their increase and propagation. The oaks they injure prodigiously; the white thorn they devour, and destroy the plant apples and pears fuffer as much as any thing. Against these enemies it becomes you to rife up; or your hedges, your plantations, and your fruits will fuffer exceedingly. They did fo laft year, though very wet and cold, and if the enfuing fummer fhould be hot and dry, your losses will be irreparable. A The method I propofe to take in my own grounds, is to order all the B twigs or hoots to be cut off from every tree or bush on which these nefts of inlects appear; to be collected together and burnt; and this as foon as the weather will permit. It is an affair of much confequence to you, and I hope will not pass unre. garded to clear my own premiles of C fuch a dreadful enemy is of little confequence, unless you do likewife the fame in yours. The progeny is nu merous, their ravages great, and their propagation infinite. I addrefs myself chiefly to you gen-. tlemen in the neighbourhood of London, because I am converfant about the metropolis; the mifchief may have spread to other places; it is eafily known, and may as easily be remedied. D One cannot without concern, behold the young shoots of the thorn in every quickfet hedge, and the latt year's fhoot of the oak efpecially, befet with the E rudiments of thefe deftroyers. Suffer me to prevail on you to be earnest in your endeavours to extirpate fo dreadful an enemy; the expence will be little; children, old people, the infirm, may be fet to collect thefe nefts of robbers at so much per hund ed, and you'll fave the expence in the growth of your F hedges, your fruit, and plantations. 1 am, &c. N. L. Some Account of the Military Actions of the Hereditary Prince of BRUNSWIC. ftormed the town of Hoya, capital of the county of that name, and obliged the French commandant, Count de Chabọt, to furrender the place by capitulation, after a lofs on the part of the latter of 670 men. June 23. At the battle of Crevelt, in which the French army, under the Count de Clermont, was entirely routed, the Hereditary Prince, at the head of two battalions of grenadiers, made an attack on the French, who were in a neighbouring wood, and maintained a fire for two hours and a half without ceafing, till the enemy were thrown into confufion, and entirely defeated. It was in this battle that Count Gifors, only fon of Marthal Belleifle, was mortally wounded. He was Ton-in-law to the Duke of Nivernois, the late French minister at this court. July 29. He difledged the French from Bruggen, and took poffeffion of the town. 5. He repulfed a body of Aufirians from Smalkalden and Thuringin. July 28. He diflodged the French from Lubeke. Aug. 1. He made an attack on 8000 French at Thornhaufen, under M. de Briffac, whom he routed, and took five pieces of cannon, and near 2000 prifoners. 17. He diflodged a French corps under M. d'Armentieres, from Wofshagen. Sept. 2. He fuptized a party of French at Neder Weimar, took two cannon, and feveral prifoners without any lofs. Nov. 30. He attacked a body of WHEN the Hanoverians refumed G French at Fulda, under the Duke of Wur their arms, in confequence of the infraction, on the part of the French, of the convention of Clofter Seven, Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, brother to the reigning Duke of that title, was appointed commander in chief of the army of the King of temberg, cut feveral of them to pieces, and took the reft, with two cannon, two colours, and the baggage.. Dec. 25. He arrived with his troops at Chemnitz in Saxony, and Jan. 12, 1760, Was at Freyberg with the King of Pruffia. Having conti Great Britain. In this army the Here-nued a little time in Saxony, he left that ditary Prince entered into action in his 23d year, and distinguished himself in many engagements. Feb. 23, 1758. His Serene Highness (Gent. Mag. JAN. 1764.) Electorate, and, with his army, Feb. 16, Paffed the frontisrs of Thu 26 Military Alions of the Prince of Brunfwick. June 28. He arrived in Heje, after feveral fuccesful skirmishes. July 10. He engaged 10,000 French at Corbach; but being inferior in men and artillery, it became necessary to A make a retreat, which was accomplished with fome lofs. In this action he received a flight wound in his thoulder. 