the House of all fentences of Courts Martial, or other cenfures (if any fuch there be) reflecting on the conduct of the Captains Blane, Laforey, Balfour, &c. Thefe motions after a fhort converfation were agreed to. The third motion was, that a copy be laid before the Houfe of the order of Council relating to naval promotions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought, that before the question was put on this motion, it would be proper to move for the production of a copy of the Memorial of the Admiralty in March 1746, refpecting the fuperannuation of the officers of the navy. The motion for this Memorial was agreed to; as was alfo the motion concerning the order of Council. a&t all the laws now in force relating to the exportation of wool. Granted. MARCH 20. Paffed the Declaratory and other bills, from the Lords. Black Rod then fummoned the House to attend in the House of Peers, for the purpofe of hearing his Majefty's Commiflion read, for giving the Royal Affent to the bills agreed to by both Houses. The Speaker attended by a few Members, went up, and at his return read the titles of the bills agreed to, after which the House adjourned for the holidays. APRIL 3. This day the Speaker took the chair be tween three and four o'clock, for the first time after the Eafter recefs, and after traníacting fome private bufinefs, the Houfe adjourned. Accounts were laid before the House of the produce of the taxes in the years 1786 and 1787 *. An ACCOUNT of the NET PRODUCE of all the TAXES, from the 5th of January 1786, to the 5th of January 1787; and from the 5th of January 1787, to the 5th of January 1753. 1787. s. d. - 1788. £. 3,714,477 2 6 6,225,627 11 3 1,182,060 16 £. j. d. 80,461 10 21,615 7 22,183 13 9° 13,300 62,954 O 119,600 Q 4,442 14 635 16 11 6,073 15 960 0 O 4 661 9 6,676 6 4 960 0 APRIL 4. The Houfe did not fit half an hour this day, and confequently did very little bufiaels. APRIL 7. The Marquis of Worcester was fworn, and took his feat for the town of Monmouth A petition was prefented against the Slave Trade from the Prefbytery of Aberdeen. General Burgoyne moved, That the copies of the reports made by the officers who reviewed the regiments for India, as alfo of the embarkation returns, be laid before the House. Ordered. He then moved, That copies of his Majefty's inftructions relative to the brevet rank of officers in India be laid before the House, Mr. Pitt faid, on a subject of fo delicate a nature he should oppose the motion, unless fome fufficient reafon was given for the production of the papers moved for. The question being put, was negatived without a divifion. The House went into a committee of fupply, and without any debate voted the extraordinaries of the army to a very confiderable amount. One of the fums voted on this occafion exceeded 400,0col. The Houfe, on being refuraed, adjourned immediately. APRIL 8. Petitions from Kirkudbright and Aldbo-rough, against the Slave Trade, were prefented, read, and ordered to lie on the table. On the motion for agreeing to the refolution of granting 173,8231. Is. 9. for the in and out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, Sir Jaraes Johnstone rule, not, he faid, to oppofe the motion, but to draw the attention of the House to the fim voted, and the number of perfons to receive the fame. He ftated, that, according to the present mode of paying the penfioners, every in penfioner coft government near Gol. per anu. and Female Servants, Anno 1785 4 Wheel Carriages, ditto 2 Wheel, ditto every out penfioner above 30l. He conceived fome more oeconomical mode might be devifed, which at the fame time would be by no means injurious to the penfioners. On the motion to agree with the refolution of grasting 480,0581. 38. 4d. for de-'. fraying the expences of the land forces, Sir Grey Cooper faid, that before he agreed to that refolution, he begged leave te fay a few words to the Right Hon. the Secretary at War. He obferved, that the future probable expence of victualling, and of the comtingent and extraordinary expences of the army at home and abroad for one year, is eftimated, in the total, at the fum of 261,3651. The account of the extraordinaries of the army for 1787 amounts to 480,cool. He wifhed to be informed what events have happened that have traversed and diftarbed these calculations, which (till they are fully explained, and their errors accounted for) bear the appearance of an intention to delude the public by the falfe lights of plans of œconomy, which thofe who held them out knew could not be carried into execution and effect. The Secretary at War and Mr. Steele defended the estimate, the exceís of which had been occafioned by temporary circumstances, and by the great quantities of provitions which the inlands had been forced to be fupplied with by commiffion, on account of the failure of the provifion contract. APRIL 9. The Houfe, in a committee of supply, came to feveral refolutions for granting_vari ous fums of money to his Majefty for defraying the establishments of his Majefty's plantations in America and the Weft-Indies; alfo to a refolution of granting a fum of money to his Majetty for defraying the extraordinary expence of the Mint for the year 1787; and to a refolution for granting to his 1787. 