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Gibraltar to Bristol, and the Andrew, Odier, from Madeira to Plymouth, and carried them into Cadiz.

The Prince Edward, Hookey, from Alicant, laft from Gibralter, taken and carried into Vigo.

The Anna, Dickinson, from Cork for London, is taken and carried into Dunkirk.

The Sampfon, Mofflin, from Newfoundland for Lisbon, by a French Letter of Marque.

The Port Packet from Falmouth to Naples, is taken and carried into Vigo.

The Amity, Sterling, from Africa, is taken and carried into Martinico.

The Sampfon, Ramfay, of Virginia, bound to the Cape de Verds, by a French Priva

teer.

The Royal Hunter from Nantucket-and the Fortuna, Downer, are taken to the Windward of Barbadoes.

Two Dutch Ships, laden with Coals from Newcastle, bound to Bilboa, taken and fent into Bayonne.

The New Elizabeth, Wardlow, from Yarmouth, is taken by the French, and carried into Leghorn.

The Mary and Arthur, Jenkins, from Carmarthen to London, taken and fent into St. Maloes.

The Peter and Paul, from Cork to St.Kits, is carried into Martinico.

The Samuel Adventure, Whitrow, from Cadiz for Pool, is carried into Havre de Grace.

The Albion, Dench, from Corella for London, is taken in the Mediterranean.

The Fanny, Polegreen, by the French in the West-Indies.

The Friendship, Graham-Sally, Legroffe-Planter, Rothmaller-Charming Sukey, Sewart-Mary, Franklin, and two others, are all carried into Port Louis.

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Edward Aftley, Efq; Son of Sir Jacob Aftley, to Mifs Mills of Rockington in Kent.

At Leeds, Mr. Wm. Wilfon, to Mifs Pawfon, a Fortune of 20,cool.

Mar. 2. John Hervey Jennings, Efq; to Mifs Eliz. Chappelow.

3. Her Grace the Duchefs of Hamilton to Col. Campbell.

10. Henry Shiffnefs, Efq; of Lincoln'sinn, to Mifs Jackson, eldeft Daughter of the late John Jackson, Efq; late Governor of Bengal.

DEATHS.

Feb. 8. Died at Lewes in Suffex, in the 84th Year of his Age, the Reverend Jofeph Beach, M. A. an eminent and worthy Diffenting Minister at that Place. Who hath Jeft behind him an excellent Character, being univerfally esteemed for his good Senfe, Learning, Piety, Candour and Usefulness in his more private as well as public Capacity.

Feb. 25. Mr. Bedel of Old ftreet, aged 100, formerly an Ironmonger near St. Luke's Church.

27. Mrs. Sebbon, in the 99th Year of her Age, the Mother of 22 Children. Mrs. Elizabeth Forman, a Widow Lady, aged 82.

Mar. 1. The Rev. Mr. Tate of Windfor,' aged 98.

2. Lord George Bentinck, Brother to the Duke of Portland.

3. The Rt. Hon. Lady Ann Wallop. 7. Stewley Shuckburg, Bart. at Bath. 10. Mifs Lawfon, Daughter of Sir Wilfred Lawfon. She was one of the Maids of Honour to the Princefs of Wales.

11. Sir Richard Manningham, Knt. 12. Henry Harrifon, Efq; Vice Admiral of the Blue.

13. Norton Pawlett, Efq; in Hants. 14. William Harcourt, Efq; Bariifter at Law.

17. The Rt. Hon. Dowager, Viscountess Torrington, first Lady of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. 18. The Hon. Lady Mary Ottara.

21. Lady Eliz. St. Andrew, Aunt to the Rt. Hon. Earl of Effex.

Civil and military Preferments.

Dr. Kennedy and Dr. Dawfon to be Phyficians in the Middlefex Hofpital.

Lieut. Col. William Newton, of the fecond Battalion of Lord Forbes's Regiment, to be Governor of the Inland of Goree.

Sir William Wifeman, Bart, appointed
Col.

Col, of a Company in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.

Captain Sterling of the Saltash Sloop, appointed Captain of the Lynn Man of War.

Sir William Hewett, Bart. appointed to the Command of his Majefty's Ship the Duke of Aquitain.

Felton Hervey, Efq; and Felton Lionel Hervey, Efq; the Office of his Majefty's Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer.

Richard Beresford, Efq; the Office, or Place of one of his Majefty's Serjeants at Arms in the City of London.

Tho. Wright, Efq; the Office of Marshal of the Ceremonies, to attend on foreign Minifters.