16. He gave battle to the French under Gen. Glaubitz, at Emfdorf, and took two battalions, and the comminder, prifoners. 22. He retook Dillenburg, and made the garrison prisoners. Aug. 1. In the battle of Warburg he attacked and forced the enemy's flank, and drove them to the town. 5. He made an attack in the night upon Ziegenberg, and brought off forty officers and 300 men. B Sept. 30. He paffed the Rhine, after C having coured the country, and taken Rees and Emmerick. O. 16. He attacked M. de Caftries, and was engaged from five in the morning till nine at night, but was obliged to retire. His Highness received a flight wound in his leg, and his horfe was killed under him. March 2, 1761. He dislodged the French from Budingen. May 20. He outed feveral French advanced posts at Wejel, Ge. July 16. In defeat of the French at Hohenover his Highness was prefent, and formed part of the right wing. 20 He had a fmart skirmish with the French, in which his brother, Prince Albert Henry, received a wound, of which he died on the 8th of August, at Ham. Nov. 13. He routed a large French detachment of cavalry under M. de Clofen, near Katlenbourg. E D April 19, 1762. He took the caftle of p Arenberg, the garrifon of which, confitting of nine officers and 231 men, commanded by M. Muret, furrendered at difcretion. June 24. He was prefent at the battle of Grabenftein, when the French were defeated with the lofs of near 5000 men. G July 24. He arrived at Mark, near Ham, after diflodging fome French detachments from Ofnabrug, and haraffing the Prince of Conde in his march. Aug. 25. Being on a march with fome light troops near Frankfort on the Main. he fell in with the main body of the French, and loft 30 men and three cannon. 31. He engaged Count Stainville near Friedberg, in which, after a brave refittance, he was unfuccefsful, and re H ceived a mufket-ball in his fide, which made a deep perforation. He was conveyed fucceffively to Homberg, Fritzlar, and Munden, at which laft place the wound was opened. This operation, which was very painful, was fucceeded by a fever, occafioned by the working of a fplinter; but in about three weeks he was declared to be out of danger. His Highness was attended by Doctor Wecheff, the king's physician, and was vifited, during his confinement, by his father the reigning Duke. This was the last action in which the Hereditary Prince was engaged, as in less than three months after this event hoftilities ceased. The Hereditary Prince, after his recovery, went to the head-quarters of the army at Neuhaus, near Paderborn, and on Chrifimas day arrived at Brunf-” wick. His Moft Serene Highness Charles William Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle Bevern, to whom the Princess Augufta of this kingdom is now efpoufed, is the eldett fon of the prefent reigning Duke of that dominion, by the Princefs Phillippina Charlotta, fecond filter to the King of Pruf. fia, and is in the 29th year of his age, being born the 9th of October 1735. He has two brothers and five fifters now living, viz. Prince Ferdinand Auguftus, aged 23, a Lieutenant General, and Prince William Adolphus, aged 18, a colonel, both in his Prufian Majef ty's fervice; and the Princeffes Sophia Carolina Maria, aged 26; Anne Amelia, aged 24; Elizabeth Chriftina Ulrica, a ged 17; Frederica Wilhelmina, aged 153 and Augufia Dorothea, aged 14. A third brother, Pr. Albert Henry, who would now have been coming of age, was flain on the 20th of July, 1761, in a skirmifh with a body of French. There were three more children, who died in their infancy. The reigning Duke has three brothers and fix filters, uncles and aunts to the Hereditary Prince : 1. Anthony Ulric, born 1714, who married a daughter of the late Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, and has three fons and two daughters. 2. Lewis Erneft, born 1718, Field Marshal in the Dutch fervice, and Governor of Bois le Duc. He is the guardian of the young Prince of Orange, and was formerly Duke of Courland. 3. Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, born 1721, late commander in chief of the allied army in Germany. His not Serene H ghness is likewife Governor of of Magdebourg, and a Knight of the Garter. 4. ElizabethaChriftina, born 1715, the prefent Queen Confort of Pruffia. 