The Prince Primate of Poland, at Warfäw. Right Hon. Lady Dowager King. The Right Hon. the Earl of Hyndford, one of the fixteen peers of Scotland. The Lady of Sir Ralph Mil bank, Bart. at Bath. Lately, Col. York, in the Portuguese fervice. He commanded the artillery at the fiege of Quebec, and conveyed them up a precipice, where a fingle man could not mount without the help of bushes. The most Hon. William Henry Ker, Marquis and Earl of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle and Jedburg, and Knight of the ancient Order of the Thistle. Aug. 1, The celebrated Albinus, at Paris, one of the most skilful anatomifts in Europe. Lord Kinaird, in Scotland. Sir Wnf. Sinclair, a celebrated phyfician. 21. The Hon. and Rev. Allen Bathurst, fon to Lord Bathurst. 22. Lady Mary Elizabeth Bouverie, only daughter to the Earl of Radnor. Prince Frederick of Duex-Ponts at Manheim. This prince was a Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand Croix of the military Order of Maria Therefa, General Field Marshall of the empire of their Imperial Majefties, and of all the troops of the Elector Palatine, Governor of Manheim, General Field Marshal of the troops of the Circle of the Upper Rhine, and Colonel of feveral regiments. Count Fleming, after a long and painful illness, at Dresden. VOL. X. Sept. 4. The Right Hon. Charles Townshend, Efq. (in the 41ft year of his age, of a putrid fever) fecond Commiffioner of the Treafury, Chancellor and Under-Treafurer of the Exchequer, one of his Majefty's moft Hon. Privy-council, Member of Parliament for Harwich, and only brother to Lord Viscount Townshend. Befides the offices before-mentioned, he paffed through thofe of Lord of trade and plantations, Lord of the Admiralty, Treafurer of his Majesty's chambers, Secretary at war, Firft Lord of trade and plantations, and Pay matter-general of his Majefty's forces.-August 15, 1755, he married Lady Caroline, eldest daughter and coheirefs of his grace, John late Duke of Argyll and Greenwich (widow of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, fon and heir of Fran-cis duke of Buccleugh) by whom he has left two fons and a daugh ter. Lady of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, of Garloch. Lady of Sir William Calvert. 11. Lady of Sir Jarrit Smith, Bart. 17. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of York, at Monaco, in Italy. Count de Guerchy, late ambaffador to England, in Paris. 14. Lady of Sir Richard Beddingfield, Bart. Sir Charles Hotham, Baronet, nephew to the Earl of Chefterfield. Lady of Sir George Pocock, at Nice. 26. Sir Martin Wright, late a juftice of the King's Bench. Oct. 1. Lady of Sir John Charl Lady of Sir Gregory Page. 11. Sir John Awbrey, Bart. Hon. Mrs. Anne Granville, eldeft daughter to the late Lord Lanfdowne. Sir David Cunningham, Bart. Lieutenant-general of his Majefty's forces, and Colonel of the 57h regiment of foot, at his houfe at Livingstone, about fourteen miles weft from Edinburgh. Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart. at Wenvoe-caftle, in Glamorganshire, Surveyor of his Majefty's woods north and fouth of Trent, Treafurer to the Princefs Dowager of Wales, Knight of the hire for Glamorganfhire, and Lieutenantcolonel of the militia of that county. 15. The Arch-dutchefs Maria Jofepha, bethroted to the King of Naples, of the fmall-pox at Schonbrun. 16. Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of the Briefs at Rome. 18. Lady Abdy, at her feat in Effex, aunt to Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, Bart. one of his Majefty's counfel, and Member of parliament for Knaresborough, in Yorkshire; by whofe death, it is faid, an eftate of 3000l. per anu. devolves to Sir Anthony. 26. The Hon. General Henry Pulteney, only brother of the late William Earl of Bath, in the 82d year of his age, at Bath-house, in Piccadilly. He was abroad in Queen Anne's wars; was promoted to be a Colonel, Auguft 3, 1733; a Major-general July 3, 1743; a Lieutenant-general, Auguft 8, 1747; and General in 1765. He was appointed to the command of the 13th regiment of foot, July 5, 1759; and fome time after made Governor of Hull. Upon the deceafe of William late Earl of Bath, without iffue, in 1764, he became poffeffed of his lordship's immenfe eftates, both real and perfonal, fome few legacies excepted; and in the year following refigned his regiment and government : the former of which was given to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Gloucefter. William Pulteney, Efq. fon of Sir William Johnftone, who married Mifs Pulteney, niece to the late Earl of Bath, and the General, who fome time ago changed his name to Pulteney, by virtue of his Majesty's royal mandate, will, by the Gene. ral's death, be poffeffed of a very large eftate. 27. Right Hon. Charles Bennet, Earl of Tankerville, and Baron of Offulton, On the 2d inftant, her Serene Highnefs Louifa Dorothea, of Saxe Meininghen, reigning Dutchefs of Saxe Gotha, in the 49th year of her age. Nov. 7. Don Jofeph de Mellis, in Maddox-ftreet, aged eightytwo. He was the oldest Captain in the English fervice. 