Major Robert Sloper, to be Lieutenant Colonel to the firft Regiment of Dragoon Guards.

The Rt. Hon. Richard Lord Edgcombe, to be his Majesty's Lieut. and Cuftos Rotulorum in the County of Cornwall.

Paul Field, Efq; Sen. Counfelior, to be one of the Judges of the Sheriffs-court,

Ecclefiaftical Preferments.

The Rev. Mr. Wheatly, to be Rhetoric Profeffor of Gretham College.

The Rev. David Waterhouse, to the Rectory of Langley in Kent.

The Rev. Freeman Gage, L. L. D. to the Rectory of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

The Rev. James Backhoufe, to be Chancellor of the Diocese of Bristol.

Jofeph Davie, M. A. to the Rectory of Southam, Warwickshire.

The Rev. Mr. Loft, to be Greek Profeffor of the Univerfity of Cambridge.

The Reverend Samuel Drake, M. A. to the Rectory of Braiter, in the Diocese of Lincoln.

The Rev. Mr. Lewes, M. A, to the Rectory of Birdbroke in Effex.

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24. Benjamin Stirk, of Addle, Yorkshire, chandler, dealer and chapman.

27. John Bondfield, late of Tower-hill, London, dealer and chapman.

March 3. George Kerbey, of Lime Regis, Dorfetfhire, grocer, fhopkeeper, dealer and chapman.

John Cockle and James Cockle, both of the city of Lincoln, fellmongers, chapmen and partners.

John Simifter, of Pope's Head-alley, Cornhill, London, vintner.

Henry Appleton, of Cheapfide, London, pewterer.

William Oakley, of the parish of St. Mary. Mattellon, otherwife Whitechapel, in Middlesex, fcrivener, dealer and chapman.

6. William Wilfon, of Bow-lane, London, filkman, dealer and chapman,

10. Benjamin Lloyd, of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, shopkeeper, dealer and chap

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A Genuine AccOUNT of New BOOKS, published from the Fourteenth Day of February, to the Fourteenth Day of March.

I.

THE Hiftory of Scotland, during the

Author informs his Readers of his Defign and Oeconomy in this Work; of the great Care he hath taken to render it an impartial, an authentic, and complete History,

Queen James particularly mentions

VI. 'till bis Acceffion to the Crown of England; with a Review of the Scotch Hiftory, previous to that Period; and an Appendix, containing original Papers. In two Volumes. By William Robertson, D. D.

London, printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1759. Price 11. 1s. in Boards.

This Work is printed in Quarto; the first Volume contains 437 Pages, which is divided into five Books.

Book I. Contains a Review of the Scotch Hiftory, previous to the Death of James V. and includes in it the Origin and History of the Scots, from A. D. 81, to the Birth of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542, from Page 1, to 81.

Book II. Continues the Hiftory from that Period to 1559, ending at Page 178.

Book III. includes the Hiftory of the Scots, from 1559, to 1566, to Page 295. Book IV. The Hiftory is continued from 1566, to 1567, ending at Page 368.

Book V. includes the Æra, from 1567, to 1570.

The fecond Volume confists of 260 Pages, and begins with Chap. vi. A. C. 1570, Page 1.

Chap. 7. begins at Page 85, and continues the History from A. C. 1584, to 1590.

The eighth and last Chap. concludes this Hiftory down to the Year 1603.

To this Volume there is added an Appendix of 118 Pages, consisting of original Letters, &c. in Confirmation, or Illuftration of feveral most remarkable Parts of the preceding History.

At the End of this Volume is annexed, a critical Differtation, concerning the Murder of King Henry, and the Genuineness of the Queen's Letters to Bothwell, containing 39 Pages.

To the First of thefe Volumes there is a Preface, containing 8 Pages, wherein the VOL. III.

Affistances, which he had been favoured with, by the Help of a great Variety_of original Papers, of which the following Paragraphs may give us fome Idea, viz.

I deliver this Book to the World, with all the Diffidence and Anxiety, natural to an Author in publishing his first. The Time I have employed, and the Pains I have taken, in order to render it worthy the public Approbation, it is perhaps prudent to conceal, 'till it be known whether that Approbation shall ever be bestowed upon it.

But as I have departed in many Instances from former Historians; as I have placed Facts in a different Light; have drawn Characters with new Colours, I ought to account for this Conduct to my Readers, and to produce the Evidence on which, at the Distance of two Centuries, I prefume to contradict the Teftimony of Cotemporary, or lefs remote Hiftorians.

