Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Prices of Grain. Meteorological Diary of the Weather.-Bill of Mortality. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Nov. 13, to Nov. 18, 1780. COUNTIES upon the COAST. COUNTIES INLAN D. 72 9/2 52 8 4 93 22 21 83 4 100 Northumberland 4 73 Cumberland 4 103 41 2 II Westmorland 5 23 30 Leicester 5 32 400000. 3 Lancashire 530 02 1 82 71 83 5 13 62 61 70 02 2160 2 1 111 82 51 103 3 Devon 41 93 3 5 6 02 II 913 0/2 5/19/2 WALES, Nov. 6, to Nov. 11, 1780. 41 102 8 10 North Wales 4 713 3 0/1 2/3 2 2 Bucks A Meteorological DIARY of the Weather for DECEMBER, 1779. tharp froft, an exceeding bright fine day ditto, grew foggy, moift evening an exceeding wet, black, churlifh day an exceffive wet heavy day rain night and day, with little intermiffion a very mo:ft heavy day, fair bright evening ditto 29 4 55 very moist and heavy, but no rain, fome bright interve ditto 29 3 54 fair day and partly bright, turbulent wet evening formy 28753 tempestuous night, coarfe day, with heavy rains little 28 9 53 fine bright morning, wet afternoon freth 29 43fnow early, hard frost all day little 29 638 freth 29 61 37 33 30 33 38 fresh 29 304 ditto, ditto fome flying clouds, but the froft continued 30 240 a fine bright chearful day Bill of Mortality from Oct. 24, to Nov. 21, 1545 Buried. 720S Females 821562 Whereof have died under two years old 541 Peck Loaf 25. 42. Between 1780. 2 and 5 147 10 and 20 20 and 30 50 and 60 157 5560 and 70 147 61 70 and 80 78 118 80 and 90 32 133 90 and 100 191 | 190 THE Gentleman's Magazine; For NOVEMBER, 1780. Debates in Parliament, continued from effect, in which he meant to make P. 455. March 2. ORD N-th, in order, he faid, to give the public the fulleft fatisfaction refpecting the ex- Col. B-ré rofe, and with fome vependiture of the hemence expreffed his deteftation of a public money, pro- proceeding, of which he believed there pofed to the Houfe B was no precedent in the history of para commiffion of accounts; and the liament. He had, he faid, a few days reafon for preferring a commiffion of fince told the Houfe that he had a plan accounts to a committee of accounts to propofe for the investigation of the was, because the former might be in- public accounts. He had called upon vefted with powers which the latter the noble lord for his affiftance, to could not without tranfgreffing the ef- Cwhich he had given a favourable antablished ufages of parliament. His fwer; but now the noble lord, instead lordship faid, when he was lately called of the promised affiftance, comes with upon for affiftance by an hon, member a propofal of his own of a quite differwho had urged the neceflity of en- ent nature from that which he meant quiring into the public accounts, heDto propofe, and which had for its obhad declared his readiness to comply ject the direct contrary effect. He as far as he could; but it had after meant, he faid, to bring forward the wards been ftated that his fincerity various charges, deductions, and perwas to be doubted; that what he had quifites of office, attending the colfaid was plaufible enough; but was it lection of the public revenue, from its not a mere parliamentary trick? was first payment from the peafant to the it not an attempt to throw duft in the tax-gatherer, up to the inftant of its eyes of the public? an attempt to being iflued from the treafury, and gain a momentary popularity, by af- applied to the public fervice. This, fecting a readiness to do that which he he faid, would of itfelf fhew the aphad no real intention to perform? Such plication of a very confiderable part of F remarks, he owned, had not been a the public revenue, and he trufted to fpecies of comment very welcome to his hon. friend's plan of reformation him, nor, he believed the Houfe would to lay open the reft. The noble lord, be of opinion, very candid in itfelf; he faid, had declared, on the day that he was determined therefore, in order he offered his affiftance towards ento put his fincerity beyond a doubt,quiring into the public accounts, that to feize the first opportunity to move it would appear from the fort of comfor leave to bring in a bill, to carry mittee to be appointed whether he the propofition he had juft opened into was fincere, or whether the whole en provifion that the commiffioners fhould be refpectable, intelligent, independent gentlemen, of neither Houfe, and confequently liable to no bias. His Alordship then read the motion he intended to make, when pro quiry was to be a farce and a folemn mockery; but now his lordship has impropriety. It was contrary to the Ld B-cb-p, on the ground of changed his ground, and, to convince ufage of parliament to proceed fo rathe Houfe that he is fincere, he is for pidly on ordinary bills; it was thereinftituting a commiffion inftead of an fore much more neceffary to proceed enquiry, as if a number of intelligent A with caution on a bill of fuch magniindependent members were not to be tude, on the event of which many infound in this Houfe to give fatisfaction dividuals were to be affected. He to both fides, and on whole integrity pofed an amendment, and, inftead of the nation might rely for a fair and next