140 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXVIII. "I beg thus to throw myself at your M's feet, and fupplicate the mercy and clemency which thine with such luftre among your princely virtues. "Some former minifters, whom your M-, in condeicenfion to the wishes of your people, thought proper to remove, employed every wicked and deceitful act to opprefs your fubje&,,and to avenge their own perfonal caufe on him, whom they imagined to be the principal author of bringing to public view, their ignorance, infufficiency and treachery to your M➡ and the N-, "I have been the innocent and unhapdy victim of revenge. I was forced by their injuftice and violence into exile, which I have never ceafed to confider, for many years, as the most eruel op; reffion; because I could no longer be under the benign influence of your M-, in this land of liberty. "With a heart full of zeal for the fervice of your M- and my Country, I implore, Sire, your clemency. My only hopes of pardon are founded in the great goodneis and benevolence of your M-; and every day of freedom you may be graciously pleased to permit me the enjoyment of, in my dear native land, shall give proofs of my zeal and attachment to your fervice. J. WILKES." SATURDAY 26. After the election of John Wilkes, and George Cooke, Efqrs; for the county of Middlefex, the populace in their return through Weftminster and the city, grew outrageous, broke the windows of lord Bute's houfe, caufed the houses all the way to be illuminated; broke every window in the mansion-house, even that of the lady mayorefs's bed chamber, and thofe of the lord mayor's house in Alderf gate-ftreet efcaned only by being out of their reach. Wilkes and Liberty was the cry, and all who refus'd to eccho it back, were knocked down. TUESDAY 29. Orders were given to the guards on duty at St. James's, to be in readiness at the beat of drum, to march to fupprefs any riot that might happen. WEDNESDAY 30. In the duke of Parma's edict for banishing the jefuits, there is a prohibition never to return, or even país through his dominions though abfolved from their vow, They were conducted to Reggio in carriages, appointed for that purpose, and dif miffed to Bologna belonging to the Pope, The treaty between the courts of Denmark and Ruffia, by which all differences about the country of Holflein are amicably adjusted, hath lately been ratified to mutual fatisfaction. Notice was pofted up at the poft office at Paris about the latter end of last month, that no perfon whatever was to leave that city or kingdom without a passport, in confequence of which notice, many perfons were detained at the feveral ports of France, who were unprovided with fuch passports, which occafioned a general con fternation HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Aernation. Various reafons are affigned The Germans in general are introducing A premium of fifty guineas has lately 'been ordered by the fociety for the encouragement of arts in London, to Mr. Evers, of Swillington, for his invention of a machine for threshing and grinding of corn, both at the fame time, or each feparately. The counters of Huntingdon depofited in the hands of an eminent merchant one thousand pounds, for the purchafing of the perpetual advowfon of Aldwinckle, and delivering Mr. Kimpton and his family out of their prefent difficulties and diftrefs.This is confirmed by an advertisement in the papers, by which all his creditors are to apply to Mr. and receive their refpective demands. The gentlemen and Farmers of four. cownships in Shropshire, have entered into an agreement for detecting felons within their diftricts, efpecially horse stealers; 141 concludes his letter in return to this effects "I have read with admiration, your work. The ancient Greeks, who were admirers of all merit, but affign'd the first feat of glory to legislators, would have placed your imperial Majefty between Lycurgus and Solon." AMERICAN NEWS. At Alexandria, in Virginia, a number of negroes lately confpired to poison their overfeers, and feveral have loft their lives in confequence. Some, however, of the negroes have been taken up, four of whom have fince been executed, their heads cut off, and fixed on the chimnies of the court houfe. His excellency Sir Henry Moore, governor of New-York, has published a prociamation, offering a reward of 50l. to any perfon, and a pardon to any accomplice, who fhall difcover the author of the following feditious paper, difperfed in