Having mentioned the principal Authors, whofe Hiftories he thought partial and inaccurate, he adds :

But many important Papers have escaped the Notice of thofe induftrious Collectors, and after all they have produced to Light, much remained in Darkness unobserved, or unpublished. It was my Duty to fearch for these, and I found the unpleasant Task attended with confiderable Utility.

The Library of the Honourable Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh contains, not only a large Collection of original Papers, relating to the Affairs of Scotland, but Co. pies of others no lefs curious, which have been preferved by Sir Robert Cotton, or are extant in the public Offices in England, of all these the Curators of that Library were pleased to allow me the Perufal.

Though the British Mufaum be not yet open to the Public, Dr. Birch, whofe obliging Difpofition is well known, procured me Access to that moble Collection, which is

K

worthy

worthy the Magnificence of a great and po lished Nation.

Befides thefe, he mentions feveral others that he had feen and confulted in fuch Degrees as he pleased, viz.

The vaft and curious Collection of Papers relating to the Reign of Elizabeth, which was made by Dr. Forbes, of which he published only two Volumes

A valuable Collection of original Papers, relative chiefly to the Reign of James, collected by Sir Alexander Dick.

Mr. Calderwood, an eminent Prefbyterian Clergyman's Hiftory, in 6 Vols. from the Reign of James V. to the Death of James

VI.

Sir William Dalrymple's Collection rclating to Gowrie's Confpiracy.

A Volume of Manufcripts in the PoffefSon of Mr. Goodall, &c. &c.

As a farther Specimen of the Author's Stile and Genius as an Hiftorian, we fhall give the following Extract from Vol II. Book VIII. Page 254.

This Survey of the political State of ScotLand, in which Events and their Causes have been mentioned, rather than developed, enables us to paint out three Æras, from each of which we may date fome great Alteration in one or other of the three different Members, of which the fupreme legiflative Affembly in our Conftitution is compofed. At the Acceffion, the Kings of Scotland, once the most limited, became in an Inftant the moft abfolute Princes in EuTope, and exercised a defpotic Authority, which their Parliaments were unable to controul, or their Nobles to refift. At the Union, the feudal Aristocracy, which had fubfifted fo many Ages, and with Power fo exorbitant, was overturned, and the Scotch Nobles voluntarily furrendered Rights and Pre-eminences peculiar to their Order, and reduced themfelves to a Condition, which is no longer the Terror and Envy of other Subjects. Since the Union, the Commons, antiently neglected by their Kings, and defpifed by the Nobles, have emerged into Dignity, and being admitted into a Participation of all the Privileges which the Englife had purchafed at the Expence of fo much Blood, must now be efteemed a Body, not lefs confiderable in the one Kingdom than they have long been in the other.

II.

Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary, Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth: Written by bimfelf, and now published from an original Manufcript, in the Cuftody of John Earl of Cork and Ortery; with fome

explanatory Notes. London, printed for R. and J. Dody, 1759. Price 5s.

This Work is printed in Octavo, and contains 200 Pages, to which is prefixed, ☛ Frontifpiece of the Royal Proceffion of Q. Elizabeth, to visit the Rt. Hon. Henry Ca rey Lord Hanfdon, Governor of Berwick upon Tweed, Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Penfioners, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Privy Counsellor, and Coufin German to her Majesty, by the Lady Mary, Sifter to Queen Anne Boken, from an original Painting. After the Title Page is the following Dedication, or Infcription, to the Honourable Edmund Boyle.

"Accept, my dear Edmund of a Trifle, in which I only bear the Part of an Editor, fuch as it may be, receive it as a Token of my Affection; for indeed, my dear Son, no Words can exprefs with how much Tendernefs, Hope, Anxiety and paternal Love, I am now, alas! your only Parent, Marlborough freet, Jan. 13, 1759.

Cork and Orrery.

Then follows a Preface, confifting of 28 Pages, and there is a Table of Contents at the End of the Work, (which is too, long for us to infert in this Place) hut it is, notwithstanding, one continued Hiftory. without any Divifion into Chapters or Sections.

This noble Author begins thofe Memoirs with the following fhort Prayer.

O Lord, open mine Eyes and enlarge my Heart with true Understanding of thy great Mercyes that thou haft blessed mee withall," from my first Being untill this my old Age, and give mee of thy Grace to call to Minde, in fome Mcafure, thy great and manifold Bleffings that thou haft bleffed me withall, though my Weaknefs be fuch, and my Me.. mory fo fhort, as I have no Abilities to expreffe them as I ought to do; yet, Lord, be pleased to accept of this Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving.

