Account of the fale, charges, and nett proceeds of the Ship La Hermione, a Spanish Register Shi BY the fale of 550 bags of dollars to fundrys, qt. oz. By 34 ingots filver as above rendered 18,863 oz. 3 gr. ftandard at 64d. By 3 ditto as above 527 oz. 1 gr. at 65d. By 6 oz. 6 dwt. 2 gr. fine gold in z ingots, at 86s. Dedu& of expences parting 445 oz. gilt filver, at 4d. By fundry, trinkets, &c. &c. fold to fundries for £275 32 Chark 7 $4 19 16 11 424 77 oa. 7. By 427 ferons, and 306 bags Guiaquil cocoa, feld at Garraway's coffee-houfe, by public fale, in 60 lots, weighing together nett, 1029 C. 6lb. at various prices, from 101s. to logs. per cwt. Discount 2 per cent. £5371 19 2 134 64 5,237 12 10 Nov. 11. By 1939 blocks of tin fold this day as above, in 39 lots, to fundries, weighing nett, 1065 C. 1qr. 17lb. £5,168 0 92 Difcount 2 per cent. By 8 bales Vigonia, and 1 ditto Alpalca wool, fold at public fale in 9 lots to fundries, weighing nett, 545 lb. from 3 to 78. 4d. per lb. By 9 bolts canvas, fold as above, at 30s. By i cafe faddle cloths, ditto Difcount 2 per cent. By 61 barrels gunpowder, qt. 34C. at 60s. By a launch belonging to the fhip fold by Tho. Mayne, and Co. at Gibraltar, for ps. 51 1 6 at 40d. May 16. By a bounty bill for 150 men, dated Jan. 1763, at 51. is £8250 о 6117 62 62 18 6 2762 1 Total amount 544,648 6 6,038 16 9 [M] For freight of the treasure from Gibraltar CHA R GE S. For duties paid on the cargo at the Cuftom-houfe, with officers fees and amount of the fubfidy 1747, on the cocoa not drawn back For brokerage paid on felling the treasure, cargo, and fhip For all charges of lighterage, landing, wharfage, and warehoufe-rent, &c. on the cargo, &c. expences paid on the fhip in Gibraltar and England, and all other contingent charges whatfoever For commiffion on the gold and filver coin For ditto on remaining produce of this prize Total amount 544,648 I £. 5,393 6 £. 13,055 18 O 14,176 10 1,120 12 £. 13,004 14 I each is 4,336 3 2 39,014 2 3 1,806 10 10 485 5 4 To 158 feamen, &c. FAVOURITE's SHARE. London, 22 July, 1763. 1,802 O 4 484 2 5 Errors excepted. £. 519,705 1Ọ N. B. The Active being entitled to the whole bounty money, occafions the difference in the fhares between the two ships. Herbert Sawyer, 9653 + T. Mayne, } Agents. emarks on fome cautions in our last volume to perfons going to Scotland to be married. "We cannot infert these remarks with out thanking the author of them for his favourable opinion of our labours, and his public-Spirited endeavours to prevent our alarming and misleading, when it was only our intention to warn and inftruct, We never thought otherwife of the marriage act than the public, and, at prefent, many of the legislature Seem to think. Nor should we have ventured to infert these cautions, had they not flood unimpeached for a long time in one of the best monthly productions.] To the AUTHOR, &c. Yearly purchafe Mr. Dodfley's Annual Regifter, and read it ith much pleafure: the relation of ats which one finds there, is gerally, if not always, authentic; d the observations upon thefe As ufually candid and juft. I ve not yet gone through the last lume, but I have already found hat appears to me to be an atmpt to deceive: if it is fo meant, am perfuaded the compiler has one it with a good intention, and om an extreme regard to the late arriage-bill. The article I refer is in the chronicle for January, 762, and intituled, "Cautions to erfons going to Scotland to be Farried." The author of thein entions the formalities required by e law of Scotland to conftitute a arriage regular; obferves that in oft of the marriages made by eople from this country thefe forms e omitted; and concludes with ying, "And what an unhappy fituation muft the parties to fuch marriages be in, or their iffues, if when the validity of thefe marriages comes to be litigated in England they fhould be deemed invalid, as not being had in pursuance of the laws of that country in which they were celebrated! It is to be hoped indeed that thefe marriages will be allowed good, as were the fleet marriages, though very irregular ones: but what perfons of common prudence would run any hazzard at all on fuch an occafion ?" You fee, fir, the author fays not that the marriages are invalid, he could not confiftently with truth, and I fuppofe him incapable of deviating from that; but I think he means to confound irregular or clandeftine marriages with fuch as are void and null; and to create doubts in the minds of ignorant people concerning the validity of irregular marriages: to this end feem to me to tend the cautions, which probably come from a friend to the marriage bill. I never yet have seen the utility of this law, unlefs to innkeepers on the road, poft boys, oftlers, and an epifcopal clergyman at Edinburgh, who makes a good→ living by tying the hands of cur amorous adventurers; and I believe the English are the first nation who ever had fagacity enough to discover that it was for the advantage of the ftate to lay any restraint on marriage, to put any ftop to this fource of national ftrength. For my own part, I think this law more unfriendly to natural liberty, and infinitely more pernicious to the ftate, than any excife law that was ever yet paffed. When I fee fuch a buffle now made about liberty, and reflect how quietly the marriage bill was received, one would imagine we were not the fame people we were fome few' [M] 3 years years ago; and we certainly very much refemble the Romans in the decline of the republic, when, they wished for nothing preter panem et circences. But happily this act is of eafy evafion; and I mean, by your favour, to inform my fair countrywomen, whom I wish to fee all well married, that whenever they are inclined to make the dear youths happy, they have