1788. £. 33.994 6 8 £. 19,061 19 0 86,347 14 1 18.595 16 81/ 72,448 6 Horfes, ditto Waggons, ditto 8,446 13 2 Carts, ditto 4,887 о Shops, ditto 32,796 6 Houfes and Windows, Anno 1727 Male Servants, Anno 1777, arrears Confol. Letter Money, Anno 1787 Salt Ditto Ditto Total of Cuftoms, Excife, Stamps, and 12,389,555 14 Majefty a fum for defraying the expences incurred by the protecution of offenders against the coinage laws-Adjourned. APRIL 10. Mr. Steele reported the following refolutions from the committee of fupply, viz. That it is the opinion of this committee, that a tum not excceding 58451. 65. be granted to his Majefty for defraying the charge of the civil eftubliment of Nova-Scotia.43c01. for defraying the fame charge for New-Brunswick.-19col. for defraying the charge of the civil eftablifhment for St. John. And 11821. ros. for defraying the charge of the falaries of the Governor of the Bahama Iflands. The fame were read and agreed to. APRIL II. Deferred the committee of ways and means, and fupply, till Monday, and adjourned till then. APRIL 14. A writ was ordered for the election of a burgets for Eaft Loo, in the room of Mr. Damer, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The bill for diffolving the marriage of Mr. Errington was committed, and the allegations of it were proved by evidence at the bar, which was of a nature not fit for the public eye. The bill was afterwards read a third time and paffed. APRIL 15. The Houfe having returned from the Hall, upon the order of the day being read for going into the wool bill, the Speaker obferved the propriety there would be of fixing on Mondays and Fridays for thofe bills that required any evidence being gone into, as thefe were the only days when the attendance of the members might be expected on account of The trial. Upon this idea, therefore, it was propoted to poftpone the prefent bill to Friday tennight, the intervening days being already full. The queftion being put, produced a division: Ayes 30--Noes 15.-Majority 15. Mr. Mainwaring moved for leave to bring in a petition from the proprietors of the Royalty Theatre, praying to be included with Sadler's Wells in the hill before the Houfe. This was fupported by Mr. Taylor, and Shortly but warmly oppofed by Mr. Fox and Mr. Anftruther. On a divifion leave was refufed, there appearing, Ayes 18-Noes 31. APRIL 15. Sir Gilbert Elliott gave notice that he would on Friday fe'rnight take the fenfe of the Houle on the firit article of the charge against Sir Enjak Inipey, The Houle then went into a committee to hear evidence upon the faid charge. Mr. Francis then offered to the committee, in writing, the account he had drawn up, founded on the infinuations thrown out against him by Sir Elijah Impey in his defence at the bar. That gentleman, he faid, had been faid to have acted prudently in not having given in a written defence, and Mr. Haftings had been taxed with imprudence, because he had committed his defence to writing: however, he would, he faid, follow the unwife example, and deliver this his written defence to the committee. Upon this a converfation took place, in which it appeared to be the fenfe of the committee, that it were better to take oral evidence from Mr. Francis, than this written one, because in the latter there might be much extraneous matter, quite foreign to the fubject; but if a queftion tending to fuch matter thould be put to a witnefs giving parole evidence, it might be stopped. It was agreed therefore on this ground, with many compliments, however, on account of his manly openness, that the paper tendered by Mr. Francis fhould not be received. That gentleman then underwent a long examination relative to Nunducomar; and when it was concluded, the Houfe was refumed, and then adjourned. APRIL 17. The order of the day for the fecond reading of Mr. Gilbert's bill, for the better fupport and government of the parochial poor, being read, Mr. Gilbert moved the reading of it immediately a fecond time. Mr. Young, Mr. Drake, and Mr. Beau foy oppofed this motion; all however paying many handfome compliments to the framer of it, for his humanity and good intentions; but a bill which in every parish would substitute a fet of trading Juftices in the room of respectable County Magiftrates, which would multiply officers, and by the erection of buildings, committee-rooms, &c. convert into a job what was meant as a publick good, which would create a new national debt