that city, viz. "Whereas a glorious ftand for liberty did appear in the refentment fhewn to a fet of mifcreants under the name of StampMafters in the year 1765; and it is now any perfon robb'd may give immediate no-feared that a fet of gentry, called Com tice to the fociety, who thall order purfuit Several informations have lately been A brals cheft has lately been difcovered under an high hill in the dutchy of Meckdenburg-Strelitz, in which was inclofed thirty golden idols, with urns and inЯruments for facrifice. On the back of one of the idols the words RADEGAST RAETRA were very legible. They weighed about half a pound each. The Pope has excommunicated the Regency of Parma; but the Infant Duke has treated his bull with all imaginable contempt. It could not, fays his highnels, proceed from a Pontiff fo holy, fo infpired, and fo full of wifdom as the prefent reigning Pope; and therefore commands his fubjects to treat it as fpurious: but at the fame time enjoins them not to fail in their reverence towards their holy father, or in refpect to his fubjects. Catherine Nairne, otherwife Ogilvie, who made her efcape out of prifon when under fentence of death for the murder of her husband, has lately been in Scotland in men's apparel, and in very diftreffed circumftances. The Jefuits eftablished in the inland of A new code of laws compos'd by the At the fame time rumours prevail, that confederacies are every where forming among the western Indians, and that a rupture with thofe favages would be unavoidable. It is, however, whispered, that a correfpondence of a very dangerous nature has been difcovered by the commander in chief; and that the Indians, inftead of entertaining hoftile intentions themselves, have been practifed upon by others. ASSIZE NEWS. At Salisbury, feven convicts received fentence of death, among whom was Curtis, for murdering the jew. He was executed on a gibbet erected on purpole on Herman-Hills, and afterwards hung in chains. He denied the fact to the laf, though carried round the pit where the dead body was found. At Maidstone, five were capitally convicted. At Lincoln affizes, eight were capitally convicted. At York affizes, fix received fentence of death. Gre ordered for execution. A: Monmouth, four were capitally convicted. All reprieved, At Lancafter, one was capitally convicted for forgery, but reprieved. Part 142 Lifts of Births, Marriages, Deaths, &t. Part of Lord Baltimore's Defence upon bis My Lord and Gentlemen, "I have put myself upon my country, in confidence that prejudice and clamour will avail nothing in this place, where it is the priviledge of the meanest of the king's fubjects to be prefumed to be innocent until his guilt has been made appear by legal evidence. I wish I could fay, that I have been treated abroad with the fame candour; I have been loaded with obloquy; the moft malignant libels have been circulated, and every other method that malice could devife, has been taken to create a general prejudice against me. I thank God, that under such circumstances, I have had firmness and resolution enough to meet my accufers face to face, and provoke an enquiry into my conduct. Hic murus abæncus efto, nil conscire fibi. The charge against me, and against these poor people, involved with me, because they might otherwife have been witnesses for me, is, in its nature, easy to be made, and hard to be difproved. The accufer has the advantage of supporting it by direct and positive evidence: The defence can only be collected from circumstances. "My defence is compofed of a very great variety of circumftances. It will be laid before the jury by evidence, under the direction of my counfel. I ever held brutality in abhorrence; may I be allowed to add, without offending against that decorum which ought to be oblerved here, that as a man of pleasure, I am in opinion agaipft all force. I should not have introduced this fentiment, if it had not been pertinent to the fubject; other opinions on other fubjects, no way relating to this charge, have been imputed, and falfely imputed to me, to inflame this accufation. Libertine as I may have been represented, ♦ I hoid no fuch opinions. I am fure I have & fufficiently atoned for every indifcretion, by having fuffered the difgrace of being expofed as a criminal at the bar, in the county which my father had the honour to reprefent in Parliament, and where, if this fort of an active life had been my ob. je, my own rank and fortune gave me fome pictentions