, bung on the north fide of a tree, in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. MARRIAGES. Jan. 15. 1780. At Exeter, Col. Gordon, of the soth regiment, to Mifs Bamfylde, daughter of the late Sir Richard Bamfylde of Poltimore. Paris, Jan. 6. A proof, that a common ftout young man has often a greater influence upon the female mind, than the greatest philofopher, has lately occurred here, in the fingular inftance of the widow of the celebrated J. J. Rouffeau, a lady of 55 years of age, who has always been confidered as a Platonic lover, and an example of chastity; and as the never loved her late husband, has often declared it to be impoffible for her to love any man. This lady has, however, not been able, notwithstanding the reiterated remonftrances of her relations, and her late husband's friends, to withstand In spite of all my friends could fay, B I R T H S. Jan. 1. The lady of Lord Viscount Gallway, of a daughter. 4. The lady of Sir Robert Dalziel, Bt, of a fon. 4. At Bannockburn-houfe, Mrs Paterfor Rollo, of a fon. 18. Lady Rofs Baillie, of a daughter. DE A T H S. Feb. 14. 1779. The celebrated circumna vigator Capt. James Cook. He was killed, with four of his mariners, on the island of O'why'he, in an affray with the natives. [44] Of. 24. At St Chriftopher's, Robert Douglas, Etq; governor of all his Majesty's forts and fortifications in that ifland, member of aflembly, officer of the revenue, and juftice of the peace, &c. This gentleman's death was occafioned by a moft extraordinary accident. Leaning against the palifades which inclofed his court-yard, with fome weight, and being corpulent and heavy, the wood gave way, and he falling with great violence, occafioned a contufion of the fpine, of which he died in twenty-four hours, labouring under the most excruciating torture, but per fectly placid and refigned. He has left the bulk of his fortune, which is very confiderable, to his brother, Capt. John Douglas, of his Majesty's fhip the Terrible. Nev. In Jamaica, of a putrid fever, LtGen. Thomas Stanley, of the Liverpool Bees, brother to the Earl of Derby, and member of parliament for the county of Lancaster. In Barbadoes, the Hon. Mr Hay, brother to the Earl of Kinnoul, and governor of that ifland. D. 5. At Canifby, Caithnefsfhire, Mr James Brodie, minifter of that place, in the ad year of his age, and 33d of his miniftry. A London, Richard Morris, Efq; of the Bavy-office. He was employed by the foety for propagating Chriftian knowledge to tranflate the Bible into the Welch language, in which he was critically skilled; which laborious task he was above seven years accomplishing. a. At fea, Capt. Hugh Dalrymple, commader of his Majesty's fhip Canada. 19. At Newton upon Oufe, near York, Safannah Wood, aged 109 years. She had beca four times married, and was a widow for near twenty-two years. 31. At Hornfey, in Middlefex, John Banks, Efq; 31. At Stratford, near Salisbury, the widow Brunfden, in the 103d year of her age. J. 3. 1780. At the manfe of Arbuthnot, Mr Alexander Shank, minifter of that parish, in the yad year of his age, and 48th of his miniftry. 3. Provost John Duncanfon, physician, in Javerary. At Ryall, near Annan, a woman, aged 107. She could read diftinctly without fpectacles till within two or three weeks of her death. At his feat near Londonderry in Ireland, Timothy McNamara, Efq; aged 112 years. 6. Mr James Honyman, minister of Kineff, near Bervie, in the 77th year of his age, and sad of his miniftry. He is fucceeded by his fon, Mr James Honyman. The try of the parish of Kineff has paffed from father to fon fince 1663, when the great-grandfather of the prefent incumbent, a near relation of Honyman bishop of OrkRey, was fettled in it. 6. William Menzies, Efq; of Pitfoddles, in the gad year of his age. 8. At Edinburgh, Mifs Margaret Cunnynghame, daughter of the deceased Mr Ninian Cunnynghame. 8. At Edinburgh, Mr William Polfon, merchant in that city. 9. At London, the Hon. Mrs Johnston, wife of Col. Robert Johnston, in the fervice of the States - General, and daughter of the deceafed Robert Lord Rollo. Rt Hon. Hans Stanley, F. R. S. P. C. cofferer of his Majesty's household, governor of the Isle of Wight, treasurer of the British Mufcum, and member of parliament far Southampton. In a workhouse in London, Mary Tays lor, aged 100 years. 13. At Berlin, Louifa Amelia, Princessdowager of Pruffia, fister to her Pruffian Majefty, and to the reigning Duke of Brunf wick Wolfenbuttel, in the 58th year of her age, Lond. gaz. and mother of the Princess, confort of the Stadtholder. 