hy the powers to be vetted in Commiffioners for mortgaging the Poor's rates for four years, and which would probably raife thofe rates in half a century to near 12,000,000l. auglit, they faid, not to be fent to a committee; as no modification could make that good, which was fo objectionable in principle. Mr. Gilbert ftill pretfed that the bill might not be haftily rejected, but suffered to go to a committee, where alterations might be made, that would remove the obj&tions. Mr. Young, however, moved, that it be put off to that day three months. On putting the question for Mr. Gilbert's motion, there appeared, Ayes 10-Nors 44-Majority 34. The amendment propofed by Mr. Young was then carried without a divifion: thus the bill is loft for this feflion. Το SIR, THE recent death of the Pretender* makes the following paper interefting. It was given to me by a refpectable perfon, who told me he had reafon to believe it genuine. Whatever doubts are entertained on this head, it is always in the power of the friends of the noble lord, whofe name is mentioned towards the clofe of it, to ascertain the fact.-What is related at the commencement of the letter, is known to many. The accounts collected by an eminent hiftorian, refpe&ting a pretender to the throne, will neceffarily appear valuable, if authentic; and I mutt obferve, that it is no fufficient derogation from their authenticity, fhould the narrative contained in this letter not be found warranted in every particular; as Mr. Hume is to be confidered here merely as a reporter. I am, Sir, your's, &c. W. COPY of a LETTER from the late DAVID HUME, Efq. to the late Sir JOHN PRINGLE, M. D. MY DEAR SIR, T St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, Feb. 10, 1773. he entered.-My lord added, (I think from the authority of the fame lady) that he ufed fo little precaution, that he went abroad openly in day-light in his own drefs, only laving ande his blue ribband and ftar; walked once through St. James's, and took a turn in the Mall. 'HAT the prefent Pretender was in London in the year 1753, I know with the greatest certainty, because I had it from Lord Marechal, who faid it confifted with his certain knowledge.-Two or three days after his lordship gave me this information, he told me that the evening before, he had learned feveral curious particulars from a lady, (who I imagined to be Lady Primrose), though my lord refufed to name her. The Pretender came to her houfe in the evening, without giving her any preparatory information, and entered the room, when fhe had a pretty large company with her, and was herfelf playing at cards. He was announced by the firvant under another name: the thought the cards would have dropped from her hands on feeing him; but he had prefence enough of mind to call him by the name he affumed, to ask him when he came to England, and how long he intended to ftay there. After he and all the company went away, the fervants remarked how wonderfully like the ftrange gentleman was to the prince's picture which hung on the chimney-piece, in the very room in which About five years ago, Ltold this ftory to Lord Holdernefs, who was fecretary of state in the year 1753; and I added, that I fuppofed this piece of intelligence had at that time efcaped his lordthip By no means, faid he; and who do you think firft told it me? It was the king himfelf, who fubjoined, "And what do you think, 66 my lord, I fhould do with him?" Lord Holderness owned that he was puzzled how to reply, for if he declared his real fentiments, they might favour of indifference to the royal family. The king perceived his embarraffment, and extricated him from it, by adding, "My lord, "I fhall juft do nothing at all, and "when he is tired of England he will go "abroad again."-I think this flory, for the honour of the late king, ought to be more generally known. But what will furpife you more, Lord * He died at Rome on the 3d of March, 1788. Since the death of his father, in 1765, he had affumed the title of King of Great Britain, but on the continent was commonly known by the name of the Chevalier St. George, and in England by that of the Pretender, He was juft fixty-feven years and two months old, being born on the 30th of November, 1720. His mother was the greatest fortune in Europe; fhe was the Princefs Maria Clementina Sobieski, grand-daughter of the famous John Sobieski, King of Poland, who beat the Turks near Vienna. She died January 18, 1735. N. S. Accounts of the Pretender's narrow efcape from Scotland, in the year 1745, are to be found in our Magazines for October and November 1785, Vol. VIII. p. 266 and 329. He married fome years ago a Princess of Stolberg, in Germany; but by her, who is ftill living, he has left no iffue. Every claim, therefore, which might be thought to belong to him, devolves to his brother the Cardinal York, who is now in