King has had it much at Heart; for tho' his Majefty is fenfible of the Utility of that Service, when under proper Regulations, he is determined to do his utmost to prevent any Injuries or Hardships being done to the Subjects of Neutral Powers, as far as may be practicable, and confiftent with his Majefty's juft Right to hinder the Trade of his Enemies from being collufively and fraudulently covered.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

We are commanded to affure you, that when his Majefty confiders the large Supplies which you have fo unanimously given, he feels himself under the strongest Obligations, not only to thank you for them, but alfo to applaud the Firmnefs and Vigour with which you have acted; as well as your Prudence in judging that, notwithstanding the prefent Burdens, the making ample Provifion for carrying on the War is the moft probable Means to bring it to an honourable and happy Conclufion. No Attention will be wanting on his Majesty's Part, for the faithful Application of what you have granted.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

His Majefty has been graciously pleafed to order us to add, that he has nothing more to defire of you, but that you would carry down the fame good Difpofitions, and propagate them in your feveral Countries, which you have fhewn in your Proceedings during your fitting here.

Then a Commiffion for proroguing the Parliament was read, after which the Lord Keeper prorogued the Parliament to Thurf day the 26th Day of July next.

June 4. Being the Birth day of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who then came of Age, there was a very great Court at Saville and Leicester Houses, to compliment his Royal Highness on that Occafion.

The fame Day the New Bridge at Kew was opened, when upward of 3000 Foot Pallengers went over.

6. Legrand, Efq; was fworn in Governor to the two youngest Princes, Sons to the late Prince of Wales.

7. There was a great Court at Kenfington, at which were prefent the Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager, and the Royal Family.

fington, June 8. This Day the Right he Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and of the City of London, in Comlaffembled, waited on his Maing introduced to his Majefty ht Hon. the Earl of Effex, one Ards of his Majesty's Bedchamber,

Sir William Moreton, Knt. the Recorder, made their Compliments in the following Address.

To the King's most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common-Council affembled.

May it please your Majesty,

"We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common-Council affembled, humbly beg Leave to congratulate your Majefty on the Satisfaction of seeing your Royal Grandfon the Prince of Wales, that great Object of your Majesty's paternal Care and Solicitude, arrived at the Age of Twenty-one Years, mature in all the Accomplishments that can add Luftre to his-high Dignity, or command the Love and Veneration of Mankind.

"Long may his Royal Highness enjoy the Benefit of your Majesty's falutary Precepts and Example, and continue to make your Majesty the ampleft Returns of filial Duty and Refpect. May his Royal Highness live to emulate the Virtues that have endeared your Majefty's facred Perfon and Government to a free People; and may there never be want ing one of your Majesty's illustrious Race to perpetuate the Bleffings we derive from your aufpicious Reign.

Permit us, most gracious Sovereign, to embrace this opportunity of humbly affuring your Majesty, that no hoftile Threats can intimidate a People animated by the Love of Liberty, and inspired with a Sense of Duty and Affection to your Majesty; who, confiding in the divine Providence, and the experienced Wisdom and Vigour of your Majesty's Councils, are refolved to employ their utmoft Efforts towards enabling your Majesty to repel the Infults and defeat the Attempts of the antient Enemies of your Majesty's Crown and Kingdoms."

To which Addrefs his Majesty was pleased

to return this moft gracious Answer: "The cordial Expreffions in your conftant Attachment to my Perfon and Family, are very agreeable to me; and I return you my hearty Thanks for this fresh Mark of your Zeal and Affection.

"I have the firmeft. Confidence of the Fidelity and Spirit of my People, and I trust I fhall be well enabled, under the divine Providence, to defeat and fruftrate the most daring Attempts of the ancient Enemy of my Crown."

They were all received very graciously, and had the Honour to kifs his Majesty's Hand.

After

After which his Majesty was pleased to confer the Honour of Knighthood on Thomas Chitty, Efq; Alderman, Matthew Blakiston, Efq; Alderman, William Stephenfon, Efq; Alderman, James Hodges, Efq; Town Clerk Saville-Houfe, June 9. This Day the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Commoncouncil affembled, waited on his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, and being introduced by the Right Hon. Lord Robert Bertie, one of the Lords of his Royal Highnefs's Bedchamber, Sir William Moreton, the Recorder, made their Compliments in the following Speech.

To his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales.

May it please your Royal Highness, "Your Royal Highnefs having happily attained your Age of Twenty-one Years, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common council affembled, humbly beg Leave to compliment your Royal Highness upon an Event fo pleafing to the King, and fo very interefting to his Majesty's faithful Subjects.

