Counterclaimed at Covent-Garden thea- paffed over their heads,---with other Litre, by the Manager. Lerties--- Allowed---the fight only.

Part of a Letter from Mr. J. Hippifley, dated at Cape Coast Castle, relative to a young Black, that was a fervant in London about two Years ago, and proved to be the fon of the Prince of Anamaboo.

among favages: the truth is, in the state of childhood nothing can be more vehement than their fondness for their young (for fo I will call them for fhortness) but once out of that helpless state, all tenderness and attachment are at an end.

In this, as in every other relation of life,
fuch as husband and wife, brothers and
fifters, lovers, &c. they feem actuated by
infine alone, and are (I might almost
fay) literally brutes.

I

GENTLEMEN,

To the Authors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE.

Have often obferved that every man is fufficiently difcontented with his prefent circumstances to make him miferable, and even at the happiest period of his life, his imaginations are searching for new objects, to gratify his infatiable thirst for pleasure, riches, and glory : he fixes his hopes on the wings of time, and wishes with eagerness for the arrival of a certain æra, at which he promises to himself the completion of his happinefs. But alas! how great is his chagrin at the arrival of this long wifhed for period, when he finds his most ardent expectations melt away like fhadows before the rifing fun? He grasps at substance, and is mocked with empty air. He then, recollecting, looks back with vain forrow on thofe happy days of which he loft the enjoyment, by placing hopes in future, and imaginary pleatures, which were never compleated.

There is, indeed, fomething exquifite

ly pleafing in the contemplation of the
annual renovation of Coring in this we
feel delights furpaffing all that wealth
or honour can beftow, the return of
which is worthy to be withed for by
the wife and good.

Can man forbear to join the general smile
Of Nature? Can fierce paffions vex his
breaft,

While ev'ry gale is peace, and ev'ry grove
Is melody?
Thompson.

Man fhould place his fole hope and con-
fidence in the inexhaustible goodness of
that Supreme Being, in whofe power it
is, equally, to difpenfe content or mi-
fery, happinefs or misfortunes: then
fhall he be unacquainted with disappoint-
ments, and with true philofophy know
no other mifery than vice, nor no other
happiness than virtue.
Dublin,
Sep. 5. 1761.

A Genealogical Account of Bentinck, Duke of Portland.

THE firft of this noble family that fettled in England was Mynheer William Bentinck, who, having in his youth ferved William III. prince of Orange, ftadtholder of Holland, &c. as page of honour, was afterwards promoted to the rank of gentleman of his bed-chamber; in which quality he accompanied him, in 1670, to the English court, and in a vifit to the university of Oxford, where his highnefs being honoured with the degree of doctor of civil law, he was complimented alfo with the fame title. Mr. Bentinck gave a very uncommon proof of dutiful regard for his mafter, by attending him, when fick of the small-pox, in 1675, for fixteen fucceffive days and nights, in fuch a manner, that his highnefs never called on him without receiving an answer: 'and having, October, 1761.

H. M. L.

on the prince's being able to bear the com-
bing of his head, obtained leave to remove
to another apartment, was feized with the
fame difeafe; but recovered in time
enough to accompany the ftadtholder to the
camp, where he was always next his per-
fon as well as in the palace. He affifted
in negotiating the marriage, which was
folemnized, on November 4th, 1677, be-
tween his mafter the prince of Orange,
and the lady Mary Stuart, eldest daughter
of James duke of York; after whose ac-
ceffion to the throne, fhe was regarded as
heiress of his dominions, until the birth of
her brother the prince of Wales, in 1688.
When the ftadtholder, after that event,
refolved on his expedition to England, he
employed Mr. Bentinck (who was
thoroughly acquainted with his real mo-
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tives