18. The Hon. Mifs Charlotte Finch, at the Hot-wells, Bristol, daughter to the Hon. Lady Charlotte Finch, governess to the young princes. The Hon. Mrs. Hatton, fifter to Lord Hatton. Lady Elizabeth Griffin, at Paddington. Sir Hugh Brigges, Baronet, at Houghton, in Warwickshire. Count de Munich, Senator, and Field Marshal General of the armies of APPENDIX to the to the CHRONICLE. PROTEST against the refcinding the Eaft-India Dividend. Die Veneris, 26° Junii, 1767. Ift, BECAUSE the bill, con, taining, in appearance, nothing but matter of future regu. lation, is fo contrived as to operate retrofpectively, and refcind a dividend actually declared by a general court of the Eaft-India company on the 6th of May laft, of fix 1-4th per cent. for one half year, ending at Christmas next; this was, in the argument, avowed to be the principal object of the bill, though the bill itfelf does not even mention that act, or fuggeft any reafon for refcinding it. And we conceive, that if the measure had been fub. ftantially right, yet this manner of doing it is unbecoming the dignity of parliament, which fhould in all cafes go openly and directly to its object. 2dly, Because this meafure appears to us to be as exceptionable in the fubftance as in the form, being an ex poft facto law, refcind. ing a legal act of the company, in the exercife of its dominion over its own property, notwithstanding their application and earneft entreaties to the contrary, without neceffity or occafion, from any con I fideration of private juftice or public utility. 3dly, Becaufe, confidering the Eaft-India company as a national object, and the members of it as bound to attend to the interest of the public, as well as their own, the dividend they had voted, and which is by this bill to be refcinded, appears to be liable to no ob. jection; for the only legal reftriction in the company's power to divide, is, that the fum total of all the debts which they shall owe, do not exceed the value of the principal or capital ftock or stocks which fhall be and remain undivid ed; and it appears, by the cleareft evidence, that the company's effects are amply fufficient, not only to difcharge every juft demand, but that, after even repaying their capital, there will remain a very great furplus. 4thly, Because it appears alfo to us, that the dividend declared on the 6th of May is expedient; for the dividend being in fact the only medium whereby to fix and com pute the price of the stock, as between buyer and feller, juftice to both requires fuch a dividend as will fix that price as near as may be to the real value. And the dividend of 12 1-half is in that refpect preferable to a dividend of 10 per cent, to which this bill has arbitrarily restrained it. 5thly, 5thly, Because it appears to us to have been a dividend regularly declared, the objections which have been made to it upon this head being manifeftly void of all foundation. We admit, that the court did proceed without an account actually before them ; but the want of this account, fo far as relates to the propriety of the dividend, appears to have been fufficiently fupplied. The directors, in their negotiations with the government, and their declarations at former courts, had themfelves propofed fuch a dividend, and acknowledged the ability of the company to make it. The proprietors, by thefe and other means, had full reason to be satisfied of that ability. And the account now produced, examined, and proved, does fully warrant their proceedings, and verify the ideas they then entertained and acted on. 6thly, Because the dividend appears to have been voted by a very numerous court, and fo nearly unanimous, that no ballot was taken, because none was demanded; and no ballot was demanded, becaufe there was not a competent number of proprietors who difapproved the meafure; and though, for that reafon, the fenfe of the members prefent only was taken, by holding up of hands, it now appears to be, beyond a doubt, the confirmed deliberate fenfe of the company; having been reconfidered at no less than three fubfequent courts, convened for the purpofe of concerting the proper measures to fupport it; at the two laft of which the votes of the company at large were taken by a regular ballot, and the dividend previously voted was approved and ratified by a large majority. To the validity of the act of the 6th of May no objection could be fupported, though attempted. It was clearly a valid act; and, if not valid, the bill to refcind it would be unneceffary, for the act of itself would be void. 7thly, Becaufe every argument ufed to fhew the impropriety of dividing twelve one-half applies with equal force to a dividend of ten per cent. which the bill allows, and indeed to any dividend at all; and would,, if admitted to be a proper ground for refcinding this dividend, be equally fo for refcinding every dividend the company has ever made, or probably will ever make. For it is hardly poffible, that, during the existence of the company, their debts can be actually paid off, or their cash in hand fuffice to difcharge those debts, and pay a dividend; and at the fame time the trade be carried on to that extent, as will yield to the company and the public the moft ample returns. The whole argument in favour of the bill being reduced to thefe two propofitions, that the company ought to difcharge its debts before a dividend can be allowed to take place; and that a dividend ought to be made upon a cafh account; principles contradicted by the uniform practice of the company from its |