As a farther Specimen of the Author's, Stile, &c. we fhall give the following Letter of Sir Robert Carey, to the Lord Harfden, his Father, in the Appendix, Page 195.

"May it please your Lordship t' underftande, that Yefterday yn the Afternoone I ftocde by her Majeftie, as the was att Cards yn the Prefens Chamber. She cawlde me too her, and afket me, when you ment too go too Barzuyke; I towlde hyr, that you determynde to begyn your Journey presently after Whytfentyd. She grew yntoo a grate Rage, begynninge with God's Wonds, that the wolde fett you by the Feete, and fende another yn your Place, if you dalyed with her thus for the welde not be thus dalyed

withall,

withall. I towlde her, that with as much poffyble Speed as myght be you wolde departe, and that your lyyng att London thys Fortnyght, was too no other Ende, but to make Provyfion for your Jorney. She anferyd me, that you have byn goynge from Craftmas too Efter, and from Efter to Whyt. Janday; but if you differde the Tyme any longer, the wolde appoynt fome uther yn your Place, and thys Meffage the commandyd me to fende you,

Your Lordship's bumble,
and obedyent Sunne,

R. CAREY. To the Rygbte Honorable my very goode Lord and Father my Lord of Hanfden.

III.

Reflections on the Rife and Fall of the antient Republics, adapted to the present State of Great Britain. By E. W. Montague, Jun. Esq;

London, printed for A. Millar, 1759, Price 55.

This Work is printed in 8vo, and contains 384 Pages, including the Preface and Introduction; to which the Author has prefixed the following Table of Contents. Chap. 1. Of the Republic of Sparta, p. 1. 2. Of Athens, 74. 3. Of Thebes, 157. 4. Of Carthage, 176. 5. Of Rome, 221.

6. Of the real Caufe of the rapid Declension of the Roman Republic, 292. 7. Carthagenians and Romans com

pared, 312.

8. Of Revolutions in mixed Governments, 357.

9. Of the British Conftitution. In the Preface to this Book, the Author gives us fome Account of his Defign and Oeconomy therein; he there fays,

"As Inftruction was the fole End of my Enquiries, I here venture to offer the Refult of them to the Candour of the Public, fince my only Motive for writing, was a fincere and ardent Concern for the Welfare of my Country. The Defign, therefore, of thefe Papers, is to warn my Countrymen of the fatal Confequences which must attend inteftine Divifions, and to inculcate the Neceffity of that national Union, upon which the Strength, the Security, and the Duration of a free State muft eternally depend.

-He mentions feveral Reasons for fo doing, and then adds,

1 muft take the Liberty of offering another Reason, which, I confefs, was of Weight with me, becaufe perfonally interesting. As the British States, and the antient free Republics were founded upon the fame Principles, and their Policy and Conftitution nearly fimilar; fo, as like Caufes will ever produce like Effects, it is impoffible not to perceive an equal Refemblance between their and our Manners, in Proportion as they and we alike deviated from thofe first Principles. Unhappily the Refemblance between the Manners of our own Times and the Manners of thofe Republics, in their moft degenerate Periods, is in many Refpects fo striking, that, unlefs the Words in the Original were produced as Vouchers, any well-meaning Reader, unacquainted with thofe Hiftorians, would be apt to treat the Defcription of thofe Periods which he may frequently meet with, as licentious, undiftinguishing Satyr upon the prefent Age.

In the numerous Quotations from the Greek and Latin Hiftorians, which are unavoidable in a Treatife of this Nature, I have endeavoured to give the genuine Senfe the Author to the best of my Abilities.

As a farther Specimen of the Author's Language and Genius, we fhall borrow an Abstract from the laft Chapter, and the last Page, as follows.

Greece, once the Nurfe of Arts and Sciences, the fruitful Mother of Philofophers, Lawgivers, and Heroes, now lies proftrate under the Iron Yoke of Ignorance and Barbarifm.- -Carthage, once the mighty Sovereign of the Ocean, and the Center of univerfal Commerce, which poured the Riches of the Nations into her Lap, now puzzles the inquifitive Traveller in his Refearches after even the Veftiges of her Ruins. And Rome, the Miftrefs of the Univerfe, which once contained whatever was great or brilliant in human Nature, is now funk into the ignoble Seat of whatever is efteemed mean and infamous.

Should Faction again predominate and fucceed in its deftructive Views, and the daftardly Maxims of Luxury and Effeminacy univerfally prevail amongst us :— -Sucta too will be the Fate of Britain.

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