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’EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Westminster, January 2\.
Dav hi* Majeftvome
to the House o( Peer*. and
be ’ ’“ H* s ß°y^Rok •
feared on the Throne with
the usual Solemnity., Sir
Francis Molyneux, Gen
tleman Uflier of the
Black Rod, was tent with a Message fiom
his Majesty to the House of Commons,
commanding their Attendance in the
House of Peers • The Commons being
come thither accordingly* His Majesty was
pleased to make the following most graci
ous SPEECH:
M Lords, and Gentlemen,
«1T gives Me much Satisfaftion, that
nothing in the Situation of Our Affairs,
either Foreign Dr has obliged
Me to require your Attendance earlier
than might have been consistent with your
private convenience ; and that now you
are met together, you will find yourselves
at Liberty to give your whole Attention
to the Eftablilhment of wife and ufeful
Regulations of Law, and the Exteniion
of our Commercial Advantages.
“ The Performance of the Engagement
of the King of Spain, in the Restitution
of Port Egmont and Falkland’s island, and
the repeated Aflurances 1 have received of
the pacifick Disposition of that Court, as
veil as of other Powers, promise to My
Subjefts the Continuance of Peace ; and
We may, with the gfeateft Confidence,
hop*, that We not be disturbed in
the Enjoyment ot this Bieffing, as there is
no Reason to apprehend that We (hall be
come involved in the Troubles which still
unhappily prevail in one Part of Europe.
** The Danger of the farther Spreading
of the infectious Srcknefs in Europe is, 1
trust, very much abated. But I must re-
IL to J ou not t 0 f u ft cr our Hap.
pinefs in having 'mtnerto preferred
from so dreadful a Calamity, to Icflen your
Vigilance in the Use of every reafonab’e
Precaution for Our Safety.
« Gentlemen of the Houje of Commons,
« I have ordered the Estimates for the
Service of the current Year to be laid be
fore you. I make no Doubt but you will
fee me Propriety of maintaining a respec
table Eftab.ifhment of My Naval Forces :
lam pirated however, to find, that 1 shall
be under no Neceflity of a&ing of you, at
this Time, any extraordinary Aid.
“ My Lords and Gentlemen,
«« The Concerns of this Country are so
various and extensive, as to require the
must vigilant and aft ve Attentioni and
fo.ne of them as well from Remoteness of
Place, as from other Circumstances, are so
peculiarly liable to Abuses, and exposed to
Danger, that the Interposition of the Le
gislature lor their Proteftion may become
neceflary. If in any fucn Instances, either
for iuppiying Defefts, or remedying A
l u’es, you (hall find it requisite to provide
any new Laws, »ou may depend upon My
ready Concurrence in whatever may best
eontribtue to the Attainmenrof those salu
tary Ends.” [London Gazette.
The humbit ADDRESS of thi Right Hon
ourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament ajftmbUd, tn reply to the Kings
Speech.
“ Most gracious Sovereign,
•* WE your Majesty’s most dutiful and
loyal Subjefts, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, in Parliament rflembled, return
your Majesty our humble thanks for your
most gracious speech from the throne.
« Permit us, Sir, to offer to your Ma
jesty our most dutiful congratulations, on
the happy event of the increase of your
Royal Family, by the birth of another
Prince ; and to assure your Majesty, That
every addition to your Majesty’s domestic
‘ vppinefs must always afford the higbeft
f»<istaftion to your faithful fubjefts.
G We beg leave to express to your Ma-
FRIDAY, April 3, 1.772.
jefty our most grateful sense of your M v
jefty’s regard for our private convcnien.«,
in not commanding u. to an earlier atten
dance; and to declare to your Majesty our
determination, to give our muii diligent
attention to the promotion of ths domestic
inter efts of these kingdoms, and the exten
sion of our most commercial advantages,
by the eftabiifhment of useful regulations
of law.
“ We return your Majesty our humble
thanks for your goodnef* and condefcenti
on, in acquainting us from the throne with
the reftitudon of Port Egmont and Faulk-
Jand's IHand, on the Part of the Kina of
Spain; and with the aflurances your Ma
jesty has received of the pacific disposition
of Foreign Powers. Wc are made happy
by learning, That your Majesty had no
reason to apprehend that the peace, which
we at pretent enjoy, will be disturbed by
our being any wile involved in the calami
ties of war, which ft til unhappily prevail
in one part of Europe.