14. At Edinburgh, Lady Diana Middleton, widow of George Middleton of Seaton, Efq; 16. At London, Sir Archibald Macdonaldfon, Kt. 17. At his houfe in Edinburgh, Thomas Rigg, Efq; of Morton. Dying a bachelor, he is fucceeded by his only brother, James Home-Rigg, now of Morton. 17. At Wapping, Mr Thomas Dilworth, a celebrated mathematician, author of feveral school-books and tracts in arithmetic and the mathematics. 17. At her house in Leith, Mrs Crawford, relict of Hugh Crawford, Efq; of Garvie. 18. At Glasgow, Mrs Denniston, younger of Calgrain. 20. At Strath, in Caithness, Donald Calder, Efq; of Strath, aged 95; and, fame day, Elifabeth Sutherland, his fpoufe, aged 86. They had lived together fixty years. 22. At Edinburgh, in an advanced age, Alexander Hepburn, Efq; 23. At Torwoodlie, George Pringle of Torwoodlie, Efq; 24. At Bath, in the 83d year of his age, Archibald Stewart, Efq; late in eminent merchant in London. In 1745, this gentleman was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and member of parliament for that city. [See vols 7. 8. 9. in the Indexes, under Stewart.] 24. At Steuartfield, near Edinburgh, Mrs Steuart, relict of Bailie James Steuart of Steuartfield, merchant in Edinburgh. 24. At Stepney, Mrs Mary Armstrong, unmarried, aged 110 years. She had never any illness until three days before her death. At Newington, near York, John Abbot, Efq; aged 104 years. 26. At Linlithgow, Mrs Margaret Fairholme, eldest daughter of John Fairholme of Baberton, Efq; 27. At Dundee, Mrs Stewart Hamilton, widow of John Dempster of Dunichen, Efq; 28. At Gullen, Mrs Cochran, aged 78. 28. At Teviot Row, Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Guthrie, widow of Willam Brown of Elliftown. PREFERMENTS. Jan. 29. to order letters-patent to be paff ed under the great feal of Ireland, for the tranflation of Dr George Chinnery, Bishop of Killaloe and Kilferona alias Tenabore, to the bishoprick of Cloyne, with the rectory or or union of Aghada in the faid diocese, vacant by the tranflation of Dr Agar to the archbishoprick of Cathel. -to order like letters-patent for the promotion of Dr Thomas Barnard, Dean of Derry, to the bishoprick of Killaloe, &c. in the room of the Bishop of Cloyne. War-office, January 1. 1780. 65th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Francis Seymour Heart, to be Captain, vice Archibald Kinloch Gordon; and Lieut. John Baillie to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Francis Seymour eat. Alexander Munro, of 83d foot, to be Major of Brigade to the forces in the ifland of Guernsey. Hearst. Wheat, Bear, Oats, 95. 7 s. 8 d. od. 75. od. 6 s. 8d. 95. 2 d. 8 s. od. Serj.-Maj. John Ofborne, of 1ft footguards, to be Provost Marfhal to the three regiments of foot-guards, vice William Jack-2 f. Bear-meal, 5 d. Peafe-meal, 5 d. fon. Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant : Hon. James Stuart. Majors: Capt. Colin Mackenzie, of 71st foot: and Capt Peter Hunter, of ft foot. Captains: Lieut Hew Dalrymple, of 13th foot; Lieut. George Viscount Garnock, of sit foot; Lieut. Colin Campbell, of ift foot; Hon. Lieut. Robert Hamilton Lindsay, of 51ft foot; Hon. Lieut. Bute Lindfay, of 14th foot; and Robert Aberdeen, Efq; Captain-Lieutenant: Lieut. Alexander Edwards, of 53d foot. 61ft foot: Capt.-Lieut. Rawden Hautenville to be Captain, vice Richard Boycott; and Lieut. Caleb Barne to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Rawden Haulenville. War-office, Jan. 29. 16th dragoons; Hon. Capt. Henry Aftley Bennett, of the Coldstream foot-guards, to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Wastel Brifcoe. Coldstream foot-guards: Capt. Waflel Briscoe, of the 16th dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hon, Henry Aftley Bennett. 79th foot; Capt Richard Cribb to be Major, vice Hon. Thomas Stanley; Capt.Lieut. Richard Bulkeley to be Captain, vice Richard Cribb; and Lieut. William Colvill to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Richard Bulkeley. Edinburgh, Feb. 18. 1780 Oat-meal, 8 d. Jan. 15. 20 I South Sea Old Ann. 60 3 8ths a r half. 3 per cent. Bk. red. 61 1 8th a 14th. 3 per cent. Conf. 60 3 8ths a 1 half. 4 per cent. Conf. 1762, 611 half a 5 8ths. 4 per cent. 1777, 78 3 4ths a 7 8ths. India Bonds, 26 s. a 27 s. prem. Navy and Vict. Bills, 111 8th per cent. Annuities 1778, 11 1-4th yrs pur. The reft fhut. |