day, that Wednesday fhould be fubupright report. He faid, he knew not ftituted in its place. on whom his lordship had caft his eye B to form his committee, and therefore he might be allowed to fpeak of them with the greater freedom, and would venture to predict that they would not all, nor the majority of them, be fo utterly independent of crown influence as to have no leaning towards involving the arcana of ftate in fome obfcurity. He then offered two motions to the confideration of the Houle. One, for an account to be laid before the Houfe of all charges, fees, and perquifites, received by the offcers of the mint on account of the late recoinage. The other, for an account of the varjous charges, fees, and perquilites, received at all the offices, and by all the officers through whole hands the public money paffed, from its being originally paid by the peafant to the tax-gatherer, up to its being iffued from the treaty. This, Ld N-th faid, he should not oppofe, but he begged leave to inform the Houfe, that it would require many months to prepare; fo that little was, to be expected from it this feffions. Ld Geo. G-rd- was jocular on the plans for reformation, and was forry, he faid, they should defcend fo low as to attack "Poor Mat of the Mint." The motions paffed, but produced no effect. Ld N-g-declared against its going into committee fo foon as next day. It ought to be proceeded on deliberately. There were parts of it he approved, and others that he did not approve. The prerogative of the King he did not think extended; nor did he think the independency of parliament a proper fubject of parliamentary dif cullion. For his part, he freely dedependency of parliament by incroachclared, he was not for reftoring the inDing on the prerogative of the crown. He infifted there was a reciprocal dependence between the crown and the faid to be independent, feparately conparliament, and though both might be fidered, yet confidered with refpect to their relationship both were dependent, and could not conftitutionally exist E one without the other. The Houfe, not understanding the force of his reafoning at firft, grew clamorous; was echoed from all fides. And when and the cry of Hear him! Hear bim! F the noife had fubfided, he ftill perfifted, that whatever fhould be pro ofed that tended to a diminution of fet his face againft. He alked, how the influence of the crown, he should of the crown increafed, when it had any man could fuppofe the influence Gloft the fupport of thirteen powerful try gentlemen, that the countenance colonies? And he reminded the councan war was the means of lofing them. they had all along given to the Ameri H Ld G. G―rd—n role, and brought, forward the petitions of the people; but the order of the day, for the fecond reading of Mr. Burke's bill, being called for, the fame was read accordingly; and Mr. B-ke moved for its being committed for the next day. This was oppofed by fevere on his lordship's declaration. Right hon. T. T-b-d was very It was, he faid, making a long flẹp towards defpotifm, and thewed the plainly to escape the notice of the real defigns of thefe in power too Houfe. The noble lord in the blue A ribbon had gone a great way in fup of the meaneft fubject. Mighty plauport of crown influence; but the no- fible all this, faid Mr. F-x, but ble lord who fpoke laft had laid afide mighty weak. By this mode of reafcruples; had profeffed himself the foning, his lordship had fairly adfriend of that influence; and had mitted what oppofition all along fufopenly declared in favour of the de- pected, that the thirteen American pendency of parliament. From no-colonies, while under the dominion of tions fo corrupt, and from fuch un- the crown, were fo many inftruments conftitutional principles, the Ameri- in the hands of adminiftration to incan war had taken its rife, and from creafe their influence; and that now the beginning had been fupported; they were deprived of that fupport, and now that the colonies were loft, they had nothing to rely on but the the country gentlemen are to be re-B difpofal of places, penfions, finecures, proached with being the caufe. He gifts, and rewards, to enable them to hoped the country gentlemen, now procure a majority in this Houfe, to they had seen their error and its con- countenance measures the most deftrucfequences, would change their opi- tive and ruinous that ever difgraced nions, and be alike guarded against this or any other nation. He did not their deceivers, and the ottenfible mea-wonder, he faid, by the interefting fures by which they had been deceived. It was not to eafe the country gentlemen of their burdenfome taxes that the American war was begun; it was to reduce this country to the verge of defpondency, and to facrifice its neareft and dearest interests to the arbitrary will of a vindictive party. Object of the war held out to the country gentlemen at its commencement, that they, loaded as they were with heavy burdens, fhould be ready to approve of measures that they were made to believe were intended to give them relief; but that now the mark is thrown off, and it plainly appears Ld N-g-t, to explain, faid, that that the ruin and deftruction of those all he