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tives and defigns concerning that enter-
prize) to folicit, among other of his neigh-
bours, the concurrence of the elector of
Brandenburg, whilft he himself maintain-
ed his correfpondence with the English
malcontents, about procuring redrefs of
grievances, the calling of a free parlia-
ment, an enquiry into the birth of the
prince of Wales, &c. Mr. Bentinck, have
ing brought a favourable answer from the
court of Berlin, was employed to expedite
the neceffary preparations for the intended
embarkation; which he executed with
great fecrecy and dispatch, having in a few
days collected, upon different pretences,
a fufficient number of transports for about
1300c troops. He embarked in the fame fri-
gate with the ftadtholder, and landed with
him at Torbay. When his mafter had ad-
vanced to Windfor, he was waited on there
by the earl of Feverfham, with a friendly
Letter from king James: but his highnefs,
instead of answering that letter (which
contained proposals for an effectual accom-
modation, and the prevention of divers
fubfequent inconveniences) ordered Mr.
Bentinck to arrest and difarm his lordship,
for dibanding the English army without
orders, although his lordship had done fo
by the exprefs command of his fovereign.
When the prince and princefs of Orange
were, on February, 13, 1688-9, proclaim-
ed king and queen of England, Mr. Ben-
tinck, as he had always been next his ma-
jefty's perfon, was declared groom of the
tole, first lord of his bed-chamber, keeper
of the privy-purfe, and member of the
privy-council: and on the 9th of April,
1689, two days before their coronation,
was enrolled among the English peerage,
by the titles of baron Cirencester, vifcount
Woodstock, and earl of Portland. He en-
joyed a greater share of his master's favour
than any perfon at court: and had the
command of the Dutch regiment of horse-
guards, which that prince had brought
with him to England, and always used as
at home
his life-guards, whether
abroad; but was, in 1698, obliged by the
parliament to fend back with great re-
luctance to Holland, as well as other
foreign forces, which he had alfo kept,
contrary to a promife in his declaration.
His lordship was with king William in Ire-
land, in 1690, where acting as lieutenant-
general, he contributed towards obtain-
ing the victory at the battle of the Boyne,
on the aft of July, that year: and on the

or

Sth of August following, by dispersing the
Irish, who occupied the defiles before Lime-
rick, facilitated the investing of that city,
the fiege of which, however, his mafter was
forced to relinquish. In the month of
January, 1690-1, king Wiliam was ac-
companied by the earl of Portland in that
voyage to Holland which was like to have
proved very difaftrous, by his majesty's
eagerness to get afhore on his native land:
for Williem being informed by a fisherman,
on the 17th of that month, the day after
he failed from Gravefend, that he was
within a league and an half of the island of
Goree, went from the yacht with divers
perfons of distinction, among whom was
his lordship, into an open boat, in which
they had not been long before they loft
fight of the fleet, and were, for eighteen
hours, exposed to the inclemency of the
weather, and a tempeftuous fea, which
thoroughly drenched them all before they
landed next morning at Goree. His ma-
jefty having got fuch refreshment in a
filherman's hut as the island afforded, re-
imbarked with his attendants on board
the fame boat, and landing in the neigh-
bourhood of MaeflandЛluys, proceeded
thence to the Hague. The earl of Port-
land afsisted in the conferences at the grand
congrefs held there by the confederates.
William's convocating, prefiding at, and
prefcribing the measures of, that illuftri-
ous affembly, as king of Great-Britain,
thewed the importance of the British na-
tion to the princes and states on the
the fequel demonstrated
continent, as
how fatal thofe continental connexions
His lordship attended
are to Britain.
king William in the campaigns of that and
the four fucceeding fummers in Flanders
and on his return from the latter, in 1695,
obtained, from his master, a grant of a
great part of the demesnes belonging to
the principality of Wales: but the poffef
fors of thofe lands, which had been held
by royal tenure, diftaining to be vassals
to any of an inferior rank to a prince of
Wales, and the house of commons re-
monftrating against the grant, his lord-
hip was deprived of any expected benefit
thereof, by William's revoking the war-
rant. However, his majefty, as he had
in his anfwer to the addrefs of the houfe
of commons, promifed to find fome other
way of fhewing his favour for the earl of
Portland, transferred to him and his heirs,
the royal manour of Theobalds with its

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