to have attained the fame honour. I will take up no more of your lordship's time than to add, that if I had been confcious of the gullt now imputed to me, I could have kept myfelf and my fortune out of the reach of the laws of this country. I am a citizen of the world, and could have lived any where, but I love my country, and submit to its laws; and refolving that my innocence thould be juftified by the laws, I now, by my own voluntary act, by furrendering myfelf to the court of King's Bench, flake pon the verd:& of twelve men my life and fortune, and, what is. deser to me than either, my honour." Lift of BIRTHS for the Year 1768. Lady of J Upton, B'q;--of a daughters Dutchess of Buccleugh-of a fon. Lift of MARRIAGES for 1768. Henry Rolls, Efq; of King-ftr. Bloomfbury, to Mife Lumley. The hon. Barclay Maitland, of Tillicoul- Rev. Mr. Adams,-to Mifs Ann Young, of Caftle Yard. Holborn. Rev. Dr. Vane,-to Mifs Tempeft, of Sherburn. Matthew Tyrwhit, Efq;-to Mifs Blakely, of Hart-freet. T. Hunt, Elgs- to Mifs Wraxal, of Briftol. Thomas Nefbit, Efq;- -to Mils Degennes, in Ireland, 30.000l. De Hon. Mr. Beauclerk-to the Right Hon. Lady Diana Spencer, Rev. Mr. Hare,to Mifs Hancle, of Bath. Earl of Kerry, to Mrs. Daly, fifter to the countess of Louth. Wm. Hayter, Efq; of Salisbury,➡to Mifs Elizabeth Egerton, Geo Winbalt, Efe; -to Mifs Sally Pernant of Upper Brook-Arçet. Lift of DEATHS for 1768. E. of Balcarras, in Scotland. 2 Mrs. Caulers, late mißress of the Swan inn, Sir Harry Hoghton, Bart. He is fucceeded in title by his nephew, now Sir Harry Hoghton, of Caftle Heddingham, Effex. Henry Gunter, Efq; of the Navy office. The Helme, near Lumley caftie, aged 107; Mary Symonds, at Coffe caftle, aged 107. Rowl. Philips, Efq; of Orlandon, Pemba. James Hay, merchant in Bamff. Charles Fearne, Efq; deputy secretary of the Admiralty, and judge advocate of his majefty's fcet. Hagh Simplon, of Charlton-hall, Cumberland, Efq; Thomas Leigh. Efq; at Greenwich. Rt. Hon. George Lord Reav, at Edinburgh. Hun, lady Ann Murray, wife of Dr. Murray, and daughter of the late E. of Cromartie, at Charles-town, South Carolina, Sir Jocelyn Price, formerly his majesty's ambaffidur at Naples. Rt. Han lady Garbarine Wemyfs, at Edin burgh caille. Thomas S. Ho sth. Lifts of Deaths, Promotions, &c. Thomas Coggeshall, Efq; at Ipfwich. He has left between 6 and 7000l. among his companions. H.Frankland, Efq; commiffioner of Excife. Rev. Matthew Difney, morning preacher at St. Bodolph, Aldgate. Hon. Mils Wortley Montagu Ruthven, daughter to Ford Ruthven, in Scotland. Dr. Robert Lyon, at Whitney, in Oxfordfhire, by a fall from a window in a fit of phrenzy Edward Gibbons, porter to lord Baltimore, Relict of the late judge Parnell, in Ireland. John Powell, Efq; a near relation to the John Penbury, Efq; at Woolwich. John King, Efq; of Charter houfe fquare. Hon. Henry Archer, Efq; in Warwickshire. Lady of J. Shepherd, Efq; of Barbadoes. Sir James Chadwick, Kt. in Poland ftreet. Wm. Hanbury, Efq; of Kelmarh, in Nor- Blandon Moore, Efq; of Byfleet, in Surry. J. Raymond, Efq; poffefs'd of a large eftate Rev, Mr. Soane, V. of Woodnelboro Kent. Walter Bathby, at Walton Surry. REJanis Majefty. Rev. Edward Simons, to Hulcott, R. Rev. Richard Tomlinfon,-to Benthon, V. Rev. Mr. Talbot, R. of Elmfet, in Suffolk, Rev. T, Stoddard,-to Camelford, V. 143 Rev. Mr. W. Green,-inftituted to Cran. Rev. T. Durnford,-to Middleton, R. Suff. Rev. H. Hayman,-to Lucam R. Dorfetfh Rev. Dr. Andrew, WhitchurchR. 2 Oxffh Rev. R. Walker, 2K's Worth R. Hants. Sir Fletcher Norton,-recorder of Guild ford,-vice Rt. Hon. Arthur Onflow, dec. J. Pool, Big-appointed head clerk to the comptroller of the victalling Accompts. And Mr. Abbot fecond clerk in the fame office. W.Young, Eiq-Lieut. gov. of Dominico, vice Geo. Scott, Efq; dec. Lt. col. Pringle,-appointed fole mafter of his majefty's works in Scotland. Rt. Hon. G. Onflow, Efq;-high fteward of Kington.. T.Coventry, Eles-dep. gov, of SS. Cm, W. Sandford, Etq;-chief of the Gentlem Penfioners, Dixie Coddington, Efq;-principal ferjeant at arms in Ireland, Ld. Ch. Spencer,one of the lords of the Admiralty. An exact Lift of Members will be given on the Return of the Wets, and P. P's hints fall be obferved. W. M. G's filary is thought unfit for publication. As 2. 1's Letter may give occafion to a religious difpute; it is therefare omitted. Many Letters are rateived whcb will appear occafionally. 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