5. Louija Amelia, born 1722, Princefs Dowager Royal of Pruffia. 6. Sophia Antonietta, born 1724, efpoufed to the reigning Prince of Saxe Saalfeld, brother-in-law to the Mar; grave of Anfpach, who was lately on a vifit to this court. 7. Chriftina Charlotta Louifa, born 1726. 8. Therefa Natalia, born 1728, a Canonefs of the Proteftant abbey of Hervorden. 9. Juliana Maria, born 1729, the prefent Queen confort of Denmark. fions and neceffaries, under the penal ties not only of fines, but also, in fome cafes, of corporal punishment. But felf-interested men have continually found new means of evading fnch, A laws, and I am afraid ever will, unlefs" fome refpectable board is erected for regulating them, which fhall be obli-. ged to make annual reports of their proceedings to a committee of parlia B The House of Brunswick is divided into two branches, Brunfavic Wolfenbuttle, and Brunfwick Lunenburg. The founder of both these lines was Erneft the Confeffor, who first introduced the Reformation into his dominions, and was fucceeded, in 1546, by ELDEST SON, YOUNGEST SON, Wolfenbutele Line. Lunenburgb Line Fran. Otbo; fucceeded William ; fucceeded D 1559, by his brother by his fon Henry; fucceeded, Ernest; fucceeeded, 1598. by his fon Julius Erne; fucceeded 1636,by his brother Auguftus, fucceeded, 1666, by his fon Rudolph Auguftus. fuc. ceeded, 1704, by his brother Ant. Ulric; fucceeded 1714, by his fon Auguftus William, fucceeded, 1731, by his brother Lewis Rudolph; fucceeded, 1735, by his ⚫first coufin Ferdinand Albert, fucceeded, 1738, by his fon CHARLES, the prefent Duke, father of the Hereditary Prince Mr URBAN, 1611, by his brother Chriftian; fucceeded, 1633. by his brother Auguftus; fucceeded, 1636, by his brother Frederick, fucceeded, 1648, by his nephew Chrift. Lervis; fucceded 1665. by his brother George William; Elector of Hanover, fucceeded, 1705, by his nephew and fon-inlaw GEORGE I. of Great Britain; fucceeded, T has ever been confidered as one I of the chief duties of government, ment. The metropolis has, for ages feen, lamented, and fuffered from the monopolies and evil practices of fishmongeis. The laws for regulating Smithfield-market have not prevented ftrong accufations of the practices of falei men for enhancing the prices of meat' by the most unjustifiable means. Our flour is under the fcandal in every focreign market, of being mixed with whiting, and mealmen and millers have at home been repeatedly accufed cpenly of being guilty of that wicked and roguish practice; while the bakers have ftrove to give an excellence of colour to their bread, by the baneful mixture in it of allum; and while they were clandeftinely fell. ing poifon to the people, by impofition, had the impudence to plead confcience against the neceffary practice of baking pans on Sundays. The exorbitant rates at which fugars have been fhameful impofition, which has been fold of late years, has been another equalled in coal dealing, with the additional guilt of frequent deficiency in meafure, both in degrees, at least to the poor, of the most horrid op. preffion. Candles have likewife been made exceffively dear by the managements of the trade, while the profits Fon beer, and particularly porter, have been contrived to be made confiderably greater, and the qualities of it fo much wo fe, that good porter or small beer is now hardly any where to be gotten and butter has gone on rifing, within a few years paft, to near filty per cent. in price to the confumers. E G in all nations, fo to regulate dealings Thefe are all abufes which ftrike at the very roots of our commerce, profperity, and even comforts of life; and they are all breaches of the mott effential laws made for the welfare of fociety; are daring outrages against government, and fo many fcandals to the Police of the kingdom; fuch as, I will venture to fay, are permitted in no other country. The true intereft of the landed gentlemen confits, not in any partial, but in the general confumption of the produces 28 Report of the Committee of City Lands, relating to produces of land, which include every, kind of cloathing, as well as every kind of food: And where there is an over expence made in the confumption of any one, it must proportionately leffen