the fixty-third year of his age. The Pretender has left a natural daughter, who, by his affumed royal power, he lately created Duchefs of Albany, and to whom he has be-. queathed all the property he had in the French funds, which was very confiderable. She is about twenty-five years of age, VOL. XIII. Marecha Marechal, a few days after the coronation of the prefent king, told me that he believed the young Pretender was at that time in London, or at least had been fo very lately, and had come over to fee the fhew of the coronation, and had actually feen it. I asked my lord the reafon for this strange fact. Why, fays he, a gentleman told me fo that faw him there, and that he even spoke to him, and whifpered in his ears thefe words: "Your "royal highnefs is the laft of all mor"tals whom I fhould expect to fee here." "It was curiofity that led me,'' faid the other; “but I affure you," added he, "that the perfon who is the object of all "this pomp and magnificence, is the man envy the leaft." You fee this story is fo near traced from the fountain head, as to wear a great face of probability. Query, what if the Pretender had taken up Dymock's gauntlet? I find that the Pretender's vifit in England in the year 1753, was known to all the Jacobites; and fome of them have affured me, that he took the opportunity of formally renouncing the Roman catholic religion, under his own name of Charles Stuart, in the New Church in the Strand; and that this is the reafon of the bad treatment he met with at the court of Rome. I own that I am a fceptic with regard to the last particulars. Lord Marcchai had a very bad opinion of this unfortunate prince, and thought there was no vice fo mean or atrocious of which he was not capable; of which he gave me feveral inftances.-My lord, though a man of great honour, may be thought a difcontented courtier; but what quite confirmed me in that idea of that prince, was a converfation I had with Helvetius at Paris, which I believe I have told you. In cafe I have not, I shall mention a few particulars. That gentleman told me that he had no acquaintance with the Pretender; but fome time after that prince was chaced out of France, a letter, faid he, was brought me from him, in which he told me that the neceffity of his affairs obliged him to be at Paris, and as he knew me by character I to be a man of the greateft probity and honour in France, he would truft him felf to me, if I would promise to conccal and protect him. I own, added Helvetius to me, although I knew the danger to be greater of harbouring him at Paris than at London; and although I thought the family of Hanover not only the lawful fovereigns in England, but the only lawful fovereigns in Europe, as having the full and free confent of the people; yet was I fuch a dupe to his flattery, that I invited him to my houfe, concealed him there going and coming near two years, had all his correspondence pafs through my hands, met with his parti zans upon Pont Neuf, and found at last that I had incurred all this danger and trouble for the most unworthy of all mortals; infomuch that I have been affured, when he went down to Nantz to embark on his expedition to Scotland, he took fright, and refufed to go on board; and his attendants, thinking the matter gone too far, and that they would be affronted for his cowardice, carried him in the night-time into the fhip, pieds et mains lies. I asked him, if he meant literally. Yes, faid he, literally: they tied him, and carried him by main force. What think you now of this hero and conqueror? Both Lord Marechal and Helvetius agree, that with all this strange character, he was no bigot, but rather had learned from the philofophers at Paris to affect a that both these perfons thought they were contempt of all religion. You must know afcribing to him an excellent quality. Indeed both of them used to laugh at me for my narrow way of thinking in thefe particulars. However, my dear Sir John, I hope you will do me the juftice to acquit me. I doubt not but thefe circumstances whom you will pleafe to prefent my rewill appear curious to Lord Hardwick, to fpects. I fuppofe his lordthip will think this unaccountable mixture of temerity and timidity in the fame character, not a little fingular. I am your's, very fincerely, DAVID HUME, ADVICE TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. RECEIVED the news of your marriage with infinite delight, and hope that the fincerity with which I with your happinels, may excufe the liberty I take in giving you a few rules whereby more certainly to obtain it. I fee you imile at my wrong headed kindness, and reflecting on the charms of your bride, cry out in a rapture, that you know you are; but after one of the forty are happy enough without my rules. I together, are over, this letter may come in years, which I hope you will país pleasingly turn, |