by major-generals; one row of em- taken under his majefty's protecbroidery on the cuff. Edinburgh, Jan. 13th. The directors of the Royal Bank made offer to the magiftrates of 5000l. terling, free of intereft for 12 months, for the purpose of purchafing corn for the relief of the poor. Hague, Jan. 15th. The three regiments, known by the name of the Scotch brigade, were actually under the command of the national troops of Utrecht. The officers had fix weeks given them to confider of a new oath, but the colonels commandant demanded longer time. About fifty officers retired from that fervice, viz. fix or eight field officers, twelve captains, and thirty fubalterns. Thefe gallant veterans did not think it confiftent with their honour as British fubjects, to take the new oath lately ordered to be impofed, which was virtually to make them abjure their native country. Several of them arrived in Briftol, fully trufting to the refolution of the British cabinet council, who refolved, that they fhould te tion. The commanders of the three Scots regiments in the Dutch fervice, generals Houfton, Stewart, and Dundas, were to enjoy their pay during life, without being obliged to fubfcribe the oath, or do any duty on account of their long and meritorious fervices. The feffions began at the Old-Bailey. 15th. Daniel McGinnis was tried for the wilful murder 17th. of John Hardy, hatter, in New. gate-ftreet, where Mr. M'Ginnis lodged, by ftabbing him in the left breaft, with a fhort tuck, or bayonet, which entered his heart. This unhapppy accident was occafioned by fome water thrown out of Mr. McGinnis's window, on Mr. Hardy's fky-light, who going up ftairs to remonttrate with Mr. M'Ginnis, words arofe, which proceeded to this fatal extremity. Mr. M'Ginnis had a moft excellent character given him as a quiet, harmlefs, inoffenfive, and humane perfon, by gentlemen of great rank. being a femme coverte; the cafe was, that her husband, Lord Lanf, had parted from her, allowed her a feparate maintenow fettled on nance, and was The quefhis eftate in Ireland. tion therefore was, whether, under thefe circumftances. the plea of coverture was to protect the lady from arreft and judgement? Lord Mansfield mentioned the The cafes where the ple of coverture was and was not valid. It was not valid where the hufband was exiled by the laws of his country, becaufe the creditors could not purfue him for the debt of his wife. It was not valid where, by a difcovery of infidelity to his bed, they had been feparated by the laws of their country. But the prefent was a new cafe. They were parted by confent. hufband was in Ireland, and the lady refided in England on a feparate maintenance. It was impoffible for the creditor in England, by the laws of that land, to recover his debt from the hufband in Ireland, and therefore, in equity, the wife was confidered as a femme fole. The caufe was decided against Lady Laní- with cofts of fuit. DIED, lately at Litchfield, the Rev. Mr. Bond, and his wife, who had lived together upwards of forty years: they were both interred in one grave, at the cathedral "GRANTHAM." church. A caufe was decided in 29th. the court of King's Bench, of the utmoft confequence to traders, as it decided a matter much queftioned An eminent tradef. man brought an action against Lady Lanf, for goods had In the Netherlands, one Martens, aged 100 years and 11 months.His father lived to the age of 104, and his mother to the age of 108 years. At Wamphray, Agnes Carmichael, in the 113th year of her age: [N] 2 FE FEBRUARY. Hague, Feb. 1ft. The following fingular anecdote is reported of the Ruffian ambaffador ::-That minifter, in conference with the Greffier Fagel, expreffed his furprife to him, that as the republic was not only in friendthip, but even in alliance with his court, he fhould not have been made acquainted with the inftructions which the flates general had given to their ambaffadours at Paris: to which Mr. Fagel made anfwer, that he had no inftructions in that respect, but that if he pleafed, he would fpeak to their High Mightineffes on the fubject; but the Ruffian minifter defired he would not, till he fhould explain himself further on that head. The next morning he fent a note to the Greffier, telling him, it was not neceffary to give him any further trouble upon the affair in queftion, as he had feen the inftructions he meant in the public papers. Whitehall, Feb. 5th. The king ordered letters patent to be paffed under the great feal of the kingdom of Ireland, for creating a fociety or brotherhood, to be called knights of the illuftrious order of St. Patrick, of which his majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, fhall perpetually be fovereigns, and his majefty's lieutenant-general and general governor of Ireland, &c. for the time being, fhall officiate as grand-mafters and alfo for appointing the following knights companions of the faid illuftrious Henry Smyth Earl of Clanrickarde, Randall William Earl of An ron, Ioth. Richard Earl of Shannon, James Earl of Clanbraffen, Richard Earl of Mornington, James Earl of Courtown, James Earl of Charlemont, Thomas Earl of BeЯtive, Henry Earl of Ely. Chancellor, Archbishop of Dublin. Dean of St. Patrick's. Regifter, Secretary, Lord Delvin. Ulfter, Wm. Hawkins, Efq. Ufher, Jn. Freemantle, Efq. The Hon. Charles James Fox prefented to the House of Commons, a petition figned by feveral hundred inhabitants of Weftminster, ftating that they were aggrieved by the circulation of counterfeit halfpence. That they had endeavoured as far as lay in their