that of fome others. Befides, the great value of lands mult always depend on the great extent of population, and population must ever be regulated by the proportionate degrees of the means of comfortable subfiftance. Another point to be confi dered is, that the prices of the neceffaries of life are the natural regulators of the prices of labour of all kinds, which fo varioufly affect the pockets of all, as well as the commerce and navigation of the kingdom. If labourers, if workmen, if manufacturers, make every thing we cultivate, work, build, repair and wear, dearer to us, by the high prices of the neceffaries of life, every land-holder must pay more from the joint advances of the former, than he will receive from thofe of the latter; and therefore all fuch imaginary gain is in effect real lofs to individuals, while to the kingdom, in its greatest interests, it is inconceivably prejudicial. A D But the real truth is, that landlords get no advantage, and farmers very little, by the extravagant prices of neceflaries: Nor are the numerous retail-dealers, in any confiderable degree, if at all, benefited by them. None but the illegal intermediate E dealers, the engroffing, monopolizing contractors, are enriched by these exorbitant prices, fo burthenfome to confumers, and fo prejudicial to the community Fellows who deferve no fayour or countenance, but rather fevere punishment, as the whole of their dealings are, virtually at least, as illegal as they are pernicious. : The reasonable prices of the neceffaries of life are matters fo effential to the welfare of a people, and particularly a trading community, that no on: ought to be fuffered to become enormous, if a free importation from any place or people, even our ftrongest rivals and worit enemies, can be preventive of fuch an evil: much lefs ought we to lay any refraint on fach a commerce with any part of our fellow-subjects. Irish butter is eaten in almost every country in Europe, at little more than 3 d. a pound. Let it be confidered, what an advantage this gives to their manufactories and merantile navigation,in conjunction with Inja falted beef and pork, which latter F H are likewife furnished fo much under the market-prices of England, for fuch neceffary commodities. I fubmit these hints and informations to the consideration of the public; and am, Sir, Yours, &c. POPLICOLA. Part of a Letter addreffed to the Duke of De vonshire. Uppofe, my lord, it should have happened, that in the first year of G orgelII. fo much beloved by Tory converts.a parcel of lace from Flanders, with the picture of the young P etender in lofeu in it, was brought to a perfon of the first distinction, thro' a mistake, and under the fame mistake-it being candle-lightopened by him, but which was really directed. to one of thefe new converts to loyalty, who has been rewarded by a place about his majes ty's perfon. What pinion can we entertain of thafe Whigs who ate fervile enough to draw tamely nnder an adminiftration that introduced fuch men into power, or continue them in it? It is publickly fa'd too, that the young Pretender himfelf came from Flarders to fee the coronation, that he was in Weftminster Hall during the coronation, and in town two or three days before and after it, under the name of Mi Brown; and being afked by a Gentleman who knew him abroad, how he durft venture hither, his anfwer was, that be was very fafe. [Charles Dingley, Efq; under whofe in- To the Worshipful Committee for letting the That, in purfuance of your order of the 16th of Nov. we met on the 5th day of December inftant, and took into confideration the allegations of the memorial of Charles Dingley, Efq; propofing the forming a new street from the communication of the City-road, in a direct line to the Manfion houfe,and examined MrDingley particularly as to his reafons why he therein infilts. Firf, That the city must yield up, for this improvement, their teafe from the prebendary of Finsbury Secondly, that we must let out upon leafe, on moderate terms, what other eltates the city is poffefled of, lying contiguous; and Thirdly, Thirdly, Why it was neceffary that an improvement in the city of London" fhould be made by undertakers, and not by the citizens themselves. For answer to the first, Mr Dingley