meant to fay was, that as par- who oppofed their ill-advised plan is liament was not now in a dependent the fole view of those who are for pro ftate, there was no occafion to leffen fecuting the war, it must aftonish the the influence of the crown to restore world that any man can be found in E it to independency. He at the fame this Houfe fo abandoned, as, from lutime infifted, that the king was confti- crative motives, to facrifice the welfare tutionally the fole difpofer of all places, of his country, or fo deftitute of compenfions, finecures, and other gifts be- mon understanding, as to approve of longing to the royal prerogative, and meafures, the direct tendency of which could not conftitutionally be divefted is, from the greatest nation in the of rights inherent to the crown, any F world, to reduce us to an infignificant more than private gentlemen could le- petty ftate. gally be divefted of the rights belonging to their ellates. of It has often been urged, that oppo fition wanted only to fhare in the Mr. F-xobferved on his lordship's places and douceurs the crown had to curious way reafoning. Have not bestow, in order to remove grievances, we, fays his lordship, reduced the in-Gand filence all complaints. To this, fluence of the crown fufficiently by the obfervation of a gentleman who lopping off thirteen American pro- took the chair at a county meeting, vinces from its dominion? And fhall may be a fufficient anfwer; that the we proceed ftill farther, and totally bill in queftion went to make the opannihilate its influence,. by attacking pofition honeft as well as the ministry. in the fenfible part its conftitutionalH right of difpofing of places, penfions, finecures, gifts, and gratuitous rewards? This, adds his lordship, is degrading royalty beneath the condition He concluded his animated fpeech with hoping that, as the dominion of the thirteen American colonies was now given over for loft, the pensions given to the American gentry would be be difcontinued, particularly thofe granted to Gov. Hutchinfon, who had been the firebrand to light up the flames of rebellion; and to who had added fuel to give those flames increase. A Ld N-th obferved, that as he had hitherto been fupported by the country gentlemen, it proved that he had not been fupported by improper influence; and, as the majority had gone along with him ftep by step, he thought he had a juft right to claim the continu-B ance of their fuffrages, as nothing had hitherto been undertaken without their confent. He faid, he did not mean to hinder the Houfe from going into committee on the bill at a proper time; it was therefore proper to give the friends of the bill notice, that he should then call for evidence to fupport thofe facts on which the propofitions of the bill were founded. Total 20,650,000 This fum, his lordship obferved, might feem enormous, and gentlemen might afk how it could be raised? But that, his lordship affured the House, was the Cleat difficulty he had to struggle with. His greatest was how to strike off from the fums offered, fo as to divide the fubfcription fatisfactorily. He then produced the terms, which were thefe; annuity irredeemable for 7 years at 4 per cent. at Long annuity for 80 years £.1. 16s. 3d. taken at 16 years Mr. B-ke treated this declaration with the moft fuperlative contempt. DAn He infifted that a third fecretary of state was useless; and how was that to be proved but by the notoriety of the fact? Neither the deputy, the clerks, nor even the fire-lighter, would come to prove it. His lordship's fiimfy fi-E neffe, he faid, was eafily difcovered. · He meant to fuffer the bill to come to committee, but determined it fhould not be debated when it came there. Other members, who declared themfelves friends to the bill, undertook that it fhould have fair play. The Houfe divided on Lord Beauchamp's amendment, when the numbers were, for it 230, against it 195. March 6. Four lottery tickets for every 10 £. s. d. 74 0 0 29 0 9 His lordship, after stating the whole bufinefs in as clear a manner as was F confiftent with fo complicated a detail, moved for a refolution agreeable to the various articles he had enumerated. G The chairman of the committee having read the motion, a warm debate enfued, in which a variety of extraneous matter came to be difcuffed : The budget. Ld N-th began with the American war (on which head lamenting the talk of coming to par- Mr. Fx obferved, that, were it poffiliament to afk for fo large a loan as ble for the H. of C. that inftant to the war in which we were involved come to a decifive and diftinct vote had made neceffary; a war, to which on the queftion, whether that war all the wars we read of in hillory a- ought, or ought not, to be continued? gainst this country were but as trifles, H he did in his confcience believe, that a when compared with the powers that very great majority would vote for putare how in arms against us. He re- ting an end to it immediately)-Sir cited the formidable fleets and armies G. Rodney's fuccefs-Sir Hugh Palliin league with our rebellious colonies, fer the county petitions-Ld Pigot'a that were to be oppofed by the fingle affair. After many altercations on thefe |