Remarks on Dr. Priestley ib. 167 ib. 168 Mifcellaneous Obfervations from Correfpon dents The Patriot's Creed; extracted from Dr. Account of the Rife and Suppreffion of the 186 ib. ib. Diftreffes of the Farmers authenticated REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS 188-192 POETRY, Cafimire, Ode 26.-Epitaph on a conformable Citizen.-Lines by the fate Lord Lyttelton. -Epiflle by Lord Mulgrave.-Epigram, 193.-Latin Poem from Mr. Popham's Collection.-Imitations of Propertius, 194.-Mr. Bunce to Mr. Highmore. To Mr. Horne, of The Leafowes, 195.-Song in the Belle's Stratagem. Chanfon, par F.P.de G.and Tranflation, 196. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 197 Lifts of Births, Marriages, Deaths, &c, 202 Embellished with a picturefque View of CASTLE CALDWELL, the delightful Seat of Sir JAMES CALDWELL in IRELAND; with a faithful Reprefentation of fome Antiquities found at LEER in STAFFORDSHIRE, and a Runic Infcription at BRISTOL. 170 Biographical Anecdotes and Mifcellaneous Remarks 171 Remarks on the 109th Pfalm ib. 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Females 7831393 Whereof have died under two years old 516 Peck Loaf IS. Iid. THE Gentleman's Magazine; For A PRI L, 1780. Summary of the Debates in Parliament, continued from p. 112. Dec. 3 R. B-k-r moved, for leave to bring in a bill, to indem nify fuch officers of he militia as have omitted to tranfmit their qualifications to the clerks of the B peace; and likewife a lift of fuch officers above the rank of lieutenants who have fent in their qualifications, &c. which occafioned a fhort difcuffion, and were afterwards agreed to. Mr. D-p-r approved of his lordfhip's fecond motion, because he was an enemy to all partial favours or local diftinctions. England was armed; Ireland was armed; N. Britain was detencelefs. He therefore feconded his lordship's firft motion, as a step towards. coming at the fecond. Sir G. -ge obferved, that many complaints had been made (he would not lay how justly) of partialities fhewn in accepting fome offers, and rejecting others, in the fouthern part of the united kingdom, and wished that the Ld Geo. G-rd-n moved, that annoble lord's first motion might be exhumble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, praying that copies of all applications that have been made to his Majefty's fecretaries at war by any of his Majesty's loyal and faithful fubjects of D N. Britain, for the purpofe of putting that country in a proper ftate of defence, together with the anfwers, he laid before that Houfe. His lordship explained the purport of his motion, viz. to be informed of the reafons which induced his Majefty's minifters to reject an offer made by the county of Dumfries, to arm for its own detence. He at the fame time gave notice, that when his first motion was difpofed of, he meant to move for a fufficient quantity of arms, according to the neceffity of his Majefty's faithful and loyal fubjects of N. Britain, for the purpofe of putting that country in a pofture of defence, &c. He wished to be understood, he faid, by arms, not merely firelocks and bayonets, but all accoutrements proper to tended, which it might eally be, by fubftituting the word Great instead of North, which would then include both parts of the united kingdom. Ld Geo. acquiefced in the alteration, though he confeffed he had nothing more in contemplation than the partial refufal given to the inhabitants of N. Britain, which he believed they would E not foon forget. Mr. 7-nk-n (fecretary at war) made no objection either to the motion or alteration; it would give him an opportunity to juftify his own conduct refpecting the offers accepted or rejected F in both parts of the united kingdom. The offer from the county of Dumfries, to which the noble lord who made the motion particularly alluded, was looked upon by government as a generous and Gloyal offer; but as it was then thought that the military force in that country was fully fufficient for its protection, it was deemed improper to put those who made it to an unneceffary expence. As As to his lordship's fecond propofition, grounded on the declaration of rights, from whence he had inferied that the king's fubjects had a right to arm themselves in times of manifeft danger for the purposes of defence, allowing his lordship to be right, it would not follow, as his lordship had argued, that ministry were cenfurable for not furnishing the people of North Britain with arms. The most the bill of rights declared was, that the people had a right to arm themselves, not that government were obliged to arm them; yet this feems to be the