nothing to fear either to themselves or their iffue from the invalidity of marriages made in Scotland. There were indeed in Scotland certain laws, which required certain forms to be obsery ed in marriage, but these laws are now obfolete; and none of them ever affected the validity of the marriage, and only one of them the legal fettlements, and that was refcinded anno 1699. By the law of Scotland now, nothing more is, required to make a marriage than the confent of the parties, declared in such a manner as that it can be proved. No joining of hands, no clergyman, no confummation is neceflary. If the parties agree before two witneffes to live together as man and wife, that of itself is fufficient. I could prove this by every Scotch law author who has wrote on the fabject. But I fhall only trouble you with a quotation from a late inftitute, by John Erskine, Efq; Scotch law profeffor in the univerfity of Edinburgh; a book defervedly of the greatest authority in all their law courts. He fays, "Marriage is fully perfected by confent, which, without confummation, founds all the conjugal rites and duties. It is not neceffary that marriage fhould be celebrated by a clergyman. The content of parties may be declared before any magistrate, or fimply before wit nefes. The father's confent was, by the Roman law, effential to the marriage of children in family; but by our law children may validly enter into marriage, without the knowledge, or even against the remonftrances of a father." So that parties have now nothing to fear on that head. Indulge me but a minute longer to add, that though, by the English law, children born before marriage are not legitimated by the fuble, quent marriage, the cafe is otherwife in Scotland; fo that people who have children begot in fornication, and who would gladly marry if the legitimation of these children might be the confequence, have only to go to Scotland, where their marriage will certainly have that efeffect, The above author fays, Bailards may be legitimated, or made lawful, by the fubfequent marriage of the other of the child with the father; sand, this entitles the child, by our prefent, practice, to all the rights of lawful children." I hope this information may be of ufer. next month; and, in the midt, of national jealoufies, we fhould remember that the above are fome of the little advantages we derive from our vicinity to Scotland. W. ALFRED. Tranflation of an address to the Engifb nation, by the celebrated Monfeur De La Condamine, during his late refidence in London. R De La Condamine, knight of St. Lazare, one of the forty of the French academy of fciences at at Paris, and of almoft all the academies in Europe, particularly for above fifteen years fellow of the royal fociety of London, lately arrived in London, took a lodging in Suffolk-ftreet, at a milliner's, at the fign of the Golden Angel. He had lived in this houfe for about eight days, when, on Friday the 26th paft, returning home at nine o'clock in the evening, he perceived he was followed by two men very fhabbily dreffed, one of whom was armed with a tick. They both entered into his chamber, and feifed him, at the fame time prefenting him with a paper, and threatening him by word and gefture, making a fign for him to follow them. Let any one put himself in the place of a stranger, who has the honeur to be perfonally known to many of the firft nobility, and perfons of diftinction in London, and who was that very day to have been prefented to his Britannic majefly: let him judge at the furprife a man must feel who thought himfelf fafe under the feal of public faith, and yet found himself feifed in his own lodgings at nine o'clock at night by brutal officers, whofe language he did not understand, and threatend by them to be draged to prison. Happily indeed reflection came to his affiftance. He judged that in England, as in France, judiciary decrees are not executed in the night, and that all thefe preparations were defigned only to intimidate him, and force him to give up his lodgings. He difcovered befides that the landlady only wanted a pretence to put another perfon, to whom she had let it, into poffeffion of his apartment, and that he was acting this farce. M. De La Condamine declared that he would not quit it, and that he would write immediately to the minifter charg ed with the affairs of France, fince the departure of the ambaffador: but they would not permit him to tranfcribe in his letter, the frange warrant by virtue of which they. pretended to take him up. At length, the worthy bearer of this warrant making a fign with his fingers which feemed to be very fa miliar to him, gave him to under ftand that if he was paid, he would carry the letter himself; and the moment he got two fhillings he and his comrades, who perhaps had no other deign, difappeared with the letter, which was never delivered according to the direction. The perfon to whom this adventure has happened, has travelled-toAlgiers, to Tunis, to Tripoli, in in Barbary, in Egypt, in Palestine, in Syria, in Carmenia; to Conftantinople, upon the banks of the Black fea: he traverfed above a thoufand leagues in America through" countries uninhabited but byfavages, without having ever experienced. fuch i treatment as he has met with at London. He has taken the advice of counfel in what manner he must act, who are all agreed that he can hope for no juftice or fatisfaction, and that the best thing he can do, is to be filent; nevertheless he is tempt ed to addrefs himfelf immediately to the English, who pique themselves upon knowing and practising the rights of humanity. He confults them by the means of the public papers, to know if it is agreeable to the laws, in which they glory, that a franger who believes himself to [M] 4 be |