power to put a stop to the fame, but found their inability in fo doing-and therefore prayed the houfe to give them fuch relief as they in their wisdom fhould deem meet. 12th. The lord chancellor, in the name of the Houfe of Peers, addreffed Lord Viscount Howe, and thanked him for the important fervices he had done his king and country in, the relieving Gibraltar. Mr. Bifhop, common 17th. cryer of this city, attended by proper officers, read at the Royal Exchange gate, and Cheapfide conduit, the king's proclamation, declaring a ceflation of arme by fea and land, Ал An order of council was 19th. iffued, laying an embargo on all fhips which were taking in cargoes for America. The men convi&s lying under fentence of transportation in Newgate, were removed to the vellel lying at Woolwich for their reception. The bank of England 22d. gained a caufe in refufing to pay a bill ftolen from them, and loft at a gaming table. 24th. The two members. of parliament, Mr. Cook and Mr. Wilmot, who were appointed to revife the lift of penfions granted to the American refugees, made their report to the lords of the Treafury, by which it appeared that a faving of upwards of 20,000l, per ann. will accrue to the nation, by the reduction of fuch of the above penfions as they deemed unneceffary and unmerited. Thofe gentlemen who held employments under government in arrears, were to be paid their falaries up to the 10th of October laft, and then to be confidered no longer as fervants of the crown. A petition from the 25th. county of York, and also a petition from the city of York, relative to a more equal reprefentation, were prefented to the House of Commons. Before it was fent from York to be prefented to parliament, it had 10,124 names fubfcribed to it, exclusive of thofe figned to a duplicate in Being St. David's day, the honourable fociety of ancient Britons met at the Welsh charityfchool in Gray's Inn Road, and proceeded from thence to St. George's church, Hanover-fquare, where an excellent fermon, fuitable to the occafion, was preached by the right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Briftol. The whole collection at church, and at the different tables, added to the donation of his royal highness the Prince of Wales, and of the noblemen and gentlemen, contributors to the faid charity, amounted in the whole to 4691. which is 71. more than last year. The feffions ended at the OldBailey, when fix convicts received judgment of death, eighteen were fentenced to be tranfported to America, eighteen to be kept to hard labour in the house of cor [N] 3 rection rection, seven of whom were ordered to be whipped, seven to be imprifoned in Newgate, four to be privately wipped, and 24 difcharged by proclamation. Dublin, March ift. John Maydwell the younger, one of the drawers: the queftion therefore to be determined was, whether the bill in that ftate was negocia ble? when the jury were clearly of opinion the plaintiff ought not to recover, the bill, with only In the Affembly of the Delegates of thirty-four different Corps of one indorsement, not being neVolunteers of the Province of gociable; which opinion the judge Leinster, at the Exchange, immediately entered in his book Refolved unanimoufly. and read to the jury. By this That the virtuous citizens of imortant decifion it is fettled, Geneva, who with for an afylum that where two perfons not in this kingdom from the hand of in partnership draw a bill of extyra ny and oppreflion, deferve change, they muft both indorfe our utmost approbation, and fuch it before they can negociate the of them as establish themselves fame. amongst us fhall upon every occafion receive our utmost attention and fupport. The commiffioners appointed for receiving fubfcriptions for the bank of Ireland, received the fum of 600,000l. in government fecurities, and lodged the fame in his majefty's treafury, being the original flock or capital of this bank. A general order was fent to 3d. the lord licutenants of the counties in England for difbanding the militia. Came on a fecond time to be tried before the Earl of Mansfield and a special jury of merchants, a caufe wherein Mr. John Carvick, of Rank-ftreet, was plaintiff. and Mr. Abraham Vickery, of the bank of England, defendant. The action was brought to recover the amount of a bill of exchange drawn by Mr. John Maydwell the elder, and Mr. John Maydwell the younger, payable to their own order, directed to, and accepted of, by the said Mr. Vickery, which bill had originally been obtained by one Nixon, without a valuable confideration, and only indorfed by A petition was prefented 4th. from the electors of the ancient town and borough of Southwark, which fet forth the prefent difproportioned and inadequate reprefentation of the commons, and the unconftitutional duration of parliaments. Pailed the great feal a 5th. grant to the Right Hon. Lord Thurlow, of an annuity of 2680l. per annum. Was decided at Guildhall, before Lord Mansfield and a fpecial jury, a caufe wherein merchants and underwriters are materially interefted. The cafe was, feveral thips were left behind at Jamaica, through a mistake, by the unfor tunate convoy which fuffered fo feverely in September laft; the Glorieux, of 74 guns, was also left behind, and the thips at the island took the opportunity of the Glorieux's failing, to follow the fleet, which they joined, before they got through the Gulf of Mexico, where the masters of the merc: ant veffels went immediately on board the admiral's fhip, to get failing orders, which they had not before received. |