“ Your Majcfty’s paternal care in re
com.nending to us a due vigilance in the
use of every precation to preserve this
country from that most dreadful contagion,
from which, under the divine providence,
it has been heitherto our happiness to re
main free, calls for our sincerest acknow •
ledgments, and commands our utmost at
tention.
u We beg leave to allure your Majesty,
that our most diligent endeavours, fluent
employed to frame such laws as hr
our judgment, tend to supply the
and remedy the abuses, which may appear
to have been introduced in any branch of
the various and extensive concerns of this
country: and we look upon your Majes
ty’s gracious Saurance of your ready con
eurrence. ~; n whatever may best contribute
to tne attainment of those salutary ends, as
a frefh proof of the desire, which has con
stantly been (hewn, by your Majesty, to
promote the welfare of your people.”
Hit Majesty’s ANSWER.
" My Lordly
•* I THANK you for this loyal and
“ dutiful address. 1 receive with pleasure
“ your congratulations on the increase of
“My family,and the aflurances of the at
“ tention you will give to those objefts
“ which I have recommended to you for
“ the public good. Nothing can be more
“ acceptable to Me, than the sense you
“ express of My desire to promote the wel
“ fare of My people.”
[The Address of the House of Com
mons is not yet come to hand ]
The following is his Majesty s most gracious
ANSWER to the Address of the Houje of
Common :
“ Gentlemen,
“ I THANK you very heartily for this
“ most dutiful Address. Youraff;ftion
•• ate congratulations on the birth of ano
“ ther Prince, and the regard you expref*
“ for the Queen, are highly acceptable to
“ Me.
“ 1 receive with pleasure and approba
“ tion the aflurances you give Me of your
“ zealous endeavou'S for the extension
“ and security of the national interest and
“ advantages.
•* I have nothing so much at heart as to
“ fee My kingdoms flaurifhing in com
“ merce, and My peop e happy under My
“ government.” [Lend. Gaz.
London, "January 6.. The public may
be assured, that a plan for a new administra
tion lies now upon the table of the cabinet
council. .
They may be equally assured, that any
change in administration will not aff:ft the
following personages, viz. Lord North,
Lord Sandwich, Lord Rochford, Lord Bar
rington, Lord HilKbarough, and Baron
Apfley, who are to keep their places.
The following are the offices, atprefent,
talked of to be vacated:—Secretary for the
Southern department—Lord Lieutenant of
1 Ireland— lor to R jfih, *»nd it 'it-
<i whiiprrrd, man the ficiilcnt of the
Council will be removed.
I he Dukes of Northumberland and St
Alban, will bt in the new adminiikation :
Lord Shelburne will mt.
Lord TownfhenJ will be in the niw ad
ministration : Lord Chatham will mt ;
Lord Camden will mt —at Icaft till Lord
Mansfield retires.
Sir G:orge Macartney, who is very soon
to come over from Ireland, will ccrtain.y
be nominated ambaflador to Ruffix.
We hrarihe terms offered the Ducheh
of Cumberland, to renounce her public ti
tie, are, ten thousand pounds in money,am
four thousand pounds a year jointure ; if.
last being the fame sum which has b er
fettled on the Countcfs of WaldoXave
This proposal has been rejeded.
It is beyond a doubt, that a cej*>tn mem
ber of Parliament, lately decreed, com
mitted an Angticifm. It fee* on his re
turn from a ride, he de# cd his servant
to prepare for d» effing H’ 1. Ihe man ac
cordingly left him for*.cat purpose. It a
bout half an hour af*<*r, a servant going in
to the yard saw h’ master, (the ftablcdoor
being open) in pended by a cord close to
one of the Shocked at to unexpec
ted and terrible a fight, the poor man was
at firft deprived of every faculty ; recover
ing, however, in a few minutes, he called
i« the kitchen; when being heard
b y aNcoachman belonging to Mi fa Brown,
of Sf.yMsry Axe, who had called to fee
orwxJf Mr. F.’a servants, he ran up stairs
and cut him down. Three surgeons were
immediately lent for, by one of whom he
was b ed, and afterwards put into a warm
bed, Tneir endeavours to restore him to
life were unhappily without fucctfs, not
witkftanding every part of him was warm,
except his hands, when he was cut down.
The Kitty, Shaw, from Liverpool to
Virginia, is totally loft off Cape Charles.
January 17. By letters from Captain
Vandervold, of the Middleburgh snow,
lately arrived at Rotterdam fiom St. Euf
tatia, we learn, that being on the Spanish
Mam, on the ijth of August last, he was
boarded by a guarda cofta, the crew of
which grofly insulted him and his people,
and canied the snow into Carthagena,
where he was detained three days, under
pretence of his being concerned in a con
traband trade, before Don Juan de Solis,
the Lieutenant Governor, allowed him to
deparr. There were upwards of 400 fub
jedt of Great-Britain confined in the for
trefs when Capt. Vandeivold came away,
most of whom, he fays, were in want of
the common necessaries of life.