"But permit us, Sir, at the fame Time, without offending the Modefty which fo eminently distinguishes and adorns your Character, to exprefs the yet greater Pleasure we enjoy in beholding your Royal Highness poffeffed of every Virtue and Accomplishment which we had Reafon to prefage f.om the Excellence of your Genius, and the Goodnefs of your Difpofition.

"When we confider your Royal Highnefs's exemplary Piety, your dutiful Deportment towards the King, your refpectful Affection for your augult Mother, your early Knowledge of the Constitution and true Interefts of these Kingdoms, and your Solici. tude for the Happiness and Profperity of the People, we form the most agreeable Profpects, and reflect with Gratitude upon the Wisdom and Attention that have been em. ployed to cultivate thefe noble Sentiments in your princely Breaft.

"May they more and more endear your Royal Highness to his Majefty, and here. after be exerted in a higher Sphere in preferving the religious and civil Rights, happily intrufted to the Protection of his Majefty's illustrious House."

To which his Royal Highnefs was pleased to return the following Answer:

My Lord and Gentlemen, "I return you my hearty Thanks for this Mark of your Duty to the King, and

Attention to me.

You may always depend upon my warmest Wishes for the Profperity of this great City, and for whatever can in the leaft promote the Trade and Manufactures of my native Country,"

They all had the Honour to kifs his Royal Highnefs's Hand.

Leicefter-Houfe, June 9. This Day the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Commoncouncil affembled, waited on her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Dowager of Wales, and being introduced by Sir William Irby, Bart. Chamberlain' to her, Royal Highnefs, Sir William Moreton, the Recorder, made their Compliments in the following Speech. To her Royal Highnefs the Princess Dowager of Wales.

May it pleafe your Royal Highness, "The Lord Mayor, Alderman and Commons, of the City of London, in Commoncouncil affembled, warmed with the most dutiful Affection for his Majesty, and with Gratitude to your Royal Highness for the early and repeated Marks of your Regard, humbly beg Leave to compliment your Royal Highness upon the Happiness of feeing your illuftrious Son the Prince of Wales ar rived at the Age of Twenty-one Years, endowed with every noble Quality which maternal Fondness could hope, or a free People with in the Heir apparent to the Crown.

"Thefe, Madam, are the Fruits, thefe the glorious Reward of your Royal Highnefs's pious Instructions and Example.

By having thus laid the Foundation of our future Happiness and Prosperity, your Royal Highness has fecured the Bleffings of the prefent Age, and a Name of diftinguished Honour in the future Annals of Great Britain."

To which her Royal Highnefs was pleafed to return the following Anfwer:

My Lord and Gentlemen,

"I return you many Thanks for your most obliging Compliment; my utmost Ambition has ever been to fee my Son anfwer the Expectation of his Country; if I have fucceeded in that, all my Withes are com pleted."

They all had the Honour to kiss her Royal Highness's Hand. [Gazette.

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An Addrefs on the fame Occafion has been prefented by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-council of the City of Exeter, and received very graciously, &c. &c.

14. His Royal Highness Prince Edward, was worn a Poft Captain of the Royal Na

vy, and appointed Captain of the Phoenix Man of War.

An Extraordinary Gazette was published, containing a Letter from the Hon. General Barrington, to the Rt. Hon. Mr. Secretary Pitt, dated Head Quarters in the Capefterre, Guadaloupe, May 9, 1751, giving an Account of feveral Proceedings both by Sea and Land, for the Reduction of Guadaloupe and the happy Succefs attending it; together with other Particulars in the military Way, communicated by J. Clavering, Efq; to which is likewise added, another Letter, from the Hon. General Barrington to the Rt. Hon. Mr. Secretary Pitt, dated at Guadaloupe, May 9, 1759: Together with 17 Articles of Capitulation, refpecting the Officers, military Troops, &c. between their Excellencies the Hon. Major General Barrington and John Moore, Efq; Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majefty's Land and Sea Forces in thefe Seas; and M. Nadau Dutreil, Governor for his most Christian Majefty of Gaudaloupe, Grande Terre, Defeada and the Saintes; and 22 other Articles, relating to the Inhabitants of the Inland. Given in the Head Quarters in the Capefterre, at Guadaloupe, the 1ft Day of May, 1759. Sign'd

J. Barrington. John Moore.
Nadau Dutriel. Debourg de Clainvilliers.
Duqueruy.

He concludes his Letter with the following remarkable Paragraph.