object of his lordship's motion. Ld G-ge in reply faid, that the hon. gentleman might have fpared his information, that government was not obliged to find arms for the people. It was for that very reafon that he had applied to parliament. It was because the people of Scotland, naked and defencelefs as they were, could not demand arms as their right, that had reduced him to the neceflity of troubling the Houfe, having failed in his applications for obtaining them by any other means. given to understand by an authority He agreed, however, to withdraw his E Houfe, whether it would not have been The House in committee. Ld N-th ป which he had rejected; and which he recommended in forcible terms the most would again reject were they to be re- vigorous and united exertions against peated. He would never consent to the alarming confederacy which had treat with America upon an equal been entered into by France and Spain, footing. As fubjects aggrieved, he but that it remained totally filent rewould chearfully and readily co-operate fpecting America; from whence an inwith minitters, as far as the interefts of A ference had been drawn, as if the Amethe whole empire would permit, to give rican war was to be abandoned, To them the most full and fatisfactory re- that fuppofition he could reply with dre's; but should we once agree to confidence, that if the King's confidentreat with our rebellious fubjects in tial fervants had thought it adviseable, arms, and negotiate with them as with the previous confent of parliaequals, in that inftant would all our B ment, to have given America indepenrights be conceded; for to talk of par- dence, the nation needed not now to liamentary fupremacy and dominion, have had a foreign war to struggle and affect to stand upon the ground of with; and he would add, that if fuch governmental controul, with people a measure were this inftant to be adoptwho denied the existence of thofe ed, Great Britain might foon be at claims as totally unfounded, would, in C peace with all the world. But it was fact, be relinquishing, under cover of a for the dominion over her rebellious fingle word, a TRUCE, the fole and fubjects that he was contending; and effential point in queftion. Another. it was his opinion, that whenever that circumstance much infifted on is, a object fhall be deferted, the decline of paffage in the juftifying memorial of the British empire will eventually folthe court of Spain, in which the de- Dlow. Mr. H-tly infifted, that the part he had taken was with the noble lord's knowledge and confent; that the propriety of the offers made to France would beft appear when their nature and extent should be made public; and that, though the idea of a truce was now difclaimed, it was not, he believed, the chief obstacle, clares that he had acted as mediatrix between the courts of London and Verfailles. The fact is not to be denied. It was notorious. Spain made the fame propofition which the hon. gentleman had just mentioned, and for the fame reafon it was rejected. Spain herself has furnished two inftances where a truce with fubjects in arms proved fubftantially a total feparation; This converfation, which gave light one with the Low Countries, the other to the secret transactions of the cabinet with Portugal. But a ftill more crimi- F during the recefs of parliament, being nal conduct, it feems, is charged againft ended, the queftion for a land-tax of the British cabinet in the justifying me- 45. in the pound was put, and carried morial just referred to, namely, that without a divifion. Nothing material of holding out advantageous terms to France while the mediation of Spain was still depending, in order to detach G When the E. of Up-r Of-ry role, that power from the interefts of Ame- and in a fhort fpeech charged ministry rica. He did not, his lordship faid, re- with a criminal inattention to the af collect any fuch terms; he was fure, fairs of Ireland, the government of none fuch were made by him. But which kingdom, he faid, they had left taking it for granted that there were to chance; he lamented in the most fuch terms offered, he, for his part, pathetic terms the miferies of the peocould fee no difference in point of tur-Hple in that country, who, driven to pitude between an endeavour to detach France from America, and an attempt to recover America from France. It had been farther remarked, he Said, that the fpeech from the throne till Dec. 6. defpair, had now formed confederacies, which threatened a diffolution of all conftitutional government; but which might have been prevented, by complying with requests far fhort of what they |