We are desired to inform our readers,
that on Tucfday night last di (patches ar
rived in a great office at the weft end of
the town, confirming the late account that
a large Spanish ship of war had carried a
number of imall tfritifr trading vefTels to
Cuba, on pretence of an illicit trade.
When one of his Privy Counfellors told
Oliver Cromwell, on his being about to
conclude t treaty with the Court of Erance,
that they never kept their word: •• let
them do as they think proper,” said he,
“ it is my business to look to that ; if they
are not willing to keep tbeir werd t it it my
duty to make them do it.”—The case is
n»w altered ; for the Court of Spain for
gets 'its premifet to Great-Britain at least
once every month j and when our M niftcr
remonstrates with them for it, ** he beset
they will confider of their infraction of
treaties and of peace, and dijaww what
they have done.”
On Tuesday morning died, at his feat
at the Grange in Hampshire, the right hon.
Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, Lord
Henley, Baron of Grange, Lord Lieute
nant and Cuftos Rotulorum of Hants, Re
corder of Bath, and a Governor of the
Charter-House, and late Lord High Chan
cellor of Great-Britain.
No »dvice of the Duke of G'nut*fter’»
death has yet been received, however we
that an authentic account of
his 'Royal Highness’s tllnefs arrived on
Tuelday from Dr. Jobb and Mr. Adair,
forgeon general, it seems the dysentery has
entirely left his Royal Highnds, but he is
very low spirited and weak, and affiided
with a flow, deprefled, hedic, Intermit
tent, irregular fever, with a morbid affec
tion of the lungs, from which he throws
up stony concretions about the fact of a
pin's head.- From this deplorable ft 45 all
hopes of the re-establishment of his High
ness’s health seem van fhrd, and wc *rc
extremely sorry to fay, we bear that a fa
tal prognoflic has accordingly been made.
Yesterday died Mr Roberts, bo ikfrUor,
in Paternofler-row, in pannerfkip with
Mr. Robert (on.
On Wednesday Count de Guignes had
audience of his Majesty at Sr. James's, and
delivered his credentials.
January 18. We are allured, that a
very humiliating circumstance has lately
occurred at court. On the Lord Cham
berlain’s officially announcing the ensuing
commemoration of the Queen's birth-day,
and that the Pcereflcs who intended to
dance minuets were desired to fend their
names in Writing to his office, in order
that the proper tickets maybe made out
according to their rank* the Duchess of
Cumberland declared her intention of
Writing to the Lord Chamberlain, that (he
proposed to dance a minuet at court 04
that day. This declaration got wind—
the King’s fritndt were alarmed at the
conseq uence—-Precedence of all the Pee
rci les, or a public interdiction from court*
muff have followed—The former was
too mortifying, and the latter too impru
dent—No middle way could be hit upon ;
and at last the most submissive, abjedt in
tercession was obliged to be made, that
“ Her Royal Highnefi" would “ for tue
present” wave her intentions j and the hu
miliating application concluded with a
distant hint, that the conccflion might
possibly be the means of facilitating that
reiteration to Royal favour, which the
Duke of Cumberland was so very anxious
of attaining.
We are allured that the Duchess of
Cumberland is pregnant; and that her
Royal Highness’s fituatiun has been noti
fied in form.
Some overtures have been lately made
to allow Lord Holland into attive life a
gain, but his Lordship has peremptorily
refufed. He has, however, promised, on
terms of high advantage to his favourite
son, his utmost assistance to the measures
of Aftminiftration through the whole of the
ensuing sessions.
It is said, that the hon. Charles Fox
will shortly be called to the department of
the treasury.
We are told, it is a fixed point that the
affairs of America frail be taken under
consideration soon after the meeting of Par
liament.
We have the p*eafu*e to allure the
public, that the congregations of such
churches as are warmed by Buzjglo's pa
tent machines enjoy, during the service, as
comfortable warmth as they do in their
hcufes, for no coughing or freezing is
heard, and their dread of catching colds by
thedimpof such churches is thereby total
ly removed: we therefore cannot avoid
wishing that all bis Majrfty’s fubjedts
would follow so wholesome and laudable
an example, as it preserves health and pro
motes religion.
An house-keeper of the Duke of ■ —
at his country-(sat, while the family was
in town, received a visit from a nephew,
whom, after entertaining, it being ra
ther too late for him to return, he deured
to stay till the morning. He was laid in a
very good room and bed ; but, in the
middle of ihe night, being taken with a
» a
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