I cannot help congratulating myself, that I had juft figned the Capitulation with the Inhabitants of the Grande Terre, when a Messenger arrived in their Camp to acquaint them, that M. Beauharnois, the General of these Islands, had landed at St. Anne's, on the windward Part of that Island, with a Reinforcement from Martinico, of 600 Regulars, 2000 Buccaneers, and 2000 Stand of Spare. Arms for the Inhabitants, with Artillery and Mortars, under the Convoy of M. Bompart's Squadron. This Support, had it arrived there an Hour fooner, must have made the Conquest of that sland very difficult, if not impoffible. As foon as he heard the Capitulation was figned, he reimbarked again.

Extract of a Letter from Commodore Moore to the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary Pitt, dated Cambridge, in Prince Rupert's Bay Dominique, May 11, 1759.

"By the Griffin, which arrived here on the 17th of April, I was honoured with your Letter, fignifying his Majesty's moft gracious Approbation of my Conduct, and of the Behaviour of thofe under my Command, which I took the Liberty to commu

nicate to thofe Gentlemen: And give me Leave to fay, Sir, nothing can contribute fo much to our Happiness, as being honoured with, and executing Orders to the Honour of his Majesty's Arms.

Give me Leave, Sir, to congratulate you on the Capitulation of the Islands of Guadaloupe and Grand Terre, which Major General Barrington fends to you by this Exprefs; in gaining which, great Honour is due to the Troops. The ftrong Holds, which the Enemy had, could not be conquered but by great Conduct and Refolution.

I hope the Conqueft will prove as great an Acquifition as it appears to me.

It is with great Pleasure, I think I may fay, Sir, that, on this Expedition, great Unanimity has been kept up between thre two Corps, as well in Obedience to his Majesty's Commands, as from our own Inclinations. It has ever been my Wish to have fuch Harmony subfift, and I flatter myself I have always fucceeded.***

I fhall, in Conjunction with General Barrington, give every Affiftance in my Power to any other Services.***

By other Letters we learn, that this Island is a valuable Acquifition, being the largest and beft of all the Caribbees. In Length 70 Miles, and between 50 and 60 broad, and produces annually fourscore Thousand Hogf. heads of Sugar, &c. and the French fay, contains upwards of 100,000 Inhabitants.

The Lofs attending this Conqueft is deemed inconfiderable; for according to a Lift of Officers killed and wounded, belonging to the Forces under the Command of Gene ral Barrington, from the Time of their leaving England, to April 30, as transmitted bỷ Authority, are

16. An Addrefs was prefented to his Majefty, of the Officers of the two Battalions of the Norfolk Militia, by Lord Orford, Lord Lieutenant of the faid County, and one of the Lords of his Majesty's Bedchamber, which Addrefs his Majefty was pleased to receive very graciously.

The Supplies granted for the Service of the prefent Year amount to 12,749,680l. and the Ways and Means for raifing the fame to 13,226,770 1.

19. The Judges met at Lord Mansfield's Chambers in Weftminfter-hall, and chofe their Circuits for the Summer Affizes: Western, Ld. Mansfield, Mr. Juft. Wilmott. Norfolk, Lord Chief Juftice Willes, Mr. Baron Legge.

Oxford,

Civil and military Preferments.

Ralph Begland, Efq; Bluemantle Purfuivant at Arms, to be Somerset Herald at Arms.

John Clavering, Efq; to be one of his Majetty's Aid de Camps, and to command and take Rank as Colonel of Foot.

Rich, Cumberland, Efq; appointed Marfhal, Clerk of the Peace, and Clerk of the Crown in his Majefty's Province of South Carolina.

A new Commiffion is ordered under the great Seal of the Kingdom of Ireland, to John Ponsonby, William Chapeneys. John Bourke, Arthur Trevors, and Hugh Valence Jones, Efqrs. Commiffioners of Excife, and chief Commiffioners and Governors through. out the faid Kingdom of Ireland.

The Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Ligonier, to be Mafter General of the Ordnance.

29. Robert Sawyer, of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, baker and dealer in corn.

Timothy Carter, late of Beccles in Suffolk, apothecary, dealer and chapman.

Abraham Ford, of Coalbrookdale in Salop, ironmonger, dealer and chapman.

Thomas Pinchen, of St. Saviour, Southwark, carpenter, dealer.and chapman. Jane 2. William Gibson, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, linendraper.

Henry Dobbins, of St. Andrew Holborn, warehouseman and milliner.

Jacob Bright of Lawrence-lane, warehoufeman and factor.

9. William Penket, late of Chester, meri chant.

John Ainsworth, of Chelmsford, Effex, clock maker.

John Ham, now or late of Reading in Berkshire, inn-holder.

Bartholomew Alfton, of St. Martin'slane, Cannon-street, London, merchant. William Baker, now or late of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, weaver.

12. John Young, of St. Mary, Whitechapel, dealer in tallow.

George Smart, of Cannon-street, vint

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