faid, that he proposed to begin by building on the prebendal eftate, by which the undertakers calculated they fhould raife upwards of 40,000l. which would enable them to proceed. As to the fecond, he faid, that the city's freeholds were comprized in his plan of new fquares & improvements. and the city immediately to commence a payment of 200l. per Ann. befides the fine of 6000l. notwithftanding the prebendary cannot grant more than one year beyond the city's fubfifting term in the greater part of the prebendal eftate, viz. BunbillA Fields, Mallow-Fields, and FinsburyField, being fixty acres of ground, the whole prebendal eftate containing no more than feventy-eight acres, two roods, and thirty-four poles. B Mr Dingley, by his new fcheme, propofed that the city fhould purchafe fome houfes in the front of the Man And as to the third, he could give no reason; but faid, that if the city would themselves make the improve-fion-house, which he fays perhaps may ment, he would be ready to give his affistance. Upon this, we defired to know if he had any plan, that we might examine and confider of it: He faid he had not, but that he had employed furveyors, and would very foon be C ready to lay a plan and estimates before us. Whereupon we directed Mr Comptroller to fummon a fub-committee, fo foon as Mr Dingley should give notice to him, that his plan and eltimares were prepared. On Mr Dingley's application, we D were fummoned on the 22d day of December aforefaid, when Mr Dingley produced a paper, which he called a furvey, but laid he was not prepared to lay before us either plans or estimates with accuracy, and declined leaving with your committee the furvey he produced. At this meeting, Mr Dingley delivered in a new propofal, in writing, recommending a fpeedy agreement with the prebendary, who he said asked 8,000l. as a fine, and 320l. a year as a rent, for granting a new lease, though he hoped he might be prevailed on to accept 6,000l. as a fine, and zool. per annum rent; and Mr Dingley faid, that he was intimately acquainted with the prebendary, and was pretty confident the prebendary would leave it to him to fettle the fum, if the city would put it in his power, and would do that even in -two hours. On this occafion, we think it our duty to remark, that we conceive Mr Dingley's lowelt propofal, on behalf of the piebendary, a very exceflive demand, when it is remembered that we have a term of near twenty years, in the whole prebendal eftate, at the rent of 394 138. 44. which leafe is by Mr Dingley propofed to be furrendered, E F G coft from 6000l. to 8000l. and give that to the public convenience, and lett him leafes of their freeholds,without the ufual fines, and at the prefent referved rents; and alfo affign him the city's leafe of the manor of Finfbury, and give him their countenance in his application to parliament; and: on thefe conditions he would give fecurity, that, under the fan&tion for an act for that purpose, fuch new street fhould be built within the term of fix years, the expence whereof, from the Manfion boufe to Moorgate, he calculated would colt 150,000l. The street, he fays, will be in length fomewhat more than 400 yards, and fuppofed to confit of 80 boufes, 20 on each fide, in front and depth 30 feet; ten on each fide, private houses; and ten houtes on each fide, worth 100l. per: annum *. On this, and other parts of Mr Dingley scheme, we at prefent forbear to remark, because we are unanimously of opinion, that it is not for the intereft of the city, that any further procee ings fhould be had on Mr Dingley's memorial, at least, until after an agreement shall he made with the prebendary, and a new lease obtained; and in civility to Mr Dingley, and to prevent his troubling himfelf further, we immediately communicated to him our opinion. All which they fubmitted to us, and we agreeing in opinion with the faid fub-committee, humbly fubmit the fame to the judgment of this honour ६ The fines laft received for renewal of the city's freeb ld between Moorgate and the manor of Finfeury, for a twenty-one years leafe, amounted to 3492!. 155. exciufive of their covenants to lay out in repairs of the Artillery Ground, and other the city's 35901 and alfo exclefive of four acres, part eftates contiguous. able |